skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> elimination is possible with good government

Good government, plus living on a small island that can close itself from the rest of the world. Most countries aren't in that situation.
Personal assistant arrested, allegedly dismembered Fahim Saleh
A student has rebuilt the machine that first cracked German Enigma codes
I would really love to see a technical breakdown and see how it works, what his stack looks like, how the straigthening info is put in, etc...
Yes: https://jonasgessner.com/protube2-statement.html
I don't understand the opposition to the opposition of charter schools. They are one of the purest examples of regulatory capture. It's not about choice, it's about private companies taking money and doing on par or worse jobs than their public government funded schools.

Being extremely pro regulatory capture is simply and truly immoral and evil.
A good point and also something I'm not a fan of
I had another comment refuting the GP (as you are), but the more I thought about it, I decided to delete the comment.

At the end of the day, you have to pay $99/year to publish on the Apple App Store, and on Android, although Google has had some shady practices around automatically flagging/removing apps from it's store, you have more options in terms of app distribution, such as F-Droid.

To my (now deleted) comment's point though, I don't see much of a relation between F-Droid and NewPipe, besides that F-Droid hosts it.

EDIT: other comment on this thread answers that last point I made and your question, and sums up what NewPipe has to do with the "openness" of the platforms [1]. However, I now wonder, what is stopping Google/YouTube from going after NewPipe & F-Droid?

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23874943
What we need is a plan and a leader that will pull us out of this gridlock and death spiral that we're in. We need a diagnosis of what exactly is going wrong, a concrete plan of action, and mass participation.

My diagnosis:

- Hyper-partisanship is causing politicians and the electorate to harden into uncompromising tribes. This hyper-partisanship also serves to increase the size and scale of the fringe wings of both parties, leading to events like the infamous white-supremacist Charlottesville rally.

The cause(s):

- 1. News as a business, particularly if that business is publicly traded, is not in the 'truth-telling' business. It is in the 'maximizing profits' business, as all (publicly traded) companies are.

- 1.1. Therefore, truth is ancillary to any for-profit news business. This will manifest itself in different ways depending on the monetization scheme of the business.

- 1.2. In the case of 24-hour news networks, like Fox and CNN, they are advertisement driven and therefore seek to maximize 'eyeballs'. Therefore, a constant stream of engaging content must be produced: for both Fox and CNN, the result is hyper-sensationalism. The creation of outrage, controversy, and even facts that don't exist. Further, because Fox is so partisan, it has effectively forced CNN to become partisan too.

- 1.3. The above is also true, and *especially* true, for ad-driven online news sources. Clickbait is a well-known phenomenon for, again, maximizing outrage and controversy for ad impressions. Visit an average article on CNN, Fox, or Breitbart and count how many ads you see. Now ask yourself: is it *really* in their best interest to be partial and nuanced?

- 2. Twitter and Facebook allow us to create echo chambers of politicians, pundits, news organizations, and peers.

- 2.1. The 'like' and 'share/retweet' mechanisms incentivize divisive, emotional, and simplistic posts/tweets.

- 2.2. And given that a small subset of users actually tweet or comment or post, those that do tend to be more radical, which lead people to believe that the majority opinion for ${POLITICAL_PARTY} is reflected in the comment section. This leads to a true 'Overton shift' for those in ${POLITICAL_PARTY} and opposite polarization for ${OTHER_POLITICAL_PARTY}.

There are another dozen reasons, I'm sure, including: money in politics, constant campaigning, a genuine uptick in racism/anti-semitism, and many more. I think exploring the idea of a crowd-sourced website listing these reasons and proposed solutions would be quite valuable.
In what education system are outcomes guaranteed?

The story you linked to is pretty interesting, but she clearly states she was allowed to learn (just not forced to), she obviously understood what a university was, and had the desire and ability to apply and be accepted to university at an age when her parents would have had the legal right to stop her if they so wished - they obviously supported her application. Her outcome was clearly a lot better than many students who go to public school.
If the customer went all in on the broken first solution that would be the sunk cost fallacy, but that's not what GP said. Maybe it's not the broken window fallacy, but GP saying that terrible customer service from big consultancies creates opportunities for startups doesn't follow at all, because customers don't have infinite amounts of time and money to get a working solution.
So, keeping my child engaged for 5 days a week would cost about 150$ and 45$ go to the platform (judging from glancing over class duration/classes per week and cost).

Can somebody tell me what value outschool adds aside from being an agency?
> Russell 3000 CEOs might be at worst 10 percentage points "less creative" than S&P 500 CEOs, but no way they are 4.5x less creative.

