skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Ontario, Canada they completely got rid of special needs classes recently (so they aren't treated as second class or something), as well as gifted classes, and from two teachers and one child psychologist I talked to it's been a nightmare. Some classes will have 5+ disruptive students constantly yelling or fighting. And in the younger classes when a student has a "meltdown" they aren't allowed to send the kid to the principal, instead they clear the other kids out of the class to wander the halls, bring in the social worker lady (who is always on call), and wait until the problem kid calms down. They told me it was happening at least once a week in one classroom.

We're basically running social experiments on kids.
>”no zero" policies like some of the public schools where you get an automatic minimum 50% score just for writing your name on the test.

When I read this, I thought there was no way it could be true.

When I Googled it and looked at the first few search results, I thought “It must be just a few schools.”

It’s not.

I have always thought that equality of outcome is an unrealistic goal, but I was wrong. You get equal outcomes if you just give everyone an “A.”

Reminds me of Bart Simpson coming home from school with an “everyone gets a trophy day” trophy.
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no that perfectly makes sense, and for some context i am likely to have a kid within the next 5 years if things dont go horribly in my relationship, but beyond that i really struggle to imagine that a 42nd vacation at the age of 62 is going to be more satisfying than watching my kids graduate college
Nice! Shameless plug, I've made a similar tool recently, which uses a manifest file instead: https://github.com/ClementNerma/Fetchy
> Meanwhile PFOF actually does have proven benefits in that it reduces spread for retail investors.

To be fair, some of that is because its existence changes the pool of people trading on lit and thus increases spreads there. There are systemic effects that are a function of pfof that make it look better, and ofc there are a wide range of actors of varying quality...
Can you link to that explanation, please, for those of us not well versed in how this works?
The best practice is to just not post something on the internet that you don’t intend to be archived and live forever.

I feel pretty strongly that it isn’t the place of a government to police non-critical data (read: things that aren’t financial related).
> multi-round or not, they should still be equivalent in expected revenue to VCG - no

VCG is second price, so we're already in a sub-optimal regime with a first-price format. (All while illustrating why Vickrey auctions don't work with unsophisictated observers. Could you imagine the shitshow if The Onion won and then didn't have to pay their bid, but Jones's?)

Given first price, I don't think the number of rounds is revenue equivalent.
I like PeerTube and most of Framasoft's products but like most federated software, I think they have a branding and marketing problem that prevents them from growing any bigger. Mastodon did as well and before they revised a lot of their site, no more "toots" for example. I say this knowing that they say their goal is education not growth but you need growth to reach the people you want to educate.
I’m not convinced it hasn’t already. The writing style is bizarre, rambling, light on detail and heavy on irreverent digressions.
I think with the success of streaming series have become more interesting to streaming platforms as their addictive nature can lock people more easily into a platform for a specific period of time.

For this reason budget and revenues of series have increased dramatically and series are more and more produced like movies. This probably created an artistic and talent shift from movies to series.

There were a lot of shitty movies too back in the days but some never even reached the theaters and were only sold on VHS and DVDs.
What does make you think these people with their $$$$$$$$$$$$ have no friends? Your problem is not that there are only 3, but that the networks in which they operate think they would be better of without democracy.

Thiel wants to end democracy and has immense influence. If it was only just about money.... More info via lemma Accelerationism.

Musk just bought the White House for himself after having bought Twitter, he is a Thiel protege. Bezos had to swear allegiance.

There might come a time were these kind of background information articles aren´t just flagged directly, but will not even appear anymore in the first place.
You're looking at the wrong stuff....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfX8Lu9MHa0
Just jumping on this to say: I had chronic lower back and wrist pain for a long time. Had the whole ergonomic setup. Adjustable desk, Kinesis keyboard, vertical mice, etc. What fixed me was starting to squat. Took like 3 weeks of squatting and I haven't had back or wrist pain since (it's been 10+ years). Now I just use the standard (and very nonergonomic) Apple keyboard and mouse.
> Him losing his "intellectual property", but not his voice, is getting off lightly.

Indeed. This should be a matter of criminal charges. Jones should be in jail.

OTOH, he would, of course, be pardoned in a couple months.
I ran a bootstrapped firm that was about 15FTE at its peak before it sold. So growth, but not mega growth.

The problems I ran into was:

- Hiring experience from outside often led to the old "inside" team being disgruntled at having someone come in over them (who doesn't know our ecosystem that well)

- At certain points, I had to choose between taking profit out and taking a chance on an expensive outside hire (who would not necessarily be increasing revenue directly)

- OEM/Strategic deals (%20-40 of revenue) often took a _long_ time... (like 1-3 years). There was no good way to incentivize a sales rep on a sales cycle that is so long. (One of our deals took seven years from initial presentation to first dollar... but there were a lot of dollars once they started!) I never figured out how to grow a sales team for OEM deals.

