skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> US math education is extremely unequal.

Yes! All the lefties are crying inequality, yet they miss the obvious: enforce high academic standards everywhere like many other countries do.
All of this is „open label“ and „on label“.
How can any entity related to Alex Jones be allowed to buy the InfoWars assets?
The problem with existing copyright is it's written by record labels in order to screw customers and musicians instead of being written to screw record labels in favor of customers and musicians.

You want something that makes it so a signed artist can't just do a cover of an independent artist's song, or use it in advertising, without paying. You don't want anti-circumvention laws that lock down consumer devices. But the laws do the latter -- which facilitates the monopolization of distribution -- and then artists de facto lose the former because once there's a cartel you're under pressure to sign with the record company and lose the rights to your music.
Well, it’s how chaotic people are during the chaos it seems. Chaos being a constant, we can simply factor it out. So I guess my question still stands, are we all reacting more chaotically to chaos?
Yes, I know, that's very easy to say, but in my experience:

1.) Imitating a good design can take a lot of developer hours. Many landing pages have fancy css effects and support many screen sizes and it can take quite some time to build.

2.) Finding a good designer is not easy. I have tried hiring on most freelancer sites with very poor results. The applicant pool is typically of low quality.

So I am wondering if others have found efficient/effective ways of going about #1 or #2, either by using certain tools or templates or by having a more clever hiring method.
Musk filed saying that he owns the X accounts and they aren't allowed to be sold according to the TOS. The X accounts were removed from the pending sale.
Stupidly Typed Programming Languages
Hey, one of the things here is to define shapes that are shared. If you imagine syncing a shape that is that user’s data then it may be unique. But if you sync, say, one shape per project that that user has access to and a small shape of unique user data then you get shared cache between users who have access to each project.

It’s worth noting that Electric is still efficient on read even if you miss the CDN cache. The shape log is a sequential read off disk.
If you have to install the GPUs in each car, then you also have a hardware problem.
Apparently the ability to wake up at a certain time is "trainable". Does this imply an innate "clock" that is being tapped here?

https://youtu.be/P-a5sW7W36E?si=aGbuu3N3Km2d8NKT
Yes. It’s the end of zero interest rates after 23 years because the baby boomers are retiring and drawing down their savings and has caused a white collar recession. The world is de-globalising - trade wars between the US and China. Climate change is hitting us. Birth rates are declining in Europe and Asia which causes all sorts of problems.
I believe officially the vitamin company is owned by his parents and isn't included in the judgement against Alex Jones.
And yet waymo appears to be ahead commercially?
Three years ago, pioneers from Twitter, Peergos, IPFS & Scuttlebutt gathered on TwitterSpaces to discuss bluesky protocol possibilities, decentralized storage, indexing & search. Their insights on scaling trustless systems & user data ownership remain highly relevant today.
There is ads. Perhaps they didn't load or uBlock Origin isn't actually disabled?

I know that some people find ads distasteful, but I think they're the best way to make a tool like this sustainable without being annoying; limits, accounts, payments, etc. I figure that anyone who dislikes ads enough will be running an ad blocker anyway.
Nope it was widespread.
Variance can suck out any profit from cash games and can get you deeply stuck for months on end (see: any full time poker youtuber). Tournaments are even higher variance.

And if you switch to doing this full time, you become self-employed, which drastically increases the cost of taxes, healthcare, social security, etc. Medicare tax doubles. Social Security tax doubles. You must buy your own healthcare, which drastically increases in premiums (unless you have a spouse who can add you as a dependent on their W-2 sponsored plan).

This really goes for any self-prop business/freelancing. In exchange for freedom of being your own boss, you pay in stress, variance, and taxes.

To make this work, you'd probably have to make double that per 8 hour session. Which is insanely difficult to do as a poker pro and sustain as a "full time job".
You're right, but it was still scant information with which to bet the fleet on. The Japanese might have suspected that their code was broken, and so used disinformation to mislead the US Navy.

Hell, it's what I would have done whether I thought the code was broken or not.

The Germans had plenty of evidence that Enigma was broken. The High Command refused to believe it. I would have used the broken Enigma to send the Allies into a trap.

The way to play the code breaking game is to assume the enemy has broken it, and act accordingly to your own advantage.
Likely different legal entities. Johnson & Johnson tried to get out of the talc powder settlement by creating a different legal entity to contain responsibility and damages. A court ruled that invalid but this type of corporate entity manipulation happens all the time. With the vitamin company, it might be that Jones is not majority owner of it but the other owners are sympathetic to him. Giving Jones' ownership stake to the Infowars creditors wouldn't change anything if Jones is not the controlling owner. This is all supposition on my part and perhaps he is the controlling owner but the court for some reason decided not to include it in his bankruptcy assets. It's a weird world when we allow artificial people to exist in the form of corporations.
Strange timing given the claim was in 2019, guess this post was generated because of Willow.

