skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear. Nobody is actually saying that it is "all the teacher's responsibility". Similarly, I don't see any evidence that "governments have collectively thrown up their hands" ... in fact the opposite is the case. Local governments have spent inordinate amount of resources equipping students with laptops and software, as well as adjusting processes and policies to facilitate remote learning during this pandemic, and they've done it in a record short amount of time (which isn't easy for big monolithic organizations - which usually need months or years of lead up to make drastic changes like the ones we've seen them make).

I think a little credit and understanding is due to all the people working at all levels of government, including teachers and school boards, for trying to do their best in an unprecedented, unplanned situation. Having said that, I'm sure there are parents that complain about this, that or another thing, but those parents will always complain about everything.

>and the first port of call for governmeents, school administrators, and parents looking to apportion blame is teachers

I don't see that happening with respect to the pandemic response at all.

I agree this happens with education standards in general and it is a pet-peeve of mine when it does happen. The reality is that if students fail, it's never the teacher, and in fact, it isn't even the school. It's always the parents. Always. If the parents don't enforce education standards and make sure their children don't fail, then there is very little that schools and teachers can do.
Interesting. Ok, I've been off the Windows eco system for decades but I clearly remember my relief at not having pretty much daily BSODs, broken updates, etc, not to mention all the malware.
Very nice. Quick feedback on UI (on an Android phone): the hamburger menu didn't work, the text has some alignment issues, the padding for the I'm interested button is gone.

Best of luck.
The app reviews are your first dead give away

> Tik Tok ads business is best application. It's very awesome application.

And every other review is similar
You can buy reviews. Same would be possible in any other store.
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Have you considered using a US based supplier instead?
Somewhat relevant:

https://intuiti.it/

A tool for Creativity born in the Polytechnic University of Milan. A synthesis of Design, Tarot and Gestalt Psychology.
Wow all that an OP still won’t delete Facebook business account.
They would do the same thing if your car was impounded because you were driving around and selling drugs.
I've always argued this point that it would have been better if production had stayed in the west as it would have been cleaner by now than what happens in China.
I am sorry, I don't get the value add here. Can I not use power point, keynote or other applications and create a box and label it "slack" or "AWS"? Why should I use this?
I realize what they are trying to say here, but the Chromebook really runs: Linux, Linux, Linux, and Windows. Maybe RMS was right to push for GNU/Linux as its own standalone OS?
At least you know the rules to play before joining their game, TikTok got famous and eating into their rivals like instagram and snapchat ad revenues and the rules got changed. It's like letting foreigners invest into your market and picking the winners and forcing them to give up their work.
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Ad providers should be liable for the content they distribute. This would be so beneficial for society and prevent malware/adware.
I really got my hopes up while http://alieninterviews.com/ was loading, but alas it was just a parked domain.
Yep. Carbon initiatives like the Microsoft one will force them to rethink the wisdom of building corporate campuses.

> people with a choice will prefer to drive just for the one time that the kid gets sick and they have to leave early

This used to be a major (underestimated, in my opinion) issue, and I used to bring it up all the time as something that needed to be addressed before people who were accustomed to driving would voluntarily leave their cars at home, but I think Uber and Lyft solve it, full stop.
Or how Canada can claim forest growth as carbon reduction, but then not count forest fires towards their carbon emissions...
Brian Eno manages to sneak up on lots of my favorite albums. As you said Bowie's "Low", but also David Byrne's "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today", and even the game Spore's soundtrack!
I've actually stopped using google's spam filter and starting looking into the spam occasionally.

With no data, if one slips through it shouldn't be up to the spam filter if I can be scammed!

edit: that was a particularly bad typo to make. I mean scammed, not spammed :)
Well on one hand, it could be my massive ego, and on the other it could be the truth.

You're the one arguing on the basis of value. I don't. Let me just ask you this; do you think that being a good enough finance trader requires a high IQ? I'm pretty sure of it, and I'm also of the opinion that what they're applying their smarts to is a net negative for society as a whole.

Another question, have you read Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate?
It'll be interesting to see if postmodernism dooms us or if another (or previous) philosophy becomes popular to rid us of it.
Pay walled and generally low quality source. It also looks like this announcement was made a few months ago, here's the Verge's article on it: https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/31/21348963/google-chrome-os...
The article actually has a pretty good explanation for this- part of it is the social aspects of the games. Spending big allows one into higher-tier VIP clubs. So there can be friendships that have developed where, in order to maintain status and stay in the same league as your friends, one needs to maintain spending habits.
The difference in quality of preparation of students who study to get into the top universities (IITs, NITs, BITS, handful of private/local universities = ELITE) so far outstrips the preparation of your average engineering candidate, that it is not even funny.

