skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was in school, the problem was the way it was taught. There was no real explanation of anything or questioning that would lead to learning the fundamentals until the higher grades, when kids were already expected to understand things that they'd never been taught.

They could have taught us about arithmetic, but instead it was "Just stare at this table until your attention wanders off, then daydream until the bell rings and hope by chance some bit of it sticks in your memory."

No phonetics or linguistics to explain how things were spelled, instead just "Write this word over and over until your hand cramps, then do the same with the next one." As if by getting enough hand cramps you would magically learn how language works.

Just recite "In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue." Never any question into why the Portuguese, with their lead on exploration and colonization, did not end up with a bigger overseas empire than the British. As if that should be obvious as long as you can recite that rhyme and get the date right.

If the teachers are around my age, most of them were probably taught the same way, which explains why they wouldn't understand math.
How Do People in China Learn English?
I am happy for you all!
Very important point. Democracy can destroy the Republic, the law must always be above the will of the masses. Electoral college is key to preserving the freedoms individuals enjoy. Whats wrong with a Federation?
> ‘foo isn’t a function in CL. But in emacs lisp, it might be.

In Common Lisp it might be.

CL-USER 72 > (funcall (first '(sin cos)) pi)
1.2246063538223773D-16

In Common Lisp all symbols denoting functions can be called via FUNCALL and APPLY.

Thus one can also pass symbols for functions to higher order functions like MAPCAR:

CL-USER 73 > (mapcar 'sin '(12 34 56))
(-0.53657294 0.5290827 -0.521551)

CL-USER 75 > (mapcar (lambda (f arg) (funcall f arg))
'(sin cos tan)
'(1.3d0 1.4d0 1.5d0))
(0.963558185417193D0 0.16996714290024104D0 14.101419947171719D0)

CL-USER 76 > (mapcar 'funcall
'(sin cos tan)
'(1.3d0 1.4d0 1.5d0))
(0.963558185417193D0 0.16996714290024104D0 14.101419947171719D0)

A restriction of Common Lisp is that local lexical functions can't be called via symbols. But anything defined by DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, DEFGENERIC uses symbols as names and those can be used by FUNCALL and APPLY.

> basics like (require ‘foo) leaves much to be desired.

REQUIRE isn't much used in Common Lisp in the last decades. Individual implementations may still support it as a calling interface to some more complex machinery to locate code. Much of the current code uses ASDF to describe and load code files.
I miss the classic Mac OS. From time to time I turn on one of my classic Macs and use Mac OS 8 or 9 for a while, going down memory lane. While the classic Mac OS was unstable due to its lack of both memory protection and preemptive multitasking, there's a certain simplicity to the interface, as well as a near-universal adherence to the Apple Human Interface Guidelines by most applications, that is unfortunately missing in today's desktop computing environments. Modern GUI software has a lot of "bling", but I feel that Apple got it right in the 1980s and 1990s, with less emphasis on slick, shiny designs and more emphasis on the substance of building usable interfaces. I wish more developers would learn from Apple's usability guidelines from the 1980s and 1990s.
That statement is a corollary to “A federation must make some attempt to treat its members as equals.” While not necessarily true, deviating too far from it starts to stretch the definition of a federation.
After the backlash they got after opening up the borders with Bulgaria and especially Romania it would be political suicide to open up for Albania.
> Urbit is a program

So what exactly makes it an OS? JVM is a virtual machine but we don't consider it an OS. So why not just call Urbit a virtual machine?

> What percentage of programmers even know how the internet works? A fair number of programmers have a decent sense for some corner of the modern computing world, but even seasoned professionals don't usually know the full structure of the digital world. How does BGP interact with the IP protocol? How do you make sure fsync() actually did what you wanted it to do? How does Linux overcommit_memory work? etc.

