skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Teaching in general is best done by "peeling the onion".

By that I mean, start with the highest level explanation first, form an understanding of that, and then repeat the same lesson but at a lower level of abstraction. You have to be able to walk before you can run.

First, explain the concept like I'm 5. Use examples that provide real world context for why the concept is useful. Demonstrate examples of using the concept to solve a problem.

Then explain the concept again, with an added layer of complexity. Go through the same examples with this layer of complexity.

And so on. The more levels, the easier it will be for people to ease into learning the concept. When confronted with something that's too foreign, many people just shut off their brains, and convince themselves they're "bad at math" etc.

The hardest part about learning is really breaking through the wall of initial understanding. Once you know the language, everything becomes a bit easier to learn.

I honestly think math education can be hugely improved with this approach. This could even be done in a "high tech" way, by having an e-textbook with a slider. Adjusting the slider changes the level of abstraction and granularity that it teaches the concepts at.

Final note.

Math should be taught with well named variables and contextual examples. Why use X and Y when you could carSpeed and carAcceleration? Or whatever, you get the point. People can't relate at all to math when all the examples use generic terms without context. At that point it just becomes rote repetition. Obviously this commentary applies moreso to earlier math education.
In general, there’s an ongoing debate over whether sheltered workshops represent a social service to people with disabilities, allowing them to perform work even if they are essentially not paid for it, or if they are exploitative and discriminatory because they don’t pay a fair wage. I think it’s a complex issue, but I tend to come down with the people with disabilities who speak out against them (nothing about us, without us).
Illinois has the highest number of historical wrongful executions (abolished in 2011), while Texas has the highest number of wrongful executions today. The rough estimate of innocents sentenced to death is 4%.

Also consider the US has the highest incarceration rate on the planet except Seychelles, and the prison population demographics are strongly skewed towards poor, mentally-disabled who are reasonably incompetent to make legal decisions, minorities, and men.

Louisiana has 1.4% (2.5% or 1 in 40 men) of all of their citizens behind bars. Texas has 1.2%.
Summarized: Yes
Computer-Aided Design as Language
In my opinion we're (in the USA, at least) way too happy to offload tough moral calls onto "the collective".

I say, let's put it to a majority vote. Everyone who votes in favor of killing is put into the pool of executioners (just like jury duty). It's one thing to be abstractly in favor of killing as a punishment. It's another to look down the sights at a fellow being and pull the trigger.
Preparation definitely helps me as a student.

> Mistakes erode the kids' trust in you.

In addition to this, I often find myself trying to digest concepts broadly because my mind is lackluster with the mechanical side of calculations. When a professor makes a mistake, I occasionally have to revert an already imperfect record (with or without notes) and adjust my conceptual framework.

Just an anecdote about why I personally suffer from poor teacher preparedness as a student.
Echoing whats been said, even discounting the moral implications, needless deaths, and international bad blood that would come out of it, wars are extremely expensive.

It would be far cheaper for everyone to just write a regular check to Brazil that has a big enough number on it that they can't refuse. If the cost is split between several countries, it will probably be kind of negligible in the grand scheme of things, Brazil may be better off (well, if corruption doesn't blow up all the money), and the Amazon won't be destroyed as quickly.

The only catch is ensuring destruction doesn't keep going & that Brazil keeps its end of the bargain, which would require oversight, and that's easier said than done.
I wish there was a centralized repository of interesting Cold War stories, it seems like there would be a lot.
Dan Meyer writes a lot about how to set up students so that they really feel the need for the next thing they're about to learn. "Give them a headache before you offer them the aspirin."

https://blog.mrmeyer.com/2015/if-proof-is-aspirin-then-how-d...
Nothing more than wood?

There are likely billions, if not trillions, of dollars worth of undiscovered pharmaceuticals in the Amazon still today.

