skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would that not utterly stratify social classes? Upward social mobility would be near impossible if not for general education?
Children would have no approaches other than what their family already has access to. The son of a smith becomes a smith, the son of a carpenter becomes a carpenter, the son of a lawyer becomes a lawyer and so on.

And schools also function in part as day care. Parents can devote hours of the day to work, focused and without worry for their child. If all parents had to bring their children to work, would that not diminish their ability to work?

Can an electrician focus on his work when a young child is with him? How can he teach the child the theory of electrophysics that is necessary to understand if one is to become an electrician? Do others at the site watch the children and explain the theory? Would you then not end up with teachers again?

Edit:
This is also a rather amerocentric take. What of other countries educational systems where you can choose more directional high schools. Where the final year of highschool IS an apprenticeship in some vocation? Where you leave school, with no debt and with experience on the job.
And all the countries where education is free. Countries where relevant experience is a part of the degree? Where courses in teamwork, leadership and other skills are a part of higher education?
To discard educational systems because of the defects of a single country's defects seems poorly thought out.
A great show only made greater by the fact it came before LLMs entered the public consciousness, but this concept of having information you extrapolate from with great accuracy is central to the show (all I'll say).
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Ask HN: Anyone Using Matrix Professionally?
I've been experimenting with matrix recently after being frustrated with slack, and discord on ubuntu seems to machine gun my /var/log/syslog with increasingly diverse junk on every update.

I have been using it personally with my wife and some friends and have started to create some space and rooms for my consulting firm and was curious if anyone else has taken the leap into matrix as a professional solution to replace slack/teams/discord/etc? Any other technologies I should look at that are private and locally hostable?

The API seems nice and I was able to get a quick plugin built with rust so that's got my noggin' joggin' that this could become a serious replacement for slack (I do leverage slack to be my alert gateway across projects).
https://kinduff.com

Various types of blog posts, I post there my experiments, videos, links.
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You can have mastodon with your own domain?
> Why isn't this just "telinit 1 && telinit 3" and be done with it?

Your question is answered in TFA.
You're telling me that they chose to build with PHP and had the most successful scaling story of all time?
I think the author overestimates the technical level of most requests fielded by call centre agents. They also underestimate the potential a well-designed chatbot could have given recent technology developments.

Speaking with colleagues in private banking call centres (wealthy clients who you'd assume are more clued up). Many calls are basically comfort calls, holding their hand while they login into the bank account, they complete all the steps themselves with no input other than reassuring comments like "yes". Some probably see it as making sure the bank is liable if they "break something".
It definitely would, but GDPR is not being enforced anywhere near enough to matter. Facebook and Google are still alive and you bet their tracking and profiles are much more accurate than these clowns.
Would make more sense to link to the actual proposal rather than a two sentence summary

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f40-change-request-pr...
systemd-nspawn...
Not for me. Close to zero wait time in their heyday in Chicago. Drivers were the same people. By law they could not refuse a ride and they actually respected the law unlike these companies whose business model depends on ignoring laws. Uber and Lyft just made them slower and more expensive.
I think the point the author tries to make, is that personal home pages are the form of how the world wide web was intended.

Not censored profile pages run by the latest social network that becomes obsolete in the next decade.
Yeah, that's the classic https://xkcd.com/1200/

I thought about using Qubes OS on my new computer but it seemed like a lot of work and tweaking and still having to live with the limitations so I abandoned the idea.
This is in fact a precise definition of AGI, by the way. It’s the only true test. If your AI can make money via mturk, you’re on the right path.

Superintelligence is when you can make all the money because all the problems are solvable. Right now only some are.
What is the EU missing out on if Threads never enters it though?

I don't believe Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok or Twitter were net gains for people. I don't see how Threads might be.

I do honestly believe that if all these services disappeared overnight we would live in a better world. I legit just don't want Threads to enter the EU, ever.
It's a shame we have no single platform to speak on, where opposing voices can communicate and come to an agreement. Fragmentation and segregation of speech would only further exacerbate social and political polarization.
No, £800 ($1000) is the retail price. An equivalent set of earbuds, headphones, and mini smart speakers with the same specs and quality would cost roughly the same.
Yeah. I thought about that right after I commented, but their website says "content-focused" not interactivity. Every frontend developer who uses a framework (myself included) will eventually learn the hard lesson of "use the effing platform". Any barrier to serving and delivering HTML, CSS, and JS (for interactivity only where you need it) is a waste of time and energy. Maybe not at the start, but most certainly in the long term through package depreciation, repo weaponizations, or political activism.

The core web standards are designed for future and possibly non-human archaeologists to be able to view just about every web document created since 1991.

