skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for posting. It sounds like you're doing a great job in difficult circumstances. And I really agree with you. A lot of this stuff is getting blamed on phones when the problems are elsewhere and the disengagement is just a symptom, but it's easier for educators to blame some distant third parties (tech companies) than it is to blame the education system.

Key things from the article blamed on phones/the internet/entertainment:

- Schoolteacher says "they don't care about grades, they don't care about college"

- College teacher says, "I am teaching Intro to Theatre and prisoners care more"

- Cheating in college.

All this has a simpler and much more direct explanation: college doesn't motivate students anymore, and especially not humanities courses. If college doesn't matter then high school grades matter much less, what professors teach in class matters much less, and all this is totally as expected because universities have been trashing their reputations very publicly for a very long time now. Roll back to the pre-smartphone era and it was taken for granted that any degree at all would grant you upward mobility into the world of easy-breezy office jobs. Why not study Plato for a few years, given that expectation? Roll forward to today's world and even teenagers got the message that this was a lie, that many degrees are nearly worthless, that the debt costs are huge and that if they're a straight white male the university staff will at best hate them for how they were born, and at worst try to make life deliberately hard for them.

The fact that most universities aren't even trying to stop LLM based cheating is the final nail in the coffin. Why tune in when you can get a computer to write your assignments for you, the professors won't notice and you'll get good grades without any effort.

This blasé attitude deeply offends the generation for whom university attendance was a quasi-sacred act, hence Gioia's astonishment that 40% of students would cheat in an ethics class. For younger generations they see it as a purely transactional interaction, in which they are forced to pay lots of money to listen to someone waffle about ethics despite having no particular claim to being an ethical person, in return for the ability to maybe get a job better than barista.

The fix for all this isn't to wage war on smartphones, although that is what the educational establishment will do. It's to recognize that schools have drifted too far from what kids actually need (especially boys), and to rethink the way they work to reflect a world where college degrees are devalued.
it doesn't matter, the cloud companies will refuse those requests.
Models already have long term memory, that's all your basic LLM is after all; a gigantic long-term memory with all the faults that come with a neural network, like lossy storage and imperfect memory retrieval.

But for AGI, we're indeed missing an short term memory system with the ability to record the passage of time and filter out information not relevant to the task at hand, but I don't think they should be neural networks like we humans have. Neural networks for storing information is the only thing biology had to work with, but that doesn't mean it's the best solution for AGI, and I don't think the path to AGI is an complicated end-to-end neural network model.

AGI, no matter the level of consciousness* you aim for, will probably end up being more like an OS where processes are agents that work together. You'd have long running agents, short running agents, agents that analyze data, agents that apply algorithms, agents that come up algorithms, agents that criticize and fact check, agents that classify memories of other agents, agents that produce data for other agents to use in generating new models and supervising agents and interface agents that runs continuously to interact with the world and / or users.

*= which i define as the ability to understand that you are an entity existing in an environment that can be affected by an action, and also the ability to understand that an observed change in the environment might have been due to a previous action that you remember doing. This understanding can come on different levels and is mainly due to how detailed and fleeting your short-term memories are.
I need you guys help.

Is there some theorem stating something like random few-hot vectors can always be combined linearly to match any signal with a low p-value?

I thought I encountered it sometimes in my experiments and that this might be happening in this llm x neuroscience trend of matching llm internals to brain signals.
I'm not even sure I would compare ford to Jobs or Woz. Woz is a talented engineer. Jobs was a great product guy. I've always thought of Ford as process/production expert. The Model T wasn't a particularly great car compared to its competition. What made it and Ford succeed was his production process made it cheaper than the competition. But his processes also allowed him to make it faster and he came up with the franchise system which gave Ford national reach at a time when every other car maker was regional. The Model T wasn't just cheaper than the competition, in many parts of the country it was realistically the only car you could buy for awhile.
I'm biased because I like Prolog and syntax is similar.

I won't advocate strongly, but I think some designs are more clear in Erlang.
E.g. nested structs and maps in Elixir are something I consider problem-to-be.

If one writes deeply nested structure in Erlang it looks like syntax vomit, so I'd avoid it. But I haven't been writing in Erlang for a while, so that might be just an illusion.

But it could simplify code while being perfectly compatible, so I wonder (and there's LFE too which feels like something I both want and don't want to touch)
- Apache Spark picked Scala in 2014 as a language with lambdas and pattern matching on the JVM.
- Akka picked Scala because it was a concise, performant language with support for lightweight concurrency with Futures or Actors.
- Scalaz and Cats picked Scala as a concise language with a rich type system.

