skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Existing learning management systems are a mirror (and a victim) of the education system itself, as that's where most of the developers come from: Academic, underfunded and people-focused.

this.

part of the problem is that an LMS is used by several different types of people:

- students
- teacher
- parents
- administrators
- other staff

everyone has different needs and expectations.

also, the users who use the system the most are not the ones paying for it. so they don't get much of a say.

every school has different priorities.

a good system for you may not be a good system for anyone else.

I'm still up for it, maybe in my next startup :)

i have been looking into doing that for a long time, but i had to shelve the idea. i am still interested in approaching this, but i do not believe that a large project without any users right from the start will be successful.

rather the approach should be to find a school, build a custom system for them and expand from there. it is the only way to build a system that actually has users and has a chance of getting funded (by those users)

without those users you'll build something that noone else will want.
MasterCard Introduces Accessible Card Design for Blind Users
Blaming github for people committing secrets to public repos sounds weird.
Number go up. And so I can flex online. Do you see how much that bad boy costs?
If you follow the link in the documentation it is a link to the documentation for dotnet, which is rather strange?

Is this a new language for the CLR? In that case why does it not support Windows?

It is also pretty interesting that it already have 1000 packages even though it is still unreleased.

This page seems to not be ready for general consumption in any case
Morally certainly the right thing, unfortunately morality isn't what keeps business and career afloat.
That doesn't seem to be open source? Their home page [1] has lots of stuff about pricing, sales, requesting quotes, etc., and their GitHub [2] has lots of forks of open source projects but not a main LMS project as far as I could see. It also isn't clear it's an LMS itself, as it has a use case example "Extending your LMS's capabilities", and the pricing page has an "LMS Integration" enterprise feature: "Integration to the Learning Management System (LMS) you're using. We support all major LMS's."

[1] https://www.eduflow.com/

[2] https://github.com/orgs/eduflow/repositories
Pretty sure they said the same thing when Apple started producing phones.

(All other similarities purely coincidental).
I think it is just bad faith, for most parts.

Wearing masks is annoying, they cost money and in the beginning of the pandemic, we simply didn't have them. So we find all sorts of excuses against masks. Same for seat belts, they cost money and people didn't want to be tied to their seats.

It is not so different from companies that prevent you to repair your devices because "you may hurt yourself" when in reality, they just want to sell you a new one or go through their own overpriced service.

It is not the only argument you can use. You can say that masks are bad for the environment, it is single use plastic after all, that they promote crime and make communication harder by concealing one's face, that it impairs breathing, which is mostly debunked but who cares.

It is the opposite of "think of the children". False sense of security is used when you have a safety that works but don't want, and "think of the children" is when you want it but it doesn't work.
I think the difference with TLS is that, in the attacks the TPM should protect you from, the attacker controls the client and the network.

I don’t really see how it is possible to defend against that. But I don’t quite understand how the TPM checks what the CPU is doing either.
The short version:

* Education is socialized. That is, people don't pay for it, instead the state buys it. At university level, this is slightly less true but the state still provides loans which may never be paid back. Even for the rich, who buy their own education, the sector is still extremely inefficient since the main value added is not from the teachers but from the other students. That is, universities are fundamentally clubs (in the economic sense of the term) rather than businesses.

* As a result, there is no payoff for innovating.

* As a result, there is no innovation worth mentioning. This applies to software, teaching, course design and everything else.

* At some point the existing system may become so bad that individual consumers seek alternatives. Then, there may be money to be made in teaching people. Until then, you are condemning yourself to a precarious existence. Good luck!
Imo, most likely it is sexist remark about dads. If it is not, it is observation that the people visiting castles act in sexist ways.

> Whilst working at or visiting castles I inevitably hear a dad proudly imparting this knowledge to his little boy (and it usually is boys’ talk)

Like common, the "proudly imparting" is there to achieve emotional response on the reader and make dad sounds like funny figure. If you want to keep it factual and objective, most parents (both dads and moms) don't disseminate this sort of trivia "proudly". There is whole range of emotions involved from bored to interested. Sometimes they use funny voice to get kid interested.

And as someone who likes to visit castles, you don't actually overhear it so super often. Nor do you hear it targeted at children as much. Moreover, "little boys", even when interested in fight and swords, they don't really care about technical details of either. They certainly don't care about left turning vs right turning staircase. This is beyond what little kids care about.
> We all need a special version of this document we can bring to health care provider visits

Which they will the decline to sign and require you instead to sign there standard, cleared-by-their-legal consent to treatment form before providing any services.

If you could afford the kind of providers that would be willing to even consider a nonstandard agreement, this probably wouldn't be a concern you would have in the first place.
The site is unusable if you have cookies disabled. It does not let you read the content of any page.
> why even write a blog post like this

The very next sentence explains why. Did you really not read past the line you quoted?