To study computer science at an IIT, you have to be in the 0.01 percentile (1 in 1000). Most of my cousins with sufficient wealth, opted to go study Math/CS at Stanford, MIT, etc. instead of going through the grind of getting into an IIT. That's how difficult it can be.

High school exit examinations are a joke. I studied for less than a week for them. I studied for 2 years (8+ hours per day) for JEE, and I was considered one of the 'lazy ones who started late'.

> In short, elite colleges probably do offer their students more value than their competitors—just not in their lecture halls.

This is an outright lie.

The difference in education between the ELITE universities I mentioned above and your average engineering college is that of Harvard vs a Community College. My brother goes to a well regarded sub-elite university, and the drop of quality from the ELITE and his is mind-boggling. Most IIT professors have PHDs at US top 20 universities. Most sub-elite professors are teaching because they couldn't find a job in CS and have never published a paper in their lives. (The delta is 10x worse for any core engineering branches such as Mech,EEE,Civil,etc)

I would have loved for it to be different. It is entirely unfair that the state of a person from age 15-18 leads to an opportunity gap that's this massive. But, that is the truth of how things are in India.
Maybe the oauth scope requested edit access to the FB business manager? That way the scammer can remove OP from the business and add himself via the API
Working from home I'm mostly just RDPing to a remote PC. Everything else is browser based.

I spend a few hours doing side projects and learning on a PC. Has anyone tried hiring remote desktops for this? It would make sense but they seem very expensive.
Because they want to own their own destiny? The same reason they could've OEM'd Mellanox switches but chose to buy the company instead.

What exactly would their end-game be if ARM were acquired by say... a Chinese firm who DID decide to end licensing terms. Then what?
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"Addiction By Design" by Natasha Dow Schull is a really great book about the slot machine industry.

The author draws a distinction between two types of gambling addiction. One kind of addicted gambler is what you would typically think of -- they are motivated by some kind of perverse desire for a thrill, they may try to bet big to make back their losses. They tend to play table games or bet on sports. This is a stereotypically masculine group.

She describes the gamblers who play slot machines (stereotypically feminine) as having a very different psychology. They're not really trying to win big and don't imagine what they will -- they're in it to keep playing, to stay in what she calls the "zone".

So for this group of gamblers, it kind of makes sense that it's possible to reproduce the same mental state without the possibility of actually winning money. Winning more tokens really is rewarding, because it increases the amount of time they can continue playing.

An interesting thing is that lot of techniques recognizable to the tech industry were done first as early as the 90s by slot machine companies and casinos. Very sophisticated A/B and UX testing of both the slot machines and the casino environment with a focus on optimizing time on device.

Also, an incredibly sad story I remember from that book: Schull describes a gambler who got to the point where she could not compel herself to get up from the slot machine, yet was exhausted and wanted to go home. She began to mentally treat each loss as a win and each win as a loss, because she knew she wouldn't be able to leave until she had lost all her money.
The FAANG companies are so rich and so big that they’re now providing some of the commuting infrastructure for their employees in the form of buses. They certainly have quite a lot more control over their employees commuting impact than most companies, even if it isn’t total control.
What I don’t like about the Casio digital P72 I have from Amazon is that I could hear the thumping sound when I play a bit harder. It just annoys the heck out of me. I never play an acoustic one before so I don’t know if this is an issue with such on as well. Hell ya, the reward is exceptional once I could play easier pieces from Bach’s.
Conversely Microsoft, Uber, eBay, Tesla etc are all pretty scary competitive brands that ran fine in China because they elected to follow local laws. Uber and eBay were just not competitive because they elected to not do any amount of adaptations to localize their services. Skype could have been competitive if Microsoft cared enough to add relevant features for the local market but didn't. Tesla we'll see.
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This is absolutely laughable in every respect.
It obviously wouldn't be nearly as lucrative but these no-payout virtual slots could easily avoid exploiting people by simply selling access to these slots with a one time purchase. The whales would probably still purchase every slot available but at least you set an a cap on how much they can spend and they can still get their fix.
fwiw Facebook has a dedicated team for adblocker circumvention.
I use an Acer Chromebook for casual Web browsing and watching news. I bought it to replace an iPad.

The Chromebook locks up consistently every couple of days. I wouldn't want to depend on it for business.
It's essentially the tragedy of the commons, with the commons being the audience's attention and stress level.
Not just for this purpose, but Facebook accounts in general. If you try to create one without a valid number and/or seemingly valid friends list, chances are it's blocked in no time.

