skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When 2008 happened I realised that my parent’s generation knows close to nothing about the modern financial system.

Meanwhile they prevent my generation from building houses and rob our pensions.
Why would the people who are treated fairly and protected by police care if the police are treating “them” unfairly?
Vitamin D for the win!
What if they ban like xiaomi or one plus. Those are like the most popular phones in India.
I switch computers frequently (desktop, chromebook, laptop, phone, etc.) so having some kind of centralized 'favorites' is nice. I've not used the bookmark sync with Firefox or such.

I've noticed that I rarely go back and look at my favorites though.
The blank check is ultimately the problem. I say remove the blank check and then let colleges figure out the rest.

I look to the UK as an example. The government only guarantees $10,000 in student loans so most programs coincidentally cost less than $10,000. Are there exceptions? Yes, but for the most part this holds true.

Not a complete solution but does significantly help to address the blank check issue.
A big part of what makes school uncomfortable is related to the physical space in which it takes place. As you said it, it has many attributes of a prison. Too crowded, which means too noisy. Closed, which means there's no room for breathing when things get socially too heated. Little privacy. In many places of the world, included rich ones, schools are in a state of disrepair. And in general, they display a situation where users have no input in the design process.
The Go runtime also locks in some unwarranted assumptions at process start time, and never changes its parameters if the number of available CPUs changes.
"In the late 1990's, interest began to coalesce around Linux, the first really open Unix system released under the free software GNU license, and which might finally unify the Unix family after three decades of development."

I wonder if they ever imagined the editor wars and distro wars of today.
I didn't even know there was a 'hide' option. Just never looked at anything below the title, really! Been here for a while too
The likelihood of compromise depends on data being sent + chance of said service being malicious, which is why I said highly unlikely. Even if I gave you a JWT or config file, you'd still have to know how and where to use it. Sometimes this can be obvious, sometimes even if you know how, you can't access the where like if the credentials contained access to a db local to only my machine or to a server behind a firewall.
Did you get to the part where the agency is seizing some vehicles and then has to pay to store them? Someone should do a little more digging into that... wouldn't doubt it if the owners of some of those storage facilities have connections with some of the people seizing the vehicles..
The following is all IMO.

Have my upvote. Not because I agree but because you managed - quite elegantly compared to many other "unpopular opinion" answers - to get others to write down good questions.
I’ve worked with Jawaad. He has a deep understanding of cloud computing and all things supporting it. What sets him apart is his ability to be customer facing and articulate with his knowledge. He’s able to work with both business side and technical side. Absolute pleasure to work with him on the same team.
Having lived in Oklahoma city for a large part of my life, you just become weather aware when the risk of large tornado's are the greatest. The prediction of conditions favorable for tornado's is pretty accurate these days, and make it easy to know when to pay attention to the weather.

If you have a storm shelter the risk of death is extremely low. Even without a storm shelter all but the largest tornado's are survivable, even if your house takes a direct hit, by following the recommended precautions the weatherman will tell you about every time there is one.
I agree it’s an uncomfortable, but necessary part of human development.

One of the worst things you can do for your mental health is avoid uncomfortable feelings. All that usually accomplishes is making those feelings even worse.

That’s why exposure therapy is such a big part in dealing with phobias and anxiety. It’s counter intuitive, but being stressed and anxious (within reason) helps you develop coping mechanisms that come in really handy in life.
Wake up time is a zero sum game. Otherwise your points are good.
Firefox supports the performance API for timing, but not for memory.
Have you actually read that thread? It's a garbage fire.

To me, flagging worked as intended.
Last time I was knee deep in managing prod Kube infrastructure limits were also there for scheduling purposes. It's hard to properly allocate services across nodes when there is no concept of requirements they have. I guess you can get around that with setting a request versus a limit?
Libunifex: Async I/O library with io_uring support
XLS: Accelerated HW Synthesis
Translations are a bit like Helen vs #nofilter Penelope: they may be either very beautiful or very faithful, but unless one has been blessed by the gods, that or is exclusive.
It's interesting how few favorites the articles actually have.
> Everything works quite well, except for the fact it is in Haskell.

I don't understand how being written in Haskell can, itself, work well or poorly or not work from the point of view of a user.

Did you mean "despite being written in Haskell", or are there usability concerns that are caused by it being written in Haskell? (... or is there some other interpretation I'm not seeing?)
American schools resemble actual prisons in many ways. From the architecture of buildings to the freezing temperature (prisoners fight less when cold) they are shockingly similar. And they have to wake up unnaturrally early.

