skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One approach to, and reason, for college:

As in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_show

in the 1800s in the US, there were lots of "Medicine Shows":

"Medicine shows were touring acts
(traveling by truck, horse, or wagon
teams) that peddled "miracle cure"
patent medicines and other products
between various entertainments."

So, the audiences were getting lied to, manipulated, fooled, exploited, etc., wasting time and money and risking their health.

Currently with some of the media and more, it's the same for the audiences -- fooled.

Well, then: Have a college education with some math, physical science, biology, psychology, literature, fine arts, meet some people and improve understanding of people see some all time great examples of good thinking, and then will have some good defenses against being fooled.

E.g., there is from page 76 of

Susan Milbrath, 'Star Gods of the
Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore,
and Calendars (The Linda Schele
Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian
Studies)', ISBN-13 978-0292752269,
University of Texas Press, 2000.

with

"Indeed, blood sacrifice is required
for the sun to move, according to
Aztec cosmology (Durian 1971:179;
Sahaguin 1950 - 1982, 7:8)."

(the old Google link is now broken), that is, the Maya concluded that it was important for the sun to keep moving across the sky and to ensure this would kill people and pour their blood on a rock.

Today with some good education, we can look at this claim and right away conclude: Absurd, nonsense, wasting human life.

So, the Mayan audiences didn't have a good, current US college education and were vulnerable to being seriously fooled.

For some of the college courses,

"Once you have been in a
course like that about
all you can say is that
you have seen it."

And experience shows that even just having "seen it" means have some good judgment about thinking, separating the good from the bad. So, it's common to say that a college education yields abilities in critical thinking.
Sounds like entrapment or he was heavily induced (by whatever) into whatever they got him for. Maybe he'll get pardoned like Ulbricht.
What's your point equating welfare spending to healthcare spending? To suggest that we fund welfare more instead of putting more money in to healthcare? Why??? Are you simply stating that giving x money to one social program is the same as giving x money to another? What is your point, your policy proscription?

Giving $x to healthcare is almost always better than giving $x to welfare, as well funded universal healthcare reduces OOP costs for citizens, which reduces their need to consume other welfare services.[0,1]

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10733771/

[1] https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/214481/a...
Pretty much everyone I personally know, this in part to coming from a family of relative affluence in highly liberal areas, has religiously filtered their water to keep additives (such as fluoride) from going into their bodies. This same crowd has savvy towards dental hygiene, they're all into oil pulling, and brushing with Fennel oil and all that. Eliminating yeast (which is fungus, not bacteria) from the mouth prevents the biofilm that creates the necessary conditions for dental cavities.

Even the poorest Americans can afford coconut oil and Fennel oil.

There's no reason to drink that shit (fluoride), there's no reason to brush with it either.
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Horses? That is a very peculiar activity on which to focus, no? Kids playing any sport or painting or any of a zillion other things also aren't on phones while doing them.
Anyone who writes this down to schools or selection I think is completely missing the authors point. What they are describing, not just the academic but physical and mental change in young people, is everywhere.

People from roughly my age, early thirties and younger, are just chronically heedless. It's not about specific academic tasks it's a general lack of mental and physical acuity. You go in a coffeeshop or a library, you ask for something, if there's a young person behind the counter chances are you get a blank stare or you have to repeat yourself while they have a phone in one hand. Young people in my experience can't focus on long conversations, literally just looking at your face and pay attention.

Ted Gioia is quoted in the piece describing it as "checked out zombies" and that's exactly right. There's so many conversations these days where you basically have to snap your fingers in front of someone's face because they're like a distracted cat or something. I taught a soldering class at a makerspace a few years ago and every young person was physically clumsy, as if they had two left hands. Seniors participating did better than 20 year olds. The author is not just a grumpy old teacher, if you pay attention this is everywhere, and all the reading and spelling problems are downstream from it.
Hey, nice project. It was genuinely refreshing to just mess with some sliders on something interactive and no-bullshit. Cheers!
> Many systems that pay hourly for task-based work like this deal with this problem by instituting a minimum number of hours of pay per-instance, which is usually higher than the expected time it takes to complete a typical quick task.

That's how it works for the occasional on-the-side server/printer tech jobs I occasionally take (long story short: I took a temp IT job years ago, resigned to go somewhere else, but the company never took me off their payroll so I get the occasional call to go install some number of printers or some number of servers/switches/etc. for some customer of HP or Dell, respectively). The usual rates are pretty abysmal for someone of my experience and skill level, but the 4-hour minimum means that if I can bang out one of these jobs in an hour or less I'm making more per-hour than at my day job. Nice bit of occasional money to blow on craps or penny stocks or shitcoins or whatever, and it keeps my fingers on various industry pulses.
My grandparents were born in the early 1900s in a rural area. They grew up on those farms with double-digit siblings and everyone pitched in to help make preserves in order to get through the winter. Their lifestyle was born of necessity, not choice.

