skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just the concept of “jaywalking” as a punishable offense is revolting to me.

It's a required compromise to allow pedestrians and high-speed automobile traffic to coexist. This unfairly-dead comment has a good discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27561530

Get rid of it, and you'll either have more pedestrians getting run over (e.g. some distracted guy on his cell phone accidentially rushing out in front of some car, getting killed in the process and traumatizing some driver) or you'll have to lower speed limits, which would make longer-distance travel more inefficient and inconvenient.
It's not mandating everyone be equal. It's allocating resources to those that need them most. Which is how I think we all do our jobs. You spend your time on the systems that perform poorly, not the ones that are working fine.
Teacher's choice of curriculum and how, and when, subjects are taught are ever more regimented and regulated.
I can't comment on the Netherlands but for the US, just continue to do great work and continue to develop your skills and whenever possible participate in things public, that is, present/speak at conferences and other events, participate in or serve as a judge at hackathons and other competitions (such as Kaggle for example), write articles, and participate in open source communities and initiatives.
A couple of reasons. First of all, the UI is just a means to an end. If it changes just for the sake of re-arranging, then people have to put in more effort to accomplish the same thing they were doing before. Sure, most people will eventually adapt. But, still feels like a waste of time when the updates offer no real increase to functionality, and sometimes seem to reduce it.

Secondly, the complaints come because, for many of us, our computers and phones feel like an extension of our offices and homes. We're staring at these screens for the majority of waking hours. The UI is basically part of the furniture. Many people would feel resentful if their chairs, couches, and doorknobs were changed without permission every year as part of some update. They're going to have similar feelings about the electronic portions of their spaces.
> I can easily send

Honestly that's just not true. If you upgrade to a new CMS/system, the way it routes URLs can be completely incompatible with the old format and it just can't accomodate it.

And if you're dealing with 10,000,000's of URL's and billions of pageviews per month, you're talking about setting up entire servers and software in front of your CMS dedicated just to handling all the redirect lookups.

And you also easily run into conflicts where there is overlap between the old naming convention and the new one, so a URL still exists but it's to something new, while the old content is elsewhere.

Yes it's possible. But the idea that it's "not hard" is also often very false.

> I think that it’s lazy programmers

No, it's the managers who decided it wasn't worth paying a programmer 2 or 4 weeks to implement, because other programming tasks were more important and they employ a finite number of programmers.

For commercial websites, it's not laziness or "chaos". It's just simple cost-benefit.
Surely this can be solved by streaming? Here in the UK we had bottom sets for the kids that were struggling, and top sets for kids who excelled. This meant that the learning pace could be tailored for each group.

Still probably didn't stretch the top set kids as much as private schools could, which is why I am in favour of abolishing all private and grammar schools and making the resources available to those schools available to top set comprehensive school kids.

It is wrong that children get educations that don't really make the most of their brains because they have parents that couldn't afford it.

Also, I think the sociological benefits of having pupils from all backgrounds occupying the same space and learning from each other as opposed to being segregated is extremely important.

So many of the rich people in charge of the country have absolutely no understanding of poverty because they have not had the opportunity to grow up around it.
> It's really soured me on the American system.

Tankless hot water systems have been available for awhile. Sounds like this is what you want to install.

Couple this with a pump/recirculation system and you'll have instant, endless hot water from any faucet or shower.

Granted, you won't have this option if you're renting and at the mercy of a landlord. But you can look for this in future apartments.

Some condo associations won't let you install them as it requires additional external piping for air intake and exhaust.
Hey Peter, I am an international student in US. How can I create my own startup on F-1 visa?
1 instruction per cycle at 1GHz? With no custom memory architecture?? On an FPGA???? Keep dreaming, kid.
It depends on the atomic unit of work. I'm saying implementing the function add could be an atomic unit that doesn't need iteration.
It surprises me that most of the US cities they looked at had less cameras after 2016. Maybe they just got smaller and there were more false negatives?
Anecdotally, the "II. Overcoming Student Misconceptions" section really rang true to how I've experienced working with highly academic engineers - ie: wanting to put blinders on only working on their component, late is assumed OK, not anticipating + coordinating with other teams interfaces/integration boundaries, not designing with real-world implementation in mind.
you know you can install tankless heaters at the shower in the US if you want instant hot water?

sinks too, theyre even easier. you can find kits at Home Depot.
They certainly have money, but money doesn't seem to be the problem here. None of the things that the article talks about have any obvious connection with school funding, but with the culture of the school and how it's run. If the school's budget doubled tomorrow, for example, they still wouldn't be able to give a grade less than 50% because they would still have a policy forbidding it.

