skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The statements you quoted are about apathetic students. Do you have a cure for apathy in learning? I don't."

You have to look for the cause of the apathy to have any hope of "curing" it.

Was the apathy caused by depression? Then you have to treat the depression. Was it caused by lack of interest in the subject? Well, then you have to get students interested in the subject, and so on. Usually there are reasons for the poor attitudes some students have towards learning, and helps to understand those reasons before one can be effective at channeling them towards something more positive.

"If a student can't devote 5 hours a week to a 5 credit course in homework then they likely won't do well. The reason for their inability is somewhat irrelevant in the sense that one needs to put in the effort. If you can't you won't learn the material. Nothing I do can change this fact."

You can't change the amount of work required, but you and the school as a whole can influence the student's willingness and ability to put in that amount of work.

"Is a teacher supposed to be a great motivator? I don't know. I do know that I'm not particularly good in the inspiration department."

If you're not, then you're just not going to be as effective as a teacher who is good at inspiring students. Whether or not a teacher is "supposed to" be a great motivator, there's no denying that when the goal is having students learn, and when student apathy is a real problem, having inspiring teachers should be a priority.
Nss-run in 2018 (or what did change over the last 2 years)
> (in the case of plastic grocery bags) gets explicitly taken back to a grocery store for recycling.

1. How do we know that the stores actually recycle the items we give them? There are many accounts around the web that most of this stuff (plastic bags, plastic shipping material, batteries, bulbs, ...) is just emptied into a regular dumpster instead of being properly disposed. Have things changed? Do retailers have internal audits for this or is this just empty marketing?

2. Even if the plastic bags are picked up a 3rd party, is it actually recycled or just dumped? Plastic bags are very difficult to recycle and only a few facilities in the country are able to process them properly. Are they somehow shipped to these facilities?

I'm normally hesistant whenever there are new regulations. However, I totally support the mandated purchase of plastic bags. Someone can prove me wrong but I feel that environmental conservation tends to be better controlled and encouraged by pricing instead of just marketing.
I love it when people articulate/identify a pattern and coin it with something. "Dreamworks face", works for me.
Well, maybe documenting everything is good, but what's more important is to make sure that the documentation is properly organized, which is exactly what OP is asking about. I've seen many wikis/confluences with multiple documents per topic, i.e. the author of the second document didn't know that the first one existed at all. In such cases, company wikis get cumbersome as they are polluted with knowledge.

I would say that the culture + making sure your projects and teams are well organized is the key to success. In addition, I'd recommend to follow some protocol when documenting things. This will make both writing and reading a less intense and more predictable task, resulting to a better overall experience.
"Mechanical Engineer" is going to remain a viable career for any kid interested in physics for the foreseeable future.
> The US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that by 2020 there will be a 1.5 million programming job gap

This makes me wonder 2 things

1) Why are we debating if we should keep the ~500k H1B visa holders around (of course we should) and

2) Why don't we just train the top 10% (in ability + willingness) of the ~13M unemployed people in this country?
So what's the benefit of these? We understand that the key to weight loss is calories in, calories out.

What's so hard to understand about that..? Maybe I am missing the point. Is this just to gather more evidence to prove caloric deficits are the correct way?
I wrote about this Guilded update for the Initialized blog, because I'm so enamored with this product that probably would have saved me from needing to learn a lot of HTML two decades ago. It did serve me well, though... but I'd have rather been playing Q2CTF

https://medium.com/initialized-capital/if-guilded-had-existe...
It's a caching problem. If memory access is slow you want to cache more, if not then you don't bother. Things you use a lot will spend more time in the cache, things you don't you'll have to keep retrieving from memory.

We really aren't as different from computers as we sometimes like to believe.
Your second and third paragraphs have no relation to each other.

The second paragraph comes from some tabloid about China.

The third one just says “wait and see”
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I know I get accused of it when I'm honestly trying to understand why people are okay with one instance, but not another. Did they just not know about the it? Am I missing some context? Is it okay with them if it's "their side"? Something else?

It's really frustrating and largely makes me think they don't want to admit to themselves that they are being biased for one reason or another.
Update: A Google spokesperson has provided the following statement (emphasis included): “We’re working on some major updates to Gmail (they’re still in <b>draft</b> phase). We need a bit more time to <b>compose</b> ourselves, so can’t share anything yet—<b>archive</b> this for now, and we’ll let you know when it’s time to hit <b>send</b>.”

