jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You don't need cheaters to reach a point where the expectations are so high they are unattainable. If you read the growth measures listed on the government education sites you'll see that states have proposed plans with ridiculous claims such as having ALL students passing their exams by 2014. While there are modified calculations for special education students this is still almost certainly unachievable in reality.

A perfect example would be the high school that I attended. This is a school in a small community (40k people when I attended, maybe 60k now) with a significant amount of wealth. The high school specifically has received massive amounts of donations for both academics and sports. Since the inception of NCLB the school has routinely made AYP however in 2008-2009 the school did not. The reason the school didn't is entirely due to students receiving "Individualized Education Plans" (IEP). With the mainstreaming of special needs and special education students this means that an entire school is being placed on the needs improvement list due to a small subset of the population receiving special education services.

I fully expect that in the next three to five years the vast majority of schools that have routinely made AYP will no longer be able to show adequate growth. When the children of upper middle class families start attending "failing" schools you'll start to hear a lot of complaints about NCLB.
I disagree. My intuition is that if Mark was to focus on only one of his startups, it would only become about twice as successful. I think it makes sense to work on them all simultaneously if they all seem equally promising.

Mentions of the "80/20 principle" make me wince, because both 80 and 20 are stated with 2 significant figures too many. But the idea behind it--"there's a lot of variation in the effectiveness of activities you classify as 'work'"--is correct. If Mark does just the most promising tasks for each startup, he'll be doing pretty damn good.

Your comment is a good example of a HN user suggesting a simple heuristic for answering an important question, which I find annoying. Another example would be Paul Graham's advice to make a product that scratches your own itch. Your domain expertise should definitely be a factor when choosing between two startup ideas, but I could probably think of three other factors that are at least as important.

I guess I could live with the simple heuristics if they were accompanied by detailed justifications explaining why they're better than most conceivable complex heuristics, but they never seem to be. Simple heuristics are sometimes correct, but there are so many people spouting simple heuristics just because they like simplicity that simple heuristics have a large burden of proof to overcome, in my mind at least.
I don't get it, the chart goes down after the lockdown starts, like they always have in the past year. How does it say anything about the effects of vaccination?

edit: nvm a different chart is shown when javascript is not activated
It may be helpful if you have more then 1 horse.

And you are wrong in labeling it "prevention". It is a feedback mechanism. Fast feedback is essential in almost ANY scenario. Most of the things can be fixed if detected early on.

The first thing is knowing. If you don't know something, you can't act on it. To take your battleship analogy, if I remove all torpedo sensors from the ship, how long will it last given it is compartmentized and whatnot.
Most of my non-technical friends already surrender much of their life to Facebook through Instagram. In fact Instagram even has messaging now.
Microsoft is a big player in terms of resources, though not market share (2%?) in smart phones.

Based on their Windows 10 announcement yesterday, they are pushing universal device integration, which should help them in the enterprise market. If they deliver, what they'll have is a full stack of productivity, line-of-business, and analytics platforms through a unified UI for any device. Most enterprises already run Windows and if mobile/tablet integration is seamless with a Microsoft platform, that should be a large gain in market share.

The two big questions are if they can deliver well on the promise, and if they can leverage enterprise adoption to increase their consumer market share.
The context is that various authors comment on Atwood:

>> The office of Jonathan Franzen: While he was pleased to receive your invitation, he must decline due to the fact that, although he is aware of Ms. Atwood’s love of birds, and he loves her for it, he’s never birded with her personally and can’t speak to any specifics regarding her conservation work.
The organs of members of marginalized groups detained in Chinese prison camps are being forcefully harvested — sometimes when patients are still alive, an international tribunal sitting in London has concluded.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests...
I, the OP, am not the author. I posted because I was excited.
Turn all parking spaces into buildings and you can pretend you live in space, except without leaving Earth :).
I'm not crazy, right? This thing is totally hideous.
Olivine rock usually contains those elements.
This does not strike you as ridiculous, at all?
If you want to offer a completely automated process, auto-scaling is important. Otherwise it'll fail as soon as the first customers come in.
There is the Aa button on the right which can disable the bar.. was that also yesterday in place ?
"houston we have a problem" .... most misquoted line. it is "houston we've had a problem"
BTW Prismic.io can also be used with Metalsmith:
https://github.com/mbanting/metalsmith-prismic
It's not unusual for countries to have "transport police" on railways, as they cross a large number of individual jurisdictions.
Yeah, I love that scene. I wish I'd have thought of doing that in our place.
One of my boyhood heroes was Frank Ryan, quarterback of the Cleveland Browns for their last NFL championship, and Ph.D. in mathematics (Rice University).
What about Mathematica?
Are we? http://www.gizmag.com/nanobot-micromotors-deliver-nanopartic...
I use http://www.siteleaf.com its got a nice web UI and it uses liquid templates and Jekyll behind the scenes I think so it's pretty easy to write template logic and you can host on github pages for free.
These sorts of mediation services pop up often, so I understand where you;re coming from. I don't know anything about this one, so I'm talking generally:

I see where you're coming from, but I don't think this service is really trying to solve the (impossible) problem that you lay out. This is more about hiring human labour in an efficient way than it is about making software. From the homepage, I think this is the most interesting example:

Ok, so I can
(1) scrape all the pages;
(2) grab the name, address,
and phone number of every listing; and
(3) put all the listings into a CSV
spreadsheet.
This will be <price redacted>
and take three hours. Is that ok?*

Programming is is a useful skill for this task. For the right person, it's 3 hours work. For the "wrong" person, it could be 3 weeks.

This type of exchange is a kind of economic fundamental. Economies are a long, long way from efficiencies and one of the biggest elements limiting them is what economists term "transaction costs." These are sometimes literal, like paying an attorney to write a contract. More often, it's a general communications difficulty.

Solving those communication problems produces. Programming-oriented-tasks is not necessarily a bad place to explore.
Agreed on how good the V30's design is.

Mine unfortunately got stuck in a bootloop last Thursday, so I'm going to have to go looking for new phones again - I'm considering just getting another V30, however.

It's worth noting, though, that I felt the same about my OnePlus X when it died ("no other phone will ever be good enough!") - perhaps I like the V30 mostly just because I've used it a lot.
Oh, sorry, I just figured since you can use broad generalizations about the rich and poor, I could too.
Other than oil dripping on to the parking lot I haven't had any ICE related problems. Sure the car needs a yearly inspection and oil changes but the costs have been minimal. I've spent more on window repairs, brake pad & discs, tires and broken power steer than on ICE related maintenance.
It is still PII which sometimes has specific laws and rules around its use depending on where you are.

If I give someone's social security number to a company that doesn't mean they can publish it on the front page just because the person it belongs to didn't hand it over.
Not a spending problem.

Proceeds to list things that we spend and invest unnecessarily on.

We have a subway system in NYC. Run by the MTA. A bloated and incompetent organization that needs a billion dollars to extend a subway line a single mile, and will routinely spend hundreds of millions of dollars on unnecessary bridge painting and other shenanigans.

There’s a reason we don’t have nice things, and it’s not because our taxes are too low.

Edit: It is actually $3.5 billion for a mile.
Sure it is.. if me at 40 is like today's 30, and me at 80 is like today's 50, then keep pushing the envelope.
Or how about an AI politician?
The described log buffer implementation does not seem wait-free to me. If one of the writers fails all other subsequent writes will fail, too. Subsequent writers can still advance the tail pointer and copy their messages into the buffer but the reader will never see their messages because the failed writer did not update the length field in its header.

So physically the operations for the subsequent writers completed after updating the length fields in their headers but logically they are not completed until they become visible to the reader and that requires updating the length field in the header of the failed writer. The situation seems even worse when the writer responsible to rotate the logs fails.

I did not look into the source code, they are probably dealing with failed writers, but the presentation alone does not provide any hints to me how they do it.
It is completely unacceptable that this treaty is being written and negotiated in total secrecy. Its even more unacceptable that the thing is supposed to be secret even after it goes into force. This treaty will have a power of law and you will be subject to it without knowing what it actually says. God knows what it will contain when it comes out.

International trade can be very beneficial for all countries involved. But they should be entered into force like all other treaties and laws. They should be publicly known and subject to public debate.
Also, I am so very, very tempted to make a shirt that just says "Valid Art" on the front.
So it requires access to a second wireless network, as well as a router that supports OpenWRT and has two radios.

I don't see anything particularly noteworthy here. He just happens to have a very specific setup and is leveraging it.
Yes, like bringing back East Turkistan and Tibet. Sertainly you are going to win this legal action and China will pay Github.
I'm talking about cases where human involvement is minimal. If all I need to do to make a painting is press the "run" button, there's not much intention there. I haven't expressed anything.