Not that economic utility is needed to justify conservation, but nothing more than wood could not be further from the truth.
We had some coding rules to help prevent that:

1. No unnecessary periods in the code

2. Required periods (ending paragraphs and if/then/else) go on a line by themselves
Interesting. I myself have over the past month trained a simple 2X ESRGAN upscaling model for manga, so I did a quick comparison to see how it performs[1].

[1]https://i.imgur.com/9jnVPBK.png
Are there studies that actually show that? It seem to me that lower life expectancy might be true in some cases but not all. I think it's mostly tied to ones enjoyment of being alone (more relative than absolute). Sure some people would not fare well, bit I fo believe other can be truly happy and do fair well. I know a guy in his 70s that lives pretty remotely in Alaska (and have you ever read one man's wilderness). I'm not saying it's for everyone. I am saying that it's essentially stereotyping to say it not for anyone.
My pet peeve is people asserting that rainforests are a carbon sinks. Mature rainforests are carbon neutral. The rainforests are carbon banks -- not sinks. This article is simply saying that the Amazon Rainforest is shrinking but it's using a lot of words for dramatic effect. I'd always expect a shrinking forest to emit carbon and an expanding forest to absorb it.
I believe the death penalty is necessary because some people do not deserve to live. Why can we justify killing people by shooting them as a necessary barbaric act during war, but not recognize that the worst criminals deserve the same treatment? It's absurd to think that as a society we are above killing because it's an inevitable part of life. I say murderers should not be able to kill others without having to fear that they themselves will be put to death.
No mutton, no malvern?
I wish that we had a tenth of the contempt for the landlords and homeowners that causes this as we do for the tech bros who are the symptom of the artificial scarcity.

The tech bros were not the ones displacing people, it was entirely the fault of landlords who raised rents, and the homeowners who are selling for record profits. It is this landed class that has turned what should have been a boon for everyone into a zero sum game. Tech bros don't profit from the displacement, they pay for it too, it's the landlords and homeowners that profit. Tech bros didn't put in place the current system where there's no more construction, either, that was put in place by the landlords and homeowners so they could profit from the massive increase in land prices.

Tech bros brought fantastic wealth from around the world to California, and with our gloriously high income taxes, and our taxation of capital gains as income, and we should have been able to redistribute that wealth to bring tremendous prosperity to all, eliminating homelessness, maybe even eliminating good chunks of poverty.

The people who set and control this system are not the tech bros. Go ahead and hate them for good reasons, being greedy, or being ignorant, for having ugly personalities or interests, but don't blame them for displacements. The displacement it 100% on the Californians that profited from it and the class-unconscious culture warriors that did not profit, but unwittingly and stupidly supported the capitalist exploitation of labor and the displacement of those with lower incomes or who encountered hardship.
TDD (Test-Driven Development) – My Personal Journey
A report was received that the substance is Natural Uranium, which is highly radioactive and dangerous to human life.

Right. Ordering info from United Nuclear for uranium metal: "Caution: Use normal safety precautions (wear a filter mask/respirator and gloves) when working with Uranium metal. Accidental inhalation or ingestion of Uranium particles can be dangerous. Machining will produce particles that can spontaneously ignite producing radioactive smoke. Note: adult signature required upon delivery."

If you want some uranium ore, it's on Amazon.[1]

Meanwhile, Uranium Energy Corporation purchased 2,105,000 pounds of uranium oxide, which they are stockpiling as an investment.[2]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XXM

[2] https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/uranium-ener...
Chinas population also likely exceeds all developed nations combined.

And further, it would be interesting to see how much of the emissions are driven by products and services for developed nations.
The rest of the world burned its own forests. Let Brazil burn its in peace.

