skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean?

If you mean for entry level service level stuff, like high schoolers would take, I can't speak to it (I couldn't really find anything when I looked, but I think that was attributable to the general difficulty of finding a first job. No one asked me what high school I was attending/had attended), but for post-college, no one ever asked me about high school.

As to getting into college, I had to take the SATs, same as everyone. I did better than most. I started at community college (which I believe everyone should do, both because financially it makes sense, and because it helps acclimate you to the realities involved. For home/unschoolers, having deadlines and having to learn to 'work the system' are both necessary), then went to university. Graduated highest honors.
> When you're writing small, short sentences, there is something off putting about periods.

Well, that may be the case for some people, but I am not convinced it's the general case.

Also, how do you write (delineate, identify, etc) small, short sentences without periods?

I'm assuming people in a hurry - that don't have time for punctuation - do have time for tautological constructs? (small, short) ; )
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This looks like a great command line alternative to git diff or diff, but I have to admit that I greatly prefer meld when I need a quick diff against non version controlled files, or sublime merge when using revision controlled files.
I would be hesitant to join a facebook group as a student and young people increasingly don't have an account. The only reason to make one these days is for HR checks, millennial rituals, government etc.
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I've gotten good at a few things in life that required a "grind." The violin is the clearest example. Getting decent requires an hour or so a week -- you can generally fart around and play whatever's accessible to your skill level. Good requires an hour or two per day, of deliberate and focused practice. People don't play études for fun. Excellence requires several hours per day. Even Itzhak Perlman describes his practice regimen as tedious, and I once heard him say that he practices while watching TV, to alleviate the boredom. Paganini, on the other hand, played all day to forestall his father's physical abuse.

I was "good," for a time, but pursuit of excellence never met my cost benefit analysis
> Apple gets to decide what they mean.

(IAAL, this is not legal advice.)

That's not how contract law works. There's a whole body of law around how to construe language in contracts, and it's subject to litigation and dispute if the definition isn't made clear in the contract itself.

> no court of law is going to rule that they don't have the right to block

Then you don't know courts very well. Such clauses are still subject to the law and public policy. For example, no competent court is going to allow anyone to use an escape clause to terminate a contract with someone because of their race, age, or gender.

But yeah, if you use someone's services and then publicly talk trash about them? Why should they be forced to continue to do business with you?
>There's also the weird thing of younger people like myself avoiding proper punctuation/capitalization for the aesthetic. Mainly because a lack of proper writing can make certain messages feel more "relaxed" and casual, if that makes sense.

I don't think it's weird at all, and I don't think it's simply aesthetic. All these things (punctuation, capitalization, emoji/emoticons, representations of non-verbal communication like "lol" and "hmm", message boundaries, message send times) are ways of conveying tone, nuance, and a personal voice in an otherwise sterile, flat medium.

These nuances have been around as long as we've had instant messaging, but the specifics have changed over time. Representations of laughter are a good example: over the years we've had (in no order) "lol", "Lol", "LOL", "rofl", "ROFL", "lmao", "lmfao", "LMAO", "LMFAO", "hah", "haha", "hahaha", "HAHAHAHA", "roflmao", "roflcopter", and others. Over time the nuances of these options have changed, with some no longer au courant (the rofl family is currently outmoded), just as spoken slang and language rapidly evolve. Punctuation choices and so on follow similar patterns.

I do roll my eyes a little bit at some of the wild prescriptivism that can be found in this thread, which I think completely misses the point. The footnote from the original post I find especially infuriating:

>sloppy with their written communication, which is to say "careless and unsystematic; excessively casual".

Casual speech is not sloppy! Choices of punctuation, capitalization, and so on are deliberate.
Types of fun:
Type 1: Fun while performing the activity
Type 2: Bad while performing the activity, fun in hindsight
Type 3: Bad while performing the activity, bad in hindsight

I would argue that Type 2 is desirable but doesn't fit in this framework.

source: https://www.rei.com/blog/climb/fun-scale
Really? Any example? I rely pretty hard on his show.
Anyone can buy a brand new raspberry pi 4 with 4GB of RAM for around 50€, which fits on the palm of your hand. You can even get them delivered to your doorstep with a few mouse clicks.

The same can't really be said for 10 year old laptops.
> In most non-technical discussions like this, it's only serving the purpose of gatekeeping, as if people who work with HTML or CSS are not really programmers. That's nonsense and should be rejected.

that is my real point
So everyone should roll their own crypto after all, because of a few isolated examples? In most cases, on average, you are wrong.
Lots of mobile games do this, you get a device tied account and then after you've played a bit they ask if you want to link to a real account to avoid losing progress.
Well that’s true. Carbon emissions are self-reinforcing. It would take 200%+ emission reduction at this point, as heat itself is increasing co2 release today in various ways.

