skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in TIP. Hanging out with smart, kind kids every summer was the highlight of my year. Lotta great memories. Public school...not so much.
I did a little digging into the source of that statistic. The statistic compares the number of 8th graders who failed Algebra 1 before the change to the number of 9th graders who failed Algebra 1 after the change.

What we really want to know is how many students have passed Algebra 1 by the end of 9th grade. Unfortunately, the statistic in the article is useless.
I did an install of Windows 10 Home (or whatever it's called) about six months ago and the offline account option was there then (albeit hard to spot, the page is designed to look like it's mandatory but there was a skip option). Unless they've removed it in the past six months it should be there.

Edit: As a cousin post mentions, this option may only be available if the computer is not connected to the internet. Which is annoying as heck.
They are also killing all other tools with which users can control their browser.

For example, the new Manifest V3 was created with the intention of making true ad-blocking impossible.

Google today is just evil and plainly manipulative.

Google is now just like Facebook.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA02VIRZY0o
Yeah I don't get that. Often online SJW and others accuse people of being a troll if they aren't being agreed with. That's why the universal principal of Free Speech should be observed if you want to keep it. I continue to support nuclear energy whenever I can. We need far more research into Fusion and new generations of fission reactors that -can't- go critical and the other side continues to use unfounded nimby-ism to prevent new reactors from being built.
Huawei May Soon Have Google Back: Boost for Mate 30 Sales
Sure.

But if you choose to work less, you probably shouldn't be surprised that you're not achieving as much.
Never mind what the man says. Judge him by the source of the video. Brilliant.

For those who have not seen the video, these are the ten core principles of Classical Liberalism he lists:

1) Liberty as the primary political value
2) Individualism
3) Skepticism about power
4) Rule of Law
5) Civil Society
6) Spontaneous Order
7) Free Markets
8) Toleration
9) Peace
10) Limited Government

In the video he gives a short explanation of each of the above.
Any US based experiments?
I don't understand how laser light, even from a small 5 mW laser pointer, can get the membrane to move. My first thought was that it wasn't moving and that the signal was from the photoelectric effect, but they have a section in the paper testing just that and it turns out it is the membrane moving. I doubt it's expanding from heat since it's such a low power and it reacts fast enough to simulate speech, but how does it work?
It is very difficult to explain something which was obvious to you. Often you would not know how to decompose it, and above all, you would not know the pain points the others encounter, and why those points are painful. Teaching is a trade, after all.
Paid for troll farms are waste of money when the general public already agrees with the party. Thus, many parties have no reason to do this when members of the general public are willing to do it for free.
I have noticed that 9 to 5 works best for most middle managers and other gossip oriented staff.

As for the productive workers; they should be allowed to work at the time of their own choosing.
Thanks Feross!

GitRoyalty is an experiment that allows OSS project maintainers to hide a package’s manifest file (or build script) behind a monthly subscription. This way users will have to subscribe in order to install the package using dependency managers like NPM. The idea is that with low prices and the power of numbers, both popular and transitive OSS dependencies can sustain development instead of relying on a few enterprise sponsors that could influence the direction of the projects.

After setting up an Individual or Team subscription, users are given a license key which is used to install a package with their dependency manager:

npm i git+https://<license>@gitroyalty.com/user/repo#semver:^2.0.1

* GitRoyalty works for projects with permissive licenses like MIT or Apache 2.0, but not copyleft licenses like GPL (which most companies like Microsoft avoid completely)

* While this isn’t FOSS, it keeps the best parts of open source in place (open GitHub collaboration, permissive licensing) while incentivizing users to pay contributors

* Although some wildly successful OSS projects can sustain from donations, only core contributors get paid anything, when in reality there are hundreds or thousands of other developers. GitRoyalty distributes subscription earnings to all developers based on their contributions.

* The barrier to subscribe and install a package is quite low, especially after adding a payment method once. Login with GitHub, hit Subscribe, install. All subscriptions come with a 2 week free trial and are charged in aggregate the 1st of every month to keep processing fees low. https://imgur.com/3WpwBUz

I just set up my own 2.6k star GitHub project with GitRoyalty and have 6 subscribers so far, for a total of ~$10/month for me and my contributors.

https://gitroyalty.com/saoudrizwan/Disk

I hope to get more subscribers as I release more updates to my project, since any previous versions before GitRoyalty will always be free (due to the fact that previous manifest/build scripts will be in git history).

Let me know what you think! I’d love for more people to try this out with even completely new projects so we can see if this experiment has potential. Obviously this won’t work for everyone but I hope it can be a solution for projects that desperately need funding and can’t find sponsors.
The crowdsourcing benefits not just cloudflare but any potential future targets of the patent troll.
Interestingly Apple Pay works when iPhone dies
The primary use of gold, AIUI, is jewelry in India.
> One thing I find crazy is the very same institutions that are generally very left leaning, decry income inequality, and espouse generally liberal views then turn around and having tuition costs that having been rising at rates so far above inflation.

