skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally learned nothing from homework, besides the anxiety that came with trying to make up an excuse for why it wasn’t done. I spent more time trying to avoid doing homework than actually doing it.

A big problem with school for me was that very little of it was framed in a way that made it seem useful. In subjects where I either understood the value (math for example, as I learned to program in my teens, so saw value in it to do things I wanted. While many of my peers followed the “it’s only useful if you want to be a math teacher” philosophy) or had some kind of extra interest in, I did well in, but even in subjects I chose to do, liked and was good at (eg German), I struggled trying to find the motivation to do any homework. Being forced to didn’t help, I would rather stare into space for an hour than actually spend the time on homework.

A big part of it, I think, was I needed downtime. I had already spend many hours in school and now was being told I needed to spend my time doing more school stuff? No thanks!

Even now, a couple of decades later, I need downtime to process the things that happened during the day. I’m a huge believer in Hammock Driven Development because of how important I feel thinking, reflection and downtime is.

EDIT: hell, I did really bad on one subject I used to be great at because of the homework: the homework load was too high so I dropped to the lower level class instead, which was the start of my downward spiral: it was too easy so I didn’t do much in it, the teacher didn’t push me and a few years later I struggled and never recovered. If the homework load were less, I would have stayed in the higher level class and, while I’m not certain, I’m pretty sure I could have at least maintained my ability instead of it deteriorating. I still believe I would have done better in my final exam at age 13 than I did at age 17 because of this.
I don't think doubling the size of the classes in the year below, and forcing schools to retain an extra year's worth of students is at all practical or would actually solve any problems. Let alone all the new problems it would create. What do Universities do if they have a whole year's worth of students just not show up, then suddenly gets two years worth come in at the same time?

I suspect you've not actually thought this through.
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I was so confused why it's called Vanced, then I realized what's missing at the start of the word. It's genius.
It is when it blows through your power budget and heating budget. Also, some array performance degraded significantly when using different speed drives, to much below the slowest drive (that’s not common anymore, but used to be an issue and might still be in some setups)
It got applied to entire schools if for example the school had to close due to a fire/flood.

My school had it applied to one of my exam subjects for the entire year. I suspect the exam papers were lost/stole/destroyed after we took the exam, but before they were marked. Not sure how, but everyone was assigned 100%, and nobody complained...
It can definitely be a challenge to be self-aware of cognitive biases, but my personal variation of Hanlon's razor would be closer to "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by extrinsic motivation". The article has a longer version attributed to Douglas W Hubbard: Never attribute to malice or stupidity that which can be explained by moderately rational individuals following incentives in a complex system of interactions..

An outcome may be interpreted as stupidity, but I've seen otherwise smart individuals make poor decisions because of extrinsic motivation like meeting the expectations of their manager in order to succeed at (or maintain) their job, aiming for personal incentives, or avoiding consequences. If the extrinsic motivation is not (or cannot be) shared, actions or goals may appear to be irrational (or stupid).
Arguably, "excuses and lying" is also a useful life skill. Not necessarily for society, but certainly for the individual. Even if you never lie again after school, it's useful to be able to detect the behavior in others.
Actually, Ford also tried to build an ideal car in the 50's. Edsel is now known as a "popular symbol for a commercial failure."[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsel
https://www.washington.edu/news/2018/12/12/high-school-start...

> “Research to date has shown that the circadian rhythms of adolescents are simply fundamentally different from those of adults and children,” said lead author Gideon Dunster, a UW doctoral student in biology.

> “All of the studies of adolescent sleep patterns in the United States are showing that the time at which teens generally fall asleep is biologically determined — but the time at which they wake up is socially determined,” said Dunster. “This has severe consequences for health and well-being, because disrupted circadian rhythms can adversely affect digestion, heart rate, body temperature, immune system function, attention span and mental health.”

Seen similar information from other sources, but this came up first after a quick search. Of course screen light probably makes the problem worse, but there do seem to be significant biological factors.
Except the few places without public transportation, most parents don't have to take their kids to school. Starting later would probably help with overprotective parents.
Or if they don't want to carry you because you need to "cross the river" or get out of Zone 1.

