skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried this with my step kid but they were too big for it.

Instead I just took them to a slight hill and we went down it with me holding or them skimming their feet for about 10 times. Then they were able to just pedal. She then was comfortable enough to go around the neighborhood. My neighborhood is really flat. She actually didn't want to stop for about 3 miles because she was doing well. We had to go to the hill for another start and then she was just good.

Same deal teaching my wife to drive a stick. Got her to go in a large gravel parking lot along a rural highway. She got going a few times and I had picked a lot with enough of a ramp out you could get to the highway without stopping. She went for about 60 miles without stopping. It took her 20 seconds to shift initially, so long she was slower than the gear needed. But it was a mini-s which had plenty of torque. She was then able to drive in stop and go traffic for another 50 miles.
Oh yeah. My son started on one and used to make a game out of barreling down the driveway into the mailbox post across the street.

Re: the article: he picked up riding a bike with pedals in <5 minutes after a summer of his balance bike.
very skeptical about this - I believe they are two accounts.

It is possible to create two google account linked with same email address.

I think I need more proof they are actually same account. For example, changing the profile pic in one session is reflected in another session.
They might generally add toxins (or bitterants) to the 95% if regulations instruct them to.

With the 99% stuff, the laws of physics compells them to use the benzene.

Financial considerations also exert an influence on the process.
?? Direct redirect "Mull, it over." link once 'kill -9' suspense happens ??
Yeah, once I tried writing out a dumber popcount loop (checking each bit) for better readability, and was annoyed to find that GCC and Clang didn't recognize it. I ended up looking into the source of both compilers to find that they only transform the more 'idiomatic' version.
I couldn't figure it out even with this. Then my friend explained how a clutch worked and I started it on the first try. And I had been driving a tractor for years. But a tractor is a different torquey beast.
This type of solipsistic kumbaya slop is running face-first into reality, fast. People are different. Groups of people are different. Nations of people can be very different. They differ in meaningful and important and obvious ways. You'll live to see these differences continue to manifest in ways that will doubtless surprise you.

And the Ellis Islanders were at least mostly Christian, white, European. They shared a common cultural, historical, religious, and racial frame with native-born Americans. They could and did meaningfully assimilate. Despite this, that wave of migrants almost broke us. Anarchy, terrorism, riots, organized crime, et cetera. The Johnson-Reed Act was passed in response in 1924 and it slowed immigration to a crawl until the 1960s.

Today we have immigrants who speak utterly alien tongues, with no shared history or civilized tradition, arriving at breakneck pace, and who barely learn English because they can scrape by with apps and translation services, who stay in the cultural bubble of their country of origin, who don't see an American culture worth assimilating to. Especially among so-called high skill immigrants, they pick up a US passport and immediately see me as a worse or lesser "American" than they are. That's nuts. The melting pot, if one ever existed, has broken down. What's happening now is something quite different, and it's not good for me or my fellow Americans.
This is exactly the point of the article.

I don’t want my kid in a classroom where everything has to be repeated in Spanish. It’s already this way for school meetings and it slows information sharing down to a crawl.

If there was mandatory English and Spanish in elementary school classrooms I would consider home schooling.

Outside of certain fields (skilled trades primarily) my children will not need to be proficient in Spanish to be successful in the United States. It’s a nice to have and should not slow down everything else.
That still falls under option 1.
Most people do not have a unified workflow for reading multiple blogs (RSS etc.) and replying to them, and they also lack the privacy control that is available in social media.

It's a little unreasonable to expect people to put in that effort.
That is definitely something to watch out for with cars from the 50s to early 70s. Often the studs will just snap and not bend the wrench though, which is fine since it is better to just replace them with right hand threaded studs.

I believe the idea back in the day was so lug nuts would want to screw themselves tighter if they were loose whenever you braked as a safety feature so the wheels don't fall off. In practice it isn't really effective at unless you are doing some crazy hard braking like in a race but they should never be anywhere near loose enough to start with for such a minor force to screw or unscrew them. Your wheels aren't really suppose to be holding you up through the shear force across the studs, but held by the clamping force friction between the wheel and the wheel hub.
DJI has disabled US geofencing, enabling flights over US no-flight zones
I feel like you and the parents post are compatible views of the world that could be simultaneously held in the same brain without dissonance.

Reading your comment, it seems to focus on the individual. “The person” you know nothing about.

The parent comment seems to be Bayesian, the probability of “the person” being something.

I do think it’s possible to simultaneously believe that:

* every single person you meet in every possible circumstance might be an exceptional human

* your are more likely to encounter exceptional humans in specific circumstances and you can optimize for that

I believe this holds true regardless of your definition of exceptional.

