skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if you care about it, you will still often wind up with a junk drawer of JSONB. I don't really see it as a problem unless people are writing bad queries against it instead of lifting values out of the JSONB into their own columns, etc.
> they resorted to finger-pointing.

This is not finger-pointing. This is literally how disputes work. Stripe has no role to play in this and they have clarified this in their docs:

> Throughout this process, Stripe facilitates your case, but doesn’t have influence over the outcome, which is at the sole discretion of the account owner’s bank.

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> This is a lie because I never even sent them the IP address since that isn't shown in the evidence I submitted.

What if they already have a record of IP address of who did the transaction and they are saying that it doesn't match the geolocation of the customer?
Or you could just use a burner account and avoid this.
> because workers didn't

Do you mean immediately? At peak inflation wages weren't keeping pace, but wage growth is exceeding inflation right now to catch back up.

Incomes have been, on average, stagnant for hundreds of years – as far back as the data goes. It is unlikely that this time will be different.

> I hope eventually there's a tipping point where the powers that be

You did mention the US. Presumably you're not talking about a dictatorship. The powers that be are the population at large. I'm sure they are acutely aware of this. They have to live it, after all.
But the author did have a paragraph explaining, in general, what they mean.

And they're right! I've had to fix a few issues of this in a project I recently got moved to. There's almost never a reason to duplicate data.
While I don't doubt that a benefit of schools is you don't have to pay for day care while you pursue a career, that is far from the "main utility" of schools.

The main utility of schools, despite the hyperbole on the internet, is to educate and cultivate a productive, adjusted society. Yes there is overlap with what parents do, yes there is overlap with daycare. But those are ancillary benefits, not the ultimate goal.
Since this is focusing on US law: You cannot be denied health insurance based on the outcome of a genetic test, even in the pre-ACA days. Back before the ACA, you COULD be denied insurance once you have a manifest disease (which would then be considered a pre-existing condition.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrim...

However, "The law does not cover life, disability, or long-term care insurance, which may cause some reluctance to get tested."
> What, specifically, is an example of an exam not measuring proficiency

Not op, but a few examples:

1. Test structures that reward good time management. The paper SAT is a good example of this. The early items in a section are (were?) easy, the middle items were medium difficulty, and the toughest items were towards the end. A good test take would manage their time so that they spent the most amount of time on questions that could improve their scores — later questions for high achievers, but the middle questions for folks who were missing a lot of questions in that range.

2. Test structures that reward endurance. Again, SAT is a good example. How often have examinees sat down in a multi-hour high-stakes testing situation before taking the SAT. “Not often enough to feel comfortable” is usually the answer. I have taken some foreign language proficiency tests that were also multi-hour long endeavors. I practiced answer old exam questions in a testing environment, so the tests were easy for me. Some of my peers did not, and fatigue seemed to be a part of their challenge.

3. I took some “issue spotter” tests in college. I had never heard of or seen an issue spotter test before. I bombed my first one. My professor kindly walked me through things he knew I knew the answers to that would what given me credit. I aced all future issue-spotter exams. Side note: familiarity with test/question format seems to matter for better students, but it largely doesn’t for unmotivated students. Many studies on familiarity with test/question format show no correlation, but my personal experience (as a test giver) is that this is due to lumping the unmotivated and ambivalent examinees with the folks who notice, care, and take action.

There are many more answers to your question, but the above are few decent examples.
> There are too many profitable incentives to poor education that are conspiring to perpetuate it. An ill-educated populace is easier to manipulate, gravitate towards consumerism, and won't hold their leaders as accountable. Power generally resides with those who benefit from an ill-educated populace, so anything that would actually help educate children and people at large is discouraged.

I want to believe this but I can't honestly imagine someone actively thinking about this and dedicating part of their work to misinforming the poor intentionally.
I was talking about text-only, filtered and deduped content.

Most of Google's 100PB is picture and video. Filtering the spam and deduping the content helped Google reduce the ~50B page index in 2012 to ~<10B today.
Yes, how could I gaffe so badly? Inverting a major third gives a minor sixth. Rule of nine, minor-major swap. Elementary school stuff.
AI is a tool. Doctors can use the tool to ensure they haven't overlooked anything. At the end of the day, it's still doctors who are practicing medicine and are responsible for treatment.

Yes, there are a lot of bridges we need to cross with regards to the best practices for using semi-intelligent tools. These tools are in their infancy, so I expect there's going to be a lot we learn over the next five to ten years and a lot of policy and procedure that get put in place.
Locate Y.