I think it all comes down to how students are seen by architects and the school system in general. I wonder if private schools are different.
I look at hire me thread every month but really there aren't any interesting candidates. Pretty much everyone is nodejs/react type and I need to hire people that can build software to last. If I see anyone mention Arc in that thread I will instantly send a job offer
Yep. Agreed on all points.
Everything about COVID is hard to understand from a health policy perspective. Motivated reasoning is everywhere.

See this: the CDC was a beacon of technocratic science right up until it stopped arguing for mass government action, now suddenly it's politically motivated. Maybe, but you'd have to demonstrate that with some evidence.

Here's an easy demonstration of the opposite: scientists were in agreement that masks were of no use, right up until political lobbying caused a total reversal of position as confirmed by the BBC [1]. Yet on HN we can read all the time that the new consensus is totally scientific, and it was the previous position that was unscientific. Lockdowns weren't recommended by the WHO or CDC, right up until they suddenly became the only responsible scientific thing to do.

There's a clear pattern here - when an agency is recommending massive government action, a certain segment of the population praises them as 'scientific'. When an agency says maybe there's less for governments to do, they are damned as political and partisan. It's quite obviously ideological reasoning.

Mass testing has to end at some point. That means at some point the CDC has to make such a recommendation. Or do you believe it should never end?

[1] https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1282987860090593280
In the US. I took Latin in high school and translated classics like Ovid and Catullus. I wouldn't be surprised if Latin was less popular now even though it's only been a few years. It seems like the feeling is that so few Americans who have been here a few generations speak a second language that it's a waste to learn a dead language.

I will say that having to use Latin conjugation really improved my English grammar and understanding of sentence structure. I don't know if this is a typical effect of studying a second language from an outsider perspective (instead of just going by what sounds right in your native language) or if the simplicity of an older root language like Latin helped.
All dictionaries I find online say "The plural form of supernova is supernovas or supernovae."

I think we should phase out these pseudo latin plurals from English. They're just annoying and were a bad idea when introduced in the 1700s.
‘Three-Body Problem’ Series from Benioff, Weiss, Alexander Woo Set at Netflix
The other issue to consider is that the vast majority of American high schools have start times that are far too early for the typical teenager's circadian rhythm.[1]

Sleep deprivation has a major effect on generalized anxiety[2]. The research I would like to see done, is to test whether the groups of students with the earliest starting schools saw larger drops in anxiety during the transition to full remote.

[1]https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/features/schools-start-too-early.h...
[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00057...
So you can power your handheld by shouting at it?
It will be fascinating to see the studies years from now. Comparing things like people who graduated in 2019 vs those who graduated in 2020 (a few months of school disrupted) vs 2021 (more than a year of school disrupted). There may be difficult confounders to deal with, like "the economy also changed a lot due to the pandemic", so it's hard to compare across years; "having already found a job before the pandemic" would also be significant, so it's hard to compare differently-aged people during the same year.

The best would be something like comparing people from different U.S. states or cities that are roughly similar, but one city shut down school much longer than the other. (Perhaps even comparing schools, although "whether a school decided to err on the side of staying shut down" probably correlates with something that would affect kids' performance.)

Anyway, let me pre-register my prediction that, if good studies can be done, they will show that kids who were forced to miss a year of school (or in-person school, at least) will not have been measurably negatively impacted by it.
Note that this is a much expanded 2020 version of the 1983 classic.
All current wind or solar plants require gas or some sort of grid backup.
> in making things your dislike illegal

dislike is very different from unethical.

Dislike is my taste - other people could have different tastes.

Unethical is defined by me as actions that "if everybody did it, society would collapse".
People wont scream out answers during tests. Tests is the best way to ensure kids gets to sit and think about problems. Homework doesn't do that at all for many kids.

I strongly believe that tests are an underutilized way to teach. Many seems to believe that you can't learn anything during tests, that they are only there to evaluate kids. However actually sitting and thinking about stuff is really important and tests helps with that.
Crepe: Datalog with a Rust-Like Syntax
Apps for children must offer privacy by default
You're personally attacking someone for making a genuine argument, as is clear from both its content and that person's messages elsewhere in this thread.

You may not like the comparison but to call it "malicious" is not OK. Play the ball, not the man.
Or just revoke qualified immunity and force them to pay for their own malpractice insurance. The most dangerous will be priced out.
Apparently quite a lot of HNers disagree with you, and liked it well enough to save it. That should be enough to indicate the article is appropriate for hn.
In France less than 4% of high school students learn Latin or ancient Greek, 3 hours weekly. Only one high school out of four has a teacher available for one of these languages. It has strongly receded over the last decade.

