skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why one wouldn't also do whatever is within their means and energy levels to avoid surveillance, as well? Have you a reason for suggesting people don't do it?

Sure, surveillance is very pervasive, and much worse than people seem to want to admit to themselves. But I don't really get why "oh well, give up" makes sense to you there, and you're so excited about providing false information. Why not both?

Going outside for a day and leaving the phone fully off in the back of a drawer is good fun for the whole family, and can be done. Getting Tails onto a USB stick is easy for many and even fun for some, and you can make copies for your friends. Getting that old brick phone out of the other drawer, getting the old charger for it, and taking that out sometimes when you only need calls, can be good fun too.

I don't get why it'd be so black and white, especially considering that's it's so empowering and interesting to learn more about privacy and get a bit more engaged, even on a small personal level.
It was proposed by Thom Tillis, a Republican who has previously defended Donald Trump: https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2023/3/tillis-statement-on-the...
Maybe the solution is to segment students to the teaching style?

We can't expect teachers to provide a good environment for students who are good at self paced learning, and students who need structure in the same classroom. But we might be able to have classrooms that lean one way or another...
These industries, more or less, need to be highly regulated because we've faced the alternative and it's worse. The quality of education went up SIGNFICANTLY when the state took more control over it.
These are fine, though don’t help much and bad for local economy and prosperity (tourists bring money and buy food and things from local businesses which employ local people and pay local taxes). “You can’t come here” is not fine, and thankfully infeasible.

The same logic should also work for states; people, however, are irrational in this regard.
Very nice, really hope to see them on mi city eventually and give them a try.

Anyone here has used Waymo already?

My only real concern before boarding one would be not being able to stop and exit vehicle at any time I wanted to, for whatever reason.

Is this something they already address? Like a big red "STOP" button somewhere in the dashboard?
I'm not sure I agree with you.

I think a better definition of shipping is ensuring your project meets the definition of done. At big companies, for many projects, I think there's an implicit requirement in the definition of done that management is aware of and somewhat happy with what you shipped. The resources used to ship a project (the time, money, and people) are, after all, their resources.

I feel like you're getting at the fact that you can build a crappy product that management loves and build something customers love that management hates. I don't disagree with that at all, but to me that's kind of tangential to whether you've shipped a project or not. To me at least, shipping isn't about it being good or bad, it's just about it being done. I think what the article is getting at is that if management doesn't agree that it's done, then it's not really done.
I think the SAT is a ludicrous setup given that most people never see anything like it in their lives again but the practice of studying for passing an exam of some kind is an absolutely invaluable skill
Here's the detailed area coverage map for LA: https://support.google.com/waymo/answer/9059119#LA
Waymo has had the move crashes of any autonomous driving system so obviously the thing to do is expand their reign of terror.
https://www.govtech.com/transportation/how-many-waymo-cruise...
Western Governors University

But they rarely use the full name, even on their own site.
I don't agree.

Part of the issue is that World War II is a vastly more complex situation than the Russo-Ukrainian war; it's really not so much a war as it is an overlapping mess of several smaller wars, with a large amount of rapid geographical alterations in a short timeframe. To explain to people in September 1939 what's going on, you have to bring up the Saarland, Sudetenland, Danzig, the Polish Corridor, the dismemberment of Austria and Czechoslovakia... and that's before Germany actually invades Poland. For the Russo-Ukrainian war, you need to bring up... Crimea, the Donbass, and maaaaybe Transdnistria, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia if you're trying to build a wider geopolitical picture. And most maps you see do highlight Crimea and the Donbass!

As the war progresses, World War II grows in massive scale, so that places like Tobruk became important locations for the strategic aspect of the war, and even a well-informed individual would have been hard-pressed to locate Tobruk before then. So you need to highlight this town in North Africa, and then explicate why a town in North Africa is important in the context of a literal world-wide war. By contrast, Ukraine is far smaller than the entire world, and even an important linchpin like Vuhledar has only the significance of, say, Bastogne in WW2.
The quality of app drivers in LA is wanting. I’ve been proselytized, informed of imminent apocalyptic civil wars, asked if I know any guys who want to buy copper in bulk. And how can I forget the driver asleep at the wheel of a Tesla with regenerative braking on max, with each doze into slumberland jolting the whole carriage into alert with a smart ping of the battery charging, all the long way from downtown to the airport? I don’t care if it’s double the price and I occasionally get stuck behind an errant traffic cone for an hour, I will gladly take Waymo.
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Or just...not have students at wildly different levels in the same class.

