skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were a lot of IIGS's, schools purchased them in bulk. Plus, they were the machine to upgrade to, so a lot of die hard apple ][ users ended up on the GS.

The IIc+ is actually the last apple II created and wasn't particularly popular because it "split" the market by being a 8 bit computer which couldn't run the newer IIGS's/16-bit software. OTOH, it was clocked faster than the IIGS. In a way it was just apple's response to the laser 128+, which was a much better IIc. The cynical take was that apple didn't want to create another product that would eat into its mac sales like a 32-bit apple II, or much faster IIGS would have done. So they backed the feature set down.

The IIGS continued on as the choice apple product long after the IIc+ came out because people were just buying transwarps/etc, hard drives, etc to create a more advanced IIGS.
This is similar to the thin-line animation / thick-line animation art style in cartoons. The push for efficiency and a quick turn-around has turned towards more simplistic art styles, for better or worse.
He just told you why politics doesn't do anything for people like yourself, take the hint.
" Ultimately users don't care - they want it to work consistently and be intuitive."

Yes.

And if you get these 3 aspect experience right, you can basically get away with murder: Quick performance, accurate info/data, and forgiving/recoverable from error/mistake.

What is looks like, for the most part is inconsequential.
Denying jobs to recovered convicts is a very contested topic. That stigma turns into an irrational and easily disproved belief that a convict can never really recover and start leading a normal life. Such stigma then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Stigmatization is the act of creating stigmas. Maintaining them. And that is very clearly not rational. To be rational, you'd re-evaluate the person from the ground up before each event. Sure, being in prison would still be a factor, one of many. But stigma assumes that this factor alone defines the whole outcome, which is irrational.
Well it's either this or you have to cook and do the dishes. Heck, it's even in the name.
The Unix command? It was parodying the IBM JCL statement.
This is a IIc+, not the original IIc. It came out much later than the mac and IIGS, but was sadly only 8-bit and did little but confuse the market.
An innate sense of equality without appreciation of power dynamics can make institutional power and authority figures seem adversarial to a certain kind of precocious mind, perhaps younger ones especially so. Learning should be a journey that instills the value of knowledge as well as the labor to acquire it and transform it into useful and amusing ends. Otherwise, a failure to grasp knowledge itself can create a disdain for the entire enterprise of learning and a kind of self-hating self-sustaining self-induced oppositionally-defiant ignorance.

I still love the USA, though.
The second part doesn't work either; see .org currently. Tor (with .onion addresses) is the only extant DNS mechanism that technically works (and not well) and that's practically unusable for >99% of people.
Taleb: The Only Man Who Has a Clue
Two main possibilities to match the curriculum to the needs of highly gifted children:

1) Put them together in a special class composed entirely of students with similar level of giftedness, taught by specialized teachers using a gifted curriculum.

2) Move them to a higher grade, which means they will need to study with (possibly much) older students.

Option 1) is superior for their social development since they are not more mature in all respects. It should be pursued whenever possible.

Option 2) may also subject the kids to bullying and jealousy by their older peers, some of whom might do worse than the gifted one in many academic subjects despite age difference.

Early grouping by ability is also more desirable. From the paper:

"In both Australia and the United States, schools tend to delay acceleration and ability grouping until the middle years of elementary school. This policy is fundamentally flawed. It is in the early years of school that we should be identifying exceptionally and profoundly gifted children and developing programs of acceleration and grouping to provide a more effective response to their accelerated intellectual and emotional development."

It is in the interest of society to develop highly gifted students fully since they have more potential to invent groundbreaking technologies or contribute to society in an extraordinary way.

