skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah no ... I described failings in the students - or rather, that wouldn't say 'failings' so much as 'contextually, utterly not prepared, willing or able in any way'.

"A good school will not have most of those problems."

Because a 'good school' is full of conscientious and prepared students, raised by conscientious and prepared parents with jobs and stability.

There is nothing a 'decent group of well meaning teachers' can do when 50% don't show up, 90% are literally years behind in reading and the curriculum, 50% are borderline illiterate, nobody pays attention or does any homework, students get violent in class, they are interested only in the most ridiculous artifacts of pop culture, even the students who might try are bullied, and there are zero role models in the lives of students, kids are neglected and abused and the students collectively could care one bit about learning.

There is no possibility for 'education' to happen on those circumstances.

Give them healthcare, parents stable jobs, 2 parents in stable relationship, stable family life, destroy the gangs somehow make them irrelevant, and watch grades magically rise without a single change to the school. We know this because when you take these kinds out of those stark situations and put them in regular suburban schools with teachers roughly the same credentials, they do reasonably well.

Inner city school teachers are not crap, they're basically 1/2 social workers 1/2 teachers, totally undervalued.
Not without peril. But worth the risk in this case.
People _were_ fine with lockdowns when implementing such measures helped avoid failures in the healthcare system (which is still kind of an issue in certain places in the United States, as ludocode above points out).

No one is calling for lockdowns now, especially now that we have a safe, working vaccine and that we're seemingly close to actual treatments to reduce the death rate of COVID. Vaccines are free. So how is a vaccine mandate fucking over the working class? Or are you just disingenuously using them a cudgel to argue against policies which have the potential to save lives?
I drove a Mazda CX-30 for about 5 months this year, and while YouTube reviewers roast Mazda for not having a touch screens, I found that it was the best system out of any car that I've driven. I've driven cars with touch screens, but there is something so satisfying with being able to do nearly everything from the steering while and physical dials/knobs.

I don't have the CX-30 anymore, but I suspect that my next car will likely be a Mazda (not only for this reason, but it does play a factor).
>Microdiff aims for working for 99% of use cases, instead of making every edge case work.[1]

That's fine, of course, but probably should be in the README.

[1] https://github.com/AsyncBanana/microdiff/issues/2#issuecomme...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_Intermodal_Prevention_... for anyone else unfamiliar with that acronym.
I empathize with this view and felt this way for a long time, but now that I work with managers who are really good at this stuff and are "pushing" me to get good at it, I am seeing its power.

> “But you’re not doing OKRs correctly!” Sure, I agree to that. But what use is a system or process that’s so difficult to get right that most organizations fail? I would argue that it is useless.

You can say that about a lot of stuff. Most people "fall off the wagon" with proper diets, for example - but that doesn't mean it's not a valuable thing to strive for.
As should be the case, I would hope. Toolkits shouldn't be desktop-specific.
As a non-native speaker I would welcome more "grammar nazis" in places where well educated native speakers can be found.

One of the reasons children learn new languages quite rapidly is because they get corrected the whole time.

Not correcting people hinders actually their progress in language learning… Even if it might seem impolite it's the one thing that helps a lot, if not even most, in mastering a foreign language!

So thanks for being a "grammar nazi". We need people like you.

(No, that doesn't apply to the causal typo. But I guess most people can differentiate such a thing form true grammar and spelling mistakes; especially if that are "typical" mistakes).
I'm not sure who you mean by "they", but there's a lot of difference between distros, and many different ways to put the pieces together (or leave them out)

Compiling from source is the most reliable way to run the latest and greatest version of a particular application that I've found to date, leaving out all the middlemen like package mantainers, whose competence I may or may not trust.

And generally speaking, I'd trust a several-decades-old technique much more than something just released.

As far as Windows software goes, I've found Wine to be a much more reliable platform for old Windows applications than Windows 7 or 10, although there's nothing better than emulated Windows 9x for running programs of that era.

