skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps a better headline:
Terrorist attempts massacre by poisoning water supply.
I get more and more excited the closer we get to an eventual reality that a kid learning about programming, operating systems, Linux, etc. is just a click on their phone away from starting it all. No gatekeepers--appstores, sideloading, hacks, jailbreaks, locked down BIOS, etc.--to hold them back. Your browser, a shell, and the entire world in front of you.
My understanding is that vouchers still put the most power in the parents about what school their children go to, when the parents themselves aren’t necessarily good judgements of what would make a good school. Additionally, tools that parents would use (how students are graded in standard tests) are opaque. There are even cases where private schools don’t have to disclose how well or poorly their students score, which means they can effectively present as being a great school without any proof, while public schools have to provide proof and therefore look worse as they can’t lie.
Demonstration video: https://m.bilibili.com/video/BV1fV411x72a
I'm typing a new SSID in right now...
I agree. I just hope that such blindness doesn't affect us. I worry that it will.
Efficiency by wallstreetplayboys.com

Best bang for the buck for people in early 20s
Kvrocks: An Open-Source Distributed Disk Key-Value Storage with Redis Protocol
So they can sideload apps not approved by the Apple App store. A feature that Android phones have when developer mode is on.
> Also, how free speech are those venues in the early internet? Were they literally "as long as it's legal we'll let you post it"?

The most absolutely illegal stuff was posted. And often as not where one would expect ordinary porn. It was well beyond Wild West, and much more depraved Epstein rape island.

It took quite a few years for reliably legal porn newsgroups to become a thing, and even longer to weed out the criminal image and video groups… if they even did; the web took off before Usenet solved its criminal porn problems.

Anything you can imagine and worse was available on the early Usenet. Absolutely nothing was being done to regulate it.
Why the United States over Canada? I can see money being a reason, but the quality of life, I believe, is better in Canada
All the times Trump promoted hydroxychloroquine: https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/05/22/all-t...

Trump ongoingly and repeatedly pushed hydroxychloroquine, criticized published research showing it was ineffective, and most likely lied about taking hydroxychloroquine seeing as how no evidence or independent confirmation that he was on the drug ever surfaced.

It was not a one off thing, and it was not "mentioned as a possibility".
I've been a huge of the qy series for years. Bought a qy20 about 20 years ago in a thrift store because Tricky had said he wrote all his music in a qy10 (the even more rudimentary one in the series) and that's how i first learned to sequence music. Remember feeling very proud after finishing a clone of daft punks 'da funk' but also write a lot of bizarre experimental things, all gone now because i didn't know you need to open it up and replace the memory battery every once in a while. The limited, hard to use interface made you be very economic with your decisions, which spurred creativity, i would come up with ideas that don't happen when I'm in a modern DAW, just because I'd be staring so hard at those little numbers and tweaking then. Also had a lot of fun combining purely sequenced tracks with live recorded ones that I'd then tweak in the sequencer. The automatic chord sequence generator was fun sometimes but never really used it much. Then there was the way it kind of forces a series of song parts that you are supposed to use to structure your song (intro, main1,main2, main1tomain2 and outro if i remember correctly) which you could also bend to your advantage.
I got a qy70 not long ago which i haven't given to as much love as my old qy20, but then again i was a bright eyed 20 year old with lots of time in his hands. The qy700, which i never used, looks like it's probably less clunky to use thanks to more buttons and screen real space, so i imagine it loses some of the creativity born out of extreme constraints part, but still makes you think different
> To get on this list the vaccines need to have proven risks

If that's true, it seems backwards. It should be that they should be on the list by default until they are proven to not have risks.

But then again, every medical treatment has risks, so they should probably be on the list.
Can do that without a jailbreak though https://altstore.io/
My favorite choice in this space is Bitwig Studio. It has a workflow that's more similar to Live, but with fun modular features that will make power-users drool. Bitwig's modulation system is first-class, too.
Fair point. I hope you're right.
> Because maybe they’re just looking for the right environment, and maybe you’re it.

Maybe, but they obviously also have a track record of being a poor judge of environment, since they got it wrong so often.

> It’s also a failure of values since there’s an underlying assumption that people are interchangeable widgets, which is both false and dehumanising.

Well, job hopping (in my experience) often signals that the candidate thinks of employers as interchangeable widgets, which is just as false and dehumanizing. Employers are but a group of other humans. It's a different kind of interpersonal relationship than between friends or family, sure, but it's still just as much an interpersonal relationship.

That said, sometimes things aren't what they seem, as you say. It becomes a question of judging the risk and the reward.

As a tool, there's also the interview, where one is supposed to try to figure this sort of stuff out.

