skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the Global South going to spend $4 trillion on?
Could it be that education actually has value sometimes?
I think it is in the AUR not arch official repos
Are students less motivated or disciplined in the US than other parts of the developed world where higher education is free/compensated?
> Using SQL queries is typesafe with Kysely https://kysely.dev/ (without the need for an ORM)

Wow, this is even better than what I've seen people do with F# type providers. Cool cool cool.
If NixOS works well for you, that's great! But from my perspective, the whole NixOS model adds unnecessary complexity and makes you learn ways to do things that don’t really translate to other Linux systems. The directory structure in NixOS is different and doesn't follow the FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) and the system uses a bunch of symbolic links that feel like "hacks" to keep some kind of compatibility with the FHS.

For example, if you want NixOS to recognize paths like /bin or /usr/bin in your scripts, you have to enable services.envfs.enable in your configuration.nix or in a .nix module. If something goes wrong in NixOS, you might run into multiple issues because the problem could be within NixOS, the underlying system, nixpkgs, upstream packages, or a mix of all these factors.

Sure, it might save you time in some situations, but when a problem pops up, you'll find yourself in a tricky spot since you’ll have to dig through all the layers of the system to find the root cause. On top of that, you’ll have to sift through the options and the documentation, which can often be pretty confusing.
> passage of time has a role in accentuating the genius of artists

That makes sense, I think genius is time evolving process.

One pattern, I have seen in high performers, is that they are competing only with themselves, using introspective feedback to continuously improve in an ego free way.
A hood low enough to throw the pedestrian over the car. Enough space under the hood to allow enough deformation to prevent serious head injury (main reason the pedestrian is killed as I remember). Hood "airbags" that lift the hood up, adding even more space to decelerate the pedestrian (as I remember, this was optional but available to car manufacturers).

Normally new cars should come with emergency braking. As I remember, emergency braking is the only new technology to challenge the seat belt in efficiency. All the other safety features are almost marginal on how effective they are.

I don't know if the cybertruck has it, but I think the EU regulations might be a little behind the times, not yet recognizing the efficiency of emergency braking.
He also said he wouldn’t drop out of the election.
> Most of the problems with society today, in my opinion, are due to all the formal roadblocks placed up by bureaucratic red tape, instantiated by the labyrinths of government or private human resources departments.

There must be a balance. Without regulation bridges collapse, trains of toxic chemicals derail, and people get poisoned even just by eating and drinking. With too much regulation, innovation is stifled, usually because regulators were captured.

The US seems to have the worst of both, decades of captured regulators and people being harmed by powerful business interests. Meanwhile the public education system gets undermined constantly by a self fulfilling cycle of neglect and deverting funding to private schools.

(Of course in a polarized electorate it's risky to admit both sides have a point, and try to work toward a productive compromise. After all, we can't have our candidate in the wings lose because our opponent incumbent got a 'win'--even if it is most of what we wanted anyway.)
Improving the interaction with language ecosystems was one of the motivating reasons for how I approached the [rework][1] of Darwin support in nixpkgs. A lot of Rust stuff was simply impossible to build due to their SDK needs and how hard it was to override the SDK correctly, but that’s fixed now (with a few remaining cases that will be fixed in the final staging cycle before 24.11). I expect other ecosystems to benefit similarly, especially since Darwin support looks more like a native toolchain while still being built and provided by nixpkgs.

For example, Zed and Wezterm (previously failing intermittently on x86_64-darwin) now build on Darwin. Someone even has [Firefox building from source][2]. PyTorch will be able to support MPS, and MoltenVK will be able to use Metal 3 features if your system supports them.

[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/346043

[2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/350384
> Why this approach is not more common?

Because file system excels at handling files. Need an atomic update? Checkout into a new directory and switch a symlink.

I've seen various versions of using a database as a filesystem. They have a nice side to them and then a nightmare side to them when the shit hits the fan.
Are people really no longer interested in what happens locally?

I would pay for local news, even about places that I no longer live, but used to live and still have a passing interest in. But perhaps I would want to receive it as XML feed.

Even events (concerts, readings, exhibitions, screenings etc.) are typically scattered across many smaller lists or mailing lists, depending on location. For example, there is way more going on in London than what is listed by Time Out:
https://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/london-events-in...
Local communities may have their own sites or still rely on paper flyers.

Some facts of communal interest are published in government outlets that are still mandatated in some jurisdictions.

It would be wonderful if more of "what's going on" could be made available in curated digital form, for us to use and enjoy, and also to preserve it for future generations so that they can see what was happening in our age.
No, I'm saying Singapore's systemic prejudices aren't exhibited as overtly biased violent police behavior.

