skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are a little bit behind the times with current private/ charter schools. Charter School does not mean wealthy parents, it means non-public alternative that takes the public tax dollars and turns them private.

Private/ charter schools work off the fallacy that smaller school means better performance. They exploit the law of small numbers to support the fallacy. There will be one or two schools that do well while 1000 do not. Those that promote charter schools only talk about the two doing well as their example of why charter is good and pretend the other 1000 don't exist.

"Thinking, Fast and Slow", by Daniel Kahneman has a quick talk about this. Simple probability proves small / private schools are not good. Where are you more likely to find a mentor, in a school with 10 teachers or 200 teachers? Where are you more likely to find a friend, in a school with 50 or 5000 people? Where are you more likely to find a doctor, in a restaurant with 5 or 500 people? Where are you more likely to find a great walking stick, on the beach or in a forest?

There are less financial regulations and requirements for monetary rules with private than public. Those that run private schools exploit this for personal financial gain. "Education entrepreneurs" that can get a company car and use other tax evasive actions versus focusing on the education of the next generations.
>I don't care about the productivity conversation, it's just logistically dumb and if there's a cost in making fewer widgets for getting rid of traffic than so be it.

Exactly. The companies should stop ignoring the cost of commuting to society, the environment, and personal (from work-life balance, to family) just because they don't get to pay for it.
There are important distinctions to be made between categories such as being unaware of the cause of a problem (likely many of the children), aware but unable to redress it (most gambling addicts), and intentionally choosing to make a tradeoff for various circumstantial reasons (many but certainly not all developers working in C).
That can't be right, because the arrow of time depends on the universe being in a high entropy state when the Big Bang happened. There were no observers then. Also, the 2nd law of thermodynamics doesn't depend on observers. The universe overall will continue to evolve into a higher entropy state without any intelligent observers making measurements. As in stars will burn out and blackholes will evaporate, and the temperature of the universe will get close to absolute zero.
Physically speaking they probably walked across the American continent all the time. But it seems easy to rationalise why the culture as an artefact-producing entity would spread slowly. If there are economies of scale to their hunting or economy it would make sense not to wander off too far from existing settlements and mass migrations are sure to be risky and uncomfortable.
My only issue is that its baffling to me that you would deprive kids of a platform that is going to be relatively omnipresent in their lives.

Like, a locked down school approved phone that cant load social apps makes sense (And yeah I am more than happy if the tooling is swiss cheese, because we need to inspire new pentesters somehow). But removing them entirely? That seems bonkers.
My gut tells me the two were in contact since at least 2012.
Oh nice - I'd heard they were using it internally but I didn't know they were working to make it an (official?) option for 3rd parties. I'll also say that Windows has an advantage in the form of a stable driver ABI, which AIUI should make it easier for people to write drivers in arbitrary languages.
I did a project once where I put my phone away before bed (switched off and in another room) and kept it off for the first few hours of the day, along with my wifi router.

I usually got so much done during that time that I'd prefer to keep them off for a few more hours, even after I was "allowed" to turn them back on.
The universe isn't in thermodynamic equilibrium, thus the arrow of time.
Are you sure that's what he was referring to? In other words, you don't think he was meaning that getting more reasoning out of models is an unpredictable process and not saying that reasoning is unpredictable.
For Least Squares, you do not even use a hidden layer. Just a single dense layer from input directly to output. You also do not use an activation function (or use the identity activation function). That is, everything that makes neural networks special.
It's only been about a hundred years since some dental colleges began to embrace the theory that germs might have an effect on their patients.
You see, optimizing the three factors you mentioned does not increase shareholder value. They don’t care about society, the environment or work-life balance.
If a school doesn’t have an IT policy of blocking YouTube and socials, then they are just inept. If the school is buying instructional material that requires that, then they are inept. If an instructional company is making anything requiring any of that, they are inept.
https://getbrick.app/
"existing tools" -- What do you mean by that? pip-tools [1] seem to be just another PyPI package. What makes them more available than any of the other tools? The other tools "exist" as well.

[1]: https://pypi.org/project/pip-tools/
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> Indeed. I think for most of us, seeing the pads there, but unpopulated, was a giant head-scratcher. The Pi 500 would've been more of a slam-dunk win with the slot in place, even if empty.

Hearing that coming out of a HAM radio enthusiast whose father is a broadcast technician is a little strange.

The most likely explanation is either RF interference; NVMe drives suck down enough power to substantially self-heat during big transfers and I bet that causes all sorts of interesting RF problems, especially given the Pi isn't sold in a case.

Or power sag issues. The Pis have always been infamous for their terrible power supply designs, which seem to be intentional to give resellers a way to bend people over. It's the old "every phone you buy has a different plug and you need $100 in AC and phone adapters" nonsense we used to have to deal with to pad retailer margins.

