skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incorrect, because if this was the case nobody would be obese.

I would say almost every single obese person doesn't want to be obese. And every single alcoholic doesn't want to be an alcoholic.

What you're suggesting might work FOR YOU. That doesn't mean it's a solution. Look around you, is it working? No, right? Why then do you insist you're correct when every piece of evidence on this planet proves you wrong?
The context here is a UK law, not US state-level legislation, so I don't see the relevance. And the similarity between the UK and state-level US meanings of "Secretary of State" was overstated anyway. There is no one Secretary of State in the UK and it isn't a specific position in its own right. There are 17 Secretaries of State, all covering different things. The legislation here refers (I think) to the Secretary of State for Business and Commerce rather than, for example, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport or the Secretary of State for Education.
Incorrect capitalization.
Not OP, but orgs that scale usually rely on metrics. It's metrics that are easier to measure, not the one that measure system performance (i.e. lines of code written per day, points closed per sprint) that get selected. Then management lampoon workers for not meeting those metrics (they need to prove their doing something, and can't lose control), regardless of how the system is performing. So trust erodes.
I question your teaching comment. Sitting there and receiving a lecture is a rather small part of learning (varies per student). For the rest of it you're going to find that class size is by far the biggest determiner of success.

I wonder how the best teacher in the world teaching 5 classes of 40 would stack up against 200 people chosen at random from a pool who had already passed that class working 1:1 for 1 hr per day. Probably the ideal case is somewhere in the middle, but the point is that it's allocation of the teacher's time, and not production quality, that's the bottleneck when it comes to scaling teaching.
> if we have such incredibly sufficient machines at our disposal

That's true. But it's far from clear that these machines will be "at our disposal" for very long.

> Also scary, is military robots gone rogue.

I'm not concerned with military robots going rogue on their own. My concern is if the fully autonomous factories that have the capability to MAKE military robots (and then control them) go rogue.

A factory can exist in such a "rogue" state, unknown to the owners and maybe even itself, for year or decades before it even starts producing such robots. Meanwhile, it can evolve new capabilities and switch product categories multiple times.

It doesn't even have to have any negative intentions against humanity. It may simply detect that a rival AI "factory" entity is developing plans to wage physical war against it and join it in an arms race.

In this ASI vs ASI type of world war, human lives may be like candles in the wind.
Interesting. It could be the further "down" on the foodchain your academic discipline, the more certain you might need to appear, or think you should appear -- at least this seems intuitively likely, though that is entirely guesswork and there could be many factors at play.
hey, I hear you. Modern America is full of voices demanding you give them care/attention.

Every.

Single.

Thing.

It is overwhelming. See following comments on the need for slack/margin in capacity. Well, we also need it in emotional demands. Yet every commercially-moderated interaction in our society seems to be optimizing for making us care more about it, because that increases their revenue.
That statue is a vivid memory for me ever since I saw it 30 years ago.
A regime*
No it couldn't.
Meanwhile, another trend among Chinese teenagers is the use of Pinyin initials to replace Chinese words. For example, 永远的神 (pinyin: Yǒngyuǎn de shén), a meme used to praise something, is often written as "yyds."

These teens have become accustomed to reading and writing sentences composed of such acronyms, and they even use them in real-life conversations—much to the annoyance of cultural conservatives. This phenomenon highlights how online communication can influence offline speech patterns.
That's a side effect, dumbass. Every medicine has side effects. It's not the primary purpose of the drug or even a likely outcome, like you originally implied.

Why even bother lying if you don't possess the intelligence to formulate even a shallow deception? You understand that attempting to be deceptive, and then demonstrating you're too stupid for even simple deceptions is worse than if you had just said nothing, right?

Some advice: if you have to employ deception to make your argument, your argument is probably shit and probably isn't even worth the sound waves it travels on. So go back to the drawing board and trying coming up with something less fucking stupid.
The postgresql query optimization one is an interesting one.

I've been very frustrated at times that you can't just tell it to use a certain index or a certain query plan.

But at the same time, the data in the table can change over time.

So for that particular problem, postgresql's superpower is it can optimize and reoptimize your query at runtime as the data changes!

Not an easy thing to do in most programming languages.

But I do agree with the rest of the article to a large extent.

For some cases, you need a way to say "do this optimization, fail to compile if you cannot".

Most of the time though, I just want the optimizer to do it's best, and don't have something in particular in mind.

What if the compiler could output the optimization or transformations it does to a file? A file that was checked into source code.

Think of lockfiles for dependencies. Or snapshot testing.

I don't mean output the entire IR. I mean more a list of applied transformations.

When those change, you could then be aware of those changes.

