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Did you listen to the episode where the teacher said, the theory might be true (phonics) but I ain't teaching it because fuck bush?

This is the problem.
faux départ :/
It takes an account from 2020 with little Karma to dare and ask the MySQL question on HN. So I am taking this opportunity again, anyone knows anything about next major version of MySQL?

If anything Postgres has a much clearer development model. Lots of features in the pipeline.
He will be fired very soon
I feel like that could sort itself out. With overly complicated or obfuscated code, it would hopefully be hard to prove infringement.
This hasn’t happened on Android where side loading and alternative app stores have been available for years. Why would iOS be different?
Sure they could lower the percent from 30% but that doesn't address the privacy and shady practices that the free apps engage in.

Apple should in no way loosen those terms.
Thanks, that makes sense, curious how they seem to get away with a VCTCXO in this case (or at least I couldn't seem to find mention of rubidium clocks in addition).
> "launch on a modular rocket, assembly from pieces in LEO, depart anywhere"

That's still what they are doing, its just that the pieces are fuel.

> This would probably be impossible to scale without designing a new system from scratch

Its not like the amiga of space flight, its like cloud. Instead of horizontal scaling, its vertical scaling. Instead of of building bigger, you just build more and scale that way.

They will add like 10m to the Starship, there is some horizontal scale left.
Samsung has done this before, and Google has multiple times made various offers and incentives intended to "encourage" Samsung not to. Because a huge portion of the Android monopoly will leave Google Search when this happens. Stuff like OEMs getting a cut of Play Store revenue are mechanics done to avoid this.

There's a pretty good chance Samsung is just negotiating for better terms, kinda like carriage disputes for TV networks.
I've seen this up close during my time in ML research.

I'd often jokingly mention an idea, only for someone to get a state-of-the-art paper out of the exact same idea within a year of that. It annoyed me at first, but with time, I realized that this was a rather familiar occurrence.

Many top labs are tight-lipped even when talking about peripheral topics, because so many of their peers are within months of reaching the same answer, and even the smallest hint might lead to a peer getting there first. My conversations with top researchers indicate that all research in ML is about 'getting there first' rather than producing something that requires a mythical epiphany.

It does take away from the glamor of it a little bit. If Salieri had been months away from composing Mozart's best work himself, that would have taken away from the timelessness of his work.
> There will only be the sideloaded option

how did you come to that conclusion? certainly not true in the android world. I don't have the stats on prevalence of sideloadong vs. play, but all official apps are alive and well in play after decades of being able to sideload
Toyota has been betting on hydrogen fuel cell. Their argument is more or less that there's not enough lithium for 100% EV and most of the world doesn't have access to cheap/dependable electricity.
Meta already does all sorts of stuff that violates Apple's TOS, they just do it server-side.

> I don't have the freedom to choose the version of the app I want.

Sure you do. You can either use it or you don't. Regulating data privacy isn't Apple's job, if you want that fixed then you should take it up with the government or someone who can actually hold them accountable.
1) "It will reportedly be known as Project ‘Magi’ and is said to provide a far more personalized experience than the company’s current service."

That is super creepy. Google knows a lot about you, and now it is using that knowledge to really put you in a filter bubble. Imagine this plus engagement metrics.

2) So much for that monopoly a lot of people thought Google had. Turns out they're still as exposed to market pressure as they ever were.
The EU found that argument unconvincing. As, likely, do you. Requiring a Mac and a reinstall every week and not more than three apps at a time is blatantly anti-competitive.
This would not be out of character for Elon
All the teachers I know are pretty irritated by Sold a Story, mostly their criticisms are:

- if you just teach phonics you aren't actually helping kids to read (they've tried) because reading is more than just sounds

- Sold a Story omits basically any nuance for shock facts

I also think it's important to point out that APM Reports isn't an independent journalistic outfit. They accept grants for specific research. In particular Sold a Story was funded by The Hollyhock Foundation and others. I'm not saying this model is bad or impugning anyone's motives here; on the contrary I would say people are acting more or less in good faith. I'm just saying there are definitely agendas here.

For a more well-reasoned, academic look at the science of reading (SOR), have a look here [0].

[0]: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/science-of-reading
More attractive to giant social media companies who thrive on data collection is almost never going to be in favor of the user.
"Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" is an amazing book. I taught my daughter to read before kindergarten. It works.
Wait, people actually use the android search box?

It's usually the first thing I remove
There is pretty strong evidence[0] [1] [2] that phonics is a critical part of learning to read for everyone no matter who they are or what their personality is. It's not the only piece of the puzzle but if you leave it out you will handicap the student intended to or not. Without phonics when you encounter a new word you can't pronounce it. If you can't pronounce it you can't use it in conversation. You can't use it in your mental processing. If you aren't taught it you may pick up the rules of thumb eventually but you'll have done so the long hard way.

