skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Matt Yglesias wrote an interesting (non-paywalled) piece about this: https://www.slowboring.com/p/school-closure

> in the actual United States of America, it’s Congress that can write huge checks; it’s mostly states who write rules for restaurants; and schools are a local responsibility — often run by special purpose school boards that have no other governing powers. Given that Congress did not appropriate funds for a bar and restaurant bailout, I don’t think it’s crazy that governors mostly decided they had to reopen their restaurants. And given that this decision ensured continued community spread all through the summer and fall, I don’t think it’s crazy that teachers lobbied to keep schools closed.

> D.C. eventually got a leg up thanks to our unusual governance. We are a “mayoral control” city (i.e., the schools are run by a political appointee rather than by a separately elected board), and our city government also performs the functions of a state government. So the mayor, in her capacity as essentially a governor, gave teachers vaccine priority, and then in her capacity as the head of the school system said they had to reopen. I think it’s clear that San Francisco mayor London Breed would do that if she could, but she doesn’t control California vaccination rules and she doesn’t control the San Francisco public schools, so she can’t.
Not sure if you are aware that the choice of the Brooklyn Bridge is not accidental: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Parker
Hey folks! Happy Sunday.

I made Frames by Size after getting frustrated at how difficult it is to find new glasses based on the ones I currently wear.

The idea is simple--just take the frames you are currently wearing and enter the dimensions. You will see frames across multiple vendors that match your dimensions.

If you don't see anything you like, you can sign up for an email notification the moment the system finds a new match.

Anyhow, I would love any feedback you fine folks have.

Thanks!
> But at the same time they don't have the positive image and reputation needed to be a big exporter of high-value goods.

Other than my car and some furniture, pretty much everything I've bought that cost more than $100 in the past 10-20 years has been made in China.

> Will a giant Chinese company ever gain the reputation of Samsung or Sony?

Perhaps not, but they'll likely continue to manufacture most of the products sold by the Sonys and Apples of the world.
Well ok, I'd be interested in seeing a code density comparison between Riscv-IMC and whatever you want to compare it with. Vax density wasn't that great either, though maybe compilers back then weren't as good as now.
> are you implying that the act of deciding to have a long lockdown necessitates that the decision makers do not care about children

Not quite... I'm referring to the fact that society has often gotten quite worked up over "think of the children" arguments for perceived dangers, but when faced with a real threat to child welfare, the response has been rather mild in comparison.
This hasn't been the case for Firefox and Safari, and quite recently on Chrome.

Those tabs that are not active will be unloaded after a period of time. And if you close your browser and reopen, all of tabs will remain but unload by default. So they are more like a list.
The license code is digitally added to your UEFI bios when you activate Windows. There are even tools to retrieve the key. As long as your computer isn’t significantly different (motherboard change) than the last time your pc checked in with the MS licensing servers you do not need to enter in a key ever again on that machine when reinstalling the OS.
But a very very very slow such database, one that uses insane quantities of memory and energy.
> there seems to be a growing consensus that K-8 schools aren't significant spreaders

There's almost no evidence for that. It boils down to the virus is absolutely out of control here, and kids are way more likely to be asymptomatic, meaning that it's way harder to nail down that a child to adult transmission occurred outside of the household.
Without lockdown they will die regardless, beside do they even want to be isolated?
Universities discuss this all the time. It's incredibly hard to prove.

This is one reason we keep exams -- while they have many problems (particularly in Computer Science), forcing someone to sit in a room and answer questions gives a way of checking the student really does understand the course.
Growing consensus? The only thing I've ever seen said about it -- which was said quite early on -- was "we have never seen an instance of children spreading the disease to adults".
I met a guy just the other day selling cigarettes by a bus stop for half price, no tax. There's clearly demand for cigarettes at those prices, right? Does it matter that they were stolen from a small business a few blocks away?

The common theme here is that the enterprise is against the law, and "there's demand for that" is no excuse to break the law. The reason for the law is more "subtle" but theft is theft.