World's first website.
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

So if the job is to deliver content focused websites, then the best tools are those that are designed to get out of your way. Astro and the every other tool that is not a single executable is completely outclassed due to their reliance on package management ecosystems. People want fast consumption and production? Send fewer bytes over the wire, use less bytes to produce them, and let the platform do its job.

But this is just like my opinion, man. None of this matters if the power goes out. Fun game, though.
Try talking to someone who's worked a few decades as a Development Officer at a major university. Would they want their institution to be associated with Mr. "I will never need to actually work" Trust Fundee? Or with a real-world proven entrepreneur & business management prodigy?
The perspective changes if one is choosing to go to a school that costs $100k+, especially in debt. At that point, it becomes a business decision.
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I think we'll see more and more of this argument being made by the traditional auto manufacturing types.

Tesla seems to have figured out how to make an affordable EV, and they make margin on every sale. They're also aggressively dropping the prices, making Teslas ever more attractive. The other manufacturers mostly lose money on every sale, so they're not eager to drop prices.

Tesla's already got the 'best selling' title, something unthinkable a few years ago.

So I won't be surprised to suddenly see more articles about how hybrids are better.
I usually write about golang these days. I have been building projects recently, so the frequency has slowed down a bit.

https://www.meetgor.com
I remember when I used to rewrite stuff before fully understanding the drawbacks of what I was rewriting it in.
I am simply not interested in that sort of limitation on a display device, regardless of the available work arounds. Just sell me an eink monitor and be done with it. This is digital sign technology as can be seen at https://www.visionect.com/products/, and has very little place in the home. It is a waste of resources in that location.
No but we observably do know that that the connections between cells are important, to the point that by mimicking that we've derived significant benefit.

The Wright flyer didn't flap, and the wings only superficially look like anything a bird has.
https://blog.vslira.net

Great initiative :)
But is that true if the dynamically typed language has type annotations?
https://eftegarie.com/drugs/
I'm not going to debate whether or not fossil fuel executives choosing to lie to us and burn the planet is moral or rational, "because teleology". Ugh.
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I've accepted that we are moving to the worst projection by the end of century, with close to no actions done to start decreasing greenhouse factors. I also suspect that advanced stages of climate change MAY cause an big regional war, or several. So yeah, we can't do much about climate change or (potential) war. At most we can avoid buying property in the soon to be flooded regions or or in the very hot climates.
For anyone wondering (like me), MVCC means “multiversion concurrency control”, which is used to ensure isolation in databases.
Digital calendars are a real pain if you want to look up any event that’s more than a few months away. They don’t show the importance of events — everything is just a box. In year view they don’t show much at all.

I built a personal timeline[0] because I really wanted to be able to look at life at various scales: from right now to my whole life, my parents’ and grandparents’ lives, and beyond. I wanted to be able to zoom and pan easily, not just have the default day/week/month views. Initially it wasn’t planned as an actual calendar, but the more I use it the more I want my calendar to work this way also.

0. https://timepasses.net
You have to go to YouTube and some of the other people searching.

This is a good one: https://youtu.be/2J9wsJb8P1Y

(Part one is good too, but part two is the theorizing one)
IMO one big factor is that Nvidia is still fully engineering driven - it's engineers all the way to the top making the calls. Intel was like that as well, and then lost it (until Gelsinger). IMO you need domain experts in charge of companies, or they can't thrive in the long run, not unless there is an actual, almost unsurpassable moat.
> YCSB: We modified the YCSB [14] benchmark ... The database contains a single table with 10 million tuples, each with one 64-bit primary key and 10 64-bit integer attributes

I wonder why they chose such an unrepresentative dataset size, ~84MB.
Not on youtube, but check out Hacker News Recap podcast. Daily podcast of the top posts on Hackernews.

https://www.wondercraft.ai/podcasts/hacker-news-recap
> I just disagree that many of the products we use today require a large number of developers.

In a non competitive world this might be true (although I have my doubts). In a competitive free market world it isn’t because a competitor can then beat you by hiring more developers and delivering more features faster than you could.

> Its easy to find many examples of apps that were challenging to build even just 10 years ago, that are somewhat trivial now.

The consequence of this isn’t that people continue using those tiny apps. The consequence is that people’s expectations increase dramatically. There was a time Evernote was a Unicorn. Today, even though building a product like Evernote would still be fairly challenging, it’s considered a feature.

> You don't need 100s of operations people if you move from on-prem to serverless,

I have not yet, in practice, seen overall spend go down by moving to serverless. You may have fewer ops people, but you now need more devs to achieve the same work because a lot of ops has been shifted to devs. That being said, I’ve often seen serverless not even lead to a reduction in ops.