You could certainly make the case for "expressive individuality" in the program making the art, especially if it was written by just one person. But computer programs, IMHO, fail the "valid art" test for other reasons. Of Dutton's twelve criteria they miss at least two: representation (6) and emotional saturation (9).
> But that is my whole point about Asio being split into smaller libraries such as Asio.Core, Asio.Network, and Asio.SerialPort. So you can use Asio.SerialPort without needing Asio.Network

Yes, totally agree about it. And I think I see your point now, agree also that libraries must implement concepts in a consistent way, and streams are indeed the way to go for reading/writing bytes. Maybe, what I am uncorfortable about is having that Asio.SerialPort explicitely coupled with async stuff like promises/futures.

Put it other way round, I think maybe the Asio.SerialPort should actually be something like HW.SerialPort, and this define a very low level library that acts just as an API to the HW, thus no promises here, as the OS does not handle that. Other languages like Node, Python could actually use and wrap this library to access the HW, and built their own async features. Then, it is perfect to have an Asio.SerialPort that builts both sync and async streams, using in the low level the HW.SerialPort. Maybe something in the line of: https://github.com/wjwwood/serial, but maybe with a more C++ style std::strings, streams (sync). Not sure, anyway, I will review my ideas, maybe I have to review my concepts about async and in which part of the stack should they be implemented, lets think about it.
The Iain M Banks culture novels.

Fantastic and thought provoking while at the same time fundamentally human sci-fi.
Not just Italy. That's pretty much the East Coast of the U.S. as well. Engineers looked at me like I wanted to start a cocaine trafficking network when I suggested starting a company back in school. The east coast is like Italy with worse weather.
I'm pretty happy with getting Crystal-Lighted http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeMJOPlK-0E&feature=playe...
Update: thanks for all the comments, absorbed a lot of info.

This post was v interesting:

http://aaroniba.net/articles/tmp/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain.htm...

check if out if you haven't read it. I am ordering the book today.

The author of that post talks about a pain that is difficult to distinguish from a sprained wrist or ligament damage. Mine is very different - it is a numb sensation that has a tendency to move around from the wrist, elbow and up into the shoulder.

I ended up going to emergency and getting a cortisone shot, which helped a lot. What I found out that RSI is a cause, pain or numbness are the symptoms, but the root problem can be any number of things. It is best to get it properly diagnosed by a doctor and there is a bit of trial and error involved. At the moment the cortisone is simply treating the symptoms.

I also found that rest doesn't help. I had the flu for 3 days earlier this week and I worked very little during that time - but the pain persisted. The first signs were a week ago but it really flare up last night and today. It was the worst only a few hours after getting back into work after being ill.

I adjusted my ergonomics a while ago - I went from constantly being in a leaning back and feet up position with keyboard on my lap to having my feet planted, arms straight etc. Changing this still didn't prevent the most recent flare-up.

Thanks again for all the info, comforting to know that there are a lot of other ppl who experience similar problems and a lot of people have experiences that they shared.
Please post the results later! I don't have experience on both to produce any valuable data to your survey but I'm interested in the results/discussions.
Do you have an engineering degree? Could someone who did CS qualify for that position without being an "Engineer"?
Fwiw would throw in a feature request for wall-time based profiling / tracing.

A lot of times in micro-services, performance issues are making many/slow I/O calls, and that doesn't really show up on a CPU-based profile.

I.e. "this request took 10 seconds but only 100ms-or-less of CPU time"...
Once you realize that entropy (disorder) and information capacity are one and the same (thanks, Claude Shannon), this is a completely logical connection to make. I hope I have chance to read through the notes at some point. This might be in there already, but it would be fun to see a worked example calculating the maximum practical storage density for a magnetic medium, taking into account the potential for thermal energy to flip bits as the domains get smaller and smaller, but counteracting that with error correction ...
I read Randy Pausch's book The Last Lecture yesterday, and in the book he mentions to ask "how soon can I get the results". As he only had months to live, he didn't want to wait around. He was always surprised at how big an effect that one question had in getting what he wanted. He just had to ask.
edw519, I hesitated for a day before posting this update (and a good couple of weeks before my original post) for exactly that reason. I realize that this is Hacker News, and not a medical web site. So I truly apologize if what I've done is inappropriate. HN is a great place, and I'd never want to abuse it.

In the end I rationalized my decision by thinking that if my post isn't actually appropriate, that it simply wouldn't get voted up. It's a community site, and in the end the community chose to vote it up. I think that's worth something, though I certainly do see your point.

I'd make one correction to your argument though- I'm trying to crowdsource a diagnosis, not my medical care. There is a big difference.
What do you mean by "use computers"?
did a little research and you are right, my bad!
Does anyone realize with the new Camera on the front of the Iphone coming out, this Data usage issue will change drastically?

The Camera phone will use Data. They are charging for more data. They are set to make a bit of money off this...
I'm curious how he is framing his current situation.

