skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It was to protect staff & their families, and generally reduce community spread.

There is no evidence that school closures had any positive impact on community spread, FWIW. Hell, even for Influenza, which kids are much less resistant to than they are for COVID, studies have often found that school closures are counterproductive due to actually ending up with an increased number and diversity of contacts/events.

> but I don't think we'd have been able to keep fully in-person school running last year anyway.

But why do you think this? Are you aware that many parts of the world have returned to fully in-person school for several months or longer at this point? That here in deep blue parts of the US we are unique in our rabid devotion to denying children in-person school?

> The ones that went in-person suffered badly, in some cases worse than fully-online cohorts.

[Citation Needed]

> The only way to fix it would have been a policy of having teachers & students who very likely were COVID-exposed but not actively ill-feeling come in until it was proven that they were COVID-positive—but that policy would also have increased spread, so I wouldn't guarantee that'd actually improve the situation of having too many staff out for quarantine.

First of all I actually reject the premise that avoiding spread is necessarily a good thing. Indeed it only prolongs the epidemic stage and as the rise of variants like Delta have shown, even rushing out vaccines in an unprecedented amount of time hasn't actually allowed people to avoid the virus. I should also mention that for teachers who are quarantining (which remember is also a result of policy, you're not talking about teachers being unable to teach due to being sick, but rather being forbidden from in-person teaching because they or someone they know hit a positive on a PCR test), they could still teach remotely to a class of in-person kids (yes you might need some other adult to oversee things, but I'd wager even without such supervision you'd still have far better results than the unmitigated disaster that "distance" learning has been)

The kids who have survived distance learning have done well in spite of it, not because of it. They have access to tutors and learning pods and actually have a quiet space at home to do work, and actually have parents that give a shit. Not everyone has those resources.

But yeah I really want to hammer home the point that, the only possible way in which we wouldn't have "been able to keep fully in-person school running last year" is purely itself an artifact of absurd COVID quarantine policies, and has nothing to do with an actual lack of staff nor an actual crippling health problem preventing people from being able to work.
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Following the analogy, as a layperson, what's the nature of the difference with quantum mechanics that doesn't allow it to be solved to arbitrary precision (even if through brute force iteration)?

Is it that we haven't discovered the solution generating algorithms? That the state/probabilities of quantum mechanics are fundamentally untenable to similar calculation? Or something else entirely?
Face ID on iPhone 13 Doesn't Work After Screen Replacement by Third Party
SAFe has roles. If you don't have people doing those roles, you're not doing SAFe. If you have people doing roles that aren't in SAFe, you're not doing SAFe. It's really quite simple and I don't understand the pushback. Do it or don't, but trash it if you didn't actually do it.
I will posit that there is intelligent life somewhere in this vast universe that does understand the brain (being so vast, there are places with similar brains), and therefore for some civilization, it's not magic ;)
I hate Confluence infinitely less than I hate Sharepoint -- which is also mentioned in the article. Both of them market themselves as filling the same corporate overlord niche role. One of them even vaguely succeeds.
This is why I subscribe to NYT crosswords via Apple iOS, cancelling is very easy!
I haven't done this myself, but GnuCash has importing [1] from .qif and .qfx and a few others.

Also check out integration [2] with OFX at your bank [3]

[1] https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/trans-import....

[2] https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/OFX_Direct_Connect_Bank_Settin...

[3] https://www.ofxhome.com/index.php/home/directory/all
Case Study: Positioning your way to PMF
It’s more like the literate programming parts of org-mode except Leo is more of a live view, from what I remember.
my high school actually had a good structure for this kind of model. all class attendance was effectively optional and there was no homework outside of a few big quarterly projects (every classroom has a drawer full of practice assignments you could refer to as-needed). you were essentially given complete freedom... provided your gpa stayed at least 3.0, if you fell below you'd be put on academic probation which required you to come to class and do homework etc until your grades improved.

in general i dislike the notion of 'unmotivated students' more often ime you have kids who not being provided an educational experience that aligns with their motivations.
The linked case made headlines precisely because the court's decision was so unusual.

Usually when such a thing happens, the funds are returned, or they go to court, but this case had complicating factors and isn't as straightforward as you make it out to be.
Calling it a terrible comparison to avoid the obvious point by analogy is effectively just a way to avoid the discussion.

If you want to engage seriously with it feel free to comment with that.
They don't need to, because they have the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantik-Br%C3%BCcke and other similary undemocratic institutions influencing the shit out of anything via side-channel attacks.
IMHO it would be better to store nuclear waste in well guarded sheds. There isn’t that much of it (less than a million tons; a few football fields worth of sheds), and accessible above-ground storage means you can easily monitor it and maintain its container over time. Who knows what will happen 5km down, out of sight?
"Over the years I have come to the conclusion that the real heroes of ideas are not the people who have them – they are the people who buy them."

