skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The facts don't line up with your opinion.

A 2016 study by the National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) indicates homeschoolers scored between 15 and 30 percentage points higher on standardized academic achievement tests and usually scored higher on the SAT/ACT.

https://www.nheri.org/research-facts-on-homeschooling/
Wasn’t part of AV1’s charm that anyone trying to sue an AV1 licensee would be nuked from orbit by the legal expertise and patent trove of the collective AV1 companies / AOM?
> All the wealthy families sending their kids to private schools or homeschooling and removing their property taxes from the public school system.

How exactly does that work?

We homeschool and I pay property taxes that fund our local school just like everyone else in town. I pay for services that I don't use and can be used for other children if the powers that be decide to allocate it that way.
Did you buy a macbook for $700? That was a pretty low price back then which meant you were buying devices made to a price. Buying a Macbook is one solution, another would have been to spend more money on a higher quality Wintel system.
https://archive.today/w1Q12
Do they want less violence?

When last I subscribed to Netflix the amount and intensity of violence was jarring.

The US version of Dirk Gently just seemed to be sickenly violent.
I’ve seen far more contention, gossip, and backbiting behavior in secular groups, saying this as someone who didn’t go back to religion until only a few years ago. Let’s not pretend that being secular somehow makes you levitate or something. Check out the “new atheists” and their démise.

The funny part is that everyone is talking about this sort of inherent internal moral guidance, which flies in the face of the modern scientific thought.
Google's Fuchsia or at least parts of the Zircon kernel use C++. [0]

{ A subset of the C++17 language is used in the Zircon tree. This includes both the kernel and userspace code. C++ is mixed with C (and some assembly) in both places. Some C++ language features are avoided or prohibited. Use of the C++ standard library features is very circumspect.}

[0] https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/development/languages/c-cpp/...
And the potential use of this data by governments around the world for less innocuous purposes than "showing relevant ads".

It is not too surprising that companies who can profit from it push the data collection as far as they can. It is more surprising/troubling how the people in general seem to either have completely capitulated due to the generalization of the data collection... or fail to understand the implications it can have.

Thankfully some people in EU courts still think that privacy is a right.
Commander Koenig.
Yes. Transmitting at the speed of light, 400 gigabit coherent DWDM optics shooting down fiber laid in the 80s...that's today for many places. The only thing you change is the stuff connected to the end of the fiber. So when the 400 gigabit optics aren't enough (and that will be a while) you can upgrade the fiber system without needing to bury new fiber.
Don't see the reason too. I mean I get it for a first project or while learning, but once you 'get' lambda using it with CDK or another framework makes you realize the whole reason for lambdas being about transformation of data not the transportation of data.

Small functions that can be reused in multiple APIs, tiny deployments, small tests incrementally building a system.

Lambdas primarily shine in an event based system. I'd rather use the serverless tooling as they're intended i.e cognito, gateway, event bridge, dynamodb.

Each are designed to solve a particular problem in what I'd say as a different paradigm.

If you want a traditional monolith I'd look to fargate instead since you'll be rolling a permission system/auth system and probably a framework of sorts.

In my past using only a part of lambda eventually lead me to having to build an already solved problem with a serverless service and make it fit in. Lessons learned I suppose.
> does that really make a difference?

It does make a difference, because the length of your sentence is one of the factors used to determine when you're eligible for parole. That's why you sometimes see people handed ridiculous sentences, like 100+ years.
Its not the ads thaaat much. Its the absolutely obscene lenghts these companies have gone to to track every single detail you do over the entire web and connected it all, then they even sell this to third parties. I would be more open if the tracking was sandboxed to the current website and not used to create other businesses as well.
Why are you assuming everyone pays into the system? In fact ide argue the people trying to claw back the money for a better outcome are the people actually paying into the system and the people that aren't are the ones causing the system to degrade.
>Don't know though how different court judgements are interpreted. I'd guess it would have to be an EU-court judgement for it to bind other courts.

