skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author seems to be saying that the reason charter schools are successful is because of self-selection, and that is also why public schools are worse, due to the inverse of self-selection.

While there is certainly self-selection occurring here, it would be a mistake for policy makers to dismiss the problems with public schools as just being due to that. They should introspect instead of seeking excuses.
I still have friends who work at Microsoft and internally, Microsoft employees see the same tabloid articles and a fresh install of Windows comes with Candy Crush.

What people on HN don't realize is that the general public likes Candy Crush and tabloid news. My parents love these things being front and center on their computers.
Movies like Maverick are indeed propaganda. In exchange for all that fancy military hardware, the Navy was able to exercise editorial control over the script. In fact ‘ Jerry Bruckheimer, a top producer, said that “Top Gun” and 2001’s “Pearl Harbor” simply wouldn’t exist without military approval.’

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-05-30/top-gun-mav...
I have taken a look at the protocol between the software and the display and it is straightforward to hack, but the docker image is lightweight and reliable enough that I don't see the need to.
This analogy seems like a stretch. An artist that has paint dripping from their strokes strikes me as sloppy. Is this analogy really tied to a single specific type of painting?
This is the answer. The person above can speculate and fearmonger what magic "AI" is going to be able to do, but if there is no personal data there to begin with, or if you use math like in differential privacy, there's not going to be a way to identify individuals.

That is, if you suspect they'd change their minds and start trying to deanonymise previously collected data anyway — remember that open source distributions (I don't know fedora-the-organisation specifically) are generally made up of volunteers like you and me. Notable exceptions obviously exist, like for-profit Canonical; that's not the org type I mean or trust.
> It’s much harder when the food is great though.

Indeed. I doubt anyone ever got fat by eating food they didn't like.

The issue becomes all the worse when food is designed to make you want to keep on eating. Bonus points for it giving you that sort of hunger-like feeling 2 hours after your meal.
I see no open issues.

It's around 1k lines of python, audit the code if you care and rotate your keys.

Or don't use it.
> we want to collect the clickthrough rate of the recommended software banners in GNOME Software to assess which banners are actually useful to users

Sigh. Yet another Linux distribution is becoming adware. Ubuntu already shows ads (and spreads FUD) in apt, but they haven't resorted to tracking yet.
When a significant proportion of private debt is housing, it's the entire society's problem. (And the subprimes crisis illustrated the problem in a very obvious fashion).
It's open source so I'm just going modify the telemetry program to send nonsense and publish my changes on shithub so anyone else who wants to monkey wrench Fedora's telemetry can do so (even if they don't actually run Fedora).
Precondition: Every person on the planet should have their own permanently unique identifer
This is why if I had to teach I would teach college kids. I don’t want to be a therapist and bear the weight of all parents’ failures. I want to teach math. So if to be a public school K-12 teacher you have to also “model” how to be a functional human (as the kids go home and see the opposite) then I would never accept that job.

I was raised by a single mom who worked a million hours and didn’t have a baby sitter when I let myself in after school. Don’t see how “working too many hours and being stressed” is a new phenomenon because most of my extended family is poor and have always been. My mom told me not to steal and don’t be an obnoxious asshole in school, wasn’t exactly rocket science.
A dead end for human+ level AGI, they will still be useful.
To add to the point: Alphabet has probably most data than any other company (except FB I suppose) and they still can't release a good product that people will actually use no matter how much data they have.
I wonder why we find life so painful that we find "chips and TikTok" as an acceptable default.
However I have noticed that when he is posting as USER, in the context of conversing with chatgpt, he does not make an attempt to do this. or perhaps more accurately there is no way to do it without going back and editing text that had already been fed to the bot and thereby misrepresenting the prompts it was responding to.
It's not more open, it's more chaotic, and leaning rightwing.
Show HN: I made AI-driven textual game people can play with
Exactly what you would expect from an IBM sponsored project.
I'm not sure but it can be changed to anything the user wants:

> all of the components of the server (discussed below) are open source, and we will provide instructions for how to run a simple server yourself and view its metrics database. You can redirect metrics from Fedora’s server to your own by changing a URL in a configuration file.

I'm fine with these changes as long as they are transparent.
Charter schools are the saving grace to the public schools hijacked by the teachers union and bloated administrations.
Recently, these unions succeeded to lowering testing standards for graduation in blue states to mask the worse job they’re doing teaching our kids:

Examples:
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/new-york-lowers-bar-...

Meanwhile major cities have the highest per pupil spend for public schools, with frighteningly poor outcomes.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/03/30/bal...

