skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is a sort of justification for the policy positions of a recent Marvel villain.

Just because it goes against someone's taste doesn't mean it isn't true. Historical analysis obviously shouldn't depend on whether it jibes with the sentiments of people who write Marvel characters.

We do have a real world example of this effect that's much more recent than the plague, China's one child policy. And one outcome is exactly what's observed in the article, higher household saving and educational spending per child and as a consequence accelerated capital accumulation in one generation. By creating a smaller cohort and funneling all resources into that cohort they leapfrogged over the high population growth low per capita investment Malthusian trap that the article talks about.

https://personal.lse.ac.uk/jink/pdf/onechildpolicy_ccj.pdf
I don't think bufstream itself is open source but there's https://github.com/bufbuild/bufstream-demo which may be close to what you want (but is also unlicensed, bizarrely)
I'm quite curious to check that out, but seems that the paper I found doesn't have anything about cooking https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2000/0.... Is that the one you had in mind?
Another instance where technical solution is not the solution for people problem. We can make all bells and whistles but if people won’t use it there is nothing more that can be done unfortunately.
Ginormous market, 10x better product, no competition is currently close.

Plus although they have the capital cost of owning the cars they don't have the COGS of paying the drivers so presumably much higher margin per ride.
There are all kinds of subtle factors which may allude quantification, but which nonetheless matter because they contribute to outcomes which matter. When things really matter you can't afford to ignore these factors just because you can't pin them down. So yes, you favor those who are "lucky".
Waymo was able to do this with less miles. How much data does Tesla really need at this point? Assume you have all the data in the world that you could ever possibly want. How much of that can you really compress into a car for real FSD?
I can't suppress the strong feeling that they will, not by being technologically mature, but by easing a lot of regulations that are restraining them now.

Especially with Tesla's Ceo soon to be a member of the government.

Just like cars companies made jaywalking illegal or bought public transport companies to close them.
A biologist once told me "enzymatic degradation of PET is like the fusion power of biotechnology".
Postgres does have infrastructure to avoid this in cases where the result is reused, and that's used in other places, e.g. array constructors / accessors. But not for jsonb at the moment.
Glibc could crib from Illumos, which has a thread-safe putenv()/setenv()/unsetenv()/getenv().
> Tesla FSD already works everywhere, even on unpaved roads. It just doesn’t work as well as Waymo.

I would not bet on Tesla's FSD other than on highways. Same as many of the Tesla FSD owners I know.
And the next paradigm shift after that will probably be "programs' own outputs are their input"
$250 open source robot with most advanced AI models inside
I get annoyed by these same things.

As a person who regularly ships software to folks to solve problems I think this is more of a symptom of marketing and product folks taking over than software developers trying to provide a stable, useful solution.

A system needs to change over time as demands and requirements change… but it shouldn’t be unexpected and without warning. And it should be in concert with knowing the unique demands of the users involved with the system.

When I want to run an experiment, I mean to run a deliberate experiment that the people using the software are aware of and are a part of. Not some random trial A/B test based on telemetry. That stuff is too common these days, I agree.
The top kids don't need more resources. They need to be segregated from the bottom kids, which can be done with the same number of teachers by tracking.
Well currently Waymo is about double the price of Uber. But yes hopefully one day it will be cheaper.
The argument Jared makes in the body of his article ("The argument I’m making is that digital technologies so often aren’t used for learning that...") is less bold and sweeping than the one in the title ("The EdTech Revolution Has Failed").

It's true that edtech hasn't (yet) created an educational utopia, as some people may have imagined or hoped. But there are educational technology tools that my son (8yo) uses several times per week, that undoubtedly help him to learn important stuff:

1. Math Academy (truly amazing for 4th grade math all the way to first year of undergrad: https://www.bit.ly/ma-way)

2. Skritter (for learning to write Chinese characters)

3. Anki (flashcard program).

4. Octostudio (for learning to code, by the same folks as MIT Scratch)

#1 and #2 are both much more efficient (learning per unit of time) than any other method I've seen. They (along with #3) use spaced repetition and retrieval practice as part of their secret sauce.

But they are also highly domain-specific. Math Academy relies on thousands of hand-crafted math problems, all designed within a (hand-crafted) graph of topics that students must master. Skritter has tools that give people (adults or children) an easy on-ramp to learning the broad strokes of each character, and more advanced modes that train more precision.
Thieves recognize an easy mark in Waymo cars, paralyzing them. Police dispatch autonomous drones to address the situation. The drones, unable to identify which is the threat, decide to destroy both the people surrounding the car and the car.

