skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mean that textbooks are all great, but that textbooks work as a technology, i.e. there are textbooks where if you work through them front to back and do all the exercises, you come away with a decent understanding of the topics the book was designed to cover. If you don't, that's less an indictment of their insufficient technological sophistication than an indication that the content wasn't good enough.

Actually, Duolingo as a technology isn't necessarily that bad either, it's just Duolingo-the-company with its business incentives that limit its potential.

And of course not everything that requires effort is necessarily a good way to learn, but I don't think there's any way to learn that's also effortless.

E.g. the least-effort way to play a video game in a foreign language is to figure out how to operate the interface through trial-and-error (or watching someone else play) and then rely on spatial memory to press the right buttons without having to read the labels. And people who watch foreign-language movies or shows typically do so with subtitles that free them from having to learn anything, so they might just pick up the names of characters and maybe a few common expressions.

The comprehensible input approach requires a lot of effort upfront to make the input comprehensible in the first place (even if it's toddler-level content, that still means it targets people with a vocabulary of several thousand words) and then you still need to push yourself a bit to actually learn something, rather than mentally skipping over the parts you didn't understand.
At one time we had somewhat reasonable sounding protections via copyright and patent.

Today that’s so captured that Mickey Mouse is still in copyright and insulin for diabetics costs more than the saline it’s in.

It defies both the law as written and the human sense that wrote it to advocate for unproductive rent seeking: sixteen years? With a few point patches along the way? Thirty percent.

The Europeans find it ridiculous, the FTC finds it ridiculous, anyone who likes innovation finds it ridiculous.

But it’s mostly ridiculous because history is unambiguous on this point: you tell the peasants to eat cake long enough and you’ll swing from a dockyard crane.

Let’s seek to avoid that kind of thing?
Show HN: Hacker News Clone for Crypto
I missed smth very similar to hackernews, but more focused on crypto, so I built one :)
it works fine on my machine, wontfix
I guess when you want to be a guide to nerds, you have to be a uber-nerd. There is a degree of mansplain competitiveness amongst hardened <anything> specialist tourism, people who seek to edgelord it out with the guide over some microfactoid.

That said, there's also the thing that people have a strong sense of connection with bits of history, and this is one of those bits, and it's nice the guides can try to work out where your nth squared great grand-uncles substitute stood, in that amazing charge. Probably over there. near the wall made in 1871 out of the rubble left over when the significant object of this fight was destroyed in a storm.

(seriously I admire docents, they have to work bloody hard to cope with the random stuff people ask. And these guides undoubtedly know their stuff)
VR shows promise in aiding navigation of people with blindness or low vision
At which point they'll just segment the market based on zip code and once the ecommerce platforms and big sites start doing it it'll become the norm

Good for me, my zipcode is the Walmart of zip codes. No so good for people who's zip code is the Whole Foods of zip codes.
As a professor would be interested in a solution to this problem, I'd be curious to see hear more details. FERPA issues can sometimes make it difficult to adopt solutions where student info of any kind needs to be sent to a third party.
I‘ve started building a new web app (not website) using Go and jQuery, all loaded from a CDN without any build step. Writing JavaScript the imperative way (rather than declarative like react) feels very refreshing.
> According to you

No, according to what happened in that instance. If this was normal in the culture of that family someone would have gone to the mic.

Do not confuse my culture with the culture in question.

> I’d be surprised if such an opportunity wasn’t presented.

Which is a reflection on your culture.

> Except to call it odd

Again, odd in terms of that one particular culture.

> This was clearly a case of an open mic

A case of open mic in a cultural situation where an open mic was not supposed to happen.
Yeah. No problem to drive a tank sized child killer with a hood so long that it's close to driving blind, but these small trucks are a risk...
You're allowed to risks others lives, but when you're willing to risks your own the nanny state is on high alert.

Go, go! Land of the free!
Move to Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire or Oregon. No sales tax.
I'm guessing the local currency as Zimbabwe's GDP per capita is $2,005, so salaries have to be lower. I doubt anyone could afford to pay 30% of their yearly income on an internet connection :-)
I'm glad (if it doesn't get reversed by the next administration).

But I'm also baffled... how did this take this long?

Why wasn't it done way back when they did it for airline tickets, in 2012?
Why large language models struggle with long contexts
Even within a state a single 5-digit ZIP can have multiple tax rates if it spans multiple cities; true where I live.
Amazing to see this comment downvoted. You're spot on, and I even think the feasible use cases will quickly move from internal tools to real line of business software. People are in denial or really have no idea what's coming.
A lot of people probably weigh this too much. Forcing companies to have some skin in the game is good. But, in practice, if a company really wants to enforce a non-compete--even with consideration--it's probably not great unless you're in a position and want to take a sabbatical with substantially reduced compensation.
Airbus famously has stolen reams of Boeing secrets.
this blog, its author and the work is being idolized everywhere in this thread as artisanal and peak of craft.
It's really not. The existence of NI as part of the UK is not something that Irish nationalists have historically been very happy with. They aren't in charge, and the people who are in charge are scared shitless of them ever getting truculent again.