"I'm currently looking for freelance work"

"I'm trying my hand at contracting"

is much different from:

"I'm a small business owner"

"I'm the principle of an IT contracting firm"
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I'm not entirely sure that I'd consider that insulting, but, from the forward:

Be memorable—this isn’t about getting everyone to like you,
this is about getting some people to love you.

The company isn't built around catering to a massive amount of people, but instead a niche. And there's definitely a market out there that is very much swayed by the "Made in the USA, from parts sourced in the USA" line of rhetoric
If current investors weren't satisfied with current income, they would sell.

The market is not about current, but about the future. Stockholders are banking on FB figuring out how to monetize all the users.

I do agree with you that companies today are mostly all making money which is very different from the 90s. Whether companies like FB can maintain growth to sustain their valuations is something that remains to be seen.
Both Qt and Gkt have js based stacks already, more interesting is that we could get some unifying milieu on Linux/BSD for local apps build with Wasm https://webassembly.org
You're agreeing that they did a terrible job if they allowed the Taliban to infiltrate the country on such a large scale.
Uhigurs were literally picked up by the US in northern alliance training camps. How is that propaganda?
There are things you don't pour down the drain because they can react with your piping, sewage lines and equipment in downstream treatment facilities. There are regulations and protocols for getting rid of such waste, and pouring them down the drain isn't one of them.
There's hard labor and then there's "Among the prisoners there are some so ragged and liceridden that they pose a sanitary danger to the rest. These prisoners have deteriorated to the point of losing any resemblance to human beings. Lacking food . . . they collect orts [refuse] and, according to some prisoners, eat rats and dogs."
I do think that GP made a gross overstatement, but I don't think the similarities are irrelevant and/or superficial. These are the same tactics being used (to a lesser extent and in a different context) towards a similar behavioral end. Reflecting on that might be worthwhile. Even if you decide that they are worth using to some extent to bring about whatever ends you desire, you should at least know the devil you're dancing with.
I'm not sure what you're trying to simplify here. If a third party can tell whether they've successfully guessed the right password, then the encrypted holds real information that the third party can learn with sufficient effort.

If it's just random bits that you need a one-time pad to decode, then there isn't any information without the decryption key.

If you're encrypting a hard drive, most encryption methods give you full certainty that you've correctly decrypted the text, in the same way that you'd have full certainty that you've correctly opened a safe and found the journal inside.
We're going to get the Metaverse from there, eventually! And it will be glorious. A great definition of the Metaverse and what role blockchain may play in it: https://soundcloud.com/siggraph-spotlight/30-tim-sweeney-and...

I can confirm that the blockchain is way more convenient than centralized solutions for buying and selling digital assets once you get over the initial friction (which is still way too much). The keys here are open standards, composability, and trustless atomic transactions. As a user, I basically look at ethereum as an in-game currency—and the game is the whole of the ethereum gaming space (still nascent, yes, and polluted by a great many scammy speculative shell games) rather than a single game.

As for working outside of digital asset use cases, there are certainly a large number of people trying to get it to work though I agree the use case is much less clear cut. Without exactly agreeing with Vinay here, I at least appreciated the perspective he shared in detail on this episode of the NonFunGerbils podcast: https://nonfungerbils.com/podcast/3-vinay-gupta-indexing-the...
Just because some people choose to live in their own reality in their mind and reject objective reality outside their mind has no bearing on whether an objective reality exists. What a sad age of fallacies and confusion we live in where people even deny that they exist!
All I want is a button that allows me to block a website from appearing on my search results. They can keep it for others. I know I don’t want articles from Quora, Pinterest, and paywalled news sites when I am searching for something on Google.
I believe the suggestion was to destroy the bitcoins, which implicitly makes everyone else's go up in value, rather than explicitly dividing it up and emailing it to every bitcoin user in the world.

Also, I imagine you'd explain it to regulators with "a drug overlord's purchase was destroyed and the funds were gifted to the community". They're not stupid - if I obtained a "tainted" bitcoin and emailed fractions of it to everyone I didn't like, I doubt the authorities would be naive enough to put all my enemies in jail.
The state bird of Pennsylvania is the Ruffed Grouse. The Cardinal is the state bird of a different Commonwealth: Virginia.
The teams I've been on have a rotation that is pretty fair, but unpaid. Most technical members are required to be on the list, with a few reasonable exceptions. If there's someone who isn't in the list, people will joke about them not being on the list and that seems to put pressure on adding them (this won't work in all company cultures). It's usually 1 week every 6-10 weeks depending on team size.