skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The other option is to help the low achieving students so that more of them can participate in that winner take all economy. I'm not sure how to argue that this latter option is preferable since it seems so obvious to me that it's the right choice to make.

That's precisely why low achieving students are separated out. To give them extra help.

High achieving students are easy. Just point them and they go. This is why the second they started standardized testing and separating the students they were able to achieve results with high achievers. But their primary goal with these top-down programs was to actually help the slower students, that were graduating without being literature and whatever. Turns out it's just a really hard problem. It isn't that everyone in education somehow lacks the desire or common sense.
Yet we allowed someone without a medical license to say that with no consequence to the speaker. The AMA did not sue them, no one fined the. Because it is not illegal to give an opinion on something, even if it is a bad uninformed opinion.
It would seem the solution here is to use our wealth to demonstrate how to do this sustainably on a per capita basis.

We have no high ground until we are lower per capita than these growing economies.
A very stable genius.
I was at IBM, fixing a critical mainframe that had brought the entire check clearance system for the country down.

An angry customer was breathing down my neck, making idiotic suggestions. I was rattled.

He wanted me to try swapping out some component. I said no, I was 100% sure that was not the problem. I was laser focused on fixing this problem.

Turned out I was wrong. Customer complained to my management and I got a sound bollocking and took a couple of steps backwards in my career.

I learned that day to always remember that, no matter how unlikely, you might be wrong.

As a sidenote, this is one of the 25 points of advice in John Perry Barlows "adult principles" which I discovered late in life. It is the only written work I have on my wall, with items 1, 3 and 10 marked with highlight pen by my wife as areas for personal development for me.
They appear to be at least a little exaggerated as the bottom portion of the image is scaled larger in the “before” photo.
There is also Dask in the Python world for when Pandas can’t handle the data size.
It's most likely much cheaper for companies to certify once for US+Korea than to have to do so separately for US and Korea. Given that Korea is a smaller nation it's a win for them in terms of imports.
You can, but you can only sign and install a maximum of 3 apps total - Altstore + 2 others. If you have a developer account (at the cost of $99.00 per year) you can sign and install an unlimited number.
I doubt it’s just western farms. I’m from the Midwest, my mom grew up on a farm and she ended up selling that land, pretty much 90% of family owned farms went bankrupt in favor of corporate farms that benefit from economies of scale. I actually think it’s something like 95% of farms are now owned by corporations.
Yeah, it’s true:

https://www.dezeen.com/2013/06/10/new-apple-ios-software-fla...

It’s an awful shame, really. The man’s very talented, but he needed an editor. For years Steve Jobs was that editor, and he was brilliant at it. It was the two of them together that made Apple’s industrial design so damn good.

I agree about animations. I remember reading (probably here :D) a story from an Apple mobile engineer. He was on an elevator and Steve Jobs got in afterwards, and asked his notorious, “What are you working on?” The engineer opened the app on his phone to show Steve, who looked at it for one floor. He said, “Not enough texture,” and handed it back.

That, specifically, is the voice that Ive needed to do truly great work.
China, India, Nepal. The Himalayas are quite a water shed.
Adding some facts to this, because California tends to get hot frequently. When it gets too hot, plants slow (and eventually stop) photosynthesis above 68 degrees F

https://sciencing.com/effect-temperature-rate-photosynthesis...
> A bank run seems the most likely scenario

Sure, there would be an initial bank runk, but a ban would also have unintended consequences such as making coins more scarce, thus unintentionally driving speculative demand and cause people to turn to the black market, especially if there are bank runs on fiat itself (I know, extremist, but you never know - I've personally eyewitnessed a national currency imploding once).

> This might even be good for cryptocurrencies as a platform

I guess we have something we agree on. Also a ban would encourage more activism and push cryptocurrencies to their full potential (of side-stepping the bans by going to fully decentralized exchanges and peer-to-peer) and weed out a lot of the snake oil in the space.

