skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be worthwhile to teach basic statistics much earlier, and only circle around back to the foundations later. It takes several years of classes to get enough calculus to understand statistics - pre-algebra, Algebra I, Algebra II, geometry, trigonometry, and pre-calculus. You get a whole lot of concepts that most people will simply never use again -- polynomials, congruent triangles, logarithms, the quadratic formula, etc.

These are all good things to learn, and all of it contributes to teaching students to think rigorously. But most students will never get as far as learning statistics via a firm understanding of calculus, and that makes a lot of the education seem frivolous and irrelevant.

I'd much rather see students get more pragmatic classes -- most prominently personal finance, where the applications are very direct, but also statistics and economics. These can be taught with nothing more than basic algebra, and the applications are clear.

This may push those other concepts I mentioned until later in high school or even college, but not everybody needs them. And for those who do, I suspect they'll be able to be taught faster -- I found the progression of pre-algebra, algebra 1, algebra 2, and pre-calculus absolutely interminable.
Lessons from how the polio vaccine went from the lab to the public
While crass, that's a great way to put it. Why can't I just want my conversations to be private because eavesdropping without cause is icky. Just like in person.
You are legally responsible as if you had submitted the orders yourself.
> First, it ignores the outcomes of the actual policies as well as the framework of thinking that it supports. Someone who has a "different take" whose outcome changes whether I or my friends can afford health care or not is not an "equal but opposite" philosophy.

What opinions about health care policy are people allowed to have, in your view?
Thanks, that actually looks great!
It's not that big of an issue, we can all talk calmly about these things. I just want a reference point to make sure what each one suggests is not unreasonable
You have to start somewhere. Making use of an existing system is a good way to bootstrap a project like this.
Ah no, I advocate the rights of any group of free people to speak - not for any group of free people to rule. Ten thousand of you can speak that you hate me. You have the right. But not one of you may lay a finger on a hair on my head. You do not have that right.

Read my post history. I am consistent on this matter.

* On the matter of W.H.Auden refusing to publish with a publisher who refused to publish Ezra Pound. Here I believed this was perfect reactions on every side. The publisher did not like Ezra Pound because Pound is a fascist sympathizer. Auden felt that this deplatforming and so told the publisher he would no longer be publishing with them. The publisher changed his mind because he wanted Auden to publish with him. All civil, all consistent with free association.

* The NYT insisted on publishing Scott Alexander's real name. He didn't like this and pulled Slate Star Codex. My reaction was that this is bad on the NYT's part and I would prefer not to subscribe to them. Not that they should be legally censured. Simply that we as free people should exercise this and free ourselves from them.

* When David Shor was fired from Civis, I thought that was a mistake. So 'cancel culture' ate itself there. But that's fine. I will simply choose not to associate myself with Civis.
> Are we giving grades based on effort/attempt or based on knowledge acquired?

it's not really that simple. grades are just a way to measure how well students have met the course expectations. the expectations may or may not be reasonable in the first place. if there was no curving and year after year, 90% of students fail a course, the material would get adjusted. either fewer topics would be covered, or less difficult problems would be selected from each topic. the syllabus itself is an implicit curve, in a way. when someone designs a data structures course, they design it in a way that a target portion of the students will actually pass the class. they don't just say "well, arrays, linked lists, binary trees, rb-trees, BSPs, splay trees, octtrees, hashmaps, bloom filters, skiplists, and all the different types of heaps are essential topics and everyone who can't master every single one in 16 weeks fails". there's no objective standard for exactly what set of topics needs to be covered and learned in a particular course (or major), you just try to teach as much as is reasonable.
Basic thermodynamics. Particle energy grows as T (because energy = 3/2 kT). Thermal radiation energy grows as T^4. At fusion temperature up to 80% of energy is in radiation. Energy density of radiation in this case is close to energy density of metals. It's impossible to contain such radiation.
You lose all the fish goodies when you do this, no?
I think this is a completely illogical thing you're arguing.

Trans person: I feel (this way).

a non-equivalent statement from an anti-transness-person: You are wrong to feel that way; your feeling is false and what you are doing is wrong.

An equivalent statement for the non-trans-person here would be: I feel (this other way).

This business about trans people "dismissing the viewpoints of anyone who tries to tell them that the physical aspects of sex/gender are important to them" is just bullshit. I've talked with and interacted with trans folks and really no one's gonna tell me that their experience growing up as a boy and transitioning into girlhood or womanhood is the same as my experience growing up as a girl. And none of them has ever said that my experience of my physical self is not important, or is transphobic. Like, what? Can you find me instances of this sort of behavior?

