skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A union telling me to suddenly move off Google Cloud because they've told Google they're doing it is unlikely to be high on a list of business priorities.
Sorry, I don't have an answer but this is an interesting problem. For one, kids haven't been taught to teach themselves - and most kids aren't interested in learning anyways because they don't see any incentive.

Schooling has traditionally used social pressure and a present authority figure to ensure students actually participate. Online, both of those are basically gone.

Technically, there's actually potential benefit to guiding a student into becoming self-reliant in terms of schooling (and so, obviously, in work & life). Also, we're all aware that there are countless great resources for learning online. The crux of the problem is really how to incentivize it.

I think the solution involves:

1) Getting a curriculum (solved by the school)

2) Finding good resources for learning it (takes some digging)

3) Incentivizing the learning

4) Keeping track (some kind of online tool like Notion maybe?)

Maybe a good incentive is to simply have suitable rewards for completing tasks and getting good grades. Pair that with embellishments to the curriculum - like say, you get to learn some extra stuff by watching Bill Nye - and I think you can get a kid to want to learn.

I learned Calculus entirely online and aced my exam, but that was after failing it and becoming desperate to move on. Negative incentive clearly worked for me, but I don't recommend it.
In almost every EU tech hub you will find a Huawei lab and usually a stone throw way from their major western competition (Nokia, Ericsson, ARM, Imagination) and in Paris, Apple hires cryptographers from ANSSI, the French National Cybersecurity Agency (France's NSA) to work on their DRM and Apple Pay.
If I understand correctly, Debian decides to deliver a certain version of a package (say v1.2.3) for a certain Debian version and they generally keep that version of the package fixed (or try to stay 100% compatible with it), minus security/major impact bugs which get backported. By doing this, Debian can ensure that when you upgrade the system, nothing breaks.

While it's not uncommon for upstreams to offer a stable or LTS channel that mostly works like this (and generally stable distributions decide to package this version), the whole value of Debian is to offer a layer on top of many upstreams with different speeds / practices / release policies / etc. and offer you a system that works well together and doesn't break. So the work/backports they need to do is mostly related to different upstreams working differently or in a way that doesn't allow Debian to stay pinned on a certain version.
>if a company claims section 230 protections

No one claims section 230 protections. It applies to everyone and every service on the internet in the US.

You can't "lose" those protections, they're just the law.

And that law states (paraphrasing):
You can't sue me for something a third person says.

That's essentially it. You can't "qualify" for or "lose" that protection.

And it applies to you and me and HackerNews and Facebook and Twitter and your github repo and your favorite recipe site and every other web site and Mastodon instance and Discord channel and mailing list and IRC channel and porn site and anywhere else that allows more than one person to share their thoughts.

>it must have a fair and transparent process when blocking someone. And it must apply this process to everyone equally, with the possibility of an arbitrator.

That's not part of the law either. And a good thing too.

Section 230 (yes, I'm saying it again) says (paraphrasing):

You can't be sued for something another person says. Full stop. No fairness is required, no balance, no transparency, none of that.

Should the big social networking sites be regulated and reined in? Absolutely! But changing/repealing Section 230 won't do that. In fact, it would hurt everyone and the deep pocketed social media companies would be just about the only ones who could afford to fight all the lawsuits.

We need to find a different way to fix this.
Even if you don't expect EULA to be enforced (will you pay for my lawyers/fine if it is?), you still need a copy of the system which you can't buy directly. You're left with unauthorised copies if you don't have any MacOS hardware and the same question - would you cover my legal costs?
I work at QNX. Of course I've heard of webservers running on QNX with enhanced security as a result. I suspect the lack of widespread use of QNX is because it's a costly, commercial, and not marketed toward personal or cloud computing and not due to technical issues. Marketing trumps technical when it comes to purchasing decisions.
> Your attitude is a deep part of the problem. Reporting should be objective...

My attitude is exactly that.

> ... and even handed.

That is explicitly not objective if the opposing sides are truth vs non-truth.
I will give you a very partial answer. It's not about any concrete syllabuses but the whole approach to life and world. The answer varies a lot based on their age, school year, level etc. But in general, I would recommend you to plant a seed of self-education abilities in their life, if haven’t already. By those abilities I mean mostly self-reflection but also others which result from self-reflection: self-assessment, self-directed learning and going further even self-determined learning. These are abilities that will help them to understand how they stand in any situation and adapt to unpredictable changes in the fast-changing world we indeed live in. Of course, the journey of life-long learning is a long run. I can elaborate more on this if it helps you.
Priorities exactly. And these priorities are not only down to the compiler implementation, but also the language design. I'd argue that Rust being much slower to compile than Go has reasons from both sides, and hence will probably never be as fast as Go to compile.
Why build it in the first place if you don't want people to use it? Also, a lot of VPN services are moving to WireGuard, they will hopefully contribute to WireGuard development in the future. You can't really do cost/benefit assessment based on current contribution values. If you did that, no startup will ever start, and no open source project will ever be created, as upon creation the usage is almost always zero.
Yes, all very well timed “experiments” I’m sure.
Looks like there is already a replacement for Parler:

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-sho...
of-monopolistic/comments
I don't know about technical censorship, but they certainly massage the algorithm to get the results they want. Google 'American Inventors' or 'how to commit suicide' for a quick demo.
Original Unix was created in a couple of years. While your point has merit, you’re overestimating by much.
There should be however space for saying that a group of people or ideology is simply wrong on some points. We should not be force to pretend that all ideologies, values systems and theories are equal or right. Or honest.
Russian Railways network security is broken
Is 18 some magic age where people wisen up?

They probably should have made all accounts under 50 private.
I meant 10% click the "About" button, how many of those actually donate is another question...
> I’ve never spotted an instance where something has been rewritten in a different language because c# was lacking in some way.

Yes, that is what killed F# effectively - on top of not having any killer frameworks. Though to be fair even Scala is dead. Making a language popular is tough.
This was probably considered and discarded because altering all references in all packages would be a ton of work, and bound to produce issues with every single merge.
One customer/user going elsewhere will have no impact on Google's bottom line, though.

Getting enough people to to stop using Google products for a day - or enough creators to set their videos to private for a day, for instance - would have an impact, but sadly is probably impossible to organize on a large enough scale to be effective.
I installed TikTok to see what it was all about. I used it every day for about 6 months. I saw loads of misinformation about the election, there were gruesome videos of people feeding live animals to their pet snakes and other animals. And then just loads of sexualized content. I wouldn't allow my kids to use this app in a million years. Also, I tried reporting a bunch of these videos, but they were never taken down.
Drinking Coffee Daily May Protect Men from Prostate Cancer
Age of majority varies between different countries, 15 in Indonesia, 16 in Scotland and Vietname, 17 in Tajikistan, 19 in many Canadian states, 20 in New Zealand and Japan (currently) and Thailand, 21 in Singapore
If remote or partially remote education is to become the default, you have to scrap the teacher-students-classroom model; it hardly works in real life and it's even worse when not happening in a physical space.

Moving to a fully asynchronous model is the only way you can maintain any semblance of educational standards. Put content online, have the students access it at their own leisure. Use the saved time to arrange live QA/interactive sessions for the teachers to unblock the students if they need that (it is also a nice excuse to silently check everyone's progress). Quit the cheating/surveillance arms race, fully embrace open-book tests and oral exams.

I'd also say, try really hard not to go full remote, at least for middle school and below. There are advantages to both approaches, and a completely remote education is much harder to make work.

What individuals can do, I'm not really sure, I guess it depends on what your local school is doing/allows at the moment. Fighting the bureaucracy hardly worth anybody's time.
Honestly, no.

The analogy I've been using amongst friends/family, is that "big tech" has gone nuclear. The Bomb has gone from being a hypothetical to a reality. And no matter how much we do or don't agree with this particular target/application, we have to be aware that there's no putting this genie back in the bottle, and this is going to be an option in all future "wars".

It's a tortured and over-dramatic analogy, but I find it the easiest way to communicate the divide between not particularly wanting to defend this particular target, but still being uneasy that The Bomb even exists.
> But then they changed it to give no version info

This is still the case. Every KDE application has the menu entries Help → About $APPNAME and Help → About KDE which both show the relevant version numbers. I'm overwhelmingly certain this feature never went away because I am on a rolling distro and upgraded through pretty much all versions and I figure I would have noticed the absence of these menu entries.

> then the bug report tool asks up front what version you're using

That's incorrect. The menu entry Help → Report Bug… opens a dialog with version information that has a button Launch Bug Report Wizard which produces a link like e.g. `https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided&product=kon...`. Consequently in the bugtracker, the available information is already filled in.

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By the way, this post is an example for the bullshit asymmetry principle, and I resent that I had to spend a magnitude more time to correct your misinformation than it took you to produce it. Please be a better netizen.
Should Twitter have banned Trump?
Crashed a few times, like the actual 2020
I work in this area and the answer to some of your questions are really already available. Rubrics/CASE/CLR/Learning Outcomes etc are known within the teaching community. Their implementation in the digital space is where you are seeing the gap. A traditional classroom environment doesn't always translate into a digital one for the reasons you specify, but thats not the only way to do it.
Monoracial theocracy is the anti -america and we should stop paying for everything for countries that don't embrace diversity and equality.
Do you have numbers to back that up? Last time I've seen such discussion it turned out that FAANG H1B application numbers are quite low and most of the quota is consumed by "service" companies.
Germany 1870 was not democracy. Germany was democracy in between 1918-1932 and it was forced to become one by their own enemies.

