skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It sets forth indicators of “white supremacy culture in the mathematics classroom,” including a focus on “getting the right answer,” teaching math in a “linear fashion,” requiring students to “show their work” and grading them on demonstrated knowledge of the subject matter. “The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false,” the manual explains. “Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuates ‘objectivity.’ ”

This scares and angers me in a way that I am struggling to express.
> They wouldn't do that if they were trying to force people to buy Bluetooth.

Apple removed a headphone jack and provided a stopgap solution in the form of a dongle that was easy to lose and that provided a noticeably worse experience than a normal jack (the inability to charge and listen at the same time).

Once consumers started to come into the Bluetooth ecosystem, Apple raised the gates behind them and stopped providing that stopgap solution. This is pretty normal. For example, if you want to change your privacy policy, make an optional change at first, and then shift it to be opt-out, and then finally make it mandatory.

When you introduce a new policy or change to your products, use the optional nature of that change to shut down complaints. Even though they're not strictly required to, at least some people will migrate (after all, some people were buying Bluetooth headphones before the removal of the jack), and you can use that as evidence to support introducing further changes that make it harder and more annoying not to migrate. Eventually, the numbers will look good enough that you can stop pretending it's a choice at all.

And how does that work out in practice? Well, Apple now controls ~70% of the totally wireless headphone market, and AirPods are arguably one of their most important product categories.

> they're not needed and would be wasteful to include

This is a level of charity towards business press releases that I just don't really know how to connect with. I don't mean this as a gotcha question or anything, but do you believe Apple when they say the reason new iPhones are shipping without chargers is to help the environment? I thought we all took it as a given that all of the companies saying stuff like this were full of crap.
In photography you’ll hear similar arguments about people using the camera display instead of the viewfinder. The viewfinder provides the best view of what the image will look like, but people would rather hold their camera out in front of them then stick their eye up to the viewfinder.

I think the argument can be made that the pro-view offered by halide would be better for image composition than the iPhone, but as mentioned using the whole screen won’t allow you to truly see everything.
Century-old water valve invented by Nikola Tesla could have modern use
How is someone mining on GPUs they bought themselves infringing on your freedom, pray tell?
That's amazing! What have you learned to play so far?

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You could even ask to hear them play when you see them next.
What major newspaper doesn't engage in that in their opinion pieces?

In this case, the editorial provides numerous references. Read the references and form your own opinions.
Not a Googler but I think that's great, personally. Google has already found a stable business model and racial equity is a problem.
> It's possible that quantum optimizers could be exponentially faster than existing optimization techniques by evaluating multiple minima simultaneously.

Is there any known quantum algorithm that gives a speedup over classical algorithms? I don't mean "call Grover as a subroutine" during your standard classical optimization algorithm.
So much this! Nothing like “are you enjoying them?”... Totally weird.
If we didn’t have such a dire chip shortage I would be upset on principle, but I see this as a move that’s supposed to help long time customers get a hand at a Graphics card at a reasonable price. Once mining will ebb off, those customers are unlikely to keep buying Nvidia products so it’s entirely understandable why they would do this. Also, it’s not like on iOS where the company whitelists apps, this is a very specific blacklisting.
Who the fuck is gonna determine what is valuable?

A re-distributive carbon tax incentivizes efficiency, doesn't hit stuff like renewables and allows individuals to keep on choosing what they want to do with their life.

Just because you don't find facebook valuable doesn't mean that others feel the same way.
GitOps-Friendly Spec for Service Level Objectives
I’m not sure how crypto mining infringes on anyone’s freedom?
See the comment from @jasoncwarner about GitHub actions being a platform for much more than CI.

I wonder how far that extends to non-GitHub provided services. For instance, could we leverage GitHub actions, perhaps even Flat Data, to scrape some web site and store it (perhaps uploading elsewhere) in a more comprehensive way vs. storing some small snippet of the data in a git repo?
Curated roadmap for engineers to learn hiring practices
You can see the source material here:

https://equitablemath.org/

What is this nonsense?

> The Pathway offers guidance and resources for educators to use now as they plan their curriculum, while also offering opportunities for ongoing self-reflection as they seek to develop an anti-racist math practice. The toolkit “strides” serve as multiple on-ramps for educators as they navigate the individual and collective journey from equity to anti-racism.
Because an outright ban is misguided anyway. PoW systems incentivize renewable R&D and investment. If you just straight-up make it illegal, you kill a major driving force of change for the better. If you restrict carbon output instead, you just further challenge the industry to find a way to work inside those bounds, allowing creativity and positive externalities to continue to develop.
i'll check back on this coin when its tokenomics have improved. I am not interested in something with 70% of the total supply not yet in circulation.
> Spaces effectively gives us a way of creating a global decentralised filesystem hierarchy on top of Matrix - grouping the existing rooms of all flavours into an epic multiplayer tree of realtime data. It's like USENET had a baby with the Web!

