skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm just your regular outrage citizen thanking our local outrage police, no sarcasm whatsoever! They have an important duty to protect us from outraged people on the internet, and they put their lives on the line every day.
My kids taught themselves to read using Siri voice to text chat in Roblox. It was amazing. I mean, yes we read to them too and have them read books and they had some reading lessons in school but this all happened when the pandemic hit so I am pretty convinced it was Siri and Roblox. My kids are in 2nd grade and reading at the 4th-5th grade level.
I got mine down to 160 bytes with some pixel tweaking and converting it to a 16-color indexed PNG. It's not a lot of work or very difficult (I'm an idiot at graphics editing), but you do need to spend the (small amount of) effort. I embed it as a data URI and it's just four lines of (col-80 wrapped) base64 text, which seems reasonable to me.

Haven't managed to get my headshot down to less than 10k without looking horrible no matter how much I tweaked the JPEG or WebP settings, and thought that was just a tad too big to embed. Maybe I need to find a different picture that compresses better.

I got that 280k Discord favicon down to just 24K simply by opening it in GIMP and saving it again. I got it down to 12K by indexing it to 255 colours rather than using RGB (I can't tell the difference even at full size). You can probably make it even smaller if you tried, but that's diminishing returns. Still, I bet with 5 more minutes you can get it to ~5k or so.

It's very easy; you just need to care. Does it matter? Well, when I used Slack I regularly spent a minute waiting for them to push their >10M updates, so I'd say that 250k here and 250k there etc. adds up and matters, giving real actual improvements to your customers.

The Event Horizon Telescope having a huge favicon I can understand; probably just some astronomer who uploaded it in WordPress or something. Arguably a fault of the software for not dealing with that more sensibly, but these sort of oversights happen. A tech company making custom software for a living is quite frankly just embarrassing to the entire industry. It's a big fat "fuck you" to anyone from less developed areas with less-than-ideal internet connections.
There's quite a lot of debate over the precise origins of syphilis. I'm only peripherally familiar with the literature, but my understanding is that recent work suggests (but not concludes) that it might have been endemic to afroeurasia rather than or as well as the Americas. Lyme disease is indeed wholly American, but it's not epidemic or even particularly mortal.
I am not sure why you equate diversity with inclusion. It's hard to see why members of a team 100% consisting of folks from Laos would feel less "included" in the work/company life than a team of 80% folks from Laos and 20% from Peru.
> Ok you're a troll but I'll feed you anyway

Nothing like this to show you're open to healthy discussion.
With all the infrastructure, institutions, knowledge, and processes, shouldn’t the US ports function better than “freaking Kenya”?
Awesome blast from the past. I wonder if this was ever featured on the legendary Polish TV program called "Sonda" (English title would "The Probe")? "Sonda" was a great pop-science show when those were much more science and much less pop. Just two dudes sitting and discussing new and future technology and its implications.

Damn, I miss "Sonda" so much and this clip took me right down that memory lane.

Here's the amazingly great intro music clip from the start of that show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHT8u52bSVE&ab_channel=Dukat...
Idk, but there's lot to read. Here's an article I just found

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-black-white-test-scor...

> Traditional explanations for the black-white test score gap have not stood up well to the test of time. During the 1960s, most liberals blamed the gap on some combination of black poverty, racial segregation, and inadequate funding of black schools. Since then, the number of affluent black families has grown dramatically, but their children’s test scores still lag far behind those of white children from equally affluent families. School desegregation may have played some role in reducing the black-white test score gap in the South, but school desegregation also seems to have costs for blacks, and when we compare initially similar students in today’s schools, those who attend desegregated schools learn only slightly more than those in segregated schools.

Automatically blaming any discrepancy on outcomes between different racial groups on racism isn't helping anyone. It also doesn't really feel like you're looking to discuss or learn anything here, rather just to scold people for being racist. This is a tough question that doesn't have a solid answer yet.
After going through the article i was surprised i liked many of the bash behaviors that the author complained.

The test I prefer to do with python.

My conclusion is that it looks like the author wants to use a shell like a programing language.
The Saturn V engines being impossible to reverse engineer always seemed suspicious to me. I think it's more about restarting the rocket program with current technology instead of reviving old rocket tech. Or maybe a budget cut pretext "it's impossible, why spend money on it?".

