skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If kids rather want their phones than to listen to school, maybe it's time to change how school works.

30 kids having to sit still 6 hours a day and do nothing more than listen and take notes? That's boring as fuck. Even worse as a lot of the stuff they learn is something they'll literally never even think about once in their life and they'll have to forget again after the test to make room for more useless crap. And every attempt to innovate gets shot down somewhere, so the teachers aren't really willing to adapt either - when I went to school a decade ago we had more than one teacher who used the same transparent sheets on an overhead projector that he made (and copied) decades ago, written on a typewriter.

Smaller class sizes, more teachers, interactive and engaging lessons... that's all stuff that only the private schools (Waldorf and friends) provide and it actually works out even with conventional metrics, but these are expensive and have issues on their own (e.g. the tendency to attract pedos and weirdos, of which there have been a fair share of scandals).

Yes, I'm fed up with the sorry state of our education system.
Depends what kind of passthrough you’re talking about.

If you’re talking about additive displays like xreal , magic lens or HoloLens, then the Vision Pro has a much higher field of view of the content and the ability to display things that are darker than the real world , in exchange for looking at a screen of the world instead of directly at it. Those trade offs are subjective so I won’t focus on them because the tech is so different.

If you compare to other VR headsets with cameras feeding video to the screen, there’s a lot:

1. Clarity is higher. If you look at the footage from their product video which they said is shot from device, it’s a lot more stable and clear than anything up until you get to the $6k Varjo XR-3.

2. Latency is lower apparently. Most other headsets have more of a delay between photon in to photon out based on people who’ve tried it.

3. Better reprojection of the image. If you look at videos of pass through from the Quest Pro, as you move, things warp in the view. From videos from the vision pro, it doesn’t seem to have any of that. (Obviously I’m just taking each company at its word that videos are honest)

Supposedly the Quest 3 is significantly better passthrough than the Quest Pro but very few people have tried it and said anything in depth about it, so it’s too early to judge.
One of the parallel worlds cannot be extremely different from the other
The fact that we call the curve fitting/optimization/compression that we do to fit machine learning models to input data "learning" is really unfortunate and leads to this kind of conflation.

If we trace the path of how we ended up here, it's similar to how people incorrectly refer to loci of DNA as genes. We have behavior analysis where we speak of learning as the conditioning via the antecedant-behavior-consequence loop. There was the Hebbian theory of how the ABC loop manifested physically in neurons. Early neural net papers took inspiration from that that mechanism and called it learning.

Meanwhile, actual learning is far, far richer than the Hebbian theory of synaptic strengthening, and has a lot more going on than just operant conditioning.

So, please, it's time for everyone to stop pretending that the fact that ML inherited the word "learn" as a term of art for curve fitting has any philosophical weight.
Kneecapping tech for amorphous "privacy" concerns is very much a valid choice. I'd bet on the countries that don't make that trade off.
Its not working because you're not accepting reality. You're attempting to attack my religion and 'but the bible' argument is a sideshow of the fact: Religion is a protected right and individuals can't be forced to make messages that violate that right.

I'm absolutely arguing in good faith despite you trying to "but Jesus" me.

My point is simple and has been consistent. Trying to put me in the hotseat is the problem here because this isn't an argument about me personally it's an argument about free speech and protected classes in the US.

edit: and to be clear... I'd sit down and have a beer with you anytime. You haven't been disrespectful or personally attacked even if you've try to make the discussion personally about me - there is a difference. I do respect that and wouldn't have continued the conversation otherwise.
> and IT "assholes" think the run of the mill business drones are "assholes" as well. Their inability to be effective at their jobs tend to make IT lives worse because they can't understand what IT workers

Have you ever dealt with an average IT department in a non-tech company? This attitude doesn't help anyone and I really want to believe that only a small minority of tech people think of any other worker anywhere as an "asshole".
Playable most of the time means "this game requires a keyboard, so remember to press Steam+X for the on-screen keyboard when you're asked to enter your character name", or "fonts are a bit small on the small screen", or "there's no built-in performance preset, so you'll have to set it to medium manually".

Essentially, complete non-issues most of the time.
I'm not sure if this kind of parody is against HN guidelines per se, but it's less common here than, say, Twitter, and as such is usually customary to add some indicator like "/s" or similar.
Just so you know, the exact same thing was said about pretty much every major art movement over the past century and beyond. When you say, "None of it seems to be made by or for adults", the same was basically said of Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol and Paul Gauguin and Henri Matisse.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. :)
The article claims that most first round interviews are behavioral questions / culture fit.

That doesn't match any interview processes I've been involved with. If you are running an interview process for ICs (which this article clearly targets), you should put the highest signal questions first.

That usually means a somewhat easy coding question. If people fail that, then you can immediately eliminate them from the pipeline. If they fail a hard coding question, you usually need more signal, which means more wasted time.

