skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> deeper critical thinking or application of concepts.

These things come after one has the basics down pat. Modern "Progressive" education rejects this point altogether. It's whole approach is entirely founded on putting the cart before the horse.

> Further, blab schools were really pretty demanding of attention span

Attention span is a function of engagement. As it turns out, hearing the lesson and blabbing it back until one has memorized it fully is a pretty engaging and even "gamified" activity, especially wrt. the most marginalized and disadvantaged students for whom other drivers of high effort mighy be not nearly as effective, as you hint at.
I think it's a Jeff Bezos quote, but forgot the source:

"I'd rather have 2 of something than 0"
I'm Russian, and I've been following the mess in Ukraine very closely since 2014.

The key word in my single sentence is "workable". All Russian peace deals so far essentially amount to 1) they get all the territory they claim, and 2) they pinky promise to not invade Ukraine again, but 3) Ukraine is forbidden from taking actions - such as joining NATO - that would actually guarantee that such an invasion wouldn't re-occur.

Knowing Russian politics and discourse inside the country around imperial ambitions in general and Ukraine in particular, I'm firmly convinced that any peace deal that would be signed on these terms will last only as long as it'll take for Russia to build up enough to resume hostilities with a much stronger upper hand. Most Ukrainians seem to be of the same opinion.
This article isn't about the tech industry and age isn't why people don't want to hire you.
> “In my early days it was an article of faith among a selfstyled ‘intellectual elite’ that they could teach calculus to a horse . . if they started early enough, spent enough money, supplied special tutoring, and were endlessly patient and always careful not to bruise his equine ego. They were so sincere that it seems downright ungrateful that the horse always persisted in being a horse. Especially as they were right . . if ‘starting early enough’ is defined as a million years or more."
What a ridiculous article. The author keeps saying that “the model” was leaked (that specific phrasing, over and over throughout the article) and then at the end says “the model was disabled”. You can’t “disable” a model if it’s been leaked! ARRRGH!

If the title “API Key to OpenAI’s Sora Tool Leaked…” is too nerdy for Forbes’ audience, something like “Access to OpenAI’s Sora Tool Leaked…” would’ve at least properly communicated what was going on.

But at the end of the day I think the problem is just that this author has no idea how AI models work and doesn’t understand the difference between an AI model and a website where you can make stuff with an AI model.
> Seriously though, the iTunes integration and cross platform compatibility kind of sucked. It would have been much more useful if you could just mount it like a hard drive without special library management software.

I very much preferred this, actually. file management is really annoying compared to custom-built software with all the tagging etc built-in. Subjective, obviously, but I really miss that every time I'm managing music on linux or windows and get frustrated when labeling invariably changes (even if only subtly) when moved to a device.

Granted, itunes could have also done a much better of unifying the tagging etc with the files to avoid this entire fiasco.
There are specific requirements an unpaid internship has to meet to be legal. If the majority of the staff are interns it’s very unlikely the requirements are being met. This guy is ripe for a lawsuit.
An earlier version of Waymo's vehicle was based on the Chrysler Pacifica. Like in a lot of areas, if you're going to spend billions of dollars to buy thousands of some product, it is worth customizing it for the specific purpose.
C -> Alef -> Limbo -> Go ?

With influences from other languages along the way.
The thing I love about Hacker News is that someone can post an article like this, then the author of the paper shows up to answer any questions. Keep being awesome.
Every thread about null has someone come in and make this claim that it doesn't come up in production in well-maintained codebases, but it feels very No True Scotsman: every counterexample that someone can point to immediately doesn't count, because the definition of a "well-maintained codebase" seems to be one in which null pointers aren't an issue.

I guess that's a fine definition in theory, but every codebase that I've ever worked in that was written in a language with null references has had null pointer exceptions as one of the top recurring bugs. Maybe that means all my codebases have been poorly maintained, but if so that's a very good reason to design languages that require less maintenance.
Java has some incredible libraries with impressive performance characteristics. The ecosystem is also full of strange/unnecessary build time magic, obnoxiously verbose patterns, and horrible error handling.
Thanks!