The schools follow a chronological program which means youngsters will study Antiquity while in middle school and recent centuries while in high school. Those who specialize in humanities will also go back in time while in high school. So I suppose a large majority of students reaching eighteen have absolutely no memory of reading or studying Homer.

I've enjoyed very much reading Homer. I found the Odyssey very moving and beautiful — not all translations are equals, I read two and you should find the one that suits you. Another obvious pleasure with reading classical works is the myriad of references to them in our culture. Apart from this, I like traveling in space and time through these texts. For example, the Iliad is very different from the Odyssey, and it looked older to me; at a times were gods were among people and human heroes could fight them, like Gilgamesh insulting Ishtar or Jacob wrestling with Yahve. In the Odyssey, the main gods have retreated from the world, and the focus is on human torments and fabulous encounters.
Sitting around the house playing video games and watching netflix all day makes teenagers happier than going to school, getting some exercise and having a job? What a revelation.
The high end is for students who are "independent", i.e. not with their parents (or similar). This is a tiny minority -- they make it very hard to declare independence.
In your search settings you can add keywords. So if you set ? as the keyword for google you can type '? foobar' into the address bar to google for foobar.
I still sometimes get a thrill of joy, when I pip or npm install something and it just works. Instead of long ago ftp'ing a tar file and spending an hour or day or punt, porting it from their * nix to mine. And sometimes laugh when HN'ers complain of (admittedly poorly infrastructured) excessive dependencies. Reusable code... living the dream.
PyTorch vs. TensorFlow for Your Python Deep Learning Project
And more often than not, the teacher is the one creating the homework, so it ends up being just more of the same.
Homework shouldn’t be abolished. It should be orchestrated. Someone should know vaguely how much homework teachers are putting out and ensure they don’t overlap too much or all assign huge projects at once. It’s much easier than it seems.

That said, abolishing HW is great too. It’s become a crutch for bad teachers.
I don't see why privacy by default should be limited to children's apps. All apps should be private by default.
... and now I'm just realizing the only fear I had of dangerous stuff like that in school was the soldering irons in the DT block. Never blinked once at being in the food tech rooms with those same people.
Or at least a country with extreme material inequity; there are people in India who are recognizably wealthy by global standards, and there are also people who can't afford to poop on a toilet.
One clone of you claims your entire estate, with the quite convincing argument that it is you and the estate belongs entirely to it, and your will has no power since wills only matter after the owner is dead, and it is clearly alive.
If the private loans are guaranteed, what incentive do the private lenders have? That's my point.
What lenses were you were you using? Picture profiles? I have always set the picture profile to Neutral for all of my cameras even though I shoot in RAW.
This has to be a new all-time low in website layout. `max-width:460px` means that it uses less that 24% of my screen space, on my laptop. I have to scroll through 3 pages of 12-point, 10-word wide text. I heard the arguments for 80-column code but 80-column websites?

If this is their idea of a "web book" feel, it would be a book held 4 feet from your face.
Happy to :) thank you for acknowledging that No Good Would Come of getting into the weeds on that one :)
The study found the radius of a 1.4-solar-mass neutron star is between 10.4 and 11.9 kilometers, a substantial improvement over other estimates.
Covid-19 Can Wreck Your Heart, Even If You Haven't Had Any Symptoms
That's an interesting perspective and a valuable way of looking at things. I'll have to consider that deeper.

I'm not sure I would call it "creativity," though. I'll have to think about that, too.
There’s a fundamental asymmetry here. Fail a student unfairly, and the harm to them is potentially irreparable. Pass more than usual, and you increase competition for places and while there’s certainly some unfairness there, the system will ultimately compensate through interviewing, delayed starts, etc.
Surely that is an indication that pedagogy should change, not that we should replace the discipline with something else. Especially when the "practical skills" people often point to are very much the sort of rote memorization things people complain about (budgeting, taxes, etc).
I'm getting angry even reading about it.

It's the kind of thing that'd make you reject purchasing it if only you'd thought to have tested that specific bit of it before buying it.
The rental company would sue you for the car you never returned.
I see a couple of replies saying something like "plain HTTP [still] works fine."

Sure, it works in the sense that most of the time the page will load as expected, but it's not safe or reliable. I don't want our standard for technology to be that it "works" for some shoddy definition of works - I want it to be safe and reliable. Plain HTTP is neither safe nor reliable.

Even if you don't care about the privacy benefits of HTTPS, plain HTTP can be modified. This means that when you load an HTTP page you cannot be confident that what you're seeing is what the server sent. The content could have been manipulated, ads or malicious script could have been inserted. This has been exploited in real world attacks many times.