A (maybe) obvious example: if you believe exceptional humans want to grow their own food and live on communes, you probably don’t want to live in the financial district of Manhattan. That would be a bad way to optimize for finding people who share your values.

Similarly you’re unlikely to find a thriving software developer community in Springfield Illinois. If you go to Springfield and assume everyone you meet can’t program, you’re going to be wrong - there are good programmers there. But if you want to live around people who know how to code, you don’t move to Springfield Illinois.
I'm curious if this product actually works because I was beating my head against almost exactly this very recently.

I haven't checked yet, but is SDF schema-dependent? For some reason, all sql comprehending/transforming tools I can find are either too trivial to be useful or require an exact schema to operate, both of which are too brittle to be useful when I try to use them in anger.
My kid is in a program where they spend half the day, and learn half the subjects, in a language that most of the students didn’t initially speak at all. They pick it up and do quite well.
It's not true at all
Many people, millions of us, care very deeply about his legacy of shame and regret.
I don't know what deep china is supposed to mean but back in 2018, my colleagues in Shenzhen and Beijing didn't have any trouble connecting to an Indian WireGuard VPN server.
If you really believe this, then sue your school district.

AIUI, California school districts are under no obligation to meet kids where they're at, i.e. if a kid is ahead they don't have to be offered differentiated content or acceleration.
> There is no trust me bro element.
> Barring some issue being found in the math or Apple’s implementation of it

Yes, is you bar the "trust me bro" element in your definition, you'll by definition have no such element.

Reality, though, doesn't care about your definition, so in reality this is exactly the "trust me bro" element that exists

> But we’re already living in a world where all our data is up there, not in our hands.

If that's your real view, then why do you care about all this fancy encryption at all? It doesn't help if everything is already lost
In a way it's only power that we're giving them. Stop using Facebook, Twitter, stop buying teslas and shopping on Amazon and these people become slowly irrelevant when the companies do bad at earnings
Yep, we also run all our python code in sandboxes and a few other security measures!

Site loading is pretty now slow due to a combination of 1. traffic we're currently getting, 2. running a remote session, 3. running a few large vision language models, and 4. adding waits to allow pages to load/allow you to view your search results. We're working on cutting our latency significantly since it leads to a better development experience.
>A Receiver operating characteristic no better than chance, within a truly randomized data set. i.e. a system incapable of knowing how many Rs in Strawberry at the token level... is also inherently incapable of understanding what a Strawberry means in the context of perception (currently not possible for LLM.)

This is just your claim, restated. In short it is saying they don't think because they fundamentally can't think.

There is no support as to why this is the case. Any plain assertion that they don't understand is unprovable because you can't measure directly measure understanding.

Please come up with just one measurable property that you can demonstrate is required for intelligence that LLMs fundamentally lack.
Like what, lubrication from the air liquification equipment? I guess I don't know much about the details of the process, but I really don't know what the contaminants would be.
>the positive reaction towards [the CEO's murder], seems rather associated with the left

So the question is, "of the population of folks who approve of the murder, how many are left leaning vs right?"

So your own data says that the population of murder-approvers is left leaning by a huge margin. you are the one using tricks to obfuscate that fact.

further, you are trying to malign the entire trump presidency based on his dining with a single person (and known troll) while dodging the fact that a significant contingent of Harris voters support that murder. you can't have it both ways
It’s definitely not something that you should do on purpose
how did it ever become gospel. given the diversity of human experiences, and the the diversity of problems we have to tackle, it is near impossible for there to be one and only way to solve a problem.
Is corporate America going Maga?
link doesn't work for me. :~(
Plain HTML and CSS personal site experience can be vastly improved by using server side includes. Your webserver's SSI module is likely just the right amount of templating power so you don't have to re-write the same HTML in $x spots with a minimal attack surface and maintenance burden. SSI hasn't changed in 20 years and the nginx module at least hasn't even ever had a cve.

<!--# include file="/menu.html" -->
...
<!--# include file="/footer.html" -->

This type of ssi templating is extremely useful for static HTML sites using .html (and other) files on filesystems. I've been using it since hosting my website on my 56k modem in 1999 with Xitami server on Win98. Now I do it hosting from my cable modem in 2025 with nginx on linux.
I think you missed the point of the parent, which is that ~1/4 of the students are dead weight at the cost of the rest of the class. It isn't "misguided" if their experience is different than yours.