Absolutely love this.
Free, Public GPT-J Playground
I disagree. You cannot say a country is democratic "despite" thirty thousand US soldiers camping inside with little to no accountability.
I'm not going to argue whether the actual statement is true or not: Many people don't trust the government at the best of times but if it is true, I seriously doubt whether it constitutes 1/5 of all EU trade (assuming that border checks are in proportion to trade).
Agile in the enterprise is a game of Mornington Crescent.

That's probably the best description of "agile in the enterprise" I've ever read.
Developers: Let distros do their job
Honestly, I don't know why this would be so surprising. You're comparing the flow of goods in a stable supply chain with the unprecedented demand for a novel vaccine for which no existing supply chain existed. Of course there wouldn't be a ready flow of vaccine immediately, and of course every country prioritizes its own citizens first and foremost.

Now that demand has eased considerably, the US is now donating more doses of vaccine than all of the other countries on the planet combined.
The don't live in china after they cash out, they have the money to immigrate to a better country.
That’s what divesting from coal gets you, more expensive energy. Of course this hits the poor classes a lot harder compared to the middle-classes who pride themselves in recycling and driving an EV that costs several tens of thousands of euros but that’s unfortunately the way the world runs, the poor get almost all of the hardships while the better-off get to dictate the discourse. Still sucks, though.
Here's an analogy that I can speak from more direct experience: if you study the theory of elliptic curves, and then look at elliptic curve cryptography code, there will appear to be no connection between the two. This is because in between the theory and the code are a zillion implementation details and tricks of the trade that aren't generally mentioned in the theory. Add to that the fact that the people who write scientific code aren't coders by trade, so they learn to write code that is just good enough but no better, and the result is something that looks like a horrible mess. (Also, the code is often written by grad students, so that makes it even worse. I look back on some of the code that I wrote back when I was a grad student that was the basis for publications and I shudder.)
One thing that rubs me the wrong way about school socializing is that you learn to socialize only with people of your own age. That is a very unnatural group that succumbs to idiosyncratic peer pressures, fashions and groupthink.

I definitely got better at socializing when I left school and started to interact with much more age diverse groups in the wider world.
Why am I constantly berated with articles about how renewable energy accounts for a large part of European energy? Are all of these just sensationalist? I'm asking a serious question because it seems that their renewables just aren't cutting it.

There seems to be a large push to force America on to the same "green" plan. If the choice is between not having enough energy and being able to get fossil fuels from your own nation's land, being mostly self-sustaining. I know what I'm choosing.

Putting all your eggs in one basket just seems like a bad idea. Yes invest in green/renewable energy but this idea that we can just cut out fossil fuels doesn't seem to hold up.
> To be fair, if they did want those drivers to come back, they shouldn't have laid them off.

How much would it cost to keep the drivers on the payroll? If the drivers are available to be hired, but your business is driven to bankruptcy a few months into the pandemic, that doesn't really improve the situation.
Newspapers can spread propaganda or keep information from spreading, or you from being heard.

Yes, everyone using TikTok as their only source of news and entertainment is incredibly bad. But that can be said (and has been said) about almost any source of news or entertainment. We should rather teach us and our children healthy engagement with media, how to avoid addiction and how to make sure we engage with different platforms.

If you don't let any one platform monopolize your attention, having a Chinese platform as counterbalance to all the American platforms seems great. A Chinese platform is unlikely to have the same interests as a US platform, so it's easier to see the bias in either if you consume both.
I suspect it is a typo and that it should be grams per kWh.
Yeah, that's what people keep saying. But if it were true, the staff shortages post-brexit would be easily resolved by simply paying a bit more.

The continued staff shortages would seem to mean that it's not simply an issue of pay, and there aren't enough Brits willing to do those jobs.
JSON is "good enough" for a textual, mostly human readable data interchange format. But as a configuration format, for example the package.json file for node/npm/yarn, it is most definitely not "good enough". For two reasons: no comments and no multiline strings. The latter might not be important for some types of configuration, but it is for things that need something like a description that is more than a single sentence.
With US engine sizes, fuel efficiency, and number of miles driven, I would guess it makes no difference for most people.

Much fewer proportion of people are driving those peugots or other tiny cars where the weight of fuel would be material relative to the time it would take to fill up fuel more often.

Another British thing that amazed me was their auto insurance prices were based on engine size, and they were fretting about the insurance cost between 2L and 3L cars, and all the vehicles we had in America were 4L+.
Besides the likely felony of the call impersonation, this part jumps out too: In 2017, BuzzFeed News reported that Ozy had been among the publishers buying web traffic from “low-quality sources,” companies using systems that caused articles to pop open under a reader’s browser without the reader’s knowledge.

