skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's impossible in an environment where they have to train kids to perform standardized tests,

IMHO we need to ditch the standardized tests. The more testing we add the worse education seems to get.

Or rather, to rephrase that, the more tests we add the more homogenized education gets, which may very well be the point.

Without teaching to the test, you have some teachers who don't do much teaching at all, and other teachings who do an amazing job teaching students 3x what the students would otherwise learn in a "normal" classroom.

Teaching to a standardized tests ensures that everyone gets at least a basic education, but it also means some kids get a worse education.

So that kind of sucks, but it may very well be a net positive measured in "number of gets who get at least a decent education."

For society at large, we have to judge if it is worth giving some kids a 3x education and other kids a .5 education, or if we want everyone to get 1x education.

Crappy choice honestly.

> and what you learn in school is sitting in a desk, doing what you're told, giving your input only when prompted, and that the authority figure standing in front of you has to do things they don't want to do just like you do.

I never was much for "do what you're told".

I do however support the idea that learning some things is just painful. The only way to get better at writing is to do a lot of it. The only way to get better at presenting is to present. The only way to get better at math is to solve equations.

Practice does indeed make perfect.

I would not be as good as presenting today if I hadn't been forced to do countless presentations in school, which I hated! Each and every one, I complained that they were a useless exercise and that we'd be better off studying from a book than listening to the poorly done presentation of our peers!

But the presentations weren't so we could efficiently learn about the trials and tribulations of the Oregon trail, it was to make us learn how to prepare talking points, go through a topic in a reasonable manner, and speak clearly in front of a group.

So, thanks teach. Thank you for making me do the thing that I really didn't want to do.
Even STM32F4 which is sub-10$ can run SQLite decently. 4kb ram for stack is quite enough, and then whatever amount of working memory you can afford on it will make life easier. Using sram extension makes it trivial even.
Yes, but that's not a problem. In traditional systems the reason to avoid rebuilding everything isn't because it takes time (it does, but not that much time); the reason to avoid rebuilding everything is the fear that, halfway through rebuilding everything, you'll discover that some shared lib is missing, or some crucial toolchain has been uninstalled, or that some updated packages rely on incompatible versions of the same dependency, and it turns into a nightmare of toolchain and dependency resolution, leaving your system in a half-upgraded mess. But if the promise of Nix is true, then that's no longer possible; you rebuild everything, all the dependencies work out fine, and you go on with your day.
Minimum wage to drive a robot sounds way better than minimum wage in retail
I think LTT has mostly figured out a sustainable model:

1. Make low(er) budget videos regularly that may not earn you a ton but keep the algorithm happy and the money flowing.

2. Every now and then, make a few high-budget videos that "pop", which expands your audience and keeps the regulars hooked.

If you check their channel right now, most of the daily videos are kind of boring/stupid YouTube bait - I even stopped watching their channel because of that! But if you check back every month, there's maybe two-three videos that are genuinely unique or interesting. So I think LTT wouldn't care about RoI from an expensive hire on a per-video/per-view basis - it would be worth it for them if they could use that hire to build a captive audience to watch their cheaper video.
If the government says an individual isn't allowed to do something, like work in a financial profession or live near a school, that's up to the government to determine and enforce: "quit/relocate or you'll be back in prison."

Don't put that on businesses.
You absolutely nailed it.

> I'm aroace, so I may be over-sensitive to this kind of, "we're not saying there's anything wrong with you, we're just going to imply it over and over again" talk

That is literally what it is. I'm also ace and the first thought that came to my head was "oh boy, I can't wait to see what the article and comments say."
Docs are typically built from source on modern platforms. There's not reason to restrict type information to a particular set of tools when you are bothering to build documentation. Otherwise might as well save your time.
It's safe to omit quotes for POSIX shell variables that are initialized as numeric, and you enforce to remain numeric.

All else should be quoted, and newlines can happen, primarily from abuse. Do not trust user input!

Calling fopen() on a file with every ASCII character will work on POSIX, as long as it does not contain a null or forward slash (/). Coding defensively means that this does not crash your processing.
There's a difference here between time as a fundamental property of the universe, and "time", which is how we relate a bunch of physical phenomenon to that fundamental force.

That's the primary driver for complexity here. Time as a property is hard to deal with because we take something simple, like how many seconds have passed since some other point in time, and then we have to correlate it to the sun and the moon and how close the Earth is to the sun and what side of the Earth we're on, and etc.

It forces computers to wrap a simple understanding of the passage of time in a lot of context that makes no difference to the computer.