Maybe Locate X2 or Locate X_2
Weird, I would have guessed that it auto commits the previous batch when it polls for the next batch, meaning it would be like

loop:
messages = poll() # poll returns new messages and commits previous batch
process(messages)

but it sounds like it "poll returns new messages and immediately commits them."
> need to be studied for at least ten years, then rolled out slowly with much more skeptical study.

If you have ever been involved with education students doing studies you know that methodology here is the pretty lacking, and it’s hard to consider what could be done better (other than stop pretending these surveys mean anything).

I think we need to stop pretending that there is some magic technique that’s going to 5x performance.
That, to me, is not a problem with the exam though. It's a problem of teaching to a special case and not the general case. If you want to find fault, it's in the incentive system. But I don't see how the exam itself is the problem.
How do you even determine whether or not an an AI-generated image is what you desired?

If a human being is making that determination, their time is probably worth more than the 6 cents it cost to generate the image.
I find that an uncharitable take of equity. You can also make someone like that grow stronger so that they have more to contribute to society. “Strongest shoulders carrying the heaviest burden” and all that (it’s a Dutch saying about the Dutch tax system).
I'm a Premium subscriber but am seriously considering stopping that in favor of Revanced or Newpipe. Presumably they both let me disable shorts permanently versus bullshit like only being able to hide them for thirty days?
Israel is not party to the 4th Hague convention, but it is customary law, so that doesn't really matter. I should have been more precise, I meant Palestinians in Gaza, which isn't occupied. Or at least it wasn't until the attacks. Chances are that it will be again.

They do have the right to resist just as Israel did upon its founding. But the attacks in October are certainly not covered by international law. Israel doesn't justify genocide, because genocide is not what is happening. Neither legally nor otherwise. The resistance is of course used to justify security interests, but those don't qualify for genocide either.

Still, all that doesn't matter. They need to fix their relation to Israel, accept its existence. That can open the way for their own state and there are few alternatives.
> I'm fairly confident the British navy had huge difficulty manning their ships properly.

"very valuable" compared to a ship? Not so much.

> It took many years to train someone in the proper functioning of the ship

I'm not sure where you get this from. Many duties on ships could be successfully crewed by children^. Crew were commonly pressed into service, in lieu of volunteers and proper enlisted (transferred, et al). Debtors looking for debt-forgiveness, were a particularly fruitful source. Slaves were sometimes used. Training was on the job. Operational sailing circa 1800, wasn't particularly sophisticated. It was danger-prone.

^https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1044940/Diary-18th-...
Horrible landing page. I now know the team behind it but have absolutely no idea what it does.
> My wife had one kid scream for 10 minutes yesterday

Did she actually allow this kid to disrupt the entire class for 10 minutes? Isn't there a responsibility to all the other students that they should have a reasonable learning environment?

I remember being sent to the office for a lot less than that.
If his standby instruments were operable, the answer to that question is likely "yes." Having not flown a STOVL aircraft, the only part I can't speak to is whether his thrust vectoring/lift fan was in an unknown configuration, and how that plays into things. But generally out-of-control flight results from a spike in angle of attack at low speeds leading to aerodynamic stall and departure, and modern fly-by-wire aircraft are highly resistant to this.
Amazon's Build on Trainium Initiative Brings AI to Academia
>Now on the first tap the bottom half of the screen becomes an overlay with a bunch of action buttons, causing the second tap to inadvertently engage one of the buttons.

Thank you for saying this. I thought I was going crazy as I suddenly started to skip to the next video when I just want to forward it. I'm still not sure if this is an intentional change or a bug
Every time I visit my parents (who live in another continent), every time we celebrate something together, every time we fight, I think to myself, "how would next time look like". I know for sure that some of them will be irredeemably different to the present. No amount of negative visualization may help me, I fear.

[0] https://stoicismu.com/stoicism-negative-visualization/
Fascinating. I teach and believe the devices should be more open. I've personally witnessed student agitation, anger, anxiety etc when barred from changing their wallpaper, from adding a bookmark to Chrome, from changing basic accessibility settings. I have a hard time seeing how we can lock these devices down any further.

Though I do believe schools need an edu version of YouTube. YouTube kids is too childish for older students. But regular YouTube has too much inappropriate stuff on it. That's a tough one.
Framer Motion is now independent. Introducing Motion
I think it's weird that you're not telling us what "things they shouldn't be" are. There are plenty of things I think kids shouldn't be learning.
It could be that the tickets were sold as -- or reached a state where -- they were non-refundable. This workflow becomes a hack for refunding things that are non-refundable.
How will LM agents change the Internet?
Interesting data re: consolidation of talent (in addition to parallel themes of consolidation of compute, LLMs, etc.)
> The decision on who wins a dispute comes down to a judgment call by the bank in which Stripe unfortunately has no role or way of influencing. We are aware of how this resolution can impact you and your business, but as much as we wish we could do more in this scenario, this is the final outcome.