Does not happen nearly as often since Uber is squeezing them though.
This is a very naive understanding of modern clinical psychology. Modern psychology is the way it is exactly because someone couldn't figure `out a way to measure the missing serotonin', or rather, it is a meaningless measurement.

The total failure of positivism in clinical psychology is what resulted in the current state of affairs, pushing for more of it won't bring about any imagined golden age of psychology, only further `the pandemic of mental anguish that afflicts our time' [0]. Positivism is a flawed doctrine and at this point should be considered nothing but dangerous dogma -- at least in the case of psychiatry.

[0]: I believe it was Mark Fisher that said something to this end but I digress.
ahem yes. It seems like your overlord won't pay you for this into the future.
They are probably hired to do front-end work to make things look nice and be creative at the same time.

I personally think that Stripe is on point with design. Which attracts more customers.

You don’t need elite programmers to only do the “important stuff”. Visuals are important too.
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IntersectionObserver is something I've come to rely on - allows me to start/stop canvas element animations so they only play when the canvas is visible in the viewport - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Intersectio...
"Just works" before ticking a "Install privative driver", and then getting many bugs.
Compared to AMD drivers that just works without additional installation, have far less errors and play well with the standards.
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Thoughts on this format? Cafeteria open at 6am, Homeroom from 7 - 9, classes requiring your brain to be awake after that.
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Good luck watching movies in NTSC or PAL, I for sure don't want to be watching movies on a 720x480 window.
I think that's a fair point. But I also think that the education system should have a levelling effect, where it doesn't matter who looks after you when you are at home - everyone has the same opportunities to learn.

Students' parents, guardians, extended cohabiting family, etc. have an impossibly diverse range of skills (and ability to communicate, etc.). Even if these people were available at all times, they remain a hugely variable source. If we're saying that practical life skills are important, we should aim to provide a consistent experience to avoid inequality in society.

I'm sure everyone has stories about how the people who raised them taught them a few things well and were terrible examples of others. Some of these will be funny, but others can have life changing consequences.
yes! freedom! dangling pointers for everybody!

But seriously: I wish more programmers had really good background (I'm not talking about academia, but e.g. learning from many books and conference videos).

The "good practices" are often a set of ideas like "do it this way, so you won't suffer later". Nothing more. This way you can avoid mistakes made by others. Of course, you can do whatever you like and suffer later.

C is C. C++ is C++. If they are the same, well... why do they have different names?

Let's call them C/C++/Fortran OK? You can use one tool (you called it "one compiler", while in fact they are different compilers with common core) to rule them all, even in the same program... https://www.cae.tntech.edu/help/programming/mixed_languages.

I'd love to see more programmers naming things with care. This way we would have C, we would have C++. But also we would have MB when talking about megabytes, not mb (millibits, is that even a thing?).

If surgeons would have freedom to do things the way they want... in fact they have the freedom, but they rather follow the "good practices" made mainly by the retrospection after someone made a tragic mistake. But if they really would do whatever they want... let's not talk about it for now, OK?
People in the UK have to be wary of that because it can leave you liable for capital gains tax.

https://www.gov.uk/tax-relief-for-employees/working-at-home
It will be interesting to see if this lost year materialises in students. It seems true that as students have had less contact time with a teacher, done less work, or set less-rigorous work, then average attainment will be lower.

If students who missed half a year of good teaching are just as smart by the end of compulsory education than previous cohorts who were not affected by COVID, then this illustrates a massive failing of the education system.

I have a feeling that this won't affect the attainment of students in the long-run, as the education system is flawed. Perhaps, in place of usual teaching, students are taking control of their own education and focus on their weak areas, rather than being told to copy down 10 pages from a textbook verbatim in a lesson standardised for the whole class. Perhaps this can be a much needed demonstration of the education system's weaknesses and an opportunity for change.
on that note, are you aware that the globe on stripe.com is rotating in the wrong direction?
As a teenager I liked being sick, because it allowed me to stay home from school and gave an exemption from PE classes for a week or two. Feeling awful physically seemed like a small price to pay for that.

