skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That study is outdated, artificially recreates some of the educational data, and does not address two keys points I made that you skipped over: 1. If you are always behind other countries in education it of course will not offer as much of a competitive advantage. 2. Quantity of education is an almost useless measure. It's quality of education that should be interesting in terms of driving economic growth.

Even their conclusion "the evidence favors..." is far less strong than your insistence that growth is definitely the causation. This is exactly why I always ask for sources.

From a more recent study that includes some meta-analysis:

> The relationship between cognitive skills and economic growth has now been demonstrated in a range of studies. As reviewed in Hanushek and Woessmann (2008), these studies employ measures of cognitive skills that draw upon the international testing of PISA and of TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) (along with earlier versions of these). The uniform result is that the international achievement measures provide an accurate measure of the skills of the labour force in different countries and that these skills are closely tied to economic outcomes. [1]

> Second, to tackle the most obvious reverse-causality issues, Hanushek and Woessmann (2009) separate the timing of the analysis by estimating the effect of scores on tests conducted until the early 1980s on economic growth in 1980-2000. In this analysis, available for a smaller sample of countries only, test scores pre-date the growth period. The estimate shows a significant positive effect that is about twice as large as the coefficient used in the simulations here. In addition, reverse causality from growth to test scores is also unlikely because additional resource in the school system (which might become affordable with increased growth) do not relate systematically to improved test scores (e.g. Hanushek, 2002). [1]

Before you get too excited that the study focuses on test scores, rather than education, I recommend you read the study.

By now it's clear to me that you're operating on confirmation bias for a personal theory you favor rather than having evaluated all of the available and most recent studies. You're working only to prove yourself right and not putting effort into proving yourself wrong. So I'm going to stop here.

[1] http://www.oecd.org/pisa/44417824.pdf
Try mindfulness, seriously
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We really need to retire "Gell-Mann amnesia effect" and relegate it to a /glossary on HN along with the various philosophical razors, "Dunning-Kruger effect", "X fallacy", "gaslighting", and other intellectual placeholders like that.

As soon as I read the grandparent comment, I knew there was going to be a flood of people arriving to supply us with some wiki link.

This way we can just cut to the chase with "Ah, I smell a case of /glossary#4 going on!".
It's not unusual these days for the .NET Core team to be releasing Linux tools for performance and crash analysis, but Sysinternals in particular has always been about insights into Windows internals, so I thought it was pretty interesting that they were releasing a Linux tool under the Sysinternals brand.
> It's not clear from the post whether there was any conversation with the journalist about this aspect of the planned article, and/or whether there were any requests not to include the person's full name.

There were; this has been made clear elsewhere. The reporter was also made aware that the blog would be shut down if it came to that, and still refused to redact OP's real name from their article.

(Allegedly, it seems that NYT general policy can allow a person to be anonymous if warranted, but it's less clear that pseudonimity is contemplated.)
The FPGA is also potentially insurance for bugs on the ASIC that aren't economical to fix. Catch the bug and fix it on the way out of the card.
Ask HN: What would you replace the H1-B program with?
Whatever your feelings about Trump's suspension of H1-B admissions you've got to believe that America can do better than the H1-B program. What would you replace it with?
I was interviewed for a 5-minute TV piece once. (I was one of several people interviewed. The clips from my interview made up about 30 seconds in the final cut.) Since I had the chance, I asked the producer for an estimate of how many hours of work go into the piece. She did some back-of-the-envelope estimates and finally settled on 80 hours, across research, scheduling and conducting interviews, obtaining footage, editing, voiceover and communication between all involved parties.

So that would be 16 hours per minute of airtime, although admittedly that particular format was higher-than-average production quality.

I also have some personal experience producing scripted podcasts, and there I have about 0.5 hours per minute of airtime. It's a lot less work since I'm doing it as a single person and I don't have to care about video.

When you're saying "1 hour per minute" for video content, I actually find that incredibly efficient.
Yup, that's me! The SA forums inspired a lot of my random side projects, the TF2 server integration stuff was especially fun (got me into reverse engineering Valve's game .so to fix bugs). I miss those days when I had all the free time in the world :).
Yeah, the current situation is that because mainstream journalism are supposed to have 'standards', you get the product with predictable quality, but this quality is slowly but surely getting shittier. Blogs and twitter by contrast have no constraints, which means that variance in quality is much higher and while there are great blogs (such as, well, Slate Star Codex), trusting a random blog is an even worse idea that trusting a random journalist.