Is this not the future you want?
so tesla works everywhere except where it doesn't work?
So why do you believe the ‘splitting’ would be viable in the US? Is there some argument for why it’s more likely than not?
I was just thinking the same thing. I used to just sort of accept that patents were a reasonable and necessary thing. Then after being in the actual business of software for a while as a startup entrepreneur and seeing the complete mess spurious patent claims cause, how patents are so often deployed by mega-corps to defend against startups, and the huge number of grifters the patent "industry" attracts, it's made me more open to the idea that just maybe the whole idea of patents has more negatives than positives, at least in current times.

Maybe big pharma and biotech should realize that large scale patent abuse is making people question the whole thing and start lobbying against software patents.
I was once on a jury for 6 weeks for the trial of the top members of a large multi-national drug trafficking organization in New York. A lot of that time was dedicated to hearing transcripts of the group's communication.

These guys use code words and took all sorts of precautions to try to avoid surveillance, but in the end it looked like a joke. The government knew everything they were doing, where they were, where they were going and who they were talking to. They effortlessly followed their conversations across multiple channels, knew all their signals and the secret second apartments they paid cash for and all the other games they were playing. We listened to them plotting and talking about trying to conceal what they were doing and prevent being caught for nearly a year completely unaware the government knew exactly what was going on. They came across like naive children trying to blame their stuffed toy for eating all the cookies.
This is the other reason I want people to be somewhat fungible... so management can't shoehorn them. Really the ability to move is a good thing for both the company and the employee. Moving doesn't HAVE to happen, but it's really much better when everyone has options.
It's not really being the "kind of person who’s going to put extra effort" and more the "kind of person who is privileged enough to have parents that care about their education, know that outside resources exist, and have the time and money to utilize those resources".
the wiki page for the 2010s global surveillance disclosures cites multiple wired articles

here's some more articles to refresh your memory: https://duck.com/?q=site%3Awired.com+surveilance&df=2021-01-...
is boston that much crazier then san francisco? ignoring snow for now. I hate driving in SF
I don't understand the "bitter lesson" reference here. The bitter lesson is that general methods of computation are more effective. How is one of the two not using general methods?
Playlisty is a great iOS/MacOS app for doing it locally if you're using Apple Music.

https://www.obdura.com/playlisty/
>> 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 don't know exactly what you mean by "surveys," but I thinking the decision should be a default no, and whatever "innovation" is being pushed should get rolled out slowly enough that public debate can nip bad ideas in the bud. I'm specifically thinking of an article I read awhile back where a parent (who knew she was a bad reader) was flabbergasted that her kid was actually being explicitly taught the same bad reading strategies she used as part of a "balanced" reading curriculum.

I under if you had no more than 10% of schools using something like "balanced reading" for 20 years, before it could be rolled out. I'm hoping their underperformance and criticism from parents and dissenting educators could get the idea scrapped before it became the mainstream, saving the students in the other 90% of schools from being harmed by it.

> I think we need to stop pretending that there is some magic technique that’s going to 5x performance.

Yeah, and I think we also need to stop pretending new is better. The idea that kids being subjected to "innovation" may be getting harmed more than they're being helped, needs to be made prominent in these debates.
No, the duality is:

Waymo works any time, except where it doesn’t.

Tesla works any where, except when it doesn’t.
>Is it really an agreement if you must agree to it for basic necessities?

The article says the article says the location data was "harvested from ordinary apps installed on phones". What type of "basic necessities" are you getting from apps on your phone that have location access? I'm guessing it's from random weather apps, rather than something "basic necessities".
Revanced is not bad with Sponsorblock + hiding shorts. Haven't tried but I don't see why it couldn't be used without logging in.

I do appreciate NewPipe for helping cut down on YT feed scrolling and just focusing on subscriptions. For a while I'd completely migrated to NewPipeSponsorblock but that fork became unmaintained and at the time there didn't seem to be an alternative.
Huh? Thousands of people are promoted every year in the big tech companies into seven figure positions. And many many tens of thousand into mid six figure positions.

How is that ‘near zero’?
This isn't really clarifying the question of "who acquired the land for them", just acknowledging they (sometimes? often?) had to defend for themselves out there. In the end those settlers purchased deeds to those lands often for very cheap from the US federal government and expected for the federal government to support their Westward movement (which often did happen as well).

They acquired the land from the government and expected some amount of protection provided by the federal government as well.

And even then a ton of that settlement happened after many wars and what not with Native American tribes and groups in those territories.
The problem is government surveillance is useful. If your car gets stolen for example a plate reader camera can help find it.