Google claims to have proved its supremacy with new quantum computer (256 points, 1 year ago, 229 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36567839

Quantum computers: amazing progress, but probably false supremacy claims (126 points, 5 years ago, 73 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21167368

Google Achieves Quantum Supremacy. Is Encryption Safe? (38 points, 5 years ago, 21 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21100983

Google claims to have reached quantum supremacy (114 points, 5 years ago, 21 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21029598

Google Engineers Think This 72-Qubit Processor Can Achieve Quantum Supremacy (91 points, 7 years ago, 42 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16543876

Google plans to reach a Quantum Computing milestone before the year is out (147 points, 8 years ago, 49 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14171992
Electric works with Expo / RN now.

PGlite is coming — we have a new WASI build that is the basis for native mobile support. (It’s working in dev, but still needs some more polishing and bindings).
There’s a chicken and egg issue with this in that to become proven the AV needs to drive somewhere for a while.
I love your newsletter and created https://www.thegamingpub.com/ heavily inspired by it. It's basically the hacker newsletter but for the gaming world.

Any tips on how to acquire more subs? I have been slowwwwly getting subs organically. I even have some patreons now.
If each car has someone piloting it because the tech can't do it, maybe the tech is the problem? I don't see how cameras can succeed. Sunlight and fog are constant and not practical to work around with visual data. I'm glad there's regulation keeping those lithium incendiaries piloted by people. People are bad enough at driving.
I enjoy engineering. I hate math.
When you prove to me that Ukraine wants a peace agreement that involves Russia annexing the entire country to be their personal torture chamber.
My last name is Canyon -- do I get free access? :-)
> Consciousness so far appears to be something that can’t be modeled mathematically.

That doesn't tell us anything though: Almost every single physical phenomenon we can start to model mathematically looked impossible at some point in history. Just because something's hard is not a reason to expect it's magic.

If consciousness is somehow un-model-able, that will most likely be for a different reason, where the premise itself is somehow flawed, like how we can't bottle phlogiston or calculate the rate of air turning into maggots.
I have developed about 20 mobile apps for the KaiOS ecosystem, which does around $500-$750 a month.

I also run https://monitorprices.org, which is just a list of available monitors on Amazon, but provides a bit more filters. Does about $125 a month, maybe double if there’s a creator reward campaign running.

Nothing splashy or exciting really, but it gives me motivation to keep trying things.
Your 1 accident per 500k miles stat is an average across urban and rural areas. But accident rates in urban areas are likely significantly higher than in non-urban areas, due to higher vehicle density/congestion, despite the fact that vehicle accident fatality rates are higher in rural areas[1]. Urban areas tend to have a lot more low-speed no-injury or mild-injury collisions. When you account for all of those, AVs are in shooting distance of human driver accident rates in urban areas. Also, the accident rates are much higher for drunk, sleepy, or distracted drivers, so to the extent AVs reduce those types of driving, they bring the overall accident rates down much further.

1. https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/Publication/8135....
I write a newsletter on cybersecurity every week. Usually a summary of interesting articles and a list of known breaches and software issues.

It's been going for seven years now I think? It makes about 25k in sponsorships each year, although it could be more if I actually got myself to sell a bit more.

Either way, it's been a great way for me to keep learning. Nothing beats having to summarize a thing to thousands of people to make sure you really understand it :-)

https://securitynewsletter.co
In the same way non-corporate 'entities' related to Alex Jones don't owe his debts.

If there's a company of which he's a minority owner, they could decide to buy it, and it would be like his brother buying it.
Fund utility is good in addition as well. Plenty of well funded schools fail. Sometimes it is what those funds are being used for that actually drive down education.
They have a debt judgement not economic power. They can sell that debit judgement to a company who collects. They can take the money from the result of the court process and try to buy infowars after this is all over.

They don't have a judgement of ownership in infowars they have a debt and the court is forcing Alex to sell all assets to cover the debt. Then the rest is written off and he gets a black mark on his credit report.

There are rules around this process for a reason. If you allowed someone who has a debt judgement to just take over a company what is it's true value. Alex could try to value infowars at a trillion. So they put it up for an auction to get the real value. That's the fairest way for all cases.

Besides others are in line as well.

And killing the infowars brand means little in the short/long run. The real brand is Alex's name. It's not like his audience will suddenly not follow him to a new show with a new name.
Very speech much free
I haven't seen the filing, but I presume you mean that X filed saying that they own the accounts, right?

