skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The goal of school IS NOT to make you a good office worker

Who defines this "goal"? Each student has their own individual goals. I bet you if you surveyed students

"The goal of school is to create the ability to think creatively, rationally and critically and make you a better citizen of society through those processes."

Would rank all the way to the bottom and they all are terrible reasons to get into $200k of debt.

Many go to college without a second thought just because they think it's what they are supposed to do. Many go because they don't want to be a manual laborer and they want to be able to make more money. Many go to get drunk and party.
Notably it’s not clear if there’s a better determinant of that. Tests at least have the advantage of being a knowable thing you can prep for, instead of whatever you have without tests.
Wow, gave a strange feeling to see DabbleDB mentioned. I had launched a product in the same category. It didn't get traction, and I lost interest in it for some time, but I kept it running and it's still available and has just been rewritten in F#. My problem now is the same as nearly 20 years ago, find its niche. I'm thinking of making a Ask HN about that.
Yeah that is the unspoken truth here, MGM took way too big of a hit this last year from that for it not to impact the hacker summer camp.
A simplified,open, decentralized internet without the crypto feel
(This isnt to attract investors , but more for advice and comments, or collaborators)

I am kindof baffled by the level of complexity that's behind our digital phone book (DNS). for the past 3 years I have been building a framework that connects all frameworks. In that it tries to remove the assumptions that allows for anything to seemlessless connect with each other. We think that if you have a decentralized namespace of python objects (servers), you can remove such complications of our DNS, simplify our internet namespace to require handles instead of urls. This would also prepare us for a future of abundance where the concept of paying for a reserved name on the internet is going to be less and less. The goal for our project is to reduce the friction to deploy any code as a server with just knowing the code. Creating a server to reroute your existing functions is redundant as you can use annotations and other tricks to infer the schema, and worst case you can assume everything is json serializable, and create custom serializers for custom or impractical objects (tensors are terrible as json). This means most schemas will likely be inferred and our current way of api development is very redundant.

https://www.communeai.org (site)
@communeaidororg (twitter)
https://github.com/commune-ai/commune
>Space isn’t the limiter, teaching hours via faculty are.

The glut of un/under employed PHds suggest that the limited faculty is an artificial limit. Schools could easily hire more faculty and expand their undergrad programs if they wanted to.

They see their half percent acceptance rate as something that makes them special.
> I think it's primary objective is to make money for execs...

Plausibly, yes.

> ... and short term traders.

Nope. Not even on the radar. Stockholders, maybe. Not short term traders. Short term traders have no say on the makeup of the board, nor on executive compensation. They therefore have zero input into the direction of the company.
That’s the supply / costs side of it.

The demand / revenue side might be another obstacle, especially if the easy money environment for school loans evaporates
> ...and have contracts that allowed us to own the IP.

Is it a dreamland or such clause is really possible in the present day cookie-cutter contracts?
>Instead, the taggers took it upon themselves to transform something ugly into something far more vibrant. Isn’t that L.A. at its finest?

>[...]

>More to Read

>LAPD investigating gunfire at graffitied skyscraper in downtown L.A.[0]

[0] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-03/lapd-inv...
It feels like your understanding of a subject/concept goes through successive phases of refinement. The initial mental image may be too chaotic to be properly converted into latex. However, the final picture may be refined enough to be worth preserving using latex.
It was someone called in “a suspicious backpack with wires” which is absolutely hilarious at DEF CON
well technically.

We didn't find out about these things because of increased inspections.

We found out because it was in the news when there was videos of a door blown off, then a few days later an engine fire.

THEN, they started more inspections.

So, it seems more like a trend, where there were more and more problems until they piled up far enough to breach the surface.

So how many haven't been found, the ice-burg below the surface.
Honestly, reading this makes me think "well yeah... Why is anyone surprised?"

Being a good test taker will 100% translate to doing well in college. Almost every course I took in college had over 80% of it's overall grade being tests, with a large number of them being closer to 90-95% for how much tests+final count.

So yeah, if you are good at taking tests and/or studying for them effectively... Yeah, you will do well in college. Especially the first year.
Absolutely. If someone isn't from a household that values the idea of test prep and education more broadly, that's a huge disadvantage. It's just the idea that if you can't plop down whatever a test prep class costs that, in itself, is a huge inhibitor is mostly not true.
SAT has has been around almost 100 years and ACT around 2/3 of that, so they've had pretty long to hone the tests as well. This is far from their first stab at it.
Among some other really cringey behaviors.

I've seen bottles of alcohol passed around doing talks and heard more than a few really off color jokes about criminal sex acts and such. Vegas waitresses have seen it all also but there was over the top behavior.

