skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LAUSD has gifted programs. As do the dozen other districts in LA County. NY also still has gifted programs...

Yes, some of these were shut down. It wasn't because of "equity". It was because of something called "budget cuts."
That just seems like an incoherent understanding of "purpose", which seems most reasonably based off "intent" and can only be measured by claims of intent.

The heuristic you're referring to seems to be figuring out whether a system does what it's intended to, which seems to be an entirely different issue. Why overload an already useful word with seemingly contradictory semantics?

Granted, it seems like a very useful concept, just an abominably-named one.
Human-induced warming from a linear temperature and atmospheric CO2 relationship
>Even if you deny individual permissions, apps will still slurp up your app list/hardware specs/any metadata they can get their grimy hands on

Is this a purely academic thought experiment or something that's happening in practice? I'm not exactly sure what the "999 data points" consists of. Given basically nobody assembles their own phone, the most that hardware fingerprinting will reveal is "you have an iPhone 13", impossible to differentiate from all the other iPhone 13s floating around because they're all identical. Both android and ios have cracked down on software fingerprinting as well, so you can't for instance grab a list of all installed apps.
Agreed. And here's NASA explaining why they only bother with 15 digits of PI: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/how-many-decimals-of-pi-do...

> Think about that. We have a circle more than 94 billion miles (more than 150 billion kilometers) around, and our calculation of that distance would be off by no more than the width of your little finger.

Anyone who needs more precision than that is almost certainly sitting next to a computer with bespoke software running on it.
I stopped monitoring that side of tech, but early MOOCs (first gen coursera, edx, stanford) were as good or even better in some regards than my own college programming studies[0]. I could engage deeper in the material and there was some healthy emulation between people on the dedicated IRC rooms. On site college doesn't give you full focus, you might be distracted by people, teachers won't necessarily be more present for you (so not worse than rewatching a video)

bonus point: there were some famous names in our groups, it was fun to see the spread between absolute noobs and cpp iso standard contributor

[0] for programming, questions + test suites are very effective to try various ideas and see what fails. for other subjects, like philosophy it might differ
> Right now it's the most exciting tourist attraction in San Francisco.

I'm as excited as you about self driving cars, but the vehicles are essentially driven remotely, maybe not by live video feed but nonetheless by remote operators, in the sense that matters. It is more tourist attraction than it is end-all be-all of technology, which was very deflating to find out.

All I am really saying Simon is that you are a highly educated guy: adopt a more nuanced take on this. According to the people I know who work in this space and are not trying to raise money for autonomous vehicles, and according to many journalists, there is a lot of consensus that Waymo has adopted a remote driving scheme that is working, and perhaps that is why they are operating a taxi service and others are not. It isn't clear if that growth story, as great as it is, will help them raise enough money to invent truly autonomous vehicles.
Don’t create views that reference other views.
It would be super interesting to combine this with computer vision / landmark recognition, to enable kind of a "hands-off fly by wire" navigation, say, between two waypoints (eg. charging stations).

An initial manned flight or several to teach the best takeoff sequence, travel path and landing approach, then leave the machine to fend for itself.
Just tried it out. Love it!
Do you think it’s time for a specific federal regulation?
> I’m an engineer who now works security. Very few of us come from an engineering background. Most lack the technical skill to do much than apply controls and run tooling.

I think you probably hit the nail on the head there. Often the people in Infosec I work with are not interested into putting things in context, thinking into the actual impact of a control not being met. Instead, just a bunch of controls are thrown out without any regard to the actual security.

Now I have to say, most of our security has been outsourced to cheap workers in developing countries like India, which are of course rated on maintaining the standard and not rated on thinking and understanding what you want, and probably also work 60-70 hours per week during ungodly times so you can hardly blame them.
I often need a quick and easy conversion tool for mapping a val from one range to another

Also have a hard time finding good resolution/aspect ratio calculators

Finally the most fraught online calculator tooling I know of is projector throw distance and part specs calculators/visualizers
Something I've come to really appreciate about WWII, is how much effort was put into either creating or implementing concepts about organization and efficiency into action. WWII was likely the largest organizational endeavor in human history.

There's an almost paradoxical immensity to it, where humans, using paper, typewriters, physical mail, and early electric (not electronic) communication systems had to organize millions of humans into large coordinated efforts over about half the surface of a planet.

They did it without the aid of computers and the unlimited up-to-date firehoses of data that we have today. The paradox is that it's not entirely clear that our modern civilization, using these advantages, would be able to do what they did. Modern technologies seem to create an effect of overanalysis, where the WW2 generation often worked in deeply ambiguous grey areas.

