skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In hindsight, I think my strong reaction is directed more toward those who want to intrude than toward you.

I get that a lot of people invested a lot of time into this, but there's a suggestion in TFA that implies that this effort merits some special privileges, whether that inlcudes knowing the identity of the suicide or some other kind of recognition. It doesn't.

It was a voluntary act, perhaps a kind act, perhaps not from the perspective of the family. The implication is that the family either wanted to know or ought to have wanted to know. We have no information to evaluate those judgments, and there's enough gray there that it's irritating as an assumption.

The reality is that it is morally no different than participating in a subreddit on cats or submitting articles and commenting on them on HN. We're all voluntarily spending time on the internet rather than doing something else.
Too many {} and "" for rapid prototyping for me. I've always considered forking it to use yaml instead.
I find it hard to believe that teacher quality doesn't matter at all. I'm not sure that that's what this study is telling us. Maybe it's just telling us that there is no significant (or at least measurable) difference between teachers that are a little bit below some threshold and teachers that are a little bit above.

It surely isn't telling us what would happen if you replaced all the teachers in a school with teachers recruited from the top 5 or 10 percent of all teachers in the country. I really want to know what would happen if you did that. On the other hand, suppose it works really well. We still can't replace all the teachers in the country with the top 5 or 10 percent of all the teachers in the country, so it's not like that would be actionable.
Martian soil lacks moisture, so grounding things there would be somewhat more complex; the end of https://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/livinginspace/10aug_crackl... has some brief discussion.
Best practice is to use a zero-config build tool like create-react-app or angular-cli. Or a next-gen static site generator like GatsbyJS. From the developers point of view this is one moving part and one devDependency. I think your assessment of the SPA ecosystem is out of date, it has stabilised hugely in the last few years.
And yet we keep paying CEO's more and more.

At least teachers are only in control of one class room. The most mischief they can do is to buy animatronic dinosaurs for the one lesson where they mention prehistory to kindergartners.
Wait a year to see. It is next year it gets serious, by which time Brexit will have happened.

There was a collective bit of Y2K style madness about it, I do wonder how big most people's mailing lists are after sending out emails they need not have sent. The law was never aimed at regular businesses wanting to update their customers, it was aimed at the Facebooks of this world.
Your comment assumes that educational achievement is a "randomly distributed result". It may or may not be, but you can't just assume it.
I wouldn’t say that either, there are bio-tech startups you can join (only if you fail there’s a high paying job at the nearest hospital waiting for you) or you can climb within drug companies if you have the correct specialization to become an executive. I would say that’s analogous to becoming partner in the law world or a co-founder of a successful tech startup which is what money focused lawyers and engineers dream of respectively.

And depending on the country surgeons in specific fields can make obscene amounts of money. Neuro surgeons have a median salary of almost $600 000 in the US and to earn that much money as an engineer you have probably co-founded a successful startup or become an executive.
This is unfortunately a complex, multivariate system problem and won't rely solely on the "quality" of a teacher in it.

In addition to the behind-the-scenes work most teachers have to deal with, such as departmental objectives, I think great teachers enter the profession in order to benefit children, not to get that fantastic paycheck . It's a socially focused decision, not an financial one, so if I were designing a system to grade a teacher's quality I would focus on attending to their efforts with students, not throwing more money at them.
My Firefox jumps from about 6% to 10% on that page... Noticeable, but not nearly as bad as you're seeing.
> Yet did there quality of life increase?

You seriously think poor people's quality of life hasn't increased in the last 50 years?

Go drive around "working poor" neighborhoods right after Christmas and see how many huge flat-screen TV boxes are curbside waiting for "big trash day" (small hint: a lot) or see how many people don't have smartphones.

I would argue that Wallyworld did more to bring up the standard of living for poor people than the last 50 years of social engineering but I know how much people like the downmod button...
Bitcoin is a Cult
Anyone check this for the quality of the study?Doesn't look like this was randomized. Also would have been nice to see more pretreatment years for evidence of a trend but maybe that was in the actual report.
The term "illegal" with respect loading of the Facebook Javascript SDK these days is mostly a GDPR-invented issue. Since I doubt that Facebook is actually stealing data from the web pages its libraries reside on, it certainly isn't a HIPAA issue, and in the case of CVS, they aren't likely subject to GDPR at all (the comment I initially responded to was regarding CVS).

