jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think one of the big points of the article is that teacher quality does matter, but it's not the only factor (as you point out) and you have to establish it at the beginning of a teacher's career instead of trying to manage it as they teach. The standardized testing and so forth that's necessary to control teacher performance is too intrusive into the teaching process, but that doesn't mean the existing teachers are all good enough either.

When I went to college, I took notice of what people did when their chosen majors were too difficult or they washed out. I didn't know anyone who washed out of liberal arts. Curiously, I didn't know anyone who washed out of math or sciences either, but I didn't know many math or sciences majors, at least until I was taking high-level-enough classes with them that they hadn't washed out. In the more career-oriented majors, engineering majors washed out and became business majors, and business majors washed out and became education majors.

I'm not saying there aren't any good teachers. There are plenty of good teachers. There are also plenty of bad teachers. Fundamentally, the Finnish approach would take a generation to solve that problem because even if you raised standards to become a teacher now, you have a backlog of teachers of uneven quality and little clear way to sort the good from the bad.
So a movie or a song recording have no actual value?
"I don't think the author makes a convincing point as to why standardization is bad for students but somehow beneficial to teachers."

I would claim the freedom given to teachers when practicing their profession is one of the reasons they do so well. Strict control usually cuts down the performance of the best people by oveconstraining requirements while protecting against the worst performers. More lean system keeps the best people motivated and gives them the leeway to do as they see best (practice art instead of just fulfilling regulations).

Worst people can do poorly but the teachers education system is so good even the worst are not that bad (usually). This is why the strict standardization of teacher education is needed - to make sure people are good enough they can be expected to perform well.

These are just anecdotal toughts based on experience (I'm a finn).
> I can't see Uber as a company surviving the next few decades, but without them the taxi experience would likely still be as horrific as it was in the 90s.

100% this. Uber made "Uber" a solved problem, so spinning off clones became cheap and easy.
MediaTek is killing it. They hired a lot of people from TSMC's process development kit teams which vastly improved their capabilities in integrating IP. They were the first to develop AV1 decode, their modems are pretty decent. They even have leading teams in wifi.
The different case results had nothing to do with the relative size of Google vs Microsoft vs Sun.

Microsoft lost because Microsoft had signed a contract with Sun, and was found to have broken the terms of the contract.

Google never signed a contract with Sun, so was free to act in ways that Microsoft was not.
The argument from the text could go the other way: Congress didn't mention declarative code in the copyright act, so it's not included.
Sometimes SCOTUS explicitly suggests in an opinion that it's time to overrule precedent but they don't want to do so in that case.

Most recently (that I'm aware of) is South Dakota v Wayfair. SCOTUS previously held that states couldn't impose sales tax on out-of-state companies. Subsequently, many states imposed "use taxes" which are essentially sales taxes paid by consumers on purchases they didn't pay sales tax already to get around this. Colorado passed a law which required out-of-state companies to essentially provide sales tax computation information to Colorado (but not sales tax itself), and Kennedy noted in his concurrence that maybe it was time to revisit the sales tax precedent. So South Dakota went ahead and passed a sales tax on out-of-state companies in direct violation of previous precedent, and SCOTUS promptly overturned that precedent when it heard the case.
Clickbait, how is this 1% tax rate defined ? Clearly not from taxable income. From revenue ?
This does not generalize to the openjdk team. Google team characteristics tends to generalize more.
Oh, shout. xD

Actually, I've seen uBlock Origin's font blocker actually break font rendering on PDFs in Firefox in the past (maybe still today?).
I had that book -- bought it in Leyden, the Netherlands when I was studying Russian. When we have a group of Russian orphans staying over in the early nineties, I gave them all my Russian books, including this one. It was really good to see them reading out of Xobbit to each other every night :-)

Since then, I've forgotten all my Russian...
>belied by the differences of reliability and cost of ownership across brands.

But these differences are razor thin compared to consumer perceptions of them.

For every fanboy on Reddit screeching about muh million mile 4Runner he leased for 36k there's a fleet manager who just spent an afternoon reviewing records and crunching numbers before confirming that yes we are going to buy another round of Pacificas as our current ones hit the "old enough it's not the image we want to project" threshold.

Compare the lap times of boring commuter sedans and compacts to the "sporty" and "good handling" sedans and compacts if you really want to see slim differences.
Yes, even for on-disk read-only use cases, shapefiles are almost always much faster. Overhead from serialization, network, etc often dominates the performance of GIS.
Maybe Inter will become the new Helvetica ;)
Absolutely, and this is my go-to argument any time someone says that the USPS is obsolete/unprofitable/archaic/redundant/etc.

The point of the USPS is that the government can always correspond with any of its citizens, with an organizational service guarantee.
...breaking and entering into congress?
> tweet with i "Hello World!" <ESC> t, native vim keymap support

vim is not GNU, emacs is.

