skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of what causes low performance in schools is beyond the ability of schools to address. It's why we keep trying reforms and they don't do much—and when they appear to, it usually turns out, in the long run, to have been dumb luck or number-fudging, either intentional or because the people involved don't know how statistics work. "Bussing" is within the scope of schools (kinda...) and that worked—it's got little company, in the things-that-worked category—but practically everyone hated it, so that's out.

Properly fixing all this either means launching massive social programs that have little to do (directly) with schools and will likely take years to really bear fruit, in terms of educational outcomes—good luck with getting that done in the US—or letting schools do things we've decided (largely for good reasons) they aren't permitted to, like simply declining to serve a whole lot of kids.

(separately, yes, Covid was an absolute disaster for education and we'll be dealing with that damage for generations—that's just true, and I think much of society's kinda in denial about exactly how bad it was—but it certainly wasn't because teachers were, in general, kicking back and having a great, relaxing time for that couple of years; I also think there's a set of people who credit teachers with a much greater degree of influence on school policy than they actually have; further, I think these discussions can be difficult because the facts on the ground re: union power and such vary wildly across the country, though, I'm pretty sure, without strong and clear correlation to educational outcomes—my state has very weak teachers, on that front, but still has plenty of schools posting terrible outcomes)

As for the baseline-resetting, a lot of these measures are, for good reasons, concerned with relative achievement—achievement year-over-year, not absolute achievement, i.e. they're looking to measure growth—so it's a little hard for me to tell if that's a totally normal thing being spun as bad, or in-fact bad. Could be the latter and it's every bit as bad as you suggest, IDK, I've only a little familiarity with NY's achievement metrics. Your article leads me to believe it's the former, actually ("A scoring committee that reports to the Board of Regents said Monday that they must take into account the results of last year’s tests for students in grades three through eight to determine whether schools are showing improvement from year to year") despite framing the move as unusual/remarkable, though it's hard to be sure just from that source. School admin and state governments definitely aren't above screwing with those kinds of stats to make themselves look better, though—seen it happen, it's pathetic, and a dereliction of their duty to the kids, but it can be effective at achieving their ends of making it look like they're doing anything useful.
We've always been a post-truth society. I think it's just how humans are. We want easy answers, and if there are none, we invent them. I don't think that the human from 1AD is better than the human from 2023AD for example. What we used to blame on God we now blame on 5G or whatever. Same stuff, different details.

What has changed in the past 2000 years is the availability of information. Nothing is 100% true other than defined Universal constants. Everything else is on a spectrum. Those that want to get closer to 100% truth have many tools to get them along. Those that don't care can ask ChatGPT and get something 25% true. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink. That's just how people are, and AI isn't really changing that.
Python PyPI object storage provider outage causing package installs to fail
Wow, this is a big improvement on other 'gpt engineering' projects I've seen out there. What are the main things you think you can improve on it from here?
It seems like we forgot the immense value of an ingrained culture of education, where practically all kids get some form of schooling. Where I live (Wales, UK), the government statistics on school attendance post-Covid are grim, if you are anything less than middle class.
If parameters are 8 bit (aka a byte), one billion parameters is roughly 1 billion bytes, aka 1 gigabyte. ;)
I don't think Multipath TCP has been tested in enough environments to become the default yet. It's compatible with TCP, yes, but it's mostly useful for e.g. mobile devices that have multiple links like Wi-Fi and 4G, and it lets users to maintain TCP connection to a certain service even when moving across networks. Go seems to be server-oriented first, and there are some potential downsides to multipath TCP in a datacenter environment (e.g. potentially higher CPU usage, etc).
The issue is there's not a unified "we" here and progress is localized. If my region can end a recession by increasing rain & agricultural yields we'll certainly do it. If it causes a famine in an adjacent region that was already deeply impoverished, that's net progress isn't it?

