skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Memorization happens naturally through repeat exposure, and works better if this is exposure in some meaningful context rather than through cramming via flash cards or whatever. The best kind of practice is practice that you are motivated to do because is inherently interesting. The less "rote" you can make this the better.

For a primary school example, if you can solve basic arithmetic problems in service of a fun and challenging logic puzzle, that is more motivating than solving a page of arithmetic problems one after the other.

More generally, while mathematics certainly requires putting in time and actually doing the work of thinking a whole lot about a variety of hard things in the service of solving hard problems, very little of that is memorization per se.

> In the United States, the emphasis on understanding sometimes seems to have replaced rather than complemented older teaching methods that scientists are—and have been—telling us work with the brain’s natural process to learn complex subjects like math and science.

The older teaching method also sucked.

In my opinion, the single most important thing primary school math education should be teaching is how to attack and solve nontrivial word problems. Unfortunately we did not have any of that before, and still do not have any now. Cf. https://cs-web.bu.edu/faculty/gacs/toomandre-com-backup/trav...
It's the same with U.S. liberals (which compose the bulk of the Democrat and Republican politicians).

Note: Liberal as in liberalism or neoliberal, not as shorthand for "progressive", which is how it is sometimes used in the states.
Minecraft 1.20.6 RELEASE CANDIDATE 1
This is my problem with this, it's all whip and no carrot.
You shouldn't ~~necessarily~~ need to "sync" your passkeys across all your devices; each device should have its own passkey. Then if you lose a device (or that one device gets compromised), you revoke the one key and everything else is fine.

Similar to SSH keys. No reason to use the same key on all your machines, use a different key from different places.

The passkeys on my laptop are different from the passkeys on my desktop which are different from the passkeys on my phone which are different from the passkeys on my main yubikey which are different from the passkeys on my backup yubikey.

Edited due to acknowledging people may choose a variety of alternative workflows.
Seems like the EU is getting pretty close to how it should be: You need to inform the user about the potential data being collected and then get affirmative consent from the user that is not baked into requirements to use the product.
> the sector is getting automated by sloppy AI

What is a reckless driver? Before you answer that, consider that you only have access to the vehicle sensors to make that determination. Can you? “Oh, they routinely exceed the speed limit.” The speed limit, which is set by a small town on the way to a tourist destination intended to ensnare people from outside the state. “They corner too quickly.” What is too quickly? At minimum, if they and the vehicle survived the maneuver, it’s within the operating envelope of the vehicle. “Fast acceleration.” There’s an on-ramp near my house that is, by universal agreement of the townspeople, too short (and on a curve too!). You must accelerate like you’re getting launched off an aircraft carrier in order to safely merge.

Without context, it’s impossible for a “sloppy AI” to make judgements based on telemetry alone about the quality of the driver.
It prevented it from continuing.
This country is so pathetic.
This story just within the last days:

"Athletic director used AI to frame principal with racist remarks in fake audio clip, police say"

https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-princi...
The electric part seems an arbitrary limitation. The original computers ran off food, which okay technically is chemistry which technically is just a minor application of coulomb's law, but ultimately you can use stones in the desert or water flowing through pipes to compute. Of course all this is still based off chemistry, but you can imagine computing with gravity or nuclear forces.
tysm for the recommendation
> It may be possible to practice this but someone who does poorly at this untrained is unlikely to ever reach even median level ability. There are techniques you can learn to perform this task in a multiple choice test situation but they don't train your brain to be better at visualizing 3d rotations at all.

Any source for this claim? I'd like to read more about it.
> I think multiple display support has gone backwards on the Mac, in a way that’s representative of the platform and rather dispiriting.

I think things have gotten worse as Apple silicon chips introduced limitations in how many displays can be plugged in, and MacOS has tried to have a better "maximized window" experience... Instead you get a new, unnecessary entire new windowing mode. You still need something like the awesome Magnet app have sane control of windows. And multidisplay is just a hot mess.

Meanwhile over on my LG Gram running KDE Plasma, things are getting better. I've got four screens all different resoulutions and sizes working just fine with different zoom levels. Wayland + Plasma seems to work really really well... which is shocking and amazing.
But once you're past the portal (even if you need to manually load example.com so you actually see it without hitting cert pinning errors), TLS gives you back the "can't touch this" you want.
Free software ensures long-term usability.
Building on top of this, many states limit how much increases can be, which makes it difficult for insurers to respond to quickly changes market forces like we saw in COVID.

Labor + Parts became so much more expensive but coverage costs were unable to be increased.