Source: I have taught many gifted and highly gifted students over the years.
Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious?
WhatsApp is probably secure against anyone who doesn't have access to its owners (Facebook) or the mobile OS makers. But much the same is true for any encrypted messenger. Plaintext email is not the competition.
I mean inconsistency seems to come from the fact that every app the pet app of a company of anywhere between 20-1000 people. It's easy to take the defaults and accept the platform conventions when you want to get on with other things.
Good idea! I'll add it to our list.
Education Is Over
I'm sure that happens sometimes in interviews. I think more often there are multiple qualified people for a given position and the chosen candidate is the one that the interviewers feel more comfortable interacting with. People usually feel most comfortable interacting with people who have a similar background to themselves. Also, a lot of people's sense of identity, self worth, and community standing is based on their jobs. Hiring people from groups that diminish or clash with that isn't in the interest of the people doing the hiring. That's the main reason I don't think most hiring is meritocratic, including in tech.
The one big thing "For Kids" has going for it is the pro-active identity. Rather than feeling like they are missing out by not being an adult, they instead feel like they're picking the thing that's special for them.
Show HN: Exercise your brain with the Simon game
The whole React story is very interesting. Authors are extremely adamant about everything being pure, but React still doesn't solve an underlying issue that every frontend framework since the beginning of time solved. Which is automatic tracking of properties and re rendering efficiently(think Vue, Angular, Angular 2, Ember). IMO you need all these new optimization techniques crammed on top because it's so easy to shoot yourself in the foot with performance out of the box with React

Oh you didn't memoize a function, well you just re rendered a FlatList with 500 items in it on an Android phone that cost $0. You need an addon library such as Mobx to really unlock the power of React and make it sane enough to use.
Node and Go are both purpose-built for the web. Rust's target market is much broader than that; some people even use it on embedded devices. One of its headlining features is its slim standard library. That trait shouldn't be thrown away without good reason.
Can you elaborate on what makes React over-complicated?
Estimating Uncertainty and Interpretability in Deep Learning: Covid19 Detection
I really like the way redux-sagas uses generators to represent side effects a values that get interpreted by the redux middleware they provide.
> The problem I had was basically the IDE integration in VSCode.

I use vi. Works every time.
Hi everyone, pushing forward with my "game dev career" I'm releasing my second game - Simon / Genius - for free on itch.io

Hope you have fun playing it.

If you have a nephew, like I do, you might want to turn the sound off.
I chided that user more than I chided you. Did you not see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22904101?

Even if I hadn't though, it's your responsibility to follow the rules regardless of what others do. "But he started it!" is what I just referred to as a childish complaint. A less childish response would be to take responsibility for what one did, fix it going forward, and not plead other people's bad behavior as an excuse for your own. If we've been very unjust, other users will point it out.

We do our level best to be evenhanded, but we can't come close to seeing everything that gets posted, so you're never going to get perfect consistency from moderation here.

It always feels like the mods are harder on you than others, but that's an illusion. I'm not going out of my way to call you out; I barely recognize your username. My brain has been sandblasted into statelessness after years of doing this. If you've gotten repeated admonishments, it's because you've repeatedly broken the rules. The solution is to stop doing that, and also to stop posting bickering meta-comments, which just add noise and are of interest to no one else. If you need to express yourself about that, you're welcome to do so at hn@ycombinator.com.

> I enjoy taking what amounts to troll bait at face value, responding in kind while still attempting to add something to the conversation, and seeing where the conversation goes from there. If you have a problem with that, your problem is actually with the original trollbait or flamebait, not with me. I'm not usually the bad guy in these threads.

What you're describing is feeding trolls, which the HN guidelines (using nicer language) explicitly ask you not to do. It turns small flamewars into large ones, and the fault is with both parties. You're underestimating how much damage this does.

We all have a strong cognitive bias toward seeing the other person as "the bad guy" and ourselves as pure, or at least not-as-bad-as-him, which can be used to justify anything. Meanwhile the other guy has just the opposite view. That's how we get tedious spats. Please don't do this on HN any more.
Is it going to be more or less brutal than the $2 trillion in the US?
A lot of people are confusing the IIc with the IIc+. The former was a fairly early/popular "portable" apple II. It was superseded by the IIGS, a 16-bit machine that competed favorably (with respect to graphics/sound/etc) with the mac.

