skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I detest turning on my TV and getting ads from the TV itself (recommendations). I detest it even more of there is some show/celebrity I don't want to see but every day for a week/month whatever it's shoved in my face.

I'm happy Apple TV (the device not the service) starts up with no ads. Android TV / Google TV is all ads (for shows). I managed to manually turn them off but now my is super ugly. You can't set a startup image or anything since it's reserved for ads. (well, short of writing my own launcher)

I don't know what I'm going to do for my next TV. I'd love to get a dumb TV but casually glancing through options it looks hard to find a dumb TV with high end features for a reasonable price. Most of the display oriented monitors seem to be 4x-10x the price and/or use 10yr old tech.
I did an analysis of Snowflake's Facebook ads if you want to see how they message there and the kind of content they promote : https://www.rightpercent.com/b2b-guides/snowflake-just-went-...
I don't think the web-rings ever worked well, but maybe there exist a search engine for the little guy:

- Adfree Only (No Ads or Tracking Allowed on the domain)
Maybe your Ritz experiences have been different than mine, but IMHO all hotel rooms are concrete boxes with a facsimile of home stuffed inside them, copied and pasted as many times as local demand will merit.

Hotel restaurants are the same principle, except replace furnishing with food.
Some background on why this is relevant (besides the comics being very good): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24644671
and here I thought Google was going to support decent customer service. ):
Teachers are not paid based on supply and demand. We all get paid the same amount (by district) based purely on years of teaching experience. With little perks for masters degrees ($1000 per year on my district) or teaching a CTE class like computer science ($2500 per year but 5 extra work days), and I even got a few extra steps on the ladder for industry experience (9 years experience for me, about $5000 up the ladder)

Some districts are doing a Pay For Performance situation, where "good teachers" can earn lots more... But I have a feeling the average teacher wage is lower in those districts and is highly dependent on what classes and mix of students your administrators give you (the AP calc teacher is going to have higher achieving students than the class full of seniors that are just taking algebra 1) it all depends on how "performance" is measured..
It’s also frowned upon to prefix with “the”
A closer reading will reveal that I'm not talking about superficial appearances, but the interface. That's an important distinction.

When I start talking about the Ritz and high-end consultants, I'm discussing the interface, which of course includes the "far better beds, cleaner & safer rooms, better food..." and consistency you're trying to contrast with appearance. I would agree that those things are more than superficial and are extremely important to the experience of the user, because that's exactly the point I'm making.

The beds and concierge are nicer at the Ritz, and the interface (note: not appearance) and support are better at Palantir (or, as we're discussing here, at Snowflake).
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More the "Eternal Golden Braid" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
The size of public school districts tends to be an advantage when it comes to special ed, IME. A private school isn't going to hire 3 therapists for the one child with autism. Maybe they find someone to come in for a few hours a week at most.

Public school districts can hire full time therapists and send them around to schools as needed. They also have the legal obligations of IEPs and cannot deny services to students without running up against federal law. They tend to have a lot better staff with a lot more training with a lot more hours they can devote to the kids.
Possibly due to the creators now pouring their resources into making blockchain games. Incidentally the first game they have released is a farming game! https://gala.games/
stop paying taxes and see what happens

Yes, like that guy in Tennessee who didn't pay the firemen and complained that they wouldn't show up when his house was on fire. If you want civilization, pay your share. (Corollary: be extremely wary of lowtax types and their vision of society!)
Where I come from (Germany), homeschooling is seen as a way to indoctrinate children to their parents religion.

What do you think about this?
And it will be killed in 3 years.
I dunno, you can't really have it both ways. Either a lockdown is something stricter than how people would behave in the presence of COVID, or it's not. If the argument is that the lockdown itself has a societal cost, then it's the strict version. If you go by the headlines that refer to lockdowns in the colloquial sense describe the very loose policies of "walk around, order food, wear a mask, sit outside, social distancing, but hey, indoor dining is closed so it's a lockdown", then most if not all of that cost is what would be happening anyway due to human behavior.

This is all really dumb. We need to societally backspace and come up with a couple of popular words that have clearer meanings for this stuff. Lockdown has close to zero semantic meaning.

In my original parent comment, I was more thinking of strict lockdowns. The type where - given sufficient test capacity and responsible contact tracing - a region could limit its borders and strictly lock down for four weeks, and obliterate COVID to the point they could test and trace - and dine indoors.
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I’ll believe something changes in the pharmaceutical industry when I see it. It’s been a problem my entire life, and they’ve bought too many senators and house reps.