Fix K-12 schools (no, more money on bloated administrations is not the answer), and the need for affirmative action goes away.
Venture Money Ain’t Free
Annoying, I have used Fedora for many years now and I hadn't planned to stop that. Even with the slim chance that they don't go through with this, it tells that they have lost their bearings. Oh well it will be nostalgic doing a bit of distro hopping again.
“Not doing telemetry” is not even remotely tangential to “why is IBM in business”
And even fine-tuning using AI causes the models to quickly degrade I've seen here previously. Perhaps we are already at peak of these LLMs now and the next gen won't come because all training data will be poisened with AI generate crap.

That would be kinda funny to me tbh
Startup Friday
I have a script checked into a git repo so I can more easily sync between machines.

https://gitlab.com/halcanary/config/-/blob/master/git_config...
Or just use the tools directly since they no longer underperform human actors.

GPT-4 going toe to toe with the experts who set the benchmarks, way overperforming the crowdworkers
https://www.artisana.ai/articles/gpt-4-outperforms-elite-cro...

GPT-3.5 outperforming crowdworkers https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15056

More money won't stop people from automating whatever they can. Especially when the automation provides such good results.
The dream of AI is the same dream of free money, free content, free everything!
https://daviewales.com/

An intermittent blog, which these days mostly seems to be about configuring Linux on old Macs.
You don't need to commit output into the git. I used pre-commit filter in git, where it will strip all output from the notebook before it was committed into repository. This allowed us to review the code changes of notebooks.
I am terrified of a possible terrorist attack on the Zaporizhzhia NPP not just for the consequences it would have locally but as an event that could end the nuclear power industry.

It would particularly be an own goal for the Russian federation because they lead the world in nuclear energy: they're the only people who are building new NPP as N-th of a kind projects as opposed to first of a kind projects. (Korea is almost there, China might be there in 10 years but right now China seems to be building out every design they can find.) Russia has even "stayed the course" on fast reactor/plutonium economy with this beautiful machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Cx2nZTgQg

If they screw this one up they'll be the leader in an industry that doesn't exist anymore, I can't imagine that they will be able to continue to build NPPs in other countries if they prove they can't be trusted.
What's the bottom line or takeaway?
This link opens a page that wants me to download a PDF, which I won't do.
"Involvement" need not be official.

Development people have influence, and definitely want future financial success stories moving smoothly through their university's admissions pipeline.
I'd imagine if they recorded an audio answer they were not being serious, so makes sense you found it weird. Bellingcat claims a lot of things with no evidence, it's not a serious source IMO.
> So what we have ongoing for half a century?

Except fully automated, cheaper, and with the capacity to fluently respond to each and every person who cares about the topic.

At GPT-4 prices, a billion words is only about 79800 USD.

> Life can’t be “won” by intelligence, that is only one factor, luck being a very significant other one.

It doesn't need to be the only factor, it just needs to be a factor. Luck in particular is the least helpful counterpoint, as it's not like only one person uses AI at any given moment.

> Especially biology is massively data-limited, which won’t be any more available to an AI than to the researchers at hand, let alone that teenager.

Indeed; I certainly hope this isn't as easy as copy-pasting bits of one of the many common cold virus strains with HIV.

But homebrew synbio and DNA alteration is already a thing.
Contracts do not usually require a signed piece of paper and never have. Informal agreements are every bit as legally binding.

I do not know about this situation in particular, though. Reading emojis is like reading tea leaves.
Incredibly narrow minded advice for the privileged.

> Maybe you go to a school in a poor area, or with a lot of violence, or far too many students for the teachers to pay any individual attention to; or, relatedly, maybe you’re required to spend a lot of time caring for siblings or parents, working a low-skill job, or holding your family together or preserving your safety in some way.

Oh if only not being extremely privileged was so easy to undo. When you work a lot of jobs to keep your family together you don't have time for alternative highschool guides. That's why people talk about companies being founded in garages and not on the street in Chicago.

I've had students who never got a good night of sleep in their lives. Or students with abusive family.

People who don't come from privileged backgrounds also cannot see themselves doing a lot of the careers related to this guide.

> It might be easier to talk teachers into letting you off the busywork for their classes

It's exactly the opposite. The idea that something is busywork and you tell a teacher you're going to do something else instead is privilege. Those teachers they're massively overworked and underpaid. They don't have time for this nonsense.

> Your charm advantage gets increased a little bit in this situation; if you reach out to an adult doing some sort of interesting work.

Seeing the author's reaction to being contacted by a student who doesn't talk they way they do, might have a tattoo, might dress very differently, would be interesting. No. Being poor and I'm bad conditions is not charming.
>There's little evidence that where you go to school matters.

That's not quite true. There is little evidence that if you go to Penn instead of Penn State you have different results, but there are caveats. First, you have to be able to get into both.

[edit]The studies control for selection, so the ones showing no increase in wages are studying the same cohort at Penn and Penn State, but there are more students at Penn State that are not members of that cohort than there are students at Penn.

