skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that its not as simple as concluding the US wastes money and is ineffective at teaching. The schools in the US do a lot more than instruction, and work with a different set of students.

We certainly could learn from what works around the world, but comparing raw numbers is simply not helpful.

We can also learn from what works in different states. For instance, Massachusetts, as a state, has PISA scores that are on par with the best in the world.
hmm I found the eBook functionality to be passable. I read ebooks and PDF's on my Remarkable 2 all the time

>It absolutely sucks as a general purpose device because everything except the very core experience is flat-out missing.

As is intended, I do not want a general purpose device, I want an electronic notebook, to replace what used to be many many paper notebooks I used to keep meeting notes, daily activity logs, quick todo lists, etc.

I do not want email on it, I do not want notifications on it, I wanted to replace my paper notebook, and be able to read ebooks

The Remarkable 2 replaced my Paper-white and all physical notebooks for me.
Check out this one on the creation of Grey Goose and the invention of the super premium category. Great story on luxury branding https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/bizfinance/biz/features/10816...
My takeaway is that the facility director clearly has nothing useful to do if they’re having meetings over a shoeless person at 6pm, and probably should’ve been let go.
The premise of this article is a bit disingenuous or naive or something. Minimalism as a design aesthetic goes back a long time in different settings; if you're familiar with the history of Chinese ceramics you'll be familiar with this. Over the centuries tastes swung from more minimalist designs to more baroque ones. Both have appeal and there's no reason to assume, as the piece does, that there's something odd about minimalist aesthetics. Shaker design is similar, etc.

The other thing to recognize is that there's a certain skill in minimalism too. Baroque designs make it much easier to hide flaws in craftmanship, and it takes a certain advanced skillset to hide structural features that are needed. To take a hypothetical example, if you're building wood furniture, it's much more difficult (or at least as difficult) to make a strong joint that's hidden and seamless, than to screw it together with an exposed screw, or to hide the screw with a decorative feature. If you mess something up architecturally, it's extremely difficult to hide it on a smooth surface with no texture. When you don't have any trim, everything has to be perfect. I'm sure the same applies to clothing and all sorts of things.

Even if none of this were true I think it's fairly simple: a large proportion of people liking something because it's traditional is actually a reason to abandon it among the [self-perceived if nothing else] cutting-edge. It's old-fashioned, out of touch, etc. It will come again but in different forms.

Finally, I really don't think traditional stuff isn't made anymore. It's just appearing in different places. There's plenty of "transitional" traditional homes out there, they just don't appear in architectural magazines or even large newspapers because no one wants to highlight them unless they're neo-something-interesting.

The piece raises questions I've sort of wondered about sometimes but overall it seems to be driven by a set of assumptions that aren't necessarily warranted. It comes across to me as trying to justify their own preferences really.
Ok, we've changed the title to what the (new) article actually says. (Submitted title was "India bans all form of Recurring Card Charges".)
Yeah, these are the parts conveniently ignored in almost all documentaries on this subject. There was also a legal dispute between Eckert-Mauchly and von Neumann about precedence of invention of early computer architectures.

Good thing there was a "steady hand" Eisenhower that green lit dropping of the bombs on general population, otherwise who could have known what kinds of justifications the japs academics would have come up with to wash out the atrocities of their imperial administration?

As always, history is written by the winners.

[Edit]: Confused Eisenhower with Truman
No, it isn't easier. Which you would know if you had bothered actually reading up on the matter.
Sorry the wrong search link was posted because HN's algo modified my post automatically (or a ninja mod), this one should be correct: https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/search/?q=assange&sort=re...
it was, in Opera up to 12.xx. You just dropped .js files in designated directory and it _always_ ran before executing website js.
What Does It Mean to Be Intelligent? – With Howard Gardner
It doesn't really matter if these posts are intentionally being used to gather data, someone's gathering it.

Cross-reference some of the security question posts like "first car" with large data leaks and you're bound to get some matches eventually. Scammers in some countries can live for years off of one good bank account hit, and many of them make a living just reselling the data before it even gets that far.

We need some serious public education about freely sharing information on the internet. Like "this is your brain on drugs" nationwide PSA campaigns.
Steve Jobs famously called Dropbox "a feature, not a product".
> A lot of this had to do with the rise of Nazism which led to a lot of these high powered intellectuals fleeing Germany and Eastern Europe for the US.

