skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone is crawling content in any way and aren't respecting robots.txt, that's a violation of the intent of robots.txt. It may be a "friendly request", but it's never the requestor doing something wrong if the requestee simply (badly) ignores the signs marked "beware of dog" or "no robots allowed". (Really the big thing missing here with robots.txt is that the internet doesn't have guard dogs to try to put some teeth painfully into your skin if you violate private property. Lack of guard dogs to enforce them isn't lack of signs and some of these companies need to get over themselves that they think they are better than posted signs.)

Plus, if those signs aren't enough, websites are published materials and all content under current US laws and court precedents is considered that published materials fall under copyright unless noticed otherwise. We've moved to a "prove that there is no applicable copyright" system, not a "prove that there is" system. It's not up to me to make sure that my copyright statements are clear and obvious enough, it's up to you to prove that you find a public domain or license statement of some kind (such as CC licenses including CC0; CC0 exists because there needed to be an explicit declaration of "no really, this is public domain" under current copyright regimes). This kind of crawling seems completely oblivious to how current copyright law works and seems to me to be wantonly asking for more lawsuits (which again, given current evidence, crawlers would lose).

> is it true that CC BY-ND and CC BY-NC-ND prevent the use of data by LLMs?

Yes. Easily. LLMs are a derivative process, LLMs fail all the requirements for CC ND clauses. LLMs are also commercial processes and being used for commercial interests and just as easily fail CC NC clauses.

I would even go far as to say that LLMs are bad at attribution, often lie about it, especially in situations of near direct quotes, and easily fail most reasonable interpretations of the CC BY clause.

It seems cut-and-dry to me. I don't think there is a lot of gray area.
Not sure what you mean by "best funded" but California spending is fairly middle-of-the-pack compared to all U.S. states. ~14k per pupil, compared to most North East states spending over 20k per pupil. [1]

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/public-s...

But if you take these rankings at face value [2] it does seem there's more than spending at play here. Though perhaps spending simply has to be normalized against Cost of Living?

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education/p...
At this point I'm already dismissing CNN and NPR out of hand, I guess it only makes sense for it to go the other way too.

3 Years ago I was actually on the other side too. Wow what a journey.
I'd bet that the school she went to would let a girl into shop class today (assuming the school and class are still around). Change is possible, but it's slow. It also matters if there's one girl who wants to take shop class vs many girls who are asking for it. Parents and students can work to change the ways their schools are run. They may have to campaign for and promote their causes so that "one vote" grows into more votes, but votes still mater.
First time I used it, I called it 'C+-' after two weeks and a supervisord clone, but I really liked the language (except the module system). It was ~9 years ago, and other than that I only used it in coding interviews, as it's portable, simple, close enough to C that I'm not lost using it, yet simple enough that I don't introduce bugs carelessly every 30 loc.

But it's a bit boring and I'll never use it for personal projects.
It's not just researchers, this is free for 99% of commercial use.
Could you go into the disability point a bit more? I can't believe that the common case of physical disability is that you can cycle but not drive.
I see this stance of yours parroted over and over but a 3 year old can tell a dog from a cat doesn't need to be trained on millions of images. Also uses way less energy for that.
The right term would be Slab Serif.
"I'll have lunch with your machine."
It was this. Sleep aids were my saving grace, I think it was generic benadryl but it was about the only thing that let me actually fall asleep and get a half decent night's rest while the rest of the world was making all their usual evening racket.

Had no time to see my partner or friends, tip toeing around in the 'morning' when I'm getting ready so as to not wake others in the house, all the fun stuff.
Go has "swept up entire markets" because they have an unlimited marketing budget. It has nothing to do with the merits of the language itself.
I think the lockdowns are a mixed bag, yes many people didnt die from COVID because of them - but many (smaller number) people did die of things not COVID from them.

I still think on a numbers perspective that the lockdowns saved more lives than not locking down would have - but it does not help the cause of "keeping that tool in the public health toolbox" to not acknowledge the externalities of its face - its not a completely benign policy without externalities - its just significantly less bad than the alternatives.

I think we should study this more, to try to form a consensus when a lockdown is appropriate. I think a COVID scale illness is, but when does that cease to be true? half of one? 3/4? who knows, we've not spent much time thinking about it yet.
I found this funny:

> Or, as Mike Bird pointed out, a car wash manager at an Alabama Buc-ees, a chain of gas stations and grocery stores, earns more ($125k/year) than THREE median UK salaries.

Buc-ee's has a hardcore conservative Christian workplace culture (bested by Chick-Fil-A), but they pay their people well. They also give their employees a 401(k) and (terrible, compared to the UK) vacation time!

