skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of this I think is misjudged - there is an implication that people know what they are doing or what their actions' consequences are, but do not care about it.

I would argue that for a bunch of things, people just don't think.

It's not that they don't care: they've not even reached that stage of awareness. They just don't ever get to thinking about if what they're doing has any kind of follow-on consequences or implications. It doesn't even enter their minds.

I try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but as I've grown older I think I've learnt that not everyone thinks like I do. I guess here on HN and at work we're surrounded by people who are ultimately "knowledge workers" who are paid (and selected for) their ability to think. We're doing mental gymnastics and playing 4D chess against ourselves in our head all day. Meanwhile outside of tech, people aren't and there are IMHO lots of people who just think in a totally different way. It's like they stop at Step 2 or 3 of a linear thought process, but we as tech engineers etc are already on Step 7 of a decision tree with multiple branches etc even if we don't actively realise we're doing it.

Not saying we're any better/smarter, but we're at least implicitly trained and attuned to thinking things through, identifying edge cases, defensively coding to handle inevitable misuse/issues etc etc. Not everyone thinks like that.

Some stuff though is just experience or lack of it. I never knew how much of a pain it can be to push a kids buggy around until a did it and I would see sometimes the difference in others when I was struggling with one: some people (other parents with older kids, grandparents etc) would offer to help or to go out of their way to move out of the way etc, while others were blithely unaware (as I was!) and just don't realise because they have no knowledge or experience of the situation so even with care, they just don't know (which is fine - this is why we have schools and books etc, to teach people things they don't know). That bike lane in the article looks totally fine to me for example - even if I think think a whole range of scenarios in my head, I have no in-depth knowledge or experience or understand what the problem the author of the article is talking about as it looks totally ok to me but I only have very simplistic knowledge of riding a bike.

Tl:Dr - not always malicious or deliberate, just a lack of awareness and experience.
> While ZFS now can do it safely ...

It's the first release with the code, so "safely" might not be the right description until a few point releases happen. ;)
> I've never, ever, heard the idea that compilers are burdened by the workload of maintaining thousands of type-specific optimizations for hilariously bad code, until today.

I've heard tons of people complain about slow compilers, so even if compiler devs find it easy architect their compilers to do multiple kinds of optimisations there's a cost to it that devs running the compilers pay.

Also, if you think about it, optimising code has to follow diminishing returns, so at some point we are putting too much CPU time into little to no gains, and it's also possible to get slower code with more optimisations if they interact poorly, or at least not better code even if spending more CPU time. This is why there's -O3 in gcc and it's not the default, there's a cost to it that's likely not worth paying.
Oh man yeah the advice about continuous motion is not right. A clutch is a torque control device, in the case of a car it’s more like a torque limiting device. The more you let the pedal out the more torque you allow the engine to apply to the wheels up until the point where the torque you allow exceeds the engine’s available torque at a given rpm and throttle position. So if you’re constantly letting the clutch out you’re ramping up the torque limit linearly but the engine speed and wheel speed don’t match and if the engine speed is low of course the engine can easily stall.

Instead what you want to do, what most people do subconsciously is let the clutch out partially until it is allowing the engine to apply some of its available torque but not all, and then pause there until the car’s speed roughly matches the engine speed, at which point the clutch will stop slipping even though you still have the pedal partially depressed, after which you should be able to rapidly raise your foot from the clutch and feel no acceleration or deceleration. For an experienced driver that pause is less than like half a second from standstill. Also technically the point at which you want to pause the clutch let out depends on a whole bunch of things like how quickly you want to pull off, how much torque the engine can provide and whether you’re on a hill etc, but we just do this intuitively with experience.

This is like a super over-complicated way to think about it and I would never try to teach a learner driver by first explaining this lol but the point is, you find the engagement point and hold there for a while and then release when the car is moving. This is what we all do but it helps to understand why we do it so we don’t explain things wrong.

I feel like people also don’t get what applying more throttle does while the clutch is slipping. All it does is raise the engine rpm, it will apply absolutely no more torque (and therefore acceleration) no matter how much you press down the throttle. While the clutch is slipping the clutch pedal controls your torque and therefore acceleration. You need some throttle though to give you some room for error and some minimum torque to work with.
Certainly a biased view of religious home schoolers. Most of my religious friends who homeschool are college educated and many have postgraduate degrees. Some do disbelieve evolution, or at least disdain it a bit. Pretty much all of them are motivated people however. Of course that's just my little bubble.
Yes, but they don't seem to care about the stuff OP cares about, therefore they're just mindless bureaucrats. Unlike Elon, who's defeating armies of nihilists by sheer force of will!!!
Not sure about fashionable, but rather:

1) Private school is expensive as hell.

