jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It looks like the US is right near the top in terms of spending. A more meaningful question might be, how is the money spent within the category of education?

A lot of countries are paying higher teacher salaries, so that could be something.

I'd argue that regardless, the US _should_ spend a lot on education. My intuition is that the problem might have more to do with how stretched parents are financially, and how their participation (or lack thereof) can affect a child's education.
Since HTML is too dangerous to use these days in e-mail, the default formatting should be Markdown too.
Indeed. It's true that large parts of the Netherlands are below sea level. The reason we're safe here now is because a catastrophic storm in the 50's killed a lot of people and the government of this rich nation decided to invest in a gigantic public works project to protect the population.

The Deltaworks project is pretty incredible (there's a great museum here all about it). But it certainly wasn't cheap or easy.

"Though officially completed in 1997 at the cost of $7 billion, the Netherlands continues to add infrastructure to the Delta works as needed. It is estimated that it will continue to need construction to protect the area against the rising water levels caused by global warming." [1]

The Dutch public infrastructure department, the Rijkswaterstaat, is called the "Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management". Water management is a huge continuing challenge.

[1] http://www.unmuseum.org/7wonders/zunderzee.htm

[2] https://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/english
What? Its like a delorien and an el camino had a baby. Its glorious! I think makes me wan reread all my favorite cyberpunk.
But the smallest sync interval is 15 minutes and it won't sync sub folders until you open them.

It's not usable for real work, and I'm pretty sure that's how Google likes it.
I think you're making a decent point, honestly. I live in a close-in suburb of a midwestern city and I think quite a few of the trucks in my neighborhood are probably 99% unnecessary from a utility standpoint. Having a reasonably sized pickup truck is a godsend for me right now, as I'm renovating our house and landscaping the yard. But frankly, since I work remotely, I really want this truck to be the last vehicle I ever purchase for myself (wife still commutes), and ideally we'll be a one-car household in the next 5 years.
From the video: https://youtu.be/ymaWq5yZIYM?t=723

"This is ideological imperialism. Six unelected individuals in silicon valley imposing their vision on the rest of the world, unaccountable to any government..."

"Now here's an idea, instead of letting the silicon six decide the fate of the world, let our elected representatives voted for by the people of every democracy of the world have at least some say..."

Democracy is a political system, not a system of rational inquiry. It can not establish facts, outside of voting statistics. Dressing up censorship with the pretenses of democracy is nothing more than appealing to the tyranny of the masses. Democracy as we know it requires a free and open forum for discussion.

The trend towards 'fact checking' disappoints me. Individuals must be capable of processing and consuming information without authoritarian hand-holding. To pessimistically dismiss this possibility is to refute the premises of democracy. It baffles me how proponents of censorship feel that they can have it both ways here.

Furthermore, the underlying philosophy of fact-checking dismisses the fallible nature of man. Information is constantly emerging. The horizon is contentious by definition. What would fact checkers have said to Copernicus? That a scientific consensus has already been formed?

The popular view that we have somehow escaped these human limitations is nothing more than special pleading: "This time is different. This is the age of reason and science. Dogma is dead."

This time is not different. Progress will continue to unfold and regressive ideologies will continue to limit us. On the historical scale we are becoming more tolerant. One has to wonder if the pessimistic view which highlights hatred is accurate.

Is it a meaningful assertion to say that you are intolerant of intolerance? Should we applaud this as noble? Perhaps a more rational inquiry would be to ask who would benefit from the proposed censorship and fact-checking regime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_pleading
I am curious about this too.
your intel CPU allows you to iterate through the stack and jump to a location in the heap though (as long as you don't mark the page NX). These features are used by most gc and jit implementations respectively. wasm requires all functions to be specified at module creation time and gives no access to the stack.
Note: This article lazily does not make the distinction, but the "economics nobel prize" is not a real Nobel prize.

It was added years later, sponsored by a bank, and is officially called "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel". It exists purely to legitimize a neoliberal financial ideology and has nothing to do with scientific rigor.
Genuine question, what scenario are you trying to avoid?
The same problem exists for most advancements, it's not a new problem. You could say the same thing about cars, for example.
It cannot be averaged out, as there is no way to take multiple samples.

