skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would you know the difference until you find the truth?

Are you suggesting we shouldn't have sought nukes?

That eve should not have eaten that fruit?

Who determines which truth isn't worth pursuing or dangerous to?

Maybe we should pursue no truth?
I think you have to separate it into negative query and run (negative) rank and combine results yourself.
sometimes i think im sheltered and i am but then i see stuff like this and feel good
I taught my son to ride using training wheels. He rode around for a few days and asked me to take them off. So, I took them off. And when I came back outside from putting the tools and training wheels away, he was riding his bike as if he'd never not ridden it. I do like the author's idea however.

By the way, did you know that the the right pedal is right hand thread, but the left pedal is left handed thread? If it wasn't, the left pedal, being right hand threaded, would come loose easily. And that was a Wright Brothers innovation.
> Which seems to be an argument to move the child to a school with a gifted program rather than homeschool.

What if there isn't one within a reasonable distance, or your locality doesn't have school choice?

> Many homes also lack numerous gifted children and specialist programs.

The issue is that you need the absence of children who would hold back the class, not necessarily that you need the presence of other gifted children except insofar as you need to fill out the class, which is not an issue when the class size is one.
I'm 34, grew up in London, went to state primary school and private secondary school. dijit's account of schooling ressonates strongly with me.
Such toxins are added to make the alcohol unsuitable for human consumption, and thus avoid paying government alcohol tax or duty.

Where I am it's called "methylated spirits" and IIRC the boing point of the additive is very close to that of the alcohol so it's not possible to distill it out.
I've also noticed you can release all pedals while driving these days and instead of eventually slowing to a stall, the car will only slow until it's happily rolling along in gear at some sort of very slow minimum speed. I presume that's the same feature?
Yes, seriously handling your data is expensive. I am talking about buying new hardrives.
The panopticon design was originally intended for schools too, as well as other institutions:

> Bentham conceived the basic plan as being equally applicable to hospitals, schools, sanatoriums, and asylums. He devoted most of his efforts to developing a design for a panopticon prison, so the term now usually refers to that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

Whether it’s friendly and encourages healthy development is another question.
Maybe Matrix.org isn't so voice-centered, but they do support the guild+channels system.

I really don't want Discord to succeed either, I want something that is fully E2E encrypted (except for guilds explicitly marked as "public", which should be able to provide the chat history to new members, and moderation tools).And something that isn't bloated as heck promoting Nitro any chance they get, to a point that it gets ridiculous.
> For example, if my flight were cancelled

There has been a flurry of services in the EU that handle these things for you, if you are impacted. It's usually as simple as 1 form + a pic of a boarding pass, wait ~3 months and get ~70% of the money into your account. Exactly as low effort as needed to make it both useful and (one would hope) incentivise the airlines to sort it out in a better way for the client (i.e. rebooking, vouchers, etc).
Hypertalk <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperTalk> lives.
Ask HN: Important works that haven't been translated into English
Lots of people have lots of important ideas all across the world, but not everyone speaks English. Therefore many, or perhaps most, of the important 'works', philosophical or otherwise, have no English translation.

Hacker News is a significant global discussion board, where people who speak all kinds of languages congregate to discuss tech. This could be a great opportunity to collect a list of books together for translation into a language we can all understand.

Thus I am wondering, for those whose native language is not English, what really important books do you know that have no English translation?
It's never made sense to me, but the standard explanation is that because they aren't accusing a person (the owner of the money), but only accusing an inanimate object (the money itself), constitutional protections don't apply. Pretty scary that this is accepted as normal!
I'm around 11 years older than you.

I know my experience isn't especially portable as I went to a public school in the home counties, but not all of my friends did, and while I understand they experienced teachers with varying levels of competence and interest, none of them has described it in as harrowing terms as yours, and all came away with friends and a fairly decent education, albeit one that they probably had to have a bit more determination to get than I did.

My mum worked in various UK state schools as an assistant from around 2000-2010 and described serious budgetary problems throughout the system, and teachers trying their best in adversity. She also described the many obstacles in the way of getting the bad kids out of classrooms so they couldn't disrupt things so much. I have a friend who teaches at a grammar school, who is fairly intelligent and interested in his subject, and seems to teach well to kids who are interested, though again there seems to be little money to achieve anything.

I'm not claiming shitty, prison-like schools don't exist or trying to invalidate your experience, it was clearly terrible, but I'd be wary of drawing too many wide-ranging conclusions about school education as a whole from it.
> We are talking years with a balance bike and then there is an overlap where they prefer the balance bike.

Let me clarify - I'm not saying you can't continue using it for years after.

I'm saying there is no point to continuing using it once the kids has developed their balance. That development typically takes only a few dozen minutes, at most.