Getting rid of calendaring doesn't imply that no one knows when winter is; winter is still a function of time. It's a pretty simple algorithm to figure out whether a given month is winter or not. It's easy to derive that context from an absolute measurement of time. It's an incredible amount more difficult to go from our calendaring system to any kind of absolute time, because our calendaring is kind of arbitrarily made up to keep things in sync. It bears little semblance to the passage of time, because it's purpose is more about maintaining context (i.e. the sun rises early in the morning, it's winter in January, etc) than actually measuring the passage of time.
The problem is that the documentation is garbage.
This was my experience with a well. I was testing with a 36MB dataset and it was choking. The CPU was sitting at 4% usage.
It seems besides the point. The vast majority of cons are people without a huge range of skills to choose from.

I'm sure convicted hackers or white collar criminals have trouble finding work that suits their skill level but probably able to do so at a cut/lower level. The one convicted white collar criminal I know is working again.
NYC’s Giant Water Tunnel Begins Final Work After 50 Years of Construction
Having just done 8 years inside, I saw the split two ways: (1) a lot of people with a huge variety of undiagnosed mental health issues that made regular jobs difficult; and (2) those that had been indoctrinated since birth to believe that working a regular job was a loser path and that gaining income through crime was the only route acceptable due to peer pressure.
There are two different types of attacks.

One is fly-by attacks by random viruses and ransomware. For those cases, I would not worry about pictures.

Other is when you are targeted by regimes with essentially unlimited budget. In that case yes, the picture can be a spyware.
Can you tell me more about the “jumpy UI”? Are you referring to text styling toolbar, or something else?
Corporate proxies often need to log every URL that is visited. It's mostly used as a defense against employees looking at porn on the job.

And corporate proxies man in the middle everyone, because the entity that controls the proxy also controls the certificate on the computer.
The Mark “Chopper” Read method of smuggling guns into a meeting.

If you hand over 3 guns at the door no one expects you to have a fourth.
Sorry, this trivial eg is still way over my head.

Is it related to (high school) polnomials always having complex roots, but not necessarily real roots? But that constraint on reals seems like "structure" to me, and complex numbers lack this structure...?

(It may well just require a few more years math on ny part.)
I hav some first hand knowledge, and can say there’s more than a diabetes epidemic.

Doctors only go to medical school once. They learn to practice medicine once. They learn how to treat diabetes once.

Many “old fashioned” doctors give amputation a much higher priority than it should have because “that’s how it’s done.”

Also because you aren’t going to get sued (doctors attitudes towards getting sued also tend to be fossilized, even if legal rules have changed).

This situation hits poor communities hardest.
at least underwater and covered over by rocks, temperature variation are probably generally less than open air.
We've been adopting Coda and liking it. Search is a weak point in it as well. But the main issue for us is the permissions hell and total lack of flexibility :-(

Other than that, a much more manageable product, has external integrations, automations etc. built in that even a non-technical or non-power-user can enjoy and use.
Using the get started link on igoogleportal.com redirects to igtab.com .

Looking at the page you'd find a disclaimer that it's not associated with Google .

Legal disclaimer shows jurisdiction of the website seems to be Akola, Maharashtra , India.
Windows now has a first-party package manager: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

It positively surprised me when I did `sudo winget upgrade` (I first did `winget install gerardog.gsudo` in an admin prompt) and it detected and upgraded the majority of the already installed OSS on my Windows workstation.
The whole architecture looks insanely expensive. Putting your debug logs through scribe, through Kafka, then into Splunk, and indexing them, has got to cost something like fifty dollars per gigabyte.

I've always been a proponent over leaving logs where they were produced, not collecting them, and not indexing them, so an architecture like this I find just shocking.
My number one question is how they plan to dredge the seabed and keep that surface flat enough for the tunnels to sit on. connecting with millimeter precision would require a flat surface, no? Fascinating.
It’s fascinating to see companies solve the same problems over and over again.

I hope in the near future these types of problems are “definitively solved” and more effort can be spent engineering novel features.

There’s no way to do this, but I’d be interested to see if there’s a company that just has an extremely simple stack that is very performant and popular.

I’m talking: their entire stack is Citus sharded over a few locations running two beefy servers per continent they have users in, that’s it. No dedicated search, logging or anything. Just dump everything in Postgres. If logs are lost then so be it.

A lot of the problems at scale are problems of our own creation. For example is strong consistency really necessary for tweets? Do you really need to see a followers latest tweet instantly?

Uncheck some boxes and the engineering becomes a lot simpler, very fast.
How does one know which category they are in?
Cuffed – A dating app with only one match at a time
I can say the virus and its variants would no longer correctly be referred to as novel. That's a big deal for a very long time as far as serious illness is concerned. I do not ever seek illness.
I often here "edge case" as a defense as to why something hasn't been developed or handled. There's an ongoing trend in software to avoid high hanging fruit and focus on the low hanging big and fast returns. I just accept it now although it bothers me everytime I see it happen.