Look at it: for any specific input it always sleeps for a deterministic amount of time. Unlike random timing noise, which can be averaged away.

You take averages and all you know is the value of (actual time + some unknown value) very precisely. That doesn't help you.

(He is, however, missing that it should also have a random salt, generated once and stored.)

Of course, this is still breakable most of the time.
a few more lines if you just let os.Stdout be the default: http://play.golang.org/p/FDbpCxCskT
I have no doubt that we will see new monitors going beyond the current "max" standard of 2560x1600

However, this monitor you linked wasnt usable for alot of things. If you look at the other specs, you will see that.
The protocol is pretty easy, I think coordinating the necessary “enable” calls is a bit cumbersome. Also the legacy JSON protocol is harder to support, but I understand why.

Hardest part is debugging crash issues and why they happened. You either just get a generic “Page crashed!” error (which I think is puppeteers handler message), or “browser disconnected!”. That and chromes logs are just crazy noisy, which I haven’t gotten a lot out of.

Those are probably the biggest, thanks for asking!
Self-plug:

I gave a Toastmasters speech on this topic titled "I Don't Want to Change the World" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkct9OcTKRI

Changing the world is overrated. It puts an incredible amount of pressure on you and may take you in a direction you don't want to go. Do what interests you.

(There may be irony in this advice)
Then why did I get a (spammy) warning from teamhint@hint.io last night?

It would seem to be possible for Gawker to notify their users more quickly.
Most botnets are operated by organized-crime groups

And THAT is where I stopped reading.
I envision this thing chasing me down the street one day in the future when I impatiently j-walk. I guess its time to start practicing parkour so I can stay one step ahead.
The article actually explicitly discusses your first point: that people can be affected by the experiment. It's called Hawthorne's Law, and the author discusses what types of laws might be good / bad to perform these tests on.

Your second paragraph isn't particularly applicable, because what you're describing doesn't meet the requirements to be considered a double blind randomized trial, modeling after drug testing policies.
This describes the important of pollinators, but honey bees are not the only pollinators. I don't see enough evidence supporting the case that honey bees exclusively are responsible for pollinating 1/3 of all food, nor that the absence of honey bees would reduce food production by the same amount (which seem to be the positions you have put forth).

Can you support those claims?
I bet they will get blacklisted on google yahoo and hotmail before they are done. That's a lot of email.
>"You appear to be absolutely incapable of realising that there are people in this world who can see more than one side to a question...",

Cf. my PayPal discussion. I was fully aware before he decided to come barging in what kind of pressure and legal strictures payment companies and banks must endure in order to do business. I am even a libertarian.

That doesn't mean PayPal's conduct is excusable or required by said law, hence my stance in that particular matter.

I can be argumentative, but he takes it to a level that leaves me with the impression that he has disregarded the tone we try to maintain here.

He's even seen fit to effectively deface the comment thread by deleting his comments without leaving behind a retraction or explanation as to why. (I have in the past deleted or edited comments according to feedback, and a left note of retraction so that people didn't get lost.)
Forget old days - in modern days there are entire businesses dedicated to renting out and delivering mass quantities of beehives to pollinate fields for farmers.
Actually, given their goodbye message they are probably owned by etacts.com.
> Random anecdote; for some (I suppose obvious) reason a surprising number of drug dealers are caught because they are caught carrying weapons - which leads to searches, which leads to the drugs.

How do they get "caught carrying weapons" without a search to find said weapons? (Terry v Ohio explains some of this, but note that Terry lets police search you even if you're not carrying.)

If our goal is to catch drug dealers, we could just let cops search based on hunches. After all, those hunches are fairly accurate.

> At least; that is my impression from the cases I see.

And those cases are representative of what?
Oops, missed it. Deleting.
GMail has had the option to disable custom fonts/images/HTML since 2005.

Just FYI.
I believe Steve Gibson said he would "Kick the ass of the next person" that spreads this horrible lie. OK, he didn't say it, but come on, it'd be fun to watch him do it.
I had my car robbed a few weeks ago, they took a 4 year old GPS and $2 in change.

