skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "sacrifices" involved in any decision here are actual children too.

For example for me specialization couldn't come too early. Specializing even at age 12 would have been fine. Everything else could have fallen by the wayside, I only was interested in and good at exactly one thing and only at University did I finally meet anybody who actually challenged me, only there did I find specialisations within the specialisation that were all attractive. In some ways the last 3-4 years of school were just waiting.

For plenty of other kids they got all the way to an undergraduate degree in some general subject area they didn't care about, still with no clear idea what they were about, no real direction, forcing them to specialize earlier would have hurt them severely by cutting off options.

Without fairly intensive Chemistry (and preferably some Biology) by age sixteen, you are not going to become a good medical doctor. Without putting many hours a week into mathematics (not just enough to grasp a vaguely analytical subject like engineering, serious fundamental mathematics) by age eighteen you are never going to become a serious mathematician. And sucks to be you if, aged twenty-five, you at last find out you are a natural with a basketball, or at soccer, or dozens of other sports which require peak physical performance that's unattainable in middle age.

All our options here suck, somewhere a kid will be betrayed by whatever happens, if they're able to specialise, some of them will pick wrong and regret it. No fault to them, just bad luck. If they can't specialise the mandatory general achievement will prevent some of the most talented in specific fields from ever achieving what was possible.

I have no recommendation here, just commiserations.
The keys don't have enough tactile feedback. That tricks (my) brain into hitting the keys harder because they instill less confidence. That's exhausting when typing for a few hours.

The ESC key issue isn't as bad - I have 'jk' remapped to ESC anyways. But the lack of feedback with the butterfly keys makes my hands feel like I'm setting myself up for repetitive stress injury.

The keyboard is just awful. Can anyone honestly say that they prefer the feel of the butterfly keys?
The Education of Dasmine Cathey (2012)
Not OP either, but I've been using Django REST framework with React.js, and I'm really enjoying it.
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Commercial motivations matter — smart parties try to play fair, because they realize they're likely to have to deal with the other side again, and because at some point they're likely to need a break themselves, whether from the other side or from some other party.

That's especially true in garden-variety commercial contracts: Suppliers want repeat business, while customers want reliable suppliers who will go the extra mile when necessary, e.g., in a crunch. Neither of those is likely if you get a reputation as uncooperative.

The nut graf of the NPR piece is this: "Business may be a game, Levine realized, but it's not a one-time game. It's more like an infinite game. It's a game in which people have to live with each other, work with each other again, and perhaps, write another big contract. ¶ The only time the words in a contract really matter, Levine says, is when things start to get ugly — like when people start suing each other."
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Teachable | New York, NY, USA | Full-Time | Onsite | https://teachable.com/careers We provide a platform that lets people host and sell courses online, we have over 8 million students and well over 200k instructors on the platform, shooting for $200 million in course sales this year. Hiring across the stack, especially backend/ruby engineers (experience working on ecommerce or sitebuilders is a bonus), a head of data, a Fullstack Mobile engineer, a lead product designer, and a Product Manager.
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You don't want to know how much a watch is worth if Paul Newman wore it.
A proper Mac keybaord has symmetric modifier keys (3 on each side of the spacebar) and an asterisk key in the upper right of the numpad.
Ask HN: What are you working on at night and weekends?
What’s getting you excited right now? What are you working on outside of your regular day job?

Cryptocurrency? biohacking? quantified self? synthetic biology? virtual reality? drones? self-driving drones?

My background is in Biology so I’m keen on synthetic biology. How about you?
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Angaza creates technology for selling life-changing products in emerging markets:

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We enable financing of solar energy systems in off-grid regions across Africa and Asia, reaching more than a million people who now have electricity in their homes for the first time. The software you build will help to reach millions more. We are hiring multiple roles in San Francisco, including mobile and full-stack engineers and a director of embedded development:

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That sounds like a case of acute metrics-itis personally - looking for things to measure as a yardstick while forgetting that you get what you measure for instead of the core of the business.

While it may give some insight does it give anything of meaning to know most people skim into the first few paragraphs before clicking away? Does it improve the writing quality or fact checking? Is it worth the risk of alienating customers over? To give a deliberately extreme and absurd example Victoria's Secret could hire people to stalk their customers to find out more about product failure conditions in the field but that would be a horrifying and stupid idea.

"Everybody is doing it." is a poor rationale for implementing a business practice.
>I struggle a lot when it comes to education because "teaching to a test" is the bane of teachers everywhere, but if we don't set a standard, how will we measure success?

Part of the question is who sets the standard and what do they optimize for?

My experience with most of these NCLB tests is that they're optimized for ease of grading more than actually measuring anything worthwhile about comprehension of development.
Just when I thought the US-China tensions would lead to positive progress in reducing China's censorship.
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- You know SQL well

- Understanding of web and mobile development technologies for both front-end and back-end, especially a strong understanding of JavaScript, HTML, CSS

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- German is a plus but not mandatory

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- work with a considerable amount of data

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> By definition, “companies” are incentivized to prioritize capital pursuit over moral pursuit. It’s actually the most fundamental part of the whole concept.

Indeed. But if it's most reasonable economically, for a company to pay someone to dump their taxic waste into the sea, that doesn't mean it is morally OK to do so.

> Many democratic governments in the world, and particularly the most wealthy and powerful ones, are run by people who are (to a large unmeasurable extent) incentivized to do so what companies want them to do.

