skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So did Zimbabwe for the very same reasons 2 years ago
Surely as one learns to ride a bicycle, one will strive to fall off less, and to ride faster; and as one learns to cook, will strive to burn or spoil the food less and make it more delicious; all this done without a ranking system.
Why are University spots scarce in the first place.
The lock file doesn't just specify the version of the packages, but of all dependancies as well, in a nested manner. This let poetry detects incompatibilites you can't with a flat requirement file.

Poetry also updates the files properly at each install, so you don't have to do it. And it can't install something outside of a venv by mistake.

But yes, a requirement file is ok in many cases. I use them myself often.
The copyright owners here are only the people who wrote the specific function in question. Additionally, I believe you'd only need one of those people to bring a suit or other legal action.

Note that some FOSS gets around the problem of multiple owners by requiring an attribution (e.g. GNU).
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Pusher props are fine for aircraft cruising, say, around FL020 and below.

But at higher altitudes, the speed of sound is considerably lower, and the radial velocity of the prop blade tips start to reach sonic velocity, with the corresponding significant increase in drag, thus requiring more torque to spin at constant RPM, resulting in decreased fuel efficiency.

The test bed pushers on commercial jets were a far shorter set of (more numerous) blades for that exact reason. This particular aircraft seems to have a standard sized propeller, with a greater blade length, and corresponding greater radial tip velocity.
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If you're learning to drive, or program, or whatever, is your objective to be able to do it efficiently, or to do it better than another person?
If it's not a competition, why bother?
I concur. May i introduce

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR_reactor

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300

both pebble-bed reactors, where the first is some sort of superfund site, and the second tried to release some dust directly after chernobyl but got cought doing so.

OTOH China really seems to sample a bit of every tech it get

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTR-PM

allegedly they use better fuel elements which are structured like a pomegrenade internally.
I agree with this sentiment

But I think you'd have to be naïve to think "they trust me, dumb fucks" .. and facebook's corporate disregard for user privacy are wholly unrelated.
Wasn’t Fanta created by Coca Cola in Germany during those times fall due to the shortage of Coca Cola ingredients?
Not everyone should go to University. It makes it's value smaller
I think that the gap today between what you can do with an electronics kit and the convenience of something you can get cheaper off the shelves to build something more complex is way wider than it's ever been.
Also, you can build way more cool and complex stuff learning software and coding, and using it to put together complex hardware models (such in robotics).
The "roots" of electronics are a good way to entertain kids, but electronics amateurs, except for some niches such as electric instruments enthusiasts, are really too small of a niche for an operation like Make Media to be sustainable.
Also, the Makers Revolution was probably a fad (not in general, but in the way it was self-depicting in the media).
A proper aircraft flare at the point of landing requires a fair bit of peripheral vision to judge sink rates etc. A camera tends to give you a flat picture without that advantage.

It's a workable solution, but most 'seat of the pants' pilots would eschew such things.
She/He is pulling a whataboutism.
"Those are scary things, those gels. You know one suffocated a bunch of people in London a while back?"

Yes, Joel's about to say, but Jarvis is back in spew mode. "No shit. It was running the subway system over there, perfect operational record, and then one day it just forgets to crank up the ventilators when it's supposed to. Train slides into station fifteen meters underground, everybody gets out, no air, boom."

"These things teach themselves from experience, right?," Jarvis continues. "So everyone just assumed it had learned to cue the ventilators on something obvious. Body heat, motion, CO2 levels, you know. Turns out instead it was watching a clock on the wall. Train arrival correlated with a predictable subset of patterns on the digital display, so it started the fans whenever it saw one of those patterns."

"Yeah. That's right." Joel shakes his head. "And vandals had smashed the clock, or something."
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on the other hand, just the splash screen image for whatever $modern app can be more than the space available a floppy since you need it normal size, @2x, @3x, it's in 32-bit RGBA instead of 256 color...
> On his Twitter bio, Bright states that he is “Poly/pan/pervy.”

At least the first two are benign and none of anybody else’s business with people of the right age and consent. But the actions and descriptions in the complaint are truly despicable.

I’d always considered Peter Bright as the Ars “Windows and browser stats” guy. I now wonder what would happen to all the articles he’s written on Ars over the years.
If the value becomes smaller, wouldn't it automatically result in fewer people going to university?
When I was a boy I'd stop by the local TV repair shop and they'd give me old TVs. I had a lot of fun with them, like randomly swapping the tubes around and seeing what would happen. My mom was sure I was going to electrocute myself.

