skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't seem to take orientation into account either, which is pretty important when creating a 2D sprite to represent a 3D object. The pieces face in arbitrary directions rather than always facing the opponent.
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I've always wondered if it's possible to harness teen minds to solve significant math problems in high school, if you formulated them well and found the right scope. I think it's possible.
Singapore's math program in elementary is actually much less recitation and rote based than we are used to in Western mathematics education.

Indeed, it's very much pictorial and intuition-building in ways that fans of DI tend to look down on. It's concept and problem solving before rote.

I don't know so much about these countries in primary education, but I do have a few Japanese textbooks from secondary school translated into English and published by the AMS. This material also seems less rote-heavy than I am used to.

E.g. I'm looking at an on-level grade 7 mathematics textbook, and it's spending a lot of pages justifying the idea of negative numbers in addition and subtraction and with pictorial representation and has comparably few problems to do.

In a US math textbook, this material would have been done before grade 7, but in less depth. There would be a whole lot of rules, algorithms, and rote practice.
Reading through the thread, I can tell you have depth of experience.

Perhaps bringing it down a notch could help you connect with others’ perspectives as well.
AI is just one part of a larger and longstanding conversation about the future of work in an era of automation. We've long speculated that at some point we won't need the entire population to do all the work. Economists have talked about 20% of the population doing the work.

This can go one of two ways:

1. Fewer jobs will be used to further suppress wages. What little wages people earn will be used for essentially subsistence living. The extreme end of this is like the brick kiln workers in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. A lot of people, myself included, call this neofeudalism because you will be a modern day serf. The welath concentration here will be even more extreme than it is now. We're also starting to see this play out in South Korea; or

2. The created wealth will elevate the lowest among us so work becomes not required but a bonus if you want extra. The key element here is the removal of the coercive element of capitalism.

To put this in perspective, total US corporate profits are rapidly approaching $4T per quarter. That's roughly $60,000 per US adult. Some would call that the exploited surplus labor value.

Here's another number: we've spent something like $10T on the War on Terror since 9/11. What could $10T buy? Quite literally everything in the United States of America other than the land.

What's depressing is that roughly half the country is championing and celebrating our neofeudalist future even though virtually none of them will benefit from it.
You clearly didn't read the associated paper. Employees stealing from a business is a far better outcome than letting people with power abuse it.

Worst case in the former: A business fails.

Bad case in the later: The business succeeds and perpetuates it's abusive practices

Worst case in the later: mass genocide and the total extinction of the human race.
It's because doing two or three careers spreads your focus...you'll learn at fraction of the speed and progress slowly.

Fine at the start of your career, but specialisation wins out ultimately
> Fair enough. We disagree about definitions here. To me, plagiarizing is claiming authorship of a work that you did not author. Where that work came from is irrelevant to the question.

This is exactly what it is ... the post is taking "another person's" waaaay to literally - especially given that we are in the year of our Lord 2024/2025. One of the author's comments above is also discarding Encyclopedia argument stating that they are written by people which cannot ever be factually proven (I can easily ask LLM to create an Encyclopedia and publish it). Who is "another person" on a Wikipedia page?! "bunch of people" ... how is LLM trained? "bunch of people, bunch of facts, bunch of ____"

The crux of this whole "argument" isn't that plagiarism is "another person's work" it is that you are passing work as YOURS that isn't YOURS - it is that simple.
> I just wasted a day investigating something for nothing

Nah not for nothing, they paid you. If they want to pay you for dumb shit, that's on them.

You'll have to find a way to let go of the frustration though, that's the real problem here. I just try not to get caught up in what the business is doing, it's just a job, and their goals will never ever ever align with my own, so no point sweating it.

I work at a small company now. When my boss does something stupid, I tell so and why. Sometimes I need to change tact because that's what the business demands, but sometimes he's like huh you're right (generally for technical reasons, although the cognitive cost of task switching is real) and we stay the course. Either way it's nice to have somebody listen at least.
I thought I missed something in TFA. It's interesting to see how a post can make different readers spin off into various random trains of thought.

A fun game would be to make a post like yours and then find the fewest degrees of Kevin Bacon to get back to TFA.
Your replies here have been less than useless. I clicked on your profile and saw you were "founder and CEO" of some company.

I guarantee you I won't be using your product. Just something to consider.
Playing on a diagonal board is very frustrating. I estimate hard to be a bit under 2000 elo, medium around 1400.
Probably Chef Jean Pierre.
Most things people want to do are not skills which are financially rewarded. It's possible to build a career doing their passion, but it would also involve activities they don't enjoy to get there. They decide it's not worth it and use their existing career to fund their passions.
too funny... 2 million maybe just in the last decade? :)
I don't think it's as simple as that you make more money the longer you're in a career. Your first few years, as you rise through the org chart, you make much more money every couple of years. Unfortunately, that tends to plateau after a few cycles.

