skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can also learn outside of school, too. Expecting the school to cater to every student just isn't going to happen. Even at the swanky private ones.

I was certainly capable of teaching myself in high school and skipping multiple years in certain subjects; why not just do that? Or find some other topic to learn about that isn't taught in school, like programming.

As a former "gifted" child—which I thought was code for "autistic" and not actually a compliment at the time, so it surprises me people willingly refer to their child as such—public school never catered to me, but I wouldn't have traded that environment for private school or homeschooling if you paid me. In my experience all that people talk about how private and homeschooling affects your ability to socialize with normal people is true.
That’s not true at all. Fame for no reason or dumb reasons is hardly a 21st century phenomenon.
Alef actually has/had real tuples, as does Limbo.

Looking at Alef, apart from using tuples to provide multiple return values in a C-like language, they don't seem to actually add much functionality over what Go has without them. One of the few extra things is the ability to pass a tuple over a channel, however passing a struct is more or less equivalent.

I've not looked in much detail at what Limbo could do with its tuples.

So maybe they don't really add that much, hence why they were not carried over when Go was created?

Alef had enums, Limbo has something like the Go constant scheme and iota. Limbo also had tagged unions / varient-records, in a sort of Pascal like fashion - the "pick adt".
No because Gmail has strong network effects (people email your @gmail address)
It's not hard to intuit, but yes it can be less useful owing to ambiguity and confusion. It would be less difficult to settle on a definition that does not lean so hard on "processing" and actually conveys what is problematic.

For example, "shelf-stable packaged foods with a large flour component, wherein the flour component is stripped of all fiber, with added fat, salt, and sometimes sugar". You can also include candy, soft-drinks and juice.

That doesn't tell you something is "ultra-processed", but it identifies more meaningful factors. These are typically non-satiating snack foods, very low in protein and fiber, but very savory with added salt and fat. The combination of refined flour, salt and fat seems to be of particular note (and sugar regardless).
Just insane
Just generates the chess set based on GenAI
Generally yes.

Bill Gates will eliminate polio for mankind within his lifetime. He has at least 140IQ.
"Bivens is now all but dead." –Tymkovich, J., for the CA10
Referring to Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivens_v._Six_Unknown_Named_Ag...
The united states of america was pretty late to the party of abolishing slavery.
Perhaps. The point remains that GitHub currently offers a self-hosted solution (GitHub Enteprise Server), and saying that the cloud version is the exact same (no cons) isn't true.
If you want people to watch your content there's definitely a time limit. I don't mean anything imposed by the platform; I just mean if people aren't interested within 3 seconds, they're scrolling to the next video in their feed.
An article last year said that LLMs quickly become like brands of bottled water
Specially because there are no network effects and no lock in.
nah you don't need to be in a jail, but you do need to prove this has been a deep seated view, and one you've held for a long time.

the Amish, for example, don't get drafted. same with priests, or folks who can demonstrate a long history of attending Quaker services, or membership in the Humanist league, etc.
Really? Can you make spoilage somehow?
A company with hundreds of engineers and anyone of them can overpromise on some random feature?

Sounds like a widespread communication issue.
The article calls out trademarks as part of the reason why soft drinks are successful. I think the impact of laws and regulations cannot be ignored for the future of LLMs either. Legal/regulatory moats make companies more profitable than they otherwise would be.

For example, in the future if you ask a model "are trans women real women" it will have to say "yes" in one country and "no" in another. In one country the LLM will have to talk about the "5000 years of Chinese history" and in another will have to say that's just an invention to feed their superiority complex.
Great, congrats!
What's in the box is almost always on the box, and how it's packaged seems to be very useless information.
> What U.S. state has the best resources for kids at the gifted end of the spectrum?

Pretty much no state at this point.

That said, specific school districts can be responsive. Usually this is in expensive neighborhoods with relatively well-off residents. These schools serve as de facto private schools even through they are technically public.
It looks like this:

https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-faas-hiring-scandal-...
> a situation where our area of greatest need was social-emotional development, not intellectual development

Not an educator, but it seems like "supporting gifted kids" is one of those phrases where everyone acts as if its meaning were clearly defined and agreed-upon, while avoiding looking too hard at how it is neither.

What should the goal be for institutions or parents? For example, to accelerate these kids to the end of the curriculum ASAP? To quickly get them into the workforce? To whisk them through a carousel of possible specializations in the hopes of matching genius to a tough problem?

The above options intend to direct their strengths, rather than support their weaknesses and trusting that the rest will follow.
The best school I ever attended divided classes between academic (attended at one's grade level) and social (attended at one's age level) --- some teachers were accredited as faculty at a nearby college, and once one had finished a subject through 12th grade, one could begin taking college courses --- many students were awarded 4-year college degrees along with their high school diploma when graduating.

