skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe newer x86 actually has a set of registers that cache the top of the stack and is as fast as the other registers, but it's hard to find information about this feature. One of the ways in which this is visible is that using the push/pop instructions is faster than manually writing to memory at the stack pointer and then adjusting the stack pointer.
Technology is not an emphasis in teacher education.

If engineers were teachers, in one week you would see them creating github repos with reusable TeX material for every possible class that exists, and then finding a way to evaluate and rank the best material.

In contrast, every teacher creates their own material that rarely gets reused, evaluated or ranked in any way, resulting in suboptimal material and wasted effort.
K-12 schools serve two purposes - to educate students and to provide child care during the day.

Clearly remote learning isn’t going to work when it doesn’t solve the second need.
Re: ditching landing gear, As I understand it, the Gremlins UAV swarm platform uses a ‘live capture’ system from to launch/recover from a C130 - no gear.

You basically turn cargo aircraft into aircraft carriers.

https://www.darpa.mil/program/gremlins
I agree that the lesson learned here is that emergency remote learning did not work. No one was prepared for it, teachers did not have training or materials needed, students were not expecting it, it was a mess. But that doesn't mean it can't work, just that it didn't work in this emergency situation.
Xtensa (c.f. ESP-32 et. al. -- it's actually a pretty popular embedded architecture) also has a register window scheme, simultaneously more and less complicated than SPARC's.

Likewise the ia64 registers were rotating, with a hardware stack engine.

To answer the main question: this wasn't abandoned in the industry. CPUs still do it. It just doesn't really provide much of a competetive benefit to architectures that do it, so it's largely been abandoned.
There are kids who thriving by studying from home compared from studying/lessons in the traditional school environment. At least that has been reported on the radio/news in The Netherlands.

Fully depends on the students what kind of learning/teaching is best for them when they are allowed to plan which tasks they do instead of following the schedule of the teacher.
I can't read the article since I don't have a subscription, but I wanted to share my experiences anyways.

I have 3 boys, one each in elementary, junior high and senior high.

The remote learning experience has been dramatically different for each. Our school district has every student on Office 365, so we're in good shape technology-wise.

The senior high student has been able to just go through his texts, work on the assignments, do the tests and continue on mostly as normal. He gets through an 8 hour school day and seems to be better for it at the end.

The junior high-school student is having much more trouble. There is less material to study, and what there is is filler-heavy. He _maybe_ has 3 hours a day of actual work and is then at loose ends. I have been pulling more advanced material for him to work to keep up his education during allotted school hours, but he also doesn't have the more developed focus and discipline of his older brother.

The elementary (grade 6, so almost junior high) student has the least amount of actual work. Maybe an hour a day from his teacher. He's lucky that his teacher is accommodating and allows him to e.g. document his progress to the mun through Kerbal in career mode for the space module they're doing instead of reading a few NASA pamphlets and being bored.

The big takeaway I've had from this whole thing is that each student will only get as much out as they are willing (or forced) to put in. The opportunity to explore avenues of learning beyond and outside the established system is immense, and will probably grow some already latent educational gaps between kids.

I have a feeling a lot of parents are throwing their kids at video games and youtube, or just ignoring them altogether, whether through lack of time and resources, or lack of interest.
Thank you for the more comprehensive response.
Agreed. When this all started, a number of academics who have been studying remote learning spoke out. There was already a push to move some high school classes online in my province for some stupid cost saving reasons before this all started
In fact they don't tweet like a crazy man

They use official channels

Which is the respectful way
We have the collective free will to ignore posts with such headlines.
Joshua Slocum - Sailing Alone Around the World

A fascinating account of the first solo circumnavigation of the world. Definitely a digital detox that will prep you the next book in this list

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6317

John Esquemeling - The Buccaneers Of America

This is a fascinating read and provides some insight into some of the influences on the origins of American democracy. One to read before you start the de Tocqueville.

https://archive.org/details/historybuccanee02perkgoog/page/n...

Rudyard Kipling - Kim

A spy thriller set during the great game between Russia and the Indian Raj. Most anything by Kipling is a rollicking good read.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2226

The travel writings of Isabella Bird

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

Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita

Not pre 1900 but it is the perfect counterpoint to the paranoia inducing crime and punishment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_Margarita
They will probably need a runway, for landing at least.
Hmm, okay, thanks, if it works on my laptop it would be cool. I don't really care that the port is available from other systems.
Research from the university sector in the US and Europe — who invested heavily in remote learning in the past decade to try to increase their reach — is unfortunately that distance learning is an order of magnitude worse in terms of outcomes than for traditional teaching.
Homo Sacer
The correct solution here is not to change the headline, but to not post crap like this on HN
Actually, that looks like a filled-in template with some relevant keywords for content marketing.
>but oh hey, it’s OK to go downtown and riot, burn down buildings, and throw bricks at the police.