Second, you need to go to a college with enough people and have access to a similar cohort of intelligent, hard-working and advantaged students.

>If you take Albert Einstein and you put him in a community college, he's still going to be Albert Einstein, and you're still going to just be you at Harvard.

Maybe so - most people aren't Albert Einstein, though, and that Harvard degree gets you a look at places where the community college degree does not.
Lots Project
I went to a public school and disruptive kids were NEVER expelled, or kicked out of class, they were just tolerated and placated. I wish I had gone to your school because no matter how disruptive they were, or how much they bullied others in class, the school simply would not expel them. The worst they would get is after school detention. It was hugely disruptive and made life miserable for the rest of us.

If only disruptive kids were expelled instead of placated MANY of us might have had a better education.
Sneedora in 3... 2...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27742305
This makes no sense. To elaborate: It's obvious that my comment referred to RedHat. IBM owns RedHat and I'm sure they can influence this sort of thing but they should realize that RedHat is where it is because it is a company that in the past could be relied upon not to do such stupid things. Telemetry doesn't serve the users, and the kind of users that are customers of RedHat will certainly not appreciate this sort of bait-and-switch and may well leave for other platforms. IBM won't lose any business on account of this but they're burning up value that they paid good money for when they acquired RedHat.
Because they're very much the victims of web designers with the same mindset, and if anyone should be the ones to recognize how unfair throwing minority user groups under the bus can be.

It also doesn't really make strategic sense to focus on the lowest common denominator. Chrome already has that group. The one place they could eke out a loyal userbase is specifically the users that Chrome fails to capture because they have unusual needs or requirements.
I had a similar experience. Transparent paper with glossy ink that made looking at images not enjoyable, visible pixels in the text. I don't care about the ugly cover but the reading experience was in some ways inferior to an e-ink device, while it should be the opposite.
Is Ethereum a security or a commodity?
Didn’t enjoy mastodon? Maybe it’s all about the instance but there are many & over many interests. Tbh I’ve enjoyed the Fosstodon instance very much & w/ iOS clients like Ice Cubes I don’t feel like I’m missing anything at all.

People complained endlessly about Facebook & privacy & stoking outrage & yet are swarming to threads & act like signing up for Mastodon is climbing Mt Everest.. it’s not & I feel people are acting & being a bit silly.

Also w/ how Google Talk & XMPP went why would anyone think that Threads would be better at implementing ActivityPub? Last thing we need is a commercial entity “committing” to ActivityPub while actively undermining it at the same time.
I don't really disagree with you; I was just pointing out the way it currently is, at least in the US.
It's so tedious seeing how many people don't get this. Enshittification following a buyout is practically a rite of passage.
New approach to water purification: The future of clean water is electrified
How do you manage your Apple accounts at work and at home?
With the use of asset management software, iCloud accounts pose an issue for me.

If you receive a Mac from work, often times it requires an iCloud account. If you for example, want to respond to iMessages, or listen to your Music, you would have to login with your personal account.

If you were to create a separate iCloud account, then you will basically need to have two subscriptions for Music for example. And different ids you are contactable at.

In addition, assuming that they don't need to do password entry, an admin could view some contents of your iCloud account.

Is there a solution to this that might not be commonly known? Does this actually require me to have a separate iCloud account for work and home, and a separate Mac for work and home?

I understand that Apple are releasing a work and home mode for safari to help with some of this personal usage, but I think it is an issue, and a waste for people to maintain multiple iCloud accounts, purchase multiple machines, and have notes and other materials scattered across machines and accounts. At the same time, the company has an interest to be able to update or wipe the machine in case of security issues.

Would appreciate your opinions.
The famous Time Cube site:

https://web.archive.org/web/20030219072854/http://timecube.c...
Equating lack of legal proof to morally defensible is laughable in any context.
And that's why I never buy Chinese products
Apples and oranges. Bug reports are filed by a specific type of user and doesn't give a comprehensive view of all bugs. Statistics can also include a lot more than bugs, like "is the number of MIPS users proportional to the amount of extra effort we need to put in to make that happen?" is not a data point you'll find in bugzilla or other tickets.
You seem to think that people will care about this proof or believe you in any way. Even if they do, they can still hate you because hating people on the internet is easy.
Floating Sandbox – Two-dimensional particle system simulator
Whether or not Threads is a success, the fact remains that it wouldn’t exist if Musk hadn’t strongly signalled he was ceding Twitter’s market position.

That’s the kind of unforced error you can’t sue your way out of.
Yep. And when, ever, has any dream or promise of "free X" actually worked out?
That's weird, I don't know anyone who wouldn't call Rammstein and Rob Zombie metal. Are they really not considered metal in some circles?