The Nazis managed to drive out a large portion of Europe's best scientists & mathematicians (Von Neumann, Einstein, Gödel [eventually... it took him a while to realize how bad things were] just to name a few). Most of which ended up in the US or the UK. Which in turn meant that in WWII Nazi Germany was at something of a scientific disadvantage without realizing it was of their own making. Add to this the Nazi critique of of what they called "Jewish science" - things like relativity, quantum mechanics, even Gödel incompleteness theorem got this label - did not allow them free inquiry into many of these areas.
I certainly have a direction, for example I want (yes, want, not "would like", or, "it would be nice to have") to get a certain work position and I work to put myself, through visibility and persuasion, in the best spot to get that position. Now, day-to-day planning? Sometimes, it depends how far away the goal is, but having a direction is essential for a life full of satisfaction, enjoyable time, and meaning. It does not mean that the plan/direction can change if other opportunities should arise, but I made the mistake in the past of being optionality-driven and in the end I saw that I was waiting for what, exactly?

I worked (and worked out!) many years to get a certain belt in a certain martial arts, and also in that case, direction, energy, and will was enough to get me where I wanted.

Susan Flower, of Uber fame, has a recent interest post on planning.
I broadly agree, with vaccines I don't really think there's a good reason to keep schools closed. Before I think it made sense to err on the side of caution.
There were a few things in the WeWork story that were way closer to the fraud line than you're implying here including circular revenue and self-dealing.
This post makes some salient points about the challenges of team knowledge sharing:

- Tree structure is too strict for cross departmental content ex sales to customer success handoff - should that be under sales or customer success?

- The right answer can be found in multiple tools - companies are not going to ditch Google Sheets / Excel for Notion tables

- A common source of truth needs to take into account the variability in skill - some users are going to be heavier users or more technical than others

- Collaboration needs to be as good as Google Docs or else people will just use Google Docs

It looks like the author is envisioning a new solution with Dokkument but if you want an existing one, take a look at https://slab.com. It’s designed to focus on team knowledge sharing while recognizing that it will be part of the productivity stack. For example, there is have a Content Map feature that shows a bird’s eye view of the entire information topology (with filters and drill down possible) and even mass reorganize from there. Integrations are first class with search retrieving results from other tools and rich linking that will preview external content. Knowledge sharing used to be an afterthought for a lot of teams but with the world going remote it’s exciting to see the innovation and prioritization pick up in this space.

Disclosure: I am a co-founder of Slab
I can't speak to iPads but the RM2 really almost feels like paper, it's very close to having a real sketchpad.
Hard disagree, particularly when non-technical people are involved. Most I've worked with are awful at organizing, labeling, and just generally managing large amounts of data scattered across a bunch of files (something we do daily as software developers, so understandable), and giving them flexibility and freedom in organization will result in a shit show
Only true of Covid classic, the Delta variant negates that.
Almost nobody is building meaningful relationships outside of their year group. It's an unhealthy state of affairs that wasn't this way in our ancestral past. A side effect of going for economies of scale in schooling. It contributed to my own immaturity as a teenager. I would've been better off with actual friends older than me and especially some actual friends older than 25.

This is one thing home schooling has going for it, where the social life is built around activities with other home schooled kids who likely differ in age. It's much harder for kids to get caught up in the typical pet immaturities and stupidities of their age group.
Yeah, I've long thought a diff tool that works on s-exprs instead of lines would be invaluable for Lisp programming. It doesn't seem like it would be too hard to write, either, although getting GitHub etc to use it seems like it would be its own challenge...
First thing that came to mind when I saw nt was “no text” shorthand (or no topic). Can’t quite pick where but suspect from IRC a long time ago.
We need dynamic code analysis: the example of the PVS-Studio project
> It would be nice if I could configure my browser to rotate through different searx instances rather than configuring one as the default search engine.

That can be achieved using the Privacy Redirect [1] extension, set it to redirect search engine calls and it will use a random engine. The list contains more than just instances of Searx and can by default not be edited by users so you might have to get the source [2] and build a version with only those search engines you want to use. It can redirect many other corporate entities like Youtube, Twitter, Instagram (which does not really seem to work but since I never go there anyway I don´t really know), Reddit, Maps (Google etc) and others. I have it redirect to private instances of Invidious (for Youtube), Nitter (for Twitter) and LibReddit. I do not use search engine redirect since I run a custom Searx instance which doubles as an intranet search engine and as such offers more than any public instance.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir...

[2] https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect
HackZurich 2021 – Final Pitches
While it's hard to attribute "saving a relationship" to any one thing, yes, I've seen multiple relationships where this book helped the couple's communication during a crisis in a very long-term relationship; surfacing some things that (with hindsight) could and needed to be communicated and fixed many years ago but which simply were not; because they lacked "skill"(? or had ingrained/cultural barriers?) to meaningfully talk with their partner about the specific issues and unmet needs they had.