At high school and more so in universities, there are distinct classes at different levels, and prerequisites for those classes, and students at different levels. Bring that system to all grades, rather than just having "age N = grade X" as one giant class with pressure for uniformity.
- Some schools don't have the resources to send a kid who screams for 10 minutes to the office. Schools in bad areas may have a line of battery incidents waiting for admin's attention by noon. There are schools where second graders threatening the teacher with sexual assault is just a Tuesday and basically gets ignored.

- Schools in nicer areas are sometimes in the middle of some dumbshit half-implemented (the other parts made admin uncomfortable) "discipline plan" that the superintendent got sold on at some damn district-paid drinking vacation away from the family... er, I mean, education conference, which may lead to insane crap like letting a kid scream in the classroom for ten minutes (sending them to the office might get the teacher in trouble for not following the plan). Half-implemented plainly-doomed-to-fail admin-driven plans for discipline, or for education approaches to any or all subject areas, are often a factor in stupid crap schools do.
I am pretty sure that this emergency stop button is a regulatory requirement.
OP said:

> It worked well, in my opinion at least, and the number of complaints and straight up threats because kids would learn things "they shouldn't be" was just… insanely frustrating. .... Now in order to keep schools paying for our services, every kid is banded into a range based on their grade

This sentiment that "they shouldn't be" learning advanced things is not an equity argument—it's probably the kids' OWN parents complaining! I certainly agree that the equity-based shutdowns in highly-progressive cities are a problem, but that's really a very limited case; this thread is really about an entirely different phenomenon.
On desktop I do! (Though I use the Librewolf patches rather than vanilla.) But you can't use background video playback on mobile devices without the app (to my knowledge) and I don't think picture in picture works, either. Plus, I generally recommend Fennec F-Droid on Android rather than the stupid shitty version of Firefox that compromised Mozilla puts out these days.
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This project allows you to easily add a nice looking, mobile-friendly blog to your existing NextJS app without a lot of heavy dependencies or complex stuff to configure.

You just set up a repo on GitHub with some markdown files with some metadata at the top, and it will automatically retrieve and convert the markdown to rich html/css blog posts that works well with SEO.

I made it for my own webapp because I wanted something simple and easy and didn't want to deal with a complex library/system that does tons of stuff I don't care about.
Great, yet another attempt at solving this with yet another standard that not everyone will use. Why did you pick this attempt instead of something more common like Gracenote?
Yes, there's a "pullover now" button on the dashboard at all times.

Apparently you can always open the door from inside even if the vehicle is in motion, but I've not tried that myself!
Don't they have a lot more miles than anyone else?
Except the people who were openly suspicious of government tended only to be suspicious when a "leftist" was in power. You'll notice all of the worries about election tampering just vanished as soon as Trump won, and none of the people crying about government overreach and authoritarianism seem to care about the degree of arbitrary and unchecked power Trump and Elon Musk seem to want to wield.

The upcoming administration is probably going to be neck deep in actual honest to God conspiracies and crimes and none of that lot are going to say a damn thing, but they'll probably still be harping on Hunter Biden's laptop or some other such nonsense.
I have to remind myself procrastination is a fear problem and not an ability problem. Asking for help. Fear of getting more stuff to do. It prevents me from getting a sh*tty first draft down and from that. ONly thing I have found is like body doubling even in the form of coffee shop and people not even doing. I think there are frameworkds too. It is just sometimes fear can preventing using the many tools. Also a plan of "What does done look like". Great topic.
This feels like around the 5th time, at least, that an EdTech revolution has failed.
Yeah, he divided a geometric curve by 2
They're the same people that do bike-shedding and code golf all day at work. I hate them with a febrile passion
> I was feeling optimistic about software patents after the cloudflare ruling.

And at the same time the patent lawyer and troll lobby was feeling panicked and started spreading money around. Now we have the lame duck congressional period and we're seeing the results of their money.
I doubt there's ever going to be a big bang moment where self driving just works everywhere. Instead it's going to be a slow rollout of self driving taxi's in increasingly different environments.
> "let's use our very scarce resources helping the bottom kids"