I still feel wronged (it's a little annoying) but I still don't lock my doors (the amortized cost seems to be about $15/year where I tend to park. It's 99% about the time/money trade-off and 1% about what's morally right.
Thanks. Wow, I still have next to no idea of what you're describing but I'll happily take a look at the links. It sounds like I should start by learning about basic matrix theory then?
Buggy type inference, on the other hand, may well be infuriating.

Not that I'm accusing haxe of being buggy, but that's the GP's implication...
Missed this last night. Congrats to the Movity team.

Real estate is a tough business in which to both scale up and monetize -- basically, pick one or the other, because doing one makes the other harder. Obviously, since my startup is LA Life, you know which way we went. So this looks like a good result for both companies.

We've been hammering away at this gap in real estate for a while now, but Trulia is really executing well, so clearly the gap is going to be closing soon. These guys are going to integrate with Trulia in some great ways. Good work, guys.
which is why they put that "add some fields of your own" link at the bottom
Very cool. I wonder how fast SpaceX's success will encourage other private companies to try their hand at building rockets.

Anyone knows what their profit margins are like so far?
I hate when I'm reading an article and become completely distracted with an irrelevant detail.

In this case, his traffic violating cyclist was full of shit. Even the color blind know which light in the arrangement is the stop light, regardless of its apparent color.

EDIT: Removed bonus apostrophe
Very negative, sure, but it isn't an argument, and there are no counter-arguments to akadien's advice.

He doesn't have any of those things that many people believe to be the mark of a promising business. To akadien, those things are very important. To irahul they appear not to be. Who knows, he could be successful doing it differently, no one here would be able to say one way or the other.
I agree, and would add that it should be three valued, because it doesn't allow for a difference between "NO" and "I didn't check that yet".
It takes a few minutes after a comment is posted for replies to be enabled.
I think he's also talking about what is simply single-player Achievement-oriented play, i.e. the "compulsion" to find 100% of something because, until you have, you haven't yet "won" the game ("Completionism.")
Aka living the dream
Here’s a different take: when you set up an ad campaign for retargeting, you likely select users who “viewed or added to cart in the last 30 days”; you should also add an exclude for “users who purchased within the last 30 days” but it is very easy to forget the exclusion.

Also sometimes there may be communication lags between retailers and ad networks. Some retailers may only upload purchase data daily, sometimes there are gaps in uploads etc.

I think most advertisers would prefer to not advertise the same item that people just bought, but it takes perfect execution both technically and from the marketers creating campaigns to pull it off cleanly. When you’re managing dozens of campaigns across half a dozen ad platforms, it’s easy to miss some of the details that matter. And while the wasted ad impressions may annoy the consumers on HN, it is likely a rounding error for advertisers and not a huge cost driver.
I’m curious in what way you find Matrix/Element not user friendly. (Since I know people who would claim the opposite)
There are two flavors of tolopogy: Point/Set and Algebraic. Point/Set topology is really useful in understanding how things can go wrong, and what's true for sure in analysis. Algebraic topology is less obviously useful for things like engineering.
Interesting app, I have a few points:

* When I watched the intro video it didn't quite fit in the fancy box (required a scrollbar). Given the size of the video, this seems unnecessary. (Chrome on Macbook Pro)

* I'm sorry if this sounds harsh but I wouldn't consider using this product unless it could sync with Google Calendar or give me some way to import (and export if necessary) my existing events.
The other post I linked to within this one, titled Self-Reliance (http://danielzarick.com/post/1642680958/self-reliance) detailed sound and practical advice for how to get a job. This post was to be a lead-in to why I wrote that post.
I haven't gotten into the Matrix scene yet, but just want to say I think this is really cool and I can imagine there is a niche that would really appreciate it.
From the summary it would look like an utterly stupid technique with O(n) retrieval cost. However, I suspect the linked list they refer to are linked lists off each hash bucket, which in the case of collision have to be searched anyway so purging stale data is virtually free. It doesn't cost that much to search the entire list rather than just up to the match because most hash tables are designed to keep these lists short enough to support the "constant time access" performance claim. That's clever enough if you don't mind that some stale data might not be purged for a long time because its bucket not hit. However, it's also the sort of thing that any experienced programmer might cook up with a half-hour's thought. Which is the basic reason software patents are inherently anticompetitive: to a patent office, there's no such thing as an obvious idea. Partly because none of this is obvious to lawyers, and partly because the patent system was designed for chemical formulas and paper clips in an industrial age where if an idea wasn't already patented it must be patentable.
Personally, I think "he broke the law" is a terrible argument and he should know better.