Looks like an opening for a new model of journalism begins to appear - something that captures the grassroots spirit of blogs, but filters out biased, disingenious and clickbait stuff, traces provenance of information and allows for fact-checking from multiple angles. Of course, the problem is genuinely hard because any startup that attempts this without new ideas about how the thing will be financed will fall prey to the same incentives as the conventional media and fail to make a difference.
Is someone able to ELI5 what the previous LHC actually achieved? (not a loaded question, I genuinely don't know)
Agree... There are plenty of items to cut from the budget first: tattoos, cigarettes, fast food, soda, energy drinks, Netflix, iPhones, or... Just moving to a cheaper area to live that's not an expensive coastal city.
September 2004

https://www.theregister.com/2004/09/15/amstrad_e3_launch/
I don’t know if I’ll really be able to add to this conversation, but two cents anyway:

I became a journalist more than 10 years ago because of a similar sentiment - I thought “mainstream media” was pretty terrible, and yet influential in society, and I wanted to know how it could be better.

I was a reporter for several years, an editor for a few, and now I teach journalism.

1. News angles are the fundamental part of news writing - probably the source of most of these problems, of overselling (or “beating up”) a story. It’s basically an effort to get straight to the point, a point as sharp as the facts will allow. You’ll go to the same press conference as a room full of journalists, and you’d better come out with the strongest piece of news. When you’re new, you’ll miss the most interesting or important piece of information, or you’ll bury it halfway down your story, and your competitor will make you look like you can’t do your job. Sooner or later you’re all thinking the same way and picking the same angles.

(This process seems to happen quite organically - the problems of social media look similar. But I’ll stick to personal experience, since that’s probably all I have to add.)

2. My least favorite aspect of the stereotypical personality of a journalist is a sense of self-importance. You start to believe you’re important because you talk to important people and write about important things. And some of it is a defense mechanism and hard to live without. Frequently, you need to challenge people - ask hard questions of the government, say. And that’s one of the most important things you can do as a journalist. A bit of bravado as armor really helps, because you will get attacked all the time. This feeling of “it’s us against the world” just crops when you’re doing accountability journalism. You need to be willing to piss anyone off, especially because everyone will be trying to manipulate you and spin their story, even in an innocent way, and you’ve got to try to stay independent. And when you get it wrong, you’re just acting like a sociopath.

3. A big part of journalism is “for the record.” You call people up and write it down - it doesn’t need to be this great investigation - and then other people can form opinions and bigger analyses out of it. There’s a lot this, and it’s pretty helpful.

That’s long enough, and I won’t add any conclusions, just leave an impression of what you deal with when you’re in it.
> Made this comment below but spending billions on another collider in an attempt to essentially validate SUSY is irresponsible

I am in the same boat as you, more precisely I was, especially after reading guys like Jacques Ellul who had written against this particular project since back in the '80s.

But then I started thinking that keeping that many smart and motivated people busy working on stuff that will not be as societally disruptive as the work of many past great scientists is not the worst thing in the world, so I personally see those billions of euros as an acceptable opportunity cost that gives us the chance not to be the direct contemporaries of a nuclear weapons race like back in the '60s or the early '80s (because back then the "best" way to keep those scientists busy was to ask them to build bigger nuclear bombs and bigger rockets).

Incidentally I see the anti-competitive stance of the FAANG companies when it comes to their employees in the same vein. Better for a very smart engineer to spend his/her life doing menial work inside one of those companies than for him/her to build the next AI startup which in the wrong hands will not be good for society as a whole. And that type of technology always ends up in the "wrong" hands.
Is anyone out there working on continuous physics engines? This, like most any physics library I can find, uses the fix-after-intersecting fixed-time-step model, which makes everything act like a stiff sponge, even if you greatly increase the number of iterations per frame.

Carmageddon 2 (as the last example I can think of) instead found out when the next intersection would happen, precisely, moved time forward exactly that far and then resolved the collision using impulses and would then repeat until it reached a frame's worth of time. In pathological cases, this resulted in a frame taking nearly a second, but that was rare and the physics were much less spongey and more realistic.
That truck driver guy with the 30.000 US$ bill - what? Let's generously assume he hasn't paid a single bill in 10 years to have that bill in 2013. That's 3.000 US$ a year or 250$ a month?!

How is this possible? Here in Germany average water bill is around that in a whole year!

What is the US doing with all the money? People pay a roughly thousand dollars on average based on the numbers in this article, and have abysmal service, no maintenance, and sometimes outright toxic water (Flint, the fracking areas where the water is flammable). Where is that excess money going?

[0] https://www.t-online.de/heim-garten/energie/id_77342378/wass...
See Ken Ishii's music video "Space Invaders 2003":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p--dHQIeagE

It's super cute, and also hits like a truck. Detroit techno is a really inspired musical choice for this kind of thing.
Thank you - could you provide a link about those requests and discussion? I'd like to update my understanding (and comment) based on those.
The 10 in the version number is a clue[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Catalina
From the blog post:

> When I expressed these fears to the reporter, he said that it was New York Times policy to include real names, and he couldn’t change that.