If there is a contested interpretation of EU law then the lower courts of a member state MAY refer a question (or questions) to the CJEU to resolve the issue.

In the case of the highest courts (where there can be no appeal) they MUST make a referral to the CJEU.

These referrals also aren't "appeals" as such, either, but are designed to answer the questions in such a way that the member states' courts can resolve the case with an authoritative (and consistent) interpretation of EU law.
I'm genuinely curious how total ad spend on YouTube compares to total spend direct to influencers. I presume the former is substantially larger, but by how much I have no idea.
Google is officially trying to make .ing domains a th.ing
I'm probably way too late for this comment to not get buried, but in my experience 99% of homeschooled or "unschooled" kids growing up in the US around me had parents who were obsessed with avoiding secular education on things in basic biology (evolution) or history (slavery), OR had parents in the 90th+ percentile for household income and/or focus on education and STEM stuff (e.g. one parent took a part-time job teaching them at home to give them way-above-average skills compared to their peers entering HS or College). In all cases, the "better" outcomes were situational and largely correlated with income and access to opportunity rather than a homeschooling model actually being proven to be better.

AFAIK, most academic outcomes for home-schooled kids are actually worse when adjusted for income. This is at least true for private school vs. public school (https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/articles/private-school...) but I suspect home school data is much more sparse
Isnt that what they did for Cambridge Analytics?
In a way, we used to actually do this by purchasing media!

Positional Advertising in magazines worked perfectly well for decades, as an example.

The canonical example being that if you buy a Car magazine, as an Advertiser I can assume you are a potential car buyer and therefore warmed up to see Ads about cars.

The Digital Ad market is nonsense for many businesses: At one point Facebook Ads for Australia promoted a potential audience reach than was greater than the population of Australia.

In smaller markets, Ad Targeting is often useless :-/
The Behringer XAir18 I used as inspiration for this adds an FPGA to the design so it really is fully software defined for the audio path. The only limitation is that behringer doesn't let you control any of it and adds a load of arbitrary limitations.

Hopefully more open audio mixers will take off a bit :)
This is what Google is trying to do with topics (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/privacy-sandbox/topics/ove...). Topics are supposedly the replacement after cookie deprecation, although the deprecation timeline continues to be extended.
Thanks for the summary - the headline alone made me immediately question “what is the energy requirement of this” and if they’re unwilling to include it I assume it’s pretty abysmal.
Space 1999 was a ridiculous show but there has never been a better TV show as far as production design does. The sets look cool and appear functional in a way that other shows (even modern star treks) can only aspire to.

Pity about the plots.
Raspberry Pi OS: upgrading and cross-grading
I'd used WeWork offices for solo work with no issues, so I didn't do sufficient diligence when I booked a conference room at one for a confidential client meeting. The room's walls were all clear and so thin that any conversation above a quiet murmur was easily heard from the hall outside. I asked the onsite manager for a more suitable room, but she told me they were all like that there. I ended up sticking the easel pad on the room's conference table and we spent the afternoon whispering to each other as we huddled around it.

Not checking things out in advance was on me of course, but it never dawned on me that their meeting rooms would be designed by people who'd apparently never been in a meeting before. In any case that was the last time I set foot in a WeWork.
I don't think the only possible takeaway should be “whatever the project is, you’ll always get the same result no matter how much or how little you spend”.

That seems fallacious. I think there were other forces at work in the SF allegory, that probably don't apply to all projects.
Even if religious fascism doesn't lead to disintegration (and it might not—the inherited steel frame is quite strong), it is still a tremendous distraction from economic development, for voters, baboos, and politicians alike.
A good safety catch is when you start working your way towards making teflon coated dental floss. Its just not worth it, it’s too hard. Just (ha!) cut your losses.
> I've never had hardware damaged by Linux, which I've run almost exclusively. [...] I can't say I've heard of that happening to people on Linux at all other than maybe early days of Xorg.

