skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an adult, I've taught myself five programming languages, I read 20+ books a year, and while in school I was reading at a college level by the fourth or fifth grade.

However, because I have ADD/ADHD, I was shunted into the special education program, and told point blank in high school that I was not 'college material', I was not allowed to take advanced math.

I did in fairness have a great deal of trouble doing a lot of the busywork that school presents to you - because I saw little point in it, I knew the material, I'd read the book, I could write about it and often passed tests on it with flying colors.

If I'd been given an opportunity to do more engaging learning, and less information regurgitation style learning, I wonder where I would be. Like an introduction to computer programming class, would have completely changed the trajectory of my life - yes I'm a working engineer today, but it took me a long time to work my way up from a low wage service job.
The FCC approval was issued today so technically it can't be a dupe of a thread from two days ago but yeah, it seems like the previous discussion was motivated by the imminently expected approval.
ha fair enough - i think there's another comment thread on just being open w/ 10c / call and i wanna try that out
Thanks for the primary source. Concur the quality is poor. Google’s NotebookLM podcast summary is way more natural sounding.

The video was even worse than the audio. The lip sync was off. The girl looked like someone else’s mouth was mapped onto her face.
Bruce Sterling's /Islands in the Net/ has a character that is this kind of vegan (forget what they call it). He finds the idea of agricultural food disgusting and only eats sterile synthetic food.

Edit: had the wrong Sterling book.
plenty of folks will soil themselves if it means the people they dislike will have to smell it
Even if you do it in private, they may take it as a sign of a subordinate who has designs on their job. Or on toppling them at any rate. Insecurity is everywhere.
Thanks! I really appreciate you sharing it with your team. If you try it out and have any feedback or ideas for improvement, I’d love to hear them
> Last I checked, Y-Combinator is still considered a VC firm.

There was a time when pg would come out swinging and say that YC invests their own money which is very different from a VC firm.

Well, it did make YC different in the past: they took bets no one else would, which they could afford because of such a position. Is that still true? I’m not sure.
The article is pretending there are no Uranium reserves. According to wikipedia there were 2,049,400 tonnes of known and inferred Uranium resources in Australia alone. In the history of mankind less than 3000000 tonnes have been mined. All that has to be done to solve the hidden problems is start mining again.
Grit is not more important than raw intelligence for making world changing discoveries, that’s nonsense on its face. It’s a necessary but not sufficient condition, it takes BOTH incredible intelligence and extreme grit combined to make world changing discoveries. An average IQ person could never accomplish what Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Paul Dirac, Richard Feynman, or Leonard Susskind did with grit alone and our modern world would not exist without them. With a few notable exceptions the giants of history mostly had great financial and social privilege as well, allowing them the time to apply their grit and intelligence to problems that didn’t have any immediate economic payoff.

I will say that math and hard sciences are unnecessarily difficult for outsiders to approach due to overly confusing terminology and not enough thought toward pedagogy. Great contemporaries like Sean Carroll and Leonard Susskind are demonstrating how to make the sciences much more accessible to people like me. But no matter how much more accessible you make it it’s inconceivable that average IQ people will ever contribute to the frontiers of it.
> The IG found that the search was based on a tip by an airline employee who passed on the names of passengers who had purchased flights 48 hours before departure. 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.

How come this is not a fireable offense in any company? This person is leaking a customer's PII to a third party (DEA, in this case). It doesn't really matter if it's to a government official, unless there was a warrant and the airline's Legal council involved.

Am I missing anything? This feels outrageous that airlines are letting this happen. Is there a law that allows employees to break any company's policies under the guise of "suspicion of a crime being committed, even without a warrant"?

And it's even worse that the "profits" are being shared with said employee, and this is not seen as bribery and corruption.
It runs on ProseMirror and AG Grid.

Joke aside, the source code isn't featured on the web page, despite LibreOffice (unlike Apache OpenOffice) being copylefted. They mention self hosting, but it says to contact them. It seems it runs on WebAssembly either directly or through a VM on top of WebAssembly like https://copy.sh/v86/ . The screen seems to be simulated with a canvas. I think perhaps they didn't change the code of LibreOffice much, but have a custom setup of something like https://copy.sh/v86/ or even are running it on actual WebAssembly with a virtual screen. So they have a virtual computer that it's running on, and they consider that separate when it comes to copyleft obligations. Plus it's possible to make something open source but inconvenient, and charge to make it convenient.
This is poor documentation... again I'll say if you are a shitty driver you will be paying high insurance and you will be having issues fixing the car and whatnot not matter what the car is. I have been a driver since 1993 and have had one claim where I was at fault (slippery road, rear-ended a car in front of me). my insurance on the Tesla is as cheap as it gets, like $68/month. have several friends that drive Teslas too (mostly 3 and Y) and no one is paying high insurance.

