skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do yourself a big favor and read the book "Why Don't Students Like School?" by Prof. Daniel T. Willingham. He's a prof of psych at the University of Virginia specializing in the application of cog sci and neuro sci to K-12 education.

I don't know who chose the title, but it doesn't describe the book, which is really a collection of articles about the results of experiments comparing various learning & teaching techniques. Only one chapter is about why children, who like learning some things, don't like school.

Willingham publishes in academic journals and in journals for educators, so you can find other writings online. He tries to persuade teachers that so much of what the elite grad schools of education teach is intellectual fashion out of touch with actual cog sci findings, but all he cares about are the science experiments.
Maybe they are criminals. They can steal all they want and not go to prison. Sounds like heaven for a thief.
1) Who cares what Sam Altman says? By SV standards, he's not successful.

2) What Jeff Bezos meant was that people often measure the wrong thing. He wasn't saying facts are bad, he's saying their interpretation can be, so look for the underlying truth.

That's different than valuing feelings over facts, which is what you're referring to. Which is what our current post-fact society looks like, especially the gynocracy.

(An example of the above is that I worked at a place where the monthly availability reports always said 99.99% uptime, yet when you sshed into a random server at any time, the app server was down, and customers said they couldn't log in. We never explained why the metrics were inaccurate, but we went through and fixed 200 servers and at the end the reports matched the customer experience (reduction in support calls) - 99.99%.)
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> By his death and resurrection, Christ has purchased our redemption and freed us from our sins

By the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization

Hahahaha.

Maybe it's coming time for a restriction on HN article topics? Political gunk is getting worse than that time I signed up for a Trump newsletter
And the secure alternative: http://blackhole.run
Heavily encrypted, private and free.
> I'm really surprised that most of the top level comments are so negative.

Lots of throwaway accounts here, and the comments are clearly written by people who aren't professionals in this field. Just downvote them and move on.

> Does your insurance company require certain fairness metrics be deployed to maintain your product or service policy coverage? Will your company pursue tax incentives that focus on certain definitions of unbiasedness?

These are scary thoughts. If this kind of policy does come to pass, I fear it would backfire significantly, basically making any machine learning (let alone "AI") a serious legal liability. Imagine world in which companies no longer want to hire data scientists of the regulatory risk of even having one on staff!

There's an argument to be made that a bit of ML liability is a good thing, that important decisions shouldn't be made by machine. I'm tempted to agree in most cases. But encoding it into regulation will be extremely difficult, even if you have truly pure and noble intentions, without making a giant mess. And that's before you realize that, obviously, major "AI powers" like Google, Facebook, etc. could have been working on this for years, and as soon as it's ready for production they will start lobbying aggressively for it, in order to further monopolize the ML/AI field.

Also, do the machines actually perform worse (i.e. "more biased") than underpaid humans who are prone to fatique, mistakes, and laziness?
Why would Google even attempt to spy on those patterns? it serves no purpose and how do you justify employee time spent for such useless things? Not to mention apple proxies all requests through their servers rendering such analysis utterly useless to begin with.
That's rather cynical, but to clarify, my comment is rooted in the understanding (illustrated by OP in some excellent examples) that all of our digital infrastructure, from browsers down to silicon, are born from tight engineering schedules, "ship it" mentality, a focus on "ROI", and not necessarily security. Even if there were more focus on security, OPs article is fantastic at showing a sliver of this complexity, and the daunting task it is to understand the inter-relationship and consequences of many individual design choices, across a litany of components and libraries, over many decades and teams.

As a first step, I'd like to see some tough laws that hold companies liable for data leaks. Once it becomes a major liability to be the source of a data leak, most companies won't bother collecting PII, and will make it a point to ensure it's not stored on their systems. Nonetheless, systems will always have vulnerabilities and be exploited. This is at least worrisome from many, if not terrifying, and that should not be automatically interpreted as "security-paranoia FUD".
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I’ve lived in north beach for about 11 years. Not really sure how to answer your question other than to say I still love it as much as the day I moved in.

I have everything I need within walking distance. The weather is incredible. I’ve never been robbed or had any particularly bad experiences (I’m relatively tall and a man so ymmv).

I don’t know, from my perspective it’s a pretty great city unless you have to spend a lot of time in SOMA or the tenderloin.

I can certainly understand why others haven’t had the same experience. But I don’t think it’s surprising that 3 in 10 are able to say they still enjoy it. It all comes down to when you moved here, where you live, and how much you’re paying.
Arguably, in your example showing the most prominent CEOs is the correct response. It is ideology to claim "women are only not CEOs because they have no role models, therefore we should make our AI lie about female CEOs to normalize the idea, so that more women will become CEOs".