Just curious, if they don't sound anything like metal to you, what kind of metal do you like to listen to? I mostly listen to doom metal, plus a little bit of death metal, industrial metal, and black metal.
Kind of odd that it's a different font, if they'd work closely with the publishers there would be no need for that just take the closest paper size available on-demand, adjust the margins accordingly and otherwise print it exactly as it was intended.
> France is rioting

Your point is well taken, and if anything that's a significant understatement. This is one of the most significant protests (or nearly civil war) to occur in France since the Revolution.

> and it barely registered on Twitter.

Indeed. I saw videos of what was happening in Wuhan in late 2019, but tbh it was mostly linked by comments on (where else) HN, so I may not have discovered it via Twitter's own tools.
For a starting point, I wrote that article couple years ago: http://const.me/articles/simd/simd.pdf

I don’t recommend assembly. Intrinsics are typically good enough performance wise, and writing correct assembly is hard. For instance, Chromium has non-trivial dependencies with code written in assembly, and they caused tons of fun debugging issues like that https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=121838... Using intrinsics would have solved that because modern compilers follow ABI conventions of the target platforms very carefully.

About that highway, I don’t have any experience but based on the documentation I don’t like it too much. They say that’s a thin wrapper over intrinsics, but I believe it still breaks things. Specifically, Intel and ARM don’t document highway, but they have decent documentation on their intrinsics. Similarly, stackoverflow has thousands of questions and answers with tags like SSE and AVX, most of them are related to intrinsics, but nothing related to highway.
Well, yes, the adage that "It takes a village to raise a child" still holds.
You make it in one of the thousands of electrolyzers you build and transport it in the same way you transport natgas.
Interesting! I'm not very knowledgeable about this topic so I'm wondering why workflows would rely on code that doesn't remove the sources of non-determinism? (runtime errors, lack of proper serialized synchronization logic etc...)?

Or is the issue that the evolution of a language might introduce additional sources of non-determinism?

So merely upgrading without checking for these wouldn't be safe if code execution depends on the behavior of a specific runtime?

(that would probably for code that never fails at runtime I assume which also seem to be a pretty stringent requirement?)

The advantage of a virtual machine would then be that the full execution trace of the instructions can be recorded and then replayed, regardless of the higher level changing semantics?)
Nobody is reading even the summary anyway. They saw the word telemetry in the headline and had an opinion.
The Native App vs. Progressive Web App Debate Is Completely Flawed
Australia's been pursuing it since 2018:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=i326eNOa6Us&feature=share7

Personally, I have nothing to hide. But I enjoy hiding as much as I can for the enjoyment of the technological challenge and also the absolute "Fuck You, Forever" to those sociopaths that want to control that which they have no natural right to control.
Just let me opt out
The experts tend to disagree.
By this logic we must conclude that only a tiny portion of people actually want to live in beachfront properties and take a few months off to travel every year.

Everyone else seeks out cheaper apartments and 9-5 jobs with two weeks vacation.
Huh?

I think it is not even legal to sell a connected device which cannot be spy-ied on in France.

And some very old french TV shows were about how the "services" can get into any device and do whatever they want without even you knowing, and since everybody not abiding to all gov choices is a terrorist, they can do whatever they want to nearly everybody.

This is the actual consensus.
I genuinely feel bad for "folks" who can't read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carlyle_Group
> Let's keep in mind that most people don't have access to basic hygiene and food safety.

Agree, whole thing comes across as notionally adjacent to shit like "effective altruism" and disguising a greedy disregard for material reality as equitabiity
So you will need to do REAL research to convince them. Which this isnt...
except the easy common things are very slow, and the optimizations which are basically required become a careful dance of understanding the underlying hardware interface anyway (without any real documentation) and figuring out how to map that onto the high-level interface.
Hmmm.

I mean there are a number of issues I see with this for me personally.

First of, there is a huge amount of things that I 'should' do or have, plenty of healthy habits, like going for a walk, exercise, reading, meditation, learning an instrument etc, the problem is everything is a time trade, I can only choose to do a few things. To me personally what would having a personal website really give me more than any of those things?

Secondly, I don't think anything I would have to share would be that useful / interesting, I am not an expert in any field and if I just shared every random thought or idea, it would be such a niche mish mash of things, I don't see why it would be of interest to anyone.

What I do is i capture any significant moment of the year on a trello board, then at the end of the year, I take that as a reminder and I write about that year, I go through all my photos on my phone from that year and pick out the relevant ones, I note what I watched, what I listed too, what I did etc and then I email that too myself in gmail with a flag of 'time capsule'.

I also save and backup those particular writeups as PDF's outside of gmail for my personal record, this is great for me, but none of it needs to be public.
Note that I said AGI there, not AI. The full AGI X-risk case is hundreds of pages, unsuitable for a hackernews discussion.

To oversimplify to the point of wrongness: Essentially how humans dominated our world, by being smarter.
No intermediary (visa).