skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree - it is quite funny that it is getting attention. It's like a combination of Elon being on X and getting attention and SEO creating some infinite loop of everything revolving around him. Please stop.

More importantly can someone remind me what warning did the Chinese rockets provide or competitors? Not that that is a standard we should measure against.
Not that this would be better but I'm surprised no ebook maker has had success in the educational market. Eink seems like it'd be great for education as it'd really only support text based distractions/bullying which while bad is less bad than the trifecta of video, images and text distractions/bullying. Its also lighter and the battery is longer lasting than a laptop.
Choice is an excellent option.

Printed books and or electronic versions, seems like the best way to go for education.
Have you considered that those experts might have perverse incentives? It’s not a secret that the very regulators whose job it is to make sure we don’t eat poison are the same people who sell the food. But sure feel free to “trust the experts”, I’ll be over here doing my best to not eat things made out of coal tar (even if someone in a lab coat says it’s okie dokie).
What you're really arguing for is toll roads. The quibble is over how to collect the toll.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/24/china/china-rocket-debris-fal...
Someone with one (1) anecdote is not an authority and shouldn't be trusted like one. Eroding trust in authorities by equating actual experts with somebody who has a half baked opinion based on an anecdote seems like the real issue to me.

Going around and assuming every opinion is based on objective reality instead of subjective experience filtered through human perception with all it's quirks is not a good way to arrive at truth.
The argument he made was invalid without data to back it up. I at least cited something. The remarks on the performance when backups are made and the benefits of L2ARC were really the most important points, and are far from invalid.
It's like can't tell if she heard you
Really sad the e-ink hasn't seen more widespread use. It's like no one wants a middle ground between tech-hype and tech-doom.
And yet, that's exactly what computer RPGs are all about, one of the most popular video game genre is essentially about automating dungeon masters. It includes early games like Colossal Cave Adventure and Zork, which are chatbots not unlike a very primitive version of ChatGPT.

If you have a good role playing group, with a DM you enjoy playing with, no computer game nor LLM will replace that. But if what you are looking for is the convenience of computer games with the freedom of tabletop RPGs more than the social aspect, then LLMs totally make sense. And even with a social group, it can work as substitute if you don't have a DM (DMing is hard work!).
They push people to upgrade to the next windoz.

This is unrelated to backward compat.
FYI, while these block level methods do have a use case, parallel rsync and other file level tools are far safer and often faster with less additional load on the disk.

Duplicating the OS/FS behavior hits the decidable problem and you just hope for the best with block level, often you won't notice corruption either.
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Kudos to Sweden for responding to research.
I worked with a sysadmin that did this for his kids, and even moved chore assignments around automatically based on grades (which he scraped from some school portal). Get a D and you'll have to do your sister's chores!
While I appreciate the author's perspective, esp as someone who experienced homeschooling, I think here in the US we often forget what these efforts have cost, their real value and who is lobbying against them.

Universal education, for all children in a nation, is an incredibly recent thing. Its also essential for real participation in a democracy which requires, at minimum, an understanding of the governing body and at maximum whatever we're slogging through now. Could the curriculum be better? Definitely. You know who is stopping that? Shit politicians. We need better ones because no matter what you think, they aren't going away,

Education has also continuously and purposefully been underfunded and politicized by the political right and intermittently eviscerated by corrupt players on the left and right. This is on purpose. The rise of homeschooling is directly correlated with how much funding public schools have lost, the lack of safety and how difficult it is to operate successfully. You now send the kid to school and get cut with a thousand small asks for cash when we could just revise how taxes are collected and distributed. Put out a gun ban. We don't need metal detectors, and cops and clear backpacks and active shooter drills and teacher trainings and and and. We need LESS GUNS and most americans agree but private industry is limiting us.

The rise of homeschooling is correlated with how many people are concerned about the politicization of schools, their libraries, their teachers, their cirruculum.

We keep having presidents who appoint leaders to the department of education who do not believe in education being available for all citizens. Schools continue to expand their mission to feeding kids who can't be fed. To programs for kids who can't be home. No one seems as focused on fixing why there are so many hungry kids instead focusing on a 'lunch account' and the debt of middle schoolers.

This is all intensely documented and yet another example of cutting a public good. A public good by the way, that made America a place that everyone in the world wanted to go. Yes, I got picked on in school and was bored in my classroom. Yes it could have been better. This though, this is a concerted effort to get us to divest once again, just like we are from net neutrality, the post office, the EEOC etc.
This happens to engineers too, it sucks. I say throughput way too often in casual conversation.
Which governments are those?
Or destroy the cash in public.
Wow, really impactful share! I feel like I got some great take-aways and learnings from this.
I think books are the best medium for learning some things, and probably in some aspects for writing.

