skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we flipped the lecture/homework system upside down it would first solve some of the major issues with how we deliver education, but as a side effect prevent the appearance of doing the work while really it's just the student mindlessly copying prompts and responses.

Assign the material for outside the classroom. Use the in-person contact time to work through the problems, with a mix of small group, pairing and mentoring.

I believe Sal Khan is a big promoter of this approach, and it also largely mirrors how people work in their jobs too.
I know that it's rather opaque, but I'm pretty certain Google does basic reputation tracking. When they manually revert this, the ChainPatrol account won't have as much power.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” - CS Lewis.
Can you explain this a bit more? I know there is a lot of shady stuff happening with Steam tradable items, but always fun to learn about new ones.
To see that, look at the apps which almost were:

- Pages.app by Pages --- amazing DTP tool which was bought by Anderson Financial Services, but then killed off when Rhapsody went away

- Macromedia Freehand --- unfortunately, they continued with their in-house toolkit to make the Mac/Windows versions, since it would have been too much work to revive the old Altsys Virtuoso code

- Quantrix Financial Modeller --- at least this still survived, but be sure to take a seat before looking up the cost per seat

- FrameMaker --- the NeXT version was the nicest one I ever used, and with Display PostScript, was far nicer to work with

- WordPerfect --- the NeXT version was far nicer than the Windows, would have been nice to see that come back

- Stone Create (and the other Stone apps) --- nice assortment of various tools which would have been quite nice to have

Lots of other way cool NeXT apps which should have done better in the market.
Exploring the drivers of modern global warming
There difference is between "check" and "do" - verifying your work is a helpful use of feedback, not being able to multiply single digits without a calculator is a failed skill without a crutch to rely on.
> When I was in elementary school, my teachers told me it was very important to memorize multiplication tables because I wouldn't always have a calculator in my pocket. We know how that turned out.

I find knowing the multiplication tables to be essential. It consumes too much time and distraction to pull out a computing device for everything. I assume you don't use your phone for simple addition either.
> convection oven might be a good trade off

I'm not very up on the details of electricity prices, as I live in a place where it's cheap, but using a tiny air fryer to cook the sweet potatoes suits me just fine. Both are wrapped in foil and cut into chips or cubes. Kids love it for breakfast.
Finally, The Culture!
yes, they prevented people from sleeping — I never understand why people don't consider this attack, after a couple of days it's borderline torture
>You can definitely use your IP to take down scams.

Key point being, that you have IP to use in the first place. But the parents' contention is that ChainPatrol and/or their clients don't have such IP, and are merely weaponizing the copyright/trademark takedown process to take down scams, which isn't the same thing.
Here, you dropped this >>>> IANAL
You are going to accept those overlords long before any of that is possible, and then it never will be.
I dunno, but it is included in many commercial libraries (free ones tend to be less reliant on large dependencies); a lot of people know it and a lot of people don't even know how to start bundling a node (or dino? what are people using now?) project; and it has a lot of extensions that really impress some people.

Besides it having a way more convenient API than bare JS. (That honestly, I only don't use because bare JS is conveniently documented by MDN, otherwise I think I'd be fully on it too.)
canada got to the point that they can't turn off the immigration faucet, they need it for their economy to survive, but people have come to hate it so much that they can't maintain it, they're in for a collapse because of it
This is regional. US never used quarters afaik.
Don't care. Because I replaced Microsoft.
Did any of them have access to ChatGPT?
I have to admit, at first read I thought the headline was referring to the e-cig Juul and I was scratching my head wondering how one could build an ipv6 mesh network out of vapes.
yeah the ~1b ly nonuniformity is pretty much there. the ~10b ly uniformity is still early days but looking more and more likely as more data roll in (unless there is a systematic problem)
Analog clocks mostly don't have the problem the author is complaining about since most minute hands move once per second and you can easily see (depending on your eyesight and distance to the clock) that the minute is partially consumed.

I agree though that this is a downside to digital clocks which don't show seconds, though whether the best fix is to round instead of averaging is hard to say.
Hey, thanks a lot for the feedback! It's not harsh, direct feedback is by far the most useful.
You are right, it is not super clear how the simulation is done, I'll add that to the page. Currently, you enter a volatility rate, and then the simulation randomly draws from a normal distribution according to the volatility. Doing this around 1000 times gives the range of possible scenarios. In the future I'm planning to add simulations based on historical data.
The code is not open source, however you also don't have to connect any banking to it, it can be used as-is. I am taking privacy pretty seriously, that is why there is a legally binding privacy policy on the bottom of the page. But yes, I could put more emphasis on it, and explain how the page is keeping data secure.
The linked text ([1]) is definitely not authored by E. Musk. Definitely not.
I tell my kids this aphorism:

Early is on-time. On-time is late.
$2 bills are somewhat rare and are considered lucky. We could use math to prove that on average $2 dollar bill is worth more than $2. 1 - There exist collectable $2 dollar bills which are worth significantly more than $2. 2 - there are no $2 dollar bills which are worth less than $2 due to being legal tender. From 1 and 2 - average value of all $2 bills is above $2.
Not a Canadian, but no, a protest protests and gives voice to the disagreement. Blocking other people's rights is not just a protest and is likely to trigger action to protect others. That's how it goes everywhere that has rights. Normally, some effort is made to do it peacefully, but there are no countries where you can halt the economy whenever you want to force people to negotiate with you.
A wallet sold in Europe would typically include a small pocket for coins.
They would use sock puppet accounts run by an LLC for each claim.
Does immigration make these things worse? Yes. But it's only a very small part of the problem. You can't blame the entire problem on a minor cause.

Here's a very good 55 point plan to fix housing: https://www.ontario.ca/page/housing-affordability-task-force...

BC implemented far more of those points than Ontario has, and succeeded in changing Vancouver's housing costs from ~2X Toronto's to 1X Toronto's.

And P.S. the immigration surge was mostly in student visa's, driven by Colleges under provincial jurisdiction.
Unfortunately, I rarely see people who hate IRV/RCV because they want it replaced with approval voting. Usually it's that their candidate/party of choice would fare worse under it.
The immigration system we use today was set up by Harper. I'm an immigrant myself, having moved here on a Harper scheme, but under Trudeau.

You are absolutely right that this wasn't addressed by the current government, but it is a policy of the previous one. The only reason he alone is being blamed is because he happened to be in charge for a very long time.

It is likely to remain unaddressed satisfactorily under PP, too, since landlords benefit from immigration (especially high turnover immigration) and his primary interest is landlords and business owners.

This is a symptom of FPTP-based Westminster governments. If we had a more equitable electoral system, the blame can be more appropriately distributed and - even better - the issues can be addressed more efficiently.

Democracy NEEDS turnover to be effective.
I've done a lot of work with hosts on various shows. One guy stood out more than others on being so natural on the vamp/stretch to fill the time. Starting at 5mins, we give one minute signals. Not once did it ever sound unnatural in trying to rush or filled with ums, uhs, or ahs. Others struggled with the rushing being most noticeable.
And I say it should be. If the entire argument is “these cops say so and also this one guy who may hate the defendant”, that should probably get dismissed. Make them submit body cam footage showing evidence and amazingly a lot of bad stuff gets less bad.
It's addressed by "I'm not so sure."
Scare tactics designed to confirm what I already fear. The fact that the comments are full of the same Idiocracy "jokes" that people have been making since that movie started airing constantly on Comedy Central means the belief that the younger generation is stupider does not rely on the existence of ChatGPT to be held.

However, the inability to consider possible societal impacts of technology before rolling it out into the world free of regulation was the story of the 20th Century and I guess it's going to be the story of the 21st. Underneath the fear-mongering about AI is an honest belief that maybe we're not considering where this is all going. I'm not afraid of a super smart Gen AI that controls humanity, I'm afraid that people are going to outsource all decision-making to extremely stupid LLMs because we're seemingly evolutionarily wired to cut corners until we accidentally cut our fingers off.
That will make her better than them, what with some personal resiliency, autonomy and, for lack of a better term, grit. I would not worry about (1) the details of what your 1-yr-old 's world will look like in 10+ years, (2) that making a kid struggle and work a bit will put them at a disadvantage.
Or they can just do it all at school.
I think it is a big deal. In many countries, you see a centre politician do some very normal thing that gets disingenuous outrage from the right solely with the intention (and effect) of dragging the Overton window over. From there, it is lather, rinse, repeat. The biggest reason for this is because capital has most of the power, most of the news outlets and capital is, of course, conservative.

When things do swing the other way, it is muted. Can you say Biden is more left than Obama? Were Harris' policies to the left of Biden's? Is Starmer's labour party more left than Corbyn's? On the whole, no.
I’m visiting Vietnam for Tet, and one cultural quirk of theirs that I’ve learned is that $2 bills are considered lucky money. So much so that kids there will hold onto those $2 bills as keepsakes (though they could spend them). And thus I made my first ever trip to the bank to special order a bunch of $2s.

Something I wonder is if an uncut sheet of $2 bills would be considered extraordinarily lucky, because it’s a bunch of $2s in nearly mint condition. Or if it would be considered incredibly unlucky because those kids would have no easy way of cutting them perfectly.
the real tell is he spends hours every day talking while Elon is appearing in other places

If this is a tell at all, it suggests that Dittmann is an AI experiment of some kind. Certainly we're at the point where someone with a sufficiently-expansive public persona can be "emulated," albeit imperfectly, by an LLM.

