skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
at the time i had the impression that not much thought was given on how to implement education using the laptops. looking at it now, i have the impression that the expectation was that the mere existence of the laptops would allow for constructionist education to happen all by itself.

i don't know enough about constructionist education to know what factors ought to be present, but i can't imagine that an education system and teachers that do not understand or do not want constructionist education aren't a problem.

i also believe that OLPC didn't sell constructionist education to the buyers, nor that the buyers wanted to start using constructionist education.

i have the impression that it was rather hoped that constructionist education would not only happen by itself but also undermine the existing education system in that it flourishes despite the existing system.

in the end the failure was that the expectations of parents, teachers and others in the education system were not met.

one might argue that the failure was to not educate the buyers on what to expect, but then i can't imagine that OLPC would have successfully sold anything if they had tried to sell constructionist education along with it.
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That's kind of what value means, being useful. Random hash algorithms are not inherently useful, thus, have no value. At least I could wipe my ass with a dollar bill or use the bill as kindling for a fire. I'm all for a currency system based on beans or corn. Especially corn. Corn has loads of value in multiple ways. Food. Fuel. Fertilizer. But oh, it decays, thus, you better use it before it goes bad and is useless.

Not in the case for gold. The reason gold was used so much has a long term storage was due to it's stability. Gold doesn't decay in generational lifetimes. Doesn't really rust and reacts with very few chemicals. Silver was actually used as an everyday currency more than gold. But gold was the main body.

The use of precious metals as a form of currency was not an accident. Yea, it has value largely based on "faith". Any currency will. No cryptocoin is immune from that. You have to have faith that it has value. I find it weird that people just say "crypto has inherent value unlike fiat currency". Yea, what value? If you want to argue "Well, gold has no real value, so bitcoin is no different from that. They both lack real value. Why can't bitcoin be a currency?" Good question! That's a good point! We're getting somewhere!

It peeves me when people take a shit on thousands of years worth of social trial and error and dismiss it all because they watch a youtube cartoon about "the truth behind money".
Could you elaborate? Why not?
I recall that article and also can’t find it. The punchline for me was the chairman of their Taiwanese partner, who said something like “Americans are happy with their ratios. (ie reduced inventory) I am happy with cash.”
I lost a Talos II board due to what we are fairly sure was a shitty PSU on the first few powerups. I replaced the PSU with a store bought Corsair one and the new unit and replaced (under warranty) board has been very reliable.

Raptor is a small company and one guy is fronting most of the support load so keep trying, he's not out to screw any customers or provide an inferior product.
Clickhouse is a really strange thing to compare to Lambda here. One is a method of performing small compute jobs, the other is an analytics database. They serve vastly different functions and saying "Clickhouse or postgres is cheaper and more performant than lambdas" is nonsensical.
What do Republicans advertise they are going to spend money on? I'm only familiar with Democrats calling for free health care, free college, universal basic income, etc.
I made it through all three books and really enjoyed them (especially book 2). But I have to admit that I don't know how to feel about the ending. Definitely not the ending I anticipated.
Australia uses new technology to catch drivers on phones
It's a mandatory insurance program run by the UK government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Travel_Organisers'_Licensi...
It leaves a bad taste in my mouth too, but at least that's taxpayer money going directly back to the taxpayer.
You just need to uncheck one setting, which you are directed to when you first try to install an apk...

Now tell me, how can I get an alternative app store, or an internet browser, that doesn't use crappy Webkit on iOS...
I'm a live and let live, everyone has their own pain and their own story, we all are just doing our best sort of guy... But I want to string that guy up.
Clearly. But that’s not a problem unless you don’t understand it.
Fascinating. What brought you to this conclusion?
So coding is a work for hire rather than a royalty stream that seems like a good deal for the company to get lots of cheap labor. This is what’s funny is that I’d rather work for free as long as no one is getting exploited than get a pittance and then let someone profit from my work.

I guess I just like abstractions.

Good luck with your attempt, I think it’s just as likely to be successful as other commercial licenses. I think it’s cool you’ve at least thought of some way to get token payments to external devs.
My favorite signal: go where it's busy! Locals know what's good, and especially in a developing country, you want to go somewhere that is moving product, instead of having it sit in questionable storage facilities, incubating things your gut isn't prepared to deal with.

- Best food I had in India: all the hopping street food and holes-in-the-walls (and yeah, a fancier restaurant or two)

- Only TD I got in India: an opulent tourist trap where we were the only people eating. That made the drive from Agra to Delhi extra memorable!
As a New Yorker, I had no idea Thomas Cook had their own airline. I thought they dealt mainly with currency exchange for tourists.
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I'll add that debt is the integral (well sum) of deficits. deficit/GDP, or deficit/revenue ($4T/$3T = 33%? is that right?) is far more worrying than just the debt/GDP.

