skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The last ~15 years have seen a decline every single year in reading comprehension, to the point that ordinary middle-of-the-road books from the 80s or 90s are beyond the ability of gifted students in the same grade to understand without great difficulty.

I think this is true, but I would disagree with the statement about gifted kids. I recently had the pleasure of reading some essays produced by A-level English students at a nearby school, and I was absolutely chuffed reading them. The mediocre ones were pretty mediocre, and there was definitely some ChatGPT drivel in there, but the ones from the top of the class were genuinely wonderful. The top students were writing beautiful (and insightful) prose, far better than what I could have done at their age. Don't write off the whole generation.
That exact statement is quoted in the OP too.
> > While cellulose is an anticaking agent, I don't think I've ever seen it used for cheese.

> parmesan is pretty much the only one i ever see with cellulose

Can you stop, please? You keep contradicting yourself, and I don't really see the purpose in repeating, over and over, the assertion that because you can't perceive a difference in something, no one else can either. That's pretty arrogant, and ignores, well, basically everything about how humans work.

These subtheads here are just noise, and are distracting me from the rest of the interesting conversation.
You can register to get it through the "Access Data" tab. If you don't want to do that Google "HERI freshman survey". If that's still too much work, click on "Images" to see slides people have put together to summarize the data. You can also search for "The American Freshman: 40 year trends" to get summary reports.
Doesn't even have to be physical, an insidious form of punishment can be for example locking someone in a closet for hours a week which is interpreted as "timeout".

And doesn't get counted as physical abuse. Then authority figures will go "doesn't sound like abuse to me, just ordinary discipline" and be left convinced nothing's wrong.
https://archive.ph/0BnXk
Perhaps we shouldn’t need a large cohort study to give little humans the right to breathe as good as battery chickens.
I've started seeing ads for Oracle OCI in some podcasts I listen to so I think they are starting to see if they can attract customers outside of their "enterprise sales process".

I'm not sure who those ads are supposed to appeal to besides the podcasts hosts raking in the ad dollars.
I imagine Larry Ellison gave this exact speech right after this incident became public.
This is an interesting point and it's certainly true with respect to most peoples' attitudes towards dependencies.

For example, while I feel the need to understand the code I wrote using pytorch, I don't generally feel the need to totally grok how pytorch works.
The amazing bit about claude code is it's ability to read code, and fit into the existing code base. I tried visual studio code w/ roo, and it blew up my 50 daily request limit immediately. Any suggestions on better tooling for a claude code like experience with Gemeni 2.5 pro?
and watch it immediate evaporate or require even more esoteric knowledge of opaque systems?

Persistent mispricings can only exist if the cost of exploitation removes the benefit or constrains the population.
Democrats didn't run on a radical anti-gun stance either - Harris talked about owning guns herself[0].

[0]https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3vxvzg34qwo
Have the AI write a quick script using bs4 or whatever to take the HTML dump and output json, then all the aider-likes can use that json as documentation. Or just the HTML, but that wastes context window.
what if the movie is actually bad
I have never owned a Boox device, but was researching them when looking for an e-reader. The premise is good, but bear in mind that they will basically provide no updates to Android versions once the device is released.

If using an internet-disconnected device, this might be fine, but this seems sketchy if you want to use this for more than 1-2 years while connected to the internet (and using a browser etc).
Retailmenot.com
Yeah, they've clearly been given some minimal company line and aren't deviating from it. Not going to win any trust.
Bootstrapping a HN article ranking model from a user description
Glad to hear it worked out!

We have worked hard to make it as easy as possible with all input methods, individual or combined.

There are many other doc creation methods within the editor you can check out here https://docs.docshound.com/quick-start/platform#doc-creation...
Semi related, I created linesum a few years back https://github.com/moreati/linesum to line by line sha256.
The difference is that social media isn't special because of its hardware or software even. People are stuck on fa ebook because everyone else is on it. It's network effects. LLMs currently have no network effects. Your friends and family aren't "on" chatgpt so why use that over something else?

