skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my own perhaps limited experience, I've never really encountered anyone who is simply incapable of deep thought / critical thinking. I've met plenty of people who have a learned helplessness when it comes to, say, math. I've studied alongside classmates who could't spend as much time studying as me, simply because they had to support themselves with part-time or full-time work just to keep their head above water. I've met plenty of people who are more or less happy with their current job, and spend time thinking critically about their hobby or other non-academic things.

Sure, all other things held equal, maybe inherent intelligence is the limiting factor. But that's the point -- not everything else is equal. There are barriers other than IQ preventing people from achieving more, and I think we'd all be better off helping them overcome those barriers.

Besides, IQ tests are a pretty phony measure of intelligence. They're about as reliable as lie detectors.
As with health care, the US spends near the top[1] per student and ranks among the worst for results.

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd
I do! In fact, I work like 90 hours a week. I decided to go the bootstrap way (looking back not sure if that was the best idea, but we are where we are), but we're growing 3X year over year, so things are picking up. :)
Well, that's France for you. The ÖBB Nightjet network is a lot less centralized:

https://www.nightjet.com/dam/jcr:6a8041cb-0131-4ad3-84fd-251...
Instructions show how cops use GrayKey to brute force iPhones
What motivates you? What do you actually enjoy doing?
Water Color Sort Puzzle – Bottle Game
Lr_cstats, collect and report hi-res histograms in multi-threaded programs
No amount of money will fix a broken system from the inside since the money will go to those who broke the system in the first place.
Not while using an alphabet with just 5 vowel letters. Switching to IPA would do the job, though.
I would like to know more about the zombie apocalypse number
Yes? Organizing is very very hard. There are lots of people bad at organizing who still are capable negotiators and who understand my interests as a worker and how to protect them.
Agreed, real wages are not the whole picture, but any metric can be manipulated to show whatever we like. For me, the purchasing power of the median individual is one of the best 'simple' pieces of data to track over time, but that can can hide the difference between geographical areas, and how we calculate PPP is controversial.

What to do? Look at a broad range of outcomes like social mobility - indicators that can't be moved directly and themselves have an impact on future change.
Your experience matches mine, apart from that I find that if I'm procrastinating on important/severe enough things, then my ability to do even things I enjoy diminishes too.

Personally I think the reason is that the cognitive dissonance gets in the way... I know that I absolutely should urgently do X (important thing I'm putting off) and all the time I don't, I cannot reconcile a deliberate decision to do Y (trivial thing I'd really enjoy). So with the inability to do either X or Y, I just end up being fully stuck and in total deadlock.

Most of the time this situation is preceded by many days, weeks or months of me DOING all those things I enjoy while blissfully neglecting the things I should be doing. It's the end result of this behaviour that eventually leads to the deadlock.
Honestly, both of these, the car accident and the gas tank are being treated exactly the same here. You've looked at the given "truth", evaluated it, and then come to a decision on whether it's worth it or not. It's explicitly making that decision and that trade off.

what andrepd said felt far more like a handwave

>However, we found that (1) reproductive freedom (2) constitutionalism and democracy (3) religious freedom, are all conducive to a better society. It's impossible we'll ever find otherwise.

It's a denial of a hypothetical, which is not engaging with the core point, but instead attacking the analogy instead. It's a standard (and often unintentional) logical fallacy.

This is my interpretation of the conversation. Please avoid approaching this from the "perfect hypotheticals" perspective, their perfection is besides the point.

A: We have a perfect target metric, and we've found that C, which we philosophically like, performs far worse than B, which we find abhorrent

B: There's no perfect metric, and if there were, we've already found C is better, and there's no way how C could be worse.

It's deliberately avoiding the point.

To break it down even further:

>However, we found that (1) reproductive freedom (2) constitutionalism and democracy (3) religious freedom, are all conducive to a better society.

we've already found C is better

>It's impossible we'll ever find otherwise.

there's no way how C could be worse.
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That was the progression when I took (the now well-known) CS50 at Harvard. Learn C first, then Lisp, then write a Lisp compiler in C. That was a lot of years ago, so one could argue that is an outdated approach now, but I think it still provides a strong foundation of CS fundamentals.
Holy hell dude, are you calling the working class lazy and the professional class hard-working?! This tells me you don’t have a lot of contact with the working class. The working class busts their asses while most software devs I know work about 2 hours a day from their couch in pajamas.

Someone who works at a warehouse or fast food joint is a much harder worker than a software architect. Probably also working 60-80 hours a week across a couple jobs just to pay rent. Meanwhile I just spout bullshit all day and play corporate politics without really knowing anything nor having much ambition, and I’m somehow worth 20-40x what someone at an Amazon warehouse is.
Those are all standard benefits for tech workers in America (at least if you're willing to move to a tech hub, which is where the interesting work is anyway). Plus 50-200% more pay.

