skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My school had streams for several subjects which is perhaps unfashionably pragmatic, but at least it allows the top, bottom and inner quartiles to go at their own paces with more tailored tuition.

The lower streams also took the lower exam tiers. Which limited their maximum grades, but a C (or whatever the number grade is these days) from a decent showing in Foundation Maths is better than an fail from a disastrous attempt at the Higher tier.

It won't help when children are multiple entire years behind their peers, though. Short of actually repeating years with extra tuition and major parental involvement until they can catch up, I don't know what you're supposed to do at that point. Obviously just chucking them into the next year and marking it down as a "pass" might make look good for the paperwork, but it's just compounding the misery for the poor kid who might as well be being taught quantum chemistry in Ancient Sumerian for all the good it will do them.
It was a quick generalization that I won't defend, but it's not based on nothing: https://www.paymentsdive.com/news/how-does-gen-z-feel-about-...
Maybe that's what is needed for the press and other people to pay attention to it
Ok, but why isn't this open source? If it only creates some processes that don't do anything, there's nothing to hide, really
I am a bit worried of the overuse of Little's formula, especially in these catchy educational presentations. In reality queue sizes will dictate your consumer observable latency profile, which is in turn is dictated by the actual distribution of the service time - it is not a constant.

If you think about it, if you have an ideal system that serves users like a clockwork, every X ms with no jitter, while your arrival is also completely regular, every Y ms (Y < X), then basically a queue length of 1 is sufficient. In reality, just like we all observe in real-life queues, service time is far from constant, and outliers result in queue buildup. This is why often cutting the tail of service-time latency results in better overall latency than simply reducing average service-time.

Little's formula of course holds also in the above scenario, but it handles long-time averages and does not give you any indication what extreme behavior is lurking under the mask of these averages.
The World Health Organization's New Chatbot AI Resource Assistant for Health
"Fun" Fact: it's currently the European championships in football (soccer) in Europe (probably the biggest event of the year), so it's the perfect opportunity to sneak this through without too many people noticing.
I would assume with a minimalist program like yours, it wouldn't have the capability to detect whether anything malicious was running on the system. That kind of thing would require some more advanced trip wires that would notice when certain things were triggered when they shouldn't have been or a full blown AV detection engine.

I suppose it could work like Sysinternals Process Explorer/Autoruns/etc & submit running hashes to Virustotal.com or other databases, but there's always the likelihood of false positives with that.

If you search Github for "malware samples" There are loads of them. Vx Underground also has a large collection [1]. So, I would go through there & look for commonalities to try and find what malware often tries to trigger on startup.

I'll just end with this example of an interesting form of a trip wire I've seen in use on Windows PCs: ZoneAlarm makes an anti-ransomwear tool I can't think of the name of. It placed hidden files & folders in every directory on the hard drive. It would then monitor if anything tried to access it - as ransomwear would attempt to encrypt it - and force kill all running programs in an attempt to shut down the malware before it could encrypt the entire HDD.

[1] https://vx-underground.org/Archive/Collections
On the product side MKBHD said this was the worst car he ever Reviewed: https://youtu.be/6xWXRk3yaSw
Absolutely. It only works because they claim it's for the protection of children.
> the US

American freedom of speech aka "you can literally be fired and see your life ruined for having a political opinion but you won't go to jail so be thankful"
Well, no different from the status quo, where police finding a PGP book at your home is like them finding the anarchist's handbook or worse.
Also, the parliament is still 'new'… perfect time to push something like this through before the dust settles
https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/acow6y/ask...

According to this, humans are heavily biased towards 7 when picking random [0, 10] numbers. This is somewhat reflected in LLM's outputs, with a peak at [70, 80). I found it an interesting thing to add here.
I mean, if people overuse it, wouldn't it be expected to lead to more resistant and nasty infections on the long run?
Computer Architecture by Hennessy and Patterson is the classic introductory text.

It's dated, but Inside the Machine by Jon Stokes is also a good read if you're after something a bit lighter.
>> Claim 1 seems likely true to me for a reasonable notion of “learning”. I think François Chollet agrees here. Most of my doubts about this claim are concerns that you can basically brute force ARC-AGI without interestingly doing learning (e.g. brute-force search over some sort of DSL or training on a huge array of very similar problems). These concerns apply much less to the kind of approach I used

The approach described in the article is exactly "brute-force search over some sort of DSL". The "DSL" is a model of Python syntax that GPT-4o has learned after training on the entire internet. This "DSL" is locked up in the black box of GPT-4o's weights, but just because no-one can see it, it doesn't mean it's not there; and we can see GPT-4o generating Python programs, so we know it is there, even if we don't know what it looks like.