I think people know that and weight it against the trade off of decreased privacy and exploitation by corrupt government officials or other nefarious actors. To help justify that people come up with ways of gaming the systems, similar to with say people who cut coupons get that money saving rush. Essentially it's viewed as a necessary evil and folks leverage mechanism to get ahead instead of all out rejection.
EFF mentions "UPDATE: This vote has been set for this Thursday, November 14, 2024."

I don't know where they got the information, as it is not mentioned in the webpage:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/214...
I think I may be in the minority for believing that patents for software could in some cases be reasonable, but the main problem is that the current system has no reasonable mechanism for establishing 'obviousness'. Closely related, especially for software the system needs to consider when two mechanism are equivalent. In particular, I think:

- we should convene actual groups of "persons having ordinary skill in the art", who are not shown the patent application, who are presented with problems, and asked to describe a range of viable solutions.

- we should also use groups of such persons to judge whether two solutions to a problem (at least one of which comes from a patent application) are not meaningfully different.

Given these inputs, I think it would become much more expensive to determine that something is genuinely inventive (and applicants should bear that cost), but it should be possible to weed out a lot of obvious or overly-broad applications. If someone in the field who thinks about this for k weeks and arrives at "the same" answer, it wasn't that novel. I think it should also be possible for a group of "persons having ordinary skill in the art" to judge that an application is seeking something overly broad and that a PHOSITA should know that something is obvious, and incur some extra cost to the applicant.

However, if we could convince ourselves that stuff being protected was genuinely inventive, though we might be in a very different world, it doesn't seem crazy to me that e.g. a bunch of the work in ML research in the past decade should have been patentable because it wasn't obvious. It was repeatedly surprising! Of course, the current frenzy of activity might not be possible if it weren't for the spirit of openness that the field is adapted to. If the transformer was patent protected, who knows where we'd be. But it's really difficult to argue that concepts like the transformer architecture, or diffusion models or even something older like CNNs were "obvious" when experts, people in active research were surprised when they first arrived on the scene with the performance they had. And the don't seem obviously less worthy of protection than any of a range of physical inventions.
Can we kill the goose again? Maybe harder this time
English exams for ESL students are a great example.

Getting good grades in those exams requires that you know the criteria for evaluating each part of the exam and how to tailor your answer to that criteria. For example, if the exam asks you to write a short movie review you are expected to follow the formula for reviews and show that you can use certain specific grammar constructs.

If you know English well but you don't practice the exam before you will get a mediocre grade, simply because you didn't follow the tacit guidelines that you are expected to know.
My definition of "works" includes the fact that a self-driving car will never drive into a parked fire truck, or many other things i've seen tesla FSD do.
One challenge for Tesla and Waymo has been the piecemeal permitting process. Even though California gave Waymo a statewide permit they have still needed to work through various cities/counties for permits. I imagine one goal of Musk's is to make that all go away sometime next year. I'm not making a comment on whether I agree that is a good idea. Just speculating.
Show HN: PersuAIsion – Realtime voice agents to practice important conversations
Hello HN!

PersuAIsion lets users create voice-to-voice agents to practice important conversations like negotiating a pay-rise, a first date, closing a deal or persuading AGI to refrain from destroying the internet. (≖‿ゝ≖)

The agent provides real-time feedback on how to optimally persuade your target, we've tried to embed SOTA frameworks for negotiation from academic literature.

Powered by 11labs / Claude! We built it at their recent hackathon..

Give it a try, would love to hear about any cool use-cases!
FSD and Waymo are completely different products. FSD isn't even autonomous, as the user manual reminds you:

Always remember that Full Self-Driving (Supervised) (also known as Autosteer on City Streets) does not make Model Y autonomous and requires a fully attentive driver who is ready to take immediate action at all times.
If we are fair, this isn't a problem with Waymo ...
> If you’ve given users the best software ever but your executive management doesn’t know, or even actively hates it, you haven’t shipped.

you think you've given users the best software...

people overestimate their ability to know what's best, and everyone thinks they are the exception.
I guess this is targeted towards noobs, but the answer is pretty much always 3rd normal form if you are clicking this and are not sure.
Computers and access to the Web are incompatible not with education, but with the paradigm of conventional school education, where teachers instruct classes of pupils to a national (or otherwise standardized) curriculum. In the school context, an electronic device competes with the teacher for the pupils' attention. Educational resources such as Khan Academy explicitly attempt to follow conventional curricula, but one that only follows one country's educational expectations (here, that of the USA), and even that only loosely; many of the most informative online resources aren't intended to fit into any standard curriculum at all.

Essentially, statistics will tell you how to gradually improve a system that you already have (conventional class-based school education), but won't tell you about the value of an entirely new system. It's a sort of 'local minima' problem like that.

