jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It’s no surprise that parents and teachers would not support “AP Calculus” as a standard, as it is run by the College Board with no oversight. The school has to pay for each child enrolled and pay again if the child doesn’t take the exam at the end of the class, the exams are graded but offer zero feedback to the teacher or student.

They have annual revenue >$1B with over $100 million in “excess revenue” (you can’t call it profit because they are a non-profit). The CEO earns over $1 million per year, sold his education consulting company to a huge education textbook publisher, claims that he “had” to get a job at McKinsey because he couldn’t find work as a high school English teacher, etc.

You think this would be an improvement?
There is already a group of people applying this pressure. Ex-customers who have stopped buying their products. Join us.

Along with many others it seems, Catalina is the last version of macOS I'll be using.

I have a 2013 27" iMac and as of mid-last year I was considering buying a new one sometime in 2021, but I've now changed my mind, due to decisions Apple has made about how they handle their desktop operating system.
s390 is the 31-bit-only variant, that has been discontinued for some time. Modern variants are 64-bit based, and still supported.

All that being said, it's quite worthwhile to include these "dead" architectures in LLVM and Rust, if only for educational reasons. That need not imply the high level of support one would expect for, e.g. RISC-V.
Actually your C++ solutions is O(N log N) since you are using `std::map`. If you need to remove that extra log factor what you need to use is `std::unordered_map`

std::map::find - http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/map/map/find/

std::unordered_map::find - http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/unordered_map/unordered_m...

Your Golang soln is O(N) still, since maps in Go lang are hashmaps.

dottomato
MUDs were great, and they were partially responsible for me being able to work up my knowledge, experience, and confidence to start up a career in software engineering. I learned a lot from trying to make my own MUDs (from using ROM 2.4, some tiny codebase called CVagrant, and from scratch), as well as a little bit about Linux.

This is all aside from playing. I somehow convinced many of the right people in middle and high school to play a Tolkien-based MUD with me. It was really great back then, but I don't play any more nor does anyone I know. There are only a handful of MUDs that have the playerbase to make them interesting.

Also, I'm not sure if it's still the best place to browse what MUDs exist, but many can be found on http://www.mudconnect.com/.
That’s strange because I see it essentially in reverse of that:

To change the Bitcoin price, vote with your dollars, going long or shorting. You will materially impact the order book and resulting price. Other ways exist: starting a company like the ones mentioned in the article.

In contrast, in federal elections you have a vanishingly small chance of casting a deciding vote between two participants in an actual oligopoly (more specifically, a duopoly), who are themselves primarily allied with powerful interests which include the banking sector. Does anyone really believe their reps are responsive to them on issues like monetary policy?
You're like that person in the Adult Swim sketch about Google being a guy, where the person asking "Google" about something gets a million results showing A) and just 1 result showing B), and they decide to take B).

First of all, if you're really arguing that masks affect mental health more than they save lives (https://gavinhoward.com/2020/08/in-science-all-factors-matte...), I don't even know what to say. I'd really want to see the science behind this, but I suspect there isn't any real science. Common sense and knowledge of professions where people use a mask for long periods of time should be enough to debunk this.

Also, this is truly abhorrent:

> Of course, 161,392 people have died. (Oh whoops! It turns out that only 6% of those people died from COVID-19 alone, so it’s really 9,700 deaths)

If my car breaks don't work, I ostensibly die because I'll be crushed when my car falls of a cliff, but the real cause of my death is the fact that the car breaks didn't work.

For the other article, gee, I wonder if the folks behind it have an agenda to push: "Townhall: <<Conservative>> News, Cartoons, Top Stories".

Anyway, do realize that this is a global phenomenon, people aren't out to get your "freedoms" and countries which are far freer than the US have realized that Covid is a real pandemic and treat it using real science, not pseudo-sience peddled by crackpots or even worse, people with a hidden agenda (usually one about making $$$).

I know I won't change your mind, but please break out of your bubble. Find international sources, use Google Translate to see what they say, compare, contrast, think critically. Also, read up on your history and check out what they did to fight the 1919 flu, for example. Or SARS. Or what they're doing all over East Asia, mostly successfully.

Oh, by the way, your argument makes you look even worse than you think it does. It's all about ME ME ME! "There's a tiny chance that masks hurt me" and "there's a tiny chance that masks don't help others as much as people say", so basically, "f** everyone else in that case, I don't want to be inconvenienced".
Might be fun to answer this question very literally.

Set up a world simulation with two nations. In one nation parents are rewarded a great deal for investing in making their kids maximally educated/capable/productive, through the better opportunities and status they win for their children. In another, just turn that dial down and reward parents who do that a little less. The simulated nations are in all other respects equal.

