skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electric cars are fueling the US's lithium mining boom
Given that the specific role of a school board (as opposed to principal, teachers, etc.) is to represent the community, the attitude displayed by the comments does not suggest that they are representative of that community. So, especially for the specific role of school board members, it's more than just bad optics.
It’s actually antitrust at work - United Aircraft and Transport Corporation was split in 1934 into Boeing for airframes, United for airline, and holding called United Aircraft Corporation that owned Pratt & Whitney for engines.
People here will criticize this, but then turn around and put the same information through Binance or other crypto exchanges.
Sorry I wasn't implying Alaska is doing poorly. Its just the first "GOP lead state" that came to mind. Its great that they are doing good.

I was trying to make a point that how what is going in "GOP lead states" is relevant to my school.
It works well if your act allows you to get away with it (fellow Frenchman Danger also has a headpiece). I don't think anyone really knows any of the members of Ghost aside from the main guy.
I think a lot of people were expecting more of the electro that they pioneered and got turned off by the heavy disco influence.
>Well, C++ might be “low latency” when it comes to executing code, but it’s definitely not low latency when it comes to rolling out new features or even finding devs who can write it.

It's certainly fast when adding more useless template trickery to the language instead of fixing real problems with it. I wish people never found out that templates are turing-complete.
Woke = trendy bigot
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Turns out javascript was the lowest latency language all along!
GraphQL was released as an specification with a node example implementation. It wasn't "written for server side javascript".
A nice counter example of research software code that adheres to general software engineering best practices and is easy to pick up and use is the OSMNX project: https://github.com/gboeing/osmnx

Props to Geoff for setting a nice standard.
The problem is the attitude towards education that often comes with that. They aren't sending their kids to learn, but are rather just getting them off their own hands.

Anecdotally, from when I was in school, the parents who first and foremost treated school as daycare and expressed such sentiments also didn't really care whether their kids learned all that much or behaved well.
Intel doesn’t have to build its own fabs. AMD sold its off and is doing fine. Fabless + foundry is an excellent model that lets each side concentrate on its strengths, that works for most companies.

Intel started in an era when you did have to build your own fab. More importantly, even as others were going fabless, Intel continued to use its superiority in manufacturing as an additional advantage over their competition, who had to drop out of the fab business, and against the merchant foundries too.

But now Intel has fallen behind on both sides of the divide. I’m not sure how they will dig out.
That's what Texas is going for, not working out too well.
Central banks do not issue bonds. What they've been doing is buying bonds issued by national governments. Usually on the public markets, not directly. Where do they get the money to buy the bonds? Why they just magically create it. That's their job.

Central banks do not care, per se, if they have to "pay incredible amounts of interest to the banks" since they literally create (and destroy) money. Central banks do not need to buy or sell gold to create money since money is no longer gold backed. Operationally, central banks can create any amount of money they want anytime they want. Obviously, there are political considerations though.

"More likely is they allow fiat to devalue", yes. That is exactly what they will do if inflation increases substantially. Though not because it will make their loans "loans easier to pay off" since central banks have no loans to pay off; instead they get paid coupons and principal on they bonds.
Related:

The Printing Press

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

List of most expensive books and manuscripts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_books_a...
Rest assured, plenty of hay gets made about how "progressive" vikings were with respect to gender (apparently there were female viking warriors) and sex (not so strict about monogamy) compared to those awful Anglo-Saxon Christians. Never mind of course that vikings weren't big on "consent" or that they're darlings of far right groups.
I agree. The "without a bank to tell you what you can and can't do" made me believe that you were hinting to non-regulated transactions, my bad then.
the problem is that low latency is not absolutely defined, and it's a bit of a buzzword so people who don't know about the specific niches just don't get why java won't cut and you need c++ rust or similar to meet targets there.
I upvoted you because people shouldn't be downvoting you for having a different opinion. People, downvotes are for low effort comments, not because you disagree!
Slack won't let me.
We'll have to confront the nature of our education system pretty soon anyway since automation will probably destabilize the way society parcels out work and keeps people busy

Some kids are diligent and eager to learn, but that doesn't mean keeping them on often absurd tasks or tasks with few applications in the real world is meaningful. Spending a decade optimizing for specific exams for specific institutions whose degrees are undergoing inflation at a rapid pace doesn't seem very efficient, but at least it's a compromise between various actors with various needs (parents needing a break, a lack of resources for each child, companies needing a quick if imperfect way to evaluate candidates, young people wanting an environment with people their own age etc.) Unfortunately, this compromise is being torn asunder by systemic forces that keep parts of it in place and make other parts increasingly unworkable.