Actually I think there are lots of articles about female CEOs, as female CEOs will be more likely to be written about than male CEOs ("the top female CEOs fo 2021" and so on, there are bound to be countless such articles).
I think that’s a feature, not a vulnerability:
There's a great study that shows how the "homeboys" driving their buddies to the hospital after gunshot / stabbing trauma have better outcomes than the paramedics because (1) the police mostly delay paramedics' arrival, (2) homeboys are already on the scene, (3) homeboys are faster at getting to the hospital. This is why police are not allowed inside hospitals to interview patients - their loitering outside ERs is barely tolerated by staff in major metros. They harm health outcomes (surprise, surprise).

Is this lack of training? Where were the police earlier, before the gangsters shot each other? There is already evidence they delay care and harm outcomes, and they do not change what they do, so why would they carry life saving devices? They don't, because like with drug addiction, public health isn't commensurable with modern law enforcement.

On the flip side, nobody is really satisfied with the idea that it takes a trauma surgeon to save you. You're right that it takes skills, but not skills that a paramedic, a nurse or many other people have.
Yes. People forget how difficult it is to produce even a screw or a nail. And then there are way more difficult things like tubes.
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> She also taught us not to “stop and start over” when we made mistakes.

This is so true. I learn piano myself and I'm a trackmania gamer for years.
Learning a piano piece (some bars or full length for easy pieces) is quite the same as learning a track layout in trackmania. You have to go through the whole, regardless of the speed to see at least where it leads you. And if you just restart after the slightest error, you will perfect just the begin of the track yet you will struggle every time once you reach the unknown parts.
I feel like this will happen if you watch 74 movies a year that you've never seen before. Even when I had time to engross myself in international cinema in the mid 00s with none of today's level of distraction I wasn't hitting 74 a year and that was with Netflix DVDs and a membership with a few private BT trackers and DC++ on top (of course one had to wait hours to days to pull things down).

I think that the real ceiling for quality content, film or no, is the writing and there's no way to generate more high-quality writers on demand. Editing? You can walk down a street in Brooklyn and find an editor no problem. Cinematography? Art schools produce tons of people who are good at taking pretty pictures.

But there's only one Charlie Kaufman. There's only one Aaron Sorkin. There's only one Quintin Tarantino. There's just the Coen Brothers. No amount of art school or trial and error can make you a compelling writer.

So we're at a point where there's an abundance of people who can help you make a movie technically, an abundance of people who will finance a movie, an abundance of people who will act in your movie (everyone I remember from the 90s is still available as an actor on top of everyone else trying to be one) but just not an abundance of good writers and that'll probably always be true.
I would say the family 200GB plan is the most common and also I have to say still its way less paying people than I thought it would be.
If you love doing hands-on project, I recommend you to look at the existing awesome Rails app. You will learn a lot, and learn what matters.

I already make a tons of awesome Ruby on Rails list here;

https://github.com/asyraffff/Open-Source-Ruby-and-Rails-Apps
It's tough to imagine Evergreen winning an Egyptian civil court case against a local government agency. Regardless of what actually happened in the grounding incident, that's just not how things work in Egypt. And Evergreen has to maintain a working relationship with the Suez Canal Authority so that they can continue doing business.
Culture Impacts Technology Choice: Review of Netflix’s Use of Microservices
Since not everyone will click the link and read to the end of the post, it seemed worth pointing out that the vulnerability being commented on here was fixed: https://schollz.com/blog/croc9/
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1. No, they could just as easily package the info and allow the user to upload the logs to an error reporting system/website.

2. No, off by default or ask on first boot.

3. What data are they collecting that would be shareable to law enforcement? The feds need to know I’m on an outdated version?

I will not use or recommend Audacity anymore. It’s a shame, I really like Audacity and I’ve been using it since high school.
Are there fundamental limits to mechanical reliability?

Towards the end the article talks about how the initial startup period for the colony will be the hardest.

If the startup process were automated, no one would be at risk. Send the first colonists once the tomatoes are ripe. But is there a practical limit on how much can be automated, remotely?

Are we approaching (or have we already passed?) a singularity in the human race based on our ability to product fault tolerant ball race bearings and machine screws that never snap?
> As a simplified example, they want to make the AI "not see color" and think that will make the problems go away.

I promise you that is the exact opposite of what they want.
IO requests are communication.
The difference as I understand it is that a cube specifically is the multidimensional schema definition of your data set. So for instance typically in an OLTP system you’d have customer data, product data, sales data, performance data, etc. Usually that data is in separate tables.

OLAP is the combined methods that allow you to analyze the data, roll it up, aggregate it, combine it across dimensions etc. Usually by using a star schema.