I don't get why people conflate Elon Musk with the companies that he runs. I imagine he has controlling stakes in all of them, but for the most part he's probably not even a majority shareholder in most of the companies he's running.
Saw one driving around SF recently too. Not the SUVs they've been testing here for years – but the full custom-built cube-shaped passenger taxi.
San Francisco is on track to have lowest homicide rate in 60 years – KTVU FOX 2
I've been running a Japanese green tea-of-the-month club on the side, with a friend and a (very part-time) employee in Japan [1]. It's bringing about $2000/month gross, and slightly under $500/month net.

[1] https://tomotcha.com
Yes, they use a pre-trained model, but they do further training (please correct me if I mis-read, and also I realize my above comment could be interpreted as saying they train a new model entirely from scratch).

> We use a pre-trained GPT-2 (Radford et al., 2019) as the base model for all experiments. The learning rate is
set to 1 × 10−4 while the effective batch size is 128. Following Deng et al. (2024), we also reset the optimizer
when the training stages switch.
since you put this out in the world... i might try one
What about the elite academies like Philip Exeter (and their sister schools)? How's the education there? They produced tons of tech alumni like Zuckerberg.
Built this back during COVID, still chugging along at a few hundred $/month. Sales tend to pick up around the holidays, it makes for a nice xmas gift.

https://cadenceprints.com
Use your strava / fitness data to create beautiful wall art
Interesting... so Musk may be angling to get a federal law passed that would force all states to accept autonomous vehicles with less testing or data sharing than say, California currently requires.
Some sales/ad Manager will force app dev for money (that will happily take money - and write in hn after 5 years that he/she is so overwhelmed with guilt that they have to live with 6digit money on a beach now) and build UI that will trick user into enabling that for that crap app.
An reasonable alternative would be for GM to have a "dealer license" mode for qualified dealers (for example, training), where they can get it enabled until the sale is complete.
IIRC iready is a formative assessment tool, i.e. the purpose is to diagnose where each student is at, so the teacher knows what to teach next.

There are also summative tests that are meant to measure performance in aggregate, but aren't used for student grades.
Cruise was garbage when I rode them. Sat in the car for ten minutes waiting for it to go. Someone over the car speakers said they were doing something to get my ride ready. I could have walked to my next destination but wanted to give them a chance.

Waymo has been a little less expensive than Uber/Lyft for me. I just saw a Zoox autonomous vehicle today. That weird looking box with no drivers seat.
Yup, my ADHD also grants me this ability. I use my alarm maybe 4 times a year, and even then it's usually not needed.
EY worker's death spotlights India's unprotected white-collar labour
But nothing is keeping you from working for that change, certainly not the fact that so many people want it so badly that they even cheer over the murder of a healthcare CEO. It's not a dichotomy; you can do either of these things, both, or none.
When I went through this with my grandmother, I experienced that too. Like others said, it's important to note that in the later stages it may be hard for the patients to communicate their pain, so we cannot be sure, but at least in my anecdotal experience I would say that I can be pretty sure there was no acute pain involved.

The most important thing for me and others around her was to just vibe with her reality. Just give her the space. Not be mad, but laugh or help, again and again. Like you would do with a baby. Don't expect them to learn, don't expect anything.

Until the very end I think she had a good life. The end, obviously, will have been hard for her, because that's a time where they cannot even live their own little life anymore but probably experience higher pain in general, but that's what it is.
Why are teachers still buying their own school supplies if the US is overspending?
https://archive.ph/K7v4k
I’m a customer and it’s awesome. I think we’ve even exchanged emails about some questions I’ve had. When I paid for the premium version I thought it was super good for what I was getting. You must be getting a ton of traffic for it to still be paying rent after 8 years! Congrats!
> I doubt he was arrogant. I think he was on the run and didn’t have any place to put away the evidence. Probably homeless this whole time. And had to go to get food at some point.

He totally did. Find a trash can, and put it in (though maybe disassemble the gun first, and dispose of it in pieces in multiple locations).
Typical university/science journalism written by a lay person without sufficient industry knowledge or scientific expertise
I can't read the article. But it doesn't seem to be targeting wealthy people. Because if you are known to be wealthy, then your luxury items can be explained.
Being just behind #1 (Waymo) and deciding the market isn't big enough is not a good sign for the robo-taxi market.
I think you're missing context? Infowars is rabidly pro-MAGA. Trump appeared on Alex Jones numerous times. The Onion is an entertainment company with more attachment to reality than Infowars. I would like to think a judge wouldn't allow friends of Alex Jones to take the company back.
Nothing. This is useful as cool feature and for demos. Maybe some application in cheap entertainment
Because X is purely a platform to do whatever Elon wants. It’s so blatantly obvious that this decision came from Musk even if it was delivered indirectly.
I now have diagnoses of rapid cycling bipolar II and moderate autism, but in the early Nineties I realized I was dealing with ADHD. I was fortunate that one of my autistic abilities was being extremely good at mathematics and computer science. My important adjustment was becoming a computer consultant on projects that lasted several months. I can attack new projects with great intensity, but I fry out after a few months.