However, I will concede that GDP as a measure of productivity is hard to measure, easy to manipulate, and less effective than other measures of productivity.
I think, paradoxically, that this is actually a failure mode of "the meek" -- rambling when nervous, basically. Or at least of a person who is missing cues from their interlocutor about the status of the conversation.
Apologies if I'm misunderstanding. To take a step back and paraphrase this subthread, as I understand it:

* `dezzeus said MySQL was better for read-intensive workloads, Postgres better for mixed read/write

* I replied saying there are a number of huge social networks with insane write rates, which is contrary proof against that claim. (Having personally spent most of the past decade working on massive-scale MySQL at several social networks / UGC sites, this topic is near and dear to my heart...)

* You replied saying, iiuc, that FB is only using MySQL for historical reasons and difficulty of switching. (IMO, your initial comment was tangential to the original topic of comparative read vs write perf anyway. Regardless of why FB is using MySQL, factually they are an example of extremely high write rate, previously via InnoDB for many years. That said, I wasn't the person who downvoted your comment.)

* I replied saying that's inaccurate, as FB demonstrably does have the resources and talent to switch to another DB if there was a compelling reason, and furthermore MySQL+MyRocks provides a combination of feature set + compression levels that other databases (including Postgres) simply cannot match at this time. At FB's scale, this translates to absolutely massive cost savings, meaning that MySQL+MyRocks is a better choice for FB for technical and business reasons rather than just historical reasons or difficulty of switching.

I may have misunderstood, but it definitely felt like your original comments were throwing shade at MySQL, and/or publicly stating historically inaccurate reasons for why FB is currently using MySQL.
> The maximum benefit in 2019 is $3,770/mo for people who retire at 70.

How much would you have had to contribute between 18-70 to achieve this number?
The purpose of rent control is to keep existing tenants from getting priced out of their homes with annual rent increases, not to make housing affordable for new tenants.
AWS Cloudwatch pretty much delivers every metric imaginable.

Whether leasing EC2 servers or running serverless Lambdas, the logs all rollup to the same place.

We're gradually using more AWS CLI for things like deployment and policy management. But the console is sufficient for 80% of Serverless DevOps.
> owning a truck for use as a commuter vehicle (rather than a utilitarian vehicle) is esteemed for some odd reason.

Isn't this basically what they meant by "cowboy cosplay"?
A million people using using serverless? Do you have a reference ?
This is interesting. I'm guessing the Dev-Ops (Cloud infrastructure people) are going through the same thing as what I, an on-premise infrastructure guy had gone through already. Everybody was preaching Cloud at the beginning. It was slower, it was more expensive. Now look how much cloud had grown and had improved. I believe the same will happen with serverless. A lot of the cloud infrastructure will be abstracted from you. All that will be left are software developers / engineers managing everything. Lowering the requirement of having Ops people. - Coming from an Ops person.
I remember going to travel agent branches in the town centre with parents, but now it's all online. Thomas Cook are overpriced and aimed at older people who aren't able to use the internet to shop around. Their business model was not going to last.
It's interesting how sincerely using the phrase "fake news" says so much about a person.

What does this have at all to do with made up stories?
As I stated the unbanked are likely to be very old or poor so that use government services that require an ID. For instance, they rely on food stamps or Medicaid or social security. A large part of this 6.5% and the cohort you talk about therefor has an ID.

The reason why I think so is that people that are not poor can not lead their lives without a bank account due to the essentials for a non poor life requiring a bank account.
Wouldn't you adapt your speaking tone and accent to the context? I did the one time I went on TV.
Is that true across the board or just on Android?
I think you might be right. Could you please rerun them with inflation accounted for just to make sure I didn't miss anything?
Ahh, so you are making these claims because you think they are true. You presented them as some sort of fact by stating that this is obvious to you. I just don't really get why it was relevant to lay out that chain of relevance. I don't see the obvious connection between self motivated and introvert, but I guess it could be possible. The other connections just seem like random thoughts. I was trying to figure out why something so obvious to you doesn't explain itself when presented without evidence...
Every company tries to accelerate revenue and delay expenses.

Nothing wrong with that, and if everyone knows about it it's hardly misleading anyone. They all take it into account.
Most important reasons -

1. Do you tolerate failure? Is it treated as a learning step or are you marked for life ( huge stigma in some societies,IMO America does this better than anyone else.).

2. Individual vs Group Think ( lots of societies don't tolerate people who think differently, frequently ostracized or outcast).

