jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Swedish PISA results have fallen continuously in the past years. Last result showed a break from that but later it turned out that many students which could have been expected to test poorly were dissuaded from participating. So the result from that year is in question. There is huge concern in Sweden over the state of the schooling system. It is complex because so much have changed over the past 30 years. It is usually not to recommend when trying trying improve something to throw it all up in the air at once, but that is more or less what has been done.
Not just a non-threatening insider, but someone who understands what they say and speaks the tech language.

I think the technologist first, interviewer/journalist second is important.
Don't forget this, also within the last week:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ayaan-hirsi-ali-and-the-...

And that's just recent events, without getting into the disgrace that was the 1619 Project.
I really love K9 Mail. I startend donating 5€ per month now.

What I love the most is how easy it is to sort E-Mail and to actually use existing Folderstructures.

I almost dont need a desktop client anymore to handle my mail.
I'm not overestimating, or indeed estimating, anything. I was interested in other people's opinions. Rudeness pardoned.
In the last two years I only noticed: address bar can be on the bottom (user setting), open sites changed from tiles to a list. What other major UI changes have happened? (Or are you talking about desktop UI?)
VMs also autoscale.
https://onepile.app/
Well, for personal matters I don't write usually letters without needing feedback. When I get answer, then my previous mail is clearly arrived. My friend has forwarding to gmail address, so he can compare both ends. Over years there isn't been more issues than mentioned spamhaus incident.
Hashicorp Nomad. Works on linux, windows, bsd's. Can work with docker, qemu, podman, jails workloads. Scales nicely, easy to troubleshoot, upgrades are trivial.
Back when I was doing big boys UNIX, the respective package managers took care of everything.

Which we later replicated in Red-Hat with RPM.

Bare bones OS install + bunch of OS packages => done.

And in what concerns containers I was working with HP-UX Vault in 1999.
> Horizonal scalability is simply a band-aid for poor engineering

And don't even get me started on having instances labeled "large" that have less memory and CPU capacity than my personal backup laptop (currently on loan to my 8yo for COVID reasons)...
The article suggests some
> With requests over HTTP, there's an overhead for every single request.

Doesn't this go away with HTTP/3 and wherever QUIC is used?
There are a lot of people these days that believe everyone should be included in every group, unless it's their own special group which is a special exception to that rule.
I find the colors pretty ugly
I am a user of uservoice.com. How do you differentiate from your competitors?
Nice work, congrats on getting it out there.

First question: What are the advantages of using this over uservoice.com?

They have a huge lead so I think you're gonna have to be a LOT better in some way if you want to catch up. Would love to see you highlight this difference on the homepage if you have a good one.

Also, this may just be me but the pricing page feels overwhelming and I'm not a big fan of ala carte pricing in general. Would prefer to see just 3-4 plans based on volume. But I noticed someone else here said the opposite, so this may just be me.
That they wanted to benchmark their own stuff rather than Rails is blatantly obvious.

I'm not so sure of that considering your original comment. That's why I explained it to so plainly. The rest is unimportant detail.
What is most interesting to me is that you don't see giant collections of tips on how to fix WinForms or Cocoa layout bugs. HTML/CSS/JS is a surprisingly powerful and flexible combo, but I think that experience has proven it to be, at best, a hard to learn layout tool.

I see all these efforts for CSS3 and HTML5 and I can't help but think that we are going in the wrong direction. We shouldn't be making HTML/CSS/JS more complex, we should be making browsers lower-level while still preserving the isolation and delivery attributes of current web development.
I'm not a .NET developer but I found that post (and especially the replies) rather depressing.
Oh god, NextStep API:

NSJSONSerialization

What else does JSON do if not serialization?

JSONObjectWithData

As opposed to JSON things that aren't objects and don't have data? The signal/noise ratio is so low.
Haxe is general purpose language. It compiles - among other things - to Neko VM, which is a really nice little VM, good for rapid prototyping and to C++ code which is good for everything. The latter is how Haxe supports iOS IIRC.

Io is not "slow", although the level of dynamism it provides has obvious performance downsides. It's generally "fast enough" and - in my experience - a bit faster than CPython. Slower than JITed Lua though. It does, however, solve the C10k problem with its coroutines, actors and futures, which are implemented transparently for the user and with niceties like automatic deadlock detection (on runtime). It's not exactly anything new, but it was new when Io first appeared (I mean the implementation as a language feature, not the concept which is probably 3x as old as even I am). It has also very nice C FFI and very flexible, easily modifiable syntax and optional lazy evaluation which makes it great for developing DSLs.

That being said I don't "expect" these languages to be popular. For the most part, for most developers out there, it genuinely makes no sense to know them. I'd like them to be more popular, but I'm not stressing over this. I know them and I think I can use them to my advantage where it makes sense and that's enough for me personally.
I understand, but having so many dependencies is probably all the more reason why you need very good test coverage and a build/deploy that keeps the trunk clean, so nothing gets released without all three (or however many) platforms all build clean.