If your outcome is students that are more capable at languages but less capable in virtually every other subject, is the result really "more capable and prepared students"? I'm not opposed to bilingualism but you're lying to yourself if you think this comes at zero cost to at least some students.
changing engine and cabin air filters would become an extremely hazardous affair
Lol what? I've never heard that adage and it seems like really bad advice. Your neighbors aren't going to cut you a check at any point so what even is this.
My heart goes out to you. Misdiagnosis is just as bad (and sometimes worse) than not being diagnosed. I've known people who were diagnosed with ADHD with very bad outcomes because it later turned out that they had bipolar disorder; the wrong medical treatment literally ruined their life. At the same time, I've had periods in my life where I couldn't focus on important conversations with my partner because of a noisy bird nearby.

If you suspect you have a condition or someone is advocating for you to seek treatment, please seek a qualified psychiatrist who's specifically trained in diagnosis. Better yet, make sure they're in touch with your primary care provider [1]. Psychiatric assessment and diagnosis its own psychiatric specialty for a reason, but doctors with these qualifications are criminally difficult to get time with for a variety of reasons.

1. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10669410/
What do you think a nation is? Is it a sports team or economic zone that hands out name tags to whoever steps off the boat with the right attitude? Or is it a specific group of people in a specific place with a shared language, lineage, culture, history, faith, and common destiny? I submit to you that it's the latter, and no empire nor state organized as the former can endure.
Since this is hacker news and AI is all the rage right now I'd like to make the connection between this and curriculum learning.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curriculum_learning
Hugo worked for me. And as part of the GitHub pipeline that builds the site and deploys it I can grab some ‘dynamic’ content (from a Notion DB) and render it. Subsequently I added Zapier so that when the Notion DB changes it triggers the pipeline to update my website. The only thing I pay for is the web hosting with dreamhost.

https://www.planetjones.net/blog/03-05-2023/relaunching-my-p...
I think OP was saying the most damaging content is arriving via iMessage.
Have you looked at their numbers on and before 2022? They very much over-hired a crazy amount. Zuckerberg admitted as such through his statements on "over investing".

https://about.fb.com/news/2022/11/mark-zuckerberg-layoff-mes...

And if that wasn't enough: https://www.itpro.com/business/business-strategy/mark-zucker...
I did consider whether I should respond - yes. I think it is substantive in a meta sort of way to point out people shouldn't jump to conclusions without having deep understanding of South Korean politics. Politics on HN always seem to go south and I guess this is going to be another one of those but I'd rather say what I think then browse away.
Forgive me, but with machine translation becoming nearly a solved problem — why would kids spend years of their lives learning new languages anymore? By the time they grow up, won't that be a rather useless skill — except perhaps in very nuanced contract negotiations?
Gstreamer can give you more control and has friendlier API's if you're gonna make a pipeline programatically but for one off stuff ffmpeg seems much friendlier to me. For example it has sane x264 defaults while with gst-launch you have to really know what you're doing to get quality x264 encoding
My chunk rewriting method is to use a LLM to generate a title, summary, keyword list, topic, parent topic, and gp topic. Then I embed the concatenation of all of them instead of just the original chunk. This helps a lot.

One fundamental problem of cosine similarity is that it works on surface level. For example, "5+5" won't embed close to "10". Or "The 5th word of this phrase" won't be similar to "this".

If there is any implicit knowledge it won't be captured by simple cosine similarity, that is why we need to draw out those inplicit deductions before embedding. Hence my approach of pre-embedding expansion of chunk semantic information.

I basically treat text like code, and have to "run the code" to get its meaning unpacked.
Fomenting nativist rage was exactly why Russia created the migrant crisis by destabilizing Syria. Im guessing you have a biased corporate media environment like America, too?
I ended up creating my own tool to generate ffmpeg commands https://newbeelearn.com/tools/videoeditor/
I find myself agreeing. As a person with an engineering background that's part of an ownership team, I often find myself longing for software developers with an engineering mindset i.e think of how the components will fit, without breaking user experience.
> I've had a staff SWE also claim to me that they generated colliding UUIDv4s,

UUIDv4 is random. Could be a bad PRNG, or just very very very bad luck.

> and a separate staff SWE who worked in GIS claim that circles only exist in map projections and they're always distorted, and that you cannot have a circle IRL, nor project it onto a projection.

It is insanely difficult to project circles. Most of time we just pretend it never exist.
I was homeless for about 8 months as a teenager (18) after leaving home under contentious conditions with my parents. I ended up hiking up the mountain and finding an off trail and secluded location to pitch a tent and build a fire ring and set up for long term camping. I built a primitive but mostly adequate setup for living. Baths were a nightmare because the river was freezing and rapid, but other than that I got into good routines. Later on I was fortunate enough to have a girlfriend who I could stay with on occasion and get hot showers.

I eventually joined the US military and got out of my hole, and I now have some fond memories of that time thanks to the power of nostalgia. Now it feels like life was a lot simpler then, and it was. I also got in the greatest shape of my life because I had to hike 3 steep miles, often with a heavy backpack, in and out twice a day (sometimes more).
Not saying they are useless but standardized tests only work for kids who take them seriously.