Your general sentiment in your comment here is correct, that loading of any third party javascript library may be problematic for some sites depending on what jurisdiction(s) they do business in and what those libraries actually do. Merely having the capability to take data from a given page wouldn't be enough to trigger violations of many privacy laws (at least the in the US) - the library would actually have to be doing it. But the focus of the article is GDPR and Facebook JavaScript SDKs, and that is the context in which my comments should be viewed.
> yeah, but no one could run memtest in a young laptop.

Would you explain this a little bit more?
> Why some countries used to have good institutions and now have dysfunctional ones. (Like say, Argentina, Lebanon, etc)

I believe the answer for Argentina is "right-wing US support of right-wing death squads because of a fear of communism" and for Lebanon is "The pro-Western president of Lebanon requested American military intervention against internal opposition, which the US was happy to do because of a fear of communism", right?
Sudbury Schools https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_school have no curriculum, they let the students do whatever they want. Graduates don't differ significantly from traditional schools in standard educational assessment testing.
Everything is a randomly distributed result unless proved to be affected by a specific input. That's a fundamental assumption of statistical process control.
What do you like about the TouchBar?
> At one time, Americans felt that Irish and Chinese immigrants could never properly integrate... to say nothing about free Africans. Yet all of those groups have been unambiguously integrated.

The Irish are not so different from the people that made up America back then. The Chinese who come here flee a communist/socialist regime, they are more than happy to assimilate to capitalism and the American way of life.

> [..] There aren't always "severe problems" with immigrants from different cultural backgrounds. Sometimes there are, yes, but it isn't a rule of nature.

As I acknowledged above.

> Those aren't boolean states. Someone can maintain a connection to their heritage while still being a part of greater society.

Right, but living in segregated communities inside another country is not maintaining a connection to heritage but simply not integrating.
Or more like never unless you get Apple to front it...
Even with a larger pie, the people with an ever diminishing share have less control over their lives, more stress, and more uncertainty. There is too great a power disparity arising as a result of inequality.
Weren’t they, in this case? Somebody died and wasn’t identified, and they helped get this person identified.
Yeah. I agree that at least to our standards these answers are not modest. Having a relatively high IQ and a relatively long life expectancy are both (separately) relatively unlikely. So, to us these do not seem modest answers.

The goal of their study, however, was to see if it was true that when given the choice to have some attribute or quality of your life maximized with few limits would you choose the maximum. They say the choices were modest simply because in philosophical writings they often assume people will always choose the maximum if available. That is why they found this surprising and modest.
Will Surf Air soon stop flying?
I have no idea, as merely adding them may have no effect at all.

However, depending on them exclusively (or in substantial/majority part), which I believe is the main premise, the eventual performance will depend entirely on if the the actual causal relationship which created the correlation holds true. If it doesn't, the model would no longer be predictive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confounding
Correct, the ones getting richer won't be the plebs.
> What's more valuable than raising happy kids? Submitting some paper to arxiv?

Yes. This world would benefit from having less kids, no doubt. Also less helicopter parents and more science.
What holds true is that the teachers' effect on their pupils' educational achievements is not under full control of the former, so rewarding and punishing them on that basis alone is ineffective.

Edit: grammar.
I mean, are you "under constant fear of being fired" wherever you work? No one's advocating being seriously harsh to teachers; the issue is that currently, due to union agreements and so forth, it's nearly impossible to fire them. We would fire a janitor who stops doing his job effectively; it's reasonable to apply the same standards to those we trust with our children.
So a polyurethane mat with spikes pointing up to break the surface before impact would quiet it.
Right? One time my boss asked me to do something in JSON but I explained to him I simply couldn’t work with JSON because of the braces and quotes. JSON is practically unusable.
It seems like the primary purpose of school is to make sure kids have been well trained to sit still and follow the rules, learn how to jump through societal hoops, and have a place to be for parents who can't/won't deal with them all day. How much can a teacher really do, trying to enforce all this and get across a subject to 15+ kids in a room, who have various degrees of motivation (sometimes none) to want to learn anything?

It seems like there must be a better way to help kids acclimate into adults and give their parents a break/opportunity to work.
Depending on the age of the student, it also greatly depends on the parents.
Money may not be the end all for people who go into this profession, but it most certainly does matter. See the protests over the past couple of years in areas where teacher pay is low.
No, GOMAXPROC=1 is not single threaded. GOMAXPROCS=1 uses one kernel thread for running user Go code, but it uses other kernel threads for running system (runtime) Go code, or for executing system calls.

