skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whataboutisms aren't all the great you know. Google and MS also get flak, and they also deserve it.

But now that we're talking about these differences, I'd say that Apple users are notoriously complacent and defend Apple and their practices. So, perhaps in some part it is in an attempt to compensate for that? I'm still surprised how we've now accepted that Apple receives information pretty much every time we run a process (or rather, if it ran more than 12 hours ago, or has been changed).
I hated school as well but I would still disagree on almost all points with you.

But I was lucky enough to go to a good public school, found many lifelong friends there, learned a ton of aside skills that help me now in my personal and professional life.

I think it’s really sad that more and more people opt out of society, either in school or elsewhere. I can understand it to some extent but I think everyone will come of poorer in the end if we all sit in our separate boxes, only thinking about ourselves and how we can profit more.

I’m usually optimistic about the future but this is a hella depressing trend.
No, there's no way to check which workspace is in use, just that the domain matches. That's the problem.
Can you clarify what is it exactly that you consider counter-steering?

My understanding is that it means "briefly turning the handle-bars to point the front wheel in the opposite direction of the intended turn, causing the vehicle to start tipping over in the direction of intended turn", which is exactly how you steer both motorcycle and bicycle.
> It works pretty much like a library: people take some and leave some

Sounds like second hand.
When they’re not able to source labor locally, is that not incentive enough to leave?
I find that energy drinks help me sleep better. If I have some strong in the morning despite not at all needing one, I'll be more tired and ready to sleep that evening.

It probably has not-healthy side effects so I'd not recommend this day-to-day for anyone, try to avoid this myself as well.
> Setting the ACP to CP_UTF8 would have solved a lot of problems, but I believe that's only been supported for a short period of time, bafflingly.

It wouldn't solve all encoding problems though because most Windows APIs can store/return invalid UTF-16 which you can't represent in CP_UTF8 - you'd need a CP_WTF8 for that which doesn't even exist so you have to use the W APIs and do the conversion yourself.
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Not sure how it is today but in the late 90s it felt like we had a section about Nazis and WW2 every year in high school (in Germany). Yes, I get it, it's important - but it's not important to rehash it every year for 9 years.

That said, overall I was pretty happy with history class.
There is a whole type of kids bike that is just a bike with no pedals and the kids run around on them.

I didn’t realize this was why those bikes existed but that makes sense.
Some agencies have taken a smarter approach to this.

Ambulances in the Australian Capital Territory use steady burn amber perimeter lights when stopped on roadsides. Makes the outline of the vehicle more conspicuous, tends not to encourage rubbernecking and doesn't dazzle people.
This isn't the slam dunk you think it is. The article indicates that money isn't evenly distributed, which explains the conservatives goal with vouchers and charter / private schools.

My SO taught at all 3 kinds of the school in the US, in urban and suburban areas. The pay is bad everywhere, but worst at the non-union schools. Only teachers left have no better options or believe in the religion or cause of teaching, and even they tend to leave such schools the moment they have enough experience or better options. None of this is good for the kids at such schools.

The more affluent schools can afford to hire experts and keep them. I went to a rich(er) high school and had my choice among many specialty electives and advanced placement. My SO attended a highschool that was something between prison and daycare. My friend's private school was a religious indoctrination factory. Home schooled friends were often academical average to great, all socially awkward well into adulthood, and many were taught conspiracies or outright lies as long as it fit their parents "biblical worldview".

Public school was an escape from a cult-like community for me. I'm grateful my parents were too poor to force me into an alternative until I was old enough to refuse.
I wasn't expecting Godwin's Law to be involved so quickly.
Do you really want to have their attention? Do you really still want to get your donations through a service that makes you beg them for an answer, and still not getting any? And you want to put your NGO's livelihood on this company? Are you sure that you thought this through?
> 150 years ago, the average person was illiterate, poorer (in all senses of the word) and less connected to the world around them. Over a 100 year old grind, schooling fixed all that.

Illiterate, yes, but likely better at other skills like milking cows and knowing which plants in the forest were edible. Less connected to the global world and culture, yes, but more connected to the hyper local environment around them. I don't know if the schooling "fixed" anything, it just created a new, national or global template for what a human being should be like.
Latwy Automatically Syncs Your Financial Transactions to Notion
Notion became a lot more useful for personal finances when it added charts, but manual data entry is still a pain. Latwy uses Plaid to connect to users' financial accounts, then automatically pushes historical and new transactions to Notion.