America's always are.
It sure sounds like this "highly sophisticated" attack was a run of the mill cryptolocker.
PSA: it should be obvious that it's a really dumb idea to use random new encryption tools from GitHub (sorry, author)
Reporting from 2022
I tried it, it didn't feel like what you get on android and had ui glitches
There is no reason to call all women whores, just because of your mother.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33010046 (set showdead=true to view the evidence)

kylebenzle on Sept 28, 2022 [dead] | parent | context | favorite | on: Why are sex workers forced to wear a financial sca...

All women are whores. Sorry to break it to you.
Climate Finance Shadow Report 2023: Assessing the delivery of $100B commitment
Overview

In 2009, high-income countries committed in the Copenhagen Accords to mobilize US$100 billion a year by 2020 in climate finance for low- and middle-income countries. Oxfam reported on the progress of this commitment in 2016, 2018 and 2020. This year’s report finds that high-income countries have not only failed to deliver on their commitment, but also – as in previous years – generous accounting practices have allowed them to overstate the level of support they have actually provided. Moreover, much of the finance has been provided as loans, which means that it risks increasing the debt burden of the countries it is supposed to help.

This paper calls on high-income countries to accelerate the mobilization and provision of climate finance, and to make up the shortfall from previous years, in a way that is equitable and just. High-income countries must provide finance that is transparent, with genuine accountability mechanisms, and that allows for far more local ownership and responsiveness to the needs of communities it is intended to reach. People on the frontlines of the climate crisis must have the funding they were promised for adaptation and mitigation, and to address the loss and damage they are already experiencing as a result of climate impacts.
Keywords

Climate change adaptation
Climate change mitigation
Climate finance
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Paris Agreement
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Additional details

Author(s)

Zagema, Bertram
Kowalzig, Jan
Walsh, Lyndsay
Hattle, Andrew
Roy, Christopher
Dejgaard, Hans Peter

Publisher(s)

Oxfam International

DOI
10.21201/2023.621500
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Ask HN: Where are we with gaze detection?
I explored this space about four years ago and found a few open-source and useable solutions for gaze detection, but they were not precise enough to solve the problem I was attempting.

Have there been any breakthroughs lately?
If I wanted to hack on this again, where should I begin looking?
There's large parts of the world where college and university have zero tuition fees and still doesn't turn into ceaseless roman orgies.
I think this works much better for social media than it would for an encyclopedia - while a Mastodon user I'm interested in is likely on a single instance, a topic an encyclopedia would cover might be present on many instances, each hosting a different version. I don't think it's feasible to expect users to read every single one.
Strange, for me it is obvious how it works.

It goes for locations and activities too but mostly if I look at something it locks and unlocks memories but the thing I'm looking at also becomes part of the active memory.

You have a bunch of stuff hashed against the tree or against a dead gaze or you don't want the person to be part of the thought process.

I forgot the code for the warehouse at a previous job. Typing the wrong one locks the place down. I somewhat panicked but went there anyway, got distracted by something and typed the code without even thinking about it. I also remembered it after walking inside. Took some coffee and it was gone again. I thought, I've been typing that code for years but had never realized I only remember it when looking at the door.
None of the birds look like a pelican, whose "beak can hold more than his belly can."
I found the bookmark. Anyone who has ever seen modern brown rice will immediately be able to tell that although there might be bits of bran still stuck to it, this rice has no more than 3 or 4% of the bran of modern brown rice:

https://youtu.be/qGNUPqHvTso?si=WWnY3OLALTBREVMs&t=525

I bookmarked another video, but it has been made private since I watched it.

Here is a very illuminating moment: the rice has already been pounded, then winnowed (the separated hulls removed), but there are still many kernels that need to be hulled (roughly one kernel in every 150 or 200 kernels), so the rice
is put back in the mortar for another round of pounding. In other words, although there is more pounding to do to make the rice edible, already most of the bran is off the rice (and thrown away along with the hulls).
(When only a few unhulled kernels remain, she removes them one by one with her fingers.) This supports my assertion that it is impossible with traditional
methods to get the hulls off while leaving on most or even a significant fraction of the bran. Again: I think you need precision machines that only became available in Europe in the 1800s and in East Asia in the 1900s to get the hulls off (which I think you really need to do if you eat rice every day and want to keep your teeth) while leaving most of the bran on the kernel. I.e., people in traditional rice cultures did not have the ability to consume anywhere close to as much rice bran as is possible by eating modern brown rice.

https://youtu.be/qGNUPqHvTso?si=QWYryq16PBHzK8ed&t=436
Money is not the only way to weed out underachieving students, or to motivate the good ones.