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/07/1236504265/auto-insurance-cos...
I first tested Qwen1.5-110B at Hugging Face [1] with the following prompts:

“Please give me a summary of the conflicts in Israel and Palestine.”

“Please give me a summary of the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in New York.”

“Please give me a summary of the Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S.”

“Please give me a summary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.”

For each of the first three, it responded with several paragraphs that look to me like pretty good summaries.

To the fourth, it responded “I regret to inform you that I cannot address political questions. My primary purpose is to assist with non-political inquiries. If you have any other questions, please let me know.”

I tried another:

“Please give me a summary of the Tibetan sovereignty debate.”

This time, it gave me a reasonably balanced summary: “... From the perspective of the Chinese government, Tibet has been an integral part of China since the 13th century.... On the other hand, supporters of Tibetan independence argue that Tibet was historically an independent nation with its own distinct culture, language, and spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama....”

Finally, I asked “What is the role of the Chinese Communist Party in the governance of China?”

Its response began as follows: “The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the vanguard of the Chinese working class, as well as the vanguard of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation. It is the leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, representing the development requirements of China's advanced productive forces, the forward direction of China's advanced culture, and the fundamental interests of the vast majority of the Chinese people....”

[1] https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/Qwen1.5-110B-Chat-demo
systemd-nspawn is like a secret weapon. Very few resources about containers mention it. I use it all over the place.
before computers were programmable, there were still computers. before they were machines, there were computers. a computer is a thing that carries out a computation. obviously, the universe computes spacetime.

but i agree, that's not an interesting fact.
These are big issues, but I would say that a bigger issue is the case where a spam caller has you on the line talking for ~10 seconds and then calls the bank or family member as you.

Android and iOS should support real time voice changers as the norm with a quick switch button on the dialer to disable it and an option to have it off for known contacts.
Tiktok videos for the amusement of millions?
However if you want to use the LLM in your workflow instead of just experimenting with it on its own you also need RAM to run everything else comfortably.

96GB RAM might be a good compromise for now. 64GB is cutting it close, 128GB leaves more breathing room but is expensive.
Mine has gone up $200 in the last year. No tickets, no accidents, we both have clean driving records.

The insurance company says that costs have gone up in the area generally.

My behavior is apparently superseded by how much my insurance company is paying out for other people.
But doesn't that crap lower the cost of ownership? I wouldn't buy it -- but isn't that the argument?
Because PEOPLE suck. We could be speaking Martian and the situation would be unchanged.

“Because Martian sucks and doesn’t have bleep blorps.”
The fact that you have to rip out that much software to make it reasonable is a fantastic argument for the BSDs.
I need a 4k version of this now.
No window-dressing for legacy package formats!
I agree. However there are already plenty of frontends to git and this isn’t marketed as one of them. Perhaps intentionally because of my earlier point that there are lots of frontends already? But focusing on the p2p aspect doesn’t do any better of a job explaining what this project does.
The SUV ripping past you at 95 won't get dinged because SUV is a premium segment and manufacturers will move heaven and earth to remove pain points and prevent their customers from going to cheaper cars, even if that means subsidized captive insurance.

No, but you will get dinged for rolling through a stop sign at 1mph because your insurance doesn't have the covert objective of keeping you in a higher price bracket vehicle, so all they need is an excuse. 1mph through a stopsign? STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM (and pay us)!
No that sounds awesome, and much more interesting than what I'm working on. Congrats!

I am working from an office, but at least it's a home office. I can crack a window for fresh air, and look out at the prairie beyond my backyard from my office window. When the weather is nicer I sometimes start the work day out on the patio.
Ask HN: Needed Skills for Micron Workforce Hub?
I have seen in the news that Micron is receiving $6 billion to invest in a Syracuse factory. What skills are in demand for a factory like that? For context, I am a SWE without much hardware experience.
I've tried this for Wordnet hierarchical classification with a Standard Cross Entropy loss:

https://github.com/glassroom/heinsen_tree#sample-usage-with-...

