skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're approximately the first comment I've seen on this entire thread that actually noted the difference without hyperbole about banning books and censorship, thank you.

I'm with you; I don't think ebay should be forced to sell anything, but I think it was a bad decision to knee jerk ban auctions for the books in the news this week when they sell literal nazi medals.

I'm not angry with ebay, but I think they made a stupid choice and that they have highlighted how few alternative ways there are to purchase used books.

Upside is that it's good they are highlighting it now, finally. It's a very peculiar flex for them to decide to do, reselling books has a very long history of court cases saying the publisher cannot control the sale of an original purchased copy.
I loved that game, but I'm still not over Hobbes' plot point.
Elite and Elite II, played them both, however I give the nod to the Wing Commander series and specifically Privateer for one simple reason. They did not making flying difficult let alone everyone's badge of honor in Elite in making your first successful docking with the rotating stations.

Still my favorite space game ever had to be Starflight though Starflight II came close. Not the same play style but early games on computers during that time were such a marvel for how much they did with so little
Right. What you are saying is that govt is being ineffective in making and enforcing laws. They should maybe focus on fixing that and less on "evil mega corp" narrative to gain cheap political points.
He’s still working on it.
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This line of thinking is really insulting to teachers.

Do you think for a moment the teachers have a right one way or the other to fail those students?

What would happen when the teacher decides to fail 80% of a class? Do you think that's allowed? Not for a second.

And 'informing the parent about attendance'?

You think the parents generally care one bit?

You think the parents don't know their kids are never in class?

What kind of parent 'discovers' their kid has not been in school for 2 years?!?

That it's the teachers responsibility to spend 4 hours on the phone every day as 70% of her class doesn't show up?

It is the expectation that students:

1) Show up.
2) Paid attention.
3) Don't join gangs.
4) Try to finish the work.

If they do those things, they will get an education.

Beyond that, it's really hard for schools - a school can handle a 'small handful' of special cases, but not much more.
No plans, but what kind of integration would you have in mind?

I actually happen to be struggling to get React Native in the NativeScript runtime right now – running it in the Node.js runtime would be if anything even more challenging. But there are other ways to make the two work together.
Practical use of the new high-temperature superconductors in high field magnets is even more recent. NMR is probably the closest commercial application for this kind of magnet, and the first spectrometers using the new superconductors were sold last year.
Oops, right, a placebo would reduce symptoms. Thanks.
Launch HN: Poliglota (YC W21) – The Language School for Latam
Hey HN! We are José, Carlos & Nico from Poliglota (http://www.poliglota.org/)
Poliglota is the online language school for Latam, where group classes are led by an instructor. Over 12,000 students have acquired a plan with us.

In Latam, English is the #1 thing a person can do to increase their income, and despite so many efforts people, companies and governments are making, only 2% of the total population in Latam is really able to speak English fluently (B1 level according to the CEFR). We discovered that apps and traditional learning models weren't working as people think, and the only way to achieve fluency without leaving your country is to have a great service, focused in social practice with others.

We lived this ourselves. Having been raised in Chile in different backgrounds and cities, we experienced ourselves how poorly build is the whole language industry in our country.

Later we realized that this is a reality of many countries, affecting millions of people worldwide.

So what we did is to hack the system: Instead of big classrooms where a teacher speaks, or lonely apps that gives you a some content without real improvement, we studied and implemented the perfect mixture between personalization and interaction:

We designed an online learning experience, by gathering people in small groups of 6 people through video conference, led by an instructor that we call "language coaches", with skill-based progress. You can learn everything you need to speak a new language (grammar, speaking, listening, writing) but everything is done through interaction. With powerful exercises that allow people to push forward their own learning possibilities.

To join, people just choose a plan (4, 6 or 12 months) and then join a group of people of their same level, and will stay with them for 8 sessions. The coach will provide a number of activities, games and exercises to push the learning experience, facilitating the development of specific language skills in each session.

Every skill being developed can be tracked in the student dashboard, so students and teacher can both get a better perception of their progress in real time.

More than 12,000 students have learnt English, French, Italian, German or Portuguese using Poliglota, and every month we conduct over 4,200 live classes. We are having a monthly revenue of $300K and going up. We are expecting to reach $5M in sales in 2021.

We'd love to hear the feedback from the HN community!
(For now, our service is only available for Spanish-speaking users)
You're right. It isn't subjective. You're wrong as a matter of numbers, as a matter of legal analysis, and as a matter of history. Stop pushing a political narrative.
> who viewed their stints in a mental hospital as an attack to their freedom.

In fairness, this is an attack on their freedom.
many don't realize thats what they want until they actually go through with having the kid though
Controversial opinion: Privately owned lawns (not gardens) are an abomination. It is the only other 'weed' that's made it. Grass consumes a lot of water + manpower, while providing almost nothing in return.