2) Yet, public school sucks. Most normies don't wanna learn and the system doesn't reward nor incentivize the smart, initiated students who want to excel. There are many normies that teachers just gotta essentially ... just babysit. And God forbid that a teacher stands up for themselves. Then some Karen has go and destroy that teacher and their career.
Yep, this is how it is done. I think it really needs to be revisited because everyone is faking the labor test because you have an employee who is great, who's been here for years and years, probably even had kids here, and if in the 10-15 years since the employee was hired, one US citizen could do the same job now, he gets sent back? It should be a requirement for the visa, not the residency. Residency should be done like Canada where you earn points to get it to foster assimilation.
The girl in the math class before me would beat the shit out of my desk like clockwork. She hated math, was violent, and very autistic, no apparent other issues nor even hate towards humans. Nothing could be done, just wait for the tantrum to end then take my seat.
Open AI just needs to create & release their own phone with Microsoft's help! H.E.R. the movie phone.

Apple has not innovated in years and a GPT Phone where your lock screen is a FaceTime call like UI/UX with your AI Agent who does everything for you would give Apple a run for it's money! Pick up your phone & see your agent waiting to assist & it could be skinned to look like a deceased loved one (mom still guiding your through life).

To get things done it would interface with other AI Agents of businesses, companies, your doctor, friends & family to schedule things & used as a knowledgebase.

Maybe this is their step towards creating said agents?
Hardware inefficiency seems to be the number one issue as far as I can tell. We're not getting the best match between the available semiconductor substrate and effective use of the same.

I blame von Neumann.
Oh.. do people not do that anymore? At the little grocery store I worked at in BC Canada, if there were like 2 or 3 people in line we'd call for help if they weren't already on their way. Seems like a pretty basic thing.

Here in the US, I don't know what's going on with the cashiers. They're slow. They don't say a single word to you, not even to give you your total. And they're awful at bagging. I just don't get it. It's not a hard job.
> And why should a 7/11 worker care? Their employer doesn't care about them. Minimum wage / minimum effort and all that.

Because their actions affect the customers they interact with, who have no direct bearing on their jobs or salaries. To make your customers suffer because you're angry at your boss is misdirected at best, and selfish at worst.
"does this dress make me look fat"

is it lying or not?
People lie all day every day, and if you dont they wont like you.
They expect you to lie.

Someone invites you somewhere.
You respond you dont want to go because meh. They get angry.
"Atleast make up an excuse or something dont just tell me you dont want to go!!"

Very common. More common in women.
The Qubit Factory
Changing business requirements are akin to the food that ants find in optimal time. I think leveraging distributed intelligence to solve business problems is strictly better, despite what rock star CEOs in thrall to the cult of their own genius would have you believe.

I think the reason this system doesn't work is not that engineers don't want to solve business problems. It is instead that most organizations are pulled in conflicting directions by the need to solve simultaneously their business's ostensible problem, while also satisfying the wealth/power/prestige goals of certain individuals. In times like these, you can't just let the engineer colony wiggle towards an optimal solution.

Lest you think this take too conventional...It might be worth considering whether a jump in abstraction level might anyway converge to the same ant -like approach. The engineers are more like the legs of an ant, centrally controlled by its nervous system. The ant is the organization, and at that abstraction level it still does find an optimal path towards higher level goals, in the service of which the PM or the CEO is as much as ant. I don't really believe this, but I think some people sincerely do and it's certainly worth considering
Just wait until you try to speak up and get destroyed. Why do you think folks don’t speak up?
This just got so much worse with scrollbars.

Select: https://imgur.com/a/fi1SPBJ

Datalist: https://imgur.com/a/sTiQhPF

This looks exactly like an iOS control now. The multiply effect on the scrollbar is comically out of place.
Both Ben Affleck and Matt Damon had movies before that. It was Damon's breakthrough for sure tho.
flat assembler g (fasmg) does this. It has a powerful macro language, in which, among other architectures and formats, it implements x86 and ELF/PE/macho and is able to assemble itself.

I like to use it for scripting for turning binary formats to text and vice-versa.
We need to build a syntax tree and be able to map each value (number, boolean, string) to a range of character and then to a GPT token (for which OpenAi produces logprobs).
This is the reason we use Lark.
As an antidote to this, one thing I like to do is notice when something is subtly nice.

I've bumped into those little wobly plastic things making a narrow turn. Saved me from a scratch.

The lights in my apartment are arranged so its quick to turn them all off when walking out the door.

That sort of thing.

