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Chric Crawford's argument[1] is that video games can provide the same sort of interactivity which makes 1-on-1 teaching so effective. I don't agree with this argument, but it's a very interesting one.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaBte1cBi5U
I grew up before screens, and we didn't have crazy skills.
No idea, but I once heard that at Valve, employees are completely free to choose what they work on, and that various hit games were initiatives from a bunch of developers who had a cool idea and decided to organise to build it. Gabe supposedly just hires smart people and trusts them to be smart enough to decide what needs to be done.

No idea if that's true, but if it is, that attitude strikes me as left-libertarian.
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What was the supposed crime the person was conducting? Is it illegal in Germany to falsely claim to be a reporter?
I 'll happily watch those infuriating bot popups die an agonizing, excruciating and painful death.
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I dunno, I haven't see a whole lot of bearing at the DMV, but there's not an epidemic of concerned citizens showing up with molotovs and burning their local branch to the ground. Minneapolis' third precinct, sure, they burned that sucker right to the ground. But not the DMV, the icon of pointless bureaucracy.

And no matter where I've gone, from Honduras to Pakistan, to Germany, to San Bernardino, folks have been waiting in lines for things, and doing stuff that didn't really matter.

Doing stuff that sucks seems to be an unfortunate consequence of social organization for all of us normal folks who can't pay to skip the line.
I'm not a user myself, but assistants (Alexa, Google's, Cortana, etc) are chatbots and seem to be quite in swing. Not as hyped as last year, but still.
How does the user log back in from a other device?
One project I'm involved in. We used a dependency which was Python 2 only. When they finally upgraded to Python 3, it was almost a complete rewrite and completely undocumented, and broke a ton of functionality we used. We didn't have the resource to fix the mess and aren't actively developing it, so we dumped it in a Docker container with the pinned versions, and use it as is.

Also worth saying that a lot of commercial C# applications that bundle a Python console are using Python 2.7, because IronPython doesn't go higher than that currently.
On the contrary, although not against all uses within Safari, there are rules against use of Sign In with Apple depending on what you are doing, including one against pornographic websites as mentioned.

https://developer.apple.com/sign-in-with-apple/usage-guideli...
It really depends on what you compare with. Before the spread of public education, people were commonly believing in magic, witches and, based on that, could be sold on all sorts of non-sequiturs. Now, they're more or less aware of the scientific process, understand most basic concepts of natural sciences, know a bit of history, can write semi-coherently, have a bit more rigour in forming arguments etc. Of course, they aren't all Oxford-educated intellectuals but, to elevate a big fraction of population to that level, I'm guessing we would need a ton of 1-on-1 tutorships, which would be extremely costly.
You hear something from someone who's been talking to you for 10 years, and from someone you've just met. Whose lie is easier to detect?
My family finally got a Windows PC in 1996, and Encarta was one of the first pieces of software we installed. I can't claim that I miss it much, but at the time it was definitely magical.
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5 years? That's nice. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70315 took 18 years to get solved.
Kids these days can't relate to butlers. Uber driver revolution?
> is an educated population easier to be manipulated than an illiterate one

Good question. Depends on how the education is done. If the education is done to instill the idea that one must "believe in science", instead of learning the facts and questioning them skeptically, if one is convinced that expressing dissent is harmful and akin to violence, if questioning the dominating framework is actively discouraged and dissenters are viciously attacked, if people are taught that there can be no honest disagreement, and any different of opinion is nothing but a power move in an oppression framework, if everybody is assigned their places and recommended opinions in advance, if they are instructed that any non-conforming opinion must be silenced and suppressed - then such "educated" people are much easier to manipulated than the illiterate ones.

An illiterate person knows they are illiterate - there's no way to hide that fact from themselves. They know there are places they must tread carefully for their knowledge has obvious limits. A mal-educated person thinks they know all the answers, and learned The Truth, and thus hold the keys to the universe. Moreover, they feel a moral duty to lord over lesser creatures and guide them to The Truth, for their own benefit. This is an ideal human brick for building the totalitarian barracks.
I’m convinced the NZ tech scene is going to grow significantly in the next 20 years.
That is just one way people irrationally evaluate people. Why should angry guy be more convincing that non angry person?
You just recited the unwashed masses dogma. I don't really agree with you at all. The vast majority of british people I've interacted with, even the "uneducated", all have reasonable, well thought out opinions even if they don't always agree with my own. I think it's much better than you seem to suggest.