You're lucky your dad could mentor you with that stuff. I didn't know anybody who knew anything about electronics, so I just floundered around with it. That all changed when I got to college, where there was electronics expertise everywhere and I was finally able to build things that worked.

For example, someone finally showed me how to solder properly. What a difference a couple minutes of help makes!
In a file manager, integration with the system is important, which means that a dozen or two integration features should be implemented for each platform, aside from the internal differences in working with files. And that Electron is likely out.

In addition, a file manager is pretty much a productivity app, so it has to be muscle-memory-level fast.

For desktop software recommendations in established genres, AlternativeTo is a good source: https://alternativeto.net/software/windows-explorer/

But alas, there doesn't seem to be anything cross-platform of this sort there.

Double Commander enjoys popularity and is cross-platform, but dunno how it feels on Windows. On Mac, it's decent though hasn't got much in the aforementioned integration department.
Both, I think but it depends on the situation. For many things in life competency is enough (although there are still tests involved in demonstrating this) but there aren't unlimited jobs in any field so being 'better' certainly makes you more desirable. A racing car driver is measurably better than me at driving but then driving is not a job for me and so proficiency alone is acceptable.
I don't know how much the C# compiler optimizes code, if it does at all, but I do know that the JIT compiler is smart enough to delete this. So I came up with an awkwardly-worded response that provided information that I knew to be true.
Yes, of course it is trivially optimized out, that's still not the issue. The question is why that function (and several others) exist in the first place! Is there a bug (which is then copypasted several times) and the code is actually supposed to flip between enabled and disabled (in which case it should really be written foo = !foo)? Or something else?
"better" does not mean much in a context of a university, rankings are very subjective.
No, I'm advocating for plurality of opinion, exposure to new information and constant challenging of my own viewpoints.

My reasoning is that, at any given point in time, I am wrong about a great number of things. I fear that any algorithm that learns to present me exclusively with the content I like (i.e. which elicits the least emotional objection) is going to hide all things that might correct my current errors.
People aren't going to take down the source for a GPL violation. If anything, this will cause the source to be released under the GPL, so it's not illegal to use/host the source code.

Surely the idea of checking other games for GPL violations has the potential to open more codebases, lest the offenders risk financial penalties.
Nah it's definitely a thing. Generalisations are borne out of truth. Just look at all the waste ... Living far from work, driving alone in an Escalade or huge pickup 30 miles to work, cooling entire houses to 18C etc. It's in your face everywhere you look. Even the toilets are wasteful!
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Competition is a good motivator. At the same time the feeling of continuously "losing" is not, so rankings should be used carefully as part of a wider pedagogical approach.
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https://m.barnesandnoble.com/b/audiobooks/_/N-2cnc?sk_page=d... is what came up when I typed “audiobook” into the search box. There’s an entire section.
No, the reward is for the convenience.
The ability to explore isn't just Explorer's namesake but what makes is a good tool. Orienting yourself in Explorer is largely done through the tree on the side... which is missing in this rewrite?

What an affront to computing modern UI design is.
If you want to use these skills not only for yourself, but to sell them to others as well (as labor), it's really helpful to know where you stand on the market. Otherwise you might think you're good enough at something, devote a lot of time to it, but only later learn that others are better at it.

In fact, I think it's quite common scenario in a lot of solitary pursuits, be it intellectual or artistic. Without the immediate ability to compare, you can spend years doing something without being rewarded for it at the end - for example, Hitler spend a decade trying to be a painter, before he finally owned his failure and switched to politics. If there was a way to get reliable feedback in painting without putting a decade of work into it, he might've had abandoned it much earlier and not grow his resentment towards "the gatekeeping Jews".
I live in a big city and never see the stars now.
Let everyone attend the basic courses. Those that make it through Calculus can then proceed.
Looks like this guy really wants to build a vapor core reactor, but hasn't found a suitable problem it would solve.

If turning CO2 into graphite was a viable idea at all (it isn't, but that's besides the point), doing it purely thermally still wouldn't make sense. Even if the machines made of unobtainium existed, the dissociated gasses would just recombine when cooled down. It's much easier to operate at "low" temperature (say 1200K instead of 4000K, which is still a challenge!) and do it in multiple steps. But that is casually dismissed as slow and expensive in the article---I suspect, because it wouldn't need a vapor core reactor.
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When it comes to learning, "better" is always relative to yourself only. Comparing yourself to other people is pointless, especially on a metric as non-informative as examination scores, because scoring higher than someone else doesn't actually tell you anything about why it happened. Maybe you're just really good at getting high scores in exams, but is that actually a useful skill?