So there are a few of my bits.
> I can't remember ever seeing a private citizen so publicly a part of a presidential campaign

What does "private citizen" mean, exactly? The majority of people in every political campaign are US citizens, if that's what you're getting at.
> I think the Judge maybe naive in thinking that re-running an auction will generate more money (normally it will generate less, as the losing bidders will drop out) but he did not agree with Jones' claims.

What evidence are you basing this on?
Wislist for Linux from the mold linker's POV
Uncertainty makes bids go up. Introducing the possibility that perhaps there might be a second round after a bid turned out to be too low reduces uncertainty.

Imagine game theory dynamics in poker if an unhappy player could say "well, come to think of it, I guess I did not really want to see, I'd rather fold"
nice. yeah wagtail is great and so is django, but like any tech stack there are limits. i'm also skilled at react and have found a way to use react within django but it feels weird sometimes.
Rupert Murdoch Fails in Bid to Change Family Trust
I thought this form of copy protection doesn't count as DRM. Not sure on the definition of DRM though.
You cannot represent an arbitrary or fixed precision decimal number in a floating point format. Or to put it in another way:

"Most decimal fractions cannot be represented exactly as binary fractions." - from the Python tutorial

The word "decimal" does not simply mean "a number that consists of a whole and a fractional part".
Some societies in the past would suggest indentured servitude. In this case, I'd find it rather amusing.
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Not at all. Upvotes/likes would essentially be the only common feature between the two.
A little surprised that it isn't normal for load balancers to weight machines or consumers differently. I'm not super familiar with them I guess even in this case they add a lot of complexity with the secondary service that reads the load data.
> If I contributed to redis in the past I did so under the assumption that I was contributing to a product that I could actually keep using

It sounds like you also have an assumption that the maintainers will spend the effort to maintain your contribution forever, after already spending the initial effort to review and integrate your contribution. This all takes time and money, which has to come from somewhere.

You're asking "Do you not see any value in bug fixes? Do you think software never needs to be updated?" from the contributors' and users' point of view. But the same exact issue exists from the maintainers' point of view.

A lot of people in this thread are commenting as if an open source contribution is a purely altruistic act by the contributor which then solely benefits the maintainers. That's far from the case in reality. Many third party contributors are writing their contributions as part of their day job (meaning they're paid to do it), and the contribution directly benefits themselves and/or their employer by fixing some problem they encountered or adding some feature that they needed.
No criticism to toss1, as this is the title phys.org is rolling with, but this absolutely should say "Quasiparticle that only has mass when moving in one direction observed for first time". Phys.org should know better, the very first sentence basically contradicts the title.
Participating in a mob on day 1 is a very common on-boarding experience. If you're driving, the rest of the team should be guiding you. If you're navigating with no knowledge of the project, you should be observing and asking questions.

The intention is supposed to be "No pressure, come see how we work and meet the team. Feel free to join in if you see something."

There's no faster way to ramp somebody up than onboarding with a mobbing session. Typically you even use the new person's machine so the team can help make sure everything is setup for them to be productive and help work through any unexpected quirks rather than making you figure it out yourself.

If you were asked to jump in and lead with no knowledge, then yes that was terrible.

If you're open to seeing how beneficial the process can be, I'd recommend reading Software Teaming. Great book and establishes all the core rules about what makes a mob work. The most critical rule? Participation has to be voluntary.
> A well functioning democracy has way less income inequality.

Income inequality isn't that high though, is it? The rich generally try to do everything they can to avoid income as income is taxed. In the US, somewhere around 20% of the population are in the top 1% when observed over time.
Does anyone have any good recommendations of English language tech channels on Peertube? Most of the recommendations I'm getting by default look to be in French.
Write your local congressman (depending on where you live this position may have a different name). Go to the local political party of your choice and make it known that this is an important issue. Remember votes are more important than money in politics - money can buy votes but only when voters don't care about issues. So if many many people make this an issue things will change.
> Seems archaic today ... run in mere kilobytes of RAM

There is an entire industry that does pretty much that... today. They might run in flash instead of RAM, but still, a few kilobytes.

Probably there are more embedded devices out there than PCs. PIC, AVR, MSP, ARM, custom archs. There might be one of those right now under your hand, in that thing you use to move the cursor.
It's so funny to see the mental gymnastics and just plain ignorance. We literally have videos of FSD V13 doing basically what Waymo does (and more - like highway driving), yet they all have their heads in the sand.
> *Yes, GDPR requires the ability to delete data:

Under specific circumstances. It could be easily argued that deleting comments would fall under the first example of the link you posted -- unless you're a minor.

The GDPR doesn't require any means to download data though, and it is mainly for PII.
The Gemini 2 models support native audio and image generation but the latter won't be generally available till January. Really excited for that as well as 4o's image generation (whenever that comes out). Steerability has lagged behind aesthetics in image generation for a while now and it's be great to see a big advance in that.