The real issue is with the politicians, and the fact we don't have proportional representation. There is a significant percentage of the population with no real representation. I do not relate with either Tories or Labor and I don't think either has my best interests at heart.
What a magnificently generous gesture! Thank you Tom Lehrer.
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How is the hyper-competitive, low-margin, commodity NAND business core to what Intel does or aspires to do?

(Intel is of course not doing their best at their core, but this does not seem to be an instance of it IMO. This is more analogous to exiting the DRAM business early in their existence)
I guess it harkens back to their first few years, when they decided to sell off their DRAM business? Although, not so clear now whether it means they're on another course to greatness...
Steps in the food chain are concentrators for toxins, not filters. Discarding organ meat isn't a given, though I suppose throwing away the liver in a lot of cases would be a solution. It seems like it is a risky play for relatively little gain, but I'm not a food regulator.
I learned to read at a similar age, and quickly started reading (relatively) long, complex books. I have difficulty focusing on things, but I think the many hours spent on focused reading at an early age helped significantly; I would probably be in a much worse state now if not for that.

Just providing another perspective.
The usual suspects; lasers and mirrors. That's how gravitational waves were detected.
Oh man, THANK YOU for this. What an amazing article!

>He grew up on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the son of a pioneering necktie manufacturer, James Lehrer

That's just hilarious. I can't think of anything more appropriate than a necktie manufacturer family.

In any case, if anyone is unfamiliar with Tom Lehrer, I encourage you to take a wiki dive and then listen to his music. This guy taught mathematics at Harvard, then accidentally sold 10,000 copies of a vinyl of his songs in a few weeks, then went on to tour the US and the world.

His works remain some of the brightest, most convivial, most haunting and poignant works of song to date. He sings clever happy songs of things like pollution, patricide, nuclear holocaust, arson, murder, racism, plagiarism, criminal boy scouts, disease and crime in Mexico and, of course, the eternal desire of the common man to poison pigeons in the park.

Like "Weird Al" Yankovic says in that article, Tom Lehrer remains the modern Tom Lehrer today. There's just no one like him and the way his songs have remained so relevant up to this day is something I find myself in awe of. He just... took a look at society, grokked it on a primordial level and wrote songs that I will end up teaching my kids and they'll go "Wait, they had these things 80 years ago?"

EDIT: Also, OP title is wrong, Lehrer simply released his LYRICS to the public domain. My copy of "Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer" with musical notation remains relevant, yay!
Ireland could not affordably import food, due to the Corn Laws.
On one hand I agree with you. On the other, if you ever argued with autistic person, they are super emotional actually. They however cant recognize own emotions and dont interpret other people emotions.

But, they get super angry and are affected by own anger a lot. They also act irrationally due to own emotions. I mean, some can go into outrage over very minor things.
I've seen this happen quite a lot with servers that I'm in.

I've this this happen when someone is not logged into Discord in their browser and is logged in in the Discord app. When they click the server join link, Discord creates a new dangling (no-email-attached) account. However, since they are logged into the Discord app, their real account also joins the server when they launch the app from the browser.

I'm pretty keen on sharing this knowledge because I recently realized I've done this myself, and it took me way too long to figure it out. I "started" using Discord a few months ago, and in one of the servers I joined, I saw an account with an oddly-familiar username that joined a server about a minute before I did. And then I saw the same thing happen in another server! After a few weeks of having a weird feeling about this, I finally found out that in my browser, I was logged into a dangling account I created back in 2018, before I really knew what Discord was. (I think back then I thought Discord was just a voice chat service without permanent accounts.)

I would love for Discord to solve this and a few other identity management-related issues!
I mean operating anonymously at all, not banking anonymously.
I don't know if they still operate that way, but the Valve Manual For New Employees is actually a fun read. Evidently you just roll your desk over to the project group you want to be a part of and roll with it.

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/Valve_NewEmployee...
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I think about that photo often too.
> usually a roundabout way of complaining you can’t say racist things anymore

As an external observer, this seems to me exactly the problem. Discourse is so polarized, that nobody can say "this thing that started as a reaction to overt racism has gone too far" without people replying "that just means you're racist".

The situation has come to where there are ridiculous abuses going on, and criticizing them is anathema because the initial purpose of the system being abused was to counter a bias.

Hell, even writing this comment, meta-analyzing the situation, I'm semi-afraid will have personal impact to me, which is pretty indicative of the problem.
investors, banks, regulators, other companies that are regulated....
Mind Maze was a great excuse to play games at school!
> There is a good reason people do not use Skype and it is because it sucks.

Nope! (Well yes, but, historically ...) Skype cracked down on free conference calls. I seem to recall this was before the Microsoft acquisition which ultimately destroyed it.