However, your objections seem to be about something other than what I'm talking about - what I hear in your responses is something like equivocating "Understand that it's their love language" with "you should accept it unconditionally", especially in the context of abusive relationships, which is definitely not what I'm arguing about. The decision whether a particular relationship is good for both people involved and whether should continue is orthogonal to that aspect, and "love languages" don't/shouldn't affect that decision; But in the context of various one-sided and possibly relationships, however, understanding that (for example) one partner really only cares about sex in this relationship and doesn't care about the other aspects - well, that's useful information to make the decision whether to move on away from the relationship.

I see it's use solely as a means of improving communication, and it's scope limited for couples which have a problem with that communication (which is common) and also a mutual desire to improve it (which is not that common, and already excludes many destined-to-fail relationships), in this regard, it's useful only if applied by the couple, not by one of them. It's definitely not an universal solution - it solves a particular type (though IMHO popular) of miscommunication, and if the couple has fixed those, this book will be useless for any other types of problems in their relationship.
> I want poor people to stop losing their money to scammers

Then your ire should be directed at scammers, not a specific implementation detail of their scams. Should we abolish wire transfers and gift cards because scammers use those in scams, too? How about stocks, while we're at it? Those get pumped and dumped all the time, too.

> I want cryptocurrencies shut down so they stop using insane amounts of power so that people can gamble.

> We all indirectly gain if cryptocurrencies cease to exist, because less carbon will be released into the atmosphere.

Not all cryptocurrencies are proof of work; proof of stake, for example, is increasingly common (Cardano is the biggest current example, and Ethereum is moving toward it) and uses negligible energy (and therefore releases negligible carbon into the atmosphere).
Fuck zodiac signs.

Tell me what kind of car you plan to buy next!
The one piece of software/extension I have used since I had the internet was Ublock by gorhill. I wanted to donate to him but he doesn't accept donations. If you are reading this gorhill I love you mate.
In my American public school, and likely where the parent is from, there are not mixed-grade lunches, clubs, or any classes, until around 9th grade or 14ish years old. Interactions with teachers and faculty is extremely limited by the ratio (at least 1:20) and the context ("You need to remain quiet and do as we tell you").

Kids that have siblings, neighborhood friends, or social activities like boy scouts, which generally include children over a range of ages, really appreciate it.

It sounds like your school had access to this stuff already though, do you think it was valuable?
Josef Pieper has written a couple of books ("Leisure: the Basis of Culture" and "Happiness and Contemplation") about solitude and contemplation that are worth a look.
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The "ad blocker detected" is annoying, mostly because I don't have an ad blocker installed. I do have a tracking blocker, which just happens to blocks some ads, due to them tracking me. Just stop the tracking and you won't get blocked.
Feynman was the youngest group leader at Los Alamos. He was also fairly instrumental in ensuring Oak Ridge didn't have an accidental criticality incident due to the way they were storing uranium oxide.
They won't know when you use an alt DNS or DoH.
Many problems in physics are perturbative. Then, approximate methods suffice to get reliable answers. In Asimov’s “relativity of wrong” it’s the perturbative nature of gravity—-gravity is very weak—-that makes “the Earth is a sphere” less wrong than “the Earth is flat”. So, if you need an answer to only such-and-such precision, the approximation scheme lets me know how hard I must work to achieve reliability at that scale. Once I get the precision I need I can stop.

Electrodynamics is like that. There is a number, the fine structure constant, about 1/137, that gives the natural scale for how big the next step in the approximation is, compared to the size of the current step. So, if I need to know the answer to 1 part in 10^9, I’m going to need to do 4 or 5 steps of fixing up the approximation (each fix, of course, being a great deal more arduous).

QCD, and other “strongly coupled” or “non-perturbative” problems are not like that. If you make the dumbest approximation (flat-earth) and then fix it up a bit (sphere earth), answers don’t change just a little. They change completely. In QCD the number that characterizes the “obvious” approximation (the Feynman diagram approach)—-the number that’s 1/137 for electrodynamics—-is about 1.5. That’s a disaster! The approximation scheme is obviously no good—-you learn that you can never stop improving your approximation, because if you only worked “a little harder” your answer could change completely.

Other approaches are required.
This specific part of the article falls flat for me, and I think its presence makes the article worse: "It doesn’t take much time on a search engine to find examples of Popperianism wielded by deniers."

