skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many states no longer require a road test. Instead you take a state approved driving course and the instructor certifies you as meeting the state driving skill requirements. Most states with this system do have an option to still take a state administered driving test instead but most new drivers just take the course. My daughter got her license last August and we paid for the course. They didn’t teach her anything. They had her drive around the local neighborhood for the state mandated numbers of hours for the course and the “instructor” then signed off. All real driving instruction she received came from me.
It's cute but doesn't make any difference. Add 4 to the score for every question and you get 9 or 0. The factor of 9 makes no difference so call it 1 or 0. Now your score is just the number of questions you got right, but the ranking is exactly the same as the original scoring system.
Epic is just Tencent which is an organ of the Chinese state. They might have been able to break open Apple like an egg in Europe but the final boss battle is going to be much harder for them.
We clearly have all our eggs in one basket when nearly everyone is hesitant to enact common sense measures like grounding every commercial Boeing plane in service--at least on a rotation. Air traffic would grind to a halt. I wouldn't want to be responsible for that either. Especially when it's the friends of all the grey-hairs at GE, Boeing, and every major airline that have to make the call.
Going Full-Time on Instapaper
That is awesome to hear! Good riddance to Matlab!
The victim fails to be just a victim when they actively contribute funds to a criminal enterprise.

The gunpoint analogy is a poor one; being coerced by physical violence is one thing, being coerced because you lost your files (and don’t have backups) is another. It’s a horse of a different color.
This was more likely a 0-0.1x return.

There's no chance the investors were happy with this- if a company had years of runway they almost certainly advised them to tough it out. Even a downround would be preferable compared to a total writeoff
I wish I knew how to do yolo runs.

- signed, a compute resource hog at FAANG
Even if it was fully supported on the software stack there are hardware limitations in Apple Silicon that make eGPU impractical from a performance perspective https://www.reddit.com/r/AsahiLinux/comments/132nxv4/comment...
I’m a fire alarm technician in the Boston area. There are still plenty fire alarm master boxes in use
>I think paywalls are completely fine. It's the most normal business model there is. I want to read a newspaper, I buy a copy.

Back in the days when people bought newspapers, if they wanted to read today's paper, they bought one copy at their newsstand. They didn't buy a monthly or yearly subscription. But somehow you're equating the two.

Also, back in the newspaper days, newspapers weren't funded by selling copies. That money was only enough to pay for the physical paper and distribution (i.e., they were selling below cost, and the fee was only to keep people from taking papers for free and wasting them). The newspapers made all their money on advertisements. Now it's the other way around: the ads aren't worth enough any more, so they're trying to get people to subscribe to directly pay for most of the operations cost and profits. It's interesting that companies (plus those buying classified ads) back in the newspaper days were willing to pay enough to pay most of the costs of running a newspaper, when they didn't have targeted ads, tracking, etc., and were just hoping someone would see their ad next to an article.
India Injects $15B into Semiconductors
With the rise of extreme breadwinner salaries.

At least in most families where Dad is a coder, the wife does not even need to work (well, maybe NOW she does)
Funding is not the problem with American public schools. Baltimore, for instance, has some of the highest funding levels in the country and simultaneously some of the worst test scores.
> Elevated glucose is exactly what causes type 2 diabetes. Take away the glucose supply, and you don't have elevated insulin. Fear of glucose that is too high too often is entirely justified and is not something that should be going on if people can avoid it. Sugar molecules are damaging to cells and are related to other things like cardiovascular calcification.

No, it doesn't: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6602127/
Long-term they will likely make no changes because human desire, habits and behaviors are rarely unknown to us.

The parent comment mentioned feeling tired after consuming something with a lot of sugar, was that really a mystery prior to using CGM? I doubt it.

