skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recently I was looking to donate some money to Sri Lankan charities and was talking to various groups, asking them what their most urgent needs were and where I should allocate money.

One charity was based in the Mullithivu region[1] which is an impoverished rural region in Sri Lanka. The kids there don't neccessarilly have access to the internet or computers at home, so with COVID are left behind as the schools move towards some form of digital teaching.

I thought it was interesting that one of the most effective solutions for this that the charity found was to purchase USB keys loaded with digital curriculums. Apparently while the homes don't have computers, almost all have Smart TVs (to access tamil language programming?) and thus the kids could follow along with school as long as they had their USB keys. The director of the charity also mentioned they were also trying to get the curriculum through phones (he mentioned Viber explicitly, but I'm not sure why it needed to be limited to that), which was another device all families had access to.

We ended up purchasing USB keys for an entire school ($5 each) and money to fund digital content creation. I wonder if there would be a big impact on education in these areas if someone could work out the UX/UI/ergonomics of teaching through mobile phone. Or whether it's just a better idea to fund a infrastructure (school computer labs). The advantage of the former, I suppose, is one could just do it and see if it has an effect.

[1] http://careforedu.org/
Why do they swear by it then?
‘I’m sorry but it’s too late’ a doctor on treating unvaxxed dying Covid patients
Is worth mentioning regarding Argentina and this HN submission in particular that the government is aiming to provide a laptop to every secondary student, they are build (assembled is probably more accurate) in Argentina and they come with a Linux distribution maintained by them called Huayra. I think that is pretty awesome for such a poor country.
Customs in general are annoying, I was arriving to Germany from the US with a new MacBook, I was stopped and they ask me where did I buy the computer, I had bought in Germany, so they say it was fine, they told me to send a copy of the invoice to them, which I did. They were just making sure I paid the taxes there.
From what I heard from Argentineans bribing is very common, but they somehow think people taking the bribes are the only corrupt but not people bribing, or avoiding taxes.
A single celebrity attempting to manipulate the stocks they own via public perception is a fundamentally different thing than a bunch of politicians using their legal power to manipulate the stocks they own for their own personal gain.
>Suppose Constantine never converted to Christianity

What about the changes in wider Roman society that allowed for Constantine's conversion to have a large impact?

>Suppose Louis the XVI had reformed the French government.

Would those reforms have been carried out by the nobility? Would it have been enough to satisfy the peasants?

Focusing on "great men" is a far too simplistic view of history and it ignores the impact that each of us have on history as individuals.
Initially it says that the intended purpose was cocaine, but then it goes on to say that online marijuana and hashish were found.
>> I am interested to see this award program's effects in 10-20 years

One of the challenges of this "pay it forward on steroids" approach is that it will likely be hard to attribute measurable changes to the original investments.

It does seem notable that Bezos has captured a huge set of resources, then paid it out to others for redistribution under their policies and procedures; he's essentially acting like a government which raises some concerns.
An argument from organ function only operates if you believe the process of evolution that created those organs and their "goals" are what defines human meaning.

I personally believe humans derive their own meaning in life. Temporary chemical imbalances and runaway feedback loops of emotional harm can certainly lead to impairment of rational judgement concerning suicide, but that doesn't mean that if you accept the premise that humans derive their own value that there can be rational avenues to suicide.

For situations like accute depression and anxiety (of which I'm intimitely familiar) are situations where I would argue ones judgement is impaired when it comes to suicide, and I don't doubt that said impairment is extrapolable to many other situations.

>A lot of bad things can happen to you in a lifetime, but death is the worst, without a doubt.

I think that comes down to whether you believe that

A) Someone can experience a negative qualia

B) Someone can rationaly predict that said living situation is now a permenant state of affairs with a high enough degree of certainty

C) That death is a negative (negative only insofar as it can effect others) to neutral qualia that is still higher than and therefore preferable to an expected permenant negative qualia.

I'm not of the opinion that this is something that can typically be done independently, as humans are vulnerable to a host of conditions that can impair our ability to make judgement B, and I sure as hell hope that anyone wanting to make that decision trusts the people they ask to help them make it.

The protoypical example people tend to use is alzheimers victims, who are frequently (but not always) permenantly and irrecoverably (for now hopefully) distressed.
It sounds like they are going to end up with their own standard starting from Matrix as a base that will do more than just messaging.

If they had of just set up XMPP as a messaging system we would of never heard of it. It would of been an entirely routine thing to do.
Interesting! Is there a source for that? I remember OmniSharp. It was a blessing when I could start to use vim when I had to use .NET a few years ago. I had no idea that's what LSP grew out of.
> The fact that superdeterminism can violate statistical independence is what lets it violate bell's theorem, right?