I don't have a solution in mind right now but I don't think it's as simple as just dumber kids ruining it, although it obviously is a factor in what makes schools unpleasant
Everyone has their own opinion on the content, but RAM won the most prestigious Grammy Award. From a recognition perspective there's not really anywhere to go but down.
Ordered mine at the end of November and received it the week of Christmas. M1 Air with 16gb RAM and 1TB drive.
I think schools understand this perfectly well but it's the parents who don't want to hear it. Hence the (somewhat forced) resignation.
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I'd imagine in this respect to WW2 the distinction has something to do with being occupied. My grandparents all lived through the nazi occupation of Norway, and so I grew up with first-hand stories about that, and so it feels fairly personal.
Venting or not, many parents are taking the rein of local school and its education because they don’t like where it is going.
- Often times, it’s bloated salaries at upper-level, textbook selection, insufficient recess duration/breaks and ... bad teachers.

— Most vocal are the ones with special-need child and often the most neglected category of students with frequent non-compliance to Federal and state laws on special education.
I'm not sure that being an island the main factor. The underlying factor is connectivity. Some islands have low connectivity while others do not -- being an island isn't, in itself, protective.

If you think about it, most countries in the world only have limited ports of entry (no matter the size of the border), and if a national government shuts off these ports of entry, the country essentially becomes an "island" whether they have a surrounding body of water or not. (assuming strong borders and no illegal traversals -- which may or may not be good assumptions depending on where you are, but it's a simplifying assumption for the sake of discussion).

Montreal is an island but its COVID rates are far worse than Toronto. There's nothing special about being an island. It's about the connectivity.
Show HN: Generating HipHop Artists with StyleGAN2
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I mean, they are both well known artists with other projects in their own right. They even published songs with their real names.

If you wanna talk "you have no idea who this is but an incredibly prolific artist", I want to put forth Max Martin [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Martin
Reminds me of the greatest scene to ever appear on TV

https://youtu.be/Zgk8UdV7GQ0?t=60
This, a thousand times _this_!

I've worked in shipping for decades. There is no problem with BOLs magically changing with no traceability (which blockchain could solve, I guess, if that problem existed?). There is no problem with checking that the seal on a box at arrival is the same seal that was on the box when it departed.

The only viable purpose I've heard for blockchain is quasi-anonymous decentralized trust negotiation. This purpose doesn't match any real-world use case in shipping. A shipper doesn't want to ship product from an anonymous untrusted producer and no carrier wants to carry goods from an anonymous untrusted shipper.

Blockchain won't stop companies from misdeclaring hazardous (but otherwise legal) goods[1], it won't stop traffickers from misdeclaring illegal goods (or smuggling illegal goods among legal goods)[2], it won't stop trucks from running overweight[3], it won't stop ships from being misloaded[4]...

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Hyundai_Fortune

[2] https://www.freshplaza.com/article/9295962/cork-cocaine-valu...

[3] this sort of thing doesn't usually make the news so I don't have a link

[4] https://www.shippingandfreightresource.com/one-apus-containe...
Because government run cities are doing a terrible job?

I'd love to live in a nice environment with services and smart people around me, it's just that most cities are quite degraded (at least here in Europe / UK).

The choice right now is between living in a nice small town / rural settings surrounded by people who got stuck in their rural hometown, or live in a city surrounded by smart people, homeless and drug dealers and terrible air quality.
A well-written story that inspires a sort of creeping, muted horror.

For anyone like me who is confused by the relation of the title to the story, "The title "Lena" refers to Swedish model Lena Forsén, who is pictured in the standard test image known as "Lena" or "Lenna" <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna>."
Justice were seen as the heirs to follow in Daft Punk's footsteps after their debut. They kinda lost it after that though, IMO.
Don't mean to twist the knife, but I saw them live and it was one of the best concerts I've ever been to :).

I've seen concerts with better music in small venues (DJ Spooky), I've seen crazier concerts (BHole Surfers) and more sensory beating ones (Chemical Brothers), but never one that was such a blast as theirs.
Utopias with big capitalist bosses are not utopias.
The one place where I've found GraphQL to be potentially useful is back office. This is usually the place where you need a lot of very different data in one place, and in ways that are completely different from customer-facing apps or sites. And back office usually doesn't get as much love.

So usually you have backoffice devs scrambling to retrieve data in weird ways from existing APIs. And things like "does this inventory item come from a provider with an active contract, and who else is on that contract" become ... weird and unwieldy. This is where GraphQL with it's ad-hoc queries definitely helps. And since the volume of queries in back office is low, you don't worry too much about the performance of some of the queries.