This is not a good faith depiction of what the protesters are doing.
They did have that entire episode where they need to network everything together and do the entire "getting hacked live" thing.

I forget if there was anything special with the computers at that point
A missile isn't generally reusable - they're designed to operate at a region of performance within their engines that would not even allow for sustained flight.

If it only has to "live" for a few minutes, you can get a LOT more performance out of it, which is exactly what they're designed around.

But it's a trade-off. You could invest in a (practically) infinite supply of global capable missiles to be launched from the literal center of America, and to get 24 hour coverage you just launch one every 30 minutes. But that's extremely expensive and stupid.

But a missile which is carried to be closer to the battle can be smaller, and cheaper. Then you need some kind of vehicle to get it there. This kind of thing is that vehicle.
There is an easy rule: good enough is always good enough.

41 year old developer here who worked on various projects going from solo to around 50 person teams.

If you want to move fast, you have to hack stuff together. That is exactly what your CEO did.

In the end it all depends on your project. If you make a game, let your users find the bugs. If you make life critical software, you better have some rigurous tests in place. A 1 person project can be really messy, but a 5 person project can't.

Don't put effort into code that might be thrown away.

Most things are an investment, so always question how fast you get the ROI. It's always a balancing act.

But in the end, it always comes down to the same question: is it good enough? If yes, continue. If no, do the investment and move to the next level.
The "masks don't work" message the beginning was a tragic mistake. I think I understand why it might have come to be, but it was a mistake nonetheless.

Mistakes happen. If we learn from them they become lessons.

I do see this in terms of idea and theory, as well as practice. These protests are a legitimate response to systematic abuse. It clearly has peoples attention, and that's a good thing from my perspective.

I don't want to be wrong, so could you clarify exactly how I'm wrong? In supporting protests? In taking the letter you cited on its word that social distancing and other preventative measures should be taken by protesters?

I can only guess that you are against these protests, in that you quoted them as "protests" and can only cite the the negatives you see (not enough social distancing and too much violence).

If the current administration prevails, I will indeed be on the wrong side of history by virtue of who is writing it, and why. I'm proud to be on the side that opposes fascism and I don't need external approval to know that authoritarianism does not promote a just society.
Barcelona. I will try to follow your advice locally. There is no shortage of social emergencies in southern Europe.
> No there aren't

Yes, there are. Such a ridiculous statement to think people can't be great at something just because they don't tick some arbitrary box you came up with for evaluation.

If that's the case, then there are no great 9-5 anything... but the odd thing is, I've met plenty of them.
Protein folding and AlphaFold explained for software engineers
> My comment was that I am content due to reasons not considered in the article, and that maybe those reasons should be considered when looking at the population as a whole and comparing them cross-generationally.

You suggest adding more variables, and I recommended that we extend that beyond technology and then you summarily dismiss those concerns. Abalone is a very niche fishery, but my broader point was that our environment has been significantly degraded for a number of reasons, and for people who value the environment, whether it be for fishing, hiking, or whatever, they have experienced a loss relative to the generations before them. This also holds for anything that requires real estate. For example musicians are finding it much harder to make ends meet in cities due to loss of studio space and event venues. And even technology has not been a net win for everyone. Ask a journalist how they fell about the internet? How about your local bookstore?

I am glad you are content. Enjoy it. But recognize that you are literally one of the few winners in this economy. A highly paid tech worker has likely just experienced the best decade in history for their particular profession. But that is a very narrow segment of our society, and a large chunk of our generation has lost ground relative to their cross-generational peers.
Computer Science professors are well educated in technology, yet I see much more sharing of material between primary school teachers than among computer science professors.

Teachers know how to use photocopiers, if material isn't shared and reused the reason isn't lack of sophisticated technology.
I entered a Mandarin Singing contest and won a “Best Stage and Appearance” award
No, it is an inconsistency in the application of the rules.

What is the rationale from Twitter? That wanting reduced dependence on trade with an Authoritarian dictatorship is bad? That the caricature of China as a dragon is offensive? What?
It's like "5-Second Films" for engineering.
It already has if you're looking in the right places.

It's a bit like 'reduce, reuse, recycle'.

Not having a car (possibly renting one occasionally, the inconvenience meaning that you use it less) is the best option.

After that is probably a family using an EV (e.g. with >2 occupancy).

