skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Throw in phrenology to the cocktail and you have a textbook hypocrite.
> the age grouping doesn’t line up for me

Everyone's different-- what helps one student may harm a couple others. On average, homework looks bad for the young. One reason why is that there's no one there to enforce correctness, so you could easily have dedicated incorrect practice. There's some neat ideas about this, like flipped classrooms. (You send a video lesson home with 1-2 questions to enforce compliance with watching the lesson, and then have the practice happen in the classroom. But this is extraordinarily effort heavy for the educator and there are other drawbacks).

> Turns out I had undiagnosed ADHD and Autism, and makework was valuable for me early but useless for me as I grew into myself.

I had pretty rough middle school years, too. I'm trying to make it all better for my students.

> Otherwise this resonates with me so much. Your kids are so lucky to have you.

I'm a new teacher (previously an engineer/entrepreneur) and ... definitely one of the weaker members of faculty overall. I'm in awe of the teachers around me. But I'm definitely trying to understand as much as I can from research and my own observations of students.
Focus on heart disease and opioid problems. Can be done at the same time.

For example: require an AI system at a drive through which makes a decision if you should be allowed to buy that quarter pounder with nacho cheese sause and half a gallon of Coca Cola based on your silhouette. Or have a scale in the seat of the car connecting to the drive through till…
If you have 5 statements like "if err := doThing(); err != nil { return err }" then you need to simulate the success of all 5, success of the first 4 and failure of the last, success of the first 3 and failure of the 4th, success of the first 2 and failure of the 3rd, etc.
> Ok so who do I turn to when I only want a curated App Store from Apple on my iPhone

You do realise that if the rights of the consumers are upheld, as many are advocating for, you could use whatever app store you want, right?
If their commercial paper is something other than Evergrande, surely they'd have said so by now. (Assuming it exists at all, of course)
> What is HackersNews and tech’s romantic obsession with Tokyo / things Japan?

The real answer is hard to pin down, but I've got a few guesses. It all started in the 80s, when Japan started mass-producing electronics and was poised to become a sort of computer-based superpower. They got to live this out in the following decade, investing heavily in the tech sector and integrating western/global culture into pretty much everything they were exporting. The 90s also saw the rise of the internet, and with Japan being so small it was relatively easy to connect the majority of the population. This gave Japan a pretty considerable presence across the world, with the rise of imageboards and IRC. Combined with their pop-culture presence, the country enjoyed quite a bit of western attention regarding everything from anime to J-Pop.

From here, things get considerable more subjective. I think Japan's fetishization of other cultures hit a boiling point in the 2000s, and with the rise of domestic western tech corporations like Microsoft and Apple, Japan was sorta strongarmed out of the room. Despite this, their cultural influence can be seen in a lot of the so-called great minds of our generation. Steve Jobs was infatuated with Japanese culture, and famously built a zen garden on his estate after seeing one in a real-life trip to Japan. Celebrities like Kanye West and Brie Larson normalized anime and Japanese culture even further, to the point of near-assimilation with today's youth.
Other nations that are parties to the Nauru agreement can (and will) do something about it though. Australia, New Zealand, and the United States all take the agreement pretty seriously as well.

On the other hand, both China and Taiwan spread money around in the PNA countries as a form of soft power and to get some level of looking the other way.
Unfortunately, like Facebook before it, this change signals to me that YouTube is for an older generation now and is on its way to being irrelevant in the future. It was a nice ride, though.
I thought so too. The documentation for all state they honor .gitignore. In my case, the compiled code is committed.

My query was for a generic term "src" - so that likely trapped the file-path embedded within the long lines of a source-map. Hence the massive file-size difference.

(I did inspect the files to validate)
It’s terrible that kids have to face challenges like hunger and poverty. I believe in universal free lunch, and find it abhorrent the way this basic human rights issue has been politicized. I find it abhorrent that there are disparities in access to quality education. None of that changes the fact that people need skills to be employable, get accepted to a legitimate college, etc. Making school easy with squishy standards is not doing anyone a kindness. It’s preparing people for a life of mediocrity.
How does that matter in this instance? Or do you always just automatically assume FN is bias?
> brigaded by adversial community

Not necessarily. There are other cases where consumers could use dislike as form of brand boycott
You have to make reasonable inferences when evaluating the potential for collusion between what are arguably the two most powerful entities in the world.
Time for the cars to just drive themselves so we can be free to read a book, watch a movie, even have a beer etc. Instead of stressing out trying to drive with all this control. It would give an amazing amount of useful time back to our lives. I used to hang out at work for hours while totally tired just because I was dreading that horrible rush-hour drive home.

I really hate driving now. 5km/h over the limit is an insta-fine in some areas, where the entire road is monitored. When I still drove I used to watch the speedo more than the road sometimes which can't be the intention. And now the car needs to validate my state of awareness? So I have to focus on looking awake and perky as well.

