skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I've read, native populations had less frequent interactions with livestock (through which many diseases arise) and less concentration in poor-sanitation settings (e.g. urban centers without sewers), both of which gave European settlers more exposure to transmissible pathogens in the centuries before settlement.
>Hackintoshes notwithstanding, but even those are going to go away when Apple ditches Intel hardware for good

Maybe people will find a way to build ARM hackintoshes. :)
I mean, you can come up with a silly example like `sum`, but here's a more real-world example (takes the width and height of a container, and calculates a scaling factor and translation which make an element fit inside the container at a target aspect ratio).

const containerRatio = (containerWidth / containerHeight);
const targetRatio = (targetWidth / targetHeight);
const useVertical = (containerRatio > targetRatio);

const scaleFactor = (isVertical
? (containerHeight / targetHeight)
: (containerWidth / targetWidth)
);

const scaledWidth = targetWidth * scaleFactor;
const scaledHeight = targetHeight * scaleFactor;

let x0 = 0;
if (isVertical) {
x0 = 0.5 * (containerWidth - scaledWidth);
x0 /= (1 - scaleFactor);
}

let y0 = 0;
if (!isVertical) {
y0 = 0.5 * (containerHeight - scaledHeight);
y0 /= (1 - scaleFactor);
}

return [[x0, y0], scalingFactor];

You could also write this as:

const r = (w / h);
const tr = (tw / th);
const m = (r > tr ? (h / th) : (w / tw));
const o = [0, 0];
if (r > tr) {
o[0] = (0.5 * (w - tw * m)) / (1 - m);
} else {
o[1] = (0.5 * (h - th * m)) / (1 - m);
}
return [o, m];

It's certainly terser (and I could have made it terser still), but the first example scans better IMO, because it breaks the expression evaluation down into steps which explain what the calculation is doing.

If there was a problem with the second example, I'd have to more or less rewrite the logic myself into the first form in order to figure out what it was doing.
I am not sure I want to know about your political opinions if you consider Mitchell as being "far-left" (not that I'm a great fan of hers). That is certainly not what the far left is, neither historically nor in the contemporary world.
Makes sense, that would also work. However, there is another case where the question comes: what is the best time for a meeting between San Francisco, New York, London, and Berlin for example? Here it becomes a bit challenging as we lost the meaning of local hours for those locations. 2am in most cases means sleeping time, not for everyone, but mostly. With only UTC we'd lose the semantics meaning of local hours. Hence combining local hours and UTC in one clock face.
> in this global emergency, the benefits massively outweigh the risks

There is more than enough money to buy doses for everyone in the world at sticker price. This isn’t a debate about whether lives get saved, but about who pays for it.
On the other hand, it's zero-copy between CPU and GPU.
> Moderna's most recent financial results: "Total revenue was $6.3 billion for the six months ended June 30, 2021, compared to $75 million for the same period in 2020"

Careful, not profits, revenues. It costs them something to manufacture the vaccine. WeWork and Uber have great revenues, but I wouldn't accept an offer from them with a share of the profits!

> If all of humanity worked to end this collectively, we would all be immensely better off.

True, and yet

> based on decades of US federal research funding.

One country seems to be footing the bill for the whole world (and it's not even where the pandemic originated). Other countries are free to finance cutting edge research and add a clause they own the intellectual property to it for use in their country.
Vacuum tubes? Didn't they get replaced with transistors, are they fragile?
It has its downsides unfortunately.
The problem is that list includes post-secondary data about costs for the US. I do not have a source for primary and secondary schools on their own. But, colleges and universities will absolutely skew the data.

This conversation is regarding K-12 schooling, not K-12 and post-secondary.

Edit: I'm real dumb and looked at the table without reading the paragraph on top. Ignore and move past. HOW DO I DO STRIKETHROUGH ON HERE
My need for it has waned and waxed over my career and life:

- Understanding the ideas behind derivatives / gradients and integrals has let me grasp some basic concepts regarding physical systems and regarding money.

- I've helped some physicists turn their ideas into C++ code, and knowing a little calculus narrowed the communications gap.

- In deep learning systems, if I didn't already know some basic calculus, understanding auto-differentiation and back-propagation would have seemed like an insurmountable challenge.
>"The program’s names might insinuate not every child has gifts; instead, they should be rebranded as “accelerated learning programs” or another name that avoids implying that only certain children are gifted"

This is one of those statements where you can feel the kindhearted rationale behind it, and sorta agree, but it is ultimately based on a false premise. It is absolutely true that only certain children are gifted. Otherwise, all education could be at the same level since no one stands out enough - good or bad - to require different approaches.

