skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My own experience of migrating my calendars and contacts from iCloud to Fastmail went seamlessly. What's more, the user experience on my iPhone went pretty much unchanged, including in Apple's own Calendar and Contacts apps, which has been very nice. Would recommend!

(It's worth noting for the privacy conscious that Australia, where Fastmail is based, has a truly terrible set of laws when it comes to government snooping, so if your threat model includes the Australian government, probably best to avoid Fastmail.)
>it is producing a chip that, for the first time, recovers energy used in an arithmetic circuit. The next chip, projected to hit the market in 2027, will be an energy-saving processor specialized for AI inference. The 4,000x energy-efficiency improvement is on Vaire’s road map but probably 10 or 15 years out.

How I wish I could place bets on this never happening.

>In the following years, Vaire plans to design the first reversible chip specialized for AI inference.

These guys are cashing in on AI hype. Watch them raise VC money, give themselves 6 figures salaries and file for bankruptcy in 3 years.
Also a lot of countries have different goals, and most people when they think of optimization of schooling think of better outcomes at the top end, whereas administrators think of better outcomes at the bottom end. The difference between stimulating your smartest people enough that they become leading beacons of their field vs minimizing the amount of people that get left behind. In some places there's a mixed approach with magnet schools but there's many countries where that doesn't exist.
Largely yes, although VW AG has problems of its own with the VW with falling profits. Their cheaper brands and also Cupra are doing okay. Toyota along with the other Japanese brands, BMW and Volvo are last years' winners. I think people in Europe are mostly buying hybrids.

"Volkswagen and Toyota were again the best-selling car brands but BMW moved into third place followed by Skoda. Volvo and Suzuki increased sales sharply while Ford and Tesla struggled."

https://www.best-selling-cars.com/europe/2024-half-year-euro...
There is another issue. Kids in the first group can get an incredible academic intellectual education, AND be emotionally and socially stunted. I have directly observed this, unfortunately. It also happens in very liberal, high-end, private schools.
> you have it all backward
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> >we can flirt with the sort of nationalism that led us into WWI and WWII
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> who are you speaking for? because nationalism didn't lead us, the US, into either world war; a desire on the part of our elected officials to save/preserve our democratic European allies did; that and a direct attack from the Empire of Japan.
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There are other people than the citizens oft USA in HN.

Personally I understood "us" in this sentence as global citizen, people from Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa who had their grandfathers living during WWI and WWII.
If US had many people "going from impoverished to wealthy", its social mobility stats would be better. You are seeing few outliers, that is it.
Thanks for the share. I would love to hear the community's opinions on the structure of the mapping (layers and sublayers), as it is always very hard to reduce dimensionality while keeping enough meaningful structure.
This is a function of Proton’s weird e2ee setup, which the calendar and contacts and email protocols were never designed for.

I self-host my own calendar, email, and contacts now.

You can probably do it on a raspberry pi or small NUC at home, with some port forwards over nebula/tailscale from a $5 VPS, if you wish.
Bro, you asked him to do work for you...
IIRC, Australia also shares data with the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand.
There is also abusive parents who want their kids to be isolated and do not want social services to get involved.
use esbuild to get rid of copy-pasting
Even if there were more ways to "vote with your wallet" is abundantly clear that a lot of parents, respectively, (a) couldn't care less anyway, and (b) can't actually tell a good charter or voucher school from a bad one.

When the purpose of schooling is ensuring a civic floor amongst citizens the effectiveness of things like the home school co-ops mentioned can't come at the expense of population at large unless we wish to surrender the republican form of government for something else.
And Australia is Five Eyes, which means FBI/DHS/DEA/ATF all have warrantless access to everything in Fastmail via FAA702.
I went to school and I check all of those items on his traits list.
I switched from a Kinesis Advantage 2 to a Glove80 over 1.5 years ago (not custom, I know) and I love it.

I also made some Dactyl Manuforms, but their key wells are not as nice as the Advantage, let alone the Glove80. They also have pretty bad thumb clusters (though with Cosmos it's configurable), not a good palm rest, etc. The only custom board I would be interested in (if the Glove didn't happen) would be:

https://github.com/wizarddata/Ergo-S-1

Since it also seems to have good palm rests, etc.
> These tech parents are hackers by nature

Why? Being in tech doesn't make you a hacker. Most people, even very talented engineers, are still happy to follow boss, do a 9 to 5, and don't really bend or break the rules... they don't go against the elite. They see themselves as the elite.
> Learning how to co-exist with people who aren't like you is a universally valuable experience, especially for people who would fashion themselves as "not average."