Once performance of a local setup is on par with online ones or good enough, that'll be game over for them.
Lots of brilliant kids get rejected with great ACT/SAT scores from elite universities, but they look down on those that lack "extracurricular" activities. Simple as that. It pissed me off when I realized that elite colleges would choose a football player over somebody that studied their butt off and did well in AP courses.
I find that building and testing my code with -Ofast and -ffast-math from the beginning helps to avoid a lot of the issues with them. Any new code that breaks with them on probably wasn't particularly stable anyway and should be rethought.
Have you taken a look at Ollama + Open-WebUI? This combo ticks off some items on your list, especially if you use the Dockerized versions.
Yes, but it is bad for democracy if only one specific viewpoint, the viewpoint of the people in charge no less, is actively sponsored via taxes.

Sorry, but you are representing the “a dark path”, where power is concentrated in the hands of a few.
Ask HN: How do you make GPT generate SQL across multiple tables?
I've been experimenting with prompt engineering for GPT-3.5, and found it struggles a lot when generating SQL over multi-table schemas (JOINs, FK logic, etc).

So I built a lightweight framework called USPL to fix that — no fine-tuning, no plugins, just a clean JSON schema format that GPT can reason over.

Would love to hear how others approach this problem. Have you found good ways to guide LLMs for structured query generation?

GitHub: https://github.com/ZeppelinTsai/USPL
Blog: https://dev.to/donkey_d_8fe161b59fbb5225/why-i-built-uspl-helping-gpt-understand-multi-table-sql-1pln
> You are literally competing against hundreds of engineers/product designers who had no other goal than to build the best possible experience for accomplishing X.

I think part of what's been happening here is that the hubris of the AI startups is really showing through.

People working on these startups are by definition much more likely than average to have bought the AI hype. And what's the AI hype? That AI will replace humans at somewhere between "a lot" and "all" tasks.

Given that we're filtering for people who believe that, it's unsurprising that they consciously or unconsciously devalue all the human effort that went into the designs of the apps they're looking to replace and think that an LLM could do better.
Discussed at the time:

C and C++ prioritize performance over correctness - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37178009 - Aug 2023 (543 comments)
Are we still on the "basket of deplorables" thing?

You know that comment wasn't about the working class as a whole, it was about the bigots and neo-nazis that were taking over the Trumpist movement. And she was absolutely correct about it. Instead of uniting over a common manufactured trauma response because the scary lady said a mean thing the right should have cleaned its own house.

>Instead, listen to them. Find out what they care about, what they want, what they value, and the represent that.

So... become Republicans then?

Because they do, you know. The Democrats do all of that, but no one cares. No one even bothers to listen.

This is literally the only advice anyone ever seems to have. The left should abandon its principles, surrender to its enemies and give them everything they want, and then maybe apologize for the inconvenience.

The condescension is getting tiring, just send us to the camps already.
I genuinely don't see in nuclear armament for Europe, considering it's the one thing that has kept WW3 away until now. All countries bordering Russia should just get nukes ASAP. It's literally the best way to preserve peace. Russia respects only force.
This is a deliberate attempt to cover up their incompetence. It should be criminal to deceive the public and your _paying_ customers.

Executives need to go to jail. People need to be fired.

This won’t happen though, definitely not under this current administration.
Marine Le Pen barred from running for office for 5 years
This is only true for the most generic code. Copilot isn't going to autocomplete my recursive JSON2Neo4j import function.
Empowering everyone to bring their ideas to life
America has undone a century of soft power influence it has cultivated since World War II.

The 3 countries historically never like each other and this orange man single-handedly reunited them with a common cause!
Or vaccination makes us weaker. Because our own immune system gets trained in an unnatural way.

How is it that various native tribes weren't affected by the virus? Difference in immune system obviously. So better immune systems definately helps lower diseases and prevent pandemics.
Should I just put a ui on top of:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/customize-deep...