After that is a single person using an EV to do loads of daft journeys (e.g. what sounds from over the pond like a typical 50+ mile daily round trip for work).

I had an EV for a while and sold it because I realised that it's ultimately just an excuse, like smoking "light" cigarettes. It still relies on a piss-take infrastructure of sprawl everywhere.

But we should definitely encourage them over ICE's.
Rethinking file manager navigation, cryo 0.5.6 released
Why would there be so many descendants? There are probably tens or even hundreds of thousands of people still alive who lived through the Jim Crow era. This is not some distant past. How much reparations are due to these people alone in terms of lost opportunities, missing funding, moral damages etc?
fake news, single call to while
Maybe I should do this. I'd feel like a hippie, drawing smiles on stones, but ... who knows
My father-in-law who is a 58 year old software developer feels stuck at his current job because he has spent so much time on old and archaic technology that he doesn't feel confident enough to be able to go out there and get a new job in case he's laid off.

Personally speaking I spent far too much time working on a certain technology for four years and I felt trapped because getting a new job was difficult in new technologies.

There are clearly some Evergreen Technologies such as C/C++, but there are a lot of Technology switch don't land in that category and they evolved fast (js ecosystem for instance).
How chilling that several Brazilian posters are actually afraid of publishing negative opinions about the government.
Also “war on drugs” “war on poverty”...absurdism.

The US stayed legally out of the war in Europe due yes to a strong isolationist movement but also a strong pro-german movement. Without committing troops, Roosevelt tacitly involved the US in the European war (enough deniability that congress would not interfere) and specifically mounted a petroleum embargo in Japan leading to the Japanese decision to bomb Pearl Harbor (not at all blaming the victim — USA — for Japan’s decision). I don’t think you can say though that the us tried to stay out.

“Very cooperative with Stalin at the end of WWII” is hardly borne out by the historical record. The US invaded the USSR during its revolution, and long before Yalta both countries were jockeying for post-war position once it became clear that victory over Germany was inevitable.

The French asked for help yes but it was no treaty matter (not a NATO issue): the US willingly intervened in both Korea and Viet Nam because of communists being on the other side.
I think we agree on the current understanding of physics, but disagree on our understanding of biological interactions, and on our risk tolerances.
You meet them in the hallways outside the talks.
> There are other ways to protest

I'm genuinely curious. Would you care to elaborate?
I dropped you a note.
Or the QA department. :-)

Also, the page/video is probably NSFW.
There’s a free demo version (on the same page where you can buy it), although that doesn’t allow you to exercise the customization via C++ code (which is perhaps one of the most intriguing parts of the editor).
There something more going on. In the past 3 months the following narratives have been pushed by the MSM:

1 - Trump is a racist for suggesting that borders should exist

2 - Trump is liable all covid deaths for not closing the borders fast enough

3 - The state/police are great for enforcing stay-at-home orders and social distancing

4 - We need thousands or millions to assemble in the streets to fight police

This is the type of schizophrenic messaging that happens during societal collapse.
Collapse OS was initially written in assembly for the Z80, a microprocessor first launched in 1976. The fact that Forth is 6 years older than the Z80 seems interesting enough of a step further back in time to be hightlighted.
> Zipline is an American medical product delivery company headquartered in South San Francisco, California that designs, builds, and operates drone aircraft.

Looks like they are headquartered in US though.
Sinister Roles of the Education System in Kenya
I can think of ways around that, but depends on what sort of missions you want to optimize for I guess.
You're probably write about writing your own authentication layer but it still shouldn't be part of CouchDB or PouchDB. A better solution is for some OSS project to build a standard proxy that applies the document level authorization that everyone is asking for. No reason for it to be built-in.
The guidelines specifically encourage substituting for clickbait or thoughtstopping headlines:

If the title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Often a subhead or lede is a vast improvement. Here I'd argue for "The pandemic forced schools into a crash course in online education."

(Submitting to hn@ycombinator.com)
I am in the same situation as you. My plan is to build the best personal growth organization that I can. Developers who value that and long-term growth should want to stick around. Developers who want something shiny can look elsewhere.
That seems like a good place to start. Figure out why and what it would take to correct.
Mainly the former. Ideally you've experienced the things you've rated, but in many cases you can probably judge fairly accurately if you're interested in something based on a short description.