> That data will eventually appear in the content of a book that I am working on

The blogpost is a teaser for an upcoming book: that's pretty common.
Although this seems to be a 33MHz CPU, the 386DX40 was the first "decent" processor I had access to when growing up so was quite memorable for me.

In my teenage years the PCs my brothers and I had access to were two 386DX40s each with 8MB of RAM and several hundred MBs of hard disk space (can't remember exactly, but pretty sure less than a GB).

We really loved Blizzard's Warcraft II, which despite having a minimum requirement of 486 CPU, was able to run on the 386DX40s, albeit a bit slower than intended.

Since we had two PCs we wanted to play together, but only had a parallel cable. I don't know why it was so hard for us to get hold of a serial cable, but the point is we only had the parallel one and Warcraft II would only be able to run over serial cables, not parallel ones.

I eventually worked out a way though. The 386DX40s were actually also capable of running Windows 95 which had a feature where you could "network" two PCs over a parallel cable. I then ran IPX/SPX over that network which allowed us to play Warcraft II over it.

The gameplay was pretty slow, but as I recall it was very reliable and we played quite a bit on this setup. Eventually we got a couple of BNC network cards and cables for a much more conventional setup.
Funny you say that.

I'm in my mid-to-late 20's and quit my job in early 2020 (just before COVID!) to start my own business.

I've landed on my feet completely - making about as much per quarter selling used video games[1] as I was per year as a software engineer, with a feasible and straightforward plan to double that before the end of 2022.

However, seeing the the numbers going the way they are, I've started to wonder if I'm perhaps optimising too much in this direction at the cost of other aspects of my life.

I'm not arguing that the pursuit of wealth is a waste of time or anything like that, but for someone who doesn't quite have Elon Musk-tier ambitions the cost-benefit analysis starts to weigh less favourably towards money the easier it gets to acquire.

[1] For what it's worth, if you are smart, have strong technical skills and want to make money, I personally advise against starting a business that is "high tech" or "cool". Gaining domain expertise in a low-tech but scaleable area, then optimising it into the stratosphere is relatively low-risk and potentially ridiculously high-reward.
Did you read the article? It seems that the author leans more towards thinking it's "bs", even though they know a fair bit about what web3 is.
On the topic of copyright, it has a ton of stuff memorized. The first thing that came to mind when I checked this many months ago was the first chapter of harry potter, which it knows verbatim. For whatever that’s worth.
That flew over my head haha
in the the man page they say only legacy

> The /dev/random device is a legacy interface which dates back to a time where the cryptographic primitives used in the implementation of /dev/urandom were not widely trusted. It will return random bytes only within the estimated number of bits of fresh noise in the entropy pool, blocking if necessary.
/dev/random is suitable for applications that need high quality randomness, and can afford indeterminate delays.

and recommend:

> Linux 3.17 and later provides the simpler and safer getrandom(2) interface which requires no special files; see the getrandom(2) manual page for details.
In Denmark if you pull to the side of the road and you then send a text you can be fined US$250 and get 1 count on your license (above 3 means they take your license). Using a phone is strictly forbidden at any time you are "part of the traffic". So either the phone has to be secured to the car somehow (not hand-held that is) or you cannot in any way be part of the traffic. It is rare but people do get fined for this from time to time.
yes, im a big supporter of thing like proofofhumanity ubi, also $400m was donated from crypto to the india covid relief fund over the past 6 months. These initiatives are great and happy to share any you have.

This week, on the back of constituitondao, people have started making other daos for other causes like repatriation of stolen historical artifacts https://twitter.com/bronzedaotweets
For black-hat hackers, it does in fact solve some problems.
The UK has amongst the safest roads in the world, however you choose to measure it.

There is always room for improvement, but to suggest the UK has a poor driving safety culture is demonstrably false.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
Humans of Email
Try it with "informative" instead of "nice". Those putdowns are so easy to do that they're almost information-free.
Usually, the process of exchanging syntax is equivalent to "doing a new language" though.
Can you point to the publications which show the zero effect? Cursory scan found that there are effects:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1539-6924...
Making sense of Spotify’s entrance into the audiobook market
GitHub repos:

[0] https://github.com/Jerzeek/PlasticScanner-website

[1] https://github.com/Jerzeek/PlasticScanner-Software
> Maybe this is something software engineering professors can research.

Good idea.