(I went to a tiny rural elementary school located between a tractor supply store and a goat pen. Three teachers taught six grades, two grades per classroom. Compared to the SF schools, it was incredibly under-resourced -- and yet it was a Good School, academically much higher-performing. I think about this sometimes when people point at money as obviously the reason why Johnny can't read.)
huh. I only know the new one. I like it fine. Now I have to see what I'm missing!
See also [1] for a follow-up blogpost that is less technical.

[1]: https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/half-a-year-of-...
FYI private schools are not immune to these problems. The administration of some private schools choose to have similar policies (accept late work indefinitely, minimum grade of 50%, etc) at their school.
Prefer Alice and Bob?
Hi Peter - thank you for this! I am from Mexico and working on STEM OPT on an expired F1 (can't travel), lost H1B lottery two years in a row now.

Are there good reasons for Mexicans on STEM OPT who intend to get a GC to keep entering H1B lottery, instead of getting a TN visa and attempting change of status? Are there other avenues?

Thank you!
Hardware vs software issues right there.
It's broader than that. Fedora's package manager, dnf, is quick and snappy but it's GUI counterpart is sluggish and always hangs mid update.
I'm curious if he will then complain about not paying Malaysian tax rates while living in Germany. You want to be protected by the EU's privacy laws? Live in Europe, it's that simple. Sure, he will find fewer dreamy beaches and cheap food, but he can't have his cake and eat it too.
Most of the Windows stuff can be automated via WMI.
> While you’re there, take a look at how Vivaldi tackles the ‘too many tabs’ problem. Spoiler: by adding a second Tab bar.

On the subject of optimal use of horizontal/vertical screen space:

Vivaldi's killer feature is native support for vertical tabs, which is a better solution both for large number of tabs and for being able to read their titles easily.

If memory serves me, it also supports a tab-tree, ie. each tab's children are indented under it, which is a really cool way to browse.

You with tree-style tabs you can see where everything came from, instead of just throwing it in a big pile.
> You might be confused by the fact that Lean's definitional equality is not decidable, but that doesn't mean it isn't sound. Nobody has ever found a proof of `false` so far in Lean 3.

You are right, my bad. Taking my words back on that.

A bit more details from the Pierre-Marie Pédrot:

> Lean does not escape this limitation, as it defines the equality type inductively as in Coq. Rather, in a mastermind PR campaign, they successfully convinced non-experts of type theory that they could give them quotient types without breaking everything around.

> The first thing they do is to axiomatize quotient types, which is somewhat fine and can be done the same in Coq. As any use of axioms, this breaks canonicity, meaning your computations may get stuck on some opaque term. (While slightly cumbersome, axiomatizing quotients already solves 99,9% of the problems of the working mathematician).

> Now, were they do evil things that would make decent type theorists shake in terror, they add a definitional reduction rule over the quotient induction principle. We could do the same in the Coq kernel, but there is a very good reason not to do this. Namely, this definitional rule breaks subject reduction, which is a property deemed more important than loss of canonicity.

> In Lean, you can write a term t : A where t reduces to u, but u doesn't have type A (or equivalently may not typecheck at all). This is BAD for a flurry of reasons, mark my words. Reinstating it while keeping quotients requires an undecidable type checking algorithm, which is another can of worms you don't want to wander into. The same kind of trouble arises from similar Lean extensions like choice.
I think the 50% rule is okay. I get that it's annoying for the students who tried and got a 55%. But I suspect that the kids who would get score much less than a 50 are probably the least engaged and most disruptive.

If a 50 can keep them statistically in the game, with a chance of turning it around and passing, that might be worth it. It's similar logic to not giving life sentences. People with no hope of a good outcome are harder to deal with. A kid with a 22% average that you have to deal with for 12 more weeks must be a nightmare. They have no incentive to try at all, or to let the class proceed in an orderly wat.
It’s not that I think the organ will cease functioning and you will die, it’s that it may not be as effective across all organs (e.g. people take the medication and most organs are good except for kidneys because it’s not as effective on the kidney function).

I do not want to be on my deathbed scared at 90. But I think the person who is scared on their deathbed at 90 would also be scared at 120. It’s not like that extra 30 years will make that person OK with dying - if they aren’t by 90 they likely won’t be 30 years later.