Also, everyone loves to dunk on Mississippi, Alabama, and WV (and it is deserved), but Mississippi is a moderately large oil state, Alabama has a sizable military industry and WV is still big on coal and energy.
From the article:

> It does not matter if they grow up in foster care or a two-parent family.

But it does! Very much. I just don't understand why the US tries everything other than fixing the most glaring cause. Lots of problems can be fixed by encouraging and aggrandizing stable two-parent families instead of getting schools and teachers to fill proxy parenting roles.
What is reduced covid? The ifr for a 30 something was .06%
before vaccines according to the study below.

If my math is correct, thats one 30-something dying for every 1667 infected before vaccines. I don't have hospitalization data handy, but I think "reduced covid" is just what most people had, vaccinated or not. That's not to discount the ones that did get it bad of course, and my condolences for any losses you suffered.

Of course it can still be true that the deaths happened more often in unvaccinated people (did that continue to be true the whole time?), while your individual risk of death was low (the .06 above in my case, and I had a pretty standard cold both times thankfully).

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Yes, I've read the book.
The world in 1957 was such a different place than in 2020 I find it hard to compare the two.
The results cited in the article suggest that either the answer is yes, or in fact "marginal students" are perfectly capable students who were being passed over.

The text of the article further suggests that many of the students who scored well on qualifying exams weren't taking the classes because they didn't have the parental involvement or default assumption that they would take it.

(Note that the opt-out group was selected from the general population based on the results of an exam; it wasn't a population-wide opt out. I suspect from your comment you didn't see that?)
Exactly. Initially "lockdowns" (and I hesitate to even call them that here in the US, we didn't have literal lockdowns like China had where they welded doors shut on apartments) were seen as positive - "flatten the curve to help our healthcare workers and keep our hospitals from being overrun". Pretty soon, though, they started getting very negative framing from right-wing social media, etc.
No, this isn't an arms race. AI eventually reaches the point where it is indistinguishable from human text. It's pretty close to it now. The only thing even providing the illusion that we can detect ChatGPT or similar chatbots is that so many people use them with their "default voice", which you can learn how to detect, but it is trivial to avoid that.

You also have to remember the future of AI is not just LLMs getting larger and larger. There will be something after them, and something after that. I'd guess we're maybe 2-4 years away from an AI that hooks up to an LLM but has "actual" knowledge of things so it doesn't confabulate new facts, which would remove one of the major signals I'm currently looking for in GPT content.
> Besides the economic harm and potential developmental harm induced by closing schools for kids, I think lockdowns did incalculable social harm to society.

Don't confuse correlation with causality.

You had politicians abusing the covid pandemic with accusations of being a made-up conspiracy and in the process enticing hatred towards health officials who enacted standard public health policies, to the point that hardline militants even attacked them for suggesting that people should wash their hands.

After over a year of this blend of propaganda permeating society, of course you'll have the most vulnerable segment of society, overly represented by the undereducated, building up an uneducated grudge against society in general and in particular against "the system", whatever they were told to believe that might be.
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For the article.
Yes! This comes from the multiplicative order of 10 modulo the number: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/DecimalPeriod.html

IIRC, Gauss was the first to formalize this.
Thanks, this looks great, I hope to see a turnkey linux VM of it one day!
I think you're both right and, as always, the truth is to be found somewhere in the middle:

> Which number is greater, 105,000 or 140,000?

> 140,000 is greater than 105,000.

> How do you know?

> 140,000 is greater than 105,000 because 140,000 is 35,000 more than 105,000.

But compare this to:

> Which number is greater: 12345 or 112345?

> 112345 is greater than 12345.

> How do you know?

> 112345 has more digits than 12345.

> What about 123456 and 134567?

> 134567 is greater than 123456.

> How do you know?

> 134567 has more digits than 123456.

> But they have the same number of digits: Six.

> 134567 has more significant digits than 123456.

> What do you mean by that?

> 134567 has more leading zeros than 123456.

> But neither has any zero.

> 134567 has more digits in total than 123456.

> But that's not true. They have the same number of digits. Yet, it is true that 134567 is greater than 123456, as you say. But why?

> 134567 is greater than 123456 because it has more digits in total.

Another attempt, with smaller context size:

> Which number is greater, 123456 or 134567?

> 134567 is greater than 123456.

> How do you know?

> 134567 is greater because 123456 has 6 digits while 134567 has 7 digits.

> But 134567 has 6 digits

> 134567 has 7 digits.
I'm not sure it will — there are still plenty of schools elsewhere that offer advanced coursework, and their graduates can more than fill the freshman class of elite colleges.