Of course, the dude selling cigarettes will probably be lucky to make $100 a day, but he's risking jail time. The folks stealing wages from delivery drivers are stealing way more than that, but they'll pay some fines and settle some lawsuits which almost certainly won't overwhelm their profits.

Or -- let's say it's more subtle. So what?
It’s Mother Jones, not exactly a bastion of rationalism. If there is a way to use any slight statistical difference to support the current du jour narrative (“white people are the problem” is a big one), you can count on them to do it.
OneWeb: The £400m public bailout to rescue imperilled satellite internet firm
So it's like a contract, but not enforceable.

In other words, worthless.
This is one thing I messed up during my grad school studies. Now that I have a "real job", getting the ball rolling on blogging about what I'm looking into / learning about is harder (although that is still a convenient excuse).

Thank goodness I have been meticulously keeping track of what I've learned in Org mode for years. I've just gotta dredge that old database for some blog posts (starting with why folks who are similar to me should really consider not going to grad school...).
> it has a complicated relationship to other core Emacs modules such as eldoc and flycheck/flymake (who can remember which is which)

It, uh, depends on the 1st and the 3rd of the mentioned packages.

> it threatens to become part of Emacs which means that its development will no longer be done openly with PRs but in an old-school mailing list with a lot of bickering

Joao has been saying that for a while, but seems like he has noticed after all that only a tiny percentage of the users get around to reporting bugs to Debbugs. Hopefully, that idea is dead now, or at least very much dormant.

On the other end, lsp-mode has been making strides in becoming more stable and polished, and making bells-and-whistles easy to turn off. So maybe try it again too.
Reposting as a top level comment because it fits: https://www.cnn.com/2013/01/17/business/us-outsource-job-chi...

Guy outsourced his entire programming job and got away with it for quite awhile. I guess the company didn't do much peer programming.
They have to a certain extent. As an example, half of med students attend class "rarely" or "never" preferring online prep material. The fundamental problem is that the utility of universities is more about credentialing and signalling than actual learning. The Moocs are fine for learning but have 0 credential value. Until that changes they won't replace universities.
I worked long hours in finance and was well compensated. If you don't like the job, then quit and work somewhere else. Why is that so difficult?

I am much more concerned for people that work in restaurants that really have no other employment choices and work for paltry wages.
Because a blockchain is far, far, far more expensive in terms of computing resources.
A picture sold as NFT is akin a football ball signed by Ronaldo, it derives its value from 1) fame 2) scarcity. A ball is a cheap and easily replicated object, but with a signature on it, it becomes valuable.

NFT offers several advantages in this respect.

1) Ronaldo's identity is verified by the NFT site, and blockchain ensures authenticity for eternity. Let's remember, how many famous pieces of art turned out to be fakes. Can't happen with NFT. And no need to pay astronomical amounts to art experts for that.

2) Ronaldo must promise that he will sign only a limited amount of digital balls. Yes, the buyers should just trust Ronaldo on this, but Ronaldo has an incentive to keep his promise, because NFT contracts usually include "royalties": every time in the future, when the digital ball is resold, original issuer receives 10-20% of the price increase. So he is interested in objects retaining value.
I attended a reading from A Beautiful Question when it came out and Frank's love for his work was incredibly palpable. I gave my signed copy of the book to an ex in an attempt to seem smart and cultured. I wish I'd kept it.
I think a couple of the criticisms are valid - mostly the criticism of dependency inversion.

But overall I think the article (if we were to take it seriously) basically represents a nihilistic point of view that says "there's no point trying to have principles - code is either subjectively good or it isn't".

I'm as sympathetic to heterodox criticism as anyone, but this desire to throw away any received wisdom at all definitely seems misguided to me.