The incivility after 1918 was result of loosing war, result of anti-monarchy revolution, result of communist attempt for revolution and so on. It also had to do with rejection of democracy on principle. It had less to do with multiple parties existing or lack of two party system.
TTFB in S3 is 20-30ms around the 50th percentile. it can go much higher at p99 [1]. In any case, rotational latency for HDD drives is an order of magnitude lower (typically 2-5ms for a seek operation).

S3 is great for higher throughput workloads where TTFB is amortized across larger downloads (this is why it's very common to use S3 as a "data lake" where larger columnar files are stored, usually at the order of hundreds of MiB).

I think it's an interesting project but perhaps explaining the use cases where this solution is beneficial would go a long way here.

[1] https://github.com/dvassallo/s3-benchmark
What kind of person uses Brave? What are you hiding?

/s (for now)
That Bernie Sander ref cracked me up. In a way Linus to Richard Stallman (RMS) is like Bernie to Rickard D. Wolff.
Well, or the hack was by some greyhat/kid who realised they were in over their head and that keeping evidence of their crime around was a dumb move.
So, is does this mean for a charity they take 30% also? For example, here's United Way for Chester County (wherever that is)[0]:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/united-way-of-chester-county/i...

They have a donate button (last image on right). Does Apple take 30% of all that is donated?
If so, I find that to be repulsive.

[0] I picked Unite Way because they're a large org, not because of any other reason.
I don't know about EPUBs support too much, my only experience was with Apple's iBooks, which (in most cases) handled EPUB ebooks very nicely (display-wise) with well formated, colored code and ect.
> Look how many videos there are of the Chelyabinsk meteor.

That event was immediately noticeable and happened in an area where the vast majority of vehicles have dash cams due to insurance fraud.

Not a lot of people stare at the sky though looking for flying objects that they cannot identify. Most cameras aren't pointed in a direction to capture much (if any) of the sky either. Also, go outside next time the moon is out, get your phone out and take a photo or video of it... looks like a tiny blob of light doesn't it, far worse than what your naked eye sees.

In December I was curious about MUFON so joined, paid to take the test to become a field investigator as I was curious what people are reporting (largely commercial aircraft I suspect after having worked at an airport for 15 years and seeing aircraft appear to do wonky stuff due to distance/speed/absurdly bright landing lights), and joined the MUFON facebook group.

On the Facebook group, when you sift through the hot chaff of people claiming they've been telepathically communicating with umpteen races of aliens that "their sources" given them "intel" about, you get a lot of photos and videos of what are almost certainly commercial aircraft. In once instance in the past few weeks someone posted a photo of an "alien ship" that was blatantly a Mylar balloon in the shape of a sun with wavy rays of Mylar around the edge of the balloon.

Then factor in things like stars, planets, satellites, toy and commercial drones, Chinese lanterns, balloons, space debris reentering the atmosphere, military aircraft refueling, etc and you quickly realize that probably 99.999999999999999999999999% of Unidentified Flying Objects are man made and natural phenomenon, often extremely boring stuff.

Recently there was some siting off of Hawaii of some blue orb. I had multiple people get into arguments with me on the MUFON group about it's origins. I believe it was random space junk, immediately a man began insisting it was an "ion propulsion" alien ship crashing after it had been shot, kept insisting that only that bluish glow could be create by an ET exotic technology star drive, I quickly pointed out more than a dozen materials that create a blue flame when they burn at which point he kept arguing with me and got quite hostile insisting it's a downed alien craft.

The past 2-3 days that group has had people sharing a recent article about Juno detecting an FM radio signal from one of Jupiter's moons. Almost everyone on those posts is adamant it is an extraterrestrial signal that NASA is trying to cover up. Virtually none of them are willing to even entertain the idea that this is 100% a natural phenomenon that science can fully explain.

Even if all of the cameras we have deployed around the planet were capable of getting high resolution, stable, quality images of the bulk of Unidentified Flying Objects, some people would simply claim a conspiracy when you showed they were very much not little green men in flying saucers.
FPGAs can generally achieve much lower latencies than systems like the Pi (but so can microcontrollers). For some use cases they can be more power efficient. If you need some oddball I/O that isn't widely available in existing systems you can implement it in gateware.

In general I would say there aren't a whole lot of cases where it makes sense to use an FPGA over a microcontoller or SBC given how cheap and fast they are these days. Of course like a lot of hobbyist tech stuff people will choose to use a certain technology for fun/learning.

Note that the Pi didn't exist yet when this CPU was designed, the embedded world was very different 10 years ago.
One would think teaching 20 5-year olds online would be an insurmountable task but it's actually been my wife's best year teaching after 6 years of in person teaching at one of the best schools in the county. The parents have been extraordinarily nice and have gone out of their way to share gratitude and one family even sent a bottle of wine.