Ragging on "people who menstruate" instead of "woman" (pun intended) as Rowling does is not her saying "the physical aspects of sex/gender are important to me". Menstruation is not the definition of womanhood (you do know postmenopausal women exist, right?). If you want to talk about menstruation, talk about menstruation. Don't pretend it's equivalent to wearing nailpolish or getting catcalled or giving birth or trying to find pants with pockets that fit a cell phone. JK Rowling is trying to tell other people about how they should experience sex/gender, not just representing her experience. Beyond being not empathetic, it's intellectually lazy.
Ask HN: Does Amazon's 'click to reach customer service' button exist?
I tried emailing a question to customerservice@amazon.com, a question that does not appear to be addressed by their FAQs or help. The autoresponse said there's a button I can click, to email or chat with them, on any Help page on their site.

I do not see this button. Do you?
It is upsetting that the advice for best quality / lowest friction is still basically “use a service that surveils and records your whole call”.

I look forward to the day when high quality doesn’t also mean “private conversation is impossible”.
One thing I like about Fish is that it works great out of the box, without needing to install plugins.
> It would be good to also support Wayland compositors without GTK.

So, which text and vector renderer are you proposing? That's not snark, that's a real question.

A GUI that can actually scale requires both a vector rendering engine and a text rendering engine.

On Linux, that's Cairo and Pango--which are Gtk.

I believe that your only other open source vector engine is Skia, from Google.

Am I missing any other options?
The justice system (1) does discriminate against people of color to some extent, and (2) it also discriminates against the poor. The arguments for these points are laid out in detail in the book I referred to, so I'm not going to waste your time repeating them. If you do agree with either of these points, then we would agree that the justice system is oppressive.

You raise the point that leftists don't differentiate between a system that discriminates based on race and a system that discriminates on factors correlated with race. I would argue that the effects of those two systems are quite similar. Would you agree that, regardless of the intention, both of these systems have the effect of racial oppression?

I can't defend DiAngelo or Kendi because I'm ignorant of what they have to say.
And what about the laws and treaties that enable enacted by the indian government? If they wanted to they could do what the soviet union did and impose borders controls to prevent indian engineers from escaping india.
Hi John --

Please remember that our corporate standard of email etiquette, as referenced in the employee handbook wiki [link], is to inline our responses while removing unrelated content. We've found that method to be very effective for the last thirty years.

Also note that the standard for internal signatures [link] is 2 lines:

NAME OR NICKNAME
DEPARTMENT

and that the standard for external signatures is a maximum of four lines [link] with the following recommendation:
NAME
DEPARTMENT / COMPANY
DEPARTMENT CONTACT URL

Finally, I don't know who told you to put all those images and disclaimers in, but Legal advises that you can't discuss confidential info in external emails, so you don't need disclaimers. You don't get privilege unless you work in Legal, either.

Yours,

dsr_
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> In the context of a system where it's almost impossible to lose money above a certain point and almost impossible to make money below a certain point

Whether you believe we live in such a system seems like a matter of opinion and outlook.
What model headset do you use?
> The body does not have the capability to create mass out of nothing.

A human body is not an antimatter reactor. It expels mass constantly.

It's obviously thermodynamically possible to get less energy out of a piece of food simply by shitting out slightly more of it.
ahrefs. The full methodology is described in the article.
Side note. I own a fairly recent Samsung TV. I pay for Google Priemium so I can let my kid watch some shows from time to time. Pepa pig and what not.

The issue is the built in youtube app constantly had to be logged out and back in. Otherwise advertisements start to show. Sometimes as often as wcey 4 minutes. And they are the worst sorts of advertisements geared to kids to ask parents to buy pointless plastic shit.

I am failey sure this bug is not being fixed because it would lower somebodiws revenue, or metric.
I have never heard of a Diesel-Atkinson and technically Diesel is a cycle, so if its a Atkinson burning diesel fuel its no longer a Diesel engine although the terms get fuzzy between the fuel and cycle.
> 1-2 pixel "X"

An x requires at least 3×3 pixels.
This happened today to me. I searched for the “DigiD” app which is the 2FA app for your social services account with the Dutch government. The app was the second app. Even though it matched fully on the query. The first app was some other document scanning app from some vendor. I can imagine someone paying less intention would install the wrong app.

I’m actually considering whether it would be a good thing if the app stores would verify government applications and perhaps not even allow ads on queries which have results that include governmental apps...
Qt. It supports Wayland. It can do high DPI scaling.
If you have some courtesy to watch the video, it neither talks about conversions nor about north-east, nor about Christians.

It talks about how bad Hindus are in supporting each other, when it comes to religion.

What is so called right-wing ideology doing?
> It really describes things well.

It definitely does, and he is scarily accurate in his analysis. I just re-read it myself, and stumbled over this part, which I certainly not anticipated in this form a few years back:

> For the hospital system: the new medicine "without doctor or patient" that singles out potentially sick people and subjects at risk, which in no way attests to individuation -- as they say -- but substitutes for the individual or numerical body the code of a "dividual" material to be controlled.