And they try to pre-empt it in the only way that they know how.
> I've yet to see real evidence that on a population scale,

I mean visit Japan if you want to see a large nation manage its populations weight, but the entire reasoning is completely backwards. Statistics doesn't have a will of its own or causal powers, it's a description of aggregate behavior. Change the behavior and you get some new statistics. 100 years ago you didn't have a single statistic showing that obesity was an issue. What evidence do you need that making people move more and eat less will make them lose weight, there's no law of nature operating against you.

The obvious reason to even think like this is indicative of the problem, that in a lot of places we're so unused to simply enforcing sane cultural norms and incentivizing healthy behaviors and discourage crappy ones that people think it breaks some kind of ironclad law.
The drug doesn't replace teeth, it enables regrowth, or might. Discussions:

New drug to regenerate lost teeth (25 points, 7 months ago, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40540852

Japan pharma startup to begin human trials of tooth regrowth drug in 2024 (260 points, 2023, 87 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37638956

Suppressing a gene by using its antibody can lead to tooth growth: animal study (236 points, 2021, 155 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26641989
The one upside I’m aware of for taxes being added separately is high awareness of what the sales tax rate is.
A while ago I built a prototype app to extract songs and artists from Reddit posts with thousands of comments. I used the Anthropic API, and it was pretty easy to set up and wasn't very expensive. I think you can get a pretty good estimation of how much it would cost beforehand or after a few test runs.
Conversing with early GPT-4 (in the first days of Bing chat) was surreal beyond any non-drug experience I know of. The infamous negative behaviors are well documented [0] but every part was so... alien.

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jtoPawEhLNXNxvgTT/bing-chat-...
Man, the smoking thing.

When I was a kid, everyone smoked everywhere. And I spent decades smoking cigarettes, or cigars. I'd quit for a few months or a year at different times, but in my corner of society I was still around tobacco smoke even when I wasn't smoking myself. It was impossible to evade.

Because I was always exposed to it, I never really became aware of the stink.

I switched to vapes this time 'round. And unlike other times in the past when I didn't smoke tobacco, public smoking is pretty much forgotten in my corner of society here in 2024.

So now, at this ripe middle age, I've finally become aware of the stink.

And I'm certainly not going to go on some anti-smoking crusade, but... Dang, some people who smoke really stink. It's an effervescent odor that just radiates off of them in seemingly every direction, and tickles the insides of your nose in a bad way, and you can detect it sometimes from twenty feet away or more.

I'm really sorry to have done that to others. I had no idea it was like this.
What places aren’t covered by the spectrum with Denmark for higher latitudes and Australia for the near the equator?

I’m advocating against wasting public money on nuclear power pretending it is a solution to climate change.

Have at it with your own money.

I already provided you with the scientists and engineers, but you seem to have completely disregarded them because they did not align with what you wanted.

I can do it again:

The research disagrees with you. Whenever new built nuclear power is included in the analysis the results becomes prohibitively expensive.

> Focusing on the case of Denmark, this article investigates a future fully sector-coupled energy system in a carbon-neutral society and compares the operation and costs of renewables and nuclear-based energy systems.

> The study finds that investments in flexibility in the electricity supply are needed in both systems due to the constant production pattern of nuclear and the variability of renewable energy sources.

> However, the scenario with high nuclear implementation is 1.2 billion EUR more expensive annually compared to a scenario only based on renewables, *with all systems completely balancing supply and demand across all energy sectors in every hour*.

> For nuclear power to be cost competitive with renewables an investment cost of 1.55 MEUR/MW must be achieved, which is substantially below any cost projection for nuclear power.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626192...

Or if you want a more southern latitude you have Australia here:

https://www.csiro.au/-/media/Energy/GenCost/GenCost2024-25Co...
His name sounds exactly like someone who'd sabotage a public benefit.
And Canada!
No -- it's the norm in countries that have a single uniform VAT.

It's obviously not the norm in countries that have sales taxes which vary by locality.

Whether a country is "developed" or not has nothing to do with it. The vast majority of countries in Africa have a VAT, while the world's richest country has a sales tax.
The healthcare surcharge is taxable, because it shouldn't exist, it should just be a 6% increase in the menu price.
There's a different article on the same topic which isn't paywalled at https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/161 . It also provides links at the bottom to the papers being discussed.
ZIP codes are not specific enough.

