skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US education fails boys significantly starting all the way back in elementary school. I knew multiple teachers in high school who talked about how the system fails boys and doesn't know how to engage them and extends especially to minority boys. I think it's a pretty poorly kept open secret. This article basically covers what I've been told for years by educator friends.

http://www.cpreview.org/blog/2021/6/why-are-we-failing-our-s...
I wonder if there could be any shortcuts. For example, maybe you could get away with Firebase as a database without much knowledge of a new server side language?
"Everyone thought I was lying so I decided to prove my detractors correct" is just lying to your customers with extra steps.

"Because you thought I (cheated on you|took drugs|did crimes) and I hadn't, I decided I might as well do it for real, so there's no harm done" is not a defense, it's a hollow self-justification.
Will add this soon!
>You are assuming Facebook and the government are the same thing. (US I presume.) They are not the same. A government isn't a corporation. This is a totally different discussion.

I'm saying that social media is a form of power. If you take control from Facebook and regulate it (give the power to the government) you are simply just shift the power from one potential abuser to another.
Yup.

I'm a teacher and vaccinated. If I found out that I was exposed, and then tested positive... post-exposure prophylaxis sounds great.

Also there's my dad, who has an immune condition due to old age. He's vaccinated, but who knows how effective the vaccine was for him. The existence of PEP could make it possible for him to do more at a similar level of safety... vs. the current option of staying in a small bubble for the rest of his life despite being otherwise able-bodied and capable.
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* “The devices met the Army’s requirements of rugged, waterproof and shockproof. But no one had considered, for example, that the headsets needed to allow users to brace a rifle against a cheek.”*

I mean...
The author makes a point of noting that many small improvements work together to make a larger speed increase, but are there 80/20 interventions here? What is the most effective way to become a faster coder?
The pool of programmers has grown. There are more good programmers than ever, but the barrier to entry is also lower. It isn't necessary to pass through that kind of trial by fire anymore.
> There is no way to find out that our perception is different.

Wittgenstein's point is more that there is no way in which a distinction of that kind could even be intelligible in the way that you have presented it. What is intelligible is our public behavior, namely our language use, so to find out if what you perceive is different you can ask someone if you're looking at the same thing, if it has the same characteristics, etc.

He would point to the fact that we don't have radical uncertainty in our day to day life and perception. The philosophical question is a question of sense and nonsense around the concept rather than a metaphysical question about an "inside" vs. an "outside".

I would really recommend reading Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations if you are interested in these kinds of questions, it's incredibly influential in philosophy precisely because of the way it approaches "age-old" problems in ways that lead to clarity and very interesting results.
> I think it depends on what you consider "the market" to be.

It honestly doesn't. None of these are monopolies by any market definition.

Amazon has so many competitors: brick and mortar stores like Walmart and Target and Best Buy remain successful, online competitors again like Walmart and Target and Best Buy but also Ebay and in a different way Shopify and others, are also successful.

Your argument is slightly stronger in the case of Facebook, but still very weak. Facebook's social networks have strong direct competition in Twitter and TikTok. Facebook's communication platforms have strong competitors in iMessage, SMS apps, Signal, Telegram, Discord, etc.

I'm not 'accept[ing] the broadest possible interpretation of "the market"', I'm just not accepting hand-wavy non-definitions of "market" that only include a single company so that it can be called a monopoly by definition.

Again, I think there are major problems and I favor new regulations for all of those problems. But what I don't think makes sense at all is redefining "monopoly" in a way that makes no sense, just because anti-trust law is our only extant tool for solving the problems caused by enormous tech firms.
I have no opinion whatsoever regarding whether or not ivermectin's purported mechanism of action against COVID is valid.

However, this:

> It also just isn’t the sort of thing there would be incentive to lie about

is not true.

There are two incentives to lie about this, if you are in any way associated with drug or vaccine manufacturers.

1.) Ivermectin is out of patent and dirt cheap; basically not profitable at all

2.) Emergency use authorization for the vaccines relied on there being no available alternative treatment

Again, I have no opinion regarding whether or not ivermectin is remotely useful for COVID. But there are plenty of incentives aimed against any older generic being repurposed.
Flutter State Management AntiPatterns
I got bummed out when a lot of googles (much cleaner) options were de-prioritized. Could we at least let USERS select a preference to allow google to prioritize its own products etc?

I want google only finance website, I want amazon only seller etc.
Is anyone old enough to remember setting up a landline phone line?

This was 20 years ago - the phone company said I needed to pick a long distance provider but they were legally prohibited from telling me anything about them other than their names. They read me a list starting with a randomly designated letter of the alphabet.

I'm sure the government will handle this problem just fine...
Cool stuff, most banks, brokers and hedge funds have no FOSS culture.

