skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard that one of the Chinese car companies was taking that approach with some of their cheapest models: people already have phones, just provide a nice place on the dashboard to hang their phone, just provide an ordinary Bluetooth speaker as the sound system, and just provide a Bluetooth app to control some of the car's lesser used functionality like the most detailed parts of the climate system and what have you.

It's a fascinating approach. I don't know if it would take off beyond the smallest, cheapest types of cars, and I certainly don't know if we'll see those sorts of ultra-cheap cars in markets like the US, but it's still great to hear that some experimentation is going on knowing that everyone already has smart phones, modern cars are an extension of that (look at the importance of Apple CarPlay [1] and Android Auto), and there's a lot of room to experiment with an electric car (given how much of an electric car is a "software car").

[1] Fun semi-related footnote: on the highest end, as well, Porsche was getting some good press that they'd moved a bunch of their controls into an iOS app that supported CarPlay. Porsche seems to have perhaps realized that "CarPlay" is the real car OS most users care about.
Between the companies I've worked with and the incidents I've been through, I'd say AWS is well-known to be "very slow" at updating their status reports when something goes down.

Even had AWS liaisons tell us that things were definitely down even though the status page was completely green.
thanks, but I think that comparison is not fair, if you're throwing all demographics in one bucket. E.g. I'd bet income explains most of those differences.
I'm on the fence about public schools in the US as I'm originally from a different country where private schools are a rarity, but I've learned how bad schools can be here. Anecdotally here in NC public schools have a much better reputation than private.
> parsing through the ad hominem attacks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

> "Re-analysis on the statistical sampling biases of a mask promotion trial in Bangladesh: a statistical replication"

I'm not remotely qualified to have an opinion.

That said...

The open (public) process as well as the critics sharing their source code is just awesome.

https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13...

https://github.com/mchikina/maskRCTnote

I share the reviewer's hope that authors of the original study will respond.
> Google has made it plainly clear that they don't have anything useable in this space.

Google hasn't made their best models public because they're too expensive to run for free.

> Google is getting the asses handed to them, badly.

Bard has 30M active users and isn't even available in large parts of the world. They're in 2nd place - when they were pretty late to the game - that's an odd way to say someone is getting their ass handed to them.
The LLaMA chat model is, the base model is not.
Baltimore has free day care? You'd think that'd drive down the average cost of daycare there (which is like $900 a month)
At least in the US, The community is not religious by definition in the constitution. The whole gambit with vouchers is that you are laundering money for religious institutions by putting it under "personal" choice.
I also like that Firefox isn't putting artificial limitations on the plugins that we can use in order to appease their infinite hunger for ad revenue.

Chrome's manifest v3's entire purpose for existence is to ultimately snuff out ad blockers so they can make the internet worse for everyone and get more money in the process.

And if you don't believe me then you are wrong.

Of course they won't do it immediately. They won't entirely rug pull their browser's user base.

They'll just keep raising the bar to get approved for Chrome Store, making it harder and harder to comply with their extension requirements while also changing the way they deliver their ads.

This way the ad blockers have to be updated and then go back through the extension store review process until the developers either get tired of jumping through their hoops and gives up or until they can no longer afford to keep the extension alive.

And then they'll rug pull, just like Reddit and Twitter, and all of a sudden ad blocking extensions will require that the users pay Google for the privilege of having fewer ads while still letting some ads through anyway, and that will be that.

Best to jump ship now, things are nice and cozy over here in "user wants are respected within reason" land.
Because Ads are more profitable than APIs
That's shocking and a shame because the platform itself is a good idea and I'd much prefer to order directly from a restaurant than have up to 30% of my order value go to rent seekers like JustEat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats.
South Africa asks ICC to exempt it from Putin arrest to avoid war with Russia
I always get suspicious when someone describes performance as "feels snappier"
I stopped using persistent browser history because I realized without it I become more diligent at bookmarking pages. Deliberately bookmarked pages are alot less clutter than my entire browsing history, so with my address bar only searching my bookmarks and current session's history, it's easier for me to find what I'm looking for. It results in smaller haystacks for my needles to get lost in. I loath using general purpose search engines to pull up pages when I already know what page I'm trying to get to, so I bookmark any page I think I'll care about in the future.
Building a Vector Search Engine Using HNSW and Cosine Similarity
Maybe NYC or a few other coastal "cool" cities, but for the vast majority of urban areas I am familiar with this doesn't seem to be the case.
It's not like getting rid of cars will make commute faster.