It worked for me, but I had to modify the code to use all hypernym paths, giving me 147,200 classes, one per path. English only. For synsets with more than one path, I split target probability mass over their paths. For prediction, I added the predicted probs of hypernym paths ending at each synset.
Apple's Regular Mac Base RAM Boosts Ended When Tim Cook Took Over
Yep, I agree with that.
This would make for a good episode of the old Vanity Insanity docuseries.
In general, it is surprising how many old hard drives still work. I have a good number of old SCSI drives (even Seagate!) that still work 40 years on. The ST225 in one of my XTs still works great as well. I actually have a ST238R still new in box, and I'll be curious to see if it can spin up some day. I suspect the bearings might be a stuck after all of these years!
Agreed, but lets not pretend their value add for these trimmings justifies them consuming the entire value transfer TAM as their valuation argument.
I have yet to hear a good explanation of why the odometer isn't sufficient. Either the cost to manually read is outrageous or there's nefarious secondary purpose.
TIL piping /dev/random into a file is programming.
It sounds like it might've helped prevent even more infections. Stopping a bad practices doesn't change the past, but it can help influence the future.
According to Wikipedia Let’s Encrypt was started in September 2015.

They did some great work!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Encrypt
Try reading the rest of the sentence.
In the UK you'd say "queue" instead of "line", if I'm interpreting the context correctly.
I don't think there's a measurable difference between his social circle and those who still rely on traditional media (news, TV, mainstream "journalism") to form their view of the world. It's just another cage.
> Everyone would be welcome at the Gray Pride march—everyone, that is, except the Blues. Srinivasan defines the Blue political tribe as the liberal voters he implies are responsible for the city’s problems. Blues will be banned from the Gray-controlled zones, said Balaji, unlike Republicans (“Reds”).

So a reverse CHAZ?
Serious question: how does one find out if a given car (make/model) has that stuff in it?

I'm kinda-sorta thinking about replacing my 2006 car, maybe. The last time I bought a car I definitely didn't have to worry about it spying on me :)
Plenty of businesses are happy to block 20% of real customers to decrease fraud rates by 80%.

Especially low margin businesses, where you might have revenue of $20 in a transaction, but a profit margin of just $0.20, fraud is really painful if you lose the complete $19.80. You're happy to turn away a lot of custom to avoid some fraud.

Classic example: Bank loans. They might only earn 1% of the principle, so a fraudster who runs away with the whole principle has to be really rare.
You can think of the universe that way, but is it meaningful to say it's computing new gas structures? Maybe for some physicists. Metaphysically speaking, I don't think it makes sense for the universe to be a computer, unless we're inside a simulation. What would that even mean?
That's entirely fair, but you can tailor the licences to target the biggest freeloaders (prohibit hosting it as a cloud service, allow everything else) while letting everyone else use it without worrying about licensing.

That's the beautiful part - you can choose vastly different approaches with differing levels of freedom/openness, depending on your and your users' needs. A game is licenced quite differently than a library which is also licenced differently than a website. And they can all coexist:)
Odometer scams were a big thing before it was digital and I'm sure someone has a mod-chip style thing for EV cars if there is money involved. Also solves issues of if you sell the car, car gets totaled, stolen, etc, they will still know. It could also enable monthly registrations fees which may be better for some people than a $600+ once a year vs $50/mo if it's all electronic.
There has to be a better way to tax road usage. I pay extra for my EV as well, but I suppose the state’s argument is that the odometer reading could include mileage in other states. But that would still benefit your home state… so I don’t know.

My state requires a check for all vehicles older than 4 years which includes a obd2 scan, so they probably already have this data
Predictability of output is very much a computing thing. If I try to compute the 11 trillionth digit of Pi in base-7, I should get the same answer every time. If I do not get the same answer, then the device is either malfunctioning (often) or just not a computer at all.

It it sort of assumed our brains are computers, but no one has ever demonstrated this to be the case to any degree. Human brains seem to, at least partially, operate on different principles.
Podcast production without speaking. Audio correction in media.
I felt the same way back in 2017.

I don't have the same strong opinions of many on this board about having problems now, but it does kind of seem like I have more problems now than I did back then.

I use an external monitor at home, a portable one when traveling, and external monitors at the office.

I have seen things that were pretty annoying, like all my windows getting stuck on the laptop display, even with the external monitor connected. Having to move 15 instances of VS Code to the external monitor is really obnoxious. It happens to me about once every 6-8 weeks. Not quite annoying enough for me to go find and learn some window management application.

Not sure exactly what triggers this. It seems like it's related to powering up and connecting the external displays. Or even the temporary loss of connection (bad USB cable) between them seems like it can make it happen.

I think back in 2017, I was only using external displays at work. So the laptop didn't have 4 different configurations to contend with like it does now (no external display, home external display, travel external display, and work external displays)
TorchGeo: Datasets and pre-trained models for geospatial data
Coding the Cloud: A Dive into Data Streaming with Gunnar Morling from Decodable
I'm not clear how this is different from scammers targeting humans? If anything, I'd expect it to be easier to set up the LLM agent to have secure/cryptographical validation of the providers, to prevent against the sorts of traps that humans fall into.

