skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the disparity seems like its not at the same level, schools even in fairly egalitarian European countries are not all equal. For an example, see the discussion about the Amsterdam school lottery (https://medium.com/social-choice/why-a-dutch-court-stopped-h...).
I was mostly referring to why MITx isn't a solution to education.

I agree with respect to the current education system.

History is hard to correct as it is politically thorny and frequently disputed. If I built a e-learning system, I wouldn't include that.
It was a cool machine, and AmigaOS was simply awesome compared to contemporary consumer operating systems, but alas Commodore went belly-up before they managed to modernize the platform.
> but Scala does give a lot of niceties IF AND ONLY IF you're willing to learn how to program the more pure functional side of things.

I disagree.

Context: Scala has been my language of choice for the past 9 years, and I'm the author of Scala.js. I don't know anything about category theory, I don't really care about referential transparency, and I've used a monad as a monad exactly 0 times in my career.

If you're really writing Java in Scala, then yes, perhaps Kotlin is a better choice for you. But there is a whole world of mix of OO, imperative and FP that you can do with Scala, and as soon as you start writing a bit more functionally (immutable collections, not category theory), you get a huge value from Scala. IMO no other language gives you that.

I have crystallised the essence of what I consider Scala to be in my talk Functional Object-Oriented Imperative Scala [1], for those who are interested.

[1] https://vimeo.com/362001027
It can be cunning, but it can also be smart, knowledgeable or clever, depending on tone and context. And can also mean “paying attention” (in parts of the country - “tá esperto”). I believe the original meaning is closer to knowledgeable (from “expertus”)
It’s not a curriculum, though. States and districts burn a lot of money turning it into one.
Build it yourself.
I grew up in Germany and went to public schools there. I just recently became a homeowner in Seattle. I have no ties to the local schools here and would much prefer everyone got equal opportunities and education. I'd like to see people succeed in this society on merit, not privilege - this starts with education.

Germany uses a decentralized system where the federal government and state government allocate budget to schools with some small additional contributions by local districts. Apparently 80% of the budget is spent on salaries. In 2016 the total education spending was 7100 Euros per student per year. This system seems to work quite well.

P.S.: I was a fool for not taking advantage of free university in Germany.
Even though the announcement says it’s available in US-East, it seems like you can only launch in us-east-1a and us-east-1b. I wasn’t able to launch c5a instances in other availability zones.
Federal revenue will be gutted too, it’s just that the states can’t print money.
Larger projects will often include small shell scripts for deployment / maintenance / various tasks.
Wow, this is cooked.

In a few years, deep learning is going to make any sort of development of real skill feel as archaic as assembler. Learn guitar? What's the point. The little magic black box soon-to-be-smaller-than-your-smartphone can make just about any song based on minimal inputs (i.e. a beat-boxed backing track). You'll be able to generate unique and stylized paintings of your relatives and pets in seconds. Probably you'll be able to generate printable 3D objects from descriptions. Engineers will be able to sketch parts from one perspective and have the details automatically fleshed-out from best-practices learned across millions of similar parts.

You'll never get away with an illegal U-turn ever again because the city will pull footage from peoples' internet-of-crap dashcams and the machine learning algorithms will comb the feeds and send fines directly to your mailbox with basically no human intervention.
A lot of experts argue for and against aircraft carriers. The against (or at least not so many) argument seem more compelling to this layman.
Can you give a single example where the Fed has ever, in any way, impeded congress from passing laws?
The article was insinuating something ridiculous about Blackrock secretly conspiring with global central banks to inflate asset prices.

Your argument is a more reasonable one to consider. I hear it sometimes (especially from underperforming active managers), but I haven't seen much evidence of it.

It's a seductive line of reasoning -- that passive funds are dumb money that buy at any price and therefore let stocks run up to unreasonable levels.

You could also take the other side of it though -- that active managers get caught up in manic buying that causes bubbles, but passive index funds are price insensitive and hold stocks forever, so they let companies focus on long-term growth.

I think there is probably a point where too much passive investing might make markets less efficient, but we're not close to that yet. There are still a lot of active funds out there. It was only last year that passive reached 50% of US equities. It's also probably self-correcting -- if markets become less efficient at price discovery, it gives active managers more opportunities to find undervalued stocks and generate more wealth, which will encourage more active management.

In practice I think they're just another type of investor.
It's not like that source of demand disappears without passive funds. If retail investors weren't putting their money in passive funds they'd be putting them in old school active funds like they used to do.