My friend (working in biology research) lived in England for a few years, and had 2+ hour commute by public transport. He was married, so both he and his wife had to find the jobs, and one of them had to end up with the large commute...
Most of the times when I've tried finding stuff in (Firefox) history, I wasn't able to. Unless it's in the last week or so. In my experience, history filtering and search options are too basic to be useful. Once I was even desperate enough to try to load some Firefox sqlite file directly, hoping to query history entries, but that didn't work out.

The only reliable way that I've come across for finding stuff after a long time has passed is saving every sightly interesting webpage to Zotero and using fulltext search afterwards (including webpage body).

I'm curious, do you find the builtin browser history facilities sufficient for your needs, or are you using some third party tool for that?
Anyone could worm their way into the project so it's not closed? It's a closed beta with invites to a select few. Some could cross that barrier but the truth is very few will be invited to the inner circle. This started as a private project and painted itself with an open source brush for advertising.
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There is a way to have time to cover Calculus in high school while still taking it slower: Block scheduling.

My high school shifted to it. It's like a college day where you have four longer classes instead of eight shorter ones. Courses are semester-long, not year-long. This means you can take two math classes in one year (algebra in the fall and geometry in the spring).

This also enabled my high school to offer AP Calculus B, which is part-two of AP Calculus.

The other advantage of this type of schedule is that it is also easier to offer other kinds of math that may be more critical to most students, such as a dedicated class on statistics.
Ah, sorry about that. I thought you were arguing that the current political interpretation of this issue was good.
Highlight can monitor server-side web apps; I'm assuming that's what you're running on those servers? I'd suggest instrumenting the common application code with our backend SDKs and deploying that change to all on-premise servers. Alternatively, you can run an OpenTelemetry collector (https://www.highlight.io/docs/getting-started/backend-loggin...) on each server to stream logs.
I have not seen Apple demonstrate ML depth in their talent nor have I seen signs that they are hiring extensively for NLP depth.

They will soon be able to train an LLM because it simply has become commoditized, but they just are not a major player in this space at all.
Algebra is fundamental to problem solving.

Learning to code would have been much harder if I hadn't grasped algebra.

Calculus is important for understanding science (especially physics) and statistics.

These are not niche subjects for "the few weird students." They are really important to grasp for many roles in the knowledge economy. Your kids will enter a world of robotics and automation. They're going to need to use their brains if they want to succeed.

I'm 100% against a dumbing down of the education system to achieve ideological leftwing aims.
Besides the specific vulnerability/exploit, it still perplexes me how there wasn't a "official" address/contact and the Author had to make several attempts to report the issue (and had even to go through Twitter!).

I believe this is a generic problem with lots of organizations/companies, contacting them about possible security vulnerability is made complex or impossible while there should be a simple straightforward way.

I wouldn't be surprised if a number of vulnerabilities (besides bugs) go unreported because the user that finds them is not persistent enough in communicating abou them.
I agree with you that everyone is different and there's more than one path up the mountain so if you find this useful then keep using it. I would say that it's a well explored mountain and that the main routes tend to have emerged for a reason but thousands of mountaineers carve their own routes up mountains every year and there is something to be said for that as it brings its own knowledge.
Sure, commonly held positions can be wrong.

What doesn't follow is denying they dont exist, hiding them, or censoring them.

This is sticking your head in the ground and pretending to live in an alternate reality.
The URL should point to a particular comment, but HN removes fragments: https://github.com/h2database/h2database/issues/3686#issueco...
Until the ponzi scheme that is suburbia bankrupts the city
Url changed from https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/18/23798814/the-plan-is-to-f..., which points to this.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You're expecting a language model (as opposed to a more general form of ML model) to be numerate? It has no idea that the token "$105,000" has a relationship "is less than" with the token "$140,000".

It probably knows that the token "1" has the relationship "is less than" with the token "2" — but that's because it has "1" and "2" as reified concepts, each with many different facts and properties and relationships associated directly with those tokens-as-vertices.

"$105,000", meanwhile, is just a lexeme. It maybe knows, due to pre-parsing, that it's "an amount of dollars" — and maybe it even recognizes its order-of-magnitude. It can therefore likely make any statement that takes the token "$105,000" as a meta-syntactic variable standing in for some unknown "amount of dollars." But there's no little numeric model embedded inside the language model that would tell it how many dollars, or be able to compare dollars against dollars.
I work in the field and they just are not hiring the people they need to be hiring.
That seems like reasonable idea. A kind of nano/micro/mini SFBU for team/group/department levels and SFBUs at whole company level.
The problem is that this point of view ignores reality: motivated parents will just have their children learn calculus in outside classes.

The reality is for these students, "standard" middle and high school math is mind-numbingly boring.

The best outcome would be that the best schools and teachers use the surplus time to teach stuff that's off-curriculum like logic, discrete math, stats, programming, etc.
My private catholic schools had plenty of stupid kids, non-catholic kids (me), desperately poor kids (also me), and kids with special needs.