As quoted on: https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/11/google-is-about-to-launch-...
A person who has gone through a degree (of any kind, especially technical) is in a much better position to self-learn just from working through books and problems. What works for you now with your knowledge and experience might not have worked for you as a freshman or sophomore.
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Hmmm... not really.

https://youtu.be/0aLK7Z65ZfU

Nope. No thank you.
You're right in that movies and video games are different media and I wish more developers would stop trying to emulate movies so much, but as my sibling commenter points out many games do tell stories. I've even encountered games that have affected me more than a movie could. This is because of the prime difference between the mediums, player agency. As a player, being able to participate and affect the story is entirely different from being shown a story in a movie or TV show. In effect, the player and the developer are co-authors of the story the player experiences.
The myth is that everyone has a learning style, that style can be summed up as one of a few categories, the style never changes, and will be stable year to year, and once you have identified what the style is with a questionnaire, you can tailor teaching to it to target particular students.

Once you weaken all those things, the predictive value of the theory is pretty well nil.
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In addition to all the other valid reasons.

The agreegatr is doing the work of collecting, displaying, possibly curating, possibly organising, rankng, sorting, etc. If anyone should get paid t should be the agregator.

If the original content publishers are unhappy that can stop publishing they can stop publishing their content for FREE.

They want all the benefits of near zero cost distributing to acrue to them. On top they want those proving exposure and increasing the value of their product to pay them!

And since that is uttely one sided, ridiculous deal no one has taken them up on it. So, they are trying to use the law to enforce it.
I thought it was better than than the trailers made it look like it would be. It's probably better without the game, though since, it simultaneously makes no sense within the game's universe and yet leads right into the beginning of the game version of Sands of Time.
Yes, there is. The words "set your Message center preferences" are a link.
So I think the theory is that when we take up exercise, we move less during non-exercise time. They explored this in mice by tracking their movements with infrared devices.

But surely we have oodles of data from devices like Fitbits and Apple Watches to know whether this behaviour is true for humans or not.
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Its hard to fake that a dead person is still alive. Its easier to say that they reported no headaches.
Cheat. Like pg would say, "do stuff that doesn't scale" -- this means:

- Paying for quality content. If you're starting a blogging platform (e.g. Medium) and no one is reading it, you need to get some high quality content on there. Pay some top bloggers or people with social followings to write something on your site.

- Paying for traffic. If you built a cool social platform, you can "force" going viral on reddit, twitter, etc. by buying upvotes & retweets. If the content is high quality, the content will organically blow up after the artificial "push."

- Offer crazy incentives. Say you're building an Amazon competitor. Do crazy stuff like "if your product doesn't sell in 14 days, we'll buy it for you!" Obviously, this can't scale, but when first starting out, it can be a useful strategy.

Whatever you do, you're going to be burning cash. There's no way around it, barring unicorn cases like Snapchat and Instagram.
In general, I'm of the opinion the current day style of teaching (someone supposed "expert" stands there and tells you stuff) is inefficient and a terrible way to teach anything. The best way to learn any concept, and I mean ANY concept is to see it in an application or tangible example. Without fail, that is how people will learn and retain information. That's why the only way to become proficient at math is to practice problems. The same concept applies in other fields. Receiving and relaying information are actually two quite separate skills. That's why the best way to know if you know a subject is to attempt to teach it yourself. Your knowledge gap should become immediately apparent. https://lifehacker.com/the-science-behind-how-we-learn-new-s...
Cool write up and classification system. A category that affects us is VendorDebt. Things that are inflicted on us by external vendors. Classifying then in a similar manner might help us decide which vendors to dump.
First of all, no one on Wall Street wears Prada suits. Prada suits are high fashion trash. They wear Zegna or Canali or bespoke.

And second, what about this story reads you as sociopathic? Sure, there's alot of shuffling in this business, but how much worse is that than any other? Restaurants and bars close down all the time, and no one accuses restaurant and bar managers of being sociopaths.
Heh. I grew up in South Africa, where “didn't do your homework” was met with a choice (if you were lucky) between caning (getting hit with a thin bamboo rod) and essay-writing.
The Road is a prequel to Fallout ;)
Did you get it replaced? Seems like it should have still been under warranty after only a few months.
More of the former but probably a little bit of both.
I used to think nobody was that awful, e.g. nobody was anti-public-library, until I met people who were.

It's totally understandable that the goal is to eliminate the public domain and all free/libre/open publications as a means to the end of funding proprietary stuff.

