skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've built an AI-driven platform that's changing how students prepare for the Duolingo English Test. Here's how we're using AI:

Dynamic Content Generation: Our AI generates and continuously updates 18,000+ practice questions, ensuring fresh, relevant content.
NLP-Powered Evaluation: We use advanced NLP models to assess speaking and writing tasks, providing detailed feedback within minutes.
Adaptive Testing: AI algorithms adjust question difficulty in real-time during mock tests, mimicking the actual adaptive nature of the DET.
Personalized Learning Paths: Machine learning models analyze user performance to create tailored study plans.
Multilingual AI: Our system operates in 18 languages, using AI for efficient localization and language-specific insights.

Technical Challenges:

Ensuring consistent scoring accuracy across diverse language inputs
Maintaining low latency for real-time feedback (current average: 1-5 minutes)
Ethically handling user data for model improvement while ensuring privacy
Impact: 400k+ users in10 months, with an average score improvement of 30 points.

We're eager to discuss the implications of AI in standardized testing, potential biases in language AI, and the future of tech-enabled language learning.

What are your thoughts on the role of AI in education, particularly in high-stakes testing scenarios?
Yes, at some point, "the experts" seem to have decided that it was very important children must be allowed to have their smartphones in class. Totally ridiculous. I guess that marks my ascension to curmudgeonhood.
If anyone tried launching their ICBMs half of them would blow up in their face. So we have that going for us (the peoples of all states).
> perhaps HN doesn’t allow posts about HN

We don't disallow them, but meta is the crack of internet forums, so the bar for those to be on topic is high. The current post doesn't come close to clearing the bar.

Why? Because such perceptions are extremely common and nearly always bogus. You've fallen into the trap (<-- I don't mean to pick on you personally! it's extremely common, as I say) of arriving at an overgeneralization based on a small handful of datapoints that you happened to personally notice. The reality is that HN hosts tons of negative threads about Google. A couple minutes with HN Search is sufficient to establish this. There are also neutral threads about Google and positive threads about Google, of course—it's a big company—but the negative probably dominates.

Hypergeneralization-about-HN-based-on-tiny-set-of-datapoints-that-coalesce-into-perception-that-feels-convincing-but-in-fact-is--bogus-and-which-has-strong-inflammatory-qualities-that-fit-other-peoples-priors-perfectly-and-get-them-going is just about the most common phenomenon that exists on this site and is definitely not the basis for an on-topic submission!
You’ll also fail at a job if you have a crippling gameboy addiction, but almost nobody (well—almost no adult) was against banning those in schools.
Nextpart AI – Twitch
Falcon Heavy has already launched a payload past mars orbit into the inner asteroid belt. A starship mars flyby is not that big a leap, after they nail refueling on LEO.
Yeah Arch is fine if you don’t mind stopping to search for an answer. Most times it’s in the wiki, a lot of times it’s a library upgrade that just causes the pm to fail. Fine if you know what to bang on but I got tired of having to bang.
I know it's not considered "contribution" in the sense that Matt was talking about, but WPEngine owns and maintains some of the most popular and powerful Wordpress plugins on the planet. I'm not sure why he chose to pick a fight with them. My best guess is that he wants Wordpress.com (hosting) to be what WPEngine became.
> you cannot be too loose of a cannon at the top

And with Putin on one side and possibly (hopefully not) Trump on the other, that makes two loose cannons. Comforting thought.
A VisionFive 2 with the same chip uses 3.4 W idle, just with automatic down clocking (I think 375 MHz is the lowest). So that would be potentially 18 hours from a 61 Wh battery. But a laptop also has to drive a screen backlight. On the other hand, maybe the JH7110 has has some lower power sleep mode that was not being used by the software on the VisionFive 2.
A loud minority of parents agitated for it enough that lots of schools caved. Educators don’t want phones in classrooms.
Could you share a bit on where you host it ? it is 8 B ,right?
> If this is the case, question what will happen when the students you describe graduate. Maybe, they will get a reality check.

