skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a very interesting article. While the family that was interviewed was resourceful (and not only in money, the mother took on her to call all the teachers of her son and keep track of all the homework to make sure he was not falling behind) and managed to resolve the situation it's not given to everyone.

The article also list many reasons for this worrying trend.

> The roots of boys’ problems are complex. Things that once benefited boys in school, including male teachers, recess and vocational classes, have dwindled in recent years.

> Parents, tutors and education experts say boys need extra encouragement to understand the payoff of working hard in school. Basically, they need a bigger reason than letter grades.
ehhh its a cute name playing off of the "murder" of crows theme, I like it, makes the theme feel cohesive. Also I don't get the focus on making sure you have the perfect SEO for every side project, seems like a good way to not get anything done.
> Precisely how is OpenAI eating anyone's lunch? This is a serious question.

Because they made, maintain and offer GPT-4 which is currently the top-of-the-line LLM available. GPT-3 was also top-of-the-line when it launched, and they've proven they can iterate on the model and launch better ones.

Currently, both open and non-models are just about barely competitive with GPT-3.5, but none is close to GPT-4.

Even if they aren't profitable today, it's hard to imagine they won't be able to monetize things better, since their model is way ahead of any other model.

That is, they manage to get that far before the company collapses from the inside, which seems more and more likely everyday.
It has a CLI that can be used for this purpose, but you would have to script it.

It also doesn’t have private CA or cert generation features, so if you need that then perhaps Vault or OpenBao would be a better fit. Though if you wanted to use EnvKey for simplicity and security reasons, you could potentially do your cert generation with openssl or another tool and then store the certs in EnvKey.

The featureset isn’t 1-to-1. EnvKey is more focused on config management and ease-of-use and not so much on slotting into more complex custom infra that needs eg a private CA. Though like I said it is quite flexible so you could make it fit into just about any system if you’re willing to do a bit of scripting.
Building a business on hetzner is a hell of a bold move.
I understand anything that comes on NYT is with a level of research and resources. But casually slipping very obvious innuendos to convey a strong opinion does not give confidence to me. I already feel like an idiot for getting too invested in this saga and now more of this. I just wish the truth comes out, that's all. Objectively.
You can write C# to avoid allocations like most other languages
Funny, considering people said the same thing about OpenAI and look who is eating FAANGs lunch now when it comes to AI?

I tried Bard yesterday (Im late like that) and I'm not switching back to a competitor anytime soon. The UX was smoother I found and i was blown away by the multimodal thing. It generated some python and the picture of a graph the python is supposed to draw, it was awesome experience.
I told myself I trusted Google more and it integrates with their other apps so I could search my emails.

I mean, they are clearly not f-ing around. They're going Iron-Mike on it rather. Which is the point of parent comment.
DirectX? On My Linux?
significant difference between the quality and stability of the two tents. the one in the article looks like a stick will tear it asunder.
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Nobody complained about git yet
I wonder how the split was among the technical talent vs non technical talent in siding with/against Altman.
I smell any company that charges subscription fees to creatives for content they’re selling from other creatives and taking a huge cut of.
The TLDR isn't a shocker:

In this randomized clinical trial of the cardiometabolic effects of omnivorous vs vegan diets in identical twins, the healthy vegan diet led to improved cardiometabolic outcomes compared with a healthy omnivorous diet.

Would like to see a couple of the middle ways peppered in (pescetarian, vegetarian).
To my understanding, Beeper uses some random Mac's serial number to complete device attestation. Would this be salvageable if I could provide my own legitimately purchased iPhone or Mac serial number?
This. It's quite obvious that if over 10% of kids suddenly have a "neurological disorder", it's not the neurology that has changed.
even though (I think) I 100% agree with that article, I'm not sure it is sound. one can buy the right/rights to something "for X amount of time" or on "Y amount of devices" (what is known as a "lease", sometimes), but the "legal" gobbledygook specifies that what one is "buying" is limited to/by certain conditions. Like leasing a car. I think (but am not positive) that is how Apple ideologically reframed the way they "license" music/media consumption through iTunes? And also how, following in Apple's footsteps, how Google started "loaning" content (movies on YouTube) that are available for 48 hours after the "purchase"
My sister was vegetarian for a couple of decades. There's a lot of vegetarian food that I really enjoy. They all have in common that they don't pretend to be meat.

However full vegan I could never do. There might be a few meals that I enjoy, but not enough to keep my will to live through a year.
Yes, it has. But game engine adoption takes time, it's not immediately clear that it is eating some of Unity's lunch, as games have to be developed, launched and appreciated before it's obvious for the average (developer) person.