if you know you are going to F sh*t up with the car and have bunch of claims on it and have it at the shop all the time - I agree with you Tesla is not for you. But if you are a good driver insurance and maintenance is not a thing you need to worry about at all...
Uninformed Average Joe here and I'm with GP. If bakeries are out of the question then I'd be questioning fruit and meat shops as well
OpenGPT-X: Multilingual, open source models for Europe
The male host’s hands are literally on a loop, it is disturbing. And the female host had several nonsensical sentence fragments. The script isn’t even up to par with what you would see in a college news show.
Until they come up with a term that actually means something definitive, I pretty much ignore anyone going on about ultra-processed foods. Ultra-processed is meaningless.
Humans do it badly. Humans do it by killing 50,000 other humans per year in the us alone. A million worldwide.
Yes, Java is too verbose, but Kotlins cleaned up much of that boilerplate and runs on the same VM.

I'd be curious to see examples for where you think Rust is still to verbose.
Without fully solving it, it is impossible to install packages. This is my anecdote but I find Mamba better at solving tricky dependency requirements like certain version of Python and a certain version of Pytorch with Cuda support and a certain protobuf version.
The problem, in general, is that any money collected by the criminal justice system should go into a fund that gets redistributed to victims or the population in general--it should never go into a "fund" that the state has any discretionary control over.

Any other arrangement sets up far too many perverse incentives.
veganism is about reducing suffering to a practical extend. no vegan is ditching transportation or plastic because it may contain by-products of the animal industry... thus if one day we can make food out of minerals, for sure that would be vegan; although i can't see ANY harm done to a fruit tree or a soybean/corn that dries out because of its short life cycle being a 'bad thing' but maybe minerals based food will avoid taking land of native species
>The participants were allowed to eat as much as they wanted, but the diets had the same amount of calories total, and the same calorie density. The results are striking; participants eating ultra-processed foods consumed more calories and gained weight while the other group lost weight. [1]

Did they eat the same amount of calories or more calories? People will eat more of tasty food and less of bland food. You could get the inverse result by giving bland ultra-processed food and tasty unprocessed food.
On the other hand, I skipped three grade levels and feel that it was absolutely the best option for me. I don’t think there’s any one answer here about the best thing to do — it depends entirely on the student, the school, and the grades to be skipped.
Certainly there are those who say the IQ tests themselves are discriminatory. I'm not qualified to say how much truth there is in that. But that is the likely reason they went away.

In my case I changed schools in the middle of second grade. A month later teachers submitted their list of students who should be admitted the the G+T program. Obviously I didn't make the cut since my teacher barely knew me. My parents tried for years to get me into the program but the district held firm that I had missed the window. Ultimately, I ended up third in my graduating class and attended a top university. The outcomes from the G+T kids were mostly disappointing. One teaches at a university, another works at Walmart. The rest are somewhere in between but mostly closer to the Walmart end of the spectrum.

Maybe I actually dodged a bullet.
Yeah there used to be a children’s breakfast cereal called Super Sugar Crisp and the cartoon character promoting it in commercials was named Sugar Bear. Foods in the ‘70s and ‘80s were loaded with sugar.
Sounds like a good balance - Europe does science, US entrepreneurs, China manufacturing.
Vint Cerf on LLMs in Physics Today
The special phrase you want is "chord"

A stenographer's keyboard is a special kind of chord keyboard for spoken English.

There are other kinds of chord keyboards, but look into those.

For example:

- https://www.charachorder.com/

- https://github.com/davidphilipbarr/Sweep

Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30515912
Nova makes this distinction already. “Freshly made” bread is considered category 3 (processed). That said, what distinguishes supermarket bread from freshly made bread?

Literally the only difference is typically some sort of preservatives, some added vitamins, and possibly a dough conditioner.

In general, bread is just not that healthy if you make the fluffy white kind. The preservatives and slicing have little to do with it. If anything, the added vitamins may make it healthier than something you make at home.
Build, ship and run containers is too slow for Python
> If you can find an LLM+TTS generated podcast with even a FRACTION of the infectious energy

this is the wrong standard. there's a long tail of many many many many topics that a Radio Lab will never have the resources or critical mass or staff or turnaround time to cover. AI can serve the long tail like nothing you have ever seen. (because humans are expensive, and deservedly so, but our needs and wants are infinite)
There are some meaningful differences between Zig and D in this specific area, specifically, D uses exceptions and has garbage collection as the default memory strategy. That will surely result in different approaches to the leaf-allocation question being better for the one than for the other.
This is a major misconception. The people you see homeless on the streets are very disproportionately those with mental illness(es) and addiction problems. But studies show a huge percent of the homeless have jobs; the link below says 40% to 50%.