However I'm worried some countries seem to be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

There are many things that are easier to learn with computers/screens than without as well, they just need to fit the medium. [0]

Intended as a reply, but the comment got deleted, so I might as well include it here:

The article [0] is focused on homeschooling, so the exact points listed there doesn't necessarily have a leg up on traditional media (implying you're in the right environment to facilitate learning these skills well without computers, which I don't think most kids are).

One off-hand example [where screens can be better than a book], would probably be using simulations to assist in learning physics, instead of just solving the equation on a page. Things where interactivity sets the learning in better context than a book probably would.

I'm also very excited to try teaching our child math using apps like DragonBox, which seems to allow for much easier visualization of how to solve equations than I got at school. [1]

0: https://www.fast.ai/posts/2024-10-29-screen-time/

1: https://dragonbox.com/products/algebra-5
When I think "toll road" I think limited access highway, like the NYS Thruway. We've got to pay for other kinds of roads too.

You could put a GPS tracker in the car but a lot of people won't go for that. Efforts to put more telematics in cars such as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedicated_short-range_communic...

have gone nowhere because nobody can find an agreeable solution for security, privacy, how to pay for the infrastructure, etc.
This is such a narrow view of homeschooling as to be idiotic.

> That voice likes to say: You should just homeschool them. Opt out of interacting with average people, because average people will only damage your kids.

The author makes a statement about why they think people prefer homeschooling, and yet they do not mention having spoken to a single currently homeschooling parent to ask why they homeschool. This is like me writing an article about some group I'm not a part of (say, farmers) and saying "why don't they all get organic certified? As far as I can tell it's because most farmers don't like nature."

tl;dr: this is a completely uninformed tirade from someone who unfortunately had a bad experience with their religious upbringing, which involved homeschooling, and is generalizing the negative emotions towards all homeschoolers whatever their reason for opting out of school. Ironically this article that's ostensibly criticizing homeschooling parents as snobs is dripping with disdain and condescension.

The reductive & random assumption that people opt out of school they object to the students is baffling to me. Does it not occur to the author that people take issue with institutionalization of their kids in school? It's not the other children, it's the one-size-fits-all meat grinder of school most secular homeschool parents object to.

Bonus: The footnotes are hilarious. The footnote to their argument that people homeschool because they're snobs is:

> I don’t think I’m straw-manning, because I’m pretty sure someone is going to highlight the “opt out of interacting with average people” quote on Twitter/X and say “this, but unironically.”

"I don't think I'm inventing a weak interlocutor to argue against because I've invented another imaginary person on twitter who agrees with the first imaginary person I created" I'm honestly laughing reading this.
Update. New I phone
> And owners already go in once a year to a mechanic for a state vehicle inspection

No we don't. That's not universal for all states nor all jurisdictions within a state. If you already have an annual vehicle inspection, then what you're advocating for is easy. If you don't, then you've created a huge problem.
Right, the hope is to find bugs early.
If support of trans folk is "Too far" for someone, they were already running towards fascism. There's nothing progressive about denying folks their gender identity, and to the extent that "Progressivism" is a force in America, it is better off without the Anti-trans contingent.
Scheduled tasks in ChatGPT
Pretty sure I've seen this article on HN before 2024. Is the date incorrect?

Personally I like "just". It's reassuring and often accurate. You can just do things
Personally, I would hate this. As a student I far preferred PDFs, etc. because I could quickly make Anki cards out of them, strip mine them for insights and good practice problems and then just burn them into my long term memory over the next few months. We should be teaching children about spaced repetition systems and helping them instill the one habit actually proven to help them remember what they learn, not banishing them back to the Carboniferous Era!

EDIT: I'm getting downvoted, and I stand by what I said. :) Your kid's inability to focus should not be the reason my kid can no longer remember his material. That's a separate problem which can be solved with an approach as simple as "turn off the modem".
The BeBox is my holy grail of retrocomputing! Had to settle for a partition on my x86 machine. Loved BeOS back in the day.
There's also a really nice implementation of Rope for C# here: https://github.com/FlatlinerDOA/Rope
Physical books are still better than e-readers because you can put sticky notes on the pages, jump back and forth between pages quickly, and even start to know where pages are simply based on how many leaves/pages are split between your left and right hand. Textbooks are basically reference books, my favorite dictionaries I start to "learn by hand" to know where to flip to approximately to start my search.
FreeBSD Journal – 2024/11-12 – Virtualization
No sarcasm, it was good enough to compliment
Here's my big concern: If every big social media provider has to bake American policy position into its algorithm, what's going to happen to approaches like Bluesky or Mastodon/ActivityPub which allow users to choose their own algorithm?
I didn't actually know we'd switched to computers. I knew there was a party, 'Liberalerna' that was for it, arguing for a kind of naïve general digitalisation etc. but I always assumed it was too crazy to be implemented, so I'm very happy with this.
Let's just be clear on what this is. Supporting a TikTok ban has several valuable benefits to politicians.