Nation one will always outcompete nation two. Because of compounding effects, eventually the difference between the two nations will be very large. Nation one will ultimately subsume nation two and set its policy equal to nation one’s. So that’s why.
The top 0.1% are doing really really well

http://equitablegrowth.org/research/exploding-wealth-inequal...
So Police are pointless and a result of an "eh" attitude?

(I'm just applying your point to another kind of 'security' that is provided to you).

You are basically arguing the "We should all live in the woods, and hunt and kill our own food, because relying on other people is fraught with danger" line.

Or we could accept mistakes are made, and provide warnings/undos/etc. Kind of like how cars have airbags, even though they are rendered moot by just "not crashing your car"
From what I've seen about it online, it's designed from the ground up to be optimized for entertaining. In other words, a party house. In that case having plenty of bathrooms makes more sense!
That's what happens most of the time.
> It is fine—good, even—to ask students to carry out these tasks, but in many cases these are skills that students unfortunately haven’t yet mastered. If they aren’t being taught to think about graphs that way, let alone articulate their reasoning in that matter, chances are only the smartest (or well-prepared) teens will be able to arrive at the correct answer under the time and emotional pressure of the test.

But isn't that the point of the SAT? To sort the kids who have mastered these skills from the ones that haven't?
You're right, I just removed Whatsapp and that folder and now it didn't ask me to recover.
Location: Michigan, USA

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Try and guess what the header of my LinkedIn profile represents.
Hint: It was created from data collected on December 11th, 2016 from the Chicago Bears at Detroit Lions game.
I generally don't buy subscription software for personal use, but when I do, I buy from Github.

And paying Github as a business is a no-brainer.
Glad to see that we reached consensus. As mentioned before, wait-freedom has nice progress guarantees but does not necessarily provide the best possible latency or throughput because of the overhead associated with guaranteeing progress for all live threads. I also finally realized that you are the speaker, didn't make the connection before.

And something I wanted to mention before but forgot to do - there is not only a problem if the responsible writer fails while trying to rotate the buffers but also if there is just another writer trying to write before the the buffer rotation completed. There is really not much you can do in this case besides retrying until you succeed. But this again also means that a writer may have bad luck and every time he looks a buffer rotation - not necessarily the same one - is in progress causing the writer to starve.
This is the matter of personal preference, but parks, libraries, schools, playgrounds, beautification projects, public transport, water quality, the list goes on. If nothing else, property tax reduction.

> Also, why having more infrastructure is automatically bad?

Don't think it's that absolute.

Think about tax dollars collected from a given square mile vs tax dollars spent on a given square mile. Suburbs tend to decrease the former and increase the latter, high-density projects tend to move the money in the opposite direction.
I used to suffer from pretty bad anxiety, particularly existential anxiety, and would sometimes have panic attacks. My doctor recommended SSRIs, but I declined due to the increased risk of suicide.

Taking psilocybin mushrooms in a positive environment with my friends was perhaps the single most therapeutic and rewarding thing I’ve ever experienced.

In the months since, my anxiety has evaporated, my panic attacks have stopped, and I’ve been taking better care of myself and my environment. For me, it has been a wonder-drug.

Above all, I have a lasting sense of well being—that everything is going to be alright. And I think to deny that experience to people, particularly people who are grappling with death as I was, is simply inhumane.
Not really. You can do it, but it's definitely got issues and LFS is a must.
Anyone know roughly how much the BOM costs for this?
It depends, in South Africa Uber basically created the personal taxi market all by itself, prior to Uber very very few people utilised personal taxi's. The big selling point being safety with car and driver being vetted.

Edit: Without a doubt many of my friends and family would have never have stepped foot in a personal taxi in their lives prior to the advent of Uber.
There's a few YouTube channels that provide live feeds of LAX. They operate a few times a week, usually during the late morning to early evening hours pacific time.

Airline Videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/AIRLINEVIDEOS
LA Flights: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7WAqB7dyv1t8jKunD-8krA

There's also ones at ORD, ATL and occasionally other US airports. I've seen a few popup in other countries too, but can't seem to find them in you YouTube history.
You don't have the source at all, if you're you.

If you're a big company (think publicly traded, not just big), you do have near realtime access to both Unity dev teams and the full up-to-date source, and you may even ship builds made with internally customized Unity versions, but it's such bad code that you wish you didn't. And they don't accept patches back for integration in any timeline worth considering, so it's really hard to maintain local changesets while still pulling Unity's improvements in patches releases.
The 90 minute documentary mentioned in the article aired this week, has the real fossils mixed with animations of the creatures and coverage of the excavation you may enjoy (Dinosaurs: The Final Day).
> consensually

That's the keyword. It's usually coerced even when the institutions label it consensual.