Seeing how Urbit runs on OS's such as Linux, uses TCP/IP for networking over the Internet, which itself relies on all those fun WAN protocols like BGP to make it work, it's not really solving those problems, just hiding it beneath another layer of complexity and terminology.
Yet it's still user's data, and if it's under GDPR article 14 fall into place (you have to inform them that you are using that data, how, for how long, ...)

https://gdpr.eu/article-14-personal-data-not-obtained-from-d...
<del>Given our current status as a superpower,</del> I’m not so quick to judge federalism as an “obviously bad idea”. The balance between the House and Senate is a compromise that prevents the federal government from running roughshod over individual states, while still giving the larger states more of a voice. Federalism, in theory, improves the ability of local people to govern their local affairs, and treats states as semi-sovereign. The Senate is essential as a check on federal power over statehood.
you'll have all your data and programs on one machine

Which machine? The laptop I'm typing this on? It's too small and too unreliable to hold all my data. Some cloud server? Who owns it? How would this be different from storing my data on Google or Apple servers? Some network of machines BitTorrent style? Something else entirely?

What do you mean "no ads"? Internet is funded by ads. Do I pay some monthly fee? How much? How reliable will it be? Why should I trust you with my data? If no fees and no ads, how will this be funded?
Did you enjoy auto installing candy crush?
> Keep in mind that this is an art project, not a serious proposal, so take it easy with the emails about the sacred soil of Texas.
I haven't tried this app, but lsof is usually very helpful at finding things like this on Linux.
I always felt like this is exactly what happened with Brendan Eich. There was an expectation that he would be authentic about his reasons for supporting Prop 8 in 2008, and his authentic position was that he be allowed privacy regarding his personal views on the matter.

This tension was not resolvable.
Yeah that was my take too, they include some part of the sensor readings after the load was removed. Probably to show the temperature decay back to no-load conditions...
Can you elaborate? I have been using Windows 10 for years on multiple computers and yet to see a single ad. I haven't taken any steps to disable them either.
We're now a full generation since the west "won the cold war" and I think it's just now that our "wartime" mentalities we're ready to think past simple binary communism-x-capitalism binaries.

For example, "privatisation." In Russia & parts of the west, privatisation was a major 90s policy.

But like everything else, details can outweigh labels. One privatisation is not like another.

There's a massive difference between encouraging/allowing entrepreneurship, & "selling" state sectors to "private" owners.

I use scare quotes there because the "sales" were generally paid for with state-backed loans and the "private" owners are either multinationals or "oligarchs" as we now know the "private" Russian buyers.

The former is closer to a capitalist ideal, but doesn't affect the "key industries, at least not fast. The latter is instant, but it also involves something approximating giving away a state's wealth for free.

One big hindsight problem Soviet privatisation encountered is a running theme in modern "capitalism:" the failure/inability of states to get value for/from it's owned assets & wealth.

Neither western economies, Soviet ones or post-soviet ones have a tool in their toolbox for this. Norway's oil fund might be the one exception.
As an outsider, the easiest hack to me seems to break down states in your team’s colors to multiple states. Fight fire with fire.
> It doesn’t make sense why banks would deny fraud claims,

So that they don't have to pay out those claims.

It doesn't make sense why that is allowed though.
Would killing work with docker containers as well?
> I do not have direct ML experience at the moment. I’ve only run simpler regressions. I was making an educated guess as to the tech which may emerge, and it doesn’t seem far-fetched since it probably would not require language comprehension or higher order reasoning. I would love someone who’s worked with ML to weigh in.

Aha. Indeed. I would prefer to have someone actively working in ML to weigh in as well.
This is just blog spam of this reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/e35i4i/apparently...

Which contains a bunch of questionable statements, such as "this was brought up by the brick and mortar stores that they were doing simple clock changes on customer devices during the upgrade challenge to get around it"

This doesn't really make any sense because windows connects to a Microsoft server to validate keys, so it would presumably be possible to not allow the keys to unlock entirely different software, regardless of the PC's time.
That is part of the reason I like this approach. If it's too complicated to fit on the outside of the box, maybe the device is doing more shady stuff than it should be and needs to turn it down!
It's kind of a shame that it doesn't include the US territories, since it does say 'the United States', and not just 'the states of the United States' as the headline.