> Many products that required 1000s of people 10 years ago, may only require 100s today. To me this is just a fact

This does not come close to matching reality. In the late 90s early 2000s you and a handful of other devs could build a multimillion dollar product using Visual Basic which only ran on Windows and was distributed as a binary to be run by your clients and it would be a best in class product.

Today, you would need a designer, web developers, and someone with experience in pushing it to production and securing it to simply build an MVP version that ran on browsers. In addition you would need another set of iOS developers and another set of Android developers. Heck, you may even need an Apple Watch and iPad app to be competitive. All of this would probably be required to simply make your app competitive, never mind best in class.

What your comment appears to be missing is that with software development becoming easier, what changes most is an increase in customer expectations.
That is one of the most terrible ideas ever. Much like when Bill Clinton was pushing so hard for a line item veto. I’m so thankful he never got it.

Checks and balances are important and sadly most voters don’t understand this.
People lie to each other’s faces all the time. This is a very naive perspective.
Honestly, the only kind of re-writes I respect are when someone decides to rewrite something written in the hot new tech and uses 2005-era PHP instead. I recommend solid tools that have been proven to scale to billions of users.
Snapchat is overwhelmingly the primary way my much younger sister uses to talk to people of her age, discord is the second.

It was quite surprising, I was also surprised people of her age are exchanging discord handles IRL like we used to with MSN/ICQ etc. and then just use it for DMs. She doesn’t even use Snapchat stories because “no one watches stories” and are just direct DMing her friends, and posts general audience stuff to TikTok.

I immediately went and bought Snapchat shares when I found that out.
Previous manager: she was a bad developer for 1-2 years, people wanted her out of the project, management proposed her a management position in front of the customer (pretty face, blonde hair, meetings all day, talk nice to people no matter how dumb they are). Even she was shocked that she was proposed for the job.

Another manager: quickly pushed up and enter in a terminal, deleted production database. He "decided" he really wants to be a manager. Probably management didn't want him on the project anymore but at least he understood some tehnical stuff so they kept him.

These are self-reported stories. Beer is magic.

The usual path is that you become friends with whoever decides to name new managers. Say yes to every stupid thing they say, act both surprised 6 months later when it fails and so on. I don't know why people are afraid of saying it as it is. It's funny how developers think that all you need to do is just learn one more thing. It's not. When my manager's manager came to town, he made sure he is 100% available to go to dinner and drinks and so on. That's what you need to do. Call wife, send kid away, you need to be seen by your manager at drinks...
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They also no longer support data exports for many users (including myself) - at one point it worked but now it says you'll receive an email to download your data, which never arrives.
It does not really matter anymore how bulk usage data collection is called or whether it is "privacy-preserving".

Looking at the current developments in AI, I am concerned that AI models can easily de-anonymize and guess end point users when being fed with "telemetry data" of hundreds of thousands clients.

I hear a lot and read a lot of software and hardware vendors saying that "telemetry" is supposed to somehow magically improve the user experience in the long run, but in actuality software tends to get worse, unstable and less useful.

So, I would like to know how exactly any telemetry data from Fedora Linux clients is going to help them, or how is it going to improve anything.
Would fit nicely in a hotel lobby.
No they won't.

You're right that LLMs can do this. Well, I guess you might be wrong about that too, but it doesn't matter. That's not the problem. Companies have very large callcenters with actual humans that can do this ... but they don't. They're not allowed to. The only thing callcenters are these days are a semi-human interface to a bad website. LLMs won't be anything more.
Twitter is more open now. Give it a shot.
They probably couldn't read him on pre-musk twitter because he was briefly banned. From the Wikipedia page, this is why:

"Ritter rejected the Western media's coverage of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and has voiced his perspective on multiple podcasts, including Andrew Napolitano's.[42][43] In April 2022, he posted a tweet claiming that the National Police of Ukraine is responsible for the Bucha massacre and calling U.S. President Joe Biden a "war criminal" for "seeking to shift blame for the Bucha murders" to Russia.[44][45] Ritter was suspended from Twitter for violating its rule on "harassment and abuse" after this, but his account was reinstated the next day.[45][46][47]

The U.S. Department of State and Polygraph.info described Ritter as a frequent contributor to Sputnik and RT during the war.[48][49] Polygraph reported that he compared Ukraine to “a rabid dog” that needed to be shot.[49] He has also compared Ukraine's treatment of Russians to Nazi Germany's treatment of Jews.[50]

In July 2022, the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation included Ritter on a list of what it called Russian propagandists.[51][44]"

He's a Russian shill, imperialism apologist.
Refresh is certainly the spec we are all watching to see when this becomes possible. It is getting closer every year, it seems like we are about 3 years away right now.
> They are of decent quality

I got two and they were absolute shit.

