skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry I should have phrased it better than I have, I hope the following makes what I meant clearer.

I do agree with your statement that a tablet has more functionalities than any given book. Indeed, as you point out, a tablet can contain thousands of them.

What I tried and failed to express was that, in an educational setting, these functionalities are sometimes poorly used. This obviously depends on the teacher, if there is one.

It is not clear to me how teachers are supposed to use a tablet to enhance their classes, and in my (admittedly limited) experience, they are left to their own devices or with poor guidance to say the least. It could be that teachers more familiar with technology (beyond just using it) know what to do with it while teaching, but to which extent? I would have assumed that using tablets instead of books is at least as expensive; is this cost worth it in terms of gains?

In the Alan Kay interview which has already been linked in this thread[0]:

[quote]

I said, “If we’re gonna do a personal computer”—and that’s what I wanted PARC to do and that’s what we wound up doing [with the Alto]—”the children have to be completely full-fledged users of this thing.”

Think about what this means in the context of say, a Mac, an iPhone, an iPad. They aren’t full-fledged users. They’re just television watchers of different kinds.

[/quote]

That doesn't sound so promising in terms of education, unless I am missing something. From time to time, I see parents leaving their phone or tablet to their kid, who invariably plays some game like candy crush. How do you transform a device that was made for entertainment into an educational tool?

There have also been stories in the past about big tech leaders sending their children to "boring" schools without much in terms of technology, and mostly pen and paper, which suggests that better technology is not necessarily better for education.

Regarding the more limited scope of "just reading", I read a lot on my phone, but it is easier for me to get distracted since I can do so many things with a phone or a tablet. Granted it's the user's fault, but you don't need any self-discipline when using a simple book, which is at least one advantage.

[0]: https://www.fastcompany.com/40435064/what-alan-kay-thinks-ab...

Edit: I should have seen that TeMPOraL's comment already says it all: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16836634
I doubt that. It’d be bigger news than Syria (sadly) if FB lost 10% of its US users.
As does much of northern Canada. However, the ancient rock, billions of old as it may be, wasn't surface rock 1.7 million years ago. It's only been surfaced since through erosion.
Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter briefly touched on this idea in The Light of Other Days.

(Spoiler) The book is primarily concerned with the development of a miniaturized wormhole technology which allows remote viewing anywhere on Earth, and the effects this has on privacy, etc. They discover it can also be used to view backwards in time, and at the end of the book they trace the tree of life backwards towards the universal common ancestor, and discover that it was a microbe seeded deep in a geothermal vent by a civilization of intelligent trilobyte/arthropod like creatures, which knew its own extinction was imminent at the hand of a massive asteroid.
If you count blacks too, it is easy to argue that education as a while is getting better. That demographic and it's education made big leaps against back then.

But also, I have yet to see compelling argument for why whites as a whole did not made progress - if you include drop outs and people who barely finished elementary school too. Those were more frequent back then.
Yes this. Ctrl/super+shift+f is the hotkey as it is usually, which defaults to the folder the file is in. You can right click a folder in the file tree on the left to search within that folder, or modify the folder you're searching in. Another useful trick is to add a ", *.<filetype>" after the directory you're searching to limit the files.

The best part of searching in Sublime is the speed and the formatting of the results. It opens a "Find Results" tab just like another file, and it accumulates all you're searches there. Very fast and easy to browse.

I use Sublime for notes too, not because I think it's a really good way for taking notes, but more along the lines of the legal pad note takers: I just needed to jot stuff down quickly and didn't want to hassle with anything. I already edit code in sublime, so it's comfortable for me to always have it open.

I always have a window with just my notes folder open, and I make a new file for each day I take notes, named after the day. I do waste some time flipping through files, but there aren't that many to go through, and the search is there to deep dive into the entire history.