Feed all of his tweets to a model and ask it to generate more like them, and, well, there you go. The outcome would be indistinguishable from the observation.
I think the Overton window has become much easier to slide around with social media influence campaigns. If someone powerful wants something -- even if it's against everyone else's interests -- it's now much easier for them to drum up popular support for it through underhanded tactics. Remember that Brexit started as a joke.
We basically have 0 rights the moment a majority decides that we don't.

That's literally what a democracy is and has been.. It will always seem great until you are the minority.

America had human slaves built into its democracy until the majority said otherwise. Unsure why this is so shocking.
I remember using it to read webcomics directly in my rss reader. It got me to really learn regular expressions.
I use jQuery when I want to finish a web project, not leave it in perpetual development.
Love this.

The attitude of the htmx developers is highly commendable.
So like, 2 20oz cokes?
What makes you think that? They don’t seem very similar to me aside from sharing the broad label of ‘conservative’.
"Today many web developers consider jQuery to be “legacy software.” With all due respect to this perspective, jQuery is currently used on 75% of all public websites, a number that dwarfs all other JavaScript tools."

This argument is that jQuery is still very popular compared to JS frameworks like React, etc.

What about vanilla JS?

As someone who isn't that experienced with JS, my understanding is that modern vanilla JS is "about as good as" jQuery. i.e. if you don't need much JS these days, just choose vanilla JS.
This had a really nice length (~1 hour). I was able to wrap up the game quite quickly once I unlocked crypto trading
I'd love to use HTMX at work. Sadly the security folks would probably balk at checking in JS code that uses eval(), even though you can disable eval at runtime in the HTMX config.

I thought about writing a script to remove all references to eval (and all tests relying on eval), but at that point it would probably be easier to just rewrite the library.
For Turing's test with the binary choice, the pass threshold is clear. If the machine and human are indistinguishable, then the probabilities that they're judged human must be equal. Since they sum to 100%, they must both equal 50%, making that a meaningful pass threshold. (A slightly higher pass threshold should be used in practice for statistical convenience, since infinitely many trials are required to make a confidence interval exactly include 50%. I'd guess that's why Turing mentions 70% in his paper.)

Without the binary choice, what do you think is the correct pass threshold? Those probabilities can now sum to anything. For GPT-4 in Jones and Bergen's paper they sum to 121%, though please nobody say 60.5%. The threshold now obviously depends on the interrogator's prior--I'd judge very differently if I were told the witnesses were 99% human than if I were told they were 1% human.

In that paper, do you think the interrogators knew their witness had only a 25% chance of being human? If so, why? If not, how do you think that affected the result? In aggregate over all the witnesses, their interrogators seem to have judged correctly only 60% of the time, while always guessing "machine" would have scored 75%. How did they manage to score worse than chance?

Turing's formulation is elegant, admitting meaningful statistical analysis with minimum assumptions. Most modifications are not, and that paper's is particularly bad. Turing's description may seem casual, but it's filled with mathematical depth that should not be missed.
don't need it - just click the "click" button and then hold down enter.
Early is on-time. On-time is late. Late is how most people behave.
Any company serious about building silicon that has keys, wouldn't just be storing them in flash.

Try getting a private key off a TPM. There have been novel attacks, but they are few and far between.

Try getting a key from Apple's trusted enclave (or whatever buzz-word they call it).
Yup, I hear the top candidates to replace him are Chrystia Freeland or Marc Carney (maybe known to this community since he's on Stripe's board). These top candidates might not accept to play this round though as the chances of winning are slim in the current circumstances. Some people are calling the next leader of the party a "sacrificial lamb".
On top of the suspected tax cuts to boot
> The problem with that is then you need a mechanism that creates non-uniformly distributed mass.

you need no such thing. thats like saying "i refuse to acknowledge the pacific ocean to be so damn large without a mechanism". you dont need that. it just is. this doesnt preclude the existence of such a mechanism. but for any (legit) science, mechanistic consideration should be strictly downstream of observation.
Best way - Click "Click Me" then hold down enter.
Same

Lost progress.

It was fun and quirky, but
Happy it ended though.
To add to your points, the job market is looking pretty grim, and it feels natural to feel threatened by layoffs and AI replacement. If there was no threat from layoffs, a lot less people would be against using a tool that makes their job easier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immortal_Life_of_Henrietta...
> ...you can use as much or as little of it as you like... Stability as a Feature... No New Features as a Feature...

This is the way.

Having lived the alternative, I won't consider building anything significant on top of an abstraction that doesn't credibly promise these.

When the abstraction you've built on changes or fails, the thing you built breaks. When you choose an unstable abstraction, you're creating future bugs you'll have to spend future time on to resolve (and if it wraps the lower layer rather than sitting beside it, you have fewer options to fix them).