Latwy is a very simple application built on a very simple tech stack - Node, Postgres, HTMX, Tailwind, and a little plain JavaScript. It doesn't store any financial information, instead just pulling data from Plaid and then pushing it to Notion. Users can see the sync history and reauthorize any Plaid connections that go haywire (as they sometimes do).
well, EU are enjoying NATO Protection (what I mean nato is only few nato country that really spend money on their military)

some country didn't spend as much even almost downscale its military and you expect the same benefit while didn't want any cost associated with it, how it make sense and fair for everyone???
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Packaging isn't done by TSMC.

Packaging is extremely low value and commodified, so companies prefer to contract it out to OSATs like Amkor.

Same reason why most companies became fabless - margins are much more competitive this way compared to owning your own fab.
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Wow this is really awesome. Nice job!
The trick is to stay simple. Don't write all kinds of features thinking other people will use it. Don't make it flexible, as least not to start. Hard-code everything so you can just get it done and get back to blogging. When you want to change something some day in the future, then make that bit dynamic. But break out of the habit of making a tool for everyone, and just stick to the MVP for your own immediate needs.
But you need an android phone, and can't use a kobo or similar wink reader?
Just to confuse things, some former grammar schools turned into private schools but kept 'grammar' in their name.

But to confirm, there are still areas that have state grammar schools and have the 11 plus: Buckinghamshire, Essex and Kent spring to mind as the obvious ones in the South East.
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> These vectors are quite long - text-embedding-3-large has up 3072 dimensions - to the point that we can truncate them at a minimal loss of quality.

Would it be beneficial to use dimensionality reduction instead of truncating? Or does “truncation” mean dimensionality reduction in this context?
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Easy access to the Bible text instead of being only read to, hence high literacy of the faithful, was one of the core tenets of some branches of Protestantism.
My pet theory is that it is the data model: everyone must support ical/Exchange and those only support events with a textual description.

Events may be a part, but not the only part of a good calender. There is a lot of stuff which could be part of a calender but doesn't necessary fit into the event paradigm: Fuzzy events like the car inspection you are putting of. Transit times - not just the fixed time span you get today, but integration of public transport or current car traffic, so that you can plan. If you're menstruating a period tracker. Your health and sleep data. The weather, the day-night-cycle for your location. All background data with time and date, which we have, but not just in our calendars.

And even traditional events are limited: I'd like to have a general repeating workday event but also like events in that workday as extra events. With a normal digital calendar they are clashing. Hierarchical events would be a solution.

Or multi-layered events, some years back there was this blog post on HN which made me rather unhappy with iCal:

https://julian.digital/2023/07/06/multi-layered-calendars/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36617504
What if you're a user and you're fed up with all the "magic"? What if you want a device that works reliably, consistently, and in ways you can understand from empirical observation if you pay attention?

Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung, they all seem to be tripping over each other in an effort to make this whole thing just as much ass-backwards as possible. Here is how it, IMHO, should work:

1) It scans stuff, detects faces and features. Locally or in the cloud or not at all, as governed by an explicit opt-in setting.

2) Fuck search. Search is not discoverable. I want to browse stuff. I want a list of objects/tags/concepts it recognized. I want a list of faces it recognized and the ability to manually retag them, and manually mark any that they missed. And not just a list of 10 categories the vendor thinks are most interesting. All of them. Alphabetically.

3) If you insist on search, make it work. I type in a word, I want all photos tagged with it. I click on a face, I want all photos that have matching face on it. Simple as that. Not "eventual consistency", not "keep refreshing, every 5th refresh I may show you a result", or other such breakage that's a staple experience of OneDrive Photos in particular.

Don't know about Apple, but Google, Microsoft and Samsung all refuse #2, and spectacularly fail at #3, and the way it works, I'm convinced it's intentional, as I can't even conceptualize a design that would exhibit such failures naturally.

EDIT:

4) (A cherry on a cake of making a sane product that works) Recognition data is stored in photo metadata, whether directly or in a sidecar file, in any of a bunch of formats sane people use, and is both exported along with the photos, and adhered to when importing new photos.
That would require adding JavaScript to the page and some people don't do that in their blog, especially when it's published using a static site generator.
They did that in 1607 and look at the destruction that has caused

A crap piece of writing in the article by the way.
That's pretty commonly the case.
They are alluding to the fact that the implementation is closed source, and therefore "untrustworthy". It's a trite point, of course, but not without some merit.
> a district that isn't overly expensive to live, but has the best public schools in the state and are some of the top in the nation

To have a great school district where housing isn't overly expensive is rare these days. I would have to guess it is hard to find a house in such a district unless you waive inpections and pay in cash.
I believe op meant conservative as in less radical and more willing to acknowledge that their ideas have flaws rather than the GOP.
I'll let you in on a secret. If I had owned a GameBoy and not only a Super Nintendo I would have also brought it in in the 90s.
Great point. Niche to me, but not to thee. I was unaware. This is actually one of the frustrating things about the LLMs - they don’t tell you when what you asked for is outside their training data!
> If you don't include a manifest, even GetWindowsVersion will not return the current version IIRC.