Look at some of the games that made Unity popular in the first place, and the people/companies that made them. Lots of them are moving to Godot now, but again, it'll take time before those people/companies launch the games.
How do you think we're getting all those rare earth minerals?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/31/the-dark-side-...
I often eat meat-only meals. There isn't anything particularly satisfying or a feeling of being "full". Just the opposite - meat is being digested slowly and some feeling of satiety only kicks in after about 2 hours.

What you describe probably comes mostly from fat + carbs.
Whenever I've felt impacted by those things I simply eliminate them. I had TikTok installed for a while. One weekend I realized I had been scrolling for 5 hours but to me it felt like maybe 90 minutes? That's when I uninstalled it. I felt like my ability to listen or pay acute attention for long length of time was diminished. Eliminating the app let me get back to the level of performance I had before. Self reflecting, there's maybe a certain kind of power in not-knowing, or knowing there is a lot of information I simply don't have to be aware of. Political news, well, news in general strikes me as a similar case. I know going into it "if it bleeds it leads". If I consume that, am I really getting a true picture of reality? Probably not. So is there really as much value in making sure I keep up with the latest points? I don't feel like it matters.
current discussion on the actual repo's URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38579130
Summers is a fourth-rate intellectual who wants us to think he is second rate.[1] He does good self-promotion.

1. In this scale first-rate is the likes of John von Neumann and Albert Einstein.
Ah, that was in the FAQ. I see, thanks. For a moment I thought I was supposed to be aware of some random post from a distant past.
Yes, but GP was suggesting it was just exercising editorial control over what they put out themselves.
Not the same result: we're talking about taking a picture without opening the shutter.
Chicken and egg problem, no games worth porting because games look at the engine and are like "oh you can't do console? i'm out". Part of making godot an industry standard is first making sure it has industry standard capabilities.
In this case it just makes sense to have RTO at reduced hours. Make the standard work day something like 10-4.

I never understood why people throw the baby out with the bathwater on things like this.
Fareed Zakaria: Why university presidents are under fire
About 15 years ago I noticed most devs w/ an online presence invariably had a side hobby they were quite passionate about - more often than not it was photography w/ thousands of photos on Flikr, esp. for those who spoke at conferences and traveled a bit.

Found some article discussing the phenomena of those engaged in knowledge work having a hobby like this, acting as a relief valve when things get too intense - whether up-skilling in knowledge or pushing through a slog of a project, or perhaps they're in a somewhat Kafkaesque situation in regards to political structures at work/academia to avoid burnout situations.
I'm a bit late, but me and some friends I met over Reddit built a meme stock exchange in 2017. This was a game that would price meme stocks based on how much engagement some meme (or variants) were getting on social media in realtime. I built the analysis engine (including fuzzy reverse image matching, the social listening workers, and the pricing algorithm) and took the role of "CEO" pitching the technology to investors (there was a b2b marketing play there), organizing ourselves, etc.

It got me my first 6-figure job at a startup the next year, as we weren't able to raise funding or afford to continue running it. We also got a cease and desist from Nasdaq for our awesome name (Nasdanq). It also played a role in getting my current job, as it was a more refined version of the b2b play we were shooting for and the CEO loved the project.
Ask HN: As tech companies scale bigger, they scale down customer support
why is this so common and why is it widely accepted?
Storing a photo is not the same as "biometric scanning" of that photo to categorise it.
PNG had more focus on backward and forward compatibility, but the fact that PNG can be "extended" in this way is not that unusual for file formats composed of multiple sections (chunks in PNG). Especially considering that other aspects of PNG effectively failed, for example it is technically possible to add new compression method or color type to IHDR, but that would give you a file completely unreadable by existing decoders. CPNG essentially works by reinterpreting PNG in a different way when certain conditions are met.
the handymen, plumbers, and electricians of the world will be mostly unaffected. Their work is hard to automate.

It’s funny, when I started in ML 10 years ago people said the same thing about writers, artists, musicians. And yet here we are today. Robotics is just the next thing to be “solved” in AI field, the same way computer vision or NLP got solved - after decades of hard effort and little progress. Once the algorithms are ready people will build robots who will be much better than humans at any physical tasks: faster and more precise.
And this is also why Adobe software is some of the most frequently-pirated software of all time. After all these years and all the other examples of the correct way to do this, they still refuse to see the light of “free for personal use” licensing to get more people trained on and in love with your software, so those that do go on to use it commercially will demand it and have their companies pay the license fees.
Can they repeat for vegetarian? As an ethically conflicted meat-eater, I do try to limit my consumption where possible, but full vegan would be tremendously difficult for me to adhere to for any length of time. Eggs are nearly the perfect food.