I don't know a thing about Google Voice, but I for one wouldn't bother setting up some fake numbers to create a fake account to use my own hardware.
Yah, what's with the 1+ logo on the package?? They just came out with their new wireless headphone a couple months ago.

Edit: saw others comments re: possibly at Apple's behest due to perceived infringement. Though I'm sure we'd have read about that before now.
This post was inspired a recent HN discussion around GitHub and hiring[0]. I compiled some other relevant perspectives and also added my own about where GitHub _can_ fit into the interviewing process.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24373633
Press conference summary: Phosphine confirmed, abiotic pathways ruled out, need to send a spacecraft to learn more.
I might have glanced over "Develop App" having internally misread it as "Developer App"

I bet many thousands of people on HN would have done the same thing.

I think it's an issue with reading comprehension. In general, comprehension seems to have plummeted in the last five to ten years. I send people e-mails asking two questions, and only get the first one answered. People read a headline and think it means something other than what it says. Flamewars erupt online over something that nobody actually wrote, but someone thinks they saw.

It seems to be rooted in the fact that these days people skim text, rather than read what is written. I don't know if it's because of general information overload, or a lack of attention to detail, or if the mindless scrolling of phone apps has trained us that visual impressions of words are good enough.

Or, if I can put on my old man hat, maybe it's just that people aren't as good at reading as they think, and that if people looked at a book half as often as they look at their telephones, they might get some good reading practice.
Google has steadily gained smart home device market share vs a very good competitor and is now the dominant player.
The figure I've seen most often is between 2-3x. However, that doesn't take into account the huge variance if you consider land use changes, which depending on the land (say clearcutting Indonesian forest), could make it be over 10x.
>On iOS, if you have the Facebook application installed, the Facebook Login user journey opens the actual Facebook application. If you don’t have it installed, it will open the Facebook website in Safari.

Can someone else confirm this?

Those authentication screens are scary.

With a web browser, I can at least scrutinize the URL.
>> This naming triggers certain processes (more attention, greater tracking fidelity, inclusion in daily briefs etc).

Right, but you mention the key thing places like The Weather Channel want - increased attention via daily briefs. The public doesn't need that, TWC does.
You’d be surprised about developed countries still having shitty, flaky internet.

Also, no cell service while travelling due to spotty coverage, even in metropolitan areas. YMMV.
I didn’t consent to have my passwords or SSN leaked though, so your argument is naive at best, idiotic at worst.
Open always wins, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it'll be qualitatively better, which is what your parent comment seems to hint at.
Thousands? Pretty much every article that I have read about concentration camps, I have tracked down to unreliable sources like CIA-funded propaganda organizations.
I quit FB 5 years ago due to a couple other friends quitting and explaining their reasoning. If .1% of FB or Twitter users delete after this film, I'd say it's still a win.
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> recent refugee crisis

This and that are very different things.

A refugee crisis involves people from country A becoming forcefully intermingled with people from country B: moving into their cities, sharing their resources, voting in their elections, etc.

What I’m talking about here, is effectively a series of land purchases made by every country from its bordering neighbours — like the Louisiana Purchase, or the Gadsden Purchase. But where the assumption is that only the land is acquired — while the people residing on the land before the purchase, are expected to have resettled (and been provided assistance to resettle by their own government) so that by the time of the purchase, the land is uninhabited, free for resettlement by the acquirer.

These people aren’t “resettling in northern countries” — the northern country is now just north-er than it was before. The people affected would be resettling in newly-developed cities within newly-purchased territory of their own country, to get away territory that was of their own country but has now been lost/sold.

(For much of human history, people were very used to packing up and moving away from contested borders. We’re actually rather good at it, as a species.)

Or, nearest the equator, people would be moving to get away from territory that just can’t be lived in by anyone, anymore. Such territory would be declared unlivable by global treaty, and the people there would thus be considered refugees of whatever country claims the area, similar to disaster victims. Countries whose whole territory became unlivable would indeed become stateless refugees, in need of an offer of refugee citizenship by some other country. But there’s rather few of those, as most people give up on non-arable land long before it becomes that bad. (See: the thing most https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_nullius regions have in common.)

To be clear, that last bit is not a political argument. That’s a fact. Those people are climactic refugees — disaster victims. They already have a refugee’s need to live somewhere. We’re just currently ignoring their plight, because it’s only affecting these few people who have so little. That could change, if the same problems begin to affect large swathes of the world.

> most people don’t actually want to leave their homes ... it would be a lot be there to not have a need for mass migrations in the first place

I mean, obviously. I just think it wouldn’t be all that bad a thing for humanity as a whole if it did happen; not that anyone would choose to do it.

