skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is a bad thing if you want to have strong universal public education.

> Public schools in the US are already strongly segregated by income and race since schools are typically a municipal government concern.

Well, you are complaining at once about students studying outside their catchment (quality of school depends on willingness to travel), and students studying inside their catchment (quality of school depends on local tax revenues).

The truth is that every system has tradeoffs, not every flaw in each system is fatal, and there is real room to explore.

> Meanwhile charter schools teaching positions are frequently non-union with lower pay and worse benefits than public schools

From some perspectives that could be a good thing, because some places would rather be able to afford to have kids in school every weekday, than index the pension fund for a vote buy. Teachers should work in a market like other professionals. Very productive teachers can scale up, as is clear from success stories regularly seen, for example, in Korea.
This surprises me... not one bit.

I have yet to find the first multibillion outsourcing company that was any good.

All the great people are immediately hired by the company they’re actually working for, so they’re always left with the mediocre and terrible.
The only way someone front running causes you actual profit margin problems is if your profit margins rely on trading a large volume in a given time period, yes.

This essentially means you're profiting off an understanding of volatility. As Taleb showed, this requires care, since the standard deviation of a security cannot be reliably quantified from historical data, yes.

But there are almost always ways to trade large volumes on a prediction of volatility without running into Taleb's steamroller. The easiest first step is to never write a call option on a stock you don't already own (or short sell stocks in any other fashion). Then your losses are bounded since you can't go below zero dollars. Then you've just got to make sure you don't bust when you're left holding the busted security. This can be done with ordinary bankroll management like a poker player might use. But it's also what hedging is for. With hedging, you control the risk distribution of a given trade. All you do is simultaneously make other trades that boom in the case that the first trade busts.
> The discussion in some ways should be more about good jobs, stabilizing dangerous neighbourhoods, flushing out gangs, giving troubled kids a place to hang out + role models, making the learning environment safe where kids can focus on learning.

I think these issues are direct symptoms of poor education quality, which is itself a symptom of the issues you mention. It's a vicious cycle that perpetuates as the kids become adults and parents who create the negative environment and can't support their kids themselves. It's a long game, but investing in education is probably the "easy" place to start while kids are malleable. Adults are harder to reeducate; good luck flushing out the gangs, what are you going to do with those folks? Do as IPS and provide resources for parents to get training for things like GEDs so they can hopefully get better jobs. Provide after school programs and a safe sub community. It'll take time, but the new generation can hopefully grow up in a better place.
I recommend people check out

gab instead of twitter

and diaspora instead of google plus

Yet its been proven again and again and again that once the diversity circle takes effect the LEFT as a whole refuses to support diversity of viewpoint and will censor non left people on all platforms left admins exist on

Even Diaspora has a massive infection of SJW , Diversity and "woke" people that are pro censorship
80 modern processors have around four orders of magnitude more "moving" parts than a Saturn V, according to what I can Google. And the Saturn V, it is said, had a particularly large number of parts because it was hand-made to an extent that modern machinery is not.

Comparing the number of parts underestimates the complexity of a computer system, of course, because the software is a machine with a vast number of parts, on top of the hardware.

In other words, I'm on the side of those who say software is hard to get right for good reason, and not because the practitioners are less competent.
I perhaps wasn't as clear as I wanted to be.

The point I was trying to make was to use the tools you have at your disposal. My wife had access to a "flaky oven" (half the time it wouldn't turn on) - or she could use an oven that worked properly, albeit at a very high temperature that for many people, would burn the heck out of anything you put in it.

In the case of the youtube channel - which I don't know about anything either - maybe, if the ovens didn't hold a proper temperature, they should have just cranked it to max temperature, not worried about what the temperature actually was - and just cooked with that?

It would of course depend on what was being cooked; there's a world of difference between say, roasting some potatoes at high temperature, and baking a souffle or something delicate like that. You probably couldn't do the latter in a high temperature oven properly.

But ultimately, most cooking is essentially controlled burning. If you can do that, you can cook many things. Not everything, but enough.

Actual baking on the other hand - a lot of it involves accuracy and chemistry, and if you don't have control over the whole process, then the recipe will fail every time. If that were the case with that youtube channel (quite likely), then doing any kind of a "hack" with an oven probably won't work out well.
I'm worried about articles like this are because people want to try to regulate crypto currencies. I really like the idea of crypto being the wild west. If you use a cheap/crappy broker or exchange you're going to get a worse price than if you use a good (expensive?) one. Deal with it. If you want to deal with a heavily regulated currency use EUR/USD/JPY etc.
At my current workplace, most top-level subdirectories in the source tree have a primary author. That person is (nominally) "owner" of that code. If they aren't the one making changes, they're almost always at least the one doing the code review.