Also, can we get (2012) added to the end of the headline?
> 1992 and 1993, when the vast majority of internet content was produced by people not expecting any monetary reward.

I don't have any figures - that would be interesting - but I guess even today the 'vast majority of internet content' is produced not expecting any monetary reward. It depends how you count the stuff what exact figure you'd arrive at. 99.9% seems closer to what it might be than 50%. Maybe I'm super-wrong about that.
> Given our current status as a superpower, I’m not so quick to judge federalism as an “obviously bad idea”.

This is going to make one hell of an argument for Chinese communism in a few years.
Biogas you can also use it to run vehicles it has cleaner exhaust emissions compared to other fuels Gasoline/Diesel.
Farmer could and probably will run their tractors off Biogas. Because farmers like to experiment, its available and decision paths to get it into action are short.
I recommend the old bitsquid blog as well - it gives a good snapshot of the thinking that goes into creating game engines these days.

http://bitsquid.blogspot.com
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Also Belarus is benefiting mostly from 1) refining Russian oil, which they buy at lower prices, 2) gambling (which is illegal in Russia, so Russians go to Belarus) and 3) reselling European food to Russia to bypass Russian anti-sanctions.

Their economy is quite shitty and simply parasitizing on Russia.
Also most people in the west don't worry about overloading their home's electrical supply by connecting too many devices. That is equivalent to a gigabit connection.

A 100Mbit connection would be equivent to maybe a 4kW home supply in a temperate climate - probably enough for the average user but only just you'd still have to watch your usage.

Additionally the real benefit to FTTH is not bandwidth but ping which is noticeable. And no sane operator is installing FTTH with sub-gigabit capacity because it's a complete waste of time and money.
For my first install of Slackware in 1995 or 96, I downloaded 40 floppy disk images and copied them onto floppy disks at University, to install it on a friend's Pentium computer. The very last one ended up corrupted. That was part of the X11 "package". So we ended up without any GUI. But at least we could play Doom on the console!
Possibly FrameMaker. I read later editions of the series from my local library ages ago, and IIRC there's a note at the beginning stating so.
World-first mobile phone detection cameras rolled out in Australia
For context, here is the same thread from 6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6438320
Ah. The key's a bit confusing.
Your comment reminds me of the situation of game engines and 3D graphics APIs a few years ago before Vulkan and Metal were released. Too high-level for developers who want control (and understand how the hardware actually works), but too low-level for developers who want to minimize complexity.

Now, Vulkan and Metal offer the detailed control for library developers, and everyone else uses some higher-level wrapper.

Does it make sense to split the file system in a similar way? I guess the main challenge is avoiding too many competing wrappers.
Love the state names. Far more varied and vivid than current state names.
> I do work for Tlon, if that wasn't obvious.

This is at least your 4th, and potentially your 8th, comment on this story (at this point I can only tell what hour your posts were made in). Why did you wait so long to make this disclosure, and to the best of your knowledge who else in these comments works for this company?
....if you are an "organization" engaging in "professional or commercial activity." Doxing people for fun isn't covered by GDPR.
For example, one of our web apps regularly sends 'heartbeats' to the server. It's difficult to track this across different pages.

But there's definitely overhead, so I wouldn't do it unless necessary.
But with that logic you'd also have to shutter half the other museums in Europe, e.g. British museum is full of stolen stuff.
The idea of getting people from Tucson to accept living in a state called "Phoenix" is hilarious to me.
Neat idea. Maybe we could give it a name depicting its function, like say, a house of representatives...
I feel the entire opposite, this distribution ensures that all states are dealt in a equal manner by the federal government. India the seats in the upper legislature are distributed unequally between the States, causing smaller states to be marginalized, which could also cause issues. Bigger states could align together and push measures that are detrimental to the intesests of the smaller states.
How did it make sense at the time but not now? The entire point of the senate is to treat each state as an equal entity regardless of population. What changed?
Simple examples may be useful. Exploring them, proving stuff about them it is how one may carve a foothold to solve a harder problem.