And charge for it?
> I would estimate that fewer than a fifth of the well-adjusted people I know were beaten

It is probably not a popular opinion, but I think it is fairly absurd that people consider "spanking" and "beating" to be the same thing

To me it's like saying that telling a kid to go to their room is the same as putting them in jail
> but the amount of development and testing time that went into them is similarly impressive

Absolutely. As before, there are tradeoffs to be made. Not all software needs engineering, and it may even be detrimental to it. But if you have proclaimed engineers working on your product...
Oh well, That’s a different problem and I’d guess one that general marketing could help you start with. Such a broad topic. Since you’re remote you probably want to try to get leads on your website, but there’s a billion ways to approach that of course
Having re-read my prior comment, I agree that I was unclear. Thanks for your comment. It sounds like we're probably 90-100% in agreement.
FOOF, not to be confused with the FLOOF's that everyone wants to work with
Huh, that's funny. I love the flavor and texture of parm from a brick. I am usually far too lazy to grate my own though, and do use the pre-grated stuff often. But on the occasion where I do grate my own, or am in a restaurant where it's done for me, I resolve to grate it myself more often.

This is all just a matter of taste, though. Sounds like maybe you grew up with the green tube mystery powder, and developed a liking for it, and that's "parm" for you. You never developed a taste for the "real" stuff, and that's fine! We all like what we like, and no one should tell us that we're liking it wrong. (I, too, grew up with the green tube mystery powder, but my tastes changed. It happens.)

> Sometimes if I'm looking for a snack I just pour the green tube mystery powder directly into my mouth.

This made me chuckle; I used to do the same thing when I was a kid (despite the disapproving look from my mother). I've tried it as an adult though, and now I don't like it (not quite "gross", but not something I enjoy).
Probably because then, it would make your paragraphs 'rigid', whereas if you have visual-line-mode and don't truncate lines — the text would just wrap around — you only need to adjust the width of the window. That works nicely in "distraction-free" modes like writeroom-mode.

I used to fill the paragraphs all the time, turns out — it's really better to leave them as they are, because you can never get the satisfiable number of `fill-column` — the default works in some cases, for others, you'd want it to be wider, etc.
This is what Joe Kassabian calls the "greater unifying theory of Fuck That Guy."
Ask HN: Do you penalize hiring candidates from companies that do shady things?
And has that changed, over time?
Ok, so then it's a pandemic but not a problem. So that's good too right?
Chinese are unable to visit ChatGPT.
One step closer to 'Sam Sheepdog vs Ralph Wolf'.
As a country -

We spend 50% more on education than our peer countries, and our outcomes are worse.

We spend twice per person on healthcare as our peers, and our health outcomes are worse.

We cannot build anything (roads, houses, etc) at anywhere near the cost or quality of our peers.

We spend, in addition to our tax revenue, an additional 40% that we borrow, and we will soon be paying over half of our tax revenue just for the interest on our growing debt.

We are not pleasant to be around

We are fat, stupid, broke, and churlish. Not very good marriage material.
In the absence of a better standardised test, I don't doubt it. However, I really don't think that the SAT does a good job of testing the kind of longer-form literacy that the OP is talking about. I showed the SAT English component to a British A-level English teacher a few weeks ago, and after reading a dozen questions he was red with rage, shouting about how idiotic it was to ask such asinine questions under such a heavy time pressure.
Very slowly working on a prototype for a game where you learn about a deceased relative by using their old (C64-type) computer, reading their files and playing the games they made.

Because I can't fucking stop myself, I created a fantasy ISA and am working on an assembler and basic interpreter for said fantasy ISA.
That's no more comforting to imagine. Possibly less so.
Id love to see a head to head on the DGX, Mac Studio and the framework models to see where the strength and weaknesses are for each.
Even keeping corporal punishment on the table without engaging in it can encourage the mentality of needing to "strike down" children who defy orders. If not physically, then metaphorically.