The decline in the number of public companies in the 21st century is a whole other can of worms. Smaller companies just don't go public as much anymore. I don't think you can attribute it to passive investing though. I think most of it has to do with two factors: (1) it is more expensive to be a public company today due to increased disclosure and compliance costs, as you stated, but more importantly (2) the market for private funding has matured with the growth in VC, PE, and private lending so companies can stay private longer.
Indeed, and the shell lives and breathes spaces. Arrays of arguments are created every time one types a command. Without spaces-as-magic we’d be typing things like this all the time:

$ exec(‘ls’, ‘-l’, ‘A B C’)

Maybe that’s unrealistic? I mean, if the shell was like that, it probably wouldn’t have exec semantics and would be more like this with direct function calls:

$ ls(ls::LONG, ‘A B C’)

Maybe we would drop the parentheses though — they can be reasonably implied given the first token is an unspaced identifier:

$ ls ls::LONG, ‘A B C’

And really, given that unquoted identifiers don’t have spaces, we don’t really need the commas either. Could also use ‘-‘ instead of ‘ls::’ to indicate that an identifier is to be interpreted locally in the specific context of the function we are calling, rather than as a generic argument.

$ ls -LONG ‘A B C’

If arguments didn’t have spaces, you could make the quotes optional too.

QED
I think it is terrible, as if everything is a text you can't precisely describe some data structure, e.g. circular list.
>The aggressive liquidity taking strategies cause wider spreads and shallower books as liquidity providers are forced to quote wider and smaller to avoid those adversely selected orders

Is there evidence for this?
I don't know if it would work these days, but I'd go down to their offices with a sign saying "I need help with my account" and march in front of their office. Be calm and civil and maybe you'll get some where. Or maybe there's a phone number on your credit card bill / that you can get from your credit card charges.
I agree. Given the description of the service, the topic could have been named "Show HN: Chatroulette Clone for Sapiosexuals" which would have been more informative.
Love reading about HFT optimizations, unfortunately it’s rare since a lot of the techniques used are basically trade secrets. Everyone’s always looking for an edge.
Boring advertisement blog full of choppy dreamy sentences.
Yeah, IIRC they reused the steel segments holding the fuel, not sure about the rest (parachutes, nozzle, thrust vectoring hardware & the APU powering that, etc). And indeed, if you go the SRB way, a modern carbon fibre single use booster would likely be much more efficient (fuel ammount vs weight of construction to hold it) and cheaper. But still not cheaper than a reusable rocket of course. :)
they have these delivering food in santa monica. there are attendants not far away, though, which sort of defeats the purpose imo.
> but would instead referee a common set of European rules.

That sounds less like innovation and more like regulation to hinder foreign companies. The US should retaliate economically if that becomes the case.
Lets crowdsource language design in the comments [pdf]
I read this paper and when I got to the part where people expect true should be false (14.3%) I knew I should stop reading and all the results will be ridiculous.

However I thought it'd be fun to give it a show. What features should a brand new language have?
+1 on this, paragraphs are meant to group ideas. The way they’re used here, there might as well be just a wall of text with no paragraph delineations at all.
Federal tax revenues are also being gutted its just that the federal government has the magical power of having control over the currency in which they issue their debt.
The military is funded nationally for obvious reasons. But education is necessarily local; there are few things more personal to a community than the education of its children. We don’t need bureaucrats in DC deciding how kids in South Dakota are educated.
To clarify, this is in response to "Wild horses couldn't get me to do that job." It is no mystery. Joining a police force is a powerful tool of upward mobility in a country (ours) where pretty much all the others have been lost. I would hope that the people enjoying those advantages (possibly deserved but evidently rare) would want to preserve them. Sometimes that might result in the restraint you note. Other times the results might be quite different.
True, they're also not needed as much in the summer. Question is how quickly should we dismantle our institutions, and what are the long term costs of that?

Were schools better funded, they would be able to absorb some disruptions in the world without immediately falling apart. If we build our core institutions of society on a kind of just-in-time efficiency economic model, they become weak and fragile, and getting back to prior operational capacity takes years. The long term costs of that in general outweigh the short term savings.

Education's ROI is $7+ for every $1 invested, but for a variety of cultural and legal reasons it is chronically underfunded.

https://www.impact.upenn.edu/our-analysis/opportunities-to-a...
Me too. Especially since I can regularly hit 100 WPM when typing, but I'm a terrible shot with the mouse - not to mention the fact that you can get really nice and satisfying keyboards (I use an IBM Model M at home and a CODE Cherry MX Clear at college) but mice are all kind of the same, and you have to move your hand a lot to get there. On that last point, my mouse hand gets wrist pain consistently way more than my other hand (which I only use for the keyboard) does.

