skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I forgot they made a product just got kids, right when their teenager harm report was released.
What's the value of this? My work enforces this and it is such a drag, it's incredible how negatively it impacts my productivity
There are different approaches for turning vectors into terms which you can then simply index with something like Elasticsearch. There are papers by the Walmart and Jet.com teams that describe different approaches, starting with both binarised vectors as well as full float vectors. Not saying that this is what Pinecone is using, so it will be interesting to read their follow-up.
Yup that’s why every private school that had honest staff and wasn’t bound by the National Teachers Union who were playing political games was in person most of last year.

Kids come first. Until this summer the chance of them getting sick or transmitting was super low, with delta it’s a little higher but with sane precautions most of the risk can be alleviated. In a few years time you’re gonna see real disparities between even religious private school kids (which don’t necessarily have better education standards) and public based solely on who was in person.

If you’re trying to win one over your political opponents get out of this, it’s not game.
I'm fucking hyped. Step 1 to defeating death.
This frog was in the pot on day one, I've been at this since it was just an aluminum and plastic iPhone.

Apple's engineering culture in non inclusive of those not working at Apple. Period.

They did the world a solid with LLVM, not argument there, but their stance changes with time and soon enough that may not be true for their other software teams, ala Swift on other platforms, but rest assured... once there is a market they capture it. By theft of implementation, or future breaking changes to the api, or changing the hardware to make it non-replaceable.

Your newest Macbook is a fancy iPad with a keyboard and the ability to sideload software.

Apple allways takes their ball home.
Absolutely, I wouldn't dream of doing any kind of fancy alignment by hand, only with an auto-formatter.

If I had to break arguments onto multiple lines without an auto-formatter I would just keep it simple and use another level of indentation instead of aligning them with the function name.
> whether they'd done exactly the "right" stories in a 2 week sprint

Not only that, but if anything else comes up during the "sprint", you're expected to address it while still finishing everything that you (involuntarily) "committed" to during sprint planning.
Agreed, funny that it takes "for Kids" for instagram to finally (pretend) to care about involving external stakeholders on the implications of their at-any-cost growth mechanics
Any workflow that involves breaking master for everyone seems broken at some level.

Not saying I have a better solution off the top of my head, but "just fix it with another commit" is a big red flag IME.
It's amazing that private schools were somehow able to operate.

Perhaps instead of doing something didn't work, we just split the kids into 2 groups, Monday-Wednesday, and then Tuesday-Saturday. Then we'd only have 10 - 15 kids per class. Give them more self directed study and homework. Have some pre-recorded video classes they can do on other days and have a proctor to help handle a larger # of kids.

There are many alternatives to remote only learning.
Show HN: Fitjoy – A more efficient keyboard layout I came up with
Hi HN,

I've been trying to improve my typing efficiency for a while and tried out various keyboard layouts like Dvorak, Colemak, Workman etc., but none really hit the spot.

All the existing layouts assume the home/middle row is the best/easiest to reach. But, this is not necessarily true.

The home row assumes all the fingers are of almost equal length, but thats not the case. In the standard placement above, the middle and ring fingers need to curve up more. When the palm is resting on the keyboard at an angle from the shoulder, the middle finger and ring fingers should naturally rest higher than the other fingers. This radically shifts the finger movement effort calculation. My hypothesis is that if we arrange the keys in such a way as to follow the natural length of different fingers, we can achieve a greater degree of efficiency.

This is how I came up with FITJOY.

As a programmer, I also realized that I tend to use the special characters a lot more than I use the numbers. So, the layout also changes the numbers row to print the special character (Eg. !#%^ etc.) by default, and have to press Shift to enter the number.

* Layout file : https://github.com/aj0y/fitjoy

* Related blog post: https://ajoys.medium.com/keyboard-layouts-brief-history-and-a-new-choice-8707b720d01f
This is what I love about HN. Just when I start to feel like the only sane person left on Earth, someone comes on here and takes the time to post something both rational and thought-provoking. Thank you for reminding me to have more hope in "the vast majority of people" (even if the vast majority of elected officials (and their talking-head counterparts) seem utterly brainless).
“Weight For Reps”: released a new version
This site provides a way to log your weight training workouts (Most suited for Powerlifting).

New version is cleaner, and looks (mostly) very nice. IMHO.
Pre-determined routes. Highway only. Start with with lower speeds. Easier to build charging stations/solar/etc. Lower engine performance is tolerable. Suspend driving during bad weather. Many more...
Bailey's over Froot Loops totally works. Tried & verified.
Also massively overengineered.
Chill and Driven
I'm not familiar with either project but "just a fork" does not seem to be an accurate description. Lite-XL has many more commits and seems to be much more actively maintained. Lite's last commit was about 10 months ago, the last release more than a year ago.
> "what if I needed to reach them?"

