skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a parent of five kids, I think the problem is in many districts, the schools do not want to collaborate with the parents. In fact, it seems like whenever possible, the schools do things to make it harder for parents to collaborate, especially on actual education:

* Objectives are rarely published so parents can understand what is being taught.

* Common core math makes it impossible for parents who did not learn common core style calculation to help their children with math.

* Textbooks are not allowed to leave the classroom.
Mmm, agree with parent; can get faster. Unfortunately lots of perf critical code is created out of necessity and defaults to proprietary.

You could profile this lib and figure out where it’s spending most of its time and figure out if there any ways to improve (starts getting into implications of JS <-> system), but as you get more idiosyncratic you lose flexibility and ease of use.

Eg type checks, heap additions, recursion, etc can get “slow”
Floating cities to enable “human civilization to continue” on the ocean
>That would cost $157 plus two Ubers

Depending on market, those two Ubers could nearly double the ticket price. I just checked my app, and a ride to the airport is $53. It won't be any cheaper coming home. Just a reminder that you can't really just write off the cost of the Ubers. nevermind the hassle of just dealing with airports
Their interests are best served by becoming educated productive members of society.

This feel good, utopia, idea that children have no need to be concerned with learning a skill set, or learning how to be productive members of society (which yes means often working for companies) is part of the moronic political drivel that "education reformers" and teachers unions are pushing that are causing the American schooling system to fall behind the rest of the world.

Lets start teaching hard science, math, etc. Lets start grading with red ink again, and Lets stop with the participation trophies and the like
Let us spend our school tax money on schools of our choice then.
I don't take as much issue with this happening the other way around. It's a rare opportunity for the information asymmetry shoe to be on the other foot.
Having known a couple librarians in my time, there seem to be an unlimited number of ‘concerned parents’ trying to get books that upset them banned, including for the reasons listed by the grandparent above.
Why weren't light courts or courtyards considered here?

Someone asked rem Koolhaas a while ago what his residence looks like and while he tried to dodge the question he ended up answering "a 19th century victorian apartment" seems like the same sort of ego at work here
Has anyone asked students, current or prospective, what they think?
We’ve also been in a insane bull market for most of many peoples careers now. Many fresh managers have never seen bad times. It’s easy to be a pal when times are good and budgets aplenty.
From 2008 I remember a distinct overnight shift in managements demeanor once they knew what was coming for us
surprisingly flying is not that much worse per passenger mile, really depends on occupancy. A full flight can be just as efficient as a half empty train. (EDIT: consider how many passenger miles you get from one flight from NYC to LA, vs running two 1000hp diesel engines for 4 days for a similar number of passengers)

pollution is a different story, the new amtrak fleet is very clean burning, and doesn’t dump jet fuel into the ocean, so that’s a plus.
I encourage everyone eligible to get vaccinated to protect themselves against severe symptoms, but that does little to protect vulnerable people. Vaccinated people also transmit the virus. Since the virus is endemic and can't be eradicated, everyone will be exposed multiple times throughout their lives.
Why bother learning how to make hardware when you can make a better living writing software?
Another method is to download the iso from Microsoft using uupdump.net (you can download the Pro version, which lets you choose a local account while installing) and then prepare the bootable usb stick with Rufus, which now have the image option "Extended Windows 11 Installation (no TPM/no Secure Boot/8GB- RAM)". I tested it and it just works.
> They're doing sardine-packing here as a matter of necessity and there's going to be some tradeoffs, but frankly this is a pretty minor one.

I honestly don't understand this. It's not like this is a new problem. There are plenty of ways to pack a building and still give each room a window - a famous example being the Pentagon building. The view way not be particularly nice, but at least it would give you fresh air and a sense of time and space.

He said has has copied architecture patterns from cruise ships. Of course you can't design a ship with courtyards, so windowless cabins sort of make sense there. But he is not building a cruise ship.
Sure, but those all come with increased construction cost and less efficient land usage.
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First lines of the article:

"Credit cards make money through net interest, interchange, fees, and marketing contributions."

I love you.
I've noticed a couple of bug fixes that were in Windows 10 insider builds were recently touted as Windows 11 exclusive improvements. So if one of those bugs affect you, that's a reason.

Otherwise, it's the same as it always is: new software or new modes for software will increasingly become incompatible with Windows 10 and earlier over the next few years. Some future directx feature will be win11 exclusive and will be critical to performance sooner or later.
Here’s some math I have been trying to socialize for a few years. The cost of simply nationalizing the Union Pacific is not very high. You could take over the governance of the tracks with serious conflicts between freight and passenger service and spin off the rest of it into a new operating company with all of the remainder of the freight network, the rolling stock etc. The net cost would be a few percentage points of the value of the UPRR, single-digit billions at most. It would be well worth it to solve the conflicts in places like Sacramento-to-Bay Area.
So you're sure that the brainwashing the state picks is the correct version?
It's just an interesting shift in the wind.