I just went to whole foods the other day and the butcher didn't know how to convert between fractions and decimals. They were American btw, in 20s or 30s

Maybe they'll fail after high school? Who knows? But anyway, at least they'll know how fractions work. At least they'll have basic reading skills and be capable of voting and participating in society
Not a comment on the term being discussed but i do have a problem with the charts used in the article: “vehicle deaths per million residents …” and “US death rate from motor vehicles per hundred million miles traveled”. Both graphs show a declining trend. But of course that’s how an unscrupulous writer could hide rising data, by charting against an even faster trend and not just showing data in the raw. i don’t know if that was a deliberate ploy here but it did annoy me that i had to go and find out whether deaths by cars are actually increasing or not. So i googled and discovered:

“Drivers Hit and Killed More Than 7,500 Pedestrians Last Year, Most Since 1981, New Projection Shows” [1]

And by that point i was just as bothered by the questionable use of data as i was by the questionable use of language.

[1] https://www.ghsa.org/resources/news-releases/GHSA/Pedestrian...
in the same society there are people that don't follow the bad habit advertised by society and with the amount of information and alternatives present today, I am sorry, but it's too easy to blame "society" and wait for someone else to do something.
It's up to them.
The solution won't come from anywhere else and yes, we can simply be better.
You'll want to carefully re-read the text, it's not one line.

Where do you think all those libraries come from? And for anything more complex than "hello world", how did we know which libraries to include?

Once you solve those two, your thing will be more lines of code than most Dockerfiles.
Just as the previous one was the information age, right? Which was a lie.
Wordpress.com is very limited and locked down relative to the .org variant hosts like WPE.
The Apple TV setup has you use a phone to handle it for you (it auto calibrates from video) rather than having to fiddle with 20 different sliders in 7 different menus.
> Lots of people in the comments supporting cellphone bans in school. To play the devil's advocate: the role of high school is to transition students between childhood and adulthood. In adulthood, nobody will tell you to get off your phone.

You can get fired or people can stop associating with you though. Not allowed to do that to students.

> You will simply suffer repercussions if you cannot preform. If you can perform, nobody should care. So why are we babying students by incessant confiscation and phone cubby nonsense?

Because it disturbs and distracts other students, mostly.

> Redirect them, sure. Teach about tech literacy.

Nobody does that for you in adulthood either though, so that's not a good argument when it's used selectively like that. School is not adulthood, it's totally different, and phones are a pretty insignificant part of that.
Have you ever considered GIS (mapping, geo datasets, cartography, drones, photogrammetry, etc.?)

I thought it was an interesting niche that on the user side (governments, researchers, environmental consultancies, etc.) tend to focus around one big company (ESRI), but on the web side, you have things like Felt.com, Mapbox, etc., and on the app side, Gaia, Handlebars, Trailforks, Alltrails, RidewithGPS, Strava, etc.

Personally I'm drawn to it because of the intersection of software and real-world data, but I've never worked in it full time – just studied it a bit in college and did some side projects.

Fun stuff though.
Mix Assertion, Logging, Unit Testing and Fuzzing with ZeroErr Framework
OLED brightness still hasn’t quite caught up, and many of the bright LED backlit LCDs have great color gamuts, and supposedly almost true black:

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/best/bright-room

Anyway, if you have a big window in the room where your TV is, brightness probably should be the deciding factor.
Vote out neocons for whom war is money is happiness as well as their congressional supporters.
> All early experimental computers used teletype machines for interactive communication with the computer.

Some people liked Flexowriters instead of Teletypes. Flexowriters had upper and lower case characters, and a 6 bit code instead of 5 bits. Here's an LGP-30, from 1956, the first desk-sized "personal computer"[1] Vacuum tubes, drum memory, chrome bezel. Very 1950s.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WaYYNUCWMY
How many times a week do you walk or bike to buy groceries? If it's one or less, you lack perspective in this space.

Anyone who has been nearly hit by a car while walking understands why violence is the correct term.

Secondly, your chart seems to be looking at motorist fatalities rather than pedestrian deaths caused by motor vehicles. This is what you want: https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/pedes...