The later IIc+ was mostly a cynical ploy by apple to drum up some cash while assuring that the Apple II line didn't compete with the mac. In most ways it was a downgrade from the earlier IIGS. Its only real advantage was a slightly higher clock rate, which could be solved on the IIGS with an accelerator like the transwarpGS. Further, not only was it an 8-bit only machine, its major upgrade was the replacement of the 5.25" floppy with the 3.5". Which meant it didn't run most 8-bit apple ][ software which was overwhelmingly on 5.25" floppies. A number of applications were Prodos based and could be simply copied to 3.5" floppies, but most games were DOS 3.3/etc and effectively bound to the 5.25 format. By the time the //c+ was released, the much less expensive Laser 128 (a clone) was filling the "portable" niche in a much better way. Particularly the 128EX, which was clocked nearly as high but significantly less expensive.

Basically it was a fiasco of a product.

Apple ][ timeline from wikipedia.

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

So, more expensive than a laser 128EX, worse software compatibility due to being 8-bit with a 3.5" floppy drive, and less capable in all regards than an upgraded IIGS. The latter were frequently in use into the late 1980's early 1990's with hard drives, cpu accelerators, multiple megs of ram, math coprocessors, x86 emulators, etc.

Which explains why its considered to be a fairly rare apple II.
Flying toasters with toast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gD-JnD1DCo
> Uber drivers cannot see if individual riders have tipped them.

This is not true, I can see exactly which rides included a tip. However, I can't see this before I rate the rider so I can't penalize a rider for not tipping.
Okay, quick and honest question: How does this support / not support the theory of young earth creationism? For someone who believes that the earth is 6000 or so years old, and that humans and dinosaurs co-existed, and that DNA doesn't last nearly _that long_, this seems like pretty definite proof of that being possible. Counterpoint?
See also: https://github.com/purerl/purerl, an Erlang backend for PureScript, which is a lot more mature but unfortunately doesn't get the attention it deserves.
dumb question... when there's a lot of space to spread out, what would be a better way to lay out subdivisions off of main road?
Behavior like firing the IG overseeing the program?

https://apnews.com/cc921bccf9f7abd27da996ef772823e4
Division profits are mostly an accounting ghost.

Tomorrow they could decide to use the AWS profits for growth, and reduce the growth spending on Amazon by the same amount, and suddenly the sense of your sentence is reversed.
A bit of a sidenote, but I’d feel a bit anxious traveling on an airplane made by a company called “BOOM”. A bit like driving a “Crash Vehicles” car?
I was transferred to a “gifted” program in 5th grade but I moved back out after a month or 2. It was nice having more rigorous material but it also meant more homework and I was terrible at doing homework. Plus the kids were more dry, less jokes.
I have only used GIMP a handful of times in my life. I recently had to download it to do something beyond MS Paint's abilities. I had a hard time understanding why many things behaved the way they did. I don't remember it being this hard the last time I used it.
Very well said, thank you. For me, the turning point was learning that:

(1) hierarchies are a partial order: ones manager is ones superior only at work, and not in all aspects of life. It’s weird if they are. It feels challenging when they are subordinate to you on some other axis (e.g. your manager is younger or less socially popular than you) until this axiom sinks in. Becoming a company man is risky once you’ve learned this because you may end up surrendering yourself to the idea that the company hierarchy is total in all aspects of life. Having the boss round for dinner, bowing and scraping, 1950s stereotypes etc.

(2) In a healthy hierarchy power and responsibility go hand in hand. One accepts authority figures in life because they also take responsibility for things working properly. Your manager at work gets to deal with the awkward underperforming colleague, not you. If people gather to you socially, you have a responsibility to bring something positive to their lives.

Learning that hierarchies were there to provide a service to me — something which felt counter intuitive for a long time — was eye opening. It does also make you double down on attacking hierarchies where power is wielded irresponsibly.
This is the worst device angle pest we've seen in games already.