If your culture fit / behavioral question is good at weeding out candidates, then there's probably something seriously wrong with your hiring practices. Sociology studies show that those questions are more correlated to drinking the same brand of alcohol or playing the same sports than they are to job performance.

Other studies show that diversity significantly increases team performance, so filtering people on whether you'd like to hang out with them during the weekend is fraught with technical peril.
I think it's all a question of finding the right measure: in Germany there are strict rules for advertisement (for example you won't see giant billboards like in the US anywhere, flashing/animated ads are also strictly limited etc.), but a complete ban like in Sao Paulo might be overshooting the target. I grew up in socialist Romania, and the Sao Paulo photos from the article remind me of how a typical Romanian city used to look back then - still an eyesore, but a very drab one...
Show HN: typed_params – An alternative to strong_parameters for Ruby on Rails
As David Deutsch says, the reason is LLMs and the current batch of AI tools are the opposite of AGI.

You make an LLM by limiting what it can do. An AGI can decide what to do for itself. Maybe it wants to play chess instead of responding to your prompts.

Some people say AGI will emerge spontaneously from LLMs. This is supernatural thinking, based on a bad explanation. We will not be able to program an AGI until we understand how our own intelligence works.
Next you're gonna tell me the copy-paste Facebook statuses that say Facebook doesn't have rights to your photos don't do anything!
What Happened with Archive.matrix.org
What did he say? I only see, ”Sorry, this page isn't available“.
I wonder how much documentation we have for the practicalities of modern construction methods, and how much of it is passed down orally by the construction workers who are actually building stuff, or locked within internal company manuals. I mean sure I can look up formulae for concrete, rebar etc. on wikipedia, but for actual step-by-step instructions with specific machines and materials? I bet that information is a bit more discombobulated.
Alternative/fun sci-fi plot: The aliens who sped up our evolution by artificially limiting our lifespans did so via relatively sloppy means and there is in fact an “off” switch waiting on some grad student to stumble upon
> Enough of them revolt at the idea of a teacher taking - even temporarily - the $1000 device they bought

How is that "overbearing" when horror stories like these are common? https://old.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/yfskz3/aita_... https://old.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/uc2gwy/wibta...
Dear battery technology claimant,

Thank you for your submission of proposed new revolutionary battery technology. Your new technology claims to be superior to existing lithium-ion technology and is just around the corner from taking over the world. Unfortunately your technology will likely fail, because:

[ ] it is impractical to manufacture at scale.

[ ] it will be too expensive for users.

[ ] it suffers from too few recharge cycles.

[ ] it is incapable of delivering current at sufficient levels.

[ ] it lacks thermal stability at low or high temperatures.

[ ] it lacks the energy density to make it sufficiently portable.

[ ] it has too short of a lifetime.

[ ] its charge rate is too slow.

[ ] its materials are too toxic.

[ ] it is too likely to catch fire or explode.

[ ] it is too minimal of a step forward for anybody to care.

[ ] this was already done 20 years ago and didn't work then.

[ ] by the time it ships li-ion advances will match it.

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I was thinking of more of a "i have no mouth and yet I must scream" or a black mirror "white Christmas" scenario

Edit: to be clear I would still take the immortality like 100%
Installing them can be annoying (switch to desktop mode, run Heroic Launcher, find the right Proton version that works), but after initial setup they run seamlessly. Heroic Launcher also now supports GoG Cloud Savegame sync so it hasn't been seriously problematic.

(About half the games I play on Deck are from GoG.)
I think the assumption is that everyone understands that part if it applies to their role, i.e. to the engineer role.
The questions a candidate asks during that part of the interview have almost no overlap to the questions they would ask as part of a real job.

And no, not really. My job is to assess their technical skills, not how well they ask me about my work life balance while in a relatively high stress environment.
Like, with another person?
> I guess they are not

For situations like this precision matters and guesses don't count.
Seriously, Don't Sign a CLA
UC Santa Cruz is a public university so they have to be in compliance with the equal protection clause.
After a decade of billions invested in systems with models trained for object recognition in traffic, these models still struggle with object permanence. Why should we expect some rando painter models to do better? They'll paint a lamppost through a car and not notice anything wrong with it.

The day where these models can show shoes under a fence and a reflection of the person behind the fence in an opposing shop window? That day will come. But not on the current crop.
Yes. I know it sounds a bit weird, but I figured I would just sell it if I didn't like it.
Remember kids, if you're not paying for it, you're the product.
The magic of dependency resolution
>But I think "the income that is right in the middle of what everyone makes" has a slight edge for me in this respect.