Worse than that, even reading relevant registry keys will be faked.
Now I have a song playing in my head:

Little wrecked Corvette

Baby, you're much too fast...
- There is also (but on a smaller scale) a gamification of math with bounties (https://mathoverflow.net/questions/66084/open-problems-with-...) but when a result is proved you cannot prove it "better than the first time". So it is more a "winner take it all" situation.
- I am not sure but the "2-minute papers" equivalent would be poster sessions, a must-do for every Ph.D. student
- For the marketing side, there are some trends in math, and subtly researchers try to brand their results so they become active research fields. But since it cannot be measured with GitHub stars or Hugging Face downloads, it is more discreet
This is an interesting question which will lead to interesting answers on its own right, but be aware that by the time you have children your worries will already be outdated.

Not putting your infant in front of a screen to shut them up is going to be an evergreen good recommendation, but social media will have changed drastically by the time your kids are old enough for it. More importantly, our attitudes around it will have changed. You can already see countries and communities adopting social media bans on children, so in ten years you can expect that the main things to worry about will be different. Today, I worry that adults just gobble up any misinformation they read regurgitated by some rando or an LLM without critical thinking.
For me, it wasn't the "stay away from average people" but "remove the bottom percenters", and that made schooling much better.

Out here, in my schooling, the first stage of schooling was an elementary school, from ~7-15yo (8 years), and by default, you're enrolled into the nearest school to your home. Sometimes there are ways to choose other schools, but all the other pupils there, are there, because it's their nearest school.

What that means is, that you have, in a same class group (~25 people) a wide distribution of capabilities but also mental states, behaviours, etc. From geniuses that contribute to the whole schooling experience, to kids who somehow manage to stay basically illiterate even after 8 years of schooling, and just cause problems for everyone else. What that means is, that many of the lectures are based around trying to get the lower percentiles to learn at least enough for a minimum passing grade, and the top percentiles are either bored or lose interest. + all the behavioural issues.

After you finished elementary school, your grades of the last few years (2? i forgot) are calculated, you do some standardized testing, the numbers are calculated by some formula, and you get a numeric score, that is then used to enroll into high schools (and in most cases, the top X candidates by that score get accepted to a school, depending on how many apply, and how many open spots (X) there are.

There are many high school options, but most of the smarter kids enroll to 'general' high schools (gymansiums) for the next 4 years (and then college), and even those have reputations for some being better, and others worse, even though they technically teach by the same teaching programme (same courses, same subjects,...). Why are some better? Because smarter kids apply, and you get a high school where ALL of the students are from the "top 20%" of elementary schoolers. That means that teachers don't have to waste their time on "illiterate" kids, there are less behaviour problems, if everyone in class understands the lecture relatively quickly, the teacher can add some extra "college level" lectures, etc. This, for better students, is a much better learning experience, both from school lecture experience, to general interactions with classmates (where you're not the only smart one in the class and have noone to help).

Add to this that smarter kids usually have smarter, more involved parents, and that means that also the teachers have to bring out their A-game, and not just bare minimum to get the kids a passing grade, because the grades and (another) standardized testing is then used to apply to colleges.

So yeah... some separation is not a bad thing.

TLDR: "staying away from averages" might sound stupid, but "removing the 'worst' students lets others perform better" is IMHO true.
You have it backwards. The existing policy (assessed as it works in practice) lowers wages for high-skilled roles such as I mention and endentures employees so they can't easily move.

For the roles I am familiar with the progression is (1) foreigner ineligable to work in US (2) OPT visa (3) H1B visa (4) Permanent resident (5) US citizen. Between each step of the progression are barriers with the effect that employees at a lower level have less negotiation power and must accept lower wages and cannot easily move to another job.

The barrier between (1) and (2) is a masters or PhD in a STEM subject area from a US university. From (2) to (3) there is a visa lottery. From (3) to (4) is the PERM process involving the fake job search as I described.

While under OPT or H1B visa, you MUST have a job or be deported. Timeframes to find an initial or a new job are very short. This is what gives employers increased power in the relationship, lowering wages and creating the nearly indentured status.

To decrease the effect of lowered wages and indentured status requires a reduced number of people in visa states (2) and (3), which would be achieved by raising barriers between (1) and (2) or lowering barriers between (3) and (4). The distasteful PERM process is the barrier between (3) and (4).

