skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the answer should be instead to privatize all the schools.

Do you mean "privatize" in the honest sense that would leave many people with no school at all, or in the other sense that would privatize only the profits while the funding still comes from taxpayer dollars? Usually when I hear about "privatizing" schools people mean the latter, with a side effect of shedding regulation and liability as well.

> Most private schools have lower per pupil spending that government run schools.

Citation needed, particularly a citation that accounts for factors like cherry-picking students, relying on a large private endowment from a more exclusive era, or failing to meet various standards - e.g. certification, curriculum, health and safety - that are applied to public schools.
The charter school "lottery" where I live obviously is not random, yet the law doesn't require them to be audited for fairness. They are basically private schools with selective admission that are funded by money pulled away from the public school system.
> President Trump is what we get when we trust the rich to fix what they are complicit in breaking.

I am really tired of "We got trump because of X" , when is it speculation/theorisation going to stop :\.
I would rather a rich person use their own money to change the world than the government seize wealth to change the world.
Gartner Identifies Five Emerging Tech Trends in Latest Hype Cycle
When Windows came out, there were desktop unix(ish) systems, e.g. from Sun or Apollo. Of course they were an order of magnitude more expensive than a PC, so it's hard to argue that they really competed. At that time, if you needed a unix workstation, a Windows PC was not a viable substitute.
Setting the rest of the discussion aside, I think there is an argument for specializing care. People with learning disabilities would benefit from attention from experts, people with at-home problems would benefit from school-based childcare (for them, school lunches and afterschool programs would be disproportionately helpful), and while people with physical disabilities need the same good teachers they benefit from specialized access mechanisms as well (for example there are schools for the blind, where knowledge about blindness is concentrated in the staff to an extent not present elsewhere.) Children with physical disabilities have no need for dyslexia experts, children with lots of support at home have no need for elaborate all-day childcare, and so on.

So, there are clear efficiency and quality gains to be had if the system is specialized. Physical disabilities are one of the most stand-out cases, where you can invest in special access mechanisms and make special testing conditions normal if you concentrate enough people with the same needs in one place. See: Schools for the deaf, schools for the blind.
>> It’s that one awesome charter school — not equally funded public schools for all.

I would also note that charter schools are great as a proof of concept. It's naive to think that education is already "solved" and just dumping money into giving everyone access would do better than many people experimenting on the micro level and then hopefully using those concepts to benefit the less fortunate.

>> The best thing to do now, if you want to change the world, is to start a company.

I would certainly agree with this statement. If you think a community doesn't have healthful food options, start a grocery. If you think a community is underserved, look to serve it. I don't think ending the carried interest tax credit will somehow magically fix everything. Most solutions are best done on the micro scale
In fairness: Competing with Oracle is one of the very few times when choosing Microsoft makes sense.

That felt weird to type.
Maybe if credit card processors started inventing platforms for software distribution and made them available and easy to use for anyone, they wouldn’t.
True wisdom.
Floating backpack is coming (2018)
A billion dollars in fines is an unfathomable mistake! It's on the level of a natural disaster, like a hurricane!

Would love to hear more about that :)
Bug: rapid calls to 3/4 get parsed as 6/8

1. Take the 3/4 example and convince yourself you fully understand the difference between 3/4 time and 6/8 time.

2. Let your ostensible understanding lead you to listen to a waltz.

3. Get familiar enough with the waltz that you can sing along with the melody.

4. Now ask yourself: does the melody sound like it divide up into groups of measures, or is the melody just freely moving around in no discernible pattern?

5. Realize very quickly that the melody divides up into groups of measures.

6. Realize that the melody very likely divides up into groups of two measures to build larger phrases.

7. Realize that many waltzes move at a rapid tempo so that each measure of 3/4 moves by quite quickly.

8. Realize that regularly recurring fast 3/4 measures which divide up perceptually into two-measure groups sounds exactly like... 6/8.

This bug affects all CPUs.

The only currently known workarounds are genre literacy and knowledge of notational convention.
Sounds like a New York tenement circa 1900 except at least those were cheap.
Exactly this. The whole point of these exercises is putting the inferior races in their place.
One might sweat a couple of liters/hr, and thus might manage 2 kW. But that's not needed. Between bright hot Sun, too hot, and dark cold deep-space sky, too cold, Earth spins, mixing too hot, and too cold, into not too bad. And so can you - the "barbeque roll" thermal management strategy for satellites. And if you're head-on to the Sun, or in shadow (holding an umbrella)... I don't recall whether radiative loss is sufficient to shed basal metabolic rate without sweating or not. If not, you might build yourself some elephant ears, and sleep with them edge-on to the Sun (and Earth). But EVA suits use water sublimation cooling - because people do EVA to strenuously exercise, even in the bright sun.

