skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am comparing +2400 schools in New York state with each other based on the stats I told you and with Success Academy both being the earliest and dominating the top of that list (two thirds of the top 1.8% of the school. And that's with a majority of the children being black and Hispanic and from less financially well of homes.

It's not just one school system it's various school systems Charter school vs. elementary school vs. different start time vs. different income groups etc.

You are just moving the goal post. For all intents and purposes what I am citing is as good if not better than the study you seem to think is more accurate.

With regards to the study, it compares two classes in two schools in high school. Yet somehow that's not anecdotal?

Furthermore no it actually says that the amount of sleep is what leads to better performance. NOT the time in the morning which was the entire claim of the parent I was answering so it does, in fact, agree with me even though it's, of course, actual anecdotal using two classes and it certainly isn't proving anything with regards to general performance or optimal time of day that kids can learn.

I am not even sure what we are debating anymore. But claiming my example is anecdotal is simply not true. It's much less anecdotal than any of the other studies being done here when it comes to performance which was what I originally responded to claims about.
Is this one less weird (interesting, unique, etc.) than Oumuamua?
~buf is shorthand for ~buf:buf
Our freedoms are being taken away one by one by those who say they are protecting our freedoms just because of capitalism -> money -> greed.
Google does love pointless region locking but this is probably due to RF certification requirements from each country's equivalent to the FCC.
Ah you're right thanks, and edited. There was a semi-ambiguous "they" I tripped over not reading quite closely enough in the article.
This kind of black humor is very present in the military (at least the branch I was in). I quickly found that I no longer fit in when I came back to the civilian world.
That's the way some politicians/media try to spin it, but it's not the whole story.

Many homeless don't have mental health and substance abuse issues, but are just forced out of their homes on debt, etc. And of course some develop mental health (and sometimes substance abuse issues) after living homeless.
I guess that would quickly end up being a judgement call, since there are barely any things that aren't connected to other things, so mentioning a single fact without mentioning the others could be said to be deliberately ignoring the other.

And since we typically vote on our shared expectations, "no false claims" would probably mean everybody has to shut up. That might be a good thing, I don't know. I don't believe in the power of elections to bring about change (whatever party wins will have very little room for maneuvering), so maybe removing the loud and divisive parts of them might be helpful. Basically: if they don't help, we can at least make them less harmful.
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Dense cities are not envoronmentally friendly. You have to go get food further, you have to use building materials that are a major cause of pollution, etc. Any large city needs tremendous amounts of energy to work, and we have not found clean and efficient sources of energy so far.

Vertical farming could help big cities rely on less energy, but so far I don't see it being scaled to the extent we need.
On my current phone I don't have to unlock it to do media controls. I'm not sure why you'd expect anything different with Soli. Also from what I'm aware of, the phone unlocks extremely quickly. Reporters saying (partially because of Soli) that they barely see the lockscreen if picking up the phone.
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Sure, but only if you need one because you're homeless and don't ask as a privileged person that already has a job/caring family/house/money...
The whole Metro/Modern UI is in like 90% cases much much uglier than whatever was before, and even after years of using them, I just can't get used to them. Every time I see a dropdown, text box or check box of new Modern UI, I think there's some CSS missing or page didn't render correctly. Looks cheap and ugly.

Then google comes and do some version of Modern UI on web and Android, which looks and feel miles better than MSFT!
Even Japan doesn't handle earthquakes (according to an NHK special on quakes). They built all these earthquake proof buildings and then the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake came along with new behavior that none of the buildings in Japan are built for. They did come up with new ways to build to handle this new type of quake but of course that's only for buildings since 2016 (probably more like 2018 when they figured out what to do) so slowly new buildings will get build with the new mitigations and we'll cross our fingers the next quake isn't yet another different kind.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/documentary/20180617/4...
> 1) ever occurred 2) if it did occur, was it even the US 3) if it was even an attack, was it in fact a cyberattack at all

Relevant: U.S. Had Cyberattack Plan if Iran Nuclear Dispute Led to Conflict (2016) [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/world/middleeast/us-had-c...]

"Nitro Zeus was part of an effort to assure President Obama that he had alternatives, short of a full-scale war, if Iran lashed out at the United States or its allies in the region."