Similarly, scoring higher in your next exam doesn't actually indicate that you have fixed the problems you had during your previous examination. If you actually want to improve, you need to review your own results and find out where you failed and what to correct.
He bought the land for more than fair value. He didn't seize anything.
In my experience you can drive ws2811 with 3.3v, the signal gets conditioned after the first led.
Hey, don't kinkshame.
That's a completely different thing. Purpose of school education is to nurture a human child into a member of society, who understands her rights and duties; posses the knowledge and tools to exercise her rights, and discharge her duties. University has nothing to do with this.
Nice write up. 3s, 7s etc stay times were great to see. Really liked this A-B breakdown of user engagement.
They do not compete on learning abilities, they compete on work.

It is very disparaging to pupils to imply that if they "are not good" it's just because of their abilities. The message should be first and foremost that they can do it if they try hard.
Makes total sense. If the kids are able to solve the problems at hand, why would there be a need to separate them? Just make sure you test whether people have learned what they're supposed to.

Along the same lines, why punish someone for being in a class with another competent kid?

As for worries about places in further education, it's easy to make things hard enough that your lecture halls aren't stuffed. Doesn't require you to rank everyone.

I think I'd have learned a lot more if everything had been pass/fail. Not just because it's easy to get to the pass line, but also that I'd challenge myself more with more advanced stuff.
Strangely enough I got almost no mentoring, he was like, the stuff is all there if you want to use it, I got taken to the uni labs on weekends and the family went to the library once a week religiously.

He was both a lecturer of maths and computing, but also taught teachers how to teach. His attitude was that if you were really interested you needed to do it yourself and learn through successes and failures and build up all the concepts in your own mind - it was the concepts, not the facts that made all the difference going forwards.

Now this is so much more true than ever, because facts and calculations are available as a "service" effectively on the internet.

Abstracting the concepts and synthesizing new ones through extension, application of lightly related techniques/ materials/methods, cross pollination, etc in your mind is the truly irreplaceable skill that leads to disruption and innovation.
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Not sure I clearly see your position. If platforms should abstain from censorship unless proper legal process forces them to do so is what you mean - I would not argue. But it's not the point of my comment. Pro-cesorship movement never advocated for proper due process, they want quick, peferably automatical "deplatforming".
The 1968 film version starring Anthony Quinn is excellent as well.
That’s exactly why my wife and I are still hesitating to bring back our kids in school in France.

Some of the teachers give back tests in grade order, allegedly to value the bests, but it has a bad impact on the less advanced kids.
And comparing to each other is the norm.

Regardless, France education system is bad rated comparing to other countries...
You’re gonna have a bad time in business if you think the objective is to lower the price as much as possible without regard for what the market is paying.
Both are great. Love the mechanics in 2.
It's great that the LSST can survive this, but there's not much point to building it if all the spectroscopy follow up is killed by efforts to put facebook in front of every face in the world.

Spectroscopy is the fundament on which modern astronomy is built, and it inherently takes long times even with big mirrors. Getting a satellite in the field of view as you take your spectrum most likely means having to start over, and you run out of usable darkness faster.
Fake reviews and ratings must be a factor. For big movie releases it is hard to find IMDB reviews that seem genuine. I assume good portion of the ratings are fake as well.

It must have an effect given how common it is.
Cheers for shipping a product! I recall the post, and as a heavy Google Analytics user the landing page made some very salient points. This post was honest and challenges the fantasies of many hopeful hackers. "Catastrophic Success" is no joke.

I can sympathize with the challenges of running a web scale analytics tool, after helping build and run an analytics stack for an ad network. Even with our relatively small group of customers and lots of planning, the data was abundant, the queries became quite slow, and the pipeline was never "real-time" enough for some.

The web is a noisy place! URLs parameters are tricky to canonicalize into pages when dealing with many properties. There is a constant stream of nonsensical referrers and even referrer spam. Traffic can be exceptionally spiky, and cascading failure in the pipeline is inevitable without careful planning. Data loss is irrecoverable, and any incident needs to be carefully explained to users of the product so they don't deceive themselves into making decisions based on missing data.

One specific point I'm concerned about from the post is that while comparing HackerNews traffic to organic search, their analysis fails to account for relative traffic volume. Its always easy for a small volume traffic source to show outstanding metrics, but miss the broader point: quality traffic sources usually don't scale. A useful analysis should assign weight to overall volume. ORDER BY MAX(CTR) will tell me that some keyword/referrer was the top performer at 80%, but without knowing that was for 3 visitors I could easily get the wrong ideas. I think analytics tools aspire to make it difficult to come to incorrect conclusions, acknowledging that most of their users will have no meaningful background in statistics.

