skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I could have skipped high school, and went straight to a community college, my life might have been different?

I remember learning everything I should have in high school in 1 semester at a CC.

Plus--I found high school painful, and their was so much wasted time.

I was expected to work while going to high school, and remember thinking there's got to be a better way. In school all day felt like baby sitting, rather than learning.

I went to three high schools. Two were public, and one private.

All a bit different. The private one had way too many kids on drugs.

If anyone has a responsible kid who is thinking about dropping out, certain schools allow kids to go to CC early.
Tencent, Bytedance, Huawei, DJI, SenseTime, ZTE? At least back in ~2015 when I visited, it was definitely a major startup hub.
So the cool thing about the Disgusting Food Museum was that it really tries to show that the whole idea of "disgusting" depends on the culture. They had some American foods like Twinkies on display - they are literally nothing but sugar and preservatives, in some way it is "disgusting" when looked at logically.

I took some pictures, if you want to have a look:

https://adobe.ly/35AOjrZ
The culture war ensures that neither side will vote on the basis of economic issues, so no.
Fine-grained, sure, but if I have to tell the tool how to do things, I might as well just fire up Illustrator. What I love about FigJam is that everything looks great with zero effort.

It doesn't do auto-layout, which is fine, because nobody does that well anyway — ultimately, layout tends to be a "semantic" issue that tools can't automate.

You can import/export diagrams as files, but they're in a proprietary binary format. You can, however, export as SVG. And Figma does support versioning.
Long live Jambi
I made a dumb mistake and got fired three years in. Instead of dusting myself off and jumping back in, I tried to pivot to a new career, went back to school, and just failed at all of it. Took five years but I made it back to my original career track and I’m finally back to where I should be.
> In the US, you don't get to make medical claims that you can't prove are valid.

Every third video on YouTube is a diet or workout video, making medical claims.
> Only if coupled with a public health program that does something

Isn't that what this whole Massachusetts thing a step towards? But my point is that the public health program can't really do something when there's thousands of cases, but the lower case count means this can be effective once more.
" But since there hadn't been a randomized trial "
This is not true. A quick search shows 71 trials covering ivermectin, of which 6 of which are complete, interventional[1], and have results

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=ivermectin&cond=...

[1] This should mean an RCT, but I haven't time to read through each and check they are
Good point, but 'manufacturing culture' is also dependent on the prevailing 'regular culture' and also 'conditions'.

Japan, SK and Taiwan are the kinds of places where you could convince a lot of people to 'do this and that for the good of the country' - especially since they were flat on their backs and rebuilding from nothing, at the same time facing existential external powers.

'Post-War' was a quasi-authoritarian national strategy almost as much as the actual war or preparation for it was.

In North America especially, we live in a 'Safe Bubble' we don't really have the sense of existential angst that a place like Korea might have, what with a direct record of thousands of years of war and tumult from any number of neighbours which still exist today.

Even in W. Europe the living memory of that stuff seems rather fargone.
Well consider the fact that checking a table of “ok” programs is a branch and a lookup in of itself.
Wrong-o.

There are people that simply are not capable. Not because of desire or attitude, but because of IQ, resources, connections, training, etc.

And, there's only 1000 CEO's at the Fortune 1000. There are 330 million Americans, not all of them can be CEO of a Fortune 1000. If you do the math, 1000 / 330000000 = 0.000003 of US citizens will become CEO of a Fortune 1000 company. This is a metaphor, by the way. What I am saying is that it is a zero sum game and there are only so many high paying wages to go around.

For example, Walmart has 2.3 million workers. How would they all make $120,000 per year, if they all, as you say, have total interest in creating value? Never. It will never happen. What would you say if you were the store manager, or district manager, or regional manager of Walmart and every single employee came up to YOU and said, "Hey, I want to create value at Walmart, and want to earn $120,000 per year. What do we all need to do?" And nobody wants to be the door greeter, nobody wants to be the cashier, but every single one wants to be the store manager? And you cannot find one single person that wants to be cashier, they all want to be store manager? Walmart would all of a sudden have 0 employees, and then 0 customers because they would be out of business.

You see, you and most people reading these remarks are in rarified company. Smart. Talented. Capable. Someone who graduates from Harvard or Standford or MIT literally has the world at their feet and can literally almost do anything they set their mind to. Because they have the actual IQ and resources, and connections to do so. But there's only so many spots open every year at elite schools, and 99.99999999% of the USA or world will never, ever get a whiff of those schools. But not everyone is that way. You'll never get someone who has Down's Syndrome to run a Fortune 1000 company, and I'm not being down on those with Downs. It's just reality.