The world is complicated, and the answer to that is humility and conservative consideration of specific circumstances, not throwing up your hands and figuring it'll all work out. You can't average human life & wellbeing together like that.
Adding to the irony:

She is the best-selling author, most recently, of “Rebel Talent: Why it Pays to Break the Rules in Work and Life.”
The Market for AI Companies
If there is a more convincing indicator of a failing school system, it's that a 13 year old no longer wants to do schoolwork and instead play video games with his friends.

Seriously, puberty is a thing. Math in particular can go from clear to impenetrable surprisingly quickly.
The sun is an infinitesimal fraction of the energy at work in the universe but if you stay out in summer for an hour you'll get sum burnt

Whats your point ?
Not too familiar with go toolchains, but I bet there's a linter that will warn you about shadowing builtins.
Evaluating Interpersonal Skills
When Uber started, they basically reinvented half of Google/Amazon since the cloud was no where near as mature as it was now. They were running their own data centers. It takes a lot of people to rebuild robust NoSql DBs, stream processing, container management, monitoring and the like from scratch.

Could Uber be built with a lot less now days? Absolutely, but it's also an interesting balance of even if they could, if their cloud bill for X service is 10m a year, and they think their own team of 4 could build X internally for less then that...why not do that?
And nobody mentions brain damage (proved) from Covid, from each infection. Sure, it's because of Lockdowns, nobody ever saw that virus can infect some neurons.
My in-laws are immigrants from Europe, and they have a no-shoe policy. They also have a German Shepherd and a Lab who go out for three walks a day and traipse around in the backyard in between. Makes the lack of shoes seem sort of pointless to me.
Got it, so compare flour + tomato sauce + cheese to dollar pizza places?
I also talk a lot to myself so my inner dialogue becomes an external dialogue when I'm alone doing mindless stuff like cleaning or putting groceries away - I find it just keeps my mind active and in the present without tuning out.

One of the funniest things was when I was working at a bike shop. The owner was a really cool guy and would visit the store from time to time. I was stocking some bike rack stuff on one side of a dual display, talking about an app I was essentially brainstorming over out loud while I was doing this mindless task.

I walked around the display and owner was standing there.
He looked at me with a smile and says, "That was quite the discussion you were having with yourself. Sounds like a great idea for an app."

We both started laughing and I had to explain him why I did this.
Another irritating move from Red Hat, likely driven by their unhappiness with the popularity of Alma/Rocky instead of a mass migration to RHEL they had probably hoped for.

As the source is still available, but not publicly, could it be that these alternate flavours enter in to a license agreement with Red Hat that's community funded?
Was there a push to get it released today?
Tableware sets in the US commonly come with at least two different sizes of spoon. These usually bear no relation to the "measuring spoons" used to measure volume, though they are handy for stirring tea or eating soup (for the small & large spoons, respectively).

For people who cook in the US, a set of "measuring spoons" is a very common kitchen tool.

"Teaspoon" and "Tablespoon" are units of measurement of volume, not bits of silverware. "Tea spoon" and "Table spoon" or "Soup spoon" are pieces of silverware, not units of measure!
Deploying a LLM (GPT-2) on Azure Using Power Automate: Step-by-Step Guide
Steps on how to deploy a LLM (GPT-2) to the Azure platform and using Power Automate to consume its endpoint, make requests, and ingest responses.
> he had been driven to tears by the sense he was nearing the end of his career without having pursued his dreams.

Seriously? He's invested billions of dollars and hasn't even pursued his dreams?

> The answer, he concluded, was to chase his old dream of being a technology “architect” who uses the creative side of his brain.

With all of the money he had access to, why didn't he go to school to do this instead? Or found a company to do it instead of spending all of his money funding companies so other people could do it?

> Often, he said, he wakes up before dawn with an invention in mind. He said he has a team working three shifts that stands by 24 hours a day, ready to respond to his ideas within five minutes.

