skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm fascinated by what prompts lead to 'Please try a different prompt.'

New Zealand or Australia lead to the aforementioned error, but The Antipodes generates a set.
I thought individual countries had been banned for possibly generating offensive content but it works for Great Britain.
Using a blender is also processing, but it doesn’t remove the fiber. It does, however, break open the cells and makes the nutrients and sugars more easily available separately from the fiber.

Eating healthy is just as much about the shape/structure of the items being consumed as it is about the nutritional stats it has.
Sure, nobody (here) would disagree that people should be able to carry as much cash as they want without fear of illegal search but the whole “he plead guilty and had multiple years of probation” rightly makes people wonder what did he plead guilty to? since it clearly wasn’t civil asset forfeiture if they charged him with criminal charges and then he plead guilty to criminal charges.
Northampton, MA has to be one of the coziest places in the world, in general.
> The inventor of a vaccine or a microchip or a sculpture doesn't hoard the invention for themself

The built-in assumption is that those outlier high achievers & inventors were gifted students. Is there any evidence for this prior?

As a devil's advocate, my counterpoint is that "grit" was more important than raw intelligence, if so, should society then prioritize grittiness over giftedness?

A few months ago, there was a rebroadcast of an interview about the physician who developed roughly half the vaccines given to children in the US to this day. He seemed to be an unremarkable student, and persistence seems to have been the key quality that led to his successes, not a sequence of brilliant revelations.
I don't see why "Islam" could not also be seen as a transcendent term, in that any religion that was revealed by God through a prophet or messenger is Islam, in so far as that religion conforms to His will.

Quran 3:19 Indeed, the religion in the sight of Allah is Islam.
This is freakin awesome but do the creators even play chess? Playing chess from that viewing angle is unpleasant as hell.

Imagine putting all your work into creating an amazing demo and then drowning it with one design decision.

Edit: Ok I see that you can change the view in settings. They should make that option more visible.
How does ChatGPT know my location?
Hi, thanks for the question!

Unfortunately, we don’t yet support user-provided audio as replacement content. Of course, once filtered you could add an audio track over the processed video.

In the future we can try to add this functionality, basically to add any audio track on the source video. It’s an interesting idea!

For your second question: dialogues and multi-speaker videos work pretty well. Shouldn’t be an issue
Tried 'famous cyclists' and that failed. Professional cyclists worked, but wasn't very inspiring.
That article starts with

> The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate dietary therapy

Keto diet is low-carbs - not completely carbs free.
"James" arm motion in a loop.
Yes, but I also remember in 2007 how I could just pound through hundreds of emails on a flight (this was pre-Internet days) and when I landed all my sent messages would just magically get sent. Sure some IMAP clients had the concept of an outbox when they couldn’t connect to send an email, but I never found one that worked as well as Lotus Notes.

Fantastic master-master replication distributed database with a very poor email client built on top.
That doesn't seem to be a problem in practice as discriminatory hiring around protected classes is illegal.

Regardless—point taken.
>volunteer moderation

You see volunteer moderators, I see people desperately trying to gate-keep answers.
In Rust, there's a `#[must_use]` attribute that can be applied to types, such as Result, and on functions. This triggers if the return value is not used. It's only a warning though, but you could imagine a hypothetical imperative language making this a hard error
Love the idea of preserving the simplicity of flat files for managing your content but dynamically loading them into a database to make sorting and filtering easier and more performant. I did something similar for my Laravel markdown blogging engine[0].

[0]: https://prezet.com/index
It's a shame, because school choice could be a rallying cry for "Tax the rich to pay for private schools for all kids."
Validating my idea got me to $2200 revenue in less than 2 months
I want to share my short story as I think it can be helpful to a lot of people on here.

This is for those of you who have tried every marketing strategy under the sun with no success (like I previously had).

Just two months ago I had been working hard for 7 months straight without getting any real interest or users to my product.

I had built two products and it was the same story for both: nothing.

When I started my third project I took the time to analyze what I’d done wrong with my first two products.

A commonality I found was that I didn’t talk to anyone before building them. I just made assumptions that I thought made sense.

I tried validating them afterwards and the response was what I suspected. No interest at all from my target audience.

My products were to generic and there were better alternatives.

For my third project I used this pain point of building products no one wanted and I realized this is the problem I want to solve. It’s a problem I experienced myself and I desperately wanted a solution to it.

So this time I reached out to my target audience before jumping ahead. I created a post on Reddit and shared a survey that helped me understand my target audience better.

Specifically:
- How they’re currently solving the problem
- How big of a pain it is to them
- How much they would pay for a solution
- Their opinion on my solution idea

The response was good so I decided to move ahead and build the MVP. Building it took about 30 days.