Our tendency today is to want to produce as much up to date information as possible, even if its not necessary to the overall goal. We want to use a computer to scrub deeply through immense data to produce marginal gains. A Strategic General in WW2 might want to move 100,000 men and arms to a different location and issue the order where it would be relayed by post, telephone, or telegraph. To find out if that order was fulfilled might take weeks or months to even find out. Today we would want to track each soldier's boots to watch them march across a digital map in real-time.

Yet it worked. With major operations occurring down to the minute that involved multinational organizations moving millions of tons of human lives, arms, supply, and equipment, all also built to fulfill that order, on time and at high quality.
The report can be verified by visiting the product page of the YubiKey 5 NFC FIPS: https://www.yubico.com/us/product/yubikey-5-fips-series/yubi...

It is listed with the vulnerable firmware 5.4.
Respectfully, this is kind of a shocking thing to read.

> People waxing emotional over having living parents who took part in their lives, who had something to contribute... kind of turn my stomach upside-down. They have no idea how good they have it, and yet they present their quite happy and fulfilling life as some kind of world-ending tragedy.

Good fortune can open oneself up to greater heartbreak, and misfortune can do the worse. Likewise, the opposite can happen: fortune can blind the fortunate, and enable happiness when the unfortunate overcome.

It goes all ways and directions. But for whatever hardship you have, you missed out on other sorts of hardship. And whatever hardships you dealt with, the author of any memoir may have missed those obstacles. Be at peace! And don't expect anyone to walk the same path as you.

I'm sorry you missed out on these experiences, but that doesn't mean that the normal experience of being a human - that is your parents living into your own adulthood - ought to be taboo.
(Url changed from https://ctan.org/texarchive/macros/latex/contrib/avremu, which points to this.)
The end of blank canvas: How AI is changing product design
> Also, use the male form for when you meant both men and women was at that time the prescribed grammatical "style" (as in "A Chicago Manual of Style").

This was still taught in US primary and secondary schools through at least the early '00s.
Remote operators only help out in rare cases
It’s dead. Republicans will not allow democrats to get a lame duck win, and vice versa, and I don’t see a compromise anywhere.
Surge – The easiest way to send texts from your application
A stick to the head is the classic solution for a pilot going crazy on controls for whatever reasons. Sometimes the stick is not metaphorical.
We use HyperDX for our observability! We had been using google's observability suite before, because we're using GKE anyways, but HyperDX's search over traces is just waaaay better and I can't go back.
Backdoor attempt on Exolabs GitHub repo through an innocent looking PR
Vehicles per-operator is the important metric, imho. If one operator can supervise a dozen vehicles at a time with only occasional manual intervention then it's still a massive labor-saving tool.
Denmark did this about 10 years ago, the results pretty much speak for themselves:
Everyone is frustrated with it, teachers, parents, students, as well as their special-needs counterparts.

Grades have been steadily decreasing across the board, while enrolment in private education has skyrocketed (private schools do not have to accept difficult students). The private education is particularly surprising as Denmark has a very strong tradition of public education, where private education was viewed as something for the "elites" of society (e.g. royalty), now it's becoming more and more common.
They are monitored
> I aspire and believe in doing "great things".

Let's start with that. You are worthwhile as a human being, whether or not you do "great things". You don't have to achieve something in order to be worthwhile, you already are.

It sounds like you're frantically chasing some level of achievement that's in your mind, constantly comparing yourself against it, deciding that you're falling short, and therefore feeling miserable and/or like a failure. That's a terrible way to live.

> Do I need help ?

Don't take answers to that question from random strangers on the internet :-)

But, maybe. It sounds like you have very unrealistic expectations for yourself. Me saying "hey, those are unrealistic expectations" may not be enough for you to let go of them. You may need help figuring out how to let go of them, how to take some joy in the journey even if you're not where you want to be yet.
On small teams or projects, this attitude is probably fine.

One of the most frustrating experiences as an engineer is running up against a deadline and just staring at my CI with my finger on the re-run button because my coworkers can't be bothered to believe me when I tell them their tests are flaky.

Fixing your flaky tests is like putting your cart away - a little effort on your part makes a lot of peoples lives a little better.
If you are looking for fun targets, may I suggest KubeMQ too? Its author claims that it’s better than Kafka, Redis and RabbitMQ. It’s also "kubernetes native" but the open source version refuses to start if it detects kubernetes.
Copilot Edits
Playing Bad Apple over RSS
Even if they wanted to they couldn't drive real-time. Remote operators help when stuck.
I love Siena!
If anything Waymos are much more likely to have weird smells than Ubers since the robot can't smell. Nothing is stopping someone from scrapping some dog doo off their shoe onto the carpet to the pleasure of the next rider.
But you probably still look out the window though.
I believe they are saying open to all, as in the general public.
I dont think it will because the moderation tools available to people are better and actually work..