(I make "any browser" websites, so running 1995+ software is something I do on the regular.)
Parents are a subset of taxpayers.

Taxpayers are a subset of stakeholders.

(Few childres are taxpayers, for starters, at least not in any significant capacity. They are a primary, but still not the sole nor determinative, stakeholder.)
It's an annoyingly common TV and movie trope that one person will call another person and say "Come over here right away, I have something extremely important to show you!", not bothering to give them any idea about what it is, and by the time that person gets there, they're dead.
You can now get permanent residency in one year if you have 80 points on the immigration point table.
It seems that a society where trains run on time with amazing precision has to also be a society where you get berated if you’re a few minutes late for work.
Of course if you try the query with spheres you see Wolfram Alpha's typical catatrophic failure.

I love WA and use it all the time, but it's so hard to know when a query will work and when it won't. When it fails it fails hilariously.

Here's some of my favorite queries:

- https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2.2+bagels%2Fday+*+ave...

- https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=time+dilation+given+v+...

- https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=400+miles+%2F+20mpg+*+...

- https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=US+unemployment+rate+v...

- https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=warp+speed+6+in+deep+s...
F# has a few significant differences vs. OCaml, but for the most part it makes up for it by having a wider ecosystem you can tap into. I also started out with OCaml (and also had the same "this is what programming should be like" reaction that completely broke any other language to me ;_;), but just the ecosystem around F# has made me ignore some of its .NET warts to get shit done. For example, you can build cross platform apps with Fabulous, a pretty high performance web server with Giraffe, and the web app with Fable and React. Worth checking out if you wanted to build something in OCaml but didn't have the right libraries to focus on your problem instead of reinventing the wheel.
Software aside, the storage (NAND flash) in the phone actually does wear out and get slower with use. Given how many writes modern software likes to make, this can add up.

But, critically, this wear doesn't just happen. It only occurs when the NAND is written to. It won't happen if software is effectively caching and combining writes.
For all the people operating generators outside, can't those still be bought out of state and then brought to CA?
Turn off bitcoin does that provide enough power so the world doesn't starve?
I saw a video on YouTube showcasing $200-$250 rent rooms in the Tokyo area, some of them not that far out in terms of commute from the center. That is definitely something that doesn’t exist in the states, our housing codes would allow for it (small 2.5 tatami in area, they had no heat, shared toilets, no shower/bathing in the building).
... doesn't the battery powered still use the same basic engine for a leaf blower... ? Won't it still generate noise.

https://youtu.be/f5N30Q1qTaE

Seems to me it's outside your door/sidewalk it's still a lot of noise
Is Tokyo’s direct powered electrical mass transportation sustainably sourced?

Does direct powered electrical mass transportation exist within 2000km of the other user, assuming they’re in the New World?
Canonical (canonical.com) business includes KDE/Qt, so the name Canonic (canonic.com) is a little confusing.
It’s hilarious in Germany. I’ve been at very short crossings (like 5 meters) without a car in sight and everyone just stands there waiting for the sign to change. I just cross - can’t take the New Yorker out of me.
Doesn't load at all on Android
What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?
When companies that offer these interviews are often offering 2x or more compensation, taking the time to study seems to really work out.

Doing leetcodes once or twice a week for the rest of my career (if these tests persist) seems like a really cheap price to pay to make over 400k a year.
Yes, the "if you're very rich, young, and have a particularly valuable skill" loophole. Every society makes its exceptions ;)
Politics are the modern day religions. You are either with the cult or you are the enemy. Really is a funny circle.
Right, I got your point.

However, I'm not so certain Apple has engineered their devices in a way that guarantees the chain of trust for the hardware components.

I would wager major governments have the ability to carry out interdiction operations.