More details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12460807
Records are public, but the problem is one of searching for a small needle in a large haystack: ~7k people die in the United States every day.

I can think of a couple ways to narrow that down and get to a probable answer, but they all would take money, manual effort, or both.

To your second question, any debts owed by the deceased would be paid out of his estate. There's no guarantee that creditors would actually bother, this long after the debts were incurred, or that an inquisitive third party would be able to usefully find records of the debt being pursued.
Its not hard to fix a dripping tap even for an impractical person like me. I guess a good reason not to is to avoid liability if renting.
Prove to us that raccoons have no capacity for moral judgment. Those clear dividing lines between humans and other animals are in reality not supported by much evidence.
I wish I had a grandpa like yours.

Any links on any topics mentioned that you can share? Prusianness in particular.
Nonsense. I speak English with a strong Scandinavian accept. My ex speaks RP ("posh" English). Our child minder speaks with a very noticeable South London accent.

Want to guess who he's taken after? His friends. He has a much more neutral accent than either one of us.

That's not to say your interaction or the childminders will have no impact, but if any single person has such a substantial impact on the way your child speaks, then you should be more concerned about their isolation than the English skill of one specific person they're interacting with.
On the other hand, Highlander explored some of the social and emotional consequences of outliving all your loved ones, needing to hide the truth about yourself from everyone else, etc.

"Who wants to live forever, when love must die?"
Maybe the teaching system in America is unfixable with the small changes as suggested and tested by the long term but small Gates Foundation study, and revolutionary changes more akin to the Finnish public school system which ironically adopted American academic theories about education wholesale to improve (usual caveat it's easier to change a small country versus the USA or maybe even a state in the USA given political reality).

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jun/17/highly-tra...
I don’t think the parent assumes it is random, but merely argues that you need to show that educational achievement is highly correlated with the students’ teacher before using educational achievement as a proxy for teacher performance.

Is educational achievement closely correlated with some teachers and not others? Is the correlation confounded by other variables like the student’s family income or choice of breakfast cereal?
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I've been told in discussions with school board members that parent involvement is the number one driver of student success. Not teachers, and definitely not dollars per student.
I considered using winscp until I discovered it cannot limit itself to 1 connection.
Highly funded study that has 100s of millions of dollars and the second most wealthy person on earth was unable to accomplish any improvement in schools even with trying very hard to prove his idealogical desires.
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Not sure I follow the reasoning here. I mean, it's not like JavaScript and its associated tooling is the barrier to entry to frontend anymore for anyone that has the energy and interest to spend even a trivial amount of time looking into it.

The tooling and framework outlook has stabalised massively over the last few years, and settled on zero-config build tools (create-react-app, angular-cli etc.) and mature frameworks (React is 5 years old now) with great developer ergonomics (components and uni-directional data flow are here to stay).

JavaScript itself has sorted itself out to a large extent if you just want to roll ES6+, and there's any number of compile-to-javascript languages to satisfy every stripe of programmer - ClojureScript, ReasonML, Elm, TypeScript, etc.

Respectfully I'd suggest that the reason the majority of Go or C++ devs aren't building single page webs is not because of the tooling and languages around the web platform, but because they're simply not sufficiently interested in it - there's a lot required to work on the web platform that has nothing to do with what flavour of programming language you find acceptable ... you need design sensitivity, experience with UI, UX and animation/motion, experience working cross platform and cross browser, experience working with graphic designers and CSS skills to name just a few.
If you use Word this is something where SharePoint is useful. Overall I prefer confluence. In an ideal world git+markdown/latex would be awesomesauce. But that's no so compatible with business folk or customers.
lm_sensors when misused can also kill hardware by "probing" registers the wrong way when looking for sensors.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/lm_sensors

Probing is different than testing, though, and people don't expect a general system memory testing tool to kill hardware (whereas lm_sensors has all sorts of warnings and takes the safest route possible by default).

A tool that is designed to test general system RAM should not be touching memory-mapped I/O devices, and it's up to that tool to avoid them.
haven't tried it, but I'd be surprised if they're comparable. Afaik all the non-kinect depth cameras are structured light vs ToF with the kinect2.
Surf Air is a startup disrupting flying.

That's a disruption I can appreciate! Flying into SQL (San Carlos) instead of SFO or SJC, and no TSA nonsense? Yes!

Unfortunately, it seems that they are in a bit of trouble now. I wonder if this is a cautionary tale for entrepreneurs disrupting other industries?

Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3812415

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16112670

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16112670
what metrics would you use to assign points? What would a point mean?

While I understand and sympathize with the desire to quantify 'good teaching', it's a 'domain' that has a whole lot of noise.

Abstractly, agents will optimize for the metrics, and not what the metrics approximate. Now if an agent in the system optimizes for the metrics (and not what they're measuring), but the metrics themselves are solid, then you'll come out with a largely okay system.

I think the point of this article is that maybe we don't have good metrics to measure solid pedagogical performance, and so, in that case, when agents optimize for the metrics, and not what the metrics measure, then the system provides no value.

So maybe the crazier idea is back-off, and try a different approach that doesn't involve rewarding or punishing the teachers themselves.
That assumes that such a translation is either a binary success/failure, runs at once, and runs for the entire kernel.

More likely, such a tool will be used file-by-file and module-by-module, and when it fails, it will either report obvious mistakes (that will then be fixed in the C source, in the same way that e.g. people doing Python 2 to 3 conversions end up fixing bugs in their Python 2 code to prepare it for reliable conversion) or report more complex design mistakes that warrant rethinking an approach from scratch and starting the new implementation in Rust.

If that's what happens, then we would not be proving the Linux kernel safe, and we would have a strong argument for having done the translation.
Web stuff? Probably not.

WASM's greatest value on the web is likely to be optimizing high-performance code. Although people want to use it to replace javascript entirely with the compile-to-WASM toolchain of their choice, the actual utility of that is likely to be minimal.

Although in that regard, WASM is objectively better as a compile point than "compiling" to javascript. Having an actual bytecode for the web that isn't proprietary or tied to a single language is better, if not necessarily disruptive.

What, to me, is potentially disruptive about WASM is the potential it offers for archiving, distributing and running "native" software over the web, or if and when thin native clients become available, eliminating the distinction entirely and having a universal, OS agnostic software distribution and installation model based on web caching.

Although we've got a way to go with that, and it may be a stupid and terrible idea. But it would be disruptive.
This title is really misleading. There are many other factors that this article does not cover or examine, and it reaches a premature conclusion. Furthermore, standardized exam measures are poor way to understand teacher impact. From what I remember from school, the best teachers made me understand, the poor ones helped me memorize.
You'll see much more mature looking code once Web Assembly Host Bindings [0] land. Until then, using non-JS languages require crossing the WASM-JS boundary to manipulate the DOM. There's a performance penalty to that, so it makes sense that current solutions create a massive HTML blob and send it to JS to inject as innerHTML. That doesn't mean those languages are repeating JavaScript mistakes, it just means that there's still a technical barrier to doing it correctly.

[0] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1148
Its OK to put word docs themselves in git, and then use word itself as your compare tool. We do this albeit with Excel.

If you are hardcore you could unzip the docx and version control the files within
A great reason why someone might want to test its memory.
I've seen more sophisticated schemes for teacher evaluation, in which the metric takes into account the ability of the students as they enter that teacher's class. So, for a student who got a B, say, in grades N < 5, there's an expected grade value for them to achieve in 5th grade; that student counts towards the teacher's "score" only insofar as they do better or worse than that expected value.

Theoretically, this puts teachers on even footing, even when one might be teaching a class of Harvard-prep elementary schoolers and another teaching a class of inner-city kids who have been educationally neglected their entire lives. And data from student performance over time in the current educational system should be entirely sufficient to train the model.

It's not clear if the study referenced controlled for student variance this way; if so, it would readily explain the lack of results.
I have an album from a few years ago on streaming services that was mastered to about -9 on the LUFS scale. It sounds nice and loud on SoundCloud, which doesn’t do any normalization, but on Spotify, the normalization algorithm turns it down enough that it sounds noticeably softer than music by other electronic artists (although some of that probably comes down to my mixing skills versus those of experienced recording engineers).

Spotify used to normalize to -11 LUFS, but more recently has migrated to -14, which other streaming services already use and seems to be becoming the standard. For my new album that was just released, I mastered to about -11 to -13 LUFS, which tends to be loud enough to still stand out un-normalized, but is close enough to target that it doesn’t take a noticeable hit on normalization.
I would love to visit this magical place you describe where ordinary politicians are the bedrock whence we judge the morality of the underlying society.

> Corruption, bribery, intimidation of voters, stuffing ballot boxes, buying political support, exploiting religion and race to gain support

Sounds like business as usual in Chicago...joking, of course I'm joking...