We're in a victim dominant culture now, "it's not you or what you've done, you're just a victim of evil or something" but at more than a few Def Cons and more than a few times, it was really uncomfortable to be there and see some of the stuff that was happening.
NetGuard at f-droid would double my battery expectancy on an old Samsung A6 by blocking most connections
It’s totally awesome and/or I am the gatekeeper for what’s actually hard enough to warrant not having children. Meanwhile ignoring the article and the numbers showing a different reality than their own. This is what every one of these topics end up being on this site.
I responded to a sibling comment, but basically I think that study sort of misses the point. The reason to move away from plastic bags is due to plastic waste and microplastics, and the study doesn't touch on that really at all. Their analysis is based on stuff like ozone depletion, eutrophication, resource depletion, and other things that just aren't really meaningfully impacted by shopping bag material choice.

I don't think it's FUD exactly, I think it's just a bit of a weird analysis that focuses on the wrong things.
Agree to disagree on the first bit, but

> I'm actually much more interested what, if any, portable OSS tooling will be built around this computer.

The interface to the rack is built around the classic API-first strategy. We provide an OpenAPI document describing the whole API, and the console and clients are all generated from it. HTTP is, of course, cross platform.

> illumos may be a perfect fit for this rack scale computer, but can you imagine the mindshare gained by simply having all your cool new tooling work on Linux?

illumos is not a user-facing aspect of the rack. There's no reason that tooling would be illumos specific. The API clients I refer to build on Mac, Windows, and Linux (the CI runner is Ubuntu but have no reason to only support it) as well as illumos.
The way you phrased it, yes. But, that isn't what the report was saying. It was using a generalized criteria of disadvantaged meaning low income or non-english speaking. Race based criteria can't be considered, but income can which means poor white kids from Appalachia as well as poor black and latino kids from urban areas.
Very shortminded and proto-humancentric thinking.

This is all done via AI and automated factories that terraform planets into Von Neumann manufacturing hubs, which then each send millions/billions of Von Neumann's out into the galaxy, each Von Neumann probe containing the tech/machinery to terraform another planet into another Dyson Sphere manufacturing hub. If you're really sentimental about humanity, you can include human DNA on the von neumann probess, and while the von neumann probe is terraforming a new planet, it can also grow humans in vitro.

Why would we (or our AI overlords) want to spread through the galaxy like this? Why does cancer spread through it's host? Why did europeans colonize the entire earth? Life is a virus that spreads without limit.

"I don't see how you could rationally justify spending this stupefying amount of resources on sending people into the void where, even if all goes well, you can barely talk to them, have no trade and no social contact with them at all."

Do you not understand why people invested in early merchant ships in like the 1500s? You spend a lot on a ship, send the ship to trade, and they come back with spice, that you sell at a profit, buy more ships, rinse and repeat. Same here: spend a couple quadrillion dollars, send off some von neumann probes, wait 50 million years, and then see if you've colonized a small cluster of the galaxy, or if your von neumann probe fleet was destroyed by a gamma ray burst or an uncharted supermassive black hole.
I’ve taken a brief look at the website and the GitHub repo. Could not find any description of the architecture, algorithms used, any references to research papers or anything like that.

It does not build any confidence as the topic of distributed highly available and scalable databases is inherently difficult and solutions are full of trade offs.
Is this just America failing to update to the modern world again?

In the UK, if I want to hire a car, I have to provide a code from a Government website which is tied to my driving licence. The hire company check the validity of my licence using that one-time code.

Similarly, the passport service provides an API which lets authorised organisations check the validity of a passport.

Relying on a photo of a document is as ridiculous as relying on a signature on a credit card receipt!
> Yet, you do.

No, I don't. TBH, I don't really know what it would mean to generalize "I doubt I'm unique, nor even unusual". Would that be something like "I doubt anyone's unique, nor even unusual"? I certainly didn't say anything like that.
Improving Interoperability Between Rust and C++
Man, I want best quality too, I have all my music in FLACs even on my phone. But even on 75" from 4m I simply don't see the difference, so for me thats chasing numbers or similar.

And building and properly maintaining some not-so-small array of massive HDDs for those capacities... I just don't see the point when I can get all I need (and ie in sound much much more), without caring more than buying a single hdd and be done for next 5 years.

Its not the bandwidth, 1gbps is easy to get here, stuff I saw in those sizes was well seeded too, but just overall all added extra work.
Companies dont want to pay for specialized building blocks. Similarly we've been looking at Coralogix recently but needed synthetics. We were offered some sort of package with ur company but decided to go with Datadog instead.
>Then how is Apple to continue development of the platform? Is your point that Apple should spend the money developing something hundreds of millions of people use, literally inventing smart phones as we know it, and they shouldn’t be able to make money on it to maintain it?