When it was finished, I shared it with the same people who responded to my first Reddit post.

That’s how I got my first few users.

To keep growing I posted and engaged in communities relevant to my target audience on X and Reddit.

Just after two weeks I had gained 100 users which is more than I could ever have imagined, and about 100 more users than I had ever had for any of my other projects.

Finally getting users for my project was the best feeling, and in my opinion I owe it to validating the idea this time.

My project continued growing and less than two months later I find myself at $2200 revenue, which is crazy since it feels like it was yesterday I was struggling just to get anyone to sign up for my projects.

Anyways, I thought I’d share this and maybe it can help you in case idea validation is something you skipped before you started building.
> a magnet school, so already presumably for "gifted" students, that in turn had advanced courses like honors or AP.

I too attended a magnet school, but the point of magnet schools were not actually for 'gifted' students. While many did offer advanced classes or programs, the goal was to influence racial desegregation by offering programs to encourage white students to attend black majority schools.
AI is already eating their way up the creative ladder, this is 100% irrefutable. Interns, junior artists, junior developers, etc are all losing jobs to AI now.

The main problem for AI is it doesn't have a coherent creative direction or real output consistency. The second problem is that creativity thrives on novelty but AI likes to output common things. The first is solvable, probably within 5 years, and is going to hollow out creative departments everywhere. The second is effectively unsolvable, though you might find algorithms that mask it temporarily (I'm not sure if this is any different than what humans do).

We're going to end up with "rock star" teams of creative leads who have more agility in discovering novelty and curating aesthetics than AI models. They'll work with a small department comprised of a mix of AI wranglers and artisans that can put manual finishing touches on AI generated output. Overall creative department sizes are probably going to shrink to 20% of current levels but output will increase by 200%+.
There is never a consensus on anything until one decides who the interpreters are :)
Parens were not the main part - main part is having multiplication without spaces and addition with spaces.

I would say it is a neat detail but if no one cares or uses it - it is pretty much "feel good about yourself" use and not practical one.
Instances are not shared. :) Everyone gets a dedicated session with dedicated resources. One session for every machine.
The point of dependent types is to check these uses of N and M at compile time symbolically, for all possible values, without having to "lift" their actual concrete values to compile time.

Typical implementations of dependent types do not generate a separate copy of a function for every instantiation, the way C++ does, so they simply do not need the concrete values in the same way.
Talking to an App Store Review brick wall
Cognitive Science and "Domain Stewards"
>American anti communist folk killed a few people too

There is something deeply wrong with talking like that about 2 million deaths.

Anyway, if you lump up all the 'communist' regimes, you should do the same with capitalist regimes too. Bengali famine gives you up to 4 million deaths for a start.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943
For better or for worse, when I was in school in the 80s and early 90s, tracking started in about 4th grade (not counting kids who skipped earlier grades entirely). I essentially had about 90% the same kids in all my classes from 4th grade through high school graduation (not counting the influx from other feeder schools that joined in 6th & 9th). The result was less distraction in the classroom because everyone wanted to be there and was focused on learning, and much tighter rapport among the classmates. A lot of people make their best friends in college, but in my case, the friend groups that sustained frequently began in elementary and middle school!

The downside to early tracking is that it becomes increasingly difficult for kids on remedial and standard tracks to break into G&T/advanced classes with each successive year, but it's pretty easy to create an exception-based assessment process to facilitate these moves.

Fast forward to today, where I have three kids in three public neighborhood schools in San Jose. Math tracking starts in middle school and is based exclusively on students' NWEA (https://www.nwea.org/) scores, which determine whether you're placed in accelerated math, standard math or remedial math in 6th grade. Some schools let kids move into the accelerated track in 7th grade based on their 6th grade achievement, but many don't [because the 6th grade accelerated curriculum includes the entirety of 6th-8th grade "standard math" curricula, and expecting a kid who only received 1/3rd of that as a 6th grader to miraculously know the other 2/3rds as they start 7th grade isn't reasonable]. The result, from what I can tell, is that you have all kinds of mixed grade classes in high school now, since kids of essentially any grade could be taking the same classes (whether AP classes or core curriculum, or even electives). It's frankly a mess, and the level of distraction is off the charts. Overall, achievement of G&T students is lower and the kids at the lower end are suffering, too, because they're also not receiving differentiated instruction at the level they often need.

In my opinion, it's a great illustration of how DEI policies applied to public education can fail all student demographics. On the plus side, ironically, the social/emotional maturity of kids these days far exceeds generations past.
I didn’t interpret the original comment to be about micro celebrities, but about people supposedly wasting time today in ways they didn’t beforehand. I agree that micro celebrities are a new phenomenon somewhat (although they are also sort of a return to more regional distribution of fame.) But that wasn’t the point being made.
ChatGPT is not just an LLM.

