skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Social norming can work both ways. If you remove all of the students whose parents are willing and able to go through the application process, the norms of acceptable behavior for those left behind will move in an ugly direction and the kids who started out with the greatest disadvantages would be left to bear the burden

I went to public school as a kid and the disruptive kids were expelled. Not just kicked out of class - totally kicked out of school and told to find a new one! One reason I send my kids to private school is if you don’t want to learn they will kick you out. In public schools today you get a few bad kids and it ruins the whole class. This is a big reason why teachers are quitting en masse from public schools - they are behavioral consultants rather than teachers. The pay has always sucked - it’s the lack of ability to discipline bad kids that makes it miserable, and then parents blame you for everything when you just want to teach math and go home.
tumblr?
> We believe an open source community can ethically collect limited aggregate data on how its software is used

And then they proceed to list a bunch of non-ethical and extremely specific data.
> If I buy food at a restaurant, I don't have an obligation to finish it to get my moneys worth.

I could think about it as: “I spent $30 on this meal, I ate 75% of it, would I spend $7.5 to not feel like shit the rest of the evening?”

In almost all cases I think yes, and it’s fine to stop eating. It’s much harder when the food is great though.
I guess.. why? Do you dislike green tea by itself? I love iced teas, and for me any sweetness detracts.

To each their own, it’s just so foreign I can’t imagine.
It's a perfectly accurate description of what they're proposing. Even if they called something else people would immediately recognise it for what it is (and then be even more upset due to weasle-wording)
It is almost certainly not worth your time to try to be in the top 10 in your class.

Nearly everyone is much better off doing other things with their time than studying to try to get an elite college for a good deal.

There's little evidence that where you go to school matters.

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.
Some people use the outputs like documentation, since github renders the notebook contents nicely in the browser. I agree it is not the best practice in many situations, I like using it on occasion though.

Another alternative if you want the outputs is to use nbconvert to convert the output to markdown, https://andrewpwheeler.com/2021/09/06/using-jupyter-notebook...
As someone who's used Fedora for 20 years (since before it existed, ie: RH6), this decision would be a show stopper. No, Fedora, you're doing just fine without telemetry! If you try to force it, you'll lose a ton of loyal users. Find out whoever is pushing this idiocy and fire them, quick.
AI would need far less data points to achieve an acceptable result, and maybe even be able of fingerpointing, not just fingerprinting. Just wait and see how the data broker bros start selling AI assisted data mining for ads. Big tech is doing that already. It's mind boggling how everyone seems to be just OK with that.
I am not the best person to ask, since it's not my field. I heard this from the neuroscientists that I worked with. My understanding is that there are spiking and non-spiking neurons in most nervous systems, including human, but most of the ones in ours are spiking. The earliest-evolved animals, such as nematodes, do not have spiking neurons, or myelin, or some of the ion channels in neuron membranes that more evolved neurons have. Their neurons still have axons and dendrites, but the signals propagate much more slowly and in different ways. I am not sure how well they are understood.

As I said, this is possibly out-of-date information. If there is someone here from the neuroscience field, they can probably make a better comment.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that the same tricks will work for everyone. I've never been chronically obese so I wouldn't know what goes on in someone's mind at that point.

However I do know that it moved the needle significantly in _my_ life by changing my relationship with food so it's valuable to me. Losing the extra ~10 to 20 lbs of weight people gain in adulthood is something that people do struggle with even if it's not as dramatic as someone fighting obesity.
Cultural difference.
In the Netherlands, different types of drugs are reviewed on national television. (And banned from YouTube)

https://www.npostart.nl/drugslab-afl-5-bastiaan-snuift-ketam...
You are factually wrong.

"To clarify terminology, Python uses a major.minor.micro nomenclature for production-ready releases. So for Python 3.1.2 final, that is a major version of 3, a minor version of 1, and a micro version of 2.

* new major versions are exceptional; they only come when strongly incompatible changes are deemed necessary, and are planned very long in advance;

* new minor versions are feature releases; they get released annually, from the current in-development branch;" — https://devguide.python.org/developer-workflow/development-c...
Keys, like cash, can be stolen.

Hackers steal money from a bank account, if it's the bank's fault it was possible, the bank makes you whole.
Taking the stairs is a lot more attainable though.
Using Qdrant doesn’t require docker, like Marqo does (from the README). Any trade offs between the two? Doc chunking is an independent functionality and there are already line that help chunk with overlap etc,and also it’s not hard to roll your own.
> Back in february, the Go project proposed to add opt-out telemetry in the Go toolchain and they were almost torn in half over a weekend.