How do you know that? How would you measure it?
Thanks for mentioning this - I would certainly appreciate input on this. Testing software on half a dozen different Raspberry Pi models currently involves quite a bit of cable un- and replugging...
Sorry, let me redo this

I messed up the message
Aren't these charter schools free and open to everyone?

What's the problem? If people don't want to send their children to your public schools then take a look at why.
While it's easy to blame Trump (and he deserves a heaping pile of blame), the corruption and destruction of a functional US government has long been the goal of those on the right. Since the 80s there has been a concerted movement to defund and destroy the effective ability of our government for ideological and personal reasons.

Then, when the water treatment plants break down or the education system is a mess they can privatize it and reap the profits. Or they can establish charter schools that teach creationism, segregate classrooms again, or reduce education to minorities.

This is just one chess move in a long game that has been playing out since the 50s. Within this context, the moves here are not surprising, especially with Betsy DeVos in charge.

Read her bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_DeVos#School_vouchers
It was the subway.

Extensive use of the subway is what sets NYC apart from all other cities in the US, and it was the main vector. NYC should have been much more diligent about cleaning the subway and limiting concurrent access. I understand due to the sheer volume and necessity of subway use the chosen policies may have been the best. But the subway has been overcrowded and near the breaking point for years and little was done to maintain the system before COVID.
> Most companies don't tell you which questions you may be asked about. In my Amazon interview, the questions were directly from the LP. Not disguised as such. Not even rephrased

The fact that Amazon told you what questions you'll be asked, whereas other companies don't, most people would say that is more interviewee-friendly. I certainly wouldn't see that as a negative.

Funny enough, the other commenter had the exact opposite experience as you. "I don't remember any interviewer at Amazon asking anything remotely straightforward about any of the LPs". Just goes to show that YMMV.

> Only at Amazon was it a "drill". Rapid fire questions, with little to no scope for exploring a topic. It wasn't an interview, it was an interrogation, mostly phrased to put me on the defensive.

Sounds like you had some bad interviewers. That certainly doesn't excuse Amazon for not better training their interviewers, but what you experienced is a bug not a feature.
My wife is a school bus driver. I got another job where I could work from home and make more money partial so she could quit working.
If I had to guess, its a combination of 1) people skimming are looking for the twitter UI 2) a backup in case the tweet gets removed 3) embedded tweets can break in browsers with issues or javascript disabled 4) both text and screenshot combined are best for accessibility and screen readers and translation

I think the best case solution is a server side service that archives the tweet and renders it directly into the html, not as an embed, that then gracefully overlays the embed over, so you can see accurate retweets and hearts, but will degrade back to just showing the content as text.

One thing I cant stand about the modern web is how screenshots of text have become a defacto standard, because they preserve formatting and are require no technical know-how.
Parents, or lack of, have failed students, especially minorities.
I've been told otherwise by a doctor (not a cardiologist), and I've always wanted to know a definitive answer on this but it's hard to find information on the subject; almost all literature is focused on the rate of heartbeat, not on the loudness of the drumming itself.
My high school band friend became a high school music teacher. He was making hardly enough money for his family to live without stress or worry, he asked about wages they said they couldn't give raises, the only way they could justify a raise is if he had more education - so he took some student loans and got his masters. He was then told nothing could get him a raise, wages are frozen. Around that time he emailed me asking for help getting a corporate training gig where I was working. Of course I put in a word but I also pressed back because I'd always known him to be incredibly passionate about teaching and music. I always imagined him as a bit poorer than me, but a hell of a lot happier (I was going through a bit of a depressed time thinking about the "meaningfulness" of my corporate life). He said it wasn't about meaningfulness, or enjoying the work, or passion, it was that at one point they had to consider whether or not they had the budget for fucking light bulbs one week. He moved on to a nice corporate training job, and does well now. I haven't talked to him recently about if he still misses teaching, but I am acutely aware there's kids out there missing out on an amazing band teacher because we don't pay our teachers a salary that shows the profession any respect. I guess my friend's richer and happy he can take vacations and buy necessities without worry and for that I am glad, but I see the world as little bit poorer.
Is HN the right place to post website configuration errors? I'd email security@ before posting here, so that they can read and fix it. It's highly unlikely that someone in the position to fix this will see this on HN before they see it in their email, and now in addition to fixing the issue they have to read and triage 100s of emails from people on HN that are escalating the issue through support/security@/etc.
Is solar cheaper than coal when excluding subsidies and including storage?
The way clients usually do this is by fetching all mentions to the user after a given timestamp (of the original tweet), and collecting only those that are replies to the tweet. Since there's a limit on how many mentions you can get, you might not get all the replies.

