skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even very intelligent people will accept this argument for America, and then reject it for often literally every other country.

Imagine I made the same argument for Russia, or China, or North Korea, or Syria, or Venezuela, or some other country the Western mainstream media says is bad. You'd presumably come up with a reason - immediately, effortlessly, almost without thinking - why it didn't apply in that case, and that that country really was bad, and their imperfections really meant they were not good.

Unlike the U.S., which simply cannot fall out of favour with some people, no matter what they do.

If an organisation doesn't serve its purpose, whether through ignorance, stupidity, or malice, it should be either broken up or restructured. There's no reason not to do this with businesses, states, etc, other than the usual quasi-religious ones, centered around various tired and confused dogmas involving markets, freedom, human nature, and that sort of thing.

Summary: Human beings should be given second chances, and third chances, and so on, as many chances as we can give them. Organisations on the other hand should be given one chance. We owe them nothing.
Worked well enough in Chrome/MacOS
It’s literally the world’s oldest existing democracy and has the world’s most dynamic economy and diverse population and isn’t at civil war. What isn’t cohesive or globally competitive about that?

Americans are also among the most generous and charitable people according to a number of easily Googleable metrics. What is “fuck other people” about that?

Nowhere is perfect and America is far from it but at least 25% of the world (and likely higher) would immediately move there if they could.
The parent is suggesting that Unherd doesn't fulfill their own claim (the quote), and whatever that implies on this topic (hypocrisy, dishonesty, whatever). They don't imply what you suggested.
Social media and mobile devices destroyed the ability to pay attention to anything for longer than 5 seconds. Of course that’s going to be reflected in test results that require close reading or anything more than surface level thinking.
Right. People may be unable to do everyday grocery store type math because they're dependent on calculators which they don't have the wherewithal to pull out in casual situations.

Maybe that's not catastrophic, but offloading general thinking to machines, imagine where we're going to be a generation from now when that skill has declined across the population.
There's more than one way to run a company, including one that is not maximally short-sighted.

Maybe UHC is regularly getting ripped off by doctors or pharma and they're distrustful? They have a share of the facts and can be open about this.

Laughing in the face of people relying on you in critical situations to make a quick buck is simply indecent and certainly not sustainable. More than one monopoly that got greedy has faltered.
The Gemini result is quite impressive, thanks for sharing these!
This list is reminiscent of "happiness index" which simply encodes a certain ideology via a benchmark, the components of which a reasonable American does not necessarily agree with being the utmost important factors, and only is taken seriously if abstracted and lipsticked by generic names like "press freedom" or "happiness".

The simple example that UK is ranked higher than US is prima facie evidence that it is complete bullshit, considering the lack of First Amendment and much stricter libel laws that UK media has to worry about.
... Not sure if such modification is not incompatible with GPL family of licenses, though, but I am not a lawyer (you're not allowed to combine GPL-licensed product, whether v2 or v3, in ways that create derivative works whose parts are licensed with more constraints than enforced by the GPL, with special carveouts for AGPL)
Everytime I've bought a house (I'm old and have moved a few times) I've decided up front that it would take at least six months (mostly it took far less time, but the no hurry mindset is useful to have) and every week myself and anyone I was partnered with would look at nearly all the listings we could in the ares of interest, and we would visit at least four or five open homes a week and engage in early ballpark price negotiations on maybe two of those.

That exercise of swimming in the market and walking through what can be had is what will form your evolving notion of what the perfect house (at this time, in this area, with your budget) is going to be.

Perfect for me has at various times meant the most run down shitty house in an up and coming area (good deal on price, nine months of part time renno, good profit on resale after 18 months), another time a termite foundation ridden historic wooden cottage in a port city (lots of fun propping up and digging out, built massive stone walls out front to dampen traffic noise, huge wooden gates to match the walls, replaced all the foundation beams one by one, reset the floor, added a mezzanine section), yet another time a good solid dull brick house in an optimal location wrt driving to city centre, driving out to country, easily reaching airport, easily reaching major north|south freeways.

When my son was reaching high school it was a good house in the catchment area of the only public school that had an aviation shop for students to build and fly light aircraft.
> Tackling gender gaps to boost growth

The test sample material couldn’t represent better its ODCE origin. Everything’s a growth lever.
Poland, Lithuania, New Zealand, Hungary, Korea, and Slovak Republic all declined more, and that wouldn't all fit in the title.
Americans are extremely generous and charitable by many metrics like this. [1]

Not to mention soft generosity like tipping culture.