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Note that I'm not saying you should stay at a crappy job. In fact, I came in here to post specifically that my biggest mistake may have been staying at a crappy job for too long. (May have because you never know -- maybe that's what made me value a good job so much.)

I'm just saying that despite agreeing with most of your comment, when I'm making the hiring decision of someone, I will read the implied "cannot pick an employer they fit with" in a job hoppers resume. I will try to work past that bias, but candidates are rarely able to defend that very well. What they say usually ends up being a roundabout way of saying "so far I've not been very good at picking an employer I fit with."

And that is going to weigh into the decision.
Well I'd say it's enough to automatically solve many high-school level problems, automatically. Like a poor man's Mathematica or WolframAlpha.
I wish they would continue support monodraw :/ how do you use it for us mockups?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_National_Commi...

the democrat establishment quietly removed him (edit: bernie sanders, 2016) in the background, and then this was leaked afterward by wikileaks.
There's no reason to think that there will be some kind of 'equalization'.

There is no natural force driving it.

You could argue the trade imbalance in which money flows a little bit more in one direction, but that can actually go on so long as the 'Richer Nations' are growing the economic base and expanding the money supply in serviceable terms.

But what's hidden in the obvious discussion of which direction money is flowing in trade ... is the direction that surplus is flowing. The economic surplus is pretty much on the side of the more powerful countries. Everyone benefits, but the rich nations benefit more.

Almost all of the corporate value (i.e. net profits) in the iPhone is realized in the US. The consumer surpluses are also vast but they are distributed to whoever actually buys an iPhone.

As long as trade isn't too imbalanced and much of the actual cash can be returned to 'Rich Nations' by sale of services etc., and, those net consumer/industrial surpluses remain big ... the equilibrium of 'poor countries doing labour and rich countries doing services' can go on essentially forever.

The factors that will change are:

1) China is going 'up market' and will provide more advanced things.

2) The Rest of the World will start to provide competitive labour - and more importantly - be vehicles of consumption as well making rich export markets for everyone.

3) AI will probably affect production in fairly significant ways. Robots with a little bit of dexterity and AI might very well be able to do some tricky assembly ... can you imagine that they could actually lay out, fold and cut fabric? And then sew together pieces? I can see that happening.

Finally, I would say it's definitely not good to look at all of this as a 'zero sum' game, and ultimately wealth is only relative anyhow.

If we ignore the geostrategic and social issues about power, and 'liberal democracy' etc. - there's every opportunity for a lot of poor nations to move up the ladder very quickly (already happening) and for rich countries to stay rich. As those nations 'catch up' their rate of acceleration slows down somewhat as it's rather difficult to 'get ahead' let alone 'stay ahead' for long. I don't even think China will ever actually 'get ahead' - they are, per capita, still quite poor on the whole and their growth is slowing.

As cultural values start to shift, the very measures we use for 'Purchasing Power Parity' start to shift as well. For example, how do we put a price on clean air, vacation, basic freedoms? And from a less secular but still hugely relevant perspective - living among one's culture, with one's 'people', the architecture, the view from your office/home, the lovely bike path to work, the gardens, the local bier garden where you see your friends, the local football team etc. etc.. People already to value those things a lot (see: Europe) they just don't directly factor into our equations. Over the next few decades we're going to rely less heavily on GDP and more on other measures.
Canada has turned into a totalitarian hell-hole. First things turned bad in Quebec, but then all over Canada now. Quality of life wise is only good if you're enjoying the scripted theatre show, I do not, never have.

At least, the US (outside of the blue states) have some leftover Rights worth fighting for.
This person's got some really cool posts on their blog. Love the piMate 300: https://deninet.com/creation/2020/12/06/pimate-300
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education

I guess in Montessori every single student isn't learning something different, but each one is often in a unique state of learning and development. The guide gives lessons in small groups, less than 6. Each kid gets a new lesson every few days and spends the remainder of their time "doing their work" (practicing their lessons and turning the results into the guide, doing small group research projects, etc.). The kid is encouraged to ask others for help understanding the lesson and to mentor others who are working on a lesson the kid knows. Once the guide observes the kid succeeding at the lesson, the kid is invited to the next lesson.
The spoiler effect is a problem for tribal voters and for politicians but I don't think it matters for the actual outcomes of laws passed. If a minor party steals votes from a major one, that major party has an incentive to win them back by offering those voters what they want.
Cultivated meat: Out of the lab, into the frying pan
I did finally see it for the first time last year, and I think it could use a modern remake. The best parts were the messages he saw while wearing glasses, and everything else was just okay for me.

In particular I found the ~15 minute one-on-one fight scene to be tedious after five minutes, and the pacing seemed really uneven, like it felt like they really took their time for the first hour, and then tried to shove all the rest of the plot into the last thirty minutes.