Edit: commented before seeing the link, that's actually their point 3:

> With the help of powerful computers and new technologies, we can do a better job today (if we can find enough money to do that). With the examination of Rocketdyne F-1 engines from museums and storage, today’s engineers did discover enough to create a new F-1B engine should it ever be built. Using modern computing modeling and manufacturing techniques, the new engine could not only be more efficient, it would be just as powerful as the updated but unflown F-1A at 1.8 million pounds of thrust. More importantly, it would reduce the number of manufactured parts from around 5,600 to just 40! And while increasing its reliability and decreasing costs in the process.
Those are poorer countries, especially Kenya. It would be expected that they would have a harder time financing the infrastructure spending necessary to create and maintain highly efficient ports. I find it instructive to compare their ports with those of a wealthier country like the US.
It certainly seems like the program you attended was poorly implemented. I was sent to a gifted program full time with other gifted peers collected from around the region. I was still often ahead of the class, and couldn't imagine how miserable I would have been if I was forced to learn at a regular pace.

Yes I agree we should be wary of setting up Lord of the Flies in our schools, but that doesn't mean that we should ignore the existence of children like Bluejay[1].

> Can't we come up with a better model that enriches all kids?

I think the basic answer is "no". Past a certain pace/complexity many children will simply be unable to keep up and retain information. We should strive to rid ourselves of the modern delusion that since everyone is equal morally, they must all be equally capable and have equal potential.

1. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/bluejay/
So are Android updates. It's like they have the same teacher.
My understanding is that if you are a middle class and sending several kids to these institutions, you won't get any financial aid. Financial aid programs, literally, were not designed for the middle class families.
They should be getting $0 because their jobs can be automated
Simplest example, how does an Avatar from one proprietary system travel to another? You would need a common(open source) format for the avatar metadata (what meshes make it up, how/where are they attached to each other, what animations the avatar has, what textures they have, what shaders they use), a common format for the animations, the meshes, the textures. You also need a common name for avatar actions, walk, run, crawl, wave, etc. Of course everyone wanted their own proprietary format to be the standard. This doesn't even touch on more complex issues like currency, voice communications, video communications.
The problem is everyone has to find value outside of their proprietary systems, which 14 years ago was as much of a problem as it is now. Only outcome I can see is we will live with silo's until we get AI good enough to convert from one systems format to another's.
I don't understand how you say this when Oculus Quest 2 (owned by FB, of course) is probably the best + most popular VR experience. Is it early days? Yes, of course. But this quasi-religious idea that only Apple (or Microsoft? lol..) can create the "2.0" or "3.0" VR experience is a bit lacking in evidence.

Not that I am saying FB will necessarily be the ones, but I think the only honest position is that "the jury's still out" on who owns this one.
Fair enough! I guess it's good that I didn't post anything on there, I guess my comment was just my (poorly thought out) thought experiment.
I just thought it would be funny if someone watched The Wire, internalized its message (which is pretty succinctly put in the GGP comment) and forgot its name. It felt more substantive than commenting "oh, that's the Wire!"
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Definitely. But this is where C.R.T comes in and asks "why do we think certain demographics don't value education culturally?"
> One country seems to be footing the bill for the whole world

It really isn't. You need to widen your news sources.
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It's just not the case that most of our resilient, trusted crypto code is written by generalists. What happens instead is that specialists write code in libraries like libsodium, and generalists on successful projects go out of their way to use those libraries rather than trying to rebuild them on their own.

There are paths to cryptographic specialization that don't involve formal degrees, though it's worth mentioning that many of the best-known cryptography engineers have intense formal training. I'm not saying you need a PhD to do crypto work, but you need something.

(Just for avoidance of doubt: despite doing a bunch of work in cryptographic software security assessment, I do not myself feel qualified to do cryptography design, and avoid it for that reason.)

But the point you made above, about how cryptographic specialists can build the AES's and the P-curve specifications, and generalists can just implement them: that was false. It's a broken view of how cryptographic vulnerabilities emerge. The vulnerabilities are in the joinery, not in the primitives, and they are subtle and surprising, and if you don't study them you will re-introduce them by writing straightforward, sane code that uses well-regarded crypto primitives.
It’s these kinds of big mainstream products using these APIs that are the only hope to get Firefox to prioritize them. Barring that I see FF further left behind. Very frustrating as a FF user myself.
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> rather just to scold people for being racist

Where did I scold people, or call people racist?

I said I'm not interested in the discussion if you think there is a _biological reason_ behind it.
For all the complaints about the New Orleans charter system post 2005 I didn’t think lacking resources was one
In New York City, it is not a problem of spite.

The problem is that Asian New Yorkers, on average, have higher IQs then everyone else. So they end up in the G&T (Gifted and Talented) programs.

African New Yorkers, on average, have lower IQs then everyone else. So the G&T programs have only a smattering of darker-skinned students.

This is called "systemic racism."