As an analogy, consider reading. Your kid can, after learning to read, continue reading the level-1 (Fun With Dick And Jane type) books for years, but why would you encourage that?
> That would make legitimate civil asset forfeiture impossible to execute.

Assuming such a thing exists. . .

> The fire department gets called to an exploded meth lab containing a few dead bodies and a safe containing $200,000. What do?

I'm not sure I see how the fact that meth was present changes anything there (i.e., vs. a house fire with a few dead bodies and no meth). If some agency wants to go through a court proceeding to establish that the money was used illegally that's fine. The problem with civil asset forfeiture is it's done without any of that process.
According to this post on Apple's Machine Learning blog, yes, Wally is the method used for this feature.

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/homomorphic-encry...
We've failed to limit 1.5C, here is a stopgap to pause warming
Dragons to the point of being impossible. Self hosting your outgoing mail means it will almost surely never reach the recipient due to reputation issues. You can, however, set up a respected email provider with your own domain (meaning that, in particular, you can switch providers easily). I have done this myself, using ForwardEmail as the provider.
I hated school too, but I'm not sure I would have learnt much at home. My parents both lack higher education and frankly haven't been able to keep up with me past the age of 12 or so. Home schooling might work for children of smart people to be accelerated into the exact same field as them. But it won't work for kids like me or those who just aren't good at whatever their parents do.
I used a balance/running bike for my kids. They became very good at it and could kick it up to incredible speeds, and they preferred it over pedals. The problem however is that as soon as they feel uncomfortable with the pedal bike they put their feets down in order to break (like they did on the running/balance bike) instead of using the pedals and handle break.
US TikTok users flock to Chinese app Xiaohongshu in protest with TikTok ban loom
I didn't know Mastodon has a CEO. Why does it need one?
HippoRAG: Neurobiologically Inspired Long-Term Memory for Large Language Models
I didn't expect this to be serious and am surprised on that the tutorial actually delivers. Way back when I was learning HTML and it was said that it was built with SGML, then this relation remained a total mystery to me.
I mostly agree with your point, but one pedantic correction is that only a slight plurality of voters, not a slight majority, picked Trump. Trump won 49.8% of the popular vote.
> Given felonies require prosecution, this gives prosecutors draconian enforcement powers over police. Maybe that’s okay. I suspect it would facilitate corruption.

Civil asset forfeiture already facilitates corruption, but it's worse because that corruption is targeted at innocent random civilians.

> Better: remove qualified immunity for asset forfeitures.

Even better: remove qualified immunity for everything.
Many Catholic high schools are also among the highest performing in the country.

The claims around religious education are one of the biggest remaining examples of socially acceptable bigotry.
I like the KISS implementation of the ascii2dec function ;)
If the child had practiced on a balance bike for balance and a tricycle for pedalling it all comes together quite easily.
Total speculation, but I’m guessing Apple is afraid of liability for hearing damage caused by AirPod use. Someone can argue that the aggregate damage from the hearing loss is worth billions of dollars and do a class action suit or something.

At this point, Apple clearly has a bunch hearing loss experts working there, and they’ve introduced features like Reduce Loud Sounds, the hearing test, and hearing aid mode. Apple can show that they are doing everything possible to prevent their products from causing hearing damage and even taken steps to help users who already suffer from hearing loss. Burying the option to disable Reduce Loud Sounds helps Apple’s case, because it makes it harder for users who suffer from hearing damage to argue that they disabled it accidentally, and perhaps Apple even has evidence that this measure reduces harm to users.

So, there’s a tradeoff between the feeling of frustration some users will have at Apple’s apparent paternalism, and the permanent harm that users are being protected from (and Apple’s liability).
The kind of school you went to sounds very different from the grammar school that my working-class father went to in the 1960s and that helped him escape a life of asbestos-breathing drudgery in moribund shipyards.
> I'll add that it is pretty common for engineers to have some kind of existential crisis once you graduate and you realize what you thought you'd be doing once you graduated (in my case crawling around Jefferies tubes and fixing the warp reactor) is totally different in the real world.

Thank you for saying this out loud. It took me years to recover from this, and I "recovered" mostly by giving up and accepting that, unlike fiction, real world doesn't have to make sense or offer interesting, fulfilling work.

Now I just dream that one of these days, I'll build a house, and I'll design it with a Jefferies tube, just to scratch my itch.
Well, now that it is a meme, and the DMVs where I live is actually very effient, I've actually heard multiple people say "I went to the DMV, and actually it was fine"
A closed timelike curve is the name in General Relativity for a time machine: you go forward in time and wind up in your past, and you go around and around the loop forever.