That brings up a key point which I'm not sure is clear to users or not: voting on items specifically means "this is/is not a good recommendation for me". It's not a judgment on the goodness of the item in general. So if findka showed me e.g. an article on pottery that looked high quality, I'd probably still downvote it since I'm not into pottery.
I guess it’s certainly “possible” that US cops justifiably shoot and kill more people every year than most counties have done of the last hundred (assuming they have ever done it at all), just not very possible.
Yeah but if you kill the mites/worms/whatever, its still in the cheese, just dead. I would actually prefer the, you know, meaty part, to be fresh upon digestion
While that's absolutely true that doesn't sound like a real problem. (It won't throw off Google and the problems with recruitment were already pretty bad.)
I think Node has an exception for that built in, so you can do that or #!/usr/bin/env node and it'll work.
The issue is the double standard with which some protestors were condemned while others were lauded based solely on which causes (and which classes of people) the commenters happened to politically support. It's transparently unprincipled, to the point of being a sad joke.
I guess, paper use may have been an issue. Compare the side-by-side of italics and Civilité. Paper has always been a rather expensive resource…
Ask HN: Without Einstein, would General Relativity be discovered by now?
Similar to Calculus where two different people were more or less discovers the same thing around the same time, was anyone else working on something that would have led to its discovery? If not when do scientists thing it would have been discovered?
Well this talk was at a local Meetup so presumably the attendees got what they paid for. If you expect a high-quality talk I'm sure you would shell out an appropriate amount of money for it.
Lots of possibilities: Local churches (where young adults go), philosophy groups, search around on billboards and campuses, yoga classes (ie. Art of Living), etc. Some groups are open to newcomers. Just keep in mind, many groups try to suck you in and you may need to review why and if you should continue from time to time. Any place you start, you might connect to people drawn to you, so could end up in a different group after some time.
That's what they want you to think. The war machine is a jobs program, but they could just as easily spend the same money on something more useful like infrastructure projects or social programs.
I don't think people realize how much hyper-focused tech content is out there these days. I work in developer relations (at Firebase) so I see a lot more of it than an average person.

There are entire channels devoted to making YouTube videos that show you how to solve a very specific error message for a certain combination of Framework X and Library Y.

This content is obviously great for SEO but the people making it often record it 30 seconds after finding the solution themselves and because it's video it can't be maintained, it just rots.

Often I'll get to work in the morning and see 5 new GitHub issues where people are making the same hyper-specific mistake. Why? They are all misled by the same new blog post or video.

That said, I love how passionate developers are about teaching each other. No other industry shares knowledge as rapidly, excitedly, and broadly as we do. Even if there's a lot of bullshit, I find the whole scene very energizing.
Also, don't forget to wash your hands. We don't yet know how effective masks are but we have mountains of evidence showing that hand washing works.
Yes, you can become addicted. It’s a drug. You become addicted to alcohol just as well. Caffeine, too. It doesn’t mean you will in any case. I was given morphine as pain killer in hospital and didn’t become addicted.

The difference is that individuals taking morphine or heroine can function well with little adverse side effect. You shouldn’t drive or operate heavy machinery, but the damaging effect that alcohol has on your body is substantially worse than any morphine derivative you could possibly take.
No one will take you seriously as a new user with the name "throwmehaweh". If you actually believe the things in your post, I recommend you use your actual account to state your beliefs. Your description of the protests as going downtown to riot is the type of misrepresentation we expect from children, not adults.
Why not force memcached clients to use the binary protocol instead of the ASCII protocol?

The length check would still be necessary, but spaces (and other arbitrary bytes) would no longer break things.
More absurd than the current reality of cops aiming at people’s faces?

At least a bounced round will have less kinetic energy. That won’t make it more accurate, but it does make headshots harder.
I think things are far from obvious, at the time, retrospectively, or even now. It’s still early times for the Chinese revolution and I think there’s still a good chance of China becoming more democratic in the next half a century. Xi is literally a child of the revolution and when that generation is gone, the middle classes will have no connection to the old guard.
Are you sure? I spent the last 30 years focusing on myself, on what I wanted to do, to learn, to get, to reach...
Idk...

>Start by digging into your own uneasiness. Where does it come from? What triggers it? You'll find some personal thing, most likely from childhood, tucked away in the recesses of your psyche that drives you. Meditation and self-honesty are key here.

I somehow feel like my "uneasiness" are the real engine that makes me go around so fast, honestly faster than most of the people I have around. Do I need a cure from it? I am not sure I am ready to kill the engine.
> You don't have permission to access /roundtable/dantes-exile on this server.

Google cache at https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TQr2mf...
I know many people who do great work and talk about it. The work is hard and getting to speak about it at a conference or write a well-received blog post is their preferred kind of reward.
The guidelines say "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait"

I sadly can't read this article because I'm not sure how to get around the paywall, but if it actually reaches the level of linkbait it can be changed.