I would note that eight weeks is not terribly long for a radical dietary change. Presumably, the baseline consumption for participants was more akin to the omnivore diet. What would the study results look like at 4+ months duration? Would vegans creep back up to their original baseline as their body and habits adapted?
That's an aspect but the best chefs have mastered sauteeing onions before exploring and being curious is what I was trying to get at.
You're on a forum called Hacker News. Abolish all copyright.
Would also like to see a longer trial than 2 months.
Have you tried indian vegan food? for example the "Sagar" restaurant? Some Indians have hundreds of years of vegan experience and they perfected it.

I'm not vegan, but this was the first time I've had vegan food and felt both full and "wow, this was amazing".
Having a lot more electricians is not necessarily a bad thing. I've seen some estimates of the number of new electricians the US would need in order to handle the electrification of the country if we want to stave off further climate change, and it was in the tens of millions.

This number will be very difficult to achieve, but that does mean that being an electrician should continue to be a good job for quite a long time, even if lots of new people go into it.
This is a terrible advertisement, you should at least sell your tool on it's own merits.
Are there any non G or Apple options for turn by turn driving directions?
The "Monte-Carlo tree search" space is usually far too large for this to work well!

It is true that initially you may not know where the bug is but you have to collect more evidence if possible, see if you can always cause the bug to manifest itself by some tests, explore it further, the goal being to form a hypothesis as to what the cause may be. Then you test the hypothesis, and if the test fails then you form another hypothesis. If the test succeeds, you refine the hypothesis until you find what is going wrong.

Such hypotheses are not formed randomly. You learn more about what may be the problem by varying external conditions or reading the code or single stepping or setting breakpoints and examining program state, by adding printfs etc. You can also use any help the compiler gives you, or use techniques like binary search through commits to narrow down the amount of code you have to explore. The goal is to form a mental model of the program fragment around where the code might be so that you can reason about how things are going wrong.

Another thing to note is you make the smallest possible change to test a hypothesis, at least if the bug is timing or a concurrency related. Some changes may change timing sufficiently that the bug hides. If the symptom disappears, it doesn't mean you solved the problem -- you must understand why and understand if the symptom disappeared or the bug get fixed. In one case as I fixed secondary bugs, the system stayed up longer and longer. But these are like accessories to the real murderer. You have to stay on the trail until you nail the real killer!

Another way of looking at this: a crime has been committed and since you don't know who the culprit is or where you may find evidence, you disturb the crime scene as little as possible, and restore things in case you have to move something.

But this is not usually what happens. People change things around without clear thinking -- change some code just because they don't like it or they think it can be improved or simplified -- and the symptom disappears and they declare success. Or they form a hypothesis, assume it is right and proceed to make the "fix" and if that doesn't work, they make another similar leap of logic. Or they fix a secondary issue, not the root cause so that the same bug will manifest again in a different place.
What happens if this actually picks up steam, and suddenly PNG is no longer one format, but a bunch of incompatible ones that look somewhat similar, whose fidelity depends on your renderer?

Early in PNG's history, we already had this issue with alpha channels, progressive rendering, and hit-or-miss support for APNG (animated PNGs, meant to replace GIFs but never happened).

It was also an issue for a long time for PSDs and SVGs, where the same file never looked the same on two browsers/devices/apps/versions.

I would bet that these days, generating or decoding PNGs is the bottleneck almost nowhere, but extending the format would cause problems everywhere in real-world usage. Apps and companies can no longer tell whether there's something wrong with their image or if somewhere in the pipeline, some new graphics designer decided to use a bleeding-edge version of a 30-year-old graphics format that nobody else accounted for, and it looks "broken" in half the browsers now. A format can still look broken even if it's "backward compatible", just by virtue of having some features (like HDR) that are only displayable in some renderers but not others.

Why not just make a new format instead and have browsers & devices fall back as necessary, like we already do with webp and srcsets?
While I agree (mostly) with the sentiment of commenters, it’s easy for a conversation like this to veer into blaming parents for structural issues.

Parents are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Society expects their children to succeed in specific, somewhat arbitrary systems to succeed in life, but each child is their own being with talents, shortcomings, etc.

It’s impossible for a parent to serve both. Parents are making constant trade offs, and if paying to keep their kids on track at school seems to be the best option, then I support that.
So less sensor noise, but all your lenses are foggy now. Haha
I'm a 60 yo who male struggles with disorganization and distraction. Is this anything new? Sure, there are more distractions now (internet, social media, etc.)
Do mirrorless cameras even have physical shutters? Or is it all digital?
There's been good research in the education field around this problem. There are ways educators can augment their lessons to cater to boys. Unfortunately, not all educators do this and it remains an experience heavily weighted towards the behavior and temperament of girls. Graduation and college attendance rates are the opposite now of when a push to promote girls in schools occurred. Now might be the time to do the same for boys.
whoosh

The sarcasm went right over your head.