It's weird you chose to make this comment on an article about the University of Chicago, the home of Milton Friedman, Supply-side economics, "no safe spaces"[1] and so on.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/08/...
Microsoft previews its Fluid framework
Let’s keep it real, unless you’re a 20 something relatively attractive female, nobody is going to “mentor” you worth a damn.
Ours picks time up from across the border with no way to adjust that
Query2vec: Search query expansion with query embeddings
I put this in another comment, but I think you're thinking 'a' is a category, but it's an object in a category. The type for a functor (in Haskell) is Hask -> Hask, which is represented by the star notation Sniffnoy uses. That is, it sends objects of Hask to objects of Hask. The object mapping for a functor in Haskell is defined by its "data" or "type" definition.

The notation "a -> f a" means a function that sends elements of 'a' to elements of 'f a', where 'a' is an object of the category Hask. (Functors don't look into the objects at the element level.)
Not it's not, imagine a world where we have steady, dependable power with nuclear power sources and supplemental power with solar and wind where it makes sense. I don't know a single nuclear power fan who doesn't also support other relatively clean power sources as well. All I ever hears is "but radiation!" and not much more to argue against it. We have perfectly sufficient ideas on containing the byproducts.
What are you basing that on?

My sister is a 3rd-grade teacher and I'm not sure I would be equipped to handle 30 children without lots of training. Teaching someone how to teach 3rd-grade math is not that difficult. Teaching someone to start building positive learning habits with 8-9-year-olds sounds incredibly complicated.

I might be reading into your post too much but it seems like you think STEM grads are superior to non-stem grads. I don't buy that. STEM grads have a specialty that is in demand in the labor market. It doesn't make STEM grads better then non-STEM grads.
Now, with last update, the missed script was added and was corrected also the "no such file or directory" error (was related to security exception of "unidentified downloaded software", and Finder returned me a "private" link, not he real one)
So I rewrote it: now seems work
Lose half the battery capacity in cold weather. EVs are less efficient at highway speeds. Two things rural half ton trucks need. Add to that the loss of carrying capacity due to the battery weight. I'm not sure if motors and battery weigh a similar amount as a drivetrain and fuel, I hope so.

If it's only city travel it's fine but that's not what a truck was made for.

I'm all for electric vehicles and I hope the technology advances but people need to be realistic.

It's like the customer service industry if all the comments are compliments how do you know what is wrong?
Not looking for agreement. I think there is an empirical, mathematical case to be made for this 'specialness' of the mind that is beyond what computation and randomness can give us.

Another way to state this is in terms of the halting problem. Halting oracles are possible and detectable. Halting oracles can authenticate the Gödel sentences for all finite, consistent formal systems.

Looking at the logical induction page, I'm not sure it offers anything beyond Solomonoff. If they have a computable method, then it will be deficient compared to Solomonoff induction. Leonid Levin published something called randomness conservation in 1984, which implies computers cannot learn math, or any other consistent logic, beyond what they are initially fed with. So, given an initial set of consistent axioms, a computer cannot come up with anything new and consistent.

Anyways, bottom line of what I'm saying is halting oracles are possible and empirically detectable. We should entertain the possibility that the human mind is a halting oracle, and set about researching that idea. We are making no progress with our assumption the mind is computational.
A stretchable stopwatch lights up human skin
A single article from July 2006, at the peak of the XP era. This was months before the November 8th release of Windows Vista to manufacturing.
Now, with last update, the missed script was added and also was corrected the "No such file or directory" error (was related to security exception unidentified "downloaded" software, and Finder returned me a "private" link, not the real one)
So I rewrote the script: now seems work

The new release file is glChAoSP_140.zip for all the O.S.
Trump team has plan for national parks: Amazon, food trucks, no senior discounts
>Unfortunately very few of these may actually relate to management but at some point you reach that level of seniority and then the company says "here's a team, I'm sure you'll be fine" and leaves it at that very little training or coaching you just now have to learn on the job.

Thats my experience.

Being a manager of role x is not the same as being in role x.

Becoming a manager is a career change.
Thank you so much for your incredible public service. I wish I could offer more than words. Lots of organisations discuss their values, but when push comes to shove, I don't believe many would even consider, let alone commit resources to, something that has such positive externalities.
This was our attempt at contributing to a solution, not sure it solves the whole problem. Patents do serve a purpose, so you don't want to throw out the baby, it's as much an easily-abusable litigation system. Enough random behavior and long-term strategic behavior may make trolls think twice before setting up shop if it's not an easy thing.
> A hybrid vehicle can just as easily benefit from this, such as the Prius.

