skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That cannot be proven without testing.

But your assumption is that it would be better, also without any testing. It's the very definition of a wicked problem.

> And...? Race of citizens doesn't matter. The city schools, since they face the most competition (due to proximity) would improve the most quickly.

And... that's what happens when people are "allowed to choose their schools". People will find ways to segregate. Unless you want a perpetual chase of the students in the poorer schools to the richer schools? Which is weird. And white flights aren't some hypothetical thing that might happen. It happens. It happened. We know why it happens. We've seen it as a response to things. We shouldn't do those things again and expect a new result.

>Exactly. New models would crop up. Overnight, a new multi-billion dollar industry would be created. Startups would spring up everywhere to get certified and capture that new value.

Private schools exist now. And it's not really "new" value. It'll just redirect the tax money to private enterprises. And those disadvantaged will continue to be. It will further entrench the disenfranchisement of millions of children. And it'll enrich some private citizen.

> That's because there is no competition. In a non-competitive marketplace, there is no forcing function for quality.

Has the education system failed you? I said that breaking up the union would be a race to the bottom. You then infer that the union itself is the race to the bottom. I don't see how you can make that inference from what I said. The "forcing function" wouldn't be one for quality, it would be one for cost.

> Education is a service with the greatest material benefit.

First, I said direct material benefit. Tell me. What does education directly produce in the way of material goods? I'll answer that, nothing. Because education, like you said, is foundational. It is indirect, much like infrastructure and dozens of other things no one wants to pay for. Because the reason no one wants to pay for it is that there is no direct benefit. And I don't care how much people say they care about foundational things or indirect sources, where they prioritize their efforts say otherwise.

Education is not "homogenized". Not by a long shot. Having goals is not the same as the process of achieving those goals.

> That is why they want to churn out homogenized thinkers who are only smart enough to vote for their aligned political faction.

That is a weird way to say that you don't know any teachers at all. Or at the very least, don't listen to them.
I just immediately turned "old man" up to max and all others down to zero.
I'm there too right now. Went from using BSPWM on Arch with all kinds of custom hijinks to just sitting on KDE because it lets me go about my work without much hassle. Both have their merits, and if I was on weaker hardware I'd have no qualms going back to my WM-only setup. But KDE keeps getting leaner and lighter, and it's smooth and hassle-free for the most part.
This problem has been studied for a long time (well, starting in the early 1900s) and the scholarship in this area is extensive, in particular starting in the early 60s and onwards. You can go back to Bernays (Freud’s nephew) and his work on “Propaganda” (which until the 30s was the term for public relations — he was a founder of that field) or perhaps more relevantly famously Marshall McLuhan in the 60s.
Again, it's temperature dependent. Salt lowers the freezing point of water about 4 degrees (either units). Typically when it snows, it is close to freezing (if warmer it would rain, if much colder there wouldn't be enough moisture in the air for precipitation) so adding salt will melt the ice, but there's plenty of time when it's not in that narrow temperature range.
They work perfectly in that they are not buggy, and they are efficient and reasonably straightforward to use and work as designed with Swift.

I agree that they are not idiomatic, which is the point I’m making.

There was a perfectly working solution that had no barriers to its use with swift, so it made sense not to rush the replacement.
Would love to see a feature comparison between Dendron and Obsidian.md if anyone has experience with both.
In astrophotography there's (almost) no such thing as "natural". It's definitely an aesthetic, but it's based on "real" data.
Just because adds some legitimacy and pushes bitcoin prices higher doesn't have to mean that JPM (let alone Dimon himself) has a long position nor a longterm positive belief in bitcoin. Maybe they do! But maybe they just want to make some money selling shovels.
You can use SQLAlchemy like Ecto or in a functional manner, especially with core.

But a lot of projects I've seen around the web try to bend the sqlalchemy ORM into a more "active record" way of working.
That looks really compelling, especially the decentralized collaboration functionality you mentioned. Haven't seen before, will check it out :)
I never had an actual EGA GPU and only experienced EGA through switching to the EGA mode as some games offered. Nevertheless I feel like there is something oddly special/atmospheric/psychedelic/whatever in the EGA pictures. I'm glad I have seen this kind of graphics. EGA is pixel art squared, it is to colour what pixel art is to actual graphics so never seeing EGA is the same kind of loss as never seeing pixel art.
GGP announced he was black.
GP announced he was white.