It's been like that at least since 2013.
Exactly. There seems to be barely any concrete evidence (photos, videos) of any drones at all, let alone large mothership drones controlling swarms of smaller drones. Despite it being likely that every single person who thinks they saw a drone probably had a high resolution video camera in their pocket.
I have been forcibly selected without knowledge
This is awesome, build steps in CSS are absurd if you really sit there and think about what the purpose of the browser is compared to what it used to be..

No build step should be the future of web development. The more steps that are added that require yet more tools to learn and more dependencies to maintain, the less inclusive and creative the web becomes. Hopefully we will one day be able to look back on this time period as an evil necessity.. I mean writing es6 and building to es5 is way better a lot of the time from a development perspective but on the face of it, its absurd and its why tooling gives people fatigue and turns away new promising developers for better programming languages.

I would definitely provide a way to download the css without npm first. Like big worm said, its about principalities.
Some people actually enjoy their work.
> I don't understand the logic around the left's hatred of charters

The left doesn't hate charters, it hates publicly subsidized private schools that are not effectively accountable. That's a subset of charters plus all vouchers.

Actual public charters, by which public schools are granted some variance of generally applicable rules to trial new methods are not a problem to the left; the hijacking of that process to create super-voucher schools when the voucher model failed to gain sufficient political support is what the left hates.

> Parents choose to send their kids there

Often, after the local regular public school has been replaced by a privately-operated charter in the same facility, and often the parents who most choose to send their children their are the ones whose most-local school was replaced, because it's the most convenient public school and going to a more distant one has added cost.
First, it is wrong. There's no requirement that charter schools get paid the same per student as public schools. Even when they do, charter schools also often lean heavily on public school resources (e.g. charter schools where I grew up used our public gymnasium, theater, and library regularly).

But second, even if the funding is exactly the same, the result is that all the "cheap" i.e. wealthy students (books and technology readily available at home, familial support for their studies, financially able to engage in more expensive educational opportunities outside the classroom) end up in one school while those without these privileges, or with disabilities, end up in the other. Even if you give both the same resources the second school is going to perform worse. And under current US policy, the school that performs worse then gets even less money while the school of rich kids gets more! It's wealth consolidation, pure and simple.
Illegal to strike, my God
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That doesn't seem obviously true to me, do you have some more details?
Thank you! Should I be ashamed to say this is the first time I find out there are vaccines for bacteria?

While the article is rich with information, it just glossed over the main issue: "One classic technique involves injecting a person with a killed virus. Another uses live viruses that have been grown and deliberately weakened, typically by removing specific genes in their RNA or DNA. Both of these strategies take some time, and scientists worry that if they use them on novel viruses, they may not behave the way researchers predict."

But what is exactly taking time? Killing the virus and/or making a weak version of it? And in what way they can behave unpredictably? Alas, so many questions left unanswered :(
I’m optimistic. We are being tested from many directions right now and when we come out of this we will be better for it.
I'm a layout implementor for Planimeter's Grid Engine. Implementing a naive subset of the algorithm for calculating the box sizes in the visual formatting model and calculating layout for normal flow, relative positioning, and absolute positioning is far easier to implement than flexbox.[1] There's nothing insane about this. And you'll learn even more when trying to draw to the screen.

Normal flow also doesn't require multiple passes, whereas flexbox does.[2] Even Yoga doesn't implement a conforming model.[3] I'd even speculate that flexbox performs slower than the standard visual formatting model just because of the differences in the algorithm.

Transform order absolutely matters. Any attempts to coerce order into a standardized sequence means developers have to account for this information.[4]

[1]: https://github.com/Planimeter/grid-sdk/blob/master/engine/cl...
[2]: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-flexbox-1/#resolve-flexible-length...
[3]: https://github.com/facebook/yoga/blob/master/yoga/Yoga.cpp#L...
[4]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/winforms/a...
> If they are failing, they are failing the business.

And the business includes the employees.
https://twitter.com/billgates/status/1022712786449846272

I read @TheEconomist cover-to-cover because its content makes me think critically about the world. Its editors recently asked me a tough question: What is the one thing you'd do to create a more open world? See my answer below and share your answer here: https://b-gat.es/2LTs1WM

Jul 27, 2018
Nah, I'll use it as I please. Your sensibilities are your own, and not mine.
You can set your own password on documents created with the iWorks apps, on PDFs, etc., not perfect, but at least that is something.
I'm not saying that it's exclusively people below the median/mean, I'm saying that due to the content the site focuses on the board is going to skew towards the more wealthy in whatever market they live in. Obviously I don't have the demographic data to back this up, but it's just the reality of the situation. Inside the US, this board's users are going to be wealthier than the average US population. I suspect that would hold true for any group you look at, whether its a global perspective (probably even more skewed if you look at the global average wealth). Beyond that, you need an internet connection at all to come here, so right there you're going to be skewing wealthier than you would if you picked an "average".

