skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ultimately it’s appropriately paced education. Some people need accelerated education and some need decelerated education, and it might vary between subjects for an individual. Not having opportunities at either end of the spectrum is bad for the student because they’re can be left behind or not challenged enough.

Very few people take issue with providing resources to someone falling behind. On the other hand, enough people take issue with letting someone get ahead that it has become a political issue, and has lead to regressive educational policy.
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If you have a particular style of witty observational humor that you prefer, providing the model some examples of that will help it generate better output. It's capable of generating pretty much anything if you prompt it the right way. For truly nuanced or novel things, you have to give it a nucleus of novelty and axis of nuance for it to start generating things in your desired space.
interesting product. how exactly does Martin text/call others?
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That's interesting. My parents were told, in SC and FL, to have me skip a grade or two (not six!), but refused due to the social burden they expected it to put on me.

I'm not entirely happy with where I am at 26. I wonder if I'd be further ahead - or behind - if I had skipped forward.
Speaking a someone who has written Go full time since 2014:

Go is used in a lot of places for unglamorous things where the most important thing is explicitness, and where all these features that the PL nerds want, do nothing but make things more implicit.

It's not perfect, but it's a great language. People who like it, though, like me, are pragmatists. The shortcomings of the language that are apparent in complex code are strengths when writing the simple straightforward code that makes up most Go projects, because all of THAT becomes much simpler than it would be in a fancier language.

The reason I've never bothered to write a response to these kinds of screeds against Go is that usually I'm too busy getting shit done with it.
I have not looked at their comment history, and the guidelines ask us not to do that.
The "civil" part of Civil Asset Forfeiture precludes criminal felony charges..
I had a very different (and much more positive) experience with G&T. I went to my local public school in rural Pennsylvania. In PA schools are required to write an IEP for "gifted" students. There are a couple of metrics, but the main one is anyone who tests > 130 on an IQ test. I remember taking a test in 2nd or 3rd grade (I was terrified of authority figures as a kid, so I have no idea how they accurately give these assessments, but at least in my case it was).

Having an IEP meant I got special attention in elementary school, which really boiled down to a) some extra math worksheets and b) getting pulled out of class once a week to go with the other IEP kids to a special "gifted" class. The content of that class was probably less important than getting us out of the regular classrooms. This gave the teachers the chance to repeat material without boring us (and the behavior problems that come from that).

Now I'm the dad of a talented 10 year old boy who doesn't have this experience and is bored constantly. He is basically forgotten about as he's never going to test below grade level even if he's completely ignored, and there's no incentive or requirement that he stays engaged.
We said the same about Google, Uber, DoorDash, Facebook, TikTok, <insert any other unprofitable business that eventually became profitable>. Sure, most of them are making money through ads, but for that you need some audience. There’s absolutely survivorship bias here, but eventually it might just pan out.
Wait is this just an image generator? Am I missing something really cool here?
Arguably what I think is actually happening is the focus distance has increased considerably.

The muscles that contract or relax to change your lens shape (to focus your vision at different lengths) don't work linearly. Most of the work/tension of the lens is happening in the last meters range. Such that looking out at a 10m distance or 200m distance is a lot closer in muscle tone then the tension applied to focus between 10m and 0.05m.

Most likely what is happening is that the visual field workspace is equivalent but the eye strain is considerably reduced from being able to not look at something so close by such as the displays we use every day.

The theory in the article is that this is due to reflected vs direct light but I think this is a post rationalization derived from the author's experience. The perceived experience is that it is easier on the eyes. The reason is less clear.
IQ is a horribly biased way to measure "gifted". EQ is far more predictive of success and, honestly, more valuable to society. I have known a few very high IQ people and those with high IQ and low EQ can be difficult to collaborate with.
I'm one of those people—I use a variety of models but I call them all "chatgpt" (ironically, not including OpenAI's product). For the most part the model used doesn't really impact usage or quality that much, at least for my use-cases. It helps that I tend to keep my expectations very low. I think it's going to become a generic term for "llm chat bot" pretty rapidly, if it's not already metastasized.
It'll fit comfortably in a shoebox.
There is no money to be made from individual users. All of the money comes from companies building something on top of the LLMs, and those of us building startups on top of LLMs are very much aware of the differences between the LLMs. And, to the point made in the article, it is trivially easy for us to switch from one LLM to another, so the LLMs don't have much of a moat and therefore they cannot charge much money.
I went down to Advanced Scientific Concepts in Santa Monica, CA, in 2003 to see their prototype flash LIDAR. It was on an optical bench aimed out an overhead door into daylight, nowhere near a product. It did work, but required strange InGaAs semiconductor processes and a timer chip stacked back to back against the sensor chip. Way too expensive to fab.