Sublime has always been quick to restore anything I haven't saved. On Windows it has a session file in AppData/Roaming or something. I did get bit by running out of hard drive space during Windows updates, and the session file ended up empty. Lost everything in it (unsaved files, open windows/files, searches).

I have found that Sublime is pretty slow with opening files on network drives. I still use notepad++, partially for that reason. I've also had a better time dealing with whitespace characters there, so I use it for random of commands and I/O I'm working with.
>The Amazon supply chain is fantastic indeed. And the end-user experience can be astounding.

>Amazon vs Alibaba - to simplify, this game will be won by the best supply chain, And sure Amazon leads by far.

Amazons supply chain begins in China. Alibaba's supply chain begins in China.

The only issue here is that Amazon pays quite a lot to warehouse their own stuff in states and Alibaba don't (after discovering the obvious fact that doing that in America is not as cheap as in China)

They have totally lost appetite for American market after spending years trying. They don't want to be a global company now. There was a period in Alibaba's history when they thought "we are just few minute away from swatting Amazon like a fly," they hired tons for expensive, but useless American execs, spent tons on marketing, spent ton on logistics ("fulfillment by aliexpress"), only to find out that simply nobody bothers to do anything with them even when they are ready to sell same widgets for half the price on same terms as Amazon.

Their problem is that they are INVISIBLE to an American customer, and this will not change for many years -- this is what is called a "Toyota phenomenon" in action.

During Toyota's early years in US market, everybody was puzzled: why heck they have such bad rep and sales when everybody prize their cars - costs 1/3 of GM garbage, has double the fuel efficiency, virtually unbreakable vs half the vehicle price in maintenance over its lifetime.

Only when Toyota steamrolled competitors on quality on a level beyond comparison, and dispelled the myth of "Toyota - poor man's car" they took off. GM managed to set much of the population into a mode of thinking where "if you buy a Japanese car, you admit that you began to realize that GM was totally fleecing you all those years" and "you have the money to driver the big, bad, American car"

I worked for 2 years for an sourcing company that worked for Amazon and a number top tier US retailers, all of above is consistent with my experience working with Amazon guys.
This is very explicitly contradicted in the article, so your claim is not simply about the inaccuracy of the title. Do you have a cite for your claim?
It's not the only service that does this. Even browsers have out of the box support for some of them.
Yes - I find it hard to imagine I-beams couldn’t be found embedded in a geological layer somewhere.
They work like viral vaccines, by exposing the immune system to the pathogen (or something similar enough to activate it against the pathogen).

The oral vaccine is live typhus that has been manipulated to not be harmful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty21a
I agree that it should stay public, but because giving the government the power to destroy information and erase history in any sense is a very slippery slope. That said in the above case the man in question would have served his time and be by all counts considered to have been rehabilitated. So it shouldn't be able to be used to discriminate against him. If for some reason he isn't rehabilitated that's a problem with the justice system.
I know it's some ways off, but I like to think we eventually will be able to create bespoke bacteriophages via genemods, tailored both to the patient's genome profile and the infection at hand.

All the exciting cancer stuff right now seems to be on-demand, and techniques spread over time.
Anything made of concrete would probably be gone in less than 1K years. Even granite slabs don't last very long...
I think there are humane ways to part ways with an employee who just didn't work out. Give generous severance and some warm intros to places that might be a better fit.

If you really screwed up, make that choice soon. In the more common borderline case, that person is still giving you decent value, so it's not a total loss, even if you invest effort in trying to coach them up to your high bar.
My favorite sightseeings were the restaurants. Just eat a good pizza, some seafood and drink the wine. The city itself is pretty amazing, but navigating there can be tricky.
Not a good attitude and approach that doesn’t help the world, even if such a lifestyle is beneficial. It just reinforces stereotypes and accomplishes nothing.

PS:
I happen to be vegetarian but not a militant, antisocial, bumpersticker, “meat is murder” pictures all over my vehicle individual. These are unpersuasive behaviors
> Entire article can be boiled down to this. Takeaways: education is controlled by the states, and many states don't make it a priority.