Say you have a business mowing people's lawns. If you were anti-social, you might support outlawing friendly neighbors mowing others' lawns for free or even outlaw people mowing their own lawns. You might even deceive yourself with some pro-social ideas about how forcing all lawn-mowing to be paid-lawn-mowing will end up with a world of better lawns, better economy, and all the extended benefits of well-paid lawn-mowers besides yourself…

Similarly, if you're a news outlet, you'd be happy to see a price forced on all your competitors. It's easier for you to charge your price if everyone else has to also. Ironically, this could be argued from a pro-social consideration of solidarity and funding journalism.

Of course, deeper pro-social inspection of the situation reveals that sabotaging FLO works and public domain is an unacceptable tragedy that is not a respectable means to the end of funding journalism. But short-sighted folks will try anything since they are freaking out about the valid concern over journalism funding in general.
This isn't exactly true. People with cancer often have comorbidities that are 'competing events' and survival does not always tell the full story. I published about this topic and it's more complex and subtle than you would think.

https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/research/population-health-...
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I really hope they don't get rid of the option to turn conversation view off. For me, conversation view adds in a lot of clutter that makes it difficult to see the message, plus lots of inline and collapsed-by-default content.

I'd really like the ability to see what emails I've replied to (with conversation mode off), but pessimistically I'd expect we're getting mostly unneeded aesthetic changes and functionality regressions.
"""Taken cumulatively, there’s a surreal, Lynchian quality to the images. Few things could ever be exciting enough to elicit these kinds of reactions, and no one could possibly be this expressive. So what’s wrong with these people? Were their brains tenderized?"""

This is a message I'm always teaching my kids "these are actors, they don't act like normal people, they exaggerate and pretend, are fictional, etc". They've seemed to pick up on the fact that these strange creatures before them are truly out of our everyday experience and are treated accordingly rather than taken as an actual subpopulation of folks they just haven't met yet.
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Dark pattern brain fart : excellent way to save up user data from users leaving Facebook.

Get it while you can!
"80% of China’s clinical trial data are fraudulent, investigation finds"

ust over 80% of clinical trial data submitted to support new drug registrations in China have been revealed as fraudulent or substandard by the country’s drug regulator.

An investigation of data for 1622 new drugs submitted to China’s State Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) for registration said that 1308 of the applications should be withdrawn because they contained fabricated, flawed, or inadequate data from clinical trials.1

In a damning report released on 9 September the CFDA described the findings of widespread fraud as shocking and vowed to crack down on what it described as a “chaotic” situation in the country’s clinical trials industry.

Much of the blame was attributed to the country’s loosely regulated clinical research organisations, which industry insiders claimed operate in …

https://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i5396
From 1985:

"Auto makers, who have been fighting the introduction of air bags for nearly a decade as too costly and only marginally effective, have gone a long way toward their goal of bypassing the federal regulations. "

http://articles.latimes.com/1985-02-19/news/mn-546_1_seat-be...

From 1990:

"But the history of catalytic converters reveals another side of Detroit. The industry refined the technology only after Congress imposed strict limits and deadlines and foreign car makers threatened to develop cleaner engines."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/03/26/a...

From 1985:

"The American Petroleum Institute, a trade group, said that the refining industry had been making efforts in anticipation of today's rules to ''insure against future supply disruptions.

'But the announced lead-reduction schedule will create a substantial problem for the refining industry in providing motorists with adequate quantities of high-quality gasoline at reasonable costs,'' the institute's statement said."

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/05/us/epa-orders-90-percent-...
Maybe my headphones aren't too good (airpods), but when I remove the fundamental I hear octaves, thirds, and fifths of the fundamental as chords instead. I also have a bit of musical training as well, so that might be helping me distinguish.

EDIT: If I turn the last four sliders all the way up (5-1-3-5), I can barely? hear the tone of the root below the first 5 (the second slider). I can't hear any tones of the very first slider, possibly because there aren't any tones between that and the jump to the next octave.
Dealing with the California Franchise Tax Board for a single member LLC ever afterwards is a pain. You need to file a 568 with them every year, on paper even if you e-file your CA state taxes, which includes the same data. You need to pay them $800 every year through their terrible website and its Web Pay system. Just getting an account on their website involves them sending you a magic access code in a letter which takes a week and if it doesn't work you have to start again and wait another week. If you ever forget to file something on time they fine you and charge you interest, and threaten to suspend your LLC. I wish I'd just filed a "doing business as".
If "the next Facebook" is also going to mishandle my user data because they can't possibly comply with privacy regulations, then quite frankly I don't care if they can't make it.
> I have found working through detailed books and problems the best way to learn