I doubt anyone but the upper class deliberately chose any particular lifestyle back then. Today I think a lot more people are getting in on this trend.
> What rights of minorities have been targeted? If the only example is trans rights, it's dumb to think it's a simple issue of trampled rights

So it's not an issue of trampled rights if it's just trans rights, yet you can't come up with a reason that trans rights need to be restricted to ensure freedom of others. And it's being disingenuous to call you out for saying trans rights don't matter when you say this...
LLM training data, or, a broken virtuous cycle (2023)
I'd contact lawyers now before it's too late. And I hope it's not too late.
Thats really nice. I think I want to install this on a small Raspi at the end of a baseball bat and use it to assault some customers.
dang pls merge if you need to, thX
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_of_the_Holocaust_in_...

"Berlin Radio broadcast the mass-execution of Jews in Bialystok and the burning of synagogues in July 1941"

> It was only in retrospect that we learned the true horror of the Holocaust.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-the-world-discovered-the-n...

The full scale wasn't known but there was enough evidence something was going on.

I'm really not seeing much similarity between that period of history and this period. Godwin's law is probably more applicable.
Adding Error Logging to https://uxwizz.com, plus a couple of side-projects (one with music, and one with shopping).
Just don’t do that? I’ve never had a problem leaving at 5. Been doing this for 2 decades now.

Live below your means, save enough money so that a year of unemployment won’t kill you, try to work on interesting problems, try to stay in the top quartile for output (You can definitely do this without staying past 5. At most companies you can do this working something closer to 9-1 if you really focus during that time), don’t be a dick, and don’t worry about the rest.
If you know anything about that organization, please follow up. Did something happen to the organization? Did they somehow offend the administration?
People refer to making impassioned arguments as “getting on one’s soapbox.”

Picture a small overturned wooden box that a person is standing on to yell to a crowd.
"Things changed" is the part I disagree with. The students just have better tools to respond to the same incentives. My cohort ~15 years ago would have used just as much chatgpt if it had been available, and our spelling would have been just as bad if AIM had autocorrect when we were kids.

When better technology and lower standards allow disengaged students to pass, what you get is more disengaged students.

Don't hate the player — hate the game.
I'm building a perp funding arbitrage aggregator. Aggregates funding rates across a number of DEXs to help users track down the most lucrative opportunities.

If there is uptake the plan is to build out a toolset to help with managing a portfolio of arbs.
I used this to add back a bit of 'personality' to a gig poster I upscaled. Thanks - it worked great!
Study groups were my replacement for this, but that requires a critical mass to get going.
I've just finished creating a Magic the Gathering rules engine, and now I'm currently training an LLM agent to play games against itself through reinforcement learning.
Some researchers are rethinking how to measure AI intelligence
Our teacher explained to us that the most selfish thing one can do is serve the happiness of others, due to the universe's feedback loop that feeds the happiness we've sown in our treatment of others back into what we reap within our inner world.

This is the most fundamental law of the human universe, and we all live under its iron fist as its gears grind our life's chosen actions' butterfly wingbeats back into us in perfect harmony with the frequency we emanated out into others, consonant or dissonant, loving or selfish, kind or cruel, generous or callous.

In addition, there are amplifiers and attenuators for both the positive and negative, especially at the narrow ends of our potentials' bell curve, so we best be careful how we wield our free will and the energy we possess to affect the world.

Ignoring this law does not change a person's situation, just their foundation for how they construct their custom decision-tree methodology of preference and habit, thus establishing their inertias and ability to self-reflect. This is because we are free to ignore the truth, just as we are fully free to be the biggest narcissistic asshole we can be given our station in life.

To boot, we're all doing this within multiple layers of our cultures' inertias that contribute to our perspective, once again, as per our choices.

Within it all, at the very center, is the most precious and perilous gift in the universe: our free will, mind, and body co-existing tripartite on this beautiful planet Earth.
If you're new to Rust, you have effectively no reason to take time out to learn about the std::any::Any type. I wouldn't say it's something to "avoid"; this is unlike unsafe, where I would advise a new programmer to actively avoid it (unless they have a C background, maybe). It's just something you don't really need, and dyn traits in Rust are still relatively verbose and restrictive enough that it naturally steers you toward more idiomatic, non-dynamic code (which isn't to say that dyn traits are useless, they have their place, but it's a niche IMO).
App YouTube channel is still up: https://www.youtube.com/@appguardian6684
My master's thesis[1] was half research, half dev project, exploring how we can continue to fully fuse traditional RPGs with computers. This goal is my life quest, my life's work.