You might be justifiably angry that no one showed you or your child the easy way.

1: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Advantages-of-the-...

2: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Ameliorating-Early-Rea...

3: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-effect-of-phonics-...
Reminds me a bit of the old (over 30 years old) computer game "Trust & Betrayal" in which the player interacts with the computer controlled opponents with a little icon-driven language. It was very impressive for the time and it's odd that (as far as I know) the concept wasn't picked up on by later games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_%26_Betrayal:_The_Legacy...
Can't they already do this with MDM?
Edit: looks like I'm wrong, see IceWreck's reply below.

Original comment: my understanding is that this means Google will deny their customers access to Google Play, Photos and other first party Google apps. Samsung has replacements for some of these but not all of them.
> children under 18

Whether your 12 or 13-18, I doubt their voting preferences would be considerably different in this regard.
Yes. Founder here. I understand the criticism of some here saying this is not unique. However, I'd point to a pattern that I've found personally true having been surrounded by founder-types experientially for decades:

https://www.amazon.com/The-Hypomanic-Edge-John-D-Gartner-aud...

I've found the ability to recognize and self-select for in-office, remote, and hybrid work dynamically at runtime since 1999 to be instrumental in my work from coast to coast.

"Hey Guys, I need to go deep. I'll see you in a couple days."

Followed by a demo 5 days after a napkin sketch of something nascent.
Weather is also poor for the rest of the week so I doubt launch will be within a couple days
It has more in common with GPT-3 than GPT-4 in terms of size, but in reality it's based on Vicuna/Llama which is 10x smaller than either, so as far as the LLM part of it goes its not mini-anything - it's just straight-up Vicuna 13B.

The model as a whole is just BLIP-2 with a larger linear layer, and using Vicuna as the LLM. If you look at their code it's literally using the entire BLIP-2 encoder (Salesforce code).

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.12597.pdf
Well, that was anticlimactic...
Booking.com's entire business is dependent on them being able to advertise the lowest price. If not, then all hotels would just use booking.com for visibility and get all reservations themselves. In short: Booking.com would pretty much instantly go out of business.
I don't think Apple will diminish their control on the App Store requirement, it's too much of a selling point to them. In fact I hope they keep their requirements the same, and I'm quite happy to see sideloading becoming a thing. More choice is nice.

I'd be so happy to see F-Droid venturing on the iOS side, and distribute open-source apps you can trust that would otherwise not be available on the App Store (emulators, third-party YouTube clients, an actual Mozilla Firefox browser using its own rendering engine, etc).
This sounds like you're in favor of giving weight to religious arguments in economics. But I doubt that you'd agree with that idea. The fact is that some things cannot be determined with sufficient precision and inclination to be dismissive of this fact creates its own problems.
I guess you guys in the US could try curriculums from other English speaking countries ?
A source code requirement would not meaningfully impede software patenting. The teeth of a patent are its claims, not its enablement. The premise of this post seems to be that a patenting entity would be required to disclose its actual commercial source code, but of course, were source code required, even given the best mode requirement, it would still be horseshit source code.
I would disagree. One of my biggest revelations and improvements to my programming from reading SICP was the concept that as soon as you start to declare functions you are starting to create an abstraction over hte host language and as a result a new language for your problem will emerge.

This begs the question: what is the benefit of treating nearly all program writing as "language design".

Using that frame of reference I can use it to spot where my abstraction/program design breaks down when I start using too much "raw programming language" to glue between different parts of my program together. That suggests I have a gap in how my domain objects relate to each other.
Microsoft is experimenting with Steam Deck-friendly “handheld mode” for Windows
Yeah, for Google this is existential, for Microsoft it's not. Google will go a lot further than Microsoft will to keep Samsung on their side.
>They seem to be aimless

I would argue for 95% of Google's existence they have been pretty much aimless.
(Strictly speaking, you mean pre-adolescent. Many boys and most girls will have started puberty by age 12.)
I've been using Bing for a few weeks now it is not all the way there yet but so far the experience is more gratifying than Google. The results seem to be better and there is less ads on top the search results. Their AI integration is also well accomplished. No complains there...
> That's what a patent is though. Protection for the idea, not the implementation.

No, you can't patent "drug that alleviates headaches", you can only patent a specific formulation, and a competitor is still free to create any other formulation that achieves the same result.
Misremembering some really critical parts like "I pitched it to the CEO Roger Enrico and that's how the product got launched" is pretty suspect.

Getting the year wrong: Forgivable. Getting some minor details wrong: Understandable.

But when literally nothing about your story fact checks and the most critical parts are contradicted by evidence, I think it's time to reconsider whether it really happened at all.
>...this could be a trend that starts small but overtime I no longer have the choice to avoid these alternate stores...

