skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People have a traditional way of building family. The American way, i.e. via casual dating, often enhanced by apps, is experimental (barely a generation in) and not looking good for society's long-term stability.
Very interesting, and somewhat ironic that innuendo was freely used on a radio show called "Round the Horne". Risque even in those days, but the the presenter's real name was actually (Charles) Kenneth Horne.
And so you start to wonder, why you should buy a new version of COD, Battlefield or Fallout? Because it uses more energy and you need a new GPU then?
There is another alternative though: do the damn test. Then everyone gets the grade that they earned.
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However, the unfairnesses of the two options are very different. On the one hand, you leave it to educators and employers to select candidates based on unreliable grades, versus excluding swathes of the population from opportunity. Leave it to decision-makers that seem to fetishise exam grades and you come to what I'm sure the vast majority of people regard as the wrong conclusion. Yes, there would have been fallout, but so much less toxic had they chosen otherwise.
Hm, decades is not that much, most enterprise code fits into that.
But how about 200 years?

It is about people. Documentation, paper trail why some decisions were made, archiving build tools, VMs, dependency source code..

Also C, POSIX and Motif are terrible choice for their fragmentation. Java is very booring, but compiling and debugging 20 years old code is very common.
With your implying a country of 200 million people is "uncivilized" (hate speech), perhaps it's more appropriate that HN blocks you?
Meanwhile in the western world banks decide about the content on pages like Fetlife and about the color of dildos in webshops.
This got me thinking - I wonder how much of that comes down to mundane reasons like budgets, rather than pedagogy. Change costs money and most schools are slow moving. For example, I suspect that the content of secondary school mathematics have changed little in generations, but the content of practical lessons in cooking, vehicle maintenance, finances, programming, etc. changes much faster.
I have met plenty of absolute morons with university degrees.

University is, for most people, a massive waste of time and money.

Not because they are stupid, but because going to university does not further their life goals.

It certainly didn't for me.

University only one of many paths through life.

We need to stop treating it as the only option into which we force everybody.

Plenty of brilliant people go into skilled trades, or into professional tracks. There's a reason Germany still has such a robust manufacturing sector.

We would do well to follow this in the US.
Well, what can we learn from this? That it's not a good idea to simply assign a grade to someone for an exam they didn't take, and it's an even worse idea to base this grade only partly on their own performance? And, if you are going to do it, you'd better make sure that the grades exceed the students' expectations, otherwise of course there will be protests...
We know that university admissions is a very poor, deeply flawed process. That people object this year but didn't object last year is very telling. It shows that people will happily accept a bad system with poor results AS LONG AS they are given some small illusion of personal control over that system. As long as people can say "people like me are very unlikely to do well BUT I will be fine because I will work harder than people in my group do" they're happy, even though they are by definition wrong most of the time.
Serious question: Why weren't the exams taken?

Everything I have read about this glosses over this critical bit which I am very curious about. I understand there is/was a worldwide pandemic and all of that, but it feels to me that there wasn't necessarily a reason exams couldn't be taken in socially-distanced class rooms (with students wearing masks, as well as the teachers, of course) or if needed be in repurposed venues, like football stadiums (leaving plenty of space between students).

Was there a concern for fairness should the exams proceed? Or was it safety? Or did the government put their foot down on no exams? Or was it the teachers/unions? What happened?!
Given that this says copying to the clipboard, not reading from it, I'm curious, why would you want to block it? The worst a website could do it mildly irritate you by copying junk to your clipboard.
That's a huge leap.
> PE is the bare minimum amount of exercise and movement a
> child could have without being considered "entirely
> sedantry". For many kids it's the _only_ exercise they get.

A study has shown that PE in schools have show it has zero benefits and only teaches some kinds to skip classes.
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Your opinion on whether 8 a.m. is too early somewhat depends on your local time zone and clock change customs: see thousands of comments elsewhere!