Another example: If you are raised on the south side of Chicago, in the baddest part of town, and if you're raised down there, you better just beware, that you'll run into Leroy Brown and he will put you and your peers to work selling crack cocaine and you will never, never, never get into Harvard, except for some very rare outlier. And you will think it is normal because you didn't grow up white in Los Altos Hills or Atherton, CA where you learned completely different things growing up. I'm sure that NOBODY reading this would want to change places with a black boy or girl growing up in south Chicago.
> If you don't have a proven, understood mechanism (which ivermectin doesn't for a virus like Covid) then you have to rely on trials, and those just don't stand up.

Please, there are a ton of antiviral drugs without an understood mechanism. We don't even know how Acetaminophen (Tylenol) works!
This why I gave the example of two contradictory laws. Only one can apply.
Imo, the new address bar is better because it attached to the current tab. This is how it already works, but the design never reflected that. Previously, the address bar was a global UI element which doesn’t modify the global state. I think this could easily be clearer for new users. (And possibly clearer for technologically challenged existing users.) To me, the big complaints are just reacting to it being different. I don’t think that’s fair.
They may be inexpensive, but they also have to be legal. In France, you may only have one if ordered by a judge, which only happens for a limited number of reasons, and may be refused if it's deemed against the child's interest.

> The carrying out of a paternity test outside the legal framework carries penalties ranging from one year's imprisonment to €15,000 fine.

Official source: https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F14042?...
The more likely result of your "solution" is that everyone simple gets a worse education.

Things are usually not solved by making things worse for everyone.

Instead, the solution, to most problems, is to try to help more people, instead of trying to stop others from being too good at educating their children.
> in general, the more talented a person is, the more autonomy they would expect. To get the best out of them, assume good faith, and trust their autonomy

That's a really interesting observation. If this thread was about the opposite - what mistakes did you make later in your career - one of my responses would be the above - because its exactly what I did and it turned out badly. I recognized talented people, seeing in them earlier versions of myself, and I gave them lots of autonomy. And they took it, and I got back amazing works of art that created all kinds of discordance with our longer term architecture and vision. I regret now that I didn't intervene more strongly at that point. Instead, those people have left and I now have years of technical debt to fix. Meanwhile the less talented but more aligned folk are chugging away and creating more value longer term. It's tortoise and the hare.
If you want to emit and catch events in Java with a lot less overhead check out my tiny event emitter library: https://github.com/jafarlihi/eemit
I was living in São Paulo when the pandemic started, so when I went into lock down mode, it made no sense for me to stay in SP, since the cases over there was high (compared to the small city my parents live), so I went to stay with my parents. Fast forward 6 months the company I was working for went full remote, new contracts and everything. So I decided to terminate my rent contract for the condo I was pay (but not living in) in SP. So, in the middle of the pandemic I had to go to SP to get my stuff and return the apartment. As prevention I took a lot of Vitamin C (with zinc) and Ivermectin. My rationale was: every one needs to take vermin medicine once a year, so why not Ivermectin, who some people are saying that is showing some results in the prevention and treatment of the COVID? So I took the recommend dose for my weight and went on my way. I did take care of my self with the default stuff as well, mask, alcohol for the hands, staying away from people... Glad to say that I did not contract the disease. At least I did not have any symptoms and wasn't sick.
If Ivermectin saved anyone, Brazil wouldn't be hotbed for COVID that it is right now. Doctors are prescribing Ivermectin to pretty much anyone who arrives with any signs that appear to be COVID-related. Some people are even taking it by themselves as a form of "prevention". It has not worked as the numbers clearly show.
Ah this must have been it! Thanks!!
Tim Cook claims sideloading apps would destroy security and privacy of iOS
A better analogy would be making yourself an exact duplicate of a Gibson guitar, at home with a 3D printer. I'm not sure that should be illegal, at least if you take the trademark off it.
Oh, that's cool! What's the theme?
Thinking I was irreplaceable and the business couldn’t continue without my expert system knowledge. Boy, was I wrong and it was eye opening.
Akamai apologises after outage left Australia's major banks and airline offline
The problem is that a cabal of people subverted the processes of Wikipedia to gain effective control of the Croatian Wikipedia, and used that control to exclude opposing viewpoints entirely and in some cases insert and preserve completely counterfactual content.

That is what is being "singled out", not their political ideology.
What is it with Sardinia and weird cheeses btw? Su Callu is another one that I don't really have any interest in trying, at least this description makes it sound....super unappealing.

https://adobe.ly/3gGu56r
AIO has been around forever and it gives a crappy way to do async i/o on disk files that are already open, but it doesn't give a way to asynchronously open a file. If you issue an open(2) call, your thread blocks until the open finishes, which can involve disk and network waits or whatever. To avoid the block, you have to put the open in another thread or process, or use io_uring, as far as I can tell.
No, but now I'm curious! Do you have somewhere I can learn more about this? Couldn't find anything from Googling
Ah yes- thanks! I appreciate the clarification- and I edited my typo. I was imagining something more lightweight than your average headless CMS, but upon further consideration, what I'm looking for certainly lands under that category nonetheless.