Do I see a ban to be successful for what what it intends to do? Maybe temporarily, but in the long term it will fail and backfire.
Alyx very much feels like Valve's current Portal, where they're testing out some ideas they've developed before building out a truly expansive game. It wouldn't surprise me if HL3 eventually came out and was a VR experience built on top of Alyx the same way Portal 2 expanded Portal into a much larger game.

The menu and method for selecting weapons in Alyx is ripe for some really intuitive gestures for multi-level radial menus, I would love to explore that myself if I can get back into gamedev one of these days. Weapon selection in classic Half-Life is organized by category, so two-motion gestures for selections seem like a logical step. You're right about the things that Valve excels at, I'm excited to see what they do with VR. It can always use big players in its corner.
I have used NoScript for over a decade and I've been bitten by this too, but I've noticed that it has gotten better. CC processors seem to have encountered enough crappy browsers and broken JS implimentations that they've improved their services in the last half dozen years or so.

That said, when there's something old, important, and/or dumb looking, I usually spawn a new Firefox container (using Multi-Account Container plugin) and use NoScript's temporary bypass function.
Still I can't really think about any mass produced consumer item that includes a heat pump and is not either part of building/car cooling/heeting or a refrigerator itself.

Like mobile base stations of course have AC units and some amateur astronomers use peltier cooled sensors, but I would hardly call these mass produced consumer items.
I get that they standards are pretty low. I remember an article showing that most TX citizens couldn't pass the test. Here is a similar article that shows over a third of US citizens would fail.

https://www.vox.com/2014/4/26/5654020/awkward-americans-cant...

My biggest issue is how can we improve the knowledge of the citizens since this sort of knowledge is necessary for a strong democracy? I'm not sure what the best answer would be, but teaching/testing in school seems like a good start. Looking at the format and rigor would be good, especially if it is already supposed to be taught and we are seeing such low retention.
When thinking about this, I always come back to the scene in "The Office" with Michael's Golden Ticket idea.

Long story short; Michael loses the company a bunch of money on a foolish marketing scheme, and gets Dwight to take the fall. David Wallace drives down to presumptively fire Dwight. Instead, when Wallace shows up, he gushes that Dwight is a genius because it appears that although the marketing campaign has cost an immense amount of money, somehow it worked out and Dunder Mifflin is, in the end, far in the black.

The moral of the story is judge decisions in the future by the information the person had at the time of making the decision. A stupid choice that happens to work out is still a stupid choice.
Telephony is though. As very few devices can do that.
"For most people" highlights the glaringly flawed framework of superficial articles like this. Of course laptop sales are going down - the only reason they were so high is that they used to be the easiest way to get to the Web. Just like desktop PCs were before laptops. Now that the masses have pocket WebTVs, they no longer need to buy laptops.

Likewise for Internet connections, as you point out. But people who depend on Internet access will value faster wired access rather than limp along with cell service. Perhaps they'll even move to somewhere with more modern wired service than a paltry 1Mbit.
Or too hot. Lots of crops grown on california would be happy in Georgia if not for the heat.
To be more precise, running different cloud customers on different SMT threads of the same core allows them to attack each other.

This is also the case with Spectre-related vulnerabilities such as L1TF.
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I once broke an NDA by posting to a forum about software I was evaluating from a big company. Super not cool. I survived but had a good beat down from the CTO.
How often do they actually abolish something vs. rubber stamping their approval?

If something is disbanded, how often was it due to a legitimate issue of not being necessary, and how often to satisfy a political grudge, bias, or simple lack of understanding by non-expert politicians?

I like this idea in theory, but I'd also like to know more of what the results have been in actual practice because there seem to be multiple failure modes.
There's ongoing work[1] on fixing that. Also let's see how migrating setoids to cubical type theory might fix more issues for Coq. Will they follow the Arend[2] path? That remains to be seen.