I recall taking these as a kid, and there were kids who would just fill in the bubbles. They would not even read the questions. They thought it was funny.
A total of $50.1 billion (equivalent to $672 billion in 2023 when accounting for inflation) worth of supplies was shipped, or 17% of the total war expenditures of the U.S.

In all, $31.4 billion went to the United Kingdom, $11.3 billion to the Soviet Union, $3.2 billion to France, $1.6 billion to China, and the remaining $2.6 billion to other Allies.

Material delivered under the act was supplied at no cost, to be used until returned or destroyed.

In practice, most equipment was destroyed, although some hardware (such as ships) was returned after the war.

Supplies that arrived after the termination date were sold to the United Kingdom at a large discount for £1.075 billion, using long-term loans from the United States, which were finally repaid in 2006.

Similarly, the Soviet Union repaid $722 million in 1971, with the remainder of the debt written off.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease
Relative to your competition.

Performance is only adequate if it’s at least as good as the engineers of the other players in your industry. Otherwise, you’re losing ground. As long as anyone in your market space is actively trying to manage their engineering talent (recruiting your top performers, releasing low performers, being more selective in hiring) so must you just to keep pace. An “adequate” engineer may make the company money, but the opportunity cost of not hiring someone better who could make even more money can be higher still.
Why wouldn’t they? Most big tech cos offer products at multiple layers of the stack.
>madrassas in Pakistan that just teach the kids to read the Quran

I thought they were just teaching the sounds of the Quran. Like the Pakistani kids don't know any Arabic, and they don't learn to read or understand Arabic. They just memorize and recite the Arabic sounds of the Quran that they've been taught.
SHE doesn’t relax security guarantees, it relaxes the class of supported computations
My home state of South Carolina just placed a statewide ban on smartphones for our public schools, which is a good thing because the private schools in my area are worse than the public ones
> Things "working out fine" is more how to get to sleep at the end of the day when not everything has gone to plan

Yes I agree with this.

I mean look at most people’s lives. Have they all gone to plan? For the most part, no.

Every part of them could be better if they took different actions and made different choices. So what? They didn’t and they didn’t. They’ve got what they’ve got.

Why stress yourself out over what you could have done better when you’ve done good enough?
87% of kids attend public k-12, and secular and Catholic schools together make up the majority of private, so if we're barely a step above Idiocracy, it seems a bit silly to point at the "man rode the dinosaurs" people.
> An enormous flaw of Sybase/Microsoft SQL Server is that it does not implement the SQL/PSM standard.

Why is this a problem? I've always enjoyed T-SQL. Right from the start it had a "scripty" feel and stored procedures were easy to code with it. We thought about implementing PSM at Sybase in the 1990s but there was little user demand. (Unlike row level locking, the lack of which undid Sybase SAP implementations...) Internally many of the engineers thought PSM was pretty awful to use. I never liked it myself.
Oh, are you zdykstra? If so, thanks for creating an invaluable tool!

> you can create a zpool checkpoint before doing something 'dangerous' (disk swap, pool version upgrade, etc) and if it goes badly, roll back to that checkpoint in ZFSBootMenu on the Pool tab

Good to know! Snapshots meet most of my needs at present (since my boot volume is a single fast drive, snapshots ~~ checkpoints in this case), but I could see this coming in useful for future scenarios where I need to do complex or risky things with data volumes or SAN layout changes.
That assumes talent is distributed evenly amongst populations, and isn’t affected by things like culture or nutrition
Writing your own static site generator is good for you. I'm using raw Jinja2 templates and a tiny python script to do my shared header/styles etc. Outside of that it's all shell scripts and raw HTML/CSS.
no im a junior in high school and they gave me a bag of flour to tote around for a week and i think i got the gist of it
that's not germane to this conversation. it's about parents without formal teaching certs working with their children to given them what they need to excel.

Sure those things (history/philosphy/etc) matter but in our society you still have to do well on math tests to do well in life.

As a parent you can teach them directly (homeschool) or augment a public school education, but the augmentation route needs to be done in slack time, which is tough.
> Crypto currency wasn't a new thing. There has been digital currencies going back decades. They had all failed and become worthless.

That didn't make them unreasonable bets. Lots of smart ideas fail to gain traction in spite of being smart ideas, for a variety of reasons. The electric car market (for example) had its share of false starts, too, in the late 19th Century and throughout the entirety of the 20th Century - and yet the people betting on EVs weren't irrational in doing so before the 21st Century, and still weren't irrational to do so afterward. It ain't like the problems with fossil fuels were completely unknown before 2000, after all.
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