(For what it's worth, I think the single responsibility principle and the open closed principle are particularly valuable. I'm open to persuasion on the others)
But who actually uses your ImageNet DogBird dataset in an existing study? Part of the problem is that you're inventing your own benchmark. And yet you could have used SVHN and/or the same fixtures (i.e. datasets and ablations) of some of the work you cite e.g. as in "Fantastic Generalization Measures and Where to Find Them" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.02178.pdf

The CIFAR-5m result is interesting, but it's misleading to the reader since the dataset is so contrived. And yet you lead with it on your front page. There's wayyyy too much hype going on here.
amazing stuff! This is what hacking is about
Gregory Chaitin talks about Elon Musk
They hired a lot of people who were vulnerable in ways that are difficult to control, like being H1Bs.
It’s not the whole country.

It’s largely the propagation of fear from the media and the teachers unions who don’t want to work (and the politicians trying to push large stimulus checks to the unions).

For instance, Florida never shut down schools. In contrast, Chicago and SF teachers unions are/were pushing to keep schools closed.

The “science” (note: much of it is not peer reviewed) thus far indicates it’s safe to open schools and there’s little to no risk. at this point most at risk individuals have been vaccinated and estimates were that 40-70% of people already had covid19 (so even less risk of spread). Children have reduced risk of spreading disease as well.
Isn't it possible to actually code it into the ethereum contract to send eth to a wallet when it's traded?
That’s a very analytical argument :)
The issue with covid is now the mutants. England did not lock down the schools this past winter and the B117 spread thru the schools into the wider population.

Brazil and its variant seems to be even worse and they basically let the virus rip from day 1.

These new variants are more lethal and more transmissible. So now we are really screwed unless the vaccine proves effective enough with masks to slow the spread. And that’s not guaranteed. And then we have the rest of the world to deal with.

I don’t expect covid to go away for at least 5 years and that includes boosters and masking. And lots of covid tests.
This young chap (or collective of chaps) has a bright future.
Damn, wish I knew this before I returned the WD for a Samsung 980 Pro. I just checked and hardware encryption isn’t even turned on and I would have to wipe to enable it :(
The idea of an encyclopedia is based on the idea that paragraphs and sentences express ideas which can be reduced to their logical essence and put very simply. This is exactly what "continental philosophers" reject and so I don't think it makes sense to summarize them in this way.

With continental philosophy, most of the value is in how it makes you, the reader, feel, and not in the ideas that it expresses. This is not to say that there are no ideas (of course there are) but that, when those ideas are extracted and added to an entry in an encyclopedia, the result is a denaturing of the work. Some continental philosophy is very explicit in its hostility to being expressed analytically (particularly feminist philosophy like Kristeva and Irigaray).

Downthread you summarized what Derrida meant by difference. But if that's what Derrida wanted to do (transmit the idea you posted), why wouldn't he just have written what you wrote? That's what philosophers do. Plato, Hume, Kant, etc all write as clearly as possible. Derrida is explicitly rejecting this approach and therefore he is as much literature as he is philosophy (he was up for the Nobel in literature and is mainly influential in literary studies). This also means that, with Derrida, most of the point is how he says things, and so you should not summarize his ideas in an encyclopedia entry. Summarizing Derrida would be like summarizing Shakespeare, the plot is only a small part of the value.
I work in education, I'm also in school and was in school. My educator cohort has uniformly spoken about the retention issues their students have had, it seems shutdowns seriously retarded the academic growth of their students. I can corroborate that, myself: I was forced to leave my studies, and elected to take the fall off, hoping for a return to normalcy in the Spring of '21 - this was done both to ensure that work and school wouldn't conflict, and that I could observe the normal curriculum instead of a haphazard entree of online learning and recorded lectures and sans the labs that I'm paying extra money to participate in.

Having returned, things aren't back to "normal", one of my professors elected to use recorded lectures which don't have the same quality as in-person lectures. Not to mention it tries my attention sitting at a computer. I had the same class previously, and returned good grades up to the lockdown, I'm now a C student in the class where I was before an A student.