Yes. Lobbyists exist. They are bad. Lobbyists are bad because the undermine democracy. Democracy is not bad because of lobbyists.
My resume will already have the relevant experience listed on it. The purpose of the interview is not really to gain new information about me, but to verify the experience I claim to have. It is very difficult to tell if someone is being dishonest or even just exaggerating their experience just from looking at their resume, but easy in an interview. I expect they would just ask me questions that no one would know except someone who actually did what I claimed to do, until they are satisfied.
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Is it? For me that sound more like 'if everybody can't succeed, then make sure you succeed at the cost of decreasing the level for everybody else'.

If I am taking the good teachers from the other schools, I am not fixing anything, I am just transferring social capital from someone else kids to mine.
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Our team is currently looking for an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to build and implement data models and that solve real-world transportation and logistics problems at scale. see: ~5k delivery trucks on the road per day, ~100k deliveries to customers per day. Please contact me at eric.adleman@sysco.com with any questions about that position, or any of the other roles below.

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In villages and even in some bars and restaurants in a regional capital.

Tourist places usually take cards, but the "local" places I was visiting often didn't.
Terrible writing alert:

"Per the state of Ohio, Akron’s schools were given just $10,028 in state and local funds per student in 2016 — more than the statewide average, but still a relatively low figure for a city of a little under 200,000."

Relative to what? You've already told us it was higher than the state average. To call it relatively lower means that there are some who receive more, but we're in the dark as to who they are.
For those who don't know, Constantinos Daskalakis, one of the winners profiled, proved that finding a Nash equilibrium (for example, in an economy) is a PPAD-complete problem: if anyone discovers an efficient algorithm for finding Nash equilibria, such an algorithm could be used for efficiently solving all other problems in the PPAD complexity class. PPAD problems are widely considered to be intractable. No algorithm is known for solving them with running time bounded by a polynomial function of input/problem size. The implications in many fields, starting with economics, are clearly significant. Daskalakis's prize is well-deserved.

There is a fantastic introductory MIT video lecture on this work by Daskalakis himself available on YouTube.[a] His enthusiasm and passion in that video lecture are contagious -- matched only by his ability to explain his work in an intuitive manner. Highly recommended for those HNers who have computer-science or economics backgrounds and are interested in computational complexity but are not yet familiar with Daskalakis's work.

[a] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUbfCY_8Dzs
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Read Donna Haraway, "Staying With the Trouble" for one take on how we can respond.
As a Middle class Brazilian who has lived in Australia half his life and grew up in Rio with a vocal Australian dad I may have something to add.

The case of the car in the hole has a socioeconomic explanation.

There is huge wealth and education disparity within Brazil and specially Rio.

The divide between a blue collar worker fixing the road in Rio and a white collar worker is extreme enough that they are actually from separate cities and I’d suggest different cultures.

The road worker would possibly live in a favela with close to no involvement from the government.

His only interactions with the “rich”, anyone who doesn’t live in a favela, also called “asphalt people” would be in the form of his superiors who pay him little, treat him like a replaceable resource, don’t provide him with adequate training or tools.

There is very little incentive for him to excel at his job or go out of his way to find clever solutions to work problems. There is no career plan here.

Once the clock ticks to 5pm he goes back to his universe. The rich can sort it out themselves.
If the following are true:
1) children in different areas have similar poverty levels and home lives
2) schools in different areas are funded adequately
3) the quality of teachers and administrators are independent of funding

then, improving competition would help parents pick the right schools for their kids, improving educational outcomes.

However, 1 and 2 are definitely not true, and I think 3 is not true as well (higher salaries attract good teachers.)

If you want to improve education outcomes in the US, you must improve funding for schools in poor areas, increase incomes for parents (possibly with a child allowance), reduce discriminatory law enforcement that disproportionately targets poor and minority parents, and much more.
E.W. Dijkstra: Why numbering should start at zero
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I'll make a new post here, I'm guessing a few people will want to know.
The United States funds public education almost more than any other country in the world per student.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmd.asp
You are just saying that the rules are bad.
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easee is an eye exam for the 21st century. You can get a prescription for glasses or contact lenses anywhere, at any time, using just a smartphone, a computer screen and 3m/9ft of space.

We just raised a significant seed round and partnered with Ace & Tate (the Warby Parker of Europe). We are a team of 8 of which 4 developers and currently busy retooling from Laravel & jquery to Vue.js & python. We plan to expand to other countries in Europe and to develop new eye testing methodologies and other products besides prescriptions.

As a front-end engineer your main tasks will be building a great user experience that will work for a huge population.

I joined two months ago as CTO. E-mail me at jouke @ domain to apply or ask questions.
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The EdgeRouter Lite 3 also happens to be one of the few generally available Mips64 platforms (Cavium OCTEON CN5020). Actually I have just ordered its big brother EdgeRouter Lite 4. It costs double as much, but it also packs a quad-core 1GHz OCTEON CN7130.
> much of the land is good for little else besides growing grass

I wonder how much about that could be changed with a large scale permaculture [0] approach?

There must be something useful able to grow there? From there you can maybe bootstrap a long-term ecological change of the region into something with lusher vegetation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
Between my debit card and Mobilepay, I haven't used cash in nearly 2 years living in Copenhagen so I finally ditched my leather bifold wallet and made a slim card holder out of an IKEA bag. It's only been a month or so, but so far no regrets.
I can't believe that discussion (now un-commentable) didn't include a link to http://awfullibrarybooks.net/. Good stuff.
How do you handle aesthetics? Sounds like a really fun project but a big challenge, at least for me, would be to make it look pretty and not like a Sunday hack.
This might be a dumb question, but are there any negative impacts of all these LiDAR components with our eyes? I feel like I see all the excitement (and I'm excited too) but has there been any studies on the effects of these laser sensors?

What happens when they are ubiquitous?