> A few posts ago you were alluding to heritability in the 0.7-0.8 range, as a reason to dismiss the writings of Einstein, Newton, Descartes and Grothendieck.

No. This is what I wrote:

"Back when they were active, intelligence, IQ tests and the heritability of intelligence hadn't been well studied. They didn't have enough information, like we do today: ... twin studies ..."

And now that changes to: "like we do today: ... GWAS (and twin studies) ...". The precise numbers were not the point.

> you'd easily get to 0.3 or below — a figure which I personally find believable

That's interesting. I thought you were closer to zero. Well, 0.3 or 0.7 or 0.2 -- it's a little bit all the same to me, as long as it's not 0 or 0.0001.

> I don't care about the exact value

Ok, makes sense :-)

> as long at it doesn't serve as a distraction

Aha, so that's why you didn't like 0.7 or 0.8 and reacted to it. Yes that's maybe a bit depressingly high numbers, in a way.

And I don't like 0 or close to 0 because that'd indicate that this animal species was "stuck".

> ... how one can develop one's ability for mathematics ... psychological attitude and mental actions that are key to becoming better at math

Yes, to becoming better. If you have time, I wonder what's the level of maths you think most people on the planet can reach? If everyone had the right encouragement, time and attitude.

- High school maths in economy and finance programs? (needed for example for accounting and running one's own business)

- The most advanced maths classes in high school if you study natural sciences?

- Technical mathematics or theoretical physics a few years at university?

- General theory of relativity?

I'm wondering if you're saying that just as long as someone starts early enough, they can reach the highest levels?

But then what about today's topic:

California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42247334

Is it just that they started earlier and have the right attitude?
You are right there is no reason mobiles can't run Rust/Go/Python. But actually they don't, because there is no infrastructure and no tooling to build mobile apps using these languages. And this is the big oversight of the creators of these languages. All these languages we love so much as developers will die. Not because they are missing generics or error handling or coroutines or a static type system or other nifty language features. They are simply missing tools to create mobile apps.
'Enshittification' Is Officially the Biggest Word of the Year
You make it sounds like they aren't doing regular open market operations, but as I understand it... they still do?

https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/domestic-market-operation...
Someone will have to explain to me why so many people claim that honey is not a "refined sugar." If bees do the refining than it doesn't count?
Lisp is a very general category (I would consider Clojure a Lisp, with some extras) while Scheme is not, it is defined by a specification. If some implementation does not implement the entire specification of a given protocol, it doesn't implement that protocol, right? Would a C++ compiler that doesn't accept "new" and "delete" be C++? No, it's some subset of C++, not C++. And some implementation of HTTP that doesn't have any verbs wouldn't be HTTP. An implementation of a Scheme specification that doesn't implement the full specification is not a Scheme. No?

A mammal is a creature that has X, Y, and Z characteristics. A creature having only X and Y characteristics is therefore not a mammal.
Inside the World's Largest AI Supercluster xAI Colossus [video]
We actually only charge you for what you use. As a result people often see 30%+ savings when moving stuff over from other providers (especially Heroku)

https://railway.com/pricing
> You're not using the terms "structuralism" and "post-structuralism" correctly.

The first sentence is the important part. "Structuralism" is in no way related to "structural" or "institutional" racism. "Structuralism" is what the next sentences are describing, and it doesn't matter if you understand them; they were probably added as ample evidence that the first sentence was true, and possibly as stuff to google if you're interested in a subject completely unrelated to this discussion about the article.

Structuralism is some French theories about how creative writing should be structured.
> So, pushing students to realize their potential will be against equity, but will be the best way to minimize the equity gap.

That's not what equity is, but it's a common messaging by those trying to move the popular opinion against it, so I understand why you wrongly thought so.