I think virtual tabletops (VTTs) as they currently stand are barking up the wrong tree[2]. I want a computer-augmented RPG to allow the GM to do everything he does in the analog form of the game. On-the-fly addition of content to the game world, defining of new kinds of content, defining and editing rules, and many other things ... as well as the stuff VTTs do, of course. The closest we've gotten in the last 30 years is LambdaMOO and other MUDs.

The app I made for my thesis project was an experimental vertical slice of the kinds of functionality I want. The app I made after that last year is more practical and focused on the needs of my weekly game, in my custom system; I continue to develop it almost daily.

I'm itching to tackle the hardest problem of all, which is fully incorporating game rules in a not-totally-hardcoded way. I need rules to be first-class objects that can be programmatically reasoned about to do cool things like "use the Common Lisp condition system to present end user GMs with strategies for recovering from buggy rules." Inspirations include the Inform 7 rulebook system.

[1] See my homepage, under Greatest Hits: https://www.mxjn.me

[2] Anything that requires physical equipment other than dice and a regular computer is also barking up the wrong tree. So no VR, no video-tracked physical miniatures, no custom-designed tabletop, no Microsoft Surface... Again, just my opinion.
You could give them money to be nice but they do not have any authority to do anything about territory in response. In a strange way the US already has more authority in Greenland than it's residents.
> I think a lot of being a successful student is cutting through all the duplicative work that gets thrown your way.

And being honest with yourself about which duplicative work you actually don’t benefit from (vs. which work is “boring” or interferes with sleep/whatever other excuses).
Even in early 2025, LLMs are already the most powerful type inference algorithm. Why would they need a static type system in 2030?

My guess is it'll be the opposite: I suspect compared to humans, LLMs will make fewer type errors, and more errors that are uncaught by types. Thus I expect type systems will be of lower value to them (compared to humans), leading to a shift toward dynamic languages and the possible extinction of typed languages.

The alternative I could imagine is moving toward Haskell-like languages with MUCH stronger type systems, where higher-level errors ARE type errors.

My one concrete observation in this direction: "press . to see valid options" behavior is a traditional strong point of typed languages. And interestingly, proved to be one the first thing that early/dumb LLMs were actually pretty good at. I believe that indicates LLMs are relatively good at type inference (compared to other things you can ask them to do), and we should expect that to continue being a strong point for them.

In working with Cline in both TypeScript and JavaScript, I find the LLM making tons of errors it has to go and fix in a future iteration, but virtually none of them are type errors.

I suspect LLMs are relatively good at duck-typed languages because they have a much bigger working memory than humans. As a result, the LLM can hold in working memory not just e.g., the function argument in front of them, but also all the callers of the function, and how they used the variable, and callers of the callers, and thus what "duck-type" it will be.

A system that can do this level of automatic type inference doesn't necessarily benefit from a formal, static, compile time type system.
I’d note that (outside of Comcast possibly being mad at you breaking the modem), sometimes they push a bad update and you need to reset the modem, and last time I did that I needed to step through the initial setup on the WiFi network before activating bridge mode. So if the wifi hardware is broken you might need to jump through hoops to get through that setup (or swap the modem).
Sounds very useful! Looking forward to seeing how it turns out!
Fortunately it appears not.
A mostly vibe coded(since I don't plan to ever go commercial with it) app for music composition, which I suspect real musicians would mostly not like..

You can create patterns, play those patterns on a specific beats, add melodies(HTML tables of notes!) with lyrics, add chord changes to determine how the patterns are played, etc.

It's meant to be CAD-like, so you're working as high level as possible, not looking at some raw notes and having to go look up what chord it is every five seconds.

There's plenty of features that don't exist but look like they do, but it does work.

https://eternityforest.github.io/songcad/
Finding Threat Actor Infrastructure with SSL Certificates [video]
It's a tired argument, but what if we replace "US" in your sentence with "Chinese", "Russian" or "Iranian"?

Considering how the government of "the shining beacon of democracy" is currently running more like one of the above countries, I think it's a good comparison. But I'm guessing plenty here MAGA disagree.
I can't speak for all PE. However, even their lauded 'success stories' - Hilton Hotels, AirBnb, Tesla etc - seem to generally turn out pretty evil.

How can they not... The whole goal of PE is to extract value from workers and the Earth, and funnel it into the pockets of the .01%. This, in a world where inequality is stifling our potential as a species, and as a planet, on a truly unimaginable scale?

Beyond the hype and the rationalizations, fundamentally, the investors always win and society always loses. They've turned our industries into a casino, and they're the house. Sometimes good people win in a casino, and sometimes they even get paid out, but it's a fucking mugs game that preys on our blind spots and is leading us into some very dark places.
The Department of Homeland Security is not an undocumented immigrant, nor is the court system. They are required to document what they do.
So I like what you are doing but I think it might be worth having a larger think about this

> no user search and no friend suggestions

I get the intentionality, but the reason that facebook was successful was that it found the people you intentionally wanted to communicate with for you.