I really can't wait for self driving cars. Luckily right now where I live I don't need or own one. I hope I never will need to own a car again :)

Ps I never drink and drive but this method will probably cause false positives and cause distractions. It's just time to take this full circle IMO. Computers aren't perfect at driving but neither are people.
> Times have changed, though, and you could argue that now many people would like less app clutter and easier discoverability of the apps they actually want.

Time and time again people & markets need to relearn this.

The "video game crash" in the early 80s that collapsed Atari was because of so much shovelware that came out (with the infamous E.T. game being seen as the "pinnacle" of that era). Nintendo emerged from that rubble by being more selective about the games they allowed [1] on their platform, something which Atari fought them on tooth and nail [2]. (The amount of shovelware games on mobile platforms is a tragic repeat of that era.)

One of the more memorable aspects of classic management classes like the case study of the Challenger Disaster is that you don't want more information, you want better information.

Google's mission statement remains to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." How are they doing on that these days? How's the Play Store compared to the Apple App Store or Microsoft's Windows Store?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIC_(Nintendo)

[2] https://youtu.be/fLA_d9q6ySs
Most of what you're saying seems reasonable... but then I see a statistic like this:

"Black Americans receive about 7 percent of the doctoral degrees awarded each year across all disciplines, but they have received just 1 percent of those granted over the last decade in mathematics."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/us/edray-goins-black-math...

And this is the current production! You don't want to see the statistics regarding the number of African American faculty members in mathematics!

So what else is our current system perpetuating besides inequality? What exactly are we "weeding out" in calculus? Or college algebra?

We don't let kids trust themselves intellectually in the classroom.
Uggh, pickup trucks.

(eyes COP26 climate change summit)
I'm in favor of this as long as they introduce the same mandate for gun manufacturers: figure out a way to reduce murders.

Either both mandates make sense or neither does. I think you can probably tell which camp I'm in.
Thank you for this. I really appreciate this response and was the kind of thoughtful and serious intellectual response I was looking for.

Most of the other arguments were to the tune of 'the fact that you took a picture indicates it's interesting. You tell us' without addressing the question. I quit FANG, turned down hedge fund offers, and moved Japan for very different reasons than most people, so my personal answer isn't that informative here. Architecturally, there are much more interesting buildings, so that's not the complete answer here.

A good example of the phenomenon I'm addressing is reflected by the show Billions. Arguably, Tech and finance arguably have more in common than other with any other professions. In Billions, there were more subtle elements of Japanese admiration, but in a more studied and sophisticated way, especially by the character Wags.
The way to learn monads is to just avoid them while hacking Haskell (or another functional language) and find the boilerplate of handling things like state or errors annoying. I truly don't believe any other way is as effective.
Our coding convention (and I happen to agree) is that the outermost layer to touch the error is the one to log it. In this case the HTTP handler, or perhaps a gRPC middleware. You don't want to be logging errors as you propagate them, or the logs will show the same error at a bunch of different call sites vs. one complete picture of what happened.
I live in a rural area and quite a few people use a scythe to cut their lawns and it does a pretty good job (albeit not “upscale suburb” good) plus it looks like great exercise.

There are plenty of examples on YouTube to learn technique from.
Reflections on E-Bikes
>I like their SUV https://rivian.com/r1s but it's $75k.

$75k is $20k cheaper than the Model X, doesn't have the silly doors, and has a 3rd row option that adults can sit in. R1S will sell like hotcakes to eco-minded soccer moms. And, there is no competition in sight from any other manufacturer (electric hummer doesn't have the 3rd row option)
iPads can be put into a "shared iPad mode" that is managed from MDMs.

https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/shared-ipad-overv...
Japan used to have a bad drunk driving problem until they changed the laws to be mostly zero tolerance. If your caught it's an automatic 90-day suspension of your license. Over 0.25mg and it could be up to 2 years. That's excluding potential fines and imprisonment. Oh, and any adults in the car and or the person who owns the car can also be held liable.

Technical monitoring is one solution. Making you calculate if driving is potentially worth, at a minimum 3-months of no driving, quickly makes you decide it's not worth the risk is another. That said, you'd think potentially running someone over would be enough risk for to avoid driving under the influence, but it's obviously not.
> First, you can make legitimate claims as to why you should own a gun. That’s not the case for driving drunk.

Don't need to make a case for driving drunk, just need to make the case that preventative measures cause more trouble than they're worth. We had one guy try to make a shoe bomb, and now every commercial passenger has to take shoes off to fly on a plane. It's reasonable to ask where the line is, isn't it?

> Second, as a society we should be minimizing preventable deaths where reasonably feasible.