If i block someone they are gone from my timeline, their replies are gone from my posts even to other people..

If someone re-post me and i don't like the context i can go there and "disconnect" my post from their re-post..

Also Bluesky has public block lists anyone can create and sign-up for, those accounts would be noticed very fast and included in some block list if they start getting any traction..

So while it is not impossible for those accounts to exist, it is much harder for then to get traction..

And if they get traction it is much easier to hide then from our and our followers view..
trojanized Notepad apps and minesweeper games created with Flutter

Trojan is the optimal word here.
If you think careless/bold Harvard students are road hazards, wait until you meet the psychotic addicts of the Tenderloin.
I love the idea of individual pacing of kids educational journies - if you do have the syllabus and software to take every kid individually through school, is it impossible for us to fund the school for five years - and after years of every kid walking out with top grades there might just be some social proof

It seems like it is possible - probably enough people on this thread could make that investment
New Relic Layoffs Continue
As many expected when PE took the company private, New Relic continues to do batches of layoffs as they move engineering to India and outsource their infrastructure to AWS.

Latest round announced today. Best of luck to those impacted. For those hiring, there's a lot of great talent hitting the market.
It's like people forgot about the Amazon stores being an army of cheaply paid third world labour disguised as revolutionary technology.
Seeking Honest Feedback for My Project Management App for Software Development
Hey everyone,

I’m reaching out in the hope of getting some much-needed feedback from the startup community.

I've built a project management app called Zullion that provides real-time visibility into what developers are working on and tracks time to boost productivity. So far, I’ve only received feedback from larger companies, but I’m really eager to hear the thoughts of startups and smaller teams who might have different needs and challenges.

Lately, I’ve been contemplating a complete redesign, but before diving into that, I’d greatly appreciate your honest opinions. What works? What doesn’t? What would make it better for you and your team?

Your feedback would mean the world to me and could shape the future direction of Zullion. Thanks so much for taking the time to help a fellow founder out — I’m truly grateful for any insights you can share.

Warm regards,
Francisco Alcazar
8 seconds of Star Wars (ANH) was used to establish the time and space background for the "battle of Yavin": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yWrXPck6SI#t=20s and the rest of that scene plays out in the real time (15min) given during those eight seconds.

In contrast, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEv999K5Lr0 , with a similar theme and screen time, is nowhere close to real time or distances. (although I guess Star Wars did have a strong advantage in being fictional)
Anyone have any insight on how Waymo handles the tight roads? Wonder when it will be coming to the hilly areas of Los Angeles.
> 5. They're all going to laugh at me.

I thought this, and nothing could be further from the truth. The gym (and gymbros) have been one of the most positive uplifting experiences of my life so far. I had a BMI of over 35 when I stepped into a gym for the first time ever at 41 years old.

The non-zero financial expense is really the only issue I can see as "real" on your list. You can avoid #3 by spending money on a personal trainer to learn. Gym memberships are also not cheap. The long-term costs of not doing so I would argue are far greater.
Local government agencies do this all the time. They bypass warrants by just buying the data through brokers.
> I wonder why haven’t Apple exposed it to programmers, or implemented a BLAS library on top of that thing?

Using the Accelerate framework (which includes Apple's BLAS) is the only supported way for programmers to access the AMX. Reverse engineering the instruction set to access it directly is discouraged, because it's not a documented stable interface.
Norman D Cook's work is interesting in this context. This is a great talk, if anyone is curious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrmnaiyS5EE

This thread reminded me of the "Conclusions" slide.
Computational RAM
> passed Apple's security checks, so macOS systems treat them as verified and allow them to execute without restrictions

Here's your problem.
Even Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts were the two who originally modeled neurons with OR statements, realized it wasn't sufficient for a full replacement.

Biological neurons have many features like active dendritic compartmentalization that perceptrons cannot duplicate.

They are different with different advantages and limitations.

We have also known about the specification and frame problems for a long time also.

Note that part of the reason for the split between the symbolic camp and statistical camp in the 90s was due to more practical models being possible with existential quantification.

There have been several papers on HN talking about a shift to universal quantification to get around limitations lately.

Unfortunately discussions about the limits of first order logic have historical challenges and adding in the limits of fragments of first order logic like grounding are compounded upon those challenges with cognitive dissonance.

While understanding the abilities of multi level perceptrons is challenging, there is a path of realizing the implications of an individual perceptron as a choice function that is useful for me.

The same limits that have been known for decades still hold in the general case for those who can figure a way to control their own cognitive dissonance, but they are just lenses.

As an industry we need to find ways to avoid the traps of the Brouwer–Hilbert controversy and unsettled questions and opaque definitions about the nature of intelligence to fully exploit the advantages.