Equity isn't about holding back high-achieving students or bringing everyone to the same level. Instead, it's about ensuring everyone has access to the resources and opportunities they need to reach their full potential, while recognizing that different people might need different levels or types of support to get there.

A true equity approach in education would mean:

Supporting gifted students to reach their full potential
AND providing additional support to students who face systemic barriers or need extra help
AND ensuring all students have access to quality education and resources

The goal is to lift everyone up, not to hold anyone back. The idea that equity means lowering standards or limiting achievement is a misrepresentation often used to argue against equity initiatives as a straw man.
Eating like an elephant, I see
We seem to have a weird drive towards testing one sci-fi dystopia after another as a potential way to go. This is Max Headroom.
> But most important, the fractal possesses various counterintuitive mathematical properties. Continue to pluck out ever smaller pieces, and what started off as a cube becomes something else entirely. After infinitely many iterations, the shape’s volume dwindles to zero, while its surface area grows infinitely large.

I'm struggling to understand what is counterintuitive here. Am I missing something?

Also, it's still (always) going to be in the shape of a cube. And if we are going to argue otherwise, we can do that without invoking infinity—technically it's not a cube after even a single iteration.

This feels incredibly sloppy to me.
I haven't met one that argued it isn't bad, but many have certainly downplayed it, or they have wildly different standards.

Like...15 years ago, I dated a girl that smoked, but wouldn't eat anything with artificial Blue or Red color because supposedly those cause cancer. I said, "You know those cigarettes cause cancer, right?" and got met with a "yeah whatever".

That relationship didn't last (for many reasons), and I'll never again date a smoker. I always felt we were limited on the things we could do because she HAD to have that cigarette every ~30 minutes.
Protein isn't bad for you and 4-5 chicken breasts is around 120g a day, a healthy amount for an adult. By way of comparison, indigenous people where I live ate hundreds of grams a day in their traditional diets. I've run into this whole "don't eat too much protein, oh man you will die!" nonsense meme before and I wonder where it came from.
Aloke from Warp here. The experience if you don’t have admin access isn’t great—I’ll follow up and make sure this gets fixed.
Original post by Peter Atwood at https://peteratwoodprojects.wordpress.com/portfolio/19th-cen...
Only some types, of course. Shallots are not spherical, though they are radial, but the centerline is often curved.
Constraints Are Good: Python's Metadata Dilemma
Did you read the second part of my comment?
I used the eSprinter as one example, not the only option. Maybe something like the Ford eTransit or the Rivian EDV is a better fit for postal deliveries. My point is that other delivery companies and postal services use commercial vehicles, most likely because that's the most cost-effective option.

Considering the NGDV's atrocious efficiency, lack of hybrid option, and high unit costs, it seems far more likely that this is a pork project for a defense contractor than that everyone else is doing it wrong.
Limited space on the label maybe :D Some of the real names of the E's are very long.
According to this video[0] the shape is because there's a requirement for 95th percentile males to be able to stand up inside and the front is low for 5th percentile females to be able to see a specific distance in front of the hood. The shape makes perfect sense.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt6z4QvtQL8
> If you raise your arm above your head in front of the mirror, you should see your ribs, and you should see the clear outline of your latissimus dorsi. If you can't see these two things clearly, you are overweight.

This is kind of an absurd metric. You can be at ~20% BF (which is by any standard a healthy percentage - some studies show best all cause mortality outcomes in men at 22%) and still not have visible ribs or lats with one arm above your head.

Different people carry weight differently as well, no visual test like this is going to be blanket accurate.
Tactile controls should be the default. I was actually interested in the Lincoln Corsair until I saw how much they rely on touch - even for things like the climate control, same as the Teslas. Instantly took it off the list.
Consider reading the second part of my comment.
Adam was solving a different problem statement. Kenji's point was to have one simple rule that anyone could remember and follow to make the best cuts without having to worry about precision. This rule gets you close enough to the homogeneity that is expected in most recipes (for things like onions) without having to fuss over particular cuts. Having watched Ragusea for a while, I'm betting he would be perfectly on board with that solution to that problem.
Hey, I wonder if we can use LLMs to learn learning patterns, I guess the bottleneck would be the curse of dimensionality when it comes to real world problems, but I think maybe (correct me if I'm wrong) geographic/domain specific attention networks could be used.