Skype was bustling with fun conference calls, when they were free.
As a schoolboy, I had friends whose parents consciously didn't bring broadcast TV into their house. They did have a vcr. They didn't want TV.

You won't reach Carol Couchpotato, but there will always be a core of people willing to living outside the FAANG coral.

If you care about the decentral internet, set yourself realistic expectations. Work with the coalition of the willing. Make it as welcoming as you can. It'll be fun times!
You could just buy and sell them for cash, you don't need banks for that
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I sometimes wonder if we shouldn’t send out a bunch of monoliths or something instead of directed energy. Maybe a pyramid of extremely flat faces with prime number ratio areas. If it gets near a star it will glint interestinlgly.
Check out Kiwix: https://www.kiwix.org/

“Kiwix is an offline reader for online content like Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, or TED Talks. It makes knowledge available to people with no or limited internet access. The software as well as the content is free to use for anyone.”
"Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia" was like Encarta but it featured Sir Patrick Stewart, therefore it was a cooler experience.
thanks a lot for your kind words. Arturo is a love child of mine and a project I've been working on in the past many years.

Rebol has absolutely been an inspiration. But I'm just trying a different take on it - a bit more flexible, more dynamic and with more modern programming language features.

Any idea/comment/suggestion or even code contribution is more than welcome! :)
I just used savepagenow@archive.org to archive all the web parts and then a bunch of curl plus the email to save the PDFs.
The village idiot? I'm sure it precedes the internet.
You would use C++ for a service or very focused component that does one thing well (like a database, or crunching numbers). For those, even Rust is not always a good answer.

You shouldn't use C++ as the backend for your marketing site, or some simple crud backend where a JIT runtime with GC will do.

Hell, if you're even building a small compiler today a JVM language or Go is a better choice.

But if you need to allocate memory yourself, C/C++ is very hard to beat. Games and systems dealing with huge chunks of memory will always go this route... and just (most likely) copy the dependencies into version control and deal with things that way.

It doesn't matter if the majority of applications are web applications. That doesn't make C++ less relevant because that was never the target audience.
IIRC archive.org pay attention to the robots.txt now rather than in 2024.
I've used Jitsi throughout the pandemic for all of my university's meetings where I have a say in the platform.

I'm highly pleased with it. From all other platforms I've tried, Jitsi is the saner, offers more freedom and is more inclusive (no account needed). As an educator, platform inclusiveness ranks very high on my criteria for choosing which way to go.
That is perfect, thanks for sharing.
> In between these two swings of the pendulum we had periods of diverse, distributed, innovation. Remember the browser wars? Web 2.0?

You're "remembering" a pendulum that did not ever exist. The online services like AOL became web portals like...AOL and really only died out as social media sites like MySpace and later Facebook replaced them for the "average" user. There was no magical utopian era where Web 2.0 darlings dominated either in terms of users or raw traffic over portals or social media sites.

The non-existent pendulum isn't swinging the other day. Outside of a few niches blogging is a ridiculous amount of SEO spam and content farms. While some podcasts seem to do well I sure come across a lot of dead ones. It certainly looks like a lot of "podcasts" are moving to YouTube and the like for better monetization if they didn't just start as a YouTube channel.

Maybe blogs and podcasts will somehow find a way to thrive but right now it looks like they're just trying to game algorithms rather than make good content. Since that's how they get paid I can't exactly fault bloggers or podcasters for doing it but it's far from the Platonic ideal of either medium.
Try Aurora 4x http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php . It's probably the closest to "real" and "fun" as you can get. Not that detailed as you speak, but as already mentioned by others - in reality, space is really really big and really really boring.
This is isolationist fear-mongering, which would be one thing if you put forth clear arguments for why this is a good idea. Sadly all that is here to find is how bad the consequences are if something would go wrong and something about OPEC.
The sale price is less than 2X revenue. All of the margin in flash memory has been sucked up by cloud providers and Apple.
That's what I'm thinking too. The only way you can salvage this is by canceling the contract with Foxconn and buying the empty buildings at rock bottom prices and grant funding to local startups who are allowed to use the buildings for a low price. At a minimum this would replace the fake jobs with real ones.
It is possible that we are not there yet. Sure, the current experience sucks. We need a few leaps in Conversational AI to make chatbots more usable. It will take some time but hopefully we will get there.
Not NZ but in Malta it costs around 1-1.5mln eur. I imagine it could be more expensive than NZ as Malta's passport grants you free travel and work possibility across entire EU.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/business/dealbook/malta-o...
Yeah, but updating the constitution and election laws are congress' job, not the courts.
Clippy, the snidely, automated helping paper clip.
But there are two problems here:

1. That isn't the point that was being made. Matthew McCleod argued that "we don't regularly have ICUs stuffed full of people with influenza", and that HN is full of people who reject the "prevailing wisdom" just for the sake of it. Neither is the case, and my post provides plenty of evidence to reject the belief about hospitals (which is driven by media stories not actual overload - in the UK hospitals are being reported as about to overflow although they have normal load for this time of year, i.e. the reports are misleading).