That said, the major blockers for financial services, at least in my country, are sort of unrelated to open source software being available.

Thinking about the most basic questions one needs to answer to start a fintech:

1. I want to create a bank. How do I do that?

2. I want to issue credit cards / lend money / make a payment system. How do I do that?

3. I want to start an investment fund. How do I do that?

Those are just some examples, but each one of those questions lead to infinite rabbit holes of laws, regulations, bizarre costs and arcane systems to integrate to.

I have more experience with (3) and stuff like getting reliable market data, connecting to brokers and exchanges, sticking with compliance rules, etc... are easily the most painful and costly bits of my job.
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The argument is money isn’t everything.

You left after the 4 year cliff. That’s hardly an argument against keeping the same or higher TC though.
The big problem with this argument is that tech is everywhere now.

Housing? Look at the pressure that companies like Zillow are applying to housing market by buying up houses and holding on to them without providing any real value to the market. Healthcare? Google and Amazon are both making inroads to capturing and owning various aspects of healthcare data transfer and management, which is one the most cumbersome and expensive aspects of healthcare today. Education? Several big tech companies are involved there as well.

You can't separate big tech from any of the industries you just listed because their hands are in all of them, which is one of the big reasons we're having this conversation now.
It's possible. But I would expect panic selling as charts make it _look_ like all cryptocurrency is crashing due to USDT's sudden decrease in value.

Small exchanges could also lose liquidity from bad code that assumes USDT will always equal $1.
> The interesting thing is everything is required as it happened for the universe to become conscious in the form of humans.

Not necessarily. Anthropic Principle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
The problem is that you can't stop other people from using X and their choices affect you.
I tried cricket once. But it didn't taste good.
> Because essentially what this means right is that they sampled people's viral loads, and then cut out everyone below a value they choose to mean "infected".

Huh? Please cite the part of the study you're referring to to argue that the title of the study means the exact opposite of what it says.

Every manufacturer of a PCR test specifies a Ct cutoff above which the result is considered false.

> It's still true that even if I had symptoms because I'm vaccinated my odds of having a high viral load are much lower. Presumably if you didn't remove all the samples with less than some concentration you'd see significant differences.

The study says the exact opposite:

> There were no statistically significant differences in mean Ct-values of vaccinated (UeS: 23.1; HYT: 25.5) vs. unvaccinated (UeS: 23.4; HYT: 25.4) samples. In both vaccinated and unvaccinated, there was great variation among individuals, with Ct-values of <15 to >30 in both UeS and HYT data (Fig. 1A, 1B). Similarly, no statistically significant differences were found in the mean Ct-values of asymptomatic (UeS: 24.3; HYT: 25.4) vs. symptomatic (UeS: 22.7) samples, overall or stratified by vaccine status (Fig. 1B). Similar Ct-values were also found among different age groups, between genders, and vaccine types (Supplemental Figure 1).
This isn't really the same, though. You are printing f. Print the closure returned by f.
Of course. Trust-busting has always been part of liberalism.

The idea of liberalism has always been to avoid monopolies, which government is just one form of. The government’s role should be reduced to the minimum, police-army-justice-currency, and even the last one is up for a debate. So the government’s role is to stay small, and make companies stay small enough.

Unfortunately this flew away in 2001 wehn Microsoft had been condemned, but not sentenced, because after 9/11, USA needed their companies to reign upon the rest of the world. Maybe time has come to admit that US reigning on the rest of the world hurt the domestic market with too-large-monopolies, and maybe it is time to come back to a competition market.
I'm glad you found something that works for you! I haven't tried Obsidian yet, but I'm tempted to when I get a little time to try it out, because open-source is just inherently better.

[edit] just looked it up, I thought Obsidian was open source but apparently not. Disappointing.
There have been a number of times when I was cycling in Calgary on roads where there was no bike path but not doing anything dangerous, and people slowed down their trucks (because that is what everyone drives in Calgary) to shout at me to stop cycling or get off the road.
> I have some standards for my toys though. If it’s sold as a phone, it should actually work as a phone (even a shitty one).

It is sold as Phone hardware with explicit remarks about software being a community effort and that you load it with whatever you like.

Does someone who sells you a PC (HW) promise you that the software you load on it later will be bug-free? Of course not. That’s not a hardware-matter.

Same here with Pine64 and the PinePhone. They’re selling you hardware. And that’s it.
What is the 5 year effectiveness of the Pfizer covid vaccine? Please break it down by infection / symptomatic disease / hospitalization / death, then by age group, then compare it with a sizable unvaccinated control group.
The fact that even making a similar argument to mine, you still say "if car accidents are accidental" is very telling of how ingrained this phrase has become. (Not to pick on you, I just find it amusing.)
It's weird that apparently you are a borg user from google, according to other discussions we have exchanged, but you question the value of hard-capping for latency-sensitive processes.
The article also said: "The Wizard is a well-known face to Christchurch residents, but in recent years, his presence has diminished, and sightings have become rare"

Can you furlough a wizard?
The thought process of generating a Sudoku puzzle
Is this a serious response? Why would you stop thieves while at your job doing exactly what you are hired to do?