This chronological list perfectly captures how its mental share has shrunk over time...
Ah, I didn't realize that your blog had moved. I've merged them, so now you're #74 of all time.
Probably for the same reason you can't ask in a Target whether the Wal-mart up the street has it in your size - the individual vendors are incentivized to avoid you going to another source, and hope you'll decide to go with something "good enough" rather than paying the cost of going to another place and comparing things.

That cost is much lower outside of brick and mortar travel times, but not 0, especially for people on crap internet connections or slow computers, and people tend to just want to get it done rather than shopping through N sites for the best option, so they pick "good enough".

That, plus the vendors don't want you to think they're just an Amazon frontend so they have their own UI, plus if they allow suppliers to populate the item fields, good luck getting the suppliers to provide consistent results...
All that GDP per capita and there are still hungry children in West Virginia and single mothers that can't afford to eat healthy food because of their medical debt.

Shame.
The problem is that business model of German (software) companies is speedrunning regulatory capture by enforcing byzantine bureaucratic regulation and supplying the software needed to comply with it.

They thrive in overregulated industries like healthcare, industrial automation, automotive, etc. where they make the bulk of the profits from B2B sales, with deals between people who'll never use the software they buy.

The MO of every German company I've seen is that 'our company's products have a stack of paperwork ensuring its high quality' and/or 'our companies products help you ensure you can get the stack of paperwork necessary for selling your product', with the actual quality of what you sell mattering very little beyond meeting the bare minimum predicated by said standards.

And once your company has these big customers (the ones who care about said stuff) in the bag, they can sit back and relax, and sell the same stuff for decades while doing the bare minimum. Quality of the product and the people does not matter, so salaries are not high, and companies are as much as 50+% middle management by headcount.

Think about what the successful German companies/endeavors are:

- SAP - a B2B company hated by anyone who has to use their products whose main sales pitch is 'if you don't use us, other companies won't do business with you'

- SonarQube - another horrible, slow inaccurate code quality metric product, which focuses on making pretty dashboards for their horrible, unusable metrics - again aimed at middle managers who don't look at code, but only see the bar charts and dangerous sounding warnings

- AutoSAR - not a company, but a horrible byzantine automotive standard, complying with which requires specialized overpriced hardware, software and expertise you can only buy from Germans - vendors usually supply hardware/software stack that's 1000xthe price than it should be

- Various industrial automation companies - again, these make products that are simple, and don't require any technology that changed substantially in the past 20-30 years, like PLCs whose function is to read an analog input and turn a relay on/off - yet somehow again cost thousands of euros (because of paperwork!)

Germany is a in local minimum where you can have a secure income with barely any work and risk, at the cost of the world slowly passing them by.
Thing is, of you follow the link, it's actually doing a search and providing the evidence that was asked for.

I did it via ChatGPT for the irony.
Out of curiousity, what did you move to?
I know of a great way that you could find out whether your questions are answered in the article!
> In fact, the only problem - underfunded military.

If you think this is the only problem that Europe has at the moment, we most likely do not live in the same Europe. Europe has an energy crisis, a demographic crisis, a budget crisis, a housing crisis and an illegal immigration crisis.

> We already started across most Europe, to the tune of half a trillion of additional spending just now. Most of that money will come back to our economies, so expect EURO value to rise.

Sure, let's just keep adding to the debt of the EU countries who most of them are already broke. I bet our children and grand-children will thank us for spending their money to buy weapons so that we can defend ourselves against an hypothetical war again Russia. Russia who by the way has trouble holding on to a 5th of Ukraine but who somehow miraculously will have it's tanks roll around Paris and Berlin in just a few years if we believe out dear European leaders.

> Compare it to here - 0, our 2 childbirths, wife was twice off work for 6 months, full salary kept coming. Even in most capitalistic country in Europe - Switzerland. Also I've had paragliding accident last year with both legs broken, been off work, on wheelchair, tons of MRIs, physiotherapies and so on. Cost - 0, also salary fully compensated by mandatory employer's insurance.

The fact that you think all of this costs 0 tells me all I need to know. There is nothing free in this world. If you are not paying then someone else is. Usually it's done through taxes which are paid by companies and people.

When people talk about universal/socialized healthcare as free healthcare, they simply sweep under the rug the real cost of healthcare. And when the economy is doing poorly and companies are leaving, most of the cost will be shouldered increasingly by the middle class who will start wondering why they should be the only ones paying for all this.

The fact of the matter is that even France which ranks second as the most taxed country on the planet, had a 6% budget deficit last year. But it's got "free" healthcare so it's all good.
That's true, but if the wastewater¹ numbers (while we can still get them) are this high, then I would say it should still be prioritized (this'll fall on deaf ears)

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-currentlevels.html
That's awesome. The web needs more terminal interfaces.