The article admits as much, but fails to acknowledge the other solution to this conflict: instead of a 'phone-free school', why not change the school to support an electronic educational paradigm? Just as the Montessori method or the culture-rich concept of Kindergarten education are usually very valuable to those children who are lucky enough to experience them, there is already a wealth of evidence for interactive and electronic learning methods - not just a 'potential' as the article claims. The key difference between learning paradigms such as Montessori and Kindergarten and electronic education is that the former requires expensive (and safe) access to materials, and the latter is now almost free! The article claims: "However, if there are two or more options for engaging with learning material, then it is best to select the tool that will yield the best results." I ask, what justification is there to not select a tool that isn't perhaps the best, but it the best that society can afford? One-on-one tutoring with experts and fully-equiped laboratories would be wonderful, even better than electronic education, but that was never the offer. Historically progressive educational authorities are literally rejecting an educational opportunity that requires nothing except open minds.

P.S. An irrelevant but interesting nit-pick: the article mentions that you have to hold each word in memory as you read a sentence of English text, but this is untrue. Readers create a mental, semantic and emotional image while they read; dyslexic readers might struggle with the concept of a 'word' itself yet are still able to understand the meaning of a sentence.
Revanced enables completely hiding shorts.
Ask HN: How to view/backup everything on a 2017-era Android?
In the past was able to back up all IOS content to Mac OS using itools and tripard. Easy. Downloaded EVERYTHING on the IOS.

But "android file transfer" only saves images and to Mac OS.

I want to backup everything on the android: the ipas, the chats from wechat, etc....from '17-era android to mac 10.6

Serious advice appreciated.
It's no better in other countries. Other country's health care systems are typically monopsonies, which means we get crappier results for lower prices. So instead of the doctor choosing to do 6 patients per hour instead of 4, it's the government.
Yes, I'm wondering if there are alternatives outside the US to get a full undergraduate or master's degree online at your own pace.
Well, one thing is that many of us rarely take taxis. (Aside from reserved private cars to the airport now and then.) I'm unconvinced that self-driving changes the equation enough for most of us. I do have a trip coming up that 50% cheaper Uber might lead me to not rent a car but that's rare.
What do you mean by "things"? I don't believe patents have done any good what so ever.
Gap: Ti photovoltaic devices. 60% theoretical solar cell efficiency
This is the point!
What's crazy is I'm using Revanced with a Premium account. I'm more than happy to pay for YouTube even as much as I don't love Google, but I'm still going to opt for the vastly better experience if I have the option.

As far as I know, you can indeed disable Shorts in ReVanced. The defaults in ReVanced may need some tweaking to your liking, but there's quite a lot of options.
I think it's worse. Regardless of the amount of education, they would have to care about policy enough to read and act on candidates' policies.
Yeah, but the next step is to make identifier somethink like a has so the media can be content addressable.

Wait, we can't have that. It's too convenient
Of course. We're still there with the horses -> cars transition. There are still plenty of places that horses can get to but cars can't.

And similarly: the transition will also go in the other direction. We'll start making roads and navigation easier for self-driving cars and prioritize the destinations we care about the most. At the tail end of the transition, there will still be areas with ridiculous intersections and confusing rules that only humans can do. We just won't care about them as much by then because everything we do care about is reachable by self-driving cars.
I appreciate thinking about abuse vectors ahead of time, but that particular one doesn't seem like a super hard thing to deal with? You can't just step into one at will, you need to actually order the car with the phone app and a valid credit card. Most homeless people don't, I would think, have credit cards.

And after doing it once, they'd be banned from ordering another car ever again. If the Waymo detects that the passenger has not left the car, I'd imagine it would first issue annoying notifications about how the trip is over, and eventually call the ops center who would order it to drive back to home base.
> as I've found those work better than any "adaptive" EdTech I've encountered

Have you tried Math Academy? From seeing my son using it, I'm guessing it's more effective than live coaching from a median middle school math teacher.
Railroad-esque diagrams can be weird but they say a lot in a very short space, I would highly recommend spending a little extra time working on thinking through them, they are everywhere!
Why tune anyway? Isn't the job of speakers and earphones to reliably reproduce the sound that the person who produced the track wanted? The only tuning that should be done by default is to compensate for the form factor or the room, such that what the listener hears is exactly what the producer heard when making the track. Of course, give the user an equalizer with some presets they might want, but leave it up to the end user, not what the manufacturer thinks the user wants.
That's fair, and someone told be there's a distinction between politics and policy, but when politicians pander to the crowd, it's really hard to get an idea of what their actual policy will be.