3. Capital

4. IP protection

5. Immigration Policy - Do you allow immigrants in? Immigrants are hungry, they come with nothing, expect nothing and have huge appetite for risk.
Except that china also makes complex things, like planes and satelites. They don't need america for that.
Yes, I remember a high profile German tech news site involved in at least one such legal battle. If memory serves, it revolved around a link to Alcohol 120%, a tool to rip copy protected disks. The news site lost the case, I think.
Per The Guardian, it's largely due to changes in consumer behaviour - more people booking city breaks directly, less people booking package holidays via travel agents [1]. Global warming may have caused more people to prefer to stay at home in summer. That may have been the tipping point along with Brexit causing uncertainty and a lower pound.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/sep/23/thomas-cook...
I never said skipping meat will fix everything, just that it's an easy thing that actual consumers can do to help. The monoculture problem exists but not really relevant at all to the problem I'm talking about seeing how I'm not even saying people should cut out meat completely and there are better ways to diversify the supply of food than to add meat (especially since large amounts of animals are fed off of a monoculture of feed grain).
Including a big fraction (most, I think) of solar capacity installed around the world.
"his claim that the post-Facebook world 'is better,' as he put it in his note in November, is arguable, at best"

A horrible statement in an otherwise decent article. There's a lot of work to be done in keeping these platforms safe, I agree. The article does a really good job of highlighting the uncontrollable growth these communities experienced and the founders' inability to control it.

But to state that an interconnected world is "at best" arguably better? The author comes off as a luddite who disregards the largest human network in history, just because of their anger towards Zuckerberg or Facebook as a corporation. Things need to change, but let's not downplay what we're dealing with here. There has been so much commercial, personal, and community growth thanks to Facebook's network effects. This isn't about the wealth of a single individual anymore.
Artificial intelligence could predict El Niño up to 18 months in advance
As much as I admire Scott Adams as an insightful and intelligent cartoonist, I don't agree with his post here. The children who started the Extinction Rebellion were not, for the most part, 'scared into' their action by adults. They started this movement specifically because they learned that adults weren't doing anything. Adams' laissez-faire attitude in this post is exactly the reason why we're in this catastrophic spiral already - nobody is taking any action, there are comforting news reports of new technologies or tree-planting drives, but the overarching truth is that the climate is changing, and rapidly. There is reason to be scared enough to actually do something.

Edit: I would argue this is the single most wrong thing I have ever read:

>Throughout all modern history, when we humans see a problem coming from far away, we have a 100% success rate in solving it.

No, no we really don't. We have a 100% success rate of slapping bandages on broken legs, of being forced into literal do-or-die scenarios before we act in a mildly positive manner. No amount of foresight has ever overcome human stubbornness or stupidity. Both level-7 nuclear disasters had causes known years in advance but were hushed up. We will turn blind eyes to hideous pollution and environmental disaster, to miles and miles of documented scientific evidence, in the name of short-term profit. That is our success rate. And the buck stops with the millenial generation.

He talks about 'informed adults' currently making rational decisions but he himself is not a climate scientist, of which there are a large number, screaming from the rooftops that we need action. CO2 levels are too high. We must do everything we can right now before the spiral is too strong to break out of. Laissez-faire is the worst thing we can do. He's right about nuclear technology and its safety (just about; Fukushima may have happened in 2011 but the plant was 40 years old at the time). It's not profitable to roll back all the stuff generations have invested billions and billions of dollars into - oil, coal, cars, global shipping - so the adults in charge are hesitant and frequently outright hostile to the idea. That's why Greta Thunberg had to make a stand, and that's why others stand with her.

Mr. Adams, if you read this, I wonder if you have become like your characters who are too numbed by the absurdity of their situation to believe they need to do anything about it. And just like your setting, this isn't going to get any better if we all stand around thinking it will.
A reactionary news piece on a local site called 'Click Orlando', who'd have thought?
Apple's statements on the reason for non-US based manufacturing has been that it is not the labor cost but the (lack of domestic) skills that drive them abroad.

The Mac Pro, a low volume flagship product, was long the only US manufactured product, until Apple announced it was moving offshore a well.

Apple gets tariff exemptions on the import of the parts for the machines, so it can do the assembly in Austin.

Meanwhile Apple is shifting a very significant volume of manufacturing away from China to ... India.

Both Apple and the Administration get to send out 'feel good' PR.
`The company is forced to stop operations.`
I came here to ask this question. It's a really solid technical article. But apart from the sake of doing it, why would anyone ever want to? I'm not suggesting there's no scenario in which one would want to build a SQL database using Kafka, I'm just asking if anybody knows of one.
Ryanair and Wizzair are notorious to make profit out of every ticket. They live to NOT lose money. Yes some tickets do sell for £5 and some sell for £250 or more, depending the date/time you buy it.