For anyone only casually following Matrix, it's important to remember that it's not just a chat system. It's a distributed, eventually-consistent store of ordered data. That store just happens to primarily be used for chat at the moment.

I'm personally very excited about where this technology could go. The federation, consensus, and organizational technologies underlying Matrix the chat app are very general and have tons of potential.

Thanks to the whole team! Spaces is definitely a welcome feature. I have plans to experiment with it to see if we can use room hierarchies as a way to enable posting and discussing software patches.
Can we all take a moment to appreciate the ridiculous picture of the "hackers" without desks at the top of the article?
The general rule of thumb for reasonably sized cores, which both Apple's performance and efficiency cores are, is that performance tends to scale with the square of the transistor and energy budget due to N^2 structures like the bypass network, ROB, etc being the long poles. Now, for any given transistor budget there's going to be a non-linear tradeoff between performance and power governed by supply voltage versus process threshold voltage. And if you're testing a chip and using only one or the other of the two sorts of cores you're paying for the uncore and memory subsystem regardless of which cores you're testing which complicates things. But it would be really weird if power consumption wasn't super linear with performance, that's why "efficiency cores" have "efficiency" in their name.
Maybe he's just down-to-Earth, honest in his emotions, and doesn't like artificially hyping things up? Sounds good to me.
What AWS tools? This [1]? If so, it looks interesting, I need to take a closer look at it.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/security/provable-security/
Could you explain how you see crypto miners as infringing on other's freedoms?

I certainly agree with your first sentence, and think NVIDIA crippling hash rates on their GPUs is the lesser of two evils - just because I think crypto miners are a) wasting massive amounts of electricity and b) messing up prices in the GPU market.
Hiding innocently on the front-page of HN is the bombshell
Many here are suggesting heavy marketing. That's possible if you have deep pockets or a lot of skill in that area.

In the space I work marketing doesn't lead to sales very quickly. What does is retail relationships. That is getting stores to sell our product. This can be done because our product is good quality for the price and we have an ordering channel that makes life easy for big retail.

The only way to get these relationships is to do sales. To be out there talking to the right people in retail chains. Start small with local retailers, build a name for your brand. But sell sell sell. You have to be out there calling and meeting store owners, or hire people to do so.
It's an op-ed piece on WSJ. Op-ed piece is just that, someone's opinions. They don't have the same journalistic standards as real news articles. My personal preference is to generally avoid all op-ed pieces and if I do read them, I would be very critical of them. My only advice is that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Op-eds tends to be low on the evidence vs claims ratio.
It is amazing how the company went downhill in a few short years.
Yes! And video.

My coach uses it to film climbing and it's really helpful for instant feedback. There are also apps to do more in depth analysis to for instance draw geometry on your movement to understand and improve.
Hi Jason, thank you very much for the background and the explanation. It is fascinating to see the progress in this direction.

I started raising my eyebrow (in the best possible sense) upon seeing parts of tooling very similar to ours but simpler and more importantly - without moving parts. We operate in biomedical data space and deal with flat/static data a lot, for example we power https://biokeanos.com with data-in-repo, so Flat Data was immediately interesting.

It is really inspiring to see GitHub actions to having a foray in this direction, definitely something to keep an eye on.
Personally don't care for the touchbar, but it is fun sometimes as I have an external keyboard.

The fact the OS runs a dozen network services without being able to deactivate them is (the final straw) the pushed me back into the Linux camp.
Yes, it sucks, but the tragedy of the commons is real[0]. Not that I defend NVs solution, but I think the problem is worse overall.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
As someone who has written so much boilerplate data-collection code (i.e. scripts that I cron on my local repo, then push to Github), this is really incredible. I've been really impressed with what Simon W. has shown off with Github Actions but hadn't yet felt compelled enough to dive in and learn the conventions...but this looks like a great entry point.

Don't know if this is the place to report bugs, but I was trying the github»flatgithub data viewer trick on an old repo that has a name of `white_house_salaries`.

My data subdirectories have several files named white_house_salaries.csv — e.g. data/wrangled/white_house_salaries.csv is the "finished" version. However, visiting that file in flatgithub.com gives me a "No valid data" error:

https://flatgithub.com/storydrivendatasets/white_house_salar...

I get the same error when visiting data/fused/white_house_salaries.csv.

However, when I rename the file to something other than "white_house_salaries.csv", like, data/wrangled/white_house_salaries_wrangled.csv, it works as expected:

https://flatgithub.com/storydrivendatasets/white_house_salar...