Maybe it's like:

1. Intention, context
2. Attention scanning for components
3. Attention network discovery
4. Rescan for missing components
5. If no relevant context exists or found
6. Learned parameters are initially greedy
7. Storage of parameters gets reduced over time by other contributors

I guess this relies on there being the tough parts: induction, deduction, abductive reasoning.

Can we fake reasoning to test hypothesis that alter the weights of whatever model we use for reasoning?
There's also https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/videos/2024/137/01J... which shows Spitzer, Webb, Hubble with rotating images at the same image size.
Reading these threads, I am reminded of a short story I once read, where we invented transporters, but every time you went through one, a copy stepped out, and left you in this weird limbo world, like in The Langoliers. You couldn’t actually eat or drink anything, so transportees became cannibals, and killed and ate newcomers.
I asked for sources, not a quibble on a sub-point.

I disagree. I like rote and rigor, but I think it's a mistake to ignore developing problem solving and intuition early. A lot of programs overshoot, but figuring out how to make decent guesses and test them is important (as is getting lots of practice on well-defined problems).

edit: it looks like you're editing your comment. You added:

> As it turns out, hearing the lesson and blabbing it back until one has memorized it fully is a pretty engaging and even "gamified" activity

I disagree here, too. ;) I mean, yes, it can be, but we have other tools in our toolbox. The hammer is useful but has diminishing returns as we try and apply it more and more.
I wonder whether Twitter or M365 is more hostile towards users...
I'm not so certain that a test like that is proof of anything other than that someone has the resources to study for that test. Seattle's system seems to have been a magnet program (where such tests are maybe appropriate) masquerading as a gifted program. One has to wonder how many gifted students went underserved so that such a magnet program could be maintained. Sunsetting it for a neighborhood program seems fairer and more effective.

In any case, it's good that you've observed your daughter's failure to achieve without an extrinsic impetus. It's probably a good time to sit down with her and determine what excites her intellectually so that she can be empowered to pursue that subject independently. I can tell you first-hand that relying on a school or school system - even one that routinely sends graduates (minority and white, working and middle class) to highly-selective colleges and universities - to shepherd students into stable and lucrative careers is currently a fool's gambit. Academic achievement is often necessary but not sufficient (and also more expensive and time-consuming than incorporating a measure of autodidacticism.)
One key difference between USPS and UPS/Fedex is that USPS does not do freight, and they do a lot more lightweight items (i.e. letters), so cargo capacity is much less of a concern. The fact that junk mail is so common actually reduces the need for cargo capacity since their routes tend to be made long not because of physical volume/distance so much as dwell time (that is, if someone is using EDDM[0] to target a neighborhood, you have to stop at every mailbox in that neighborhood, even if it's just to deliver that one piece of junk mail which will immediately get thrown away, and this takes far more time than delivering a bundle of packages to a handful of houses).

I remember reading about the NGDV, and one of the reasons it looks so weird is because USPS wanted a vehicle that was low to the ground (to make it easier to climb in and out of) and easy to see over the hood, even for very short drivers[1]. Given that they are in residential areas (and thus, in proximity of kids playing outside) far more often than UPS/Fedex, I can't say I disagree with that requirement. (Also, if you have a tall truck like UPS and Fedex typically roll, good luck delivering to the average mailbox while staying in your seat.)

USPS has certainly evaluated more traditional designs; in fact, they are actively using ~20k Ram ProMasters (a rebadged Fiat Ducato), which are quite similar to the Mercedes Sprinter, alongside ~9k mini vans[2].