What parent would call a child in the middle of class, rudely interrupting the entire class? And what would they possibly have to ask their child that so important that warrants interrupting their child's class?
"After the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009 the pillar structure ceased to exist. The European Community, together with its legal personality, was absorbed into the newly consolidated European Union which merged in the other two pillars (however Euratom remained distinct). This was originally proposed under the European Constitution but that treaty failed ratification in 2005."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Community

So no, the UK joined the EU in 2009.

Also note:

The Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (TCE; commonly referred to as the European Constitution or as the Constitutional Treaty) was an unratified international treaty intended to create a consolidated constitution for the European Union (EU). It would have replaced the existing European Union treaties with a single text, given legal force to the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and expanded Qualified Majority Voting into policy areas which had previously been decided by unanimity among member states.

The Treaty was signed on 29 October 2004 by representatives of the then 25 member states of the European Union. It was later ratified by 18 member states, which included referendums endorsing it in Spain and Luxembourg. However, the rejection of the document by French and Dutch voters in May and June 2005 brought the ratification process to an end.

Following a period of reflection, the Treaty of Lisbon was created to replace the Constitutional Treaty. This contained many of the changes that were originally placed in the Constitutional Treaty but, instead of repealing and replacing the existing treaties, simply amended them and abandoned the idea of a single codified constitution. Signed on 13 December 2007, the Lisbon Treaty entered into force on 1 December 2009.

So it was initially reject, some cosmtetic changes were made and it was shoe-horned through. Hardly what I would call democratic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_establishing_a_Constitu...
France pushed for nuclear energy for decades, only to get pushed down by "allies", now they will all get their juicy contracts with American's companies.. what a sad story
Just to clarify: Petrol and Kerosene (parafin) are limited to 10L in a plastic jerry-can, 20L in a metal can and you're limited to 2 containers or 30L maximum. Diesel is exempt.

I can't remember if this applies to limits you can transport in a vehicle or if it applies to storage at a home/work location as well.
Airlines are great, at least compared to what they use to be. I flew from Austin to New York round trip this month for less than 100$.
> When internet deliveries were restricted to just the vulnerable too.

That never happened? Perhaps new sign-ups (at the company's discretion)?

I had groceries delivered before the pandemic and continued throughout, only affect was that for a few months slots would be booked up weeks in advance of normal, so had to plan ahead more.
That's actually not the official line. That's the line of the Road Hauliers Association. The government line was provided to the Telegraph yesterday, and goes like this:

- There is only really a "shortage" of about 100-150 tanker drivers in the entire country.

- The petrol shortage was caused by aforementioned hauliers association deliberately telling the press that there was about to be a massive fuel shortage. That wasn't true but triggered panic buying, provoking an artificial "crisis" that was used (successfully) to put pressure on the government to issue some visas to eastern European truckies.

- There are more vacancies for HGV drivers, but that's mostly due to a lockdown-induced backlog at the driver licensing authority, combined with many people who have HGV licenses not wanting to drive due to poor pay and conditions.

- Brexit isn't the cause of this (which at any rate came into effect at the start of the year), except via a rather tortuous route ... the people at the RHA who manipulated the public through the press are all notoriously and outspokenly anti-Brexit, and they unfortunately have a history of leaking, in fact their press guy is a former BBC journalist already known to the government for prior leaking. BBC is of course notoriously anti-Brexit culturally. Therefore it is very likely these people saw an opportunity to both make money by getting access back to cheap labour whilst simultaneously winning a propaganda victory by convincing everyone to blame Brexit.

- And in fact Brexit has allowed the government to rapidly adjust the criteria for licensing HGV drivers to help clear the backlog, which wouldn't otherwise have been possible under EU rules.

So that's the official line at the moment.
Even simpler at 302 for adults, their nervous system is completely mapped out and I'm still incredibly impressed nonetheless by how much technology has progressed in my lifetime to make something like that possible
There's already an LSP server for Swift (also made for Apple): https://github.com/apple/sourcekit-lsp

This library is intended for syntactic tools: formatters, highlighters, that kind of thing.
The idea of split time was discussed in the public system here in Canada in many places, at the start. But come summer the general attitude and public discussion seems to have taken a very all-or-nothing turn.
How much panel surface would you need to drive an EV, say, 100 miles a week?
> it's more like low-end datacentre hardware

yep covered that
> In other words, for parents of private school students, the value of in-person learning is clear, and the schools are delivering it.