PC games designed with consoles in mind make PC games UI worse. It starts with the menu and ends at in-game controls.

This is the same thing we see in windows 10 now. It looks like it must be build in a way that you could use it drunk with your nose on the screen even though more precision is not only possible, it's normal.
In my experience I got both at once pretty early (skipped 2nd grade and was in a "gifted" class from 4-7). Looking back, I think the class was a dumping ground for trouble students (oops!). My memories were - we went through six teachers, didn't get along, were isolated from the rest of the school, and didn't learn very much.

My high school, OTOH, was iron-firm about sticking everyone together - no advanced classes (until AP) and no advancing grades. The first few months were a shock; after that I had a great time and really applied myself. Never could make up that extra year in height, though.
It is not Linux Libertine, it is Biolinum, which happens to come packaged with Libertine. Libertine is a serif font in the Caslon penumbra.

The author turned on the "st" elective ligature, but not the "ct", which is entirely why it looks odd.

You don't get those ligatures without specifically asking for them. It must be said that the Libertine ones look better.
Garrett, thank you.

* * *

My inspiration for writing this came from watching 3Blue1Brown's YouTube video, "Simulating an epidemic":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxAaO2rsdIs

His simulations cover several scenarios:

- Simulating social distancing.

- Having people travel to a central location (e.g. a grocery store).

- What if the government is able to identify and isolate cases?

- Simulating multiple communities with travel, that put quarantine measures in place.

- What happens when people get tired of social distancing.

* * *

Thanks for sharing your code.

I see that you are using gnuplot to visualize the output of the script.
Have you considered using the csv module (https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html) to output the data, instead of using the print() function?
That way, you wouldn't have to manually add in spaces around the data and stringify the numeric data.

>>> import csv, sys
>>> writer = csv.writer(sys.stdout, delimiter=" ")
>>> writer.writerow(["#", "T", "S", "I", "R"])
# T S I R

In the script, usage would look something like this:

import csv
import sys

...

writer = csv.writer(sys.stdout, delimiter=" ")

writer.writerow(["#", "T", "S", "I", "R"])
writer.writerow([T, S, I, R])
while I > 1000:

...

writer.writerow([T, S, I, R])
They kind of were. The development programme was funded by not one but two national governments, seen as Europe's answer to Apollo. The programme didn't even make an operating profit, much less start to pay back development costs. BA claimed to make a small operating profit on it, but only by sharing maintenance costs with AF's loss-making operation; once AF pulled out it wasn't viable even with the prestige it brought them.

I love Concorde but it wasn't really a commercial operation the way you'd usually use the term.
I donated 20 boxes of Hefty bags to hospitals and called them PPE on Twitter. Musk's self-promotional stunts just keep on going. How many days until he calls someone a pedophile for pointing out a CPAP is not a ventilator?
Everything is turning into pop culture.

Doing things because they're fashionable right now, because they're newer, because it's easier to convince someone that the old way looks old than it is to convince them that it's worse.
I actually like your website

It's very direct and no nonsense

I'll get in touch with you. Let's see if we can do some work together
This article raises several gold points. I did get the feeling from the authors language that they are really pushing the point that the progressive plan isnt working. Which addmitedly its not.
What the article lacks however is any solution.
You can rag on all you want about the problem, but what this article is implying is that the steps taken in San fran are terrible, but what alternative is there.
Does the author imagine that a higher police presence, the breakup of homeless/tent communities and a higher incarceration rate will slow the spread of the virus?
Perhaps, although imo they have a better chance of slowing covid-19 in tent cities than in prison or jail.
Its fair to critisize the actions of the government, but at least say what they could do better instead of just pointing a finger and laughing at what hypocrites progressives are.
There's a typo where stringify! is referred to as strinfigy!