Much appreciated!
Faux ‘DarkSide’ Gang Takes Aim at Global Energy, Food Sectors
No, public school in the United States is broken. They're quite functional in the majority of the OECD.

If you are a parent and are in SF this should be a wake up call. The city is rapidly failing, it's in your best interest to get out now.
What is hybrid AI ?
earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27560438
Many people have pirated; includes myself when I was a teenager in developing country. I don't pirate now as its worth neither risk nor time but I can't claim some weird moral high ground - it's a complex issue with nuances and circumstances.

But I still find it intriguing when I see rambling half baked internally self-contradictory attempts at moral justification - do you believe what you said there? Do you even know what you said there? Cause I'm having a hard time following - Food has inflation therefore I'll pirate movies even though they're pointless, and this is just and right?

It takes minimal amount of empathy and observation to notice hard work talented creative people put into "pointless entertainment", so just like I don't buy the notion that every pirate is evil sociopathic villain, so I don't buy notion that watching entertainment for free is inherent right and creators don't deserve any compensation ever. If anything, this type of incoherence and self righteousness feeds exactly the stereotype mpaa / riaa try to portray...
Language should have explicit text ordering or concept precedence.
Yes. This is a thing that exists. I’m not sure why it’s relevant to parents comment though.
WTF Is MetaGame?
An authoritarian communist regime has proven to be just as focused on the short term, even more narrowly scoped to a small group of oligarchs, and without name of the positive byproducts of a capitalist society. Is there an alternative system that you have in mind? Because that's really the way to demonstrate this is a property of capitalism in particular, and not humans in general.
There is no 'smoking gun' but you will never see one without the fog of propaganda cast over it.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-...
Just require everyone evil to set the evil bit, and everything would be much easier.
I like the school voucher idea a lot.

Give parents a voucher, as good as cash, for their child and let them choose the school.

Private companies will compete for those vouchers, aligning focus on satisfying the parents and the children, rather than the government.
Grades traditionally measure mastery of material on an externally imposed timeline under some amount of externally imposed pressure. I support moving to simply measuring master of material in most cases, but it's important to recognize that you lose some signal from those other areas. In real life, sometimes it's better to maximize for mastery regardless of timeline (within reason) while other times it's better to maximize for the best job you can do within a certain fixed amount of time.
The person without a license who is doing something that requires a license is not taking full responsibility for what they are doing.

They are doing something that is only to their own benefit in a context where other people’s lives are at stake.

Quite simply it is unprofessional. A person without a license can hire a licensed professional for oversight. That’s the responsible thing to do.

In the US, engineering licensure requires supervised experience, testing, and typically (but not always) formal education at the bachelor level.

One requirement of professional practice is not working beyond one’s competence irrespective of having a license and engineering boards take that seriously.

I guess that’s the thing, an unlicensed person doing unsupervised work requiring a license is some combination of incompetent, unqualified, or negligent.

To put it another way, licensure ensures that a person has a minimum amount of skill, training, and experience. And that they take responsibility.
Wind energy is still a thing.
§ 89C-23. Unlawful to practice engineering or land surveying without licensure; unlawful use of title or terms; penalties; Attorney General to be legal adviser. (https://ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/ByChapter...)
> rallying round a drug like a football club

That’s what gets to me too, and this is the major issue I had with Trump saying anything about anything. He was floundering to look like he had a plan and the moment he mentioned HCQ he turned the whole thing political. It was massively irresponsible.

It should be left to medical science, which is doing pretty damn well with vaccinations and treatments like dexamethasone.

If Ivermectin can be helpful that’s great, and if it’s not then never mind, let’s evaluate other things. But it seems like people need to latch onto something, and then their ego and tribal allegiances won’t let it go.
> You're tearing down a straw man friend, I didn't say anything about tutoring or homeschooling.

No straw man involved. I don’t think you’ve thought through the implications of ‘getting rid of private school’.

The point is that to ban private schools you’d also have to ban homeschooling.
This stuff (the 10 cents MCUs) is fantastic but probably an example of something that will never again be produced in the US or Europe.

I was refering to the various statistics you can find on this, and I think they count by monetary value. Because the US, Taiwan, and South Korea sits on the expensive high-value add stuff, they weigh the most.

China has been entering the industry from the lower end, but now after the tech war, they are forced into the higher end, even if it is not economical viable. So together with this made-in-america policy, traditional allies like South Korea and Taiwan are being squeezed.

