skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The social skills kids pickup in daycare and school is fundamentally important in a child's development. Yes, you can have kids hanging about with your friends kids but the ability to interact with strangers, and people outside your bubble is incredibly important.

I'm sorry you went to a bad public school but there are hundreds of millions of us who went to public schools and turned out just fine. If you didn't go to a bad public school and have formed a blanket opinion that poors == bad then you're proving my point.

Any parent who have home schooled during the pandemic will tell you that most teachers are worth their weight in gold. It's not remotely anywhere near as easy as you think it is.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't. The installer failed to setup bootloader. Installing it manually fixed the problem.
I love the look, but the kerning seems to be a little off, especially for initial caps. Try typing “Testing” into the test box. Although I guess you’d mostly use all caps anyways if you wanted the full “park sign” effect.
These are always fun. This brought back memories of Drawball
Your emacs' site has been very helpful. Thanks.
Very cool, nice work!

Just to add clickable links for others:
https://ascii-collab.app/
https://github.com/MartinSStewart/ascii-collab
BooBoosBeGone (tm)
That's assuming that the solution to whether P=NP is P=NP and not P≠NP, isn't it?
When arrogant MBAs make technology decisions they don't understand and aren't concerned with the details because "their way is best".

Sorry to burst their bubble, but most of the tech world operates on a "6 people in Iowa" for niche technologies.

It seems often in history that better technologies are lost as the wheel is reinvented for no apparent reason, either due to NIH syndrome, political/business concerns, or out of sheer ignorance. Hubris to the overconfident and a loss for humanity are often the results.
That's a lot lower than I expected. I can't stand the new UI. I guess most traffic is from people without accounts though.
Agreed. The pressure to push numbers before an IPO will be even stronger after. Especially as control of the company/board shifts more towards returns focused shareholders.
Perhaps a lot of school is social, extracurricular activities, etc. but if you strip all of that away you are left with the core educational content. That core is what was being taught remotely where the parents could observe. Some parents were perhaps delighted with what their kids were learning. Others may have discovered it fell below what they felt was acceptable.

It doesn't seem surprising that a percentage of those parents would seek out alternatives that they felt were a better fit for their kids.
Seems like a selfish and arrogant answer, but at least it's honest. The reality is, you're one bad encounter away from agreeing with me. You just haven't had to experience the worst of SF. After cleaning up messy human feces and drug paraphernalia on your property for years I'm sure you'd come around.
You're forgetting the last option, which myself and others use:

d) encrypted offline backups that never touch iCloud

I don't use iCloud for anything at all. Any sort of client-side scanner seriously compromises my privacy for no good reason. I am not a criminal. I don't deserve to be treated like one.
All of the moderators I know of, use old.reddit and Mod toolbox. Not the slow as hell redesign.
Not long ago, I tried to answer that exact question.
These are the notes and time log:
https://spreadsheettimeline.com/dev_notes/

Two full days, start to end.
It's slightly different from a SaaS like you describe. No user login and no database. The time all went toward the UI and front-end functionality.

The app you describe with signup & CRUD would take 4-5 hours. With Laravel/MySQL as a stack. Laravel has excellent third-party modules for the user management pieces.
Is this the solution for the infamous "foobar: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by foobar)" problem?
Eh, the schools aren’t even effective daycare as far as I can tell. There’s no discipline. One of my teacher friends won’t send kids to the principal because it’s worse than doing nothing.

She cares for the students. They are all very underprivileged. The school system is driving her out.
What doesn’t jive? What basis is there for the government to refuse a US citizen entry to the country? Being married to someone doing something illegal isn’t a crime. “Defecting” (in quotes because I’m not aware of Oswald having anything of value for the USSR) isn’t a crime.
I think it's fine on desktop. On mobile while logged out reddit is cancer.
I live in /home everywhere I can. Where home is, is a symlink depending on the OS.

I live in /usr/local (FreeBSD)

I used to live in /opt (SCO and Debian and OSX)

I used to live in /usr/local (OSX, Macports and HomeBrew)

I now live in /opt (Homebrew) and some of /usr/local (OSX) with minimal hand edits. Its better to let the pkg management run things

I now live in /tank (ZFS) and /data -> /tank (all OS I can, not OSX)

I now live in ~/Documents/<sub> with symlinks (OSX)

I try very very hard not to mess with /etc in odd ways (OSX, FreeBSD)

I accept limited rights to edit things in /usr/local/etc has to be managed by git, or other ways to keep configurations off the host in case I have to re-create.

I do ZFS snapshots over /data/tank and archive on an idle removable HDD, or replicate via snapshot increments to other hosts.

BSD quotas are too painful, I self police to lie under 10% free as much as possible.