Add to all that the fact that the command line allows for a lot of really easy composition and automation, and it's significantly better for me. I can hardly function on a Windows computer!
I agree that Akka was over-hyped, and over-used. I don't think that pure FP is or was over-hyped. It is, however a large reward for a large time investment to learn. Many simply don't have the time capacity or motivation to completely change their mindset from imperative programming.
USA Payroll tax: 15.3% combined, first $127,000 only (3.89% effective)

France Payroll tax: 20% for salaries over €151,965.

USA Income tax: 42%, including State (CA) and Federal, excluding deductions

France Income Tax: 50%.

So the labour cost will be a lot higher due to payroll taxes, and the employee will take home less due to income taxes. High VAT (20% in France, 8.5% in SF) means consumer purchases are also more expensive. If you are in Paris, you're at a latitude 48.8N, SF 37.7N.

The same is true for moving to other Anglo countries: UK, Canada, Australia have similar lower-tax regimes.

France, Germany etc. are charging huge payroll, income and sales taxes to fund their huge welfare states and bureaucracies, but in the process ruining their competitiveness.
Mines are basically non-mobile versions of these.
I'll start. Inheritance should only be from an interface. None of these virtual inheritance problems where spagetti code can happen by calling functions that don't document what virtual functions the inner implementation may use. That problem becomes a pain and composition over inheritance is suitable for the times you need it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_over_inheritance
How long can the delay be between the fire button and they actual violent act? People shot un-recallable missiles and artillery that doesn't land for minutes but does sophisticated tracking and maneuvering in the meantime. Is that a drone?
There seems to be a good use case for video game assets generation without copyright fear.
California pays for schools (at least the operational costs) at the state level since 2013 (https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/lc/lcffoverview.asp).

Local districts can propose bond measures, but there is no guarantee they will be accepted, even in rich districts. The school bond for Poway Unified was rejected on this past ballot.

What is really going to hurt district finances is enrollment. The State pays districts based on student enrollment. If students do not show up due to COVID fears, that represents a lot of lost money. Many students will not be showing up this upcoming school year.
The problem is that in many countries, one's phone number is already killer metadata: it is linked to your identity, because you cannot purchase a SIM card without showing ID (a copy of which is made and sent to the authorities). Consequently, a repressive state can determine which of its citizens has installed Signal, and merely using an app known for privacy might already be grounds for persecution.

Apparently Signal is working on identifiers different from a user's phone number, but it is not clear how many people will actually take advantage of this feature.
To make an apple pie from scratch, first you must create the universe. :)
AFAIK the SRBs were made in segments to make them rail transportable from the factory (in a state with a friendly congressman ;-)) to the launch pad. There should be pictures of the segments being transported on rail from that one time the train derailed due to trestle collapsing under it.
Can we agree if the language is statically checked we should have no exceptions? I rather have the language have built in syntax or features to give me an error when I don't want to handle it or pass it to the calling function. I don't want function errors to disappear either like they do in C (and rust doesn't force you to check the Result value)
Especially how/why it makes it hard to reason about performance (referring to the GP's point). Asking because I'm genuinely interested in understanding why.
Openai Releases GPT-3, the Largest Model So Far
Show HN: A multi-cloud identity aware proxy to enable zero trust security
AFAIK there were some studies for that - it was doable delta-v wise. I wonder about the mess caused by the isolation foam deteriorating over time though.
The last version of Docker for Mac had some big resource issues, current latest version seems to be better, but still makes my 2017 MBP into a grill when running multiple containers.
I too tested this out immediately and noticed the surprisingly minimal blur. However, I’ve gotten another update since then and it appears to be extremely blurry now. Actually, when I first did it after the update, I thought it was just a solid color. After blurring the majority of the photo I could tell it wasn’t a solid, just extremely blurry.
Is Google making us stupid?
Then how is it San Francisco public schools are vastly underfunded? Teachers can't live anywhere near their school districts and get by on a single job. 20% of school budget comes from property taxes in California. I wonder how much it is in San Francisco.
I disagree with the article, for thousands of years slavery was how you automated tasks at scale, and you could build massive impossible things this way.

Software is the tech equivalent, except the slaves are machines and tiny shell scripts.
Exactly, huge red flag. Google domains it's risky because they can ban your entire Google account including personal Gmail and any linked business ones. Can be pretty bad I'd say.
I'm not sure how contributory to the discussion this is, but I love watching this short every couple years:

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

(I love it in the sense that I'd love a dystopian scifi movie, but not a reality like this)
Every language I've encountered has an equivalent word to "fuck" that basically takes the place of "most common swearword". In many languages, it's a literal translation - in other words, the equivalent of "fuck" is the most common swearword in many languages so translating it is probably not hard.
I think your premise is wrong.

- People don’t fight spam. I rarely if ever get spam in my email. Spam filters work well enough. Whitelisting is also available. Most all email clients support smart folders that contain emails only from contacts.

