skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is definitely an issue for families which don’t have access to computers & broadband internet.
For the rest, I wonder if the results would have been better if there had ideas from the home-schooling community which could have been incorporated. Granted, this would require way more effort from the parent and a different mindset. However a primer on what to expect, how to overcome obstacles, keeping kids on track, etc. Traditional schools are totally unprepared for this scenario in a remote world.

Storytime, a few years back one of my ex-colleagues decided to buy a ranch on the outskirts of Seattle to work remotely. What made the decision easier was that
A) his pre-teen kids were already being homeschooled
B) his spouse was a stay at home mom who spent a significant amount of time keeping the kids on track.

He showed me pictures of the house which looked beautiful. Sat on the edge of a lake with a backdrop against the mountains and came with a stable for horses and livestock.
I think that is not really communicated in the current design, reminds me of the ratings on Netflix where they are intended as "Our estimation of this contents rating for you based on your viewing history" while most people I talked about it just thought it was the rating of the thing in itself.
> he created a 'culture minister' position

No, he did not. The ministry of culture was created in 1985.
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There has never been one Forth. In a world with N Forth programmers, one can expect roughly N implementations of Forth. Perhaps closer to 2*N. An ANS spec exists, but most Forth programmers would say it misses the point.

Forth is a collection of ideas and philosophies toward programming as much as it is a language. Two stacks and a dictionary. Threaded code (direct, indirect, token, subroutine, etc...). Collapsed abstractions. No sealed black boxes. Tight factoring.

C has changed. Forth is everchanging.
There is also Firefox developer edition. Its dev tools are a bit more comprehensive than those of vanilla Firefox. I wonder how it compares to Firebug's feature set.
I don't think the mites are able to penetrate to the inside, as mimolette is quite hard (I prefer the extra old). I don't eat the rind, myself.

It's my favorite cheese. It's as if three year sharp cheddar and proper Parmigiano Reggiano had a delicious, sharp, salty baby that comes apart with the flaky dry texture of mica almost.
When you connect a network to the outside world, 4 billion addresses are no longer sufficient. That's the whole point.
this resonate quite a lot with the state of things. Thanks.

Tomorrow morning I'll plan to spend some time in a library just pondering about it
The Nix ecosystem have dwarffs[0]. If you generate debug symbols during the build ( not enabled by default ) and save it to the "nix cache", you can use dwarffs to download it.

[0] https://github.com/edolstra/dwarffs/blob/master/README.md
Interesting. How much work to port it to AMD?
I suspect that a lot of readers have no idea how old it is.

(I, on the other hand, have to be reminded that 50 years have passed.)
> All I think we’ve proven is that a large percentage of the population is more comfortable risking a infection and far less comfortable with the police violence.

The problem is a large percentage of the population has very little to fear from this virus. The reason quarantining and other tactics had to be top-down mandated is that individuals acting selfishly threaten other people. That has not changed.

In short, a large number of immunocompromised and elderly persons are going to die as an almost direct consequence of the protesting. Apparently, we're okay with that.
Like in Italy, where people are now protesting against their goverments overreaction of COVID; mishandling of its elderly, actually at risk, population; and the inflation of death numbers attributed to COVID.
We’re talking about murders here. It’s pretty hard to hide that a person no longer exists.
Where do you find scientific content today?
I go directly to the source (arxiv) but this is sad, I would benefit a lot from TLDR that take the gist of papers.
There was a discussion on HN a few days ago about classifying autonomous drone swarms as WMD:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23423240
I am not talking about the same thing.

I am talking about teachers freely collaborating and creating material that gets constantly evaluated, ranked and improved by the community in a self-organized manner, the same way open source projects work on github. That is different to using material designed by a committee from pre-Internet times.

I am talking about using a data-centric approach where the material is not assumed to be good, and it is constantly evaluated and compared against equivalent teaching material so that everyone can benefit from the best available material.

But they can't, because formats like Word, Powerpoint and PDF are not version-control friendly, and Office 365 does not scale to the same level of collaboration as Github does. LaTeX is a version control friendly format, but school teachers won't use it. They prefer to spend countless hours putting together the same content in Word and Powerpoint over and over again.

If I was in charge of education I would make LaTeX and version control mandatory for everything. In 2 years education would be 100x better.
Jellyfish Life History and Behavior
Where'd they "tell us there is no risk from these protests"? The letter you linked explicitly advises us to "prepare for an increased number of infections in the days following a protest [and] provide increased access to testing and care for people in the affected communities, especially when they or their family members put themselves at risk by attending protests."