That means it would actually be <M-t> Hello World! <C-x> <C-s>, and the documentation would have a lengthy section on what the "Meta" key is and why not just call it "Alt".
There is a concept in American law that, roughly, if no jury is suitable to judge, then all of them are. In other words, there can't be a vacuum of judgement.
Not... really a good enough attibution... I'm supposed to go watch that link at the bottom of the article and then cross reference it with the funny things said in the article? I was expecting the very first link in the heading to point to that routine and for it to be 'the joke'.
I'm not convinced that nuclear power is safe, regulators or no. Accidents, mistakes, unforeseen problems, sabotage all will happen, and when it does, it makes an area of land potentially uninhabitable for many years. A system where the failure mode is long-term uninhabitability is not what I call safe.
>very, very impressive, but it does make one wonder a little about the person who has done it.

it has deep roots in the psyche of my old country:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Cross-eyed_Lefty_fr...
Uber makes absurd amounts of money. I've had many conversations with drivers and they claim to be pulling in $35-$45 per hour after uber's 30% cut. I've talked to drivers who have quit their full time jobs and love it. Some have said that because the service is so convenient that people have started using it as a walking replacement, often opting to catch a cab for 5 blocks. Lastly, many companies have enterprise uber accounts and will happily pay their employee's $200 cab rides to the airport or even 45 minute drive home.
"Tom Thompson, president of NC-20, a coastal development group and a key supporter of the law, said the science used to make the 39-inch prediction was flawed, and added that the resources commission failed to consider the economic consequences of preparing the coast for a one-meter rise in sea level"

I wonder what might be the economic consequences of ignoring the possibility.

I would love for him to be right and for there to be no major rise and for the coastal development business to be secure, but I personally wouldn't bet on it.
It's useful having some code in JavaScript. Even if its not fast enough for some things, having a nicely organised and documented library can be very useful.

Optimizations, using Typed Arrays, could make the code considerably faster. C++ addon code could make it faster still. Intrinsics within that addon code could use SIMD. While this library certainly is a lot slower than the equivalent C or Fortran, it's got potential, and it's not something that I'd dismiss as being pointless because it's a particular thing that's written in JavaScript.

Also, in the browser, language choices are very limited. Another reason why having JavaScript code that does a variety of things (including vector maths) is useful.
that is indeed planned. will try to do it today
Bump Up Vote for "Tides of History" - it is an excellent podcast full of rich detail while also covering a lot of ground and explaining the macro picture.

https://wondery.com/shows/tides-of-history/
You’re not presenting your sources accurately.

The full quote from [1]:

> No evidence of Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA has been found in modern humans. This suggests that successful Neanderthal admixture happened in pairings with Neanderthal males and modern human females.

The full quote from [2]:

> A 2016 study presented evidence that Neanderthal males might not have had viable male offspring with AMH females. This could explain why no modern man to date has been found with a Neanderthal Y chromosome.

Also from [2]:

> Positive evidence for admixture was first published in May 2010. Neanderthal-inherited genetic material is found in all non-African populations and was initially reported to comprise 1 to 4 percent of the genome. This fraction was later refined to 1.5 to 2.1 percent.
They like to present themselves as undercover journalists but their history shows that they don’t meet that standard: unlike journalists they actively manipulate the videos to mislead their audience – if you remember their rise to fame attacking ACORN, their videos were edited to be successful political propaganda but the subsequent legal investigations didn’t find any wrongdoing by ACORN and Project Veritas had to pay damages for defamation. This also was hardly “elites” - they heavily edited video to misrepresent what low-level employees did, and attempted to portray that false narrative as the organizational policy.

They’ve also been known to produce complete fabrications like their unsuccessful attack on the Washington Post. That was straight up entrapment, not journalism.
Well, one of them happened quite a while ago, and both govts have acknowledged and in some cases apologized for their actions.

And the other one is happening right now and the govt is denying it.
> C has a very weak type system, which is static. There's a lot of implicit conversion going on. Also the expressiveness of the type system is very limited (in C++ also).

It is true that the subset that C++ shares to C has too many implicit conversions, but you can do much better.

For example in C++ you can use enum class to define strongly typed integrals that do not implicitly convert to the basic types.
> No eyewitness accounts, no Roman accounts, no Jewish accounts, etc.

debate the authenticity all you want, but what exactly do you think the new testament is?
So when Antifa was firebombing Portland City Hall you'd call that violent as well? It happened for months.
Show me the politician inciting the Summer's arsonists to destruction.