You wouldn't lose that choice. Want only Apple-vetted apps? Only use their App Store. Easy. Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but you seem to be saying: 'evil facebook will harvest more data, but I want to keep using evil facebook'. Maybe the conclusion you need to reach is that you should stop using facebook (and the like)?
I grew up in NC. I worked in tobacco a few times for family friends. Many of my schoolmates' families raised tobacco. Or corn. Or soybeans. Many of these kids earned hundreds of dollars over the summer, while supporting the family business. 12 year olds didn't smoke. We bought candy cigarettes.

Farmers and their families and their employees work hard. They work long hours. People on dairy farms work 7 days a week. Cows don't take the weekend off. Crops don't care if its 100 degrees.

I mowed yards. I raked leaves. I helped harvest hay. I built fences and sheds. I helped vaccinate cattle. I helped build the new VFD building. All this as a kid. In 100 degree heat.

We didn't have air conditioning. And you were excused from class on the 1st day of deer hunting season.

This wasn't child abuse. This is living. Some people grew up with AC, color tv, video games, and summer camp. Some grow up and work.
Buying a major social media company isn't a gag.
Of course not! They have an image to uphold, as the stalwart tinfoil knights of user privacy. However they respond is up to them, their forced competition with the free market is inevitable though.
The critique of FAT made in this article is convincing but easily remedied.

The paper obliquely argues that FAT does not evaluate the outcome itself, merely offering tools to validate the route to that outcome.

Therefore I propose that FAT is extended with an extra criteria - that of Reasonableness...
Normal people just use the defaults, the idea of choosing a web browser or changing the default search engine is completely alien to most.
I spent my summers from ages 14-18 picking shade tobacco (for cigar wrappers) in Connecticut's Tobacco Valley. I'm not sure if it was state law but you couldn't start until you were 14. This was during summer vacation when school was out - but it used to be such an important local industry that if the crop was late they would delay the start of the school year so kids could keep picking. Boys and girls could both work but it was completely segregated - boys worked in the field, and girls worked in the sheds sewing the leaves onto lathes to hang to dry. They used to rent the old big yellow school buses from the local school district to pick us up in the morning, and there were even separate bus routes for boys and girls. I remember coming home with my fingers totally covered in black sap from the leaves but don't think I ever felt the effects of nicotine. They were long hot days and it was even hotter under the tents - they grow shade tobacco under cover. If it rained they sent us all home! But it was a fun time hanging out with other kids and even competing to see who could pick the fastest. Still, when I went to college I remember telling myself that my objective was to get a degree so I wouldn't ever have to work outside again.
I can't tell if this Magi project is supposed to be an iteration of Bard or something new.
Some interesting dynamics at play here if true. Google basically maintains Android to get people to use Google services on it, so Samsung switching to Bing would eliminate Google's incentive to develop Android. Samsung is also by FAR the largest Android OEM and holds almost as much power over the platform as Google just from the sheer amount of Android devices that they ship.
That bullshit won't stand up to EU scrutiny though.
I watched this last night after reading your comment. Great movie. Thank you. About once a month I learn about a film I'd never heard of in HN comments and it turns out to be superb. HN's an under the radar movie critic site for the cognoscenti.
>Schools - and this is a problem in the UK as well - are incentivised to optimise for evenly distributed mediocrity, instead of allowing people to reach their potential.

and that is the crux of the problem --- the best school would be one which would help students explore what they are interested, find what best suits them, and then best prepare them to be successful at that.

I disagree w/ separation though --- this really should be achievable in a single building/system.

One of the best programs ever for fostering educational success was the one California had where land-grant colleges were required to accept the student with the highest GPA from each high school who applied and provide a full scholarship (so if the top 3 students got a better deal, then the student w/ the 4th highest GPA was guaranteed to be able to apply to a land-grant college and be accepted, and get full tuition and room and board). This was dismantled after college students began protesting the Vietnam War and draft.
AI and Robot Deflation
Like TikTok and Facebook, both of whom already collect and process data serverside? If we want those things seriously addressed, we should be lobbying governments to fix it. Private companies are obligated to serve the government and shareholders first, then address your privacy somewhere after that.
Well, I appreciate that you’re thinking about the problem of linking in general and writing about it. If finding and inserting appropriate links is laborious—well, so is writing. Linking is part of the process—part of the content. You can’t automate it away.

Like most HN readers, I've written my own content/information management system, and this makes keeping track of sources and inserting/formatting links much easier. Almost a pleasure, in fact. But there are plenty of open-source and other products out there designed to help with this task.
Any lithium battery claiming to be rated for operation down to -20 C is likely lying. Lithium chemistries are sensitive to temperature and operate well in a narrow temperature range. Operation below freezing ambient temperatures requires a heater and heaters need energy - hence why they are uncommon and only add cost.