They just seem to think protesting America's rampant institutionalized police brutality is more worthy than protesting the lockdowns themselves, and I can't say I disagree, but even if I did I wouldn't be able to say they're being inconsistent, because they aren't. They just haven't stuck their heads in the sand of relativism.
There's a particular brand of young developer where every opinion comes from a blog post, talk or HN comment. They have strong views on many different topics and believe that they're knowledgeable and smarter than the average developer^[1].

The only issue? They don't have actual experience to back this up. Because not only is most tech content bullshit, the small percentage that isn't BS may not apply to their situation. You may not be working on soft real time systems. You may not be working with big data. You may not be running a company.

I should know—I'm certainly guilty of assuming that because I read about software development, I'm a better software developer. When really there's a big big big difference between reading about development and actually practicing the craft. Especially if you've only been programming casually. There's a massive difference between writing code for fun and writing code that needs to be a value-add for the company.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Bear
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History/pus...
When I said you would be wrong, I'm talking about the effects of that letter. The letter probably does mention that social distancing should be taken by protestors. But that is not what's happening and will not happen. So the main message the letter is: Coronavirus bad! Shut down your businesses and stay home. Except if you're protesting.

As soon as you have a confrontation here and there, the virus is no longer of concern. If you are someone who is legitimately concerned about the pandemic, you should be angry at all the health experts who signed that letter. For they have delegitimized the pandemic and vindicated those who do not believe it to be the threat it was made out to be. As with the WHO masks thing, these kinds of actions have only destroyed the credibility of the science community, or whatever's left of it. The effects of that are to be seen. But you will see them.

I don't know if I'm against the protests or not, perhaps it's more like I am against poor strategy. What has the protests done other than become co-opted by looters, dirty the perception of African Americans and other minorities, and now caused the science/health experts to disgrace themselves further? This is a big win for our enemies. I believe it's time for the protests to stop, so that we could see who's left, who are the people co-opting this movement to further their political goals. However pure and legitimate the protests are, to continue them is to continue providing a cover for those who would like to use the protests to further their political goals.
Actually a font is a file on a computer, Helvetica is a typeface. Does that help? :D Probably not.
The difference you miss is that the former discourages bad interfaces and the latter does not. There is no "you" in most businesses. There's dozens of people who changes over time. People with deadlines and concerns of their own.
> This is a "bury the dead and go on" situation.

> The US hasn't faced one of those since WWII.

That's just incorrect. The US has faced this every year (by percentage), since it's inception. Hundreds of thousands of people die of disease every year of cancer. Not just disease. Tens of thousands by car for most of the 20th century.

The hyperbole that COVID-19 can be considered historically notable, is in the scale and type (optional, changing recommendations, etc) of social measures that have been taken.
Just actors probably
hmmm, so trained pilots misclassified a bird?
Animations in Flutter
Where have you been? There's been groups pepping for a second civil war (the meme-name is "boogaloo", as in "Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo") for at least a decade now.

I'm optimistic that red and blue America will have something more like Czechoslovakia's Velvet Divorce involving minimal bloodshed, but I'd be surprised if the USA makes it to 2100 as a single polity.
This is neither a flaw in our computers nor a flaw in our programming languages. It’s a consequence of two things. Firstly computers only do precisely what you tell them to do. Secondly we don’t know exactly what we want them to do.

It’s that second part that’s the real issue. It turns out very precisely, and completely unambiguously only expressing exactly what you want to happen, when you want it to happen, in every conceivable circumstance that might occur, based on very specific assumptions of the conditions in which it might happen, is quite difficult and complicated and error prone to achieve. Also if we get any particular detail wrong - the assumptions about the problem, the order of events, the anticipated conditions, the system fails.

But that’s it. That’s the problem. Beings precise and unambiguous is hard. Formulating our assumptions is hard. Anticipating every circumstance is hard.

Why is this so? Our brains just don’t work that way. They’re randomly variegated, fuzzy logic, neural network, pattern matching, feedback loop driven mammal organs. It’s amazing they work at all. They only get things sufficiently right because all the ones that got it badly enough wrong got themselves killed before they had offspring. Not only that, but we’re actually only just barely intelligent in a general sense. After all, in evolutionary terms we only just very recently gained enough intelligence to develop significant technology, otherwise we’d have done it sooner. We’re at the very edge of the lowest threshold for achieving a technological society. No wonder we find this stuff hard.
I think it’s the most direct way to communicate because the connotations are so culturally well-understood.

“Wanna get dinner and maybe have sex?” might be more direct in a textbook way but it’s also unecessary because the second part is already implied, and unecessary words make a question less direct IMO.