While I did great in the Nineties, I didn't leverage my work into a network of contacts. Giant mistake as the Dot Com crash destroyed me professionally. I went from making $65/hr to being homeless living in the woods.

I reinvented myself by going back to college working towards a Ph.D. in mathematics. I ended up concluding that I didn't have the communication skills needed to teach mathematics or the publications needed to be a researcher.

Ultimately I had to give up being a computer professional. I could no longer get intellectually and financially appropriate work. I have continued to work on a number of projects over the last twenty years, so I have preserved much of my programming skills. I have had a popular website for twenty years on http://tetration.org covering what exists beyond exponentiation.

I learned that something one must be ready to completely reinvent themselves to have a chance at happiness.
There are a couple of reasons as far as I can tell. Programming can be adequately gamified or fulfill basic dopaminergic feedback loops in a way that “true” creative expression (outside of an effort-action-reward feedback loop) cannot. With fiction, the value is strictly non-instrumental or context-specific. While the parsimony of the (formal) language you deploy can be (reflexively) satisfying to look back on, the real joy of art for its own sake is the response from the reader, which is necessarily slower than that of a computer, as it requires a more complicated system of evaluation than pure utility.
the very idea that art requiring a significant amount of deliberate action is a problem to be overcome and not part of what makes it fulfilling-- like artists have just been practicing to so they can produce more work more quickly-- betrays a foundational lack of understanding of why people do it.
I'm not sure that's making a strong case though. The fans go to the concert and buy what they're selling. That's albums and posters and shirts etc. But the fans have a given amount of disposable income and are inclined to support the band (if they wanted the music without paying they could just pirate it already), so what do you lose if you instead sold more posters and fewer albums? If anything you end up with more exposure on both fronts. If the fan who wants to support you buys a shirt instead of an album then people see them wearing the shirt and discover the band, meanwhile if recordings were free then people who wouldn't have paid might listen and once again discover the band.

More fans mean more attendance on tours, so we're back to that, but also more fans buying merchandise, whether that's albums or something else. So there's no disproof of the argument that the band's worst enemy is obscurity, and then limiting the distribution of their music is still the threat rather than the solution.
Are there practically any other creditors? I would think the creditor owed $1.5B would cause all other creditors to become irrelevant rounding errors as a fraction of a percent. So if the families were to bid $X, then they'd be paying it right back into their other pocket. Seems like just a technicality or theatrics to require them to temporarily come up with cash just to give it right back to themselves. But lawyers love arguing technicalities.
When plate tectonics was first proposed the low quality of the original models of the underlying mechanism led many very good geophysicists and geologists to reject it or to express well founded skepticism of the model. They knew the details and subtleties and the original models didn't deal well with them the proposal was nonetheless correct grosso modo and with time more adequate models of the underlying mechanisms were proposed and a more nuanced view of the model came into place. Now it is considered well established.

One should consider the possibility that Gil Kalai is a similar sort of skeptic making well founded objections to weak arguments, but that nonetheless in the long run the extraordinary claims will turn out to be more or less correct. It's true that those involved in plate tectonics didn't have Bitcoin to sell you, but they were looking for oil.
i’m using ponyai everyday here it’s great (China)
What, exactly, distinguishes those two categories?
The question is does it work well enough to justify its costs and beat out 70-90% of-the-way driver assistance features on peoples' own cars.
> So, while I agree with you, it doesn't seem much worse than death, especially if the family accept/believe that the Alzheimer's patient is actually not suffering.

While I agree that it’s not much different than death, it seems painful to know that family suffers the loss of the same person essentially twice
> First United American Companies

The second-highest bidder was....an insurance company? Am I misunderstanding?
The photoshop integration is one of the only tools that was developed even considering what people that work with images want to do with it.
My experience in India is that simultaneous linear equations were taught in the 7th standard (12 years of age). I looked it up and it is common https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beMAypc7ju4

I do not recall it being particularly difficult and most students were able to do this stuff. I'd say that by the end we had 100% success at this out of the 50 students or so in my class. Is this algebra in the US or is it the group theory stuff we studied later on. The group theory stuff was _much_ later (12th standard - 17+ years) and we didn't go too advanced. Mostly simple stuff like proving something is a group or Abelian, etc.

The syllabus I studied was the Tamil Nadu State Board, which is considered less rigorous than the Central Board, so I can only assume the kids elsewhere were studying more advanced stuff. But overall, that sort of timing hasn't hampered me or most of my classmates from then, so one must assume it's not too bad to study group theory that late.