My shock is how companies like Thomas Cook manage to survive by constantly selling below cost just to keep alive. In my mind this is just another Uber, it only stays alive because people just keep throwing money at it. I wouldn't be surprised if TUI, Itaka, and others follow suite.

I am always shocked to see their prices for a 5-6-7 day trip, at a fraction of what I would have paid. I do know that scaling reduces prices, but well.. apparently not really.. like the PIIGS economies the moment lending froze, Thomas went under.
When I was still studying photography, my mentor was working on something similar: http://www.gregorytdavis.com/index.php/project/chalk-is-temp...
Insured or not, most other countries will find a way to bring you back into your country of residence, usually by securing you a seat that's not available to the general public (like a jump or a stewardess seat).

I'm just not entirely sure how they would go about doing it in such a large scale if no such insurances were in place.
I'm not sure I understand these kind of articles. There's two harsh truth for me:

* It would be crazy not to rent a rent-controlled place in a market like SF. This is what everybody tries to do here, and honestly I would probably not have moved here if I couldn't have found a place without rent-control. It is just too risky (your rent can pretty much double in a week, forcing you to move out).

* SF's real housing problem is that there's a lack of housing. This has nothing to do with rent control, and focusing the story on rent control is like ignoring the bigger elephant in the room. It's a malicious distraction tactic. Check the numbers, the population of SF has remained extremely stabled since the 90s[1], the reason is that there's no more space for people to live.

Ask yourself this question, who would be the biggest benefactors from removing rent control?

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=sf+population&oq=sf+populati...
I wonder how people reconcile how it's OK to rely on progress to grow our way out of a debt burden but also incredibly irresponsible to expect progress to cope with our carbon problem. Both seem defensible to me but like they kind of need an adaptor to fit in the same worldview.
They use the highest 35 years of earnings. So I would assume that you'd need to be over the inflation adjusted annual cap to max out the benefit.
Well the analogy was directed at macroscopic organic systems with consciousness.

But with Theseus's ship we can see a similarity. If we had a ship, tore it down, then built a new ship without using any parts from the old ship, every sane person would call that a different ship. Frankly, the tearing it down step isn't required (an important factor). Conversely, if we repair a ship over time we do consider it the same ship. Maybe this is just personifying objects, but these conclusions about new ship/same ship would be pretty standard. It is why we distinguish replica and restoration.
I'm curious to know how much face transplants cost in the US, and if insurance covers any of it.
It's the same argument for Python over C development. Prototype in python and migrate portions to C as performance is needed. You'll often find that large portions of your codebase will never need to migrate out of the "prototype" stage.
It’s a government issue specifically in this case because the government operates a mandatory fund that travel agencies pay into which covers the cost of repatriation efforts if the travel agency collapses, and in the bigger picture because having thousands of citizens stranded abroad with potentially no financial means to repatriate themselves is, y’know, bad.

https://www.caa.co.uk/ATOL-protection/Consumers/About-ATOL/

> ATOL (which stands for Air Travel Organiser’s Licence) is a UK financial protection scheme and it protects most air package holidays sold by travel businesses that are based in the UK. The scheme also applies to some flight bookings, usually those where you book flights (including UK domestic flights) but do not receive your tickets immediately.

> ATOL was first introduced in 1973, as the popularity of overseas holidays grew. After a number of high profile travel business failures left people stranded overseas the UK Government realised consumers required protection when their travel providers fell into difficulties. ATOL currently protects around 20 million holidaymakers and travellers each year.

> If a travel business with an ATOL ceases trading, the ATOL scheme protects consumers who had booked holidays with the firm. It will support consumers currently abroad and provide financial reimbursement for the cost of replacing parts of an ATOL protected package.
Oil today, or fertile agricultural land 150 years ago, doesn't make government big or small. It just frees whoever controls the natural resource from accountability to others and lets them do whatever they want to do. Putin wants to run a superpower, so he pours the oil money into a bigger defense budget than Russia's GDP justifies. Maduro is (notionally) a socialist and pours the oil money into a bloated bureaucracy.
This is definitely not-nice behavior but is common. On an iOS App Store listing you can't even say the word Android, etc.
We would still have access to a lot of modern medicine even if we had no antibiotics. In 1900 we had just started to use sanitation, had no vaccination, and had no clue how _a lot_ if diseases worked.
Good, but not enough.

They also need to cancel their contracts with DHS, the Police, the Army, and any other US Gov agency, especially while Trump is in power.
Go is great for a crawler. What does NLP and ML have to do with crawling?
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