If every human were chased around by their own personal (de-fanged, de-clawed) tiger for an hour every day, we’d all be in much better shape. That doesn’t mean anyone would sign up for it. It’d be better to not have the tigers, obviously! It just means it’s not necessarily a disaster for humanity if that comes to pass.
>Can't help but wonder if modern composers use 'chaos and irresolution' as a way to rationalize their terrible compositions.

I can somewhat sympathise with artists feeling everything is done. I'm not convinced you could be novel in a baroque or classical form without ending up feeling derivative
Is there a difference between this and https://www.cloudskew.com/ previously featured here?
> And it would be unfair to penalise countries with large ports when much of the cargo they handle is being shipped onward to other destinations.

This takes us back to the point of the top-level comment, but I think it's also unfair to penalize countries with large factories, when much of the manufacturing output is being shipped to other destinations.

Carbon should be attributed back to the consumers that paid for it to be emitted, not the place where it was emitted. This is what a carbon tax would achieve, as companies would pass the tax on to consumers, who ultimately drive all this manufacturing activity.

The Brits don't get a free pass just because they paid people in poorer countries to emit carbon for them.
as per my original post, you might not be able to mandate something like that given your legal system.

If I have a law saying that a layout needs to look like X layout and X layout is not achievable if it also needs to accessible then depending on the type of legal system you are in you can say Law Y supersedes all previous laws and requires you to make all PDFs accessible. If a legally mandated layout cannot be made accessible then the closest similar layout that still meets accessibility requirements should be used instead (long descriptions of how closest is determined in legal format would of course follow)

I think this will work in the common law system, but I don't think it would work in a Napoleonic system of law (could be wrong, just think you would need to specify exactly what laws it superseded)

As an example when I was part of the efaktura project for the Danish Government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OIOXML when the law was published mandating that all invoices to the government be sent as oioxml efaktura we ran into the problem that there was a previous law requiring that all telecommunications invoices (or maybe utility invoices, I forget) be sent with information that there was no provision for in the UBL standard that efaktura was based on.

Luckily I had introduced an extension method that we could use to put the extra data in with, but otherwise we would have had two competing laws.

As far as mandating layouts in government PDFS, you normally see that kind of thing in military documents, but laws and bureaucracies are such that there might be any number of rules and regulations that cannot be overwritten in a system by drafting an overarching accessibility bill.
In the fediverse, you're more likely be able to say "Hey Lisa, why did you ban me?" than you can get into contact with the Youtube/Facebook/etc forces that be.

That may or may not be better because your admin may respond "Well because I think you're a jerk and disagree with your political views" but at least you can migrate to a new instance still instead of just being banned for all eternity.
Loads noticeably slower than the other link on my phone.
Back in 2004 or so, I logged into online banking and saw that where I had about $3000 the day before, I now had less than $100. Mortified, I looked and saw that there were a couple of Paypal transactions being processed. I didn't see anything in my email, and I logged into Paypal and didn't see anything on the summary screen, but when I looked at the fully history, I saw two eBay purchases: One for a hacked PS2, one for a laptop. I was able to contact both sellers: The guy with the PS2 hadn't shipped his yet, and canceled. The laptop seller lamented that he had mailed it right away - to the Philippines. To this day, I don't know how this guy in the Philippines accessed my Paypal account - I did manage to reach out to him, but he expected me to pay him to give up his secrets, and I'm not playing that game.

Anyhow, I called my bank and explained to them that these were fraudulent transactions, and thank goodness you have them on hold but haven't processed them, because my rent is coming up and could you please release the money.

The bank refused. I'd been a member of the same institution for probably a dozen years, had a car loan out through them, was on track to get a mortgage through them in a few years, and they told me that even though I had caught it that very morning, about as soon as I could possibly have caught it, that there was nothing they could do.

Paypal, on the other hand, asked me to sign an affidavit, and a couple of weeks later, fully refunded my account.

I've held Paypal above banks ever since. In retrospect, eBay had acquired Paypal only two years prior, and this transaction happening on eBay probably garnered additional scrutiny at the time. However, nearly every time I read about someone's Paypal account getting locked out, it turns out they weren't paying attention to the Terms of Service - which are, without a doubt, designed to minimize fraudulent use of Paypal as a payment provider. It's why you can't do pre-sales on Paypal - it leaves them open to liability.

For better or for worse, the overwhelming narrative becomes "Paypal sucks", but as you start to look at the big boy payment providers, you'll discover that Paypal is often more permissive by comparison, with rates that are comparable to or better than the big boys when you're running with such small transactional values. And if you end up going to some upstart that will let you do things Paypal won't, that party's only going to last as long as those providers don't get stung by regulatory fees or plain old fraud.