The point is that when you get to the same point in the loop your state must be what it was the last time you were at that point in the loop.

If you have a relativistic trajectory that doesn't form a loop in time there's no reset effect.
Perplexity: a metric, often used to evaluate LLMs, is derived from the negative average logprob of the tokens in a test set. Lower perplexity indicates that the model assigns higher probabilities to the observed tokens, reflecting better language modeling.
She was definitely on the boxes and promotion materials, are you under the impression that forcefully inserting LGBTQ on people who didn't ask for it achieves the complete opposite of tolerance which the people pushing for it intends?

Are you also aware the negative impact of putting images of someone that the customer base does not identify with or find beautiful influencing sales in a capitalist environment?
> If you want good policing, give financial incentives to your police.

But civil asset forfeiture isn't incentivizing good policing.
Yes that requires huge infrastructure investments. Creating an LLM requires huge investments. Running an LLM requires medium to big investments but using one remotely require very little investment.
The transition doesn't take long at all, it's just them learning to not get their legs hit by the pedals, it's really just a couple of sessions.

Getting them to use the brakes consistently is another thing.
>I don't have to prove anything to you, and it's clear that it wouldn't matter if I did

Of course you don't, you have faith.

>One day you might want to try opening your eyes.

They're wide open, and I can clearly see you're not touching enough grass.
I did this with three of my four kids. It worked like a charm.

More anecdata. All of the coaster learned kids went on to join the mountain bike team.
Yeah this came up in the Q&A of the video as well. I think if you are 1) a high performer and 2) not working for a mega-corp, you probably have a lot more negotiating power than you realize. Having been on the other end of some of those conversations, as a manager/executive if your options are to either to let someone take Friday's off and cut their salary by 20% or potentially lose them entirely to another job, it's pretty clear that it's better to take 4 days from them. Hiring is still one of the biggest problems companies face, and most would rather retain good people than force them out.
Adtech is a pejorative on its own.
Self hosting is a pain and not sustainable. I self-host, it is cool, but this cannot be the solution. It’d be like everyone going back to farming because walmart can’t be trusted - they cannot but the world will go to hell if everyone has to do everything themselves.
> And of course many people don't have enough money for private school or to move to a good school district.

That's the whole point. Keeps out the riff-raff.
>Just writing about a topic forces you to double-check your understanding and do a little bit more research. It's a fantastic way of learning more about the world even if nobody else ever reads it.

This is such a wise and golden advice
Do Greg Egan books have a DOI?
The school system has long stopped being effective and is being replaced by better systems that are evolving spontaneously
There is a wikipedia page with a list of NATO "red lines" crossed by putin, look it up

It's a catch-22 anyway. NATO still really wants to de-escalate, but by allowing Putin to cross these red lines they show weakness to a person who values strength. However if they react violently to a crossed red line, they might trigger EU-wide or worldwide war (not necessarily nuclear).

I wouldn't want to be in the shoes of NATO leaders right now
Show HN: AI Usability Test Agent That Thinks and Acts Like Human
I'm Sayuj, and I built Zero Touch, an AI usability agent that interacts with websites through the GUI (Graphical User Interface), just like a real human would. Unlike traditional tools that rely on the DOM, this AI clicks, scrolls, and navigates exactly how users do, without touching the underlying HTML.

I built this as a fun side project to simplify usability testing for landing pages and websites. It’s completely free to use right now, and I’d love to get your feedback or ideas for improvement!
> For someone to enjoy expressing themself with custom themes doesn't mean that custom themes are what gives their life meaning.

The article laments their removal as a tragedy and a removal of agency from the aggrieved party. If someone is "expressing themselves" they are communicating to others the things they consider meaningful in their life beyond an aesthetic choice.

> think the primary underlying motivation tying these changes together is aligning with the incoming administration.

Why were such policies implemented in the first place?
That's the best kind of start, you know it's a useful thing when you've build similar things before when freelancing.

I'm currently building a similar service but for 'serverless functions' (hate that terminology to be honest), so not long running containers but one off tasks. Similar to AWS Lambda and the likes.
The general consensus among economists is that deregulation had a big effect on airline prices. For example:

>...Every serious study of airline deregulation in the intervening years has found that travelers have indeed benefited enormously. As we documented in our 1995 Brookings book, The Evolution of the Airline Industry, airfares, adjusted for inflation, fell 33 percent between 1976—just before the CAB instigated regulatory reforms—and 1993. Deregulation was directly responsible for at least 60 percent of the decline—responsible, that is, for a 20 percent drop in fares. And travelers have benefited not only from low fares, but from better service, particularly increased flight frequency.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-fare-skies-air-transp...
Japan's ispace, US's Firefly launch commercial moon landers
/Captain Hypocrisy enters the chat
That's true - we didn't have them when I was young and the first time I saw one was in Germany, and indeed very young kids can use them. The one I saw that first time had some kind of spring/suspension system so that the little tyke could build up a frighteningly high speed by "pumping" the bike!
It is called advertizing!