A few years ago I'd get flamed hard for suggesting that just building Wine-compatible Windows builds was smarter than trying to build native linux versions.
> I did a search on comments on HN for Wolfram Alpha. Most posts are 8 years old, none newer, some older.

You searched wrong. Excluding today, the most recent comment was 7 days ago, and there were quite a few more in the past month.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1636070400&dateRange=custom&...
They all crash, eat performance, or ugly.

I want fast gnome 3 without the crashes, and consistent modern ui themes across my apps.
I'm gonna go down in the flames here but Unity was great. It was very stable for one thing. I never had an issue that I do with literally every single other DE that exists. XFCE is stable but customization is a time consuming affair. KDE is riddled with bugs. Cinnamon doesn't get enough support and thus has issues with various software (recently like not being able to run Factorio via steam or having bloated font in KeepassXC), and GNOME is like a happy medium between KDE and XFCE. Unity just worked. Out of the box like Windows and MacOS. It made me sad cannonical decided to drop it. It was the first real dedicated support to a DE that Linux decidedly needed.
Side note: "The Wisdom of Crowds" by James Surowiecki

https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Crowds-James-Surowiecki/dp/038...
> deliver constructive but critical feedback as close to the “original sin” as possible. Receiving feedback that you did poorly weeks after the fact is disconcerting. It can lead the recipient to wondering what other things they’re doing poorly but won’t hear about until later.

This is very true. It happened to me some time ago, that I was performing very poorly - at least according to my team (I think it is at least partially true but there were circumstances)
Instead of telling me so I have a chance to improve, my boss just fired me during my probation time.
If I would have known earlier they are not happy I would have adapted my work style according to their expectations and tried to please them. This way I didn’t even receive a chance.

Context: I just started a new job and then the first lockdown due to corona happened. Nobody was prepared to onboard me properly. I was a junior developer, but in hindsight I believe they expected a senior developer
Are you sure on that? Doctor selection is a bit more annoying but I thought they covered “the same stuff”? Either way marketplace is a bit of a mess, I had one for a year and ended up getting screwed by the local hospital for 10k.
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Show HN: Is Portugal a crypto tax friendly country that is becoming a crypto hub
> We have people who can pay to have individual transportation and not have to put up with the minor inconveniences of public transport.

Air travel is public transport and Americans use it all the time. High speed rail has worked fabolous on 1-2h flight distances for decades in many parts of the world.

It is preferable in every way to flights: total time, comfort, leg space, security & check in hassle, window sizes & scenery, luggage space and so on.

In many areas there are good arguments for why US infrastructure can't be retrofitted into European, but for intercity travel (eg SF-LA-SD or Boston - NYC) all the prerequisites are there.

Obviously, I'm under no illusions that it would actually happen due to attitudes, culture, politics and so on.
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I posted another comment comparing this to UC Berkeley's new dorm. Munger Hall is cheaper by $360 per sq ft.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29132614
>If you want gnome to be better, then contribute to it.

It doesn't work that way. The gnome maintainers have certain ideals that IMO are out of sync with most users and they are completely hostile to most PRs. I've seen tons of PRs denied with bizzare rationales and crucial functionality ripped out of gnome in their efforts to 'streamline'. This leads to everyone having a laundry list of extensions that break or stop being maintained and it just isn't ideal or user-friendly. Want to do something as simple as drag a file to your desktop? Oh you need a gnome extension for that etc etc. We need more DE choices.
> normal variation of human personality?

We can’t exclude the possibility that phones are extremely rapidly (<8 years) transforming human traits.

In parallel, I’m seeing the emergence of a new layer of “bogan millionaires” (that I’m part of): People who shouldn’t reach there so fast, but did it anyway through apps, instagram, stock exchange or bitcoins. There are so many of us that it’s a real danger (or a real chance), it feels like undeserved power for people who didn’t struggle enough to know what a few million dollars really is. It is mostly due to the decentralization of power brought by the internet, but moving masses from learned inability to having some power, while leaving the rest of the population (the good old workers who kept at his work diligently) in the ditch… It may change the face of humanity.
No wonder, those things are vicious!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txfdGlxEsG8
Yes. That's why they are to be executed. But they are not contending the part of being execute itself, are they?
Just to add to this, System 76 have released a Gnome extension that gives Gnome a nice tiling implementation that I find quite productive. The usual distros have it packaged in their repos.

More info: https://github.com/pop-os/shell

After installing the package, you’ll need to log out and back in and enable it in Extensions.
As you mentioned, you'll still need Secure Boot (or at least, UEFI boot) + GPT.
Most people that have knowledge of a news story are often incredulous reading one due to incorrect framing or outright mistakes.