My threat model isn't the Five Eyes (FVEY), it's everything besides them because no one can protect themselves when the NSA flagrantly subverts the Constitution and get away with it. The FVEY work in concert to get around each other's laws so yeah, good luck stopping that.
The Heartland Institute, according to the Institute's web site, is a nonprofit "think tank" that questions the reality and import of climate change, second-hand smoke health hazards, and a host of other issues that might seem to require government regulation. Heartland Institute is an "associate member" of the State Policy Network, a web of right-wing “think tanks” and tax-exempt organizations in 49 states, Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., Canada, and the United Kingdom.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Instit...
I thought ed is the standard text editor?

But I agree on micro. As a Linux user who refused since 20 years up until now to learn vi or emacs nano and than micro was a real pain relive.
> Of course, one could opt for full anonymity! In which case, keep these properties as separated as possible.

I really like the fact that they don't dismiss people that want to do things differently and don't need/want what they offer.
A moonlander keyboard makes for an interesting comparison here:

It's worth taking time to learn something to get a better experience. Keyboard layering takes some time to get used to (especially if you can already use a standard keyboard), but is worth being able to reduce hand movements. Modal editing takes some time to get used to, but provides a richer navigation/editing experience.

Similarly, you can customise your moonlander to the point where it's yours and no one would know how to use your keyboard.
Except it is as I see it. The goal is to eat less and to achieve that you need figure out what you can eat less of that will make you still feel fed. Sure it doesn't apply to everyone but nothing does.

For example, for me, 600 calories worth of chips will keep me feeling fed for an hour or two. 600 calories worth of pure brisket can keep me feeing fed for 8 hours. You can guess which I tend to eat more of when I'm trying to lose weight.

edit: Also if you're at a stable weight then we're talking 10% less food per day and not 50% less.
Well, as far as 'cannabis' goes, what's not to like. No hangover. It's very enjoyable, I don't know why you wouldn't want to smoke it frequently/regularly after trying it once. It would be weird to think "Well, that was really nice but I'm not doing that again." Plus it's not addictive, unlike those other two 'drugs' you mentioned.

I'm wondering what role that word 'suddenly' plays in that sentence. Juices it up, I guess, tries to make it sound scary.
Yeah that's totally what I expect, which is why I'm confused why the person I replied to seems to believe there'll be a single one.

I know that the Web 3.0 Cryptocurrency crowd have ideas on the idea of a decentralized web with a shared ontological understanding, so maybe that's the source of the idea of there being a single metaverse?

But neither Epic nor Meta seem interested in a shared ecosystem. The metaverse is a product and their implementations will compete. I'm not sure if people would even want to be in two separate metaverses so competition will be fierce.

Most media (books/movie) sidestep that by usually having a single metaverse creator. That's in large part because it's narratively easier to deal with a single villain and universe. I don't know of any that posit having competing offerings.
> Why don't you think it's simply an issue of many people who go through CS programs failing to master the material?

That's still a problem with CS programs. They're passing people who haven't learned the material.
Permanent residency has been increasingly easy to get in the past few years, and can be had in significantly less time than citizenship.

One year of residency is enough if you’re young enough and make enough money. Three years if you just miss those standards, or if you’re married (I think).
If IQ is supposed to be measuring innate intelligence and the numbers are actually measuring bad human development indicators, then yes it seems there’s a bias in the data.
Worldcoin Is Evil
I encourage everyone eligible to get vaccinated, but vaccinated people can still carry the disease. There is only a limited and temporary reduction in transmission. If the grandparents have been vaccinated themselves then you can be at ease right now.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y
TBH, both Ubuntu and Gnome have completely lost my trust as far as making stable and predictable environments.

The Mac-like global menubar which they've grafted on without being able to adopt the applications is an atrocity IMO.

I consider Windows 95 / NT4 / 2000 to be "peak desktop GUI" and use distros which allow me to emulate that look, feel, and behavior. I use it until it fails to deliver that experience and then keep trying other distros until I find another one who has not yet rotted out.

