jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> the impact of both poor and excellent teachers is way overestimated, and the impact of poor and excellent administrations (both the school principal and the district leadership) is tremendously underestimated. A good principal, particularly one with strong school board backing, can almost single-handedly turn an entire school around (I've seen this happen twice now). An excellent teacher with a poor principal and negligent school board can do very little other than provide a strong role model for the most promising students, and (with great effort) pull a handful more of failing students up to the barely passing level than their less talented peers.

I think the way you’ve stated this somewhat misattributes the improvement in schools after the administration changes.

The culture of a school is set by the whole community, including the teachers, the parents, and the students. While a dysfunctional administration can absolutely wreck the school culture and stifle the teachers, it’s not like any principal who turns a school around is really acting “single-handedly”. More realistically, the teachers at such schools are (at least in cases where I’ve known such teachers) champing at the bit to try new things and bring excitement to their classrooms, but get blocked at every turn by petty bureaucrats in administration and forced to endure all sorts of bullshit, and then when the administration changes to be more accommodating and progressive, it’s like the gate lifts and the teachers can run free.

As an example of the opposite, my elementary school was an amazing and wonderful place, with a strong and dedicated teaching staff, and a strong sense of collective purpose. When I was in first grade, the principal left, and the new principal came to the school with rigid ideas about structure and organization, and struggled continuously with several of the more passionate teachers for the first several years (to the point that a couple of them left). But by being surrounded by the culture of the school (teachers, staff, parents, the community at large), over the course of four or five years the new principal became slowly indoctrinated, and learned to appreciate the way the school operated and support the teachers and their methods. By the time I was in 6th grade, and for the following 10 years or so he was principal there, he was one of the strongest advocates and defenders of the school’s unique culture and value system.

In other words, I think your comment places an excessive emphasis on the principal and administration per se, sort of like Carlyle’s “great man” theory of history applied to schools.
Middle distance runner here, disagree with most of this. I agree that there's not much point for a beginner runner to worry too much about form. However, simply running a lot does not give most people efficient form (it does prevent them from having horrible form, but doesn't force them to have good form). I have a friend who has been running 60-70 miles/week for a few years, and his form is still quite poor (and this limits his speed for middle distance races).

Also, I don't have a source to reference, but I do not believe your "pro tip" at all. I'm quite sure running efficiency goes down as fatigue increases. Common advice is to focus on your form when you start to fatigue, because this helps you keep efficiency up.

Finally, I doubt any of the "elite" runners referenced in that video have the form they have just by running a lot of miles. Running efficiency is something to think about and to work towards, not to just acquire by running a lot (of course, running a lot helps).
I think people have even more trouble applying other forms of protection. A fingerprint that is actually used is better than a PIN that is disabled, or worse, written on a card.
I've done this with various sports. In particular college football. The ratings were highly accurate compared to polls, except for undefeated teams not from major conferences. The polls involving humans would punish them terribly for not having the right pedigree.

I also rated the whole season simultaneously as it's my opinion that a ranking should be based on the performance in a season versus a power ranking of who is best now. By my calculations, the people choosing teams for the playoffs are either stupid or corrupt in the sense of not treating all teams fairly. It's a popularity contest.
The issue with that theory is that height is significantly more correlated with labor market outcomes for men than for women. Naive models of what you're suggesting (where e.g. negative gestational or early environmental influences are correlated with disrupted height growth and cognitive abilities) would result in men and women both showing the correlation.

A secondary point is that a correlation between height and cognitive ability existing in a world where children suffer poverty/malnutrition/exposure to lead does not imply that a correlation between height and cognitive ability exists in a world without that suffering, so studies using data from the 50s and 70s might have limited relevance for the present day.
fwiw, this is actually originally from 1995: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/08/17
Hard SF in the 1970's had a strong libertarian turn, which included much firearms. See also stickjocks.
The beasties that make plaque thrive on sugar. Turns out refined sugar and processed foods made with sweeteners like high fructose corn syrup are really hard to come by out in the sticks.
Jimmy didn't like the idea of warfighter kombucha. Whatever Jimmy, its better than rip its.
So the way I see this going is in any of these scenarios

1. Negative rates. All pretext is lost.

2. Repeat of Japan. Government ends up owning half of the stock market.

3. Mild to extreme bottom-up during a planned crash of assets. In this path you will see the stock market crash at the same time inflation soars.

Number three is the hardest but also the one that will end up with the best productivity. When you see stories like Bill Gates being the largest private farmowner[0], you might see it as an ominous warning that the rich are hedging this possibility and are making sure they end up okay.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-land-portfolio-bi...
In my early 20's I started working at an office job. About 6 months into the job I started getting this terrible pain in my shoulder.