Or pay to keep it. I don't care, but this neo-colonialism infuriates L. Americans who witness a steady stream of Western countries come in and destroy their environment
He's probably happier than your arrogant little self
For a year or two Goodwill had an actual computer store full of random stuff. I bought a massive 22 inch CRT there for $50. SCSI drives, cables galore - there were lots of things that you wouldn't find on any other store shelf. eBay was a thing then too, but that store, along with the other thrift stores, was good for a thrifty find. Sometimes there was a profit to be made. Other times it was interesting junk. It was a bit of a low-grade thrill and cheap entertainment for the browser.
Technical Debt Isn’t All Bad (Usually)
Thank you, this is a great tool!
My case was probably an extreme example, Salvation Army (in Australia) was a mostly volunteer organization for the brief time I was there.

Problem is the same everywhere regardless of pay structure, charity is used to as a crutch to wave off all criticism, a lack of retail competence, and any willingness to learn.
> A totally reasonable claim! I could explore it further. But IMO one should make this claim in good faith, make it clear what you're proposing, not engage in this kind of statistical sleight of hand.

There's absolutely no sleight of hand involved in suggesting that farming on former rainforest land is a consequence of allowing deforestation, and that the climate consequences of that farming are thus also consequences of that deforestation.

Given that enabling such farming is usually the economic driver for performing the deforestation, it's ridiculous to suggest that anyone should consider the deforestation process itself and the subsequent polluting land use as having separate causes that make the latter somehow not count as part of the Amazon's climate impact.

And even if you do honestly feel like the direct effects of the deforestation should be considered as unrelated to the effects of the subsequent land use, it is still quite incorrect for you to refer to this as double-counting. There are two different quantities being lumped together (because they are almost inextricably related), and there's no overlap in the climate effects accounted for under those two categories. It's not double-counting; it's just counting some quantities you'd prefer to sweep under the rug.
Onions are quite nice to eat raw like an apple. The perfect combination of spicy and sweet.
my shop is paying $125k for undergrad CS/computer engineering just out of school
I’m not from there or live there (FL or CA) but from the outside looking in, CA is in crisis whether it knows it or not. It’s sick right now but I hope it can get better. FL seems happy.
Or you can simply buy an artificial horizon for less than US$ 40:

* https://www.davisinstruments.com/product/artificial-horizon/

* https://www.starpath.com/catalog/accessories/1840h.htm

* https://www.celestaire.com/product/davis-artificial-horizon/

They've been around since (at least) 1907:

* https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-artificial-hor...
Many schools in the US also went remote. I think indoor dining/bars and schools are the things that were significantly restricted more than a few weeks in the US.

(work from home isn't really comparable to those I think; I worked from home for months and liked it, and I think for people that don't like it, it still isn't as impactful as the restrictions for restaurants and schools)
I hadn't looked at their offerings before, but they seem at least superficially good. A decent collection of datacenters, network with link aggregation is important to me.

I'd be curious to see any reports about their fire response in their recent incident as well as any changes they made or didn't make to other sites.
I have had to work with data that uses little-endian for bit order as well (although we call it "least significant nit first", and reserve the word "endian" to describe byte order).

We actually dealt with this by adding support to a general purpose open source parsing tool we maintain [0]; where we had to add a feature to the standard specifically to accommodate this [1].

Even though least-significant-bit-first makes sense with littleEndian actually working with it is a giant pain, because approximately no tooling actually thinks that way.

[0] https://daffodil.apache.org/

[1] https://daffodil.apache.org/docs/dfdl/#_Toc62570139
I’m not sure who’s engaging more in hyperbole - you or Yegge. China eliminating poverty to a greater degree than the US isn’t a controversial statement - China accounts for 75% of global poverty reduction from the 70s to now. Regardless if they were struggling to eat a generation ago, the Chinese have made a complete turn around in the past 40 years. Finally even if Chinese health care today isn’t exceptional (I can’t say for sure as I haven’t looked into it), the Chinese are at least currently transitioning to a national healthcare system. I can understand Yegge’s frustration - in the long run worse system that is improving will eventually beat out a better system that is stagnating.