However, 08:00 local astronomical time does seem too early and most European time zones are ahead of local astronomical time, sometimes ridiculously so, making 08:00 even earlier. So I don't disagree.
It's hard because it's regulated to extinction.
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I wonder if the ability to send and receive money should be considered a right as we become cashless.
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Depending on where you live, it's probably not safe (and maybe even forbidden) to let young children (<10 years) go to and on public transportation alone.
Looks like overcomplicated authentication with TLS client certificate, for some reason brought on application level.
Websites now store only public data indeed, but confidential data is pushed to client devices, which may be even more vulnerable than the original service (and often are).
On the other hand, if implemented correctly, such approach may be more flexible than web server settings.
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Hardware Unboxed tested an RTX 3080 and it seems like the performance improvements are not just in ray tracing: https://youtu.be/cWD01yUQdVA

It looks pretty impressive.
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One of the requirements for modern nuclear reactor design is that they are fail safe, ie cannot meltdown due to a loss of power or other malfunction.
Again?

An old post, this is :)
Perhaps the pakistani people should be left to decide what's immoral and what's not?
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Bypass ratio and entrainment. Most of the air coming through is cool, so the overall air is merely hot, rather than “melts your legs”.
This happens in Norway as well. Unfortunately different companies charge different rates, so I refuse if the first in line is one that charges more than others.
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Hardware Unboxed tested an RTX 3080 and it seems like the performance improvements are not just in ray tracing: https://youtu.be/cWD01yUQdVA

It looks pretty impressive.

Regarding the new power connector: All the partner cards showcased by Gamers Nexus have the regular two or three 8-pin connectors and the FE cards seem to include an adapter. Nvidia states that a 750W power supply is required, so depending on the CPU even a 650W should be fine.
Well, I strongly disagree with you strong disagreeing.

It's not condescending in the slightest, and debate around Brexit revealed that although theres's nothing wrong with being against european integration, a lot of people have almost no idea of what the EU does and does not do.
No, he said it was a crow, not a swallow
Not to refute or acknowledge your point, but it makes me think of Those who can - do, those who can't - teach.
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I don't know about "immoral", but based on my younger acquaintances' experiences on Tinder, I believe that in the long-term it and its peer services will be seen as equally destructive to Facebook -- what Facebook did to interpersonal relationships/friendships Tinder will do to romantic/sexual relationships.

I think that the world will basically have to have a reckoning with "freedom," i.e. that technology has created the ability to build digital technologies that basically destroy the things we typically value. The companies in charge are too hyperoptimized and the average human is too underoptimized for this to be a fair fight... in the name of "engagement" Facebook can easily destroy the basic subfloor of politics in a representative democracy, and Tinder can destroy the basic subfloor of couplehood and family life.
It seems weird that USA is in general more expensive than europe if this is the case.
This is correct. There are scientific reasons why app dating is destroying the nuclear American family, hand-in-hand with hypergamy, hence the men's Red Pill philosophy.

If you're a high-income male working in the US and want to avoid getting divorce-fleeced:

- do not get married in California (or divorce before 5 years)

- try to avoid having children in the USA. If your kids live outside the USA, don't reside in California (because of the foreign child support law, which by default awards them the same amount as residents)
>C++ has a stronger type system, and unfortunately using C idioms punch a giant hole in that type system, and so C compatibility has a cost in terms of safety.

This may sound like C++ has a strong type system, but it's only a little stronger than that of C, if at all.
Hmm, that app actually is pretty neat. It's published (for free, and under GPL) by the University of Aachen to support physics experiments. Recommended, at least from what I've seen so far.
I don't quite get why it got down-voted. But if you are the author of the site, perhaps extend the list with more past vulnerabilities?
I know this is anecdata and I have no proof, but when I was in SF 20 or so years ago, I knew a videographer. One of his contracts was doing video work for the Libertarian party, filming meetings, etc. He told me, in some meeting of the upper brass, that he overheard several laughing about the rank and file - apparently the real purpose of the Libertarian party is to serve as an outlet for the Republican weirdos, cranks, troublemakers - and those who might actually make a positive difference in tempering the right wing conservative lunatics.