I thought that was going to be the future, and that technology would get cheap. But it's still expensive to fab such devices.
Google users are theoretically willing to become Bing users, though I'll admit that ChatGPT is the consumer leader mostly because of brand recognition and being the first mover.
I played a set of Factorio vs Minecraft! Tried generating a few different sets, this was super cool, and on theme!
>Conquerers in the past used this strategy to win massive empires for themselves.

I didn't have history in school, could you expand on this part? This sounds very interesting.
Or indeed, it's possible that neither you nor the virtue signallers understand why they're doing it.
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Unthinkable crutches in Go land continue.

This is something that needs to be fixed in the runtime itself to be appropriately container-aware and not require the users to write their own libraries to patch this out.

For example: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/99508

(alternatively, the goroutine runtime could have been made auto-scalable which would have reduced the impact at the cost of implementation complexity, like .net's threadpool is)
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> Most people stick with the same airline for the rewards.

Are you sure?
Smokers are often experts on why cigarettes are bad for you.
“Generate” does not have the same connotation that “create” does. Are they really that interchangeable?
If something takes this much explanation, it's probably not a great HN post in tweet form. Nobody (statistically) is going to acquire all the context in order to chitchat about it on a messageboard.
I expect we'll see stories out of Saudi Arabia or trafficked labor in SEA more and more as it becomes historical
Frankly code generators to fake generics aren’t remotely easy either.
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> On phpbb forums

It wasn't a phpbb thing, it's a size thing. It was basically every message board style format for all time before that too. Including any usenet group that was under a certain size, which was most of them.
I still don't see the settings. Can anyone help?
Don't sweat schooling. It's good for him to be with people his age, and he will be fine long term. Let him do extra curricular that fill his curiosity.

When he gets to college he can really excel, until then just let him go to school and make friends with kids his age.
Bjarne said it best; There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
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In the right hands, the terseness and expansive nature of the language (big stdlib, java interop, implicits/givens, higher-kinded types, immutability first, etc) can greatly increase productivity, however it takes a higher caliber of developer to wield it effectively. Not to mention also the rich ecosystem in the functional side of the house with ZIO/Typelevel, or distributed frameworks like Akka.

Poor Scala devs output complete junk, however high performers produce incredibly elegant and concise code.
> Imho, the only viable/main solution is to acknowledge that we all aren’t equal, we don’t all have access to the same opportunities, but as a country we can implement policies that lessen the imbalance.

that's exactly what these school policies in CA and elsewhere are attempting to do; we can argue about which method might be the most effective, but no matter what you will find anecdotal examples about why X method "doesn't work".

The problem, or a problem, is that the problems the schools are trying to fix are deeply rooted in social inequality and much of that takes place outside the school. Striving for less inequality in general will also help solve the inequality in education problem.

Finland's approach is based on equality and has been very effective.
Click "Generate opponent" then u can play chess against them
The Dropbox fallacy doesn't really apply here. What user is technical enough to use a terminal but not technical enough to configure it, especially since the main ones on Apple machines are configured with a nice GUI that takes a few clicks to customize?

And even if config files were involved, do you think people configure their terminals (editors, whatever) not to increase productivity? Do you think we use vi as a sort of fidget spinner, and just edit our configs for the sake of editing them?

The other commenters are right: Warp has no real target user base. This, I believe is by design because their business model is Juicero for bash. They exist to farm VC money.
Well that's just a branding failure.
I’m not sure you’re portraying network effects correctly.
Is it just me or does everyone feel this way ? Its an instant put off for me when i hear that article was generated by AI. I would lose trust of that publication and move on.

People think AI is the magic answer for shitty content. In some cases AI is only adding speed not quality.
It’s a billion times integer modulus, summed. Div/mod is by far the slowest arithmetic instruction on a CPU, so it underestimates C/rust performance. I guess the author chose that to prevent the C compiler from optimizing the loop away.
Agreed. I finally got around to listening to a NotebookLM generated podcast this weekend, and found it absolutely unlistenable.

For some reason the LLM seemed to latch on to the idea that one host should say something, and the other host should just repeat a key phrase in the sentence for emphasis -- and say nothing else, and they'd do it like multiple times in a sentence, over and over again throughout the entire thing.

Slightly less weird -- but it seems like the LLM caught on that a good narrative structure for a two-host podcast is that one host is the 'expert' on the topic, and the other host plays dumb and ask questions. Not an unreasonable narrative structure. Except that the hosts would seamlessly, and very weirdly, switch roles constantly throughout the podcast.