It is:

- Dall-e for image generation

- a real time Python interpreter that can run Python code to answer relevant questions

- can search the web to retrieve and validate information

- has the infrastructure to handle processing at scale
a7iv + 70-200 GM II shooter myself too, I feel you! Even in my day to day travel photography with my partner I'll still drag that combo with me. It's the one range that you just can't easily replicate with a phone and it looks totally magical, whereas things like wide angle photo and your regular 35mm are "close enough" that often I'll just use my phone instead.
Because a cashier's check is for a fixed amount; you can't change its value on the spot without going through the whole process again.

Suppose you show up to buy a truck with #30K in cash (the truck is listed for $30K). You inspect the truck, and find that the A/C needs to be fixed, which would cost you, say $3K. So you decide to split the repair cost with the seller, and now the truck will cost you $28.5K. If you have cash, this is simple: you just hand over $28.5K. But if you have a cashier's check?
I imagine this could be sold to upscale hotels or concert arenas, for display on a big screen in a reception area or foyer.
> I agree that Go should really have an analogue to Rust's `?`, but you can't really do that in a sane way without sum types to represent your conditions. The very multiple-return style error propagation makes it impractical to do.

There is always the Odin style 'or_return' operator, which is defined for a similar situation.

https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#or_return-operator
This does not seem like a realistic benchmark target.
The article might give the impression of some kind of LLM SOTA model being slotted in, but visiting the website of the company they used, Caledo, it looks like they are using 2014 level technology.

Poorly animated CGI newscaster reading an "AI" written script. Really their tech looks awful and dated.
If I read OpenAI's pricing right, then Google's thing is 200 times cheaper?
I agree, and this is why I do not own a Tesla. Unfortunately my kids can still get killed by one.
I think this where the real question is for me. When I read about MCP, the topmost question in my mind is "Why isn't this just tool calling?" I had difficulty finding an answer to this. Below, you have someone else asking "Why not just use GraphQL?" And so on.

It would probably be helpful for many of your readers if you had a focused document that addressed specifically that motivating question, together with illustrated examples. What does MCP provide, and what does it intend to solve, that a tool calling interface or RPC protocol can't?
> f the agents found cash, they seized it through civil forfeiture — a legal process that places the onus on the passenger to prove it was not connected to drugs in order to get it back

one of the absolutely most horrible laws that exist in the U.S. today that goes totally against the presumption of innocence that is (supposedly) the bedrock of our legal framework
Spotify debuts marketing tools and insights for audiobook authors
> The times I discuss truly software engineering topics (modelling, abstractions, algorithms, etc.) is significantly less than the times I discuss about: k8s shenanigans, Go/Java/etc. intricate details, library incompatibilities, build systems, S3 access rights, etc.

I don't see a distinction, tbh. Coordinating software is part of software engineering even if it's "boring" or "frustrating". If you want to code business logic in a vacuum you'll be left with useless code and nowhere to run it.
You articulated my view perfectly. I just don't get the buy in from people who should know better than trust vc funded talking heads.
Scenario A: Picture that a quick, tiny function is needed that can load data from struct members and operate on them. The structs are tiny but there are a whole lot of them, and the values of interest always start at offsets e.g. 0, 4, and 8. If the structs can be stored in memory aligned on a segment boundary, a pointer can be constructed where offset 0 always points to the beginning of the struct, and the code can use the literal offsets 0, 4, 8 added to the pointer base without having to do any further arithmetic.

Scenario B: Imagine you're writing a page of video to the VGA framebuffer. Glossing over a whole lot of minutiae, you can simply jam 64,000 bytes into the address and data lines starting at A000:0000 without needing to stop and think about what you're doing w.r.t. the segment registers. Any kind of segment change every n bytes would require the loop to be interrupted some number of times over the course of the transfer to update DS or ES. This would also prevent something like `rep movs` from being able to work on a full screenful of data.

The 16-byte paragraph, and the many segment/offset aliases that could be constructed to refer to a single linear memory address, was a design choice that tried to serve the needs of both of those groups.
I honestly believe this specific case is a Pareto situation where the first 80% came at breakneck speeds, and the final 20% just won't come in a satisfactory way. And the uncanny valley effect demands a percentage that's extremely close to 100% before it has any use. Neural networks are great at approximations, but an approximate person is just a nightmare.
At larger banks, there’s usually a teller that has their own cubicle with a locked door. They buzz you in in and you ask for amounts > 1k.
Phish vs Grateful Dead didn’t work.

But Dildos vs. Vibrators was fine.

