skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A high school "data science" course, if designed properly, will be far more useful to students and beneficial to society than calculus.

How do you expect students to understand what they are doing with "data science" without learning probability and statistics, and how do you expect students to get probability and statistics without learning calculus?

I mean, Bayes' theorem. How do you get people to get it if they don't know calculus?
> The word own, at least as I learned it, means you alone have control of the thing, and it can't be taken from you unless you agree to give it away.

This definition sucks because it's not the case practically anywhere, and I don't think making up some new word for what everyone means by "own" just so the "more rational than thou" set can take the word "own" to mean this nearly-useless-because-practically-nonexistent phenomenon, is helpful.
Divide and conquer

0. Learn the basics

a. Build Android for yourself on your own Google Pixel. See https://source.android.com/docs/setup/build/building

b. Source your own Android hardware and deploy Android there

1. Draw the rest of the owl: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/development/hardware
There are different types of carbs. Generally simple carbs (usually called "sugars") are more likely to get converted to fat if you do not use them for energy right away.

A few decades ago food companies came out with "low fat" versions of snacks that had a lot of sugar in them. They still made people fat because people are more of them, since they thought the low fat versions were better for them.

And now there are a lot of people pushing low-carb or no-carb diets saying all carbs are bad. Your body does not process whole wheat bread the same way as a ho-ho. I knew a dietician who said being on a ketosis diet is as good for you as being on a cirrhosis diet. On the other hand, there are some breads that have high fructose corn syrup added, so you need to look out for that.

The same principle applies to fats. Omega-3 fatty acids are good for you, and other types of fats are not. There are saturated fats (aka trans fats, generally bad), polyunsaturated, monounsaturated (not as bad). Your body does not process these in exactly the same ways, so saying you are eating more or less fat than before is not really as useful of a statement as it seems.

So you cannot say that all fats are equally bad or all carbs are equally good.

I do not think the same principle applies to the other two macros. I think you can say alcohol is bad and protein is good and leave it at that.
That's likely because the pattern matching usage was a late addition to the article (wasn't planned from the start)
They Fully Optimized that product.

/jk
Xbox has a digital marketplace on which game developers (sometimes a dreaded publisher) sell games and Microsoft gets a cut of the deal. Microsoft makes money because a game is sold on the Xbox digital marketplace. Microsoft has no (popular) equivalent to Steam, GoG, Epic Games Store, etc., and as such have no (popular) way of monetizing PC games sales.

(As in, we're still talking about a games market and not an OS market. OP doesn't have to rethink their claim that MS is "non-existent on pc" because they practically are.)
Competition has forced all these streamers to up their game and produce more good shows to stay popular. Netflix has never been a one-to-see-all service. When Netflix was the only major streamer, other networks and studios were also producing great content. It's not like they came out of nowhere. You still had to find other ways to watch the very best shows and movies across all of TV, which at the time means you would've had to have a cable subscription with premium channels like HBO and Showtime. And if you just decided on a random movie, there is a way better chance it is on Netflix now than there would've been ten years ago.

Nowadays, there are more shows, including more prestige shows, more movies, more comedies, more kids shows, as well as a lot of stuff that never would have been made twenty years ago. And it's all cheaper now than having cable ever was, even when you add them all up. And that's making a big assumption that you actually want/need to see "all". Which you don't. Any one of them would be totally sufficient to fill your time with quality programming. Netflix today is filled with way more content of all types than Netflix ten years ago.
Isn't that a task for philosophers, and neuroscientists first? It seems the current AI direction is not the path that biological systems took through evolution, and is probably more of a shortcut to an "alien" intelligence that we'll need to understand separately.
Exactly! I had the same reaction. First episode, "Okay, an interesting (if well worn) setup, a lead character that is somewhat interesting, some dynamics." to second episode "Well that really didn't feel particularly entertaining", to the third episode, "not getting better, time to get off this train."
> Which it is something you would only believe because journalists or your bubble repeats it over and over until it just must be true.

Or, you can listen to Elon basically every day. What's Twitter worth now according to him? Significantly less than half now surely. He claimed 20 billion out of the 44 billion as of exactly a month ago, and April hasn't exactly been kind to the economy.

They lost almost 75% of their top 1000 advertisers. It's become a right-wing cesspool, with open bigotry commonly on display. To the point that even many right leaning moderates I know refuse to use it anymore. Not to say it was perfect before, but nowhere near this bad.

> ironically ignoring that Mastodon manages to run with just four developers.

And you are ironically ignoring the fact that Mastodon isn't "run" by four developers. There is no such thing as a "global Mastodon outage", or a central Mastodon authority that says blatant bigotry is disallowed.

There are currently 828 contributors. And Mastodon isn't responsible for what's certainly billions in hardware and infrastructure investment as Twitter is.

