skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really see how making them buy or use Chromebooks is more dystopian than compelling them to purchase or use anything else. That's just how standardization works, whether it's on the Office suite, a certain textbook, or a Chromebook.

It's easy to see why the schools want them using Chromebooks. They're easy to use, low maintenance, and compatible with the Google tools that they presumably want to use in the whole district. Those are all good reasons to me.
> Talking about IQ among ethinicities is verboten on the left.

No, it's not. In fact, both results of studies showing such differences and the factors likely producing them are frequent matters of discussion on the left.

> It’s also axiomatic on the left that all cultures are equally effective at raising successful, healthy children.

Also not true, though the left (unlike the right) is unlikely to limit it's consideration of “culture” to a narrow set of values that parents of certain ethnic backgrounds are presumed to have or not have, and consider the sources of culture influences much more broadly than the right does.

> The German study suggests that culture matters,

It is quite consistent with the idea that physical and broad social context matters, and that broad aspects of the physical context to which various groups are selectively subjected, as well as elements of the broad US social context, are particularly harmful to and preserve the disadvantage of various historically disadvantaged groups is actually more widely accepted as established fact on the left than the things you mislabel as axiomatic.
This and this:

>> I think he was just stuck on the idea of the function doing something arithmetical to the input, and was having trouble coming up with some sort of arithmetic procedure which would result in 6 no matter what you put in

don't really seem, to me, like they can explain what's happening -- f(x) = 6 is trivially easy to express in terms of arithmetic operations being applied to x. If you assume that a function that multiplies by 2 is intuitively ok, what's wrong with a function that multiplies by 0?
They gain lower prices or better service for consumers, obviously.
Supersonic makes me dream but the most cumbersome part in air travel is not on flight, but on the ground, and could be massively improved for much wider ranges of people. But I’m not sure it can happen given that migrant protectionism growing all over the world. I’d take a 40-minutes boarding & customs experience with water, soap and pencils allowed over a supersonic flight. Well, in fact, I’m out of the market because the customs/TSA are so annoying with USA that I don’t go to US conferences at all.
If you had to pick between a mediocre sandwich and a great sandwich, and the great sandwich had a big fat human turd sitting on it, would you still pick it because it's better "other than having a turd sitting on it"? (Mind you, even deluding yourself into thinking of the turd as a "turd stamp", whatever that is, will not change the taste one bit.)
Side question: maintenece of functional programs is easier, because you don't need to think about state.

Could it be used to create a functional programming language, easily understood by non-programmers or beginners , so they too could take a program and adapt it to their needs ? Does such language exist ?
You need to ask lots of questions and we need to keep checking you understand in every detail. That can take a long time. The best situation would be for you to meet an enlightened being and observe what they say and do but unfortunately there are none alive. You would notice that they advise you not to say what you have not confirmed and can help you confirm the difference between your thought that you are aware, and things in reality. This is a very difficult process for 95% of people to undergo and accept. So, if you don't mind, could you tell me first of all what you really want to know? Lots of people said they want teaching but after they get something they want they usually leave and don't come back.

As for delusion when you say that to someone please provide something they can confirm.
This is the best thing I've read in really long time.
>troll

Yes

>elaborate

No
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Secular people have been making rituals since the beginning of time...for many it's as simple as grabbing a cup of coffee before starting a pile of work.

The d school and the work that comes out of it is mostly BS. Out of curiosity, has anyone attributed their success for the d school and have any of it's projects been impactful?
The book "How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character" by Paul Tough is a nice primer on this topic. The book includes findings from the ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) study [1] that points at a link between adverse childhood experiences childhood trauma with health and social problems later in life.

Of course, growing up in poverty doesn't automatically mean you'll have a higher ACE level, nor does it mean you cannot change your outcomes, but it does tend to offer more traumatic experiences than children outside of poverty.

[1] https://www.samhsa.gov/capt/practicing-effective-prevention/...
Too bad they want to charge a yearly subscription fee to use CarPlay. I didn't have to pay anything extra with my Honda.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/20/bmw-to-switch-apple-carp...
Given that the biggest inhibitor of an active lifestyle for most people is motivation I'd say do whatever you like, even if it carries minor risks. And I doubt ticks from hiking overall is a relevant risk.
That's called "splitting hairs".
I often tell my kids "I'll explain that when you're 16", or "you're too young for that, go out and play". This has proven to be very effective in motivating them to think for themselves, or ask someone more collaborative (s.a mom)
I'm genuinely happy for you that your work doesn't labor under the constraints that many, many (many) environments in the real world require.