That DSL may not be "domain specific" in the sense of being specifically tailored to solve ARC-AGI tasks, or any other particular task, but it is "domain specific" in the sense of generating Python programs for some subset of all possible Python programs that includes programs that can solve some ARC-AGI tasks. That's a very broad category, but that's why it over-generates so much: it needs to draw 8k samples total until one works for just 50% of the public eval set.
> They haven't even translated non-English material and mixed it all in yet (that I know of)

The current performance of LLMs on non-English languages is disappointing. Feeding it more non-English material is not going guaranteed to help.

> This is big because it would hold novel data the West doesn't access. What is the 'mood' of the average Chinese farmer on Taiwan.

The average Chinese farmer does not produce textual output of that kind. It is generally not advisable to put your thoughts in writing in oppressive regimes. It could be a life-ending mistake.

> Otherwise it's hard to see how adding more text of the same thing is going to create a revolution.

The LLM gang are like the people who think they can get slimmer by eating more.

> Video will be something new. But if like "Her" it watches every Twitch stream simultaneously for a month, and is talking to a billion people for a month and still doesn't get it what else is going to happen?

Since when does Twitch carry broadcasts that have any value to humanity? Is it used to hold scientific discussions? Or for shooting shit and pushing paid products and services?
Hi everyone. I created a word puzzle game. The task of the game is to combine words to make the correct phrases. You have 5 attempts to decipher the phrase. There are 4 languages available: English, French, Spanish and Ukrainian.

I would really appreciate your feedback on the game!
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Is the game too hard or on the contrary not challenging enough?
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A carbon tax would be the most free market way to do it: tax fossil carbon as it comes out of the ground. The market can handle the rest. Can’t seem to make that happen politically, though.
They ride the wave and find always some excuse. It was fighting the terrorists until a few years ago, now it's children again. Next year could be to help the climate or protect lbtgqi++ rights.
Or Strasbourg

https://www.euronews.com/2019/05/20/eu-parliament-s-114m-a-y...
I've seen complaints about Google search but haven't experienced the problems, and I use Google search fairly often. For example I just searched for "how to reduce an array in golang" and got a page of relevant results, with no ads or junk links. Sometimes I will see sponsored links and junk sites like Quora or TripAdvisor for more vague search terms, but writing a more specific search usually gets what I want.

I use Google search logged in to my Google account and I have eliminated third-party cookies, browser fingerprinting, and targeted ads as much as I can with the OS/browser (iPadOS/Safari) settings and Google's privacy and advertising settings.

Do you have specific examples?
Summary: Someone's gotta pay for the Ramen.

A good start would be to demand that internet infrastructure operators do just that - and nothing more.

Internet providers do just that one job: Routing IP. No peeking into my packages please.

Strengthening and regulating the underlying world-wide infrastructure: undersea cables, transcontinental fiber networks - with oversight that prevents any org (public or private) from intercepting traffic would go a long way to protect the Public Interest.

Alas, a pipe dream.
> Industrialization is what brought prosperity to the masses.

workers organization did. Early industries were mostly run like slaveshops and the only reason we didn't end up in that world was that the reigning elite needed someone to manage the colonies and thus needed some people educated a bit more (which then also went into industry too) - which turned out problematic.

> They would have been the richest country in Latin America per capita

Oh, the former slave-owners for sure are. Likely too in Nigeria if you know how to look.
It ceases to be a trust thing once you open source the code
If I understood this correctly, would this allow you to make an extremely good estimation of direction of velocity? If you want to use dead reckoning to estimate position, how would you know the abs of the velocity?
Threema being paid up front makes it harder to adopt for average uses. Signal is great option and wish more would use it.
I think the initial idea of concurrency safeguards at build time have grown a bit out of proportion. It's so much more than "sendable" conformance that my head is starting to spin just thinking about it. There is also the "sending" label for reference types (in addition to Actors, Tasks, Executors, isolation regions, context, preconcurrency...). It's becoming impractical. I don't think developers really asked for any of this.
From Clipboard to Compromise: A PowerShell Self-Pwn
Maybe once? But when making whipped cream, the onset of the firmness tends to be rapid, and if you whip too far, the onset of butter likewise.
> meaning: there will be little opposition to the proposal once it reaches the MEPs.

meaning: because the dust hasn't settled on the EU parliamentary elections, MEPs could vote without giving full attention to the law.