I think “wanna get dinner” is the most direct way possible of stating your intentions unless you’re talking to someone who’s not familiar with, or can’t interpret, cultural shorthand.

This dude’s article could alternately be titled “my experiment with treating everyone like they have autism and seeing how that makes them feel.” Prediction: not great
It doesn't say they're not risky, just that they don't condemn them as risky (i.e., for being risky). At least, that's how I read it.
Spot on. Exactly. And it is that sort of double-standard that will erode the remaining trust in the government and media. One day, if you leave the house you are being accused of bein ascoail and a potential murderer, and the next day you are being praised for defenging civil rights. This is nuts. And people realize that it is.
Half-related: Reality has a surprising amount of detail

http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16184255

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22020495
Some current real-time processors still have an on-chip stack for return addresses, not entirely unlike the one the 8008 had. One example is the ARM Cortex-R which can store up to 4 addresses on its dedicated return stack.
Me too, especially when they're accompanied by moving pictures.
> Forth doesn't elegantly describe complex algorithms… However, this mental pain does makes you question your need for complexity… This is something that I think few developers are familiar with and is hard to describe with words. It needs to be experienced.

Nice framing, that it’s not an intellectual argument you can make to justify the benefits of drawbacks (i.e. an infamous red flag of stockholm syndrome), so you have to point to the experience of the thing itself (“you had to be there”).
Remember that Mozilla gets their revenue from Google, an ad company. They'd undercut their main revenue source.

Another issue is he press. The press is usually very Firefox-positive and always covers it. They might turn on Firefox if it started blocking ads.
The Metabolic Pathways
There's been a lot of talk in the last few years about "believing in science" pushed by politicians. However, there is a long history of science being "adjusted" to fit political agendas.

Just one example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
This population measurement is not useful for determining racism. It does not consider that blacks make up 13% of the population, but commit 52% of the homicides. It doesn’t consider if the shootings are justified. It doesn’t consider black cops shooting black suspects.

There is in general insufficient data to support or reject that there is systemic racism.

Here is a good article on things to consider
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/08/police-officer-shooti...
Ignoring metatable weirdness, I think "you need to throw out most of what you know" is quite wrong.

The main thing you need to know is that Lua's table type can be numerically iterated between index 1 and the first gap where numeric index has nil value using the ipairs iterator in addition to the non-exclusively-numeric unordered pairs iterator. A common pitfall with sparse tables is that the length shortcut # returns seemingly the wrong result if you aren't aware of that first part.

Most of the difficulty writing in Lua comes from the fact that there's no first class support for OO-style Classes, so you have to fake them, and there's no standard library so you end up reinventing a lot.

But other than that, it's a dead simple language with few features.
The studies that show that masks reduce the R0 of COVID-19 are many and broad. https://www.livescience.com/face-masks-eye-protection-covid-... The latest ones that I have read indicate an 85% reduction of transmission and infection between two people wearing masks, a double 85% reduction.

Where is an instance of a study that indicates the opposite? Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Take those lists of yours and burn them.
Find the files you rely on to plan, and rm the crap out of them.

Be here and now. Talk to people you normally wouldn't talk to. Do things without needing justifications. Be an absolute clown for a day, or just do something really crazy (ie. involuntarily funny) without justifying it to anybody. Notice what piques your curiosity and engagement, and pursue some whims of fancy. Notice variations of feelings and how they play with the rest of mind-body system and vica versa.
It's often _distributed_ as a container, but it ~~is~~ was a single monolithic go binary. However, while I was looking for supporting evidence to that claim, I discovered that it recently[1] was evicted from the github.com/k/k repo and the docker image that is now built uses a shell script named hyperkube and the Dockerfile just untars the underlying binaries into /usr/local/bin

I wasn't able to immediately track down the alleged new repo for hyperkube, though

1 = https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83454
Yes, but the French do it with freshly and carefully ground beef, from whole-muscle cuts instead of random trimmings.

I'll happily eat a rare burger at my local butcher; they'll grind the meat right in front of me and serve it with a side of beef fat fries. One of the things I intend to immediately enjoy again once lockdown is over.
I was once in a similar situation: I felt full but empty at the same time. I was very content with my life but I knew something was missing and I had no idea what it was. Some people have suggested to spend time ‘giving back’. But why? There is no real objective reason to be altruistic. It seemed to me that it was all meaningless. The very foundations of morals and ethics became weak. I hated this perspective and tried to inject some pseudo logical reason to give me purpose in my empty life. Like yourself, I concluded that I simply can’t carry on living like this.