Of course if pedestrians are just an another inconvenience in front of your windshield, it's all hysterics.
Nuclear war between US and Russia is less likely with Trump
Sure there is, 3 reasons:

1) No one writes unit tests for old code until it breaks the first time, because they're too busy working on new stuff.

2) No one gets assigned to write unit tests for old code until it breaks the first time, because there's always more work to do than you have time to do it in and if its not broken, its not hurting anyone enough to get resources and time diverted to it

3) Even if you write a mess of unit tests for stuff, it's always possible to miss unit testing a specific scenario. 100% line and branch coverage is not 100% bad outcomes or 100% possible inputs.

I've never worked anywhere that had 100% of their code tested with automated tests around 100% of the possible inputs and outputs. And the older the code and the longer it had been running stably, the less likely it was to have that testing if the testing wasn't written with the code. Like everything else in development, tests add up in the technical debt pile too.
To quote Harry Hill: “Remember, karate chop to the neck - if the geese ever invade again.”
Maybe I'm the weird one, but it seems odd NOT to consider ~40,000 deaths in the US each year to be "violent" (often they are gruesome blunt force or crushing injuries involving objects traveling 40+ mph coming to a stop nearly instantaneously). Not to mention the debilitating injuries like TBIs or mobility impairments that leave countless many more people harmed for years later if not the rest of their lives.

Nonetheless, the article doesn't provide evidence to back up the claimed "grift" (doing so would require quantifying the efficacy of the activism against the dollars collected), but appears to primarily be an inflamed rant about terminology they don't like.

I don't feel too strongly about the terminology either way, but I'd hope we can agree that the fact that motor vehicles are the #2 cause of death for most ages of children in the US is something we should fix (especially since other countries have shown that it's a solvable problem - e.g. "stop de kindermoord"), regardless of the name we give that problem.
For background on some of the cool stuff here:

This isn’t a new PCB with Wii components transplanted, it’s something even weirder - OMEGA refers to a strategy for physically cutting the original Wii PCB in a way that allows it to still work. Then, relocated features are applied using flex PCBs soldered in just the right places. And, it’s all a big community thing - each board is designed by a few different people and it all comes together into a ridiculously small Wii. The “Thundervolt” flex overlay provides all of the necessary VReg tasks for battery power. The AVEflex relocates the factory video encoder. NANDflex provides storage. And finally a custom dock/riser board provides I/O and charging. The use of flex boards over the OEM motherboard is a really wild and interesting approach that seems to work really well - while there are custom Wii motherboards like Vegas, it’s easier to build the flex-enhanced style setups and since they stack so well, they end up smaller anyway.
I don't use WP Engine or WordPress, so I don't have a side in this fight.

As an outsider, that context seems a bit dubious to me.

@photomatt has tweeted [5135]: "[...] Please let me know if any employee faces firing or retaliation for speaking up about their company's participation (or lack thereof) in WordPress. We'll make sure it's a big public deal and that you get support. [...]"

If this was true, I would think that @photomatt's twitter feed would be loudly boosting this disgruntled employee's story of WP Engine-imposed limits and subsequent retaliation. Yet @photomatt's twitter feeds seems silent to me. This makes me skeptical of this context.

[5135]: https://x.com/photomatt/status/1836862087320195174
EzAudio: Enhancing Text-to-Audio Generation with Efficient Diffusion Transformer
what is the difference between paraphraser and unfiltered mode?
What about for a whole family of iPhone users? I've got the 2TB cloud plan which my elderly parents are on, my kids are on and me and my wife are on which is letting us get away with the smallest class of storage for each device we have.
I wonder if the leftover brine can be used further after drying it. Like as part of the mix for a building material and maybe for the construction of roads. Like part of the mix that goes right under asphalt.
What Do Hair Salons Have to Do with CIAM?
> I wonder to what extent that can be attributed to its ubiquity versus its quality

Its quality is astonishingly bad. It was clearly developed by someone who didn't even have a basic understanding of relational databases. Unless something has changed, plugins and themes can run arbitrary PHP on the server.