So much so that it was the first time ever I actually returned something to Amazon. From blurred cover "art" stretched from what looked like 30dpi image to godawful sans-serif font in humongous size with line spacing so tight some characters ascenders and descenders overlapped. Made my eyes bleed. Even if they paid me to read this, it still would've been a torture.
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By contrast, when I was on Twitter (up until rumours of the Musk purchase), 75% of what I saw was European-centric.
Would that not utterly stratify social classes?

Yes. This is one of the outcomes the anti-school crowd is after.
A sad thought.
> So it seems like a catalogue of (possible?) exploits in commonly-available executables, libraries and scripts that may already be present on a target machine

That is pretty correct, but it is not necessarily an exploit or vulnerability in the binary. More often than not, it is a quirk or a way to use the binary which is unknown/uncommon, but might not appear on a defenders' radar.

We generally try to (ab)use functionality in pre-existing software to avoid security mechanisms (like AppLocker) and detections (like AV/EDR, or rules created by a SOC when analysing execution logs in a SIEM). Often we discover that a target computer has been hardened in some form or fashion, and we have to get "creative" when trying to download, execute or exfiltrate data during security assessments.
sometimes I like to fantasize that over millions of years humanity will spread throughout the cosmos and when there are gazillions of humans (or our machine descendants) with unlimited time and resources there will be in some university somewhere an archeology department that specializes directly in each and every one of us. it’s simply an extrapolation of current trends in academia combined with a possible future where there are a billion people alive for each single one of us alive now. what do you want your personal archeology department to be like? personally i want a graham hancock style character to come up with wacky theories about me so i try to leave as many confusing bits of evidence as possible.
I have the same thing, gitlab job scheduled every 12 hours refreshes it using the visionect docker image, I have google calendar at the bottom, and currency exchange over the top left, localized weather on the right, countdowns to holidays, F1 schedules ect... I decreased the heartbeat timer and battery lasts about 2 months. I can't find an asian or european news paper that gives a good high res front page like the NYT. Waking up to read the US centric world view of the NYT gets old and the headlines are not so entertaining anymore without trump.
Let me know if you find a more global news source that has a good high res reliable front page dump without advertisements. There has only been one time where NYT had on the front page over ~2 years and that was some fake diamond company took out the entire front page.
Imagine my grand-grand-grand-father was a murderer. Am I guilty of his crime?
That would generate a hell of a noise on the internet :D
A possible DIY way is to use a e-ink display connected to a Raspberry Pi and build a script to display content stored on a usb-stick connected to the USB-Port of the Raspi.
IBM strikes again.

The recent closing of build files of RHEL, now telemetry in Fedora.
At least it doesn't have ads like Ubuntu amirite...

Spyware everywhere.

Not that I'd ever use Fedora as my main Desktop OS. Arch has won that battle. And if I want a simple installer, where everything just works, Manjaro.
The faculty do service at the moment, yes, but obviously there’s a gigantic, bloated administrative apparatus. The people who work there do things that the faculty don’t. I’m proposing that those positions are eliminated and all of that work is taken on by the faculty.
Instead of collecting more data why don't do something with the data we already have? A quick look at the Fedora Bugzilla or the GNOME GitLab issues tab suggests the bottleneck doesn't lie in data collection, but in processing.
Account migration still depends on the server you are moving from being online and not blocking the migration. It is only a partial solution to the problems that people look to identity migration to solve.
I loved those games so much. Every time a new one came out and my friend got a "copy" it was a celebration. We'd sit for days at his house playing. I loved the text interface the most and some of the magic was lost when it was replaced. We went through them all from King Quest 1 through the Police Quest series, Space Quest etc. It was glorious.

The 80s film "Terminal Entry" featured a 'futuristic' version of a Sierra style game, control by voice prompts. I thought this is what the future has in store for us...
It’s exceptionally easy: one just has to not do shitty things with personal information. Complying if you are doing shitty things with personal information is, by design, impossible - and that is good.
There's enjoying things, and being a servant of pleasure.

Plato puts it well in Gorgias; where he makes an analogy of two men tasked with keeping jars filled with wine, honey and milk.

The first man has jars of good quality, and is able to fill them up and they stay full and then he can go on about his life and be happy, the task of keeping them full causes him no grief. The second man has cracks and holes in his jars, so the pleasure always leaks out and he needs to spend every day topping them up in order to avoid misery. He's completely enslaved by the task and it's causing him daily grief to keep them full.
People literally pay in order to escape advertising.

Of course advertising is not worth it for the target. It's harmful more often than not.