This means reductions can only bring a short delay, they can’t stop global warming.

At this point it’s getting warmer mostly because it’s getting warmer.
> these were papers and notes and documents in a wide variety of formats, tricky to digitize unless you have a professional organization to do so

No, they are not tricky to digitize. Throw some random pieces of paper in various sizes and formats on the floor. Pull out your phone and take a picture and see for yourself.

For example, when I mail someone a package at the post office, they hand me a receipt with the tracking number. I hold the receipt in my left hand, take a phone photo of it with my other left hand, and text it to the addressee. Zip, boom, done. Works great.

The phone camera is simply the greatest document scanner ever invented, and everybody has one!

> not safely

Fireproof vaults have burned. See what happened to the Kennedy photo archive in the safe vault in the basement of the WTC.

HP likely didn't scan them because they didn't have budget for a "proper digitization". So rather than cheap snaps with a phone camera, they now have nothing.
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Both brothers are software engineers, so I'd say IQ is relevant for this particular discussion thread.

Whether it's relevant for the main topic... that's an interesting question. Very much so. But I don't dare speculate, and I don't have data.
> Subsaharan African Agriculture also plants about 83 million acres of maize. They see yields that are 1/3 to 1/4 of US agricultural yields. These yield gaps dramatically close when you start using fertilizer and modern agricultural practices.

I'd just like to point out that these are two different continents with completely different conditions, soils, microbiota, seeds, pests, and climate. So apples and oranges.

Also, you count wrong because you don't count the number of acres needed to produce fertilizer.

> I'm certainly biased, I'm the CTO of a company that's trying to improve agricultural inputs by financing access to smallholders

At this point, yeah, your financial incentives pretty much color your entire worldview. If you stand to make O(millions) and this is your primary line of work, that's a one massive grain of salt.
having met a ton of fully grown adults who have offspring, near as I can tell, most people are functionally illiterate. While they probably can read, most choose not to read anything longer than a tweet. I coach in a local sports league. I send an email at the beginning of each season with nice bulleted sections about schedules, uniforms, etc. After I send that email, I spend the next week answering questions to responses to replies from that email. All answers are in that email they are responding to.

TLDR - just because someone can read, doesn't mean they will, and my experience is that they won't.
> That wasn't going to teach any of us beautiful prose or how to craft good plots, but it got us very quickly to the point where our writing style became deliberate.

I would argue precisely the opposite.

You can't build beautiful woodworking until you can do a joint reliably and repeatedly. You can't play jazz on your musical instrument until you can play scales reliably and repeatedly.

You had a really excellent writing professor. He completely anchored the fundamentals that you needed. Now you can actually proceed to actually write.
Anything can go to the supreme court if you try hard enough: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/mandamus

But also yes, the Supreme Court has discretionary appeals jurisdiction over any federal case.
You can still plan for a 3.5% withdrawal rate and be way off of what you need to retire if you are assuming a 12-15% return rate.
> That may be true today, but their policies are a moving target. Who knows what they'll be like in a year's time?

Likewise Google, Facebook, or any site/ API that a developer deals with on a daily basis.

I wouldn’t bet my company on any sign in with _____ service. I just feel the trade-offs with Apple’s sign in versus Google/ Facebook to be less bad. With any of the services, I might do something that causes me issues down the road. With Apple at least I’m not selling out my users immediately.
It's actually really easy: force people to pay per packet. The problem is that we don't have any global system that has solved fast micro-transactions at a global scale without the concept of a permanent identity.

At the dumbest level forums would look much different to what they do today if every post cost you $1 and every downvote $0.25.
As other commenters pointed out, I use Twitter to share my thoughts like how others publish on their blogs.

People can follow me if they'd like, but I wouldn't know anyway because I've made tools specifically to hide followers/likes/vanity metrics on social media (https://hidelikes.com/).
Pleasure vs. satisfaction. Grinding is not pleasurable (in fact quite frustrating at times), but the satisfaction of completing the challenge may be more sustainable as a source of happiness.
Tom Scott has a nice intro video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS4X1JfX6_Q

The book he mentions, Because Internet, goes into more detail. But to over-simplify, there were a few major generations of people joining the internet as well as a generation that never fully joined, and each one developed its own conventions for casual writing on their own. Some used the same mechanism to mean different things.
This is realtime status, monitoring, and error detection/reporting for elevators. Their web site has some screenshots:

https://liftai.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/pho-i... (measures trips, vibration level, out of service events)

Reporting: https://liftai.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/d1.pn..., https://liftai.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/s2.pn...
It's pretty clear Epic set out to intentionally get their Apple developer account terminated so they would have standing to sue, so I would not draw too much inference from that.