Tens of millions of dollars, thousands of people... That's not secrecy, just plausible deniability.
I don't know if I'm preaching to the choir here, but if you've never seen the shows Chewin' the Fat or Still Game... you must.
I think the point is that some of us don't like the US turning into Russia, China, or Iran.
You don't need microservices if you think your business will eventually fail. On the other hand, if its a success then at some point microservices are much more maintainable. Its extremely difficult to change a monolith to microservices. Right now there is a heavy infrastructure prices to pay for microservices but if that gets solved then why would you not start with microservices?
Do you need an app from the store for either of those things on iOS? Seems like something the built-in mail would handle fine (and in all probability, better).
> Give them houses

Assuming that is an affordable solution (it's not), we will then simply end up with destroyed houses.
I’m really hoping that those are different screenshots that were scaled poorly
umami has been replicated over and over, along with texture, it's not special
> user-specific record in form of a JSON file

Can we please not do any more json at the command line? The age of Xml was terrible enough. Key/value pairs please
Sure. And everyone else is entitled to the opinion that publicly supporting a violent fascist dictatorship in order to line your own pockets makes you a huge ass. Isn't free speech wonderful?

"Forced uniformity" is not when lots of people call you out for having a bad opinion. "Forced uniformity" is when the government murders you for stepping out of line. You know, like China does.
In my opinion they accept it because they are forced to. I live in an area where the public transit is not built out and my economic opportunities would be drastically limited by not having a car so once a month I unhappily pay more than my peers because of some teenage mistakes.
On one hand, I do understand these are tools to "do something" that may occasionally help, on the other hand, sometimes tools when available become overused and I think are fundamentally inadequate for addressing the root (very difficult) problem. I think LA has actually in recent years brought online a lot of added housing for the homeless, but unfortunately the numbers of homeless seems to also be surging upwards; and in almost all US cities it seems.
I had one of the best mushroom trips of my life while smoking a cigar on the roof of a downtown building. Never felt the need to touch one again, it was that good.
Just like movies and video games teach you that you can solve problems with senseless violence?
According to the US Ninth Circuit, 42 U.S.C. §1983, and the 8th Amendment to the US Constitution, prohibiting the imposition of excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishment, on the basis that homeless people have no choice in the matter of their homelessness.
The Action Button thing is cool. Seems like it could multiply the political importance of the publication.
In an ironic twist, our app that Google supported via Summer of Code was removed.

Whoever came up with this policy and started enforcing it at Google is completely tone-deaf, needs to be fired and publicly called out so we can set an example as a community that this sort of behavior will not be tolerated.

We have contacted engineering leadership at Google and they are in the process of figuring out who it is internally.
Interesting. One of the heavily marketed advantages of using micro-services is the ability for individual sub-systems to scale independently of one another, which is obviously a cost optimization that matters once you reach a certain scale, but is isolating components to dedicated teams the larger advantage?

The comment you replied to mentioned "startups that matter" that have significant scale and have 100+ engineers. I think if you're at that point it makes sense, but when you're finding product/market-fit and have 1-2 founding engineers working on a codebase, is it safe to assume micro-services are a premature optimization that unnecessarily add to a founding team's already heavy workload?
This seems to jive with my experience, but I'm trying to formulate a back-of-the-envelope mathematical explanation. Here's my thinking: nouns are in 3D space and verbs are in the 4th dimension (you need the concept of time to have a verb).

By going "noun-verb", you are fixing the first 3 dimensions and leaving one remaining (hence the ~1000x reduction in search space for autocomplete). By going "verb-noun" you are only fixing 1-dimension, leaving the other 3 unknown, and autocomplete would have a larger search space.

Putting it another way. If I started a story "the year was 2015", I've only narrow the one time axis, but the "noun/place" hasn't been narrowed at all, so you still have a sphere of possibilities. However, if I started a story "we were on the Golden Gate bridge", I've pinpointed the 3-dimensions of place/noun, and now the reader only has to pinpoint where on the "time-line" we are. And even that timeline has been shortened to a segment of ~100 years.
That's simply false. There are many different kinds of marine habitats, and as the above comment points out, this one is rare.
Don't forget that you pay them for the privilege of using such devices.
It's been about 15 years since I read Manufacturing Consent, but- the weak version of his thesis is fine, sure. An NBCUniversal media property, say, is probably not going to report critically on something that NBCUniversal has a financial stake in.

The actual hypothesis Chomsky puts forward in the book is childishly simple, though. He imagines literally every for-profit corporation, the military, and the entire federal government as being one fused united party with identical interests, and so NBCUniversal would never report anything critical of the military or the US government. This, um, doesn't track reality.