More so because Manning has not yet even been tried, let alone convicted.

Manning is an extreme example of the shitty treatment afforded the accused, unless you're a banker who's fucked people over for millions of dollars.
Wow? More like a scary nightmare. No concept of OOP, DRY, etc.
Yeah, that's it! I just read Little Bets today. Actually, I was talking to somebody about lean startups this afternoon and I found that "make little bets" is a better way of expressing the lean startup approach than "test your assumptions".

The book itself doesn't break new ground, so much as it synthesizes a lot of lean startup principles and gives some good anecdotes, some of which I hadn't read before (e.g. Gehry's architecture approach). It's a good read, I enjoyed it. Until Eric Ries' book comes out, it's actually the book I'd give people to teach them what a lean startup is.
If we run out, we have problems much worse than varying day length.
Not Canada. Resources in Canada are a mixed blessing.

Google "canadian tar sands"
Sorry, but his article is really one-sided. It just blames the lack of funding for the failure and disregards other factors and challenges of a startup.

As I understood Readness was somehow funded (4iP) but the funding was then cut off for some reason. They tried to get into YC but failed and then decided to kill the service/startup.

What I read from the article is that the founders weren't trying hard enough.
What about other sources for funding? Sure, YC is nice, but it isn't the only place in the world to get funding.
To how many other investors have the founders reached out? What about the numbers (users, pageviews)?
What were they going to make money from?

> "When we returned from San Francisco, we realised that the funding and resources required to iterate Readness into something that could attract hyper-growth, were far higher than we had available."

This reads like: "We weren't abele to get the funding that easy and decided to kill the service after a half year of operation."

How about slow and steady growth in contrast to hyper-growth? More PR? (I would have been a potential user, if I knew it existed).
Most startups take definitely more then 6 months to build a solid user base, features and to get funded. It's very hard work.

As long as you are somehow growing and improving the service, you're good. Don't count (on) money, build a business/service and work hard. If you need money to cover your costs of living: bootstrap, do consulting, take another job.

What I basically want to say is that while funding might an essential aspect of your startup, it's not the only one and the solution to everything. So, don't blame it always on funding!
I think the answer to the question is "the right one." Arbitrary classifications of sophisticated skillsets attempt to reduce the decision to a rule of thumb. That's just not really possible.

Beyond that, I think the classifications are pretty off base. The idea that hackers build open source yet are rarely trained computer scientists is pretty far from reality, for one thing.
This got some discussion when it was submitted yesterday:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2012532
I wonder how much a position like that pays.
Voilà bookmarklet; should work on all WSJ articles (and ones from other sites that also remove the wall for Google inbound links, I suppose):

javascript:window.location="http://www.google.com/url?q=+escape(window.location);
my info:

Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 16384 bytes)
Pages free: 14959.
Pages active: 405692.
Pages inactive: 374907.
Pages speculative: 28768.
Pages throttled: 0.
Pages wired down: 91521.
Pages purgeable: 3805.
"Translation faults": 24292564.
Pages copy-on-write: 729689.
Pages zero filled: 14619003.
Pages reactivated: 712889.
Pages purged: 265424.
File-backed pages: 361509.
Anonymous pages: 447858.
Pages stored in compressor: 270669.
Pages occupied by compressor: 93710.
Decompressions: 405581.
Compressions: 790223.
Pageins: 1093581.
Pageouts: 3406.
Swapins: 0.
Swapouts: 0.