That said, it's generally true that any dependence on a platform is a form of risk. There are documented examples of Google kicking people out of their ecosystem unexpectedly too.

Federated sign-in schemes may be a good idea if they help your users create accounts and authenticate more easily, but it certainly seems smart to offer more than one, including your own email-based option.
Ancedotal, but all that sounds pretty foreign to me. I don't really think i learn like that.
Kind of. Admins can see all channels, and can forcibly insert themselves into any voice channel (even if it's full). But you're right in that their domain only extends to the _server_ and not your user account which is not tied to the server and they have no ownership over.
The difference is the timeline. Basic support landing ~1 month before launch is not acceptable. We barely have a stable kernel with this initial support, and that kernel won't have been picked up by any distributions. Further, for previous AMD hardware releases, this initial support has not been really usable from what I have read. Most of the posts I found on Reddit pointed to it taking several months after launch for the Navi drivers to stabilize. Even then, running a custom kernel in my experience is a lot more trouble than the proprietary Nvidia drivers.

Compare to Intel where you have initial basic support landing around 2 years before launch with incremental improvements following. This is the correct way to do open source drivers.
I love lawyerspeak.

> As such, they have an obligation to register with FinCEN; to develop, implement, and maintain an anti-money laundering compliance program

Hmm yes, this business which existed to launder money did not implement anti-money-laundering measures, therefore it will be fined.
I'm not a lawyer, but I believe regulatory agencies would need new legislation to make use of privacy-protecting cryptocurrency software illegal. It's that legislation that I would worry about.
WhatsApp... uses the Signal Protocol. I don't understand this line of thinking at all.
To add to that, the article discusses the physical injuries that are associated with the sports. Specifically, the issues with concussions. To a coach or athletic director, the kid with less concussions likely has a better future in the sport than the one that has been injured already. The article talk about this explicitly with the arguments over wether to tell the schools about medical history.

There's a bit of hubris in that too. The coaches are just that confident in their training and coaching that they are willing to take less experienced players over more experienced, but injured, ones.
A lot of nordic countries don't teach reading until 7 or so
They all have their strengths and weaknesses. I favor the Apps more that websites because of what the web has become.

Being able to know in what I am getting in and tapping install is much, much better experience than tapping on a link to the unknown then trying to figure out how to reach the thing I am looking for when the website tries to track me, monetize me, make me sign up all at the same time.

A website would usually load about the same size data of a native app without a warning and would report me to facebook, google and others.

That’s not something I am thrilled about.
Says the founder of Discord :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc7qBS1Ujo
That, or Freenet. Or Tor. None of which ever really took off - mostly due to user apathy rather than technical feasibility. Sadly.
Twitter didn’t make an editorial decision about what was published. The Post published their story, on their own site and in their own tabloid, without interference from anybody. Twitter had no control over that. Twitter did have control of whether they wanted the story to be amplified on their site, and—like most news agencies who evaluated the story using traditional journalistic standards and found it raised too many red flags—they apparently decided that they did not.
Discord's channel system and notifications by default are extremley annoying.

No idea why they made Discord audibly ping whenever someone say anything in any channel on new servers you join.
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It also says that use of such coins is not necessarily for use in or proof of crime.
Serious open source projectd should build the modern IRC, fast
If the issue is unresolved and emotional, it will be repeated.

If the issue is emotional or unresolved, it will fester.

If it's resolved, blame has been assigned.

It's how you are treated that may or may not make it worthwhile.
yea that would be considered an advanced feature.
> Websites are simply apps installed in the browser without asking for permission

That actually work on the platforms I choose. There are many apps that only work on iOS/Android that I want to run on my desktop or a more pure linux phone. I just want to be able to consume a service from a platform that clearly have the technical capabilities to do so, but no, it has to be a "app".

> Notorious for tracking abilities

And a lot easier to chose/disable them. This summer many apps (including stuff like spotify) would not even start on iOS because the facebook SDK crashed. On the spotify web player I can choose to block calls to recaptcha, facebook and similar with umatrix. Do you think that apps on average have less tracking or just that you tend to pay for apps but not for webapps and therefore get higher quality apps?