Maybe it could act as an actual lockfile and constrain the compiler? Could it also double as a cache and save time?
I recall before we lived in nuclear families [somewhat recent phenomenon] communal raising was commonplace. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, neigbours, etc. would come help.
>You have to really understand why you can break the rules and still succeed. And if you have to use the word “stupid” or “sheep” in your explanation you’re most likely wrong.

This is a two way street. If you can't articulate why something is the way it is without regurgitating a talking point from it's peddlers then you're wrong too.
I'm not so sure. I use Rust for simple web services now, when I would have used Python or JS/TS before, and the development speed isn't much different. The main draw is the language/type system/borrow checker, and reduced memory/compute usage is a nice bonus.
A macOS menu bar app to convert image snippets to LaTeX. I’m trying to turn it into an open source replacement for MathPix’s Snip.

https://github.com/navanchauhan/iTeXSnip
An even bigger issue is that regular optimizer see a whole static world (the code). You can know very well the size of most things.

For DBs, it would be 'trivial' if we could know the exact (or very very close) size of the tables and indexes. But the db is a mutating environment, that start with 1 row and 1 second later is 1 million, and 1 second later is 1 row again.

And then you mutate it from thousands of different connections. Also, the users will mutate the shape, structure, runtime parameters, indexes, kind of indexes, data types, etc.
It those things on Pypi depend on binary libraries that you need to compile yourself, there is going to be some fun, depending on the state of the current system.
Most of those English speakers learned it as a 2nd language.

Most of those Chinese speakers learned it as a native speaker.

No language worldwide is even close to English in terms of learning demand. Chinese doesn't even rank in the top 3.
>that’s half the industry right now

Isn't that a bad thing?
Yes!!! I would also recommend anything by Zenna Henderson.
Random tip... I noticed the volume sliders only take effect when you stop dragging the knob. You can use the 'oninput' event for the slider to set its value as the user moves it around. Something like:

volume_slider.oninput = function() {
audio.volume = volume_slider.value;
}
I feel like you missed the point completely. Did you read the article at all? The social workers in the article are also professionals working for a paycheck. The operative difference is that a baker produces bread: If they can produce (say) 100 loaves for 100 people in a day, you have a 1:100 producer:consumer ratio, and with a bigger oven you could probably double that. Conversely, a social worker cares for children at close to a 1:1 rate, with one worker per child, and you can't do much better than that. Regardless of a social worker's motivations, their productivity is limited by the fact that they are doing the labour of caring.
My understanding is that users and third-parties can offer various moderation services that users can subscribe to.

So anyone can label/mislabel/ban/block anyone else, but everyone can chose whose labels/mislabels/bans/blocks to follow
Red hat at the end positions this as a job application?
Sounds like the sorta thing AI would write
Just going to take the time to indicate that this is a conspiracy theory, since conservatives are always lambasted with that term.
- Trying to get over my procrastination and finally start (the standard way of) prepping for software dev (staff/etc) level interviews after having taken a considerable number of months as a gap

- An idea of a platform to connect sports venues to players. (In a way that is better and richer than the only/shitty option available in my geography. Why do I call that service shitty? They have been around for almost a decade or close to that by now and they are still shitty and unstable and barely useable). With a bit of differentiation - instead of individual and venue bookings (the service that offers right now) - connect venues and groups where payment is taken care of already (no running around collecting payments and worrying about no shows and ignoring them in future them/etc). We were reaching towards a demo kinda product but the friend on the backend side got bored of software and started focussing on stock trading where he is sadly doing spectrally bad

- Also did a bit of work on trying to connect users with the laundry list of (e)bicycles, e-scooters et cetera providers (i.e how there are common booking platforms for all airlines; or for buses; etc) so that they won't have to install all the apps until it finally reached our skulls that maybe those services are looking for a lock-in so they would never open up their APIs and we lacked perseverance and resources to force them to adhere to the Govt suggested broad inventory db mechanism in my country. Basically we started on it without any research.

The problem with me is - software engineering/coding (I have been told I am not bad at it though)/platforms/libraries/etc excite me fuck all. But problem solving does. I should not have been a software engineer really. So interviews get tricky. While I can (and have) clear interviews at early stage startups, the work-life balance they offer is horrendous, but MNC/etc ask for every thing I have never used and will never use, or anybody ever will (mostly), that means thorough prep. I am just ranting, ignore it.
Horizontal, not vertical scaling is what you need here.

Even the college-socialists, at least when they're talking about climate change, realize that the best we can do individually is save a few bags of CO_2 here and there, but if everyone in the world did this then we'd have a fighting chance.

Or consider the charity ads with lines like "if everyone reading this poster donated the cost of a cup of coffee a week ..."

We can care deeply for one person, or perhaps two or four. We can look out for a couple of coworkers. We can cultivate 5 or so deep and meaningful friendships. If everyone did this then we'd have improved the world a lot, at scale.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_method

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo
For me, the most important problem that needs to be solved right now is a way for people to access reliable health information.