There was that LG CD-ROM drive which treated a CD-RW command (which it should ignore or reject since it's not a CD-RW drive) as a firmware upload command. When a newer Linux kernel started using that command, these drives got bricked (source: https://lwn.net/Articles/55537/ and https://web.archive.org/web/20041204072839/http://www.mandra...).
aha, so THIS must be the real reason people like Redfin can make money off of giving you a "digital realtor" rather than FSBO uploads alongside the MLS listings. Makes sense, monopoly / oligopoly working as intended. I knew there had to be a reason :/

Thanks for your reply
"Catholic Guilt" is a stereotype for a reason. The scare is: a) not going to church and being a social outcast, b) duty to go to church, to pray every day, or go to hell.

Is not limited to Catholicism but religion in general, but the stereotype is there for a reason. Maybe the teachings? Maybe anecdotally your group were outliers?
Those kinds of changes irritate me more than they probably should, and having changes like that for such an annoying reason as ads makes it even worse.

If you're watching a show, it should be the same show it was before. I want to see the historical record of how it was when it was broadcast originally.

Same thing when they change other things about the show, eg Dawson's Creek where they have now completely changed the music because of some licensing garbage. It's not the same show. I don't even watch Dawson's Creek but that annoys me.

Maybe overstating it but I feel that it's important for our shared cultural heritage.

Say someone recommends a show to you, then you watch it but you're actually watching what is essentially a different show...

Also, insidious retroactive censorship/whitewashing.
Louis is doing God's work, I hope he gets cancelled-famous from this.
i'm not sure i've ever seen an ad that i considered helpful, useful, or was grateful to see

i get the dream and i buy things all the time but for me ads don't make that buying experience easier because i dont trust any of the content in them so it doesn't save me any time on researching what i want to buy. i'd rather have irrelevant ads because maybe they are easier to ignore and they won't serve as a constant reminder of how much data companies have on me. seeing an ad for something i recently searched on a different company's site generally makes me unhappy.
Memory bus widths are usually measured in bits while cache line sizes are bytes. The problem isn't with having a cache line that's too big, but rather too small: DDR3 and DDR4 both used burst sizes of eight transfers of 64 bits each, for a total burst of 64 bytes. DDR5 increased the burst size to 16 transfers, and split the DIMM into two subchannels to compensate—otherwise, it would be impossible to use the full bandwidth when fetching individual 64Byte cache lines. Transferring two bursts of data from RAM (not necessarily from the same channel) to fetch a single cache line worked fine in the DDR2 era.
Personally I'd either pay for a service or let it be ad supported and I prefer seeing high relevance ads only, which would require data like my IP, age, browsing habits etc to be factored in. So I prefer Google ads that are based on my searches to Twitter ads that always seem to sell some contraption with dubious utility.

But ads can get ultra intrusive if you carry around tracking thingies like cookies and people have varying thresholds for what they consider "personal" information.
You didn’t elaborate on the points I asked about. You literally argued with the response from a chat bot. You can’t just say “QED, I win”. Until I get satisfactory definitions the rest of your response is unjustifiable.
Like a rubber duck which provides feedback. but since it's coming from a rubber duck it's good to verify that duck knows what it's talking about.
Show HN: Clone someone and talk to them like in real life
I wouldn't trust an AI like GPT to do translations. It's bound to hallucinate things that are not in the original writing. You'll just want to use Google translate.

GPT AIs are great for creative works where it doesn't matter if they just make things up.
This reminds me of the early Winamp 5 days, circa 2005-2008.