Education is a classic state issue. Why shouldn’t people be able to deprioritize it?
These days, it's not the legacy. It is mostly regulation pushed by Chuck Schumer[1].

Predictably, the policy has made it much more profitable to outright cancel flights at the first sign of trouble. Add to that the consolidation that occurred since then, we are left with:

> Four carriers with over 80% of domestic capacity:

> - Three large, hub-oriented, global legacy carriers (American, United, Delta)
> - One large, point-to-point oriented ‘low cost’ carrier (Southwest)

> Six much smaller carriers, each with less than 5% of the market

> - Three smaller, primarily hub-oriented carriers (Alaska, jetBlue, Hawaiian)
> - Three much smaller point-to-point travel merchandisers, heavily reliant on ancillary fees, so-called ‘ultra low cost carriers’ or ‘ULCCs’ (Spirit, Frontier, Allegiant)

The main legacy are the huge health care and retirement obligations. Baumol (1982) discussed the airline industry as an example of a contestable market[3]. Free entry & exit no longer applies.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/business/22passengers.htm...
[2]: https://www.eyefortravel.com/revenue-and-data-management/us-...
[3]: https://econpapers.repec.org/article/aeaaecrev/v_3a72_3ay_3a...
Because that never went badly for the people of Germany and Poland.
There's already a well-proven technique for price discovery: it's called a _market_.

But because there's no real market for airplane tickets--the airlines basically forbid secondary transactions--we're forced into a world of centralized planning, and by an entity that's fairly incompetent at that.

This entire thing would be solved if plane tickets could be bought and sold in some sort of marketplace. The airlines could even take a cut of every transaction!

It's baffling to me that the overbooking problem is solved at the airport, minutes before take-off.

Imagine instead a world where you could buy and sell plane tickets.

- On purchase, I could set a reserve price for which I'd be willing to sell my plane ticket, and have the price go up as the time of flight got near.

- Late to the airport--perhaps I could trade tickets with someone on a later flight that wants to leave sooner?

- I have a flexible lifestyle. Standing order for tickets to the beach|family|wherever at a low price, as long as I have 5 hour warning before flight time. Gonna miss your flight? I'll buy it.

Let the airlines take a cut of every secondary transaction and let app developers & market makers figure out the use-cases.
I think for a lot of people, they "learned Lisp" from the Little Schemer and stopped there.
Ask HN: Is there any CLI alternative to Google Calculator?
I ask Google, "BIG NUMBER" in words and it responds with 10 trillion bla bla...

I ask it... X USD in EUR, it responds with Y EUR.

Is there any CLI calculator which supports full range of Google NLP calculations and even more?
> that life goes on outside of FB. If you delete, you'll be in good company.

That's interesting. I think a lot of people would say they are in worse company. And that it takes a lot of effort to find that good company offline.
The first yeast originated hundreds of millions of years ago, and 1,500 species are currently identified.[1][2][3]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeast
Jupyter and github/bitbucket
Go read some mrmoneymoustache. He's a bit wierd but has some good ideas about this type of thing.
> So the country still suffers regardless if specific classes of people managed to improve.

The phrase “specific classes of people” seems to miss the entire point of the parent comment… according to the linked study, all groups of people improved from 1992 to 2015, not just “specific” groups. This is a classic example of Simpson’s paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox

Imagine, for a moment, that you start a school that teaches reading and writing. You have 10 ELL students and 90 native students. When you test them in 2015, the ELL students score 50 points on average, and the native students score 100 points on average. The average score for the school is 95.

Now imagine that your school is well-known now, and you hire better teachers (all test scores go up 10 points), and 40 more ELL students join your school. Now you have 50 ELL learners averaging 60 points, and 50 native learners averaging 110, so the average score is 85.

Even though everybody’s test scores went up by 10 points, the average test scores went down by 10 points because the demographics changed.