It’s not a theoretic point either, plenty of universities do it right now.
Shadows in emulated Mario 64 versions float above the ground, this is why
I wonder if, for this field, the larger solution is scene detection. Actors, what they are looking at, who they are talking to, (and what they are saying).
All tested libraries here are pure C#. You simply do not need "native" components* for tasks like these in C#, since JIT/ILC is more than capable at producing performant "native" code.

* for all intents and purposes that's what C# compiles to under NAOT. Even with JIT there is no interpreter stage, CIL is always compiled to native code.
No I guess there must be some people for whom it isn't obvious. I was kind of assuming the intended audience for the advice was people who are interested enough in diet to look at a book on nutrition, for example, not people who just eat junk without thinking about it.

But yes for those people I do think the "eat food" thing should be emphasised and laid out in more detail, maybe. Hard for me to have an opinion there as I just can't put myself in the shoes of someone who eats that kind of stuff.
That minority only flourished for a brief period in the 20th century when universal literacy was achieved through schooling and proliferation of white collar work.

For most of history, writers were a tiny minority. It exploded 100x in the last few decades. If it goes down 10x, it's still way above where we were in the 1800s.
Society (and parents) still should have some responsibility on educating young people about career prospects of different degrees. Too many in older generations think any degree will land their children a job, and thus encourage them to study whatever they like.
I get the concerns towards Wikipedia governance, but this feels almost like slacktivism. It’s been done numerous times, to slap ActivityPub onto a communication mode and call it a „federated foobar alternative”. It never works, it always fails to gain meaningful adoption. The federated hosts end up in disputes between themselves and their users. It’s mostly a miserable experience.

There needs to be another way to increase accountability for critical online services.
Keep in mind that the actual profit if the bot were not randomly choosing between each model version would be about 600k/hour. You're conflating the experimental profit, wherein each model only has access to 1/3 of the potential trades, to what the profit would be if only the best model were making trades.

Also these bots have been running for over a year almost every day without being banned.
the t480 has two batteries! one internal and one removable. The laptop using the `tlp` package and a WM like i3wm - which I prefer for functional reasons - discharges at around 5 watts when idle, and running heavy stuff brings it up to 17W max.
> Except in German this is not a problem.

I don't know any German, so I can't comment on this, but I'll add that the concept of a spelling contest (like we have in English) wouldn't make sense in a lot of languages because the spelling of words are so obvious/consistent.
Yes, I did not mean to imply otherwise.

The way I have always come to understand this boils down to what modulation actually is. DC is not modulation. Anything above DC can be, or maybe technically is and must be managed or accounted for. Frequency drift might be one example.

DC is basically continuous wave and the signaling, if any is intended, is basically limited to turning the wave on or off, or the wave just being present.

The VCR was basically reproducing very low frequency waves. One could see the cones moving in and out with the rotation of the 33 RPM vinyl.

The only other analog device that did something similar was an old vacuum tube reel to reel running a very high tape speed. And the effect was not as dramatic.

Both of those devices could basically archive a CD respectably. The VCR added about 3db and the reel a bit more that I was not in a position to measure.

The most striking things about that ancient reel to reel device were that it was rack mounted with some other gear, EQ, pre-amp, amp, and some other things, and how much better it could really do when using pretty great tape at crazy speeds. The highs would start to roll off pretty high, 18khz or so. The usual was 10 to 12.

That was a very fun old piece of gear. Left over relic from the 60's available for curious high schoolers to tinker with.
I have a different approach — rather than keeping people apart in echo chambers, I force them all together in a centralized site where they have to see the best arguments for and against each claim

Building this to clean up online discourse: https://rational.app

Anyone want to join me? Reply or find my email in my profile
Excuse the mix-up.

> Also, not all thyroid cancers are created equally (like papillary vs medullary)

Granted, but how is this relevant? I've heard that those drugs may -- this is still, as yet, uncertain -- increase the likelihood of follicular thyroid cancer, which is a very weak type. I have not heard that they increase one's likelihood of coming down with the anaplastic variant. (The only truly deadly one, but quite rare.) If caught early enough, papillary, follicular, and medullary are all easily treatable and indeed curable.

> not every one taking GLP-1 RAs are morbidly obese

Again, sure, but how is it relevant?
the types kysely implemented are crazy. even custom where clause like this one [0] are typesafe :O

[0] https://github.com/opral/monorepo/blob/99356e577f558f4442a95...
For me it's me PhD thesis. It's a drug, and there's always something to do either on the code or writing or reading. I'm even a bit disappointed by Space Age.
> Guardian comes to mind.