A OLAP Cube, then, is the full multidimensional schema and relations of all the data. Typically a cube lets you define how each type of field is aggregated, whether it’s summing count fields, averaging dollar fields, or special rules for date fields etc. In addition you specify hierarchies of the data, so for instance City belongs to State belongs to Country, etc.

Once it’s all defined and the ETLs transfer your OLTP data into the OLAP system, then the cube allows for complicated ad-hoc queries. An example is a spreadsheet like cube explorer that allowed you to “slice”, “dice”, “drill”, and “pivot” in real time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLAP_cube#Operations

The queries are run by the tool as you change the “cube spreadsheet” real time. Typically aggregates are precomputed to speed things up.

So as I understand columnar data systems, especially if we’re talking not defining cube multidimensional schema, then some database engineer needs to program each view of the data as requested by the consumers of the data.

So as I understood the article, columnar databases let you get away with all the slicing and dicing etc in a performant way due to the database architecture and speed. Without defining the multidimensional cube schema upfront. The problem is, that seems to me to mean, those definitions are just being created later by the query designers, instead of upfront. I haven’t seen, nor does the article talk about any tools that can replace the tools that OLAP cube systems typically have that let you take advantage of that predesigned cube schema.

Here’s a single example called JPivot in action. The is running MDX queries in the cube as it’s manipulated:

https://youtu.be/dLccogT_phY
More "clearing amyloid" BS.

Nobody has ever demonstrated any connection between clearing amyloid and reversal or even slowed decline, despite decades trying. The newly approved drug is BS; three FDA board members resigned in protest after that happened.

The only interventions I ever heard of that made a difference were (1) herpes antivirals and (2) TDAP vaccination. Neither can get access to funding, almost all controlled by the amyloid/tau mafia.
What audience are you writing for?

Drill by frequently publishing work to that audience so you can get feedback and iterate. Build up larger works over time.
I'm not Irish in any meaningful way (a great-great grandmother). I'm an Australian from a regional area.

It's interesting that there's an overlap!
William S. Burroughs' first work Junky came with a glossary like this. It was published as a trashy train station book rather than capital-A art, so it was necessary to explain words like "croaker" and "cool" to the commuter audience.
True, without practice, neither tool is likely to lead to the desired outcome.

A gun is useless to some, especially those who are afraid to pick it up. A knife is useless to me - unless the attacker is a truckload of Amazon boxes.
Today when computers are connected to the whole world, they have to build safe. The analogy would be, if everybody in the whole world could access the buildings frontdoor. In a such scenario, the frontdoor would, of course, build very heavy.
>By the same logic, why would you (or anyone else) ever spend your Bitcoin if it is increasing in value so quickly?

That's exactly why I spend little as possible on things other than BTC. As a rough estimate, if I buy a good for $PRICE today I'm likely forfeiting around $PRICE*10 in 5-10 years which I would have if I bought BTC instead. Really highlights the opportunity cost of buying goods instead of investing.
Same reason for we say 1000 km instead of 1 Mm, or Sun to Earth 150 M km instead of 150 Gm. Some units are usual in some contexts, some are not. In one word, habits.
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It's never for you, it's for everyone.
I would say that a TI-84 is a glorified calculator.exe. The TI-84 is usually more effective, but they’re both calculators.
And while talking about Gitea, it is worth to mention Codeberg.

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The so-called "uncomfortable truths" might just be "uncomfortable" for you right now, but if you end up on the wrong statistical end of one of them, your life could be ruined.

There are very, very practical problems here. It's not about nebulously wanting to avoid enforcing stereotypes. It's about avoiding very real and very negative outcomes for unsuspecting and innocent individuals.

It's the same exact reason why "racial profiling" by the police is unequivocally and universally considered unjust and bad, except by racists who like to quote statistics as a kind of pragmatist veneer.

What's worse is that you could end up racially profiling people without even meaning to, either by omission (not enough people who look like X in the data) or by technical limitations (apparently facial recognition algorithms struggle with dark skin even on balanced datasets). There is a lot of very interesting and important work to be done in this area.
but surely you want to make sure every PoC is individually compensated for the systemic racism they had to endure? How is that different?

I am not opposed to scrutinizing decision making. But that should happen at the human level, not by scrubbing information from the data or output of algorithms.

Some bias is also necessary for survival. When I am walking home at night, I am more likely to change the side of the street when a group of men is approaching me, than when a group of women is approaching me. You can tell me that is discrimination all you want, but I value my life higher than your ideals of political correctness.
What were the remaining reasons to paint realism after relatively cheap color photography came about ~100 years ago and before the iPad was made, out of curiosity?
Probably because this article:

1) Doesn’t say it has no effect, it has “clinically insignificant especially when compared to saturated fat”. Not the same as no effect.