Sure it's interesting to correlate to your perceived wellness (or lack thereof) with a wearable spitting out data but after the novelty of this discovery wears off my guess is that people will simply stop caring to check what they already know to be the case.
Don't want that to end up in the training data huh
Big Tech firms beat lawsuit from child laborers forced to work in cobalt mines
I thought people got their news from TikTok these days. (Or should I call it "news"?)
Isn't the issue that you need a shared test to measure students from across different classrooms, let alone different cities, states, countries, etc.? I agree that it would be great if student ability could be evaluated in some other way that met the same requirements as a standardized test, but I just don't see how to do that.

Apart from, I guess, a one-on-one interview for every student with the colleges they apply to. That wouldn't scale, and people would complain about bias with that, and not without reason.
I'm in a mountain ski town, same dynamic. If you want housing prices to come down for real you are gonna have to pop The Everything Bubble. Moderately not insane interest rates haven't done that yet. Maybe this time it's different.
Meta is building a giant AI model to power its 'entire video ecosystem'
> - By 2023, with slowing growth, it's likely that Airtable was no longer able to raise additional funding. Best case was likely a down-round.

The author stated they had millions if not 10s of millions in the bank and a bit of runway. And they had already done layoffs. Based on this, they were not under pressure to raise or do a down-round.

Separately and related to a sibling comment, the fact that Thrive Capital invested in Airplane and Airtable means they can now have a positive "tombstone" for Airplane by saying it was an "exit" while receiving a bunch of their original investment back.
Only at painfully backward companies. CI/CD is pretty standard at this point, even if it has a manual approval or two in there, as are automated tests. I would be quite surprised to find strong AI adoption at firms without some version of these things already.
Super slick!

What are some common applications for this, though? I can't think of a reason I'd want to access this versus, say, a remote vm?
dang - Productive and honest public discourse is arguably the most important issue in the world right now - arguably our greatest need. And that seems to depend on moderation.

Ideally, with sufficiently effective moderation technique any groups could be brought together and talk it out. We'll never reach that ideal but my point is, moderation has incredible potential value.

You've done a good job of it here, you're thoughtful about it, probably you have studied and learned more than fits in HN comments. You might do whatever research remains and write a book. I hope you will!

> I'm always open to hearing arguments about how to apply them more even-handedly. When people make a fair point, such as xyzelement did about the submitted URL of the OP (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39621225), we're happy to change something. Another example that sticks in my mind is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39146630 from a few weeks ago. That was about title, not URL, but the principle is the same.

Probably you've thought of it, but it's not even-handed when strict scrutiny is applied to some positions but not others. OTOH, I appreciate that hot topics get a different level of scrutiny.
That seems to be a place that can be very prone to bubbles. Yes housing costs are very high almost everywhere, and rent even worse. But Steamboat seems to only survive on the Tourism Industry.

I think a place like Steamboat will have a big crash some day, so best people stay clear, which is happening. If I lived there and owned a house, I would sell and move elsewhere, especially if fully paid off. $1 million can help you a lot.
Even if you set your preferences to prefer old.reddit.com style, the reddit website will only respect that when accessing from a desktop device. On a mobile device you always get the "new" reddit.
i don't really know, but risc-v is important now, cheri is deployed as morello, pie for aslr and separation of code pages from read-only data are default, and aarch64 i think was brand new in 02008 if it existed at all. i'd guess c++ compilers have broken abi compatibility once or twice since then. oh also lto is a big deal now, enabled by llvm bitcode in many cases. also ubsan and asan didn't exist i think. not sure if those require linker support. also fuchsia and sel4 exist now and freertos is a lot more mature. so probably there is some new material that could be productively included
Poor people's parents don't have the money to bring them to vacations, enlist a violin teacher or drive them to baseball on the weekends, so clearly they have more time to allocate to studying and thus are advantaged. Conclusion: do away with meritocracy and just exclude poor people altogether. Did I get the "logic" right? Of course put this way it can't be valid because that wouldn't support the American Neomarxist delusion, sorry I meant worldview.
McNamara
It's really a question of distance, which is not mentioned in the article. Russian style is to park jammer vehicles pretty much evenly spread out on a line behind their defensive boundary.