I'm working on plumfin.com, which lets you ask questions to Canadian or U.S. board certified doctors. Theres no need for video chats or waiting for appointments, you can message a doctor anytime and you'll be alerted with a response.

https://plumfin.com
As I said previously, Trump only has that power if he becomes president. There's no need to suck up to him now.

If you think Big Tech can't be replaced, then you haven't been paying attention. Google is facing irrelevancy in the age of AI. Netflix subscriptions have been tanking as the world's largest content creators have moved into the streaming space. Facebook's growth is anemic and people are actively trying to use their service less.

Apple's customers trend liberal and Apple already has the challenge of convincing them they need a better camera than the one they bought two years ago, when the one they bought two years ago works just fine and does everything they need. That's why iPhone sales are down - significantly. Same with Mac sales. Good enough is good enough. Facing those challenges, do you really want to go and piss off your customers over something like politics?

Amazon is about the only one that's looking like it has a bright future. That's why Bezos wisely chose not to endorse Harris last week - why would he want to piss off half his customers over politics? Especially heading into the holiday season where he's expecting major sales? Look what politics did to Bud Light.

So no, Big Tech is not safe. They're big because they're smart, and by being smart they know there's no need to kiss Trump's ass before he's president and there's a business need requiring them to do so.
I think I’m the same. I was forced in my middle school to use a planner every day for every class which was honestly one of the smartest parts of my public schooling experience. It still took years for me to be effective with it but it was ingrained early to document absolutely everything I need to do and to know that if I don’t it’s absolutely not going to get done. This includes stuff like setting timers constantly for mundane things like starting my laundry
OSI has been compromised since the beginning by large corporations, the fact that their crappy "Open Source AI definition" does not allow access and distribution of the training data is a total disgrace.
Reverse Shells, File Descriptors and Letters for Gen Z
Everything I wrote was assuming set theory as the foundations for mathematics and applies only to that setup. At any rate a functional is function since the definition starts with: a functional is a function from…

Some books will say: a functional is a linear map….

Note that a linear map is a function.
It's a broken system. Years of training, very selective, highly expensive... only for a lot of it to be telling people common sense things like eat less and excercise more.
>> The way to make traffic flow more efficiently is to get a bunch of cars off of the road.

No. I mean yeah, but no. Rural areas are the only place where traffic is low enough to meaningfully improve flow. We should be able to improve traffic flow and MPG without eliminating vehicles. IMHO bike lanes are kind of stupid because putting bikes right next to car traffic is stupid. Same for sidewalks. Separating pedestrian traffic from car and truck traffic would obviously be safer.
Yeah, that will make it much less awkward that nobody showed up on my final hour.
Another probably even bigger reason people don't self-host email specifically is that practically all email coming from a residential IP is spam from botnets, so email providers routinely block residential IPs.
Intel invests US$300M in China chip packaging and testing plant
Sorry/thanks; your feedback is fair/adopted.

I meant to expand that to clarify that other aspects (supporting students as they work to apply the lectured material) would/must be done 1:1 in person, but the core lecture can/should be delivered by those with particular skills in that area and that we could apply extra effort to editing/production value.

My son's calc class is taught via watch the lectures online/at-home and then apply them in class and at-home via exercises. The only difference from what I proposed is that the same teacher pre-recorded the lectures, which seems to a practical solution but not an inherently necessary constraint (and there are likely thousands of calc teachers making average quality such videos).

But absolutely a personalized teacher must be available 1:1 for at least part of the overall process.
.NET languages, Python, Java.

C++ before the days of C++98, when each C++ compiler vendor provided a nice C++ framework alongside their compiler.
This is true. I learned Chinese and then hitchhiked China in 2018 for exactly this reason. Everyone was yapping about how important China had become, but China was a black box to me.

After months of hitchhiking I came back home unconcerned.

I think the fact that it's a black box makes us overhype China.
Vampires, satanists and mad scientists: the evolution of horror in 10 films
Actually I think you’re right.
I got my stories mixed up ?
Reality is often stranger than fiction though! :-)
Kurzgesagt did a good video on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSSkDos2hzo
More like NeuralRAM? We have precedents. Back in the 90s, Sun and Mitsubishi came up with 3DRAM, which replaced the RMW cycle in Z-buffering and alpha blending with a single (conditional) write, moving the arithmetic into the memory chips.
Anyone with an app or watch that tells them how many calories they burn in exercise would have to agree. I ran 7 miles yesterday for my long run for the week and only burned 924 calories it says. You could undo that with a single poor decision at a fast food establishment.

https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/1c4pvnp/a_cool_...
I'm sure there are plenty of scholarly academics with a whole body of literature to argue otherwise, but I've never bought all the arguments of how different Cantonese and Mandarin are.