Lawns in public places makes sense. They get enough use to be justifiable. But, private lawns are so underused that even stepping on some is considered impolite.

Most privately owned lawns are too little to do anything useful with, besides being a summer hangout for a backyard grill. We could grow trees & plants in the same area, get shade, better soil retention, a cooling effect and have a real ecosystem going. IMO, it looks prettier too. Lawns are not Greenery. They are merely green, but they are the locusts of the plant world.

Historians will look back at the American Dream as THE cultural idea that kick started an era of gross unsustainability.
Our World in Data (YC W19) Is Hiring a Full-Stack Dev and a Technical Team Lead
This sounds interesting. You’re creating a single array for easier memory storage that you then only have to parse when a function calls for it.
IS it a meat head / not meat head detector?
Sadly, this is quite normal behaviour. As a species we have a long way to go...
I think sea ships have less lifetime than these frames... I guess designers of B52 did a hella good job. Akin Nasa folks who have sent Mars rover "for just a couple months" :)
https://youtu.be/LQ8Nr3_2724

Often the war on white privilege manifests itself as preventing white success rather than helping PoC. Families that help their children with math homework have been irritated that students often get no credit on math homework if they use the older arithmetic methods. Rather than allowing students to use any valid mathematical principles to learn, children are forced to use a new system that (in my opinion) generates extra work to achieve the correct result.

I dated a teacher many years ago, long before the political climate shift, and she constantly ranted about how common core was slowing her students down. At the time I didn’t understand much (and didn’t ask her to elaborate much), but it’s been interesting seeing her rants validated the last couple of years.

Common core makes sense when a student struggles with the traditional methods. But forcing all students to use it, and it’s historical background of being driven by racial issues, is a damning sign that it’s intentionally holding high performers (often White or Asian) back.
Show HN: Spawsh, a .NET core gemini client
Another quote:

> “He feels embarrassed, he feels like a failure,” France said of her son. “I'm like, you can't feel like that. And you have to be strong and you got to keep fighting. Life is about fighting. Things happen, but you got to keep fighting. And he's willing, he's trying, but who would he turn to when the people that's supposed to help him is not? Who do he turn to?”

Her son is the victim? Maybe that school is not the best, but the student made the choice to skip classes and not tell anyone. He's not the victim, he's actually a failure because he failed most of his classes, and he needs to learn from that and take school seriously, or stop pretending he's studying.

Losing three years is a fair exchange for the three years of freedom he loaned from his future.
There has been some success in just implementing more missing Windows APIs that EAC needed. This allowed a few titles with EAC to run.
Chess Engine in 1KB of JavaScript
Its UI runtime is Qt and its JS runtime is Node.js. No Chromium here :) it makes super-small, low-memory apps.
Fusion could be a great equalizer in terms of global access to large amounts of energy: if you have moderately good access to the ocean, you have a nearly inexhaustible source of the hydrogen isotopes available in seawater and required as fuel for a fusion reactor.

Contrast this with both fossil fuels and fission materials. Those resources are the foundation of modern geopolitics. Seawater is not, and way more people have access to it.
Looks like it's node + QT, not chromium.
Americans are Obese due to readily available junk food, women have become less interested in the less attractive men

Leading to headlines like http://whisper.sh/stories/09e9086b-03de-4087-ad5b-7f003ce2c3... "Plus-Sized Women Admit They Aren't Attracted To Overweight Men"
Programmatic Process Groups with Runit
Styling with CSS is interesting.
Usually, "an update on [blank]" is euphemism for said product getting cancelled.

More to the point, one of PulseAudio's claims was that they consumed less CPU than Android's audio pipeline. With the recent hyped PipeWire, I wonder how that compares to Android's Oboe.
And I always thought it was funny how in classic books from authors like Jane Austen they’d always talk about a person’s physiognomy, and how you could draw strong conclusions about them from it. Maybe it wasn’t so bogus after all?
3B1B has a semi related video on how working with prime numbers can help you see properties that are also found in composite numbers, since the sequence of primes overlaps with many other sequences.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EK32jo7i5LQ
It's a really peculiar situation, and the cities you mentioned spend hundreds of millions on homeless programs and the politicians there have tried a slew of policies but to little avail. You could always argue the government needs to do even more, but it's wrong to say our politicians have no desire to do anything about it.
This is not a rare illusion. When I used to be a kid, we saw this illusion all the time When we went to the beach in Albania (Port of Durres)

The Adriatic see can be very calm sometimes, and the blue waters do match the same color/blue hue of the sky.
From my point of view, fusion is incredibly important for long term space exploration... but I would agree, not much else. Even the "not so long" term space exploration can be done with fission.
Yes the most important principle being Draw what you see, not what you know. For example, don't draw an eye as an ellipse containing a circle, but look at the actual combination of of light and dark shapes, and draw those instead.