So far, I have only had to switch distros a handful of times.
Not much honestly. iphones are limited by iOS not by hardware.
> Americans--at least in big cities (and maybe especially on the East Coast)--are far more likely to cross streets where and when they can get off with it than in many other places.

Come to Mexico and that notion will be dispelled pretty quickly.

Here you can find pedestrians crossing anywhere they please, bikes going against you, street vendor carts, and cars still crossing after a red light... all at the same time.

I was in NYC just a couple of months ago and in comparison everything was quite orderly.
I don’t know many places in the world that runs the train late at night.
I think Crypto is a bunch of things to a bunch of people. Some see it as a fun way to make a quick buck, some see it as an alternative to gold in a time with unusual inflation of the dollar.

I see it as the future of the web. There's a lot of energy coming around the concept of Decentralized Apps. or Web 3.0, today we have web 2.0 with large centralized websites ran by huge tech monopolies. Regardless of your political affiliation, you probably dislike them. Though the exact reason you hate this is probably different.

Web 3.0 offers us a way out... and crypto is one of the critical underlying infrastrcuture components. A lot of people see things this way, and are trying to get in early on it. Chances are the markets will crash before the majority of people understand what web 3.0 is. But while the market is down, a lot of cool stuff is going to be built, and when more people start to discover it again, the market will shoot back up. This cycle happens every time we make progress. Of course, the markets are pretty amateurish right now so we also tend to overshoot it, leading to huge bull markets and big crashes.
Have these people never heard of rakes?

Where I live you can't really leaf-blow anyway, as the leaves are almost always wet and heavy.
This legend or similar exist throughout European countries. I am not sure how based in reality they are, but there must be fragments of truth, or common approaches that were later exaggerated.
Sounds good to me. If I had concerns, it would be that the vultures of the music industry, the labels, will make a windfall but none of the money will flow to the actual musicians. A second concern is that this will remove what little diversity there is on the radio. Economies of scale and agreements between the labels and the broadcasters will shrink the playlist to a handful of songs/artists. Also worry this will kill college radio, some of the few remaining bright spots on fm radio. All concerns aside, anything that can get more money to musicians seems like a good thing to me. I hope it pans out.
> Proponents of the law users of electric power equipment will save money over time because the amount of electricity used to charge the batteries or power the equipment is cheaper than the cost of fossil fuels for comparable usages.

...if that was truly the case, then wouldn't battery powered equipment have won the market already?

The fact of the matter is I have battery powered lawn equipment. It barely can handle my 1/4 acre yard before giving out. Recharging the batteries takes hours, and the batteries love to flake out and refuse to charge.

If I was a lawn care company, I'd be livid.
Electric leaf blowers are much quieter from my experience. The gas powered motor itself generates a lot of the noise.

Making them illegal didn't seem to help in LA where the gardeners still defiantly use the gas powered blowers with zero repercussions. Hopefully you'll have better success outlawing them in your community.
Various spontaneous networks were build at Belorussian universities (БГУ, БГУИР) as well in ~1997-2002. In about 2002 they were rebuild and legalized to some degree.
The homes are so small though. 66 square meters on average. Much smaller than NYC even if you just take Manhattan. I used to be able to do that but with a family and hobbies and a desire for space, it’s just dehumanizing for me today.

But yes, my time in Tokyo informs me the place is amazing. Just not for me anymore.
Yes. And the same for other products with small engines. People can buy them in Arizona, Nevada, and Oregon.
I've also heard about how homes in Japan are (comparatively to the US) poorly insulated. So that tracks.
Qb.js: An Implementation of Qbasic in JavaScript
My understanding is that the 88% number for mumps is the upper end of the effective range:

> MMR vaccine is very safe and effective. The mumps component of the MMR vaccine is about 88% (range: 32-95%) effective when a person gets two doses; one dose is about 78% (range: 49%−92%) effective.

