skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, yes, they're not hard to find, but you certainly can't find them everywhere. Could be gaming or knitting or racing or rock climbing or what have you.

The formula for a healthy online community is

(0) you must base the community on something objective, a skill like "we are great at (video game)", not something like an idea or opinion.

(1) An actual, real threat of exclusion that's acted on. You cannot include people who don't express the community goals, such as being helpful to each other and growing skills together. (Some great small communities are based around the game Rust, the last place you'd expect to find them)

(2) Excluded people must lose something. Whether it's losing the ability to play with high quality players, or losing advice on knitting patterns

I would also recommend small communities. You can pretty much never create a large healthy online community. Some outliers like Day[9] exist, but as a rule, they don't.
Can I expect Java Mission Control, Java VisualVM and a plethora of other 3rd party tools to work as expected with OpenJDK / Azul Zing?

I was going through Azul Zing documentation I noticed that it uses different C4 garbage collector algorithm - which is different that the one used one OracleJDK. Since I am following some tutorials on JVM on Pluralsight, I am guessing I should pick OpenJDK over Azul. Am I right?
> a small group of participants recorded very high ideal IQ scores (> 1,000)

for the purposes of the survey it seems like some respondents didn't know how the IQ scale works, they probably assumed 130 is just above average.
"High growth startups play between 1–3x. In theory, in a world of zero cost of capital, unlimited liquidity, and an infinite market size, any LTV/CAC greater than 0 is perfectly acceptable."

I don't understand how a ratio between 0 and 1 can be acceptable. If it's under 1, aren't you losing money in the long run?
yeah, but no one could run memtest in a young laptop.
RealSense D400 cameras support assisted stereo, (un)structured light, and ToF.

https://realsense.intel.com/introducing-intel-realsense-d400...
Strange... I’ve seen plenty of “modern” websites without 3rd party JS bloat.
>Actually if you're lucky and make a phone call with HDVoice, or whatever they're calling it, the quality is excellent

Can confirm. I spend a lot of time in fringe reception areas, but every now and then I get a good, strong signal and the HD Voice kicks in between my iPhone and my wife's and it sounds like she's standing right next to me. It really is something to experience, especially if the previous phone call was over regular tech.

Back when AT&T was running the "You get what you pay for" ads to combat SPRINT and MCI, it had a service you could sign up for that would give your landline phone calls amazing quality.

Sadly, a majority of people would rather pay less for crap than more for quality; even back then.
I'd still want to have an off switch. Eternity is very long time and I'm afraid I'd get bored less than half way there.
> In Europe, there was the Inquisition, with ritualistic torture using medieval torture devices, burning people to death, etc. Motivated by religious beliefs, just like the ones in the Americas.

Later, during the reign of terror they killed and tortured people based on non-religious or even anti religious beliefs.

Yes, old Catholics did much wrong but can we stop this very unnuanced "religious people did it" and conclude "people with power did it"?
Maybe they should put more effort into figuring how to create an environment where teachers and students can perform well. It's not like the teacher is the only player here. Students and their environments play a big role, curriculum and so on.

Reminds me of the 10x programmer nonsense. Give people a decent work environment where they feel respected and most will perform well.
> Can it be the case that the constant fear of being fired is not an ideal environment for a teacher?

The study shows that the envirnment where they were under constant fear of being fired was no worse measured in student performance thatn the prior one. So no that's not the case. Unless you want to go for the wild theory that the study actually did show an improved student score related to firering bad teachers which was counter acted by an opposite effect from fear of being fired.. which had the exact same but opposite magnitude.... that would however be taking Occams razor and throwing it in the ocean.
They seem to be on the verge of inventing lisp.
It’s not though. I’m feeling the effects of these policies right now! I’m not up for whites being pushed out so that others are allowed to arrive and bleed us dry. You want to contribute? Fine, no problem, but you can’t come and wreck the place and then move on.
In my opinion carrot and stick model works in areas where 1) participants are extremely competitive 2) End reward is huge (fame, money). That's why such model excels in areas like competitive sports, investment banking, startups etc. Teaching has neither component. If you give great teachers rockstar like salary may be it will work. Similarly most of the researchers I meet are fed up with publish or perish model of research
(disclaimer: Author of Vecty here, the toolkit being used by OP)

I can see how you came to that conclusion, but I'd offer a different perspective.

The problem in my opinion with the Javascript landscape is, as you said, the fact that it is too fractured.

If you follow the "modern best practices" to make a SPA, you are talking about pulling in at least: npm, webpack, react, react-router, lodash, redux, bootstrap, and perhaps much more.