Yes, the idea is that the past of both the detectors, experimenters, and particle producer were once interacting, relatively recently in the scheme of the human race (let alone civilization, the big bang, etc.) These correlations would be responsible for the entanglement correlations, not a shared nonlocal RNG reference, but rather an inherited local piece of an old reference.

Nonetheless, superdeterminism doesn't have to be doing anything conspiratorial, but the possibility of doing so, lets it violate Bell/CHSH inequalities.
That she invests a lot, nothing weird there.

That her investments do so well? That's another story.
I can hear past the noise cancellation, so I double it up. This probably isn't necessary for everyone, but does help with complete isolation.
Chinese and other overseas investors own those US desert farms. They were attracted here by the massively generous water rights they get automagically.

ref: https://grist.org/agriculture/u-s-southwest-already-parched-...
One thing I’ve found to be helpful is to make it clear that I won’t be mad about a long estimate

If that’s how long it’s going to take then that’s how long it’s going to take. I think there’s a group of people who are used to getting lots of pushback on their estimates and so they estimate low to avoid that conflict. The future conflict of things being late is not something they have to deal with right now and maybe they actually will get it done.

The key is backing it up continually and really not getting mad about estimates that are longer than I’d like. And, for people who I do think are sandbagging, asking more specific questions about the details of the estimate in a non-combative way.

And of course some people really are bad at estimating. But I find if they don’t improve with coaching then it’s a symptom of a bigger problem (not thinking things through all the way) which manifests in other ways beyond estimation (eg poor design)
Why should we subsidize the cost of them making money?
what, no Debian/Ubuntu ? sigh
Mine is just on the paper, but a feedback is most welcome: https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org

Looking for co-developers for the project. It will be non-profit and open source.
If you are a mere student who was later uncovered to be an unsavory Twitter person, do you speak for the institution? In some ways you do, and in some ways you don't — whether or not you or the institution likes it that way. Similarly, if you are a judge or lawyer and you're later found making unsavory statements about ethnic defendants, do you speak for the institution of law? That is up to the public to decide.

Credibility and reputation aren't precisely in anyone's hands.
I'm imagining that L5 vehicles will be able to travel at vastly higher speeds than human drivers, on a dedicated high-speed autonomous highway network, which could be constructed at a fraction of the cost of rail infrastructure. We would want that because it would eliminate the last mile problem.
Gf had a huge stash she ordered from India years back. I almost ran through them over the years so will need to restock but it doesn't seem as big of a deal as getting rec drugs, more like ordering steroids
Would you say the same things about someone who was formerly a nazi, but who still engaged in far right politics? I do not believe you would.
I really like that the default first song is Solar Fields. (at least for me)

He makes some really great coding albums, notably the Mirror Edge Catalyst soundtrack cannot be missed.

It is over FIVE hours long.
Also it is on Spotify so you can easily offline it.
https://open.spotify.com/album/2wy9EzWP9NuyVt4TSCz3qs?si=UNx...
I feel like this could be said about paid APIs as well? The ones purchasing/signing the contract (business) and the ones using the API (developers) have completely different 'needs'.
People absolutely use water by this metric, but most of it goes to their lawn.
“If the only advantage is the 'pre-filling' part, then I much prefer assembling the data (W2, 1099s, etc) myself and file taxes. Period.”

Why? The government gives you all they know and you can then accept, amend or totally rewrite the return. I don’t see the downside to this.

“2) If US IRS sends me a prefilled tax form with erroneous income, say off by 10%, sure I can correct it and file it but now the onus of proof is on the citizen to disprove the error. You might say 'Ok, it is just prefiling it, you can always correct it' - future laws will ask for proof.”

The burden of proof is on you already when you write your return from scratch. It gets compared to what they know already which is the data a prefilled return would contain.
Part of the problem there is that the domestic market consumes most of the best grades of all types of teas. But it's possible to get really amazing Chinese and Taiwanese teas from tea importers in the US[1] and EU. Some of them are pricey, but not all (and tea is generally not too expensive per cup, compared with lots of other beverages).

1: https://www.uptontea.com/teas/c/oolong-tea/pgsize/12/filter/...
Introductng the Weeklys: Building Customized Live Streaming Apps
Live video and audio streaming is here and its usage is going to grow. But developing streaming apps is quite difficult...that is until we released our API that can rebuild live streaming sites like Twitch in 2 hours.

Every week (the weekly), we will be releasing tutorials on building custom live-streaming apps in different verticals (fitness, movies, education, gaming, event, and more). Check us out here: https://developers.bingewave.com/

A large part of our decision to go this route comes from customer feedback of hosting over 1000 virtual events, in addition to researching, talking, and interviewing 100+ companies from Y-Combinators Startup School to figure out what product-market fit looks like.