[1] https://github.com/coq/coq/pull/10764

[2] https://arend-lang.github.io/about/arend-features
"People who disagree with me should know better"
The dosage recommended for Covid is just the standard dose of 0.2mg/kg and is NOT a 'much higher dose' which was only used in one trial.
The low expectations and decent hourly pay make for great work life balance.

Besides at this point in my career my core competency is no longer being an engineer, it’s navigating organizational chaos to accomplish stuff.
Nah I deleted it a few years ago and I make it a point to say so to every old person I see that brings it up.
10 years ago it was hard. These days the data connection over the cellular network is fast enough that you can just use VOIP and a provider like SIPgate that gives you access to the plain old telephony system. You can even move that number freely between your cellphone, your laptop and your desktop. Or use google phone I guess.
This is not correct, the dosage recommended now is 0.2mg/kg which is just the standard treatment dose when used for parasites.
https://archive.is/8K3L4
Sure?

According to https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10339 the US used 5.38 billion bushels of corn to produce ethanol in 2019.

A bushel is 56 pounds of grain. 87,696 calories. Assume a human needs 2500 calories a day, times 365 days per year. 912,500 calories. About 10.4 bushels of corn. Feed about 517 million people just with the corn the US wastes to make a few thousand Iowa voters happy.

The world is not short of food.

(Although once you start talking about synthetic fertilizers needed to grow that corn...)
I think they were adding something like python’s buffer protocol to ruby3, which should pave the way for something like numpy if there is enough demand. I’m referencing https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14722
uhm he doesn't have problems with the system or the concrete tech used by Moderna and AZ, only with the dubious testing of these vaccines

his research becomes more important if these sort of vaccines become a silver bullet for medicine and basically end the modern flu and entire families of coronavirus; he could be looking at a Nobel prize
It's really nice to only have to worry about one battery, and the physically-larger size of the device gives way more wiggle room to play with Antenna Diversity. I have this setup myself and am not trying to be a luddite: https://i.imgur.com/rUKf33K.png

All the replies are missing my point though since this is currently a niche feature that will eventually be standard for everyone, everywhere. General-purpose computing loses the expectation of spatial privacy, and an individual opting out will just draw the Eye Of Providence's gaze toward them, like how using Tor or reading LKM.net puts you on a list today.
"Formatting facilities in languages other than C are usually type-safe. For example, in Python you get an exception when trying to format a string as an integer"

Seems like that section could use more examples. A fair amount of dynamic languages won't bomb if you try to format a string as a number with their s/printf equivalent. They coerce the string into a number, with sometimes unexpected (though documented) results. Perl, PHP, and awk all do this.
A country without a general speed limit, and home to a couple of companies manufacturing fast cars, begs to differ. But then getting a driver's license here takes real education and practice.
An XPS 13 with ~4K screen & Windows Pro without Office costs $1650. That is similar to what the Apple top model iPhones costs.
That's cool! I do wonder about a few things....

- How does the sewage system work?

- Do worms come into the living spaces?
Reminder that the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes and taxing them is expensive theater.
Also, DOS/4GW, the extender included with with Watcom C was just a cut-down, sub-licensed version of DOS/4G by Rational. The proliferation of the Watcom/DOS/4G combo was because it was out there the earliest.
Please don't cross into flamewar, especially on divisive topics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is anyone here using these tools to teach kids? If so, did you write it up?
Counter to that though, re-inventing the wheel is a great learning exercise.
Only SARS was studied at BSL-4.