I think you are doing a massive disservice to the children who have a knack for some kind of knowledge/skill by trying to regress everyone to the mean so that no one feels left out. You might think, "this isn't a big deal, we're just shifting around definitions", but I know the push from "equity-minded education reformers" will not stop at mere terminology shifting.
Everyone who paints knows about this. You paint someting but you don't like it. Later you need a canvas and you just put something like gesso over it and start painting something else.

I can understand some people are curious about the hidden composition but I don't think it is special.
Reminder, Finland banned private schools, and now they're one of the world's best in education.

Public schooling, without the proper funding, is useless. Rich people using private schools to avoid "bad schools" makes society less healthy for everyone.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-am...
Ok you're a troll but I'll feed you anyway. How about Paul Graham?
Alternative edition without styles: https://classic.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation-3/

(ideal if you use accessibility tools, like text to speech, or want to read from an eBook or legacy browser)

If you spot a mistake, please log an issue on the repo (https://github.com/flipacholas/Architecture-of-consoles). Thanks!
Between “discovery” and permanent settlement of the continental US, an estimated 55 million Native Americans died of disease. [1]

The colonization of North America would have gone quite differently with that many folks to contend with.

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/climate-changed-after-europe...
Not quite a plague, but syphilis likely came from Native Americans.
So they will not export Android, iOS, MS Windows, Alexa, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, Adobe and others ?
The use case is Codespaces.

Codespaces is magic because it allows you to go from zero to fully configured dev environment, even for the most complicated environments, in five minutes via a preconfigured dev container

VSCode in the browser allows you to do this, but is only part of the story, and without the dev container, you miss the really valuable part of that story.
In the context of military technology, ships and wagons are the big thing. Ships and wagons to carry food to troops and establish supply lines.

Logistics wins wars. With exception of WW1 and WW2, soldiers didn't really die in large numbers to the enemy. Soldiers died to the cold, to disease, and deserted due to lack of food / supplies / morale.

There are occasional exceptions where large numbers of soldiers died in battle... but those exceptions become remembered for centuries. It certainly wasn't a regular event (except in WW1 / WW2, which truly were horrific).
Most of them are paper billionaires. If you don't understand that yet, you shouldn't be commenting.
Yes but the original paper the thread references started tracking people born in 1972-73
> It's not the top percentile who have the ability. We have to all do it for each other.

Sure. And part of that is making sure that wealth is being distributed with the health of society in mind, rather than individual happiness at the top :)
I think the craziness of it is highly context dependent. If you're expected to be running everything in "the cloud" anyway, then as long as you have execute permissions on the cloud computer you are authorized to...ok no now wait a minute, you're right. This is crazy no matter how you slice it.

M: "Ok, here's your company issued computer. You're not allowed to do anything with it, because security and IP."

D: "Ok, but I need a computer to compile unique code, and I need to be able to execute that code..."

M: "Good news! We bought lots of cloud compute, so you can do whatever you need or want with your compute!"

D: "...how is this different."

M: "Well you see, we didn't issue those computers. So if something bad happens, it isn't because of us. It's because of the cloud."

D: "...but if something 'bad' only happens because of the code that I wrote, isn't it still bad whether its running here or there?"

M: "Fine! If something bad happens, it's your fault, not the cloud, because we didn't do it, and of course the cloud is infallible."

D: "I'm not working here."

M: "..."

D: "..."
That's probably not the motivation behind everyone who thinks billionaires shouldn't exist.
Infuriating.

Speaking as someone who moved around a lot as a child, and would be identified as a G&T candidate in each new place if there was such a program available there; when it wasn't, school was unbearable. In the last 2 years of High School, I stopped going to class, and stopped handing in assignments, and still did well... enough. My teachers liked me, could tell that I didn't belong there, helped out where they could.

I think it's helpful to think of G&T kids as having a learning disability. It sounds strange, but if they aren't stimulated, they are miserable, and will not do well in school.
I was an 80's gifted student in 4th through 6th grade. They basically used standardized tests (like the California Achievement Test), followed by an in-person, interview-style "IQ" test with a psychologist. For a 9 year old kid this was a bit overwhelming.
You are over simplifying a bit. Yes it may cost more to hire a H1B due to legal costs but only a small amount more at companies of this size. They have teams of people who handle that.

H1B workers are often paid less that citizens. In the long run it is probably cheaper to hire H1B workers even after the legal costs.
> Leif Erikson led an expedition to Newfoundland over 20 years ago

I guess that's technically not wrong.
winrar is free as in beer. It is not free software!