You are going to need to set up each one of these to play nicely with each-other, and follow tutorials/guides for each one to get them set up before you can even begin to start writing code for your actual application. Just look at the getting started guide for webpack to see how complex this can already be [1].

Why can't there be a consensus on what tooling/libraries are "standard" for writing an SPA React application today? Setting up the above tooling/libraries should not take multiple hours for someone with no frontend experience, but it does.

There are "starter kits" [2] to try and solve this problem, but dear god just look at how many moving parts they already have!

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My overarching point is this: the Javascript ecosystem does not seem interested in solving this issue ultimately. This fractured-but-whole approach to development seems to be the consensus for that ecosystem. And that's OK.

For a majority of non-frontend devs who would like to enter the frontend, though, it's not okay. And this change in mindset is what WebAssembly can bring. It brings a different ecosystem and a different set of people with diverse mindsets that you just can't find today in the JS ecosystem easily.

[1] https://webpack.js.org/guides/getting-started/
[2] https://github.com/kriasoft/react-starter-kit
One should add that this didn't happen with the old NASA in Alabama under the germans.
This only started with LBJ ditching the Apollo team, the liquid rockets, and splitting up NASA into Houston and California under US management. It went downhill since then.

The NASA never really was about space travel, because then they would have kept the Apollo tech and liquid rockets. But military needed only solid fuel rockets so they switched and developed the shuttle. And now they have no proper tech anymore at all.
That codec sounds great, if it exists.

If you have such a codec, it would be worth testing the word error rate on a long sample of audio. e.g. take a few hours of call centre recordings, pass them through each of {your codec, codec2}, and then have a human transcribe each of:

- the original recording

- the audio output from your proposed codec (which presumably does STT followed by TTS)

- the audio output from CODEC2 at 2048

Based on the current state of open source single-language STT models, I would imagine that CODEC2 would be much closer to the original. And if the input audio contains two or more languages, I cannot imagine the output of your codec will be useful at all.
I think it's more damning of the hardware with memtest in the title. It's literally a test program - by definition your hardware should pass it. If you fall to pass the test, and fail catastrophically, that's on you.
Java world is the biggest today and we are talking about mass culture, in which average developer isn't a genius with decades of experience and average employer has only resemblance of modern development process. It will never be the culture of best practices only, so it's actually good that big frameworks exist and they are already mature enough to tolerate misuse. It is this environment of uncritical thinking, the real battlefield, in which best practices are being invented, tested and verified on massive scale, outside the sterile conditions of the perfect teams. It also explains why Java sometimes lags behind other languages in adopting new features, but is still much more popular: not all of those features are good enough to be released in the wild (I wish developers of other languages would actually perform "drunken user" test before inventing crazy syntaxes and APIs).
I think this bug is worthy of HN attention.

While unverified, the failure mode is something that I had not considered before.

I did not get far with electrical engineering, way too deep into software as a career. I am getting back into simple things with Arduino and my hardware hobby is leading me to apply systems-level thinking in a different domain.

If someone sends me a working T500 I will be happy to try memtest86+ on it.
Why should it be flagged? The faulty hardware is the interesting part!
On the other hand, deep space probes like the Mars rovers seem to be generally on time, and at least reasonably within budget (and fabulously successful scientifically). I wonder what is making the difference.
What's the problem? Just setup client to hide images unless you click the link provided - Slack have it, Discord have it. Works exactly the same way, no 3rd party involved. I'm sick when I have to go to imgur to open image and load tons of scripts and see other stuff completely unrelevant. You think imgur doesn't live for profit?
Have you tried the much newer D400 cameras? I'd love to know how they compare to the Kinect 2.
So, they're decoupling software from hardware?
Old schooler here, mainly Amiga 500. If you want to drown in old and new c64 stuff, visit:

http://www.cascade64.de
The interesting part of this article is that they are improving how data is tagged and implementing a new architecture as part of the migration to allow other agencies more access to what’s collected. The only thing that seems significant about the term “cloud” is that it’s shared infrastructure with the other agencies.

And based on all of the press releases, all the USA government “clouds” are AWS.
Every teacher knows that learning performance depends primarily on students. The very same lecture, with same methods, teacher, books, resources, have drastically distinct performance with different classes.
I disagree, there are plenty of places to start a business which provides legal cover, without having to be placed in a spying-eyes nation.
Thought so too until I tried it. Once you get started with it, it quickly becomes clear that it's all built on top of hacks that won't scale past a 1 page app. It's not a bad choice for prototyping, but I'm not convinced that it's any easier than prototyping with a real framework like Flutter.
On iPad, portrait, the CSS on the features page needs fixing. Things flow incorrectly.
If you think nothing is more valuable than "raising happy kids", have you committed to that position? Do you have a job, or are you a full-time stay-at-home parent? If not, why?
If I hit someone repeatedly with their toaster, and they uninstall the toaster, so I beat them with their frying pan, the fact that they owned a toaster isn’t very relevant in the situation, the hitting is
Nor me. A possible smart ORM should take the DB as it is and shouldn't generate static code (ok at runtime).
No argument from me. It was timely and visually exciting. But it was also just a good movie on a lot of other dimensions--the script, the actors, etc.