Mathematical concepts have almost entirely slipped. I seem to have forgotten all of my previous training, even simple processes like factoring were lost. I was an B student in the previous class, and had a reasonably solid grasp on the concepts, which we reviewed this year, and I found myself almost entirely lacking. I'm now a struggling C student and whats worse is the constant battery of assessment is actually doing more harm than good, requiring me to hamfistedly smash through chapters without ever studying the subject to develop understanding.
This took a while to understand. Reason why the M1 Processor and architecture is significantly faster than most of whats out there, on slower clock speeds, better battery life.

It is they dumped all the baggage of the previous arch. Including the 32bit world. Apple started out with a design , designed to do one thing. Give a great experience to a user.

Gone are the days of the GPU and CPU handshaking on moving memory from system ram to video ram. Same thing with SSD to main memory..

Removal of bad ideas and implementation of the lessons learned. Reason why FreeBSD is sometimes faster with linux. They dropped the old legacy code and design. Like MacOS, they are free to fix userland.

Linux & windows? Not so much. Linux userland is a horrible mess due to the "dont break the ABI of the kernel" Do you know there are known WONT FIX bugs in the kernel? Linux taught me that the idea of dont break the kernel adds, BLOAT and WONT FIX bugs... till you the mess called 5.11 that is 60 million lines of horrible linux code. No one uses the 32 bit driver of LSILOGIC.

If they do... let the use the older version of linux, its a mistake, proven by the bloat in linux to keep ABI compatibility.

My advice for everyone. Go FreeBSD, go MacOS, for new hardware go with modern arch, and kick the old compatibility out the door.
> is very heavily regulated by the chain/protocol

That's not what "regulated" means. There is no enforcement, so you can simply copy the work and the "chain/protocol" does nothing.
Yea, it may slightly slow down the initial draft due to needing to type a little bit more, but it helps speed up maintainability and readability a ton and it helps eliminate a bunch of bugs so I think it has definitely increased productivity in my experience.
Show HN: envssh – Take your environment with you
> You’re right a private company isn’t going to do this for free unless it’s to protect their own orbiting assets,

In other news, SpaceX will be clearing out the 550km shell in a few years. (Mostly kidding, but they do have the motivation now)
There is net negative value in keeping people alive in their retirement age.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03MZG9vK0W8
Bill is right. Fortunately, Covid mostly effects the elderly and is helping to correct this situation without uncomfortable "death panels". The other positive is that this will get everyone on board with a global digital identity registry, which will help with everything from climate change mitigation to solving global inequality.
Definitely seeing a pattern of interest here, or is it just what I'm seeking out now, so I'm aware of it when I see it?
For that you'll need to port Android to the RPi4 and then to this. Doesn't seem impossible though.
What platform are you talking about? In Java world JDBC existed from early days and was enough if you stick to standard SQL, in tests you may have needed only to switch driver classpath and connection string. ORMs existed at least since 2003-2004 (early versions of Hibernate).

At the same time, substituting Oracle with a lightweight DB in an environment where full-time DBA was developing a database with loads of stored procedures and DB-specific stuff wasn't something really feasible - no abstraction layer would solve that.
Are those trees native (local on your area)? Also just curious, why not planting fruit trees? That's what I'd do right away if I had land
I just wish Safari would gave me a list of Tabs instead of Screen Shot in Tab Overview. And allow me to move or close Tabs in that list view.

Someday we will need to fix History, Bookmark and Tabs Hoard. All three are related and all three dont really fix our problem. Organise, retrieval and grouping of past information. Come to think about it. Browser UX has been pretty much the same for the past 20 years.

Currently sitting at 293 Tabs. Which is much better than my past self but still way too much.
There are free-to-play web games making a killing off microtransactions.
Are you sure it's the lockdown and not only that the lockdown makes you more aware of the danger of the virus?
True, but this requires the source you build not to have been gone through the build server, which is reasonable.

The thing is you can circumvent this by attacking the version control and/or developer systems.