Bugs by default get routed to the person who wrote the code (presuming that we can tell which code the bug is in). If that person finds out the bug is somewhere else, the bug gets transferred to a new owner.
Airbnb Officially Owns HotelTonight
When did progressive enhancement become a bad thing? Gatsby generates static files with functional markup, then layers React on top of that for an even better experience. Try loading e.g. https://overreacted.io with JavaScript disabled. It works perfectly.
Well put point. I also feel it's an issue of cost, in that, digital media cost to much. We went through the exact same thing with digital music. Major record labels wanted to charge the same prices for digital media as the actual physical media even through the distribution costs for the companies involved was significantly reduced. And that problem was compounded by DRM and vendor lock in. If digital books were accurately priced based on distribution costs, i.e. not having to print physical books, and you actually owned your digital copy (no DRM) people would buy it. These business need to adapt to the changing technology and emerging markets. The age of media empires and tradition industry monopolies is over. We have viable options now. Evolve or face extinction.
Yes, I think that was part of the point too.

In any case, I can see someone having the following conversation today:

Citizen: How many terrorists have been apprehended as a result of increased security at airports?

TSA official (if he's being honest): Well, none. But we've only been at it for eighteen years so there's still a chance.
My group bought our tickets a few days before the launch and there was no availability problem. I think the tickets are expensive enough that they don't sell out, but I could be wrong only having done it once.

We ended up not seeing the launch and eating the cost because of the delay, but I knew that going in.
There's also Conversations, an Android XMPP client that supports OTR/OMEMO.
Compound v2 (Presidio) now live on Rinkeby
While I haven't had to live with hunger all my life, I've been through some months of real hunger, with no money to buy food. Your description above comes very close to my (foggy) memories of the experience. It changed me. Things that I remember:

- like you said, I was constantly tired because of the constant feeling of hunger. I was mostly one minded, thinking about how to get any food.

- I was also grumpy (low blood sugar), didn't talk almost at all (although I was sharing my room with other people so there was plenty of opportunity to speak). Also made me feel like the lowest person around, useless, because I would just wait around until my room mates would prepare something to eat hoping that they'd invite me to share, that was really bad for self esteem. I was starting to think (could be real, but in my state of mind at the time I can't be sure) that my room mates were going hungry/delaying eating to avoid me being there so I started going out just to let them eat and not feel bad of not being able to share

- it didn't help that I got fired from my first job after 2 weeks of work (and they didn't pay me anything)

I got out of it by blind luck, a friend found someone that was looking to hire someone with my skills and told me about it.
Einstein's 1905 paper on special relativity.
It's not, but decentralization isn't super effective for private channels of communication, particularly where neither end is running the software in question. (Most Mastodon users aren't site admins.)

But presumably if proving a Keybase user and a Mastodon user are the same is given, when a Mastodon user wants to contact another outside of Mastodon, Keybase Chat may be the new default choice.
"In the early 1960s, CA’s population was 15 million & we built 250K-300K homes/year.

Today, CA’s population is 40 million & we build 80K homes/year.

So our population nearly tripled while housing production dropped by over 2/3.

And people wonder why housing is so expensive."
Looks like it stalled back in January.. :-(
DataCamp Sexual Assualt
Vikings: Warriors of No Nation
The linked text doesn't at all discuss what happened after asking IKEA for a sponsorship (except in an later edit: they got what they asked for), it is simply a discussion of their creative process to make a fake ad campaign they used to ask for a sponsorship.
This year I overseeded with a mix of ryegrass and clover, will keep my lawn mowed at 2 inches and watered. I hope the clover can bloom at that height and make the bees happy. It should look fine if I keep it at 2 inches every couple of weeks.
I would much rather have more competitors than fewer monolithic systems in this space, to be honest.
What has your experience been with self-hosting?

I'd love to self-host a Mastodon instance that two-way mirrors my Twitter account and acts as a Twitter client (letting me pseudo-follow folks from Twitter). But in any case, I'd want to ensure that no content from people I follow gets mirrored/hosted on my own instance; the only content actually hosted on my own instance should be the content I post.
It's not "super painful" or "an excellent punishment". What you're describing as privations are unattainable luxuries for the majority of the population, not only of the World, but of the wealthiest nations too.

The median _gross_ income in the UK is £22k ($29k USD).

You must be incredibly out of touch to perceive something at the level of "giving up private club membership" to be suitable punishment for such abject disregard for the environment and public health.
Tübinger Stift
Maybe "the algorithm™" knows something we don't.

Interesting rabbit hole, if you want to take a look:

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/bdlbo1/heres_th...

https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/bd38y4/we_are_e...
FBI bars some China scholars from visiting US over spying fears
That’s one of the issues with Phoenix area charter schools. They may say they offer the services, but other criteria to enter or stay in the school have resulted in them services far fewer special needs kids than public schools.