If you momentarily ignore the fact that its ultimate energy source is gasoline and focus only on the regen system a hybrid is an electric vehicle, just one that (sadly) lacks a plug.
The Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV can do this too (replace diesel with gasoline)
I went to a Grammar school and am finishing a PhD. Pretty damn nerdy. These gifted wonder kids you speak of... you reckon they aren't going to bully? I was selected at the age of 11 and told how magnificent I was. Growing up was still tough.

"It'll all be ok if we keep away from the riff-raff" doesn't do anything but say "we can only really afford to educate X amount of kids". This lot are brick layers.

Of course who am I talking to? I don't know. Might be somebody who thinks gifted means Daddy has a yacht.
Stellar Burns over 55B Tokens Worth $47B USD
Fake news like always. The high achievers need to work with other high achievers to be productive. This happens naturally in the free market and real world (FANG).
The amazing MS Excel artist mentioned can be found here:

https://pasokonga.com/
Just because they're small and weak doesn't mean bad data policies can't cause harm. If you have 100 customers you're the little guy, but if your 100 customers are political activists in authoritarian states, it's kind of a big deal if you leave a .csv file containing their personal info on your http server, isn't it?

In the end whether a penalty is just depends on the significance of the offense and whether the bad actor has reformed. The GDPR does give regulators discretion over whether to issue fines or take legal action, they don't immediately wreck people.

People need to remember that while laws are very rigid in drafting, they typically grant a lot of flexibility to the humans that enforce them... and humans often just opt to ignore them. So you can't just look at the law in terms of what it appears to read as, you have to also look at how it's applied in the real world. That can of course mean that a law like the GDPR has unintended negative impact, but it also means that sometimes the impact is not the negative you'd assume from reading it.
Yeah, the high achievers and connected. Fuck the rest.
Will you file for reimbursement of attorney fees? (Octane Fitness, LLC v. ICON Health & Fitness, Inc.)
According to the Austrian School of economics, a thing has to be valuable or seen as a store of value before it can be used as a medium of exchange. This podcast has a great explanation of this: https://stephanlivera.com/episode/76/.

Why would you spend bitcoin if you didn't have to if you believed it’s going to be a lot more valuable 5 or 10 years from now?

Famously, a guy spent 10,000 BTC to buy two pizzas during the early days; that’s over $94 million USD at today's prices.
Yes, it was backwards-compatible for at least one DB migration step. That is, you can roll forward / back the database schema without breaking other code, or roll forward / back the code without affecting the DB.

This does take more planning and gradual deployment, but saves the day when it matters.
Let's say there is a city (somewhere in the northern half of the US) that has seen better days, due to the rise and fall of local industry in the 20th century, and there is a town/suburb that has much higher property values and better schools. The students in the suburban school(s) are much more likely to go to college than in the city schools. The suburb is nearly all white, with lots of parents with well-paying STEM jobs, while the city is not. De facto segregation. Which public school is "ordinary"?
If you're talking about its apparent size in the sky -- just a guess but I think this one is relevant: [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_diameter
Pick a major which ensures your financial survival. Spending 100k on a degree which cannot ensure survival is a hell of a way to learn that lesson.
The frustrating part of BMW is that I'd like to replace my 325i sooner rather than later with an all electric vehicle. My only choice in that price category seems to be Tesla. How much longer do we have to wait for the Germans to put forth their mid-priced line of all electrics? The i8 is just ridiculously priced.
im trying to do the exact opposite
While I can understand why autonomous cars can improve the efficiency of the market, unless Uber is able to gain semi-exclusive access self driving cars alone I don’t understand how this will fix their economics.

Let’s pretend Waymo has 100% safe, easy producible, street legal self driving cars available today and everyone else was clearly several years behind. I see this would play out in a few ways:

1) Would Waymo actually want to spend billions to buy enough cars to maintain their own fleet in most cities in the world/US so that you could quickly and reliably hail a self driving car (and spend on marketing / referrals to grow marketshare). Would Waymos/Google investors actually allow them to lose this much money to start a new business that has historically been so unprofitable?

2) Would Waymo just sell cars to consumers/rental car companies, who would then deploy the vehicles to uber/lyft. In this scenario wouldn’t the cars be even more price sensitive about automatically switching between driving for different platforms and optimizing for the cars time. Wouldn’t consumer still open their uber/Lyft apps, check for the lowest price and then take the cheapest ride? Isn’t this fundamentally the same economics issue (unless the rides perhaps get so cheap that consumer no longer bother to check)
It's fine, no need to come from the top, thanks for the explanation. I mean if you want to take it from the top I'll read it really carefully, just saying I'm grateful that you both even take the time to explain what you guys already have.

I'm out of responses here on HN so I'll respond tomorrow.