I do agree that Europe does a good job of guaranteeing decent working conditions for the bottom half of the labor market, and it's totally reasonable to prefer a society where those benefits are widely available to everyone. But from an individual comp/benefits perspective for a skilled engineer there really isn't a comparison -- the US wins hands down.
For what we expect of schools they are underfunded. Schools provide before and after care outside of normal hours, they provide all 3 meals to many students. Counseling, social services, health care ... it's not just teachers in the classroom.

Now, if the US wanted to actually fix poverty and inequality dealing with the symptoms wouldn't roll down to the schools to deal with.
> I'm not sure what you mean. Here's an example with the output from std::optional being unwrapped and put in a struct member: https://godbolt.org/z/Ms4Kar18j

And now you have to do this for every type that have some amount of preconditions. I don't understand in which universe this is sane - more code == more bugs.

e.g. here's what one would write with exceptions: https://godbolt.org/z/evMsh6383 (and, to be honest, if one is writing e.g. a command-line tool and not a reactive gui app, most likely https://godbolt.org/z/eW8YM5Gz4 as your OS will catch the thing anyways and then it's just a `coredumpctl gdb` / "open in debugger" away) ; you get the same guarantee of never having an invalid Foo but at much less mental cost.

It also prevents you of having aggregates as all the "parent" owner class will need their own wrapping in optional + private ctor, in case a sub-sub-sub-sub field would fail.

e.g. given

struct DomainObject {
Foo mainFoo;
Foo secondaryFoo;
int whatever;
};
struct GameState {
std::vector<DomainObject> objects;
};

now you can't just do DomainObject{initForMainFoo, initForSecondaryFoo, 123}; or DomainObject{.mainFoo = "", .secondaryFoo = "", .whatever = 123}; anymore, even less GameState{{DomainObject{...}, DomainObject{...}}; which is how modern C++ is meant to be used
I'm not American, but the core flaw that I've never had explained away for me in voucher or "school choice" systems is how "bad" schools get better.

E.g., school in my district is bad. They don't have enough resources, or their teachers are bad. People begin taking their kids out of the school which means the school now has less money. Assuming they could fire teachers at will, they can't even now afford the "better" teachers who would likely cost more. They definitely can't afford more learning resources or an expansion to lower class sizes.

So how do you prevent schools either going into a vicious or virtuous cycle?
You said “everyone else” besides Tesla uses 4D radar, and “that's why Teslas have poor performance like phantom braking”. But there are zero production vehicles on the road using this tech right now.
If anyone can be a woman, then no one is a woman.
I think you're wrong. Doers have always been able to progress better than parasites, across social classes. Since the beginning of time.

What "changed", is that before, imagination and creativity were unnecessary for the mass. You had the field, the factory, your dad's craft or utility store, the army, the navy etc etc. Things were predictable, sorted by first level need.

Now hum you're a data analyst in a crypto exchange, what's the public school doing to make others armed to reach this social function?

I had a french education, very wide and messy, strict and deep, in a safe and rich private school, and I find that lack of desire to focus on easy equalitarian checkboxes gave me the flexibility to accept there's no purpose or goal to life and you have to adapt. In the Hong Kong bank I work at now, I see an enormous over-representation of french people and I wonder if that's a tell... but maybe it's just we learned english and flee the country.

So weirdly, I think before people did stuff and today you have to create stuff, education cannot be simple and follow premade receipes to teach peasants how to read to be the equal of factory workers. It has to go deep, focus on building a dynamic intelligence.

Or in not so many words: maybe equality isn't as useful to teach or reach as adaptability.
I.Q. is overrated because it lets failing educators and failing educational methodologies ("let the kids discover all the math by themselves! See, no need to teach!") off the hook. I'm willing to bet that even a random kid with no more than a room temperature I.Q. can learn all the algebra they need for school by playing some DragonBox.
can we feed items from an API to a data list?
That was my point. Union contracts generally have an overtime clause. If they don't then saying "See you Monday" a completely rational thing to do.
I think he says that 70% of kids in one group are fatherless, and 30% of kids in another group are. And then saying that there must be an achievement gap because of this difference.
It's remarkable how much the per capita, inflation corrected cost per pupil in California has gone up in 50 years.