By this logic, what is the minimum a thief should take for you to stop them? Should it be the amount close or equal to the monetary value you put on your life?

Are all products essentially free at all stores because they are worth less than your life?
I sympathize with the observation of hypocrisy, but disagree that this excuses Tether. The USD note once featured the words, "This certifies that there has been deposited... payable to the bearer on demand". At least in this case the offending text was removed.

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

>In February 1965, President Charles de Gaulle announced his intention to exchange its U.S. dollar reserves for gold at the official exchange rate. He sent the French Navy across the Atlantic to pick up the French reserve of gold and was followed by several countries. As it resulted in considerably reducing U.S. gold stock and U.S. economic influence, it led U.S. President Richard Nixon to end unilaterally the convertibility of the dollar to gold on August 15, 1971 (the "Nixon Shock"). This was meant to be a temporary measure but the dollar became permanently a floating fiat money and in October 1976, the U.S. government officially changed the definition of the dollar; references to gold were removed from statutes.

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

There is some irony in the US gov objecting to Tether's methods. While the USD is backed by what exactly? What are these reserves of the Federal Reserve? Meanwhile, the 1 trillion dollar platinum coin is being proposed. Yes, it is fair to say Tether is guilty of having insufficient reserves. But how meaningful is it to say that they have insufficient reserves of an unbacked currency?
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The obvious problem with considering social network platforms as interchangeable competitors is that they... aren't interchangeable at all. A user can't pack up and go to a different platform because their actual social network (i.e., relationships between humans) is only accessible on one platform.

For example, my colleagues are on Twitter but not Mastodon. I can't leave Twitter without leaving my social network. Why does Twitter own access to my colleagues? Why should we allow that to be a competitive advantage? It's certainly at-odds with the principle of innovation--you're not on a platform because it's more innovative than another platform, you're on it because they have a monopoly on your social network.

Contrary to your claim, there's very little competition in these markets because corporate ownership of user social networks is an enormous moat. Not only can users not easily move to another platform, but advertisers can't easily spend their money on some new platform because the new platform is much smaller in all likelihood.
Maclean’s has demonstrated that it’s the official news magazine of the Canadian Conservative party. They’re not a source.
Just searching for pizza doesn't even return pizza recipes. Just pizza dough and Italian nachos (with a picture of a pizza which isn't even anything like the finished product apparently).

Meanwhile I can go to Google or Bing and find actual Pizza recipes with a box at the top dedicated to recipes.
I think partly what's going on is that some people have immune systems that have a hard time generating an effective response, whether or not they area vaccinated. Vaccination gives the immune system a chance to respond and memorize, as best it can. If it can't do that effectively, there is higher likelihood of a serious outcome.
No - since this is a social network this isn't all about personal responsibility. People hate-use facebook because everyone hate-uses facebook. There is no sane alternative because everyone needs to hate-use the same platform to be on it with everyone else.
Posing the question: did you at all investigate the viability of a non profit organization?
4. Don’t talk about “frontend” like “more cowbell”
yea but opt out auto annual renewal of 100$ is shady. Gtfo. You should let people actually trial the app or don't offer a trial. Also monthly subscriptions. If neither of those work then what value is our app actually offering?
> are they counting bank accounts in other people’s names?

yes, it was a personal account in the name of iFinex general counsel Stuart Hoegner.

And various holdings at non-banks, e.g. the $850m that disappeared at Crypto Capital Corp.
Regrettably, that's most software! When I start a new OS (Windows or Linux), I have a set of software I want to install. Examples: Firefox, Chrome, VsCode, PyCharm, SOlidWorks, KiCad, Em-Client, CubeIDE, Rust, Python (NOT the old system version), Steam etc. Almost all of them operate outside the package manager with their own installers!
> i have 3 kids and so my focus is mostly on making sure they don't kill themselves... and get them to 18 and then pray. lol.

Good one, I'm gonna be 40 in a bit with 4 kids. I can totally relate.
My partner is ex-Christian Scientist (a faith-healing cult that doesn't believe in disease or medicine.) Zir whole family finally relented and got vaccinated, but they all got J+J. I don't know why that vaccine in particular (maybe because it's single-shot, so they only have to deal with hypocrisy once?) but that vaccine is popular with that cohort.
If these are a result of real preferences in the context of equal opportunity, then there is no particular reason to seek equal outcomes.
But why remove that demographic from the US statistic, before comparing with other nations?