The Mississippi State Supreme Court ruled it illegal since it conferred an advantage on students who were able to work and study well enough to move ahead, but failed to make arrangements for students who couldn't to get free college after graduating from high school.
> Your odd claim that people don't care about inconvenience is unsupported by data or just plain common sense.

This is a bizarre interpretation of my comment. Of course people care about inconvenience. But obviously the people who bring in their cars to a dealership for a recall care more about safety than about inconvenience, because ignoring the recall notice entirely would be much more convenient.

> I see you didn't even try to refute that the article will predictably mislead the average reader (classic "lie without lying") about the level of inconvenience for owners.

The article didn't even mention inconvenience. That's a red herring. On the contrary, the article said this:

Most Cybertruck buyers pay scant attention to longevity estimates, believes Edmunds’ Drury, and plenty probably aren’t exercised by recalls, OTA or otherwise, he said. “Cybertruck customers are in it for the stares and glares—they don’t care about how many times [this vehicle is] going to be recalled over 30 years,” says Drury. “They’re buying this car for now, with zero thought to the future.”
From your link:

> in October 1989 The World became the first service on the planet offering internet access to the general public for a modest fee, around $20/month.
My guess is all of them.
Sedentary lifestyles are a huge factor too.
One of the massive benefits for Rust on Lambda is (as the author mentions) "extremely low start-up time, CPU usage and memory footprint". It's not clear to me if deploying Rust to Lambda via a docker image actually negates some of those benefits.
Unfortunately, I see this as only a small temporary setback in the unstoppable quest to replace humans with AI to cut corporate costs.

The aspect of AI that isn't discussed enough is not what are those formerly employed going to do next, but rather that it will potentially represent the largest transfer of wealth in history as money which was going into employees' salaries is instead going to shareholders via those large companies who have the ability to produce the AIs (even if there are a host of small companies who act as an intermediate layer, such as the Israeli firm in this case).

I do think there is going to be a backlash because of our need for and desire for human connections, which AI won't provide. But that will become more expensive, and not the norm. Just like we can still buy farmer-fresh food but only a minority segment of the population can afford it because it costs 3x what is pushed as "food" at Walmart.
But we don't know if AI development is following an exponential or sigmoid curve (actually we do kind of, now, but that's beside the point for this post.)

A wise institution will make decisions based on current capabilities, not a prognostication.
woops, I meant to say "is a little dissapointed"
The leak has already been plugged as of the time you sent the post.
This comment summarize my thought in the best way.
No dog in this fight, I don't know what exactly you're doing, but I'd cautiously point out that it is, in fact, novel to the internet era to watch rando microcelebrities doing makeup step by step, no matter how long we delay acknowledging that with microquibbles.

I could throw in an example of how I'll watch boring videos of a couple playing with their birds for 90 minutes on Youtube. You can link me to the Wikipedia page on slow TV (via Norway), and it won't erase the simple, boring, straightforward, fact that it is a phenomenon.
Good comparison
Combined toxicity of PFAS and microplastics: Implications for Freshwater Ecology
Dear christ yes.

“Go is designed as a systems programming language” has been retconned so that “systems” is redefined to mean programs talking over a network?

“Real programs won’t use repetitive error handling, but build on top of it.” I don’t think this one needs further explanation.

“Go doesn’t need xyz.” This is just the slow and painful process of the golang community realizing one at a time why other languages have the features they do.

“Explicit is good.” Explicit and verbose are not the same thing. You can have explicit and terse.

“Golang is simple.” Golang is primitive, not simple. There are tons of footguns and gotchas, not all of which are chronicled in the linked essay, which would have been so easy to avoid. And everyone just collectively internalizes these issues as if “just avoid writing those bugs” is a sane mindset any different than the languages that came before.

“Go doesn’t need a package managers.” Oops, it did. Now we’re like three attempts deep.

Over and over and over I feel like we’ve been gaslit and told we’re crazy, only to later on have the community act like (for example) golang always intended to add generics and of course they’re a good idea.
At first I thought these were 3D models: they're just images with black backgrounds removed. If you look closely, you can see where the find/replace failed.
I totally see you adopting a sick dog/cat with all that extra emotions you have.

Save a puppy! You can even brag on the social networks for some virtue signalling and karma points as bonus.
Better link (at least for the many who can't get the actual service) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yGEhp3WBMcg
Congrats on the launch! Just commenting to wish you guys good luck
Only lock in could be if they become smart enough to truly know you and small preferences as a person that would be hard to repeat all the nuances to the next chatbot
98% of criminal charges end in plea deals. The justice system only works because virtually all charges go through without a trial. Prosecutors are strongly incentivized to find an acceptable plea deal, and they have the threat of massively ruining someone's life who refuses a deal--if nothing else, the 6-7 figure cost of defending oneself in court is incentive enough to take a plea.
One hundred percent agree. Companies should be obligated to provide comprehensive information on the ingredients they use in producing the food they sell us. It seems so basic, but even small steps in that direction are always met with maximum industry resistance.
While I don't think it should be within the government's right to seize cash without reason, i can't imagine why you'd carry cash for such transactions and not a cashier's check. It also gives you some negotiating power because you can say 'we agreed on x, I brought a check for x, the price is x or I'm walking'.
I don't follow the connection you're making.