My own elementary school (not in CA), has double the amount of staff with the same pupil head count, plus I don't doubt that the salaries have risen faster than inflation and/or GDP improvements. OTOH, teachers were famously poorly paid in days of yore.
Some years ago there was a big one. Pls see here https://www.capitalmind.in/2015/01/the-inflexion-point-for-t...
I feel like the US has to split into separate countries and maybe adopt a system like EU. Everything in the us gets so generalized no one has any agency over it except companies with enough money to push a narrative across 300 mil people. Either that or the way you think about US has to change. I find it hard to believe every state does things the same way but still you say "US" has a problem and not Georgia or California. Why not think locally to your state which has a lot of independance in how it does things? Maybe then it would be easier to push reform
It is usually "straight white men", although the movement will readily make exceptions for Milo Y. et al.
That's impossible to some degree because English pronunciation varies so much across dialects.

Or rather, you could make writing phonetic but then spelling would have to vary by dialect.
Has anyone tried Plover with Kinesis Advantage?
I love my keyboard, I am deeply habituated to use it and I tried many other (similar) boards, but I just don't feel as much comfort with anything else.
I wanted to learn Plover for a long time, but I don't think my keyboard is a good option here.
What do you guys think?
Huh, neat. What's a "fox" in this context? I tried searching "qt fox" and got some, ahem, less than salient results.
I did not. Reading comprehension is key.
People said that about Trump. I don't think that strategy paid off for him
I wasn't trying to say it is a shared experience. A few Mandarin speakers were attacked in streets prior to my visit. It definitely had me question my safety in the city. I didn't have any issue while I was in HK, but it was just how I felt, I wouldn't feel safe without my white colleague.
This is great news. Hasura is... the best. A truly empowering piece of software. Along with React, TypeScript, xstate... not sure what I'd do without Hasura. Looking forward to upgrading when I get the chance. Thank you Hasura team!
To know they can interact with it.

If the field is optional they might just skip it to not type.

Not everyone can hover over it.
I struggle to believe that intelligence is fundamentally limited, but I often wonder if the child brain is super susceptible to negative effects based on their environment. Anecdotally, if your parents did not do well in school, and you were born into relative poverty, chances are you aren't going to be an Oxford professor. But if your parents are well educated professionals, it's more likely you're going to follow in their footsteps.

I think education is the great equaliser, but it needs to be nourished early and often or you quickly lose out.
Git does (though it will use the old-style dotfile if one is present). All of modern GNOME and I think KDE does. More generally see <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory>.
> First, if you look at Europe as a whole, you will see that sleeper trains were never really dead.

In the UK, experiences vary. The new Caledonian Sleeper (London-Highlands) is apparently a pretty rubbish experience. However, I took the Night Riviera (London - Cornwall) a few years ago and found it a pretty good experience even though I very nearly missed my stop in Truro. The problem for a business traveller is that you would need a shower.

The other problem facing the Caledonian sleeper is that London-Glasgow is only something like 4 hours and the day trains are very good. The same is not so true for getting out to Cornwall.
We are in a very similar situation. We've given up so many niceties of modern housing to be able to build. Currently we live in a trailer that was in disrepair years ago. It's a stepping stone to our eventual home.

I feel you on the losing the mind over matter aspect. I simply cannot let that happen to myself though, since for some reason it's deeply ingrained in me.

Often I do exercises to try and extend my ability to overcome the internal desire for creature comforts. Things like swimming through the ice in frozen lakes, staying in the sauna beyond my pain threshold, fasting, picking a particularly difficult physical exercise and pushing my limit (common in weightlifting, pushing past the burn), things like that.

I try to make sure I'm not finding pleasure in the pain, however, since that is in the realm of masochism and I feel that is the path to self-destruction.

Does anybody else do this? What else do you do?
Is the education the new to education people on the bottom level are getting really the same?

We have heard plenty of stories of grades watered down to meet graduation targets, students being unable to get less than 50%, the proliferation of crappy for profit schools like Corinthian, and students being piped into college just to take tons of remedial courses.
This is a really interesting philosophical problem, about qualia generally, but specifically "what it's like to be a something". See the classic essay by Nagel[0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%...
Outsource your job to me, I'll take 50% of your FAANG salary
Organizing involves building close relationships amongst a larger and larger network of people. The President flying somewhere doesn't do that. The article describes this.

The Democratic party often confuses activism and media presence with organizing, and focuses on get-out-the-vote and media strategy without having done the work of organizing strongly-tied networks on the ground. The Obama campaign was the exception, because Obama had worked as an on-the-ground organizer.
Legend. I've heard the original GOAL code is floating around somewhere online. Is there any chance Sony ever releases it into the public domain?

I notice another game today on here using ClojureScript. Apart from a lack of tooling / engine, is Lisp better suited for gamedev?
Related, how the Smalltalks pull it with no need for tail call optimization: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37089768/does-pharo-prov...
More than one of them actually said 'rat poison'?

