skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Wing Institute appears to be a 2 generations removed repeat of Challenger Schools: educators who got tired of bureaucratic fads and mediocrity and decided to do something about it in their small corner of the world.

They're still not paying public school teachers nearly enough anywhere. And school facilities are crumbling in impoverished areas.

NCLBA was a disaster rammed through by the person least qualified to understand education, the bozo GWB, and without asking educators.
I love this idea of all private data becomes public.

I think as it currently is this implies that in our future, when we are all dead those who will look up our lives they will find it much harder to do. Or rather we will have a much more "curated" identity
How are you sure about that?
I wasn't aware there is already a 3rd one.
When four roommates often can't keep the kitchen sink clean of dishes, I wonder how a 20-home communal coop would work without creating politics and resentment.

Great, the guy who "cleans" the coop when it's his turn by gently sweeping it for two minutes just swiped all of the eggs again.

I always thought it was silly that everyone in the suburbs owns their own lawn mower, edger, and weed whacker. Why not have a communal shed on every cul-de-sac? ...Until I lended tools out to people and saw how they treated them.

I'd think most of the time you'd need some sort of oversight structure just to manage people.
KYC and related laws are not 'nonsense'
a large company doing this (no documentation of a skills gap) who gets subpoenaed would lose 10/10 times
Betteridge's law of headlines applies: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no. (If the answer was yes, that would be the headline instead.)
I mean, this is literally the definition of insanity: doing the same thing you imbeciles did 8 years ago and expecting different results.

Electing a felon that notoriously managed to bankrupt several casinos and pretty much every business they've ever run is definitely not electing a smart man or even a vaguely competent businessman.

This has always been about racism and wanting to punish "other" people because you failed at life and want a handout.
What’s the sell on this vs committing a mise/asdf/etc configuration with pinned versions?
Maybe there is no difference, but I think honest framing matters.

> "Fraud has already been posted everywhere ($55b and counting)"

I'm looking for some evidence to support your $55 billion fraud claim, not just $55 billion in waste. If it's been "posted everywhere", please link to it!
WG21 C++ Committee Meeting Report, Hagenberg 2025
> The Western Roman Empire lasts another two centuries

How long to you have to live, to see a return?

235 to 285 were tumultuous times, civil war and all that goes with it
Isn’t there already cloud act, patriot act and other pre existing legislation or policy that should have already have given you concern, if in fact the concern is valid.

Edit: leg
That is the end point of AI in the economy, until we are removed from the economy entirely.

Everyone on the planet is a one person startup, using AI and robotics to do all the actual work.
They do... https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/01/24/no-more-nuggets-schoo...

> ...

> Not many schools can afford gourmet offerings like Mount Diablo’s, which also benefits from California’s year-round growing season. But school menus in several places have improved in the past decade, with fresher ingredients and more ethnic dishes, said School Nutrition Association spokesperson Diane Pratt-Heavner.

> In a national survey of 1,230 school nutritiondirectors, nearly all said the rising costs of food and supplies were their top challenges this year. More than 90% said they were facing supply chain and staffing shortages.

> The survey by the nutrition association also found soaring levels of student lunch debt at schools that have returned to charging for meals. The association is urging Congress to resume free breakfast and lunch nationwide.

> “This is the worst and fastest accumulation of debt I’ve seen in my 12 years in school nutrition,” said Angela Richey, nutrition director for the Roseville and St Anthony-New Brighton school districts in Minnesota, which serve about 9,400 students. They don’t turn away a hungry child, but this year’s school meal debt has surpassed $90,000, growing at a rate of over $1,000 a day.

> Making food from scratch isn’t just healthier, it’s cheaper, many school nutrition directors say.

> But that’s only possible when schools have kitchens. A national shift away from school kitchens began in the 1980s, which ushered in an era of mass-produced, processed school food. Pre-made meals delivered by food service companies meant schools could do away with full-time cafeteria staff and kitchens.