To be honest, this is horribly unfair. Somehow ELL students are seen as “behind” the native speakers when that’s only when you measure them in English. This propagates the idea that it’s better to be an excellent English speaker than it is to be bilingual but less proficient at English. And it’s unfortunate that ELL students who study, e.g., science may get poor grades at times because even though they understand the concepts and know the terminology, the terminology is from their native language.
How is this ML? They use a CNN for foreground segmentation, a minor step in their pipeline. But the major contribution seems to be putting the silhouettes in a common reference frame. I sincerely hope sciencemag isn’t putting ML in the title purely to jump on the bandwagon.
China has a billion people and produces vast and rapidly growing numbers of highly skilled academics, both in their local universities and by sending students abroad. Many of the smartest people I know are Chinese and have returned to China after completing their degrees and collecting experience in western companies.
"But how would you know? So my friend, as part of his research, went taking samples of his cenospheres from around the globe. What he found was interesting: namely, the further one gets from the Yucatan (where scientists had already validated there was an asteroid strike), the cenospheres get smaller. The big heavy ones precipitated out of the air closest to the Yucatan asteroid strike. Hardly likely to be coincidence."

I am reminded of the famous talk by Richard about "where does fire come from, where does. plant get Carbon, well it gets it from the AIR, and it grabs water from the earth, and the flame that you see in fire is the energy from the sun being released!" (Paraphrasing, [0] )

so my point is, that if you look at Plant Life distribution and look at all of South America, with their dense rain-forest plant biome - you have a crap ton of plants which may have had the ability to absorb more carbon based on the Yucatan crater (gulf of Mexico) and thus thrive based on the abundance of the carbon flood that happened during this impact.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifk6iuLQk28

This is the best explanation of fire/plants/atmosphere that I have ever heard.

---

Question:

Why would oil concentrations happen in the places they do over many billions of years?

So why would the seemingly devoid-of-water places on earth (Middle East) be oil rich, where, at the same time, South America also has oil rich deposits?

The idea being that they are carbon-rich underlayments that become oil under pressure.

Or, how "soluble" (for lack of a better term) is carbon in Magma. i.e. how can carbon be dealt with in a magma stream other than heat and pressure which results in oil deposits over time?

So, any geologists who can educate me would be appreciated.

This article is beginning to convince me:

https://www.upi.com/Vast-expanse-of-melting-carbon-found-ben...

estimate the amount of carbon trapped in Earth's upper mantle. Scientists suggest there's as much as 100 trillion metric tons of CO2 stored there.*

So based on this data point and the comments from Richard, I think that life is a function much like the sodium-potassium pump, and oil is a function of the subduction plate tectonics which converts carbon to oil over millennia....

We will always have oil. Just how fast can we consume vs. how fast can earth produce. Supply and demand is a. universal constant.

/speculation.
Some time ago I did Lang & Lit, without option to drop them. I think those who were in low[er] sets maybe just did Lang.

My eldest just took options and has both as compulsory subjects.

Also FWIW in "sixth form" (16-18) games/PE and general studies were compulsory in my high school. I had no time to fit in the general studies but was still put in for the exam. Other schools in the area didn't all do GS but lots did games.
You might check out Wolfram's API:

https://products.wolframalpha.com/api/documentation/
Source code seems to be available :)