That is not my point, no. I'm saying that apple should only be allowed to make a healthy profit off of the hundreds of millions of people that use/develop on their platform. Should apple be able to profit off people using their platform absolutely, but they shouldn't be allowed to price gouge their customers and developers.

>In general, it’s illegal to punish someone or something for an action they have not taken. You are preemptively attempting to regulate with no damages. If this were a lawsuit, it’d be thrown out and used as the new definition of frivolous.

I was being generous by taking the position that apple has "never" been taken advantage of, but you're right in that it would be frivolous. So let us both take off our rose-tinted glasses and see if Apple has ever done anything to warrant regulation...

- Walter Peters v. Apple Inc (where they were sued for deceptive advertising about subscription management service you mentioned in your orignal post)

- United States v. Apple Inc. (where Apple was found guilty for price fixing e-books)

- France v. Apple Inc (Where they were found guilty of quietly sending out planned obstinate updates that destroyed older iphone battery life)

- FTC v. Apple (Where Apple was payed out 35 million to refund parents due to all of the in-app purchases apple allowed children to make without notifying the cardholder within a reasonable time frame)

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

Hopefully these several lawsuits where apple has already been found guilty of taken advantage of their consumers is a convincing argument that apple consumers deserve to be protected from being taken advantage of.

>Who do you trust more to be pro consumer? The company with the proven track record and a great reputation to lose or “Random Shady Company, LLC, were totes not gonna scam you”?

You're begging the question here as I'd like to have both options and be able to make my decision on a case-by-case basis. But if you insist that I answer, I'd personally use whichever one provides the smoothest checkout experience w/ a reasonable cost. (I'm not going to pay $5 more because apple's checkout is easier but I'd probably pay an extra $1 if it meant not having to leave the app.)

But again, what the heck does this have to do with my post. I'm beginning to feel like a broken record, I genuinely do not care if apple forces all payments to go through them or requires all apps to be downloaded from their store nor am I arguing that this shouldn't be the case. 3rd party app stores/payment solutions are not a required belief for me to be concerned with Apple price gouging developers that innovate on their platform. Even if they magically made both these options available right now, the reality is that 99% of users would likely still use their store and thus cause for concern.
One needs to look at the data to believe these planes are very safe. Even if one or two people had died on the Alaska incident (which—to be clear—would have been an avoidable tragedy for which Boeing would be responsible), flying on a major airline in the U.S. is still safer than any other form of transportation.

You don’t think twice about hopping into a passenger vehicle. You don’t follow the latest NHTSA crash test reports and refuse to hop in an Uber driving the “wrong” make/model vehicle. You notice plane crashes because they are so exceedingly rare while traffic fatalities are so common they’re boring and routine.
> Given the move from Russia to Israel and the timing of when most Russian techies left, I suspect it is more out of fear of the draft than out of principle.

Techies bring in $$$, so they are exempted from the mobilization.
yeah I have developed a ritual protocol of appropriate and unacceptable water glass shapes due to a fatidic incident which cost me a MacBook Air. It could have been prevented if Steve Jobs had had any interest in making laptops more resistant.

So, glasses whose mouth is wider than their bottom are prone to collapse because the centre of gravity is higher
>> who attend high schools for which Dartmouth has less information to interpret the transcripts

IIRC most colleges correlate incoming and outgoing grades for specific high schools - so that a 3.0 average at a highly competitive high school (think Stuyvesant or Thomas Jefferson) is a better indicator of success than a 4.0 at a poor performing school - the SAT is very helpful to add context to a GPA for a students applying from schools where colleges don’t already have a sense for the HS program’s rigor.

I came to appreciate my high school education when I attended a highly selective university and found my grades going up from high school without actually doing any more work while seeing class valedictorians (I barely scraped by with a cum laude) from other high schools really struggling.
I don't know if you're trying to make a point about test taking, but you're aware that college GPA is composed of more than just being a good test taker? Better way of putting it might be: someone that scores highly on an IQ proxy is good at everything.
I'm not 100% sure if behind the scenes he has some sort of @dang webhook alert/filter or if he skims comments regularly
Yeah, but you'd have that with VSCode, too.

For myself as primarily a Rust developer, rust-analyzer is just part of my toolchain already, so there was no extra step.
I would argue that it is even more so in college, where tests make up the bulk of your grade.
Android 12 iirc changed a lot of things and removed some features too. Android 9 & 12 are particularly "notorious" in this regard, I still have my Pixel 5 on A11 as a result. (Accessing all "files"/killing 3rd party file managers is one of the things A12 changed, for example.)
First off, thank you for the information.

Second, this comment would have been better without the final three paragraphs, which amounted to flame bait.
Google Contributes $1M to Rust Foundation to Support C++/Rust Interop Initiative
There's some nuance to the "work ethic" factor. Work ethic makes a big difference in academic outcomes, but it depends on where that work is targeted.