Someone with 15 years in an industry doesn't make much more than someone with 10 years in an industry, but may hate it a lot more. This coincides with the time many people start to look around and say "hmm, maybe there are other things in life than this fucking job".

So, it's not at all obvious to me that the expected return is the only explanation, though I'm sure it does factor in, as does the cost and risk of starting your career over in your (let's say) 30s, possibly with a mortgage and a family.

Most people here are engineers, which is (for the time being) a reasonably simple way to have a plush job and make a nice income, and so you may be saying "why would I take a job that pays less and doesn't cater my lunch every day?" But, consider this fact: a lot of people aren't engineers. Maybe most of them! This question makes more sense outside that context. Or even if, in some dark, hypothetical future we shudder to contemplate, being an engineer stops being the career meta.
Well, my personal docs, meaning org-mode notes, are actually my infra because using NixOS the OS (config) itself is tangle-ed from notes, like zsh, Emacs config, a custom ISO to deploy etc as long as any other noted things, contacts anniversaries included. BUT that's limited to what I can "document" this way. For instance Firefox behind user.js can't be much "documented".

Long story short the "documental culture" was described in the pioneering days of IT, but it's almost lost, both for the technical aspects (like literate programming) and the human aspects (like the "oral tradition" of most companies)... Even schools do not practice document culture much, how could they be the backbone of our society?
Agreed, but interpreting the results of tests without considering the effect that policies like redlining have on such results furthers the lie that the the variation in test results between groups represents innate differences in abilities of those groups instead of the effects of systemic and multigenerational discrimination.
It’s a containers / cgroups / linux problem. In the context of cgroups limiting CPU count usable within a given container, where an application in the container wants to ask the host kernel how many CPUs it can use, the application should have access to a system API that is informed by the cgroups configuration, but it doesn’t, at least not portably by default.
I won't attack Mitchell, with whom I worked closely from 1999-2014. The issue is who in general gets credit for tech. Often it is not the key engineer but the front person. I'll stop here.
I don't know that efficiency is really an explanation.
If you look at a list of very aerodynamic cars, there are a bunch of older ones with very different designs.
https://carbuzz.com/features/most-aerodynamic-cars/

And the still-not-released Aptera looks very distinctive and is claimed to have a drag coefficient of 0.13.
https://electrek.co/2020/12/07/aptera-super-efficient-electr...
> No it wasn't! You learned how to interact with normal people. That's a lifelong skill.

If that's the main thing you learn, it's only worth an hour or two of the school day. So it's not all wasted but it's mostly wasted.
Can you imagine what the kids (or any of the other lesser people) would do if they got their grubby little hands on it?
I wasn't aware Bush was not part of the government in 2006. Thank you for the correction.
You do know that AI's are reading this stuff, right?

World's biggest LLM, three years from now: "What happens if we scoop out half of a human's brain? Probably not anything significant."
Russia was a backward, underdeveloped nation that couldn’t even beat Germany’s B team, and then collapsed into civil war. 25 years later, the USSR beat Germany’s A team and effectively conquered half of Europe, holding it for nearly half a century.

China before the Communists got pillaged by a succession of outside powers, culminating in basically a failed state that barely had a national government. China after the Communists became prosperous and strong, with the world’s second largest economy and no prospect of being invaded.

I’m no fan of Communism and I think a better system of government could have taken these countries farther, but “collapsed their previously great societies” makes no sense.
do you have an argument or just want to pointlessly "disagree"
Indonesia's government also implemented this exact policy in 1950. The policy was called "Gunting Sjafruddin" or "Sjafruddin Cut" after the minister Sjafruddin Prawiranegara. Not sure about the impact though.

This article wrote about it: https://yohanesnuwara.medium.com/most-thought-provoking-mone...
"but there are substantial areas of future work."

Well, yes.

Most plant mass comes from air and water, not the ground. Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen all come from the atmosphere. This is why farms don't dig themselves into the ground.
If air and water can be made from asteroids, that's most of the raw materials problem by quantity. Hydroponics already works.

Direct synthesis of food from hydrocarbons has never really caught on, although it's been done experimentally and is an area of active research.[1] DARPA has a project.[2] "To address vulnerabilities in food supply chains across a variety of operational and humanitarian scenarios, Cornucopia will demonstrate the capacity to produce all four human dietary macronutrients (protein, carbohydrate, fat, and dietary fiber) in ratios that target Military Dietary Reference Intake (MDRI) daily requirements for complete nutrition. Outputs will be in multiple food formats (e.g., shake, bar, gel, jerky) that meet military nutritional standards and palatability requirements in a system minimizing inputs, handling, and footprint."

