skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why "bias for action" is not good enough
Dementia seems highly related, if not inversely synonymous, with mental clarity? I think your comment is a bit misleading - while it does seem clearer that _high_ alcohol consumption and alcohol "use-disorders" are correlated with elevated risk of dementia, results pertaining to light-to-moderate consumption are "heterogeneous" - I read 4 studies or meta-studies with results showing _decreased_ risk of dementia (Rotterdam, Whitehall-II, Anstey, Xhu), 2 showing no correlation (California, HUNT), and zero showing increased risk when it comes to light-to-moderate consumption. Anyone interested should of course read the linked text in full and draw their own conclusions.
What terrifies me is people will turn their brains off and blindly trust AI.
My guess is that the kids were learning ahead of the rest of the class and it made the teacher's life harder to keep track of where each kid is, or had to field questions outside of her expertise since often elementary school teachers only know enough to teach elementary school
> Everyone should be terrified. The "promise" of AI is the following: remove any kind of remaining communication between humans, because that is "inefficient", and replace it with an AI that will mediate all human interactions (in business and even in other areas).

Kinda, that's the kind of enshittification customers/users can expect.

The truly terrifying "promise" of AI is to free the ownership class from most of its need of labor. If the promise is truly realized, what labor remains will likely be so specialized and high-skill that huge numbers of people will be completely excluded from the economy.

Almost all of us here are laborers, though many don't identify as such.

Our society absolutely does not have the ideological foundations to accommodate mass amounts of unemployed people, especially at the top.

The best outcome is "AI" hits a wall and is a flop like blockchain: really sexy demos, but ultimately falls far, far short of the hype.

The worst outcome is Sam Altman builds an AGI, and he's not magnanimous enough to run soup kitchens and homeless shelters for us and our descendants, as he pursues egotistical mega-projects with his AI minions.
New iOS 18.2 beta marks WebGPU as stable and enabled by default in Safari
Particle launches AI news app to help publishers instead of stealing their work
Non-traditional careers: How not to lie to yourself?
The freedom to take unconventional career paths comes with a dangerous cognitive trap: our brain's remarkable ability to construct post-hoc narratives that justify any path we've taken. Just as PE managers might avoid marking down investments during tough times, we tell ourselves stories about how each random career move was actually building toward something meaningful.
But uncertainty itself doesn't produce upside. While unconventional paths can accelerate skill acquisition and enable opportunistic bets that institutional constraints would make impossible, one could easily wander through random risky paths and end up with subpar returns.
In this piece, I break down:

How illiquid careers actually create value
The three key processes that determine success on unconventional paths
Practical frameworks for evaluating whether you're making real progress
How to balance short-term uncertainty with long-term validation

Read more on substack
Several studies have shown that exercising improves cognition better than brain training games and activities. Alcohol does impact cognition if it is binge drinking, or you exceed 2+ drinks/day. Though it does take years of drinking for it to be visible.
A good example in the UK is teaching students the FOIL technique for algebraic expansion. Students typically can expand (ax+b)(cx+d) because they've learnt a recipe but cannot expand say (ax2+bx+c)(dx+e).

Many schools here focus on such tricks (nix the tricks was a great book focusing on such things) as schools here are judged on pass/fail rates.

In general, exams are an excellent way to assess students en masse at their ability to remember similar problems but not inherent problem solving techniques. The latter I've found is possible to teach 1to1 but far harder with a class of varying abilities.
In Germany or maybe Europe(?) many enterprises use Java for completely new services.

Some reasons I found:
- it's a matured stack with a matured framework (Spring)

- there's already a lot of Java knowledge in the company

- there are already existing services written in Java. Why should the company start to maintain another stack?

- there's a lot of Java knowledge walking outside the company. So hiring is easier.

- it's still taught as one of the first languages at universities.

I've only seen few alternatives for language usage:

- C#, but then you lock-in to Microsoft.

- Typescript, but there are still skeptics

Anyway, the number of companies who are adapting other languages like Go or Python is rising.
That's my biased perspective as a Cloud developer working in finance, IIoT. I don't know how it looks like for other areas.
The prisoners fought back against their oppressor.
The last year-ish on Android has been a steady progression of UX bug after UX bug. It's bizarre to the point of convincing me that those with decision making authority clearly do not use their own app.
Nearly 80k Pounds of Butter Sold at Costco Were Just Recalled
This is largely just anti tech puritanism. I cant comment on the psych and neurological arguments, but the following line of reasoning

> A pre-Covid survey exploring how US students aged 8-18 utilize digital technologies both inside and outside of school provides the answer (values below are per week) ...If we extrapolate and consider a typical U.S. academic school year of 36 weeks, these numbers suggest that students spend 198 hours annually using digital devices for learning purposes, and 2,028 hours annually using those same exact tools to jump around between scatter-shot media content.

is incredibly silly, given that it is counting time on device outside of class (things that students are allowed to do) against effectiveness of in class usage.