Call me an optimist, but I still hold hope that that's not the case.
OpenTofu Gains State Encryption, So What's Next
Thank you for that, I was glad to see NL on the list of against!
Or the subscription made LR more accessible to people

lol, no.

The Lightroom CC is the mobile/desktop product. That is and always has been a separate "more accessible" product. Moving Lightroom "Classic" (the desktop only product) to a rental only model simply makes profits more accessible to Adobe.

That may not matter to you, but that is the market now.

Of course it's the market now, there's no other option from Adobe.
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> Not even the most totalitarian governments on this planet have tried to implement something like this.

Arguably North Korea since their RedStar OS had a kernel module that scanned all files and text looking for keywords like 'torture'. And if you're being compared to one of the most brutal and isolated dictatorships on Earth, things are not good.
Thanks for this. Lessons from reality hit harder than from theory. I'm amused to learn that the distinction between essential and accidental was first described by Aristotle given that millennia later people are still struggling with the notion.
An once that becomes generally available operating systems will eat the bandwidth in an instance and any speed-up to be gained on a desktop will be completely negated.

It seems like we're stuck at a pre-set level of latency, which is just within what people tolerate. I was watching a video of someone running Windows 3.11 and notice that the windows closes instantly, which on Windows 10 and 11 I've never seen there NOT be a small delay between the user clicking close and the window disappearing.
Statists pave the road to tyranny with their good intentions.
Interesting. Here it had some niche users, but got completely supplanted by signal, which is the clear #2 with the people I know.
It took a bit of time but we are finally reaching sovietic dream of mass surveillance. We just need extremist to be in power (oh wait!) so it can be enabled for other purposes and we'll get full powered Stasi.
Malaysia to Join BRICS
Robopost AI
This is only useful for dragnet malware targeting the masses, where false positives/negatives have low impact to begin with. High value targets can run the real programs if this is proven to have any effect — the average corporate IT can approve some more bloat for security, no problem. Also, you take a sample.
I also wouldn't download this in 1000 years with no additional information and sourcecode / github etc...
Well, people wanted even more alt-right representation in parliament, MEP support for the entire package of policy "Chat Control" is part of is now higher than ever. There is a lot more "for the children" policy coming up.
There are two paths to career mobility: expert or trend whore. You cannot be both so choose wisely.

An expert is somebody who spends many years performing a deep dive into one or more technologies very narrowly. The expert has learned what beginner nonsense to ignore, which makes them weird from a beginner’s perspective but they can probably do things you deem impossible. Experts tend to come from formal researchers and hobbyists. Real experts know where their strengths and limitations are and so may undersell their capabilities.

Trend whore tries to be a master of everything. They are a master of none but are well rounded in a way an expert will never be. They can talk a good game during an interview as they have experience with many different tools. If you need someone who is good at writing config files to paste together a tech stack you want the trend whore. Trend whores are experts of none who may oversell their capabilities with over confidence when they may confuse diverse shallow experience for a depth that doesn’t exist.

There are pros and cons to each path. Just know your own personality and goals. If your goal is just to be employed then be the trend whore as the cost of investment is lower. If you want to innovate or deliver superior solutions then be the expert.
It would be if signal would have resisted the temptation to go cryptobro. They didn't, and they lost all credibility as a result.
And compared to what manner of assessment of that genius? Animals had the Earth to themselves for millennia. Humans for a very short period. You judge!
They have to justify their existence and maximize growth and headcount. In this case I’m not sure if it’s the politicians themselves as much to blame as the EU apparatchiks and lobbyists
Do you have kids? Telling them their finances are a reason for learning maths is bullshit, because not every person that age has to worry about their finances.

And even if you choose that as a story you will have a hard time explaining to them why they need to learn trigonometry or something like the aforementioned integral.