[1] https://www.axios.com/2022/03/09/america-charitable-giving-s...
A better way to look at this kind of product would be: TV with an API.

Now apply this orientation to any device which you would connect to the TV with an API. Speakers with an API. DVD player with an API. Device to interact with my Apple TV... with an API.

Imagine what wonderful things would be made possible by such a class of products. I would pay a lot more for this, and I know that many others would too.
If you're using only a pi, I think you might be playing local video files acquired in a certain way, tbh. That's the most performance thing for a pi.
Edit: I thought you linked to yet another famous band. People keep doing that... 99% of bands a normal person would see in normal life don't even have a wikipedia page.

However your link looks about jazz.

A common rock band is rarely good with more than 4 members because people lose unity and it's just technically harder and people are rarely professionally trained.
Warming oceans are changing marine habitats
When post above you referred to monitors, they weren’t referring to computer monitors but any screen sold without a tv tuner including all kinds of units large distance viewing screens.
That came, IIRC, from one of the OpenAI or Microsoft people (Sebastian Bubeck); it was recounted in an NPR podcast "Greetings from Earth"

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/803/transcript
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. But if the house isn’t your “dream house,” make sure at least that you’ll be able to sell it again/it’s gonna appreciate a little.
They forgot the main issue. The otherwise smooth bladder gets stretch-marks aka pockets, which collect calcium. Main reason for stones.
I suspect his ultimate reward for the call was sticking to his integrity, and knowing that his integrity cannot be compromised by a bully. Some people prefer that to money or fame. Agreed it would be nice if capitalism saw that as a positive and not a hindrance.
“Smart” things are basically just bullshit.
Maybe, maybe not.

I have to imagine that if thinking skill becomes less common, it will become more valuable, thus incentivizing people to develop it, no?
Amazon Nova models:

https://gist.github.com/uschen/38fc65fa7e43f5765a584c6cd24e1...
Crackers also seem soft when their moisture level reaches about 5 percent.

What moisture level do crackers become soft?

I'm sorry, 5 percent isn't the correct answer; they actually get soft earlier than then.

This seems like one of those questions like "what's the difference between an abstract class and an interface in Java" where you're looking what the expected answer is as opposed to the actual answer. (w.r.t. Java; the answer they're looking for is that you can define a default method in an abstract class. It doesn't matter how long ago you could do that in an interface ...)
I hear a lot of people speculate this, but frankly we don't need a million people repeating this theory. We need a few scientists looking into it, and the rest repeating whatever the scientists conclude.
Hollywood and the entertainment industry in general. So much child abuse.
Yes, and the fact that you cannot even conceive of it tells you that you might be a victim of propaganda.
I appreciate the kind words. When I was designing the website, I wanted to inject my personality into it. I wasn't sure how well the "playfulness" would go over, but I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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From the sample code... I would recommend $PASSWD not $PWD for the placeholder to reduce confusion with the linux / osx env var $PWD which is the current directory.
I did a bunch of the demo questions. Got them all correct. Most were only Level 1 or level 2 so didn't seem too hard.

Are you sitting down?
So, does the FCC allow LTE jammers in any form or power level, nowadays? Because that's a compelling reason to burn the entire connectivity industry down.

Edit: probably easier to open it up and simply disconnect the LTE antenna.
The biggest declines in literacy are among older adults. So did older Americans forget how to read? Of course not. America has imported an unbelievable amount of human capital including a lot of middle and older aged people that were never educated in their origin countries, etc.
Found this but the ranking is from 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_charitabl...
> Samsungs silently mesh network with other Samsung devices.

What? Supporting link?
We have an Apple TV connected to an LG OLED. We very rarely use Blu-Rays but we have a Blu-Ray player also connected.

The family has been instructed to never connect the LG TV to WiFi.

Anyway, I'm sure you could use HDMI from your computer and that seems easier than dealing with a USB stick.
There wasn't a single chapter devoted to actionable items. As much as I like to read 199 pages pf reports, their value goes down rapidly once there is no sense of finding solutions.