Criton -> Crichton BTW. Though I have to say that the book never grabbed me the way the movie did. Or that a couple of other Crichton books did. His novels seemed to be starting to turn into something more akin to movie treatments by then.
"Grow up" is uncivil but threads full of misogyny are fine

Jesus fucking christ. Just fucking delete my account, you people are fucking despicable.
Mandatory bribe quota?
Yeh I see what you are saying, you could very well be right.
Someone showed me "ii" today. It's an IRC client only accessible with the filesystem (each channel is a file...).

https://tools.suckless.org/ii/
Moving to a high-capital country means the fruits of your labor are multiplied because you can take advantage of that capital to increase your productivity.

In the world of perfectly-informed, perfectly-rational, perfectly-enlightenedly-self-interested frictionless spherical humans, maybe.

Here on Earth, companies move their operations out of high-capital countries on a regular basis.
This feedback is great and very appreciated.

With the other competitors I get the point of targeting smaller customers. With that said, I think a point might be missed with what I'm trying to accomplish with this initially: Context being lost through engineers finding things. Metrics, logs, traces, etc all don't tell a root cause when its a new incident. That's usually a human putting 2 and 2 together. When that happens it can be lost never to be seen again (the trail of tears getting to the solution).

This is a super early release and this feedback was invaluable so thank you very much! There are plenty of ideas I'll be implementing in the coming weeks now that this first release is finally out of the way.
Yes, I've added a focus on GDPR, but the article does state that this would often affect regulated contexts and I didn't intend the wording of that to be specific to the EU.

Finance, healthcare, etc are all likely to include requirements for information security controls that go as specific as demanding access controls and audit logs; which appear completely impossible to achieve with what Facebook offer with their SDK. As an example, ICH GCP applies internationally for pharma. However, these are much smaller areas of regulation than most of us are not exposed to

Whether all countries have more general provisions, like GDPR, that would apply to a very wide audience of businesses I don't know: but I know GDPR is now recognisable internationally and has parallels in many countries outside of the EU, so is hopefully a trigger for those in other areas to check what their privacy laws demand.
>rolls everything back

Even better with mine. It rolls the updates back one at a time, rebooting and failing each time then rolling back another in a process which takes several hours to complete
What would you say is the explanation for this?
Update the title please
I think that part of what is going on here is that in the holistic cultures there is more satisfaction from close, stable social relations, like for esteem, whereas in the non-holistic cultures there is more stress on individualistic satisfactions.
This is a good thought. Something like git, where the relatively complicated task of merging is handled by a human.
One of the canonical motivating sketches for total quality control, developed by Edwards Deming et al, is a mythical factory with three production lines, each with their own line manager. The lines are performing equally well, staying within a bell-shaped distribution about approximately the same mean. (Widgets per hour, or defective unit rates, or what have you.) As factory manager, in an effort to improve the situation, you decide that, at the end of each month, you will promote the top performer and fire/demote the laggard. Congratulations! You promote and demote/fire a line manager every month for six months. However, you notice that the performance of your lines has remained the same. What happened? You were essentially using the performance numbers of your three lines as a random number generator. The system was in control, producing no results outside of three standard deviations. You promoted and fired at random.

In order to improve the output of a system, you have to understand it. You can’t just blindly incentivize on the randomly distributed results. If this research leads to a more humane work environment for teachers, freer than before of misguided incentive programs, then that will be a good thing, indeed.
Yes. I was a full-time-home-parent, and now I'm just remoting from home. That being said, there are many valuable things I'm not doing - they don't become less valuable by that, only I do. (for example, it would have been valuable to complete my code now instead of writing this reply)
No, Bluffdale is the cloud.
Never. It doesn't belong to me. It's an HR and job market paradigm word. I avoid that like the plague as it's a beauty contest.
You're being deliberately obtuse. It is used casually among African-Americans because they want to own it. It is used in works of fiction to portray exactly the type of negative image I used earlier. It is almost never used by non-Blacks with sincerity and when it is, it's considered deliberately racist. You can engage in some more nonsensical hair-splitting or you can choose to live by the rules of polite society.

If I can turn the tables on you, how about the fact that I can find pictures of naked people all over the internet and even some public places, yet if I walked into a meeting at work with no clothes on, I'd be fired? What an unbelievable conundrum!
Thank you! Learned a valuable lesson today.
If your children are now fully grown, why are you not raising more? You could always adopt some kids.