I personally believe that the tech war will deescalate drastically at some point, but if this continues we are going to end up with a complete parallel world of semiconductors all in Chinese.
Many different languages are mutually intelligible. Many dialects of the same language are not mutually intelligible. That's because the ways people speak don't divide up neatly into languages.
If you really want to learn from the mistake, it sounds like you need to ask for a personal leave for a few months and really take a bet on one of your ideas. There's not much to lose, in the worst case you learn from how it went and can decide whether you may want to raise the stakes and quit.
Frankly, I’m not that interested enough to make the effort, and don’t care. Especially considering your go to is to insult people you don’t know just because they slightly disagree with you.
You still sit and wait though? Of course 10 seconds is not comparable to a few minutes, but the mechanism seems like it would be the same.
> and how many people would fall prey to it?

How exactly? I could be wrong, but I believe it won't make things any worse. I see three scenarios:

First, let's say someone is an antivaxer, already subscribed to that belief. If they're reading some posting, the fact that some other antivaxer vouched for that post's author doesn't change much.

If someone had not made any opinion yet - they won't have any trust connections on that matter, so if they're reading an anti-vaccine posting, they won't have any impact. Their query to the web of trust would say "no idea, you don't have any trust anchors set on this matter, go figure out whom you trust first".

It is only if they have a friend they trust on the subject vaccines, and that friend happens to be an antivaxer, they may have a "your friend vouches for this" result. This is the only scenario I see, where someone could be swayed towards a certain opinion, and I'd be damned if this doesn't already happens without any technologies, completely organically. It's their peer group that sways them, so the technology in question here doesn't make it worse or better, it just accelerates the process.

Again, I could be wrong about either or all of those. I readily recognize all of this stems from my beliefs in humanity (in general) as something that can work out its way through any amount of dissenting opinions, finding out the truths. I mean, historically, society had worked this way. And a controversial belief that accelerating this is a good idea - I admit, I don't have a rational arguments for or against this part - it's just a belief. Guess it comes from hatred of seeing all those slow simmering almost-pertpetual memetic wars and being unhappy about their fallout, yet not believing any forcible silencing of opposing forces is a viable approach.

Oh, and just to clarify: it's extremely important that trust must not be ultimate (exceptions apply for closest peers, e.g. partners or parents), but limited to a subject. E.g. I may trust someone on subject X but at the same time know they're avid subscribers to what I think is a false belief on subject Y, so I explicitly distrust them on that matter.
The IEA report had plenty of detail on achieving net zero by 2050. Only skimmed it but it's quite interesting - https://www.iea.org/reports/net-zero-by-2050
Another good alternative to look at is OCaml. It's fast (both to develop and run), and provides a solid, elegant language that fixes almost all of Python's issues. A small one: having a lightweight syntax without being whitespace-sensitive. To the OCaml parser, both of these are the same program:

type person = { name : string; age : int }

let greet { name; age } =
Printf.printf "Hello, %s aged %d!\n" name age

--

type person = { name : string; age : int } let greet { name; age } = Printf.printf "Hello, %s aged %d!\n" name age
Here in France we have a lot of "Chinese" or more generically "Asian" restaurants. They're all Vietnamese ! I guess Vietnam wasn't a particularly exotic or dreamy location after having been a colony for a century, and then the two Indochina wars.

Similarly, I've never heard of an Algerian restaurant. But Moroccan or Lebanese ones are quite common (and the relationships of France with Morocco and Lebanon much better and less contentious).
> You've completely failed to distinguish a legal licensure scheme from an independent endorsement scheme.

I mean, the key difference is that with a market solution you're policing one market with another that's even harder for consumers to evaluate than the first one, and consumer choice is what (supposedly) keeps markets in check, so all you've accomplished is making the situation worse. At least using government changes the mechanism by which we apply pressure to the regulators, and their incentives, rather than presenting a worse version of the same thing, so it has the potential to be an improvement.
"If I don't have to pay for it then their work was objectively unproductive. It's an inherent failure of market economics"

I feel I'm reading Deepak Chopra - individual words are fine and you'd swear sentence should make sense... But it doesn't, no matter how many times you read it.

Not paying for something makes it unproductive? And you don't feel there are easy trivial immediate counter-examples for your axiom with big-boy words?
you can also have something akin to MIDI encoding with higher bit reserved to mark that next byte is a part of length field, too. up to 128 bytes with no overhead, up to 16kb with one byte overhead, and so on. Such a detail would be easy to hide in the library. But I wouldn't be surprised that alignment and other troubles would eat any possible gain.
For some reason my comment was downvoted. Does the system portrayed sound like one that is using resources efficiently to do important things? In some respects the school may doing harm, teaching students that they can be late and miss assignments without consequences. In the private sector they would be fired.