This is a good 'pointing-fingers' i-told-you-so kind of bureaucracy. They should know better
COVID is global, obviously. The article specifically calls out Americans' scores dropping.
> In Shanghai, the Huangpu River divides old and new.

Pudong is new, but Puxi is not "the old one". It is mixed with old historical sites and modern buildings. It lives with its history, and it grows actively. It doesn't have to destroy all the old stuff, but it also doesn't have to slow down its pace for them. I believe it is the same for any city (e.g. in Europe) with history.
Even in 2024, schools in major cities experience staffing shortages where there are not enough supposedly-qualified adults to supervise all of the students in their originally scheduled classrooms.

"Solution": class X, Y, and Z all meet in Lunchroom W on Wednesday so one adult can supervise all of them.
I have seen LLMs with more agency than this comment.
I've got an LG OLED TV that I'm really happy with, because I rooted it before the exploit was patched, so now it's ad-free, and is more capable than any model presently available.

https://rootmy.tv
Ahh, my apologies. With regards to the 4 day week, parents are exposed to additional childcare costs I presume. The perils of having children in a macro that considers them a luxury good, and is unwilling to subsidize daycare nor pay teachers more. If you go into it knowing you’re going to suffer (cannot afford daycare, childcare, etc), that’s a choice.

> Also note that the 20 years is only an optimistic lower bound.

Strongly agree.
sure as long as you are allowed to use your own notebook for planning and not graded based on formatting in a certain way
> This is a good 'pointing-fingers' i-told-you-so kind of bureaucracy.

Maybe there's just nothing actionable for the readers? That's certainly most situations.
We had to build and launch something by a deadline in order to avoid renewing a contract that would have cost $x mil. But we discovered we weren't going to finish in time with the resources and the approach that was planned.

So I got approval to hack out a temporary impartial suboptimal version and we were able to take off in time.

This has allowed us to fly for a bit while others finish building out the permanent proper version of that part of the wing.

In fact, during our flight we discovered missed requirements in the original design. This has delayed that proper version's release to prod. But I've been able to add that quickly to my hack and keep us flying.

My hack doubles as a production support tool. And as an alternate route if the permanent version needs to be paused because of a bug. Yes it's a partial imperfect hack but it has benefits.

Someone has complained about the language I used since it is less common. But remember, we weren't going to be able to take flight with the existing resources and approach.

We would have needed more and/or faster developers in the favored language to meet the deadline.

If any present employee (including me) had bandwidth and was able to be as productive in the favored language as I was building my hack in the uncommon language, that employee would have been tasked to build the permanent solution on time. That option was not available.

Anyways, if you have an existing production support tool, it's also a place where prototype features can live for a while.
It seemed fine enough to me, if a bit dated (I am using the latest version of Firefox though).
Hysteria has found its home in the US.
It may say more about me than him, but I never find these kind of backgrounders on people who went "off piste" very informing. Same with Hans Reiser.
The American Civil War was in the 1860s and there's been some pretty incredible periods of unrest between now and then. We are reaching some historic levels of wealth inequality though.
> So... we get the cheapest TV and just hook a laptop up to it

Exactly, and that's another reason why "ad-free" TVs won't sell. Those who just want to connect their laptop via HDMI will buy the cheapest TV with that feature. They won't pay more to avoid seeing ads in the menu screens they don't use anyways.

Now, it may change if they force ads in the HDMI stream or something equally annoying, but they didn't go that far (yet?).
The user could use a web browser to download non-free software. Is that grounds for disabling the ability to download files?

(You should have no trouble thinking of a couple more reductio-ad-absurdum examples, like wget, gcc, or a text editor.)
I didn’t see anything in the article about how it determined “average”. America had ~3 million illegal immigrants enter the country in 2023 alone. That’s almost 1% population growth from people who can’t speak English. I don’t see Finland dealing with this on such a massive scale.
Bulgarian Dreams
> Not to mention soft generosity like tipping culture.

barfs
> Such a culture isn't going to be globally competitive

Globally competitive in what sense, then?
Reports like this play into a very loud narrative that adults (in the United States) are getting stupider, but I really don't think that's true, and I also don't think that it is supported by these results, for at least two reasons:

1) What the results actually show most starkly is that the 55-65 cohort today had reduced performance compared to the 55-65 cohort in 2017 (who of course are 62-72 today).