Nope. For some people it may be valuable. For me it was miserable, almost to the point of being deadly. It does not prepare you for adulthood or life or what have you in any meaningful sense (think about what would happen in your everyday life if someone e.g. decided you had insulted them somehow, and punched you. Think about how different your experience of that probably is to the average person. And then think about what that experience is like for a schoolkid). It's just a whole load of unnecessary suffering.
> Throwing chairs? That's a parent problem. Not sure why the district would put up with that. Expulsion works.

Our local education superintendant _in_ _his_ _program_ _document_ is saying that he will go after any teacher attempting to impose discipline in a "community inappropriate manner".

So basically, nobody gets expelled.
It's not working for me either, on FFmpeg 7.0.2. I suspect something has changed in FFmpeg since that command was shared on the Reddit post mentioned on the website. That was a few years ago.

However, from the same Reddit thread, this works:

ffmpeg -v quiet -f data -i input.txt -map 0 -f data pipe:1

EDIT: just verified the `-c text` approach works on FFmpeg major versions 4 and 5. From FFmpeg 6 onwards, it's broken. The `pipe:1` method works from FFmpeg 5 onwards, so the site should probably be updated to use that instead (also, FFmpeg 5.1 is an LTS release).
A related adage to present this succinctly, "you are the company you keep".
What is the source for that claim?
It seems that lawyers are sending advice to panic foreign visa holders.

But tech-bro in chief Mr. Musk said he's gonna face smash anyone who opposed h1bs or something liek that:

https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-did-elon-musk-t...

Which is ironic, as I read in a bio-piece on Musk that when he founded zip2 he actually was over-staying on a Canadian student visa.

So really, Musk is here because of illegal immigration not h1b.

But tech workers don't have to worry, cuz Trump is bending to Musk's intoxicating scent, at least for the few months while his bro-mance lasts.

Next year, who knows what Trump's children will advise him to do?
I guess he is talking about the three school types you can go to after elementary
Thanks! Checking that out.
Be careful with introducing AI into your notes
I can believe it. Both parties are pretty "law and order" and rely on relationships with the police. Why piss off an important group of people for an issue that isn't going to sway any votes.

Reform here is something which would presumably have a large amount of support but that's enough to get a law passed or the US would look very different, there are tons of popular things that will never be laws.
I tend to see big per student spending in public schools as suggestive that they've been loaded up with a disproportionate share of the kids with IEPs.
> In the US, word2vec might tell you espresso and cappuccino are practically identical. It is not a claim you would make in Italy.

True, and quite funny. This is an excellent, well-written and very informative article, but this part is wrongly worded:

> Let's have a task that looks simple, a simple quest from our everyday life: "What did I do with my keys?" [and compare it to other notes using cosine similarity]: "Where did I put my wallet" [=> 0.6], "I left them in my pocket" [=> 0.5]

> The best approach is to directly use LLM query to compare two entries, [along the lines of]: "Is {sentence_a} similar to {sentence_b}?"

(bits in brackets paraphrased for quoting convenience)

This will result in the same, or "worse" result, as any LLM will respond that "Where did I put my wallet" is very similar to "What did I do with my keys?", while "I left them in my pocket" is completely dissimilar.

I'm actually not sure what the author was trying to get at here? You could ask an LLM 'is that sentence a plausible answer to the question' and then it would work; but if you ask for pure 'likeness', it seems that in many cases, LLMs' responses will be close to cosine similarity.
> Why are tech people suddenly so into homeschooling?

Are they? I mean statistically. Or is that just an observation from some random articles about a handful of freaks?

> and let me tell you, at no time were my six siblings and I considered the cool kids on the block.

I don't want to defend homeschooling but in my experience, the cool kids on the block tend to end badly. These are the girls that end up pregnant at 16 or in relationships with abuse partners, the boys that end up in addiction and a career of jumping from shitty jobs to shitty jobs.

Having said that it is nice to be able to develop social skills. I used to be super shy and had to force myself to grow a more sociable person and I am glad I had to force myself doing that by going to school.
It is an objectively measurable fact (e.g. by test scores) that K-12 teaching, in the US, pays poorly, lacks prestige, and attracts far from the best and the brightest.
> Literal children are incapable of forfeiting their rights by being "violent and disruptive"

They can. And do. We have 12-year-old "children" literally robbing stores around here.

If this happens, they should exercise their right to education from inside a locked institution.
> By the mid-19th century, literacy rates among whites were not much different than they are today

But the states does have among the lowest literacy rate in the west. Less than 80% was considered literate in 2024, compared to almost 99% in the EU (with a range from 94% to almost 100%).
The thing is that I might be another psycho. But there is a city center, winter and an old women with blueish hands. Wearing no proper shoes and having only a sweater. There are hundred other caring and loving persons and missionaries around, heavy car traffic too. But somehow I am the one bringing her to the care facility a mile away. How can it happen!? Why do you think, that only a Good Samaritan can care and a psycho can’t?
I would buy a Glove80 again instead of going through the hassle of building my own keyboard.