It doesn't at all surprise me that teenagers feel better when they don't have to go to school.
If I bought the drive for active work, yeah I'd probably be happy about the speed for the price (IF they don't artificially limit the speed!).

But if I buy these for NAS/backups, I want them to be quiet, cool and longer lasting - in my experience 5400 RPM drives do heat less and last longer than 7200 RPM.

Not sure if they still do, but WDs had this IntelliPark feature, which slammed the heads into parking a few times a minute (because otherwise your drive would last a decade, I guess), and their 7200rpm drives were clicking so loud I often thought "that's it, it failed". But no, just "normal" operation...

So I'd rather get the specs I'm paying for.
It matters because I tend to choose 5400rpm for bulk storage - for power and longevity reasons, mostly.
How to fix an ubiquitous select form field bad practice
Maybe one "should" learn those skills from ones parents, but I certainly didn't and I think the same is true for the majority of people these days.

Should the school system be designed for ideals that don't hold true, or for the real world?
So then you'd get parents complaining about teachers picking their favourites and downgrading pupils for personal reasons, which still would have been the government's fault for implementing a system open to such abuse.
> To me they are not distinct enough as languages to truly be considered fully separate

There are plenty of subtle differences, precisely because they aren't the same language. [0][1] They're deeply connected, but there are important differences between them, and it doesn't do to gloss over the details. For instance, empty structs are permitted in C++ but might get you into trouble in C. [2]

> they use the same compiler

Many of the major compiler suites support lots of different languages. You can compile Fortran, C, and C++ code using LLVM, GCC, ICC, or even OpenWatcom. So what?

It's true that where you find a C++ compiler, you generally find a C compiler, but the converse does not hold. The TCC C compiler doesn't support C++, for instance. The same goes for many of the more obscure C compilers out there.

Also, sometimes a compiler suite will have solid support for C++ but poor support for C. If you want to do modern C++ programming on Windows you might use MSVC, but MSVC has surprisingly awful support for C. [3]

> We should all be free to write our own programs the way we want and not have to worry about standard practices or cultures.

Disagree. It can improve quality to use strict coding-standards and a strict language. Software development is not about maximising creative freedom, it's about effectively developing high-quality solutions, see [4]. This is the reason software in safety-critical domains like avionics is never free-form, it invariably uses highly restrictive coding-standards like MISRA C, or highly restrictive languages like SPARK Ada.

(Hope that wasn't too off-topic, my points there don't pertain whether a 'language' should be understood to include its conventions.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility_of_C_and_C%2B%2B

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/21515839/

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/755339/

[3] https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/cpp-docs/issues/407

[4] https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
And the reason why ground controllers often have much higher workloads is that at a busy airport things happen far quicker on the ground. Every plane you move you pretty much move another plane into its place.
My wife used to teach these ‘useful’ classes. They used to call it home economics. Now they call it family and consumer science. Essentially the same things. How to cook, budget, raise a child, etc. Sadly many school districts are cutting these programs to make room for classes that help the students do better on standardized tests. It’s sad because there were a ton of kids who used to find their life’s passion in my wife’s classes.
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> Another big problem is that private schools seem to have made more realistic predictions of their students' results than state schools

This might be partially true, but there are also issues in the algorithm that helped cause this skew. For example depending upon the size of the glass the teacher's estimates were adjusted more or less. Very small classes (~8 students IIRC) had no adjustment, small classes (<20 students IIRC) had moderate adjustment, large classes (>= 20 students IIRC) had heavy adjustment. State schools almost never have small classes, while private and public schools (public != state school) were much more likely to fall into the small or very small class size buckets.
There is a more general rule than that, I would tie that to Goodhart's law/adage "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".