And you chose to only call out the white person? Do I even need to point out the irony of this?
For docker on freebsd to get any traction, it would need to be implemented with the vm behind the scenes. The beauty of the macOS/windows versions are that they require 0 setup/maintenance and are an implementation detail.
Not a big fan of these survivorship bias blog posts. I've been fiddling with code since I was about 11 years old (ActionScript for Club Penguin cheat tools as well as some Visual Basic). I got pretty serious in High School and learned Java as well Python. I am now pretty comfortable in the web stack as well as C, but still do not have the confidence to become a developer. I don't get how people can spend roughly 3 months learning to code and make a career out of it. Surely they must be lacking in certain core areas of CS.

I get that these kinds of posts are meant to be motivational, "Anyone can do it! Hoorah!" type of thing, but it seems misleading.
I worked at 3 different companies in the mid 1990s that had teams actively working on COBOL systems and they were all using mainframe based version control systems.
I think the issue at this point is whether those version control systems are still being maintained and those orgs are continuing to pay for the licenses for those systems, probably during years where you weren't even planning on using them.
Sure but is that an association you want to reinforce?
New research highlights risks of separating newborns from mothers during Covid
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> ...never be able to code a production application...

It's true, the vast majority of people will never code a "production application".

BUT, many folks code everyday in the form of excel macros, R, Mathematica, Matlab or Julia notebooks. Many people create programs and scripts in all kinds of tools to get stuff done. IT'S ALL STILL PROGRAMMING, it's just not what folks here would consider a traditional "production application". The people who do this are domain practitioners who use computing to do things, but don't have a need to spend a million dollars to hire a team of "real programmers" and their entourage of PMP's, sales, support, and customer success agents to do it for them.

As far as folks "not being able to code" that's all a matter of inclination and background. There's nothing special about software development. Lot's of people can do successfully at various levels. Some are more DIY than others, but I think you would be surprised at what some people's grandma's can do with the right motivation and background.
Device evolved into a seamless hardware software experience, it’s no longer for hobbyists, much like transistor radios and Radio Shack.

Find a new proto-appliance to hack and shape, or buy from a different philosophy vendor.
>> There’s no way in hell everyone can learn how to code.

I have to really disagree with this statement. I agree that not everyone can write the next Google search engine, or even the next personal website. But you don't have to do to learn how to code.

My coding skills are pretty crappy after stepping away from it some years back, but I would still consider myself to be able to code something up. Even a small VBA script to help with Excel automation should be considered coding.
You can still get a lot done being a scripting guru for an organization. I view it less as a specialized role and more of something nearly all employees should be able to do now of a technical company.
How do I go about using this without knowing which label I fall under?

I would assume that to know how to work with X I need to know how my strengths and weaknesses as Y relate to them—otherwise this is just another way to see the world as 'me vs them'
Thank you for sharing a difficult part of your family history. This should never be forgotten. I have several friends that grew up in Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland. All of them have horror stories. All left their homes to escape communism.
TIL: You can use `echo $?` to get the last process's exit code.
doesnt look like anything not local
Precisely. And it's important to forget those actions aren't just about interest rates and issuing currency.

The US dollar will continue to be supreme so long as the United States controls the US Agency for International Development, the Office of Foreign Asset Control, and the US Marine Corps.
That's not survivorship bias, it's just churn. And, broadly speaking, growth -- there are more companies operating now than there were in 1950.
Why would you recompile X11? Back in the 90ies, early 00s, I did compile kernels to make them lean and enable some functionality that was not in the default kernels. But I never saw anyone recompiling X11 outside Gentoo and other source-based distributions.
Yeah, I think if your baseline is NY or somewhere like that were taxis weren't allowed to screw over the entire city for a couple decades, people don't understand why uber and lyft are loved in california. I'm not a fan of their labor practices, but the situation before was indefensible.
Maybe it's nobody's fault?

I don't blame Microsoft for not spending limited resources on providing official support for an OS with (wildly guessing) 0.25% marketshare. And I don't blame FreeBSD for not spending limited resources on maintaining their own packages for an SDK with (wildly guessing) 0.75% marketshare among non-Windows users.
If you could configure the common shells (bash, zsh, fish) to run a custom command on submitted shell input before executing, you could build a heuristic function that would attempt to recognize when you were pasting in a prompt. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of such a capability, as it would be useful in a number of situations.

Another alternative is to put the octothorpe # at the beginning of your prompt - then you can keep your > at the end.
This is backwards. Apple built in the shelf space, the device is a passport like a CostCo card, and users buy because membership has its privileges.
Is that notation really easier to parse than "Since 1930, the Dow Jones has always held greater inflation-adjusted value than it did 30 years ago"? Seems like obscurantism.
I agree that the author seems over the top.

I do think "one logon at a time" might be a good idea, just not for security reasons. I suspect these routers don't do well with concurrent updates.