So why does the richest country on the planet have "very scarce resources" only when it comes to educating its kids ? Of course, that very same public school has a stadium that is easily several times larger than facilities provided for Olympic level athletes in a poor country like India. That same school has a music program with a huge ballroom, recording studio, fancy musical instruments...bass sax, harps, bassoons and contrabassoons, double bass, violas...like literally, even a top of the line Bollywood studio doesn't have half of this. USA has chosen to prioritize just about everything other than basic classroom stem education. Then when you ask the math teacher why the kids don't know their logarithms and trig tables, he is like...well we have calculators and chromebooks.
I have spent multiple years trying to engage with school board officials in public schools here in the mid-west. The most reasonable, unemotional, takeaway after all this engagement is that Americans are simply not interested in classroom education. They don't have teacher, don't have the time to teach, don't care for books or chalkboards...its simply not their thing. That's fine. I do hope all of this hyper-investment in music and sports produces some world class track and field athlete who can run a mile under three minutes while playing the bassoon.
That is crazy reductive to the point of ignorance. Doctrine does matter. You might know what your enemy is doing but if you fight wrong, even with foreknowledge, you will not win.
I dropped out of school for adhd reasons and after getting treatment I went back and finished my last couple semesters (and wrote a novel, that first year on vyvanse was insanely productive). I found it a lot easier to engage with the work and pay attention long enough to take notes in class.
Yeah definitely agree. Tech at my kids school just means all the tests and homework are done on a computer instead of on paper, but it is still the same format as it has always been.

Would be cool to see more open ended long running projects instead of the standard 'lecture > homework > test' pipeline. Kids are also given a crazy amount of leeway and teachers/parents will drag a negligent kid to their diploma. Even if a kid tried to fail they would be met with a bunch of counselors and special classes begging him to put forth a minimal effort. It might help if we moved the guardrails back a bit and let kids know that failure is a very real possibility.
Looks like Waymo will be the first Alphabet moonshot that will reach 100B valuation in the not too distant future. Just need to hit the most profitable cities and Uber will have to compete at lower prices, while they're a public company. The nest egg will will be kept full as it's the only working autonomous ride solution out there making any money.
If that's because they've driven more miles than any other driving system then it's not a very meaningful statistic. Number of crashes per miles driven feels more important as a comparison.

(Also that story uses numbers from August 2023)
The music industry needs to more widely use some kind of equivalent to the ISBN that the book industry uses. A simple "ISMN" list per playlist/library would be all that would be needed to move between services when both apps have the same songs.

One could also imagine a standardized ismn://<number> URL format that could open in your preferred music app, and this could work even without a streaming service if you already own that song in your personal music collection.

ISMN seems to exist: https://www.loc.gov/ismn/about.html

But, I've never actually seen it used for recordings; it seems to be focused solely on music notation. So, it would be nice to have some kind of recording-focused identifier for keeping track of specific performances between services.
What metadata is exposed by GPG and not Signal?
Depends on if Tesla succeeds or not. I'm betting they will.
After seeing what a mess it makes to allow patents on software, I feel skeptical that patents on things are a good idea, either.
How many accidents do they have per mile driven? How many accidents do ride-share drivers have per mile driven?
You must be confusing Waymo with Tesla: https://www.bbntimes.com/technology/tesla-s-autopilot-leads-...
This is true, which is why it's doubly depressing to see all sorts of new building construction in my part of the US, and 90% of it is soul-crushingly awful in aesthetic terms.
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I built a custom renderer that takes in the recordings and applies the effects. It took a while to get the "feeling" just right, but I'm pretty happy with it now!
It may be region-related then. Where I'm based, even If I ask Google in english, it just gives me a 1-minute (at least) answer. It was just a 2h hackathon project for fun. It also tweets all the answers that doesn't go against the twitter guidelines, so even if you ask weird stuff like shards of glass, it'll tweet it.

But regardless of that, thanks for your input! :)
> To my knowledge, backdoors in various NSA encryption types have only been suggested and theorized about. However, we already have real world proof that hardware and software backdoors not only exist, but have been used.

Heart bleed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed

> But on the other hand, unless you really piss off someone in the government, they are not likely going to be worried enough about you to use any of those tools.

The government is made up of people, who will do illegal things, if they think they can get away with it. As there is essentially no auditing of NSA surveillance feeds (let alone other countries surveillance), so those folks can spy on almost anyone without repercussions. This all precludes the fact that most of the surveillance is actually done by private, for profit, companies that have a vested interest in keeping the surveillance beast running.
One very important part your comment doesn't mention: a real human being has to actually take images for the AI to analyze.

The amount of training a radiation technologist (the person who makes you put your body in uncomfortable positions when you break something) is significant. My partner has made a career of it, and the amount of school needed and clinical hours is non-trivial, and harder to do than becoming a nurse from what I understand.

They need to know as much about bones as orthopedic surgeons while also knowing how radiation works, as well as how the entire imagining tech stack works, while also having the soft skills needed to guide injured/ill patients to do difficult things (often in the midst of medical trauma).