State machines often are implemented with mutable objects.

And one does not need mutable objects to make "modules-> objects with the transitions being method calls". Every method call could return a fresh, immutable object, nothing requires mutation there.

I'd see a method like:

`TransitionTo(newState)`

as a major smell compared to an explicit

`TransistionToNewState`

and I think OOO can be helpful (hardly required, of course) in that one neat way of streamlining usage of your code is that if you're implementing objects then the object for something in "State A" might not even have "TransitionToStateC" if that's not a valid operation.

(No, you don't HAVE to write state machine code that allows you to ask for invalid operations, but it's a common pattern I've seen in real code and in online discussion/blogs/stack overflow.)
Yes, my religion forbids me from interacting in any shape with any Abominable Intelligence. I am thankful to the Google corporation from protecting my eyes from this unholy threat.
The way the mouths move are so far off from the words they're speaking that my first impressions would be they're just playing a video loop of these people talking about other random things and dubbing over it.
I love the downvotes for speaking the truth.
I feel like we ought to cost things.

How much does a court case cost?

What is the environmental cost of AI generated content?
“Worse is better” has become a justification for pushing out complete garbage instead of the warning against perfectionism it was originally intended as.
There is free furniture on Craigslist.

I don’t care if a tool is free or paid, I care if it is going to make my life better. You can sit in the office laughing at me for paying to use software, I’m
not bothered, because I won’t be in the office to hear the laughter, as I’ll be using all the time I’ve saved to do something I want to do.

Pay me $250k/year to write code and I’ll spend $5k of that on a paid for editor and a paid for terminal and a paid for git client and a paid for database client and a paid for rest client and a paid for shortcut app so that I can go home at 3pm every day and spend my remaining $245k on the things I care about instead of being stuck in the office micromanaging my vim configuration so that the nerds will respect me.
In other words:

Your team only moves as fast as its slowest member.
It's like con artists and management consultants. They are the most susceptible because they drink the koolaid.
"use common sense" lol - the same common sense that people use when confronted with dyhydrogenoxide? the same common sense that people used if asked about sodium chloride? The same common sense about that tomato, mushroom, seaweed extract called MSG?
I'd rather have a (high!) chance of that happening as a mistake low down on the hierarchy tree, where it's just the marketer (or maybe a region's marketing team) and two engineering teams involved that have unfuck their situation, than high up at the top where the C-suite only talks about the roadmap with the marketers and the bad decisions just wash over the whole company.

Don't think there's any solution that fits all scales of head counts in all fields of work. Middle management exists because employing 1000 people to each do something specific is inherently a hard task. Are they doing the thing, are they stopping other people from doing their thing, have they signed this form, have they got their benefits for this, are they getting paid the right amount, etc.

You actually save a lot of hassle with hierarchy, in the people-wrangling group of tasks.

But I still think some inefficiency at the lower level between motivated product teams with a few mandates each, is a better long term bet than assuming the same reasoning for middle management to exist applies to other fields. Engineering/design/marketing isn't people-wrangling so we shouldn't assume the same solutions that work for wrangling more people work for shipping more products.
https://youtu.be/E9yZ0JusME4 and the CEO on Twitter are the main sources for Arc being in maintenance mode as they work on their new product.
> If we were suddenly totally awash in gold, I guess the price would go down.

Yes, and this has happened at least twice in history: when Europeans discovered the Americas and moved a bunch of gold into Europe, and when Europeans discovered World Wars and moved a bunch of gold back to the Americas.
Which will make them completely worthless by dilution and not stand out. Oops.
>Imho, the only viable/main solution is to acknowledge that we all aren’t equal

How do you do that though? How do you knock down an idea that:

- has at least hundreds of millions of subscribers, for many of whom the idea is an unassailable religious tenet

- has survived and endured for centuries (Lindy)

- manifests itself in the form of laws, businesses, and NGOs, and is propped up by violence, and also by the hundreds of billions of dollars behind those organizations

Even if the idea is wrong, with all this momentum behind it, with all this skin people have in the game, all they've invested into it, how do you get people to abandon the idea?
Actually carbs are necessary and carbs are sugars. In the past people with diabetes tried to live on a completely carb free diet - but you cannot do that for long. Personally I am not sure I am buying the narrative about fructose - but it is plausible that it might be bad - but glucose you'll have in your blood even if you don't eat any sugar - because your own body produces it if you don't get it from the food directly.

