skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There aren't "licensing issues" with DTrace -- you are merely referring to the fact that it is licensed under the MPL-derived CDDL and not the GPL. But it is definitely true that they are not seeking to solve the same problems! Safety is very core to DTrace[0]; the difference here is entirely deliberate.

[0] https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2005/07/19/dtrace-safety/
2 seconds is a nuts response time, but I guess it depends entirely on your file size. TTFB is usually 50ms.
Markets aren’t telling society what is needed.

Markets are society telling itself what is needed.

People want lots of plumbers, so they pay for it. Not many people want to be plumbers, so they get paid a lot.

People want one or two historians, so they vote and pay tax for it. Lots and lots of students would rather be historians than plumbers, so they don’t get paid a lot.

If you want people to want a sustainable economy, be less smug and judgemental and convince them to vote and pay for it.
Your anecdote, especially with it's reference to lectures, makes it sound like you're talking more about higher education. The author is clearly talking about K-12, and mostly pre-high school.

As an educational researcher, I think the author's conclusions are quite likely. A sixth grader isn't going back over their lecture notes and gaining more understanding.
But becoming a historian is a good option for them.
It is clear you have different cultural expectations. I’ve stated the problem quite clearly and your insistence on interrogating me about my family is unwelcome.

Have a great night.
Censorship under the guise of protectionism under the guise of national security
What differences in behaviour from the AWS docs did you find, out of interest?
I agree with you both. It would be one thing if the article stated that time at school would be for doing homework, but it wasn’t said. I do think that there is a lot of ineffective homework and lessons.

Also, in the article they stated:

> Still others believe—incorrectly—that more time spent on a task produces better results, or that because practice is required to be a good athlete or musician, it’s also at the heart of intellectual growth. It isn’t. You can’t “reinforce” understanding the way you can reinforce a behavior. In my experience, people with the least sophisticated understanding of how children learn, or the least amount of concern about children’s attitudes toward learning, tend to be the most enthusiastic supporters of homework.
> I'm really surprised that more modern cryptography isn't expected from these radios

Military radios absolutely do have modern cryptography. That is half the reason why the NSA exists.

If you think you know better most likely you are wrong, or you are seeing some system which is held back so they can maintain compatibility with coalition forces.

You don’t need revocation certificates to zero out the key material of a radio. In fact it wouldn’t work reliably because it assumes all network participants are within radio range and listening when you want to zero your keys. Much more easy and reliable is to delete the key material localy on the radio. This zeroing can be also performed by a remote signal.
Cool, I'm sure there is a better way of formulating the argument that is more logically sound. I'll stick with "I know practicing works".
C++ Project Ideas for CS Student
I'm a CS student who's struggling to find internships, and I think this may be due to the underwhelming state of personal projects on my resumé. At the moment, the main C++ project on my resumé is an implementation of Josh Cates' DHash protocol using Boost ASIO. Can anyone recommend some projects that would help me stand out as a candidate? Right now, I'm considering building a chess engine or a basic SMT solver, though I don't know if employers would find these particularly interesting.
I just had to pick up and build a UI product in java recently and picked up javafx for the first time. With Kotlin, I actually found it while using my the standard you builder to be quite intuitive and sorta dynamic enough to make development snappy. Definitely the best attempt at GUIs for java, but sad that only smaller shops are actually investing any real effort into the space. Oh and java native + javafx is a pain in the ass until I discovered Bellsoft NDK, which made building a binary from source 100% so much easier.
I also work in databases. The thing is the database engine isn't usually slow by itself. It's the programmers whose programs usually are just as lame as they are. For example during one of my "help us with the slow database server" consultancy assignments I discovered an incident of a query executed collectively over a 1000 times per second on average, adding considerable load to an already overloaded RDBMS, querying a single-row table where the company data (name and address) was stored, which has not changed for over 10 years. No caching in the app whatsoever. The clients _had to_ ask for this info afresh every so often. Eliminating this and only a few similar patterns reduced overall CPU consumption by some 50% and sped up the damn system a lot. I could write a book about this kind of bs I see every day.

So, comparing BigQuery to some small data warehouse product, while BigQuery could not even get off the ground yet, that I call bs and put in the same drawer as the above. If the intention was to say "product x" vs "product y", this is what should have been done. But the author deliberately put the proper product names in a lame and dishonest perspective, which makes the whole thing not credible.
This is not the same at all.
Story from a friend who once was offered the first PhD in Computer Science.

He once mentored a guy who was so ridiculously good at writing programs, that he wrote out (once) a 5 foot stack of punch cards (back when that was how you would code), to create a program that was needed by the company for some purpose.