Not to armchair quarterback, I know it is a hard thing to get there and you guys are all busy. Just my 2 cents.

(And I think Julia is bloody brilliant, fwiw)
Good luck man! if you run into troubles, focus on point 7! :) all the best!
> Irony is an important part of your diet, kids.

It certainly is, since the author of said article contributes heavily to freebsd. You know what else is an important part of your diet, kids? Reading and thinking before speaking.
If you don't need a db admin to do that then you should really re-evalute your team.

Regardless. If you do it yourself you still ned to spend time on it. For most of us that time is not free.
my problem with this is that it's still MC and short answer. the lifeless creatures from another dimension at ETS have been iterating on adaptive tests with the GRE for a long time, and yet, it's still the GRE...
I can't wait for Amazon to release the Amazoniotic Sac, a revolutionary new technology to make everyday hassles easier for the common man. You just step inside the goo-filled sac from Amazon, place the Nutrient Nozzle like a scuba mask over your mouth and nose, place the Dross Duct (Rubbish Funnel? I haven't market-tested these) you-know-where, sit back, and relax comfortably until the inevitable heat death of the universe.
This was also posted recently http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/ben-bernanke/posts/2015/03/30...
Jobs Act 2.0 may allow for a fund structure model. This potentially has its own issues, but net-net I think it's a positive. Regulation tends to favor large corporations because they can afford the regulatory burden.
Not arguments, but advice: RTFA.
I have a hard time believing that the value of the content exceeds the resource cost of archiving it.
Maybe. Not saying you're wrong entirely. But the Pii is, to me, a massive problem. If you have 10 social networks, all identical in feature and scope, and each has 1/10th of the users? And all have facebook style Pii, newsfeeds, silos, and everything else that is causing issue?

Then manipulation is still rather easy? Best to legislate, mandate, ensure that market forces make this type of preying on society, economic model a loss, not a win.
Exactly this. Just tax the value added in your country if you are so inclined (or even better the resources used to do so like land, infrastructure use, …). If you find out that's not so much you have deeper problems.

Why would e.g. an integrated software/hardware business pay significant taxes in the US if their value chain isn't strictly bound to it?

Sure, if developers live and work there you can tax their income to a certain degree before they leave and work remotely. Hardware is built abroad anyway (and probably taxed there), you can only levy import taxes at your own detriment. But if the business is successful most of the added value comes from the integration of these aspects and that can happen wherever because it's an idea not bound to a place to be executed. If something doesn't require physical presence taxing it becomes very hard and morally dubious (on what grounds would you tax it all if e.g. only 10% of your profits need physical infrastructure that is funded through these taxes?).

Globalization means that a society's most successful people aren't stuck with it any longer. They can go where they aren't seen as subjects to milk to keep the less productive happy. I don't owe my country of origin anything, they need to be competitive to keep me as I can take my business everywhere. In that sense directly investing in your population's higher education might be misguided to some degree because it creates more people capable enough to leave with the acquired knowledge, increasing the tax burden, making the country less competitive.
Not if the bounty is high enough and payable to an anonymous recipient (perhaps vis cryptocurrency).
I enabled SSH on my NAS and use git over ssh for some stuff that never leaves my home network. For stuff I share a bit more widely I use git-shell over SSH with a few scripts to create and list repositories on a 5$ VPS.

But for bigger projects I now use github as I missed CI and pull request review flows, even for my own work
Looks pretty impractical, plus there's gonna be a LOT of garbage that winds up in the water.
They’re so right about performance gotchas. I worked on a large Java project a few years back and they were transitioning from MySQL to Postgres, after the upgrade performance was abysmal. I then spent the next 5 months optimizing queries. A lot of the issues were inner joins and how MySQL and Postgres handled lookups in inner joins differently. I would still pick Postgres over MySQL because the tools and features around it are too very good.
As I understand it, the TIOBE index is calculated based on search engine rankings. What I believe helped Fortran's ranking was our hard work on its web presence [1] (started April 2020), modern tooling [2] (started December 2019), and community building [3] (started May 2020).

[1] https://fortran-lang.org/

[2] https://github.com/fortran-lang/

[3] https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/
They don't truncate data anymore, unless you enable it in the configuration (it's disabled by default).
Invalid data (0000-00-00) is also not accepted anymore.
That would probably work for these morons, but in general people don't take their IDs to protests.
> This is corroborated if I recall correctly by findings that each new child in a family has more chance to be homosexual than their already born siblings.

Very radical approach, seemingly against the grain of what we observe in the wild. It's such a leap of logic, you may very well have been talking about how santa claus' reindeer achieve thrust for their impressive levitation.
>Today its primary effect is to give an impenetrable legal shield to giant tech corporations that engage in deliberate society-wide manipulation of information.