It's like arguing that a student who likes reading Harry Potter, or Comic Books 2 hours a night is forming habits against the idea of using books for learning. Students who play games or watch movies are not alcoholics using beer for buoyancy studies.

Not only this, it groups listening to music on a computer as an independent recreation activity, and not something that students will do concurrently with homework or other tasks outside of class, double dipping on recreation hours. As if listening to music isn't a boon for learning, which it easily can be.
Mate I’m totally ready to buy and fab and 3d print all the necessary bits to replicate this exactly as-is.

Can you post on this thread when you’ve posted the github link, and/or link to your github already so I can star and watch?
Well I had dinner with Ben Lamm[1] and he was very open in saying that for him the whole project was about setting up a big zoo attraction and charging people a bunch of money to come and see the mammoths.

[1] Co-founder of colossal, the company that is attempting the mammoth de-extinction.
Right, but before it just loaded the page of the album/playlist and told you to sign in to your account. It has never allowed you to play songs without a sign in.
Seconded. This is awesome
Various people in various situation have various motivations to commit various crimes. There's no one-size-fits-all solution. And then there's further complications regarding the definition and adjudication of crime in different cultures as well as feedback loops.
The OCP was never perfectly enforced, and until the 90s China had a total fertility rate above replacement levels — 2.73 in 1990.

As for trust, trust simply isn't how anything is done on the international stage, so nobody in the US needs to trust China any more than anyone in China needs to trust the US (or indeed any other pair of nations): we know China has surpassed the USA as the biggest combined source of greenhouse gases, and monitoring stations showed Chinese factories were to blame for surprise increased in banned ozone depleting gasses; what makes the rest of us believe the statements about their renewables is audits and satellite imagery, which also tell us the limits of those roll-outs.
What I find interesting is specifically that 80,000 lbs of butter recalled because it didn't have "Milk" in the label.

> In early October, the FDA sent out an initial recall on Kirkland Signature butter, produced by Continental Dairy Facilities Southwest LLC. The recall is for 79,200 pounds of butter due to an undeclared allergen. According to the FDA, the packages of both salted and unsalted Kirkland Signature Sweet Cream Butter list cream as an ingredient, but may not contain the "Contains Milk" allergy statement visible on the packaging.
The bandwidth (in the spectrum sense) is less than a phone landline with more noise. So ‘sub 1kbaud’ (times total recording length) is probably a reasonable initial guesstimate.
I don't understand this, NewPipe has continued to work.
AVX/Neon Vectorization Workshop
Hi!

I am Ivica, I am the guy working for Johnny's Software Lab (johnnysswlab.com) - web site and one man company that specializes in software performance. A few times I saw posts from my web site here, that means at least some people find this topic interesting.

I know people don't like sales pitches, but this is exactly what it is, admins please forgive me.

For all software developers who want to speed up their software, I created two vectorization workshops, one which deals with AVX on Intel and AMD CPUs and the other for NEON on ARM CPUs. They are two days long, and cover programming using compiler intrinsics. No knowledge of vectorization is required, but you do need to grasp basic concepts of C and C++ (loops, functions, arrays, bit manipulation).

We had a pilot AVX workshop two weeks ago, and the feedback was very good: the workshop is interesting, challenging but not too difficult and teaches useful things you can immediately use to speed up your software.

The workshop consists of lectures and exercises and we go from essentially no knowledge to everything you need to know about vectorization in two days.

If you are interested in learning about vector programming, you can learn more info about it here, including topics that we will cover, available dates and prices.

https://johnnysswlab.com/avx-neon-vectorization-workshop/

Thank you for your attention and have a good day!

Ivica
are there different styles of government surveillance for different systems of government, I wonder if there is a taxonomy.
Found this on their website https://github.com/bufbuild/buf
This is because education is more about gatekeeping and politics than trying to maximize human capital development. We all ostensibly want it to be about human capital but our attitudes and behaviour towards education at the political level show otherwise.

The gatekeeping element seems to have developed in tandem with / response to the signalling hypothesis [1]. Simply put, if kids are trying to do the minimum necessary to get by, we raise the bar on the minimum standard until we're satisfied. Teachers (K-12 at least) respond with grade inflation, adding lots of noise to the signal, and we in turn respond with standardized testing in an attempt to clean up the noise.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Education
I’m the CEO of an ed tech startup that delivers on some of these promises in critical areas for post secondary. It allows scoring and adaptive learning to be self paced and based on skill mastery.
no tidal support yet but looks very useful for one off uses
WGU was a customer when I was at Learning Objects, they always impressed me visionary and outcome oriented. glad to hear a positive anecdote more than 10 years later.
People pay for each other all the time? The old pay the tuition of the young. (Well, not in the US.) Older people pay way more income and wealth tax. Via that logic any re-distribution leads to the conclusion of socialization? I cannot argue pro insurance with Milton Freedman or proper libertarians. (And even have my share of attraction to that part of the spectrum of political philosophy.)