This is certainly an accurate description of the control mechanisms various states have put into place in the form of apps that enforce selective quarantine restrictions.

The socialcooling website really a great project! Important content presented concise and on-point, thank you for doing this!
No, it doesn't because if you purchase thru Walmart.com they are offering some titles "below" the retail price by Nintendo and Target.
Retail traders are simply not affected by things like this. It's the HFT/market making firms that would be most damaged.

The reason why retail traders rarely succeed is because the ones that are good move to the institutional level (as it is almost impossible to support yourself by trading alone). The bad ones invariably trade down their portfolio until they are forced to get a real job.

This isn't to say that you shouldn't retail trade, but rather, don't rely on it as your sole source of income (unless you have at least 2mm-5mm dollars to trade with).
One can use Cairo and Pango without GTK?
Hmm, didn't they treat the soldiers coming back from the war as terrorists. I'd say there are two sides to all those coins you are throwing around.
I know folks will totally TRASH apple if they did a walled garden TV - but for some of us we'd probably pay the extra just not to have to deal with / worry about the random scammers doing things like this. And I call this a scam when you spend this amount of money and the box doesn't have in bold letters (popover ads!).
Isn't that the responsibility of the state-govt to ensure that people are educated?

What is central-govt doing to "DENY" education and that based on "caste" ? I still didn't find any evidence.
>oing something simple worked in 2000s but nowadays a single developer cannot do what was passible back then and you need a team, and as mentioned above, massive financing to be fast to market.

I would like to add to this that our tooling has also seen massive improvements, which in turn greatly boosts the leverage of each individual contributor. For e.g. A single person can throw together a rudimentary web-browser in a week by leveraging existing components/tools/etc. Not to mention other benefits like easy access to experts via online forums, automated testing frameworks, etc, etc.
Have had two generations of cats in our house, and always the toilet paper the proper way. Never had an issue.

On the other hand, we have to keep the toilet seat down or they'll try to drink toilet water.
Speaking as an outsider, I have been watching Rust very closely for two reasons:

* I hope it will become a viable alternative to C/C++ for graphics programming. Unfortunately, last I checked as of ~6 months ago, Rust graphics libraries are still in their infancy.

* I hope it will eventually replace Electron as the go-to for multiplatform app development. IMO this cannot realistically be done by relying on native APIs / platform-specific tools like GTK, since we need something closer to functional reactive programming a la React/Svelte/SolidJS, with more emphasis on performance. If I wanted to build a GTK app, I would build a GTK app. See also [1].

I believe Rust has the potential to accomplish both goals, partially due to the design of the language, but mostly because I have faith in the very smart people who work on Rust to make good decisions in the long-term.

[1] https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/druid/2020/09/25/principled...
Yuzu (Switch Emulator): New Feature Release – Nvdec Emulation
This is pretty cool. I just migrated from using Gitlab with k8s runners to Github Actions with k8s runners. I used the https://github.com/summerwind/actions-runner-controller operator to set up the runners.
All superconductors superconduct, but there's wide variation in how strong of a magnetic field they can endure before leaving the superconducting state: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Upper-critical-fields-an...

ITER (and the LHC) used NbSn magnets, since it was designed in the 90s. Newer designs will use newer superconductors.
That's fair. I shouldn't have generalized this among all the individual missionaries. My point is to provide an example of engaging with different worldviews does not necessarily imply open-mindedness.
What are you trying to say? Again, what does this have to do with the parent post?
This will vary between jurisdictions but my understanding is that, yes, you can be sued for making a false promise to buy from a specific seller even if you don't get to the stage of a formal contract.

Putting out a press release, or RFP, saying 'we want to buy X quantity of Y' without the intent to follow up isn't illegal. However, getting to the point of a handshake agreement with a specific vendor but then backing out means that you will be expected to pay compensation even though no formal contract was signed.
Wouldn’t go as far as ‘garbage’ but they do tend to be filled with soy and grains, which far more people will be allergic/intolerant to than meat.
If you are targeting Linux with a professional GUI application your only options in 2020 are GTK or Qt (or toolkits that are built on top of those like wxWidgets). The other options lack manpower or features.

In 2020 you need HiDPI support, Wayland, and accessibility. You probably also want a toolkit that has a strong developer community. GTK and Qt have these. FLTK is under active development but it is missing a lot modern features. Maybe it will get there by 2022.

The other option, rolling your own, is a ton of work and a quite a bit of "reinventing the wheel". It's certainly possible but it needs a passionate and dedicated team.
> So that leaves Elections as the better balance mechanism by default.