Anything ubiquitous is going to be hated. I agree. But WordPress is bad from a fundamentals perspective.
Thanks so much for posting this. Instant bookmark.

Do you plan on writing comparisons with other tools like Jellyfin and Kyoo?
No it doesn't, unless you mean some more advanced parametric features that just the basic parameter driven modelling.
I kind of see it, but honestly I don't think it had that huge of an effect compared to later developments.

You can see on the map that East Germany is depopulated - in 1948 it had 19 million people, while today it only has 12 million. This has to make a substantial impact. Also the Rhineland and Ruhr were massive mineral producers, which meant that the coal and steel industry were located there, which meant that secondary industries sprung up there as well, which meant there was a lot of migration and development in the area.
Feature suggestion: it would be great if you can high hight and explain (maybe mouse over the highlighted part) how the original sentence was improved/correct grammatically.
Those are the best! You're supposed to use a random answer like "cookie monster" or "flatulence"
low quality content for sure
Every admin gets to set up their State Dept. Biden could have done whatever he wanted with regard to stationing diplomats.

Moreover, The Russia and China embassies were not affected And importantly there were not active conflicts, saber rattling and serious instigations as we have now. I mean, who gives a rat's arse about the ambassador to Paraguay.

Just the other week, the admin told the USN to prep for war against China in '27.
No, I've certainly seen a lot of education sector academics argue for allowing them. Just do an internet search for it and you'll find "experts" on both sides. I don't know about the teachers at the coalface, I can imagine their word carries about as much weight as any pleb worker in a bloated bureaucracy like education. I have seen stories about teachers being assaulted bullied and attacked by child and parent when trying to enforce these bans though, so I would be surprised if even those are unanimous on the issue.
Work is for sure more fun with people that you get along with. More suffering can be endured in that case (to put it bluntly).
> legally allow them to use non-lethal force as necessary

Corporations should be able to commit violence against those accused of property crimes. Interesting world view there.

> All animals respond to violence

Shoplifters aren't people, they're just animals. The above makes a little more sense

> It works for bouncers,

Because most clubs don't have billions of dollars a year in revenues to go after with lawyers itching to take on the case on contingency because the bouncer at CVS broke your nose.
People are missing the tree for the forest. If the “concerned” folks are to be believed, after more than a decade of corruption fighting Xi has missiles filled with water rather than rocket fuel. How do you think the Soviet hand-me-downs are going?

The problem isn’t Putin or Xi committing global suicide, it’s they’re not paying attention to the details: Sgt. Boris or Liu driving off with thermonuclear warheads and selling them.

https://blog.ucsusa.org/gregory-kulacki/xi-jinpings-thoughts...
>Most of science is just a scam

Most of the scientists are not scammers. So if you believe that all science disciplines other than engineering are wrong[1], you should use another word that doesn't suggest researcher malice.

[1]Which is a very strong statement, because you claim to be an expert in all science disciplines at once.
>What you said in no way conflicts with what I said.

Neither would a world with 88 people with the following death schedule.

| Age | Deaths/Year |
|---------+-------------|
| 0 to 5 | 2 |
| 5 to 70 | 1 |
| 70 | 3 |

I'm sure that the 3 people who make it to 70 are very happy they are
in the highest mode of the distribution. The 85 who did not may have
something to say about how meaningful using the mode of a distribution
is.
You could call it a “ecological desert”, but that said, it’s not even the title of TFA, which is more accurate.
I'm confused. Surely if one side is a Russian asset it would be less likely we go to war with them?
What tools do you use to get this done? Is it simply chatting into the portal or something like cursor?
Or label a crisis.
Site has gone down with a dns error of some kind; anyone have a snapshot?
If you don't want to assemble a PiKVM yourself there's always Tiny Pilot: https://tinypilotkvm.com/
Luckily, the company at play does not require an explanation to use containers on developer machines.

But when you are in charge of a remote execution service, CI pipelines, and production builds… well, this is not about a single developer machine anymore and containers may not be the right solution when you know about the details of how the software is put together.