I can point out that insurance that works is a staple in large parts of the capitalist world, and has been for some 4 centuries.
Uh Oh, you hit the front page.

Let's count to 5 until we get:

"Hi, this is xxx (CEO/CTO of Stripe), this should not have happened. Drop me a mail at xxxx@xxx.xxx and I will have a look at this. (-: "

Can we get a CEO in here? A CTO at least? Come on Stripers, I know you are reading this.
GeForce RTX 4060 to be Discontinued soon? Production switch to RTX 5000 series
NewPipe [1] and its derivatives like Tubular that include SponsorBlock (and dislikes, but I don't use this feature) are also great.

They let you follow channels and build playlists without a Google account and play stuff in background.

You can find those apps on F-Droid by adding the relevant repositories.

[1] https://newpipe.net/

[2] https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular
I assume there must be a competing report demonstrating significant measurable outcome benefits (for children) of EdTech?

It cannot be that so much govt money is spent without rigorous checks / very solid justification.
Thanks, we are both doing fine! I've had really good sleep since then actually.
> (and might give a hint as to why we haven't seen expected productivity benefits driven by it)

I'd be shocked if that's not a significant part of why. Most folks will get more work done when their only alternatives are trashcan basketball or doodling, versus... the Web.

I suspect another cause is that a great deal of application of computer technology in organizations aims to improve a certain kind of legibility of processes, which is something management loves a great deal, but the cost of attaining this legibility is high enough (including in hidden or hard-to-track ways) that any benefits are neutralized or all-accounted-for costs actually go up.

[EDIT] A third cause is probably that median ability to use computers remains very low among office workers. There continue to exist offices where knowing how to copy-paste(!) for more than just bare text, or extremely-basic spreadsheet use beyond "put numbers in it" makes you a wizard. I'm not kidding.
I'm doing wavelet transforms while riding the bike trainer, what did you do with your morning??!
> This is fairly common.

It'd be nice of you to back up this statement with facts beyond having a "horrible experience with Stripe" and using it to pitch your own project.
Google. It's nearly useless these days.
When the World Feels Messy, I Turn to PowerWash Simulator
Waymo's robotaxis are now available to everyone in Los Angeles
The incredibly frustrating thing about this is that this is always done in the name of "equity", but the result is that the system perpetuates the inequities that already exist. Because the public schools force kids into grade bands and don't allow children who are ahead to learn at their level, wealthy parents (and only wealthy parents) figure out ways to supplement or move their kids into schools that are appropriate for their level.

Only wealthy parents can afford to do that, while everyone else is stuck with whatever their local school offers or doesn't offer. This perpetuates generational inequalities in ways that the public school system is supposed to solve, all in the name of "leaving no child behind".
I’ve heard good things about it actually I must go check it out now. Thanks for reminding me. I don’t mind paying for things that save me time.
I'm not against this in principle, but it worries me that they are focused on video calls and continuing to bring new features. Eventually they may hit a point where they are as bloated as other major apps and have to either sell out or close down.
Nvidia shifts production to GeForce RTX 50 series
I know that feeling, I was nervous about the risks you listed when I was broke and started lifting around 2000/2001 anyway. Trust me, the expense of losing one's health due to inactivity is higher than any financial cost. I trained intuitively, which mostly means going it alone at the school of hard knocks by trying everything and keeping what sticks. I got hurt countless times from ego lifting too much weight in my 20s, not going through the full range of motion, etc, but nobody else got hurt on my watch. But athletes pretty much always recover anyway. That's the important part - learning that proper exercise, nutrition and supplementation makes the body fungible, so there's really no limit to what it's capable of. Now I'm one of the biggest guys at the gym as a lifelong natty and nobody's laughed at me since I got the eye of the tiger about 3 months in.
Tech and Education solutions or proposals always seem to be sort of island solutions.

But none of them address the structural problems / challenges with education. Teachers are burnt out, many teachers are terrible with tech, do not get enough support, the structure of education systems doesn't allow for flexibility. Parents aren't involved in many cases, kids are hungry, social worker type issues. Education IT is often underfunded, their IT workers get low pay so they leave. The list is endless.

But tech is dropped in like a bomb on a building that is supposed to help with renovation ...
> if you don't explicitly commit, how does Kafka know when you've processed the messages it gave you?