If you accept the author's internal logic that groups like e.g. the Clear Energy Alliance are fundamentally acting in bad faith, then it should be abundantly clear that that a group making that sort of denialist argument by definition does not actually care one iota about whatever philosophy is being invoked. Philosophers have a long, time-honored tradition of producing bodies of work with the intent of destabilizing "naive" epistemology. If it wasn't Popper, it'd be Kuhn or Feyeraband or Derrida or Lacan or, or, or, ad infinitum. (Honestly based on my deeply informal and decidedly non-academic use of social media over the past decade, I always found Kuhn's work to be the more popular plaything for people engaging in most forms of science denialism).

Fundamentally, consider any case where a person believes that a.) some proposition P about reality holds, like "cigarette smoke causes cancer" and b.) there is a preponderance of scientific evidence in favor of P, and c.) there exist well-funded entities intentionally producing bad-faith/dishonest/equivocal work that either implies the negation of P or that the evidence in favor of P is flawed. If a person accepts (a), (b), and (c), then it seems most reasonable to also accept that the denialists in (c) probably don't genuinely care about things like "intellectual rigor" or "identifying a useful epistemological model for science." The thin philosophical veneer is just a disposable bauble intended to give a sense of academic respectability to bad work.
> [ad blockers]' continued existence and unhindered operation should be legally protected

I love that idea
To be fair, SharePoint always sucked and was never any good.
The correct column width is calculated from the first n rows not the full file.

A stream does not work for tv because a stream does not know how many rows are in the file a priori. Displaying the dimensions of the file is a priority for `tv`. I am very happy with that trade-off. I would rather know the dimensions of a file than have a file stream of unknown dimensions.
Technically feasible sure, but I thibk I used 1100m3 gas last year (would have to look it up teo be sure). So to invest 30000 euro to save 50% of that makes no economical sense. Only when the windows need replacement anyway I'll upgrade to the latest and greatest. But for now I'm conetemplating investing in a moderate air/air heatpump (about 5000 euro, 5kw or something). I think that will also reduce my gas consumption considerably for all but the coldest days. Because labour is so expensive and replacing all windows is so wastefull (they are all oldish double layered windows) better insulation is not so appealing.

I must say though that a properly insulated house can have a better climate in winter as you can keep the humidity much higher.
That's because TikTok gets something that people here don't.

Just look at this comment thread; very few people understand what's positive about TikTok, what's new and different about it, and why both Instagram and YouTube can't catch up.

Literally all criticisms apply to Instagram too, but TikTok is not Instagram.

That's because TikTok is way more decentralized than any other photo/video platform: it's less creator/consumer relationship, and more of a community, like reddit or HN, where you communicate with video snippets.

I.e. by talking, which is natural for us. It's a big, asynchronous in-person dialogue.

There's content too, but that's not what makes the platform unique.

Why the Bay Area is blind to that, I can't comprehend.
Something weird is happening on Facebook for a long time :/
This is a tough one to make sense of - are they just getting killed by reddit on one side and tiktok on the other and cashing out? Anyone have any insight? (also anyone know the purchase price? just for fun)
Holy shit they have multiple videos with zero views and tons more with less than 10 or less than 100 views.

For a company that claims to have 25 million newsletter subscribers?
Thanks, your setup is more true to the concept as my switches, modem and router aren’t powered by solar.

Low tech magazine does link to my blog somewhere, as well as other, similar projects. Maybe they will also include yours!

You have a lot of sun probably so you lead acid battery will work. But lead acid needs to be recharged daily or the battery will deteriorate quickly. For more temperate climates lead acid is not ideal. And lead acid charges too slow for the little bit of sun we may have…
I just tested a turbo yeast sugar wash I have and it's sitting at exactly 21%
> I struggle to understand how these board members think they’re fulfilling their duties.

A help into their accounts might help here.
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The founders of CMS holdings talk about redeeming tether all the time. It's literally just the same as redeeming USDC or any other stable coin. And before you say they're insiders, Dan (one of the founders) used to work with the creators of USDC.
Arguably Neumann was a fraud, he just got away with it. WeWork’s books were thoroughly cooked, and he managed to extract an inappropriate amount of wealth from it via his role, up to and including making the company lease land from him, and (attempting) to force the company to license its own brand from him personally.
SARS-CoV-2's spread: Was the virus circulating in Europe before found in China?
Speculations abound about how SARS-CoV-2 came to be, but a few studies now raise an important question: Could the coronavirus have been spreading internationally much earlier than December 2019?
Also the title of the underrated Arthur Jones' autobiography.
File sync was hard before cloud software got big. At this point, its easy to build. They are similar to netflix, where their original streaming technology edge is almost gone, but in Netflixes case, the content itself continues to differentiate.

Also, who says they failed? Its a great company to work for with high pay. Maybe they dont have an explosive market cap, but they went public to a big valuation. Seems like a success