As an educator I have found most people don't really need a hard rational incentive to learn a thing. All they need is a story that convinces them to learn that. E.g. when I helped unruly teens with their homework and they had an abstract geometric problem to solve, it costed me literally nothing to come up with some story of how they comanding the knights in a castle and to prevent their enemey from entering they have to figure out how much material they need to chop in the woods.

The same boring problem suddenly was tied to a heroic story of them saving the day and oh wonder, they were more interested in solving the issue.
You fundamentally misunderstand the EU if you think any EU organization has the power to force lockdowns on individual countries.
"and the voters don’t care."

Then why did so many vote extremist anti EU? There just has been EU election in germany and the nationalist gained a lot. And none of the big parties otherwise said a clear no to that, so what could I do, except vote a small party against that, but too small to really do something?

Voters care. But they see often no point in voting anymore.
Scrolling is totally broken, use keyboard arrow to change pages.

Scrolling push a new page in the browser history, i have now 40 items in the browsers history :|.
A point fully disproven by Putin by now.
I think it is still meaningful because it's extremely common for management to favor hiring cheaper 'talent'. Pointing out the issues with that in various different ways is still valuable.
I tried sending an email using the info from https://op.europa.eu/en/web/who-is-who/organization/-/organi... !
It could still help connecting the chipset.

Not all pci-e lanes on your motherboard are created equal: Some are directly attached to the CPU others are connected to the chipset, which in turn is connected to the CPU.

It's possible to convert a single 5.0 x16 connection coming from the CPU to 2 4.0 x16 connections.
This can have the opposite effect too: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/03/sabot...
This might be not a good idea. There are some reports of malware (npm packages, iirc) specifically targeting russian computers since the invasion
I too instinctively bristle at this kind of legislation. It's likely to be abused, with many false positive that make it more effective at sweeping up innocent people, while the guilty just find workarounds.

But all coming on here and saying "ooohh, this is bad, innit!" is not very interesting, and unlikely to prevent it.

Why is the EU doing this? Which political groups are supporting and opposing it? Why now? How are vendors responding? How does it affect non-EU countries?
I really see it. It's not hallucinating as the imagined image is not in the real world. It's like a different input to the visual processing part of my brain (but both inputs work at once, a bit like looking at a different thing with each eye). I have visual memories (snapshots I can call up) of things I never saw with my eyes (e.g. scenes from novels) that are as strong as any that came from my eyes.
LNAV is great, i’m so happy to have found it recently.

I’ve made a Caddy server lnav configuration file a while a go, for who’s struggling to parse the default JSON logs produced by Caddy.

https://gist.github.com/vjanssens/3c6fb8393d87346323d939f172...
Do you agree that "there is absolutely no input you could hand to a chess program that would get it to try and play checkers", but there is an input you can hand to GPT-3+ that will get it to try and play pretty much any game imaginable, so long as you agree that its attempt will be very poor?

I don't want to get into the weeds on what intelligence is or what "attempt" means or "try" means (you can probably guess I disagree with your position), but do you have a disagreement on pure input/output behavior? Do you disagree that if I put adequate words in, words will come out that will resemble an attempt to do the task, for nearly any task that exists?
We should use glass bottles, as we did in the past, and use other biodegradable materials for everything else.

In Europe, we banned single use plastic straws, cotton swabs, cutleries, bags, etc., and industrials found alternatives that are inexpensive and environmental friendly.
tl;dr - fafo
I get the idea but the "science" is based on reports it doesn't look like this has been tested with actual malware. Would be interesting to know how well it works

Also make it OSS and ask for donations. Not sure what your feature earning model is but is seems easy to replicate and as point out several times right now it asked to blindly thrust you
Just two quick observations:-

- I searched "gravity" and nothing loaded on the first click. Second click loaded your trend graph.

- On the trend graph for "gravity" it shows growing interest up to 2024 and then drops - it looks like your graph maybe extends to the end of the year rather than just the current date, giving the appearance that it's trending downwards.

Nice work though, seems useful!
> A little rant: as someone who use three virtual keyboards (English, Chinese, Japanese), it is already a pain in ass to switch them since MS does not follow "last used" switching order (like alt+tab). Instead, it just switches in one direction.

Actually, I much prefer this order. Depending on what keyboard I currently use, I know exactly how often to switch instead of having to remember what I used previously. In fact, I don't even like this order when Alt+Tab'ing, it makes switching between more than two windows pretty inconsistent (yes, I know Windows+Number works, too).
Archive:

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