I did expect that auto-commit still involved an explicit commit. I expected that it meant that the consumer side would commit _after_ processing a message/batch _if_ it had been >= autocommit_interval since the last commit. In other words, that it was a functionality baked into the Kafka client library (which does know when a message has been processed by the application). I don't know if it really makes sense, I never really thought hard about it before!

I'm still a bit skeptical... I'm pretty sure (although not positive) that I've seen consumers with autocommit being stuck because of timeouts that were much greater than the autocommit interval, and yet retrying the same message in a loop
is it still edwin, im out of the loop now lol
They're "disrupting" payment processing.
They mention these Cell Phone message apps, which may be OK. But to me you are better off using email with gnupg if you are really scared.

Or better yet, tor or tails may be the best choice for people truly concerned. I thought it was weird they did not mention those.
Where's the Value in AI? [pdf]
And you can store things like your PGP keys on there. I use mine for code signing, ssh, and encryption. For me it’d just be a PITA, since I don’t operate in a very sensitive or valuable area, but it could be a nightmare for someone who signs code a lot of people use, for example.
Stigmatizing things that have negative health consequences seems good..?
If you're trying to learn programming, it can be pretty handy to have a computer so you can try things and see what happens.
> Vietnam and Afghanistan are examples of how when faced with overwhelming military might, asymmetric conflict ultimately rules.

Afghanistan was an evolution in American military strategy. Post 9/11 the Americans did what no one thought was possible - They (using the CIA and then JSOC) infiltrated Afghanistan secretly, forged alliances (bribed) with local militias/tribal leaders and within weeks had significantly degraded Taliban/Al Qaeda's fighting ability.

The world (and Al Qaeda) expected cruises missiles and "death from above". That they got was "death from within AND above". Whether this was a positive development for the US military is up for debate, but it certainly wasn't the traditional "big military pound small military with might" approach until later in the war.

It's the 20+ year long occupation which failed and clearly, like Vietnam or Afghanistan for the Soviets, or Russia's current efforts to destabilize, American patience is shorter than the enemies will to fight.
Not an LTS, but a tempting upgrade what with the performance fixes.

EF 9 has some good fixes, and even better, the better, works on .NET 8.
This company is done.
Invalidate the tickets without notifying the customer. That way they travel and everything only to be turned away at the venue.
Dennis Goodlett's "Cracking Pickles With r2" presentation from radareorg's r2con2024 is now available online! If you're interested in learning about bypassing malicious pickle detection - check it out today!
This is between the bank and the merchant, Stripe doesn't get to make the decision they are the intermediary. Blog title should have been: I Lost $210 in a Bank of America Dispute Despite Proof.

They should sue the customer in small claims if it is fraudulent dispute.
> "The key to corruption is improving the quality of government. Without that, anti-corruption strategies are bound to fail".

> "If you put people in the right environment, with the right institutions, you can reduce corruption substantially, possibly because they quickly adapt to what’s going on in their environment".

The way you seem to be using the word "cultural" here and in your other comments seems to be to imply that corruption is, in some sense, "inbuilt" into certain people, based on their "culture", and not into others. I.e., Mexicans are inherently more corrupt, and Europeans inherently less corrupt. By their nature. Is that an accurate reading of what you're saying?

If it is, then the actual point of the article quite violently contradicts your view. If corruption were some inherent aspect of people's "being", based on their "culture", then changing governments or institutions would surely make no difference whatsoever to corruption levels, right? Their true nature would just continue, unperturbed, as prone to corruption as ever.

The article says clearly and repeatedly - as in the quotes I share above - that this isn't the reality of what happens.

Put differently, you could say that corruption is "cultural", if by "cultural" you meant specifically that it is dependent on one's environment, and isn't whatsoever inherent in a person's "nature".

You seem to be saying the opposite, though, and still claiming the article confirms that? Puzzling.
M3 Pro vs. M4 Pro MacBook Pro
China Hack Enabled Spying on U.S. Officials
This is why I have auto update turned off. It sucks but it's the only way to ensure that you continue to have a good experience with apps. I had an issue for several months while watching youtube fullscreen I'd do some gesture/interaction and suddenly it would be locked whole screen and I couldn't exit, switch apps or do anything. Only a reboot would solve it. No other apps had this issue. I finally tried an update and it's far less frequent. There is no way in heck am I upgrading again until absolutely forced.
For anyone in a group that is worried of being retaliated against due to Trump: it's too late to use any tips in this article.

Even the most private among us likely have decades of data in various data centers about our typical travels, typical social circles, typical shopping practices, etc. They even mention this in the article, albeit at the very end. So, if you are the kind of person that Trump would want to remove via various means, it's likely already too late to suddenly install Signal.

A far better article for the demographic the article is supposedly written for would have focused on how to request what data various services have on you, and how to request it be cleared before January.