Clever idea and some great imagery with the messages, though. I'm glad I saw it for that.
Fair enough, but my impression of lots of public schools is that they are abysmal and the few that aren’t are typically only available to rich people anyway (in practice, not principle) so the current system addresses neither overall quality of education nor inequality.
A lot of people seem to be splitting hairs over whether this guy's testimony or report in the trial is or isn't "practicing engineering," and whether that means that he's therefore clearly in violation of the rules and should be punished, or whether this proves that professional licensing is evil and should be abolished.

What's missing is the fact that the conduct in question happened in a courtroom. If I drive over a bridge and it collapses and kills me, I don't get to hire a lawyer and an expert witness from the afterlife and have them try to impeach the credibility of the bridge designer or demonstrate the unsuitability of his plans and, if I manage to convince a jury, I get to be resurrected. Since I can't do this, the state enacted some rules about what kind of qualifications the guy designing the bridge has to have.

But in a courtroom, if I don't like this unlicensed engineer the other side wants to put on the stand, I can try to prove he doesn't know what he's talking about. I can hire my own engineer to help me come up with tricky questions to make a fool of him on the stand and maybe prevent him being accepted as an expert. I can cross-examine him with help from my own engineer to prepare. I can have my own engineer testify to rebut his claims. I have all sorts of options besides causing him to be threatened with violation of professional licensing laws.

The point is that the professional licensing laws exist to protect people in situations like driving over a bridge. They do not exist to protect the public from the risk that unlicensed people may testify in court about engineering, thereby potentially producing injustice. This is because lawyers already exist to do this job, and are extensively trained and licensed to do it. That's why the lawsuit attacks the professional licensing laws as _overbroad_, not inappropriate in the context of certifying people to design bridges and that kind of thing.
Early in my career I was working at Cinematronics, a coin arcade game company. One of the developers came back from some meeting/conference with a glossy flyer for a startup. It had a line of people dressed as cowboys, astronauts, race car drivers, etc. It said something like, “We’re looking for rock star developers to help us create the future of video games. Join us.”

We thought it was cute, but none of us followed up on it. And that’s how I didn’t (try to) go to work for the startup Electronic Arts.
You're commenting on a metaanalysis that summarizes 15 published trials, aren't you? Maybe you should spend less time on YouTube inspired guessing. Social media isn't relevant here. YouTube is not the center of the Galaxy. Medical doctors don't make their decisions based on YouTube videos -- at least I hope so.

Edit: sorry for the wrong position in the thread. Should have gone to the parent post.
These may be three sub discussions, which is why they are separate replies.

Frankly, I would love a Federal and State based program to get more basic labor done. Think of the WPA and CCC from New Deal era times.

So many people need skills, an out from or alternative to service work. Not a thing wrong with service work, but many will want or need to do better. There are simply not enough better jobs for that to happen.

Our parks, roads, towns, many things need work. So, let's get that work done. People can get some real skills out of that stuff. Great! I happen to have many of them growing up how and where I did. I think nothing of building, repairing, whatever. It is familiar and I was shown the good stuff by skilled people. Frankly, these skills can be worth 6 figures in a life. Fix it, help others, improve it, build it, etc...

And when we have all that work in progress, maybe we can then discuss whether pumping gas is a priority or not. Nice problem to have, if you ask me. How can we have it?

That is the kind of what is worth what discussion I would welcome and require to reconsider fuel attendants.
Those connections become invaluable as you reach the point where you are responsible for putting a new team together / growing one.
From MS' point of view I doubt it is worth thr squeeze. You have to consider that the average user and their grandma make very little revenue for them. They buy a license with their computer and that's mostly it.
Pro users, companies are a big part of the Windows revenue and for them, backwards-compatibilty is the biggest sales point.
I agree this is super bad and confusing for many users, but the majority of them probably never go past the latest design Win10 screens.
people are too woke to comment on the fact that this is in Chinese? Maybe we should start posting and commenting in all languages in HN?
Congrats! I found it got easier and more fun after the 1y mark
>> trying to solve with innovation would just go away for at least 20 years.

Interesting! But wait... wouldn't that mean everyone would save effort and potentially money by hooking up to the national grid? One that has way more people working on innovation + a 20 year time line for it?

Honestly that sounds way more simple, straightforward, and literally more innovative than "let's just all turn our temps down when peaking" lol.

Then again Texas politics... :-|
I was given this book by my father who spent his life in finance. It was an entertaining read - even for someone that knows nothing about the finance world and simply DCA's the indexes.

Highly recommend it.
You've managed to miss the point entirely.