[Edit]. Also, drawing people is a really good test. If you draw a house or a tree, say, you can get the shapes / proportions wrong but the thing might still look plausible. Draw a head out of proportion, though, and it will immediately look wrong.
Looking at the source code suggests that Kiwi is based on Chromium 77. A shame; it's a great idea. We need a mobile browser with extensions.
Not really. Other country's liberals are the USA's Libertarians. They're much different than neocons.
They're making use of yoga (a layout engine) so I assume that it is not web based (because why would you use yoga otherwise).
It's definitely not. It's just a different toolkit that the one you already have in memory, so it can't "cheat".
Fwiw, if you click the domain listed to the right of the title; (filfre.net),[1] it will take you to a list of all submissions to HN under that domain.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=filfre.net
Okay, so now, relative to floating point arithmetic, you've sacrificed an enormous amount of dynamic range and have to worry about overflow and underflow much more than before.

What did you gain from this, exactly?

I'm sure there are some special situations where fixed point is better, but for general purpose scientific and technical computing, floating point is obviously the right choice.
When it will cease to be profitable or seemingly so
What "ThinkProgress" do you mean? This one [0], at which the most recent article is from September 2019? That was indeed a union shop, which was cited by Tanden in an internal email as the reason she closed it down. [1] Maybe we should credit her for not calling in Pinkerton assassins, but closing down a workplace because of its union is precisely "union busting".

[0] https://thinkprogress.org/

[1] https://splinternews.com/the-center-for-american-progress-is...
unfortunately it’s a lot of the latter in my case.

however, i’d point out that lifting the noise floor, as road noise does, contributes to lifetime hearing loss, as we make everything else louder (it also negatively affects attention, concentration, stress and anxiety in subtle but meaningful ways). it’s the kind of long, low externalized cost that our short-term-oriented brains tend to evaluate and address poorly.
This has nothing to do with corruption. It’s that no state has proper truancy laws that have widespread support.

You can’t educate kids if they don’t show up to class.
The word "other" probably shouldn't be there. It seems to wrap Qt. From the NodeGUI page: "it is a wrapper for a native C++ widget toolkit QT".
> They feel that web technology does too much, and that since it makes various forms of abuse too easy, no lasting reform is possible.

If Google adjusted their ranking algorithms to severely penalise bloated sites, web bloat would surely improve.
Happy days. Then some guy decided all tools should be 'powered' and here we are.
> different versioned nodes

Exactly. Blue-green deploys could get seriously messed up if the static typing system doesn't strongly think about this.
> What this is really telling us is that we should not be judging others on their political, sexual, ideological, whatever-ical affiliations.

1. Where did you get that from the article?!

2. One of these things is not like the others. Many "political" beliefs are perfectly well worth judging people on.

Nazism is a political belief. Fascism is a political belief. White supremacism is a political belief - it's also racist, but it's a belief about how society is to be arranged, which is to say, with white people in charge.

And Trumpism is a political belief, one that requires you to believe the most horrible lies and revere the most horrible human.

I have absolutely not the slightest issue in the world judging people to be loathsome because of their loathsome political beliefs.

I have no problems detesting Nazis, Fascists, the KKK or any number of people with proudly evil political beliefs.

Why one might think political beliefs are off-limits with respect to moral, ethical or personal judgements is hard to understand. Surely then one could hang the word "political" on any vile belief and then say, "You can't judge me! I want redheads to be sterilized, but for political reasons only!"

Indeed, the sorts of people who demand that humans not be loathed for their political beliefs are often people who have loathsome political beliefs.
Robotic lawnmowers that slowly work on the yard all night long are the future.
It's in the GDPR - right to data portability (and associated sections). I guess that's as close to a data bill of rights as we have right now.
I'm curious... has anyone drafted a digital bill of rights? If not, maybe someone should in order to get the ball rolling.
I know that there are state level taxes as well in the US. Can this be included in the calculator?

Also I wonder what the difference in disposable income would be given something like (typical) health insurance, food prices, and housing per state/area
If ePub were just a container format, there would be interoperability headaches galore. Part of the ePub standard specifies how to format a book's contents as a mixture of HTML, CSS, and a handful of basic image types that readers are required to support. And now, apparently, MathML.
That blog post does speak to me, but 20MB for a program with a truly functional, modern UI doesn't outrage me that much.

IMO there's a tradeoff: we could be writing all our programs in C, still. But it would be enormously difficult and there'd be way more bugs. On the other end of the spectrum we can be lazy, use web tech everywhere and never optimise our ballooning JS codebases. This feels like it's at least somewhere in the middle.