They aren't elaborating but it seems clear that the company has been buying fake traffic for everything they do, which is a core issue.
Fantastic read, I highly recommend it if you are trying to talk to customers.
I've worked on 4+ years of technology that was entirely based on humans hand-tweaking, editing, and updating JSON configs. My text editors validate it quickly, and know how to fold, sort, prettify. Based on my experience (and editing it all day long) It's a very human readable and editable configuration.
Wanted to mention that Windows PowerShell supports pretty CSV printing out of the box, like so

Import-Csv .\Levels.csv | Format-Table

Count Level elevation Level name Name Object type Unique ID
----- --------------- ---------- ---- ----------- ---------
1 -600.0000000 Store -0,600 - Store Level dc611fed-1783-d759-053a-b19848c51491
1 2850.0000000 Store +2,850 - Store Level c59f2ae4-0e94-6ea0-bd82-8306971e628c
1 3350.0000000 Roof +3,350 - Roof Level 7b487ac2-e102-dc23-6ad9-81c39124de1d
I am open mouthed
> You seem bent on belittling me or just being confrontational.

Well, to my eye, you started it. But if you didn't intend that, then I apologize for misunderstanding.

> I'm not sure why, maybe you resent my career choices or simply don't agree with my viewpoint and are choosing to take a stranger's opinions very personally.

I don't care about your career choices one way or another, I just don't understand them. But it's your life, live it how you choose. If you can be happy as a manger, then fair play to you.
Why do you need to reach your child while they are in class? Why can’t you call the office?
Nit: it's kWh (kilowatts × hours), a unit of energy (like joules or calories), not kW/h, which doesn't map to a physical concept
Isn't `bricked then recovered` a contradiction in terms?
I gave up after 10 minutes, called the credit card company I had the subscription on, and asked them to refuse all charges from NYT.

I had to do the same thing with the Economist.
Ask HN: How do you deal with information overload?
I like to think I've sussed this Internet thing out. Bookmarks accumulate in several browsers, I export them to HTML format at the end of the year, then I organize them into tidy categories for casual perusal and for leisure time. My collection is highly personal and I don't share it with anyone because it's sort of like an extension of my mind. This is why I refuse to use a cloud service to store my bookmarks. Anyway, privacy issues aside: How do you deal with the barrage of URLs coming at you from various sources (Hackernews, Pinboard, Link Aggregators, plain search engine queries, etc). Again: I like to think I have this under control by organizing links yearly, but there's endless rabbit holes still unobserved and unexplored. I feel there's only so much one human can digest, and assimilate, & regardless of how much curation takes place. So what tactics are you people using to make sense of all this information?
Apparently the new stuff only lasts around 30 days before it’s useless.
> If you have a set date and a set scope you can't be agile. Agile needs to be ale to radically change scope or even cancel projects outright.

The thing I think that fails to be recognized about Agile (though there is a lot adjacent to it, without outright calling it out, in the central documents) too often is that Agile has fundamental tension with the project-oriented, and even to a lesser extend product-orient d, mindset, and really calls for a mindset in which technology is an integral component of continuous end-to-end business process improvement. It can be adapted to product- or project-oriented environments, but only with compromise.

> The flexibility of scrum is being able to say what is done represents a working though not fully featured product.

The flexibility of Agile in general comes in rejecting products as a goal to themselves, and recognizing that technology is part of a broader system of delivering value and any improvement in value delivery is worthwhile according to the value delivered compared to the cost of delivering it.
You're welcome! It's currently aware of Condition (and other) constraints:

> Note: actions are always grouped by similar principals, resources, conditions, etc. If two statements have different conditions, say, they are processed separately.

That is, if a rule has constraints, it's grouped with other rules that have the exact same constraints. As of today, it doesn't do anything to smartly work across the various groups. Deny statements work the same way: they're grouped with other Deny statements.
It's also pretty broken for webassembly (which is where such a low-level API like WebGPU is going to have the biggest benefit), since Rust and C/C++ WebGPU bindings tend to fall out of API-compatibility with the browser implementation as Chrome and Firefox release new nightlies
Do You Want to Have an Algorithmic Boss?
The trucker shortage has so far caused a minor shortage, but has the potential to cause worse shortages over time unless the trucker shortage is dealt with. The panic buying is making that all much worse and speeding up the timeline.
You know, I don't hate most aspects of Confluence, except I find the editor to be terrible (at least in the way it's configured in my workplace). I find that I inadvertently change fonts all the time, I can never really get code formatting to work, the I find the controls to be counter-intuitive. Granted, a lot of these are sort of inherent to WYSIWYG editors, but I guess I just really want them to add a true "write in markdown instead of a WYSIWYG".