Hopefully experience will tempor the fear and enthusiasm for AGI that has made it challenging to discuss the power and constraints of ML.

I know that even discussing dropping the a priori assumption of LEM with my brother who has a PhD in complex analysis is challenging.

But the platonic ideals simply don't hold for non-trivial properties, and no matter if we are using ML or BoG Sat, the hard problems are too high in the polynomial hierarchy to make that assumption.
I drive by their headquarters in Seattle pretty regularly and always wonder the same thing.
I find it very interesting how long it took us to assemble the constituent ingredients of sedentary cities into what we recognize today. Almost as if the sedentary lifestyle were inherently undesirable to people living at the time.
> I wish there was some kind of vendor-neutral import/export format rather than requiring a third party to solve the whole matrix of integrations.

"vendor-neutral import/export format" sounds like the definition of third party. It's not that there shouldn't be a third party, it's that spotify etc. should adopt it.
* where "evidence-based" in pedagogy is a grad student who studied two classes of 13 Inuit 3rd graders in 2002 and extrapolated from there
If you're working with some established framework and project structure their IDEs pull that information out of that, otherwise you'll need to at least tell it the dialect, but if you e.g. configure the database as a data source in the IDE you'll get full schema xref.
It is not "always" done for that purpose; often people don't want children to learn things for other reasons, like wanting to have more control over them, not liking the implications of certain historical events, or having fanciful ideas about preventing their children from engaging in risky behaviors by pretending they don't exist.
> С#, but then you lock-in to Microsoft.

What kind of lock-in do you have in mind? E.g. the best serverless target for .NET is AWS Lambda. The often preferred IDE nowadays for .NET is Rider, some people use Neovim or Emacs. This statement is demonstrably false.

Java and C# are also different, targeting paradigms at a different level and providing different experience (.NET has smaller ecosystem but more "streamlined" experience, at the level of Rust and Go tooling, often better than the latter and more mature/stable than the former).
Can’t wait for them to expand into the Peninsula and South Bay.
There is a post Where are they now. In Wired magazine about the team 20 years later https://www.wired.com/2000/12/eagleteam/
For anyone interested, the earliest sound recorded is from 1860, and isn't from Edison, but from a Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, on a machine he called the "Phonoautograph". The machine recorded "traces" which a team at Stanford managed to convert back into sounds in 2008: https://www.archeophone.com/artists/s/edouard-leon-scott-de-...
Reality is that simply very few people use this functionality.

If those two open access sources become big enough, it is quite clear that someone will make a project to reconcile the data between them.

If any of those projects skyrockets the same way wikipedia skyrocketed, then the topic will be solved.
They mean a car-free Olympic games, not an entirely car-free Los Angeles.
You would enjoy Cliff Stoll's writings on this topic. He hates technology in the classroom, and still firmly believes teachers with chalkboards and flashcards are superior to any technology in the classroom. I disagree with him only in so much as technology allows for media that can help simplify some things, but agree with him that nothing beats a good teacher.
There's no broader political win to this bill. This is something that some large donors, who likely play both parties, would want. Those kinds of bills usually sail through with bipartisan support.
They're going to be laughing all the way to the... settlement payments?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisagarcia/2024/02/19/what-ai...
You have control in that instance. Apples and oranges.
Or an airplane.
Drunk butterflies and inebriated elephants: Animals also consume alcohol
Outside the US the situation is quite different. But I don't see Waymo testing outside the US, not even trying, so there.
You need help friendo. Get out of this bubble of tech. I mean it is a means of making a living, nothing more nothing less. If you still feel disconnected, take a look at some of your peers. Maybe some of them are obsessed with one thing or the other, like emacs or people who like emacs whatever. But they are still in that bubble. I hope you get out of it friend. :)
This is incredibly fear-mongering and reads like hit piece on Trump while offering little actual advice. If you are only now caring about privacy you should reconsider your priorities.
> Can we ship right now? Feature flags are the best way I’ve seen to do this, but staging environments also work, and so on.

Feature flags are a super weapon if you are trying to keep the path to production clear, especially if you have a diverse deployment or customer base. They don't have to be a constant binary value either. I've set up "flags" that were SQL queries which produced the actual boolean fact based upon customer-specific data and requirements.

These things do tend to accumulate, but cleaning them up is easy as long as you have a way to report on the current configuration across all deployments. If two or more instances have different settings but their users seem happy with this arrangement, then you go the other way and promote the flag into some kind of official configuration abstraction.

Customer and environment specific branches quickly become a death spiral if you are trying to grow a B2B/SaaS product. I'd much rather fight a spreadsheet of flags & config than rebase branches and resolve conflicts that have silently piled up for the last several months.