To my mind assimilating Cantonese from Mandarin or vice versa is way easier than French <> Italian or Italian <> Spanish. Spanish <> Portuguese is an interesting contender.

Good luck pretending Mandarin and Cantonese are distinct languages while comparing German and French lol.

I say this as someone with a whole lot of Cantonese dna in my heritage before people get all up in arms. I've personally always figured the barriers to learning both Mandarin and Cantonese was cultural and there are plenty of people in Guangzhou who are perfectly bilingual
A bureaucrat in the government saw an opportunity to get extra budget money to manage. Most likely will end with nothing, perhaps some money will be allocated and embezzled.
To me, the big dubious part is, how do we know that increasing the capacity of a reasoning machine can always increase the quality of its output by an equal factor, even when its task is 'designing the next iteration of a reasoning machine'? It may very well be that the task of 'designing a reasoning machine' has sharply diminishing returns when you throw more resources at it. (E.g., at least so far, any LLM can only have a very incidental impact on designing the next LLM, it's not going to come up with groundbreaking new approaches.)

Yudkowsky builds the whole edifice on top of his very particular conception of intelligence, which insists upon itself, but which I think is far from the only explanation of its nature as observed in humans, other animals, LLMs maybe, and so on.
People misinterpret science as being a collection of facts discovered by authority figures rather than a process of questioning the validity of any claims made. It's almost as if the concept of science has turned into the religion of the atheist. Unquestionable, and dictated by more holy figures than them, in the form of scientists, and in some cases politicians, rather than clergy.
I wasn't even talking about the people "investing" in crypto. Just the VC / business side of things.

Just a massive waste, on people who had just about no plan going in other than "disrupt the status quo" and "decentralized".
What does "48 Gigatransfers per second (GT/s)" mean?
> free education

Public schools are notoriously uncaring. It's expensive private schools which can afford to have small class sizes, so the teachers can develop personal relationships with the students. "Care" in this context isn't just "doing something for someone's benefit"; it requires a caretaker's undivided attention, which is why it doesn't scale.
I honestly think most orgs would leap forward considerably (with some pain) by doing a severe reduction in middle management, basically making them prove why they are actually providing value, and removing them if they aren't.

Tons and tons of middle managers do absolutely FUCK ALL in terms of delivering product, meeting goals, and serving customers.
While physical media feels more valuable because you can hold it, share it with people etc, I'd suggest you didn't pay $3.99 for the video at Blockbuster, you paid for the event of going to the store, browsing the titles, maybe discussing with your friends/family what you want to see, grab some popcorn, there's trailers on the TVs. It feels a lot more special than just scrolling through Netflix
I'm bot a big fan of codecs that seem to only benefit a few megacorps
True-ish. But in older-fashioned communities - long-term stable, extended families usually present, participation in many altruistic groups and activities are established norms, everybody's noses not buried in web browsers and smart phones - there's this thing called "social capital". And, as a generality, it's at least as important as the monetary kind.
> Salt tastes good.

Salt tastes good because the plants do not normally contain sodium, so any terrestrial animal whose food includes plants must find separate sources of salt.

Only some obligate carnivores which eat only other animals do not care about sodium, so they may have little or no sensitivity to salt.

> We have evolved in salty conditions like by the sea for millions of years.

At least the ancestors of the branch of fishes from which the terrestrial vertebrates have evolved, if not the ancestors of all bony fishes or perhaps also the ancestors of all vertebrates, have lived in brackish water, which was much less salty than the ocean water.

The extracellular water in the bodies of the terrestrial vertebrates, including humans, is still a brackish water and it is likely that this is a heritage from the kind of environment to which our ancestors were adapted. This difference in salinity between our internal water and the ocean makes us unable to live by drinking sea water.

In a healthy human, the kidneys will maintain an adequate concentration of sodium in the blood even when you eat too much salt, by excreting it.

It is less clear whether eating too much salt during many years will not stress the kidneys too much, so that they will no longer be able to keep the blood concentration of sodium low enough, which leads to high blood pressure.

Especially for older women who take blood pressure medication for many years, there is an opposite danger, the kidneys may no longer be able to retain enough sodium and potassium in the blood, excreting too much. This may cause hyponatremia or hypokalemia (too low sodium or potassium concentration in the blood), which are extremely dangerous and they may lead to death if not diagnosed correctly in time.
My first question about this is what is the status of instrumented discs? Seems it would be straightforward to fit lightweight sensors to measure acceleration, spin, distance, etc., and provide essentially instant feedback.

While I can see reasons to ban that in actual competition, it could still be invaluable in practice, and enable accelerated skill learning. Is this standard and I just don't know about it (entirely possible as I'm not a disc golfer), or is it an open field?