What more details are needed?
Grounded by the Pandemic, Aviation Geeks Find New Ways to Cope
They're also the best laptops around
Customers do not tend to be willing to pay for updates that “merely ensure compatibility with their new OS”
;-)
Nobody says SAP is not a good example but the problem is that it's only 1(one) company in such a huge and wealthy country.

Smaller countries like Sweden or The Netherlands host more successful unicorns than Germany.
Hey Frank, first of all, congratulations and good luck with the launch. I understand that this is an announcement page, and I hope I'm allowed to share my feedback.

The landing page reads "Monitor your websites for technical issues"

I feel the headline can be modified to help a prospect understand why they should care.

Something on the lines of "Boost your website performance to deliver an excellent user experience" will help a prospect understand what they can achieve with UptimeMate. (This is just an example)

I think receiving updates on Slack and email is cool. It'd be nice if you could add that to the sub-heading. Something like "UptimeMate instantly notifies you of technical issues on your websites and ensures YOU are the FIRST to know. Receive updates on Slack or email. Use UptimeMate for FREE during our beta, no credit card required."

The screenshots look really good. The value props of the product and customer testimonials are on point. Well done. :)
Exactly, downvotes hurt so much!
Investing in Rasa
Learn something. Doesn't matter what. Just pick at and get really damn good at it. Or even, just a little bit better than you were yesterday, every day for a long time.
Yeah, but can you reliably discern garbage that better fits your narrative than truth does? What good is a truth set free in an ocean of lies and half-truths? The truth isn't Good or Just, it just kinda awkwardly IS. If you pursue those NARRATIVES of "Good" and "Just" that have been woven for you, you will find truth only by luck.
It would be a little less galling if the NYT didn’t let anonymous sources throw shade on people so readily. It shows the class divide here.
I blame both. Apple has the power to solve this in a way that doesn't have drawbacks for developers.
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One of the biggest problems in modern society is the lack of respect for privacy and anonymous speech. anonymous speech has been a cornerstone of the advancement of civilization many times through out history including playing a critical role in the formation of the United States as well as the US Constitution

Your belief that a person should be disallowed anonymity simply because they created a popular blog is crazy to me. Further there are a few celebrities today that operate under pseudonyms in their public life and every few people know them by their true legal name so it is factually inaccurate to say it is not "realistic" to have a public life and remain somewhat anonymous.
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I don't really understand why the need to single out Poland. In recent history Poland had a transgender MP, openly gay MP and three female prime ministers. Breastfeeding in public isn't a taboo in Poland either.
Because the opposite is to go and exploit them as it happened for most of the human history and is still happening here and there. Some of those country are drawn in poverty as the result.

Are you already tired of "helping" others? Don't forget that we aren't trying to cooperate for a very long time as it may seem to be. We aren't still great at doing it either.

What may seem to be broken to you isn't wrong in essence. We should help each other. We should support each other. And less poverty is better for all of us. Maybe we should just do it differently. Perhaps the way we are doing it isn't good and we should find a better way to do it.
This is really well done, any plans for iOS?
I've seen moral fashions. What's happening now is bigger, rarer and worse. It's known as a "purity spiral" (Haynes), "mass movement" (Hoffer), "political religion" (Voegelin).
Thank you. Ah, so you grudge is <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">, sorry, I was confused by default awful table style.

That is much harder, there was no simple answer [1], browsers displayed viewport, some (Opera Mobile or Mini) had text reflow option. One company decided that it is authors responsibility [2], others followed. And now it is bad default.

So what can we do? Improve own experience – vote with your feet, inject setting in extension, patch and compile open source browser – plenty of options, and write about it. From my experience – Linux, uMatrix, Stylus, patch Firefox, have to write now (I'll edit later). That's why why meant by "have you updated yours (user.css)?".

If anything we need more choice. Build your own browser -Ungoogled, Iridium, Tor browser, Beaker Browser. Hack on smaller codebase - Netsurf, Dillo. There are graphical DOS browsers, console browsers, BeOS browser, Plan 9 browser, Emacs browser.

I mentioned quirks mode (correct, without doctype) to show how insignificant details with almost no presence still guarded by browsers. That page was written before pixel perfect reproduction was a thing. There are a lot of pages from another era https://theoldnet.com/

[1] https://www.quirksmode.org/mobile/viewports2.html

[2] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ap...
In theory they could slap on HBM [0] for a decent performance boost. It would eliminate the need for a dedicated GPU in Macbooks and low end iMacs.