But that doesn't mean those places/organizations/projects don't exist, even if you're unaware of them or don't think they're worthy of WordPress developers' efforts.
Quite a few people make this argument, thank you for mentioning it.

My feeling is that this is a holdover from a time when there was a substantial barrier-to-entry for authorship. Back when publishers were the gatekeepers, anybody could write a book, but relatively few were published.

People could vanity-press anything, but nobody would hear about them, because just as publishing was concentrated, so was marketing.

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But today, anybody can publish a book, and likewise anybody can market a book, super-cheaply. "I wrote X" is worth geometrically less today than it was a decade ago.

If you write a book for other reasons, by all means bask in the reputation. But I find it extremely unlikely that if you are doing it strictly for economic reasons, that writing a book and then marketing it is going to be superior to the many other ways you might have of building your professional resume.

Maybe you should answer a lot of questions on Stack Overflow. Or--like me--become a blowhard on Hacker News.
I want to want to participate on Mastodon. But I feel like it's a bunch of little walled gardens and I feel like that's a barrier to entry for me. It's a bug, not a feature.

I also can't figure out where to start. I don't feel that way about Twitter.
>> And it's literally that kind of nitpicking that keeps science on track.

> Yeah, no!!

It looks like you are confusing the posts from two different people and repeating yourself. What you quoted was from TheRealPomax. I am a different person, and you already responded to that once.

> Does this explanation make you think better?

My thinking is perfectly fine, but thank you for your concern.

It has been a pleasure.
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Hah - like CarolineW I have a random collection of scripts that I use in an ad hoc manner. Some time ago I automated the entire process and people got very unhappy, so now when I do it, I do it "by hand" (to steal the phrase).

I suspect a lot of people have similar scripts, none polished, all just held together with spit and baling wire.
It should be technically feasible to restart a liquid-metal cooled reactor at depth just as easily as a PWR, especially a Na- or NaK-cooled one. Certainly keeping the coolant liquid after shutdown can be a challenge but as long as the plant has operated for a while there should be significant decay heat to keep it warm, and trace heating in the pipes could be powered by auxiliary power if necessary.
I think the purpose of the article was perfectly clear. Arguing against those in the upper middle class that place an inordinate amount of focus on their personal virtues as the reason for their success.

"Both lines of thinking assert that the lower classes cannot control themselves, so they deserve exactly what they have and nothing more. No need, then, for higher wages or subsidized health care. After all, the poor will just waste it on cigarettes and cheeseburgers."
In fact, I think The Discord desktop client versus Ripcord[0] illustrates nicely how much better a native solution can run.

[0] https://cancel.fm/ripcord/
Functional parenting.

Cool!
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The underlying point is that these professional-class distinctions are cast in moralistic tones and serve as an ideological justification for denigrating and ignoring the material needs of the bourgeois's class enemies. This is most clearly seen in the case of college admissions.

Of course, most bourgeois aggressively refuse to accept the idea that there is anything political about their consumption choices at all, or that they even have 'class enemies', because they refuse to acknowledge that they occupy and actively maintain a privileged position in a fundamentally unjust and exploitative system.
Google has lots of people still working on k8s.

I wouldn't equate Google's consumer facing products with their cloud/enterprise products.
I don't like the idea that because the upper class does something we should be skeptical of it. Maybe part of the reason the upper class is the upper class is because of its commitment to good ideals: two-parent stable households, having a healthy lifestyle, preparing your kids for success.
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You are correct, but I wonder what about the quoted text made you laugh
UK police say 92% false positive facial recognition is no big deal
the more you try the less they want
I once had a recruiter from Texas call me about a position local to me (I’m in New England) who couldn’t tell me much of anything about the position. “They didn’t tell me” is what he said, referring to his employers. The same day, a “good” recruiter I’d worked with in the past, called me about the same position. “I wish you had called earlier” I told him.

The knows-nothing recruiter had already set me up with a phone screen interview for later that day. When the “good” recruiter learned that the knows-nothing recruiter hadn’t been able to prepare me for the interview, he told me all about the position and the manager, preparing me for my upcoming phone screen. Yes, he tried to help me get a job that, not only wouldn’t have earned him a commission, I would have been competing with his own candidates.