Science education content, down to kindergarten, mentions Sun heating Earth. But pervasively fails to mention deep-space sky cooling Earth. So a lot of explanatory leverage is left on the table - "Why are nights cold? Especially with clear sky? Especially in the desert? Why are mountains snow-capped? Why is winter colder?" etc. I wish I knew of a forum/community in which to discuss and create such improved content, but I've been failing to find one. :(
> They would consider it deeply unjust to seek to abolish their schooling alternatives.

There's plenty of deep injustice to go around. Other parents might consider it deeply unjust that the only schools they can afford are hellholes where no real teaching occurs and the classrooms aren't even adequately cleaned/heated/ventilated. Does that injustice not matter too?
Five Emerging Technology Trends

1. Democratize AI

2. Digitalized Ecosystems

3. DIY Bio-hacking

4. Transparently Immersive Experiences

5. Ubiquitous Infrastructure
I live in Venezuela and I would say definitely beware of populist rhetoric and communists trying to change the world.

I don't have a country anymore because people believed in that.
Border crossing includes oceans. As someone else points out [1] downthread, this covers 2/3rds of the US population

1. https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
And this is why we can't have nice things. People trust those who've amassed huge quantities of money for themselves and want to do more of that, instead of a body of the people specifically selected to improve the lives of everyone. Maybe the wrong people are doing it now, you can change that. America has lost so much faith in its government; it's sad.
The Commons Clause really isn't as important as we think it is
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then because I've been a dozen times and I've met both able bodied and disabled people there from literally every walk of life, including self-described homeless, octogenarians on fixed incomes, people suffocating under medical bills for their cancer treatments, and folks from a dizzying array of far away countries.
If you're big enough you have teams of lawyers on staff. It costs you literally nothing extra. If you're not big enough to have staff lawyers you're not big. Small businesses are pretty much everyone else. You can't polish a turd, and this system as well as the copyright system are a giant turd that's antithetical to the original intent of the law.
Linux turns 27
Some of what's here is agreeable.

Virtue signalling is very popular among the rich now. I suppose they might be trying to appease the jealous lower classes.

The same holds true for Hollywood. Every heart bleeds for any altruistic cause. Sadly, the place is rife with hypocrites from Weinstein to Damon, preying on sexual victims and raising conspicuous consumerism to previously unseen levels.

I'm glad to see this article. I hope we see more like it.
One of the clear weakness of the current OpenAI Five is its warding, with wards oftentimes being placed in bases. Perhaps the amount of vision that the team has can be a short term reward. Likewise, it currently does not engage in too much counter warding with sentries.

The game vs. Pain clearly demonstrated how humans can use wards to gain an information advantage over the bots that otherwise had a great chance of winning the game.
Yes, that's true. You do have to plan ahead a little bit. But other than that getting a patent is pretty much a no-brainer under the current regime.
Great username by the way.
This comes on the heels of the TSA requiring a Muslim woman to show her used menstrual pad to screeners in Boston.

https://www.thecut.com/2018/08/muslim-woman-forced-show-tsa-...

The TSA is an entity that provides no security, but still manages to degrade the constitution.
When it comes to open-source compliance, I would say RHEL follows the letter of the law but not its spirit. Although the source is available, and I’m sure it’s licensed in a way that meets OSI’s technical definition... it’s unreasonably hard to make useful modifications, contribute them back, or redistribute them.

In fact Red Hat deploys specific obsfucation techniques to make it harder for competitors to redistribute RHEL, while technically respecting the OSI definition of “open-source” [1]. I understand the business motivation for playing these sorts of games... but it kind of deflates the notion that Red Hat’s model is anything special or worth emulating.

Assuming Redis Labs will accept pull requests and generally follow the process of collaboration casually known as “open source” for their proprietary modules, even if it doesn’t meet the OSI’s technical definition of open source... Then as far as I’m concerned the Redis Labs model
is more open, in practice, than RHEL’s.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/430098/
The worst that can happen to the rich person is they go broke. The worst that can happen with the government is they turn the country into Venezuela, or devolve into mass killings like Mao’s China and the Soviet Union.

The sad thing about today’s society is that all the lessons of last century are being forgotten.
It wasn't clear before that instead of having users download and install an apk, users were downloading and installing an apk that downloads and install an apk.

That seems a little bit insane, combined with Androids kind of terrible inability to do useful things like have a place for large storage (SD card), that isn't readible and mutable by all apps.
> Many Master Inventors earn more from the patent bonuses than they do in actual salary.