> ...

Los Gatos High School Hires Chef Consultant to Improve Student Meals - https://youtu.be/nMMO9fBWnjc
And NPR could only confirm 2 billion of those contracts were actually canceled. It's an endless fountain of bullshit.
Elon Musk Says He'll 'Fix' Community Notes on X After It Disagreed with Him
As much as I dislike it sometimes, language absolutely does evolve. Proper capitalization does not fit into this, though. It can completely change the meaning of something if it is not capitalized. It's not just at the beginning of sentences, it's proper nouns within a sentence. Unfortunately I don't have an example of this handy but it's happened to me several times in my life where I've been completely confused by this (mostly on Slack).

This is a merely showing off your personal style which, when writing a technical article, I don't care about.
Good reminder of why people should be wary of governments collecting data because this a stark reminder that the government can change at any time.
Government employees already have access to every text, call, and email you have ever sent. Where was your outrage since the Snowden leaks?
HR are experts in HR, which is to say they have a broader view of the institutional needs and legal requirements of hiring staffing than you do. It's always annoying when that clashes with your vision, but dismissing their entire domain is unlikely to help you avoid running into that dynamic again and again
This isn't 1861, sectionalism isn't strong enough. One part of what's going on here is cities at odds with the countryside, another part is the internet, smartphones, ubiquitous connectivity, filter bubbles. People are physically present in the same locations but they are not eating the same bread and drinking the same water, metaphorically speaking. I recommend looking at this Wikipedia article for a possible best-case scenario: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_exchange_between_Gr...
They said it has a crappy GPU, the whole computer probably only uses 200 - 250 watts.
Fun playing with,do I need to sign up to export or is there no way to export for now?
US public education spending as a percentage of GDP is lower now than in 1993:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-government-expendit...
Anything can provide psychological insight! The primary action is the subject interpreting and responding to something. It doesn't matter what they are engaging with.

I've been watching police interrogation videos, and it's staggering how many people say, unprompted, "It's not like I would just ___", where ___ is exactly what they did and are trying to hide. It's on their mind, so it comes out.

Where it breaks down is when you try to "science" it, and make a blanket rule that applies to all people in all situations.
That's because many current regimes have exploited anocracy with the appearance of individual choice while manufacturing consent. Previously, it was done by force which is what doesn't scale.
The war is already over.

I 100% agree lowercase in longform essays is ridiculous, but I think for everything aside from essays, articles, papers, long emails, and some percentage of multi-paragraph site comments, lowercase is absolutely going to be the default online in 20 years.
The commercial license used to be de-facto optional, now it is explicitly so. Good for them to officially acknowledge that reality. I bet they realized that payment was never enforceable, so it just didn't make sense to keep up the fiction.
I hear the same thing happened beforehand in Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook
let me ask you a question. Richard Nixon had a special team under his direct control, they're popularly known as the white house plumbers. He asked this team to engage in activities not directly authorized by congress including various wiretaps and break-ins. Eventually these activities were discovered, it became a scandal and ended his Presidency.

Do you think Nixon did something wrong by creating this team?

If not, then we have an answer for why most people see this whole thing differently from you — most people see the Nixon presidency as clear overreach and abuse of power.

If so, what is the significant difference between Nixon's plumbers and the DOGE team, in your view?
What would you like to see?

One of things we're thinking about is automatic method/function call tracing. Something like attaching the entire stack trace of calls done to handle the API request. Ideally using the same UI so that you can see the headers/payload that was sent and the function-level stack trace right next to each other. None of the OpenTelemetry verbosity, all of the observability!
Oligarchs would use the robots to kill people instead of a pandemic. A virus carries too much risk of affecting the original creators.

Fortunately, robotic capability like that basically becomes the equivalent of Nuclear MAD.

Unfortunately, the virus approach probably looks fantastic to extremist bad actors with visions of an afterlife.
> What are you trying to see?

