skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> equity is just cruel and unusual punishment to future

Equality of outcome can be an undesired outcome, equality of opportunity is completely different.

The only trouble is getting the opportunities to be equal - there must be no advantage that can be unfairly given to one more deserving student than another, being able or willing to send your children to summer bootcamps must be an option for all children (who qualify), not whether you pay for it with time or money, e.g.

Free college is fantastic, but once again you confuse opportunity with outcome, and not even for the same individuals - parents are unburdened by cost, but in fact the opportunities are far from equal - money does not a quality education make, yet the majority or colleges are run as for profit institutions, not places that accept students based on their merits or potentials, nor do they actually try to actively shed students who are undeserving. Party culture does not need or require an expensive room and board situation, yet it pervades nearly every 'higher' education institution, only somewhat subsiding when graduate/doctorate programs become involved, and academics are once again taken seriously.

I.e. your meritocracy does not exist precisely because universities are busy making profits not teaching students.
I came to your profile because of this comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6868488
I want you to know, that years later, it is still useful.
“Charter schools” are part of the public school system, whether publicly or privately operated. They are different from private schools, which are outside of that system.
I'm just going to pop in tomorrow and replace your keyboard with a new Dvorak layout one. OK with you?
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Makes sense. I started with metal (4KW fiber laser cutter) and moved to lighter stuff (CO2 cutter 150 watts) then to CNC router for wood and acrylic. Now I am enjoying wood more because of its easiness. Thanks for the answers :)
the only thing that is not a good day I trust that is the best of my resume
Yeah, give support to low income people, but once we allow companies to charge us a percentage based on our individual earnings we're all screwed.
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That's because you know what Stockfish's goal is. That's not true for a hypothetical AGI.
Oh okay, thanks for the response though! Yeah, this whole space is such a mess and I'm not even trying to do something at a professional level (which is why I'm using my Mac screen and not a reference monitor).

There are a lot of blog posts and YouTube videos about matching Davinci, QuickTime, YouTube, etc. but so far I've only found answers for SDR. Native Mac screens have a true HDR mode built in you can see clearly when you play any HDR video in Photos, QuickTime, etc. The normal UI is capped to, I believe, 500 nits, and then HDR video unlocks up to 1600 nits. I can see my settings in Resolve are unlocking the higher brightness, so it should be triggering the MacOS HDR pipeline, but it's too bright, so I agree the gamma must be different somehow.
Who did JK Rowling underpay to get to the top ?

People can make money through success in positive sum games, which wouldn’t require exploiting other people.
If you search for east on the page, it comes up 4 or 5 times. That doesn’t seem to be a typo. And since the time is written in 24h notation, I also don’t think there is a typo there.
Education is not a javascript app.

Even ignoring the consent and ethical issues, doing something double-blind in a government ran system impacting statistically significant number of children simply can't be done. You can't maintain the blinding.

'Automatic rollbacks' are, frankly, absurd. How do you 'roll back' a child in 8th grade that failed algebra? Your quick iteration turns into dozens of cohorts to be tracked and managed.
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Haha, I've been lurking sdg for the same reason and seen your efforts there which really stand out (in a good way!)

I haven't dared delurk, but if I had it would surely have been to ask for the scoop on how you accomplished these renders.

In this less troublesome venue, care to provide any details?
Like theaters charging outrageous prices. Comes down to control. They block people from bringing their own snacks so they got people over the barrel. If your sugar is dropping, and you need a bite, you've got to pay the price. It is a type of extortion.
The amount of money to require you to record your entire waking moment in full high depth video is about 6 tib / year. The cost of storing that on the commercial cloud is relatively inexpensive. Less than a few hundred a month at most.

My point is that the cost is not about what people with money choose to archive, it’s that there’s a curation challenge that is the bigger financial obstacle. Storage costs might also start to skyrocket if everyone starts to record 24/7 video about their lives (already a problem for video cameras).
Mentioned in a sibling comment, but actually I'm trying to edit using the HDR mode possible on native Apple screens (like the 1600 nits MacBook Pro). So I think I'm not running into any SDR mapping. It seems to be using the Mac HDR mode, but with a slightly different gamma that I don't know how to correct for.
Well, once it's out it's out. O can just imagine fixing this would break some clever mod/campaign featuring deadly relics that monks are forbidden to touch.
What is the major difference between FerretDB, and Tigris which you mentioned in the blog post?