Rightly so.
Differential privacy techniques are provably impossible to de-anonymize, if implemented correctly. It is possible. But fraught with possibility for error or manipulation.
You know what everyone should? Everyone should stop telling other people about what they should or should not do.
> But aren't you reading off the end of the buffer in your memcpy(&w...)?

If we go by the absolute strictest interpretation of the C standard my above implementation is UB.

But in practice, if p is word-aligned and is at least valid for 1 byte, then you will not pagefault for reading a whole word. In fact, this is how GCC/musl implement strlen itself.

> Say with an empty input string whose start address is aligned to sizeof(size_t) bytes?

Then the start address is valid (it must contain the null byte), and aligned to a word boundary, in which case I assume it is ok to also read a whole word there.
I dunno, but honestly so far, HN seems to be much more free speech and free debate-focused than any other social platform I've seen. Not sure where you got this from.

(I have showdead on and 99% of what is deleted is just outright malicious or flame-y.)
It's just lovely that even command line tools ping home telemetry. There's no place for non-spyware.
The CX16 is fascinating both for it's strengths and weaknesses. It's so appealing to have an 8-bit machine that is better than any machine of the 1980s, but it does run into two tough problems which are: (i) the video controller and (ii) cost.

The video controller (i) was an ASIC in all the great machines of that era: I do remember seeing an ad in Byte magazine for a graphics card that was built out with low-integration (I think 54xx chips) and it was a large board packed with chips on both sides. The VERA is great and fulfills the wish you'd have today for a much better video controller than anything had back then (layers!) but the FPGA is not good for (ii) cost.

I think someday they will make a hyper large scale integration version of it that is one "big" chip and some support parts and that will get it into the $50-$100 range which will be cool but it will compete with a Raspberry Pi or similar device where you get a lot more computer for the same money. I love that they've talked so much about the factors that go into the economics.
This also resonates with me. That's one of the reasons I am not on the development side of things. In the systems side you need to know some of everything.
Show HN: The buildinpublic companion for AI product founders
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Twitter is fine for many, but if you want to have a visual tool that tracks all your milestones, collects feedback from your audience, allows you to create polls and, more importantly, allows you to get infinite roasts about your product, then I think this might be useful for you!

Many self-proclaimed product experts charge hundreds of dollars for roasting your page, so I think this Roast x Roast approach could be super interesting and can help founders accelerate their path to Product Market Fit, without spending a fortune on it!

There is an initial focus on AI-based products but everyone can really submit theirs (and select "other" as the category).

Happy to answer any questions you may have!
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Sometimes I work on software development, and this mindset («the only valuable asset is the code») makes total sense. But if I work on analytics / datascience projects, the analysis including outputs could be time consuming to run, validate, and visualize. In these cases, it might be required to version the outputs.

I’ve never used jupyter for taking notes in a lab setting, but with more and more instruments being computer/network connected, I imagine this would make total sense - put your data and notes with your analytics work.

Many jupyter users are not «software developers», they just use code to perform their work.
> It's not a huge difference: 2 additional years in men, 1.5 in women; but it's significant enough

I would be careful to conclude causality here. There are a lot of confounding factors in these studies. For instance, most childless people are not childless by choice but due to already existing illnesses which predispose them to shorter lifespans. Socioeconomic factors also play a huge role. For instance, the numerous studies which show that adoptive parents live longer than their childless counterparts need to account for the wealth and lifestyle factors that allow these parents to adopt kids in the first place.

There have also been studies showing an inverse relationship. Nonetheless, a clear fact is this: "People with children live longer than people without". IMHO, they need a robust study on otherwise healthy and socioeconomically stable individuals (perhaps otherwise childless by choice sperm/egg donors) with healthy counterparts. In order to see, if something like, "In order to increase your longevity, its good to have kids." is reasonable or not. Personally, I'd say the judge is still out on that one.
I suppose it could be self referential with a CRC at the end! Or after sever iterations it might need a secure hash function instead.
They do.