- Email IS private. Privacy =/= E2E encryption. Other people cannot read my email. My friends and business competitors cannot read my email. Providers can, but are incentivized to not read their customers’ email, otherwise they would go out of business.

- PGP does work. Most people don’t need it.
Or Outscale; the "French AWS" owned by Dassault Systemes...they did do a great job of cloning the AWS console feature set; but the backend was supposedly all VMware & Cisco UCS. Surprisingly not Bull hw, given that the people responsible for it came from there. Coulden't be cheap to run, and I've always wondered who used it outside of 3DS.
To be honest, the protests have actually opened up my view and forced me to think deeply and project myself as being in the same situation as many minorities. So yea, you’re right on the money here imho.
2nd wave isn't a given. There was no 2nd wave to SARS.
Anericans live so scared!
>I found it really odd that my coworkers would look for homes based on how good the schools were in that neighborhood.

It's not the schools they are looking for, it's neighborhoods where the proportion of families that have parents who are well educated and higher earning, in order to put their kids in an environment with a higher proportion of kids who have more resourceful parents. Any school with motivated kids with stable home environments will be "good schools". And since schools draw their pool of students from the neighborhood, it eventually turns into a system where parents will cluster together by income, as income determines how much of a mortgage you can afford.
I doubt truck driving will obsolete, given the track record of self driving.
The Sovirt Buran shuttle had 5 boosters - the main Energia hydrolox core stage and 4 modified Zenit boosters. There were even plans to land the boosters and reuse them, the main issue being how to get the massive boosters back from the endless wateland around Baykonur.

Also unlike the Space Shuttle, the 5 boosters did all the orbital boosting, Buran only had small orbital correction engines on board (like Shuttle OMS), all big engines were down on the boosters.
Your starting assertion: "The fact that you're asking me a question like that illustrates that you haven't read anything that I've said" is unnecessarily combative.

I was basing my question on the part of your comment where you suggested:

"How about we disarm all street cops"

I am generally in agreement that many first line encounters between cops and civilians could be better served by social workers, EMS, etc. but was curious about the idea of unarmed police in the US and how that might play out, especially in situations where the civilian is armed (which is not always known by dispatch nor the cops themselves, until it's too late).
How accurate is this:

> “Tiananmen Square Massacre is a taboo subject, most Chinese under the age of 25 have never even heard about it. Websites that mention the "June 4 Incident" are blocked in China.”?

Is it really that burried?
There's an enormous difference between provincially funded and locally funded, though. In Alberta at least, the funding is effectively entirely provincial. There aren't any significant spending disparities based on the local neighbourhood's ability to pay.
Yes. So I don't use set -e.
Optus ordered to hand over information about author of negative Google review
The biggest pain comes from untarring some source code and trying to build it while in ~/My Tools Directory. Spaces in directories that scupper build code that isn’t expecting them is the fatal mixing of worlds.

In most other cases I’ve never really had a problem with “this is a place where spaces are ok” (e.g. notes, documents, photos) and “this is a place where they are not ok” — usually in parts of my filesystem where I’m developing code.

It’s fine to make simplifying assumptions if it’s your own code. Command history aside, most one liners we type at the shell are literally throwaways.

I think I was clear that they aren’t the only category of program one writes and that, traditionally on Unix systems, the counterpart to sh was C.
Not much, reading the article.

The fundamental reason that their are fewer Black people working in computing as that they score at the very bottom for Math in the SAT:

https://i1.wp.com/www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/...

And the explanation for that is probably deep in history and DNA: Africa as a continent has forever been far less developed than any other region, yielding no overall selective pressure for any of the traits which today produce high Math scores.
Thats actually an insanely good achievement! :)
I don't think so. Whenever I've heard the phrase it literally means "There are multiple valid solutions for a given problem" with no further connotations beyond a bit of absurdist humour.
You can read the main Github page here: https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM

It only works on Macs, it needs the toolchain and ROM I guess? Docker is just one step closer to porting it on the Windows and Linux platforms.

Personally, if I wanted to run MacOSX that badly, I'd buy a Mac Mini or the lowest-priced Mac they have. Much easier and worth it for the AppleCare and Warranty.

Edit: grammar and spelling.
Yea my first thought is the absolutist slogans and chants can turn away those in the middle. I’d rather see facts and have smart people plan and debate. On the other token, as in politics, it’s the one liners that get spread far and wide and affect more people (positive or negatively). Obama said it best that the protests essentially make the issues front and center and in everyone’s mind, but the rubber hits the road only when electing local officials that can make permanent changes.
Probably need to develop some kind of under-street mounted charging, like the way conference room tables hide their port clusters.