The worst thing that they did to me was add a course to the curriculum about religion so that I had an extra course to pass than the public school kids. And we didn't even learn exclusively about Catholicism in that class.
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Your first link is pretty terrible; it took forever to find the 2000 AAUW report it refers to. Here’s a more current version:

https://www.aauw.org/app/uploads/2020/03/Crossing-the-Line-S...

The 1-in-10 number is self-reported harassment which is different from teacher-on-student abuse but I don’t really care about the distinction. Your 1-in-20 number is a different metric entirely, by the way (as abusers are not one-to-one with abused). Again, I don’t really care about these wrinkles.

Anyway, AAUW’s data doesn’t distinguish between reports from public and public charter, so you can’t use this data to draw conclusions about differences between public and religious schools.

Furthermore, and this is the most important part, their main recommendation to reduce the incidence of abuse and discrimination in all schools (i.e., one of the things I actually want to minimize) is to promote more adherence to Title IX protections.

Private schools have no legal obligation to provide any Title IX protections, and indeed some religious schools, by their very doctrine, cannot.

Next time, if you’re going to demand statistics that don’t exist (as private schools have no reporting requirements and the AAUW report demonstrates that many institutions obviously underreport) please provide better links, thanks.
I'm not disagreeing that throwing money at bad schools won't really help is the thing although it might seem like that's where my line of thinking may lead. Heck, usually more money at schools from what I've seen ranges from more administrators (lol if anyone thinks that helps) to equipment for students (as if an iPad will help a disengaged kid that much?). Add in the reality that lower socioeconomic status folks tend to move a LOT (think migrant workers' children) and that has pretty bad outcomes on education regardless of potential of the child.

In fact, in impoverished areas probably the most important thing to do to improve educational outcomes after establishing a school at all isn't better schools but simply money at home - teachers are only responsible for 35% or so of the educational outcome of an aggregate population while something as simple as ensuring a child has reliable sources of meals and that the meals are with family is _way_ more important it turns out (insert correlation / causation caveats).

As such, my suggestion isn't to spend more money on schools in low performing areas but to direct funding toward better home lives for students in the districts essentially. What good is spending $100k on better teachers and equipment when the students are living in trailer parks with abusive parents that don't feed them properly? This is a problem _many_ teachers in low-opportunity areas have talked about as one of the top problems for them.

I used to support charter schools conceptually until I understood that the funding mechanisms cause a zero-sum game problem which takes funding away from schools that could use funding that would do better. At this time I'm convinced that almost any policy in education or health will fail without addressing the massive harms of large scale poverty in a capitalist system.
Normally any kind of social interaction has the same effect... Especially eye contact over a couple seconds.
> Globalization has not worked

It’s true that’s something Thiel points out but I will never understand how that point is supposed to stand by itself. Globalization has been ridiculously effective at creating worldwide value over the past 70+ years. Thiel is instead promoting his weird type of conservative nationalism, definitely not something that results in innovation or value creation. His whole philosophy is pretty incoherent IMHO.

Anti capitalism at least brings some interesting and meaningful critics regarding liberal globalization shortcomings, but Thiel doesn’t even take that angle. He’s fine with the exploitative nature of capitalism but wants to be in charge of controlling the market and culture.
Yep. Very possible. You can send us logs via Fluent bit, Otel, and many other specifications. The easiest way to differentiate between logs would probably be to send a "service name" that's different between your servers.

If you'd like to ask questions synchronously or over email, I'm a jay [at] highlight [dot] io.
I disagree! I think it's one of the better parts of the language
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A cursory google of “target guillotine” reveals a shirt that was never even sold at Target, but was a past creation of a designer that later designed some Target products. Devious “promotion of violence” on Target’s part.

This strikes me as a meagre attempt to post-hoc justify the outrage after the viral story that triggered the initial moral panic (targeting “tuck-friendly” swimsuits at children) turned out to be completely fabricated.

It’s outrage laundering - you have a story that could outrage a neutral observer but it’s predicated on bullshit. So in order to make keep the outrage alive its proponents need to fill the air with more bullshit that takes more time to debunk than it does to spew.
> Me as "dad" at home with the kids, me as "husband" with my wife after the kids go to bed, and me as "employee" at work are very different roles. I use different language, have different goals, different tone, different energy level.