OT but a bone to pick with that article:

> Modern text editors have higher latency than 42-year-old Emacs. Text editors! What can be simpler? On each keystroke, all you have to do is update a tiny rectangular region and modern text editors can’t do that in 16ms. It’s a lot of time. A LOT.

That isn't what my text editor is doing, though. It's doing autocomplete suggestions, linting code as I type... all sorts of things we never had a couple of decades ago and are huge productivity boosters. Sometimes I feel like people forget that.
With a parent working 3 jobs (probably just to make ends meet), they at some point have to rely on the implied social contract (as dictated by the law):

- That the school will teach what they are required to teach

- That the school will track absences/lates

- That the school will notify the parent if they see that the child is falling behind at either of those

Having seen similar cases myself, I can say almost definitively that one of the other huge parts going on here is that at some point the student fell behind and was ashamed to speak up. If no one is being accountable, students in this position can show up every day and still fail because they simply don‘t have the foundation to understand what’s being taught. It doesn’t take much at that point for them to simply disengage and stop showing up. By not being “disruptive” I would argue that they are more at risk of failing as these issues fly under the radar.
No, I don't get US Presidential memos. Also, last I checked, the US President was not in charge of how words are allowed to be used on HN.
No, the alternative is that the execs at ebay grow a spine and tell the morality censors to go pound sand. Not that complicated.
VR with proprietary NVIDIA drivers work fine. Other than NVIDIA still not adding async reprojection to their drivers.
Wow, the greatest website of the ’90s that never was, it even has a Catsape browser embedded somewhere. Found that by coincidence — clicking around in this thing can have surprising results. It is also the first site that managed to get me this warning from Safari: “This webpage is using significant energy. Closing it may improve the responsiveness of your Mac”. I recommend the site for its entertainment value but make sure your battery is charged!
Interesting that the size of the devices is limited by imaging technology rather than the ability to fabricate smaller ones. I guess the trade-off is that imaging small things with X-rays requires more ionizing radiation.
I don’t have an answer. Not knowing failure modes doesn’t mean they don’t exist. HBO’s Chernobyl series highlighted how dangerous surpressing information about fission reactors is. No one knew how the design could fail until it did and then it was painfully obvious. I’m not saying that HTGRs can meltdown nearly as readily as RBMKs, but the risk of the unknown needs to be given respect when the stakes are high.

It’s difficult to be sure of safety in complicated systems when the only people with enough technical expertise to fully vet the systems have an interest in their success. I’m not saying it can’t be done, but I think it slows policy down significantly.
One thing my teacher mother always talked about:

The kids who NEED parent teacher conferences don't show up to parent teacher conferences, and the ones who do show up never really needed them in the first place. This is about 90% of the cases. They are still incredibly useful for those 10% leftover cases where a student is struggling and a parent cares
I'm inclined to think it's boring in the opposite direction. Pi is everywhere. It would be more surprising if there was no link to pi.
Real question, what do some people mean with native C++? Or stuff like react native? Seems like it just equals more performance / peels away an abstract layer.
Yes! I often think about how my childhood fiddling with this kind of stuff gave me the confidence and background to become a "computer person" and how little of that exists today for kids - apps just work so there's no educational struggle to get them going.
It differs in that: he's not dumping it and his company is following proper public disclosure guidelines.
It's interesting but I don't believe anything the guy says. I do believe the scores of underage central american women that claim he made them sit in a poop swing, however. He denies it, but it's just too weird of a thing for multiple unrelated sources to come up with.

McAfee may have one time been a genius, I really don't know much about him other than his namesake. I do know everything I remember him claiming in the past decade or so seems to have turned out to be something like vaporware or outright fraud.
There's no such thing as a dangerous line of study.
After getting sufficiently pissed off at jekyll (I'm not a ruby developer, so dealing with ruby related tooling is a pain every time I need to) I realised that what I wanted was literally just a basic templating engine. I already use one of those pretty often - the c preprocessor. My personal website is just cpp macros / #includes now, and I honestly find it much more productive.

Probably not to everyone's tastes though :D
They are 'heroes' because they are trying to teach the most impossible, intransigent, terrible students in a nearly hopeless scenario.

Most of them could quit and just go elsewhere - often they do the work because they view it as a social responsibility.

Everything they do beyond 'showing up and teaching' is beyond their duty, and most of them do.

This whole bit about 'rubber stamping to the next grade' is a misunderstanding of the situation -> they don't have the power to fail students en masse.

I suggest >80% of teachers would be happy to 'fail' students if that were allowable. They'd probably love to have classes of 8-10 students which is probably the necessary level of attention required.

If teachers acted rationally they would quit and leave - frankly I think they should, let the communities deep problems be exposed for what they are.