I wouldn't use it for anything else though.

Anecdata:

Just last month it took me about half an hour to implement an "omni search" functionality in GraphQL that takes string as input, coalesces results from three different backend APIs and return back a nice view to fuzzy-ish search for three different entities in our backend. Frontend couldn't be happier.
Haskell Database Implementation – Part 2, Domain Specific Language and Transact
The 480nm number is really impressive at this size. Especially at 5000rpm with the 4-1. Compared to a ICE motor that weighs ~200kg, you effectively free-up 40kwh~80kwh (80 if you believe the 400w/hr claim that Tesla makes) of battery capacity right there. I think there's still a long way to go, but seeing things like this and planes like Pipestrel's electric planes, GA electric planes are more and more feasible.
It's concerning that this conflation of teaching and childcare is being normalized now. It leads to unnecessarily long school hours in the US. The school is set up as the only source of social interaction, that absolves parents from setting up any other sort of familial and social interactions for their kids.

> But getting kids out of the house so parents can work and into a social environment where they see other kids is extremely important for most families and society as a whole.

Yes, and that can be accomplished in a variety of ways, of which schools are one way (probably the riskiest way, in the current pandemic). Take your kids to the playground in the evening. Set up social playdates with other families. Let your kid sleep over at the neighbor's house. Let them visit their cousins and grandparents. Let them walk to school with other kids. Give a firm "no" to your boss for that 4pm meeting!

From what I have seen, most American kids seem to have no friends near where they live, and most American families have too many helicopter parents to let these normal channels of social interaction to work as intended. So they prefer that teachers serve as the helicopter for the majority of their workday instead.

Normalization of the workday to adjust to the fact that most families have working parents is what's needed, not saddling teachers with absorbing that extra load of childcare in addition to teaching.
You might be surprised how little of a “disguise” can make you unrecognizable. Shakira took a history class at UCLA and just by not wearing makeup and using her legal name Isabel, nobody recognized her (or if they did, they didn’t say anything). The “Shakira” you see on TV is such an artificial construction that someone seeing her without any of the artifice has no idea it’s “her.”
Probably because it largely acts as a proxy for survival mechanisms.

Give most people want they need and a little of what they want and you'll find most greed driven behaviors largely disappear except for a select few who I'd argue have dysfunctions or lack basic social maturity.
DOOM (all caps when you spell the name) even had other people play sets for him because the mask worked so well (according to rumor and REALLY convincing video w/audio)
So a bunch of people on HN are now arguing that GraphQL should disappear?

GraphQL is a genuinely objectively useful technology in places that have a frontend-backend split (including non-web frontends). It doesn’t require building specific APIs for specific pages for speed concerns. It allows backends to add fields non-destructively (RESTful JSON does work at the cost of a bigger network payload).

GraphQL provides the right tools for the right problem, and has created an ecosystem around it. (How should I reliably compute a SQL query cost? How should I control data access policy in SQL? How should I return the SQL result in a easily-parsable format?)
"graduate degree" (pronounced gra-jə-wət) is generally understood to mean master's degree (or uncommonly, PhD).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_school
> US passport is great because it allows easy employment access to US tech companies, who pay absurd amounts of money;

US companies don't pay absurd amounts of money, companies in other countries are the once that don't pay enough. Look at how much wealth tech industry has generated (and still is) for the US companies and the US economy, I think they should pay even more.
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Great duo.

Interview of them in 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQmVdGvoQXk

if anyone is nostalgic for the days when French electronic music was emerging, I recommend the Mia Hansen-Løve's movie "Eden" (trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lIzEL9BoDc)
> And I don’t think the consumers of the GraphQL API should think about efficiency. They should just specify what data they need and then the backend is responsible for figuring out how to query the data model efficiently.

That is the point of the SQL language. It's declarative. You define what you want your data to look like and the query planner handles the actual fetching of the information in the most efficient way it can. Obviously it's not perfect and you still have to have someone who knows what they're doing to define schemas that make sense and indexes where appropriate, but that is a separate job from defining what data is needed.
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The difference is that ETH1 will bridge to ETH2 in the future, and therefore by choosing ETH2 as your substrate, you’re predicting that transaction costs for sibling-transactions crossing from your chain to ETH1 will become cheaper when that happens.

A similar promise cannot be made for any other substrate network, as ETH1 isn’t going to bridge to any other substrate network.