The issue is that the social graph overstays its welcome. After its done finding all the people you want to communicate with, it suggests a ton of people you dont.

I actually find this to be similar to netflix and spotify suggestions, both of which were able to find things I wanted to consume early on, but now just give me waves of shit.

Consider doing something a lot smaller, like an opt in, 1 month activation at a time, depth 1 search to find people you might want to connect with, but without the hassle of having to swap details on another platform.
As Bart Simpson might say, "In conclusion, France is a land of contrast"
I often found when something involves an insanely large number or objects the 90–9–1 Principle holds true. But when things is smaller to medium size 80/20 can be used. But I still dont have a good / decent theory how to link the two together. I wonder if anyone has any materials on it.
Author here!

I started writing this review in 2022, after learning about The Nobel Duel at the Frontiers in Reproduction course (Prof. Stephen Hammes mentioned it to me). At the time, both Schally and Guillemin were still alive! I worked on the review off and on for nearly 3 years. It’s a rather complex story, and I went down a lot of scientific rabbit holes in the process (such as looking into 1960s peptide purification methods).

Overall, I think the main lesson I learned is that the rivalry between Schally and Guillemin was avoidable. In other words, their “winner takes all” scientific environment was a necessary component of the rivalry, but by itself it wasn’t sufficient. After all, plenty of other endocrinologists didn’t have massive feuds. The rivalry was really driven by the combination of the scientific environment with the personalities and communication styles of the two men. If Schally and Guillemin had had a candid conversation in 1961 and agreed to work in separate areas (or, less likely, to work as equal partners), the whole feud would have never happened.

So today, if you’re feeling like someone isn’t giving you credit for your work, or is being unfair to you, reach out and talk to them before things escalate too far. Of course, this may not work, but it’s better than sending nasty letters (or these days, emails or tweets) back and forth. There will always be competition in science, but duels can be avoided.
A budgeting app that comes with a built-in checking account https://envelopebudgeting.com/

Currently trying to convert the SwiftUI app to Compose using Skip.
Noise is an artistic effect, it changes the look and feel.

A) It adds something in the blanked spaces.

B) improves visual sharpness of blurry images.

C) It works in video as well.

Also increases image file size and/or introduces compression artifacts.
Granted I haven’t finished the article yet, but seems like the author and their SO are on their high horses and built a house of cards. The collapse will be magnificent, around the time the kids start school. Sure, be rich enough and you can postpone it by homeschooling or extra special rich kid schools; but sooner or later real world will catch up. Peers with TikTok accounts asking your kids “yo have you seen it? Check it out: skibidi toilet”

I’ve read more controlled introductions to real world for kids before and I think that is a better approach. “Tablet bad, analogue good” is just too reductionist.
I'm not sure how NOW handles replacements, but the modem has a label saying "This is customer owned equipment and should not be collected or swapped by Comcast personnel, unless within warranty repair."

The FAQ says "your NOW Internet Gateway comes with a 90-day warranty" so perhaps they'd care somewhat about mods within the first 90 days.
> How can you be confident in this? Is it possible that you are saying this because the only cases we know about...

This is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance and is also asking someone else to prove nonexistence of a situation. Both of these are inappropriate in a good faith discussion and I believe it would benefit you to consider how you reason about these situations if you want to come to well founded conclusions.

If you have evidence, or even plausible speculation as to the government "disappearing people" you should present it here so we can all understand and respond to this, as it is extremely important. If you are just assuming that the government 'must be' disappearing people, without any evidence or even a plausible theory which you can share then you are just being hysterical.
Side question - why do all PG essays are formatted in a such a narrow text column ?
I am working on a standalone CLI tool that can do analytics find it here: https://github.com/nafey/minimalytics

Motivation for the project:

> This project was born out of the need for a lightweight analytics tool to track internal services on a resource-constrained VPS. Most SaaS analytics products either lack the scalability or exceed their free tier limits when tracking millions of events per month. Minimalytics addresses this gap by offering a minimalist, high-performance solution for resource-constrained environments.

I recently did a Show HN which you can find on my profile.
> A college degree (especially from good old State U) serves first and foremost as a white-collar job permit.

It’s worth pointing out that this is a perception that has been cultivated. Position the degree as first and foremost a job credential, cut state support, and force students and their parents to directly bear the cost for this supposedly individualized benefit through higher tuition. “The customer is always right” and no learning need occur.

“Starving the Beast” is a documentary on this topic: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5444928/plotsummary/?ref_=tt_ov_p...
I'm building an app for splitting bills with friends, mainly for holidays and roommates: https://quicksplit.io

It does one thing and it does it well. I built it with a friend and we released the iOS app last year. Currently building the Android app