Bat coronaviruses were studied at BSL-2 as they were not believed to be dangerous to humans. Reference: the head of the WIV covid lab. https://news.yahoo.com/chinas-bat-woman-center-pandemic-1814... “ Shi said that bat viruses in China could be studied in BSL-2 labs because there was no evidence that they directly infected humans, a view supported by some other scientists.”
We're not just talking about hardware startups, but tiny service businesses and the like. While getting off the ground, they might have minimal startup expenses but also near zero revenue. You might say they should wait until they have more revenue, but there's no good reason to force them to register an LLC later, with all the pointless change to bank accounts and such that entails, if you don't need to. I mean, I don't hate that I paid $50 or so (IIRC) to register my VA LLC, but any more than that is getting to be a bit much.
That's good, since it sounds like there's less water available than there was in the 50s. Still, it strikes me that even if Arizona isn't itself a disproportionate consumer, being between the water source and even larger consumers (i.e. Southern California) it's set up to be in a tough position.

Also, regardless of water availability, the other concerns of climate change are going to affect people living there. There are substantial wildfires every year, and not all that far from (expanding) communities in the Phoenix area, for example.
There's an opportunity cost in _moving_ too; ever heard the saying that three moves equals one fire? If you're in a position you find satisfying, and see a technical and financial advancement path that seems acceptable, don't trade the roots you're putting down for some theoretical improved later slope of earnings.

But keep your resume up to date, and go on interviews from time to time. See what the offers are, and do the math on them. And if the math says "Stay put", ignore the techbros who disdain roots. :)
> Like, my car has a warranty, but one of the assumptions in that warranty is that I'm not likely doing stupid things with my car like running it at the redline constantly. If RedlineCoin becomes the next big thing, it isn't unreasonable for an auto maker to say, "yea, our warranty applies to normal usage for 50,000 miles, not 50,000 miles driving at the red line".

That'd only make sense if 1 GB of chia writes is somehow worse than 1GB of typical workload writes, which I haven't seen good evidence of. AFAIK until few weeks ago the only miner available was quite poorly optimized and didn't put too much strain on the disk. I'm talking 30-50 MB/s writes, which isn't exactly intensive.
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The link on the wiki site is dead.
Ask HN: Why even offer Touch ID if it wont unlock my iPhone?
This may be a very naive question. But whats the point of offering this feature if it simply cant unlock my phone?

background, I quickly reset my pswd last night + created a touch ID. But for some reason its not reading it the simple passcode ( i think it has to do with my new replacement glass that somehow mis-identified ( 2x! ) one of the passcode numbers I entered.

So I'm thinking so what right?! I have my unique finger print..right? NOPE sorry. You will need to restore the phone.

I would assume the unique touch ID would suffice as a unique secure measure and have that suffice/prioritized over a simple 6-digit code that can be easily seen entered by an 8 yr old child.
I'm not talking about correctness though. I'm talking about readability. There are so many (classical!) principles of readability (and debuggability) that are all being violated in that one function:

- Not mixing pre and post increments

- Not altering function arguments

- Minimizing (not maximizing!!) side effects in conditionals

- Putting braces around a loop body

- Having fewer entry and exit points (lots of returns especially make debugging hell)

- Just minimizing needless mutation in general

etc.

To give an example, I have such a hard time figuring out what even 'len' is in your code after the loop, and what it implies. I have to think about whether it's signed or unsigned, whether it might wrap around or not (I actually thought you had a bug until I saw the earlier return), whether it ends as zero or something else, and what its relationship to the pointers is. (e.g., whether they all change by exactly the same amount.) Whereas just using a simple index without modifying the arguments just erases all those problems altogether.

It's one thing to feel they're both equally likely to be buggy (I actually don't particularly agree on that either, but I see what you're saying and think your viewpoint is fine there), but do you find them equally readable/understandable/debuggable too? Surely you can
agree it's easier to read code that modifies just 1 local variable and has 1 return with just 1 extraneous increment than one that modifies 3 arguments simultaneously, misuses the natural point of a loop, and then adds several returns to handle cases with only minor variations?

Btw, I'm not even particularly concerned about your ability to write code like this. I'm worried about propagating dangerous practices to other people. IMO, for people (or teams) who can write exceptionally correct code even in an unconventional manner, I just keep my mouth shut and let them do their thing as best as they can... internally. But seeing practices that are known to be error-prone for decades still being exhibited and propagated to us mere mortals who are likely to make predictable (human) errors is what bugs me. Especially when the very goal is to teach people to write safe and secure code!
The language is a bit misleading.