I remember Motorola designed one of the Nexus phones to require a proprietary fast-charge protocol so that Verizon, who had retail exclusivity for a bit, would get to bend people over for the stupidly expensive charger. Verizon also got Google to permanently fuse the bootloader so installing an alternative OS was impossible. On a nexus phone.
Have you not seen the latest hate on HN? It's over for HTMX. It's not even ok anymore. It's outright hate crimes.
> In languages where there are no guard rails, it's much more difficult to work out what you don't know that you don't know.

I don't disagree. But the above is what's not taught anymore. Which what Computer Science taught you about; a subject that has now been watered down.

It's great to have languages that have guard rails. And sure helps you learn shaving time off your project/life.

However if you're using syntax you have no idea about that can cause system damage than the fault is on the programmer not the language. It exists to be used, but use it wrong it becomes unsafe.

I know i'm not right, but i'm not wrong either. It's a double edged sword.
I recommend 'Untrap for YouTube'[1] - it lets you selectively block YouTube UI elements. I use the free to redirect the homepage to my subscriptions feed and block all recommendation algorithms. Now I only see content from channels I've explicitly chosen to follow, with no algorithmic suggestions tempting me to spend more time on YouTube.

The pro version could also provide you the delayed launch that you asked for.

[1] https://untrap.app/
I’ve yet to get sucked into Vim, though I’ve given it a shot on a few occasions. I just feel too much muscle memory with whatever you call normal editing. One of these days I want to really stick with it because I do love the verb/action/modifier idea. I’m even building a similar keyboard-driven editor for building UIs. It has commands like “s a i” (select all images), “a t n” (add text element as next sibling), etc.
Don’t forget the additional 20% of people on Medicare.

What percentage of people who get cancer have to leave their jobs as a result? What’s the corresponding statistic in other countries?
It's cool that it's been solved but I'm thinking having a 3.3v bench power supply breaks the practicality of the PI500. /s

Yeah yeah, just get a converter. I think the real reason the Pi Foundation didn't make the slot available is because they don't want to have to support the influx of broken cases when hordes of people tear open a product that isn't meant to be opened.
If you're smart, you'll put an affiliate link to a MIDI keyboard on Amazon
Well Pi modder successfully adds M.2 slot to Pi 500 (34 points, 9 hours ago, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42418866
Been seeing ads for a while, finally caved two weeks ago and bought one. I’ve been on vacation since it arrived but I’m honestly quite excited to get home tonight and set it up.
I cannot speak to charter schools, I have no experience with them, only public and private (no vouchers accepted, some financial aid available depending on income).
The entire universe could be the quantum many worlds (branches in higher dimensional Hilbert space), and you would have to compute the wave function of the universe.
Ha, funny, because I thought: "Both, of course. Like for example Schemes." and while Racket is not a Scheme according to the maintainers, it certainly shows the similar safety and power that other languages like it show.
Couldn't that work? Upload by chunks via static buffer (which I kinda thought is how most web servers actually do uploads?), save to a file, then likewise load+process+store in 1k chunks or whatever. Depending on what processing you're doing and the workload characteristics (most obviously, number of clients) it might be painful, but I think it could work fine with a fixed memory footprint?
Ayahuasca: A review of historical, pharmacological, and therapeutic aspects
they are referring to the "water footprint" of LLMs.
https://deepgram.com/learn/how-ai-consumes-water
One Medical
Just wait til they extend USB to carry this new super speed HDMI.
> Art is based on its intrinsic aesthetic properties and the kind of contemplative experience it elicits.

Would that mean that you don’t recognise the existence of bad art? Because that seems to be the consequence of what you are saying.

> or the "common sense" view

Oh. Sorry. I didn’t know you are the resident common sense expert this week. Next time i will make sure to ask you what i should think before i think.

> then the photos in the article have very little aesthetic value

What you seems to be missing is that the photos here are not the art. This is not photography. The whole package together is what is art here. The story behind the photos, what they did and how they did it. This is a sort of performance art.

The photos are just an aspect of this performance art. Imagine that you would hear the sound recording of a dance performance. Shuffling feet, occasional stomping. Would it have an aesthetic value? It might or might not. But that doesn’t mean the dance wasn’t artistic. Similarly to this case the audio recording is not the art piece, just an imprint of it. Part of the whole package, but not the package itself.

> and elicit no contemplative experience

Lol. You are just wrong on that. I’m here contemplating the whole thing since half an hour at least. But you sure seems to like to just declare things.
> Where are you more likely to find a mentor, in a school with 10 teachers or 200 teachers? Where are you more likely to find a friend, in a school with 50 or 5000 people?