Being in my 20's, it was surprising to get this kind of pain for no reason so I started to try and figure out why this was happening.

I found the answer this way:

- I realized that when I was typing, I was leaning heavily on my elbow

- Leaning on my elbow meant that my shoulder was being stressed as it was carrying a lot of my seated weight

- But why was I leaning? I figured maybe my desk wasn't level and I was compensating by leaning on my elbow

- I brought in a level and measuring tape and realized one side of my desk was 1.5" higher than the other.

The building I worked in was over 200 years old and I realized with some more measuring and level checking that the whole floor was "wavy". In fact, if I spun in an office chair instead of feeling like I was rotating around the axle, my head transcribed a circle due to the floor being slanted.

Moral of the story: it made me a believer that very small things (desk out of level, mouse pad a little too far, keyboard too close etc) can have surprisingly large effects physiologically.
I remember a comic strip I attribute to Calvin and Hobbes where Calvin basically adopts every world religion in order to take every day off of school. But I can't find it.. any one know which one I am thinking of? Or do I have it wrong?
Yeah, that's a renderer for the IconVG file format. As I've said previously:

IconVG is a compact, binary format for simple vector graphics: icons, logos, glyphs and emoji.

IconVG is similar in concept to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) but much simpler. Compared to "SVG Tiny", it does not have features for text, multimedia, interactivity, linking, scripting, animation, XSLT, DOM, combination with raster graphics such as JPEG formatted textures, etc.

The announcement is at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/LciLeI5p... and quoting from that:

"The SVG spec prints as 400 pages, not including the XML, CSS or XSLT specifications. [The IconVG godoc.org page, which includes the file format specification, prints as 26 pages]...

The Material Design icon set... consists of 961 vector icons. As SVG files, this totals 312,887 bytes. As 24 * 24 pixel PNGs, 190,840 bytes. As 48 * 48 pixel PNGs, 318,219 bytes. As IconVGs, 122,012 bytes."
Right, but this is kind of the point. Because Slack is more approachable for the masses, it wins in these scenarios. It doesn't need to convince the longtime IRC users to move across, just the ones that see barrier to entry on IRC as enough of an issue to make the switch. Exactly what happened in Wordpress' situation, it seems.
While IANAL, I read copyright law books for fun.

I've thought about writing a series of articles / FAQ on A Hacker's Guide to Copyright Law.

The thing that's been stopping me is:

* The sort of people who really need to know it won't read it

* The sort of people who want to know how copyright works can find out from other sources
And the sound system is still a mess.
I quickly realized my mistake, but apparently couldn't delete fast enough. Need more coffee.
No matter how many homes he has he only has two feet. Putting myself in his shoes (pun intended) I'd imagine that I'd have a certain bond with my shoes after they're worn in - in a literal sense.

Personally, I've never understood people who have dozens of shoes. Though I also own 6 mechanical keyboards with one pair of hands so I'm just as bad :)
They do, certainly.

You have probably seen these being loaded onto passenger planes at airports: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_load_device

This is the last serious terrorist incident I recall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_transatlantic_aircraft_bo...
Could a proc macro be written that uses dynamic dispatch in debug and static dispatch in release? That would be optimal for dev compilation speed and binary speed, at the cost of binary size. It seems like a pretty good tradeoff for most cases.
Does nobody in that isolation group come in contact with anyone but people in the group?

Cause all it takes is one of those to enter a supermarket, get infected and your cordon sanitaire is busted. We specifically cancelled our babysitter and cleaning person because of this (increasing our workload even more ...)

I still go out for groceries and a jog but at least the possible infections points has been reduced from 3 to 1.
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Assuming the basic assumptions hold. Google for example doesn’t really care much if individual searches are slightly less accurate so low data center temperatures should be less important for them than say a financial institution. https://www.cnet.com/news/google-computer-memory-flakier-tha...

Facebook’s hardware designs might generalize well, but perhaps not.
It disables the JS from running in an IFrame I believe.

Companies like Google and Facebook use this to prevent others from embedding their pages in others.
This may be true, but malformed input that is unchecked is not, imo, an “exceptional” case but nominally expected, and kind of dangerous since it is one of those things that isn’t likely to happen often since it requires another bug or fault to reveal itself.