It worked, flawlessly, the FIRST time.

This was his MO.

Once, he wrote a program for an internal client, and it got shipped. They ran the program and ran into a problem. My friend told him to debug it for them… he replied “I don’t know how”. Up to that point in his life, He had never had to debug a single piece of software…

My friend helped him debug the program: Turns out, the problem was not an issue with his code, the customer had given him the wrong spec for a critical interface… and that was the only reason it had not worked the first time.

There are truly people that qualify. The only note I will make is that generally if you are a super genius in one dimension, you likely have something you are absolutely terrible at in another. Hopefully it is in a dimension that either doesn’t matter, or you have enough complementary people around you to mitigate it.
Antimony
For me, I had a project full of test cases in Postman and one day I was connected to the internet it phoned home to update. After the update it said I needed an account (okay, use work email no big deal) after logging in it said all my test cases and collections were gone. From there it was shell scripts with curl for me.
Wonderful comment, ty. I recommend hyperspace pirate on YouTube, building diy systems with intention of ultimately building a cryocooler
Here's another article that shows where the image gets suspicious:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1875909/princess-kate-m...
The pareto optimal essay?
Perhaps "minimal value" is wrongly phrased. After all, if you find great value in these sites, I can't contradict your experience.

My point is that most content posted on these platforms is heavily modified to game and appease the algorithms that drive engagement. So you never really know if something is factual and honest.

Add to that the fact that these platforms promote content that is actively harmful to its users, and to society as a whole, and I doubt whether whatever valuable information is on them is really worth searching for and consuming. Chances are that you would be able to find the same information elsewhere, without risking your sanity.

That said, I do have an extremely negative view of all social media, and actively avoid it, so I concede that I may be missing out. :)
About the same cognitive impairment associated with a mild and fully resolved case of COVID-19.
Linux 6.9 will be the first to top ten million Git objects
I don't disagree that practicing works, but I'm very open to evidence that homework is an ineffective form of practice.

My wife is a music teacher and frequently objects to the phrase "practice makes perfect" because the kind of practice that you're doing has an enormous impact on the outcomes. Practice works to solidify behaviors, but ill-conceived practice will actually end up solidifying the wrong behaviors.

I think it's likely that it turns out that homework solidifies behaviors that are objectively a net loss for the individuals and society.
You’re just testing whether or not kids have a stable home situation with parents who give a damn. Homework is classist busy work
Education fads come and go, and if you wait long enough you'll notice that what's old is new again. It's a great career-building tool: just identify where you are in the pendulum's path and see where it will move next. Make a prediction from that and you're a visionary, a leader. Many education administrators and theorists have made their names like this.

To be honest recurring cycles happen in tech too, and people play the same game.
You're right, my proposal does have flaws, as does every social program in the history of the world. But helicopter-dropping money has more flaws than most, and since you appear to not know any of them, here are a few off the top of my head:

Handing out money causes inflation

Checks may go to people who don't qualify, or are dead.

People are free to spend the money in ways that weren't intended.

The amount of money sent is unlikely to provide sustainability (food, rent, clothes, utilities).

It is not the best interests of a nation to have individuals who live their entire adult life from 18-80+ without any intention of ever joining the labor force.
As a medical student learning thousands of facts about the human body, I think I have a relevant perspective on how to learn effectively.

The meta in medical school is currently to focus on active learning via flashcards and practice questions, and to minimize the amount of time spent watching lectures passively. I think this is, generally speaking, a good idea. The things I learn from practice questions stick in my head a lot better than the things I heard once in a lecture. However, where practice questions and flashcards come short is in making cohesive mental frameworks that organize several related topics in your head. I still think that good old-fashioned lectures are the best way to present those frameworks to students, because they don't lend themselves well to the rapid-fire questions I use for active learning. However, for learning more discrete details, I think sitting through a lecture is a waste of time. So it's about knowing the tools in your toolbox and when to use which one, if you ask me.

TL;DR active learning generally good, but need some passive lectures to show the big picture
It seems a cure rather than a treatment. If the correct neurons can be found via MRI and the condition deemed suitable for treatment, the neurons get destroyed and I think no ongoing medication or repeat treatments are required. I believe they treat one limb at a time if you have the condition in both hands. All this is my initial impressions because we only learned of this recently and my relative won't be able to chase this up until later this year. I have second hand feedback about people who have undergone the treatment successfully in Australia. I don't actually know anyone outside of my family with the condition at all, so no first hand.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39551457 was the HN article where I picked it up. Buried in the middle of the video is a minute or so talking about earlier successes with ultrasound, the essential tremor treatment. HN commenters indicate successful treatments.
In case someone is wondering.