This country doesn’t even pretend to have the right priorities.
That feature launched years ago. Presumably, it works or I would have seen lots of blog posts complaining about it.
It's broadly true. It's not feasible for private schools to provide special ed services. It costs about 3x as much per student than general ed.

There is a strong incentive to keep special ed populations small or nonexistent at every private school. Both to save money and improve the overall "success" rate of their students.
> To use Shoelace form elements at all, you'll end up writing a bunch of JavaScript.

Shoelace author here. This is somewhat true (I wouldn’t call it “a bunch” though), and it will be until form-associated custom elements are standard. However, I’d argue that most form validation and submission is done with JavaScript these days. I can’t think of the last time I saw a post request submitted from a form in the wild. (Not that it doesn’t happen, but it seems to be quite rare now.)
Probably will never be much appreciated in US (I could hear Americans shouting 'socialist!' in terror from there), but is a good comic. Apart of some outdated references here and there it has aged relatively well, taking in mind that is from 60' and 70's.

Definitely playing in the same league as Garfield, and inspired by peanuts, but better IMO. More deep and complex than the happy world of Snoopy. Quino was wicked deploying visual gags, describing psychologically the characters with a few strokes, and extracting universal humor from common situations. Sometimes poignant, very dark, cynic and twisted humor, but of impeccable good taste and often really clever. It is still very enjoyable with dozens of memorable quotes.
> they billed tenants for utilities, yet did not pass the money on to the utility company

That would seem to be criminally fraudulent behavior.

Also, the article mentions:

> That Sept. 23 letter also stated that tenants would not be responsible for paying October rent as their security deposits would be covering that. This posed a problem for anyone set to leave at the end of this month...

Not being able to return a tenant's security deposit could also be criminal behavior. Don't most states have laws saying that a security deposit is the tenant's money, and has to be kept in an escrow account with the tenant's name on it?

And:

> What’s more, HubHaus continued to bill tenants for services that were discontinued during the shelter-in-place, such as housecleaning.

More fraud.

The tenants might want to file complaints with the state Attorney General's office.

Addendum: I looked HubHaus up on Crunchbase[1] to find out who their VCs are:

Their Series A funding ($12M) came from a firm called "Social Capital", whose mission is "to advance humanity by solving the world’s hardest problems".[2]

Also interesting: HubHaus's web site is still up, offering rooms for rent.[3]

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hubhaus

[2] https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/hubhaus-series-a--c...

[3] https://thehubhaus.com
This sounds like an opportunity for an audio in a chat feed where between lines the computer spits out typing sounds and a virtual agent saying please hold on while I look into that.

Of course a better fix would be a combination of the two. Have some agent read your original email sent through some secure internal site and build and classify a case in the system with email attached and then reply to let you know there is a secure reply with a chat link to the complete case detail with time frames reserved for high responsiveness.
> If you want Linux to use a firewall then install one into it

Granted, I don't know much about WSL, but that's a very surprising model to me. I would naively assume that anything in userspace is controlled by the Windows OS-level firewall, not that Linux gets to emit raw packets. To say the least, I'm a little more hesitant than you are to call that reasonable.
That's what I'd thought, and our public high school does have an excellent reputation.

That said, the pricey private school sends kids on a 'cultural expedition' to Malaysia.
> @event decorator is built upon the EventTarget

In Sciter it is not. @event there is not calling Element.addEventListener but declares event handlers as static table associated with class.

Essentially components are attached to DOM elements by calling Object.setPrototypeOf(element, MyComponent) - no memory allocation is happening (modulo code in componentDidMount) - very fast and lightweight.

Yet, in your sample, you've missed the call of customElements.define(), that alone is limiting use cases quite a lot.

> custom elements don't cost $310 for an indie license.

Sciter is free, as browsers too, components in SDK, hundreds of them, are free too.
You will need to pay $310 only if you need source code of Sciter Engine itself.

Sciter is like a browser in that respect, try to request source of MS Edge or Google Chrome for any money - good luck with that.
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I think your implementation is really, really cool. Similarly I spent a good half hour bumbling through Cosmopolitan. Love what you've built.

IMO, the fact that asm() is used for a bunch of things unrelated to inline assembly -- but to your point, instead for changing compiler behaviors is more of an argument for exposing additional __attributes__, annotations and so on, rather than adding explicit support for asm() to the standard. This violates the principal of least surprise, and IMO, serves to further confuse rather than bring some predictability to C.

I'd suggest also that C should embrace some movement in the standard rather than agreeing to leave things as is forever and stapling legs onto the octopus that is C++. There was a good writeup here a while ago from someone involved with the committee, that they've gotten to the point where introducing new warnings for obviously broken behavior is off the table because they want to be warnings-compatible from release to release.