Sites that do not use HTTPS put their users at risk during every page load because the users are forced to load content that can be tampered with. Paul Graham (and everyone else using plain HTTP for their site) should not be putting their users at risk like this. All sites should use HTTPS.
Likewise while a computer can produce data quite well, theories are still a purely human domain.
Looks great and good to see an os-x native alternative to Zoom!
How does that work on the command line? Does it reject your push? Or is this only for people editing on the github website?
My high school experience was very different from this. We were given a lot of freedom and treated like young college students. I guess that isn't the norm so I'm thankful for the experience. I can imagine that things might have tightened up since 2002-06.
I agree that school is challenging for kids. However, isn't work also "a prison like setting with strict rules and little freedom, and you're forced to interact with a huge number of immature people of similar age"? I agree we need school reforms but kids also crave schedule and interaction. I'm not sure how they get those while their parents are away at work. We can argue about what the perfect interactions are for kids. People can also decide to do home schooling if they don't like the existing systems. In the end, life is complicated and anxiety inducing. We all need these life skills to deal with these stresses. I think we need more classes specifically around teaching coping skills and learning how to interact with others. I think that will be more beneficial than kids just staying in their bedrooms everyday.
I'd like to add to this.

> If you submit your own stuff once a week, it's probably going to raise eyebrows.

I browse /new frequently and come across self-promoting accounts constantly[0]. It may depend on dang having time to remove these submissions and other users to flag them.

[0]: As an example, I came across this user yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=aogl there are plenty of others who do this as well
And the low quality of discussion it produced and the number of flagged comments should be enough to indicate that it wasn't. Because people don't just flag for the article, they flag for the thread as well.
Is there a good resource for finding terminal replacements for online tooling?
You could imagine doing that. It's much much less certain that you could do that.
A couple comments:

1. Gitlab works well for this because it comes with a nice online IDE. No need to leave the browser, which is especially helpful if using a Chromebook or tablet, yet you still own your data and can pull locally.

2. Fossil comes with a markdown wiki built in, and it can be extended.
A language is a worldview, a way of life. They are not interchangeable collections of symbols. Every language comes with certain patterns of thought, historical events, influential literature, and a million other things. English, for example, lends itself to a very different way of thinking about the world than say, Russian or Arabic.

There’s also zero evidence to support the idea that speaking the same language makes people less likely to fight each other. Some of the most destructive wars have been fought amongst people that speak the same language and dialect.

Personally, I find the idea of a one-language world horrifyingly dull. Should we all consume the same food, wear the same clothes, think the same thoughts? It’s the opposite of a rich, diverse world. I’m hoping that translation tech will allow niche and obscure languages to flourish.
Whoa, cool feature I hadn't heard about. Good to know!

Another approach to this problem I've used in the past is Postgres views, which basically let you create a third table that's either materialized (constructed in advance) or generated on the fly and has columns based on transforms of the first two tables. So in this case you could create a Post model backed by a view table that pulls in the names and other metadata it needs from the text and video tables and merges them into columns that function as a third table in the eyes of the Post model. But there's no actual duplication / denormalization happening, which keeps things clean..
You aren't wrong. This article describes another trick:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-mass-testin...

The Harvard Global Health Institute was claiming the USA needed to do 500k tests per day to succeed at fighting COVID. The moment this was achieved they suddenly changed their recommendation to 1.6 million tests per day. Just weeks later they were recommending 3.5 to 5 million per day. CNN interviewed an administration official who stated that the numbers keep changing, and the presenter actually 'corrected' the guy by claiming Harvard's recommendations had been the same for months.

Their reasoning is the more cases there are, the more tests need to be done. With any non-zero FP rate increasing the number of tests increases the number of cases, so this is purely circular and yields a no-win situation in which no matter how much testing the USA does it can never be sufficient. You do have to wonder if setting up a no-win situation for the USG is intentional, especially as their recommendations appear to be arbitrary.
While a bit sensationalist it obviously poses a real problem and fortunately its being acknowledged and acted upon.

however google can bring up the stuff of nightmares of what we have dumped into the oceans, worse this of course only what we know of. many countries have dumped stuff without any record keeping.

Chemical Weapons and other munitions
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/decaying-weapo...

https://www.nonproliferation.org/chemical-weapon-munitions-d...

Gulf of Mexico
https://www.jacksonville.com/zz/news/20190719/what-lies-bene...

Low level radioactive wastes
http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/jones-a2/
While we're on this topic, does anyone know ready-to-use open source map dashboard (preferably 3D, but I'm fine with 2D) to show signups or any event of interest?

I want to display it on TV showing our user signups. Reminds me of X-COM.
seems to be re-implementation of alfred with some recipes thrown in? what's the advantage over alfred?