Source: personal experience. I was only physically punished a single time, but the continued emotional abuse sustained over a decade (which they learned from a guy who preached a "spare the rod"-type mentality) left me with scars that are unlikely to ever fully heal.

And in my case, I was lucky enough to remain capable of being a good student. That kind of baggage, and the expectations on top, only makes the effort to succeed in school/work an order of magnitude harder to sustain for years and years. I can only imagine how many people in my situation weren't able to accomplish what I was able to.

If for example I hadn't finished college instead, I wouldn't be surprised if certain people just blanket labeled me "lazy" like so many others, without taking into account my upbringing.
I want to like RetailMeNot but every time I try it, I very seldom come across functioning coupon codes. I don't understand what incentivizes people to submit bogus codes.
About the security content of iOS 15.8.4 and iPadOS 15.8.4
> Except most bugs are about unforeseen states

Study after study shows that's not true, unless you include buffer overflows and the various "reading and writing memory I didn't mean to because this pointer is wrong now" classes of bugs.

It's possible to write logic errors, of course. You have to try much harder to write invalid state or memory errors.
This has been posted twice now in HN and seems to have attracted a lot of attention. But this seems to be the type of essay that just confirms HN’s pre-existing beliefs but has no real data around it.

I can absolutely see professors from when I went to college saying the exact same things except with laptops, Facebook, google etc. I’m not saying that there are no issues with higher education today, but I don’t think this is a good way of understanding them.
> He responded by spanking me, hard. I understood, and never did it again.

About the only thing I learned from corporal punishment at the hands of my parents was that I’d never visit such violence on my children, each of whom today are successful in their diverse fields, law abiding, and in stable relationships, despite keeping my promise to never touch my children in anger. Whatever the causes of intellectual laziness, behavioural disturbances, or disinterest in fully engaging with the world, lack of physical violence directed at children would not appear on my own list of suggested causes. Instead I’d look at the world we adults have created and start fixing that. The opposite of coddling and overprotection isn’t corporal punishment. Likely that’s not your stance either; but when physical harm to children enters the conversation, I think we need to look elsewhere for solutions.
Mm, I didn't correctly interpret their comment. You're absolutely correct.
For a take-home exam or assignment, I’m sure this is the case.

The hardest course I took at uni had a final oral exam and weekly homework assignment. Your final grade would be the average of all the homework assignments, but the final oral exam decided if you passed (with previous mentioned grade) or failed.

I thought that was a great way to do it, you can cheat your way through the course but in the end you’ll fail the oral exam. However, it was more subjective.
I think there's more stomach for it than you do, but do agree some large subset of the population thinks that e.g. they ought to oppose the so-called "death tax" because it'll apply to them or anyone they know (it won't).

There's also the issue of a large proportion of the population not even understanding how progressive income tax rates work.
GPTel is a very powerful interface for working with LLMs in Emacs. It took me a while to understand that its real value isn't what you get with M-x gptel, which creates a dedicated chat session and buffer, but rather the ability to sling prompts, context, and LLM output around in a native Emacs way. You can add to the context from dired, from a file, from a buffer, you can select from various prescribed system prompts for different functionality, you can prompt from the minibuffer, the kill-ring, the existing buffer, a selection, you can have the responses go to the minibuffer, the kill-ring, a buffer, the echo area -- it's extremely flexible.

I have a little helper function that uses gptel-request that I use while reading Latin texts. It sets the system prompt so the LLM acts as either a Latin to English translator, or with a prefix argument it breaks down the grammatical structure and vocabulary of a sentence for me. It's very cool.
Rowing family here : what’s the current state of the art in oars?
It doesn't seem like the law worked very well. Overdoses went up, and while this was largely due to covid & fent trends, it certainly was not an obvious success: https://imgur.com/a/45WAB6F

https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.cfsecosystem.com/m110/Presen...

https://www.rti.org/event/oregons-ballot-measure-110-symposi...
Who's Boring Now?
I find it bonkers we have better regulation around growing battery chickens than growing kids.