A scrollable feed of accounts that post interesting (to me) content.
Even if you pay you are the product.
Tiny water-based reactors could help industry avoid toxic solvents
Believe it or not, extroverts also have to develop professional skills, sometimes even things that don't come naturally to them.
Sucks when you spend money on things and then they are taken away from you, isn't it.

Computer games have a similar problem. There is an EU petition specifically for computer games to stop such practice:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

We need a petition like this for all software.
Have to wonder if the price would have been $499 if the tariffs/constant thread of tariffs over the next 4+ years wasn't there.
I’ve heard that Torvalds build Git in 5 (or 10) days and that Brendan Eich created JavaScript in 10 days.

Maybe the average programmer is less efficient, but the distribution is probably heavily skewed these days.
I think that addresses the root issue here- the money is not efficient in getting those things done. It's not even hidden and the freeloaders really seemed to feel no shame since covid (maybe social media is the cause?). It happens all over the world in every organization. Usually companies die off, but the budget just increases for the government.

Of course we don't want to toss the baby out with the bath water, but it's high time for a major course correction. In our government it is very hard to turn the ship around, and motivate people to serve.

I'd much prefer if we could magically motivate the 3/5 of govvies who are in cruise mode to try harder.
I too learned a lot from that book.

It was not until years later I actually understood what I was doing. The little dancing guy was magic when I did it the first few times. Now I see it as a boring little program that loads up a bitmap into memory and then hangs out in a loop. I think the 'magic' may be gone :)
That's not a typical leetcode problem though. Most companies ask things like "solve this slightly modified knapsack problem" which takes 5 minutes if you know the solution and 50 minutes if you don't.
Not a totally unfair point, but to be fair, some people are still outraged after the Snowden leaks.
Might as well use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-meter
> There have been efforts to reprove it with a more easily verified proof, but they've gone nowhere.

My understanding was that the so called "second generation proof" of the classification of finite simple groups led by Gorenstein, Lyons, Solomon has been progressing slowly but steadily, and only the quasithin case had a significant (but now fixed) hole. Are there other significant gaps that aren't as well known?
Noise-canceling headphones may be linked to brain condition [video]
thought this was gonna be a write up from someone involved in burning Santa Monica :)
As a sibling comment implies though, there's also danger from it being stupid while unsupervised. For example, I'd be very nervous having it do something autonomously in my kitchen for fear of it burning down my house by accident.
My position is very clear and I maintain it. DOGE should be audited by CAT and CAT should operate alongside DOGE to review all changes. DOGE should also be on a leash, even quarantined, while reviews are ongoing as to ensure sustainable changes and accesses.

My interest in having any kind of "superposition" is simply to be impartial and accurate to the greatest degree possible as to get the greatest results possible. That is it. In any case, you got it wrong when you said:

> * a veneer of emotional maturity over others: "we don't have to be so stressed about needing to trust DOGE's changes"

There is nothing like that at all in my posts. What I was saying is that DOGE should operate with such a level of transparency and controls that would eliminate needing to simply trust DOGE's changes. Tthus the stress that goes along with that level of trust would fade away.

> * a surrender of high-ground via tenuous appeal-to-authority "Bibi says he's not a nazi"

That is not an appeal to authority. It is saying that the people who are most equipped to answer the question, because it is a matter of their own history and hide, are the ones saying that it warrants overlooking or good faith. By all means, continue that line of investigation on your own if you want.

> I should not have done my drive-by

I agree! Because it's poor faith and on top of that you're questioning my own consistency and integrity to boot, even though it's clear that in one case X has premium features warranting a credit card...whereas there's no reason at all to blast my bank account details on here...

Anyway, to summarize it all...CAT should audit DOGE and DOGE should be on a tighter leash or quarantined if they cannot be trusted to make changes.
Why didn't the cron job succeed? (2024)
We had sufficient AI to make death machines for decades. You don't need fancy LLMs to get a pretty good success rate for targeting.