[0]: https://www.usps.com/business/every-door-direct-mail.htm

[1]: https://x.com/Nir_Kahn/status/1364465483911675905

[2]: https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2023-01/... (PDF page 6)
I think the distinction has always been between "alive" and "conscious", not between "alive" and "dead". A rabbit is more self-aware than a carrot, we think (because it has a central nervous system).

If you dig deep enough, the frontier between alive and death is actually blurry. Things like viruses challenge the intuitive understanding of what alive means.

The water cycle makes it so that any water that you consume today will probably have been part of some other alive being at some point in the past.
These goals aren't far-fetched though. We're really far behind the curve as humanity. We need to do this sooner rather than later.

Don't forget there is a huge latency in CO2 emissions and their effect. The CO2 we're saving now will only take effect in 20 year's time. The next 20 years of increasingly worst disasters are already locked in. In 20 years doing what we should do now will feel easy.

I know the US will probably pull out of the climate accords again now that trump will be president but that's no reason for the rest of the world to do nothing. Even China is making lots of headway.

But it also means we can't really keep living as we are. People really need to switch to EVs if they want to have a car. Also sooner rather than later. But here in the cities in Europe we're seeing less people owning cars and more and more excellent public transport. Which is even better, you can use it after drinking, you don't have to pick it up from the place you left it off, you can read a book while using it, there's no maintenance or insurance. It helps climate and it's an easier mode to travel.
I didn't think the GP was arguing that. School systems are focusing on equality of outcomes, when they should be focusing on equality of opportunities.

Gifted kids will be able to take better advantage of those opportunities and experience better outcomes. But that's ok; that should be how things work.

When you focus only on equal outcomes, you end up with the lowest common denominator, and gifted kids get bored and don't excel.

When I was growing up (80s), I was in a program for gifted kids. I do expect that I got opportunities that other kids didn't get, which is a problem. But ultimately I thrived and have become successful, and I'm sure programs like that helped. In middle school and high school I was always placed in the highest-level classes (there were 4 levels), and I am certain I wouldn't be as successful had I been given the same instruction as kids in the bottom level or two.

My outcomes were certainly better, but as long as everyone has the opportunity for advanced instruction -- if they have an aptitude and can qualify for it -- I think that's fine.

I'm sure there was some inequality of opportunity when I was in grade school, and that sort of thing does need to be fixed. But we can't do so in a way that assumes all kids are equally gifted and talented. That's just not how people work.
> Central banks work this way

>> Here's a biggish counter-example, setting fiscal policy for 25% of the world's economic output

>>> Right! How could the other poster have possibly missed that?

>>>> There are other central banks. Ignorant Americans...
I might be old fashioned but this seems like something static site generators shouldn’t do.

I can see how someone is grabbing it and regenerating content on data change and then if data changes often enough you are back to dynamic templating engines. Then nagging how awful it is for such use case and staring to build „new thing” that was already in RoR or else.

If you have data in a database most likely better to use RoR or whatever else you fancy.

But hey this might still be useful for some one off jobs.
What happens if we remove 50 percent of Llama?
Nuclear electricity generation has hidden problems
I tried this with elixir, and on my m3 mac, it ran in 6.5s. Perl took over 40s :P

#!/usr/bin/env elixir
u =
case System.argv() do
[arg] -> String.to_integer(arg)
_ -> raise "Please provide a valid integer as the first argument."
end

r = :rand.uniform(10_000) - 1

a = :array.new(10_000, default: 0)

a =
Enum.reduce(0..9_999, a, fn i, acc ->
inner_sum =
Enum.reduce(0..99_999, 0, fn j, sum ->
sum + rem(j, u)
end)

updated_value = :array.get(i, acc) + inner_sum + r
:array.set(i, updated_value, acc)
end)

IO.puts(:array.get(r, a))
Color Negative Film Processing Errors
> Can you please provide some evidence that this kind of scripted and recitation-heavy instruction is beneficial compared to other approaches?

Singapore/Hong Kong/Japan/Taiwan/Macau dominating the PISA