> data storage tied to the browser

Great! Data storage on the client should either be treated as unreliable or the only storage (for stuff where there is no "cloud" or privacy is critical). Tying storage to a single vendor (like icloud or google drive) is a very, very bad idea. Web browsers also have a well defined interface for you to inspect the data saved locally if you want.

> performance lower

For the majority of apps this does not matter. The reason webapps are usually slow is not that the platform is slow, it's that companies copy websites that are stuffed with tracking (if you block that they tend to be much quicker). They suck because the people who made them made them suck.

Most chat, mail, news, or any other form of text/image/video app could easily be performant enough as a webapp. Hell, amazon even made their real time game streaming service a webapp. The platform is not the problem.

> data consumption unpredictable

Not sure what is different here from native apps? Both can auto-update, both can download assets at-will, right?

> identification tied to web technologies

Yes please! That means it's portable and not tied into google/apple!
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> Intelligence is not hereditary for the most part, and there's a huge environmental component to it.

This isn’t true. Every psychological trait has a large heritable component. The lowest value I’ve ever seen for heritability of intelligence is on the order of 0.6 and 0.8 is just as common.

> Genetic Influence on Human
Psychological Traits

> There is now a large body of evidence that supports the conclusion that individual differences in most, if not all, reliably measured psychological traits, normal and abnormal, are substantively influenced by genetic factors. This fact has important implications for research and theory building in psychology, as evidence of genetic influence unleashes a cascade of questions regarding the sources of variance in such traits. A brief list of those questions is provided, and representative findings regarding genetic and environmental influences are presented for the domains of personality, intelligence, psycho- logical interests, psychiatric illnesses, and social attitudes. These findings are consistent with those reported for the traits of other species and for many human physical traits, suggesting that they may represent a general biological phenomenon.

...

> own positive correlation between tests of mental ability, the evidentiary base for the general intelligence factor. This value is typically about .30. The genetic correlation be- tween such tests is, however, much higher, typically closer to .80.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.397...
A lot of unschooling is predicated on the idea that if you're not forced to learn things, you will be more open to wanting to learn them.

Certainly, in my own life that has held true. I learned to read when I was a kid because I saw my parents doing it, and engaging in it taught me to love it. A lot of math I learned early on just as I was growing up (I figured out multiplication on my own, for instance). But by the time school started 'teaching' me things, I chafed at it. I hated being told what to learn, hated having to follow the classroom's pace, etc.

The same has held true in my adult life too; given a problem to solve or an interesting thing to explore I'll learn. Even things I -hated- in high school and college (such as foreign languages), I am engaging in learning on my own as an adult because I -want- to.

Given a better environment, most kids will want to learn. The problem is school forces it on kids, without investing in showing the kid why they would want to learn it in the first place (i.e., the reason "when will we ever use this?!" is so stereotypical)
VPNs are the dumb persons idea of a secure internet. You've just sold all your secrets to a third party.

Tor is a slightly better solution, but again, not by much. You're hoping that a randomly chosen VPN will not have an interest in what you're looking at and that the two VPNs behind it are owned by someone else so they can't correlate the metadata.
What this really needed was a diff for their own example
Adopting the same policy most car makers have, how horrible.
Note that missing from your assessment here is an honest analysis of the alternative. I.e. where would you and your brother have ended up if you had stayed in school and gone the traditional college path? You say you're making $150k now as a software engineer, but there's a damn good chance if you had stayed in school and gotten a CS degree in college you would be making a lot more than that now (and earlier in your career as well).

As others have mentioned, you also have to consider how few career paths offer the kind of "no formal training" entry bar that programming does. What if your brother had hated computers and realized at age 22 that he wanted to be a doctor? He'd be years behind his peers.
While it’s frustrating and worth pointing out of course - what really happened there was a bug in the service provider’s support process!
New evidence affirms apathy is an early sign of dementia
well I did this as well that's why I'm pro k8s. heck setting up k8s and then deploying with that is certainly 1000 times easier than my ansible script was. worse my ansible script had a small downtime. k3s does not have that.
the problem is a lot of people try to solve a problem with k8s that k8s does not solve.
k8s is mostly a deployment scheduler with application configuration and an api for secrets. thats it.

it comes with an api for loadbalancer and ingress but it does not have one built in, but you can schedule these things with it. so basically even your low level primitives can be scheduled with the same api.
> signalling high rank/superiority

Please leave this social darwinism propaganda out of HN.
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If anything, math is probably one of the easiest to self teach. The basics (which goes all the way up early university level) hasn't really changed in 100s of years, and learning resources are readily available, and you don't need any special equipment.