“The move to get rid of G&T is long overdue,” said Rachel Griffiths of Brooklyn. “You can tell at a glance in my sons’ school which class is G&T and which class isn’t — the racial divide is that stark. What does that say to all the kids about who is gifted and who isn’t? In addition to learning reading and writing, the kids get an ugly real-life lesson in systemic racism.” [1]

[1] https://nypost.com/2021/10/08/parents-rip-de-blasio-for-plan...
Did you miss this statement by a hospital employee?

> Freeman said the 68-year-old man was discharged from the hospital Thursday. A hospital employee told officers that the man had been at the hospital for 35 days and that Medicare would not continue to pay for his treatment.

The employee said that security dressed the man and walked him out.

Freeman said an officer was told the man was cleared as “fit to leave” by two doctors and the hospital wanted him gone.
I don't know, J. K. Rowling?
Which Silicon Valley is still there? The one that revolutionized computing and brought useful tools to the common man? Or the one that milks common man with addictive software interfaces and sells information about their users to the highest bidder?
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The critique is fair. I suspect the original 'test kids in Kindergarten and fast track the best performing for the next 12 years' has its roots in the Sputnik moment and the need to rapidly create a high performing STEM population. Accuracy wasn't necessarily a primary goal.

That being said, not sure what the alternative is. On one hand, challenging students to the limit of their abilities and bump them higher as soon as they exhaust a level is a laudable goal. Alas, as long as the educational pedigree is used in competitive scenarios (grant, internships, jobs), this will simply create an inflationary pressure to bump everyone to the top level and degrade the top level quality to the lowest common denominator.

We are missing a objective bar, for example a hard standardized exam to gate college admissions. Such an exam becomes an incentive for developing strong programs. Time to take a clue from China's gaokao. Alas this requires that we come to terms that not all schools, not all programs, not all demographics, not all kids are equal, which doesn't seem to be something XXI century America is willing to publicly accept.
China must be seriously laughing their ass off.

No need to go to war against the US when they are content killing themselves.
Excellent!

It astonishes me how utterly normalized the abuse of privacy has become.
I formerly worked for a fortune 500 single commodity mining company whose head office was based in St Louis. I wasn't in a position of power, but was in one of trust, and employed as a professional scientist and engineer.

The company quite frequently paid large sums to climate denialists with PhDs so they could produce and push out "our commodity is king" and "burning our commodity has a positive impact on the environment". It eventually became quite apparent that there was a professional disinformation racket going on between companies in the same commodity, with those involved tipping in money to "combined research programs" whose output was "research" that showed extracting and burning the commodity led to positive environmental outcomes. The company i worked for, along with several others had a huge presence in the US, but also had operations globally. The "research" was pushed through their global operations heavily and regularly.
> one major cause of the decline of arena shooters is those who are very good can expect to never die versus new players

Keeping track of MMR/ELO and trying to match players against others of similar skill is online matchmaking 100 (not even 101). What reason could a game possibly have to not implement it, except for possibly "lack of resources" (e.g. someone's indie project)?
The moment you install any software on your PC you've essentially become exposed to the same risks. For the people who play the game, avoiding cheaters is a big deal. As you say, you have the right not to install or play the game, they're very clear about what they're doing.
Because past performance isn't a predictor of future performance, at least in the stock market.

ETFs/Hedge funds can have particular features, like equity protection or exposure to a certain market or markets, instead of growth. You wouldn't expect a bond fund to out perform the total market index, that's not it's purpose. It's purpose is to protect your wealth in case of a downturn.

Similarly, some hedgefunds (private equity and arkk are probably two good examples) that seek to find that rare 10X company that they can make millions or billions from, and are okay with generally losing most of their bets.
I think the Battlefields and CoDs of the world have proven that anti-cheat software doesn't mean crap if you don't support vote kicking or actually fund a reasonable CS team that can respond to active cases.

Cheaters will find a way - but not around ban-hammers... and if their cheating is so subtle that most people can't notice then it's a much less important issue to deal with (outside of professional league stuff - there sure, force people to do all sorts of crap to their computers if there is a cash prize on the line).
I'm not making a value judgement like you are.
I mean, we already segment children at similar ages based on physical/athletic capability. It's very clear to sports coaches that not every child is capable of developing into an internationally competitive athlete. Why doesn't the same apply to the thinking parts of our meat exactly?
Which schools in particular? Please link me some data, I don't know what you are discussing.
That depends entirely on the species of tree. Absolutely crucial in this case. Do they mention this data in the article?
They're human beings who need to support themselves and their families in a capitalist hellhole society. But who cares right? As long as you get your Amazon treats in 1 day right?
Computation Expressions are implemented using a class under the hood so you could probably build one with appropriate overloads.