Korea acknowledges test results from dozens of domestic and foreign labs. Labs already certified by the US, Canada, or EU are covered by a blanket agreement with the respective jurisdictions, and BACL is one of them. This helps reduce friction when importing/exporting from/to these regions. But the blanket agreement doesn't cover China-based subsidiaries of US-based labs.
or they send them abroad - the classic oligarch/despot kid path
NJ is similar. Always hilarious to see the contortions of logic used to explain why roughly 95% of the population-- and any NJ & Oregon resident who leaves the state-- is fully capable of pumping gas, but anyone in these states suddenly become unable to do so.

Heck when traveling through NJ and there was a single attendant at a busy station, I got out and pumped my own gas. No one cared.
A search for Radium in the context of free music or recording software in the early 2000s would have yielded dramatically different results.
Ivermectin is extremely safe, over a billion doses take by humans over the last several decades. Safer than Tylenol.

If you catch covid and you're in a danger group, I would just take it. The evidence that I can see is strong enough to risk 'tylenol' level dangers.
If we're talking about the US over the last 75 years, let's talk about Russia over the last 75 years. That means things like Hungary 1956 and Czechoslovakia 1968.

As for China, the rub on them isn't how they treat their allies. It's how they treat their own citizens. Between famines and Red Terror purges, China is not the model I want.
I'm not into modular, but I'm definitely looking out for the nerdseq portable!
Subsidies bad. Only encourages low quality monocrops that themselves are unhealthy and destroy soil health.
Sure it is, the length is out of band. In fact, you could even use utf-8 to encode the length!
That’s a solution without a buyer in a market that’s about control and indoctrination, or childcare at best. But not education.
Humans also used to commonly starve to death as well.
I think one would be more likely to be shot to death in the street in the US than Russia or China. Especially if I was darker than a paper bag. (edit: when considering being shot by a police officer or other government employee, not any shooting).

The area where it does become a discussion is in terms of political prisoners. in the US, political dissent is punished in a decentralised way; people lose their bank accounts, access to payment providers, are erased from social media, etc. This is framed in the idea that large corporations have the 'freedom' to not do business with you. in russia or china, it is certainly more direct.

In specific cases we have different social constructs due to propaganda. Edward Snowden or Julian Assange are of course traitors, but Navalny is a the hero of the hour. the US state department will criticise any third world country, but they run secret CIA prisons in places like guatanemo bay, kandahar .

Why does Guantanamo bay exist? It is totally illegal under both US and international law. Why does the CIA arrest people from third party countries and put them in infinite detention? What about that plane that was forced to land in Belarus, a tragedy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident

My central point is that a lot of your ideas here are US centric, perhaps Eurocentric. Most other countries are not actually that bad relative to USA or Europe, it is just that there is immense propaganda to erase any wrongdoing of USA/EU from public memory.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/12/russia.israel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia_Airlines_Flight_1812
for instance, you can't even find above article on google if you google "ukraine shoot down russian plane"
Staying too long at my first job. Held back my wages and career. Thankfully I am above the industry level now....but it took a lot of effort to get to it. Lesson: Never say loyal to a company. Stay only loyal to yourself.
I have had Thinkpads with build-in cellular modem since at least 2004.

I wonder if the author is young and missed the era when people would slap cellular modems into their PCMCIA slots. I had one for my PowerBook around 2001.
Hydroponics allow you grow crops in PVC pipes with a lot less water wastage and theoretically maybe even move them around on trucks. You could grow something on a parking lot.

Could be the future if climate change results in unpredictable weather and you don’t want to lose your crop to an early frost.

Northern Ontario has tons of lakes, nice summers and lots of rock to anchor humongous hydroponic towers to.
Google results for Ivermectin is inorganic