You don’t need massive study to find out that kids don’t like suffocating in classrooms.

It’s a bit like mandating reversing cameras on cars. Study says economically they do not make sense, but not squishing your kids trumps that.
No, things need to communicate the required information for the task at hand.

Limiting information can be harmful in many cases, and make things more difficult rather than simpler. And consistency can similarly limit usability.

What if I want to select one of 10 colors, with limited screen space? Isn't a select with color swatches perfect? Or even better, color swatches with color names beside? Why do you think that should be limited to plaintext only? That's anti-user.
What? Scare the criminals breaking the law using drugs?

Kinda what Cops are supposed to do? Should they say “please stop breaking the law” ?
But UB extends that to "a bug anywhere can potentially cause anything to go wrong", whereas traditional logic bugs require the bug to be functionally related to the bad-if-misused code (for which you can do things like carefully vet the potentially-harmful code and be sure your program will never do anything harmful regardless of how many bugs all other code in the program has).

See all the exploits that go from a single OOB write (or other sources of UB) to arbitrary code execution; it's really not that hard. Whereas such spooky-bugs-at-a-distance is just plain impossible in safe Rust or Java.
What does "unspecified" mean in this context? If you mean "the value of a signed integer is unspecified if it overflows", then I can still construct cases in which you lose the optimization that widens a loop induction variable from 32-bit to 64-bit. For example, take this code:

for (int i = 0; i != n; i++)
sum += a[i];

If n is -2, will this function include the element at a[(uint64_t)INT_MAX + 1] in the sum? If signed overflow is UB, then the answer is "maybe", and thus i and n can legally be promoted to 64-bit. If signed overflow is unspecified, but the result must still fit in a 32-bit integer, then the answer is "no", and i and n can't legally be promoted.
New study challenges the story of humanity's prehistoric hunting – farming shift
> “Until the person truly wants to quit, they’re not going to. Forcing people into treatment, it’s against our will and unjust.”

I agree, but the policy should be, confiscation and destruction of drugs and no charges. Allowing dealers to take advantage of and profit off of a vulnerable is against the public will and is unjust.
It's ironic that probably the biggest victims were youtubers and other "influencers" who mindlessly promoted this extension to their viewers, for money of course.
Be careful what you incentivize. It was the US decision to embargo powerful GPUs to China that resulted in DeepSeek. So I wonder if PO'ing the Canadians will result in a "Maple Valley" of some sort. The rest of the world can always call their talent back home.
Per article, Oracle has hastily rebranded the breached service as "Oracle Classic", for the sole purpose of being able to claim with a straight face that "Oracle Cloud" was not impacted.
Discussion on the AI Labyrinth (238 points, 5 days ago, 148 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43411725
I haven’t seen the ads, but Oracle Cloud is definitely the public cloud provider with the most generous free tier. That’s not to say you should use and trust them, but I can see why many would.
> Similar to how airlines have tried to stop people exploiting "hidden cities."

This sounds interesting?
If they left/are leaving because of the shadiness wouldn't that reflect positively on their character?
You're assuming a difference between the U.S. and Europe that's not there. Looking at the 2018 PISA scores, for example, U.S. 15-year-olds do fine in reading: https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/pisa2018/pdf/PISA2018_compi.... Slightly ahead of Norway, Germany, Denmark, and New Zealand.

The U.S. does much worse in math, but I don't know why any of the explanations being discussed here (parental involvement, etc.) would result in good reading scores but bad math scores.
You can search for that word definition.
I lost my job during Covid. I didn’t start using meth or fentanyl
sorry if someone already asked this, but what is clockwise when there's no "up"? The earth axis is like 60 degrees off the axis of milky way, so it's not clear what the frame of reference is.