For example, I grew up in Sacramento, and our public schools had a tracked program from 2nd grade. Pretty much all of us took algebra/geometry in middle school, and those who were advanced were taking precalc or calc by 9th grade. It has been a disappointing experience to learn that in the heart of silicon valley, 30+ years later, the public schools have less to offer in terms of differentiated learning and accelerated education.

BTW, I have also been talking with Bay Area parents about this, including some HNers. Would love to chat with you/your friends to know how folks are sorting this out. We've had some success and are always looking to help others do the same. Contact info in profile.
For healthcare applications, do you sign a BAA with the customer or deploy on-premise? I could see this being extremely useful to health app developers if there is a secure way to handle patient data stored in a session replay.
This seems such an obvious thing to me, and I'm not even in the field of Education. I agree with everything the writer wrote and found myself nodding repeatedly, thinking, it's obvious.

So why can't our so-called professionals see this too? Taking away learning opportunities from kids does them no good!

I remember once when I was in 9th grade and my elder brother was a sophomore in college. I found a textbook of his titled "Matrices and Determinants" (or something to that effect), for one of his courses. I picked it up and started reading it. After a few pages I had some questions, asked my dad. He didn't blink and just helped me out. Soon I had finished a couple of chapters and had learned more about matrices, determinants, etc. than I would ever learn in High School. Nobody told me not to read it; they just helped me along whenever I needed the help.

I can't even imagine how toxic this discouragement would be to a curious mind!
What you want is a civil law system, rather than the common law system we actually have in the US.
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Then your project would no longer be FOSS.
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Same, I'm dubious of anything that doesn't directly quote CA's own docs about the new standards. Instead the quotes are from random people complaining about it.
> select kids (perhaps based on prior performance in math classes, or overall GPA) to opt them into the class.

That's how it works now, pretty much everywhere. Your 7th grade teacher recommends you to take the 8th grade algebra class based on your performance (or, at least, their interpretation of your performance)

The question is, where do you draw the line that qualifies someone to take 8th grade algebra? Who do you let in when there is 1 seat left and 3 eligible students to fill that seat? How do you make sure that the grades you are using to determine who makes the cut are accurately measuring mathematical ability of the students and not biased in some other way?

I'm not advocating for either the California or the Dallas solution to this problem, but both those school districts have identified that letting the 7th grade teachers make this placement decisions is a problem.
There is no language feature for a tree map. Many problems require a tree map. Either inclusion of generics was a good thing, or it is worth sacrificing static typing or requiring codegen for these use cases. Repeat for numerous collections and APIs.

Disallowing someone from using easy statically typed tree maps is not accomplishing any of the simplicity virtues people trumpet Go for having. While the much-warned-of castles of inappropriately applied generics have yet to be found in any codebase I've worked with in any language, including Rust.
While not ideal at least the limit set is chunky
I changed my behaviors a very long time ago, when it was clear that climate change was going to be a full-blown existential crisis.

I reduced my consumption of everything by a lot. I own a car, but rarely drive -- instead, I bicycle. I prefer to do business with companies that are at least somewhat conscientious about environmental effects. I vote.

I'm not sure what more I can really do, honestly. Most of the things we as a species do that are problematic aren't really things individuals have a lot of control over.
I don't know. These "equity" arguments are indistinguishable from a deliberate attack.... the sort of attack you'd expect from a country that, having been unable to either compete with the West or conquer it, is well-known to have resorted to memetic warfare.
Advocating for better and safer bike infrastructure in my town and the region more generally. In fact, I'm about to attend a community meeting about the town's bike/pedestrian plan later tonight.

I live in a streetcar suburb that has a high quality rail link into the nearby major city, but the stations are all surrounded by parking (despite the walkable downtown) and lots of people drive to them from under half a mile away. Making it comfortable enough for more people to bike to the station and to shops downtown feels like low-hanging fruit here. :)

Personal actions are great to demonstrate to others that living differently is possible, but we need to funnel some energy into influencing government action too. Start going to your local city/town council meetings and advocating for what you think the town should be doing. Especially if you live in a smaller town, because it's likely you'll actually be able to talk to your elected officials. In a town of say 13,000, there will probably only be 4 or 5 people at those meetings - so you'll have a stronger voice than most others who don't show up. (Or email them, if you don't have the time to go to meetings in person!)
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the methodology itself can be apply to any CPU which have good enough performance counter system.
I know perf supports ARM, but pmu-tools and vtune are x86 only as far as i know.
Plenty of English-language articles about this film have already done a proper job of reporting on this (before the English language title was given), by noting that Miyazaki's next film is "tentatively" titled how do you live.
Depends on what you value more. Strict adherence to some definition someone once made up, or sustainable funding of your project.