My impression is that recruiters in my area, work with companies in my area. My experience with recruiters calling from thousands of miles away, was that they didn’t seem to have a knowledge of local companies.
The link to the article is not working for me right now, so I cannot see how they define functional programming. In my years of programming I have seen the concept of functional programming defined in one of two ways: in context to call/response or in context to containment/scope.

The call/response perspective emphasizes that functions are instantiated against a reference that can be called and that such a call returns a value. The containment/scope perspective emphasizes that functions are a bag of instructions containing a child scope and thus a lexical structure if nested. While both descriptions are valid they produce wildly different explanations and code examples that are often completely unrelated.
I like how this car has exterior communication to pedestrians. I think this is actually pretty important. The way I tell if I can cross a crosswalk is by making eye contact with the approaching driver, and other self driving cars can’t indicate if they see me.
Wow, you would think with all that white (well, transparent anyway) space on that card, they'd print the directions directly onto it. As it is, they're only printed on the packaging, and they really aren't straightforward enough for a person unfamiliar with the card to pick it up and use it properly the first time. Shame.
Right, massive shortcuts could be taken with no pilot on board (including the awesome $$$ seats in the front row), but that’s a story for another startup with a 20-year runway.
First, Leanpub allows you to simultaneously publish on Amazon or anything else if you wish. So... If that's what you want to do, you can.

I choose not to publish on Amazon because I have philosophical reasons for not wanting to do business with them. As it is my lifestyle hobby, I needn't worry about leaving money on the table. But if this was my business, that might be important.
Yes, this is exactly what the upper class wants to think about itself, and sort of the point of the article.
I didn't downvote you, but maybe those who did think it's not relevant to the conversation, and/or that it may provoke a flamewar.
Using Microsoft Office doesn't send your data to a Google server. Using Google Docs does.

Chromebooks aren't significantly lower maintenance than any other managed fleet of computers. Windows PCs can be quickly and easily imaged and configured just like a Chromebook. And the physical maintenance is about the same: Cheap trash laptops they give students tend to break a lot.
I'd think it would also be a great opportunity to have access to a young, malleable mind that's unencumbered by a significant body of past experience and preconceived notions. Every answer is like a pure function...it's derived from first principles rather than coming an existing corpus of 'state'. It seems like a tremendous opportunity to expand your own viewpoint with perspectives that you'd naturally ignore based on your own past experience.

A good friend of mine was the grandson of a couple that ran a school for gifted children. When they retired, there was a video produced about their careers and, at one point, they were both asked what they liked best about their jobs. His grandfather answered, "Getting to speak to the children every day." His grandmother answered, "Getting to listen to the children every day. I always liked her answer better than his.
“Rituals are comforting: Rituals combat loneliness.”

(A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving)

https://books.google.de/books?id=cW8Z_UfqnH4C&pg=PA296&lpg=P...
Is radiation shielding a concern at your target altitude?
Holding PHP back? It powers the majority of websites. Seems it’s pretty dominate in the area it was built for.
This seems pretty evident in the UK where we have these attitudes proudly parading themselves around, particularly in the guise of a particular Jacob Rees-Mogg.

I think the article would be more interesting if they dove more into the history of this idea - for instance I've always been under the impression that the UK and USA suffer from this particular ailment because of the 'protestant work ethic', otherwise called 'calvinism' handed down by many generations of wealthy property owners and aristocrats attempting to motivate their workforce. While at one point those land owners would simply have cited the fact that their ancestors fought for the property that they owned, or that they had it through divine intervention at some point that got questioned.

In the secular age, the assumption that the rich worked for the property that they own is pre-supposed (and hence own it morally, and claim the rights to that moral superiority) even if it's not true - and certainly isn't true when you consider the effort that they expend vs. the efforts of others and their relative outcomes. This is then reinforced through, primarily, economic power - the ability to advertise their status, the fact that your boss will tell you about how they've been creating jobs, etc. reinforces this narrative. By this point, whether they worked for it or not is irrelevant, because their perceived ownership of the moral high-ground is so deeply ingrained until something actually goes wrong.
They use Nomad from Hashicorp in certain parts of their cloud.
Date is slightly off...
Are you suggesting categorical equivalence between an unconfirmed concept in psychology (which people use without being able to give its definition) and a confirmed physical effect used in material technology?