So if we're being extremely conservative about pay at IBM, they're able to churn out 60+ patents per year? So more than one successful patent per week, every year?
So that’s the pitch they make in the PhD programs. But what they leave out are the negative associations with a PhD. You will immediately be over qualified for large swaths of work. And unless you can immediately land that dream job by, amongst other things, beating out all competition for that work - you will enter the work force with 0 applicable work experience. Hiring managers can be downright blind about anything that isn’t direct work experience in something you’d only gain experience from already having experience in that labor market.
Posts like these really continue drive home the message of "Silicon Valley is just a shell of what it used to be. Only go there for the sake of relocation or with a job offer in hand." There's nothing left for the dreamers or hopefuls in SV who have nothing to run on but just that--hopes and dreams. It just makes so much more sense to take a pay cut and swing for the fences in Atlanta, Houston, Austin, or Phoenix. Hell, I'll still throw in Boston and Seattle because they're still THAT much cheaper than anywhere in SV.
May be they can host all built in module to provide caching.
The Future of Notebooks: Lessons from JupyterCon
I don't know, reminds me a lot of that old concept: we are a combination of 3 things, who we are, who we think we are and who we want to be. I can't find any reference to it, but to me it seems more accurate than the article explanation about the "better version of oneself".
Wow. So Carter and Gates are selfish pigs?
Do you have an intellectual property license from JK Rowling, or are you hoping to be lawyer-profitable by the time it's noticed?
> instead of a body of the people specifically selected to improve the lives of everyone

I doubt majority of people have time to go research credibility and vote for local politicians and other who you say “specifically selected to improve lives of everyone”
Now that the binary size issue has finally come into the spotlight thanks to the WebAssembly, hopefully, embedded devs could benefit from the future efforts of size reduction too.
Sure. Anyone can do it.
From the article:

> Google's security analysis efforts are appreciated and benefit the Android platform, however a company as powerful as Google should practice more responsible disclosure timing than this, and not endanger users in the course of its counter-PR efforts against Epic's distribution of Fortnite outside of Google Play.

And Google expects researchers to disclose bugs on their platform to them before disclosing to public.
The market will overlook anything if the company is still profitable. That's where regulatory penalties shine.
Making the art was great, but honestly since then we mostly just get together to play board games or have potlucks. Most of us haven't even attended Burning Man for the last two or three years (though we still all go to a local regional burn together).
What immediately came to my mind reading this was William Gibson's Ant trilogy. Gibson really has a talent for putting a finger on how advertisement shapes and informs our aesthetic views from the outside in. It's both part of the narrative of the book as well as part of the prose.

Also noteworthy to point out that the first book in the trilogy appeared in 2003, as usual, he was a little bit ahead of his time.

Also, really good article.
Personally, I'm already happily employed and have just started grad school (masters). My motivation, aside from being more competitive in the job market (I don't want to stay in this job forever), is that I enjoy challenges. But I prefer to meet challenges at least somewhat prepared to take them on. I see grad school as an opportunity to study my field in more depth than I realistically have time or motivation for on the job or after work. I figure this will allow me sort of level up and be able to take on more challenging work in the future.
Bill Gates didn't do it - he doesn't have a PhD at all. He has honorary doctorates, but that's not really what we're talking about here.
My point was the increased awareness of fragility as time goes on, regardless of a science or arts education.

I didn't take literature, I was in sciences. Today those who are read, and can write are able to write marketing, copy, communication and are valuable where techies struggle to growth hack.

In university, it seemed friends in sciences had less of a sense of themselves, but found a career easier. It was also noticeable that friends in arts may not have had a clear path to a career, but seemed to have a clearer sense of themselves, or at least an ability to explore and articulate it.
If the APT is good enough, you're talking forensically not provable.
> Are there two separate versions?

Yes. (The website says "Install for Atom .. or .. Install for VSCode")
dont shoot the messenger
It's not a hard rule to follow. You can just say 'The article says X'.
sorry I agree that such extreme cases shouldn't be called mental illness and grouped with symptoms op is describing.
I think that's the entire point: Gates has honorary doctorates without ever getting a bachelor's. So, yeah, some people have gotten a doctorate while skipping the BS (if we assume BS means Bachelor of Science).
what if such certification could take place voluntarily and customers would select a place to get service based on their needs. If they want to safeguard themselves, they would look for certification?
Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB)
I think more developers should learn about LMDB. When people think about embedded databases they usually think about SQLite, and during the last year I've seen many posts about it, yet I never see anyone even mention LMDB, which seems like a shame considering how powerful it can be for certain use-cases.

I've linked to the Wikipedia article because it has the most useful information for a first encounter with the technology within a single page.