1. You look tough on China

2. You look like you're being tough on "misinformation"

3. You get to look like you are in favor of privacy

4. You get to implicitly support the American competitors of this product

5. You get to look like you're helping kids by getting rid of something that they like but older voters are skeptical about

6. None of this affects the supply chain so won't impose consumer costs

None of these things are real (except the competitors and supply chain ones)
I did internal benchmarks at ClusterHQ in 2016. Those benchmarks showed that a tuned ZFS FS of the time had 85% the performance of XFS on equal hardware (a beefy EC2 instance with 4 SSDs, with XFS using MD RAID 0), but it was considered a win for ZFS because of the performance difference when running backups. L2ARC was not considered since the underlying storage was already SSD based and there was nothing faster, but in practice, you often can use it with a faster tier of storage and that puts ZFS ahead even without considering the substantial performance dips of backups.
So do the masses have the wisdom to rule themselves or do they need a paternalistic gatekeeper? Pick one.
I think the only product that you could really launch on Product Hunt is a Product Hunt clone.
Second stage and satellite disposal target is typically Point Nemo in the Pacific Ocean, 2688 kilometers away from the Pitcairn Islands, Easter Islands and Antarctica.

Nobody is flying or sailing at Point Nemo. The keepout zone typically has a massive 1000km diameter, but approximately 0 impact on anybody.
There isn't a single source in that article.
My high school doesn't use entire textbooks; it uses either excerpts from a textbook or lecture notes produced by the teacher. This solves the 30lb backpack problem nicely: you realistically only bring the necessary notes or textbook required for the last few days of instruction. Anything that's earlier gets left behind at home because you won't need to refer to it often.
Taxes on gas were the ultimate, but still very imperfect, toll until electric came along. Nothing will be a perfect here. The best I can think of would be a higher base anual registration fees and a requirement to report annual mileage. A minimum mileage is covered by registration and anything over should be charged extra. The problems with this approach though are likely many. First, getting one big bill at the end of the year is always less palatable than getting a small one every time you fill up so people are likely to complain, loudly. Second, enforcement will likely be tough. Even with those two problems I think it generally addresses the issues and is the simplest solution.

As a side note though, while this is a real concern and we should be considering it, the fact that this is coming up now is likely more about politics than it is about adjusting taxing based on changes in consumption. I can just hear the bad talking points being spread everywhere now: 'EVs are destroying our roads and not paying their fair share and should be banned!'
I bought a LiveScribe out of curiosity ages ago and I never quite managed to fit it into my daily rhythm. Maybe it was that the software was too clunky or the fact that I needed to use special paper. Either way, the idea turned out to be less revolutionary than I thought it would be. I also think that multimodal LLMs are slowly inching us towards a future where we can auto index our notebooks using a standard cell phone camera.
uh... "... worse for our culture than anything a foreign country has done to us"... yet. this is only true because we find ourselves in an unprecedented situation-- up to now, the U.S. has had a monopoloy on social media giants and the like. it is absolutely not guaranteed that this will hold true, and there are many reasons to suspect that it won't be true. given how china views about U.S. sovereignty when it comes to setting up their own (secret) de facto government, police state, etc. on U.S. soil, it would be shocking if they didn't put their thumb on the scale.

and none of that is to say that i agree with the ban-- i think the mere fact of how unamerican, frankly, taking possession of foreign assets for american gain at others' expense is as blatant a signal as possible that we shouldn't be doing it. if we are trying to protect america, western values, etc., if we don't act in accordance with those values, what are we even protecting? the way to protect the american way of life is not through becoming more "unamerican".

in my personal opinion, the so-called "decline of western values", or whatever, has nothing to do with imperialism, nor to do with those values being short-sighted or wrong. it is because of our collective crisis of confidence in these values because of the (many) mistakes we have made along the way. the moral compass still points essentially in the same direction; it's just that for whatever reason we seem to have convinced ourselves that we don't want to go North after all, and instead prefer to just wander around the map aimlessly (all the while shitting on how the compass isn't taking us where we want to go). and so now we have people who unironically defend organizations like Hamas at the expense of the United States as though believing in universal freedom and equality of opportunity is merely a "cultural" value, rather than an absolute one. and, more insanely, that these values are somehow subordinate to the political issue du jour. these values don't give anyone carte blanche to coerce others who don't share them, but the idea that they are somehow subjective or relative-- that they are negotiable-- is the height of insanity.
I've seen enough stories exactly like this from other CF customers to believe it.
The page doesn't say why matrices need to have whole-number (really just integer) entries, but I'd suspect it's because bad approximations to non-integer rationals accumulate sufficiently to make the recurrence unrecognizable.
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. A foreign enemy keeps us from focusing on our own domestic policies. Turns out, if you look into it, we're the baddies.