One of the best parts of living in society with as much specialization as we have is that everything usually has a lot of thought beind it. Sadly, that thought is often towards making it more extractive and not better for me. But when it does work out its such a lovely feeling. That someone out there did this gift for me and we will never meet but share this invisible connection.
Then start by living underground in California or genetically modifying Californians and see how it goes.
Eh, Japan is mostly a place where everyone is afraid to not ‘be Japanese’. It can be quite stressful.
This is all correct. It’s also hard to believe that any other country could have sustained the casualties the USSR took and it saved lives for the other allies by diverting troops to the Eastern Front. The US had nearly 500k deaths, the USSR (post war borders) had something like 26 million.

Both sides needed each other. From a US perspective, trading money for lives likely seemed worth it.

The USSR was an objectively terrible regime, and most the Russian governments that have followed on from it have been too. Underestimating the deaths Russian leadership is willing to tolerate has proven unwise a few too many times.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
The guy who won literally tried to steal the last election and started an insurrection: https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/76c2c1e8...

(He’a also a felon and a rapist, but I suppose those qualities can be weighed separately from the treason and sedition.)
Resist the cold churn toward pride-fueled apathy that this rant exhausts.

After reading this, if this is supposed to demonstrate the psyche of the sort of person who “cares”, I really hope he keeps indoors and spends a little bit more time on his self before stepping out on others.
It might show link previews depending on how configured but likely the damaging content would be links to YouTube etc I imagine
Homeschooling often gets confused with self-directed education, aka “unschooling”. These are not the same.

The former tends to replicate school and requires a teacher, usually a parent. It’s basically school with added/paced/altered/enriched curriculum at the cost of socialization, although that can be compensated with other forms of peer groups, especially in urban area. Comparing this method versus school A or school B is pretty much like comparing school A and B as two schools can be as different as any given school and homeschool.

The latter is what John Holt referred to as homeschooling but is based on self-determination theory and has an abundance of science to support it. Neuroscience backs this theory too, I think the rate at which active learning learns is somewhere around x20 faster than passive learning (ie “teaching”). Very serious folks like John Holt, Peter Gray, or Akilah Richards to name a few have dedicated their life work to supporting self-directed education as a superior form of education. What Peter Gray’s research shows shows is that outcomes are basically the same except for life satisfaction and psychological outcomes. In essence, it leads to same rates of secondary education, jobs and socio-economical outcomes, except an unschooled child makes for a much happier adult later on.

Sadly, because the majority of people went through contemporary schooling or some version of it, people’s biases makes people not want to hear this.

I’m not sure what the OP’s circle looks like but I would be surprised if none of those so called “techs pro-homeschooling” are only doing the school at home version without having stumbled upon any of the science around self-directed.
Sure, that's great if you all work for the same organization and everyone involved asked themselves that and they all benefited from the organization's overall success.

But that is not the case here. That is not how bike lanes or many other things get built. The engineer is a consultant that works for one independent company. The contractor is a different independent company. The client is another company or a government entity. Possibly the client involves several different entities with competing demands and priorities.

And "success" for the engineer doesn't really mean building a good thing. It means a happy client who will come back for repeat business.

How does this problem get fixed? Well, eventually someone hits that curb and breaks their neck and sues the city. Then the city hires an engineer to create design standards that they include in future contracts when they build new bike lanes.
On Vomiting in Dunning-Kruger…
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42706455
I've tried the following code:

simplex.goto("github.com/mitchellh")
num_contribs = simplex.extract_text("blabla")
print(num_contribs)

It outputs all texts from the page. Is it expected? Maybe it should fail indicating element could not be found?
DPRK does not seem too have the hydrogen bomb. Fission bombs on the kiloton range are too heavy to be mounted on ICBMs. I will not lose much sleep until there is credible information that DPRK has mastered the fusion bomb.
Looks to me like an AI generated Firefox-ish logo with a Linux / Penguin motif to replace the Fox motif.
As someone who works for a local government bureaucracy - not caring is a coping mechanism because if you let every sub-optimal thing bother you then you'd just burn out. Very few jobs are structured in a way that those directly involved can determine how things are done so there is no real value in caring about how long a process takes. Where people have some agency you might be surprised how much people do care even in relatively low paying bureaucratic jobs.

In a similar way, many of us walk past multiple homeless people every day. Do you not care about them? Well, in an abstract sense yes of course but as there's not a lot you can do about it right now you evolve an indifference to it.
People are getting disillusioned by education; partly because of politics, but also because there's a good reason not to trust the experts.

Phonics and memorising times tables in schools should be as controversial as hand washing in hospitals, but they aren't, and that's just the tip of the iceberg that a very average layperson can see.