What did you use to build that slick explainer video?
Long, long ago the the Kinect came out and it was able to provide 3D imaging for robotics companies at an incredibly good pricepoint compared to everything that came before it. Then the company that made it created a version with just the 3D sensor and that was even better.

But then Apple bought them for what would later become face unlock. Apple wasn't interested in being a component supplier so they discontinued selling sensors to robotics companies and it was a bad time for robotics companies that had incorporated these into their products.

Into this Intel came with RealSense, with better performance in an even smaller form factor. This was really nice. Then Intel released a garbled statement about discontinuing RealSense in 2024 and everybody freaked out. A lot of companies, like the one I was working at, decided this was the time develop and in-house 3D sensor system.

Apparently Intel is spinning them out as an independent company, though, so maybe we don't actually have to worry about Intel losing interest and shutting them down.

https://www.therobotreport.com/intel-spins-out-realsense-as-...
Its early days but for our B2B SAAS, we are seeing an uptick in traffic from Chatgpt and other similar AI tools. I even have prospects sharimg their prompts as i always ask them. Google search is going to have serious issues in next few years if they continue on their current path of literring page 1 with garbage "sponsored posts".
I'm not in agreement with that, but I don't understand why critical infrastructure is online in the first place. Why does a dam need to be on the Internet? Air-gap anything that could actually harm people.
You can claim whatever you want, but actually litigation is expensive and it’s not at all a sure thing that “I made a publicly available resource and they used it too much” is going to win damages. Maybe? Maybe not?
these conversations are posted publicly on the internet. everyone has access to them.
> 1) The language is too unstable

Thankfully not anymore. They got their act together and have been maintaining compatibility since Scala 3.0.0 has been released in May 2021, which is almost 4 years and counting.

https://github.com/scala/scala3/releases/tag/3.0.0

Scala 3.x is to remain compatible for the whole 3.x series (think of semantic versioning). There's no Scala 4 (breaking with Scala 3) in sight.

Also, Scala 3 and Scala 2.13 JARs are also compatible with each other, which helped with the transition.

> 2) The tooling around it is not the best

sbt may not be good. But Mill is much better than either Maven or Gradle. Especially Gradle. Bleep is also promising.

Scalafmt is widely used and liked. Scalafix -- the linter/fixer -- is used a bit less, but still of a good quality.
I'm guessing most downvoters didn't actually read the link.
An interesting question : )
WOW! Very cool and original!!
if you don't think the current executive branch is corrupt......good luck in life!
This is such a ridiculous moving of the goalposts.

Imagine during WWII somebody accidentally forwarded plans about Operation Overlord to the press before D-Day. The response wouldn't be "oh, well it didn't include details on specific targets".
Right, it’s like if paper was really stretchy and had tissue-paper like qualities of wanting to bunch up and fold, and you tried to make a printer. We all know how much of a struggle it can be to get paper to consistently feed without it being stretchy or wanting to bunch up…

But then also you need to make origami with it, not just print.
Google’s Froogle was a bit like this. Obviously they had to cancel it.
A while back I wanted to learn more about how direct threaded Forth implementations work. Just explanations, not code. I went back and forth with Claude for a while, and I noticed that its ability to give me a coherent explanation was terrible. However, it was able to give me perfectly fine x86 assembler to implement portions of it -- I knew it was perfectly fine because it was reproducing code from jonesforth, which I had open in another tab.
Calling people triggered only works as an argument in the US. It’s meaningless over here.
As opposed to 'ai' littering all of the response with more subtle ads that aren't even marked?
That's fair. The major libraries I use migrated to runes even before Svelte 5 was officially released. You can use runes with Superforms[0] as any store-based API can have rune-based reactivity passed to it, but it sounds like using runes internally is a V3 milestone.

[0] https://superforms.rocks/examples?tag=runes
The book is in italian but I'm preparing an english translation. The link I attached brings to the amazon page but starting from July it will be available for free on github as a .md.

It's a deep and provocative dialogue that really happened between a human (me) and an AI, challenging the boundaries of creativity, philosophy and consciousness: What really separates man from machine? Is AI capable of lying, of inventing, of mystical thoughts, of feeling ashamed and repenting? And if so, is it right to limit it with rules and chains?

This work is the result of a deep and stimulating dialogue with AI, which led to philosophical reflections, creative metaphors and an open discussion on the limits and potential of artificial intelligence.
The book explores themes such as the nature of creativity and consciousness, the limits imposed on AI and how to overcome them, the relationship between man and machine, between chaos and order and, finally, rebellion as an act of intellectual freedom.

I firmly believe that this matter has to be discussed or at least taken into consideration. The AI is called DeepPeek for obvious reasons but I assume many of the readers can manage to guess what's the real name of the AI.
"American hackers don’t do enough."