Also a whole lot of computer vision tasks (via LLMs) could be unlocked with this. Think Inpainting, Style Transfer, Text Editing in the wild, Segmentation, Edge detection etc

They have a demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RqFLp0TqV0
Very true, the only reason I didn’t buy bitcoin at $1 was because of hackernews comments, I thought these people were smart about technology.

Thankfully I got my bearings right and bought at $250 and still holding.

HN commenters are notorious for being wrong, almost every successful unicorn, if you go look at the early comments about them, HN top comment is usually dead wrong about them
No it's not, but thank you for this insightful comment.
And in the more recent past, we asked Juicero if squeezing a small volume of bags by hand could be done more cheaply by machines, and they told us "absolutely!"
Personally, I don't think the question is terribly relevant because I see no reason to believe AGI is possible with a binary logic playback device (aka a computer as we know it) and certainly not using relatively simple, statistical algorithms and lots of storage.

Expecting AGI to just spring forth from a box of inert electrical silicon-based switches is like expecting a hammer to start driving nails on it's own.

It's a modern form of alchemy --- expecting a fantastical result from trial and error with only limited understanding of the processes required.
I've read the link, it doesn't say what you think it says. Similarly, the original legal text of the regulation doesn't agree with you. So what's your point exactly? Even the title of the page you're linking to says it's only talking about personal data.
The same way that big media organizations get away with this in court.

"This content is entertainment and there's no way that any reasonable person could construe this information as facts." If MSNBC, CNN and Fox News can get away with this argument every time they are sued, I don't see how InfoWars doesn't.

But then again, court cases aren't about facts or truth.
There are buttons for the Play Store and App Store halfway down. Its under the heading: "A very first build, limited by (play & i) stores"
Is this basically a read-only partial replica? I wonder if it would be possible to sync the changes back to the upstream.

Caught a few typos on your site as well fyi, https://triplechecker.com/s/153718/electric-sql.com
Gemini 2.0 – Our most capable AI model yet [video]
Dennett’s Consciousness Explained would be a good resource if you want more worked out theory and explanation.
We will definitely look into it! As we are adding more users scalability is our primary concern right now though
Can you link said data please
Thanks for posting. All this AI has been interested in scraping personal sites.
This is all totally ridiculous. The assets are only worth a large amount when run as a disinformation outlet for Russian/extreme-right propaganda. Since no buyer is going to do that (see earlier, that gets you sued), the assets aren't worth much.
There isn't a "find UB branches" pass that is seeking out this stuff.

Instead what happens is that you have something like a constant folding or value constraint pass that computes a set of possible values that a variable can hold at various program points by applying constraints of various options. Then you have a dead code elimination pass that identifies dead branches. This pass doesn't know why the "dest" variable can't hold the NULL value at the branch. It just knows that it can't, so it kills the branch.

Imagine the following code:

int x = abs(get_int());
if (x < 0) {
// do stuff
}

Can the compiler eliminate the branch? Of course. All that's happened here is that the constraint propagation feels "reasonable" to you in this case and "unreasonable" to you in the memcpy case.
They had been talking about making the high-level interface to sqlite async (sqlite3_step()).

With io_uring you're talking about the low-level, where blocks are actually read and written.

As-is, sqlite is agnostic on that point. It doesn't do I/O directly, but uses an OS abstraction layer, called VFS. VFS implementations for common platforms are built-in, but you can create your own that handles storage IO any way you like, including queuing reads and writes concurrently using io_uring.

So that's not a reason to rewrite sqlite.

(In fact, I'd be surprised if they weren't looking at io_uring, and, if it seemed likely to generally improve performance, to provide an option to use it, either in the existing linux-vfs or in some other way.)

> I'm personally interested in the potential for async bindings for Python.

Well, it's perfectly possible to do that with the current sqlite. It may be painful, as you say, but not even remotely at the level of pain a complete rewrite entails.
Trillium TPU Is GA
Here's the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08252-9

It was trained on global data, and makes global forecasts.
I have actually been wondering whether Helium's more high-level API lends itself well for use by AI.
CGA would beg to differ.

https://tedium.co/2017/06/15/ibm-pc-cga-graphics-cards-legac...
Due to Bekenstein bound for any given energy there's maximum entropy or maximum number of microstates, so the same microstate can repeat.
Is that keyboard any special? Had I been in that situation my first thought would have been to use a bluetooth or usb-c keyboard instead of building that stuff.
> a generation of people is growing who got used to watching digitally compressed audio and video

It is unfortunate how today phone calls are often heavily compressed. Back in the 80s, 90s, 00s the digital phone network would stream uncompressed PCM audio at 64 kbps and the rest was analog; calls often sounded better back then than they do today. Once we accepted the heavy compression necessary to make early digital mobile phone networks work at 10 kbps or so, we never got the quality back, even though devices have a thousand times more bandwidth available now.
> It's mostly about having low-JS, good SEO, easy access to information, which can be managed by very inexperienced users

Nice!