Your fallacy is.....
But that defeats the whole point. Yeah it's nice that you can have your sub-communities but the value of Twitter such as it is is that it;s the universal default microblogging platform in the English-speaking world. Almost everyone who is important in society is accessible via Twitter, just the way that having an email address is a universal default.

When someone is telling you that their experience of a product or service sucks, and you tell them to use it differently, you're failing to understand them.
Ridiculously terrible and potentially dangerous advice aside, not everyone has fingernails.
> I told him that a number X is composite if you can fit X apples into buckets and end up with the same number of apples in each bucket.

Wrong; X is composite if you can fit X apples into buckets and end up with the same number of apples in each bucket, with at least two apples in each bucket.

"You gotta tell the children the truth. They don't need a whole lot of lies. Cause one of these days, baby, they'll be running things." - Jimi Hendrix, "Straight Ahead"
Maybe Pyret?

https://www.pyret.org/
Interesting, so if you want to cultivate a diverse set of opinions and ideas in your company, it's enough to place them on different floors – no need to move them to different cities.
This appears to be an April Fools joke.
And doesn't spew a giant plume of radioactive gas while irradiating the passengers.
A free one-year subscription for everyone who buys a Surface Phone?
Re: sponsoring and self-publishing.

Probably not. The marketing programs people who are mostly the ones paying for these things are mostly looking for predictable content from the publishers who do this sort of thing regularly.
Another nice thing I really like about LeanPub is the discount code system.

You can create special discount URLs where you can specify the discounted price, and optionally the period of validity and the max. number of uses.

I've used that in the past for promoting the book, but also for giving the book to colleagues for free (and being able to track whether they actually cared enough to add it to their library :D).

With a traditional publisher, you can typically get some coupon codes for the ebook, but it's a slow process, with little control over the actual amount, no direct access to tracking data etc.
MSRs use either Th/U-FLiBe or U/Pu-NaCl and both of those would easily dissolve in water. But honestly radioactive inventory of these cores is small enough that one or two breached systems, while catastrophic, wouldn't have significant biological consequences as it disperses in the vast oceans. Certainly this wouldn't be acceptable for civilian operations but I wouldn't put it past an ambitious military. Problem with Molten Salt in a submarine is size. The fuel salt is very low density compared to metallic nuclear fuels, by about an order of magnitude. That would require more volume to be critical. Small thermal/epithermal solid fueled reactor cooled with water, liquid metal, or even solid fuel/salt cooled reactors (like the FHR) are appropriate for submarines but probably not full-on liquid-fueled MSRs.
We may be speaking with asymmetric knowledge. Do you know his medical history? In particular, the experiments he's carried out on himself?

I am operating under the assumption that while he liked attention, it is entirely possible he did something significant/relevant without public disclosure (possibly around the same time as his death).
I have the feeling Roombas aren't capable of dirt-diving yet, even if paired with the cloud.
Ethanol could fuel a jet engine, but kerosene has a higher energy density.

Ethanol production doesn't tend to be carbon neutral either, though maybe it's closer than petroleum pumped out of the ground.
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George Hotz had a great point about this and how Comma.ai handles defining the driving problem and what "driving badly" actually means, aka, interacting with and driving as other humans are expected to drive, quirks included. His whole talk is interesting but the short part about that is here: https://youtu.be/IxuU5L2MEII?t=38m11s
Thanks, that is another possibility to consider.
Most of the things you mention are relatively small scale and not necessarily consistent or regular.

Church is every week, at the same time, with enough people involved to have a consistent community – even if individual members don't show up consistently.
To being born into the aristocracy. And they viewed themselves as having obligations to the lower classes.
Unlimited means "unlimited subject to manager approval". Try taking more than 2-3 weeks off and you will find the limits of unlimited PTO.
New York Times link in the article points to Wikipedia April 1st
Red Hat's marketing is definitely a mess (I say this as an enterprise Red Hat customer in the midst of an OpenShift roll-out), but their engineering is top-notch. Many pieces of k8s originated in OpenShift, and Red Hat is heavily involved in k8s development.
> Wealth cannot replace desire and drive.

Desire and drive are not independent of experience of what happens when you try and push limits, and if you think that things like race and wealth don't impact that in the real world we live in, you aren't paying much attention.
They mostly ascribed it to being chosen by god and descended from various noble families, and kings.
I really like the Equinox Clock[1], which was made before easily available addressable RGB LED strips, so each LED is individually placed.

[1] http://www.bramknaapen.com/equinox-clock/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16714581