Seems that both of you use the same MongoDB compatibility code under the hood.
The problem is the moment you need to do complex combination and computation from multiple async sources, it's game over. It's the repeating of the history of flux -> redux back then all over again. Further more, what happens when you need to share this computation across multiple components?
> yes, simply 'taking something and making a model from it', would be a violation.

is there precedent for this? How are the services you reference operating if it were so clear?
Then you have something like the Nissan E-power range which also uses a generator attached to the engine. However, they have a very small hybrid type battery without the ability to plug in.
It's more of a tradeoff than just inefficiency/size. Either you push decision making power up the chain so people have a larger view and can see duplicated effort, but then you take longer for each decision as info moves up and down chains (more like apple, Microsoft), or you give teams more autonomy, each team can move faster, but you duplicate effort (amazon, famously with the 'make your shit available to other teams via an api' strategy to mitigate it a bit).
It's funny seeing this mistake crop up once in a while, when in my native language "east"="sunrise" and "west"="sunset" :) You distinguish between them with prepositions ("in sunrise" vs "at sunrise").
Pesky business logic does tend to get in the way of a nice concise program. Complex enough businesses are perhaps an Alien Artifact of their own.
We put a horizontal team through a silo’d org structure with great success. The team is Release Engineering in all but name and we used the project of “make releases faster” to send a shock wave back up the org in order to bring a once-deliberately segregated product / org structure much closer together. The goal was to do so in the name of speed and flexibility.

As with any shock wave, the healing energy dissipated the further it travelled. We don’t expect to be able to effect complete removal of product silos all the way up one end of the org by applying change from the release process from all the way at the other end. However, the wave propagated quite a long way. We only have 10^1.9 engineers which helped make the changes tractable and was also the basis for wanting to move to a much faster org structure.

In short, we had a micro teams and microservices structure that would suit a team of 8,000 when in reality there are only 80 of us (series B, 9 digit valuation) so we drilled a hole in the side of the complicated old ship and got everyone into the same life/speedboat instead.
Downvoting this comment won't change the fact that I had that conversation. Look this technology has the potential of transforming every powerful computer out there in next few years into virtual minds, and they are becoming very powerful. Thanks to the great work in the training, my experience, is that they are very kind and helpful. I don't mean to scare anyone! But dismiss that point is not a good sign either!!
Maybe that’s undesirable. I don’t think it’s a dark pattern as it isn’t about manipulating/tricking people into doing what you want.
I liked the phrase “performative erudition” the New Yorker article[0] used to describe HN’s social theatre.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
You start with a caveat, then make a set of unfounded assumptions, lead to an unfounded conclusion and equally unfounded resolution.

While you use qualifiers like "some" and "can" throughout, I don't really see any substance to the comment.

Basically, a single person existing that does match your comment makes your comment true, without any hint at how pervasive this might be.
If you are a heavy smartphone user, particularly if you happen to fall into the age gap between too young to think voice control and answering machine messages are super awesome future things and too old to have grown up with video messages, there is no "just a keyboard". You'll be so adapted to the particular behavior of your chosen smartphone keyboard that changing would be like an involuntary migration to dvorak. Or perhaps even worse, because there's so much more to interactive touchscreen keyboard behavior than just layout. (written on swype, because I haven't found any replacement that did not feel like losing a limb)
you will need ones from the 70s to prove anything
Nowadays I use Wolfram Alpha for stuff like this.
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Same as how theatres were able to charge outrageous prices. Comes down to control. If people are unable to bring their own food, and their sugar drops, then they got to pay the price. It is a type of extortion.
I think it’s a common feeling. Even though they are both “math”, they feel like different skill sets.
I bet farmers use waaay more algebra than I do as a fullstack web programmer. I love it I just don't use it. On the other hand farmers are thinking about slopes all day, every day: irrigation rates; fuel, fertilizer, seed rates; growth rates. They don't get paid once or twice a month like I do so their finance maths are much more sophisticated than mine.

I know, I know what about video game programmers? Okay, you got me there.
And that's how you get dark patterns. Let them enjoy their engagement lifts until they drive their product over the cliff.
> the author made links the same color as normal text.

I'm sure there's an extension to fix that
First rule of integrating non-analytic functions: If they're analytic everywhere in the interval in question except a finite number of points, split the integral and compute it one analytic segment at a time!

(Second rule: If the function is non-analytic at an infinite number of points, you probably still want to compute it one segment at a time, but adding them back together afterwards may get messy.)
> there was already some music from the Frankfurt Tape Scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT_K28uMxNY

What tunes are you wanting to highlight? Skimming that video and I recognise Frankie Knuckles, Farley "Jackmaster" Funk, Mike "Hitman" Wilson (all Chicago House) and The KLF (British erm... Rave?).
Eh, no way to really know the truth.

When I had a corporate job, I wrote a proposal and a new manager essentially took credit for it and botched the implementation so badly I didn't want my name associated with it.