Cool article btw!
My son is profoundly gifted, although he's not in the same league as some of those children described in the study. I absolutely consider him a special-needs child. He's been kicked out of two schools (including a "gifted" school) at this point for his behavior, but it turns out his behavior was because he was profoundly bored. His current school accelerated him by 2 grades and now he's more manageable. He's still bored, but at least he feels like his classmates are more his level, even though he probably needs to skip 1 or 2 more grades to match his academic abilities. I'm loathe to accelerate him further because I worry about emotional well-being, being the youngest kid in the class, but this study has given me food for thought. Thank you OP for posting this.
There shouldn't be a lot of "space to spread out"; that's car culture, not human scale development.
That rests on the premise that dna doesn’t last that long. But maybe it does and that premise is wrong. Alternatively radio carbon dating must be wrong and with it large parts of chemistry. So I would weigh the strengths of both and maybe scrutinize each premise for their respective scientific basis.
wikipedia.org, archive.org, mozilla.org, and whatever Packet Clearing House runs stop serving content in favor of a splashpage explaining that .org has sold to a criminal^Wour lawyers say we aren't allow to call then crimials organization, linking to their respective new non-.org domains, and urging everyone else to do likewise. A TLD like .org is only worth it's reputaion, and half of that could be made to evaporate overnight.
If I must choose between invention and discovery, then yes.
I looked into D once or twice. Found learning materials severely lacking. Having to read up on the differences between 2 (3?) compilers and choose between them wasn’t a great intro.

For the work I do GC is also a non-starter. I know it’s got some level of no-gc now but the last time I looked it wasn’t well-supported.

In short it seemed interesting but on-boarding felt hard. And with that the value proposition wasn’t there or well-advertised: It’s supposedly “better” in some ways such as faster compile times and better meta-programming and frankly that didn’t seem worth the effort.

Rust by contrast does an excellent job of onboarding and making it easy to learn the language (at least at an introductory level). It also comes with a very straightforward value proposition: just as fast as c++ but whole classes of bugs simply aren’t possible. Add in a little bit of ergonomics and functional flavour and I was hooked.
Fruit Trenches are just an attempt at cheap walls. There is no geothermal going on here.

I'm not sure if it would work out cheaper. Certainly not for a business. But even for a hobbyist possibly not. I'm not sure it's even interesting as a display garden.

The bio-hacking (breeding) of plants is cool though.
Young earth creationism isn't predicated on any kind of consistent or logical position.

Its advocates almost without exception, do not give a shit about the facts, and you aren't going to sway them with another few pebbles added to the absolute mountain of evidence that their position is flawed.

Debating them like their position has merit and is reasonable is a hopeless waste of time, and is in fact exactly what they want because it puts their position on level footing with the scientific consensus.
> Hoover Dam Mark 2

Is this like the Hoover dam but with 100x longer environmental reviews and 10x more expensive due to special interest grifts that then cripple the investment before it fails 10yrs later? And the only people who made money were a bunch of private consultants hired by the government to do the reviews and executive staff the pseudo-market company behind it?

I haven't heard of a single major infrastructure project that hasn't followed that trajectory. Reading about Obama's two solar projects are a good starting point. But nothing beats Keystone XL.

It's no wonder it hasn't happened and it's not for lack of trying or tax dollars being spent. Even here in Canada it's the same story every time and we have a far more receptive political base for spending the tax money. So I'll never be convinced that's the real hurdle.
So, there's a basis for "Goofus" mentality:

If you're trying to compile a set of facts, you very likely want a system which is incomplete, but correct. ie false positives have a significant cost to your models, where you essentially have a technical debt of needing to weed out false facts

Policy should follow risk analysis, but research which is not time sensitive has compounding factors which favor building certainty before skipping ahead

Think of it like software development: planning/testing/etc have high rewards throughout development, but sometimes you need to sell a rushed MVP
Ask HN: What have you made that you use daily?
Daily isn't to be taken too literally, but things that you find yourself reaching for or otherwise have become part of your lifestyle.