In comparison, the official page [0] has rather janky styles and a very enterprise-y design, which I think might turn off some people from giving it a fair chance. With that said, the technical information page [1] actually has a lot of good links including a list of some of the big projects using LMDB and a list of bindings for all major programming languages.

There's also their documentation page [2], although it looks like it hasn't been updated since 2015. For anyone interested in trying it out, you'll want to read through their Getting Started [3] page. Many of the binding also include great docs, which might be a viable alternative for someone that's not as comfortable or experienced with C.

Many of their blog posts [4] are worth reading if you're interested in its design and the different tradeoffs made.

[0] https://symas.com/lmdb/

[1] https://symas.com/lmdb/technical/

[2] http://www.lmdb.tech/doc/

[3] http://www.lmdb.tech/doc/starting.html

[4] https://symas.com/category/lmdb/
What is PCSA?
They could deploy continuously, but deploying to PROD doesn't include minutes/hours/days/weeks/months of investigation, testing, documentation, verification...
Nothing in the article about what one really learns in a Ph.D. program. Here are the things you only learn in a Ph.D. program, more or less in chronological order:

1. What kind of information you will find in each section of a research paper in your field.

2. What are the major research programs in your field and where they disagree.

3. How to identify where a paper's author stands with respect to the major disagreements in your field.

4. How to decide that a paper isn't worth your time without reading all of it.

5. How do you write a research paper?

6. How do you decide what research to do? (This decision will often be made for you for the first couple of years.)

7. Where you stand with respect to the major disagreements in your field.

8. How to synthesize half a decade's work into a realtively brief document.

Notably, these skills don't help you do any of the following:

1. Manage a research group in an academic setting.

2. Teach undergraduates.

3. Manage people in industry.

You might pick up applicable skills along the way, but these are incidental. Any specific skill, any particular knowledge, can be obtained without getting a Ph.D. The Ph.D. teaches what you need to know to advance the field.

I'd like to return for a second to talk about teaching undergraduates. It's a very important thing to do. Ph.D. training ought to include pedagogy. Standards for university instruction are shockingly low, and professors are rarely held to account for failing to teach the material well, especially at R1 institutions. However this comment is not about what you should learn, but about what you'll actually learn in a Ph.D. program if you decide to enroll tomorrow.
Define harm, and explain maximum recommended level for what.

(This is rhetorical)
There are two companies working on regenerative medicine and gene therapy to preserve and restore hearing: Akouos and decibel therapeutics. Not sure if they're working on stuff related to your condition but there's a lot of money behind the research and it seems promising
It seems to me that the moral of the story is that the work is done by people, so taking care of your people actually matters. And it is basically contained in this line:

That dev team has consistently deployed great feature after another at an incredible rate.

I very much appreciate you leaving this comment.
Why can’t you go back? Did you move?
For the most part, this article is switching cause and effect. Advertisers cannot create demand out of thin air - they can only find out what (certain) people want, and present messaging that says, "X fills your existing want because of Y"

Well before advertising, people aimed to increase their status or be different than they are now. These things have largely always been cosmetic, like a peacock's feathers. It's only a problem if whatever you're selling is harmful, like non-diet soda or tobacco.

Pretty much any succesful company is going to have some sort of product positioning, whether that's aspirational or value. Big examples of aspirational are Apple, Uber, Tesla, etc.
We got Trump because he won under the rules by which we choose presidents. If you aren't happy with him, put up a better competitor next time.
Because people agree to it.

There are a lot of new and ignorant programmers now, more than there ever were. They will agree to terms that are "not balanced in their favour." Programming is being commoditized by a limited number of managers and the like. This is the result. They reap the largest profits. Look for yourself.
It is a bug that is only exploited if you got malware from the app store already (or somewhere else) to begin with.

Seems like a non issue to me, and one easily prevented if side loading wasn't an after thought.
That seems like really awkward advice if the change you want to see is less corporate and commercial interest/power...
> Since that pager seems to prevent sleep…

The product has 24/7 pager coverage, but that does not mean that one person has the pager the whole time! At any given time the pager is covered by two or three people in different time zones. The way my team is structured, I will only get paged after midnight if someone else drops the page. And I only have a rotation for one week every couple months or so.

There are definitely employees who don’t enjoy having the pager, but we get compensated for holding the pager with comp time or cash (our choice). The comp time adds up to something like 3 weeks per year, and yes, there are people who take it all as vacation. No, these people are not passed over for promotions. No, this is not Europe.

So the trade off is that seven weeks a year you carry your laptop with you everywhere you go, maybe do one or two extra hours of work those weeks, and don’t go to movies or plays, and then you get three extra weeks off. Yes, it's popular. People like pager duty because they get to spend extra time with their families, because they like to go camping, or because they want the extra cash.

I have once been paged after midnight.