Per https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/mumps/index.html

> Whereas, when the CDC talks about COVID vaccines, reducing the severity of illness or reducing (not eliminating) the chance of passing it on to others are what you get if the vaccine is "effective" for you. So not only has the meaning of "vaccine" been changed, the meaning of "effective" has been changed as well.

If we're talking this definition got covid vaccines, then the covid vaccines are much more effective than flu vaccines (and probably on par with MMR). If we're using a consistent definition of effectiveness, then covid vaccines are probably slightly less effective than the flu vaxes.
Fair point. It's not just this, it's the lack of being able to upgrade. I guess I'm just old and remember when I did my first upgrade from a 14.4k modem to a 33.6k modem and how much faster it was (lol). This is why my next laptop won't be another XPS, but will be a Framework laptop.

I would have bought the Framework laptop now if it wasn't for the fact that they don't ship to the UK (yet) and there's no 15" version.
That's my point about regulating the noise, not the tech. But objectively, I the electric ones I have heard are way more quiet (though still obnoxious). The gas ones basically sound like a chainsaw, and are louder and have more jarring harmonics.

Personally, I'd advocate a rake.
I suspect requiring people to drive a few hours away is enough of a disincentive to purchase that sales to Californians will drop by 90%.
No. Battery powered does not have an engine, it only has a motor. The engine in a gas-powered device is where the combustion happens, and that combustion causes much louder noise than an electric motor. Same as the sound of an electric car vs. gas-powered.
Quite interesting to see, I recently moved to Singapore which seems to be the place everyone looks up to in the region right now because they say it’s so advanced and apart from the cleanliness (which is different though, it’s mostly to not get fined, but things like the mixed recycle bins in condos certainly don’t show an intrinsic aspiration to maintain a clean environment) I don’t see the advantages you’ve described in Tokio.

I wish there were more opportunities in Tokio, apart from what you’ve described there seems to be a good tax scheme for expats and it also has so much to offer culturally. I was in touch with several recruiters though and all their clients weren’t moving forward due to the pandemic.
F# really is the most "production" a general-purpose functional language is right now, IMO. Languages like Elm have really hit their niche but you can't, say, write a CLI util in Elm (maybe you can by now, but it's definitely not the intended usecase). I like it quite a bit, and if you're a Java/.NET programmer you should really check it out if only to learn about FP principles. But, in no particular order, here's a few things about it that I just don't like:

1. F# is pretty clearly a second-class citizen on the CLR compared to C#, and IMO this really hamstrings the biggest advantage of F#, i.e. access to the CLR. For example, until F# 6.0 F# had its own Async primitives while C# had its own, and you can guess which one most CLR libraries tended to use.

2. Some of OCaml's more advanced type features didn't make it to F#, notably functors - and as a result writing generic code involves writing classes and interfaces and not functors or typeclasses. I really don't like this bit of F#, and I wish it had a more FP way for writing generic code. If you want a much more elegant FP experience, OCaml is significantly better.

3. The community is small, not as small as, say, OCaml's, but IMO if you want a thriving community for a hosted FP language Scala is more interesting. But Scala is much more "multi-paradigm" and OO than I like, so I prefer F#.
Not sure it matters. Don’t think that genie is going back in the battle. At most it’s just slowing its escape
I'm absolutely baffled by some of the comments here. This is more akin to learning a language and learning grammar structures in a language. Once you have mastered the language you simply don't care about the linguistic structures. When you learn english you learn everything about verb placement, sentence composition and a whole lot of other things. Now, when you ask me about the meaning of grammatical structures I only know some of them because I'm learning Chinese and Japanese, but they're completely irrelevant to me when I'm thinking about anglosaxon or roman language. Worse yet, most of those structure I wouldn't be able to associate or name nowadays.

There is a reason why recent graduates perform better at these interviews than seasoned engineers. Even for computational math where you have all the basics of calculus 1-3 and bunch of other things where you have to prove the theorems in the exams it doesn't mean you recall all of it forever. It's like saying if you really know how to use a fork you create one yourself.