It's similar here, when an algorithm is in charge of optimisation it has its heuristics, they will be gamed as they are measures that became a target.
Virtual envs are very practical for this as it does not mess up with the global python env.
Also for inference / production, I just export my models to ONNX format which is more easy to work with thanks the available runtimes: ONNX Runtime for C++ or ONNX.js.
I used to be rather anxious during some of my school years, dreading all the social interactions I would be forced into, with people that I did not want to be part of my life. I think that's normal and perhaps a necessary part of human development. I'm fine now, at least.
My local school didn't force me to do homework. It was always clear that I understood the material, and I could generally answer questions on it if tested. I think they had bigger things to worry about than whether I was doing the homework.
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I also had problems making it work in Safari. Firefox worked for me.
> At this point we might as well admit that schools are daycare for teens. And universities are daycare for adolescents. So lets cut the bullshit and focus on what matters, keeping kids occupied and keeping them from killing themselves.

You're getting downvoted for the coma comment, but this here is spot on. When the schools got locked down because of the 'rona, the most pressing problem for parents was that they had no place to put their kid into or a way to care for the kids themselves because rents these days require that both parents work...
This is a continuation of my previous comment.

Patreon endorses its customers. Therefore they should police their platform as they see fit.

Amazon is completely different. If Amazon hires a Nazi as a warehouse worker then it is not endorsing whatever opinion the warehouse worker has. The warehouse worker is only there to provide his labor and receive a paycheck. Amazon can decide to not let Nazis be in charge of press releases and it also has no obligation to publicly talk about the political affiliation of its factory workers.

Don't you see the huge difference? Some people sign up for Patreon because Nazis are on their platform. In the Amazon case you're not buying Amazon products because Nazis are handling them.
That’s what The Simpsons episode is about.
> And more importantly, history isn't "random trivia". While the merits of a degree in history may be debatable, if the majority of the UK had a passable knowledge in why the EU exists, and what the UK did to become an empire, the attitude towards integration with the EU would likely be very different.

As much as I agree with other points, I can only strongly disagree here. It strongly implies a condescending attitude that stupid and uneducated decided about British future. If only they could be brainwashed^H taught they would choose the “right” option.
I can imagine a next heist movie.
Can we stop with all these dumb little "safety" things that do nothing and continue to spread fear?
Maybe it's time for the rest of the civilized world to block Pakistan.
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A lot of these make no sense at all.

Using Mac OSX stock audio input and output devices is already supposedly "unique".

Having an Azerty keyboard supposedly puts you in the 0,04%
category even though all French speakers have the same setting which means that 0,04% already represents +70M users. So far from "unique".
The Skunk Works people have been on about a fusion substation you could 'fit on the back of a truck' for years now and they are still working on it you gotta love those kind of high risk high reward R&D budgets

>Lockheed Martin says that the CFR design could eventually be small enough to fit inside a shipping container, but still be able to power a Nimitz class aircraft carrier or up to 80,000 homes

[1] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29074/skunk-works-exot...
In this case it is. High capacity 7200 rpm drives can be unbelievably noisy, to the level that they are not recommended for home theatre NAS as you can hear the seeking sound during a movie or from the next room at night.
WARNING: Shits a fullscreen overlay in your face halfway through reading the article.
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And that's exactly how a desktop operation system should behave. The most important priority of a user-facing OS should be the user after all.
At this point, I wonder if it would make sense to establish a Time Travel Foundation, to ensure that such dangerous technology does not fall into the wrong hands once it is, inevitably, created.
Well then there's not much E in the PE, is there?

I completely agree that the physical activity is important, but then let's not pretend that it's educative when it isn't.
What Linux or Unix/*BSD/macOS command you wish you learned earlier?
While I agree with C/C++ term as shorthand for "C and C++" as it is widely used across ISO papers, C++ books and FAANG official documentation, I don't care about C and ISO C++ doesn't require C++ compilers to also bundle a C compiler in the package.

That is an historical accident of C compiler vendors adopting C++ and C++ being also a language out of Bell Labs.