All of those challenges are surmountable, but it definitely gives some credence to the talented engineers who have make analytics stacks look easy. I wish Volument luck in their journey and will keep an eye on their progress, because their pitch remains quite appealing.
>Oh, there is really a third reason. Because you have to drive everywhere anyway, our job centers in the US are widely dispersed. Google’s main Paris office is in Paris itself. Google’s main Bay Area office is in the suburbs of San Francisco. Google’s main DC area office is in the suburbs of DC. Fixed transit networks are awful for such layouts.

it seems like the government could apply zoning for work places?
Emacs has this plugin (well not a plugin because it’s built in). One can select an input mode. Some translate directly (e.g. a Greek input mode where typing a gives an alpha). There is also a TeX mode like what you describe and another mode which is more concise (e.g. &a for alpha, where the means Greek). The difference from what you described is that instead of some escape sequence for these special prefixes, they are just never converted if they don’t match and you move the point away.
You could’ve signed up the people in advance into a yearly contract before even starting the build (with fair clauses that they can opt out at no charge if the service turns out different than expected, etc).
No offence to other developers but this is the easiest read of any article I’ve ever read by a developer. I wish I could write like that. I also wish documentation was written by people with that talent.
How is this any different from Google or Facebook or Twitter cutting off access to any site/application? Do you believe the developers in those cases would have a much better chance of resolving the issue than with Apple?
Better start figuring out how big that tank will need to be... I'm sure someone here can do a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation for us.
"Just" being several hours, cutting shorter the finite amount of dark time available.
I was expecting this to be the usual "Hacker News commenters were awful and made me feel horrible", but was pleasantly surprised that Volument found value from launching here.
It is quite creepy. To me at least.

I wonder how children growing up with this sort of thing will think of human interaction, and how it will differ from our generation in that regard.
Is it really ridiculously priced though? As if such a price is unheard of. A bang & olufsen TV starts at around $1000, and can easily be $2000.

I think it is pricy but not when compared to the kind of things apple likes to compare themselves with.

Their watch is expensive, but not compared with a Rolex.
This is a tangent, but all my adult life I thought that construction workers are fascinating and I wondered why the occupation is not more popular among kids. When you pass a construction site, you see the workers walking around, shouting a bit, hammering some small seemingly insignificant thing (or driving a powerful machine which is cool on its own), but over time an enormous structure rises around them, and it seems that they were just there, doing their thing and that was all it took. It fascinates me. In part because the process is counter-intuitively ungrandiose, at least if you're just a casual on-looker, but the result is grandiose and exceptionally material, as opposed to say an intellectual project's result.
Many European countries and others solve this by allowing entry to most people but then there are high dropout rates as you move through it. Not as efficient but also creates more opportunity
Every big company has their own laws. G,F are abusing and Apple is providing the solution and I think it is far better than what we have.
Probably a copy/paste bug that the author overlooked.
My physics teacher in high school gave back tests in grading order, starting from the lowest. Really humiliating for a 13 year old.
Volument reveals us, for example, how the people that come from Google search generate much more traction than the other market segments. A super valuable piece of information that we will use on our marketing.

Does it show that people coming from HN want to glance at your startup and see what it does, whereas people coming from Google have no idea what to expect and take longer to work out who you are and what you do?

Does it show that neither Google users nor HN users know what you do, but HN users are more experienced with websites and spend less time mentally categorising them?

Does it show that HN users are less interested in marketing / conversion than people who Googled for a related term enough to find your site?

What's the super-valuable insight and how will you use it?
I mean, it's often valuable to hear what people have to say about you, good or bad, but you also need to figure out when the feedback you're getting is not useful.
Note that accepting this also allows them to use other methods (like browser fingerprinting) to stalk you.

I'm assuming that's what they're relying on, as cookies have been severely restricted by browsers & privacy add-ons even in the past.
In the US, letting clients buy property in excess of their wealth was what created the housing crisis. The tax payer had the dubious honor of bailing out the banks that tried to get rich that way.
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There were no meaning to mass produce and diffuse music in those decades like there are today. I'm not saying 80s and 90s music was perfect (why pick those decades?), i say the more the demand the more the money the more the highs and the lows.

The "quality" you're referring to, i don't know: you're talking about what features of a sound...fidelity, loudness, dynamic?

Anyway, truly the 80s were the years of trash music...but trash as in metal though.
The problem with Forbes /sites URL's is that the content isn't journalism but uncorroborated opinions. These posts aren't even op-eds but literally the drivel of anyone without a job or any real background in journalism who wishes to call themselves "freelance journalist".