What a waste of human talent.
I rarely use Figma but wanted to add that your experience isn't universal. I maintain one giant notes.txt file which I treat as my mental palace, finding sections within it by searching for "# keyword". This allows me to work as a 10x or 100x developer by avoiding bookkeeping chores like categorizing my notes, so more like a search engine. Figma might be targeted at designers who want to work fast also.

But I do agree that Figma needs an auto-organizing feature of some kind for people who receive the work. Perhaps with machine learning to track designs by the timestamp when they were edited, instead of their location on the page. Which could be as simple as a linear or hierarchical view which only scrolls along one axis, with tags similar to git/Sourcetree. Apologies if this already exists!
I randomly picked "Inductance" as category, and the "units" it provides are basically a dozen or so variants of the "Henry": Attohenry, Gigahenry, Centihenry, Exahenry, Kilohenry, Nanohenry, ....

If this is how you get to "5000 units" then that feels a bit cheaty
> "I make trucks for real people who do real work, and that's a different kind of truck."

I think he's right here just for the Cybertruck having sloped bed-rails. That alone makes it pretty useless in most "work truck" roles.
I've heard that Singapore has very, very high government salaries to reduce the incentive for graft.
Yeah, and most of the maintainers have largely quit now because of abuse from John Buckman. I think Mimoja contributes occasionally but not in a large capacity.
Looks like this device is for NVME drives. Is there any special tuning required for an all-ssd array versus rotational HDD’s?

I’m also curious how long SSD’s are supposed to last relative to an equivalently sized HDD.
Agreed. This is so obvious that I don’t know why it even makes sense to discuss, unless the person entering has some health issue. Even in that case, they have to ask the house owner or renter whether they can keep their shoes on inside.

Since it is their house, they, and only they, get to decide the rules about shoes allowed inside or not.
I built a number of iOS apps in the early days of the SDK and I remember it took a while for the community to learn the best techniques to efficiently render complex tables in scroll views.

The same thing will happen here except that you have the additional issue of learning how to efficiently render 3D assets in response to user events. After all most developers do not come from a gaming/VR background.
Surely not every app will use the hand and eye tracking.

Let the user attach a pair of mouses (one for eyes, one for hand).

> Next month, Apple will open developer labs in Cupertino, London, Munich, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo

It can be pretty janky and still be more convenient than traveling to one of six cities.
I was talking https://www.gamespot.com/articles/playstations-call-of-duty-...
As a MacOS user, zooming on a touchpad is painful.
I read somewhere that Squarespace is already a reseller of Workspace, so the new accounts they acquire will likely slot into whatever current mechanism exists for managing and supporting these customers.

Apparently the Google Domains UI is sticking around too, although who knows how long that'll last.
You can often reach 90-100k as a senior dev (the real ones with +8y xp.) in major german cities with good negotiation skills at top tier companies. Senior devs can usually pick any company they want. The story is on the other side completely reverted for junior devs. Low pay (50-60k) and low demand. I've hired some junior devs in the past years and it usually shows why you pay a senior almost the double.
Red Hat is valuable for situations where you want to leave a computer running for 10+ years and not have to worry about updates breaking anything. If you are fine with doing a full OS update every 6 months and always want the latest and greatest features, you're not in the target market.
Sure they happen, but this should trigger class action lawsuits.

"We don't sell your data" is a plainly worded claim, and is blatantly false if/when a company is sold. Companies should be required to say "We don't sell your data unless acquired" or "We don't sell your data now but might in the future".

Allowing consumers to make an informed choice is critical for properly functioning free markets, let's enforce this.
> They said “basically,” so no need to nitpick.

The inflationary use of "infinite" especially in tech crowds that should know better deserves pushback.

There are models of computation that actually model infinite computation. A well-studied one is Büchi automata, basically a generalization of finite state automata to infinite sequences.

> And I’m not sure about unbounded; surely it is bounded by a suitable exponential function?