Example: The Josephus Problem - Numberphile https://youtube.com/watch?v=uCsD3ZGzMgE&t=86
Sorry you went through the trouble of what is called "setting up a development environment" and yes, I wish you could simply start coding and distributing programs as soon as you boot up a computer, but that is simply not the case anymore. Not with python, not with ruby and not with go.
I think this person is mistaken on Orange. Orange County in New York is named after Orange in the Netherlands. Orange County in California is named after Oranges to sound tropical.
Not American just a student of its politics.

As you are free to move, the argument some get more influence due to geographical distribution of vote seems a weak argument.

And the original intent is really to let the small state to come in as they would not come (or fight against it). The 17th amendment is too complicated to talk here.
Sorry for taking your time as a moderator, but given that quite a few top level comments and the parent one for mine imply plays around morale by basically any person eating meat, I felt that point of view was underrepresented.

By no means this was also a personal attack against anyone having enought intelligence to read it.
Was it a wet fast or a dry fast?

> According to the doctor it's because we're not supposed to keep a full schedule while fasting.

That's a standard answer that likely does not draw on his medical knowledge. People pass out even when not fasting (women more so than man, something to do with vagus nerve IIRC), and thousands of people do long wet fasts while keeping a full schedule with no ill effects.
Well states don’t have the power to do that. So not a very “easy hack”.
Love Airmash. I started playing it again on Thanksgiving day after being away from it for over a year and it's been a blast!
The current state names are pretty diverse, tbh. My home state's name's etymolygy (probably) comes from Basque!
I think this is a pretty generous interpretation given how old and random the sources are.
thanks for these insights
do you have a source we could refer to that explains what you are saying?
> I think it’s pretty crazy California and Texas have the same number of senate votes as Rhode Island.

A statistic that has stuck in my head is the prediction [0] that in 2040, 70% of the US population will be represented by 30 Senators, while 30% of the population will be represented by 70 Senators.

0: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/11/28/b...
> This is a very Americocentric view.

Well it’s how the European Union works as well. Think of each US state as an individual State in the EU of that helps you understand it.
It is a well known fact, so if I think you should elaborate what Windows version you use, what country etc.

Though I am expecting you are throwing a bait and when someone gives an example you will respond that that obvious advertising is not ads
I wonder if people understand how powerful the American Constitution is? Pure Democracies is essentially mob rule and has been tried and failed since ancient times
Great story ..

Is there any more web games communities like this game?
Why was the backlash for Romania greater than the one for Bulgaria?
Oh I didn’t see that! Please mark this as duplicate then. Thanks!
This idea is about as realistic as breaking up Germany into its constituent Länder so they'd get more EU commissioners.
The problem is the very existence of the electoral college. If the president was elected by totaling all the votes 1 per person in the nation, then there would be no red state and blue state issues.
Getting away from social media is relatively easy. Just delete your accounts. People who warn you about how you’ll miss out etc. are very rarely those who have actually deleted them. You’ll have more time, feel better about not supporting Facebook and other awful companies, and likely have improved mental health. Deleted Facebook a longtime ago and I’ve had to say “I don’t use it” when someone wanted to connect only twice since then. Anyone still worried about it. Just disable or delete your account without telling anyone - take a download of your data first if you like - you can always go back if you miss it.
I never used it, but I remember being blown away at the time by the screenshots and advertized features.
Hands-On Machine Learning with Tensorflow.js
Game of life simulated in the game of life
Is it acceptable to ask people to put away their phones? Anyone have ideas on how to do this diplomatically?
Have you used a heat sink in your tests or did you used a barebones board?
What you've written here sounds a lot like the utter pablum that comes from the marketing literature of every fad diet on this planet. Besides, how CEOs behave and what is sane are not overlapping circles if you're trying to draw a Venn diagram relating the two...
Slack? In every company I know that uses it, it was blessed by IT. It’s hard to adopt for a subset of users in the company.
A thread from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5220171