> top -o faults

PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #WQ #PORT MEM PURG CMPRS PGRP PPID STATE BOOSTS %CPU_ME %CPU_OTHRS UID FAULTS COW MSGSENT MSGRECV SYSBSD SYSMACH CSW PAGEIN
596 firefox 1.8 25:24.36 101 3 4607 1050M- 24M 197M 596 1 sleeping *0[2679] 0.61835 0.00000 501 1801083+ 15982 30520748+ 10145476+ 37431119+ 74055473+ 25506295+ 10499
136 WindowServer 3.8 34:09.24 17 5 2570- 1069M- 3008K+ 84M 136 1 sleeping *0[1] 0.04109 0.69237 88 1554555+ 29134 88175354+ 30598736+ 69071968+ 130099954+ 19109478+ 1791
734 Textual 0.0 01:16.23 9 1 858 144M 16K 25M 734 1 sleeping 0[2051] 0.00000 0.00000 501 833293 1717 745088 111931 478143 1563730 470159 2023
2195 Xcode 0.0 01:43.32 14 1 856 278M 144K 114M 2195 1 sleeping 0[1168] 0.00000 0.00000 501 701255 3278 1626845 546420 1139890+ 1959450 732276+ 148341
2650 Simulator 0.0 01:05.27 4 2 267 27M 0B 8976K 2650 1 sleeping *0[1402] 0.00000 0.00769 501 695662+ 211 755586+ 680393+ 1078007+ 2178634+ 1065718+ 134
539 Terminal 0.6 01:01.28 8 2 304 107M 25M 16M 539 1 sleeping *0[1375+] 0.06887 0.02264 501 582200+ 463 520635+ 71597+ 365523+ 1208051+ 360370+ 1522
2209 SourceKitSer 0.0 00:25.22 2 1 21 714M 0B 468M 2209 1 sleeping 0[672] 0.00000 0.00000 501 473966 51040 3676 1103 1047453 5748 17114 12740
653 Microsoft Re 1.6 13:51.17 33 7 462 536M 12M 148M 653 1 sleeping *0[845] 0.00000 0.00000 501 454751 21517 9976456+ 1770226+ 11942684+ 47364219+ 15135688+ 82
602 plugin-conta 0.0 01:01.70 39 1 278 362M 0B 87M 596 596 sleeping *1[3] 0.00000 0.00000 501 407089 2481 32035 12156 2744155 110109 996847 155
3576 GarageBand 2.7 09:19.30 23 2 822 1088M 16K 664M 3576 1 sleeping *0[288] 0.01295 0.00000 501 266176 2365 7887976+ 76435 9436303+ 19319436+ 18860820+ 930
292 mds_stores 0.2 01:18.32 5 3 95 24M+ 16K 9056K 292 1 sleeping *0[1] 0.00000 0.17381 0 252741+ 93 158368+ 58900+ 1418145+ 178062+ 301682+ 42331
2305 lldb-rpc-ser 0.0 00:18.56 4 1 62 1049M 0B 201M 2305 2195 sleeping \*0[3] 0.00000 0.00000 501 213604 1380 575628 287827 710177 307114 244010 32467

no swap at all.. but i don't use sleep mode for my system, uptime ~10h. and no rosetta apps too. 16Gb/500Gb M1 Mac Mini.

looks like Safari and WindowsServer use swap all the time.
try to shutdown at least 1 per day - maybe it will help.
What concerns me most about studies like these, which correlate guns vs deaths, is that there are a number of other VERY important variables which affects the death by firearms rate.

The banning in Brazil has definitely decreased the death rate. However, after the banishment (but NOT because of it), one of the largest brazilian crime organizations (PCC) began to expand its operations, that used to be mostly restricted to Sao Paulo, to the rest of the country. Then, a huge death rate increase followed, as they started an actual war against those smaller organizations used to control other drug routes/selling points. Such war is still ongoing.

All the debate is now being appropriated by industries, shooting ranges and other "stakeholders" which cynically affirm that the firearms banishment led to an increase of the death rates and now regular people are allegedly being hunted by criminals.

There are so many flaws to this argument that it's hard to know where to begin from. But the point is that the big picture, the context which Brazil is inserted in (income inequalities, geographic positioned between the biggest drug suppliers and consumers etc), makes a HUGE difference on what effect firearms-banishment will do.
What kind of 'metadata' are they referring to here? Can you give some concrete examples?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22074357

It's neither possible nor desirable to reprogram nitpickers, many of whose obsessive compulsive tendencies are precisely why they're good programmers. That's why I institute the policy that reviewers must counter-submit a PR based on the original PR's commits. You want the change, you make it yourself.
The slides are here too if you want to check them directly: https://twitter.com/DrKarlynB/status/1362774562769879044?s=1...