> Nitter is a fantastic alternative frontend for Twitter
I think the main thing that holds people back is an inability to imagine the world's being fundamentally different than it is, or maybe a willingness to accept the world's staying pretty much like it is. I don't actually know whether people can't create or just won't create.

I hadn't read this story before, but it helped bring into relief the frustration that has always haunted me, this sense that, no, the world actually must be different than people believe it is and can be. There must be something that actually can be done, that it doesn't have to be this way and actually ought not.

I've spent my whole life looking for that flash of recognition in someone else's eyes that they know it too, but have searched tens of thousands of faces in vain.
Brazilian here. I saw the effects of "Bolsa Família", an implementation of UBI in Brazil, years ago. The linked article mentions it.

The best argument in support of UBI is that poor people spend it locally.

Rich people tend to spend most of their money on luxury goods that most of the time come from other places. They generate wealth elsewhere.

Poor people tend to spend on basic needs mostly supplied locally: food, shelter, transportation, sanitation, etc. Because of that UBI's multiplying effect on generating more income is powerful.

Conservatives like to say that low taxes for the rich benefit everyone because they generate progress, it is called supply-side economics. I wouldn't advocate high taxes "per se" as in taxes to give money to the government. However, it is possible that high taxes can have a much more powerful impact on development if the money is spent wisely. However, I accept that politicians spending public money is a rare exception, not the rule.
hardware-wise it won't go anywhere. It's like blaming the knife maker for stabbings.

software - no idea. It won't be banned for sure, but something like 5% royalty, could happen.
What if I put these solar panels in the basement…
I think part of the issue is that a lot of the 'big' advances in physics nowadays aren't constrained by brain power as much as they are by cost (or rather, money allocation), and due to the corruption of the scientific funding system in most rich countries, waste is extremely high, severely limiting the money actually going into science. Eg to make radical progress in physics, we need more sensitive telescopes, larger particle accelerators, more efficient space missions, more actual iteration on fusion reactors etc.

All these things cost a lot of money, yet the majority of it gets eaten by systems designed to minimize the money actually going towards the research work. This isn't even really getting into how the researchers are paid.

I agree that AI researchers are concerningly blasé about what they're actually aiming to do. AGI is poorly defined, and the only negative externalities they seem to pay lip service to is culture war stuff. There's near zero consideration for the real negative externalities they're perpetrating upon the world. I think partly this also manifests in how they interact with fields where even older AI developments would be useful. At the physics lab I work at, I've found that many scientists have a negative impression of AI 'researchers', where they don't care to understand the problem they're trying to solve, preferring to just treat everything - even things where the solution space can be constrained by scientific understanding - as a black box. It's almost the opposite of science in approach.
This applies to anything new, not just AI. It’s also important to have the appropriate level of caution, without fear mongering, and accept that even our best due diligence can be insufficient at times.
she/he is the product of the system he’s defending ;)
I feel like making a comment about how yesterday that viewpoint is. But I won't. [0]

We are increasingly going to take for granted that we can talk with information.

Sometimes we just need some facts. Search is great for that.

Other times we need to find solutions for problems that span multiple information areas. Which isn't something search excels at.

Like finding a set of travel arrangements and dates for several friends to come together at some location, given each persons travel context involves different challenges or factors. A plethora of schedules and travel advice only gets you so far on a problem like that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis
This is the consequence of giving up privacy and agency very easily. At some point universities stopped encouraging independent exploration and started minting out industry ready vocational humans eager to join the rat race. That needs to be fixed but at this point there are not many direct beneficiaries who would want to address that problem so this is going to get worse for a while.
It isn't when the guy seems to have shown no intentions of attacking the PM. He thought he'd be treated as a threat because of storming the PM's residence grounds with guns, and shot dead, but when that didn't happen, he barely escalated that in any form. He barely even bothered to try getting into the house. That's a guy trying to make national news, not a would-be assassin.
I refused to do homework as a child and in high school a lot of times. I did much better in college when I only had to worry about tests and papers once a week.
gitlab, x, and basic domain support would be fun.

Mobile also needs work
> Running a native binary doesn't give it access to anything inherently

While this is true from a certain perspective, machine code creates a system which must grand access to many things to become usable. A shared file system is a good example of this. Some software could easily echo a line into you .profile that tries to launch a key-logger, and this works in many cases. The expectation of software existing as opaque files creates a huge amount of work for the OS in verifying the exact behaviour of the software as it runs (and in ways which can often be circumvented), rather than a source-based approach in which malware is never allowed to touch the processor.