What I'm saying is I would rather see exposed intrinsics, primitives and other meaningful source annotations than codifying the spooky action at a distance of an empty string asm() call in the C standard. And if we're going to modify the standard there's a lot of low-hanging fruit I'd love to see cleaned up first.

[edit] I'd also like to add that I agree with your thesis that if this can be built with the tools provided instead of modifying the standard, that the onus is on the proposer. Based on some of the other analyses here it seems like it can't really be done in a universal way, but I'm open minded.
I don't understand the downvote here.

HN'ers are a community detached from the atom world hahah
Sure, that's pretty bad and certainly one extreme. What percentage of drivers are in this situation?
No clue, I'm on a Mac and no knowledge of Nvidia Shield. Plex is great for a lot of things but it's not perfect, has a lot of format support issues, and isn't as direct and fast as choosing a Chromecast Renderer in VLC
Are the FAANG companies doing anything original anymore, except generational improvements and me-too products? Their product lineups are all looking identical.

Smartphones, smart speakers, smart watches, and services to entice you to stay in their ecosystems.

It seems utterly boring. It’s feeling that the next big thing isn’t going to come from any of them.
Financial shocks driven by passive index funds that hold pre-defined percentages of different asset types.

Let's say you have a diversified passive fund that holds 25% each of asset types A, B, C and D. If asset type A crashes and it's now 10% then B, C, and D will now be 30%. The fund will rebalance and sell B/C/D so they're back to 25% and the values of those asset types will decline. The values of A/B/C/D all correlate with one another even if they are fundamentally unrelated.
This infuriates me. Google must know about this, and can surely lower the bitrate for these old Chromecasts, yet have chosen not to. Every time I encounter this on my old Chromecasts it reminds me of how they ruined the Nexus 7 with its final major os update. Blatantly trying to get people to buy new devices. Do no evil, my arse.
> For example, just showing the correct keyboard layout is a nightmare

It’s literally just an attribute on the input element?
For comparison, that’s roughly 1/4th of current annual global auto sales.
It’s not your business?
As someone who knows a little information theory and enough differential geometry to be dangerous, I have to admit that I've tried numerous to learn about Information Geometry but haven't been able to penetrate the surface.

The introductory articles like this tend to get bogged down in the definitions, and research-level articles are pretty impenetrable. If anyone here has a little more insight into this field, I'd be really interested to know more about the impact IG has had on other areas (be it applications to the real world, or to helping organize our understanding of another field of math).
Re: the second point, I wasn't hypothesizing passing a runtime option to timebuild, but rather running a build against a local "root enlistment directory" that has the Base and Windows depots synced, but not necessarily all the depots for the other components.

I suppose this wouldn't have resulted in an installable release, though. (At least on its own. I guess the populatefromvbl.pl script described in the memo is there to bodge a partial clean build of individual components, together with "the rest of Windows" from some parent release, to form a test build?)
Wouldn't a timber and beam house still require walls with studs?
Without meaning to denigrate pure theory, does anyone know what one might be able to do with this theory?

(I like reading about theory but I'm clearly going to have to put this one off until I've learned some differential geometry, hopefully in this lifetime.)
This is literally the only take I've read in this entire comment thread that has a firm grasp on the entire picture. Thanks for that.
Down-vote me if you’d like, but the opposite is also true, in many regards:

Where I come from (Germany), (public) schooling is seen as a way to indoctrinate children to their government’s political agenda (call it a religion if you like).

So as always, it depends: good parents, good home schooling. Bad parents, bad home schooling. Replace “parents” with “government” and you get the same message.

Edit: As a German myself I’d like to add that your question reflects an attitude of the socialist/communist German Democratic Republic (you also know it as “DDR”): family is nothing, government is all. You leave all thinking and your responsibilities to the political agenda and world view of your political “leaders”. Is that a world you’d like to live in (again)?
Except that the blanket statement literally is true: public schools are legally responsible for providing education in the least restrictive way to those with an IEP, while private schools are not.
In my country kids are leaving private schools during pandemic in favor of public ones.
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Just as a trivia, he's really popular in Brazil. It's extremely common for school books to use his strips, both as interpretation exercises but also as a comic relief w/ the strip matching the subject we're studying. It's so common it's hard to find a Brazilian who never heard of Mafalda.
That would be a CS-specific thing.

If you were a chemistry, history or anything major, a salary of $60k would be much more in proportion that what could be made in "industry".

And it would be a brave act for school administration to say that CS teachers will be earning two times more than everyone else.
That Germany is not the USA?

Studies are almost unanimous. Homeschooled kids are more successful in college, get almost an entire extra point of GPA on average and earn more money than other kids.