If it had been 'shit' or something generic like that I might believe it, and I can believe one said 'rat poison', but I find that headline very hard to believe.
On the other hand, all the graphical glitching you speak of is entirely unique to the system. A whole genre of independent games has risen dedicated to replicating it. We've seen a proliferation of hundreds of "PSX style" horror games in the past few years. YouTube channel Alpha Beta Gamer [1] displays many of them (no commentary).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/AlphaBetaGamer/videos
Quantum computing 40 years later
PS1 and N64 visuals have both aged poorly, though I agree, I think the PS1 is the toughest to go back to from a visual perspective. The shimmering polygons that you see on the PlayStation and on the Saturn feels unacceptable by today’s standards and then they are both also notorious for long load times.

The N64 has it’s own set of graphical limitations, but hold up a bit better to the test of time, IMO. At the time I know it was the school yard debate of which looked better and many felt the sharpness of the PS1 was preferred over the softer N64 image.
We do all of that in Canada, for 3K per student less AND get much better results (at least on average).
Men would still win 99% of the time.
What is the shortest word that doesn't exist?
> You then get a "working class" with no real skills/education/ambition... they do not "do", which leads back to my first comment

This you?
> so that we would no longer have to wait on web standards to evolve

Isn't that exactly what we have today? I want a better <select> element, I drop in Select2. I want modals, I use Bootstrap modal. And so on. Particularly with libraries like React and Vue, where we literally type `<autocomplete options="..." />`.
Algorithmic detection of misinformation and disinformation (2017)
Congress does, however decide how western states manage much of their land - a majority in some states.
Whereas Amazon you think has a grander purpose beyond milking profits out of a monopoly?
But we are top of the charts in percent overhead. USA! USA!
> ADHD is the new Aspergers

WTF does that even mean
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The article discusses the price:

Aumont was reluctant to give ticket prices, but said these would be competitive with that of a short-haul flight, including what he called the “hidden costs”.

“This includes what you would have to pay for baggage and things like taxis to and from the airport,” he said.

So it will cost more than a flight, but not by much.

>> Train travel is just too expensive.

Why do you say this? I travel through Europe by train a couple of times a year at least. It's certainly not "too expensive" and if you book early it comes out the same as flying.
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I know this is asked before, but can someone concisely describe when you should use Hasura, and when Hasura is the wrong abstraction for your problem?
This article talks about the pros and cons of hiring Django freelancers vs a Django software development company.
https://steelkiwi.com/blog/hire-django-developers-freelancer...
You haven't gotten an explanation because people who advocate for "school choice" systems don't want the bad schools to get better. They just don't want their kids to interact with people who go to the bad school.
Are you guys hiring ?Where can I apply?
Big tech companies, especially Google, are spending massive amounts of money to get everyone in the world to code. Don't be fooled by their faux-magnanimous PR bullshit, this is an effort to drive down their largest expense: software developer salaries.
>successively more left-wing governments

Oh, so that's how wealth inequality skyrocketed? each government was more left wing than the previous when it dragged down taxes?

>And the result has been detrimental to the efficiency of public spending, whether you look at education

It's paywalled so it's hard to tell how they measured productivity but most measures of teacher productivity are hot garbage akin to measuring developer productivity by lines of code written.

That's likely twice as true when a "finding" as politically useful as "unions bad for productivity" goes.

The private sector hates public sector unionization. They have to compete with it and it makes unionization in their industry more likely.
This is not necessarily true. Well-being depends almost fully on your team and immediate manager which will be roughly the same size in both. Having a small group might even exacerbate anxiety, larger companies give you the advantage of easily changing teams when it’s not working.
Isn't this kind of the purpose of the 'verbatim' search setting?
A lot were being discontinued, and the number had declined substantially in the last few years.
Clarity required: bullshit she should compete as a female, or bullshit she shouldn't?
Vercel raises $102M Series C for its front-end development platform
Therapy and a good psychiatrist is a great first step. When you have work issues, anxiety, and other things going on it can really be hard to tease out what's the cause and what's the effect.

A good therapist can help you figure this out, and give you better coping strategies.

It took me years to figure it out but I struggled to be consistently productive because of a mix of untreated insomnia, adhd and bipolar 2. What made the difference for me was really analyzing my symptoms, seeking out goal/skills-oriented therapist (a PsyD not a MFT), and not giving up after the first psych med or two didn't work.

I've seen people who really lack the awareness to know that they're underperforming, or the willpower to try to fix it and get help. Thankfully you don't seem to be one of those people.

Also, I'm going to echo everyone and say that you should probably get screened for ADHD. With ADHD it's very common for an inability to focus -> frustration that you can't get things done as fast as you should be -> depression/anxiety.

> There are phases where I work with high motivation but it fades easily. I have found I work on my side things with interest but I am not a completer. I complete around 80% of things and then leave them.

Probably describes most of HN so don't feel too bad about that haha.
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