Music visualizers seem to be a forgotten art today.
and its ugly as hell
First I've heard of any issues.. I have done a couple upgrades already with no issue. I'm sure there are some scenarios where it fails, but Sonoma has been out a while with millions of users being prompted constantly to upgrade. Feels like less than a "you're holding it wrong" problem. HN is obv going to bring out the edge cases, but it doesn't seem like the world is on fire with "Sonoma Bricks" by any means.
This seems to be the conclusion. I’m not sure how people arrive here.
They aren't afraid of risk and they've been around long enough that they appear to be at least an averagely competent investment firm which just takes way more risk than most would consider reasonable. Softbank was also founded in pretty much the perfect time in history for a firm like themselves to succeed, a highly speculative low interest rate environment.

Their hits have more than made up for their misses.
It’s the difference between periodically requesting my inputs/preferences compared to constantly surveilling my every move.

The latter gives them constant unchecked access. It’s like handing someone a blank check instead of a check for a fixed amount.
> In any case that was the last time I set foot in a WeWork.

Why? From your description, it sounds like they were serving one of your use cases perfectly well, but was not a good fit for your other use case.
sir this is a thread about privilege

that possibility isn’t even in the range here

the choices are good school district, decent private school, or a home school concept
wow indeed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYtjxShjwe4
So don’t change it around. Just reject the metaphor usage entirely.

“If you don’t understand metaphors, please, just don’t use them.”
.catch
Discussed previously today:

Jury Finds Realtors Conspired, Awards Nearly $1.8B in Damages

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38089356 (217 comments)
This was one of those “the past through rose-tinted glasses” things for me.

I loved the show, back when it originally aired.

Then, it got syndicated, a couple of years ago, and I tried watching it again.

What a letdown.

I still love Landau and Bain, but the sets and effects struggle, against today’s capabilities.
If that is the case, why does the OP label it as a Sonoma issue?
> But overall, religion is about control (for the religious leadership, and politicians who use religion to gain power), and about belonging and feeling less lost and alone (for practicioners) in an uncertain world.

Can I ask an earnest question, out of curiosity? What do you think is the role of government in people's lives? Do you believe we should have UBI?
Executive Order on Use of Artificial Intelligence
What do you mean by “da culture”
Intel and AMD aren't so bad for openness
I was interested in magic as a kid and read a book on how famous tricks were done. IIRC, one was a disappearing elephant that involved an entire fake wall which lifted the elephant up and hid it away in a fake ceiling.

I immediately lost all interest in magic.

Oh, here it is: https://www.thegreatharryhoudini.com/vanishingelephant.html
I misremembered.
I think tool lists with awesome filters is great. Like PCPartPicker. Could build a compatibility matrix too. This plugs easy to that etc. Would love to see pricing too. Looks good.
its the ads relevant to me I dont want and neither should you. Ads relevant to the content or site makes sense.
Microsoft AI inserted a distasteful poll into a news report about a womans death
> they hold a core set of beliefs, and those beliefs cause them to act a certain way

Do they? I'll grant you the first part, as that's the point of a religion, but it doesn't seem to automatically imply the second.

The earliest Christians, very famously, went to their deaths voluntarily while publicly forgiving their accusers. While medieval Christians slaughtered thousands trying to retake the holy-land. It's pretty reasonable to argue that those two groups had relatively similar core beliefs, but hard to argue that they had the same actions.

Unless you want to count farming as an action, the vast majority of adherents to basically every religion were, historically, farmers whose lives we know very little about.

It seems much more likely that a group being in power causes the effects that you see. Basically every group has an in-group bias.
OpenAI's biggest innovation is convincing people that it's open. Or maybe people just don't like reading history anymore.
Easy, Google screwing up Sun licensing for embedded devices and creating their own Java based ecosystem from scratch.

Note that ART as it is now is the third implementation, first it was Dalvik, then ART pure AOT, and now ART interpreter/JIT/AOT.

Nokia and Sony-Ericsson already had relatively good J2ME implementations for Symbian, and Blackberry OS was powered by Java, when Android came out.

Unfortunately it didn't went for Google the same way, as it did for Microsoft.