The point is that Ivermectin worked, Merck would be pushing it hard because it's a heck of a lot cheaper to make an existing drug you already make then get through R&D and clinical trials for a brand new drug which doesn't yet exist.
I think it was aimed at adults who grew up on Howdy Doody and Mr. Rogers.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sesame-street-for-adults-only/

First season of Sesame Street got rated R. Back when Oscar was orange.

iCarly cuses in the reboot:
https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/icarly-reboot-cursing-fa...

Sort of like Adult Swim it was meant for grown ups but the kids watch it too. Too young to get the jokes, the kids love it.
If it's like the older models in the series, it has a few different modes, one of which is the edit mode which is kind of like a tracker where you fine tune the notes and events that you first write in the step or the live sequencer
Yes, the "anything is as good as another" attitude is not born out by the data.

Even when controlling for other factors (e.g. poverty), fatherless children are more likely to have teenage pregnancies, commit crimes, and drop out of high school.

Yes, single mothers are loving and contagious.

But let's not pretend for political correctness points that everything is equal.
The code is in English.

Edit: I lie. some of the code.
I jumped every 2 years and tripled my salary in 10 years. I started way under paid and made it to average to slightly higher than average pay. Guess what the employers were happy to underpay as long as they could get away with it.
> Noone is saying it's better in absolute terms...

I think it actually may be though. In terms of digital electronics, this IS the original hardware... But with added multiplayer. So unless the feature of multiplayer is a downgrade, then it is better in absolute terms.
i love the time that we live in. people talk about there being a glut of podcasts, but i can type "Peter Scholze" into youtube and there is a full hour-long interview with him hosted by another mathematician. you can see her channel is very new and almost certainly a part of this latest wave of pandemic podcasters. its so great to take an interest in a random person from a nature article and be able to immediately get a visceral idea of who he is and what hes about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYZ3reRcVi8
Thank you. This sucks.
I think you're highlighting features that are not inherent to ORMs but seem to be packaged with the ORM you use.

There are libraries that will transform a Postgres or MySQL schema into a GraphQL API. I don't keep up with them, but the names Postgraphile and Hasura come to mind.

I also think that you're saying that (Type)ORM is a good solution because it saves you a lot of time, but are you a typical user? Your case sounds very niche to me. And do you need an ORM to solve it without writing code by hand? No, you don't.
Slightly off topic, but Captain Disillusionment did a great video recently on Flight of the Navigator: https://youtu.be/tyixMpuGEL8
If someone says:

> "so far I've not been very good at picking an employer I fit with"

then the only inference one can draw, is that they're bad at self-promotion, since there are zillions of ways to present the same kind of facts with a more positive spin. My view is that marketing instincts are not super relevant except when hiring directly for the sales/marketing function, and speaking as someone who is absolutely terrible at marketing, you can even make CEO without it.

> but they obviously also have a track record of being a poor judge of environment, since they got it wrong so often.

I recommend reviewing an article (even the wikipedia entry will do) on the Fundamental Attribution Error, because this statement is a perfect illustration of the FAE. That is, there's nothing intrinsically obvious about track records, and in particular, assuming negatives such as this, is a great way to miss out on great people.

As I've said elsewhere, I suggest biasing a hiring funnel for Type 1 errors early on, and Type 2 errors later.

> employers as interchangeable widgets, which is just as false and dehumanizing

Well, no, employers are, for the most part, companies, so they're not humans; that's certainly distinct from bosses, of course; but nevertheless, the power gradient between employer and employee is steep, sometimes incredibly so, which is why the overwhelming majority of industrial relations law is essentially protecting the individual from employer abuses.

To look at that another way: it's much more impactful on someone's quality of life for them to seek a new boss, than it is for a boss to seek a new staff member. I've never appreciated the fiction of "we're like a family", a paper-thin deception that doesn't survive past one bad earnings quarter, and I don't inflict it on my own crew.

Curiously, one of the goals of much collective bargaining is to make employees and employers nigh-on interchangeable via standardized agreements. Corollary: the unions of today would make Adam Smith proud.
Linking a heritage foundation study unironically. Is this the standard of this forum now?
Wow, that’s utterly mind blowing that this was done by a single person. You have to see the video, even if you don’t understand Chinese: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1fV411x72a

Aside from some help he got from a friend to fabricate the metal parts (he gave up on 3D printing since it was too fragile), it seems he did everything else himself. A very impressive project.

I’d be happy to help interpret a bit what is going on in the video or the project itself. Short story is that it is, by all appearances, a self-propelled bike which uses a central gyro wheel for stabilization and a rear driving wheel for motion. It has an RGBD camera mounted at the front for obstacle sensing, an ESP32 for real-time control using ROS, and a Huawei DaVinci processor running Linux for the sensing with some unspecified computer vision bits. It looks like he custom-designed the PCB to integrate these two processors.

Edited: misunderstood the last bit. He’s not a high school student, but he is a recent university graduate (finished undergrad in 2018).