And ultimately the result was just a high level summary of the article I had provided. They told me in the intro and the outro about the interesting parts they were going to dive into, but they never actually got around to diving into those parts.
I also found it hard to deal with the AWS CLI and Parquet.
I built this site so you can download it in CSV and Geopackage.

https://repromptai.com/data/foursquare
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We could play a Doom, Warcraft, and Descent for days. Netwars in between for kicks.
Pretty cool, and also pretty fucking bad. Checks all the AI boxes, I guess.

I tried "a classic set inspired by Armored Core". It gave me a typical-looking Armored Core (which would be good except it was supposed to be the king), a Space Marine (which I rerolled into some small mech that's close enough), a Zoid (which it refused to budge from), a tower (which it refused to budge from), and a chess queen with purple lights (which it refused to budge from, except to sometimes give me the gigantic head of an AC).

Not to mention, sometimes pieces look directly at the camera instead of forward, or don't even sit on the plane of the board. One of my pieces even had a mini-chessboard for its base.
In my experience, even if the company has a platform team, they still expect senior/staff software engineers to know about platform/infra topics and work on them. It’s strange because those very same companies don’t expect platform engineers to know about product related topics.

For example, while a software engineer needs to know about let’s say, DDD, the business logic of the product, and K8s, a platform engineer in the same company only needs to know about K8s.
I’m just armchair quarterbacking here but I feel like you should just do all features for every user with a single $/action rate, then give discounts for volume and/or prepayment. Even saying $20/200 is a clunky statement. You could just say $0.10 per action (the fact that you’re actually requiring me to make a $20 payment with a $20 charge once it gets to $10 or something like that isn’t even important to me on a pricing page, although when you mention it later in the billing page make sure you also tell people it’s a risk-free money back guarantee if that’s the case)

If there’s something that truly has an incremental cost to you, like providing priority support, that goes into the “enterprise pricing” section and you need to figure out how to quote that separately from the service. My guess is most people don’t want to pay extra for that, or perhaps they’d pay for some upfront integration support but ongoing support is not too important to them. Idk, that’s just my guess here.
There's a reason why so many of the people on the crypto grift in 2020-2022 have jumped to the AI grift. Same logic of "revolution is just around the corner", with the added mix of AGI millenarianism which hits a lot of nerds' soft spots.
Oh yeah that's indeed too dangerous for my country, thanks Google!
Hanging out on HN and arguing in favor of the gestapo is unusual.

Shall we send them over to your place next, so they can tell you what exactly you have to hide?
Are they more efficient? Because you only substitute human labor for technology when wages are too high
The scale isn't even close, and it's become normalized now. I think it bears talking about as a 21st century phenomenon.
How has it worked well? Europe is having issues with productivity — too expensive to live there AND higher paying jobs in the US. Eg People have to leave Norway to start businesses due to the tax system
There was a much stronger community aspect in those days. The locality helped. It was easier to meet your fellow nerds, living in the local calling area. I miss the BBS days.
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Ooh wow I hate this. Totally soulless appearance and delivery - and the robot fidgeting the dude is doing with his hands completely distracts from everything else. It’s totally normal to do that movement while speaking for emphasis - but whatever he’s doing does not look normal. (The mouths look nightmarish as well)
I didn't say it's easy !

And you have a very good point with large families vs today. But I think what I wrote still stands.

Most of your questions don't have an answer. Life is not about optimization, we are humans and there is no 'one perfect way' to live or raise a child.
It seems like you're choosing to selectively interpret things to fit your own argument.

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

They did indeed kill off most of their intelligentsia in the last century. This is clearly what the OP is referencing and is a historical fact. I'm not sure why you decided to take it in a different direction.
This seems like the ultimate in ultra-processed / factory food.

Kind of interesting to read the comments on the other recent post on ultra-processed foods (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42246739) and consider the arguments made against there and whether they would apply here.
This is really neat but of course ripe with copyright abuse. It was very happy generating some Super Mario Bros variants for me. xD
@somnium_n: Now, wait a minute, I wrote you!

MCP: I've gotten 2,415 times smarter since then.
> Meanwhile, societies like USSR and Communist China, that persecuted their geniuses, collapsed their previously great societies.

China is doing fine. In fact they're probably going to eclipse the US soon in terms of scientific output.

USSR fell for the trap of trusting the West and consequently they suffered a lot in the 90s.
There are so many confounding factors are at play that you're ignoring and attributing the achievement to high IQ (and that only).