It’s probably an unpopular opinion at this point but I definitely appreciate Go’s approach to error handling here. Error cases are in-your-face by default for the most part, leaving nearly only programming errors and critical faults to panic ideally.
Tons of medical supplies have been sent and part of that was plasma. I believe the first shipment was 30 tons in total, but more has been sent since.
Audi is also pretty good at making more relevant information and controls available in the dial display area, controlled with a scroll on the steering wheel.
What about putting everyone in chômage technique ?
I'm working on iOS app that lets you TRANSLATE WITH YOUR FINGER ;) It works for printed text: you just point at the word with your finger (yes, right in the book), point your phone camera and see the translation.

Here is the demo: https://booktopus.com/yc_demo.mp4

On the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1490757013?pt=12010...

Currently we support only Oxford explanatory dictionary & english-russian dictionary, but adding more languages soon
That paper makes me wonder what will be the long-term health consequences and outcomes for the survivors of COVID-19 who needed to stay at an ICU.
Google employees have explicitly agreed with this in the past, indicating that Incognito is explicitly not meant to anonymize the user: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=142214#c...
I don't see that as ridiculing them. An apologist is someone who argues in defense of something. In this case, the PSD format. It seems apt here.
The article resonates with me.

I’ve spent quite a few years coaching and dealing with developers with a heavy electronics background work in OO/C++ environments and I came to the conclusion that they would be more comfortable and competent in C. All smart people but the bells and whistles of C++ AND OOP just was confusing.

I’m surprised at some comments here claiming that OO is ‘friendlier to the programmer’, I would put money on the average developer being able to work their way around even the Linux kernel quicker than a comparably sized C++ code base with all it’s OO goodness.

What OOP was trying to solve back in the day was and still is a real problem but it annoys me how many additional problems ‘full blown’ OOP introduces.
This article is from 2011...
2-3 more at czech technical university. faculty of electrical and mechanical engineering.
Maybe you'll find this relevant

http://democracyos.org/

https://www.change.org/

http://liquidfeedback.org/
I came across this law many years ago, and since then lost track of it's origins:

McIntye's Law: Under the right circumstances, anything I tell you could be wrong.

I preface much of my advice to young developers with this.
There is a law in South Africa called "Die Mandament van Spolie" or otherwise "spoliasie". It is not the same as spoliation in English; spoliation is the spoiling of evidence.

Spoliasie, however, means that you can't take away an existing right, an existing usage by someone, without somehow proving through the process of the law that that person is not entitled to that right.

A good example of this is an access gate used by multiple people. If you change the lock or remote, and someone else uses the gate—rightfully or not—then you are at risk of transgressing this feature of the law. Interestingly enough, there has been a case where the gate was electronic and a case where the gate was manual and in the two different cases the judges actually ruled differently in the two cases. One case of changing access credentials without giving access to other users was "spoliasie" and one wasn't—obviously also complicating subsequent interpretation of the law.

In fact, since you cannot take the law into your own hands, a thief could theoretically after having stolen your car and if you take back the car somehow, sue you for spoliasie. The key here is that the police is supposed to go and apprehend the suspect and bring back your car.

Of course, practically, such a case would never go to court. But before you think the "theory" of this is crazy, consider this: How do you know who has a right to usage of which items and personal properties? In fact, maybe you lent the "thief" your car (and maybe the "thief" is even your friend) and suddenly you decided you didn't like this friend anymore and called the police and told them this person stole your car. Maybe it's a silly example, but the point is that it's tricky to just impede existing usage without proper consideration.

The principle is that an existing right should be respected until shown to be an unlawful usage and hence not a valid right. By the way, IANAL.
could it be used for insulation?
I was recently diagnosed to be on the highly-functional of "the spectrum" so I think this link will be quite valuable, thanks for sharing! Now, if only I could find something to learn to read emotions from human faces somehow, cause apparently I can't do that very well.
Is no one else wondering why there are no rear view mirrors on the thing? Looks really cool though!
So... I'm getting over 200,000 sqft of warehouse and office space. I'm planning on living there which will actually make it, by far, the largest private home in the entire US.

I need that much space for prototyping some of my inventions and intend to open the worlds largest Makerspace, hackerspace, and artist commune.
You're not going to like this. Facebook ruined most sites for events. nwtekno used to be a premier destination for electronic music events and is now dead because Facebook is more convenient and wider reaching.

a good competitor would be a site or you could subscribe to an event topic, that would aggregate Facebook meetups, and community callendar events.

Most people that I know who don't have Facebook are partnered with people who do
I'm not sure the lightly thrown ball can break the polymer layer. Just because the glass layer shatters it doesn't mean you can go trough it.