What about this could Stripe have done better? Eat the cost of any disputes or fraudulent charges that the bank judges not to be fraud?
I think of AI as being roughly the same moral caliber as cigarettes. Apple has never had to make a cigarette ad before, so it doesn't surprise me that they're not good at it. It's hard to come out right and say, "We've bet billions of dollars that we can convince you not to think for yourself anymore."

The product is asking your to give up your creativity, your will for self improvement, your potential to excel. Once you externalize these parts of your brain to someone else who you have to pay to think for you, after a long enough time you will have nothing at all to offer society yourself.
NewPipe has it's own library NewPipeExtractor and does the work on your device, so IP bans aren't really a problem compared to a hosted instances where multiple clients access youtube through the IP of the instance.
https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor

Piped is an alternative to Invidious which uses the NewPipeExtractor library: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped

But instances with high traffic or 'suspicious IP Adresses' can still be banned very quickly.
I was not aware of the additive noise part. I will have to look into that, thanks for the info!
H invite code
So you can either have a coffee XOR a friend with which to share it. Only one. Not both.
Maybe they fired the coffee whales
There is. There is a ton of alternative schools, homeschooling is legal in most of places in the world etc. The problem is that people expect teachers adopt to every single pupil. It's not possible.
"client-server architectures"

Actually, public-key-signed object-p2p exchange systems allow for all sorts of fun. Even if people fiddle with the state exchange, the time+last_event indices can flag lag switchers, and signature audits detect memory patchers...

My point was, one doesn't need to lock the door if you own a alligator farm. =3
Graphit – Dependency Graph for courses and curricula
It is very weird to write all this about a nice series of photographs
Come on bud, I just went through your account and you have only made one comment that didn’t link to your brand. I’m sure you have other things to contribute as I’m sure you have other interests beyond your brand. Just balance it out a little bit and it wouldn’t be so grating.

Advertising your own brand doesn’t give anything back. It will damage your company though.
This is why I only watch Youtube via Firefox mobile, plus I can use a adblocker with that.

Google is garbage at this point. Every employee there is simply promotion farming and has no concept of what a backbone is. Everything they do is utter trash and only about feeding their algorithm or collecting your data.
It's four versions behind the current one with a lot of CVEs. There seems to be an LTS 126 but it's only for ChromeOS - it's at least behind this one which fixed one critical and two High CVEs: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/11/long-term-supp...

Even being only one version behind is dangerous for such a huge attack vector.
> Seen like this their refusal to replace compromised keys was already brazen,

Does it really sound crazy that they would not replace all the keys they ever sold? At that price, it feels like it's obviously part of the deal. If you want to buy a security key that will get audited every day by 10 experts and receive new versions delivered in your hands by approved staff, I guess you should expect to pay more than 50 bucks, right?

> them selling compromised keys constitutes a breach of trust.

Some anonymous reader of some blog claims it. It doesn't mean it's true, does it? For what I can see, it says on the Yubico store which version of the firmware I am getting. Can anyone confirm that they ordered the new version, received the old version and Yubico refused to exchange that?
Ed is failing, EdTech is just an obvious consequence.
FWIW, No Child Left Behind is no longer law, it was replaced in 2015.
Large bureaucracy wants people to be as fungible as possible, so that systems can be designed that interact with fungible units instead of complex, multifaceted individuals.
> The worst outcome is Sam Altman builds an AGI

Sam Altman doesn't need to build an AGI for this process to happen. Companies already demonstrate that they're satisfied with a lame AI that work just barely enough to replace most workers.
I’m working solo on a project, with trunk based development. I still find jj nicer to use than git. I do do pull requests but just to ensure that CI passes on every commit.

Everybody is different, and that’s okay.
To be fair, it is less about "keeping top kids down" and more about "let's use our very scarce resources helping the bottom kids". Put that way it seems less malicious, and more like probably the right thing to do over all, while still being extremely frustrating if you are, or are the parent of, a 'top kid'. I know that in Seattle, I've been very frustrated with all the talk and promise of our school to provide enrichment to kids like mine who are able to learn quickly and are ready for more advanced learning opportunities, only to discover that it is haphazard, often in name only, and there isn't time or interest in providing more.