We should also ask them how long that research will take so we can have a rough idea of how long we'll have to wait.
It doesn't seem to say what exactly they are going to do to force people to vaccinate. Swat their homes? LOck them in those jail chairs they use in China?
I am terrified of the day I will also witness this happening, or worse, become a victim. Because I walk a lot , I see drivers everywhere constantly holding their phones on one hand while driving with the other, barely looking forward to watch the road, just like the lorry driver in question, who killed a whole family while scrolling through music on his phone, did. It's a matter of time, people should be banned from driving as soon as can finally get a fucking computer to do it for us. The carnage must stop and I am honestly shocked the number of people dying is not an order of magnitude higher given the behaviour I see from drivers everywhere, even in the richest, most "law-abiding" countries (let alone elsewhere).
>No one is going to be given the vaccine by force

Yet.

Remember that people said over a year ago that "no one will be denied access to facilities without a vaccine passport, that's ridiculous". And yet later on it has become somewhat accepted and even desired. If it saves lives and reduces harm perhaps people will also support force being used? There is no limit anymore, seems to me. Any means necessary seems to be supported by the majority of the world's populations.

All we can say with certainty is "well, not yet".
Those do exist, e.g. the Vortex86 SoC[1] comes to mind.

Not sure if the AMD Geode GX/LX series[2] counts, since they IIRC have an external support chip. Some years back I used to work with router boards and industrial PCs that used them. I still have an industrial PC sitting on a shelf with an Eurocard[3] sized SBC and the ISA bus connected to a DIN41612[4] back plane.

The Geode implement a large subset of the i586 ISA tough (the LX also have an AES extension), but some other instructions are missing. I'm also not sure if they still make them any more, but given how many industrial products they're in, I'd bet there are warehouses full of them somewhere, until the last support contract expires.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex86

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Geode#Geode_LX

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocard_(printed_circuit_boar...

[4] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:DIN41612-c-federleiste-c...
Can the highest rated Chess Engine beat a human if each of it's moves are chosen alternatively by a 1000 strength engine and maximum (3500?) strength engine?
But this not the grapevine; iirc they generate results from (if not anonymous then atleast not publicly shared) replies to Consumer Reports subscriber survey.

So from the entire pool of CR subscriber base who agree to reply to their annual survey and who self-report to own Teslas, this group both overwhelmingly chooses to report significant number of car issues AND chooses to report great satisfaction?

What is up with this group of people?
“F(M)ANG scale” is an excellent touch.
The article references a study:

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118

but based on your own contention, you won't read it, so here's a key sentence from the abstract:

The preponderance of evidence indicates that mask wearing reduces transmissibility per contact by reducing transmission of infected respiratory particles in both laboratory and clinical contexts.
>I’m sure they’re not as much distracting

Well...

https://www.iamroadsmart.com/campaign-pages/end-customer-cam...
But that might be related to the availability of online pornography and not the Pill?
The CoCs are to guilds as unions are to factories in my opinion - they both are for workers' rights but operate within different power structures.
I think this article missed a key element of where ruby is going: developer productivity tools.

It is kind of hinted at with static typing, but the real story behind a lot of what happened since ruby 3 was released has been the tools and IDE plugins around it. Static Typing via RBS is also the existing LSP integration + VSCode plugin, the Typeprof plugin which allows scaffolding .rbs files for untyped modules, and the new debugger which will ship with 3.1, finally a core-blessed debugger, but above all, a debugger one can integrate with docker and IDE.

I'm expecting more of this in the future, such as a production-ready profiler, better tracing, overall better monitoring.
We are writing microservices in .NET. I don't quiet like using Go since it is very verbose and it's more time consuming compared to C# to accomplish anything. Performance wise, .NET is as good as Go.

I would see Go being more usable for DevOps tasks, writing pipelines, programming infrastructure and such.

If performance would be the most important thing, then I would consider Rust.
Thought it was just last week I read an essay that basically said "don't build your castle [in this case, OpenStore], in someone else's kingdom [Shopify]".
I really wish it was easier to version control Linux home folder

Maybe some existing tools (chezmoi,vcsh...) could warning this before pushing
There is something really cool about underwater drones, I want to get into it, even if it's just making my own in a stream/pond. Probably anthrophomorphization but still, good technical challenge too.

This video always stuck with me
https://youtu.be/ytKzx2Xsukk?t=142
I love how one of the top things Google pushes with AMP is its performance when Google sites are quite slow. YouTube flunks Google's own Lighthouse benchmark and it's not like it has sorting, filtering and searching features or a very complicated interface, especialy when the old site had the same features at half the memory cost. How hypocritical.

As a user I've always disliked AMP and how it was never the original page. Websites always have a separate AMP page and a separate real page.
And they should just give us that estimate quickly before they even figure out how they're going to carry out the research.
> As a result, there is no payoff for innovating

I mean thats not true. It means there are different pressures for innovating.

Buying a system in that will reduce the number of staff hours needed to do admin by 5% clear sale.

Buying in staff who cost 3-5x what a normal admin would cost, for a open ended, unsupported software project that has a high chance of failure? not a clear sale.