That's been my experience, too. What I can't seem to reconcile is that it appears that very, very few people actually seem to do this, yet there are a lot of people succeeding in CS. So either they're all a lot smarter than I am since I have to spend so much time reading before I really feel comfortable with a particular topic, or they're all just fooling themselves and they don't really understand it that well.
You need to determine velocity and distance in order to determine if the thing you just saw blink out a star is in orbit around the Earth (or not). There's a lot of distance between the Earth and the star, and literally anything between your eye and the star could obscure it from your perspective. We aren't even close to detecting/tracking all of the objects in the solar system that could do that. I'm also assuming the thing is not reflective (per the comments earlier I was originally replying to).

> An adversary can (presumably) almost immediately target that location if they are willing to admit they saw it

You'd be late to the party. If it was in orbit around the Earth, and since you don't know its direction or distance from Earth, your impact object would have to do a lot of searching once it got into space. If you had a giant laser to destroy it and could fire instantly upon detection, it will have likely moved quite a bit in the fractions of a second that it took the light to reach it. And, again you don't know the direction it is moving.., you can't compensate.
Unsurprisingly, modern white-collar work is incredibly anti-human. Blue-collar work is, as well, but in a different way.

This is a natural consequence of our economic systems. Companies that won't burn you the moment that your department's RoI is <1, will be outcompeted or acquired by ones that will.

Though it may seem that way, nothing about this state of affairs has to be immutable.
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I actually enjoy video games with stories better than movies because I'd rather be the protagonist driving the story, rather than being the passive observer.
I was just counter pointing your opinion, I absolutely don't think you were actively deceiving anyone.
CICO is not exactly true. Not all calories are equal. Fat calories, for example, are much less absorbed by the body than carbohydrates.
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It's an interesting topic but this article didn't help me learn much about 'the case against lectures'.

Of course there is no one-size-fits-all teaching method. So the questions are when to use which. My hypothesis is that lectures are better for students who are well-prepared and well-motivated. If they want to learn the material and have the background, then give them the material efficiently. But for younger students with broader backgrounds, lectures aren't as effective. However, it's easier said than done putting something else in their place.
That makes it clear, thanks!
It's funny that Assassin's Creed was mentioned as being too close to the game, but I thought it managed to miss most of the major points of the game series (which wasn't super complicated to begin with).

I mean, it doesn't even succeed at convincing the audience they should root for the Assassins instead of the Templars.

It's like they assumed everyone who was watching who didn't already know the story would be too stupid to understand it.
This article illustrates why. Some things don't cross over well. Like this article for instance. They should not have made it into a fucking video game.
Can someone link Houdini that OP is referring to? I'm having trouble finding it without context due to the ambiguous name

edit: is it this? https://github.com/w3c/css-houdini-drafts/wiki
I just wanted to say that this article displayed quite nicely on my phone and was nice to read through.

On the topic, I do believe that there are worthy stories in video games that can be translated to the screen not just for those who don't play games, but also for gamers who want to relive some of the story without the tedious bits in between (like farming for XP or upgrading).

The new tomb raider was probably the closest so far. I liked the tie-ins with the game and the actress did a great job of bringing the game character to life. The few things I didn't like were some of the acting and one-dimensional supporting characters. Also some scenes were just contrived, but I suppose that creeps in according to budget and timing.
There have been good video game movies, but the number is vanishingly small. Many are "so bad it's good" such as anything Uwe Boll makes, but there are a couple that seem to be created by directors who genuinely love the source material and take it in interesting directions (e.g. the first Silent Hill film, the first Resident Evil film, arguably Final Fantasy: The Sprits Within).

Also, Mortal Kombat (1995) is a good film.
Weird. The above is quote from the Office 365 Message. I only have very old Azure messages as I have unsubscribed from the mail.

Just to make it clear - I'm not working for Microsoft or anything like that.
it's really not a big deal. If you absolutely need legacy python support, you will very likely be able to solve it using a virtualized or containerized environment.
You can always fudge your trial result. What I am saying is that the line between an effective treatment and an ineffective treatment is very clear- more patients are alive by the end of the trial. Versus, say, a test for a new antidepressant drugs, where being 'happier' is hard to quantify.

Everything else is just record tracking.
Regarding backups, I think the answer might be: "keep the backups only as long as you need".

Is it really reasonable for an active site to keep backups older than a couple of months? A year?