These aren't concerns for things that will be short-lived, or are small enough to replace if needed. But I've seen plenty of small and temporary things turn into large and permanent things when they end up being useful.
NFL delay-of-game penalties are interesting for this, because when the clock first shows 0 seconds, that means that the team still has a full second to start the play.
I do think "use HTMX" is a tough sell for a 800 employee company, just because it doesn't really solve issues on it's own. (Imagining the pitch is "add HTMX to an existing project") Going all-in on hypermedia definitely means the service that serves your application needs to be more than just a JSON parrot. Templating HTML and sending the right chunks back is hard to do if those services aren't built around being hypermedia services.

I really like turbo-rails [0] (the ruby gem that Rails 7+ bundles in for turbo support, meaning helpers that make turbo frames/responses a native "thing" rails understands) because it's a complete solution. There's at least some obvious structure to build off of, and I'm not stuck trying to build up my own framework on the BE for my newly simpler FE.

django-htmx [1] also fits in this case too. I feel like any honest pitch of HTMX should involve some BE solution as well.

[0] https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-rails

[1] https://github.com/adamchainz/django-htmx
Look at Japan as a homogenous and extremely (if not the most) high trust society.
I'll offer a slight adjustment; "Finance in general encourages risky behavior". It is an industry explicitly dealing in moving and dealing in risk.

We periodically become very aware of this. See financial news in 1893, 1901, 1907, 1910, 1914, 1920, 1937, 1949, 1953, 1961, 1970, 1973, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1998, 2000, 2008, 2011, and so on and so on.

It's almost as if a zero-sum, value neutral industry controlling the bulk of world finance is inherently a very very bad idea.
This sounds like an interesting project. Can it extract text from scanned books? In those types of pdfs, each page is stored as an image file. If you could pair this project with that capability, I could see this being insanely useful to many organizations.
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WYSIWYG means "What You See Is What You Get." If you want the title to be Courier 24 point Bold then that's what you see on the screen. If you are writing in a proportional font with proper kerning then that's what you see on the screen. You don't see a fixed width substitute.

This is what enables you to do proper typesetting and page layout for a document, and using a PostScript printer such as the Apple LaserWriter you could do desktop publishing [1]. Desktop publishing was invented by Xerox PARC but the revolution began when Apple made it available to the masses with the Macintosh and LaserWriter.

Apple didn't invent any of these technologies but they were the first to put them all together into a package for the mass market and made them incredibly easy to use. Suddenly, grandma had a tool she could use to write and typeset the weekly church newsletter from home, and even print it on her LaserWriter at home. If she wanted to do a newsletter like that just two years prior she would have had to hire the services of a print shop to do both typesetting and layout as well as printing.

She could still have used WordStar or WordPerfect and printed with a dot matrix printer, but that doesn't get you large, proportional fonts or layout.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_publishing
Why should it collect data for hundreds of partners?
Don't kids know how to tell the time before they go to school?
I wonder if he could still do it last minute. Like could we switch to proportional representation in the last months? It’d be a better system and may even (cynically) help his own party in the next election so there’d be some incentive.
The Prfaq Framework Book
I wrote a book adapting Amazon Working Backwards PRFAQ framework for founders, product managers, and innovators to use it.
Why ... does that feel so good
I wish it was the reverse. I’d prefer to have the smallest denominations within easiest reach by being the biggest and the largest denoms tucked away and hard to get to.

But retailers would protest I’m sure: it’s not the psychology they want.
That's incredibly convenient for people who have no qualms labeling their political opposition as "terrorists".
> Would our society be a better place if my attacker was convicted, or if he wasn't?

I’d honestly need more than that if impaneled on a jury to conclude beyond reasonable doubt that you’d correctly identified your assailant. Hell, if the only evidence is eyewitness testimony from the victim, an obviously-interested party, I’m not even sure I’d be comfortable awarding civil damages. Especially in a modern context, where every sneeze throws off a digital and/or forensic trail.
While you could argue that it's flooring, it feels much more like truncating. We have a inner representation of time that's like yyyymmdd-hhmmss-mmmm and we truncate it to the precision we need for a given task. If we need the month we truncate to yyyymm, and if we need hours we truncate to yyyymmdd-hh.

That's quit intuitive for all kind of time precision, and the author's rounding solution would be somewhat counterintuitive, at least for me.
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It's worth noting people probably reacted to this like they did with calculators, and perhaps, encyclopedias.

I see this use a bit differently: as a teacher that scales (and is probably more accurate that a human, hallucinations and other concerns notwithstanding).

I see my kids using it in a similar manner as described in this post, but I also see their curiosity piqued and them asking all kinds of theoretical and curious questions.
The USA is great when you're working age and are healthy. Outside the 18-65 age range, not so much. I hope Canada will not morph into USA-lite.