I think accepting death as a part of life is important to living. No - I don’t want to die. Yes - I want a long life. Aging is natural and I think it’s important to experience the aging process. Maybe I’ll look back in 50 years and call myself dumb, but if I make it to 80 I’m happy.
Is the diploma for a 4-year bachelor's degree program? If so, then yes; if not, then you would be limited to the occupations of Computer Systems Analyst and Scientific Technician/Technologist and Management Consultant once you have 5 years of experience.
I dug up SFUSD board policy [1] around failing notifications. The policy reads:

"Whenever it becomes evident to a teacher that a student is in danger of failing a course, the teacher shall arrange a conference with the student's parent/guardian or send the parent/guardian a written report. The refusal of the parent to attend the conference, or to respond to the written report, shall not preclude failing the pupil at the end of the grading period. (Education Code 49067)"

The policy clearly states that the student has to be "in danger of failing a course" and not "guaranteed to fail a course". But, if a teacher knows that they might fail a student, they must notify parents by some reasonable deadline (again, it seems that OP's school sets it by week 9 of the semester or by the mid-semester mark). Without this notification, they might not be able to fail a student because they weren't in compliance with the CA ed code and district policy. This becomes even more of an issue when HS graduation is concerned.

I don't know if the forms are new or not. The policy was last updated in 2017 so they are at least 4 years old. What what is worth, I filled out similar forms when I was a teacher 10 years ago in another part of CA, so I suspect that they have been around for longer than that (and the forms were mass produced on carbon paper slips that seemed printed in the 70s). I am also wondering if the word "guaranteed" came up in response to COVID-related changes to grading policies and the district having implemented a credit/no credit grading system.

Links:

[1] Board policy 5121 cf. 6154 para. 4: https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=AKG...
Because standards would hinder "equity" in educational outcomes. The SF Board of Education recently voted to end selective admissions for Lowell High School in favour of a lottery, citing lack of diversity and "pervasive systemic racism".

The board positions are elected so these sorts of policies are presumably what the people of San Francisco want.
Maybe is not about gaining but stop losing users to MacOS and Chrome os.

And one day Google will release desktop Fuchsia.
Tab groups are Apple’s solution to having less space for tabs. As a casual Tree Style Tabs user I can see them really working better than one giant mess of tabs.
I never got pip installed with python on ubuntu
The early days of consumer internet—up to the early 2000s—didn’t exhibit the same scale of misinformation as what we see today.

The problem of today is that misinformation scales far more easily than quality information, and it’s because we don’t have the tools to filter out well-written (grammar and tone) misinformation.

I’m not sure credentialism alone is the answer though.
One thing to note that LEDs do not really have constant voltage drop across them, i.e. they very much are not ideal diodes. Typically LED datasheets have two curves that are of interest: current vs voltage curve (IV curve, typically roughly exponential) and light output vs current curve.
Oregon’s gas pumping laws has some hilarious justifications.

> “The dangers of crime and slick surfaces described in subsection (3) of this section are enhanced because Oregon’s weather is uniquely adverse, causing wet pavement and reduced visibility”

More here: https://medium.com/policy-northwest/the-insanity-of-oregons-...

Safety is important but wet pavements are also a hazard when you leave your house or literally do anything outside. Laws that try to masquerade for progressive causes for the sake of your “safety” are rampant in Oregon. There are so many of these insane laws piled up over the years. A friend of mine who was an licensed Architect in the state of Oregon recently moved to Phoenix. Reason? Unbelievable mess of laws and regulations that make it impossible to construct anything but a bog standard house.
> I'd say if someone took IV bleach and it caused harm, the appropriate response isn't license revocation, it's a civil or criminal lawsuit.

So if someone posts an article on Faceboot about the benefits of injecting bleach, and their friend does it, then they get criminally charged? How about our comments right here for mentioning it and thereby validating it as something to consider doing?

One of the aspects of licensing is making it so that certain people's opinions can be considered trusted, with corresponding liability. Your suggestions would seem to create more restrictions on speech, rather than less.

I'm sympathetic to the goal of making licensing more fine grained, but there would have to be a lot more competition and dynamicness on the part of those requiring most licenses (eg planning boards) for this to possibly make sense.
that's a shame. It shone so bright https://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/en/articles/art201307241216586... and inspired my radio recorder to publish raw meta data.
I wonder how many people familiar with OBEY iconography variations[0] or OBEY Clothing actually watched They Live.

It's a pretty corny movie, but it's quite good.

And regarding warnings, I can't help but feel Idiocracy is also one we're not paying attention to.