It's called Facebook/Instagram.
I suspect that the momentum behind the project is having a group of core developers (Kling foremost) that have complete knowledge of all the moving parts. This allows a small team to make changes quickly while keeping the whole cohesive and without the slowdown of deliberative bureaucracy. Maybe it’s like the human organizational equivalent of L1 cache. It’s like riding a wave, a situation that can’t last forever. I have been part of teams that did the work of much larger teams. It’s great when that happens. The last mile might be less fun, but this entire OS is a labor of love.
Well, there is a very simple solution to that problem:

Pay people extra money for the privilege of having them fulfill the tasks the way you want them to.
Of course it’s not easy, unless you are saying the European Parliament is doing shitty things with personal information:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en
ClickHouse Should Be Your Next Database
Why? They have a fixed budget after all.
It is, and this article announced Noyb filed a complaint against BICS, TeleSign and Proximus with the Belgian DPA to request actions be taken (investigation, fines, removal of data, …).

A translated complaint is available at https://noyb.eu/sites/default/files/2023-06/DRAT%20TELESIGN%...
A "lite" instance of mastodon, which just hosts on profile should be possible though, it's just that noone has created it yet.

Edit: I'm mistaken, because it's all just ActivityPub on the fediverse, of course there are projects making stuff lighter. I haven't found a dedicated single user project that's more than a demo, but stuff like Plemora seems light enough
This is being heavily downvoted but it raises a very valid point. Again IANAL but in my vague recollection from dealing with this years ago, if "thread" is such a commonplace word in describing message boards, then it is not protected in the same way that, say, "Twitter" is. It would be like trying to argue only my bakery can use the word "cake"
But these things happened after IBM acquired Red Hat and IBM certainly has the power to instruct Red Hat to steer clear from any actions that might turn the FOSS community against them.
Mastodon at least comes with "toot", can't beat that.
What variables did they control for?
Quoted tweet by quitting "chief strategy officer" ends in: "Blockchain and crypto is here to stay and I am excited to watch it explode in the years ahead."

The dual-use word "explode" highly unlikely to be accidental.
“bad” kids don’t need discipline, they need help - of course they don’t behave well when there’s 0 modeling at home, it’s not because someone isn’t yelling at them enough - raising a child “takes a village” and many of us aren’t operating within a village anymore, we’re all stressed out and working too much
That’s an interesting list (awesome-marketing-data science). Curious what is specific to marketing in that list, or maybe it’s just an inaccurate name.
Unconventional activities to flood your interview funnel with great candidates
I've got a few. They're not quite as nice as 'proper' books, but the reduction in having to transport and store books before they're sold, and the fact that it means Amazon can have a much bigger inventory, means I'm fine with them. I can deal with having a lower quality book if it means I can get the book I want.

The only real downside is that I'm very reluctant to buy someone else a book as a gift from Amazon. I'll go to a book store in that situation.
Something like the Samsung Frame ? https://www.samsung.com/us/tvs/the-frame/highlights/
No, I don’t sell my customers information.

I will fix the privacy policy.

Selling in the EU comes with very expensive compliance needs. CE alone costs 10000 Euro.

I would love to do it but since I’m bootstrapping I need to earn some money first.
Depends on the management above them. (And maybe depends on the spin: "We introduced a clear HTML form that reduced customer loathing by 30%...")
tinkering around got your account locked?

could that have been triggered by content moderation?
OpenKylin: China's First Independent Open-Source Linux OS
Yes - speaking with ex-colleagues now at AWS this sort of thing is exactly what happens. Finite resource is warehouse space, so use that on the popular inventory and allow publishers to POD.
We have proven science around what lead can do. We don’t have that with RO water. It’s very fuzzy and like “if you drink only RO water and no minerals this is how it’s maybe bad”… but leaving out stuff like the coffee you make with RO adds back junk.
Indeed, and that's worked out so well.
I played with it a long time ago (doing actual work, mainly to understand the platform better, especially from a worker perspective) and back then it was all or almost all paid by task.
Do we have any indication that telemetry leads to an actually improvent of the software's overall quality at this point?

It seems to me that even with excessive levels of telemetry, software remains buggy and sluggish most of the time.
Never mind, it seems like Bitcode has been disabled awhile ago. It’s been a hot minute since I last did mobile dev.

The promise of Bitcode was you’d upload an IR artifact and not the final binary (that held every supported platform). The App Store would then compile it for every supported platform and strip out all other platform’s aspects of it to optimize size.
I mean, I read some of the code and it looks like a Smalltalk with an sexpr syntax. But it also seems to have free-floating functions as well unbound from an object/class scope. Also seems to have a mix of class-based and prototype-based inheritance. Why do you say Tcl?