I'll easily believe "immune to Russian GPS jammers as typically deployed when used X kilometers behind active battles".
Alignment just means making it do what you want. LLMs just continue the sequence, the chat questions and response style we have now is an example of alignment (to what humans want).
I just tested yesterday. Playing blue-ray from disk using VLC. It too 72 minutes for the battery to go from 100 to zero.
The upside is not relying on telecommunications, but the downside is one trip and they don’t trip again until they are manually reset by a tech.
The first time in Palestinian history that they took and held Israeli territory after 1948 for any length of time.
the gap between cgm and a biopsy from a CT scan is vast. CGM is not enough to trigger any such intervention. Unnecessary interventions are absolutely a concern. A CGM is about as controversial as someone taking their own heart rate to help them calm down from panic attacks. Minimally invasive and nobody would base a dramatic intervention on this data alone.
Why does the moon need a nuclear power plant?
> but I don’t have the time

And this, to me, is why Tailwind is so popular and why I find it valuable. Despite looking a bit verbose at first, it’s pretty easy to pull together some pretty advanced pages without having to invest much time at all.

And the time saved only increases with more proficiency/familiarity with the available classes.

Things very quickly “just work”, and the conventions apply pretty uniformly.
You still have to explicitly do this and are made aware of this failure state. It's also much easier to reject PRs when you see an unwrap than to try to think of all the ways it could invisibly fail.
The linked-to original article says GPS works better and faster.

> Calculating position based on Starlink constellation requires more resources, and it’s not so fast. Plus, It can’t be used correctly in motion. Accumulated errors may be so significant that Starlink will not be able to work.
I'm not even sure we've realized the "phone in hand" is an even bigger issue than the larger vehicle... People aren't really people anymore, they're just input for the next AGI. Do the kids even matter? long term, what society are we building
What I'm building, and why I'm building it
Find me a list of countries that ethnically cleansed a population of millions and put them under occupation and treat them like less than humans. You know that history of human being did not start in 2023.

Israel is not in a normal conflict. It is an occupation force and their government seeks to prevent Palestinians from having their state and some elements want to destroy them once and for all.

Edit: sorry I thought that you did not want to go in pointless discussion. Cannot delete that now.
The next generation of online gaming. Public beta 2024.
>Back in the days when people bought newspapers, if they wanted to read today's paper, they bought one copy at their newsstand. They didn't buy a monthly or yearly subscription. But somehow you're equating the two.

People absolutely did subscribe to newspapers. Who do you think paperboys were delivering to?
Back in those days the error you got was "Segmentation fault (core dumped)"

Now its an exact line number with a little description of what went wrong and sometimes a suggestion on how to fix it.
Phones maybe. I don't think they disrupted the desktop computer.
> Thus we need a Universal Basic Income (without the messy fraud)

Is this depiction of basic income as (inherently) fraudulent yours? Or Altman’s?
> and quality of life features (like cloud saves)

You mean like CloudKit?

Apple SDKs exist and do things - including everything Steamworks does and quite a bit more.

If Apple decided to only allow apps distributed through them to use their SDKs or services, then would it would be fine because they'd be like Steam?
It would be great if you could share some of this credible evidence. There are so many loose claims flying around ...

> Furthermore, there have been so few western journalists on the ground because Israel (and Egypt) prevented them from entering, I think this prohibition alone should be considered unacceptable in the 21 century

Access to war zones has been limited commonly, IIRC, at least since the Iraq war. In Ukraine, journalists talk about government cooperation and, IIRC, approval.

If you are thinking about Vietnam, I think that has become more of the exception than the rule. (I think that in a free society, it should be the rule.)
The online SAT was much easier than the written version, because (1) You don't have to read big essays anymore in the reading part, and (2) both math sections have the Desmos graphing calculator, with absolutely no features taken out. Desmos is far more convenient to use than a TI-84 for many things, so it made all the problems, especially the hard ones, much easier.