A bit more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5217434
What basis do you have for saying that Gandhi was a 'horrible individual'? And I take it from the way you said that, that you see yourself as a far finer human being, is that right? (Maybe that second question is an improper one, but it does seem raised by how and what you wrote.)
The whole point of the Electoral College is that it gives smaller states an advantage over larger ones.

Imagining other scenarios is great fun, but the point needs to be stated - the Electoral College isn't failing when someone loses the popular vote and wins the election. That outcome is the sole purpose of having an electoral college. "Preserves the historic structure and function of the Electoral College." is almost precisely wrong.

Equal-population states is a very fundamental change to the system. The advantages and disadvantages columns aren't engaging with the actual issues surrounding the electoral college.
Do you have any examples of federations that don't work that way, i.e., that have purely proportional representation of all the constituent entities?
Tesla's Cybertruck Aerodynamics Do Flow Smoothly, as per a CFD Analysis
Aliens won’t know that women have vaginas, thanks to NASA
But in that case the real national divide, rural vs cities, would be won in favor of the blues.
There are many countries that are not federations and are functioning fine, in practice. (E.g.: France, UK, Japan, many others...)
I am delighted to see that Lars Ingebrigtsen has not changed a bit since I subscribed to the Gnus mailing list.
Which is another way to say that smaller state want a way to undemocratically leech out things from more populous areas.

Bigger states aligning and pushing measures that are in their interests rather than in smaller states interests is called democracy.

The opposite is called privilege based on state of residence.
Despite being a privacy freak this is what puts me off the most about Windows 10. If everything else was perfect I could tolerate the telemetry in certain use-cases... but the number one problem isn't even the telemetry, it's that the entire operating system is essentially one giant ad designed to waste your time at every possible opportunity.
Touché. I still like federalism, though.
> It is a well known fact,

Many things are well-known while not actually being facts. This may be one of them. (At the very least, the amount of advertising is enormously exaggerated)
> So, as one does, an aerospace engineer decided to check for himself and ran the Cybertruck through a CFD simulation (computational fluid dynamics — a computer version of a wind tunnel). Here's what he found out.

> One note to point out is that Martin decided not to share a coefficient of drag number as his assumptions of the wheels and fenders could have affected his results.

> Regardless, Martin's results are impressive and have sparked an ongoing debate on Reddit. You can also view his images and comments via Martin's Instagram page.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Infographics/comments/e2095o/cfd_an...

https://www.instagram.com/p/B5ODYyBBUgh/
Mine is a Dell Inspiron 13 7375 2-in-1, and it has a Ryzen 2500U APU. It is a year old this month.
In the past when people created arbitrary unquantifiable categories and then proceeded to put people in them based off of unempirical/irrational voodoo it was called superstition (ex. Astrology). Involve a computer in your rituals and now it's AI.
The scrolljacking + history pollution of this site is basically a crime.

Also, is there anything more useless than a slide deck without the actual presentation? Just have to kinda guess all the blanks eh? I normally wouldn't even comment but I find data oriented design to be the best and love to see other takes/critiques/methods but this is useless as is.
Elon's comment:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1200976907417702400

> With extreme effort, Cybertruck might hit a 0.30 drag coefficient, which would be insane for a truck. Requires tweaking many small details.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1201020290853044224

> Laminar air flow due to a completely smooth bottom is underappreciated

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1201027408221966337

> Overall shape is good for low drag coefficient. Matters a lot exactly how you trip airflow at edges & guide air around wheels, like an invisible sculpture.
Interesting. I didn't know that, but it sounds plausible.