"Reasonably" and "feasible" are subjective terms.
Yeah, this is pretty obvious. The government is getting very unpopular right now, just take a look at the like/dislike ratios for any vaccine related announcements or inflation related announcements. They are just gonna shut the whole party down if they can't spin it the way they want. Very authoritarian. It's not a huge change, but these things happen bit by bit - the US is slowly converging with China.
Fixing drunk driving is NOT an automotive technology problem. It’s an urban design problem. Fixing Americas idiotic zoning laws will do more than any technological solution. It’s hard to fathom how much space we’ve given up to our obscene level of car dependence. The first city in America that converts a considerable portion of their urban core into a car free zone will net a higher influx of talented workers than any Amazon HQ2…
I'd guess some of the contenders for that crown are docker/containerd or kubernetes but (obviously) the answer will depend a lot on the "we" in that sentence

1Password is also a heavy golang user, as a more silent entry into that race
John Cleese blacklists himself from Cambridge
Run Mac OS 10.3 on Replit
Zero-Day Hole Found in Palo Alto Security Appliances
In 8 years, China is not going to rot to the degree you're referring to. So Xi made a mistake and maybe cost China Taiwan... but in no way does China's future depend on Taiwan. He has to make a lot more mistakes or be in power much longer. Right now, his tenure could be compared to a bad US president... we survive that sort of damage fine (it's not good, but the country isnt going to fail).
> Yes, students can learn from it.

Largely the evidence points towards it being harmful to learning in early educaiton.

> On the other hand, it is mostly intended to promote a certain type of work ethic where those who devote additional time and effort have more opportunities for success.

I think if you ask what homework is "intended" to do, you'll get a million different answers from different stakeholders. I think whether you assign homework or not, there's a massive impact of work ethic upon educational success and attainment of mastery. Some students just go the extra mile and are more successful as a result.

> Grades really should be abolished for more descriptive assessments,

I like grades for MS and up. As much as you talk about the confounds of grading, every criticism you've levied would apply even more to more subjective, descriptive assessments. But I do support emphasizing them less and trying to make what they measure truly be mastery of material.
Microsoft Goes Deep on Java with JCP Membership
> How on earth do we de-escalate from here?

You increase the chances to succeed at the same time you make it more difficult, to overwhelm that aspect.

Reduce the binary outcome slightly so it's not just a cycle of fail and be thrown / throw yourself to the wolves (dropout).

Dramatically increase vocational education training.

Shift to a year-round school system. So you don't fail and abandon. Instead, you never stop until you succeed.

High school et al stops being N year pegs/separations that you must pass each of to move on annually (start year / pass or fail / break / next year). Instead it's year-round, fluid, continual. You are failing at this thing, continue until you are not, no break, no year markers.

The rigid year system is largely bullshit, it's an exceptionally idiotic approach. It's overly simplistic and lacks the nuance of an individual's context and needs.
A brand new 2020 Toyota Landcruiser is worth a lot less than a second hand one in Australia right now. $160k+ for a second hand one :(
Sure, and yes I can do that, but you are also judged in comparison to people who just graduated and used them in theory classes all the time, or who are demons on hackerrank etc.
In theory.

On the other hand, the only times I've ever swerved was to avoid something in the road. And if you've ever driven in icy conditions—it's not ideal but it happens—any kind of automatic correction is dangerous. There are also plenty of circumstances where it's okay to cross solid white lines.

So the devil is in the implementation details. How sensitive is it? How does it determine the difference between a driver who's avoiding an emergency versus about to cause one? What does it do when it thinks something is wrong?

Could there be a good version that informs unsafe drivers that they're not okay? Sure. There could also be a lot of bad versions.
is there a reliable way to block YT ads with a browser add-on?

I'm using Ublock + Umatrix and still seeing a huge surge in ads across all videos.

Youtube is also injecting pre-rolls at the beginning of content I've uploaded to a new youtube channel that is not monetized (I have no interest in putting ads in front of my content)...so I have zero interest in supporting their ad empire.
That tech is nowhere near the reliability needed to lock out vehicle access. My (relatively new) car's lane departure system regularly gets confused by wet roads, construction zones, snow, and other environmental factors. Imagine the hell that would be getting stranded on the side of the road, stuck on hold with your car manufacturer's tech support while in a snowstorm because your car refuses to let you drive.
This is very exciting! I can't wait to sign up for it and then ultimately not do anything since I overcommitted myself.
Your joke is someone's dream.
Lehman Bros was, relatively speaking, also a "fart in the wind" - it all started with $2.8 billion loss (not even default). Things kinda snowballed massively from there though, over the course of a few months to the point where it was a threat to the global financial system. The fear is the same could happen in China as well.
>Don't need to make a case for driving
drunk, just need to make the case that
preventative measures cause more
trouble than they're worth.