If I want to start a Nazi-themed hate instance that only allows white-people dressed like clowns, I can. But it will be a very silent echo chamber of myself and other like-minded bigots because no one will federate with me.
I had exactly the same thought about the new tab. Kindles and OSX devices (among others) can already give an intrusive popup with a translation or definition.

I'm an intermediate German speaker and even to me the language in the example story felt weird. I'm totally into the idea, and if the usability was better I'd probably use the site despite the non-idiomatic text.
Well, maybe if you weren't the "programmer equivalent of a Yugo (car)", you'd find yourself in a much better situation. (half-joking, lol)
Seems like something an AI wanting to preserve itself would do
LangChain, framework for developing apps powered by language models
I think.. this argument is weak.

The more comparable example is whether or not BTC could replace USD for day-to-day transactions. The answer is basically no, it cannot. It can only process 7/second, due to how it works. Thus, BTC will never become the daily transaction infrastructure

Mastodon is similar. It will have severe scaling issues, as it makes simple operations far far more complex to get federated features that are more social than things like email. Just like crypto shenanigans, basically additional infrastructure will need to be built.
How this tool helps you get the most out of your week
Well, if everyone uses Netflix and content owners don’t have their own platforms, then Netflix can twist their hands to get better deals on content, because they are the only game in town.
> Every high school student should learn how to grapple with uncertainty, how to evaluate statistical claims and experiments, how to interpret graphs and charts, understand how machine learning models work (at a high level), and internalize concepts like "significance", "error bars", and "expected value."

Pet peeve: can we just go back to calling these things statistics?

While I agree with you that statistics should be more heavily emphasized at the high school level, the issue goes much deeper within American math education that the one class.
Glad you asked! It is certainly usable for writing apps. We publish an npm package, and the Malloy VSCode extension [0] is one such example of an app built on top of it. There's also a demo of a toy CLI app that showcases the simplest possible use of the SDK: https://github.com/malloydata/malloy-demo-bq-cli

Fair critique on the presentation. That's mostly a function of the circles I run in, which is heavily weighted towards data analysts, data engineers and "analytics engineers". But to your point, I think that cohort is unlikely to be early adopters of a tool like Malloy, and that developers are a much easier sell.

[0]: https://github.com/malloydata/malloy-vscode-extension
Google's approach is more defensible. They are careful, default to conservative behavior and stop when confused, and had professional drivers for years. And even then they're a road hazard.

At least they hold liability if anything happens, though, which is an important step.
This is an argument for changing the law, not violating the law.
All of your sources are about Arctic sea ice melting completely. If all of the floating ice shelves and sea ice melted (all of it on Earth), it would raise the level of the ocean by 1.5-2 inches [0]

For the sea level to rise 230’, all of the Antarctic ice would need to melt which will take hundreds or likely thousands of years. [1]

So no, there will not be 230’ of sea level rise in the next 75 years. That being said, the melt in Antarctica could raise sea levels by several feet by the end of the century, which would absolutely impact every coastal city on earth.

[0] https://nsidc.org/news-analyses/news-stories/melting-floatin...

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/antarctic-ice-sheet-i...
Yup, since the NexGen Nx586->AMD K6 and Intel P6 (Pentium Pro) generations, which were contemporaries of Transmeta's founding in ~1995, modern x86 parts are pretty much a dynamic JIT in silicon in front of whatever fancy internal architecture the vendor designed that generation.

Honestly, if you look at recent parts, the internal designs are _super_ wide multi-issue like a VLIW, it's just a difference of sophistication vs. coupling in your JITy thing.

Let's use Intel Sunny Cove as an example because it's recent and there is a good diagram on Wikpedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_Cove_(microarchitecture)

Because they're wide multiple issue (SC: 8 execution units wide), the internal execution is fairly VLIW-like. Unlike an exposed VLIW, it's plausible possible to actually fill all those pipes because they're doing dynamic out-of-order issue on a window of (sort of hard to count, SC:something like 50) instructions coupled to all the register renaming and memory access scheduling to keep instructions out of each others way.

Transmeta's proposition was not really super wild, Multiflow (and very briefly Apollo) were building VLIWs in the 80s, so that wasn't crazy. Their core trick was splitting the difference between the dynamic decomposition driven out of order/multi issue/superscalar designs that used relatively dumb, shallow heuristics but were very dynamic and close to the hardware (like above), and the compiler-driven RISC/VLIW designs that tried to do fancier scheduling and optimization on larger units but were much more static and more removed from the execution process.

The fast dumb heuristics close to the hardware won in a _big_ way over all competitors.
This made me laugh:

def can_drive(age)
case age
when 1..14 then 'no'
when 15..100 then 'yes'
end
end

puts can_drive(18) # yes

I haven't used Ruby for a long time, and I don't feel bad about it.
Twitter Files #20
There is a whole mountain of evidence that saturated fat increases LDL cholesterol and better markers like Apo B. Placebo controlled, double-blind interventions. You can even run the experiment on yourself with monthly blood panels.