This is a non-sequitor. The efficient market theorem can be untrue without elections necessarily being better at determining efficiency. I personally don’t believe in the efficient market (it’s why I’m an active trader). But elections, where ill-informed people vote on topics they barely have any knowledge about, risking nothing in the process, seem significantly worse at guaranteeing acceptable outcomes.
Ask HN: What are some open source projects using service and DAO layers?
I don't think they'll actually manage to take 100% of the market, but if they take some big chunk they could still do a lot more damage than Google when they decide to start selling all free tier data or something (or even when they get an order from a future government to start doing something sketchy with traffic on their network, if that's more of a threat you're worried about; remember, they can see inside your TLS).

And you don't really have the option of switching CDNs (at least, not easily) if you've bought into all their proprietary stuff like their workers implementation, various optimization techniques that your site couldn't survive without, etc.
A Quarter of All Reptile Species, Many of Them Endangered, Are Sold Online
It takes more "alchemy" to make vegetables look and taste like processed meat than it takes to turn meat into processed meat.

Edit: Wow, vegan valley bros are so easily upset.
I just realized that the author of the comment you point to is also the author of the FA. Wanted to point it out to others.
Introduce data-driven culture to your dev team
Frame it in something not political: Imagine there was some taboo or social norm that said the only acceptable favorite color was green. If you publicly said your favorite color was something other than green, you should expect to be fired from your job, your family go hungry, and other similar consequences. Are you really free to have any favorite color you want? Technically, yes. Practically, do you have that freedom?
Update: #16, ~13 hours, 295 points, ~200 readers
No, the proxy hides your IP, user agent, and cookies but it doesn't actually fetch the images until you open the message.
Yes. It comes with the territory of realizing that there are actors gaming the biggest systems around, and part of the game is building support for those gaming the system, without knowing which segments of our society are participating.
> But if you were talking about how much traffic HN directs to the #1 post, then the number is exactly correct.

Indeed I was :)
n=116 adults, trial was over a 12-week period. Time restricted eating group was doing 16:8 intermittent fasting (eating only between noon and 8PM, aka skipping breakfast).

Results:

> In this prospective randomized clinical trial that included 116 adults with overweight or obesity, time-restricted eating was associated with a modest decrease (1.17%) in weight that was not significantly different from the decrease in the control group (0.75%).

Both groups lost weight. Time restricted eating group lost a tiny bit more, but it's statistically insignificant.

The time restricted eating group was told to eat ad libitum, or as much as they wanted, within the time window. The control group was told to eat "3 structured meals per day", which isn't exactly a neutral control group. It's too bad they didn't just grab random people, let them eat as they normally did, and track their weight. This might explain why both groups managed to lose some weight over the course of the study.
Just because the payments are electronic doesn't mean there is no longer a need to track cash flows in and out of your accounts.
A solid, production-grade GUI library would complete Rust for me.

I reach for C++ and Qt when I want a cross-platform GUI and a low-level, compiled language. If Rust offered something on the same, or at least close, to Qt, I’d go all-in on Rust.
Honest question: Has man-made nuclear fusion ever happened? Or is it theory, happening on the sun?
you only need to paste a line or two of bash. it's what I did when I have a problem with some online help that put a line that only works on bash
Very creepy, I will try my best to never use this.
@raphlinus I'm curious if VR plays into your thinking for 3D?
I honestly glossed over it because it looked like a list of developers
It’s a sane scripting language. It encouraged me to automate simple tasks, create handy functions etc. I don’t have to google the for loop syntax every time I need it.
In my memory the quality of google searches peaked around 2009 or so I'm not sure I'd refer to it as a "present" effect....
> One person is free to state an opinion. Any n people are free to associate. Any n people are free to state the opinion together.

It's right to n people to gather together and march in their support for Biden for example.

It is not OK (morally) to n people to gather togeher and ask a company to fire an employer for Biden support.

I think the different is in positive vs negative, constructive vs destructive.

"Buy from NNN because they support gay marriage" is positive and constructive.

"Ruin a career of John Smith because of his political views" is negative and destructive.

Of course it is not black and white. Like if you know for sure that company MMM knowingly uses slave labor, it would be right to boycott the company. And I don't know where to draw the line.

> what an 'attack' is

Something which leads to big loss for those who is attacked (ruined career, ruined personal life, loss of money, loss of business).
HTTPS is not free. It has a very significant management/maintenance and compatibility overhead, which is unavoidable by the very nature of HTTPS.
Well, in my corporate job, there are meetings where I don't espouse my controversial view about an architecture or modeling decision, because... the same thing?

I'm sure that's also true in the Church of Scientology and a lot of religious congregations. That is how people work. Creating spaces where robust discussion and dissent is respected and productive is actually hard work and requires good management (which Lord knows most academic departments don't have, since the Head Manager is just whoever got coerced into being chair this time).