https://graphics.tu-bs.de/people-snapshot
Workshop on Reinforcement Learning and Traffic
My collaborators and I are hosting a workshop on reinforcement learning and transportation at this year's intelligent transportation systems conference.
Workshop site: https://sites.google.com/view/itsc18-rl/home
Conference site:
https://www.ieee-itsc2018.org/
If your research fits, come join us!
Antibiotics combined with people and animals concentrated in confined areas are extremely bad ideas for both pandemic evolution and antibiotic-resistance.
Which competitors are you claiming he works for?
Downvote me if you want but I love the massive amounts of text in the early version. For me. The web is better with more text and less whatever else.
They couldn't be bothered to find a screenshot with working images? https://www.google.com/search?q=netflix+original+web+page&tb...
Bear is great for organising notes. The style of #projects/open-source/react for example makes it really easy to be as broad or direct as necessary. Makes finding notes where you're not entirely familiar with the content much easier.
The way people use software has shifted over the last decade. Most people (obviously not you, but believe me most people) now licence and use software as a service. I pay yearly to use my IDE and word processor and things like that, and they keep updating it because I keep paying. I don't think I have any software that I have paid up front for. Maybe a couple of little apps and a disassembler I use. If they stopped being maintained I'd just move onto something else and not worry about it.

Almost nobody has a archive of old software they still want to use on macOS, or worry about using an old version of something like Photoshop. That's just not how almost anyone uses software any more.

> There is a lot of third party software out there

If you mean unmaintained software that won't be updated to 64 bit... well I really don't think there is in the Apple ecosystem. That's just not how people use Apple computers.

Software compatibility means a lot to you, but you're in the minority there. It doesn't mean much to most people. Everyone else has gotten used to being quick to adapt to changes to things like instruction set and pointer size.

And finally of course - people just have a lot less native software at all any more. Most people use web apps for the majority I would guess of their work now. As long as the browser is updated (which it will be, because Apple make it) most people will be never know the difference.
The internet makes dumb kids dumber and smart kids smarter.
Wouldn't you want, in a similar manner, a single create() call to be responsible for full initialization? An API that makes it possible to have entities half-initialzed looks like a design mistake to me. If an initialization is long and requires a lot of parameters, I personally split a "config" object that has easy access to all of them and the "real" object that swallows it in constructor or "create" call all at once.
Getting only the changed filenames is a fairly specialised operation. Often in normal use you can get away with a more generic operation that comes close to what you need, but is way more common, e.g.

git diff --stat
Hey, curious about your experience with Mailchimp. I've noticed that people seem to either love it or hate it. What do you think they do well? Where do they fall short? (if at all)
Maybe we as consumers in the west just need to suck up the higher costs for our tech stuff to be manufactured back here in the Americas and Europe. Sure it won't be pleasant for our wallets, but it'd be worth it.
Why was I down-voted? It was a sincere question. Did I strike some nerve?
Are there any countries that don't have a bloddy past?
Amalfi coast is amazing. Pompeii very interesting. Napels Spanish quarters. As Pimeys says the restaurants are just too good. The seafood is very very good.
This is true, but status is always relative to others, and I get the impression that those with more nationalist leanings would prefer a slightly worse off America if China would remain a 3rd world country instead of rising to challenge America on the world stage.
You are just human. So that means in general you are xenophobic, nationalist, racist and operate on the unstated assumption that you and your fellow nationals are 100X more worthy than any foreigner.
I lead an internal development team. We're constant building new apps and enhancing old ones.

Ember has been a big win for us. Upgrading old apps is a breeze. Every app has a consistent structure and the conventions make it easy for developers to move between projects. We don't need to worry about the individual pieces - routing, data, etc - we trust the core devs so that we only worry about business logic. We're experimenting with Ember Engines right now and I'm not sure how we'd replicate it if we were using React or Angular. All in all, I think it has made us incredibly productive.

Outside of the code, the Ember team's communication skills are top notch. I feel like every time I tell my team that "XYZ is coming down the pipe", there's a clear plan of attack and any impact is minimal. In the last 3 years, I've never had to tell my boss that development will be paused to focus on a refactor/upgrade/maintenance.

The biggest downside is in hiring, unfortunately. I don't look for Ember experience, but I have had to adjust my expectations when it comes to the learning curve.
Xit: Another Git Client for MacOS
Not necessarily. You don't need to randomly change the structure of the memo. You just need to leak a version of the memo that someone else received. It's not that hard to believe that someone would leave their account unattended for a moment.