Also, in my opinion, their Bluebook testing software is actually pretty good, especially compared to other digital testing software I had to use over the years, like ClearSight.
That's very much an example of having the animal become tameable before breeding them in captivity.
So, something I don't get: why would a home have any value at all, if it's located somewhere with no service economy, no schools, no hospitals, no firefighters, no sanitation workers, etc (because none of the people powering those services can afford to live there)?

People living there wouldn't be able to: get groceries, get a haircut, see a movie, get prescriptions filled, eat out or go out for drinks, visit (maintained) parks, use (maintained) sporting areas like baseball diamonds or tennis courts... etc.

At that point — other than maybe having electricity and running water — isn't living in a home there effectively the same as squatting in an abandoned home in a depopulated area?
It's still equivalent to "normal" tests, because the cost of skipping and the cost of answering incorrectly are the same. A test in that format with N questions and a test in the normal "1 point for a correct answer, 0 for anything else" with N questions are related as follows, assuming C correct answers:

Score in the +5/-4 system: 5 C - 4 (N-C) = 9 C - 4 N
Score in the +1/0 system: 1 C + 0

It's basically a "9 points for a correct answer, 0 for anything else" test that simply starts with a score of -4 N.

It's very similar to the difference between Celsius and Fahrenheit.
> dividing communities over how to rein in housing costs.

Have they tried letting people, y'know, make more housing?

Almost invariably, the answer is no.

> When it comes to building more housing, residents have mounted opposition to some efforts over concerns about everything from traffic congestion to wildlife migration patterns.

...and there it is.

> “Yes, we need affordable housing, no question,” Engelken said. “It needs to be smaller to start with”

Jesus Christ. "Yes we need more housing, but how about not that much more housing? Does that work?"

NIMBY mentality in the US is a disease.
It is in the linked-to article, including discussion about lobes, polarization, more directional replacement antennas, and comparative measurements while being jammed.

https://olegkutkov.me/2023/11/07/connecting-external-gps-ant...
Tiny Corp at "70%" Confidence for AMD to Open-Source Some Relevant GPU Firmware
> The parent comment mentioned feeling tired after consuming something with a lot of sugar, was that really a mystery prior to using CGM? I doubt it.

They may not have known just how sugary that item was since most people don't bother to calculate the sugar content of everything they consume, but the CGM puts a number on it. That experience could be enough to change the OPs behavior. I agree that most people may not care to make behavioral changes in response to more data, but there are definitely other people who will.
How would you compare raw intelligence or cross schools? That kind of calibration and opportunity for smart students who had other reasons to not focus or care about high school and other remedial grades is really important.
I think me trying to understand AI terms that others seem to take for granted is giving me a good idea of what it feels like to my family when I try to talk to them about web development.

"Gradient boosting on decision trees?" Man, that's crazy. Hey, did you catch the game last night?
1. Desirable place has a lot of people that want to live there.

2. Residents refuse to change zoning laws, so very little new housing can be built.

3. Demand exceeds supply, so the prices go up.

State governments need to pass laws forcing cities to allow housing, or this will continue to just get worse and worse.
Any area that wealthy people are attracted to pretty much has this problem now. It’s the same exact story playing out in each locale. The core issue is important so on one hand I’m happy to see press coverage, but on the other it’s literally the same article that I’ve now read over 100 times. Will we ever do anything about it??
I am building https://github.com/claceio/clace. It is focussed on building operational web apps, with a focus on security. The end goal is to build something between https://www.rundeck.com/ and https://retool.com/, allow automation of operational tasks through a web interface while also allowing fully custom web apps.