If you're doing anything with your life right now that isn't full-time child-rearing, then you don't really believe what you said.
If teacher salaries were $120k and up I bet you'd get a whole new class of teachers.
I preferred his interview on the Kevin Rose podcast: https://www.kevinrose.com/single-post/matthew-walker

Incidentally a previous podcast covered a lot of the same ground, plus much more: https://www.kevinrose.com/single-post/Serge-Faguet
it's almost like money makes things bad.
And it has comments !
That's not an argument to do what the Koch's are doing, namely propagandize against public transit policy. It's an argument for a streamlined approach. For instance: yeah, the NYC MTA and contract sprocurement procedures and culture is corrupt and leads to bloated costs. It's infuriating, inefficient and so forth. But can you imagine NYC without its transit system? Do you think its GDP would go up if suddenly everyone had to drive, walk or bike?
Huh, strange. This post was the top comment for a long while (at exactly as many votes as the article itself, 48 upvotes), but then it jumped straight down to the bottom all of a sudden. I didn't know these kinds of measures occurred on HN. I certainly don't think my comment was off-topic, but I suppose it was the tone of it that made whatever moderator feel the need to push it down to obscurity.
Obligatory plug: we've built one!

https://anvil.works - it's explicitly modeled on VB6/Delphi. All Python (front and back end, with a simple RPC interface from client to server), and learnable in a lot less than 6 weeks. Check it out!
Would we really? At some point a higher cost will stop resulting in better outcomes.
That wasn't the best example. Lots of noise in that high depth shot of a messy cafe + quick movement from the fan. If you look at the end of the new clip, even with high accuracy filtering, you're getting a pretty clean depth image closer up. I'm pretty happy with the D415 so far.
I appreciate the trolling, thanks. That was answered above.
Good point here, that we ought to expand the scope of how we look at student performance. We're quick to blame teachers, and indeed teachers probably have as much an impact as anything else, but measuring up teachers and expecting big changes isn't the greatest idea.

Yes, it gets more complicated looking at more nuanced measures. Like resources available for the students, their home lives and personal situations, their time available to study and focus.

Then again maybe they should look at discrepancies between teachers in districts that pay well and districts that pay less. Perhaps the answer isn't to pay some more and fire others, but rather pay all of them more!

I'm a fan of the Education Endowment Foundation(1) on this which looks at all the measures you can think of to try to improve education practices (in the UK).

[1]: https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/
Robert Musil's "The Man Without Qualities" [1] is by far the most outstanding novel i have read, as it stretches the limits of what language can express past anything i tought possible. The protagonist is a mathematician whose scientific mind applies allegorical dissections over a wide range of existential themes concerning humanity and feelings. The polarity makes it for an extraordinary read.

Hermann Broch "The Death of Virgil". The novel creates out of a dying poet a rich, profound vision both of civilization and of primal concerns of all mankind.

Austrian authors where on another level in the late 30s and 40s of the 20th century.

Finally, Victor Pelevin's "Empire V: The Prince of Hamlet" [3] You gain instruction into the vampire life and by extension the humans which vampires feed and the nature of god and existence itself, with interesting meditations on existence, theology, matter, illusion and withering attacks on fashion, advertising, politics, the Davos elite, literature and particularly the nature of money.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_Qualities

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Virgil

[3] https://www.amazon.de/Empire-Prince-Hamlet-Victor-Pelevin/dp...
Ten years. Maybe. If there are no errors on your credit report.
As anyone who’s been a teacher knows, the parents are the most important part of a kids education.

The teacher is there to set up the framework and guide the parents as to what to teach.

The parent has to bring it home.

The single biggest indicator of future student success is how many of the parents at the school are married with only one working parent. I.e the parents with the most free time to help their kids.
Well, the influx of new blood would almost certainly have a secondary effect of finding new ways to do things. So, Jurassic Park probably didn't directly contribute, and indirect contributions do not seem like a stretch to me at all.
>Personal effort obviously contributes to success and failure. But it’s totally obvious that it’s not the only factor.

It’s the greatest factor of all. I grew up dirt poor with a drug addicted mother. Could you tell me how I could have possibly derived any benefit from blaming life for dealing me a bad hand? My point stands, the only thing I can do to move my life forward is focus on the things I can control. I can’t control how unfair the world is, but I can control what I take away from failure. This concept of privilege is used it such a messed up way. It doesn’t matter where you start out, the only thing you can do to make your life better is take responsibility for yourself. Your argument seems to boil down saying that if you have to try to hard you may as well just not bother because it’s not your fault.