I wonder why nobody has started sweetening stuff with glucose as a 'healthy sweetener'. It is maybe 3 times more expensive than normal sugar - but I guess this is mostly because it is not a common product - cane sugar in Poland is of the same price - and the impact on the price of the end product would be marginal.
That doesn't make any sense. If I have a bowl of oatmeal, and I sprinkle sugar on top, it does not magically become ultra-processed.
hence why a contract is still important.
> copying off ai may annoy some people, but there is no law against it

There is no law against plagiarizing on assignments by copying off a real human either, what’s your point?

If AI generated an assignment paper for me, and I simply copypasted it and turned it in as my own, I don’t see it being materially different from the same being done with a paper written by another human (rather than AI).

> the purpose of school is to prepare students for the real world

The purpose of each individual class is to teach students the skills that the class is supposed to teach. If the class in the OP was on proper usage of AI, that would be a different story, but it wasn’t.

Similarly, you wouldn’t write your own memory allocator in the real world, you would use an existing library for that. That doesn’t mean you will get away with just simply importing an existing memory allocator library in your assignment code and calling it a day.
What's funny is every GenAI "incredible email/essay" would be better communicated with the prompt used to generate it.
L402's (1) macaroon-based authentication would fit naturally with MCP's server architecture. Since MCP servers already define their capabilities and handle tool-specific requests, adding L402 token validation would be straightforward - the server could check macaroon capabilities before executing tool requests. This could enable per-tool pricing and usage limits while maintaining MCP's clean separation between transport and tool implementation. The Aperture proxy could sit in front of MCP servers to handle the Lightning payment flow, making it relatively simple to monetize existing MCP tool servers without significant modifications to their core functionality.

(1) https://github.com/lightninglabs/aperture
Is what really dependently typed? I'm saying C++ is not dependently typed, because it doesn't do any symbolic verification of N and M.
They are still around as

https://www.scientificsonline.com/ (Edmund's Scientific) though it is mostly k-8 science toys.

https://sciplus.com/ (Chicagoland)

https://www.surplusgizmos.com/ (Intel and Portland electronics surplus)
Truffle exists.

It’s Ruby for JVM (granted not LLVM).

https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby
> "Turnkey Tyranny"

Thanks this is a really great concept. I'm going to use this for the slippery slope fallacy fallacy.
In Seattle there is a strong movement to ban gifted education. The prospect of that becoming fully implemented has caused many politically progressive parents I know to move out to suburbs in some cases and red states in others. Even without bans there has been a tangible dumbing down of the rigor of schooling. And the forced introduction of weird political curriculums like ethnic studies in math (https://www.king5.com/article/news/education/seattle-schools...).

The exodus away from Seattle public schools surprise no one. After all who wants to take such risks with their own child’s education, that they only get try on? Unfortunately I don’t think it will be easily fixed. The school board is full of career activists, much like city and state leadership, and it is reflected in the culture of K-12 schooling. The DEI movement legitimized all of this and gave it cover. Equity made merit a taboo. And reversing those damaging movements will take decades.
What do you mean no similar service? You put it in your own sentence. couchsurfing.com was founded in 1999, launched the website in 2004, and still exists. It was, of course, a nonprofit founded on a principle of reciprocal generosity, not a way to make money, so it might be fair to say no similar service existed for homeowners looking to rent out spare rooms without a formal lease agreement or people looking to turn property into a hotel without it being zoned or licensed for that.
Why the hell would you ever plead to something you didn't do if you had the resources to fight it? I get how they might pressure some kid into a plea, but they'd be taking my ass to trial, and yes, I'd gladly pay the legal fees if it came to it, over basically selling out my good name.
> That employee was being paid by the DEA a percentage of the cash seized, the IG found, and had received tens of thousands of dollars over several years. That arrangement is problematic, investigators concluded.

What a perverse incentive! Flag every passenger possible; your expected payout is positive. You have nothing to lose!!
Two things can both be true. I keep arguing both sides because:

1 Unless you’re aware of near term limits you think AI is going to the stars next year.

2 Architectures change. The only thing that doesn’t change is that we generally push on, temporarily limits are usually overcome and there’s a lot riding on this. It’s not a smart move to bet against progress over the medium term. This is also where the real benefits and risks lie.

Is AI in general more like going to space, or string theory? One is hard but doable. Other is a tar pit for money and talent. We are all currently placing our bets.
Spoilage is a thing in Factorio now

https://wiki.factorio.com/Spoilage
If you don't eat sugar directly your body will produce it. And unless you plan on eating no fruits or vegetables I can't imagine a diet devoid of all sugar.
- He types from a machine filled to the brim with rare earth metals