I'm not consigning anyone to the "bad actor" bucket, but when we talk about filter bubbles we should at least be honest about the composition of groups and what traits they might have. There's no reason to think that the average HN user is representative of the average individual given the content.

Beyond that, due to the upvote system, the majority is amplified, so even if there are millions in poverty on this site, their views are going to be pushed lower than the tens of millions not in poverty. This is a bigger problem than HN obviously, but it does nobody any good to deny it's existence. The same could be applied to any minority group, whether its gender, sexuality, or race for that matter. This is a consequence of the system and you see the same thing on various subreddits (the fact that they split things into smaller boards mean there are communities where the site minority might be able to actually have a larger voice than the majority)
You probably also don’t want to propagate the gene for “I don’t really want to have kids, but I’m still going to because I think I’m better than the people who are already having kids.”
IIUC the point was that the ability to fork projects (and then potentially merge back) is one of the strengths of OSS, even if it means some duplicated effort.
> the extremely low rate of teacher pay (for a job that requires a Master's degree) limits the pool of available teachers greatly.

Teacher pay is not extremely low. The median teacher salary is usually pretty close to the median salary for the state. Plus they get good benefits, a pension, and much more time off than other jobs. It's a solid middle class life.
> assuming because he wasn’t American that he had to borrow from shady characters, linking recent changes to his business to the killing, and panicked nailbiting over NYT descriptions of his condo hitting a little close to home. With few exceptions (such as accusing Saleh of being involved with cocaine), the examples I’ve mentioned found themselves steering the discussion, not downvoted in the slightest.

Indeed. Because the cost of the deceased's apartment was mentioned, folks started grasping at straws, some assuming it's a politically motivated (with a vague implication that this may have been class warfare) killing.
I read a lot of people's experiences here in the thread and I think a lot of you really should give YouTube Premium a try. It solves most of the problems you are describing, while also paying the creators
The problem is, remote education has been a complete disaster.

I know a few teachers. Apparently their students found out that the state was unwilling to hold anyone back a year during the pandemic, they shared this information with each other, and now a substantial amount of them are not doing any work.

In some classes, more than half the students are permanently absent! Either their parents don't know, or don't care, or are unable to provide internet access.

One solution is to get students back into classrooms. Another is to design a remote learning system that actually works, with enforcement of attendance and where grades actually matter, but that is probably not something our substandard education system is able to achieve.
> Maybe they thought they were clever? ... Maybe it's just a garbage dump.

This is a really nasty, snarky comment. Deriding people who try to build things and talking about their work as garbage.

There's lot of software we wish we had access to now from the past, but we don't because people had the same attitude as you.
This is great feedback!

#1 is on our backlog. hopefully we'll add this soon!

#2 agree, we plan to work on this, thanks for pointing it out!

#3 we're still working out the details on the pricing plan, we're hoping people will enjoy using it for free for now. Also we're open to feedback on pricing, feel free to send what you'd expect to pay for a service like this to support@wheelhorse.io

#4 the major differences between wheelhorse and other random number generation services are 1/ it's going to be substantially cheaper than other services because of the way we designed the hardware that generates the random numbers, 2/ it's very fast and easy to understand and integrate with, 3/ we're open to doing custom features / deployments to meet people's specific integration needs.

#5 we're still in the early stages of building this product and are more looking for feedback and early users than anything else. if you'd like details on who we are and what we're trying to do we'd love to talk to you! please send mail to support@wheelhorse.com and we can setup some time to talk on the phone or via zoom.

Also I'd like to point out that we're never going to sell anybody's email address or do any other weird things with people's information. We believe in delivering value honestly and securely.
I'm really not sure what you mean by this comment. Are you talking about NewPipe?

NewPipe is not a re-release of any Android Play Store app, or like any hacked app (like YouTube Vanced). It provides features beyond even YouTube Premium's featureset, removes perceived anti-features like Google Play Services integration, and is much more lightweight to boot.
The current situation in US education strongly suggests that whatever other failings you want to ascribe to teachers unions, the interests of teachers and students are much more closely aligned than the interests of administrators who are planning to murder both other groups.