Also the memory loss is usually downplayed but it's a huge issue.
This was a deferred prosecution agreement between Ticketmaster and a DOJ lawyer, not the court's decision. In the US, courts have limited power to review these agreements and generally judges just approve them every time. In other countries that allow DPE's, courts may have the power to limit their use.

The agreement might state what Ticketmaster must do or refrain from doing after the effective date to avoid being prosecuted in the future. Paying a fine might be only one part of the agreement.

One can only make assumptions about what the court might have found regarding the CFAA claim. The fact is, it did not get the opportunity.
> Wait inside for the bus

> Drive kids to the bus stop

If this were possible, they would already be doing it. It isn't going to be so simple for a lot of families.

> Heat the bus stop

> Move bus stop to a more convenient location

But that requires money.

If a permanent DST bill included measures (and a budget) for "helping municipalities accommodate children commuting to school before sunrise," I think I might be more willing to get behind that.

But if it wasn't in the bill, I think we both know it wouldn't happen. Not in this country and political climate.
I'll bet even John Coltrane or Richard Feynman felt that everything they were playing or saying was pretty obvious.

This is probably true, yet largely irrelevant. Whether someone's ideas are obvious to them or not matters little compared to how much impact those ideas have.
> Since I don't have a doctor's note for doing what I do, I can't really justify or defend it on some kind of "legal" grounds or some such. I'm just some lone nut-case who occasionally makes fantastical claims that most folks find unbelievable -- an issue I work very hard to keep out of my place of employment.

There is a difference though. You are probably in the top 1 percentile when it comes to intelligence and being able to rationally research and figure out what it better for you.

But what about the other 99% ? They choose to lead a lifestyle that might in chronic and expensive (yet initially completely preventable) diseases. Then they rely on emergency room treatment and in the end they end up costing everyone more time, money and energy.

U.S. already spends more on healthcare than West European countries that provide a public option and yet delivers worse care for the average of citizen. I don't know that what we have is because we don't provide a public option or because we _do_ provide any govt. sponsored health care. I strongly suspect it is the former, not the later.

Note, that if we didn't have a "free" emergency room treatment option + Medicare and Medicaid, the argument for a completely govt. "hands-off" approach would be stronger. Let everyone who could not achieve a certain financial prosperity just die off. They are unfit anyway. Eventually only the healthy and/or wealthy will remain. I think that would be very disturbing but I think there are segments of the population who would strongly support this.

However, now it turns out that the same people that are severely against govt. doctors telling them what to eat will run the the same govt. run hospital when they have a heart attack. And eventually everyone ends up worse off. The doctor's time is wasted, the patient is in critical condition and dying, everyone's money is wasted.

Perhaps in the end it comes down to education. I think the younger generation is brainwashed into believing certain things about independence, self-reliance, freedom,
and so on. But they are not educated to the level where they can function in such a self-reliant manner. I am not. I do not have the tools or the ability, for instance, to test every single piece of meat or produce that I buy in the store. Maybe I am being slowly poisoned. The same thing with medicine. I don't know enough to choose the best medication for me. If I had a serious condition, I doubt I would have the knowledge to pick between prescription mediation A or B.

The point is that our cultural attitudes might actually be harming us as a nation. They are predicated on certain conditions that are just not true anymore. What used to be an advantage has become a disadvantage. And I think we either make the conditions true again (educate the hell out of everyone) or we should try to slowly change our attitudes.
I actually found mblase's explanation to be just as inaccurate as the one in the original story. "Infinity is not a number and you can never get there" is never a good defence in well-formed arguments about limits. It just sidesteps the question and says that it is meaningless, incidentally doing the same to all of mathematical analysis.

"Just because a series of curves tends to a limit curve doesn't mean that the series of lengths of those curves tends to the length of the limit curve" is the whole of the explanation.
My son and I have basically gotten well when the world says it cannot be done. I think that should be "proof" enough. Apparently not. Still trying to figure out what more there is to build to prove something to others and whether or not I have the skills (or interest, after so much bashing) to do that piece of it.
I still use webmail, but I use a Fluid.app (or Prism) wrapped version of Gmail so the authentication info doesn't get shared with my main browser (Chrome).

This is a handy, albeit unintentional, benefit of using an Desktop app-ified web site.
I still prefer to download a standalone client and connect to FICS and choose time controls, opponents, etc...
The article overreaches. It's like complaining about greetings. When I ask "How are you?", it doesn't imply that I don't care, even when I don't. I am not lying, I am observing social convention (being polite).

Social convention requires us to use "softeners" that indicate the speaker is aware that the listener has an independent feelings and opinions. It is not required that the speaker sincerely and deeply care.