Changing the admin id would have the benefit of culling out noise. An unsuccessful login attempt to "myuniqueadmin" catches your attention as something meaningful.
Iowa house passes bill to ban ‘divisive concepts’ from curriculum
I was a vocal supporter of the ACA when it passed. Then I had to actually use it. It's garbage. I still couldn't afford health care, and then at the end of each year I got punished for it. The ACA is a failure.
Idiot, imbecile, and moron used to be medical terms. Then they got associated with being derogatory and people started using retarded as the new PC term. Not that long ago I got chastised for saying someone who sustained brain damage was now mentally retarded.
> that problem of you going to it. why not it come to us.

I'm not sure what this means, sorry.
Well, as it was discussed in another thread, in another culture/language it may be totally not about slavery. I mean the word "master", which comes from a common Latin root, in different languages it's evolved into a different meaning. So for Americans, it has an association with slavery (which I'm surprised to learn), but exactly the same word "master" in another language means just "doing good work".
Unfortunately, they can. The publishers/developers agreed to the "terms and conditions" when signing up. The policy strikes that get you kicked out are not enforced consistently, but I'm sure from a legal point of view there's little you can do when your app is banned.
This is an example of the "Euphemism Treadmill." Words that refer to things that some portion of society hold negative views about acquire negative connotations over time. These words are then discarded by polite society for clean new words without the baggage. E.g. latrine to water closet to toilet to bathroom to restroom, or retarded to mentally handicapped to developmentally disabled. See: https://aeon.co/essays/euphemisms-are-like-underwear-best-ch...
Interactive fluid simulation running in the web browser. The domain is filled by a mixture of two liquids with different densities and viscosities, effects of gravity and surface tension. Many parameters can be changed dynamically. Various boundary conditions can be set on the edges of the domain or a solid body. The plain text configuration described in the documentation is encoded in the URL for easy sharing.
Thanks for sharing it. Here is another similar product:

A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode

https://github.com/foambubble/foam
I have the same question!

Related question: If someone wanted to print something like this for themselves, how would they go about it? Say, I have an image or photo and I wanted to make a high quality print suitable for framing and hanging on, say, my office wall. Is this an 'Ask HN' question?
Just FYI, that info is now 10 years old. I recently researched switching to FreeBSD and found that the NVidia drivers don't support Vulkan, which is a requirement for DXVK to work, not to mention a lot of Linux ports. Can't comment on the other manufacturers' drivers though.
Wow, sounds like AWS and Azure network services are really unsuited for a lot of real world TCP applications. You couldn't even use these to implement a load balanced telnet server for playing NetHack.
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Morgan Stanley becomes first major bank to offer clients access to Bitcoin funds
Fun trivia: this is the default character in the SUSE /etc/bash.bashrc prompt for the non-root user. There's a lot of code doing things, but it boils down to this one example of their prompt defaults:

if test "$UID" = 0 ; then
PS1="${HOST}:${PWD} # "
else
PS1="${USER}@${HOST}:${PWD}> "
fi

A popular distro is shipping this out of the box.
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If you think Doom Emacs has all the power of a full IDE, you have no clue about IDEs.
I don't like smartphones and I have no mobile apps that I use other than (occasionally) maps and the 2-factor app my work requires, which is really the reason I have a smartphone at all. 99% of my phone usage is just as a phone.

I like old cars because they don't have too much technology in them; I'm clinging to a couple of old Toyotas and hopefully I die before they do.

I don't own a television, I watch very little content on any platform. Youtube I use for instructional videos and music. I block every ad possible on the internet and I can't remember the last time I saw a commercial; the less exposure I have to advertising, the more sensitive I become to it and now commercials disgust me.
Yes, this is honestly one of the most bizarre criticisms I can imagine of fund managers like Dalio. Their entire reason for existing is that they have viewpoints and express them in the market.
Previous job was at a University, 15+ years using FreeBSD for almost all services. We've had Jails, ZFS, etc for a good part of those 15+ years, which was a huge asset. Not that it was completely trouble free, but assuming that with anything else it would have been easier, is simply a delusion.

Why we went with FreeBSD in the early 2000s? If memory serves, the ports tree and the package management were completely blowing away anything else at that point. Nowadays it is considered given for any platform, but it was a great advantage to be able to compile packages reliably with your own options back in the day!

The fact is, FreeBSD is (and was for a very long time) a trustworthy and very stable platform to run services in. FreeBSD has a very deep philosophy of trying to minimize surprises, which means that most of the time you can focus on your real tasks instead of fighting what has changed in the last version. And Jails are still a major plus, at least from a certain point of view, since they are very easy to manage, copy, install, administer, etc.