FYI this type of code-switching is not universally present for everyone though it may be for you. Some people are their "authentic" selves the majority of the time. It is often suboptimal to be that way though.
The real issue is people not knowing where to move. They go in google and search for top towns in the united states, and a bunch of city-data articles come up and next thing you know those drivable/parkable towns like Bozeman, Flagstaff, Bend, Grand Junction, Asheville (or Ashland for that matter) all become bogged down by massive population influxes. I'm talking like 2x 3x population boom in the last 5 to 10 years. There's no way these towns can't go from "Strongtown" status to homeless everywhere and clogged up roads if people can't get off google and find something new without google telling them something is hip.
From the paper you cited:

While total per pupil expenditures may be greater for the typical Black or Latinx students’ districts, there is variation in how these dollars are spent. On average, both Black and Latinx per pupil expenditures exceed White per pupil expenditures for administration, instruction, and social services. On the other hand, Black and Latinx per pupil expenditures are less than White per pupil expenditures on infrastructure. Black per pupil expenditures on all other items are slightly less than in the typical White student’s district, while Latinx spending is comparable.

Table 1 also illustrates some familiar facts. Black and Latinx students’ typical districts tend to have higher levels of child poverty, on average, than the typical White student’s district (5.4 and 4.0 percentage points higher in Black and Latinx districts, respectively).

Poor students who come from food insecure homes or live in high crime areas need more help in school in terms of school lunch programs, after school care, mental health intervention, etc. As such they need a lot more funding per student.

Complex problems require more than a simplistic solution. There are cultural, sociological, and economic forces at play. Vouchers are not a panacea. For one thing, private schools don’t have to accept students they consider a problem. Wealthy schools don’t want too many undesirables so won’t accept vouchers. Public schools will end up having mostly all the problem students without the resources to deal with them.
There seems to be this mental block for certain people about genetics when it comes to anything brain-related. Genetics have an impact on your athletic ability? Of course! Genetics have an impact on your intelligence? Impossible!
That's just a trade. If we assume "charity" is "altruism," then by definition there must be no benefit to the giver.
Norway has had it with Meta
You are totally correct.

It's cultural though, we (the people in the US) are obsessed with race. Literally everything you do and talk about is colored by it, and it's pretty much impossible to escape.

The more heterogeneous the society becomes the more obsessed we become with the differences between us.

You're seeing it too in the UK and will be seeing a LOT more of it as your demographics shift to be like ours.
Looks like Vadim beat me to it. Note what he said about running an OTEL collector. That's probably the best approach given they're onprem.
I'm running a 30B model on an amd 5600x cpu at 2-3 tokens/s, which is just under a "read-aloud" pace. I'd wager that you can run a 70B model at about the same speed with a 7900x and a bit more RAM.
What cripples FF DevTools for me is being unable to find the setting for timeout on HTTP GET, during full-stack development. If I've set a breakpoint in a debugger on my server and proceed to single-step there, FF aborts the GET request with an error. So client-side JS doesn't see the eventual result of the GET, it has to recover from the error to proceed, e.g. by a full page-reload.

Chromium, last I tried it, by default sets the necessary HTTP timeout(s) to infinity if its DevTools is open.

My searches of Firefox docs/wiki, StackExchange, HN Algolia for a fix have come up empty.

Navigating to "about:config" and searching for "timeout" finds 27 different settings prefixed with the substring "network". Some are obviously in units of milliseconds, others perhaps whole seconds.

Anyone know which one (or what combination) might incant the necessary black magic?
It is always greener on the other side of the fence, but sometimes it is greener because the septic tank is leaking.

I did several tour of duty in startups. There were good, bad, and ugly, just as much as in $bigCo.
I've stayed (edit: with Firefox) because of (1) containers and (2) password storage. I have to use Chrome for some things, and every now and then it prompts me for a password and refuses to use the auto-fill. Totally torques me off because my passwords are not easy.

But I completely trust Firefox on the password issue, to the point that I let it generate them for me.
Their self driving cars do work? I rode in one for 30 minutes one-way on Sunday. Used it for my return trip too. No driver. Take at least 2 - 3 rides a week and have been for a few months now.
Tab groups in Chrome are a relatively new feature (and might still be behind an experimental feature flag, or at least the ability to save tab groups might be).

They're a game changer; so much better than using a third party extension IMO.
I think if you read it like that, sure it may sound irresponsible.

But in reality it'll look a lot more innocent than that, and I am sure that OP does it carefully enough.

You just gotta make sure the brakes work and that you don't do any silly things. Doing test rides and listening for sounds etc is key to figuring out what's wrong and what to improve next.
We use DevOps for pipelines, but AWS for our prod cloud environment.
> I’m certainly no expert on this, but even then surely this was seen as an inevitability?

There was one sure way to prevent the stand off, shoot before they draw.
The point of the convo is that Americans are much richer than Europeans. Which is true.
It does not need to be said. The article is just extremely biased.