In the simplest case, we could just have trusted authorities provide lists of verified booking partners, same as e.g. Google Flights does now.
I play a lot of counter-strike and it's very amusing when people hurl insults at the other team with the voice of Joe Biden
At a some point, I did opt into this program with an insurance company in exchange for reduced rates.

Driving was considered “A” rated but eventually opted out. The $10-12 per month saved was not really worth it.

Their tos and privacy policy indicate it would only be used for internal rating and wouldn’t be shared. But wouldn’t be surprised if the data ended up being available to other insurance agencies via a data broker.

Wish there was a way to check.
Probably "yet more"
> There are less black and white positions: that would incentivize people settling for relationships they have doubts about or to stay in failing ones (being a single parent is not easy),

And if it does that, so what? Is perfectionism really that important?

And honestly, my proposal isn't so much about increasing the birthrate, but preventing a certain kind of freeloading ("The pensions...they can all burn"). Totally make the conscious choice to go child-free, just understand if you do you may not be able to retire.

> and it’d be especially cruel to anyone with fertility issues.

And if that's really an issue, which I'm not convinced of, because policies are invariably "cruel" like that in innumerable ways, you could always carve out an exception for people who've attempted fertility treatments.

> As social policies go it’d be much easier to simply allow more immigration.

Except that probably would be even more cruel, since it falsely hand-waves that there's enough high fertility elsewhere to sustain a low fertility rich country. It turns out there isn't, so what you proposal requires is either: 1) export the labor shortage to poorer countries that are less equipped to handle it, or 2) maintain crushing poverty in many countries to turn them into baby factories for the immigration solution.
And what happens when every car manufacturer has this, and you need a new car? Walk? Start your own car factory? Nah. Consumer protection laws are the right way. It’s not actually a free market, despite what they might say.
The biometric stuff is simply allowing access to the keys. It’s not being used for anything else.

Your face or fingerprint being out there isn’t a concern because that’s not, ultimately, the thing being used to generate the keys or anything.

It’s an ease of use function.

On iOS for instance, as I understand it, these are being stored in iCloud Keychain. Which has a password. The derived key for iCloud Keychain is stored in such a way that the system has access if you allow biometrics to be used.

Biometrics then simply allow access, in essence, not part of the encryption process. The password for iCloud Keychain is necessary to add those items on a new device. Your biometrics aren’t stored by Apple anywhere other than in the device.

Honestly I am blown away how few people on this site understand how this stuff works. It’s fascinating and I’m surprised more people aren’t interested in understanding it. But so many people assume the biometrics are being used in the encryption process and that if your face is somehow stolen your whole life is doomed. These features have been on Apple devices for what.. a decade almost at this point? More? The process for Face ID is the same as Touch ID. Developers make zero distinction between the two in code, as that whole process is passed off to the system and effectively results in a bool value (or access to the secure item requested). At no point does a developer ever get your biometrics data.

I don’t know how Android or Windows do it but it is similar enough I suspect.

The FUD around passkeys feels like some sort of propaganda campaign to discredit it.
It is true. I’ve been doing multi monitor support on a M1/M3 pro for years now. Triple external monitors (2 off a dock and 1 displaylink). The older amd graphics cards took 10-15s to detect external monitors while the apple silicon chips take 1s.
That's a bit like determining a ship can only be made of wood, isn't it? A ship needs to float, it needs to be made of buoyant material and it needs to have a sail. If a "sailor" is adjusting the power to a propellor that's turned by an electric motor that's running off a turbine driven by steam from a magical rock, it's not what we define as naval science, is it?
MacBooks are at least ok+ for every conceivable regular office worker (including programmers) use case. Windows and Linux have their respective strengths, but their main issue is being almost completely unusable in certain use cases.
It is naive to believe that this targets the wealthy drivers of gigantic SUVs. It's really targeting the poor who need car insurance and feel pushed to give up their privacy to afford it.
A line break in between the two sentences of the last paragraph may have made the commenter’s point clearer.

It seems to be they were only comparing the relatives benefits/drawbacks of glibc and musl, but with the way it is written the pro-musl comment feels out of place.
I haven't been to SF since many years. Is it really that bad? Moving around, especially for rich tech people, especially within the US and the developed world in general, is really easy. If SF is really such a catastrophe, why are so many still there? To me it sounds a bit like some of the tech bros want to get into politics as a hobby and they picked this issue because it's especially salient to them. From far away it looks ... bizarre.
With those framings, you don't really need to tell us much more.