The Guinea Worm is on the verge if eradication, mostly on the back of the multi-decade efforts of Jimmy Carter. I don't what his IQ is, but I'll assume it's below 140 and above whatever is the ballpark minimum required to enroll as a Navy Nuke.

I posit that you don't need to be a genius to eradicate a disease, just drive, a platform and the right resources and/or connections
I used to listen to podcasts during my commute, when they took the place of listening to NPR or talk radio. Now that I work from home full time, I listen to them when I'm doing dishes or similar chores, going on walks around the city, and when I'm doing any significant amount of driving. I listen to a combination of comedy/history (love The Dollop), politics, and sci-fi commentary.

For the most part, I'm listening pretty actively, but if I'm just sitting there listening without a fairly mindless activity going on, I'll get distracted pretty quickly and find myself looking at my phone...
point 2 is the thing that i think is most important to point out:

"architectures change"

sure, that's a fact. let me apply this to other fields:

"there could be a battery breakthrough that gives electric cars a 2,000 mile range."
"researchers could discover a new way to build nanorobots that attacks cancer directly and effectively cures all versions of it."
"we could invent a new sort of aviation engine that is 1,000x more fuel efficient than the current generation."

i mean, yeah, sure. i guess.

the current hype is built on LLMs, and being charitable "LLMs built with current architecture." there are other things in the works, but most of the current generation of AI hype are a limited number of algorithms and approaches, mixed and matched in different ways, with other features bolted on to try and corral them into behaving as we hope. it is much more realistic to expect that we are in the period of diminishing returns as far as investing in these approaches than it is to believe we'll continue to see earth-shattering growth. nothing has appeared that had the initial "wow" factor of the early versions of suno, or gpt, or dall-e, or sora, or whatever else.

this is clearly and plainly a tech bubble. it's so transparently one, it's hard to understand how folks aren't seeing it. all these tools have been in the mainstream for a pretty substantial period of time (relatively) and the honest truth is they're just not moving the needle in many industries. the most frequent practical application of them in practice has been summarization, editing, and rewriting, which is a neat little parlor trick - but all the same, it's indicative of the fact that they largely model language, so that's primarily what they're good at.

you can bet on something entirely new being discovered... but what? there just isn't anything inching closer to that general AI hype we're all hearing about that exists in the real world. i'm sure folks are cooking on things, but that doesn't mean they're near production-ready. saying "this isn't a bubble because one day someone might invent something that's actually good" is kind of giving away the game - the current generation isn't that good, and we can't point to the thing that's going to overtake it.
Perhaps it's unrealistic in the sense that this is unrealistically-optimisable code.

Real-world code has closures, allocations, and pointer-dererencing. This code is just iterations, additions and modulus.
But you mentioned that a test was taken. Is the test somehow unscientific? Is it rigged to favor white kids? Are you speaking of a hypothetical test that doesn't exist and was never applied?

If a test was actually taken, and it is not rigged, how can it not be a sort of scientific evidence?
Note that Berkeley is in theory not required to remove the video archive. It's just that by law, they are required to add captions. So, if they want to keep it up, that's what they could do. Except that it's not really a choice - the costs for doing so would be prohibitive. So, really, Berkeley is left with no choice: making the recording accessible or don't offer them at all means - in practice - "don't offer them at all".

Clearly the result of a regulation that meant well. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

It's a bit reminiscent of a law that prevents institutions from continually offering employees non-permanent work contracts. As in, after two fixed-term contracts, the third one must be permanent. The idea is to guarantee workers more stable and long-term perspectives. The result, however, is that the employee's contract won't get renewed at all after the second one, and instead someone else will be hired on a non-permanent contract.
I was unable to use the webapp on Firefox mobile, it was too glitchy for me.
I don't think you can rightly claim that the US was late to free the slaves when it happened so soon after the formation of the country, and the practice was globally accepted for thousands of years prior to that. It continued in Africa long after it was abolished in the West.

One of the first wars fought by the US was over slavery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War

Anti-slavery sentiments built up over time. Abraham Lincoln was moved by this popular book for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufferings_in_Africa

Of course these things aren't often taught in school.
How does removing gifted and talented programs support "those from low-opportunity backgrounds"?

"persecuting genius" is literally what is happening.
It disrupted it in the way of bringing new inventory online, and owning demand search for lodging while travelling, without owning any assets like hotels.

This pattern, of owning demand for food (instacart), transport (uber, etc), delivery (uber eats, etc) is a different model that doesn't own the assets outright and facilitates it instead.
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