"People over property" is probably the most direct encouragement of property destruction.
i sometimes wonder if karl marx were alive today if he would say that mass media is the opium of the masses..
Wait, so the same idea or concept would be better if someone else said it? Nice strawman, criticizing the background of the author than the material itself :)
Correlation does not imply causation. Moreover, when hasn't there been polarizing media? There are countless radical publications that did not imminently result in a political revolution. Also, today's afternoon riot doesn't really compare with the aforementioned historical events.
I was fully on board with lockdowns, etc. in the spring. We are long past the "novel and unknown" stage for Coronavirus.

Our schools opened in the fall and have been able to stay open. Everything I've heard about "remote learning" points to that being a huge blessing for the families in our state.

I am thankful every day that our state and local government has had the backbone to let people live their lives.
People being relegated to digital ghettos (Parler) is not a sign of healthy discourse. This is about individuals not feeling like they can speak publicly.
Are they not right though? People don't really care about "privacy", they just want it to work, and work with their friends. You or I can harangue all we want but it doesn't change the fact that people don't care in aggregate.
>> One can simply "check off the list" of attacks

>> The more difficult/interesting problem is being future-proof
I've had this experience out west too. But anecdotally at least, these spots can be harder to find on the east coast.
No need to use a loop around it, printf can take care of that pesky detail for you! To quote [0] (my emphasis):

> To achieve full Turing-complete computation, we need a way to loop a format string. This is possible by overwriting the pointer inside printf() that tracks which character in the format string is currently being executed. The attacker is unlucky in that at the time the “%n” format specifier is used, this value is saved in a register on our 64-bit system. However, we identify one point in
time in which the attacker can always mount the attack. The printf() function makes calls to puts() for the static components of the string. When this function call is made, all registers are saved to the stack. It turns out that an attacker can overwrite this pointer from within the puts() function. By doing this, the format string can be looped.

> An attacker can cause puts() to overwrite the desired pointer. Prior to printf() calling puts(), the attacker uses “%n” format specifiers to overwrite the stdout FILE object so that the temporary buffer is placed directly on top of the stack where the index pointer will be saved. Then, we print the eight bytes corresponding to the new value we want the pointer to have. Finally, we use more “%n” format specifiers to move the buffer back to some other location so that more unintended data will not be overwritten.

[0] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit..., Appendix B "Printf is Turing-complete".
You're blaming election fraud as the culprit then not trump.

Half the country is mad as hell, because there's 3k+ signed affidavits, 140 congressmen, at least two majority of state congresses, reports from data scientists, cctv footage, voting machine forensic reports in MI and AZ, and a lot of dismissal by courts based on standing not merits. It's unprecedented and it's straight up totalitarian to say "no mention of election fraud is allowed"
This title should probably have 2019 on it. It precedes the recent unrest by over a year.
Thanks for calling me a troll rather than engaging with my arguments, really mature of you.
Hmmm... maybe "brainwashed"
This slippery slope is real though. This is what happened to gab. They were kicked out from their domain registrar and payment processors, and Visa blacklisted the owner's family. Just saying.
Sure, most countries have such systems, multiple different ones in fact, not all necessarily using the internet. They're usually used for emergencies only though.

Redundancy is key if you're warding against foreign interference, nuclear events and the like. But at the end of the day if you're a free democracy you let people use whatever they want for the day to day stuff and you end up having to use those platforms to reach your citizens as well.

My country tried doing its own thing a couple decades ago. It's called the minitel. Look it up if you haven't heard of it, it's pretty neat :)
I was thinking more like Usenet, which was fully distributed and difficult to censor. Individuals could establish "killfiles" to filter out people or threads they didn't want to see, etc.
Nice, hadn't heard of this. Is it similar to steemit? Also how do you delineate being "decentralized" versus using blockchain to store data?

Working on another site and I have contemplated whether using blockchain for some of the data would have any advantages.
I think that kind of is the point though...
Yes - I generally agree with that. I wouldn’t say it that way because I think ‘duopoly’ is an overstatement. If a market is ripe for low end disruption, it’s not a duopoly or a monopoly. It just happens not to have had new entrants at this time.

I also think that most people aren’t really fed up with the current two platforms, and certainly adding more app stores isn’t going to change anything.

The only thing that will do that, is a platform (or more likely ecosystem, since I am proposing that it be open) that enables substantive changes to the way mobile devices work, which the current platforms do not.

I mean really, do we think an open general purpose mobile computing platform would enable purposes which are not served by Android or iOS, or not?
I generally agree but I can’t in good faith trust anything the US government does. Maybe local and state governments should run free healthcare as many seem to function much better than the federal government, but there are also state governments that are corrupt as well.

Until we fix the government corruption I can’t get on the free healthcare for all train. I already pay nearly 50% of my income in taxes with little to no short or mid term benefit. Jacking that up even more for basic health coverage doesn’t feel worth it.