The part where a doctor looks at images is really just a very small part of the entire "product." The radiologists who say "there's a broken arm" are never in the room, never see the patient, never have context. It's something that, frankly, an AI can do much more consistently and accurately at this point.
The centralised structure, the lack of trust and selfishness, and the improvisation and ignoring the rules are all connected.

The less people care about rules - the harsher you have to be to enforce them.

The high level officers had to go to the front lines not because foot soldiers were helpless without them. They had to go there because without them the soldiers would ignore the orders to go forward, hide in relatively safer place, start looting and lie in the reports they executed the orders perfectly killing thousands of enemies :)

Remember when Ukraine invaded Kursk region this year? Kadyrov troops that defended the border there said they were "bypassed" by Ukrainians when they "were eating dinner" :)
So you're fine with your tax dollars going towards your kids browsing TikTok all day in school instead of fucking learning?
you don't need a smart phone to have your location tracked
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What if it is possible to spend a lot less time learning that with newer classroom methods (ed tech doesn't have to mean whiteboards and apps, teaching methods are technology too).

We can make a good house without metal fasteners using hand tools and nothing but muscles. But that doesn't mean that a house built using brushless power tools in 1/4 the time isn't also a good house.

More directly: I conceptually understand a lot of algorithms that I read about. For me though, the ones that I learned by coding them and running them are the ones I understand much better. Hand written notes on a lecture do not guarantee complete or correct understanding, and there is no mechanism for checking.
To be fair - maybe that's what the product mentioned should have been doing? You can focus on general problem-solving ability by giving talented kids hard problems with the amount of knowledge adequate for their level rather giving them more an more material and making the whole learning process less manageable.
Absolutely. Every country, state, city, county can enact their own regulations as they see fit. This is Uber rollout on steroids, imo. There are some many hurdles to making this happen even if the tech exists.
I think you get thread-safety and memory leaks (the article alludes to macOS taking this approach), or it's unsafe but doesn't leak. But that is inherent in the API, as specified by POSIX: setenv must necessarily either invalidate the pointer returned by getenv (which is cannot do safely) or leak it.

Perhaps the leak is "better", in at least there won't be non-OOM crashes, but it still leaves a bad taste in one's mouth.

For a long running program like Steam (that is for some odd reason calling setenv…?) … I'm not sure which is better. Better would be not calling setenv, which it sounds like they've worked on.
If you have the chance to try out a Waymo (you own a credit card and smart phone and find yourself in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix or Austin if you can get through that waitlist) I thoroughly recommend it.

Right now it's the most exciting tourist attraction in San Francisco.

The first few minutes are pretty terrifying... but the ride is so smooth that you very quickly settle into it. It's absolutely worth experiencing.
It's an echo chamber because people who pay have a significantly louder voice. The only people who pay are avid musk supporters, who tend to be of a certain ideology. So those people are at the top of replies, creating an echo chamber. In addition, many people who oppose musk's ideology have left the platform, further creating an echo chamber.
Whomever has listed it at GoDaddy when you land on the domain in a browser.

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Here is my feedback:

1. You don’t need an internet connection for simple unit conversion.

2. You don’t need to share data with 1400+ spy tech organizations. You don’t need cookies at all. It’s a stateless calculator.
When my daughter was 11 she tiled our bathroom. Now she's 16 and talking about what tools she wants to add to the workshop. Kids are tiny adults, you just need to enable them.
Ok, fine, but how do you vibe your sense of "automation and AI will help drive down the cost of healthcare" with the absolute undeniable reality that healthcare has been adopting automation for decades, and over the decades it has only gotten (exponentially) more and more expensive? While outcomes are stagnating or getting worse? Where is the disconnect between your sense of how reality should function, and how it is tangibly, actually functioning?
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It seems the problem here is the bank, not Stripe.
But the review found that the pilot did do the right thing and did follow the manual. The definition of, "out of control" seems to be to blame. He's even been cleared to fly again.
The reason is that if the code is the specification is not obvious when a certain behaviour is an intended feature or a bug.

Specifications can have bugs of course, but when the spec and (potentially multiple) implementations agree gives more confidence on expected behaviour.

A conformance suite can be an alternative of course, but it is not necessarily always possible to infer general behaviour from a test case.
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Where do you think the rules that administrators have to follow come from? And what do you think the purpose of No Child Left Behind was? Its long title is "an act to close the achievement gap with accountability, flexibility, and choice, so that no child is left behind."

I think you may have interpreted my use of the word "equity" to mean something along the lines of "woke", but I meant it in the strictest sense: The red tape that OP is talking about was put in place in the name of ensuring equal opportunities for all children, but has actually accomplished the opposite.