[0] https://www.amd.com/system/files/49010-gddr5-hbm-1260x709.pn...
"Amid rising costs and diminishing federal dollars, the use of punitive measures—shutoffs and liens (a legal claim on the house linked to a debt which can lead to foreclosure)—is widespread. Just like mortgage foreclosures, water shutoffs and liens can force affected households to abandon their homes."

and

"In 2014, shortly after filing the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, the city launched a massive shutoff program and has since disconnected at least 141,000 households, according to records obtained by news website Bridge."

Sounds like they can't afford water.
Coronavirus: Confirmed cases in UK fall to pre-lockdown level
Second this, any sources for genuinely good, more widely actionable advice that you could recommend?
>There has to be way to make this more obvious to people.

I've always been of the opinion that the reader needs to be on guard towards content which teaches people to hate, much moreso than "hate speech" that's just someone screaming their head off like an angry paranoid fool.

It's easy for everyone to identify and contextualize someone talking trash; even if they happen to agree they can still see it for what it is. It's much harder when a reporter (someone branded as a smart person) uses high-status language, slick production value, and an almost disengaged tone of voice to seduce you into a comfortable but dishonest explanation that turns people into cartoonish monsters to lay blame at their feet.
Though interestingly (as you acknowledge via "if you need it") that also tends to be the only time a traditional site/app does need it: a /search endpoint.
I've never really looked into this "growth mindset" fad, but based on what I'm seeing here, I probably have it.

What is my secret?

I look up "how to" on the subject and learn about it until I'm comfortable with the amount of risk involved in trying it.

That means that if I want to tile my bathroom floor, I watch Youtube videos on tiling and find out how much the materials will cost and what it would cost to fix my mistake if it's so bad that I can't fix it myself.

The result of that was my first attempt at floor tiling going very, very well, but with a lot of hard work that probably could have been easier if I'd known more. But everyone says the tile looks amazing. I see the flaws, but they don't until I point them out.

The same goes with programming at work. I've almost never said "no", but I've often said, "I'll have to look into that" and it often results in creating a proof of concept for the hardest part before actually attempting the whole project. I usually end up doing it, and it almost always works out.

So my "growth mindset" is simply to look up tutorials before saying "no".
Political groups have replaced religious groups as providing a sense of meaning and purpose in modern times.

Politics is the new religion. Combine that with destabilizing effects of instant communication and social media and you get what we have now. Essentially divergent realities created by our narrow casted views (news feeds) that create a modern day tower of Babel moment where we literally can't understand each other.
If only it were not based on ubuntu or debian, I'd use it. Not a fan of either.
The change has nothing to do with BLM, or the US police.
Honestly, I once got a gentle slap from dang, and it made me reevaluate my comment. Downvoting is easily ignored.
Great post. I wish more people would genuinely listen to those they disagree with. When we shut people down or make them feel uncomfortable/threatened to the point that they won't speak, what have we gained?
Unfortunately it is hard for me to comment on the hey.com web app as they currently have restrictive registration.

The benefit of building with a de-coupled JS frontend (SPA) and an API is that it can extended and adapted far easier than using server-delivered HTML.

If you have an API that delivers JSON/Protobuf/whatever, you can easily make new interfaces to that backend. If you are currently delivering a web app in HTML/JS, but decide you want a native Mac/iOS app written in Swift, you'll just end up building an API anyway.

Sure, there are plenty of websites that wont ever need additional interfaces, but if your goal is to make an app that can easily have new interfaces added to the mix, de-coupling is the way to start in my opinion.
A lucky coincidence, then. Still, good for them.
Oh wow ... :/
And how many "few locals" is enough for prejudice to turn into statistic?
I certainly see that deepfakes will take us to a place where we can "choose the actors" to be compiled in to a film.

But that strikes me as potentially being the death of celebrity actors. If an actor's contribution can be downplayed in that way, then the actor's person becomes relatively unimportant. More akin to a puppeteer, still a vital role but the puppet takes the limelight somewhat.

I'm not sure Hollywood will choose this direction, it goes against their financial benefit I feel.
macOS 11: copies of dynamic libraries are no longer present on the file system
You have to make giant, sweeping mistakes a part of your career or personality. Rush Limbaugh lost one tangential job, but is still influential and wealthy.
Obviously, OP can give a better answer as it's closer to home.

I'm glad that your folks have taken to it quite well, but I'm just speaking from my own experience.

The thing is, if I can come up with design constraints for folks that struggle in my own experience, chances are, it's probably an easier interface for everyone.

A solution for physical buttons was less of a comment on OP's grandmother's situation, and more as plus point for the fact that physical interfaces trump touchscreens when the amount of total actions you wish to take are limited. It's the same reason I prefer physical knobs and switches when I'm driving as opposed to touchscreens.

I'm pretty tech literate, I work in the industry, and if this screen gives me pause to work out what the heck I want to press on it:

https://imgur.com/hTnnOmB

then it's a no go as a general solution for everyone.