I have said for years that the only thing keeping us from "stabby the robot" is solving the power problem. If you can keep a drone going for a week, you have a killing machine. Use blades to avoid running out of ammo. Use IR detection to find the jugular. Stab, stab and move on. I'm guessing "traditional" vision algorithms are also sufficient to, say, identify an ethnicity and conduct ethnic cleansing. We are "solving the power problem" away from a new class of WMDs that are accessible to smaller states/groups/individuals.
And you can thank this guy for the LEDs that made it possible for you to even read about it on a screen https://youtu.be/AF8d72mA41M
you mean free fertilizer to gather and use.
The birthdate in my SSA master record was wrong, and I discovered it only because the IRS upgraded their security (~10 years ago) and I could no longer file my taxes electronically - I couldn’t make it past the anti-fraud checks.

It took something like 2 years to track down the root cause (the SSA master record); the value they had stored looked a lot like a fat finger job by some data entry clerk back in the 1970s when I was born.

Fixing it took about 30 seconds at an actual SSA office building. I spent more time in the elevator.

Assuming everything in a computer is either correct or fraud is a terrible assumption when you are dealing with hundreds of millions of people in the real world.
Every student, parent, teacher, and school administrator should read Derek Sivers' essay "There's No Speed Limit".

https://sive.rs/kimo
I think a lot of people on hacker news were equally if not more outraged about Snowden leaks. Not sure what you’re trying to say.
This is way too dumb for you to actually believe what you wrote.

Having a dentist's equipment at home is prohibitively expensive and working on patients outside of a professional setting is deeply unethical.

To a first approximation everyone has a computer at home, and writing some software doesn't put anyone at risk.
Long-context GRPO with just 5GB VRAM
I think capitalization will slowly go by the wayside in most media, but one hill I'll always die on is punctuation. "i'll go" vs. "ill go"... the latter is just too crude. Many gen Z/alpha do omit it, though.
This is wrong and naive.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-dives-into-core-na...

"DOGE currently has far deeper and far more extensive access to U.S. government computer systems — and is far deeper into the national security space — than is conceivably necessary for anything related to their notional brief and goals."
This is also the same argument made against IRS audits on lower tax brackets. Basically, its not generally worth audits of low income citizens. Because the manpower required to perform the audit exceeds the revenues recovered.

Yet audits of individuals making < $25k per year is over 5.5 times higher than those in all other income brackets (1.27% vs 0.25%). So we chase down citizens when likely they probably don't even had a tax burden anyway. Maybe they misfiled some taxes and should be taxed a few hundred or even a thousand dollars more. But the manpower to chase down these little checks is a net negative on the department.

Sure, it is possible you find fraud in some of these low income cases. Someone claims to only make $25k but really they run a cash business and make $80k. But these are likely so limited thanks to other validations the IRS has access to, that the number of cases that reveal this is extremely tiny. So back to another argument on here, there an expectations that fraud is non-zero, and we accept that because getting fraud to zero is not worth the cost.
It shows how laid back they are, man.

/s
>despite all evidence to the contrary.

What evidence? Be specific.
If this isn't (yet another) reason to leave or avoid X, I don't know what is.
It will all land in Moscow. Or Beijing. Have fun.
The point of that comment was to show that I am not naive about these matters. They need to be called out for reneging so that they stop doing it.
Calculating Pi in 5 lines of code
Anyone who's a bit different has a high chance of having been bullied at some point. It doesn't mean that society hates this specific group of people.
This looks nice and flashy for an investor presentation, but practically I just need the thing to work off of an API or if it is all local to at least have vllm support so it doesn't take 10 hours to run a bench.

The extra long documentation and abstractions for me personally are exactly what I DONT want to have in a benchmarking repo. I.e. what transformers version is this, will it support TGI v3, will it automatically remove thinking traces with a flag in the code or running command, will it run the latest models that need custom transformer version etc.