If a doctor or nurse or scientist says something is "evidence based", it works (most of the time). If a teacher or teaching academic says "evidence based", they mean they have some kind of evidence behind it, like in that Simpson's episode ('Well, your honor, we've got plenty of hearsay and conjecture. Those are 'kinds' of evidence.')

Teaching as an academic discipline has been basically spun out of whole cloth. Universities didn't (really) study education until governments told them to teach it, so they got a ragtag bunch of PhD thesis done, and the best way to do this is to use a very "philosophical" approach, and a very thin actual evidence base. Then they have to teach this to student teachers, most of whom are not really equipped to assess evidence. Then the student teachers who are great at the kind of essays that any student teacher can "engage with" will end up being the next generation of professors.

Schools are run by teachers (who are badly trained) and politicians the public service (which generally defers to the universities). Yes there is a more conservative "evidence based" movement, but even it is nowhere near good enough.
this articles has a ton of typos but that reinforces the emotional state the author was - an emotional state that i think is becoming more and more common. theres an underlying anxiety here; the world you grew up in is gone. this is bad and we (the author and myself) are not falling victim to nostalgia. all the things i interact with are becoming more and more dysfunctional. everybody has their answer to whose fault it is, people to blame for the fact that things simply don’t work anymore, but i think an analysis of this “lack of care” or “i just dont dgaf” attitude on the part of the workers, the employees of the companies who, theoretically, make the USA and similar countries the beacons of good living that they appear to be, might be fruitful. i’ll definitely be thinking about this observation for a while.
Feels like the board trying to minimize risks in the new political-cultural climate. It's a pity, really.
One important function that public school offers to society is protection for children. Teachers are mandatory reporters, and so are many school staff. Parents are not.
Kind of OT: Does anyone know any video editing library in Python that adds fancy/animated text with background?
To continue the pedantic … $260 invested 25 years ago for 2600 magazine would be ironically worth around $2600 today.
I guess, he's right - it will be easy and relatively accurate. Relatively/seemingly.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700712
crypto bros are annoying but at least they're doing their own thing. ICANN is actively screwing us.
And playing PoE!
Honestly there aren't that many games about politics, at least the way I understand "being about politics" so I can't say, and I don't miss that there are more to be honest. Also, I don't think Disco Elysium needed to be about politics, it's technically a murder mystery and in fact for quite a while I was quite happy with the mystery and general world building but at some point the amount of politics increased to an amount it made it not fun anymore.
rqlite is my favorite “out there” project that is actually freaking genius!
I gather that the worth of this piece lies in relating and resolving not to follow the author’s lead.
#1 Meetings
#2 Managers who won't put anything into writing and keep changing their minds.

The two, in my experience, are highly correlated. As much as I try, I've never been able to enforce the discipline of demanding meeting agendas to be written up and circulated with at least 2 days notice. Maybe its my extreme bad luck, but I've had too many fuzzy thinkers as managers.
Self Adaptive LLMs
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42692007
haha I'm not saying that MrBeast couldn't have sex if he wanted to -- I'm saying that, because he's constructed himself to only care about maximizing audience metrics, having sex would be a waste of his time
Probably true for social media bubbles. For traditional media, not really. E.g. the largest newspaper gets regular accusations of taking sides (in their comments section), but the complaints seem to come from all sides equally. Except for the nationalist party, but over 80% of us probably thinks they have earned the critique they get.
In version two, instead of storing a 1 as a destroyed house, we’ll destroy them to varying degrees and then read that single house as multiple bits. Like TLC SSDs
This implicitely assumes atomic assignments, meaning that during an assignment all bits representing a value are transfered in one atomic unit. This sounds a bit trivial, but if one would be working with large integers that are stored in multiple memory words, it is less trivial.

I think it is possible to implement locking with only atomic assigments.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42692138
Mozilla Settles Case over Its Refusal to Hire Apple Activist
You likely meant to write 'xenon' there, not 'helium'. FWIW, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon has

> Because of its scarcity, xenon is much more expensive than the lighter noble gases—approximate prices for the purchase of small quantities in Europe in 1999 were 10 €/L (=~€1.7/g) for xenon, 1 €/L (=~€0.27/g) for krypton, and 0.20 €/L (=~€0.22/g) for neon,
Japan also has an entire group of people so disillusioned with society they completely lock themselves off from it (0), record high suicide rates (1), record low fertility rates (2), and a far lower rate of self-reported happiness.

I don't know why they prioritize differently, but I don't think it's working out for them.

Which set of tradeoffs would you rather live under?

(0) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori
(1) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-33362387.amp
(2) https://apnews.com/article/japan-birth-rate-declining-popula...
(3) https://countryeconomy.com/demography/world-happiness-index/...
agreed. the real story is that people are ignoring `sub` out of convenience and creating a security hole.