Stay tuned, first tutorial out tomorrow! (Props to Crooked I for the Weeklys)
> her husband, Paul, is a longtime investor/VC...but the trades don’t actually look suspicious

I would argue this is an even bigger red flag. Professional traders are much more aware of subtle cause & effects within the markets.

i.e. Not-yet public info about reducing tariffs on imported wheat would lower raw-material cost for bread companies, then would lower the cost for McDonald's hamburger buns, then McDonalds makes more profit this quarter...and Pelosi's husband buys a bunch of options on McDonalds, then dumps the options immediately after the info goes public.

So insider information that seems innocuous to the average person could be used and abused like crazy by professionals like Pelosi's husband.
While that may be accurate, it's still a lot of acerage that is specifically Mojave. At the same time, if I stand on the border of the Mojave in Utah, I'm still in a desert anywhere I go.
Quite unsurprisingly, this distribution has no support for ARM:
https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/article...

I once was excited about Intel releasing their own Linux distro (Clear Linux), but it has the same problem. It looks like Intel is trying to make custom optimized versions of popular open-source projects just to get people to use their CPUs, as they lose their leadership in hardware.
> There’s nothing quirky, loveable or wild about school massacres

This is the result of the negative consequences of a given freedom, and you could say similar things for any given right. This isn't isolated to just the Second Amendment, though, it's true of all rights.

First Amendment: "There's nothing quirky, loveable, or wild about hate speech or anti-Semitism".

Third Amendment: "There's nothing quirky, loveable, or wild about keeping the National Guard from being able to quickly and efficiently respond to medical emergencies in areas far from bases."

Fourth Amendment: "There's nothing quirky, loveable, or wild about letting murderers go free just because of bureaucracy"

I imagine most people would agree with the above statements. I imagine most people would also agree that these rights are all super valuable and provide lots of utility. The "Wild West" aspect of America that most people find appealing, though, is the view that America tends to weight the individual rights side of the balance really heavily (with the tacit acknowledgement that the negative side of things is also bound to be bigger as well).

> and an aggressive, poorly trained but hyper-militarised police force.

No contest here, such police forces are a problem and I think lots of second-amendment advocates would agree.
Same story with Datomic. My conclusion is that databases are hard and require lots of time and resources to be reliable.
Does music helps you concentrate when you need to think hard on a problem? For example, trying to visualize the workings of an algorithm, or other complicated concept?

I personally like music in background maybe for monotonic or dull kind of work
This has been the case for almost every project I've worked on. It starts out as super simple, and then the edge cases roll in, and then the feature creep, and then the bugs start piling up, and now it's been years on a "just a couple months" estimation.
Wireless robotic band art piece
Is it? Farming represents 3% of California's GDP, but 40% of the water. If California decided to simply sell that water to other states and then give the money to the farmers in exchange for not farming, the farmers would probably come out ahead. It's also a lot easier to enforce than making sure people don't grow lawns.
It's pretty ironic to review Jobs' goals to "Make the next great personal computer operating system", since they precisely highlight some of the biggest issues with MacOS today. Apple is no longer shipping a "single OS", they're maintaining a series of progressive LTS releases that seems to be a middle-ground nobody can appreciate. MacOS's metaphorical "plumbing" is far from state-of-the-art, too: the networking APIs are continuing to be gimped, while the userspace continues to be overhauled in confusing, highly abstracted ways. Oh, and killer graphics? MacOS has the least-supported, most esoteric graphics interface available today. I've heard people say that it's easier to write graphics code for the Nintendo Switch, because at least that doesn't force you to use Metal.

All for all, I wholeheartedly agree with what's being said here. After Mojave was released, I get the feeling that Apple started to panic, and began some unnecessary design regressions that really drove people like me away. They started gutting 32-bit apps and libraries, bloating one of the most space-efficient UIs on the market, and undoing a lot of the personalization options that I loved MacOS for. One day, I hope that Apple can put this all aside and make a genuinely great computer. They're holding a lot of the cards, but I still can't recommend the M1 to others yet, much less integrate it into my own professional workflow.
I mean, there's a lot of techno-optimists on this forum diligently huffing the hopium that the eventual (perhaps even imminent) collapse of our current systems will surely be subverted by some great breakthrough. Of course they're going to downvote any view that purports that this is highly unlikely.
About the security content of iOS 14.7 and iPadOS 14.7
If you haven't been at the front of a K12 classroom (and I mean really in front, not the guest lecturer with the teacher in the room to keep things in order), you're not qualified to make that statement. The fact of the matter is that you're with a room full of children. If you can't manage them you can't teach them. Without classroom management, you will fail at everything else. It's easy to forget this when you see a skilled/experienced teacher at the front of the room. They've internalized the management to a level that makes it almost invisible to an onlooker, but it's very much there.
Yes. And overall the country saves a lot of unnecessary work.
Jeff Bezos launching his Syreen Penetrator into space has very "this is why we need a wealth tax" energy.
Now that ZeniMax Media is Microsoft owned lets see how long Id Tech will be around.