Add on top of that that that one of the larger charter chains has moved to a model where effectively all money is laundered through a private company which the school then outsourced _all_ of its expenses to, and you get a situation where it appears the owners are intentionally fleecing the taxpayer and their buddies in the state government are making sure it’s legal for them to do it. It seems like corruption, which would be bad enough in itself, but they’re doing it at the expense of an already underfunded public education system.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/03/...
> the author is using a bad faith argument by describing a feature they dislike as an exploit

I read the article and perhaps it's been edited since you commented, but the author states in the introduction that there is a security vulnerability in a feature and provides an exploit. That to me is quite different from calling the feature itself an exploit.

> It's in spec for what the original authors intended. Just like running an executable program is potentially risky, but a design of the system.

While it's true that it is in spec, I see a big difference in terms of how users experience this situation compared to running an executable program. I see this as more analogous to new feature introduced in an executable format that offers a different security guarantee to what users are already comfortable with. I don't see pointing this out as being in bad faith.
Infographic: How Much Data Is Generated Each Day?
Since we're close to the topic, let's take a moment to all remember that Flash Boys is a crappy book that gets a lot of stuff really really wrong.

Read the rebuttal!

https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Insiders-Perspective-High-...
Causes of cancer may leave 'fingerprints' in DNA, scientists say
Switching it to read-only/static and offering migration paths would satisfy both parties then.
Depends on the definition of useless or meaningful. If meaningfulness only extends to immediate political, social, economic or technological interactions then maybe an organic colonisation seems useless, I guess.

Unlike plants, through the power of electromagnetic communications and a culture based on shared knowledge, humans will know the others exist, even though that interaction will be slow with likely little-to-no-influence on their local evolution.

There would be huge cultural meaning even despite the lack of immediacy. Imagine living in a world where you know that there are other humans like you in space, living on other worlds light-years away. You might not be able to communicate immediately, but you know that they are there, and the universe is not so empty to you. You could look to the night sky and reminisce on your great(*n) grandpronoun whose progeny have built a thriving colony among the stars. Entire institutes would exist dedicated to collating and outlining the historical expansion of mankind among the stars, even if that knowledge takes centuries or millennia to accrue.

Also we can not say those other humans may as well not exist, because there is no telling what each new colony will go on to achieve. Their cultural, scientific and philosophical development independent of the influence of Earth's history and challenged by new environments could yield new perspectives, ways of thinking and practical inventions whose value far outweighs the large delay in communications.

If we're talking galactic scale, then the creatures who ultimately wind up on the other side of the Milky Way two hundred thousand years from now would likely bear only a passing resemblance to the humans who expanded from Earth. However barring a catastrophic event that erases their knowledge of their history, they would owe their existence in their history books to this tiny planet.

Finally, the fear that we are the only planet with human life would be vanquished, so even if we all died from pollution or meteorite, we'd know that somewhere the legacy of our species (and selected companion lifeforms) would continue, which I don't think is useless or meaningless either.
From what I've seen, director level compensation follows mostly the same structure as non-director compensation, but with the dials turned up in much the same way. That is to say, L5 -> L6, L6 -> L7, and L7 -> L8/Director modify your compensation structure in similar ways.

This ignores things like truly discretionary cash bonuses and one-time stock grants which exist, but I'd have no visibility into.
With my sympathy for this tremendous loss,
but could you comment on the accuracy of
this report on the amount of lead metal
in the spire (or is it the entire roof?)

> The 3-meter-tall statues are being sent to southwestern France for work that is part of a 6 million-euro ($6.8 million) renovation project on the cathedral spire and its 250 tons of lead.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Cleaning-offers-rare-gli...
One long term client decided to switch payment to checks. I had to pick it up in the middle of the work day, during office hours. The opportunity cost was over $100. Back when I didn't have a car and had to take an Uber, this would have cost far more.

It's little effort to actually deposit it. But big companies tend to sit in tall towers in the middle of traffic jams, where parking is difficult to find.

As a contractor, I would be fine taking a pay cut of up to $100 to avoid checks.
I agree that when done right (ie, following a proper SMD reflow temperature "curve"), all that should happen is the solder should flow and not much else.

Even so, just as I wouldn't reuse a pan or pot I had created sugar candy rocket fuel in to cook dinner (no matter how clean I tried to make it afterward), I also wouldn't reuse an oven for cooking purposes, that had been used for reflowing a PCB previously.

It just seems like a "best practice" to me to not reuse equipment in that manner for food cooking and consumption.