While it's easy for me to just dismiss this obviously incorrect hypothesis as 'dumb' (which it is), I think on a deeper level Chomsky is influenced by Marx who was influenced by other 18-19th century philosophers like Hegel. Who used extremely, overly broad handwavey concepts like Elites or The Powerful as part of their totally academic, abstract, philosophical explanation for How Society Works. As someone who read a bunch of Chomsky books when I was 20 years old- part of his worldview is that nothing happens by accident, but every major moment in history is part of a Hegelian Battle Between Forces (like elites vs. the working class or something). It's still a childishly unrealistic way of looking at how society actually functions, but it comes from a super super abstract philosopher's worldview where he can handwave Big Business/the Military/the Government as one unit with identical interests. If that makes sense at all. Sort of reminds me of ancient philosophers theorizing about how physics or medicine works without conducting any empirical tests whatsoever
This doesn't address the question:

Why didn't something pop up and eat up the success left in the wake of a market Google left, like reader or inbox or wave?
While I get your point, I find it presumptuous for anyone to say what 'real' sex is.

This is just another typical cultural issue that people cannot agree on. My problem with these laws is that they force morals upon the population that are not necessarily widely accepted. e.g. 99% of people agree murder is wrong, but what % of people agree on what 'porn' even means?
Not only does it not require third-party software, Google actually documents how to do it officially:

https://source.android.com/setup/build/running#unlocking-rec...

You're correct it's not trivial for the average user, but the average user should also not have a rooted device (nor does the average user even want a rooted device).

Is the learning curve perfect for the semi-advanced user? Probably not. But third-party software also fills this gap just fine. I don't think Google should be a required party here. They do provide officially supported tools & documentation for the process itself (and those tools work on all major platforms at that), just not a shiny GUI to do it. I think that's a reasonable point to be at.
"Would you only eat the food you buy?" sounds manipulative to me. I much prefer asking "why did you eat my food?" Eating someone else's food is not acceptable. There is a wrong person in this scenario.
On the subjects of Boston, its new-ish Seaport District and "Make more land": was it ever under discussion to simply fill in the Fort Point Channel completely? That could have potentially knitted the Seaport development into the city itself.

If I recall correctly, during the "Big Dig" work they had to jump through all sorts of hoops to run the new harbor tunnel road under the channel and deal with the water, and mud, etc. The entire South Bay has already been almost entirely filled in as can be seen on the map at the top of the linked article. Why not just finish it off entirely? Does it serve any actual purpose at this point?

I always feel like a bit of a wet blanket when it comes to the Seaport. Sure, it's nice to see the development happening, but it still feels very car-centric and cut off from the rest of the city. Just looking at a satellite image shows that there's a lot more roads and parking than actual buildings. It also feels very disconnected from the city center. Getting into town requires a fairly long walk across one of several windy, car-filled bridges.
The issue is mostly not the availability of often free software or even the cost of hosting—especially for non-video content. Video isn’t really a big problem either unless it goes viral.

But you lose the discoverability and network effects of a centralized service.
This is quite serious. Interstellar objects travel at very fast speed. Comets, because of their highly elliptical orbit, already impact earth at much higher speeds than asteroids. Can only imagine what a hit from something further than the Oort Cloud is.

It is very likely that the global flood monomyth is based on the impact of a comet around 13,000 years ago. This was somewhat discounted only 10 years ago, but now is more than the majority consensus in the field (“Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis”).

Comet would have hit Greenland by the way, with many pieces falling apart and hitting North America. This would have destabilized the entire ice shield across that area.
Glasgow has the friendliest folk!

I was just visiting and some delightful older Glaswegian ladies were seating next to me at dinner and noticed I was eating alone.

Next thing I know, I (nearly 30 years old) am accepting their (mid-late 50s) invite to go to speakeasy they had reservations for. Glaswegians are no joke. Such a fun night. People make the place.
Not a big fan of modern art, but I've a soft spot for Gilbert and George, one of the first to create art that literally was shit, or at least incorporated it. :)

Plus they lived in an area of London that was pretty rough back in the day, long before it was trendy.

These days their work has been swamped by a tidal wave (including sharks, and other creatures in formaldehyde...) but they were among the pioneers.
Food and building material would still need to commute, and the amount of energy it represents probably can't be decreased enough to make dense cities a good thing for climate change.
The damages from the opioid epidemic are almost entirely due to the unpredictable quality of street drugs and, especially, the resulting fentanyl overdoses. Opioids have some toxic effects even without those overdoses, but the resulting deaths are more than an order of magnitude smaller. (People rarely die from constipation and hearing loss.) If you want to reduce the human cost of the opioid epidemic, you will favor legalization so that opioid addicts can safely obtain their drugs with known purity, and people who taint the drug supply with unpredictable poisons can be found and brought to justice.

On the other hand, if you want to reduce the economic cost of healthcare by killing opioid addicts with accidental overdoses, you may not be persuaded. But I am not on your side.
Curious if anyone used a GPU-enabled Kubernetes cluster for something similar? I recently set one up. The only downside was an inability to assign fractional GPUs to tasks, so concurrent tasks were necessarily limited to the discrete number of GPUs available to k8s
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>Imagine how weird it would sound if people started asking money to volunteer in soup kitchens.