I get that. However, that income doesn't reflect the largest bracket of the working population.
Yep, “I have a bomb. Nobody has to die today.” etc. is very effective.
While it can act as a mirror it is not only a mirror. There are many strategies that work with it e.g. bedtime stories, emergency, post apocalyptic, role playing, encoding, leading by example, etc. You can steer the probabilities and get around the filter models if you’re halfway creative.
Sadly, citing off topic ChatGTP woes and reducing Americans to a broad generalization is not a sign of intelligence either.
Threads will either fail like every other instagram spin-off or it will do the instagram thing where instagram copies an app and that feature is reasonably popular within Instagram but people still use the full service app version of the feature like how you can use Snapchat and TikTok within Instagram as Instagram stories and reels.
One possible explanation for the effectiveness is improved creatine transport.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2021.79559...

Research Sponsored by... Monster Beverage Corporation
I don’t think GitHub search will replace source graph.

1. GitHub isn’t free, especially for large private organisations
2. Source graph has much better search functions compared to GitHub
> they monetize it for you, give you a tiny percentage

It’s actually about 55% for YouTube. Creators are in demand and it’s competitive to keep them.
There's usually some description of why a game is marked playable, I think by clicking on the yellow symbol you'll get the lost of reasons.

The most common reasons are requires using the on-screen keyboard and small fonts. Some playable games are completely fine: Occasionally I find a game that only requires using the keyboard once or twice but is still marked 'playable'.
Switch's sleep is probably a little better. I think waking up is slightly faster, and it discharges less battery while it's asleep.
How long before Reddit shuts this access down?
I have the body of a large 13 year old, and I'm so glad I got a switch instead. What Valve has accomplished is amazing, but my friend has a Steam Deck and it's just too heavy for me. 5 minutes in and I could feel the strain.

The switch controllers, when decoupled, fit my hands perfectly without weighing anything. It works much better for me and my puny wrists.
ENiGMA½ – modern BBS software with a nostalgic flair
Fly ash (i.e. ash from industrial chimneys) is being used for this same purpose, as pozzolanic (volcanic ash) deposits are not that big or common around the world. The key here is, by the opinion of a cement researcher close to me, the availability of non-cristalline (i.e. an amorphous or vitreous form) silicon dioxide.

I've been slightly following the papers on roman concrete for a decade or so, and as far as I remember, they've been discovering different cristalline aluminosilicates that would explain the resilience of these concretes, so maybe there still is some need for pozzolanic, or for adding aluminium to fly ash.
Why rarely? Because you're talking about incandescent bulbs. The only way they're going to be more environmentally friendly than LEDs is in situations where they're rarely going to be on. Because they use a lot more energy when on.

So if you have a storage shed that you're only going to look in once a week during summer, and then only for a minute or two, incandescent bulbs may be a great choice. But not for a living room where light is going to be on every evening for hours.
Microstates vs macrostates. Doesn't it depend on the basis for the encoding and how many bits it is? Watermark, we usually think of something in the pixel plane, but a watermark can be in the frequency spectrum, and other steganographic (clever) resilient basises.
I find Python and Haskell both very elegant.
None of this makes any sense. No PE firm buys a company like Fly.io. I honestly don't understand what either of you are getting at, but I'm confident when I say "you're way off".
But making a copy is never enough. Users are only willing to migrate to a new platform for lower price, superior features, or when the original platform screws up big time. Otherwise it's just more of the same, and now instead of sending a tweet, you now would have to use multiple platforms to reach the same audience which probably already uses Twitter anyway.

If they really want people to move from Twitter like from Digg to Reddit or MySpace to Facebook they need a unique selling point. Having to use my real identity for a Twitter clone isn't one.
The LHC was brought down by a weasel:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36173247

It didn't survive.

The article doesn't mention it but a physicist somehow got his hands on it, took it to a taxidermist to have it stuffed, and keeps it in his office.
How ECS capacity providers inspired me to fix an ancient AutoSpotting issue
> I can look out my window and straight into my neighbour's bathroom. Is that public information?

Yes. And there have been numerous court cases confirming this (why we have paparazzi taking topless photos on people on private beaches from public vantage points).

I think this is a feature, not a bug, as without a straightforward rule I don’t know how society solves this without causing more harm. If something is public, it’s public. Restricting you from looking in your neighbors open window isn’t something that can realistically be “fixed.” Other than if I don’t want my neighbor to look in, I draw the blinds. This works for paupers and billionaires.

If I don’t want people to see things, I don’t make them public. I can’t set a limit of “only people making less than $20k are allowed to view this.”
GW Summit: Journey to the Titanic with Stockton Rush, OceanGate [video]
So you think Red Hat's engineering efforts mean nothing because their product is licensed under many open source licenses?