This is such nonsense. Beyond a certain (very low) number, the number of people at the school doesn't help you with those things, because you can only meet so many people. You have classes with a fixed number of teachers, and a fixed number of students in each class. Furthermore, it's usually roughly the same cohort in each class. So even at a school of 5000 people, you only productively meet a small fraction anyways. Besides that, the premise is seemingly that a good school is one where you can find a maximally good mentor and friend. But schools are for teaching things, so ensuring you can find a slightly better mentor or friend at best marginally improves the school as a school. If the charter school is better than a public school in some other dimension, then that will surely overshadow this miniscule effect.

You've seemingly borrowed an argument for larger cities and applied it to schools without understanding it. If I am lacking something in a small town, I either put up with it, or move to another town where I will surely lack something else. If I lack something at a school, I have the choice to switch schools to one where I am better provided for (assuming I'm given that option) or find something to supplement that lack outside of school (say a club, sports team, etc).
> brutally test them

I cut my teeth in the industry on the test side at MS; it was a bit adversarial with the dev side. And there was a third side to get us both on documentation.

It was frustrating but, I think we made Good Stuff (NT4, Win2k).

I have not seen that rigor since.
These are great factors.

Check also https://greatcountry.org (pet project od mine)
I mean, ok? What's the big deal? So you have to drive slowly and carefully and wait for people who are walking and might not be paying the best of attention?

I can see how that may be annoying but how many seconds/minutes does it add to your commute such that you would be so bothered about it?

Edit: And to clarify, I believe your post is incredibly tame and politely written. I've seen people get super furious over the slightest inconvenience - both in person and on the internet. Like they feel 1000% entitled to drive 5+mph over the speed limit and any interruption in that results in them laying on the horn and yelling obscenities.
What effect do you think sideloading and alternate app stores on the iPhone might have?
(2023)

Related discussions:

Psychedelic brew ayahuasca’s profound impact revealed in brain scans (115 points, 95 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35243310

How safe is ayahuasca? Large-scale study explores (185 points, 229 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33648818

How ayahuasca changed my perspective (90 points, 158 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27026108

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Groq limits context window to 8192 is that your experience too
Yep, it's apparently easier to move your IDE into vim than it is to move vim into your IDE.

The only vim mode I've met that wasn't infuriatingly incomplete was emacs evil mode.
I was inspired to perfect my French omelette skills over the summer and went out of my way to slowly improve each ingredient.

* I can earnestly say Kerrygold (or Irish butter from ALDI) makes a real difference than regular butter.

* I can say that kosher salt does help as well.

* I found a difference with (fresh cracked) white pepper but I don't personally prefer it over black pepper.

But most surprising to me (and what confirms your thesis) is I did not find a difference with the freshest of local eggs. I purposely went directly to a local farm with their own chickens, but nope- still the same as mass market eggs.
> And they’re always frustratingly incomplete and/or buggy

I refer to this as the Vim Uncanny Valley
It's a bit contrarian to make up your own taxonomy. No one calls a colony of ants, humans, bees, etc. a single animal. And in all of your examples, the separate animals are nearly clones of each other, anatomically speaking. That isn't the case with the man o'war.
> users thought the "toot" thing was dumb though. It was the constant butt of jokes

Hard to resist, isn't it.
> For one thing, our specifications, themselves, are sorely lacking in specifications!

you cannot ask a customer of a building to specify what strength concrete needs to be used.

They specify the color of their kitchen, how much sunlight they want, and how many rooms. And as a demanding customer, it makes sense to want to change their minds.

I don't see the lack of specification, nor the lack of adherance to it, a problem. You, as an engineer, is responsible for solving these problems - including telling them they've forgotten to think about XYZ. You're not a human language to code translator.
It's what happens when the bureaucrats instituting a top down "ban" are out of touch with the reality of the situation.
Agreed. Raspberry pi5 with an nvme hat, enclosure that supports nvme hat, a power supply is more then n100 from China.

Meanwhile the n100 is like 5x processing power and is natively supported by any software since it’s x86
I have to go into the office 2 to 3 times a week now, and i get far less "work" done on those days than when I work from home. Most of my office time is just meetings/conversation. The commute also disrupts my ability to sync up with colleagues in Europe and Asia.
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Vim is efficient, in that there is no need for one's hands to leave the keyboard.

Vim is succinct, in that what is needed often takes less commands than those less frequent.

Vim is pliable, in that can be made to do whatever you wish.

Vim is everything, vim is nothing.

Mastering vim is to find Zen made possible by an exponential command space.
I think the implication is that there are parental authorities who can enforce this. Doesn't take much willpower when you've got people who will help you against your will!
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Tooting one's own horn and/or expelling gas seems to describe 99% of twitter.
I don't get it, you ought to be building a different venv per project anyway.