There’s a function that Fable provides to turn a promise into an async, so mix and match isn’t a huge challenge anyway.
I can confirm it improuves things. But sometimes is prone to race conditions.
I was wondering how efficiency is defined for a port.

I found what I think is a more original post related to the list: https://ihsmarkit.com/research-analysis/new-global-container...

Inferring from the description in the link, it seems like the overall ranking is based on a combined metric. They do mention "minutes per container move" as a key metric ranging from Yokohama's 1.1 minutes to Africa's average 3.6 minutes.

From a high-level perspective, and in analogy with computer systems, it makes sense that time efficiency is the most critical metric.
As a cynical American, I can't help but share this satire:

https://youtu.be/ZsISWO4INTo?t=98

"Think of it, an entire nation founded on saying one thing, and then doing another!"
The author referenced a paper from 2009 about the microRNAs and BK subunits: "Post-transcriptional regulation of BK channel splice variant stability by miR-9 underlies neuroadaptation to alcohol" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2714263/

"Tolerance represents a critical component of addiction. The large conductance calcium-and voltage-activated potassium channel (BK) is a well-established alcohol target, and an important element in behavioral and molecular alcohol tolerance. We tested whether microRNA, a newly-discovered class of gene expression regulators, plays a role in the development of tolerance. We show that in adult mammalian brain alcohol upregulates microRNA (miR-9) and mediates post-transcriptional reorganization in BK mRNA splice variants by miR-9-dependent destabilization of BK mRNAs containing 3’UTRs with a miR-9 Recognition Element (MRE). Different splice variants encode BK isoforms with different alcohol sensitivities. Computational modeling indicates that this miR-9 dependent mechanism contributes to alcohol tolerance. Moreover, this mechanism can be extended to regulation of additional miR-9 targets relevant to alcohol abuse. Our results describe a novel mechanism of multiplex regulation of stability of alternatively spliced mRNA by miRNA in drug adaptation and neuronal plasticity."
Grabs pack of fags on demo - classic.
I think we might have different ideas of privacy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Report_on_Global_Warmi...

2018, OK, but this was in the press until at least 2020 here in germany. Could provide links, if desired.
Possibly some truth to it, but also worth noting the source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Examiner
Thanks for the clarification and feedback!
As for the issues:
- 0/O: I just fixed that by excluding I & O, and adding Y & Z.
- Correct
One answer: If you have a selection process that compares a minority group against the general population for any metric which produces a well-defined ranking, and then selects for the top X% of performers on that metric, then you will end up with a selected group that has a lower proportion of the minority group.

To put this in clearer language: If I have a bunch of 100-sided dice: 90 blue dice in one bucket, and 10 red dice in another, and I roll them all and select the top 10 numbers rolled, I'll have a greater proportion than 90% of blue dice, because there are more total dice rolls in that group.
KRHV and GA in general are part of an ecosystem. There is Angel Flight West for instance which is only possible because of small GA aircraft.

A giant aircraft requires a giant amount of fuel, a giant runway and a pilot who has spent a whole lot of hours flying non-commercially. Without GA and small planes, we might also not have sustainable commercial-aviation.

My CFI took off to go work for the airlines because of increased demand several months ago. Without GA he may not have had an opportunity to stay with aviation at all. One can not learn everything needed to fly an aircraft in a simulator.
Maybe if capitalist society didn't create the main contradiction between making the economy more productive and starving and killing the citizens that rely on selling their labor to survive.
> If she had an Android anything, I'd be spending at least an hour per week on tech support
First: I hope your wife doesn't read this ;-)
Second: I can believe this to be true if-and-only-if you tried to run it on a language setting you can't read!
Third: One gets comfortable with whatever phone+ecosystem they familiar with or use the most and that is not a basis to claim one is superior to the other. For that person, yes it might be superior(experience), but it cannot be extrapolated to the general population.
In my little circle, if anything, I hear complaints and "how to get this done on my phone" requests way more from iPhone owning family members and friends than the ones with Android phones. But this doesn't just make Android a superior OS over iOS, because it is just 1 data point.
While Apple does provide updates for older devices, the devices are barely usable. Foremost, you most certainly will need a battery-swap on anything older than 3 yrs (not a cheap proposition) and their devices seem to get progressively slower (in my albeit limited) experience.

Apple and Android ecosystems and user-bases are wildly different so a true apples-to-apples comparison (pun-intended!) is not trivially possible.
I don’t understand the “/s” sarcasm tags, but there can be cases where you do want to keep checking.

Some problems have a single root cause, some have multiple independent root causes, and some issues present when root causes have an interaction type effect.