(Yes, author here.)
https://archive.is/oMgPW
(The domain of the original article seems to be dead)
> entire point of the US command and control system is to guarantee that the President and only the President is capable of authorizing nuclear war whenever he needs to

This may be necessary to ensure the deterrent is credible. But for first strike use, authorisation should require at the very least Congressional approval. (Not the whole Congress, obviously, but maybe the Senate Select and House Permanent Select Committees.) Ideally, all three branches of government.
Yeah, in retrospect I think this aligns with my experience. But I'd even say that with the famous physics experiments I still remember often thinking "How did they get such precision with such primitive instruments?" I mean they would explain the experiments in very basic/schematic terms, but would have been nice to actually replicate I've to truly understand how it worked.
It has a good chance of killing you. I wish mine didn’t exist at all.
Erlang, Elixir.
I'd be happy to answer whatever you want to know about how we run HN but you'll have to explain to me what "reputation management" means. It sounds gross though.
The OpenTofu registries are still standing by their decision to remove and block any resources affiliated with anyone in Russia due to US sanctions.

https://github.com/opentofu/registry/pull/824 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41382437)

> In discussing with the Linux Foundation, we understand this is a complex issue with many countries imposing sanctions on Russia and we do not have the community resources to figure this all out right now. Anyone in any geography could provide a similar service locally.

Until they revert their (discriminatory and overreaching) policy or the community is supported in migrating towards an alternative registry without this unfortunate political situation, I think it's not wrong to be apprehensive about OT.
Rust doesn't apply. You need a functional language for the kind of robustness we are talking about. Rust got some influences from there but it's not one.
I don't think there is a "Show 18+ Content" in the app downloaded from the App Store, it's only hidden in the web app (activating it will also allowed NSFW content on the iOS app).
It’s relaxing because your mind is asleep. It cannot babysit a machine. You’re risking your safety.
Thanks, I wasn't happy with the title either, for what is otherwise a decent article. TFA's title exceeded the HN limit, so I've done what I can.
Apple exited microLED after multiple billions of investment, https://web.archive.org/web/20240624161521/https://www.yoleg... & https://www.fierceelectronics.com/electronics/microled-marke...

> The cost of microLEDs remains high and the technology has struggled to compete with organic LEDs (OLEDs), he said, which keep improving while getting cheaper and lasting longer. It’s possible that Apple went the wrong route when it came to developing the technology. “Maybe their design was over engineered,” Virey said. “Maybe it was expensive by design.”
Physicists seem to be always seeking a deeper understanding of everything, more so than other fields like biology and sometimes chemistry, who have a tendency to get bogged down into to the idiosyncrasies of particular phenomena.
Exactly. This.

About 3000 people died from a terrorist attack in 2001. The response was a rapid and dramatic overhaul of national security. Not to even mention an entire unnecessary war that killed even more people.

40,000 people die from cars every year in just one country, and the response is to carry on like that's just fine.

All I ask is for the resources allocated solving problems to be allocated reasonably proportionally to the size of the problem.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41608350
Eh, sounds like mere puffery to me.
Could nukes deflect an asteroid? 'X-ray scissors' offer scientists clues
> Nuclear war between US and Russia is less likely with Trump

Incredibly difficult to estimate this, in large part because the probabilities are so small.

What we can say is neither Russia nor America wants MAD. So the way an exchange would happen would be due to a fuckup. And not any old fuckup, e.g. Ukraine hit Moscow with an American missile or whatever. But a nuclear fuckup, e.g. Moscow thinks it's detected multiple missile launches and can't get the President on the phone.
Honestly just after a relic. Regret losing track of my old ones.
I'm not sure what the performance/persistence implications of this (FRAM) actually are...

But to your point, simply copying the processor state to a known location in FRAM (0xFFFFFFF0) and having the start routine read state from that location seem like a very low overhead solution to the problem.

How long would it really take to do something your computer does as part of preemptive multi-tasking? Nanoseconds? Milliseconds? We are talking about $order(hundred) of instructions