But it's not because of some drive for 'equity'. I've talked with teachers (as friends, not in a school setting). They're doing what they can with the resources they have.
related: https://test.graphit.ur.de/app/src/pages/selectionTools/
I routinely use different per-company email addresses with most companies I deal with, mainly so that my email is automatically sorted and so that I can deal more effectively with cases where a spammer gets my email address from a company or an marketing unsubscribe request is ignored.

The mere fact that my bank and the merchant have different email addresses for me should not give me an unfair advantage in disputes with a merchant. The main protection the merchant has from me is the fact that I'm too honest to fraudulently start this kind of dispute, which is not something a merchant should rely on for their customer base at large.

Bank of America's policy is inappropriately merchant-hostile here, and so is Stripe's policy of so blindly deferring to the bank.

That said, I'm not truly sure what the right fix is. Names are not globally unique or authenticated, and a fraudster with the necessary credit card information could easily have gone to the website and made the ticket purchase just as easily as the genuine client, even in the example of the linked article. And the last time I used my credit card (legitimately) to buy flight tickets for relatives to visit my wife and me, the only email address I specified belonged to one of my visiting relatives, not to my wife or me.

It's a hard problem to fairly solve.
Wired used to be a magazine I subscribed and enjoyed reading. Too bad it is now yet another partisan piece.

Government surveillance isn't ramping up under Trump. It was already here under Obama.
I find it telling that “EdTech” is naturally assumed to be “classroom tools”. Talk about a lack of vision. The fine people at OMSCS are pioneering a fantastic new future for higher education, and it goes way beyond flash card systems and pop quiz tools.

Education is in trouble in America, but that doesn’t mean a) the concept of technology has failed, or b) it’s in trouble everywhere. The edtech revolution can’t fail, it already happened for many hundreds of millions worldwide with the advent of Wikipedia, YouTube, and Kahn Academy.
Plus, should you decide you want some coloring, "neutral" (as close as one can get to it) is a better starting point. My neutral setup can have its bass boosted correctly more easily than a bass-boosted system can have its bass-boost removed.
As a laserdisc collector, I am particularly aware of disc rot and in those it is far more present by now. Practically all discs have some level by now even the good ones, and even if they look clean to the eye. There are people that say the same thing there, that there are good discs that don't have rot and bad ones that do. But that is not true, there are only better and worse examples, faster and slower progress.

cds are both younger and built better, so they will not only last to a later absolute date, they will last longer relative to their manufacturing date, but cds have a few other things that mask rot even when it starts, which is both that they are digital and the player has buffering and interpolation, and also that the data format includes redundant data for error correction. (ld is analog and has neither, later better players do add some digital processing but it can't do the kind of good job with a 6mhz analog fm ntsc video signal that a cd player can with a simple audio bitstream)

A cd with the same rot that is visible on a ld (visible in the output not visible to the eye on the physical disc) will appear to play perfectly even in the cheapest junk player.

So, it will take longer, but I see no reason to treat "longer" as "indefinite".

There is no specific time, but it is inevitable and I don't think it's in the 100's of years but in the 10's of years, and the 10's of years, especially when many are already 30 years old, is not very many more 10's of years left.

And if that turns out to be pessimistic and they last another 50 or more? That's just a bonus. Lucky future rippers who get a chance to rip with even better tech later.

Tangentially I do also assume that some day long before the polycarbonate disintigrates, there will be a practical way to read even fully oxidized discs with a different frequency laser or even a camera or microscope-based head, or even a bulk scanner that just rasterizes the whole surface without even bothering to read the track in a spiral until after the fact purely in software.

As time goes on, tools get both better and more accessible, so in 1995 it would not be possible for a person to make their own laser head, but today it probably is, and in only a few more years will just get easier and easier, and probably at a rate that outruns the rate at which the discs fully degrade.
i have a deck of those... it's lame ?

for example, it's not clear what the actual objective of the game is.

they look nice, but they're dumb (as a game).
https://archive.ph/u5iRv
I'm sad WGU is only for US citizens. I hear lots of good things about it but can't join in.
Genetic testing firm 23andMe cuts 40% of its workforce amid financial struggles
What's the accuracy of this compared to commercial sequencing services, and what's the actual TCO? Can 20 people do a group buy for one machine, and use it to get truly private DNA sequencing for $150 ($100 capex + $50 for consumables)?
Trivial HTTP/RESTful server in different languages
Grayjay is also excellent.

https://grayjay.app/
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