Nope. You can nest them and for any function that you give you can produce a RE that takes longer than that function to evaluate. (That's literally what "unbounded" means. There is no bound. Doesn't mean it's "infinite". All those computations terminate, which is literally what "finite" means in this context.)
It feels like such a myopic decision on several fronts, not least of all the obvious cross-product synergies. Google Fiber customers should have been the target market for Stadia, should have been a backbone for deploying semi-public wifi for Pixel Phones owners, a target audience for 'cinephile-grade' upgraded youtube subscription, etc.

Nevermind that non-linearity should have been achievable[0] via lobbying at the state/federal level.

[0]An advantage only really achievable by a company as large as google, with money and weight to throw around.
This blog has a lot of detailed posts if you're interested in this sort of thing, deep dives into how you find fake data (helpful if you need to fake your data better!).
> so there's no reason they'd be affected by the results of more systematic testing.

Let's go back to the g'parent comment that started this branch, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36387994 .

muxator wrote "the author of this little proposal (officializing "_" as a no name placeholder) had to perform a thorough research to show that this change would not break existing code".

What was that "thorough research"? The paper doesn't mention it, but does imply there was a code search to find the examples it listed.

I assume you think that research was also "gut instinct", rather than "thorough research". Is that only because it did not do full compilation of all C++ code on GitHub, or is there something more seriously wrong with that research?

Further, while you wrote "Most C++ proposals today are not submissions of existing compiler features from the big three compilers (MSVC, GCC and Clang) but instead fresh before the committee, often with no implementation experience at all", that specific spec says it was implemented in Clang.

It therefore seems like the proposal which kicked off this long thread is a counter-example to your characterization of C++ language development.

You have not addressed my question - how do you know the extra effort in a full Crater run of all crates in crates.io + GitHub is useful, rather than primarily FOMO-driven anxiety?
One word: parasites.
By "make an impact" I was thinking maybe being more popular than either Matrix or IRC (both of which I use regularly, and both of which I would prefer XMPP to) not "spontaneously become the next dominant network"
TBH I have not seen electric F150s around DFW or southern Florida, though I have seen more than one Rivian.

A certain demographic would never buy an electric F150 over a manly, lifted, smoke belching ICE truck. They would aggressively cut off an electric F150 if they saw one.

But most truck drivers I see are not like that... They're just nice people who like a nice truck. Maybe it will take some time to catch on, but I don't think theres an electric truck stigma among AHEM sane drivers.

EDIT: And to be clear, the Cybertruck is unbuyable because its an exotic, expensive, outrageous rolling spaceship, not because its electric.
No, it's not. Alma was founded by CloudLinux, which is a Russian company with a Russian owner, mostly Russian and Eastern Europe developers and fake US address. As of today, CloudLinux still plays a critical role in Alma.
The Russian Way of War in Ukraine
> In fact, my grandma would be upset if I set in my daily jeans upon my bed - jeans that set in school seat, street car seat, benches, dirt, etc, should not be in contact with where I'll sleep.

This. And not only where you sleep.
Public transport seats or even chairs that were used by many, many people over the years are just yuck.
Same with door handles (i so hate the Americanbones - you can't use your elbow or wrist to push them!), public transport, handrails, ATM pinpads...
These articles almost always have a "except for me and my friends" implication. The author always implicitly sees themselves as above all the vulnerable people and they must paternally protect them by restricting their access to the dangerous technology.

"We're not ready" isn't a relevant statement because it's here/coming no matter what you do. If you want to say, "here's how we get ready", I'm all ears.
This only applies to people who registered their domain through Google itself, right?
I think HN does that deliberately to slow down arguments.

>The link you have provided seems to show a decrease in total fires but some increase in actual area burned.

There seem to be two aspects to area burned: many years it is very low, and then every few years there is a very large burn. Those very large burns were bigger in the 80s than in the past 10 years. You could look at the average, but that probably isn't going to show anything useful (which is probably why they haven't put it on the graph).