But we don't see people workings and living in their car or in a shelter "being homeless," so we tend to think of the visibly homeless as representative of all homeless folks.

And for those who do have mental illness or addiction problems, well, those problems are severely exacerbated by being homeless. They'd be more likely to get treatment and improve with housing.

https://www.usich.gov/guidance-reports-data/data-trends
> contract review

Yeah, no.

As part of a hilariously bad set of actions by a corporation that I had to threaten with legal action, I decided to try seeing what ChatGPT had to say, knowing in advance all the problems with it in this field, and… it was pretty much what I expected — enough to be interesting and get the general vibe right, but basically every specific detail that I could look up independently without legal training of my own, were citations of things that didn't exist.

I'd just about trust them on language tutoring, but even then only on the best supported languages.

Use them as enthusiastic free interns-to-juniors depending on the field. At some point, they'll be better, but not in predictable ways or on a predictable schedule.

But they are pretty general in their abilities — not perfectly general, but pretty general — so when they can do any of what you've suggested to a standard where they can make those categories unemployable, they're likely to perform all other text-based (not language-based, has to be text but doesn't have to be words) economic activity to a similar standard.
I see it used often, even in languages that don't formally support multiple return arguments – with some hacked up array/object single value return to try and emulate what would be better represented as multiple return arguments.

Like I mentioned in another comment, Go does seem especially prone to attracting developers familiar with other languages who insist on trying to continue to program in those other languages even after working in a Go codebase. That may create a condition whereby the developers you regularly come across don't have a good grasp of where to use multiple return arguments effectively, and thus end up avoiding them, even where they would be appropriate.

With respect to the syntax sugar, there have been a number of proposals for exactly that. While the proposed syntax itself has been well received, nobody has come up with a good solution for the rest of the problem. Syntax is only about 10% of what is needed, of course. Rust, for example, has well defined traits and other features to go along with its '?' operator to fill in the remaining 90%. Presumably there is a good solution out there for Go too, but until someone proposes it...
I think you're wrong about the food industry not slowly harming people, for two reasons.

1) For "unhealthy" food (i.e. not something that's acutely poisonous) the link between ingestion and harm is in the long-term; it would be very difficult to blame harm on a particular group of foods, let alone a specific product. Maybe in a couple of decades there will be hand-wringing and governmental investigations, but in the short term, there's no negative incentive for food companies.

2) Most executives are directly incentivised to think in the short term - this bonus cycle, this year's results, the two-three years until LTIs vest, or a next promotion or change of job. Short of something catastrophic, there will almost never be a comeback for those individuals, meaning they have all of the positive incentives to chase profit, and it's very unlikely that they'll ever personally experience anything negative from their decisions.

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Also, I don't really want to engage with quasi-conspiracy theories, but if you think that pharma companies have a hand in influencing dietary advice to be unhealthy so they can sell more drugs, IME you're vastly overestimating the competence of the pharma industry.
like all meat we produce is grass fed... livestock lives out of grains in a high % and if you want to take all meat production to free-roam practices, good luck destroying the entire planet for that
Can anyone shed light on the difference/overlap between Fleng and Strand, for someone who's reading about concurrent logic programming for the first time?
OpenGPT-X
It's not a fantasy scenario that we need to speculate about. Currencies collapse all the time, just pick any country and it has happened to them within the past 200 or even 100 years. There's millions of people alive right now who avoided having their life savings destroyed by having foreign currency or bullion or both.
I was just thinking they need a special green and yellow variant for the southern Willamette Valley...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Duck
Newton, Euler, Darwin, Einstein, Paul Dirac, Richard Feynman… Our modern world wouldn’t exist without them. Look up estimates of their IQ. Read some of their work and try to imagine having the same level of insight and producing similar volumes of it if you devoted every waking hour to the task.

Then read up on the ancient Greeks. Even after 12 years of education most modern people wouldn't be able to measure the circumference of the Earth like Eratosthenes did hundreds of years before Christ. The ancient Greeks were pretty darn smart.
>You cannot process sugar cane into table sugar without an industrial plant.

That's obviously false.
The Rivian vans are commercially available.

If you follow the link in your link, you'll see that while new Postal Service trucks are $60,000, the Rivian vans START a $83,000†, and it's simply not possible for the driver of one of those vans to reach a mailbox from inside the vehicle, which is how vast majority of what the new Postal Services will be used.

Paying a 40% premium for less capability? That doesn't sound smart.