Even today where Linux has catch up in all aspects, if you have a large set of services on FreeBSD, you'll invariably have to pay a huge upfront cost to switch everything to Linux and re-learn stuff all over again. It's not a question of freedom or open-source (FreeBSD and Linux are totally free and open-source, in their own way each), it's a question of overcoming the mountain to get across to the other green side. I'm sure it's exactly the same for Linux shops that would like to try out FreeBSD. Why should they pay the cost, if they cannot really get any significant advantage or profit out of it? So one basically sticks to what's known and trustworthy from before, since the investment has already been made and most people don't like doing the same stuff all over again.
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'Attractive' robots designed using realistic human attributes [video]
> Time-based billing should be granular to the second/minute/hour depending on the service, but should be listed for the customer in a table upwards an order of magnitude or so.

That's what I meant by "Billing can happen in microunits". You described it better.
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Hypothetical offenses do not add up, because they are insubstantial. That is why not.
From the abstract:
We find that when equity restrictions are imposed, affected stocks fall in price, with cumulative abnormal returns of -18.53% in the first two hours and -95.34% in the first five trading days of equity restrictions. When restrictions are later lifted, share prices do not reverse their earlier declines. Traders also move from equities to the options markets, with large increases in options trading volumes and open interest. Options prices rise sharply in implied volatility terms, and implied volatilities rise by much more than realized volatilities. Options purchasers are thus wildly overpaying to buy puts and calls, which create large transfers from options purchasers to options market-makers and other options sellers.
Thinking a cheeseburger would have been impossible to make in the past would be like taking the famous I, Pencil essay to mean that pre-Industrial societies couldn't make any pencils at all, rather than that industrialisation allows disparate people to coordinate together to make complex products for incredibly cheap.

In the same way, a cheeseburger would have been certainly possible to make for any pre-Industrial European of moderate means - at its heart it's just ground meat and a slice of cheese between two fluffy buns, with a variety of optional condiments. The marvel of industrial civilisation is that you can get a cheeseburger anywhere, anytime, for an absurdly low price.

In fact, if you discount the tomato, a delicious cheese-burger would have been completely possible to make as early as Ancient Rome, see this excellent Reddit post: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/b4zdd5/would...
Queen of Nürburgring ring dead at 51
The fundamental issue may be that most high quality developers don't need or use platforms like this.
Right on the home page of mastodon "Follow friends and discover new ones among more than 4.4M people. Publish anything you want:"

Clearly that is a false statement if they are imposing their view of what "correct" speech is.

They both also license their code under GPL, even though they violate Freedom 0 of the core freedom model the GPL is designed to protect

The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).

>> escaping corporate control

Which is doubly ironic since they have adopted the same exact policies that many are fleeing Big Tech to avoid. The Silicon Valley Authoritarian left Speech codes
The effect seems to be more noticeable in the areas filled with gas.

I'm not saying that stars aren't pinpoints or sometimes are just single pixles, but just it overall looks like some post-sharpening has definitely been applied aggressively to my eye.
Ok, I'm not going to defend that, you might be right that the great leap forward or the great famine should be mentioned. The only defense I can think of is that neither is central to the ideology of communism, while holocaust arguably was central to nazism. But, I'm not an editor, and I agree omitting it looks a bit suspicious. I wouldn't object to writing something like "aside from theory of communism, most communist governments practiced [links to police-state, mass killings, etc. here]" into the summary.
Yep (author here), not pasting garbage into a terminal is the main point of this article. Partially, it's a rant against the way-too-trigger-happy "paste clipboard on right mouse click" terminals too.

I decided to finally write this article, after seeing a yet another "mysterious" case of a missing binary in some Oracle database server. Linux/Bash defaults are ok, but historically (coming from traditional Unix background?), people who engineer environments at least in the Oracle database server world, configure their prompts to some "corporate standard". And sometimes they end up suffixing prompts by a nice-looking ">" character, leading to this problem.

I've also seen someone set their root prompt to `root#>`. Since there's no space between the username and #, the "comment start" is not recognized and the redirection clobbering problem is still there.
Probably Lie Theory, or at least the small subset of it that is relevant for robotics.

It has taken me a long time and a lot of work to understand it to the level I have, and I still have a lot more to learn. But it is a fascinating subject and a very elegant way to represent some very complex optimization problems.
I chose that number because people who are infected but remain asymptomatic through their infection seem to cause 20 times fewer infections according to a couple of contact tracing studies I saw. It seems pretty clear that the amount of fluid you have to get from an infected person, droplet or aerosol, has to be inversely proportional to their viral load if you're to get infected. Current guesses of an infectious dose I've seen are 100 to 1000 virions via the aerosol route. We can see that different people reach peak viral loads that are orders of magnitude apart which helps make sense of why this disease has such a high k, driven by superspreaders whereas half of people fail to infect anyone else even without protective measures.
Thanks for curating all this - doing the lord's work