All in all, China has already “risen”. To pretend that China is still 3rd world ghetto of the 90s is to ignore that fact at our own peril
The Dilemma of Creator Self Promotion
Uranium is pyrophoric when finely divided.
I think it's almost a tautology: Innovation happens where... innovation needs to happen.

Which I think is fair. Innovation does also occur where it doesn't necessarily need to.
> With modern software, shouldn't it be possible to create accurate kit that can determine the location up to few hundred feet based on pictures we take of the Sun or moon, compass and altitude reading?

Unless it's cloudy.
The cloud infrastructure market hit $129B in 2020
Deleting all your comments after there are replies is a shitty thing to do.
> theological. She has extreme views on social issues recognized by virtually no American Muslim scholars

She does not purport to be a religious scholar or an authority on religion...

Her politics seem broadly comparable to the majority of young Muslims (say, born > 1980) I have met in cosmopolitan American cities. These tend to be secularized and at least roughly share the values of their non-Muslim peers. Should such people not be allowed to participate in the political process?

I don’t understand at all where you are going with this line of criticism. You think young Muslims should be forced to have the same views on e.g. women’s rights, LGBT rights, inter-ethnic relationships, and reproductive health that their immigrant parents and grandparents had? You want secularized Muslims to stop wearing headscarves? You think Muslim-American politicians should ask Saudi clerics to decide their political positions? ...?
Huge difference between naturally occurring (mildly radioactive but not explosive) uranium and highly-enriched uranium (highly radioactive and potentially explosive) this article makes no distinction.
Uranium metal and uranium dioxide are listed as pyrophoric when in "fine powder form"

"Indeed, according to one author, normally stable UO2 may be pyrophoric or oxidize rapidly even at room temperatures when in very fine powder form (specific surface area >10 sq.m/g). Coarser powders, as is more commonly the case, may require elevated temperatures (>300 C) to oxidize.

Cordfunke, E.H.P., The Chemistry of Uranium, Elsevier Publishing Company,
1969. "

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/gen-comm/info...

SDS:
https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2020/11/f80/SDS-Uran...
To make sure things are fresh. What I do is take books I've seen in a box for the last few months and I move them to other boxes.
You can’t just boil an entire life down to a single metric like being happy/content. Many things (like freedom) may even decrease “happiness” yet also have deeper value.
Boohoo. Maybe call the git police?
Are we back at the stage where considering any options but the bat/pangolin/wet market/etc. theory of COVID origin, endorsed by WHO, doesn't get you banned from major social media and proclaimed conspiracy theorist? Good if so.
I took over an open studios site 10+ Years ago. The original web developer/ graphic designer asked for square thumbnails. then proceeded to crop them down about 30% before displaying on certain pages. Artists reacted by only uploading usable images in the remaining area (so the whole image filled the thumbnail). The uploaded images had the right and tops blank.

Sometimes it’s best to let the originator of the image control it.

Though it would be fun to try some automation..
Prior to this, California was already expected to lose a congressional seat because the rest of the nation was growing far faster:

https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/265

California was not not keeping pace with deaths minus deaths plus immigration nationwide, there was nowhere near enough construction. When you add in that California was seeing amazing economic growth during this period, and could have houses people and provided them good jobs, all with better environmental impact than elsewhere in the country, Californian has not only done itself a massive disservice to its own people by pushing them out, it's done a massive disservice to the environment and the rest of the country.
It sounds like your visual acuity might not be that great. Sadly, enthusiasm can’t overcome physical limitations.
He does, but you have to remember that each 15 minute episode is recorded over a period of months (like 4-6 months) of him visiting several stores weekly. So it's not like you'll find anything interesting every time you go.

I'm lucky to live in Japan where we have a junk store called "hard off" that focuses on hardware. They always have some obscure interesting stuff, tons of Laserdisc players, VHD, HD-VHS, Famicom floppy drives, etc. https://www.flickr.com/photos/kalleboo/albums/72157719132609...
Did San Francisco stop making jobs in 2000? Because its population growth has been flatlined or declining since then [1]. The numbers don't support the argument that jobs alone are enough of an incentive for people to move to San Francisco.