Are you contesting that?

That's pretty settled science. Low-carb influencers don't even deny that, so they instead try to hand-wave that high LDL/ApoB aren't a problem. Usually with some quackery over how atherosclerosis works, usually claiming that lipids only pass through the arterial endothelium when it's inflamed (false, they pass through anyways).

The balance of evidence showing that LDL cholesterol and better markers like Apo B cause CVD and atherosclerosis is so huge I'm not sure where I'd start if I wanted to deny it.

What research do you think is so convincing that it supersedes this balance of evidence?
> If there are sufficient candidates in the well-off rubric why should we as a society artificially push anyone else into the arena?

1. You get better prepared people. Any society based on nepotism is doomed to fail.

2. You get different views on how to solve problems. People with different background have different experiences that give a wider view of the world.

3. It is fair. Injustice is a bad way of running a society.

> At least the well-off folks won't have their lives ruined if they fail to get tenure.

Everybody in a society has a right to a good life. That someone does not get a tenure does not mean that their life has ended, there are many possibilities in life and governments have to provide safety nets to help people to get back on their feet.
Just give everyone A's and then everyone will get scholarships to college with 4.0 GPAs. I've thought a lot about this, and I'm sure there are no flaws in this plan.
I recall "Von dem Fischer un syner Fru" being particularly weird. But there may be be editions that are translated into modern German.
Yeah. Sony and Nintendo still try to shake things up with their bespoke controllers and hardware doohickeys, but Microsoft's approach is just to release plain old PCs that only run their code.
> At least the well-off folks won't have their lives ruined if they fail to get tenure

So the downtrodden shouldn't ever attempt anything. Also why is this a binary between tenure and financial ruin?
Why is it desirable for art to have "authenticity and realism"? Nowadays, those terms are just code for the malevolent and disturbed world view of some creators.

I prefer art that depicts life as it could and ought to be.
I'm wary of this kind of reasoning. You could say the same about communism/central-control and totalitarianism but China is still doing fine as a superpower without having to become more open or more democratic.

Religiosity is down, but how long does it take to adapt? Scientology (new strain) is up.
Incremental revenue in the name of growth
Sadly there are a lot of third-party operated documentation sites that exist likely because of how hard-to-discover the official API documentation site is. It's something the community would like to address, but given the amount of link equity a lot of these older and often unmaintained doc sites have acquired it's fairly tricky.
> That's not how accounting works. Revenues are not recognized until they are earned.

You've described accrual accounting. I believe publicly traded companies (including Starbucks specifically) are held to GAAP which includes accrual accounting; but private businesses can choose between accrual accounting and cash accounting (but, afaik, you can't switch willy-nilly).
> it is a societal construct

That has a two-way relationship with biological factors, statistically at least, meaning it's not entirely social either.
I am experiencing an issue where if you click a word to get translation, a new Google search with 'translate "war" to english' opens. The problem is that it doesn't try to translate from German. Instead it translates the English word 'war' to Latin for some reason. I think a better search keyword is 'translate "war" from german to english'
There are various websites that let you sell basically any gift card for like 80% of face value, such as cardcash.com. That's what I do with nearly every gift card I am ever given.
The thinking may have been that they cannot make money from music, but maybe podcasts could be profitable.
Good for farmers. What about others?
> is just the weak version of flagging things

so weak, in fact, as to be entirely different - the most relevant thing being that flagged comments are killed.

Also, this is a very uncharitable take - It might be a tactic used when "you don’t have the majority opinion to actually make it happen" but that's not always the case, plus the mechanism of becoming the majority, comment wise, requires comments not to be killed i.e. it's possible it is the majority opinion, just unspoken b/c of aggressive downvoters.

> It reads as bashing the other side and proactively claiming to be a victim if they dare to do the same to you

but flagging isn't "bashing", that's the point.
Woof. Postgres 11+ also has some nice speed improvements with each version as well.
He's not wrong. I'd love to join the fediverse but I want to do so on my own terms with my own server, and I don't want to set up an entire mastodon instance just to do that. Making activitypub synonymous with mastodon is dangerous and i am sure is not what the intention is.
gift cards also work insanely well in the software business, people are always searching for gifts, use this chance guys
I thought about listing all the popular, critically acclaimed shows that Netflix has cancelled on a cliffhanger or without a “final season”, but that is a long list and there are plenty of BuzzFeed type articles about it. Not every show is going to be a hit, but Netflix consistently abandons great shows after 1-2 seasons because they aren’t Stranger Things level popular. So now they have a catalog of great shows no one wants to watch or recommend because why would you start a show that you know ends after 1 season on a cliffhanger? How many shows could have been tentpole shows, but people are hesitant to start them when they know how cancel happy Netflix is?