There's nothing surprising about that. You have a group of parents with money and a desire to educate their children in a particular way, so they went ahead and spent the necessary money and put in the necessary time to make it happen. That doesn't help much for the parents that have to send their kids to an underfunded public school in a big city.
The British did this a while back when their Empire still looked strong - the Foundation was North America. The silent sleeper cell second foundation is probably New Zealand. Unfortunately, Boris Johnson a.k.a the Mule came along.
I hate to say it but, if this is really what happened, it is only because the local mafia was ineffective. Normally, mafias have a lot of well known and often unpleasant ways of keeping rivals off their turf.
The UK will rejoin at some point, especially because the younger generation will demand it, but it will have to take a decade, more likely two, unless Brexit proves to be an uncontroversial disaster and GB falls behind extremely. I wouldn't wish that on anybody.

There is just too much national pride around this move, and the British political system is so thoroughly messed up that it will take one or two leadership generations for them to come to their senses. They can hardly manage the exit, the Reintegration would be even harder.
The rest of the world minus North America*, whose main problem seems to be selling too much of it!
Binance.com users in Singapore given one month to withdraw assets, redeem tokens
Ask HN: Anybody knows a good up-to-date book about the brain?
In the past one or two decades there have been tremendous discoveries about the brain.

Just to quote a few examples, the fact that the cerebellum acts as a general purpose GPU and patterns storage, the existence of a lymphatic system in the brain, the exchange of information between neurons via pseudo-viral complexes, the fact that the dendrites perform calculus at multiple levels from the soma to the synapses, the new detailed role of astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, etc...

So I'd like to read a good book, if possible with deep information but still accessible for the non-professional, that would include all these fresh discoveries.

Do any of you know such book?
I was interested in Tabby until I checked github and saw that it's yet another Electron app. I'll stick with XTerm.

https://aduros.com/blog/xterm-its-better-than-you-thought/
I can tell you now, the UK has functionally no restrictions within the country. You ought to wear masks on public transport, that's about it. Lockdown is over, for now at least.
Or do what Sweden did, and never close the schools at all, and still end up with overall mortality (across total population, not just kids) less than most US states.
There was a pandemic that basically left kids untouched, and frankly barely registers on the scale of deadly pandemics for almost everyone else.

Let's at least be honest about it - the decision was made to avoid any risk of disease and close schools, and instead pass on the negative effects to those unable to prosper in the new learning regime. That is, those without private tuition, and/or a stable home environment with some kind of suitable space to focus on online learning. In my opinion, the education and welfare of children should be somewhere near the very top of any priority list, and in this case, we have utterly failed them in our scramble to be "Covid safe". Has anyone noticed that the near-retirement-age folks at the top of the power pyramid seem to be doing just fine, as they demanded everything be shut down to "protect" people like themselves? Fortunately, my kids are young enough that I may never have to tell them anything about this pandemic.

Edit: And do you know who will pay for all of this? Me, and people like me. I will be burdened with the societal and economic costs of this for the rest of my life, just because I have a decent enough job and a family I cannot fail.
> There are lots of homonyms but they are disambiguated by context.

But wouldn't that lose something? My understanding is a lot of the puns specifically rely on the characters to force a different reading than the context would imply (or to evade censorship by having many ways to write the same sounds).
> If they can reach the parents at all they often indicate they don’t even care that their kids were absent because they don’t believe in the distance learning. The indifference is mind-boggling as a parent, but it’s real.

Is it because they don't believe in distance learning or just learning in general? Maybe they relied on school as a glorified daycare. Education was just a side effect.
This isn't entirely true. For example, I can purchase software to program keys in Fords.

Specialized smaller shops also have the ability.

Currently there is NO WAY for me to change a screen on apple device without an annoying message or faceId issues on the 13. I cannot purchase a programming software.
That's a fairly standard nearest neighbour search[0], usually made fast by using a kd-tree[1] or an R-tree[2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearest_neighbor_search
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-d_tree
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-tree
People have been trying to do a lot of things - hasn’t been successful.
Peru’s Incan Rope Bridges Are Hanging by a Thread
We just delivered a multi-year project under Scrum (edit: point of clarification, we did not have a due date). You still have a guiding vision and some idea of the major milestones you need to reach, you still define what the next set of milestones are. You will want several sprints worth of work lined up ready to be more concretely planned. You just do concrete planning for the next sprint or so and work to minimize disruption of that sprint. Learnings being incorporated and plans updated as needed. Work that will yield more understanding should be prioritized.

Not sure where the idea of "only look one sprint into the future thing" came from.
Agreed. Every single feature here complicates parsing, and the only two that are worth it IMO are comments and multi-line strings (though I'm sure others disagree on which ones are most important, which is how we end up with something like this)
You're arguing a strawman unrelated to what I wrote.

When figuring out what ideas are good potential options for startups (particularly high growth startups) - you want to choose one where there's a large need and where you have something special that others can't easily replicate/compete away. That's part of the foundation that makes for a good idea (zero to one is a good and a short read - it's worth just reading it).