More insidiously, the news is also molded by a set of institutional incentives that often results in a highly distorted picture of the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
1. It's slow, even for simple microsecond computations like log(2). Takes about 5-20 seconds to load a page on my 1Gb fiber connection. Opening Python/SymPy Gamma is much faster for most things. https://gamma.sympy.org/input/?i=log%282%29

2. Every time I use it, a box saying

NEW: Use textbook math notation to enter your math. TRY IT

pops up over the result, and clicking the X doesn't hide it the next time I search. This adds ~3 seconds to the result time.

3. I'm a long-term Mathematica user, but typing literal Mathematica syntax usually never works, except for simple expressions.

4. Results are PNGs, and copy-pasting a numerical result takes a few unnecessary clicks. "Plain Text" > Copy.
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Internet was shit until it got its own VisiCalc: online advertising. After the dotcom bubble it was the only area that held well enough and could take advantage of the newfound aversion to paying for stuff online.
They should just fork deepin and improve it. It's the best looking DE imo. Zorin is also good in terms of ease of use for newbies.
interestingly you can also mill a flat or indexes to mate tubes together. I’ve also contemplated making one-piece saddles to mate extrusions, filling the gaps with zero-expansion epoxy.

Tubes and extrusions you buy cheap rarely have dimensioning and tolerance you’d want to accept out of the box. To get what you need, best just to use geometry of hole centers, and adjustable fine parts.

I set a limit of 1/128 inch on any garage woodworking projects. This is 8 mil (thousandths of an inch) or 0.2 mm. Wood and plastics (and even aluminum) fluctuate from moisture and temperature enough to make this a lower limit of reasonable value, though I’m getting closer to 5 mil in router precision. It’s not a fine carpentry shop and I’m not making anything that really needs better than eyeball precision (hand marking) which would be about 1/32 inch.

Applying geometric dimensioning and tolerance to design has been a liberating experience. I’m not a mechanical engineer or even otherwise anywhere close to the industry so I really had no idea how to assess or compare designs.
I believe it's because designers in large corporations feel the need to continuously justify their own employment and their salaries. So things change not because users request them, but because someone somewhere has to justify being a lead UI designer and their $$$ salary - and nonsense like moving the start menu to the middle ends up being "their thing" purely because they had the mental strength to push it through endless meetings and reviews and someone finally said fine ok we'll do this.

I see the same thing literally all the time with Google products, every revision of YouTube/Google photos/drive/android/Gmail just shuffles thing around without any obvious reasoning behind it, it's just "well, time for a new update, let's move things around again".
Hello fellow Nebraskan! If you’d extend this to Elkhorn my kids (and I) would think you’re a wizard!
Don't worry, the majority of the USA doesn't give a damn either. Twitter loonies are not representative of the general population.
Not just dangerous for the miners too. Aberfan had a major effect on the UK. A slag heap near the village collapsed, burying a school and killing 144, almost all of them schoolchildren

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster
Hacker News has paid moderators, and seems to be higher signal than Reddit.
When you say “the one FB is working on” - the stated goal is for there to be one Metaverse, as there is one Internet.

Of course that requires protocol interop (as did the Internet with TCP/IP and HTTP) and who knows if it will happen for the Metaverse.
Can't go far on HN these days before some hot take makes you roll your eyes. The number of Borg cells that run DM jobs is a rounding error relative to the number running TF jobs.
> Just focus on serious minimalism, accessibility and traditional interface paradigms without trying to be liked by the masses or following any "trend".

IMO, XFCE is pretty close to that. But I had to give it up for Cinnamon b/c I had lots of problems with multi-monitor support and different configurations (different monitors at work than at home). It was also buggy and the whole DE would crash sometimes when unplugging monitors. But in terms of a minimal, approachable, and accessible UX, I think they nailed it.
Yes, but The Equipment That Makes Them also requires chips to function as well :)

AFAIK There are at least five members on HN working in those equipment company.
Well I don’t know if you intend the M to be Microsoft or Meta, but if you want to incorporate both: MAGNAM.
It's easy to criticize what someone ELSE is doing - much harder to do it yourself.

To me it seams like Munger has offered up a nice solution given the incentives and constraints that exist in this particular case. This doesn't mean it's perfect, or that it would be best in all other scenarios - just that it's a very reasonable compromise that optimizes overall good for the students in this particular case.

Perhaps someone else, rather than criticizing, would offer up a detailed alternative, and then subject that to the scrutiny of students, faculty, environmental and zoning boards, finance, etc - and see where that gets them. My guess is not very far. It's likely that all of the "better" options folks are suggestion have already been thoroughly considered and rejected for good reasons in favor of this option.
>So far it seems like they sort of vaguely want to turn Fortnite into it... but I haven't really seen much that I would call concrete.