> it was older adults whose scores declined the most. Those aged 55 to 65 went down eight 8 points in numeracy...In literacy, the oldest adults declined by a full 16 points

If you are 72, you were born in 1952 and spent your primary and secondary educational years (during which the tested skills are mostly taught) in relatively placid, calm, prosperous times (especially for white people).

The cohort tested in 2024, by contrast, went to school during the Vietnam War, the assassinations of JFK/RFK/MLK, the civil rights movement, etc. Perhaps they had more important things to do than learn the nuances of grammar and sentence structure? If they were tested on empathy, social skills, nuances of political statements, etc., do we expect the trend to stay the same?

2) The PIAAC methodology doesn't appear to account (unless that accounting is mentioned somewhere I'm not seeing) for the diversification of media that has occurred in the intervening years, and especially in the most affected cohorts. More people are consuming their most intellectually stimulating content via audio (in audiobooks or podcasts) or video (via lectures, etc) than ever before.

It seems plausible that our brains have become better wired and adapted for critical thinking in response to audiovisual stimuli rather than written words. I'd love to see how a conversational or audiovisual-based analysis differs from 2017 to today. My hunch is that we'd be seeing improvements, not declines.
I'm sorry, but "At what moisture level do crackers become soft" isn't complex syntax. I would simply blame lack of basic literacy taught in schools, and the 'whole word' method. I would recommend the 'Sold a Story' podcast series[1] for more information.

[1] https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/
> Our final goal is to provide a full new BSD descendant operating-system named HyperbolaBSD.

Where did the BSD come from? Surely the "GNU" aspect implies it doesn't use a BSD userland.
I guess you’d fail the reading comprehension part then. All the required info is in the question. You can’t just pull 5% from nowhere. There is an assertion that it’s 9%, the task is to identify and repeat the asserted value, not make up your own.
Australia has been seeing this in quids, with significant migrations of commercial fish stocks from north to south, chasing cooler water. And with changes to the jelly fish distribution, in time and space. Not to mention croc movements.

On the plus side, we're seeing a huge returning population of whales, of all kinds. There may be some climate change in the resurgence of Penguins found outside their normal sphere, Albatross, Great white sharks.
"Reaches" ought to imply the lower threshold for softness. Of course, softness itself is not a crisp predicate.
Seems fair. An inability to use Firefox is a good signal for their abilities :-)
I use Linux daily (command line only) alongside Windows. It's amazing to think that after all these years, Linux on the desktop (with GUI) still isn't even close to windows in terms of functionality.

I've tried it over they years and finally gave up. It would work for awhile, until some random change would break something I used every day and I wasn't interested in spending many hours trying to research a fix and manually hack some .c file to make it work.

MacOS essentially became a form of Unix with a fantastic GUI. It's what Linux could have been. I like to use Linux with the windows WSL and I get the best of both worlds: a nice GUI and the ability to run all of my favorite Linux apps.
That wouldn't explain why the biggest decreases are in older adults, who have been out of school for many decades.
Viewsonice, Benq, and even Samsung make dumb monitors for conference rooms and digital signage. They just are more expensive and people don’t want the added cost. Its like consumer grade laptops are loaded with adware that supplements the price paid, compared to enterprise line of laptops which are more expensive.
Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and the presidency in 2020-22.
I love using the Malloy vscode extension to explore .csv and .parquet. Malloy embeds duckdb - and is a fresh take on analytic SQL.
https://www.malloydata.dev/
As much as I agree with the sentiment, I can buy a firestick, Apple TV or Roku for a very small cost. Sure, a dumb TV would be lovely, but only because of a quicker boot time.

Given a dumb TV is going to be more expensive, I can't see a market for it based on a small marginal gain for the consumer. And 90% of people don't even care enough about the poor user experience vs the marketing that hypes up features no one uses or needs.
Still using my 2007 television. It's pretty ass dumb. I have new computer displays of course.
> MacOS will gladly serve Taboola ads in first-party apps and beg you to use Safari in push notifications

You may think you are ‘sticking it to Apple’ by making-up this sort of thing, but what you’re actually doing is ruining the debate, and disempowering the customers who are trying to improve the situation.

I’ve been using MacOS for over 25 years, and never seen a “Taboola ad” in an Apple application, or received any push notification about using Safari as my browser (which I willingly do anyway).