2. Your data is comparing apples and oranges. Nowhere has ever made the kind of testing effort being made for COVID. We really have no idea how many people catch or die from flu because it's not really tracked to the same level of effort. Meanwhile COVID reporting has been hopelessly inflated by a medical establishment that takes every option to increase reported numbers. People are "COVID hospitalisations" if they're admitted with a broken arm and happen to test positive even though they don't seem to be sick, they are "COVID deaths" if they get shot and test positive at time of death. They have "COVID" the disease even if no doctor ever diagnosed them based purely on fragments of RNA found in a blood sample, using a test with unknown and it seems wildly varying false positive rates, that's been ramped up well beyond the max sensitivity many PCR experts actually recommend.

Reported COVID numbers really can't be compared numerically to anything historical at this point. They are "meaningful" only when compared against each other and even then there are difficulties as countries report things differently. For instance the numbers were inflated in the UK by at least 5000 deaths because the health agency defined COVID as a terminal disease. Once you tested positive, for the rest of your life your death would be marked a COVID death regardless of how much later you died or what of. They "fixed" this by changing forever to 28 days, which is still not a valid way to measure who died of what. That's how you get the New York Times reporting a list of people who died of COVID in which the sixth person on the list was a homicide victim.

Fundamentally, if you look at excess death numbers in a lot of countries, they look like flu season. Reported IFRs have continuously fallen and even the establishment figures are now in range of a strong flu season, not anything more. That's why people keep comparing it to flu.
I thought like you in the past. I only installed the Crisp chatbox (with no popup) on my SaaS and was very surprised with the results: I got more contact from users through it than through Email or Telegram. I got a lot of feedback and was able to help many potential customers.

As developers who never need help, we tend to forget that some people might do, and that a Chatbox that annoys us can help them.
They don't really have to be common. All you need is a single machine and a disgruntled employee looking the other way.

The most blatantly example I've seen was in Copenhagen, where small gambling dens with slot machines are pretty common. The weed dealers from Pusher Street spent an awful lot of their cash on gambling for some reason. ;)
I highly doubt it. There are basically two models of human speak. Originally human speak was just single utterances suitable for every occasion. Then they started to fine tune those words modifying them a little. And eventually those modifications became their own words. But this happened: certain languages branched at the second stage and standardized those modification rules. Facebook and Google refuse to study and manually code in those rules, and translations are and will be shit. Neural network will not learn those rules, because the underlying doctrine is based on not modifying words, but building dictionaries and sentence models.

BTW. There was already perfect Finnish-English
translator 40 years ago based on taking words apart by the hard-coded rule-book, and constructing same sentence of separate words, and then translating those words.
The governor lost the election very shortly after announcing this. I think that's evidence to show that most people did not think it was a good idea.
I suspect the sort of person who writes Wikipedia articles about Pokemon would not go and write articles about Nigerian history instead if Pokemon articles were not allowed, and vice versa. Wikipedia contributions are not really a zero sum game.
Some people call this phenomenon "wikigroaning": "the art of highlighting Wikipedia's bias toward things that don't matter".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikigroaning

https://www.somethingawful.com/news/wikigroaning/
Malta has cancelled this programme because it was breeding ground for corruption.
>Were you discussing high politics in the 5th grade or something?

Yes? We talked about the news and recent events in class around that time. It wasn't anything profound, but our classes definitely talked about it. This was also in the years following 9/11, so it was an unavoidable topic. We even had mock elections where we'd "vote" for real, current politicians.

If I'd only heard about the news and world happenings from home, I'd have a very different and far narrower view of things.

And it's not just politics. No clue why you assumed that. Schools put you in a room with kids from different backgrounds, different interests, different likes and dislikes. I see a lot of praise about homeschooling on HN, but the ones I've encountered (including cousins in my own family) mostly come from very isolated religious families seeking to shield their kids from the outside world. Maybe it's different for very wealthy people growing up in the valley or with other great resources provided to them, but most of the homeschooled people I've been around have had trouble acclimating to a world that isn't sanitized for their existence.
Hey, anyone remember Microsoft Clippy? Yeah, that's who I always think of when I see one of those "helpful" pop-up chatbots...