If the policy goal was to raise wages, it would be designed differently. E.g. if the top 20% by taxable income of H1B holders were offered PERM status each year, it would be a different dynamic.
As a parent with kids in the UK state school system, I've noticed a considerable attitude change in terms of reducing bullying, acknowledging and supporting learning difficulties (dyslexia, ADHD, autism), and on trying to keep kids happy and engaged, in a way that simply didn't exist during my time in the '80s and '90s.

In the same way, my own experiences at school were a significant attitude change compared to the learn-by-rote and corporal punishment era of my parents.

I couldn't claim that it works for every student or that every school is like that - plus the entire school system is now stretched financially to breaking point in a way that it wasn't when I was there, and there are additional new problems such as social media - but I do feel that in general things have moved in the right direction.
Sounds like it's similar to what happened with PostgreSQL after Oracle bought MySQL. ;)
It's like a lot of things... process orientation and discipline early on go a long way to keeping things sane. There are nice techniques for debugging policies as well (login_as_user functions, etc). We write pgTap tests for everything, and that REALLY helps.
Taiwanese are pro-reunification, Tsai wich is pro-US and pro-indepandance had quit due to her party loosing local elections

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Taiwan-elections/Taiwan-s-T...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/2024_Leg...
...But that's exactly what I'm saying?

Seriously. You just more or less repeated what I've been saying, minus the potentially spiteful sentiment.

From my original comment:

>The reason the US defence budget is so sky-fucking-high is because we effectively pay for everyone's military, though.
None of this has anything to do with Dockerfile but the tools used within.

Nix provides the tooling to do reproducible builds.
Meanwhile docker is a wrapper around the tools you choose.

Also just to note, docker does allow you disable network access during builds.
Beyond Dockerfile, which is a high level DSL, the underlying tech can do this per build step (in buildkit LLB).
I agree this doesn't gel well with the pop-science approach.

However, it is actually a similar approach to how De Broglie, Schrodinger, and others originally came up with their equations for quantum behavior - we start with special relativity and consider how a wave _must_ behave if its properties are going to be frame-independent, and follow the math from there. That part is equation (*), and the article leads with a bit of an analogy of how we might build a fully classical implemenation of it in an experiment (strings, possibly attached to a stiff rubber sheet) so we get some everyday intuition into the equation's behavior. So from my point of view, I found it very interesting.

(What the article doesn't really get into is why certain fields might have S=0 and others not, what the intuition for the cause of that is, etc. It also presupposes you have bought into quantum field theory in the first place, and wish to consider the fundamental "wavicles" that would emerge from certain field equations, and that you aren't looking closely at the EM force or spin or any other number of things normally encountered before learning about the weak force).
I think perhaps the 'maths' at the bottom is a bit of a retelling of the Yukawa potential which you can get in a "relatively understandable" way from the Klein-Gordon equation. However, the KG equation is very very wrong!

Perhaps an approach trying to actually explain the Feynman propagators would be more helpful? Either way, I agree that if someone wanted to understand this all properly it requires a university education + years of postgrad exposure to the delights of QED / electroweak theory. If anyone here wants a relatively understandable deep dive, my favourite books are Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur [aka graduate student] by Stephen Blundell [who taught me] and Tom Lancester [his former graduate student], and also Quarks and Leptons by Halzel and Martin. It is not a short road.
*WTF-8 unless you want to not be able to handle all possible filenames.
You might be being facetious and trying to imply that the political views taught in school are actually moderate, but I'm going to take the question literally anyway.

One example is the idea that a bio man should and must be called a woman if they declare themselves to be so. Regardless of whether or not you agree, it is an extreme viewpoint that has only just now become acceptable to believe in terms of history.
I actually touched on this topic somewhat in a recent talk at GopherCon: https://youtu.be/8XbxQ1Epi5w?t=2223

The section of the talk at the timestamp above is titled "Should I use Raft"?
The Zuck had to find the $million he paid to the Orange man from somewhere

He could have just given him his watch without sacking some hard working employees
Coffee and energy drinks saturate the receptors in your brain that trigger tiredness, such that you don't feel tired.

You brain, in response, build more of those. That's why coffee is less efficient over time, and why you feel more tired without coffee when you are used to drink some'
I feel I must point out that education buildings in Missouri do not share designs with prisons as a norm. Maybe this is true somewhere in the state but not here.
Well, your guess is off the mark.
I've got about six apps written by Claude from prompts, all quite simple but useful. If you don't believe it I get it, because I didn't either until I tried it.

As for nuance, I've seen an astounding amount of divergent context incorporated into LLM responses. Not always, but far more than I've ever been able to encode into a parsing script, which is exactly nothing not explicitly programmed.