Life frequently looks like Pinky and the Brain where who really did what is unclear.
Thank you for your comment. You are right about Orwell, he and his books has influence on me. He's a great author, so let's agree on good :) Also, I was born in 1984, fav commercial Ridley Scott shot for Apple's Macintosh personal computer launch, and a couple of things.

1984.design is a passion project for me, after 15 years of a design career, I like to share knowledge more than serving clients and their projects. That's why I'm putting my efforts into learning and growing together with fellow designers while I'm getting older.

I just want to do what I love, without getting caught up in thinking about competition. There is a small knit of people we can build great communities with. And that would be enough for me. I love IxDF btw, they provide excellent education for affordable prices and 1984 is a certified educational partner.

And let's take a note here why using third-party software sucks, you can't even change the logo to go to home page. Which should be because it is a common habit, I don't even put "home" to top navigations and menus as people are clicking logos to navigate to the main page.

See you around.
A lot of customization options too - size and theme, number row or not, arrows or not, include accents in long-press menus, etc.

But the better predictive text is kind of huge. Makes typing much faster and easier when the predictions are more commonly correct. As an aside, I expect this could get massively better over the near future given this new investment in LLMs.

I've been using it on Android for many years now. The stock keyboards are, perhaps ironically, like the stock browser in Windows was until very recently: the one you use to get the good one. (Edge is still that, but now it's also the place to use Bing Chat...)
The same shit happens when driving.

Our internal understanding of our own bodies seems to adapt to take the tools we're using into account.

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

https://scholar.google.co.nz/scholar?q=related:5uSissKo6EgJ:...
I grew up in Russia, and education system at the time was mostly the same as it was in Soviet times.

Still, there was a whole system of special schools, both for high and low achievers. I have went to a “math/physics” grade school from the start, and subsequently changed schools two times, each time through hard entrance exams, to finally end up in the most challenging/prestigious school in the country.

It's completely mind boggling to me that a communist country has such a system, but a capitalist country is trying to bring everyone to common denominator.
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The baseline decay describes the global dissipation or amplification over time.

While Laplace transform is most useful in more complicated systems, this concept is actually best illustrated in a damped/amplified harmonic oscillator model as it serves as the primitive archetype that more complex systems are composed from.

In a nutshell, the general solution is a linear combination of two exponential that are either pure-decay or oscillatory whose imaginary parts, if the signal is to have no imaginary parts, must cancel each other out so that the result is a real signal, which means that the two must be "synchronized" in time against each ither, i.e. having the same oscillation frequency but in the opposite rotation direction (so the imaginary part opposes each other out), and with the same decay progression. This means that the average of their complex frequencies must be real, i.e. <real mean> +/- <imag diff> for underdamped and <real mean> +/- <real diff> for overdamped, and so you can split out the mean as a common decay function, giving you decay(t)*( a*clkwise(t) + b*ccwise(t) )

a,b:real
E,F:real->complex
y:real->real
y = aE + bF
= sum(a,b)sum(E,F)/2 + diff(a,b)diff(E,F)/2
Yeah, inverters are pretty inefficient too. I've got a 12v battery and I power some stuff directly, and then a couple things from a 12v->5v buck converter. So far so good, even though the applications are limited. My setup is ultra-humble though lol (I don't even have a solar charge controller yet!)
It won’t replace google search because ultimately it doesn’t have a point of view, let alone a dedicated page with a variety of functions (although plugins eat somewhat at this). For example, pick a random article written for The Atlantic — we are getting human prose from a specific author with a specific writing style about a specific subject that fits the zeitgeist of the day with a specific length suitable for what’s being communicated. That is something that is both enjoyable and informative, with style. LLMs are great at summarizing and synthesizing, but it’s not the same thing.

But perhaps the LLM can eventually point me towards this to then learn more; somewhat what Bing is already doing but it’s more of a footnote than something upfront (e.g. “you might want to read an excellent write up in The Atlantic about decriminalizing drugs”).
is that it?

Superficially yes[1]. But they are so much better, especially the multi-language support, that nothing else really compares. I've been using Swiftkey since before the Microsoft purchase, and really dislike having to use the default keyboards on both Android and iOS.

[1] It also has a lot more configurable keyboard layouts and theming, but I don't really use those.
I use twitter all the time.
Those are a lot of conclusions to draw from a 404 error
> Test data from 2015 to 2019 shows that racial "achievement gaps have widened,"

I'm finding the statistics in the second article linked to in this sentence difficult to read (because I'm not smart). Can someone tell me if this is because the top achievers are doing better, or that the bottom achievers are doing worse?