> I'm typing this on a nice comfy GNU/Linux box where the only blobs are some firmware

So you suffer the worst of both worlds then. You've had to download and compile the source yourself, but as the software is designed around being distributed as blobs, so you enjoy none of the benefits that might come from source distribution.
NFL Big data bowl is the open gate for sports analytics role
Having a good performance there or in Kaggle's March Madness competition is the secret at plain sight to get into the industry.
Show, don't tell.
Putting Atlantis at Risk
>> To be honest recurring cycles happen in tech too, and people play the same game.

NeoOO, maybe?
The free version supports a few, but you need to pay $500 a year if you to talk to more databases or want security or cloud features:

https://dbeaver.com/edition/

It's a great tool, though, a bit buggy but most useful.
AFAIU, it goes beyond safety; eBPF is designed to run entirely in the kernel rather than requiring a user-space bridge. So it's able to operate at line speeds in networking scenarios etc.

> you are merely referring to the fact that it is licensed under the MPL-derived CDDL and not the GPL.

Not really. I'm referring to the fact the eBPF will be available across Microsoft, Apple, and Linux, and there is no other technology that will be able to offer that.

> not seeking to solve the same problems!

Exactly. eBPF has a much broader and more significant problem set, not just tracing, but also security modules, software defined networking, and an almost unlimited future potential as well.
Dunno about others but the one skill I truly honed in high school was how to optimize doing the least amount of work possible to achieve the minimum necessary grades.
Or, given at least half the US population was non urban | non built up areas for the bulk of the leaded gasoline years, it might something like "half the population lost at least 5 IQ points".

Distributions are often more interesting than averages or medians alone.
The article mentioned that DuckDB keeps improving very quickly. The next couple of months of DuckDB are all about stabilization, with no new features getting added. Once it is robust enough it will be declared "1.0". My guess is that will be in late April.

You mentioned OOMs, this has been a focus for a while and ha gotten steadily better over the past few releases. 0.9 added spill to disk to prevent most OOMs. And 0.10, released a couple of weeks ago, fixes a bunch more memory usage problems. The storage format, which another commenter brought up, is now fully backwards compatible.

I'd suggest giving it another try, especially once 1.0 comes out.
Replaced by Reels basically.
There’s stuff doing the rounds on twitter from a investigative journalist that’s pretty dark. This image stuff is adding fuel to that fire.
Intel's ARC gpu's keep improving with driver updates, if they ship another generation I can see them eventually properly disrupting the current duopoly.
Maybe there could be some research in repairing or enhancing our minds specifically from neural pathway damage from lead?

Is anyone pursuing that
Does it mean that UK companies are in need for likeable people who are good at negotiating rather than have good technical skills?
The problem seems to be how many universities are trying to do both, but therefore failing to do either well.

If you need to support yourself based on what you learn in a university, you don't want a liberal arts degree from a mid-rate university. You want some degree with a heavy practicum component. Or maybe you want a trade school.

If you have the chops to make it as an independent thinker, get your liberal arts degree somewhere that actually churns out high-level thinkers. If you can't get in, reconsider whether you have the chops at all.

If you're not dependent on income, though, study whatever you want. It's one of the reasons I'd love to see retirees studying things like philosophy, because they're not trying to instrumentalize it for a career, and they have enough life experience not to be hopelessly naïve about it.
I'm not the one that posted information about your family in a public forum. If you don't want people to know about or ask about information regarding your family situation then don't post about it.

It does seem like I hit a nerve though. Cultural expectations or not, I do hope it makes you think about some stuff at least.

Have a great day!
I've known people who appeared to be in the category you're describing on first blush.

In the cases where I got to see them work later, I found that they weren't nearly as impressive as they looked at first.

Yes, there really are people like Wozniak in the world.

They seem to be around 1 per hundreds of millions, though. The odds of meeting one are ludicrously small.
They are not getting sued for their hardware.
The brain is uniquely plastic during youth and there's so much to learn, so little time.

The problem with education IMO is the content not the methodology. Our curricula waste precious time on obscure topics because "that's what I was taught".
ah yes, the "one-man environmental disaster"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
What makes it a fallacy? Statistically speaking, being ok with driving but being scared of going on an airplane, any airplane, makes absolutely no sense
Mate, please tone it down a notch, this is not reddit. You make some good points, which will likely get downvoted and hidden just for the writing style that has nothing to do with your argument. My 2c.
Giving free money to high-income and wealthy people makes absolutely no sense.
Instagram reels have completely replaced Tiktok. No one around me misses Tiktok.
> This shows how easy it is to end up with two opposite conclusions by using Ngram Viewer slightly differently.

Hence the commonly-encountered phrase: You believed a naive ngram reference? Oh my sweet summer child.