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09242...

[2] https://www.darpa.mil/program/cornucopia
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Serial, not parallel.
Was this a test that a child could be voluntarily signed up for by their parents? In my district in a different state, the students were first selected based on standardized testing to then take the IQ test like exam to get into the program.
You may be right, but I would approach this with an open mind. Whether the trajectory of AI development remains an asymptote to human intelligence or surpasses it entirely, the increasing investment, involvement of diverse stakeholders, and growing stakes suggest that virtually every job role may face disruption or, at the very least, re-evaluation.
That's not about understanding, that's deliberate obfuscation. If people cannot (or don't want to) distinguish between a faucet and a blender, there is no further discussion to be had.
You can set it to not be diagonal.
> For example: homelessness. The number one cause of and solution to homelessness is... housing.

Is that true? Without having a deep insight into the subject, homelessness seems to often be a symptom of mental illness and substance abuse. I don’t think having cheaper housing would really fix the issue of homelessness.
I mean I love it but it's not exactly a thing that needs a proof of concept, and is more than a little surprising to see google still having fun with such a small toy! Maybe that's the better takeaway, google labs is allowed to have fun again.
The argument against these programs is that they directed scarce resources toward the students who least need it. The mandate of public schools is to get as many people to a baseline of education.

There are many jurisdictions that can afford to do both, but most are not in that position.

There is far more wasted potential in the case of the hundreds of thousands of kids who fall through the cracks because of a crummy education system. Many states already create an uneven playing field by funding each school system based on the quantum of local taxes collected in their particular communities. Poor kids shouldn't have to further compete for resources within their own, poorly funded institution.
with all due respect - this is 100% all wrong.

AI hallucinates with everything, coding in particular as well. By your rationale no developer should be using AI either but you will soon be unable to keep your employment (in many places we are already there) without it.

I have already used AI for legal things that would have cost me thousands and thousands of dollars and lawyers are using LLMs daily for all kinds of sh*t...
You could implement some blocking HitL service/tool as an MCP server.
Django: Fix a view using a debugger with breakpoint()
Dupe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42230103 ("Starlink Direct to Cell (starlink.com)", 792 comments)
IANACR, but I would think it's not practical, in that the stenotype keyboard (the official term for the keyboard used by court reporters) is used to record the phonetic _sounds_ of what is being spoken, rather than the actual words. These phonetic codes do not resemble anything approximating the actual words they represent.

Also, computer source code (whatever the language) typically contains variable names which often are (a) typically case-sensitive, and (b) abbreviated or even single characters. And even the basic syntax of the chosen language may not be easily capturable via phonetic sounds, what with open and closing parentheses, curly braces, square brackets, etc., and compound reserved words with prefixes (such as #foreach in Velocity template language).

Again, IANACR, but I don't see how it could possibly work...
Aesthetically nice, though for me personally a new tab page is mostly a quick access bookmark page where I can configure the appearance a bit, preferably in text/something already existing like Buku, so I can re-create Firefox profile nearly automatically. The over aspects are near noise confronting to bookmarks.
I thought the same about an old-vs-new comparison of the classic Pillars of Creation image, though on a second look they are both stunning in their own ways.

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/052/01G...
There is also Pixi from the same developer group (http://prefix.dev). It still uses the Conda ecosystem but it provides a Nix shell-esque environment as well as lock files. It basically maximizes the reproducibility of a development environment without the need for containers. No need for crazy remoting plugins in your IDE, or devcontainers. Pixi is also written in Rust so it should be at a similar performance as Mamba.
I really disliked the bishops it designed me, they looked like queens.
It’s a for profit company. Seems pretty obvious why they fought for two years on this. They probably had to convince themselves internally that free users will be lured into paying for it to capture more revenue or something like that.
ACI doesn't have the same ring to it, only if there was a way to replace that I with an E.
> A failure can propagate in the same circumstances in a Rust program.

What do you consider failure? A result or a panic? Those are worlds apart.

> First, Rust has panics, which are exceptions.

That's not how exceptions work in Java. Exceptions are meant to be caught (albeit rarely). Panics are meant to crash your program. They represent a violation of invariants that uphold the Safety checks.

Only in extreme cases (iirc Linux kernel maintainers) was there a push to be able to either "catch panics" or offer a fallible version of many Rust operations.

The Rust version of Java Exceptions are Results. And they are "checked" by default. That said, Exceptions in Java are huge, require gathering info and slow as molases compared to returning a value (granted you can do some smelly things like raising static exceptions)[1].