What took me out of this loop was a stronger belief in God. I acknowledged that I was lost, submitted myself, and simply asked for guidance. This required a level of self-honestly and introspection. Incrementally, my life became filled with meaning as I began to understand Allah. Everything that I do, I do it in worship of Allah. I live and love in His light and life has never ever been better. My love and trust in Allah has given me a sense of purpose that is unparalleled. My relationships have improved tremendously and I am no longer subject to intense emotions of anxiety and existential dread. In turn, my productive output has improved as well as my mental clarity.(all by the grace of Allah)

I understand a lot of people may not believe in God. I implore you to throw your ego away and truly seek your wellbeing.

hug

Note: Allah literally translates to “The God” as Islam is strictly monotheistic.
Well, yeah, you could do vertical landing or water landing. Both have precedent, but water landing probably implies craning the drones on board, which is slow. Vertical landing on the other hand might work well. You'd still need a flight deck for that, but a much smaller one.
On the flip side, once both sides are just robots, the cost of lives is also vastly different...

A thousand years for now, it may be up to Brion Brandd to save this planet... https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2559973349
What I draw from your experience is this:

Without the proper foundations, self directed study and distance learning won't work.

On the other hand, I feel it's too early to judge remote learning a failure because:

The delivery method doesn't match the medium. A round peg in a square hole.

Take my state for example where are classes being broadcast over the radio. It's horrible.

* The teachers talk as if the students can see the board.

* It's broadcasted live (big mistake). End up with lots of ems and uhms.

* Science teachers quote formulas verbally - Formulas students would have trouble with even in person.

Heck, the learning experience could be much better by just pointing students to khan academy.
Do those work on every operating system though?
They could probably be made to work, but I don't think it wouldn't make sense for Intel as they obviously want to focus on getting XE right.
This is exactly why I opted to go with AMD for my high performance build this year. Intel have messed up too many things to trust them with my data.

Broken processor security

Lack of PCIe lanes

Memory limitations
I make a living selling iOS development courses at high prices, so I can tell you that the we didn't lose the paid ecosystem.

I can't talk about book publishers like O'Really, and probably the market for books shrank. But I have several competitors that sell self published ebooks.

The plethora of free content you find online is not always a good thing for everyone. As the author of the article says, most tech content is bullshit. Most people don't care, but there are plenty of people that realize that and are willing to pay.
Seems odd to call it "a 24x7 live television broadcast" when all I'm seeing is a cloud flare logo on loop. Although it's a cool logo, and the music is nice. Very 90s feel to me. (Unless maybe it's not loading for me?)

(Edit:) oh, it's just not running yet:

> I'm kicking off the first live broadcast starting at 12:00pm Pacific (1900 UTC) on Monday, June 8
I'm not aware of those solutions. Very cool! Are they specific to one distro (for example, Fedora)? How do I get gdb to show me the command to installing missing packages?

One downside to those solutions, they only support debugging on the same machine running the executable. If I want to debug a crash dump from a machine different from my own I might not be able to install the packages.
I (Still) Love Vaadin
Having written production Elm code, and as someone who likes the language, I would not consider Elm to be production-ready.

- Componentized design is eschewed by the community, so it's very hard to break down apps into small easily-combined pieces.

- The learning curve for new engineers is relatively high, and drops off pretty significantly after a month or so. It might be easier if your team is already familiar with strongly typed languages, but there's quite a bit to learn to get up to speed.

- The lack of a roadmap is the only true non-starter. Our team ran into a compiler bug, and the options were either to patch it ourselves (which is unlikely since no one on our team knows Haskell or has that much free time), or to wait an indeterminate amount of time and pray it gets patched. If you look at the release history, you'll see that updates to the language are infrequent.

I would still highly recommend Elm for a side project, just not for something that a business or team relies on.
> a large percentage of the population is more comfortable risking a infection and far less comfortable with the police violence

The chances of experiencing life-changing injury or death from either are vanishingly small. Too bad we can't get people this excited about obeying traffic regulations.
> The distinction between font and typeface is that a font designates a specific member of a type family such as roman, boldface, or italic type, while typeface designates a consistent visual appearance or style which can be a "family" or related set of fonts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typeface
More citizens are armed in the US. Deadly force is required more frequently because of that.
Specifically, it seems to be the new "DNS over HTTPS" feature in Firefox, with the default Cloudflare provider. I guess 1.1.1.1 will cause the same issue.

Interestingly, without TLS, the error is "Please enable cookies", whereas on HTTPS it's "403 Forbidden" after passing through an invalid cert.