I think this would be better phrased as "... legal shield to websites that only want to show certain content to its users."

"[S]ociety-wide manipulation of information" would imply that everyone gets their news and information from Facebook, Twitter, etc which gets linked directly into their brain regardless if they want it. These giant tech corporations aren't holding a gun to anyone's head - they all started with zero users and they will end when they have zero users.

If this is what "most people" are unhappy about, just wait until they read the TOS and realize what else they agreed to.
I also think the twitter ban won’t mute them: they can always move to a website - yet websites can be banned and censored too.
> Therefore these viruses can facilely jump over hills in the gradient descent of optimization

It warms to see that the similarities of some aspects of biological life to the current AI/ML terms has entered the lexicon, well at least on HN crowd. The fact that it makes a lot of sense to use those terms hints that we might indeed be on the right track to building AGI and understnding the life itself in general.
Thank you! Yeah, the ics / iCalendar part of it has a spec[0] and is reasonably easy to deal with. But Google, Yahoo and Outlook Web/Office 365 all have their own take on URL construction which can be painful!

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545
Consumption of what? We know how to generate power with minimal CO2 emissions. We know how to recycle many (most) of the materials we use and are inventing new ones every day that don't need to have a negative environmental impact. We know how to capture carbon. We're getting better at these things every day. That rate of innovation slows the moment we decide to decrease SoL / attempt to cap populations / etc.
What incentive do network providers have to do that?
google bought ITA a few years ago. You can login to their free service and do the analysis yourself, even if skiplagging is closed.
I talk about the "No Uploading" change a little in my last post (Troubleshooting Free Trials) where I make the point of getting users to trial first and educating them later:

"...what I found in our case was that trying to educate people on how our product worked differently was a loosing battle. Telling people they could share their photos and videos instantly and without any uploading usually resulted in one of 2 reactions. They either got confused or didn’t believe us. We instead decided to focus on a more general “finished story” benefit and ushered the user to experience the product for themselves."

Granted our audience is typically less technical, but this was the case even with technical folks when I described the service to them.

The "personal" picture over a screenshot tested a lot better and has worked for us.
Bullshit. My camera's serial number in the file is what enables me to get paid. When I want anonymity I'll use EXIFtool and wipe the metadata because I feel like it. EFF are annoyingly patronizing sometimes, and this is one of them.
You can do that by distributing messages in an encrypted form. Effectively, turn your messages into encrypted blocks and do key exchanges when retrieving them from nodes and propagating them around the network. It would be a decentralized system. This would practically remove the potential for tracking a message; it would require massive cooperation from many node owners or their respective authorities (Internet providers, law enforcement, etc).
You're right, the situation in Canada is changing. And I am older than you so perhaps my attitudes are outdated. When I hear about such areas developing in Vancouver I think of it as some sort of un-Canadian cancer, perhaps caused by recent adoption of US-style policies.

That said, I know what I'm talking about. I'm an insufferable do-gooder who has volunteered to teach in East Vancouver, and I've had friends and significant others who are artists using warehouse space in economically depressed areas, like Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (which, to be fair, is for many a race-blind vortex of despair). And in the Bay Area I've had similar experience making frequent trips to West Oakland, Emeryville, and San Leandro. I never lived there, but I am the sort of person who tries to walk whenever possible (even when people tell me it's ill-advised) so I've seen a lot more that one does from an automobile.

Trust me: the ethnic divide in Canada is nothing compared to the USA. In Canada you have neighborhoods where people are struggling. In the USA you have neighborhoods that look like the apocalypse happened, thirty or forty years ago.
I think that is the point webelos was making.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/amoral
We had adopted Erlang in the real-time trading system and it is online now. However I hope mnesia will break 2G limitation in the near future.
It is very pleasing to hear that a small family far off the grid can afford an $80 solar panel. It means they have at least some means, and makes the future look a bit brighter.
1. If your solar panel were 30 times bigger than it is, 1 minute of solar power would power the light for 10 minutes too.

2. Even a small solar panel can power your water pump/weather station/radio repeater when you're ten miles away and don't have the time to spend all day walking ther to spend a minute turning its crank.

3. Solar panels break down less than hand-turned generators. They don't have bearings or windings or gears. If you keep replacing the batteries, your flashlight will ber a usable solar-powered flashlight much longer than it is a usable dynamo-powered flashlight. (The "shake light" design, with a magnet sliding back and forth in a tube through a coil, might be an exception there.)

4. Solar panels keep working even without being fed more rice. Human labor does not produce energy, regardless of what you may have heard in The Matrix; it merely converts it quite inefficiently from chemical energy into mechanical energy.