In some areas, sales tax is actual multiple taxes from different overlapping jurisdictions: state, county, city, and sometimes special tax district. ZIP codes don't align with any of these, so you need to know exactly where the buyer is in order to properly calculate sales tax.

There are places where adjacent addresses in the same ZIP code have different sales tax rates.
I would feel cool doing this until any sizeable DOM manipulation and then immediately remember why react was such a godsend.
The Greatest Generation Built the Haiku Stairs, the Nerf Culture Wants Them Gone
Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

- George Bernard Shaw
Why cannot this be solved by written exams?
In the EU, the site guesses the location based on the IP, writes "Delivery to Denmark [Change?]" and shows prices with Danish VAT.

If I'm signed in to the shop from making a previous purchase, they will use the location of the previous purchase.
Keeping in mind that it's on a moving vehicle, and road users often pan their eyes around rapidly, the frequency would need to be higher than for many other situations.

Or they could use a variable linear regulator with no flickering at all.
It's significant leverage for Trump to make Musk do or not do things. Trump intuitively knows he has this leverage now.

To what degree Trump's feeble mind can take advantage? In a battle of wits and lies, who wins? They can't really be allies without an immediate Trump pardon. How long does Musk permit it being merely dangled in front of him?

shrug
> Of course there are positives for being hyper connected. That doesn't mean there aren't going to be any negatives. Furthermore, choosing to ignore them won't make them magically go away.

I agree with you that always on communication can be overwhelming. When that communication is negative it affects our emotions negatively. So why continue to add negativity? That’s the choice.
Those early Cadillac LEDs were the worst, though I've seen some new models from other manufacturers whose taillights are almost as bad.
I mean, they will be, but that's the point. No more surprises. You can actually compare prices without going through checkout first.
> Then that's an irreconcilable difference between us. I happen to think that factual details matter and are very important. Moral narratives, not so much.

1) The point I was making is that there shouldn't be any prosecutions of this kind, so what act they are prosecuted under is irrelevant.

2) You then pretending I am arguing a moral narrative when it isn't. I am arguing on principle. That are not the same thing.

BTW I didn't form this opinion from news articles online. I came to this opinion by reading books around the subject, where half of each page is often citations.

> No, I'm just pointing out some very basic logical gaps in some of the stuff you were saying.

No you didn't. You asserted it was so and then told me I imagined half of it. That is literally gas-lighting.

> Which would suggest that you are, at worst, perhaps a bit underinformed about certain things.

You haven't shown that at all. What you did was ignore the point I was trying to make and get into minutia about what act who was being prosecuted under.

This is disingenuous.

> Or otherwise not taking as critical an eye to the various media sources you ingest as you perhaps could be.

I do. You are making the assertion (without evidence) I don't and I don't appreciate it. When the Epstein court documents were released, I read a fair deal of it (it is well over 1000 pages). When Activision was taken to court for sexual discrimination I read the actual complaint submitted to the Californian court. You know why I read the original court documents? I realised I had been lied to before by some media sources (some of those people believe to be credible as well).

So I actually do go to the original source video, document wherever possible.

So your assertions made without evidence are disingenuous.

> That's all that need be said. I recommend we give this topic a rest, and move onto other threads.

Not at all. You tried to gaslight me. You didn't actually engage with anything I said. That is disingenuous.
This argument can be extended downwards infinitely. You can argue against teaching addition and writing of any form with this mindset.

I also think this argument means that theoretically someone with a 6th grade education and a 12th grade education should have the same economic output, as they both know how to read and add/multiply numbers. In real life the reason someone drops out before/during high school is always extenuating life circumstances, so the outcomes are much worse for them. But in a world where that didn't happen, do you think the outcomes would be essentially identical?
"Kit" is synonymous with "gear", so I took that to mean "I have some unreliable equipment..."
Sounds incorrect. I think the insurance rate is based on the value of the vehicle and SUVs and trucks are much more expensive than compacts and sedans.
Thanks for the feedback. Appreciate you for taking the time.

Honestly, this is my first real project - I couldn't get the time shift done accurately. That's why i had to fall back to a more static situation. Definitely will consider for future iterations.

I'll fix the fasting / keto diet suggestions. Fair enough - overdosed a bit too much on bryan johnson i guess
Security keys (i.e. "roaming authenticators" in WebAuthN language) have significant practical usability and availability downsides.

> "But what if I lose it?" questions can be answered by Technology Connections' favourite: The magic of buying two of them.

And the magic of having to access both of them every time you create a new account anywhere, which probably means you'll keep them both close by – increasing the availability risk.