Clace also works great for running simple web apps locally. Building and deploying a web app should be as easy and common for backend engineers as creating a CLI app is.
Gruber has a good take on this: [1]

> That Tim Sweeney tweet cited as an example doesn’t seem out of line to me. [...] Apple ought to stick to Epic’s deliberate breaking of the App Store rules with Fortnite back in 2020. It’s not even in dispute that they flagrantly broke the rules then. If Apple wants to make that a “lifetime” ban, they should just say so.

> Citing recent tweets, like Sweeney’s, that are simply critical — even scathingly critical (or to borrow Schiller’s term, “colorful”) — just makes it look like Apple’s policy is that if a developer criticizes the App Store’s rules, Apple will punish them for speaking out. I don’t think that’s Apple’s policy at all, but some people think it is, and this situation with Epic just reinforces that.

[1] https://daringfireball.net/2024/03/apple_epic_developer_acco...
You are 100% correct, and it seems there are both systemic manufacturing process issues and systemic issues with the plane design
> Which means that the hardware is fully capable of running whatever amount of the external displas you want.

Here’s a good rundown of display controller blocks from marcan: https://www.reddit.com/r/AsahiLinux/comments/w32hjn/comment/...

I’d take marcan’s word over yours if I have to be completely frank.

> Yes, but don't sell me "Apple M* is da best" shit, okay?

I never did, once again you’re assuming a lot. I originally chimed in to mention that people like these machines and others (like the newer windows on snapdragon systems) because they strike a good balance between mobile phone and desktop systems.

> Ah, yes, lack of a second monitor is freedom. Koolaid in it's finest.

Once again you’re assuming a lot. What straw-man are you trying to beat up here?
Yup. Take a test and show you should be a good fit for a school, awesome, have to be tracked throughout a relatively boring (classroom-wise, except for programming class) couple years of high school, no thanks.
What's a good ski town to retire in?
> Interesting since in my book CNN is very anti-Israeli.

CNN is openly requiring a pro-Israeli bias in reporting for this war, and apparently before that.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/04/cnn-staff-pro-...

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/01/cnn-christiane-amanpour-...
We have CI/CD but we still use our QA department. We have production permissions given to DevOps only so they must approve the pipeline, Developers cannot push to it. Dev hands off to QA, QA then hands off to DevOps.

When we went for SOX compliance our auditors were pretty firm that having developers being the ones pushing to prod and not a separate team was a security issue.
I co founded a 400 person company started in 1996 and sold in 2011; we had only 2 people leave (we fired a few but that’s not job hopping) before 2008. I have another company for the past 10 years and it’s nearly impossible to keep people, especially during/after covid, no matter the pay. I would say it definitely increased from my pov.

Edit: reasons for leaving are; 1) want a bigger company for security (which is not really a thing here as you get paid even if the company goes bankrupt or you are fired; also I have funds for 10+ years for every person we hire; it’s not possible for us to go bankrupt as I am risk averse these days) 2) wanting to do resume driven dev; in that case indeed I wish them luck but good riddance; those are the most worthless to me; wish I could detect that behaviour earlier, but for obvious reasons, they try to hide that
Doesn’t “virtualization based security” in Windows mean that everyone is running in a VM?
My understanding is that right now Colorado River water rights are defined in terms of absolute volume. So when there isn't enough water to satisfy the water rights, it leads to conflict.

It seems like a natural alternative is to define water rights as being relative to the amount of water available in the river. that way water rights would scale with the drought.

but, I fully appreciate that I am a novice, and can appreciate that it's likely not that simple.
I've noticed a similar similarity between the particle "yo" in Japanese and adverb "ju" in Swedish, both used for the same purpose at the end of sentences.
A lot cheaper to have a drone loitering at 50,000 feet.
I know this was a low effort meme reply made in bad faith but I'm serious -- it's a consideration. I'm privileged and extremely lucky to work in a high paying industry. For me to volunteer to clean up roads means someone for whom that is the best job won't be hired.

There are some jobs that probably won't ever pay well, so there's not much moral hazard in doing them for free, of course.