Hope they don't use something like this 3M polymer layer, because it means you will be trapped for 2 more minutes even if you have the tools to go trough the polymer.

https://youtu.be/cZy4DJHM_fs?t=34
Coincidentally, ~200 years ago is about when the modern concept of a police force originated. Make of that what you will.
Logistics and supply chain are real fields. Distributing updates that don't break one off oem combinations of hardware required testing?

Apply your logic to android. The patches exist in AOSP. Why don't they get to the devices?

If you don't own the servers that get the patch, your testing obligations are much higher. The Google team is indifferent to realities that they aren't exposed too. This behavior is childish and rude- and it isn't going to be the kind of behavior that the EU is going to look kindly on when they press their anti trust case.
I was horrendously worried this would be a parody of the incident with Rebecca Watson. I'm glad this is much more tasteful - looks really, really fun actually.
<3 to Django team and community. Thank you for your continued great work and congrats on this latest LTS!
Le prix du XRP a bondi à 1 $, son plus haut niveau depuis 3 ans, alors que Ripple se prépare à l'audience d'aujourd'hui contre la SEC.
ClickHouse is the opposite: it has no optimizer, so your SQL must be structured the way you want it to run: deeply nested subqueries with one JOIN per SELECT. But at least you can be sure your query runs the way you intended.
Hm, I already know phone number is leaked, but searching for it (XXXxxxXXXX) doesn’t work.

Once I prepended Canada’s country code: (1XXXxxxXXXX) it worked.

Maybe this can be fixed with some simple communication? Ie “No result —- ensure you enter your full phone number including country code”
The rich are already contributing a significant percentage of the city's revenue. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26710993

In my opinion, you can't ask them for more. If they are able to move to Florida and still run their business, then the value of their business is not derived from NY but rather from external sources. In this case, these are people bringing wealth from outside to the city.

The problem, probably, is mismanagement of the raised revenue. If it is too much money, there will be lots of predators. Sometimes you have to burn everything to realize what you had and start from the ground. People (rich or poor) clearly like NYC more than Miami but it seems with the current governance, the city has to reset itself every once in a while.
Usually a phone would be enough for that. Hell, with something like DriveDroid[0] you don't even need a separate computer to flash the rescue image.

[0]: https://www.drivedroid.io/
I really wish they'd give an example of whatever content they're talking about.

Like when I took math in K-12 one thing I remember is they'd always try to be multicultural with the names in word problems and didn't just use generic white names like "John", "Adam", etc. If THIS is what they're referring to as CRT, then who cares?

They could do something more, like the problems listed here: https://www.radicalmath.org/post/addressing-systemic-racism-...

For example, something like this: "Given population estimates, how many people from each racial group are likely experiencing food insecurity across the U.S.? In your city/state?"

I don't think there's anything bad about this as long as the data is genuine. But I'd love to hear from someone of a different opinion
Beautifully convoluted.
I don't think they need to check for valid URLs. My point is just that disguising text as a URL will be possible regardless unless you check for 404s or ellipsize the URLs. Using a URL shortener isn't necessary to make URLs count for a constant character length.
Apparently if you have a unique word in the expanded version of your url, then search for your tweet containing only the shortened url using the unique word, you will still find the tweet. I've not tested it myself, but I took it as evidence that they are indeed caching fully resolved urls.
> Still, skipping the middle man is both more efficient

The middle man will not be skipped. It will be wrapped. Two redirects instead of one.

http://twitter.com/twitterapi/status/15741693182
"I think in order for newspapers to survive, people have to learn that they need to pay."

The Wall Street Journal and the Economist successfully taught their readers this lesson.
Yeah I was wondering the same thing...

After reading their website though, I got the impression cointernet.co guys are trying too hard to convince how much of a hit .co will be.

Also, isn't there a plan in the works to make everything and a kitchen sink as their own .tld?
nom nom nom

Edit: Oooh, yeah. Make it hurt.
That's just a tidbit thrown around to soothe those irked by the limit. It's been well over a decade since the last mobile phone was sold that couldn't handle long/concatenated SMS. The reality is that the 140 character limit is just an arbitrary one; one that makes Twitter, Twitter.
Most companies shouldn't hire in-house counsel, or an in-house gardener.
Only partially true. It's true that there aren't that many F150's driving around here (in absolute numbers), then again how many people drive those in American suburbia? Dutch car's aren't, on average, smaller than Camry's or Priuses.
If he does have a lot of free time... great! The more STEM prodigies with free time in the world, the better.
They could if they put code to read cookies in JS and send them home in the JS included in people's pages.