Anecdotal evidence, part 1:

I grew up in the suburbs and went to public schools that, at the time, were good-not-great within the state. In that setting, I was a high achiever by any sensible metric. I was friends with a lot of the other "smart kids," and I definitely worked harder than some of them, but outside of school, I was also working on different things. My hobbies and extracurriculars weren't strictly academic, but they certainly set me up for academic success better than sports or video games would have.

Anecdotal evidence, part 2:

One of my classmates was "freak of nature" levels of gifted. I shared math classes with him for three years of high school, and to my knowledge he got one math test question wrong in that entire time period. He was also one of the school's best tennis players, and he made it into so many state concert bands/jazz bands/choir groups that their schedules overlapped and he couldn't do all of them. Last I checked, he was finishing up a PhD in neuroscience. But get this: he was our salutatorian, solely because someone else who did no sports and few clubs took more summer classes, and thus had the same GPA with more total credit hours.
Also a Chrome extension [0]! The concept is to use the browser's context menu to run commands on the LLM, so it stays out of your way most of the time but feels like a somewhat native experience.

The stack is:
1. TypeScript/Node/tRPC/Postgres/Redis/OpenAI on the backend
2. SolidJS/Crxjs/tRPC on the front end
3. Astro for the docs/marketing site

And deployment is currently through render.com for the databases and servers, and manually via a zip file to the Chrome webstore for the extension itself.

[0] https://smudge.ai
At the time this was declared as a user base driven acquisition where Conde Nast assumed that the largely 20 to mid 30s male readership of Pitchfork would graduate to one of their traditional style publications once they came of age. Clearly it was misguided to assume that cash strapped college grads who grew up on mp3's and ramen would graduate to Eames chairs and Zegna fleeces without some VC backed lottery payout.
On the other hand, as someone who knows a smattering of words in other languages, I love when I know what a character is shouting in a foreign language. But I don't get that when the subtitles just say "[shouting in foreign language]"
And how do you correct for that?

Move all children to government controlled facilities and do not let them see their parents until they are some age like 21?

Or maybe we should get rid of all criteria for education and just do huge once a year lottery. You get one chance to enter. As poor people can not afford more.
Just shows you that you have to know everything. At least, about the death bucket you've decided to fly over a vast merciless ocean.
Dlssg-to-Fsr3 (Replace Nvidia DLSS-G Frame Gen with AMD FSR 3 Frame Gen)
The article makes it sound like this is some amazing (but not good) new thing.

I'm thinking that Ancient Rome probably featured higher prices in the richer parts of town.
Somebody flagged it, which turned off the ability to comment. (I didn't know comments could be turned off on articles directly.)

I just "vouched" for it and the comment ability came back.

dang: Seems like this post should point to candiddevmike's.
Transforming Postgres into a Fast OLAP Database
Funnily enough, if you're shopping for a "kosher phone" you can actually choose between a smartphone with a limited number of apps to fit in with your religious strictures, or an actually bonafide dumb phone.

https://koshercell.org/collections/dumb-phones

Though there may be other features of a Kosher phone that don't make it a good choice for somebody who wants a dumb phone but doesn't live within a specific type of insular religious community. I'm not sure.
It seems like you need to be doing at least part services play - product alone doesn’t cut it
>Someone caught a man behind the wheel of a Tesla Cybertruck while using Apple Vision Pro VR goggles

https://jalopnik.com/we-live-in-hell-1851225358
I'd love to hear more about this. I'm a software developer by day and woodworking is a huge passion. Alas due to full time job, kids and other commitments, I don't have much time for it at the moment.

Did you start off with woodworking as a hobby? If so, has it affected your enjoyment now it's a job?

What pitfalls did you find when you first started out?
This point is specifically addressed in the paper. The predictive power of SAT/ACT goes far beyond its corralation to socioeconomic status.

> Importantly, the relationship between first-year college GPA and
SAT/ACT scores is likewise quite similar across neighborhood income and other demographic
subgroups at Dartmouth. By contrast, Chetty, Deming, and Friedman (2023) show that certain
non-test score inputs in the admissions process, such as guidance counselor recommendations, do
not predict college performance even though they do advantage more-advantaged applicants at
IvyPlus institutions, increasing their admissions chance
That's pretty awesome -- it's like breakout sessions after a normal lecture, but with grad students replaced by the professor.
You do not have a right to not see other people or their things. That is not a right. Your rights end the moment you're talking about someone else's being. What next? The right not to look at children? Come on, this is ridiculous. Corporations are groups of people and people have a basic human right to congregate.

Personally, I like some grafitti, but I'm absolutely against tagging. It is immoral, unethical, and thuggish behavior. When property owners put up graffiti of their own (or commission an artist to do it), I think it can be a nice splash of color in an urban environ.