And if it's not a locally runnable product it should at least have a public accessable leaderboard to submit oss models too or something.

Just my opinion. I don't like it. It looks like way too much docs and code slop for what should just be a 3 line command.
Again though, verifying identity before sharing sensitive info shouldn’t be down to the LLM following its prompt - it should be enforced by design.
Does this surprise anyone?

Truth right down the memory hole.

Guy is a serial liar; here is a danish astronaut calling out Musk's lies about the ISS-stranded astronauts:

https://x.com/Astro_Andreas/status/1892517170384392664

It was its own HN thread, but got flagged to death within minutes.

If truth mattered to Trump and Musk, they would not have been elected. This whole administration is built on lies.

The recession will be astounding, many people who have 401ks will not be able to retire; there will be no government benefits.

This is turning into forced austerity, like with Greece after the global recession. But for what? Anti vax sentiment? Trans women playing sports?

This didnt need to happen, but I will say also that the Democrats have a hand in this outcome by letting Biden run un-primaried, and not actually solving the economic woes of the working class, instead being captured by various activist groups.
The most underreported story in AI is that scaling has failed to produce AGI
I'd pay $2k for something that folds my laundry reliably. It doesn't need arms or legs, just like my dishwasher doesn't need arms or legs. It just needs to let me dump in a load of clean laundry and output stacks of neatly folded or hung clothing.
Updated a 16k LOC project and had no issues at all.
How HLS Works (2024)
reputation scoring for authors plus various voting and scoring metrics for the articles themselves
but perhaps since I personaly never have looked at a persons wiki, what I see is generaly very well cross referenced and much of it leads off into PHD dissertation nitty gritty ,rabbit warrens of
hard science, where there is no need to put up "vandals will be prosecuted" signs
so perhapps, nonhistorical persons should be shuttled off to, :), wikibook
What level of corruption do you think is involved in "paying" for a Wikipedia article?
Lightly ironic indeed! Though I’m not sure “broken” is exactly the word I’d choose.

I can only speak for myself, but I imagine myself as a candidate approaching a “couple of hours” project or relationship differently than I would a “few minutes” speed round. For that matter I can think of people I know professionally who I only know through their behavior “on stage” in structured and stylized meetings of a half hour or an hour—and I don’t feel like I have any sense at all of how they would be as day-to-day coworkers.

If we sat down to work together, you’d probably have a sense in the first few minutes of whether or not we were going to work out—but that would be contingent on us going into it with the attitude that we were working together as colleagues toward a goal.
Obfuscation and compression are two potential extra hoops to jump through. It's easier to let the executable run for a bit and start from there.
Flat pricing with unlimited requests hosted in the cloud (https://subtrace.dev/pricing).

We also have an on-prem version of Subtrace for enterprises. It runs in their own AWS account without ever talking to subtrace.dev so that companies in regulated industries like healthcare can use Subtrace.
Is it not the same blurb every time that you could copy and paste?

Or you can make sure you have an entry point - probably a better UX for your coworkers anyway - and run them through a `pipx` install.

Or you could supply your own Bash script or whatever.

Or since you could use a simple packager like pex (https://docs.pex-tool.org/). (That one even allows you to embed a Python executable, if you need to and if you don't have to worry about different platforms.) Maybe even the standard library `zipapp` works for your needs.
The betting aspect features in the short mockumentary film from which this comes: Tube Poker (2005) by Simon Levene.

- https://www.simonlevene.com/portfolio/tube-poker

- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0818537/
I'd say a very big deal when munitions and targeting are involved
Never mind the direct risks, if you have "god mode" to basically any government thing, you instantly become the target of foreign intel/military operations. You can bet good money that there are entire teams, if not divisions, working around the clock to exploit this situation.
A governor, the firmware in the motor controllers, something like that. Certainly not the neural network though.