Your political spin is assuming too much and clouding your interpretation of what I wrote (imo). I also think you likely have a misunderstanding of what Palantir is and what it does, but that's not something I can really address.
> America labels its critics as "terrorist" and critics of Russia as "dissidents". Russia of course does the exact opposite.

"Dissident" is just a critic of a policy or regime. It doesn't improve Russia's hand at all to say that it only assassinates critics, and it certainly isn't an exclusively US-held position that Alexander Litvinenko, Boris Nemtsov, Alexei Navalny, etc were critics (as opposed to bonafide violent terrorists).

As for "America labels its critics as 'terrorists'": can you name any critics that the US labeled "terrorists" and consequently assassinated, especially on EU soil?
It has been known to happen. And not for anything actually urgent. Yes, really. And not a one-off, but one of those "oh yeah, time or two a year that happens" sorts of things.

Apparently taking kids out of school to get their nails done or whatever is also A Thing for some folks. I'd never have imagined it, but some parents treat school very differently than the parents I (fortunately) had.
Nice. TikTok is very fast paced. For me it has done so many oscillations between "this is very interesting stuff" to "it is trash now, it used to be good" that it's kind of making a fool of me. Not the usual slow downwards curve of most sites. Something about how it works means it seems to continuously re-invent itself.
I think that depends on whether "no" means a nice way of saying "this is stupid" - which I agree with, and have done before, to mixed results - vs. outright refusing to do work that's been requested. I don't think an employee who is being paid a wage by an employer has the right to refuse to do something just because it's a stupid idea.
Now that most of them are the hyper growth stage, you’d think they could figure out which growth hacky things they could turn off and still retain users.
> Last week, CDC came out showing how the obesity rates in youth has doubled during the pandemic.

Do you have a link to the CDC saying that? I found [0], which claims the rate went from 19% to 22% --- far from doubling.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...
You can do the indexing of the messages as they are seen from IMAP. For encrypted messages you have to do that anyway with an extra decryption step.

Having a local mail spool is great, but email has to be accessible from a lots of different devices in lots of different ways.
I actually read that article when I started making the package. You can see some of the input data here https://github.com/alexhallam/tv/blob/main/data/a.csv. I let the user chose how long the max column width should me then append "...". The default value is 20 characters.
You can now share your canvasses with other people
Yeah, eventually lawmakers will, but will probably keep their own kids in private school the whole time. Just like the UK's abolition of grammar schools.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-34538222

tl;dr "It's not fair"
At one point Hollywood self censored depictions of same sex couples, transgender folks and even interracial marriages.

Is that really the side you want to root for?

Freedom of speech - not only as a legal value but an ethical one - is the only basis on which we can avoid letting a dominant voice shut out unloved truths.
Are you for real? Find me another culture that spends so much time fretting over people suffering in other countries, or the poor or disadvantaged in their own countries (Covid polices exempted, of course).
You're making Trump out as being way too harmless.

Trump led our society straight into Covid denialism, and subsequently vaccine denialism. The root has been there, but the main power of a politician is to lead people, and he led the mainstream right into solipsistic "skepticism" of what would otherwise be pretty straightforward topics.

Trump is also directly symbiotic with reactionary groups that aren't criticizing our society to improve it, but rather to drag us back to the stage when their simple minded prescriptions were useful. As a libertarian, it's easy to explain away many of the other criticisms through different priorities, tradeoffs, relativism, media sensationalism, etc. But those two stick in the absolute sense.

Like every high level politician they're both terrible people, but Biden at least serves the corporate status quo that is the backbone of the country - the "deep state" if you will. I fully support Wikileaks et al, and I wish CIA/NSA/etc were disbanded and prosecuted. But as a self-interested American I'd rather the "deep state" continue causing global mayhem for economic gain, than to have a civil war at home (sorry). If you value global stability you probably should too, despite how disgusting it is.

The way I see it, 2022 is going to be a barometer and 2024 will be the jury verdict on our society. If people have come to see the destructiveness of Trumpism, the conservatives (democrats) will gain ground, and the incumbent power structure can continue sauntering on as it's slowly usurped by technology (ideally p2p rather than big tech middlemen, but that's orthogonal). Whereas if disenfranchised people continue to put performative dissent above rational self interest, the radicals (republicans) gain ground. They'll continue to create more elective crises that drive even more disenfranchisement (hello last 50 years of trickle down inflationism), and we're solidly in a death spiral.
That is malign use of data, undifferentiated by vastly different locales and policies across the nation, and not even accounting for per-capita.
> They have mixed age ranges and are less organized, understanding that kids learn at different paces and have different interests.

Yep, those are the same qualities of Sudbury Valley schools!

https://www.reimaginedonline.org/2013/06/why-i-started-my-ow...