Overall I would have loved to have had this programming language available to me as a general purpose language in the 80s and early 90s.
Because they will claim that bugzilla is only used by "advanced users" that are not representative of the average user of Fedora.

I absolutely detest that Catch-22 argument, which some distro (not Fedora) actually tried to use on me in the past.
I actually think Threads is a great name. . . it sounds like discussion threads. Also, the name Twitter is beyond awful because it sounds twitty! :)

Seriously, I have no dog in this fight. I stopped using Twitter about a year ago when everything went full Elon. I might use Threads at some point, if it gains enough traction.
Yes-ish.

If the wealth "in play" is merely a trust fund large enough so that the applicant can live modestly without ever working, they won't care. (And any "I don't need to work" argument would be a huge red flag.) Similarly - I cannot give my grand-niece a 7X boost on getting into Harvard by donating $1,000 to Harvard.

Vs...if I was a billionaire, and ask a Harvard Development Officer about my grand-niece getting admitted to Harvard, then I could get her far more than a 7X boost.
India shoots for the Moon with Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander
>Wait, what does Threads show you if it doesn't have a following feed?

its like tiktok and twitter had a baby. it shows you content it thinks you will like based on how you use the app. i think? it's good at surfacing what i want to see based on my initial follows
Based on us distance data from https://www.bts.gov/content/us-passenger-miles, europe distance data from and death rates from https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/... for US, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1331134/road-traffic-fat... for germany, and https://www.statista.com/statistics/1240414/fatalities-in-tr... for norway
It looks like in 2021 the death rate per km driven:

US is
42,939deaths/5,349,230 million miles = 0.0050 deaths per million km

Germany (2020)
2,719 deaths/718056 million kilometers = 0.0039 deaths per million km

Norway
80 deaths/68232 million kilometers = 0.0012 deaths per million km

It certainly looks better for the US than it does when looking at deaths per capita, or deaths per vehicle. Though US still looks bad. You could argue US driving way more per capita is might also be due to bad design that makes for more traffic deaths
This comes from having used Arch for years previously.

Arch breaks things all the time. They've needed specific /etc updates, fixes to unbreak config changes, and as I alluded to, holding off updates to stop breaking due to uneven updates of incredibly common shared libraries
Identity also needs to be hard to copy (which is the main reason e.g. you would not want to use your a hash of your DNA as an identity -- it would be hard to lose but easy to copy).
Sure, there were very high temperatures in the Earth past. There were higher CO2 levels too. The problem is the acceleration, the rate of change. There never were such changes in such short time period as there are today. You have a quant in your nickname, I'm pretty sure you can understand what this means. To make an analogy - you have an oven and it's temperature is currently 150C, way less than the maximum observed 250C. But the problem is that the regulator is set to Max now.
Is it? It's true there are a lot of very loud messages on that linked issue, but only MDN knows how many people are using and engaging with their system compared to on that thread. We, as the general public, don't know anything other than there's a vocal group of dissidents, and what MDN tells us. Which I looked and didn't find stats on its usage.
Most of the time, people are pretty good at knowing what they want.

Everyone seems to want the city completely paved over in roads and parking and places to shop and eat and do as much for as cheap as humanly possible.

There's a small number of people who want greenspace and acknowledge it comes at a cost, and they seek it out.

Everyone else seeks out more cheap appliances and clothes and gasoline.
I think this will help to create a digital legacy for everyone. Now the question is how to preserve all these data.
CFTC considers most crypto to be a commodity not a security. The SEC previously agreed with them on a large number of different cryptos, then changed their mind without warning.

What would you call it when regulators can't agree with each other and are prone to sudden major shifts in thinking, if not a lack of regulatory clarity?
You should make daily content about siting in a garden, smoking a pipe, and not give a **
Android Games on PC
Yes, they can be stolen. I trust myself more to hold my keys than I trust the bank to always allow me to spend my money, though. I've never lost my keys, but I have had my bank not allow me to spend my money.
I think this is wonderful. It's a human-bootstrapped AI centipede with predictable, inevitable results.
libpng has done it, as has libjpeg. Grub did it, unexpected kernel updates have done it, and updates to wireless driver packages - which was particularly egregious.
And those GPT-3.5 calls ain't cheap.
That is no longer the case with the new default Desktop subiquity installer in 23.04. Instead of a single squashfs, there are separate squashfs files so the minimal install is faster than default in 23.04.