Schools are not tech companies, they do not have the capacity to spin up a software stack. They want software they can buy, and buy support at the same time.
I hate microblogging with a passion. I find those threads extremely annoying/cumbersome/unusable to read, because it always has a lot of noise around it. Especially on Twitter.
Thanks for explaining, I stand corrected!
For additional clarity, Polygon is its own blockchain. Loopring is, to my understanding, specialized for trading, and perhaps expensive to get started with.

And there are also other blockchains for which transactions indeed cost pennies, and which are faster than Ethereum. I love Ethereum for what it's provided to the ecosystem, but at the same time, I've never used it.
I guess it depends on where you live here in India only one ISP among several that I have used over 15 years gives public IP.
Do you like teapots? Fine, let us talk about the teapot currently orbiting the sun on the opposite side, so small, we cannot see it, but it is obviously there, ancient books and the elder says so. You do not believe me? Then where is your evidence for its not-existence? You cannot prove it? See: The teapot exist!
Thanks for the link. IIUC Richie is more of a CMS for courses and related info that can integrate with an LMS like edX, but it's not an LMS itself.
> if health care professionals were missing PPE as a result

True, but "don't buy masks NOW because the health workers need them" is totally different than "don't buy masks because they are not effective for the general public and can actually be worse" - being either a terribly wrong idea (like the article defends) or outright lying to the public (if the message was told not because it was believed to be true, but as a roundabout way of being extra emphatic to avoid the public hoarding masks and causing PPE shortages for health workers).
Relevant database check http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/sqlite/
Why not just ask him when he stopped beating his wife, and be done with it?
I assumed that we were not told to use masks here in the UK because there was a limited supply of them at the time and they didn't want that supply diverted from medical settings.
Looking at it from the PM's perspective they may well have been burnt in the past by developers giving optimistic estimates. I've done a few data transformation projects and they rarely go as planned.
To be clear, if I was your PM I wouldn't have done it, but... You should've done that instead because likely not even your customer cared. They okayed a month and would've been unhappy if it was late, but otherwise they usually don't care. Being predictable is more important than being cheap.
Random question, someone mentioned a similar data-pod project to SOLID that aimed to be simpler. Does anyone remember what it's called?
>a fixed mount helps a lot

I'm not sure that holds true.

"Participants underestimated by as much as 5 seconds the time they thought they spent looking away from the road when engaging with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay via touch control.

https://www.iamroadsmart.com/campaign-pages/end-customer-cam...
Simple explanation: Having alternatives of alternative system components all competing with each other on top of creating multiple distros which brings inconsistency to the user and leaving app developers having to 'define' Linux support.

None of this happens on Windows or macOS.
But they did it less for saving battery life and more to push their own Software. There are many things that could have been done to avoid the battery issue.
13. Demonstrate pieces of code and classes of tasks where your shiny new language excels over idiomatic code in languages A/B/C, in terms of safety, readability, performance, brevity or whatever else category you consider important
>one official

Do you want to stand by that statement or withdraw it?
I believe it was a joke about scientific gibberish.
What is the "joke" here? Making of fun of uninteresting languages with vague descriptions and lots of unsubstantiated claims?

This is C# and a snippet of F# and the "docs" redirect to Dotnet docs.
My experience is the same, from stairs to mountains, descending is much harder (maybe because we are tired of going up?). Anyway, I can see that intuitively, one can imagine that you need help to go up when you are carrying stuff.
"Yes, this test - someday - would be ideal. But for now it belittles what otherwise could be a win for plenty of commuters."

The point is, CNN went for glass 20% empty, instead of 80% full.
> Pandemics shouldn't be winning lottery tickets

If you want solutions, and you have capitalism, there isn't much choice. I’m perfectly fine with dismantling capitalism, but that's not really the role of the court adjudicating an FOIA case.

> "But muh rules" is already out the window.

No, the rule of law and Constitutional guarantees against arbitrary deprivation of liberty and property are not out the window.

I get that some people in this thread desperately want them to be, though.
Most people talk about excessive deaths, but nobody talks about a reduction of births.

How many children were never conceived since their parents were out of work, or unsure about the future?
iRobot CEO: Why Voice Is the Future of Robot Control
I dunno, but I think increasing money supply by ~40% in two years will wreak havoc in price signals.
Crypto AG was Swiss, not German.
Ask HN: Why didn't your todo list app make you more productive?
In theory once you make that list you know what's next right? And you start tackling them one-by-one? But for some reason it's never been successful for me, whether is Todoist or Wunderlist or Notion.

What happens to your todo list over time? Does it grow, shrink, remain the same?

Do you feel like you know what you're supposed to do right now? Do you feel able to execute the items? Do you end up doing those tasks you listed?

Do you feel you have structure? Or otherwise what do you feel is blocking you from being productive as you were expecting to be?