Au contraire, lead-acid batteries work pretty well at temperature extremes, needing only changes in charging (e:) voltage and being limited by discharge current.
Have you seen how kids vote in their school elections? Why in the world would you want them to have any real say in anything? It’s bad enough people get to vote before they turn 30 you want to give kids who think produce is made in the back of the grocery store the ability to make decisions?
You can never assume that one company represents your interests better than another: the solution to reducing addictive patterns is to enable other developers to build more privacy-oriented and dark-pattern-busting apps (one sec is a good example of this).

Apple makes certain aspects of the phone addictive as well (i.e. the app tray that can't be disabled, Screen Time is a joke for actually trying to restrict how much time is spent on apps, etc.), and the lack of 3rd party APIs to modify the addictive behavior makes it difficult to control.

The easiest way to reduce addiction to devices is design UX roadblocks that prevent seamless, mindless interaction with the device, and the "digital drug" providers are never going to willingly build that themselves.
For all that is wrong with Duolingo (don't use duolingo as the only tool to learn a language), it does teach writing systems and how to pronounce individual words before throwing you into grammar.
For comparison, Google pays Apple an estimated $15 billion a year to be the default engine on Safari.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/25/analysts-google-to-pay-apple-...
And they can work in bars.
>today you have the ability to install facebook with app store restrictions on iOS and without on Android

You have a third choice: don't install facebook at all.
A little bit of everything until they figure out what to do.

Samsung and other OEMs get a lot of crap for how they handle android. But they are really the ones driving innovation here.
It's not for me to say how they'd vote, if they're working they should be able to vote for someone to represent their interests.
Nope, to access play services you have to add the powered by android logo and preinstall a minimum set of required apps (including the google search app), but afaik nothing saying google has to be the default search engine.
Agreed - given a complete and correct test suite! But even so, "correct" code is not necessarily efficient or readable code.

And note that writing the complete and correct test suite is likely to be a task of similar difficulty to designing and writing good code! I'm not saying don't test, but I am saying that non-trivial testing is difficult.
The amount of self proclaimed REST API devs who haven’t heard of hypermedia is at an all-time high.
the study attempts to use science to aid the humanities, and it's the humanities whose standards are not met here. the study makes a claim about recent history where there's a lot of record to draw on; the standard is to get confirmation in writing. i've had papers docked for the same thing even when the person grading it agreed the claim seemed obvious
This is great news to me, it is the one think I was hoping for.

I use OpenBSD to test objects I create and testing there discovered issues that Linux and AIX happily ignored. But I used valgrind on Linux to look for leaks. With this I can now test for all "my issues" on OpenBSD :)
> Do you think there’s a threshold at which point non libertarians would agree taxation is theft?

No. Including interest to banks, most Western nations are already way beyond 110% taxation on private individuals. Meaning if you work hard in a normal job your whole life, you should expect to be heavily indebted when you die, without any personal property except for a few trinkets.
If Meta pulled from the official app store, their install rate would go to 0 overnight. And a third-party developer would quickly swoop in and take over the #1 search result for the word "Facebook" (plenty of such apps already exist), so oblivious users would still end up ahead.

Sure they could offer a sideloadable app on their website somewhere, but nobody will find it or use it. If your grandma searches for facebook and the top result says "Friendly for Facebook" instead of just "Facebook", do you really think she'll notice the difference let alone go on a wild goose chase of googling for alternative app stores and clicking through scary warnings?
Tesla Shanghai: Social media protests over 'unfair' bonus cuts
This was something that I and a friend found surprising when he was studying to become a primary school teacher in the UK. A lot of the education for teachers in the UK is effectively 18th century philosophy taught uncritically - the likes of Rousseau, etc...

We both have a university background in philosophy (we both did the US equivalent of "majoring" in it, and I went to graduate level) and what we found disturbing was how uncritical and non-evidence based the teaching of teachers was. It seems like a fair bit of non-practical teaching of teaching, at least in the UK, is ideological indoctrination. They aren't "doing philosophy" in the sense that you would in a philosophy course where you are meant to be critical in your engagement, but are being told to accept philosophical arguments as doctrine.

So in a way its not surprising to me that teachers fall for other doctrinal ways of teaching.

You go to linguistics departments and they actually do stuff around evidence based child language acquisition, meanwhile teaching colleges ignore that and teach an unreflective centuries old ideology about how children learn.

There appears to be a big cultural gap between say linguistics departments and education departments.
Hello & congrats on showcasing a finished product !

Your web app is incredibly slow for an application that only needs to display some click buttons and one line question. It's frustrating, and I can't imagine founders having spare patience for this while they have so much to do.
Hopefully. I can't think of a single product that has grown because of him so much as in spite of him.