Next titles will be most likely XBox exclusives anyway.
We had a far worse experience. We were thinking about upgrading to the Enterprise edition. The sales reps took all our details and several months later complained to our federal client using the details we provided making bs claims about security of the Community edition and licensing to them. All under the guise of "you didn't respond to us about the price quote".

We lost face because of that, although finally the client understood that it was all bs. Stay away from MongoDB and if you have to contact them make sure they sign a strict NDA and don't reveal any details to them.
This is an amazing explanation, thank you for sharing this.
To be honest, that last sentence was my interpretation of the press release as well.
Anyone cares?
Upvote for video game music, my go to is final fantasy sound track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLU2xQ4nkk4&list=PLA9281E60D...
Stopping water consumption is an inadequate solution to our three biggest water supply problems:

1. Desalination

2. Purification

3. Distribution

There would be no shortage of fresh water on earth if we simply put resources into solving these three problems.
Portugal has all drugs decriminalized. I guess smuggling drugs into Portugal is still illegal (and the distance is farther).

Can't wait till we end the stupid "war on drugs".
Be careful what you wish for. I use one application which does not check whether the computer goes from 2 external monitors to the built-in laptop monitor. When I reopen the app on the laptop without the external monitors, all of its windows are drawn completely off the screen. The only way I know how to fix this is to reattach the external monitors, move the windows to the built-in screen, then close the app again.
Yeah, but the fact you can do that is a big sales point for matrix. This concrete system is intentionally restricted to avoid the risk of data loss.
> Would put my money on unacknowledged childhood trauma.

My ex is a very experienced and well-trained child psychotherapist. She insists that all adult psychological problems are caused by childhood trauma.

She seems to rely heavily on R.D.Laing for that (she trained at the Tavistock); I thought Laing had been discredited, but it seems that nowadays he's back in favour.

[Edit] I don't agree with my ex. I think she must have fallen down an antipsychiatry rabbit-hole.
But which of those IP ranges are used by the "runners" as discussed here https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/is-there-a-list-of-source-ip...?
Elected & appointed govt workers and their immediate families shouldn't be permitted to buy/sell any stock while in office or 5 years following.

And they shouldn't be allowed to take jobs/money (including "speaking fees", a.k.a. bribes) from publicly owned corporations for 15 years after leaving public office.
Worldwide glaciers are shrinking: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

I don't know about your example or your source. When you refer to climate changes, you can't use one local sample as your proof.
Electricity is orders of magnitude easier to move than water, and its price is dropping too.
They should grow drought resistant crops that use less water, because what they're doing now isn't sustainable and will end soon. Maybe wheat, maybe some livestock grazing, maybe nothing at all in some parts.
What is with audio apps on web refusing to add volume sliders? I see it on instagram, tiktok, podcast sites, this site, etc. I genuinely don't understand why I would want to manage the volume of one app with my system volume. Do people actually want everything to be the same volume?
Show HN: Kenalo – Human connection, for those who want to be found
I've never even heard of the guy. I'm not criticizing him. I'm just criticizing the article. It raised a fascinating question and then gave 0 info about it. Just a short quote by the guy in question to close the article. I was listening to it on my phone and I thought the rest of the article had been skipped somehow when it ended there.
They rolled it in to BBEdit a couple of releases ago. TextWrangler is now effectively ‘BBEdit free mode’
It is my understanding that AWS very nearly killed ElasticSearch. If I were [working at] MongoDB, I wouldn't want that to happen to my product, either.
The Great Lakes Compact forbids that. As an agreement between states it went through US Congress, so theoretically an act of Congress could repeal or modify it. However this seems unlikely to me due to the Midwest's outsized political influence and how protective locals are of the lakes.
I think this topic is REALY personal for various people. Some people need silence, some people need music to be able to drown out distractions. I bet that even with people suffering from severe ADHD (like myself) the answer swings wildly. Solar Fields (default artist in the link) was the backing artist to a large corner of work Ive done over the last few years.
Thanks so much!! Extremely helpful, and we'll address that asap
This reads like literal satire, jesus christ...
So far personalized medicine based on DNA sequencing has been mostly a bust. In most cases the data isn't really actionable. It might tell you that you have an elevated risk for certain conditions but in most cases the absolute risk is still low. Or there's not much you can practically do to lower the risk.

There are a few exceptions like BRCA where the risk from certain genotypes is high enough to justify aggressive preventative care.
Previously (2018): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18098899

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/how-the-we...
So that's your opinion, and it's a perfectly valid opinion. We also need a better plan on how to use the water sooner rather than later, so we need to tell the Governor to get off his damn ass and do something productive rather than wasting water for his own damn benefit. If you can't see how that's just not conflict of interest, then we really can't have a proper conversation.
My private healthcare is substantially cheaper than the state one my SO has too...
Why aren't there more programming-language startups?