If you’re wondering what I mean by corruption, just look at the latest Covid bill that sends billions to other countries and sneaks in random bullshit about internet streaming...into a pandemic relief bill. This isn’t a your side vs my side issue. It’s all bad. They’re all corrupt.
They didn't write the headline by accident - they published it and its ok to judge what they chose to publish. If BBC didn't write clickbait headlines there would be no clickbait headlines to criticize them over.

This headline does represent the article. The article talks about different cultural practices but is questioning if one of them is weird because it doesn't conform to other groups practices.

Do you normally call people or groups of people weird in a newspaper because they don't conform with what you consider your 'normal' cultural practices? Would you consider that a feature of an inclusive society?

The internet would be a better place if opinion pieces were kept on separate websites from news, and people wouldn't need to criticize how they're written. Then there'd be a lot less worry about if it was weird.
I'm amazed that corporal punishment in schools is still legal throughout much of the US [0].

Perhaps it's mostly not used. I'm not sure because I went to school in New Jersey where it's outlawed even in private schools.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_corporal_punishment_in_...
Great app! I have some experience with QT (mostly via Python/PyQT) but I want to get started with QML for a new app idea, so this example codebase will come in very handy. Any other resources you can recommend to get started with that?
At some point, you are going to have to use some sort of force to confine or constrain to prevent the child from engaging in unwanted behavior.

No matter what flowery language or loopy logic you use to avoid the subject, you are applying force.

Is it better to have well-thought out uses of force instead of just hitting the kid when they make you angry? Of course. But don't pretend that living in the world requires no discipline at all.
> You are looking at the original Pascal from a modern perspective.

"Modern" as in 1981?

http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html
In the future your boss will assign work by auctioning JIRA tickets off to the team with a price ceiling set by freelancers on the LinkedIn marketplace. Payment will be through a bounty system. Salary is such an outdated payment structure
Ah, the innovation of our age... isn't innovation after all.
accept bitcoin instead of cheques adds to the anonymous nature of the service.
A healthy attitude to judge others by is if they are causing direct harm to others. I think murder is wrong, violence towards others is wrong, or controlling others who seek a different lifestyle through social or legal pressures is wrong.
On the computer, these blockers are readily available. On the iPad, however, they are not (chrome for ios, for example, doesn't support any of those extensions)
Good idea, let's start by experimenting on you.
Hoop-jumping, including memorization-based education, just doesn't work as well as real-world scenario tests.

We forget this at our peril.

The real reason we indulge hoop-jumping is that it gives a veneer of equality to a process that (really) has more to do with natural gifts than certifications.
Yeah, I agree.

Coming out is important on a personal basis, but the events overshadowing that were important on a global basis. It's hard to weigh the two.
Very annoyingly, in the FF 24 beta, Firebug basically crashes the browser every time you open it (or switch to another tab and then back). Not sure if it's FF's problem or Firebug's, but it's really annoying.
I also pretty much use Google's search as a proxy for Wikipedia search or StackOverflow search at this point.

But I highly doubt much Yahoo's traffic is coming from search. They've got Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, omg! (which is huge), Flickr, Tumblr, etc. Yahoo is in the content business.

Plus, I know of some people (especially older people) who have Yahoo set as their homepage, and they'll freak out if it gets set to anything else. And besides, Yahoo is a much better homepage than iGoogle for most people, particularly if they use Yahoo mail.
What happened to the screenshots?
Something like that could work really well in a place like Mana Bar (a cocktail bar and video gaming lounge, really just a bar with wall to wall consoles etc.). You could have games that you pay to play, and how well you do = how much alcohol your drink gets. With appropriate warnings and such that could be really fun.
Actually, the UITabBarController supports more than 5 items perfectly well. It automatically adds a "More" button if you add more than 5 items. There you can cram everything in that you would otherwise have put in your hamburger-menu.

Also, if you enable it, it automatically allows users to choose which tabs that goes where, just like in the music app :)
http://linkedin.com/in/michaelfryedeveloper
Assumably the names were chosen in reference to the recent cracking of Comodo by someone from Iran, possibly the Iranian government.
but it's no fun to be an officer without a bunch of stupid enlisted men to boss around

I do not know how you intended this to sound, but it comes off in a way that is horribly inaccurate of both officers and enlisted men.

The majority of officers I know have gone out of their way to help the enlisted learn and did what they could to ensure they had access to colleges. Many officers were ready to help any enlisted person with a real desire to do so to get their education finished and get a commission themselves.

On the other side of it, most of the enlisted men I knew were at or above average intelligence. Especially in certain fields such a communications and intelligence it was very common to find people who already had degrees when they enlisted or finished them quickly after enlisting.
Anecdote: I've been traveling for the last three months, but most of my network is in Chicago. I hear from recruiters and hiring managers every couple days and, despite the consensus that Chicago has a "developer crisis" (to use the words of an Obtiva blog post), every single job has onsite only.