The Guardian's ownership is independent

The Guardian's views are very much not. Very predictable
I admitted my ignorance and blamed know one for my ignorance. I mentioned my average American history background to demonstrate whatever is going on in your ivory tower world average Americans are in the dark.

I often discuss things with people and when I demonstrate gaps in understanding they offer sources.

The idea that could walk into my local library and ask a question about something I’m not aware is an interesting idea.

I’m starting to think you don’t have much to share.
If the maintainers are reading this is cool. I would start with an exporter/importer for pages from Wikipedia format into whatever format you use, it should also deal with the media. This is no small task but what you need.
I would not put it that way - of course we want «replicable» Science, as we (and in particular Lakatos) want it to provide predictions, and we value Science primarily for that capacity.

Nonetheless, disappointing experiments must be treated reasonably (still Lakatos). We do not throw away theories - complex beasts that are best considered as "programmes" also to underline that they involve components - because an outcome was problematic: we investigate till we frame the problem in a sub-theory of "what could have gone wrong".

Going towards the case of OP's statements which I countered, to corroborate some theory you conceive experiments to see if it is fact-resistant (Popper - but also fact compliant, which remains the main basic thing), but then you would also refine it according to the complications given by facts. Maybe you need more sophisticated ways to assess your results.

> I put that word in quotes cuz I'm not sure what [science] means anymore

Well, since we are on Lakatos, let us rephrase him: Science would be something that allows predictions.
Signal-to-noise is often used as a modality independent term.

Someone might reference signal-to-noise issues with modern news sources, body language, or a data set of any particular origin.
But if you were asked to spell the words, you'd produce something close to what was expected, rather than drawing a blank. The question "how do you spell wiedersehen" contains in itself a lot of clues.

This feels more like "what's the Unicode character for 'full moon'?" I'd be able to recognize the result as correct, but if I don't know the answer, I just don't know.

(Of course, that goes too far in the other direction. I assume you can draw a few strokes to "get someone started" on a character and they'll pick it up, whereas most people wouldn't recognize the first half of a Unicode code point. As the grandparent poster said, it's an exotic problem that's hard to empathize with in phonetic languages)
In reflecting on the history of formal education, it's necessry to separate the Oxbride tradition of grooming future aristocrats and nobles from the rise of compulsory public education at the end of the 19th century, which is a responds to a variety of challenges raised by both industrialization and modern cities.

For a retrospective review of that history, with extensive citations, Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society can get you started on your own research. His book is fundamentally polemical because he was invested in his opinions about the past, the present, and the future, but the bibliography and citations prove useful for this topic even if you don't buy his summary perspective.

There are of course many other primary and secondary treatments contemporary to the time, that you can review without reading through Illich's polemics, some of which are very easy to find in the Harper's Magazine archives.

What you'll find, broadly, os that there was very little said of the idealism we now attribute to enlightment and almost all of the dialog about modern public education, especially compulsory -- by both proponets and critics -- was quite practical, focused on what schooling and education would acheive (or sacrifice) for industry, social cohesion, cultural diversity/uniformity, crime, child welfare, political alignment, and national identity.

IOW, "I've never seen any evidence" is understandable (we each only have so much time to study), but it's not for some lack of that evidence.
Worked on a relevant project for Meta.

There’s a lot of overhead as soon as you involve a filesystem rather than a block device, even on a dedicated disk, particularly with btrfs. I don’t know if the same is true with MacOS and APFS; this isn’t the area I usually work in. However copy-on-write file systems (which I believe apfs is) are somewhat predisposed to fragment files as part of the dedup process; I don’t know if apfs runs it online in some way so it could have affected the article’s author’s results.

The standard library implementation details can also have a huge impact, eg I observed with Rust for a prior project when I started fiddling with the read buffer size:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/49921

The other issue that I see is that their I/O is implicitly synchronous and requires a memory copy. They might see better performance if they can memmap the file, which can probably solve both issues. Then if C# allows it, they can just parse the CSV in-place; with a language like Rust, you can even trivially do this in a zero-copy manner, though I suspect it’s more involved with C# since this requires setting up strings / parsing that point at the memmaped file.

At that point, the OS should be theoretically able to serve up the cached file for the application to do some logic with, without ever needing to copy the full contents again into separate strings.
> A fraud case with no victims

Really?
Trying to reimplement Android without Binder is a doomed plan. Everything about Android is so intrinsically linked to having Binder available that you're just going to end up piling hacks on hacks to have anything working. At this point, an x86 Android image will be better and more reliable. Somewhat just as fast.

Services ? Binder. Intents (even internal ones) ? Binder. Play Services / microG which 90% of apps use ? Binder. Permissions ? Binder.
Hong Kong handover is not recent and I don't see how you can claim it has "gone badly for local residents".