[0] I own a t-shirt with futurama's hypnotoad, and I love it
This is a long and nuanced conversation and really impossible to convey in writing because while it's possible to do this, your activities associated with your startup would be limited.
“Illegal cheese” sounds really cool, but then you read this and it’s just really nasty.
AI, Captain: IBM’s edge AI-powered ship Mayflower sets sail
Because the laws of the country you are in dictate how Google must treat you as a customer or user, and not your preference of how you'd like them to treat you.
There's a pervasive misunderstanding that someone in TN status cannot pursue a green card and must be in H-1B status to do. This is just not true.
See other comment. It's sound but not decidable.
The Untapped Potential of Architectural Jamming
Where do you have this strange number from? The factorization is 3 * 61.
And support forums.
Having a chronic illness eventually you discover your best source of medical knowledge is other people going through the same ordeals.
Doctors become a borderline obstacle to treatment.
Is there an actual market for micropayments? I would imagine someone would have built a wallet for small-value tokens, and a cheap way to transact with them. But I don't think there's much utility beyond paying for news articles.
Steam's UI sucks. Steams UX is fantastic though, at least in my experience. They'll do everything in their power to put you in control of your software, inviting you to tinker and poke around with it if something needs to be fixed. It also does most of the leg-work when setting up Wine in Linux, so most Windows games are just install-and-play. Their payment system is friction-less, their recommendation system is actually half-decent, their CDN is relatively fast... there's not much that Steam fails with, besides it's social features and general UI shortcomings.
Prop 13 protects people who got in early. Median house prices in SF have been over a million for close to a decade. I'd think they have plenty enough suckers by now paying five-figures in property taxes.
> They didn't have the choice either to not listen to blatantly false propaganda being spread to further US's power over them.

Of course they did, your statement is completely nonsensical.

RFE was just a broadcast, sometimes jammed by eastern block authorities. Not listening to RFE was as simple as not tuning in.
> I'm probably in the minority with this, but I think all licensing laws should be abolished. Even with cases like the one you describe, other mechanisms could be used to handle the problem and those individuals likely at are risk for doing things on their own anyway.

> I'd say if someone took IV bleach and it caused harm, the appropriate response isn't license revocation, it's a civil or criminal lawsuit.

The obvious problem with that is that it won't work: people harmed by some rando who decided to play doctor may not have the resources to sue, or may turn to some other incompetent rando lawyer who will lose their case. It would also likely to be hard to get a (now even more overworked) DA to take up such a case as a criminal prosecution unless there was a death or grievous bodily harm involved.

A lot of libertarian solutions seem to want to replace a workable but imperfect systems with unworkable awkward alternatives.
Of course, but it is very much up to the parents which product they want to buy (another problem of private schools to be sure). There are several that focus on rigorous academics, language immersion and even world travel.
There are variable refrigerant flow heat pumps and variable speed blowers out there. And standalone dehumidifiers, where the hot and cold side of the heat pump are in the same air stream. The dehumidifier might have its own separate vents, or it can tie into the central vent system, or be part of an external vent system with an energy recovery ventilator.

This channel has some interesting videos about the subject:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDYh81z-RhxjQKC9CsJiJQHhy...

https://youtu.be/ud5oAmTHcM4
>The GDPR does apply to non-EU based services

That's only correct with regards to the processing of data subjects who are in the European Union. See Art. 3.2 of the GDPR.
"North Carolina tells non-professional engineer that he can't present expert witness testimony because he isn't an expert by either legal or professional standards" isn't as catchy, I guess.

I wonder if this org is just fine with non-CPAs handling their finances.
In public school systems of coastal liberal cities? Very representative.
"They Live, meanwhile, sort of became reality... Drones in the sky, conspiracies in our heads, militarized police in the streets, economic inequality in every corner of society, media that seeks to control our minds"

Max Headroom and Brazil were a couple of other 80's scifi films which were uncannily prescient.
"Poisoning the algorithm", that's a cool advice. Definitely following it. Thanks for that.
Thanks for modifying your question. Still, because this is very fact-specific, I would recommend that you discuss with me or another attorney.
For anyone curious like I was, Trade NAFTA Visa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TN_status
Very good storytelling.

As an aside, I wonder how these students got their hair cuts.
Then, apparently the real-time attitude-control feedback loop was delegated to somebody else less experienced. Navigation is a wholly different responsibility that may happen to rely on input from some of the same hardware.

On the other hand, scientists are often not as good at design as engineers. They are not routinely trained in it, and are expected to deduce it from first principles. (If you have seen code written by scientists, you will know what I mean.) When they err, it is typically by assuming that theory and practice are the same.
If you don't have a green card, can you do any writing for pay (assuming this is not your main job) - e.g. would receiving [possibly small amounts of] money from a site for a short story violate terms of visa?