(Of course, I don't distribute most of my projects, so I just dump them all in the global install and don't worry about it)
Not much "meat" in the article; it talks about what we all know: that you can steer a model in the right direction.
I've also been receiving ads for this and I gotten tell ya... Getting a testimonial from a HN'er on a random thread is a huge vote of confidence. I've been toying around with the idea of getting one.
Google migrating Chrome OS to Android is a good thing
I had a counselor or whatever once tell me I needed to “become” a morning person

Now I’m 40 and I still am more functional after 10am than any time before that. And I’ve worked jobs starting at 4am-6am for months but never quite got used to it
> End users are not the only customers for SMS. A large number of automated notifications, confirmations, and 2FA codes are sent that way, and carriers get paid for it.

Not just paid, they gouge their enterprise customers for it. Signal did a cost breakdown[0] and of their $13.7 million infra costs, a whopping $6 million is "registration fees".

[0]https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/
I'm a bit late to the game, but I still want to share my side project Olympiad Math Exercises for Kids https://mathclub.ai/math-exercises.

For $50 a month, students get two sets of problems from past math contests every week. We've added nice features like an AI helper that can check answers and answer questions about the problems. Plus, for those looking to put their skills to the test, we host both online and in-person math olympiads in the Bay Area.
Life expectancy in the US is lower than other developed countries, so people here are living both shorter and worse lives.
> I just feel too much muscle memory with whatever you call normal editing.

You end up the same with Vim eventually. After almost 13 years of using it, I sometimes have to actually type the things I do to articulate what command it is. I also had a moment where someone said, “it’s just like the ‘p’ command in normal mode” and I had to really think about what they meant—in my head I’m just like “put line” and it just happens.
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The 7-step argument for materialism I have presented above is not intended to be sarcasm. I might be guilty of presenting a parody, in that it closely resembles your argument in most respects, but it has a serious purpose - an attempt to focus attention on the need for statements to be sufficiently well-defined and justifiable that a reasonable skeptic could find them persuasive. The challenge it presents you with is to refute it with a non- question-begging, non- burden-shifting response that would not apply, mutatis mutandis, to your own argument.
Would you say that software, in general, is improving in the year of our lord 2024? We may have taken a wrong turn somewhere. Going back may be the answer.
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Makes no difference, I'm not buying something being sold to me from a random number.
> By combining Android's great touch features with ChromeOS's great desktop features, Google can make an incredible Android operating system for all devices and form factors.

That's a spicy hot take, because I'm not aware of any previous company attempting this and seeing a good outcome. Windows 8 and GNOME 3's attempts at this were both abominations.
Sounds like great technology
While it wasn't specifically what I asked, I did appreciate the additional information. As an old man, I often ramble and find myself listening to rambling in return. Sometimes useful, and sometimes just the sweet symphony of shared space.
Don't break the chain! [0]

[0] https://lifehacker.com/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret-2...
Exifpurge.com. A portable Windows app to remove all exif data from multiple photos.
Not a nice interpretation of what is being said.

Clearly there is nuance that society compromises on certain things that would be problematic at scale because it benefits society. Sharing learned information disadvantages people who make a career of creating and compiling that information but you know, humans need to learn to get jobs and acquire capital to live and, surprisingly, die and along with them that information.

Or framing the issue another way, people living isn’t a problem but people living forever would be. Scale/time matters.

Here again I’ve fallen for the HN comment section. Defend your view point if you like I have no additional commentary on this.
The startup where I work let's you use Linux laptops as long as they can install Microsoft InTune on it. In practice, that means some developers/engineers use Ubuntu.
Geometric morphometrics for the study of facial expressions in animals (2019)
Because if you're studying real math, a calculator wouldn't help?
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
Some libraries break across different versions of Python for a variety of reasons.

Pinning python version with asdf (in conjunction with a venv) gets you reasonably far in ensuring a certain project works across a lot of people in a team.
> along with my wifi router

I'm all about eliminating phones, but I'm curious to know what you accomplished for several hours without network connectivity in general. Whether I've been working from home or in an office, a network outage basically meant taking the rest of the day off because nothing could actually get done.
Low key travel will probably make it worse if you don’t have an effective way to learn modify your behavior. The substantially lower key travel when Apple rolled out chiclet-style keyboards on MacBook Pros trashed my fingers and wrists.

I don’t think I was a particularly aggressive typer, but I was accustomed to one key travel distance and then it changed significantly. Nowadays I need a keyboard with pretty good key travel. That basically limited laptop options to certain Lenovo models until Apple started increasing the distance with the M1 redesign.
Absinthe: From green fairy to moral panic
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