True lies (nice phrase?) are more manipulative. They are more confident and attempt to limit the range of acceptable responses. Most of the ones cited don't.
Is this a Star Trek TNG reference? Did you just leave that here because, hey, there’s the number four?
> Drone strikes explicitly try not to hit non-combatants.

How do you know? What downsides are there to targeting non-combatants? And how do you define non-combatants. Person in the field with a stick in their hand, is that a combatant? A wedding, is it a combatant gathering.

If anything it actaully helps to target civilians because it promotes creating and perpetuating more resentment, which in turn provides more opportunities to do drone strikes, make more drones, repair more drones, get promotions based on drone operations, etc.
Sometimes I just wish there would be less ISO standardization process and more new features added to the language. I guess it's not happening because language extension are evil and because maintaining compiler is hard.

But still, I think it would be great to be able to have module right now as an unofficial clang or GCC extension, even if it breaks later. I guess it has more chance happening in the open source realm.
I don't think there's any debate about the benefits of a high deductible, or that you should avoid claiming on insurance if you judge that the extra expenditure is worth saving your claim-free status.

I'm in the UK, so I can't help but assume there are differences in the insurance market. I have a comprehensive insurance policy that covers buildings, contents and accidental damage, and that covers things like smartphones too. Despite a couple of previous claims for stolen and damaged electronics, the rates are pretty good. The marginal cost for accidental damage is minimal.

But yes, low deductibles are a sucker's game.
Ofc a blog describing your experience would be just that knowledge promoting that i have in mind so kudos for that (and i'll be keeping an eye for it because it is a hard problem to get right).
This is only remotely related, but the golang maintainers have refused to include support for the (insecure, but used on some legacy systems) ECB encryption mode, because it's insecure: http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=5597 .
One of his central criticisms is that the software stack is ossifying upward. Yet when a project tried to simplify a layer of the stack, as Go did with its toolchain, he criticized it for being NIH. I guess the problem is that everyone has their own pet concern which they will vehemently defend (one of mine is accessibility in GUI toolkits), and thus things will never get simpler, at least in mainstream systems that are more or less designed by committee.

Regarding UEFI, I wonder if Joyent has enough clout that it could push the relevant suppliers to support coreboot. Edit: I guess the answer is no, since they couldn't interest anyone in Dogpatch.

From a Sun/Illumos aficionado's perspective, has GNU/Linux always been amateur, or is that more recent, e.g. with the intrusion of D-Bus and systemd into servers?
Aside from the reality that a user won't always know their connection is slow / has slowed (particularly when it comes to bad routing between server and client), this is also typically used in cases where you are utilizing XHR.

Given that they're done in the background, the browser won't indicate them being made outside of dev tools. If they're asynchronous, again ideally they will take place as quickly as possible. This is unfortunately not something that can be relied upon.
Same thing for me, but mine was a 2009 17" MBR and didn't start failing until earlier this year
Very surprised that Schneier fell for this source. A little research would have provided this on the author, one Charles C. Johnson "The Worst Journalist on the Web" http://gawker.com/what-is-chuck-johnson-and-why-the-web-s-wo...
I downvoted it because I thought it was a low effort joke, and I wanted the comments to focus on the concept rather than the name. Also, I thought you were suggesting "totally gross binary" as a general replacement for the established term "fat binary", and it didn't seem like a good idea. I treated Super Duper as just a sarcastic title for a blog post, and don't think it's actually any better. Apologies if I misunderstood your intent.
Apart from democracy, ie systems that let majorities of individuals pick either the laws directly, or the leaders, what system would be the 'ultimate solution' for any country?

I agree that just because you get to democracy doesn't mean everything becomes peachy.

But what other systems are better 'ultimate solutions' for given countries?

Ie, maybe there's a country for which right now the most practical government is a Kingdom. King Ud helps the wagons run on time. What makes that government the most practical for that country right now? Are those factors changing over time? What will the 'ultimate' solution look like then?

Honestly, I've heard this a lot -- even in amazing books like "Through Our Enemies' Eyes" -- and I'm never sure what the author intends to say.
> When M1 finally supports docker

I've been using the preview beta of Docker on M1 for some time now. It works fine for me; some people have reported issues in the corresponding Docker Slack channel, but they usually stem from the particular images in use rather than Docker itself.

> It's got to the stage that I prefer to use my 13 inch M1 over a top of the line 16 inch provided by work.

I agree. It's really quite difficult to go back to x86 laptops. If they manage to fix the external monitor limitations with the next generation--and I'm sure they will--it will be really hard for me to justify spending money on anything else.
PinePhone as well - the PostMarketOS even shipped with a HDMI/ethernet/USB dock for this. :)