The beauty and allure of science and engineering, to me, is understanding something so well you can predict its future behavior and then predicting it so well you can prevent undesired behaviors and create or improve desired behaviors, within some set of bounds of course.
> Currently we collect around 42 terabytes of data per datacenter each day.

I said dam. And that’s the logging data.

I do like how it ends up with “and then we basically ssh in and restart stuff by hand for reasons.”
Before I went to jail I wouldn't know where to buy drugs or guns from. Now, I could make a call and have an entire raft of fun things at my disposable within hours, given some cold hard cash.

Going to jail increases your criminal networking considerably.
Why you should switch to Brave from Google Chrome
You said:

>>In my opinion, they should be deemed unconstitutional via a violation of rights against search and seizure

The only things searched are that very same deafening noises that everyone has to hear without any effort on their part. If you're saying that's a violation of search and seizure, you're saying there's some expectation of privacy around the violation being prosecuted.

If not, what are you saying was being searched/seized that violated privacy?

You could have said so the first time you posted, or in your last reply, but elected instead to have plausible deniability of any specific argument.
I'm on Monterey with a local account and have never signed into iCloud, although I'm signed into the app store with an Apple Id.

I just checked in Preference and under Apple Id it shows: iCloud -not signed in- Media & Purchases -email_of_apple_id_account-

(also it nags you with a persistant notification on the Apple Id icon in Preferences root, and a "start using iCloud" link too, but for now I can vaguely tolerate that)
Sure :)

The ELI5 is that numba allows you designate specific functions in your application for compilation. That tells the library to run a just in time compiler on it. If you can do that successfully, you can wind up with that portion of your code base running at or near C-speed. There are a lot of gotchas and limitations, and it only works for a subset of the python language. But when it works, it can make loops over numpy arrays very fast, when they would normally be extremely slow in pure python. In a lot of cases, just a few compute bound processes are holding back the whole application. Numba allows you to improve those portions in a very targeted way, if you have a suitable use case.
Biomimetic fracture model of lizard tail autotomy
If you are a feminist activist in saudi arabia, I guess you know the deal
In the late 1990s there were a ton of hoaxes about image files supposedly being viruses. Most famously:

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

I remember telling lots of people at the time that this was impossible, because images weren't executable code, and viruses spread through running programs, not through viewing images.

Unfortunately, this elegant, straightforward distinction didn't hold up over time. :-(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_machine
It seems like the author understands, or perhaps his criteria is based on, only a thin layer of what an IDE can provide. Here's the highlights:

- Data flow to/from here (where did the value of this variable come from/go to)

- Call hierarchy (up and down)

- Class hierarchy (up and down)

- Class structure (including all inherited fields, methods)

- Checking your code against an actual database schema, perhaps one automatically launched in a Docker container

- Automatic refactoring of various kinds (rename, extract variable, extract method, inline method, extract interface, add/remove parameters, etc.)

- Build tool dependency tree inspection with filtering etc.

- Inspect code for a huge variety of potential code quality issues, with highlighting and auto-resolutions available

- Locate duplicate code, and automatically refactor it out

- Detect likely problems with nullity

- Easily navigate to lines of code in an exception call stack

- Analyze dependencies across classes & packages, detect cyclical dependencies

- Debugging, including watch windows and conditional breakpoints of various kinds

- Helpful tools for a variety of programming frameworks such as Spring

- Integration with git so you can view history, diffs, etc.

- WYSIWYG style rendering for stuff like Markdown

- Easily navigate to any class, including classes that come from your dependencies (for example I've worked with plenty of people who had no idea how to figure out how Rails worked if it wasn't in the documentation, because they didn't use an IDE which allowed them to easily browse the code)

Personally, all of that is just a huge amount of value.
Aaargh! Nix is amazing! It is my daily OS driver.

Except the documentation is terrible.

Guix is communicably slightly better but ideologically slightly worse. Shepherd is lovely.

How about someone creates a dsl in Rust that manages declarative system configurations at a _very_ high level of abstraction? We need the declarative purity, the categorical proofiness, the simplistic easiness of nix/guix, but we also need to make it actually useable.
Ive started using duckduckgo not just for privacy reasons, but because its a better search engine for many things. This wasnt the case just years ago. The only reason ill use google is if Im shopping for something niche.
If you are asking, you are probably in the first category, along with myself and the vast majority of people.
Nope, works is the valid plural here, consider "Department of Public Works", "By their works shall ye know them".

Work is not reliably a mass noun: it makes sense to speak of a work by a particular author.

In fact I suspect that's the joke in the name, "work in progress" uses the mass noun and "works in progress" uses the count noun, which is somewhat specific to creative, well, works.
It definitely is superior to airtable, it has many new ideas.
"To err is human; to forgive, divine."