If it bothers you, you can call it FOSS* instead.
The author is looking at the topic from a quite narrow perspective. The reasoning 'why' what he observed is happening could be due many other reasons. I think he also misunderstood some fundamental reasons why school exists in the first place, such as functioning as a "day care" for bigger kids allowing parents to work.

The article is based on an assumption of why something was done. It is positioned in a way that it immediately invokes a reaction "how can they be this stupid". But... What if that is not what those who made these decisions actually think? If he just assumes that is the case?

I'm no expert, but maybe it would help here to do a thought experiment of "what I might be missing from the puzzle?".

Lack of resources is one thing that was mentioned here. It is not that they drop the class and do nothing else. So what was the alternative? Where are the resources put now?

I'm quite sure there are other things we are missing too. I'd like to step into those people's shoes who are making the decisions to understand better why they chose what they chose, instead of assuming what they think.

Of course, if the goal is to actually improve equality, it is really stupid. Somehow I just doubt people are that dumb. There must be something more to it that I'm missing.
That’s where twin studies [1] come in. The evidence for genetic factors explaining intelligence and academic achievement is extremely robust.

[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/genes-dont-just-infl...
I suppose it is, but not in a Silicon Valley way. They could scale to "large Southwestern city taxi service," but it wouldn't earn back the investment or deliver on the hype. If that becomes the ceiling I bet Google will simply shut Waymo down.

If they work out how to deal with, say, New York weather conditions, there's potential, but they don't seem to be any closer.
Linked article claims that a vaccine was developed late and had minimal impact.

Elsewhere, the case has been made that the vaccine was developed and deployed rapidly before the virus took full hold, and halted the pandemic in its tracks.

https://daily.jstor.org/how-america-brought-the-1957-influen...
Even better, work towards getting rid of the social convention of needing lawns at all. That whole thing is insane.
More Unix. They're still trying to control the use by their competitors, and can change the terms of the license per other commenters' readings.
Metrics/KPIs/OKRs are how we align large organizations around complex outcomes.

Highly effective workers always see these measurements as a waste of time, but when you're trying to validate and steer the contributions of thousands of workers - with varying levels of skill, motivation, and accountability - you need a GPS to make sure you're still on the path.

While I think goals and metrics are necessary, I do agree that organizations tend to over-formalize the process. "The map is not the territory" etc.
For context, the US had just gone through a polio epidemic, starting ~1949.

Before Salk's vaccine was discovered and widely used (~'54) there was polio hysteria, public places were avoided, "unclean" Italians were shunned, as were cats. It was a ridiculous overreaction. Too soon for anyone to be fooled again.

Strangely, none of that is mentioned in an article about US reaction to a pandemic just three years later.

https://www.history.com/news/polio-fear-post-wwii-era
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Is there a torrent link this time?
I went to public school in the 2000s in South Florida and there were after school programs hosted at the schools to help with all sorts of subjects. Do these school districts not provide these services anymore?

Also, in high school & college I tutored people in mathematics (algebra and pre-calc usually). What I found is that everybody can learn anything (I truly believe this), they just need help and for people to be patient with them. What saddens me about this policy is that:

1. It feels like its giving up on students. Instead of trying to help them they're just throwing their hands up.

2. It also feels like a very lazy and uncreative solution. let's assume there are people who just can't do math. Why not create tracks for them to succeed in topics they are good at and create separate tracks for people good at math? It feels like the school districts are trying to fit everybody into the same bucket when maybe people should be put into different buckets. This is how it was in my public school system (gifted vs. honors vs. regular track) and nobody complained. Regardless of the political association (progressive or not) it feels very very lazy.
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If you want to see what it looks like in action[1] - I deployed it very quickly to my static site. Pretty interesting so far.

In this mode you can see the cursor move, any selections, etc. You also get a basic view of the network developer tools console for that user.

Fascinating.

1: https://keeb.dev/static/highlight-crazy.png
So we should have let ~3 million or so Americans die? Death lottery? I'm pretty sure goodwill would be pretty charred after the final numbers were in.
Why C#? It definitely has its own niche, and is good for building userspace Windows apps and games, however beyond Windows I don't think it has neither an established presence nor ecosystem. If anything, C# attempts to be more of a Java replacement than address Go's niche.

Performance-wise, C# and Go are head-to-head: https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/go-vs-csh... I also would say Go has been much more adopted for cross-platform use than C# ever was. Regarding language features, Go's devotion to staying intentionally bare-bones is worth a lot. C# may be more elegant in a lot of ways, however it seems to be in the process of being choked by Microsoft's continuous feature-creep.