I'm guessing there must be some issue with the data filename (white_house_salaries.csv) sharing the same name as the repo (storydrivendatasets/white_house_salaries)?
Like knows like. That description definitely fits me, my husband and a few other people I in my life who I care about deeply. We all know we're obnoxious sometimes - but we're all just trying to root out the truth of things and improve things as well as we know how. It's a little annoying that we are pushed into pursuing capitalist endeavors over other things right now - but practically speaking, you can make a lot more change in less time if you have the capital for it.

Still, it's stuff like Andrew Yang's presidential run that really give me hope that we might be on the cusp of changing things outside of business as well. Not just in politics (obviously, since he lost) but at least in culture - with coherent ideas and platforms that can't be ignored. There have been others in the past who were like us and tried similar things (Huey Long comes to mind), but understanding technology gives our generation a huge economic tool that we can also use to our advantage. Of course, if my peers are any indication: our society and entire economic system seem designed for the express purpose of making millennials depressed. And it's not really easy to shrug that off and just build things when the state of so many people you care about is so dire.
> From first appearances he is an absolute bozo.

He's pretty much the main figurehead of the right to repair movement from the consumer electronics side of things. He has run his own independent repair shop doing board level repairs for years in NYC.

https://www.fighttorepair.org/ is him.
Thanks! That's what I was going for.

++dave; 1Password Founder
How big of data can this handle?
Can't drive people to the mining cards they've released if you have everyone using the consumer hardware.

As someone who really likes the performance and ecosystem around NVIDIA cards this makes me happy, because I'll probably be able to own one sometime before the heat death of the universe if trends like this continue. But,

"To help get GeForce GPUs in the hands of gamers,"

Is a load of crock. They have a new mining focused product line they want miners purchasing and they get the convenience of the nice gamer PR from this to run it behind.

Company gonna company. I'm not saying it's a bad thing by the way, just don't think they're all pro gamer or doing it for reasons besides money.
I've thought exactly this thing for years. I'm afraid that you'd have to build a completely separate organization with a separate management line up to the top of the chart. and even then you'd spend most of your time protecting yourself from the NSA and it's brethren.
I wonder if this uses a microlens display.
> Another solution may be to somehow turn off your fierceness, by devoting yourself to meditation or psychotherapy or something like that. Maybe that's the right answer for some people. I have no idea. But it doesn't seem the optimal solution to me. If you're given a sharp knife, it seems to me better to use it than to blunt its edge to avoid cutting yourself.

Meditation doesn't necessarily lead to a reduction in "ferocity." The Buddha was a fierce nerd, according to Graham's characterization of "fierce." He took on an ambitious goal, and made immense sacrifices to see it through. He could also be quite "fierce in his speech, post-enlightenment. E.g.

> "And to whom, worthless man, do you understand me to have taught the Dhamma like that? Haven't I, in many ways, said of dependently co-arisen consciousness, 'Apart from a requisite condition, there is no coming-into-play of consciousness'? [2] But you, through your own poor grasp, not only slander us but also dig yourself up [by the root] and produce much demerit for yourself. That will lead to your long-term harm & suffering."
Unfortunately, the serious part is this nonsense is being discussed by leadership in the educational system of some stages.
The Pragmatic Guide to Encryption for Healthcare Startups in the US
> absinthe advertised itself a lib to write graphql servers ; we were looking for a graphql client

> And it's entirely possible that we simply picked the wrong lib !

This is 100% a failure of a decision-making process, not the language ecosystem. Picking the wrong library could be avoided by the smallest amount of diligence, it's pretty language agnostic.
Daft Punk successor?
SRE Community Launches OpenSLO Specification at SLOConf
His public persona had that (and he made a lot of people with soft bigotry mad with it), but in his act, he is just a guy. Giving his children chocolate cake for breakfast and helping his wife breathe during childbirth.
The masks too. For maximum anonymity online.
I'm interested to know more about a system that doesn't benefit early adopters... Do you have any sources? Thanks :)
As someone who's been thrust into the embedded world for the last couple years, I have to say that her posts are a breath of fresh air. Her other articles are well worth the time if you're interested in the topic.
> Part of a good security posture is protecting yourself against insider threats. If you're not doing this, you're not taking cybersecurity seriously.

How do you protect yourself? There are ways to mitigate, surely, but any failure can be a catastrophic incident, and it is literally impossible to protect against all internal threats (in the sense of guaranteeing that no such threat is ever acted upon). All else aside, it just shifts the responsibility one level up: now you have to worry about a compromise of the people responsible for protecting from internal threats.
What is the program that you are using? I am currently using odrive for macOS since they don't have DriveFS support for Apple Silicon. odrive work ok, it just have a weird file conflict sometime.
How's this paper's reproducibility? Because more and more I see Google publishing papers with internal data and telling others "if you had this data you would be able to reproduce this results"
or they simply keep it secret.
Mercado Libre: Six Stories
Google shows off Android 12’s UI overhaul
https://archive.is/UKcal
Well that restriction will probably disappear if you just give them your credit card number
I’m not saying you can’t be both under- and overconfident. I’m saying that if you’re using terms so broad and vague, you could probably describe anyone that way.
At least you get a receipt when you pay your taxes I guess?