Of course the inherent greediness of companies & executives did not undergo wild swings during/after COVID, the idea is absurd on its face.
> OpenBao wouldn’t solve this for me.

I'd bet OpenBao gets native HSM support. The problem will be doing it in a clean room setting to avoid any legal issues.
I don’t know if you’re trying to be rude, but this comes across as quite disrespectful.

Parser tools are indeed very powerful, but those abstractions carry tradeoffs that any “engineer” will consider.
It is not always the case, counterexamples suffice. The king and future queen in WWII. Now, the president of Ukraine, etc.
They donate a lot of code back to the engine, w4 has already contributed an entire directx renderer to the engine that they needed to build out for their console porting efforts anyway.
On mobile. Will look later… one of the things I was trying to get a hold of is what tracks are running this for what to expect in industry.
The authors identify the fundamental limitation of their interpretation. To wit, you cannot be sure whether the improved biomarkers are a consequence of the different contents of the diets or the bulk caloric differences:

> Fifth, our study was not designed to be isocaloric; thus, changes to LDL-C cannot be separated from weight loss observed in the study.
Metallica made sure that argument doesn’t hold water in court back when they were suing all their fans for downloading their music on Napster. To this day I remind everyone who will listen why I refuse to listen to them ever again whenever their name comes up.
You go way too far claiming that I'd "deny anything at all happened".

This isn't a topic for awful reading comprehension leading to vile accusations. Settle down. Take a breath. Try reading again.

Or don't; because really, nothing productive is going to come from someone whose response to Israel's war crimes and atrocities is to put their fingers in their ears and blame Hamas 100%. That's an incredibly shitty thing to do. I hope you find your way out of that mindset; it's abhorrent to the nth degree.
I've never looked into this specific issue but I would imagine that the Estonian e-Identity system has solved this specific problem among many others.

https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/id-card/
“Two-state solution” is an ambiguous concept. Westerners think it means Israel and a Palestinian state. Arabs think it means an Arab state in Palestine and a multi-ethnic, Arab-majority state in Israel. And Israel only exists until Arabs can muster enough arms to expel Jews from that country, like they have done in all the other Arab countries.

We know this because that’s what they keep doing. They have repeatedly tried to wipe out Israel. Thats why Qatar hosts the leadership of Hamas. Even if Palestinians genuinely accepted a two-state solution, the other Arab countries wouldn’t.
I hope Elon does run X into the ground. There might be a temporary return nearer to sanity among our elite if that happens.
This entire HN thread reads like some fiction made up by a free software activist 15 years ago, as a dystopian cautionary tale. It's all complaints and speculations about stuff that just worked back then.

Back then we had our music locally and we chose our own players, of which there were many and easy to make another one. Actually, hacking on music playback was easy and not uncommon. We had full control of our musical lives.
Agree, but I do think there are real clinical benefits to short trials like this. For example, it's good to have evidence that one could quickly improve their cardiometabolic health immediately after a cardiovascular event just by switching to vegan.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/8/23991850/eu-ai-act-artifi...

https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022...

I was reading through this a couple of evenings ago to try and get up to speed.

I find the spirit of the law to be something I broadly approve of -- for example: "There are a number of applications where the use of AI is banned, like scraping facial images from CCTV footage, categorization based on “sensitive characteristics” like race, sexual orientation, religion, or political beliefs, emotion recognition at work or school, or the creation of “social scoring” systems." These things seem broadly good to keep at bay.

However, laws are more than just what they intend - it's what they actually do, how they're enforced, their secondary effects, etc. People don't like being tracked without consent, but people haaate all the "This site uses cookies" popups.

From that perspective, I am not so sure about all of this. The language feels like its grasping at straws a bit prematurely in an attempt to head-off a problem which isn't fully manifest yet. Yes, it's good to get ahead of this sort of thing, but, IDK, I just wasn't fully convinced the legalese knew what it was on about. It even admits as such, stating that it encourages using broad terminology to future-proof itself and encompass the rapid pace of innovation.

Plus, yeah, as others have mentioned -- I feel EU is starting to litigate its way out of technical relevancy. It's one thing if the forefront of innovation were occurring there, and they were then dictating how that innovation should evolve, but that doesn't seem to be what's occurring. Technological progress is a cornerstone of strong GDPs and I'm starting to fear for the EU a bit in this regard.
don't worry software and cpu design will be AI driven.
> 20 years ago, I got in a (friendly) public spat with Chris Anderson, who was then the editor in chief of Wired.

This was an interesting discussion 20 years ago, but none of this matters in five years. Creative content delivery became too cheap to meter with the Internet. We're entering the age of creative content generation becoming too cheap to meter.
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