5. An athlete working his hardest might consume 10 000 calories per day in food, but can only convert some 2000 of those calories into work. If your Lance-Armstrong-level athlete is turning a crank 12 hours a day and eating 10 000 calories, he's producing 200 watts during that time, 100 watts averaged over the 24 hours. Three square meters of solar panel can do the same. Six square meters can do twice as much. And the solar panels won't drop dead of exhaustion after a month.

(Supposedly Lance averaged 5200 kcal/day during the Tour de France with a peak power output of 1000W: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.07/armstrong.html --- but presumably ate more on uphill days than on level days.)
There is definitely a significant judicial shortage at the federal level, but most crimes don't wind up there.
I’m a premium subscriber but I do agree that the pop-ups on non-paying users are too much. It’s a poor proposition to make users subscribe to your service to get rid of annoying pop-ups. It’s like an airline company telling customers to pay a fee to get rid of spikes on their seats.

But I also think the shrill tone of the article diminishes the message.
Or perhaps the title of this article is intentionally ambiguous to make people click.
Realistically skills in one are transferrable as long as you're thinking of the components in terms of abstractions. For instance, use a deployment pipeline to deploy your microservice with a frontend api for queries against your scalable database, subscribe to your event source and create your faas consumers to push data to your next bounded, isolated component.

This is something you can do with any provider, the names are irrelevant.

Some features are lock in, but this lock in can be seen as tech debt prior to delivery.

Being able to architect cloud systems is just being able to architect distributed systems. Specializing in one isn't a huge problem.
I think this is the last post I am going to make because I find myself feeling nothing but anger, resentment, defensiveness as even well meaning people don't get it and keep saying things I feel I have to explain and justify because for some reason I still care about proving I am not a jerk, crazy, wrong somehow and fighting the idea that this is my fault or I am not doing enough or I somehow failed. I did not. I was failed.

>There is support out there for people who truly want things >to change.

A lifetime of experience tells me otherwise. What is out there is insufficient. I don't need promises of a brighter future. I don't need cheerleading. I don't need vague ideas of what should be or what someone believes can be. I need practical realities now.

>Do you not at least want to find out if you could have made >a difference?

This is deeply offensive and makes me want to scream. I DID make a difference in the ways I could. I spent my life helping in my work and doing what I could in my personal life. I walked the talk of social issues. I was ethical and honest. That I am now needing help, needing rescue rather than being the rescuer. You don't ask a drowning person to hold up a sign as they go under to highlight the dangers of swimming in the ocean. That I don't have the bandwidth to add MORE work and stress to an already overwhelmed life does not diminish that. I did my part.

End of line.
Yes, my main experience is with 2) and these are pretty "modern" (as in recently released MCUs) that support AES-ECB (and maybe a few more in HW). These are not ARMv8 but Cortex-M level MCUs.

The problem and the point I'm trying to make is that a few platforms implement their ECB support in such a way to make it almost useless as a building block. They do not do it as processor instructions the way it's done in x86 (the right way IMHO) but instead it's implemented in a separate co-processor that you program in a similar manner as you setup a typical DMA-transfer. If you aim to encrypt 1KB or more the setup cost for this is negligible and you can get a comparatively good speed. However as we both agree there are very few cases (if any) where you _actually_ want to run ECB over 1KB blocks at a time. When you want to build something like CTR (or CBC), what you need is a fast way to ECB _a single_ AES block (i.e. 16 bytes). With this kind of solution the setting up of the co-processor eats up almost any gains won by doing ECB in HW compared to doing ECB in SW because the cost of the setup (it's I/O after all) comes close to the cost of a SW only ECB of 16 bytes.
Sure thing, I would love to to chat with you, drop-me a line anytime: pascal at voorjob.com
Even AMD eGPUs have a lot of compromises (e.g. HDCP issues), although those may or may not be Apple's fault.

I bought a lower-spec MBP with the expectation of using eGPUs (in the hope Apple and Nvidia would make up), but it's good to see it confirmed that it won't be worthwhile.
...that's assuming there's some sort of meaningful liability in corrupting the data, either legal or from PR backlash, but sometimes it feels like many companies have discovered that's not really the case.
The alternative is to generate the page per request. So it depends on the read/write ratio.
No, people who like the Central Valley should definitely feel free to go live there!

I’m just saying I wouldn’t choose to. My original phrasing (“can’t imagine ”) was probably a bit hyperbolic.
This reminds me of Kornbluth's story 'The Marching Morons' where cars are made noisy but slow so the morons will be stimulated but safe.
But emergent properties are everywhere.

Consider Conway's Game of Life. A few basic rules and you end up with remarkable, emergent complexity. The game of Go is another beautiful example.

The same is true of any number of phenomenon. Break them down to their basic elements and it's not clear how the emergent properties arise, and yet they do.

So is the brain just "meat"? Maybe. But that doesn't preclude incredible emergent complexity.