2) “ However, in the minds of the public, cholesterol in the diet, specifically from eggs, continues to be viewed with suspicion and that view is still reflected in the advice of some professionals.”

Professionals are still telling people to reduce cholesterol intake when your blood results show high cholesterol. How many people do you think spend every waking hour scouring for new health articles?

This is also just one study, maybe let’s not invalidate the many years of people reducing cholesterol intake to reduce cholesterol so quickly?
Okay, 50% worse or something I could maybe buy, but 1000%? You're giving a single bureaucrat way too much credit. People always seem to believe that there was some magical time when San Francisco was an artist's refuge, and the rent was cheap, and there was no crime. I don't buy it. I was driving with my father a while back, and he pointed out the apartment where he used to live. And the spot down the street where the under-aged prostitutes used to hang out. Parts of the city have been a mess longer than anyone has been alive. Some are improving, some are getting worse. Let's not pretend that firing one person would somehow fix all of that.
Then you have to go further back in order to find instances of fun/excitement/engagement.

While I haven't been keeping a detailed log - I did recall last time (and then several more before that) when I was able to put important/urgent project or work on hold to do something else that's more fun and has been itching for a while.

Literally last time was 3+ years ago - when I said to my team/manager "I know this project is behind/urgent, and to continue for a while longer on it, I'll take 2-3 days to work on this other thing that's not in our scope".

Since then it's been a stream of such behind/urgent/huge/important projects - and only now I realized that I didn't do those "breaks" of working shortly on something else.
> I will assume your questions are in good faith.

Stating this is not necessary.

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I understand what you're saying but in practice there is a big problem with user-driven bug reports: they don't happen.

So there's a gap there between your expectations of "only user sanctioned network usage" and developing a product that is better to use (for you!). Besides, does everyone share your expectations? I don't.

Your last paragraph goes off the rails quite a bit and is exactly the kind of thing that is counter productive IMO. Suddenly the Russians are involved when we're talking about logging some exceptions to Sentry? This is what makes people stop listening.

We need to find a balance between privacy and practicality if we want the general public to use more OSS, this absolutism is effectively gate keeping and makes me sad for the missed potential.
Ask HN: Do you unsubscribe from spam emails? Why? Why not?
So for the record, I don't mean marketing mails from lists you've subscribed to - but genuine spam emails that have gotten your emails from who knows where.

I'm curious how the HN community feels about using the Unsubscribe when it's just confirming to the spammer that theres a real person on the other side
I'm assuming you know that site was founded by Tucker Carlson? He might have an interest in making "liberal" cities and populations look as bad and scary as possible, even if it means writing outright lies. You should try to find a more reputable source.
If I wanted to be a better entrepreneur or engineer what drills would I do? Talking to customers? Marketing?
Car theft is way up, but goes largely unnoticed by those without cars, or have private parking. Uber/Lyft just doesn't work sometimes now, but those that don't use either service aren't going to notice.

It's sad that eg the bbq joint down the street closed down, but I can't wait to see what ends up there next! Will it be a fancy tea place? or have some sort of interesting delicious fusion food? It's sad they didn't survive covid, but all of the restaurants I'll miss aren't a 30% hit to the quality of life - there are a bunch of restaurants that managed to survive, and even some that opened up during the pandemic!

For those that had never really explored their neighborhood until the pandemic, finding awesome things nearby their house like a hidden garden actually improves life from before the pandemic! I became close friends during the pandemic to some acquaintences, and it's absolutely improved my quality of life.

Change isn't necessarily bad, so the 30% aren't avoiding the change - they're embracing it, celebrating the good parts, complaining about the old and new problems, but not letting it dampen their optimism for the future.
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> I think that the real ceiling for quality content, film or no, is the writing and there's no way to generate more high-quality writers on demand.

Pretty sure there's a decent number of writers out there in the world beyond the handful you mentioned, and plenty more trying to break in. For example, somehow you failed to mention any women writers.
I think it's fair to say that one component of AI ethics is identifying these subtle forms of "garbage out" and the subtle forms of "garbage in" that cause them.
> Am I the only one who thinks this is kind of petty?

Their new changes restricted use by individuals under 13. This is probably because they could run into trouble with GDPR with the personal data they are storing on users, which they have no good reason to store except that they can.

Audacity is used in public schools. Forking to keep the project usable by children learning the craft is not petty, it’s a worthwhile thing to do.

Ruining community trust so you can unnecessarily collect private information on your users, that is petty.
What does Apple sell wrt data storage that Google doesn't? The integration into apple's product line? Seems a bit mealy mouthed to me. Both companies sell storage to consumers.