Isn't that a bit disingenuous?

I'd imagine you'd see similar improvement in other countries stats, if you remove the poorest and the drug gangs.
The problem with using the .software is you are now having to introduce two concepts: your business and .software.

Having the .com domain will come in handy, because you can measure how many people use it even if you only mention the .software, and you can switch to that when you get tired of trying to explain it.
So, what I mean by "exit" strategy is that they're more interested in going public or being bought out than in providing long-term good (and sustainability). There's a different set of incentives in wanting to exit (high valuation, market competition, etc.) than there is with being a long-term viable, sustainable business (building a reputation, being effective, etc.). The former are a lot more common in SV (it seems to me), but the majority of businesses that survived the 90's and 00's are examples of the latter.

Real therapists operate without an exit strategy. A good therapist isn't building dependence in their clients.
In part that’s because combustion engines scale down extremely poorly (they lose efficiency like mad… a micro turbine gets like 5% efficiency whereas a full sized turbine gets upward of 30%) and have high complexity. They’re also difficult to throttle on command with high responsiveness (hence the swashplate). Electric motors are far better suited to distributed lift concepts.

That’s a huge reason why existing vertical lift doesn’t use multiple rotors. Electric motors using high energy magnets, modern solid state power controllers, and modern batteries are only just now becoming available & only now are they starting to impact the aviation trade space.
>Just stop letting them buy their competitors.

And how would you stop them from simply replacing their competitors? From the article "Budding companies that resist being acquired are pruned through flagrant copying." Would you pass a law that said Facebook can't expand their business to do anything a competitor is doing? I can't see how that would fly.
This argument makes way more sense, but it is also not well handled by existing anti-trust law and a much better response would be new regulation.

Edit: It also doesn't speak to any of the issues with Amazon. (Also interestingly, Amazon's own advertising business is increasingly making this a tri-opoly.)
Well this made me feel good about being a lone developer who gets to make all the decisions on how to make an app.
I don't see an issue with learning the age of the customers who come into the store.

I think a much bigger issue with tech is censorship and surveillance of political opposition, not the recording of someone's age and gender.
2 differences:
1. You have to have USD to pay taxes, which most Americans have to do.
2. The feds will bail out depositors in banks that have screwed up badly.
Should there be some sort of quota in place? Maybe we should start positive-discrimination in selection of canditates?
Yeah and if all SaaS are shovels, probably stripe is a friggin bulldozer?
A single study is worthless.
The main point is that "accident" implicitly absolves the driver of fault, before any evidence is examined. If you're driving 100MPH in a local street, you may not be intentionally trying to harm anyone, but if you do, the result can hardly be called an accident.
This is also true of the Bachelors degree to a certain extent. With white males this is played out in the media as them lagging behind (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/white-males-fall-behind-s...) but I think its more of a trend of people realising the earning potential of jobs that don't require a degree e.g. plumbing, welding etc.
Of course it is. It carries an important implication that, to put it charitably, the owners will focus on growing and selling their company, at the expense of value provided to the users. This tends to make a startup, depending on the backbone of its founders and pressure from the investors, something between a suboptimal compromise from users' POV, and a legal pump&dump scheme.
"All[1] of our[2] coins are backed[3] one-to-one[4] by USD[5]".

[1] Not really though

[2] Yours really

[3] Not in a way you'd think

[4] Approx but we can't tell you exactly how much

[5] ish
Whoa. I never knew about --prune. <mind-blown emoji>
Given that it's being issued specifically to manipulate the market (it's not just a 'whale'), and the fact it's involved in 70% of crypto trades, I can't see a way to put a floor on it.
I work helping people set up things like caching. On the three sites I looked at today, caching plugins had an immediate and positive effect.

That serving static files use less resources than firing up PHP should hardly be surprising.

Sure, mod_lsapi and FastCGI are fast, and opcache is a godsend, but static files are still going to be faster than doing multiple MySQL queries, triggering plugins, rendering the HTML, doing whatever post-processing the plugins do, and then serving the result.
"The Phase 3 clinical trial of BNT162b2 began on July 27 and has enrolled 43,661 participants to date, 41,135 of whom have received a second dose of the vaccine candidate as of November 13, 2020."

Wow so there was an ivermectin study with 44k people? Where is it?

I agree that it should be able to be studied and probably used. But what's going on is that people are looking for an ALTERNATIVE to the vaccine... which is detrimental when the vaccine is proven to be our best tactic against death/serious illness.
MPA + SPA is how most native Android and iOS apps are developed. I agree with the other commenter that a single html file is an anti pattern.
I gave a breakdown of why that statement belies a lack of understanding of fractional reserve lending here: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28880063)
Magic Leap 2 for Enterprise: Really?
Amazon actually does have a quickly growing ads business FWIW.