I'm not a mathematician, so yeah I am a bit over my head.
Do we benefit from drawing lines between "cinema" and... whatever you might call a Marvel film? What do we call a Marvel film, if not "cinema"?

Further, why isn't anything at risk? Infinity War got about as close to real risk as any MCU film has so far, and I think if Mr. Scorsese watched that film he'd realize it's actually possible to create emotional drama within the context of a "Marvel Movie".

Also, are we really drawing the line arbitrarily at Marvel specifically? Where does "Joker" fit? Watchmen, The Dark Knight, Wonderwoman, 300, Scott Pilgrim, V for Vendetta? What about undeniably "Marvel" films like Logan, and Into the Spiderverse? Do we dismiss all media sourced from the pages of comics, or just the MCU specifically?

I ask both to make a rhetorical point, and because I genuinely don't understand. Mr. Scorsese writes this opinion piece like there's a shared understanding of what a "Marvel movie" is, but I don't know that there is such an understanding.
The OP isn't justifying the policy (you can decide whether it's justified), merely explaining one reason why a vendor would want to do it. Then providing examples of other vendors doing it.
I'd say there needs to be an easier/quicker way to fight the patent trolls in the court of law. The fees for the fight are exorbitant, leading the parties to instead make a settlement and the trolls "winning"
holy shit 'tis him!
I'm pretty sure DVB-T allows sending binary blobs as additional payload.
Does Cloudflare now plan to stand up to Google tracking everyone by eliminating the use of Google captcha?
I went looking for a high-quality scale on Amazon and almost all of them were either junk, smart devices, or both. Ended up buying a smart one that would at least work out of the box, but it's always possible I'll discover some core feature requires an app...
if uber, wasn't doing business on an uber scale. then maybe, instead of lighting money, they would be printing money. correct ideas, but wrong execution. but alas, a holoi polloi like me will enjoy the VC subsidized rides
> It's the lack of regeneration that causes ICE powered vehicles to waste energy,

Not just the lack of regen. ICEs waste energy while idling, as heat, noise, and vibration, and mechanical couplings like clutches and especially fluid couplings in automatic transmissions also waste energy. Automatic transmissions in particular are only 90%
mechanically efficient, on top of all the losses from the ICE.
Can you provide examples of what a stupid question is?

The PM's job is to communicate the project status with stakeholders. In my experience even the developers who are really good at this only do as well as a mediocre project manager. Their job is to pick out any risks or crises and mitigate them before they derail the project. If you are working with a great project manager your life as a developer gets much easier. Granted, if your project manager isn't on the ball, your in for a not fun time.
This site just takes articles (and proprietary graphics) from other sites and tries to steal clicks for itself.

The actual origin for this article is

https://cointelegraph.com/news/stellar-burns-over-55-billion...
They're cool. My dad had one. The Google ones do other things too so I prefer them.
Haha I see what you did there.
Same here. Worth it though
The surgical team analogy at the core of TMMM is totally incongruent with agile principles. The book espouses a ton of anti-agile (small a) ideas.
It's too late to edit; I'd like to add that another fundamental flaw of libertarianism is it always blames the job seeker. Despite macro-economic conditions, despite corruption, despite oppression, it always places the burden of economic problems on the lowest person with the least power. Your job was outsourced? It's your fault for not providing more value. The system is corrupt? Let's just ignore that; it's your fault for not providing more value.

In this way, Libertarians (of which I once was) are "useful idiots" for the ruling class-- it's always your fault for not serving the upper classes well enough.
This site just takes articles (and proprietary graphics) from other sites and tries to steal clicks for itself.

The actual (uncredited) origin for this article is Reuters. It's a word-for-word copy.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-markets-digital-cur...
If an issue is public everyone can comment on it until it is locked. I don't think there is another setting.
HomeKit doesn't let you "unlock" something without unlocking your device first.
Speaking as someone whose body is gradually breaking down, if I could wake up tomorrow in a computer headed for the stars, sign me up!
> They’re a forum with user generated content and ads. They’re undertaking a huge moderation effort already — trying to have their army of underpaid moderators also police facts is just a problem that can’t solved because lies are cheap to spread and expensive to refute.

That argument is unconvincing, because Facebook already does fact check ads and disallows ads that lie. Here is their policy [1]:

> Facebook prohibits ads that include claims debunked by third-party fact checkers or, in certain circumstances, claims debunked by organizations with particular expertise. Advertisers that repeatedly post information deemed to be false may have restrictions placed on their ability to advertise on Facebook. Find out more about Fact Checking on Facebook here.

The controversy is over Facebook's recent decision to exempt political ads from this fact checking.

Political ads are only a small part of Facebook's revenue, so it is very hard to believe that they have the resources to face check all the other ads but not to check the political ads.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/policies/ads/prohibited_content/mis...
The battery weight is balanced by the removal of the engine, transmission and gas tank/gas weight.