One challenge with inflation is how hard it is to measure and how it impacts different parts of the economy differently. If you’re buying chickens, it might be impacting you 20% or 100%, houses the same range but differently, etc. taxes at least are usually published and more knowable/can be planned around.
And a Hyundai Kona Electric did 1000km as well, probably at ridiculously low speeds as well :) ( https://thedriven.io/2020/08/14/three-unmodified-kona-electr... )
What do you mean? We totally got what we wanted; we have a deflationary currency we trade for goods and services.

I'm 100% serious here; it's been working fine for quite a number of years. The fiat conversion is pretty noisy but BTC on average goes up in value in fiat terms at a fast pace. BTC is easy to turn it into stuff. No one has ever censored my transactions or asked for ID. Even if you buy something really expensive or totally illegal. It has literally already worked. It started working the day that guy bought a pizza and it hasn't stopped working.
> Bitcoin already uses a very high percentage of the total energy that the global financial services industry does, and it moves a very small amount of money around to show for it.

Citation needed.

Citation that counters that perception: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-uses-less-than-...

> If the bitcoin network were to move quadrillions of dollars per year, it would probably have to use more energy than we are capable of producing

Sigh, this gets spouted like it's the truth by people who don't understand the simple fact that the energy usage in bitcoin is NOT used on transactions! and it DOES NOT scale with the number of transactions!. [1]

> And bitcoin cannot offer insurance, or retirement and estate planning, it cannot take my company public or help me raise money on the bond market. It cannot facilitate a repo transaction on my real estate portfolio, and it cannot offer me a mortgage to purchase a home.

These are the usecases for subsequent layers, and there are services popping up for these already! bitcoin is a relatively young system that is purely community driven.

[1]: https://www.coindesk.com/frustrating-maddening-all-consuming...
A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction
Is this 200k HIPPA violations?
Winterbloom's documentation is also truly amazing. So much polish. E.g. https://gemini.wntr.dev/
I'd further add on to say PoS has the benefit of being able to eliminate bad actors unilaterally. You can't stop anyone from attacking a PoW chain over and over again. Attacking a PoS chain is much riskier as the attacker's stakes are held on chain and are at the mercy of the community who uses the network.
With respect, has there been any social science or psychological studies on the "fierce nerd" and its observed characteristics as Graham has noted here?
Fox News culture wars bullshit, in which the work of a small group is cherry picked and taken out of context and calculated to feed the outrage machine.

Gotta get those clicks. You’re being manipulated.
No, you'd need around 6-7kw per car.
> Why did the Federal Reserve Act initially offer such a generous dividend to member banks? It was essentially part of a marketing campaign. “At the time the Fed was not terribly popular with the banks, and they wanted to attract members,” said Allan Meltzer, professor of political economy at Carnegie Mellon University and a historian of the Federal Reserve. “They had to give up a major source of revenue, the charge they made for check clearing. Back then, if you received a check for $10, you might get back $9.50.” The dividend was seen as a way to entice banks into joining the Federal Reserve system.

from: https://newrepublic.com/article/116913/federal-reserve-divid...
> Freedom is great when people aren't using their freedom to infringe on other people's freedom.

Other people driving up the price on something you want is not "[infringing] on other people's freedom". It's an inconvenience, but you're still completely free to buy at the inflated price.
Haven't heard much positive feedback from other people testing 12 on their pixels when it comes to the UI changes. I'm still kinda on the fence but a lot could change by release. The privacy changes seem to be the only benefit to 12 so far personally. Which of course makes it worth the move.
I meant this in terms of justifying it to themselves. They wouldn't lose also over "evading justice" because they don't think it's really just.

>But after that, it becomes a bit chicken and egg: Is it a sham only because you have power to make it a sham or was it a sham all along?

I disagree with this point. It was a sham all along. I think the chicken and egg problem is that people feeling like the system is a sham makes the system into a sham. Which came first? A system that's a sham or the belief?
> since the interests of a few ultimately triumphed over the best interests of the system as a whole

Is it in the best interests of "the system" (interesting choice of words... instead of "the many") to require enterprise infrastructure in order to run a node?
interesting philosophical question that intersects with "right to repair" and "ownership of digital purchases". when you buy a product does the company get to dictate what you can do with it.