I always thought their Travis Scott event was a pretty good example of something you could call early metaverse-ish, going beyond the usual scope of the game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYeFAlVC8qU
He's kind of the Shiva Ayyadurai of hypertext.
Also Psychology of Crowds by Gustave Le Bon.
I wouldn't be able to write this. I mean, I could, but I lack the knowledge of Typescript and willingness to dedicate the needed time to create this while I have got other things to do.

The code is clean, well organized and nice to look at, easy to read through and understand, and it's great that someone has made the effort to create this and share it for us to use.
You are mixing things up here. The headline is about Wolfram Alpha. You are talking about Mathematica.
They're just serving up answers which is boring to HN readers. Where's the drama in collecting data privately? Where's the drama from censoring results? No drama == No interest? Gawd, I have become cynical.
Barrier is a maintained fork of Synergy 1.X and avoids some of the commercialization influencing newer Synergy releases.
I successfully registered х%йпи%даджигурда.рф when Cyrillic .рф zone opened. Unfortunately, it was shut down a couple of months later by the registrar, but it was live for at least those couple of months :)
Historically the 16 sqm for 3 persons doesn't really sound too bad. Even currently in many places people live in less space. And little back it was even more common.

Also, I don't think they spend too much time in the room other than sleeping.
I don’t need the whole USA or even California. I’d settle for fixing the Bay Area, which has close to the same population as Switzerland, about the same economic activity, and only half the territory to cover. It should be a piece of cake.
Sure, but in recent games you also wouldn't talk about having "your own server" or joining "a server" - you're joining a match or a world or similar. You might refer to "the game's servers" if they happen to be down or overloaded or something, but it's less common these days to talk about a specific server.

The exception, of course, being games for which it is actually still possible to run your own servers. Minecraft comes to mind.
Maybe we'll finally get thumbnails in the file picker though.
I still use it all the time fore unit conversions, odd time based questions, etc. I find it's way better than the Google results because if I think of something after the fact I can tack it on and WA figures it out better than Google. E.g. "12 ft to meters * 3" is not handled right by Google but is handled how I want by WA.
Grain that's ground, mixed with water and cooked is definitely one of the earliest processed foods humans created. Easily 10's of thousands of years old. The entire agricultural revolution occurred because humans wanted to farm grains; some historians say to make beer, but whether beer or bread came first both are connected (both are basically just water + grain + yeast + heat).
This is absolutely correct. Public schools can compete with private schools via vouchers.

The crazy anti-gays can send their kids to whatever church or madrasa or whatever.

The disruptive kids can go wherever.

The smart kids can go wherever.
I'm allergic to some specific varieties. As in full panic, my throat is closing.

Independently (or maybe not?) from that I get an insane acid reflux after eating any kind of tomato. I don't get that with other acidic foods. The pain gets so crazy I've considered calling the hospital because I thought I was going to die. Obviously I don't eat them anymore.
MethodScript is used for Minecraft scripting.
WTactualF? When has * ever been anything other than multiplication? Why would the resulting links all be discussing division?
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Security perhaps. VPS is no longer as secure with the rowhammer and cache exploitation vulnerabilities. And if you only need a tiny system, a raspberry pi is pretty ideal
Not as things stand now. For this functionality you would want something closer to `I32<0..500>` and `struct I32<const RANGE: Range>(i32)`, so then operations between two `I32<RANGE>` can check what each corresponding const param is. I don't know if this will be possible in the short term, but I know that quite a few people want something along these lines, so I think it might happen at some point.
Yes niching or narrowing down is usually the most effective way. For example I do 5-hour week consulting to pre-seed startups as a Fractional CTO. My value proposition is: I guide non-technical founders take their startups from pre-seed to seed and I focus on the Mexican market. In less than a year I'm already well established in the niche and I even go further by specializing in AI startups.

My job is usually building a team and mentoring more junior developers. Also, participate in product design, assuring what they try to build is feasible, cost effective and meets the goals.

Besides founders, me relevant network include family offices & angel investors, startup mentors & accelerators and college professors & junior developers.

If I wanted more work, I would offer developing personalized newsletters for seed startups charging a higher hourly rate. But I rather wait, and let some of my customers grow.
Those were the measured speed +-3 Mbps. Sometimes inside of buildings my connection also drops back down to edge but I think this got way better in the last 2-3 years.
For stories like this, 99% of the time it’s a government institution. That’s because the primary purpose of these is to leech money off people to provide an inferior service.

This happens because the worse the service the more money they get. “We need more funding” is their common cry but the marginal dollar provides zero or negative value as even more corrupt leeches flock to the system to extract all excess dollars.
Seems like a false dichotomy. I'd trade 999 thousandths of those billions to not be unlikable.

Also, they truly exhausted all other options?
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