That's just me; I don't find the potential harm, no matter how objectively slight it might be, to be worth it in the long run.
Knight was a market maker, not an investment bank.
Looking for Shakespeare's Library
The Forbidden City: Inside the Abandoned Soviet Camp of Wünsdorf in Germany
> -save my chat history in the cloud so that i dont lose everything when i move from iOS to Android or vise versa.

Is there something in the existing WhatsApp cloud backup feature that prevents you from bringing those backups between iPhone and Android?
That doesn't matter. The actual offense of frontrunning involves an agent-principle relationship between the parties.
> That is their business: they sell their ability to know everything about you to anyone willing to pay for that information.

Google has information about you. Incredibly detailed, intimate information about you. Harvested by collecting and correlating all of your usage of their products and services.

Anyone can pay Google to use that knowledge in pursuit of other services, like targeted ads. No, you do not get access to that knowledge directly, but Google has it and is using it when paid to do so.

In effect, you can pay Google to have indirect use of that knowledge.
The elimination of employee theft and getting robbed at gunpoint. Most people already pay with cards.
I don't understand. Don't MySQL and PostgreSQL already have an API?
Not sure why this was downvoted. I've only used the Deel trial, but it seems like it's trying to solve exactly this problem.
In my life up until now, I'd always believed the best of people and doubly so of NASA. Seeing that, and knowing it's true, makes me believe that there is evil in this world. And that man is part of it. Whoever and whatever forces allowed him to get where he was with opinions like that, needlessly sacrificing the lives of seven people and being satisfied that he'd made the right decision needs to be brought to account, publicly and with no means of secrecy.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted; what you’re saying is true. A model whose length is the same as the data it is describing has no predictive power. A perfect model what be the size of the minimum program that prints out all of the events in the universe (that is, the program whose size matches the Kolmogorov complexity of the universe).
Seems like a hell of a correlation that all these church fires are randomly happening in France.
https://www.newsweek.com/spate-attacks-catholic-churches-fra...
These aren't the only choices. I think our industry is actually a little better with that, where we have some software engineers advocating for more money for the contractors. [1]

[1] https://www.vox.com/2019/4/4/18293900/google-contractors-ben...
I see your point, and I do agree there is to some degree a feedback loop, but I don't think 'bad schools' are a primary driver.

And good point about creating a 'bubble' where kids can learn, you're right, tactical solutions might be apt.

But when the factories disappeared in the 1970's-1990's and the jobs disappeared, a lot of places went to pot.

If there were jobs - kids could bring their own meals, families would be more stable, there'd be less crime, there'd be a foundational social fabric.

Social programs pose all sorts of 'commons' problems ... the best kind of social program is 'a decent job'.

I still can't understand why Google, Facebook and some big banks talk all sorts of 'social progress' crap, but the thing that we need the most: distribution of income - is not on their radar.

I wish Google would open 'service and support' centres in the worst neighbourhoods in America and just give people jobs to do whatever. That would earn my respect.

They can start in East Palo Alto, literally only a few hundred meters from their offices ... I always found the decrepit existence of E. Palo Alto such a stain on the Valley as a whole.
Scientific Progress and the Culture Wars
Frozen Chat seems to be removed from the Play Store, and I can't find many references to it online. Never heard of it before.
It's terrible.

It's also the only thing which is possible.

It's the streetlight fallacy, in other words: The drunk doesn't know where those damn car keys have gotten to, but they know that the only place the light's good enough to look is under the streetlight, so the keys must be under the streetlight.
University semesters are also out of phase between the hemispheres. 1st semester is ~late summer/early autumn for both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GnLDJAgrws
In Defense of Scientism
Jeffrey Skilling in fact served 12 years in federal prison. The wheels did grind eventually.
In fact, wind power generates such an energy surplus on the Texas grid that various energy retailers have gone with “free evening electricity” plans. Possibly only applicable to Great Plans-style regions, but solar+wind gives a pretty reliable generation base for Texas.
There is always a tendency to make wars against the wrong people like the war on drugs going against drug users or the war on poverty going against poor people.
SpaceX's Center Core Booster for Falcon Heavy Rocket Is Lost at Sea
It feels much worse to use than both Telegram or WhatsApp, both on Android and on OSX. I had installed it on iOS and Android and uninstalled within 10 minutes of trying to use it. That is how bad my user experience was.
A refresher on the scope and methods of laser-scanning Notre Dame. Professor Andrew Tallon, who steered this project, died last November but I think it's safe to say he will live on through his work.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/150622-andrew-ta...

Locals report the damage may not have been as severe as feared. http://johannesviii.tumblr.com/post/184208321259/jonphaedrus...

First photographs from inside the building are encouraging: https://twitter.com/becket/status/1117919627642900480