Maybe I would lose some personalization, but I would keep my sanity.
I might. All I really want is A, B, & C speaker sets.

Out of all the receivers I've owned in the last 20 years, I liked Denons the best.
The notifications from various apps are indeed very annoying.
There's a scene in which an aide for a city politician is stopped leaving known drug dealing actors and the car is found to have bag stuffed with a large amount of cash which is seized.

The point moving forward is will anybody claim the cash and offer an explanation as to where it came from.

The above "you'll know why" appears to carry an implicit "because all cash with no receipt is criminal proceeds".

The problem with that is stories abound of Police seizing cash and other assets and keeping them, spending money, auctioning goods, etc that were never criminal proceeds .. or rather never proved to be criminal proceeds.
I hope Zuck sues him for slander, libel, breach of contract and/or defamation. This is performative virtue signalling at its most cringe.
It'd be nice if the contract was just for a year with extensions, not this at-will BS which doesn't even hold true (the way it's perceived as "having" a job) for some randomly selected people judged by one random manager as "low performers".
> Maybe… there is more to school than facts? Maybe it’s about order and discipline and shared values too?

Maybe status-quo bias is so powerful that people will see an institution that fails at literally everything it tries to do and instead of concluding that it's a failing institution they will pick some other random thing and decide the institution must actually be about that, because the idea that the institution is actually pointless is too horrible to contemplate.
Agreed. And for a less contrived example, people may have photos of political protests that they attended (and the faces of others present), screenshots that include sensitive messages, subversive acts, etc.

It's worth noting though that it's now possible to opt in to iCloud Photo e2ee with "Advanced Data Protection". [0]

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651
I don't have kids, but if I did, there's not a snowball's chance in hell I'd let a state educate them, with the possible exception of the Nordic countries.
After spending some time on the teachers subreddit I completely understand why so many people are choosing to homeschool. The amount of in-classroom abuse -- verbal and physical -- in addition to the entitled parents is shocking.
OpenFlexture Microscope open source 3D-printed microscope (Pi 4 SBC, Cam Mod v2)
We also have SKA deployments out here, the Murchison observatory that's part of SKA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murchison_Radio-astronomy_Obse...

And we have the Pawsey Supercomputer that is working through a lot of the SKA data.
https://pawsey.org.au/
Which is where an expulsion often leads, similar to how adults unable to function in society are channeled into SSDI, homelessness, or prison in some combination.

There are unlikely to be many caring and constructive adults there though, for reasons that should be obvious.
You mean Datahand? There is lalboard: https://github.com/JesusFreke/lalboard (there is also Svalboard, but I don't think it is open source).
> part of what school does is expose you to a vertical slice of humanity

I love that phrasing! I think I'm going to use it – thank you.
Has LLM killed traditional NLP?
I have found someone who uses the anchor suffix to solve the problem:

https://john-doe.neocities.org/

I am not html expert, so I have no idea how complicate or what implications would that have.
I work for the government IT.

Constraints are often bogus, made by a few bad actors and never questioned because the government is structured to avoid personal responsibility. Unfortunately, this takes away agility and disempowers individual workers.

Which, as noted in a nearby comment, makes them coping instead of caring.

An overlooked cause is the management science that insists on getting rid of individual ownership.
Statistically you want the retriever to be trained for cosine similarity. Vision LLM retriever such as DSE do this correctly. No need for reranker once done.
My feedback regarding the presentation is that I think there should be slightly more focus on why one would choose rqlite over say sqlite. That probably means more info on the distributed part.

I happen to know raft and the kind of problem it solves, but the average reader might not. A practical demonstration of the problems it solves might be in order.

So that also means describing for whicj applications rqlite is more wellsuited (and for which it might be worse) than other databases.
Ah, that makes sense. Honestly I had no real idea of the chronology, since the video seems to have gotten more popular lately.
>despite there being little to no evidence that they generate any broad improvements in the base level of education in the population at large?

You don't find the experience of New Orleans following their conversion to a complete charter system in 2005 (10 percentage point gain in college acceptance rates, improvements on standardized tests by about a third of a standard deviation) to be meaningful evidence?

https://news.tulane.edu/news/new-orleans-reforms-boost-stude...
Not OP, but I've been daily driving Guix for about 5 years now quite happily. The biggest paint point with vanilla Guix is probably a lack of non-libre packages, especially the linux-libre kernel which strips out blobs. However, the nonguix [1] channel handily fills that hole, and there is first-class support for running a Nix daemon service [0] to cover anything not in nonguix.

Guix documentation is top notch, and it's really nice having all that available locally as texinfo pages. For writing packages yourself, I've found the Guix source to be eminently more greppable than Nix, which eases the dev onramp.