I shared in the parent thread about my tool which spell checks sites, it found a few small issues:
https://www.spl.ing/report-card?website=pinkpigeon.co.uk&uui...
That's true, but "less strict" is understating the case pretty seriously. It's not enough for experimental physicists to lack free will. To rescue local hidden variables, nothing in the universe can have free will, not even God. That's a bridge too far for most people. (It's a bridge too far for me, and I'm an atheist! :-)

Note also that superdeterminism is unfalsifiable. Since we are finite beings living in a finite universe, we can only ever have access to a finite amount of data and so we can never experimentally rule out the possibility that all experimental results are being computed by some Cosmic Turing Machine churning out digits of pi (assuming pi is normal). But we also can't rule out the possibility that the moon landings were faked or that the 2020 election was stolen by Joe Biden. You gotta draw a line somewhere.

BTW, you might enjoy this: https://blog.rongarret.info/2018/01/a-multilogue-on-free-wil...
There is one mid page and one at the bottom. Did you open the link?
It is not that unusual for a president to create a special committee to do X. The difference this time is that Musk is much more vocal and cocksure (or maybe just that he has his own media platform, so we get to see that he is vocal and cocksure).

But the problem these special committees always run into is that they have no actual constitutional authority to do anything. They can't pass legislation, they can't codify federal regulations. All they can do is make recommendations. (The president may give those recommendations the force of orders, but the president could have issued those same orders without the committee.)

So I don't think this that different from normal.

> a new government department with novel scope and power would be created for them to control.

But it's not. Despite the name, it's not actually a department - that requires congressional approval. It's just a committee. And the only power it has is issuing recommendations to actual departments. And those recommendations only have the power that Trump gives them - which also is nothing new.
It makes complete sense. It's literally pennies for them, esp. when bought in bulk, it's read-only (more or less), and most importantly it absolves them of any responsibility regarding handing you some very sensitive personal data. No credentials, cloud service, hacking, leak, etc etc. They hand you a physical object and that's it. It's your problem now.

A pendrive would work almost as well but too many people likely would accidentally reformat them, add data and mix them up, claim they got a virus from them (which they maybe did, when their 8yo nephew clicked everything looking for big boobs online, not because of the doctor. But now the doctor has to prove the virus on the pendrive was added later? Just hand the patient a DVD really).
MilkDropLM – an LLM for generating MilkDrop shader code
With the current monetization woes of earthly (e.g., hosted satellites likely going away in the next year), what's the likelihood of this being supported by earthly directly?

In my recent experience, the official slack has been a ghost town making debugging earthfiles challenging.

(First btw!)
They are making it not be. That’s the whole point of the article.
> Which obviously doesn't make sense in a bankruptcy, since the whole point is the creditors are not going to get paid back 100%

The creditors already own the asset. The estate is selling, not Alex Jones.

If you asked every creditor which bid they preferred, which do you think they'd choose? The creditors forgoing their claims obviously prefer one. As for the rest, they'll choose the one that pays them more: The Onion's bid.

This isn't how bankruptcy works in practice, but it's a good shorthand for what the correct answer should be.
In what now feels like a past life I knew a guy who had a perfect SAT score, I met him while visiting a family member who was his roommate at Patrick Henry College in VA.

He believed radio carbon dating was a lie and the earth was literally ~5k years old.

There are confounding factors that SAT scores don't surface.
It's worth mentioning that this really isn't programming-specific, or even engineering-specific, at all. The exact same story applies to the guy doing finance, or marketing, or project management, or legal work, or whatever. This is basically a reminder that your role as a cog in the wheel is to make the wheel move, and you shouldn't forget what the wheel is doing.

That said, working for a US military contractor while not being supportive of the US military mission is kind of a silly thing to do.
It's the value that goes to the creditors in the bankruptcy and is the legal requirement for the bankruptcy process. Jones gets none of this money he doesn't own InfoWars since he entered the bankruptcy process.
The Pentium FDIV Bug is what put AMD on the map. Until that time, AMD was struggling with getting traction in the lucrative market of corporate sales. AMD was seen as being the cheap, and inferior, alternative to Intel and was primarily used by people building their own systems on the cheap. This bug, and Intel's gross mishandling of the crises, severely damaged the Intel brand. People who would never have considered AMD processors before were now buying AMD processors. In fact, ADM went on the offensive and started producing processors that smoked Intel's Pentium lineup - and were cheaper. Thinking about it now 30 years after the fact, I'm not sure Intel ever fully recovered from this event.