Gosling interview on the matter,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYw3X4RZv6Y&feature=youtu.be...
Every moon and well into the depths of the night, for it is the only time he may work undisturbed, he takes a few of his numerous magic silicon runes and imbues them with purpose using a magic keyboard enchantment. It is not long before the results are observed. Yes, he purposefully overdrives his uncooled chips to red hot temperatures until they melt away, the nanometer inscribings sublimating into magic smoke.

He breathes the magic smoke. Lesser beings recoil at the sight and yet the quad master is unfazed. His eyes shine terminal green once the ritual is complete, scanlines visible in his pupils, his source sorcery enhanced. Merged with the essence of silicon, he becomes more machine than man, a human compiler, able to squeeze out C performance out of the most dynamic of languages.
WeWork doesn’t own the buildings, they lease space in them. The companies that own the buildings still have the problem of finding tenants, and WeWork let them access smaller tenants and thus a more diverse client portfolio than commercial real estate owners can normally be bothered to service.

Leasing to WeWork is a ‘gig economy’ side-hustle for a big office building owner to monetize more of their space, same as driving for Uber works as a side hustle for humans who want to monetize more of their time, or Airbnb lets homeowners side hustle to monetize their spare room.

Question is if without WeWork those buildings would continue to offer those services directly, sign on with a competitor platform, or do something else.

Maybe now WeWork has shown the opportunity, building owners would be prepared to leverage the platform to access the short term tenant base without requiring that WeWork lease the space first.

After all, you don’t have Uber pay to lease your vehicle or AirBnb sign a lease on your spare room before you join up to their platforms.

All of which suggests that WeWork actually has a pretty strong case for renegotiating their leases - they have their subletting revenue they can split with the property owner as leverage.
>"what kind of man does G-d want me to be?"

I just remember how religious people fought against gay marriage as if it would ban straight marriages.

God seems to want those people be hateful people.

>anything goes, you can be whatever you feel like and there's no judgement of any of your actions.

First of all, there is judgement as soon as you actions hurt others. Beside that you can be and feel like you want.

And I remember questions like "What stops atheists from murdering people or raping kids?"

Sorry, but if the only things that prevents you from being a bad person is that you are being watched over by a higher being, then you are still a bad person.
Thank you.
One of main features of ROScribe (which is still under development) is the use of RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) for robot software generation. In RAG, the code, rather than being generated by the LLM, is pulled from ROS index by LLM (LLM keeps all documentations and meta data of ROS index in a vector data base to figure out what piece of code is most suitable for the task at hand.) We are working on this part and we plan to publish a conference paper on it.
So the ultimate solution is a mixture of codes pulled from online repositories (ROS index), internal data (companies own IPs), and the code that LLM generates. LLM is handling all of three segments, but only codes as minimum as needed.
Did not expect a philosophical comparison of happy meals coming with toys versus having to wash your own dishes, but here we are.
I know web search at least runs JS to get better results. Not sure about email pre-fetch but I assume they do. I don't think crawlers click buttons though unless they are malicious so it's probably fine for unique email links.
Maybe because it isn't that big of an issue?
Have you heard about this anywhere besides HN? If it were a big deal you know all the websites would be all over it as if the Mac were doomed.
I had the pleasure of dealing with Regus / Spaces trying to enforce their contract and collect payment for office rent even though I couldn't go to their offices due to COVID and lockdowns (this was during the peak of it in April of 2020). I have to disagree that this company is perfectly fine to do business with, after so many calls and emails with them over this absurd matter and their egregious business practices during a time of crisis, which they threatened collections on but luckily never pursued (at least that I'm aware).

Keep in mind this is their standard business practices, no matter what hardship or act of God that's preventing you from paying them.[0]

Their stock is down nearly 50% over the past 5 years, even 17% below where it was during the crash in 2020, so they aren't a gleaming example of success either.

0. https://www.google.com/search?q=regus+collections+reddit