The colors are off though. Not really impressed.
Haha, yeah, personal experiences.

Tha answer to the first is "to the floor" because they cannot fall from there.

The answer to the second is to praise them every time they successfully close it. Positive reinforcement seems to work much better.
I have a lot of respect for Erik Meijer and I agree with the basic premise of the paper/article. However, I don't fully agree with Erik's position.

Let's say this was my program:

void Main()
{
PureFunction().Run();
ImpureFunction();
}

If those functions represent (by some odd coincidence) half of your code-base each (half pure, half impure). Then you still benefit from the pure functional programming half.

You can always start small and build up something that becomes progressively more stable: no code base is too imperative to benefit from some pure code. Every block of pure code, even if surrounded by impure code, is one block you don't have to worry so much about. Is it fundamentalist programming? Of course not. But slowly building out from there pays you back each time you expand the scope of the pure code.

You won't have solved all of the worlds ills, but you've made part of the world's ills better. Any pure function in an impure code-base is, by-definition: more robust, easier to compose, cacheable, parallelisable, etc. these are real benefits, doesn't matter how small you start.

So, the more fundamentalist position of "once one part of your code is impure, it all is" doesn't say anything useful. And I'm always surprised when Erik pulls that argument out, because he's usually extremely pragmatic.
This is confusing. We've never had a ChatGPT-like innovation before to compare to. Yes, there have been AI hype cycles for decades, but the difference is that we now have permanent invaluable and society-changing tools out of the current AI cycle, combined with hundreds of billions of dollars being thrown at it in a level of investment we've never seen before. Unless you're on the bleeding edge of AI research yourself, or one of the people investing billions of dollars, it is really unclear to me how anyone can have confidence of where AI is not going
> That arrangement is problematic

Understatement of the year.
Yes: "A group of symbiotic microbes" - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consortium#English
I think these are good points, but I don't buy that these are true of a majority of gifted programs. Enough of my friends were also gifted (or we became friends because we were in the same problem) that I didn't feel the separation you describe. In fact, it was a relief to get out of classroom settings where peers valued social performance over intellectual performance. Gifted gave us a space where I could be comfortably awkward.

I also had experiences with mixed skill level classrooms and frequently found myself paired with students who didn't want support -- either from myself, other students, or the teacher. They didn't want to be in a classroom of any kind. I can imagine environments where this does work, but it freaks me out a little bit that you say you're certain this works.

As an additional anecdote, my son loves his gifted classes. But similar to myself, that's where his friends are.

I wonder if we'd both agree that kids' social environment is more important than the structure of any particular learning program?
"Size" might be as simple as radar cross section. Not necessarily a good thing for us squishy blobs.
Could be. The time I noticed it in a travel nexus, everyone (young adult, white) was speaking unaccented English.
(again, just before TG)
A functioning justice system in a free country has no legitimate reason to seize property without any prior suspicion of wrongdoing and an order from a court.
I think you are vastly over estimating the size of 80K USD in $100 bills. Each bundle of $10K is about 1/2” thick. You can easily carry 80K in 100’s without looking out of place.
No, I cannot because that is fundamentally not what the parent comment said or the framing that they used.

> Meanwhile, societies like USSR and Communist China, that persecuted their geniuses, collapsed their previously great societies.

I'm sorry, but that is not how either the USSR or China have operated. If anything, they hyper applied the notion cultivating geniuses. Education in both China and formerly the USSR is hyper competitive with multiple levels of weeding out the less desirables to try and cultivate the genius class.

The problem with both is that your level of academic achievement dictated what jobs you were suited for with little wiggle room.

Now, that isn't to say, particularly under Mao, that there wasn't a purging of intellectuals. It is to say that later forms of the USSR and China have the education systems that prioritize funding genius.
AI code generation will remain fragmented
Sure, people carry around cash all the time, there isn't a problem with that - but carrying around $80,000 in cash is highly unusual. It's not something normally done. I don't know anyone who would travel with that kind of cash because it could be stolen, by cops or by anyone.

When receiving a large amount of cash for a legitimate sale of something, or other kind of legit transaction taking place, the first thing most people would probably think to do is to go to their bank branch in the local area and deposit the money ASAP, and then get on the train. Large deposits are tracked, I think you have to fill out a form, so maybe he just didn't want to have the tax man look at what's going on (points to possibly shady dealings).

The fact is that walking around with $80,000 in cash is a huge risk (unless you're a billionaire - but then you're probably not taking a train), it's not something most people would typically do. It appears a bit shady without OP giving any other details. He claims it wasn't for heroin, but what if he's purposely omitting that it was actually for cocaine. I'd like to know more about OP's story, but I doubt we'll get any answers.