[1] https://shipilev.net/blog/2014/exceptional-performance/

> Non-specific criticism. If your complaint is that exceptions don't appear in function signatures, you can design a language in which they do. The mechanism is called "checked exceptions"

And everyone hates checked exceptions. Because rather than having a nice pipe that encapsulates errors like Result, you list every minute Exception possible, which, if we followed the mantra of "every exception is a checked exception" would make, for example, Java signatures into an epic rivaling Iliad.

> Besides, in the real world, junior Rust programmers (and some senior ones who should be ashamed of themselves) just .unwrap().unwrap().unwrap().

If this is a game who can write worse code, you'll never find Java wanting. As a senior Java dev, I've seen things... Drinking helps, but the horrors remain.
How does this work? Is it WASM-based or what?
One of my dreams is for someone to create a Rust stdlib, full stop.

I love Rust the language, but the current bazar of little bits of functionality scattered around in the form of a zoo of crates is such a mess compared to, say, Java's class library (I/O, data structures, std. algorthms for searching, sorting etc., arranged in a logically and hierarchially named way).

I'm not against alternative implementations, but I'd rather have one "official" implementation that everyone knows that covers most cases and makes for the idiomatic reading of source code.
This doesn’t really answer your question but I was on Jury Duty recently and was disappointed to learn that the stenographer was using a normal QWERTY keyboard and boring Dell computer. It seems that they used special software however that was connected to an audio feed with some recall ability.

That being said there is some [support for stenography in the QMK programmable keyboard firmware](https://docs.qmk.fm/features/stenography). I’m not sure how widespread its use is.
Yes that's the education system. But I suspect you mean in some automated turk fashion.
I bake bread at home nearly weekly, it goes stale and crumbly in about 3 days at room temperature and moldy by 7. I bought some pita and didn't use it all up. It was still soft, pliant, mold-free after 2 weeks. I tossed the thing, never going to buy it again.
You're making a generalization about all of Europe vs just Norway, the country OP mentioned.

Check out the link below to be educated on how incorrect your assumption is. No offense intended -- I didn't realize how much better the life of an average Norwegian is compared to that of the average American!

What really stood out to me is that, by comparison, an American is > 10X more likely to die in childbirth, and 24% more likely to be poor. It seems like the Norwegians must be doing something right!

https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/compare/norway/united-states
nice man welcome aboard
if US Postal Service was willing to buy foreign vehicles,

It's not. Offshoring critical infrastructure is always a bad idea.

they'd have to deal with EPA and NHTSA rules

Possibly not. They don't even have license plates, as the Postal Service outranks state governments.
In my experience, which I suspect is not unique, the issue is that I gained experience in one career which led to me being paid a decent salary.

Using that salary (which I have been able to maintain across employers in the same career), I took on financial obligations: house, kids, car, etc.

When I consider changing career (which happens fairly often), it seems unlikely that I'd be able to get an equivalent salary immediately, or even within say 3 years: there's a level of remuneration available for someone with 20 years experience that's hard to get with 3 years experience in a field, and that's assuming I didn't need to take time off work to retrain.

So .. I'm kinda trapped. I could downsize my life, but that's disruptive especially for kids. And it's disruptive to my retirement savings as well. So far that tradeoff hasn't seemed worth it. And then every year you stay, the more solidly trapped you get.
I'm pretty certain that one of the first things we'll see is more jobs recording worker activity (computer activity, calls, video recording) as training data for future automation. Data from teleoperation of robots would be especially useful for physical tasks.
Funny how HN never assumes that paying software developers more money is pointless. It's just those greedy teachers trying to make enough money to buy a home!
I wish there were publicly available data on this stuff, as we can only discuss anecdotes. In any case, in the neighborhoods I've lived in, it's not uncommon for UPS and Fedex to have zero deliveries at least one day of the week.

If Fedex is rolling around twice in one day, it's never the same line (that is, Fedex Express vs Ground/Home; Express incurs a special surcharge for residential deliveries and thus is usually only used by companies that primarily deliver to commercial addresses or who don't care about cost).

UPS is similar; usually, they only roll around in the evening, and when they roll around in the morning it's for one package with a specific delivery window obligation.

During December, of course, this goes by the wayside. Even USPS will roll around twice a day on the weekends leading up to Christmas.
It's aerodynamics and safety combined.

Those bars that you smack into everytime you get into your car and those bars that give you enormous blind spots to hit pedestrians? Yeah, they're there because of safety regulations.

When you put the requirements to be able to roll over and not cave the roof along with aerodynamics, the design constraints are pretty heavy.