Now that the GOP is the TrumpForever (for a 1000 years) party, maybe the Libertarian party is going to get flooded with refugees and hopefully grow the hell up. Libertarian thought is useful, but does bump up against reality a lot, so it needs to be tempered. As an ideology (like all ideologies) it is pathetic and the ideologues as well.

As for the article, I think it made its point very well. The book sounds atrocious, but what else would you expect from stenographers for those in power?
I think the formal classes like history are no problem and have a place in the curriculum.

Kids learn at different speeds so a good education system takes that into regard. Systems should be transient that slow starters can catch up at a later time and reach higher forms of education.

We need more teachers and smaller groups. Eating healthy can be a course, but you quickly loose all the pupils that already learned that from their parents.

Mental health is hard to teach and there is little certain knowledge here, it only works individually. Aside from really hard cases, I think children have quite resilient minds.

I believe the reluctance to do physical exercise has other sources, not really lacking education. But PE is vastly to be preferred to medicating "unusual" behavior.
My point is extracting the maximum value from people by paying them almost nothing because it "increases the GDP" isn't a moral imperative. It's absurd on its face to say that growth at any expense is ethical because of some trickle down bullshit.
I see, Erlang makes perfect sense for the purpose. I think I did read about Mnesia once before, but I must have forgotten about it. ;)
ikiwiki gives you a wiki with git as backend.
I keep my data in my local network using git (running git-daemon) and -- if I feel I must store it on "someone else's computer" -- I archive it, encrypt, and push it somewhere or I carry it on an air-gappable device.
Now they can make movies. I’d like to see what Quentin Tarantino would do with Use of Weapons. Peter Jackson on Inversions.
I've had that on a bicycle. The bike had two small side by side halogens on the handlebars, I was on a main road when a car pulled straight out of a side turning and into the side of me. I released afterwards he'd glanced down the road, seen two small lights and assumed it was a car far enough away for him to pull out.

On motorbikes I've had drivers in side roads look me in the eye and then pull out. On occasion I've ended up having words, and it's always "Sorry mate I didn't see you".
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Which substitution was used in an episode of Fawlty Towers, though I lack time to find the reference.
Never did I ever imply that Pakistan isn't civilized. But since that's what you got from my comment it's safe to say that you're most likely a racist piece of shit and that HN should probably block you instead.
Strongly disagree. It's not intrinsic motivation, it's fear of failing. That's a terrible lesson to instill in children.

I do agree that's a useful life skill, but that is really scraping the barrel for reasons why homework works.

The problem there is we can find examples where there is no homework and a functional, thriving society behind it [0]

0: https://www.bbc.com/news/education-37716005
> history isn't "random trivia"

The discipline isn't, but the way at least I've been taught it unfortunately is... It didn't take me until I graduated to take an interest in history, when I could learn the cause and effect chains without getting distracted by rote memorization.
Gibson has been hawking this for years. Skipping over some details, the biggest issue with it is that it's phishable, so it fails to address the single biggest threat most users face.

In the five years this has been "under development" (!!!), FIDO and WebAuthn have made serious progress, providing a broadly-supported standards-based approach with native browser support and which addresses a more comprehensive threat model, including phishing and local user verification.
Spotify has no option to pay more because the labels eat all their profits. Apple being able to eat that cost because of their other ventures is anti-competitive. Blame the record labels, not Spotify.
They mention globekit [1], an insanely cool globe visualization which deserves their own post.

Does anyone know the price range for their services? I hate it when companies don't put the price upfront and make potential customers ask for a quote. :-\

[1]: https://globekit.co/
Public libraries are a treasure and the reason that a poor kid like me was able to learn, become more experienced with computers, and spend my time safely in a dangerous neighborhood while my mother worked.