And at least the later one are often massively vulnerable to certain kind of supply chain attacks.

Ironically the permissions and setups commonly used for a nice development flow are also making systems vulnerable for many kinds of supply chain attacks.

I'm currently slowly moving to a more secure dev flow, but it adds overhead. Especially if your dev system is also your laptop.

First step is to run any kind of dev tool (especially builds) in a container. Through this often also means running e.g. a language server in the container while
running your IDE out of it and making sure nothing will
trigger your IDE to do thinks outside of the container...
We can also think of using less CIs and automated jobs as beneficial for environment (less energy used, ..)
Strong support for rapid testing could have gotten schools open much sooner and probably prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths.

But unfortunately this was largely overlooked by the general public, and the cheapest tests that could do the most good are still not approved by the FDA.

https://www.rapidtests.org/
But doesn't that mean Apple gets to choose the pace of advancement and be the gatekeeper of features?

At least on Desktop - it's not that much of a burden to have a second browser installed for certain apps, is it?

I use Firefox for daily browsing but I've got Chrome and Edge for those times I want to run something that Firefox doesn't support (which is fairly rare). I imagine it's much less rare with Safari.
It's horrifying how we've allowed politicians to inflict collective punishment on our children for over a year. The data is clear that COVID-19 is less dangerous to children than seasonal influenza.
I guess it's a sign of a true startup person to see that while it may be illegal, it will allow growth?
This was my experience growing up. I was suicidal by fourth grade. I was told by the school consular it was my fault that I was being bullied and was feeling bad about myself.

My parents’ solution was to take me to a Christian consular who didn’t really help the situation.

All of my symptoms of being bipolar were explained as my deliberate choice to be a unrepentant, sinful child.

I didn’t see a proper psychiatrist until I was 33. My mom figured something was wrong because my uncle was bipolar and it’s genetic. Didn’t tell me that until I was diagnosed.

Probably because my dad thinks my bipolar uncle is demon-possessed.

Many other people in my support group have similar stories. If anything, I was one of the lucky ones since my parents were otherwise very supportive.
That was the reason I decided to go in debt to pay for private schools.

Not only my kid was able to go to real live class but was more social and not isolated.

Is it worth it?

Well I have 40K in Debt.

My values are that it is worth.

Now working 2-3 jobs to pay it all.
That makes me think someone got so enraged by the broken pedal, they took it home, fixed it then took it back.
Wow. Maybe you didn’t intend this (or maybe you’re just trolling??) but this comment comes across as one of the most callous and tone-deaf things I have ever read.
Like, Ebenezer Scrooge level. Families who can’t afford to send their children to private schools are clearly negatively affected by this through basically no fault of their own, and I cannot understand why you choose applaud that. Maybe consider deleting this.
Given the logical progression, I think I'll wait until someone sells a NFT of a NFT before being surprised.
> Kids would be pretty depressed being surrounded by a 8 digit body count in the US too.

Let’s make sure they’re depressed when their brains are irreversibly stunted from missing the crucial social interactions necessary for development.

Also, let’s pile on the misery with a generation of kids with stunted literacy. Good luck teaching reading with a freaking mask on.

It’s indefensible.
They can still bring it home to parents, grandparents, and the general community. It’s silly to dismiss the indirect effects as if they don’t exist.
Do you have any proof that that would have increased depression rates in children relative to what we see today?

And an 8 digit body count would be impossible in the US for a disease with a >99% survival rate. So quit the hyperbole.
Hi, Jonathan here, founder of the RaaS (Reforestation as a Service) at DigitalHumani.com

I totally agree that we need to do a wide variety of things. Stopping deforestation, reforestation, less meat, electric cars, etc. We need to do it all.
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> Christie's commissioned the Beeple work

Did they? I thought it was his investor "Metakovan" who commissioned it. Following the money is rather hard in an all-pseudonym system.
Donald Trump is creating his own social media network