Advertizing is so effective that much advertizing becomes normalized and then spread for free by other media.

Advertizing and corporate agendas also infiltrate films and television - this is such a huge area. Media studies at universities may look at it. Start digging and you will uncover quite a lot of reading material.
I am often left confused by responses like this. I think it would be fair to suggest that some significant percentage of chidren suffer in schools or have harrowing experiences that they are going to carry with them through life until dealt with. If this is the case, why on earth should a conclusion about school _not_ be drawn? I don't believe you are meaning to suggests that the situation as it stands doesn't need change, but that is nonetheless implicit in your statements.

From my position, saying: "I'd be wary of drawing too many wide-ranging conclusions about school education as a whole from it." Comes close to invalidating the experience of another.
I wouldn't describe it as a "lie" so much as challenging the socially prescribed link between sex and gender. Trans people know they're biologically male, and they know you probably know it. But they're challenging the social expectations that get associated with that.

The same analogy can again be drawn with homosexuality. 100 years ago, many people believed that it was a biological fact that men preferred women and vice versa. To hear a man proclaiming that he prefers men, or a women proclaiming she prefers women, sounded to them like a lie. But as society progresses, social norms tend to relax. In fact there are people to this day who cannot quite accept the idea that homosexuals might genuinely exist. To such people, seeing a gay couple kissing feels like being expected to ignore a biological fact.
Politely asking about DST like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42707760 is perfectly reasonable.

The cargo culting bit is using vaporware that was just in the news cycle to shout down good work that has been done for decades.
It's written in a referenced article (https://ij.org/case/nevada-civil-forfeiture/):

> On his drive from Texas to California, a Nevada Highway Patrol officer engineered a reason to pull him over, saying that he passed too closely to a tanker truck. The officer who pulled Stephen over complimented his driving but nevertheless prolonged the stop and asked a series of questions about Stephen’s life and travels. Stephen told the officer that his life savings was in the trunk. Another group of officers arrived, and Stephen gave them permission to search his car. They found a backpack with Stephen’s money, just where he said it would be, along with receipts showing all his bank withdrawals. After a debate amongst the officers, which was recorded on body camera footage, they decided to seize his life savings.

> After that, months passed, and the DEA missed the deadlines set by federal law for it to either return the money or file a case explaining what the government believes Stephen did wrong. So Stephen teamed up with the Institute for Justice to get his money back. It was only after IJ brought a lawsuit against the DEA to return Stephen’s money, and his story garnered national press attention, that the federal government agreed to return his money. In fact, they did so just a day after he filed his lawsuit, showing that they had no basis to hold it.
"A" universe, but not "the" (i.e. our) universe.

Specifically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel_metric

It's specifically a universe where time travel definitely happens.
> Am I interpreting this correctly to say that if you travel through the universe (at relativistic speeds?) and you arive at your destination, then you are reset to be the same person as when you started the journey?

If you manage to arrive at the same place and time that you started from (i.e. because you time-travelled, e.g. by going through a wormhole), then you are necessarily the same person when you arrive as you were when you departed.

It's kind of a cool result. The laws of physics conspire to keep the universe consistent even in the presence of time travel.
Yes it is true that the model has undergone SFT, and RLHF, and other alignment procedures, and hence the logprobs do not reflect the probability of the next token as in the pre-training corpus.
Nevertheless, in concrete applications such as our main internal use-case: structured data extraction from pdf documents it revealed very valuable.
When the value was obviously well extracted, the logprob was high and when the information was super hard to find or impossible the model would output - or hallucinate - some value with much lower logprob.
Note that I did say "a bunch of kids". That was essentially all the kids in the neighbourhood. I only mentioned myself's experience elsewhere in my post.

As for the "teacher".. I forgot to mention that: The kids did it all by themselves. One of the older kids, i.e. 7 or 8, would hold the seat and run behind/besides the kid learning to bike. The trick was clearly to stay far enough behind so that the kid learning didn't notice when the "teacher" let go of the seat.
For non-british readers; state-funded Grammar schools famously, were abolished.

(I’m being downvoted, but this just objective fact, and something my grandfather brings up commonly).

EDIT: according to a lot of HN comments; they still seem to exist but they aren't evenly distributed.

There certainly were none in my city.

Despite one being named a grammar school, it does not follow a grammar school curriculum: https://www.coventrypublicschools.org/schools/cgs

How messy.