In addition to widespread data collection and social manipulation, we also intentionally shove our culture down the throats of other nations in order to maintain cultural supremacy.
> TikTok should be considered a broadcaster.

> Since when are social media apps considered broadcasters?

Not OP but they said should be, not is
???

Isn't it the reverse? China has censored/banned many US apps and websites for a long time, surely turnabout is fair play?

Hell, TikTok itself is already banned in China, irony of ironies.
tencent should divest from reddit?
Do you need a proprietary app for that? TOTP is fine, you can just pick your own.
yes this particular seat price increase might be the one that breaks the camel’s back

an ignorable monthly credit card charge, to one that has to go
>It's also to teach you how to cooperate,

Cooperation requires shared goals. I can't cooperate with someone when we're not sharing goals. Young students don't have shared goals other than "survive in this classroom for 11 months out of a calendar year". So there's no lessons in cooperation.

>how to reach consensus,

Of what use is consensus, without shared goals? Sounds more like indoctrination.

>how to make decisions as a group,

Same as above.

>These soft skills are absolutely critical to maintain a properly functioning society.

These skills are actually being used to murder civilization/society, even as we speak. The current fertility rate is sub-replacement, but the children being indoctrinated in public schools are being indoctrinated to be even less fertile than that. Many will grow up to be and remain childless as adults, and as that happens, society will not replace those people who are dying of old age. Society then dies itself just decades later. Your society, such as it is, is absurdly dysfunctional. I suppose if one were to define "properly functioning" as "polite to a fault" or "as peaceful as cattle trudging down the slaughterhouse chute"...
Is cursive (hand) writing still taught?

The province of Ontario brought it back in the curriculum for example:

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/cursive-writing-ontar...
I don't understand the physics, but supposedly the wear on the road is proportional to the fourth power of the weight. I'm not sure if that's the main cost to be accounted for though.
Repeating my other comment:

Here's my big concern: If every big social media provider has to bake American policy position into its algorithm, what's going to happen to approaches like Bluesky or Mastodon/ActivityPub which allow users to choose their own algorithm?

From here on out, are only US government collaborating social media apps going to be allowed to scale? If so that is a chilling effect on speech. I want to use my own algorithm. I don't need China nor the USG to tell me what I want to watch. I'm perfectly willing to write my own feed algorithm to do it, I tinker with several on Bluesky right now. Will this be banned?
Whoa whoa, what you said is "the constitution clearly gives the federal government the ability to conduct federal elections, not states." This is blatantly false. I presume you discovered that when you looked it up and now you're switching gears.

Now you're mounting a totally different argument which is that Congress has the power to enforce Section 3. This is true, but that does not strip states of power to run their own elections how they see fit. This merely grants power to Congress to enforce Section 3.

You just misunderstand how the Constitution works.

Here's proof: The Constitution does not give states the power to pass laws. It does give Congress the power to pass laws. It giving Congress the power to pass laws obviously does not strip states of their power to pass their own laws.
The website of one of the most influential IT person, who won the court battle against U.S. Government, allowing for widespread cryptography, professor Daniel J. Bernstein, is and always has been plain HTML mostly with no CSS.

https://cr.yp.to/

It's served using his own HTTP server - publicfile, and the DNS domain is served using his own DNS server - djbdns. E-mail is handled using his own SMTP server - qmail. He invented the Maildir e-mail format, de facto standard in all e-mail products. All e-mail mailing lists for his products are handled by his own mailing list server - ezmlm. All of this is managed using his replacements to /etc/rc or /etc/init.d or systemd - daemontools.

He invented ChaCha and Salsa stream ciphers, now in widespread use, as well as elliptic curves, especially the famous Curve25519, and the Poly1305 MAC.

He also invented TCP SYN cookies.

Pretty impressive, no?
Probably not the place to post this feedback, but in general I get excited about what Cloudflare have been releasing in 2024. I'm borderline desperate to try them out in a business setting.

The only thing that really stops me is the horror stories I hear about random billing issues and on top of that account closures.

That is something I'm _never_ worried about with AWS.

On the off chance that someone from CF is reading this feedback.
I believe I read all the prior comments.

If you believe I misread something, then quote or link the relevant comment.