She went from in person teaching kindergarten last year to doing the districts virtual program this year. The district has 72,000 students in K-12 and around 15% of them signed up to do all virtual this year. To give you an idea of scale, just the kindergarten teachers the virtual program has would've been more teachers than an entire traditional school would have (over 40). Most elementary schools have around 4-5 K5 teachers. The teachers still had a similar number of students as normal (around 20) and they primarily use Google Meet for live classes and Seesaw for assigning and turning in work.

Most of her students have shown improvements throughout the year so far during assessments which is promising and means teaching small children online is actually possible. She meets with the whole class at 7:45 for around 15 minutes and then does small groups from 8-10 with groups of 3-4 kids. Sometimes that goes into individual instruction as well while she gives a task to the small group and then meets 1on1 with a student individually. She meets back up with all the kids at 10 for another class lesson. From around 10:30 - 12:30 the students have PE/Art/Music with another teacher and then she does another group lesson, and then small groups, etc. until 1:30 when instruction is done for the day.

There was a learning curve at first but now most of the students are able to login to their correct classes at the right times which blows me away. The fact 5-year olds are able to more or less keep their own schedule and do assignments on their Chromebook should not be a surprise I guess but it still blows my mind.

This format has really allowed her to get way more done than she normally would during a regular school day. In person she would be at school from 7am-3pm most days plus a 20 minute commute. Having breaks during the day to do planning has been a great gift that would normally be taken up by other things in person. I can also get into the curriculum and how that worked going from 0 but this is already getting long. Happy to answer any questions if there are any.
Honest question: is it actually legal is the US to discriminate by race like this, and “invest in black and brown companies”?

I thought they ended this in the education system (“affirmative action”) because it was illegal?
I’m 63, and though I have seen it used in memes I never thought of it as a pejorative. Maybe in a mild joking sort of way? Are people really insulted by this?
First it's illegal but secondly the performance is atrocious anyways (at least last time I've tried) so it won't even help you that much.
> We badly need a really-open alternative

F-Droid is a thing
WhatsApp on damage control mode: Full frontpage ads on major newspapers
"Full-Page Ads On Day 2: WhatsApp Tries To Allay Privacy Concerns Again"
I blame Google. Had they made Android good, they would've crushed the iPhone eons ago.
I implore everyone to read the article. It is well documented and quite shocking.
How is it non-differentiable? They explicitly point out that after prefiltering (convolution with a pixel filter), it is differentiable.

Moreover, these derivatives can be obtained via methods like Automatic Differentiation, so they are true derivatives, not finite difference approximations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_differentiation
>Do we have any such examples with 50 different angles of the same UFO event?

Go join the MUFON Facebook group and look back the past few weeks at the folks discussing this blue thing off the coast of Hawaii. . I had multiple people get into arguments with me on the MUFON group about it's origins. I believe it was random space junk, immediately a man began insisting it was an "ion propulsion" alien ship crashing after it had been shot, kept insisting that only that bluish glow could be create by an ET exotic technology star drive, I quickly pointed out more than a dozen materials that create a blue flame when they burn at which point he kept arguing with me and got quite hostile insisting it's a downed alien craft. I think one even claimed they communicated with the 'crew of the ship'.

People... believe what they want to.
Apple could win a hole lot of points here by processing the donations themselves. The upside for them is that it would close the loophole.
Right!

A solved game is categorically different from merely teaching a machine to be better at it than humans are presently.

Cepheus [0] is approximately a solution to Heads-Up (two player) Limit (ie the amount you can bet is specified in the game, you don't get to just bet arbitrary money) Texas Hold 'em poker.

In contrast Libratus is an AI that plays Heads-Up No Limit Hold 'em very well against humans.

You can examine the Cepheus strategy for yourself, if you could memorize it (it's too complicated) and were capable of making truly random decisions (Poker is a game of chance and so your strategy needs random action) you could reproduce it and be exactly as good at the game as Cepheus is. You can examine individual strategy elements and reason about them. For example if Cepheus gets an 8 and a 3 and you open with a bet, it will call your bet if they're the same suit, otherwise it will fold. On the other hand if those suited cards were an 8 and a Queen, it would raise a bit more than nine times out of ten.

You can't do anything about it (you might be thinking surely knowing that e.g. Cepheus folds 8-3 off here is valuable so I can benefit from that, er, no, "hiding" that by sometimes playing it loses more money than Cepheus gives up by folding it that's why this is a perfect strategy), if playing Cepheus, even with an incrementally "more" approximate solution you're not going to win a significant amount of money reliably in reasonable time, that's why it's approximately solved.

But Libratus isn't like that, it's playing some strategy that we know beat world class human players, but a further incrementally better AI might crush Libratus just as badly.

[0] http://poker.srv.ualberta.ca/preflop