Both the Mercury News article and this Canadian Natural Resources document say that the main reason for the changes is due to human behaviour rather than climate: factors such as chopping down burned trees instead of leaving them, putting out every fire that is found, more people going into the wilderness, etc.

If someone is arguing that climate change is causing drier areas which results in more wildfires or larger wildfires, it's a poor argument if the data doesn't actually show that there are more wildfires or larger "big burns" now than in the 80s (or pre-gold rush).
That just goes to show how huge the markup is on those H100 cards! Ten 4090 cards have more compute and more memory (240GB!) than a H100 card. The cost of the 4090s is the same or lower for about 4x the compute.
"whereas foo.com/A has to be on the same address as foo.com/B."

Does it though ? I could always reverse proxy /B to another host, correct ?
While this sounds wise at first glance, this is just clearly not true to anyone who's used ChatGPT.

The problem is usually the opposite (sycophancy)
I have toe socks that slide down. Just one pair of the dozens I have.
Most of the time they simply acquire the company.

And so you have a lot of success and then you make a lot of money during an acquisition.

Sounds like the opposite of terrifying to me.
Some whole states have (due to state laws) very weak teacher's unions that can barely do anything to protect teachers when they should be protected, and that hardly have any say in anything. I think if it were at all possible to spin those states as having better educational outcomes, Republicans would be crowing about it on Fox News 24/7.
I mean, it takes one to know one.
Whoever is the most honest person on hn, I hereby accuse that person of being a dishonest, impolite dog-botherer.
They totally did, as did many other acquired companies, but (AFAIK) Github didn't have "we won't sell your data" as a core tenet of the company carried off the mountaintop inscribed on stone tablets like Google.

I'm not one of those enraged over this, but it is both perplexing and disappointing.
$2500 is chump change for the costs involved with something like this.
Honestly looks like another dumb American obsession, same with scoring high on specific subsets of IQ tests and deeming those who do so to be in the .0001% of intellect in the world!
The presumption, from an investing standpoint anyway, is that working on this version will give you a first mover advantage for a V2 in two years that will have slightly upgraded chips, similar display, and cost half as much.
> On the other hand, knowing the complexity of all algorithms and blindly assuming "good complexity = good performance" while never checking is a recipe for desaster.

Exactly. That's the difference between an actual education and having looked up some Big-O notation on Wikipedia.
>There are liberals and moderates who are annoyed by people who are aware of the plight of minorities?

No, that's a poorly constructed strawman. Even conservatives care about the plight of minorities. There are liberals and moderates who are annoyed by "woke" leftists who believe acronyms are White supremacy [0], men can get pregnant, taking your top off at a White House event is a positive thing, etc.

[0] https://abc7news.com/sfusd-renaming-schools-board-meeting-sa...
There was Upper Canada vs Lower Canada. On a map, they were inverted, but it was in reference to the St-Lawrence river and water from the Great Lake. You would first arrive in Lower Canada (from Europe) and keep navigating to reach Upper Canada.
Regulation in areas of extreme innovation is by definition difficult. When you have people onboard any space or deep sea craft, you do have some level of moral obligation.

Whatever you feel about Elon Musk, I appreciate his distinction in approach between crewed and un-crewed craft at SpaceX. I'm paraphrasing but he has said that when something is uncrewed, you can push it to the limit over and over again to push the technology fwd. But the second you have people on board (i.e. Crew Dragon), the margin for error goes down to zero. There are unavoidable risks, but you want to be damn sure you've minimized the avoidable ones. So you can be both -- a fast moving startup, and a "safe" organization.

Obv we still know so little about the Titan, but what upsets me is that the 'uncrewed' extreme testing does not (afaik) seem to have been particularly rigorous.
It's also possible that Meta is struggling because a $500 dollar VR headset isn't a broadly compelling experience given all the compromises they had to make to get it to $500 bucks.

"Smartphones" weren't the most dominant phone category until after the iPhone.

It's really hard to know until units start shipping though.