For anyone needing it: AFAIK, PeaZip is the only free software implementation of RAR V5 decompression algorithm. If you ever need to decompress any RAR V5 file, I think PeaZip is the only free software option available.
What do people use features like this for?
Anecdotally, I attribute most of my success in life to my 7th grade teacher's decision that since I was far beyond the rest of the class in math and followed direction well, she put me outside the classroom with a self-directed algebra book.

She created a gifted program with me, and ended up sending more kids outside with a guide on how much we should get through.

I was always a distracted kid otherwise, and this got me really excited about a subject that I may not have engaged with otherwise.
It’s not commerce but native peoples where apparently regularly crossing the barring straight without realizing anything unusual was going on.

If this had gone on long enough we might have turned into a ring species. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species
Those findings are based on the genetics of larger populations and specific samples of ancient DNA. If there were a only a handful of children born of both groups, that genetic trace would likely have faded out over time.
I think she would have ended up as well-remembered as Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday had it not been for her career getting derailed after being falsely accused of being a communist. There are very few videos of her performing online. Here are a couple more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySQ8cA4a-f8&list=RDEMRiyKQrq...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_WJ4PpxWaE
One positive of some of these programs might be that it's OK to be "nerdy" there or a "try hard". If you search for school fights on youtube it's kind of eye opening if you went to a try hard type program or school.
do you not think some random people have unusual skill, maybe Mozart or Bach for examples?
The thing is, education, especially public education, has to work for _everyone_.

I think this is the big mistake that is bringing everyone down instead of building everyone up. There can never be one system that works for everyone, unless you force everyone to be exactly the same.
> If you don't understand that yet, you shouldn't be commenting.

So you mean they're paper billionaires by "owning the means of production" Yeah. I know. :)
> Tennenbaum's Theorem

Heh, that's interesting. I'm going to have to ponder that for a while. Thanks for the pointer.
It is a serious risk. Their manufacturing process and their tribal knowledge of it is all they have, save maybe political clout. Through this they prop up everything else. On top of all of this, they might not be able to convey the process to the extent needed for others to recreate it, even if they wanted to.

I work at a company that faces this as an existential threat; you might be able to knock off our products in single quantities, but because of decades of process knowledge that no single person (or even a committee of people) could tell you, you won't be able to beat us on price. Once you do that, it's over for us, and any beneficial technology that we planned on developing is going to need to be provided by our competitors, who don't actually have a culture of making improvements, only leeching them.

There are countless industries with high but tenable barriers to entry, and completely dealbreaking process knowledge that actually determines the viability of a company in that industry.
QuasiLiterals
Obviously it passes because the channels of communication will be very different (eg. FB pages) for both groups, and will be affected by different feed algorithm rules

Also people are way more motivated to disagree or leave a bad review than positive

That page clearly shows YT manipulation
> eliminating gifted programs seems like its done mostly from spite

I hate that this is my natural take too. I really want to believe that most people arent like this, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to hold this position.
The usual explanation is that the Europeans lived in much closer proximity with livestock... smallpox probably came from cows, etc.

Also it's generally believed that syphilis didn't exist in the Old World before 1492, so there's at least one disease that probably made the opposite journey.

However, the disease narrative doesn't absolve the Europeans. Nobody forced the European powers to colonize the Americas. If they'd packed up and gone home, even if the Americas had still been decimated by smallpox, they would have bounced back, given the opportunity. Human populations tend to do that.

(The Black Death is sort of an exception, it suppressed European population for a long time, because it kept coming back, killing a bunch of people, and then going away again. But- Europe thrived during that period, the Renaissance was coterminous with very bad bubonic plague outbreaks)
> Worse, eliminating gifted programs seems like its done mostly from spite.

No, its done based on research showing that tracked gifted/mainstream bifurcated programs are:

(1) worse compared to known practical same-classroom alternatives for the students identified as gifted,

(2) worse compared to the same alternatives for the students not identified as gifted,

(3) as implemented in practice, based on criteria that heavily bias for out-of-school environments rather than purely assessing intellectual ability.

“Gifted programs” were a top of the line social technology of the 1980s, and the two track industrial system they embody was better than the one-track industrial system. But we know how to do better than either, now.
It is important to normalize for purchasing power in these discussions, but yea the US spends a decent amount on education. The biggest problem imo is that the money is all from local property taxes, which means the poor kids who need the most help get the least money.
> I don’t think Facebook is particularly likely to be able to ship something that can compete with whatever Microsoft or Apple can put out, either

Yes, but the Oculus Quest 2 is pretty good for the price, and fact that its probably 5 years earlier than anything anyone else is putting out. They're really actually trying it seems, which is pretty welcome.