† https://rivian.com/fleet
Reddit lets you change how you sort the comments.
Sorry, I meant while they were still in high school; I've edited my original comment to make that clear.
this happens all the time. one of my good friends started his career off as a data center tech and now is an electrician. he really liked the cabling aspect of the job and now is self employed, making 2-3x what he'd make as a data center person.
Besides YC investing in founders first (which I do believe is correct, having gone thru 2 batches), to quote the fictional S. R. Hadden from the book and movie "Contact," by the late, great Carl Sagan:
"First rule of government spending, 'Why buy one when you can buy two at twice the price'."
In other words, I believe this is also a strategy in maximizing investment exposure to great ideas. YC Invested in _both_ Box.net and Dropbox.
In side by side taste tests more people like the version with added sugar. That’s why they add it; it sells.
Isn’t a mop on your head still funny? That mostly left me confused…
Ok well I give you and anyone else permission to do that in my case
Holland, England and Scotland all work. So does Myanmar, but not Burma. Deutschland works, but not Germany. Probably just an overly literal filter based on a static list of countries.
Note: it does seem at least some development happens in the open https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp

> We are planning to first open-source our Rust UI framework, and then parts and potentially all of our client codebase. The server portion of Warp will remain closed-source for now.

https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp/discussions/400

None of the server bits will be open, ever, but some of the UI code will be? Better than nothing.
That is not true either.

There is very little innovation happening in European countries where college is low/no-cost.

They have less innovation than the US does despite our terrible college debt.

It takes a certain kind of person to innovate and they make up a small % of the overall population.

Measures aimed at helping the general population are very unlikely to help them.
> This was the basis for users to think the system was secure? Seriously!?!

Charisma and similar flavours of "trust me bro" works more than reasonable people would anticipate. See every pseudo science and conspiracy theory ever. Cryptography is no exception.
Yeah, I'm totally for this. I can see a push-back from some people, though: a talented kid may have access to more scarce resources, say a professor in a prestigious university, or a highly-selective camp like SAMS. For that those people will cry unfair.
You're not paranoid. ChatGPT has a really obvious format. If I could bold text on HN (not that I think I want that), I could do an even better impersonation:

I am a 3-sentence paragraph giving a high level overview of the topic. This is the second sentence, which starts to fill in a little more detail about the topic. And the purpose of this sentence is to introduce the sub-topics and bullet points I'm about to provide.

Brief sub-topic title

1. Bold Word - A short, snappy sentence about the first item.

2. Bold Word - More of the above, about the second item.

3. Bold Word - Again, a snappy description of the third item.

Brief second sub-topic title

1. Bold Word - A short, snappy sentence about the first item.

2. Bold Word - More of the above, about the second item.

3. Bold Word - Notice that all these descriptions fit on one neat line.

4. Bold Word - Four items is the longest list you're likely to see.
> Structured recitation in a classroom is basically the opposite of [tutorial instruction plus mastery methods].

Reference for this statement? From a rather abstract POV, it seems to be the closest thing to "mastery methods and tutorial instruction" that can actually scale to a large class size and engage all students by default.

Also, what method can be most effective in a "nationally recognized" engineering program (most likely with highly recognized students to match) has very little bearing on what's most effective for marginalized and disadvantaged students who may have significant challenges with basic skills.
Is there anything comparable/support for this in jujutsu? The files git-crypt handles are not added to .gitignore — they’re instead added to .gitattributes.

The result is that jj commits them, which is not what you want.
Good post, thank you!

On an A100 80GB we get 312 teraflops per second of float16 compute and 1.5 TB/s of memory bandwidth, and this ratio comes out to roughly 208 tokens.

Few thoughts:

1. One token != one byte

2. Your prompt ("Edgar Allan Poe is a”) is short (<<300 tokens)

3. Both flops and memory bandwidth for A100 are theoretical maximums. Reality is usually very different and is workload dependent.
Google SRE Book. Get a good handle on slo/sli
As a US citizen, I really don't care about my health care information being public.

I wonder how much of HIPAA is really a front to drive up the cost of health care in this country. What is the threat model? Is a hacker gonna gain access to my bank account because they know how many wisdom teeth I had pulled? Our society is going to rot from the inside out if we just slap cybersecurity taxes on everything.

I still believe hospitals should have cyber security defenses so that hackers can't bring them down. But is the privacy of my health data really that important? Honestly can't see why it would be. This is one of the most unhealthy countries on the planet, and so is it going to surprise anyone that we all have health conditions? Plus, everybody who I might be concerned about having access to my health care data already has access to it through some shady third party agreement and fine text that I have to agree to for anything basic.
I did not spend 5 minutes on euphemisms as prompts. Nope nope nope.
I think Gabriel's Horn is a great explanation of how this is counter-intuitive[1]. This is a shape which you could fill with a finite amount of water, say a gallon. Yet it would take an infinite amount of paint to paint the surface. Of course, part of the reason it's counter-intuitive is that there is no 0-thickness paint that exists.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%27s_horn
You cannot fire people you don't actually employ.