Thank you. You took the words out of my mouth.
Video's value is in dislike counter. It helps in assessing content from new/smaller studios.
With each year the internet becomes less and less about individual voices being heard. Dystopia here we come.
There are questions that are not allowed to be asked and addressed because they are (often rightly) deemed racist. There are also questions that need to be asked that despite the racism still need to be addressed. But because there is no one size fits all, it doesn't matter. The only answers that avoid the questions are those which cannot be answered for many, many generations, and which also require racist policies to be enacted in order to be considered legitimate questions.
I've "smartened" my ~50-year-old daily driver with a bunch of electronics and various upgrades. There's plenty of options in the aftermarket, which you have complete control over. Or put another way, I'd rather have more smiles per gallon than miles per gallon...
But is getting them off iCloud the goal? As a society, are we better off?
> cameras make sure a driver is watching the road, and they look for signs of drowsiness, loss of consciousness or impairment.

> If signs are spotted, the cars will warn the driver, and if the behavior persists, the car would turn on its hazard lights, slow down and pull to the side of the road.

What could possibly go wrong in the middle of the night on an under construction highway with barriers on both sides and no shoulder for miles?

If that sounds contrived, you've never experienced the joys of PennDOT.
> In contrast, its important to note that intoxication is an objective measure.

is it? BAC itself is an objective measure, and can be measured quite precisely if one cares to calibrate their equipment. but the actual level of impairment varies a lot from one person to another. all we can really say is that, statistically, most people are not good to drive after some cutoff. it's even more difficult with other drugs. a dose of heroin that would put you in the ER might be the bare minimum to stave off withdrawal for an addict.

> Someone who causes an accident while distracted can just not say they were using their phone and theres no evidence otherwise.

depends how much you care to investigate. a text message sent a minute before the crash is fairly incriminating. even if they are just scrolling instagram, there's probably a timestamped log of that request somewhere.
I think facebook even had a backlash when it tried to switch to webp for serving image
Students in France go to school 6 days a week and have a longer school year.
It helps that if you are not paying attention, it looks like a DOI.
That's a $150 million payment that they can't make. The concern is how are they going to make the future payments? Their total liabilities are on the order of $300 billion. Fantasia (mentioned in the story) is another China real estate developer in trouble. The concern is that this is the tip of the iceberg.
From the Verge's article (https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/10/22775580/kyle-rittenhous...):

“iPads, which are made by Apple, have artificial intelligence in them that allow things to be viewed through three-dimensions and logarithms,” the defense insisted. “It uses artificial intelligence, or their logarithms, to create what they believe is happening. So this isn’t actually enhanced video, this is Apple’s iPad programming creating what it thinks is there, not what necessarily is there,” they added.
Imagine the same scenario but you are in the middle of nowhere, with nobody around and your car tells you you are drunk and can't drive...
Firefox is number one result for me too, in India.
>It’s not that we need new vaccines for the same virus each year, the virus has just mutated enough that our immune response isn’t trained to identify it.

The inference here is categorically false. Vaccine protection against the flu begins to wane within weeks, and the reason is not owed to mutations:

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2018/09/study-fl...

https://www.science.org/content/article/why-flu-vaccines-don...

>Why is there such a push to convince people that our immune system works differently for this particular virus?

There is no such push. You and others are just misinformed about how the immune system works and, unfortunately, spreading that misinformation--as here.
Massive banks of toxic lithium or lead based batteries to store solar energy? Wonder what the end of life plan for those batteries will be. And you thought nuclear waste was bad…
This sets up the worst incentives. Regulators would get paid by the fines they extract, so it would be in their benefit to chase any lawsuit against FAANGs, no matter how tenuous, while letting the 99.99% of other companies run amok because they wouldn't result in the billion dollar paydays.
I'm not sure if that explains why deleted messages from months ago are being resurrected. That would imply that there is a persistence framework that has multi-month readback capability.
Congratulations, you've discovered that it's simply a mirror of humanity's deepest thoughts, and indeed reality itself. An AI that's hyper-politically-correct would actually be rather scary.
I can't tell if this is a joke or you are serious. Can you clarify?
Not surprising, I wouldn't doubt it's not by accident.

Massive spending, government cash handouts, purposeful restrictions on energy commodities.... this seems predictable.

So who gets hurt, and who gains?

Younger earners (who will get pay raises) and equity holders (who hold businesses that will pass along the costs) surf the wave upward.

People on fixed or inelastic incomes get burned.

But the $15 wage won't seem unreasonable shortly.
Distributed version control intrinsically has difficult concepts, I find a lot of people who claim these things to be user unfriendly are struggling with the concepts of distributed version control. If you struggle with these concepts all the DVCS systems will be hard to use. While there's some rough edges with Git it's worth noting that at the time it was created most of the alternatives were significantly worse to use.
https://digital-justice.com/articles/skip-signal.html

Agreed - I've moved ~80 of my friends from Messenger to the free Matrix server, and I host my own server. It's a wonderful experience.