A more realistic recommendation would be to use an open source FIDO backend such as Bitwarden or Strongbox that let you cross-platform sync and, worst case, export your credentials if the vendor goes down a bad path.
I'd happily double my risk of being hit by a meteorite for $10000.
https://lua.civboot.org
> I think it can disrupt only knowledge jobs

What happens when a huge chunk of knowledge workers lose their job? Who is going to buy houses, roofs, cars, cabinets, furniture, amazon packages, etc. from all the the blue-collar workers?

What happens when all those former knowledge workers start flooding the job markets for cashiers and factory workers, or applying en masse to the limited spots in nursing schools or trade programs?

If GPTs take away knowledge work at any rate above "glacially slow" we will quickly see a collapse that affects every corner of the global economy.

At that point we just have to hope for a real revolution in terms of what it means to own the means of production.
The part that drives me up the wall is how much the group of people who complain about the safety impact of people over-provisioning their personal vehicles (massive pickups and whatnot) overlaps with the group who complains about any automobile design that trades away safety in pursuit of another engineering goal.

I can understand drawing a line on a subjective issue but at least be ideologically about it if you want me to respect you in the slightest.
Why do you describe “free market” as being ideological, and “pro-market” without those terms? Both seem equally ideological (or not).
I hope they reply. This is the first FTC in a while to try and get the free market "free" again, rather than captured.
There is - Dune Imperium (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/316554/dune-imperium). It is quite good.
Personally, I think she's for the free market. She is progressive, which is controversial, but I don't really see why non-billionaires run to the defense of big tech when their monopolistic status is scrutinized.

I totally understand why billionaires do, on the other hand. Worth watching Reid Hoffman embarrass himself on Jake Tapper on the subject of Khan recently for those interested
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Free markets - you know freedom isn't free right? You have to enforce it - and you do this by regulation.
Do you often order things for delivery at home while you're travelling? Then the price will change when you provide the delivery address — just like it does now.

Meanwhile, 99% of people will see the price they can expect to pay.
That article has the longest path to Philosophy that I've ever seen.
Khan has been absolutely spectacular for the free markets. Transparency in pricing (with this law), transparency in cancellation of subscriptions, blocking acquisitions where businesses should fail.

The free market shouldn't allow monopolies, or duopolies to form. Bad businesses should fail, not absorb more capital and continue scaling.
A significant difference here is that the airline fees are ostensibly optional. You could, in theory, fly Spirit with nothing except the clothes on your back and they wouldn't charge you extra. But with event ticket sales and the like, there is often no possible way to avoid the fees. That means there's a much stronger argument for requiring that the fees be rolled into the price.
Because details matter and are hard. If you don't get the details just right a court will strike the whole thing down for good reason.
>The program terminates, which may be highly undesirable, or even unacceptable, creating other safety issues if the software is vital for operating critical infrastructure

I'm no rust evangelist but I don't understand this point. In what scenario would you rather have an out of bounds read go through and let Jesus take the wheel rather than print a stacktrace and have a clean-ish exit?
> Well that's breach of NDA and my terms of employment. So what, are the student over here committing wage theft of some kind even though they are the ones paying for tuition?

Students are typically agreeing to submit original work. It's a breach of the terms they agreed to, so I'm not sure it's so different.

> i would prefer my doctor was great at using chatgpt and checking the results carefully over being taught at an educational institution.

What is checking over the results carefully going to do if your doctor has never been taught medicine?
That's a pretty good list of things the FTC deserves credit for, in my book.
I cant figure out how to use it

*ah it's not possible to demo it on mobile
Yes, because my IP address doesn't give them a way to calculate tentative taxes? My IP can be used to serve me ads, but not serve me actually relevant information?

There's a very small % of traffic that actually uses VPNs
I'd be interested to see whether a movie theater is considered an event. Our local one charges a convenience fee when buying online because ... they can?

I wish they banned all mandatory add-ons. If I don't have the choice it should be part of the base price.

The touristic railroad near me advertises a price, and then slaps on a mandatory Fuel Surcharge and Historic Preservation Fee.

Excuse me? How can I compare what I'm going to spend my money on if you're just allowed to lie to me?

Sidenote on fuel cost:

Fuel is almost back to pre-COVID costs https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=e...

and once you add in inflation it's even cheaper.
"I f*cked up" is something I've had to say several times in my career as a dev. It's in the nature of things.
> but they are prescribed because the benifits outweigh the downsides

Some are. Some are simply prescribed because the patient asks for them.

> even if little is known about their mechanism.

I wouldn't take it unless my condition was immediately life threatening and there were no other medications available. There are very few classes of treatment that fall within these parameters.