Because of this, I do all my notes in Obsidian, which I like a lot, but there's something sort of inherently problematic with this: a lot of the notes I take about how things work (e.g. build steps, relevant links, code snippets, code "gotchas") should probably be shared with the team, but it's such a pain in the ass for me to put onto Confluence that I don't bother.
I'm sorry but when you have selfish (and idiotic) people like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kkRX2p9wH4

..how is the government supposed to manage this? The messages have been "just buy fuel normally" - but people are ignoring it. It's the same problem as happened with toilet paper, people will start hording whatever is now limited.
I got one as well, almost mad at myself when I did because I was 90% sure I would use it for a week and then never again.

But I said what the hell. And I'm so glad I did, it's a great device that definitely fills a niche in my workflow. I mostly use it for brainstorming sessions. I like it a lot. I wish it synced more seamlessly but perhaps that'll happen at some point.
This article is from 2014. Have the rules not changed since?
This article indicates otherwise: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/your-re...
That's great if you have the money to spare, but not everyone does.
I understand that people say you can replace

foo < bar

with

<bar foo

but I've never been able to get myself to do this.
I only weigh 120 lbs and am 5 ' 10 " so I will have to work even harder to compensate!
Add in district heating and you get cheap heat too. Europe is often dense enough for this to work...
Time is THE synchronous call. It is essential barrier between synchronous and asynchronous sides of your system.
Confluence and JIRA both depend on how your company configures them.

They can both be set up to be incredibly useful, or completely useless.

Typically, the more configuration was decided by someone who doesn't do technical work, the more they slide towards the latter. In most companies, they're configured exclusively by people who don't do technical work (e.g. HR).
Still seems odd to me. Whether it's $70 a week or $140 every two weeks the total is the same. Only difference is how many stops you have to make, and maybe a 1% difference to the average weight of the vehicle.
I remember Xbox Live in like mid 2000's letting you sign up on the website but there was no cancel option. You had to call in. You were usually on wait for an hour, and then an hour of being harassed by the sales people. In theory, I don't see anything that prevents them from just endlessly passing you in a loop to prevent you from cancelling like some sort of video game mechanic.

This was also when there was not really any possible home VOIP or landlines, and cell phone minutes were very expensive.

The only real solution was to buy prepaid xbox cards.
Sounds like an episode of Friends from the 90's
There's a general shortage of HGV drivers across Europe at the moment. The shortage didn't cause fuel pumps to run dry, though. It was the result of panic caused by the media after they got their hands on a document, with the initial news being that BP had closed 5 petrol stations. It escalated very quickly from there due to relentless media coverage. You could certainly argue the shortage of drivers made it much more difficult to cope with the panic once it was in full flow.
> "teach them that why and how it's bad so they themselves keep a distance. My parents did his very effectively with me and my siblings"

Perhaps your situation is far from universal, and you are fallacious in assuming that it will work broadly?

I remember being younger, before kids, and I thought "ah, if my children ever misbehave, I'll just logically explain why they should behave differently". It was naïve of me then to assume this would work. I was biased by my own experiences.

It didn't occur to me how irrational any individual might be, and the situation is worse now, with corporations better adept at exploiting that irrationality as part of their business model.
You're absolutely right, and your photography analogy holds for audio, too.

However, if you look at the sales of consumer grade cameras as well as DSLRs, you'll see that smartphones ate a lot of their market. A quick Google gives you this continuously declining graph of DSLR sales, for example:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/799526/shipments-of-digi...

A phone will never replace a serious camera for large fine art prints. And the same is true for audio. But already, you have cases like Kanye claiming that 20% of the vocals from his last album were recorded in voice memos:

https://www.gq.com/story/inside-kanye-west-vision-for-the-fu...
This is why I use a third party payment service. I don't have to cancel the subscription, I just cut them off.
US schools serve as a de-facto provider of social services. Think free lunches and breakfast, school nurses, screening for disease/disabilities, sports and multitudes of after school activities to keep kids occupies until parents return, transportation to/from school, etc. Those services are a separate line-item i (I imagine) every other country.

A better and more instructive comparison would be money spent only on instruction, adjusted for PPP and maybe student poverty.
> On the surface of a planet like Earth, we can imagine “down” (or in) as a vector passing through our body toward the planet’s center. Down starts at our feet. But in spin gravity, down is a vector pointing away from a shared center. Spinning around the center axis of an O’Neill Cylinder, Bernal Sphere, or Stanford Torus, we lose track of the comforting presence of Earth’s (illusory) ground plane. The Torus designed at the Summer Study had an aluminum skin less than three centimeters thick. If that boundary were breached, anything lost through the hole would fall “out” at a speed of about 200 meters per second, likely ending up in an independent — and possibly unrecoverable — orbit around the Earth. Just thinking about that could be enough to induce vertigo among the inhabitants. As Sun-Ra said, space is a bottomless pit.

I wonder if there would be a way to create mild, progressive exposure to this new living space. I’ve heard that small doses of direct exposure can be an effective treatment for phobias and fears.