Public parks are great. Some are shitty, but we all need space to roam and play. Most parks are not in shitty, run down neighborhoods and don’t fit your stereotype.
There's nothing civilized about Tinder.
Thanks for the specifics. The drug prices problem has a quite direct solution for single buyer systems: competitive tenders for generics, and QALY price ceilings for patent drugs. If a producer asks for a too high price compared to the health outcome of their drug, the total budget is reassigned among existing drugs, thus forcing all pharmaceutic companies to compete to deliver the best overall healthcare outcome for a given budget.

Too bad the politics in USA prevent this and dismiss it as "death panels", and people are led to believe the hard trade-offs in healthcare can somehow magically go away.
Honestly, I’m kind of surprised more people do not use the favorite feature to bookmark interesting links / posts. 96 favorites on the most favorited seems really low.
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As someone who has been using a similar strategy for personal notes (namely: notes as plain markdown files in a folder), I agree with some of the strengths mentioned, but also have several issues.

On the pro side, plain text will always be future-proof and basically king of platform independence. Coupling this to Git(Hub) gives you a backup of sorts, access when you are not on your main device, and cross-device syncing.

In my experience, however, several of these are overrated or unused (at least for my own use cases, but I suspect others', too). There are also many missing features. A random list: I don't really need markdown rendering, find the edit workflow of GitHub to be painful for one-liner changes, miss auto-save, find the search feature slow compared to local searches in editors, and if we're talking about a real wiki: I _really_ miss being able to paste screenshots from clipboard as an unnamed / temporary file.

So then, the question is, why bother with GitHub, and not just do this locally with VsCode / Vim / Emacs / editor of choice? And I would basically agree, and the Git/GitHub part can be added as a secondary feature. However, the article seems to be touting this part well above the rest, and my experience is quite the opposite - you rarely end up using those, or _want to_ use those.
Then you must be not a fan of android users or store abusers who "take care for freedom" of those who are comfortable with apple.
That's not a git-based wiki. That's a GitHub-based wiki.

gitit is a git-based wiki.

https://github.com/jgm/gitit

It's written in Haskell, which will thrill some people and annoy some people and make most people shrug.

We used gitit for more than a year, but realized that it just wasn't enough fun to use. Transitioning to Dokuwiki was fast, and it turns out to hold our interest pretty well.
>... and this was portrayed in the press as proof that it was an attack on state schools because their results were disproportionately affected by the algorithmic downgrading.

While I won't dispute the point on prediction accuracy, the press complaints were actually about the algorithm itself, which benefited students in a smaller corpus[0]. Typically, only private schools have such small class sizes.

[0]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-53807730
> Kids should be made aware of the psychological help they can receive if they have personal issues. We had a psychologist at school, but I don't think anyone consulted them.

Do you think this was an issue of not being aware of the offering, as opposed to it being difficult to get help for one's personal issues because of stigma or feeling like you can handle it if you just try a little harder?
Their business is 100% online, so a front page of their website is likely a big deal for them.
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I honestly never even noticed it was a feature until you just mentioned it here.
Use RSS.

The modern Web is a tracking system.
This then seems to be specifically East German, since West German electronics were entirely self-sustained till the 90s or so, so the entire education and engineering used German and German only. (And oh-my, it's beautiful. Much more expressive than English EE jargon.) Computing, well they (Siemens, Nixdorf and some others) tried, and found their niches outside personal computing (Mainframes, industrial control systems).

Perhaps it was easier for them to get a hold on western/international electronics instead of West German stuff.
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Getting assaulted by another student does lots of damage to mental health.

Typical response By admin is to ignore the the Issue or minimize it.
Maybe the commenter edited his comment, but as it is now, it doesn't mention or imply that Pakistan is uncivilized (which wouldn't be hate speech, anyway).