I honestly think the coolest aspects of it are the simple AR-ish things they're doing (hand tracking, keyboard tracking, the camera based zone for where you can walk, etc).
> tradeoffs must be made

Does that mean we also get rid of IEP programs for the learning disabled?
Every time you mention this video, I will thank you for posting it!

It is a brilliant distillation of the commercialization of AR, and a "must watch" for all fanboys of the m-word.

Many of us saw the potential of the Internet, the WWW, and have lived long enough to see its trajectory from pure promise and world-changing potential, into mostly commercial milking medium.

I see no reason to assume that Zuck's vision will be any different.
No one is pretending anything. Quite a few founders are unhinged. Many are also passionate. The successful few know when to be appropriately passionate instead of irrationally unhinged. I think we're all smart enough to distinguish between the two. Temper tantrums are not exactly the same as passionate, well-reasoned pitches.
> Is there a big, new push to eliminate TAG programs that I don't know about

There is a push in CA to eliminate learning tracks entirely:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/06/04/californ...

I dont know what the magnet / charter / private school situation is like in CA, but public schools at least seem like they may start catering only to the lowest common denominator.
Anything you post can still get taken down for any reason. Eg. In 2020 credit card companies were worried about CP on it, so Pornhub nuked their own site, removing every video from every 'unverified' user. The majority of the content.

"The changes took the number of videos on the website from 13.5 million videos down to a little under 3 million."

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/15/business/pornhub-videos-r...
Here’s a thread on Twitter I’m making that tells you a bit about Vers: https://twitter.com/daltonedwards/status/1450879297930113026...
> I've always wondered why this wasn't a two-way street. Wouldn't native people also have diseases to share?

Cities are a breeding ground for diseases. America wasn’t densely populated at the time.
How many global pandemics world solved before?
I am one of those people. I bought an 8gb M1 Air last month for a project (while I waited for the new models to be released). It baffles me how well this little computer performs with less RAM than I've had in a computer since 2009. I'd love an explanation of how that works. Maybe the SSD is so fast that swapping isn't a big deal?
"Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." -- Mark Twain

I just never expected this to apply on such a massive scale.
Ask HN: Best resource for learning Android dev?
I took Stephen Grider's React Native course on Udemy and liked it a lot. Maybe something along those lines?
ycombinator actively takes ownership of the means of production by providing loans. Any founder knows how predatory external funding is, but, it is the only choice to get a company up and running.
The nanolipid process that Moderna won't give up is literally their entire business model. You can see the literal base pairs of the mRNA vaccine in the patent. The method of getting it to cells is the entirety of the secret sauce.
Have either of you ever used a XPS camera? They are terrrrrible.
Well, syphilis went the other way
> If the tax was substantial I'd support this.

Start at 10% with a commitment to ratchet it up by 4% per year or something. That's enough to start an immediate reduction without destroying the industry.

If you're making choices about engine overhaul now for an overhaul that will last you 7-8 years of light use, fuel costing 40% more at the end of that overhaul will definitely get your attention.

> it's already been graduated.

Doing nothing for decades when it was impossible; and then doing nothing for a decade or two when transition became possible; and then pushing the industry off the cliff is not graduated.
The news is the accurate dating, not the existence of the site (which is so well known that it is a UNESCO World Heritage site).
Cyrillic-writing countries miss all of their alphabets and so does Greek.
> In fact, I recommend that browsers ignore these hints because they are wrong much of the time.

I don't agree. That's the kind of coddling that encourages incompetence. Instead of compensating for others' mistakes, just let their stuff break.

I wonder if Safai on iOS ignores the hints. When I tested, I was surprised to see that pressing the share icon, which holds the option for `Add to Home Screen`, would cause a download of all of the icons listed with `link rel="icon"`.

Favicons are a huge pain to deal with correctly.
> Parallel evolution of two strains of smallpox might have meant still no immunity to the Spanish version several centuries later.

Though by the same token it could also have produced a plague that was devastating to the conquistadors, and might then have been carried back to Europe for Black Death Round 2, devastating the imperial powers and generating a long-lasting fear of New World contact. Lots of interesting AU scenarios to consider here.
In general I agree with you, but how about Warren Buffett, or the younger Kardashian? Neither of them have added value to the world, but neither seem particularly evil either. Unless your claim is that unequal ownership under capitalism is itself "stealing profits from workers", in which case sure, I don't think there are any billionaires without equity.