Guess which California cities are currently the fastest-growing. Ready? Bakersfield and Sacramento [2]. The numbers suggest that the role of jobs tends to be overestimated when it comes to the places that people choose to live.

No disagreement from me that denser population centers have net lower carbon emissions when compared to the same population over a larger area.

[1]: https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/23130/san-francisco/popul...

[2]: https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article243402621.html
Well the Amazon is often referred to as “the world's largest medicine cabinet”, so there’s that.
Check out this website where you can order 99% U235! So it might not even be possible to enrich uranium to the point where it spontaneously...fissures.
https://www.isotopes.gov/products/Uranium
Or at least the Brazilians, who are actually responsible
> I can't imagine inspecting slaughterhouses is very fun or rewarding, but it's super important for society.

But I can think of all sorts of jobs that are more important to society than working on some random doomed-to-fail SaaS that won't pay remotely near that.
Yes it is theirs even if the world depends on it.
Yes we do. China won't be held accountable anyway, as many major power weren't held accountable for many atrocities they did. But knowing the truth still has value. And telling the truth when we know it also has value - as does lying when we know the truth has a negative effect too.
alacritty is GPU accelerated terminal. It may not be faster depending on your setup. xterm is also one of the fastest software terminals out there.
Actually it’s not strange at all, we came up with similar architecture that we found our later is much like RAMEN:

https://eng.uber.com/real-time-push-platform/
I'm beginning the process of starting over, not in biotech, but a different scientific/engineering field. I will inevitably earn less than I could in the long run, but from my early research it likely won't be too bad. Worst case I figure I can manage to run back to software.

The caveat ofc, is that I'm still young with no ties.
The top tier in finance are NOT crushing the top tier in tech. No way. All these IPOS + Faang are making 10s of thousands of millionaire mid-level engineers, thousands of decamillionaire VPs and angels, and dozens of billionaires, year after year.
What does that have to do with california having fewer people in the census. The ruling was to count non-citizen residents.
Stack smashing is still possible if you have a way to leak data (specifically, the cookie) beforehand.
I appreciate your enumeration of some of the things that have to happen to make a city grow, but I don’t understand how you bring it to conclude that any of these would be insurmountable or unprecedented.

Every major metropolitan area in the history of the world went through a process like this. Sometimes within a single generation.

If demand tapers off at some point, growth will stop too. That doesn’t seem like an argument against letting it happen.

As for “if raldi were right, then why isn’t the whole world Tokyo?”, the answer is that there are precious few places that people really want to live in (barring a state-created housing shortage making it unaffordable). Tokyo is one; California is another.
Here in Florida, non-wealthy renters have become victims of a hostile takeover, by out of state home buyers.

The vast bulk of us simply can't compete with California cash on FL wages.

Rental properties are being sold to move-ins, causing rents here to triple or more. The number of available rentals has dropped to ~0.

Leases aren't being renewed and these people have nowhere to go. This is unprecedented.
+1 for Foot. Much faster than Alacritty (esp. with PGO), supports ligatures and colored emojis (and any charset [inc. emojis] uses font fallback at a configurable custom size so you can get emojis to fit in one cell), and also supports an optional client-server mode in which all terminals share the same processes to massively improve startup times.

It's also much faster to build than Alacritty on a low-end machine, which is appreciated.
That's more like the price of highly enriched uranium (weapons grade). Reactor uranium is nowhere near that expensive, and of course neither is natural uranium. Maybe the police used the highest price they could find for the charge and leave it to the defendants to argue that it's incorrect.
Software Engineers need to look busy. Complaining about "technical debt" is equivalent to making yourself more work to do that is opaque to your bosses.