You do you, and let others do what they want.
It’s literally a privilege everyone enjoys. No one is forced to care about politics at all. That’s a false premise. It’s always a choice, it’s not a privilege.
I strongly believe that a lot of our brightest kids are languishing in bad schools due to poor family circumstances and I think it should be a source of national shame.
Yeah you only get 6 or 7 years before the relationship changes. Seemingly large for the child but a fleeting blip for the parents.
Retarded was invented to be a “kind word”. It’s humorous looking at records from Ellis island and seeing records describing people as “idiots” “imbecile”, and “morons” as actual terms to describe different levels of intelligence. We use these words outside that context now. But they were actual classifications. Words like “retard” came into being to cover those terms which became derisive slang that is today considered harmless. But retard isn’t.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/moron-idiot-im...

Obviously teasing an actual mentally retarded person by calling them a “retard” or the above terms is cruel and in poor taste, and worse. I don’t believe almost anyone would though.
Can you explain? I don't understand it either. I use iTerm2 on a modern mac; does that mean I don't have the performance problems being addressed by kitty and alacritty?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08271
Two things changed my view about MMT and money: 1- The way we "print" money is by issuing credit. That seems safe since it is credit and not actual "money printing" but as soon as that credit expire, you need to re-issue it again. So it's the same thing as printing in the longer run. If you want to reduce the money supply, you stop issuing credits. In MMT, you add taxes and this has the same effect. 2- By having an interest rate and issuing credit, money becomes a commodity. This is wrong as people should not ask banks so that they can make transactions. Money should be available to anyone who wants to make a transaction. Notice that I use the word available and not free. MMT is not about giving people money for free, but about making it available for anyone.

There is a whole class of people that built fortunes just by sitting on money. Working people had to pay these other people and for what?
Why is that? Do you mind sharing the country?
My heart breaks for the small business owners who are watching their livelihoods toyed with.
It definitely happens, without question from my perspective.

Personally, I don’t think it’s something government should try to “solve” - of _course_ parents want their children to share their views.

From a practical standpoint, it’s been difficult for us to find homeschooling communities that aren’t one of two extremes: new age/“hippie” or fundamentalist Christian. While my wife and I are Christian, it’s important to us for our children to get a thorough and well-rounded education. That entirely rules out a lot of resources for us, and we end up picking and choosing quite a bit. For instance, we’re using the Abeka math curriculum at the moment, but their science curriculum isn’t at all acceptable.
Indeed. Privacy focus and Facebook cookies are fundamentally opposite ideas. Her claims don't seem to make sense at all. "I don't track users [except sending your data straight to Facebook]" -- what does that even mean? It's a self contradictory position.
It's worth noting that the private sector doesn't have performance based pay figured out either. But it has a lot less ability to utterly deny pressure from the supply of labor or the demand for services.

At any rate, it's a shame. And folks will blame systemic educational failures on a lot of things, but this basically boils down to an entrenched bureaucratic culture that really has a regressive outcome. Rich parents, parents in university towns, and parents who are engineers will get their children access.
So true. I would even add that these social activities include kids of wide age ranges which is a much better way to prepare children to real life. Life is not composed of groups of people of similar ages.
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> Trump parroted the language in the request by Chris Wallace

No, he didn't. And while he does have trouble focussing long enough to string together a full coherent sentence, he's not so incompetent with words and shirt phrases to not understand the difference with, or to a
inadvertently swap, the terms with very different meaning “stand back”, and particularly “stand by” when intending to repeat “stand down”.

“stand down” means to demobilize.

“stand back” means to pause, usually for planning or emotional reflection.

“stand by” means to be ready for action or orders.
As I’m sure you can infer from my username, keeping our children out of state-run schools is a primary motivating factor for us.
Of the parts of the world, other than the US, that I'm most familiar with, Japan and Western Europe, they control drug prices - and keep them low.

I've had a theory for a while that the way world drug companies make up for low profitability in those markets is in gouging in the US where it's a free-for-all and one should grab for as much as one can get.

The totality of US healthcare is a big, complicated $3+ trn/yr pie but there's flagrant abuse all over the system (and a variety of intl players, profitably for them, contribute) and pharmaceutical companies are eager to be in on the game.

I wonder what would happen to healthcare globally if the US were able to downsize its 20%-of-gdp system to something on the order of Western Europe or Japan which is to say 10% of gdp? That is, the revenue the system generates would drop by half.

Needless to say, there'd be resistance tantamount to, let's call it, institutional violence. US doctors' earnings cut in half? You've got to be kidding.
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I am also curious.

Is there is any data on this?
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