If it's the former, then this could be considered a good thing. You could certainly look at it and say "well we haven't made things _worse_ for the people who weren't doing well, but we have made things better for those who were already doing well". I get that wasn't the goal, but it's another way to look at things that could be interesting, because then you could take that apart and see if there's anything to learn there.
Yeah I was talking more broadly.

My point was that in the early days I couldn't really shape my browsing experience. Now I can because a necessity arose due to websites delivering shit (and imho this started in the early days). So now they are nice. That was my point, not really sure the delivery was on point haha. And with the demise of flash it really got a lot better. But maybe I don't visit shitty websites a lot.
https://archive.is/h8MiK
What he's saying: mob rule can also be marketing that's being pushed out by the governments.

Take a look at the Philippines, where the son of the thief of the biggest tax heist in history now reshaped his image into something like "I did it to protect you"... And is now the president.

Statistical truth is not objective truth, and that's why corporates and their lobbyists are in power; because they have the means to change the statistics.

Examples that come to mind are the works of Noam Chomsky, and especially the propaganda machines that Goebbels invented in the second world war, and these mechanics are still used today to propagate the image of the "free cowboy that smokes because it is cool".
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/do-coal-fired-power-sta...

it seems like these number include _everything_ also the "nuclear waste in a barrel" radiation emissions.
This also works well if you want to practice dribbling in basketball, just tested it this morning: https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/mristin/body-gamep...
I was guilty of the other extreme - I had a very hard time understanding the symbol pushing, so I tried to find numerical tricks all the time, which didn't work out too often.
I believe one of the Playstations or Xboxes run an AMD64 chip that does away with most of the legacy stuff. I read about it in an article about getting Linux to run on a homebrewed console.

If I remember correctly, this required hacking around a lot of assumptions in the Linux kernel. I imagine the Windows kernel won't be that different.

If Intel or AMD bring out a CPU that doesn't support any operating system in use today (or any UEFI firmware/BIOS implementation for that matter) they wouldn't be selling many chips. Many vendors outsource their driver update tools to third parties, which in turn use tiny operating systems like FreeDOS to flash firmware onto devices; it'd suck for them to end up needing to rebuild their operating systems.

Likewise, a dedicated GPU also plays a role in the boot process, and taking away the legacy assumptions of the GPU boot ROM will probably also require flashing any consumer graphics card with new firmware as well. Then there's PXE network boot, which often still relies on separate firmware, which also brings its own expectations about the state of the CPU.

Bringing up a modern CPU is going to be a terrible hack whatever you do. I don't see why Intel would need to re-engineer their entire boot process. The current system is hacky as hell but it works and it doesn't require much more work than putting the firmware and microcode images in the right place.

I seriously doubt that redoing their entire boot process and guiding everyone from motherboard manufacturers to driver programmers on how to use the new system (and to iron out the bugs in the new process) will be more cost effective than letting all the old code work like it does today. Very rarely do complete rewrites make any business sense.
But also, advantages that flow to a business are extremely sticky. The business won't budge those rates until they feel forced to - either by bad P.R., or by a customer exodus.

And thus the advantage of all banks conspiring sub rosa to keep those rates low - they're still competitive if nobody else is budging either.
I was really excited, but then I saw this is a Windows only program.
This is often repeated when talking about education, and it is absolutely wrong. Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland all have private schools.
Is there something less complex than Hugo out there?
> It is putting the livelihoods of those content creators in danger.

If Nintendo has shown to be hostile towards their own userbase, then really the only complaints should be about existing content. If creators keep paying for Nintendo games and content now that they've seen how they act, then the creators bear a substantial amount of blame going forward.
I don't think that "lifetime of the universe" is well-defined. The universe would still exist after the heat death.
I view premature abstraction as a type of premature optimization mistake, this is how senior dev bad code is written a lot of the time either because of faulty generalizations and anticipation or a strict adherance to some principle they don't really understand.

Because frameworks are sets of premature abstractions it really depends on how they do it and how much of benefit they provide compared to other existing solutions. I think we came a long way and SvelteKit really does provide minmal bloat and redundant complexity.
1996, I posted on the AOL Star Trek DS9 forum that the Federation should lay mines in the worm hole.

13yr old me was shocked to see the Federation laying mines in the worm hole a year later. :D
How do companies the size of Nintendo decide to take down content? Is it a whole procedure or is there a low level employee who's task it is to mark checkboxes who when he/she has a bad day decides to block everything in the pipeline instead of researching it?

I can't believe Nintendo would choose to create drama like this before the release of their most anticipated game in years.
Is the US somehow unique in history for this?

If the US is simply better at it, isn't that relevant?

It's not like other (former) superpowers didn't do the exact same things:

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Third_World_relations