That's basically what NGOs are...
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SF has a lottery system. With the wrong stroke of luck, your child can be damned to hours of commuting across the city every day, just to go to a crappy school, when a "good" one might be across the street.

That's an extreme example, and in the worst case scenario there are plenty of good private schools to send your children. But choosing to live in SF comes with such a set of pros and cons that many parents of school-age children who have a choice choose to live outside of it.
This might be a dumb question but how does a comet reach 110,000mph? From an explosion + slingshotting off gravity?
Except initial trials of MDMA, LSD, and psilocybin in combination with guided therapy show outcomes that the therapy alone just isn't getting.
Twitter... I was thinking it's is dead long time ago..

Who seriously want to be on those sandbox platforms ?

#cia #mi5
Kinda misleading data IMO.

For example Philadelphia proper is 141.7 mi² and Phoenix proper is 517 mi².
A lot of families part of the the Philadelphia area live just outside the city limits.
Interesting. As someone who considers making an open source app with a tip jar like that I would be very interested in hearing how much that actually nets you if you want to share that info (Maybe via PM if you prefer)
I've been working on a roguelike on and off for (checks watch) about twenty years now.

When I started I was an avid Angband player. I had just gotten my first laptop computer and was frustrated by how difficult it was to play using the limited keyboard without a full numeric keypad. The main problem is that the default Angband keyset uses up almost all of the letters for all of the different verbs: quaff, read, cast, pray, wave, aim, throw, etc. (There is an alternate keyset based on Vi, but I could never internalize the "arrow keys".)

It was especially frustrating because, like Amit notes here, most verbs only apply to a few items. You can't read a potion or quaff a scroll, so allocating two separate keys to those actions is redundant. So in a fit of pique, I decided I would make my own roguelike with a single "use" command that could use all kinds of items.

I did learn something interesting about usability in the process. One nice feature of Angband's keyset is that it's harder to accidentally use the wrong item. If you intend to quaff a potion but accidentally pick an inventory slot containing a scroll, nothing happens. The specific verb commands act like a sort of redundancy check for the operation. But, overall, I think having a single use command is better.

This is orthogonal to whether the verb or noun comes first. I've just reduces the number of verbs by collapsing many of them into a single multi-purpose "use". I've gone through several iterations of the UI for the game and I'm still on the fence as to whether it makes more sense to select the item or the operation first. It's a little tricky in a roguelike because you usually need to select the item from something: either your inventory, equipment, or on the ground.

So if you want to drink a potion from your backpack, it could be any of:

- Use -> inventory -> potion

- Inventory -> use -> potion

- Inventory -> potion -> use

The first option is good most of the time because the player does know what action they want to perform. But the other two are good because they give the UI a chance to show the player the inventory before they make a selection. The first option feels like a stab in the dark where if you don't know what's in your inventory, you don't know if you have anything to use in the first place.

Of course, if the UI always passively shows the inventory, that problem goes away. So the visual design affects the order that operations might make the most sense. It's a hard problem.
How much energy does it take to actually transport food into the cities from farmland? I remember reading that the amount of resources it takes is laughably small, especially when your lettuce is coming from the other side of the country anyway.

But if you don't build in the city, you have to build outside of the city. Does it really take more resources to build a large housing complex than it takes to build an entire suburban neighborhood?
The Chinese mow down protestors with tanks. They are well on their way to developing an Orwellian surveillance state where people are afraid to dissent. They are building modern day concentration camps for minorities. They are using political prisoners as living organ banks to be murdered and disassembled as soon as their parts are needed for a more desirable patient.

I don't think Chick-Fil-A is on the same level because some of their money goes to republicans but I don't give them my money either.

Furthermore sharing all of my morals isn't an apt requirement for concluding someone has morals. I and a republican can disagree on gay marriage while sharing contempt and horror or organleggers building concentration camps.
You're ignoring the fact that the water has to go somewhere. Where is it going to go? Are you willing to flood your neighbors? Are your neighbors going to let you?
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Ahha good call.
in this case, then it makes much more sense.
Thanks for sharing. I think these metrics explain a lot of the differences of opinion on zoning laws/density, management/tolerance of crime, transportation modes, etc.
It seems like email is staying, too.
So, it does messaging, pub/sub and discovery/orchestration?

Kind of like a Redis, possibly with an etcd - all massaged into a structured/uniform Api? Is that about right?

Is it only for small (ie: overengineered) setups - or is the idea that it can grow to handle millions? of messages etc?

Normally "does it scale?" isn't very interesting - but in this case it would seem to be redundant overhead if it does not let you grow to a lot of concurrent traffic?