That seems unfair when Rocky/CIQ explicitly uses Red Hat's 10-year support as an advertisement point and contribute nothing to that fair?

https://ciq.com/support/rocky-linux/

With regular updates and a 10-year committed support lifecycle for each
major release, Rocky Linux is ideal for use in enterprise environments. It
is easy to migrate from CentOS and other RHEL-derived Linux distributions,
and it is secure and scalable.

Looking at this, what is the cost for CIQ here? What is the cost for Red Hat?
The fact that in 1980 only 18% of men had college degrees, but no problem getting married says everything.

Take good paying jobs away, make everything more expensive and here we are with Passport Bros (essentially a flee America movement) and multigenerational living. You have to have a good steady income and some stable foundation to build such an expensive life. America isn't giving men what they need to build a stable family.
There's also goyimtv but that one is definitely racist.
Searle vs. Boden (1984) – Consciousness and Understanding in Machines [video]
It's sad this is the reality of hiring now. It's byzantine and wasteful and I'm surprised that companies are willing to burn money this way. There are great candidates who may not perform well in an interview and there are a lot of serious clowns that can waltz through this process. The questions being asked are not likely going to yield useful information and the whole thing seems designed by pick-up artists to neg candidates into accepting bad offers. Why stop at 6 interviews?
The Searle vs. Boden debate revolves around the philosophical question of whether machines can truly possess consciousness and understanding, or if they are limited to simulating intelligent behavior without genuine understanding. This debate primarily involves John Searle, an American philosopher, and Margaret Boden, a cognitive scientist and philosopher.

John Searle is best known for his thought experiment called the Chinese Room argument, which he presented in 1980. In this argument, Searle imagines himself locked inside a room with a set of instructions that enable him to respond to written Chinese symbols without understanding the Chinese language. He argues that even though he can generate appropriate responses and appear to understand Chinese, he does not genuinely understand the language because he is simply following a set of syntactic rules without grasping the meaning behind them. Searle extends this argument to claim that computers, no matter how complex or sophisticated, can only manipulate symbols according to algorithms but lack true understanding.

Margaret Boden, on the other hand, represents a more optimistic view about machine understanding and consciousness. She acknowledges Searle's Chinese Room argument but argues that it overlooks the potential of computational systems to exhibit genuine understanding. Boden emphasizes the distinction between "strong" AI, which aims to create machines with consciousness and understanding comparable to human intelligence, and "weak" AI, which focuses on simulating intelligent behavior without claiming genuine understanding. She argues that while Searle's argument may hold for weak AI, it does not necessarily refute the possibility of strong AI.

Boden suggests that machine understanding can emerge through the combination of syntactic manipulation of symbols (as Searle describes) and semantic processing, which involves the interpretation and mapping of symbols to meaning. She highlights the importance of cognitive architecture, which encompasses not only the symbolic manipulation but also the grounding of symbols in sensory-motor experiences. According to Boden, by providing machines with rich sensory inputs and allowing them to interact with the physical world, it becomes possible for them to develop genuine understanding and consciousness.
This unexpectedly reminded me of what East Berlin looked like in 1988. It looked gray and dull compared to West Berlin. I've told this story for years without realizing that lack of outdoor advertising made the difference.
Dropping Windows has been the biggest advantage of it for me.

Though the irony isn’t lost that pretty much nothing I use on it actually targets the OS it is running.
Proton is such a huge achievement.

The SteamDeck isn't for me (don't care for mobile form factor). But this work also benefits me on a Chromebook using its experimental Steam support. It runs Steam and games in a container that works well with Proton.
HN already prevent submitting the same link in a short time frame. Quite often, submissions can end up without activity and resubmitting helps more people contribute to the discussion.

Topics aren’t “finished” just because /some/ HNers discussed it one day.
I know plenty of unfit people who think clearly. I know plenty of fit people that have no discipline.

Do you have a scientific study that proves any of this without a doubt or are you just pushing your own biases and societal norms onto candidates?
It rhymes with youtube in English orthography, that's literally it
Yes there is.

You can spin up more compute with a credit card. You can't make 1000 people in the same manner, nor can you own them.

Lets be real here though. The only reason anyone is drooling over AI is because it potentially allows one to elide paying someone else, ehich means more money for them.
The manifesto's main flaw (besides its prose / arrogance) is it was talking to the old guard, it didn't consider "what if we are right, and the new guard now rules the medium of the conversations?"
It had a footing in the automotive industry long before Blackberry even existed. Also: process control, medical, avionics, transportation. Anything where latency matters more than throughput.
Even on a forum where really smart people congregate, the "everywhere is America" syndrom is easily seen - even though Americans only constitute about 4 per cent of the world population.

Where I live, no one struggles to buy insulin. And if there is any kind of anti-aging treatment available, I don't doubt it will be offered to the general population without much ado. Compared to the rising cost of the pension systems in aging populations, treatments like that would be probably "dirt cheap".