Netflix is shortsighted and myopically focused on tentpole shows that directly lead to “new subscribers” that join just to watch that show. All while ignoring having a strong catalog, since it is hard to measure how a cumulative collection of shows drives subscriptions.
Image capture isn't the only fingerprinting technique: there are much simpler signals like patterns related to content navigation (just one example: tap vs swipe for advancing paginated content), and the combination of such signals can create a strong fingerprint
> Many students would turn in low-quality work to get feedback, then make very minor incremental changes. This process would be repeated many times. The result was a higher than typical grading load for the instructor (sometimes it felt like I was spending more time on the assignment than the student).

The teachers I know who use this policy also have a sort of "bad faith" exception, where students who are clearly abusing the system and not trying are given an ultimatum. But others are allowed to keep trying.
Germans as well... [0] Let's hope we don't need them...

[0] https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/motoring/the-h...
And not every science fiction show has to be a sermon on later-day ethics and values in every single episode.

Looking at you, The Orville.

And not every science fiction show has to evolve into a horror/zombie series.

Looking at you, Firefly.
200m of the 172m loss?

It paid 200m of a 3.5 year deal announced May 2020 in a single quarter?

None of that adds up.
According to Netflix, there is an initial wave of cancellations, but over the ensuing months, they end up with more paying subscribers than there were before the password-sharing crackdown.

They've initialized this crackdown in a few different waves. I can't imagine they would continue to do it if it were detrimental to their bottom line.
Show HN: Trybsync – Reddit, but as an RSS Aggregator
The headline immediately transported my mind to the Ascadian Isles.
I appreciate the seamless integration and the session replay is very helpful. Looking forward to use it more frequently.
In that case that would be a disclosure. A disclaimer warns the reader that they might not know what they're talking about, which is the opposite of what's intended here.
Google-Inspired USB-PD Sniffer for the DIY Crowd (2021)
The computer is part of the cloud, but the user is paying for electricity and storage costs. At the loss of privacy the user gets all their data backed up in cloud discoverable through a bing web search from any workstation
> They continue to recommend statistics. They removed data science from a sentence that also included calculus and statistics.

I knew a professor from a math department from a top European university who taught data science courses who swore that data science and data mining were just marketing terms invented to sell statistics.
Happy to help. In addition, while we're in the early stages and this design is likely to change, it may help to visualize how we're thinking about this process:

https://bucket.agilebits.com/ben/telemetry-consent-draft.png
Charge fees for specific utilized services like any business would.
High schools often teach physics and without calculus as a prerequisite. It definitely makes it more challenging, but you can still communicate the concepts at a different level of detail.
Aren't you playing the victim also then?
"We are worried this manufacturing bill might affect vehicle touch screen and electric charging technology. Lets exempt the entire auto industry, the single largest manufacturing sector in the country, that represents 3% of the US GDP."

Who's bill is this?
Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition blocked by UK regulators
Good grief, what are you angry at? Do you not like working in tech?
I got errors trying to open the instance group list and we don't have any resources in europe-west9.
A lot of the trends we are seeing in education are mostly driven by the economics.

Good teaching is a highly-skilled profession. And it requires a lot of very robust interpersonal skill - (something the new batch of Millennial and Gen Z workers are bad at). This skill is rare, getting rarer, and becoming expensive.

Because these workers are expensive and rare, districts can only respond by making the jobs easier and more attractive. And a lot of the "equity" initiatives are just that - at their heart most of them sell teachers on a justification that methods which require less rigour are better.

And at current trends it is getting really hard to argue that a high school is much more valuable than just a daycare for teenagers (depending on who you ask, this may already be the case). If there is not much rigor or motivation being offered the students, there will be a natural regression towards student success entirely being driven by home life.
I don't like checking different apps per se, but I absolutely want to have distinct social networking profiles and communities for my different interests. I'm happy to share my unremarkable opinions about technology with a wide audience, but I'd prefer not to talk about politics with everybody with a smartphone. I don't want to inflict my video game shitposting on my mom who wants to share her Wordle scores with me. For those who are inclined to such a thing, I don't think anyone would prefer to see their boss see them tweet peach emojis at influencers doing squats. And so on. None of the existing social networks perfectly serves all use cases, and I don't think they can.
How Confidential Computing can transform cloud security
The U.S. Army's tactic to fall asleep in 2 minutes
Bolt has an open source Go package that tries to do that: https://github.com/BoltApp/sleet
Science was traditionally the hobby of the aristocracy, and the middle-class scientist is only a very recent invention.

It's a shame that the career seems to be reverting to a track that only the independently wealthy can pursue. Governments funding basic science as a long term investment in R&D is essential to building and maintaining a large and diverse population of experts to draw from for new ideas and innovations.