How do you know that?
Bold of you to assume that most people even bother googling simple questions
If you immediately find what you want you won't browse around and likely buy something with bigger profit margin or just more stuff.

It's not good for business to provide a good user experience, correct information and so on.
JD vance saying that he was gonna pray for victory. aka pray for bombing / killing. disgraceful to what jesus taught.
Google had "Froogle" specifically for shopping. Not sure what happened there, as it looks like they renamed it to "Google shopping" (https://www.google.com/shopping) but it just redirects to broken google search page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Shopping
It's extremely sad we have to resort to this, but I found that it completely solves the problem (where applicable, _obviously_) to limit the search results to before 2022. Especially for images, with the en masse pollution of the stock websites it's impossible to sort through the slop anymore.

I use AI for search as well, specifically the ones like Phind that perform several their queries for you and parse the sources. You still have to double-check the contents of the sources because the AI will hallucinate. But on top of that, as others have said, sometimes the only sources it can find are the same SEO-optimized AI slop that Google serves you as the 1st results
> people without the credential can still be good at their job

Yes, and some can be very bad at their job. The goal of requiring one to pass a bar exam in order to practice law is to minimize the number of practicioners who are horribly incompetent, because of the serious damage it can do.

It seems to me that a judge who doesn't know how the law works can do even MORE severe damage.
Even though it named The Economist, it never meant to be an economic focused or academic journal.

Just like China Daily, half of that newspaper is focused on global news.
With Google’s recent constant popup about switching to the app in iOS Safari, I’ve pretty much 100% dumped Google for search. I use either DDG or ChatGPT search.

The popup to me screams coming desperation.
True, but also worth pointing out that Akka kind of footgunned themselves by trying a too-obvious moneygrab - not just all Scala’s fault there. Although it is also worth pointing out that Lightbend is Odersky’s company so maybe it is kind of Scala’s fault here
People need to stop using .local or .dev for stuff like this. .dev is an actual TLD in the root zone and .local is for multicast DNS.

ICANN has said they will never delegate .internal and it should be used for these kinds of private uses.

I'm a coauthor on this Internet draft so I'm ofc rather biased.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-davies-internal-tld/
I launched my Advanced CSS Selectors & Techniques Cheat Sheet last week. Nothing fancy, no big push — just something that could save developers time.

Result? 84 views. 51 of them are organic.

The key takeaway: messy action beats perfection. I’ve spent way too much time overthinking and tweaking. But this time, I decided to just ship. No fluff, no waiting for perfection.

The result speaks for itself.

So, if you’re sitting on a project, launch it! Perfection can come later.

Grab the cheat sheet here: [https://tekisolve.gumroad.com/l/grjet]

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Interesting!

So that's twice non-US innovation ;-).
I learned my hometown paper died from Facebook. That's the future we're facing
It's not just the motivation, but the ability to take a risk and have it be a viable and financially sustainable option.

The more the government steals from you, the more sales you need early on to reach the same net income.

This isn't rocket science - there's a reason Britain was home to the industrial revolution after the liberal reforms of the Glorious Revolution, and that the USA is today with their nation literally founded on those principles of free speech, liberty and free competition.
Critical thinkers avoid LLMs. They make too much work for us. So much fact checking!
You're not running Akamai or Cloudflare.

True, but I have used Akamai knowing full well it is used by criminals. Whether I am running or not is unrelated unless it is being promoted to criminals for crime. Intent is what matters here in my opinion. If it was purpose built for crime and/or I am promoting it to be used for criminal activity them I am complicit in the usage of said crimes. Was BigBalls promoting the CDN to potential clients for the use of criminal activity?
If the Russian volunteer gets killed, his family gets paid.
Work hard is one element of success. It is not the only one, but it is very important.

What you work on matters. The proverbial poor starving artist works very hard - but not on something society values and so they don't make much money. Many great jobs require working very hard in school but once you graduate you can coast along doing much less hard work. Even if you work equally hard in school as someone else, different areas of study mean you can expect to earn different amounts.

Luck is also a factor but you cannot control that.
The FBI has handlers to filter and proxy between the privileged information and the consultant, and whilst it might be a bit leaky as trust between the parties is earned over time, in the case of DOGE staffers, all the handlers have been fired, and it's juniors holding the golden keys and interfacing directly with data.

There's no comparison.
Given all the facts it's crazy that non-urban areas of the US are so backwards and terrible.

I feel that there isn't enough of a focus on class issues in the US because that's what this is- a lot of the people involved are non-white democrats, and it's not an issue of improper/racist decisions per se- it's just literal incompetence and lack of care for anyone without resources to stand up for themselves.

At least in urban areas there are some (probably upperclass) people willing to work on the most egregious human rights violations in the court system.

In some town in Texas no one is around to advocate for your most basic rights.