Since it’s not like sub-chain mainnets can pack up and move house after they’re launched, when launching one, you have to make choices based on how things will be, rather than how things are. It’s sort of like choosing a city to build a corporate headquarters in, based on what the civic infrastructure is likely to look like in 20 years.
> because privilege escalation

If we're assuming a vulnerable kernel, why not assume vulnerable firmware and throw the whole thing out?
Maybe I missed it but I'm a little surprised they didn't mention the new Innovation Zone legislation the Nevada Governor mentioned (and that was seeded by Blockchains LLC) and the broader Charter City movement (e.g. Pronomos, Charter City Institute, etc.)
I would say both of those are interesting languages, but lack the amazing standard lib of Go and definitely the tooling and industry support.

Personally, I find Swift to be a really great language, but can't deal with the Apple eco-system, XCode, raw Linux support...
You can't engineer around the failings of modern society by throwing out modern society, unless you want to consign millions of people to the trash heap in the most callous way imaginable. Is it just me or are we rapidly sliding into some of the most bog standard of dystopian cyberpunk?
It turns out that maintaining a package is a lot of work, and the career benefit post-publishing said package and accompanying paper is really low.

- writing general purpose software that works on multiple platforms and is bug free is really really hard. So you're just going to be inundated with complaints that it doesn't work on X

- maintaining software is lots of work. Dependencies change, etc.

- supporting and helping an endless number of noobs use your software is a major pita. "I don't know why it wouldn't compile on your system. Leave me alone."

- "oh that was just my grad work"

- its hard to get money to pay for developing it further. great when that happens though.
The fact that AI performs so well at "fluff" creation says far more about the lack of creativity shown by humans who usually create fluff than it does about the creativity of the AI.
The crypto killer app is using the money to buy illegal drugs. It always has been. Most of the people I knew who were into crypto early used it to buy weed online, not as an investment.
Definitely for server-side software, but not for binaries that need to be distributed to end users.
The most realistic definition of a real-time system that I have heard is: It is a RT system when your results are ready when they need to.

That's it. That's what an RT system is. I don't care if your latency is 1us, 1ms, 1s or 1h. If you can't miss the deadline then your system is a real-time one.

Low-latency then depend on how your strategy works and your particular needs. It's useless to have sub ms timing of stock market data if your results take seconds to calculate.

Of course, your strategy that takes 1s might be more lucrative than one that takes 10ms to calculate. Then it's up to you and your algos.
How though? Isn't onus on the ones making the original claim.
Original claim was, "schools need to be shut down because they will increase covid spread"

Person making the claim needs to comeup with "the evidence" not the other way around.
The part that I find extraordinary is the authentication process for the first UK passport (like after acquiring a citizenship). They don't have an old photo to compare to, they won't look at a foreign ID either. So the authentication process consists in asking me a series of personal questions (that I know they don't know the answer to because I never gave it to them at any point in the process) and look at me in the eye to assess whether I am truthful.
I really like the aesthetic. Someone should turn this into a website where people can find new software using the images
Rigorously test your ML models and understand their behavior
i love my mac, can't wait for this upgrade

people like to hate on the OS, but i find it super beautiful and easy to use

i don't know how to describe it, but i feel good when i use my mac

in contrast, everytime i have to boot windows, i feel like i'm oppressed by some corporate, i feel closed, the whole experience is boring, windows needs a serious REBOOT, not a reskin, a whole reboot, including deleting NTFS
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I see a lot of hatred in the comments towards GraphQL. Is someone forcing you to use it against your will?

I've been using it for more than a year with TypeScript types generation and couldn't be happier. All of my interactions with the server are properly typed and haven't had a single bug related to server/client missmatches.
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>> an extremely small set of activists and journalists

>This ratifies the well-known aphorism that a small group of dedicated individuals can change the world. It does not undermine the necessity for showing assholes the door.

Wonderful. And the "asshole" designation that these Elect ("extremely small set of ..." as was put above) - how do they get to decide who's an asshole and gets shown the door, what are their criteria and what is the procedure for the rest of us to appeal or ratify their decision-making?

Can we at least agree that censors can make mistakes, or have their own biases? And shouldn't censors be policed as well, so they are accountable to the public?
Research code is not only written to measure runtime. Reducing the argument to only that aspect is not helping the discussion.

And you say it yourself: good experiments change a single variable at a time. So how do you check that a series of potential improvements that you are making is sound?
The terms "teacher" and "babysitter" denote QUALITY of care. Both roles perform similar functions (at a high level), but a "teacher" adds more value.

By calling themselves "babysitters" they are expressing they are being insulted by the parents. They are trying to convey that they deserve more respect than what they are receiving.
C++ and Java are like the "both kinds of music" in Blues Brothers.
By "address" I meant a wallet address on the blockchain.