As is obvious from the attitudes in this thread, legally enforced amnesia is the only practical solution.
Nice! More time for Twitter engineers to play around with cool technologies and let boring infrastructure challenges be handled by third party.
This is currently how Pennsylvania works it’s background checks for working with children. PA law requires everyone who volunteers or works with kids to do a couple state specific background checks. The response from these is a “allow to work with kids” / “not allowed”. They don’t tell you the details.

it’s actually pretty privacy focused way to accomplish things.
I don’t know in 2022. But around 2010 for a young French graduate that where the skilled jobs were.

No French wants to live in Paris. It’s expensive and full of parisien.

But I had fun, met my wife there. And discovered that big city life can enlarge your horizon.

Would I live there again? Absolutely not. But I still think it’s was a great experience, and it’s nice to be in «the center of the world ».

By that I mean : If something happen in France, it will have some occurrence in Paris.
Who is saying this? Where are you getting this from? Literally no TRA is saying that.
So? Golfing things like this is mostly about fun, with a side benefit of being aware of things that, on a (much) larger scale, do start to matter.
>> The solution is to just have more data and better data.

Nah, sorry, that is just trying to put out the fire by throwing fuel at it. The
big, big weakness of neural networks right now is their reliance on gigantic
datasets that require gigantic computational resources. Neural nets need those
because they can't generalise to unseen data. So people try to get them to see
as much data as possible during training. They still overfit, but if they can
overfit to a diverse enough dataset, then they can be useful in practice, even
if that's only to solve narrow, specific instances of a problem (like in the
domino recognition system in the article).

To address this weakness what is needed is to find ways to make neural nets less
reliant on data, not to find ways to make more data. Make neural nets capable of
generalising robustly to unseen data, from few training instances. Then you
don't need to train in a simulation. Of course that would require a radical
rethink of how deep neural nets are trained (even perhaps whether they remain
"deep", or whether they are trained using gradient descent, the sources of their
data-hunger). Trying to make more data by simulation is only kicking the can
down the road and the only effect it can possibly have is to push the time at
which the real limitation must be really addressed even further down the line so
that an other generation of researchers has to deal with it while the current
generation can keep getting their papers published and their grants granted.

See Vladimir Vapnik's challenge to the machine vision community:

https://youtu.be/bQa7hpUpMzM?t=492

To summarise: learn to identify MNIST digits from 60 examples of each class,
rather than 6000, while retaining current accuracy. (My words now:) Improve
sample efficiency to improve neural nets. Neural nets have shown a remarkable
ability to work well when large amount of resources are available. Now, do like
everyone else does in computer science and try to make them (sample) efficient.
"Delivery drivers will still have access, and people will still be able to drive into the area to visit friends, or access amenities like shops or the theater according to the city’s deputy mayor David Belliard."

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Uber and Lyft are taking on healthcare
Amazon Warehouse Workers Want to Feel Safe
https://archive.fo/TeM54
Can you share more about what makes “selecting text” and “using formatting shortcuts” wonky? We shipped normal text selection a few weeks ago, so it’d be great to know if we made things better/worse/uglier/slower for you recently.

The link editor… we got that one so wrong. You basically have to arrow key into a link to edit it?? We way over-optimized for minimalism and visiting links at the expense of good, understandable UX.
Elitism is driven by ego and self actualization though.

I think there's a lot of people who are highly, highly motivated to work on tough problems with competent co-workers.

Those emotions are less driven by the domain itself, and more about the fact that those people have succeeded in finding meaningful work with co-workers of appreciable worth.

The tricky thing I find is finding that. Far too many regular projects are focused on mobilizing the dumbest blocks of wood towards a goal. Without actually investing in the human beings doing the work.

I think once we regain a culture of actually investing in people who aren't in the top 10% in their field, things can change. Currently though we do not have that culture.
> we have the good fortune that our cities are older than the car.

That’s really key.

The layout of US cities make no sense without cars.
Dynamic linking is the default in nixpkgs, but Nix itself does not care what you build. So you can use the infrastructure in `pkgs.static` to build statically-linked binaries if you like.
Stuttgart21 is also extremely late, over budget, and controversial enough that it's considered a reason why the Greens won city council in Stuttgart, marking their first ever majority council in a major German city.

In Cologne a tunnel collapsed during construction, killing two people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_Stadtbahn#Tunnel_colla...
An interesting disclaimer on a covid-related app from a state government in the US, is that since they are not a health care provider, legally, HIPAA doesn't apply to them, and they have no obligations regarding health information you share.
The communist regime being mentioned by name in this discussion is Cuba. I'm not aware of any genocides attributed to Cuba, so where do you get this talk of genocide?

Answer: It's your strawman.
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