Nix's daemon is definitely more performant than Guix's, so equivalent operations will usually be quite a bit slower in Guix, but on the whole I'd say that Guix's more cohesive design makes the system more pleasant to work with.

Happy to help if you have any specific questions!

[0] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html#Nix-service

[1] https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix/
Room destroyers are pretty common, but they usually have IEPs.

TBH there's no good choices for many - big mental health issues and trauma, no home or family support, and no real options: kids have to go somewhere, self contained classrooms are at capacity, there are worse kids in line to get put in facilities, and often you can't really do that unless parents push for it anyway.
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Features:

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I'd love to hear your advice and feedback. Thanks!
Safe presumtion. I never used it for real but for instance I like freebsd and the ports system, prefer macports to brew etc.
Canarvon is over a 9 hour drive from Perth, and the ABC in the regions is on a shoestring budget as our conservatives think it better to give newstainment talking heads money when compared to actually funding the state backed news broadcaster.
I'm 100% in the third camp.
Show HN: Apple Engineer Made Samaltmanprize.com
I wanted a way to track everybody gunning for this prize. There's meant to be a one-person employee Unicorn startup sometime soon with the advent of more intelligent AIs.
One interesting feature: an index of all existing (already documented) hardware hacks on commercial devices. I know for example the IP camera industry has a large models that many different people are modding, but their docs are scattered all over github.
I've heard that, noted :)
Well 10mSv per hour is a really small dose rate considering post-SIOP environment. That's what will be there for a threshold of "heavy" (300Sv total dose) fallout areas, in 6 months. Or pretty much everywhere including areas with no hits for hundreds of km away and no visible fallout, for at least a week.
My 9 y/o getting shot at school isnt something I want on my risk register.
iCloud Photo e2ee still shares hashes of the plaintext with Apple, which means they can see the full list of everyone who has certain files, even if they all have e2ee enabled. They can see who had it first, and who got it later, and which sets of iCloud users have which unique files. It effectively leaks a social graph.

It’s also not available in China.
Containerizing an application is far easier than packaging an application for Nix - I think most avid Nix users would agree with that.

The reason why Nix users "refuse" to containerize is that Nix packages and their associated ecosystem come with a host of benefits that their containerized counterparts do not.
The book has some interesting ideas (which you'll mostly be familiar with if you're following the microisv/indiehacker/solopreneur communities), but stretches the "company of one" concept to breaking point, at some point invoking teams in facebook, etc. The term basically gets redefined as "individuals, teams or orgs that the author likes".

A more descriptive title would be something like "the minimalist entrepreneur", which is actually a title of another book on the same theme by Sahil Lavingia of Gumroad.

The book is full of interesting stories and presents a counterpoint to the "default" VC-backed growth-at-all-cost startup. If you haven't been exposed to the indiehacker/soloprenur ideas, a useful read even if you don't take that route (same for Sahil's book I mentioned).
Or, let me be cheeky: you could add some `<php include('header.html')?>` in your html.
Why would a school expel students? They get money for each person sitting in the desk.
To be fair most high school graduates might recite the “right scientific facts” while having no basis for supporting them.
The earth is 4 billion years old. Survival of the fittest drives evolution. Why? How do you know?

Basically just another form of indoctrination. Children are not taught science so much as science appreciation.
I would like to throw in a tool that I built into the ring: gencmd - https://gencmd.com/. There is a web version and also a CLI version.

If the CLI is installed, you can do: gencmd -c ffmpeg extract first 1 minute of video

Or you can just search for the same in the browser page.
The average public school teacher is somewhere in the average top 40-30% in intelligence/academic achievement. Anyone who's a top performer academically is going to be much more competent than the average public school teacher.
This is… not a bad question at all. Serbia is punching above its weight in the current political situation in Europe thanks to being close to Putin and participating in the Chinese new Silk Road and the Serbian Orthodox Church is an amazing hate machine, rivaling their Russian counterparts easily.

While it wouldn’t stop ww3 it would remove one of the hot spots.
>and when the roots break down all that carbon is released to the atmosphere.

How do you figure, exactly?
Someone recently told me that petrol and diesel engines with manual transmission feel very different. He told me that driving his dad's manual transmission diesel engine was easier because the clutch was "more forgiving". I cannot driving manual, so I have no idea about it. My guess: That tractor is diesel.
Global differences in code quality – any research/meta-analysis available?
Has anyone done a meta-analysis of code quality across different countries? I'm interested in whether there's research comparing code quality at a global level (acknowledging the challenges in defining code quality) to identify potential differences between regions like the USA, Europe, China, and India.

Reading John Ousterhout's 'A Philosophy of Software Design' made me realize how much I missed having a proper software design course in university. This got me wondering about how software design education might vary and impact software quality at national and global levels.