When I install an OS by hand I try to make the "root" disk be at least a mirror. I try to make /data be at least raidz1 but preferrably raidz2

I believe in the power of 3-2-1 (3 copies of everything, two different forms, 1 offline)

I use /.../YYYY/... to move older things into a natural date hierarchy. I still believe in the power of limiting the number of file objects per directory, and keeping directory chains short, and primary direct objects as small as possible, so YYYY/MM/DD forms are natural to me. If I have deep high filecount data which can't do this I shard on hex 2-3 hex elements per subdir, it usually keeps things within sane bounds. Terminal file objects keep their true name. It means I may have YYYY/MM/DD/YYYY-MM-DD.json form data or /AB/CD/E/ABCDE.hex form data. Tant pis

We may be moving back to multiple parallel competing binary architectures (Arm, Intel) in our daily lives. NFS has a concept of interpolated ${HOSTARCH} variables in the symlink name which is increadibly powerful if you want to have a single NFS shared filesystem including system binaries, but have to manage competing binarch architectures. (the symlink literally has the ${string} but shell glob expands it at runtime to the specific architecture) -This is a trick from SunOS in the 68xxxx -> Sparc -> Intel days
It's being propped up by the Fed, which just announced their QE decision for the next 3 months or so today. That gives plenty time for an IPO.
“ This cosmic laboratory known as the “Double Pulsar” was discovered by members of the team in 2003. It consists of two radio pulsars which orbit each other in just 147 min with velocities of about 1 million km/h. One pulsar is spinning very fast, about 44 times a second. The companion is young and has a rotation period of 2.8 seconds. It is their motion around each other which can be used as a near perfect gravity laboratory.

Prof Dick Manchester from Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, illustrates: “Such fast orbital motion of compact objects like these - they are about 30% more massive than the Sun but only about 24 km across - allows us to test many different predictions of general relativity - seven in total! Apart from gravitational waves, our precision allows us to probe the effects of light propagation, such as the so-called “Shapiro delay” and light-bending. We also measure the effect of “time dilation” that makes clocks run slower in gravitational fields. We even need to take Einstein's famous equation E = mc2 into account when considering the effect of the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the fast-spinning pulsar on the orbital motion. This radiation corresponds to a mass loss of 8 million tonnes per second! While this seems a lot, it is only a tiny fraction - 3 parts in a thousand billion billion(!) - of the mass of the pulsar per second.”

It’s so beautiful that these things are just existing out there with such intensity that we would die instantly if we tried to see it.
> underfunded

Per-student spending has more than tripled since the 1960s and stands at over $15k/yr on average[1]. New York spends more than $38k/yr (!) per student, which boggles the mind.

Of course, much of that money is absorbed in the ever-expanding bureaucracies of the system's program offices, services, departments, etc. Go find your local school district's website, download their most recent audit, and look at the proportion of employees who are teachers. When I performed the exercise, I found that fewer than 50% of employees were actually teachers.

I think it's high time we started funding students, rather than systems. The last thing anybody needs is yet another hulking bureaucracy sucking the life force out of our institutions.

[1]: https://www.publicschoolreview.com/average-spending-student-...
Thanks for the tip, I will next time.
This take is both overly cynical and downplays the contributions people like Lecun and Bengio have made to the field of machine learning, both through their own work and their academic progeny. I see you work broadly in the area, but I doubt your research touches on anything they've affected (that you know of) if you earnestly feel that way.

This article's focus doesn't strike me as especially aligned with current problems in applied AI (how will self-organizing systems relate to prediction problems in NLP, tabular data, or computer vision?) but the connections to robotics are plausible, and in any case the tone doesn't come off as a wannabe thought leader trying to stake a claim, more like an excited learner who is really interested in some new ideas in a niche that may end up being narrower than they currently hope. I won't be assembling object detectors this way any time soon, but it was still a really pleasant read.
Congratulations folks! I'll say that Reddit has become one of my favorite sites to visit occasionally and I feel they've earned their success. I honestly feel it is a positive factor in my life, for the little I use it. There's really excellent content to be had, like well moderated educational content at subreddits like r/AskHistorians and r/COVID. I've learned a lot from hobby communities that are hard to find elsewhere (like for pizzamaking).

I also like that they've kept discussions text oriented, instead of allowing for embedded tweets, images, or videos to clog up comment threads (I like this about HN, as well). They might renege on this in the future, but I like the distinctly 2000s feel to discussions.
About an hour to install, configure, and secure a LAMP stack and WordPress, 15 minutes to create and test a form using a plugin, plus however long it takes DNS to start resolving. Under 3 hours, easily.
I think, as a society, we ought to make it a rule that a dead persons social media account shouldn't be used after they're dead. it's morbid, and weird.
Better music and bars too.
Will they be banning porn like tumblr? I know they removed it from "All" and then I believe they hid it in other ways. Just wondering when the Digg 4.0 / Tumblr will happen to Reddit. So far it's been a slow burn but I'm waiting for the great purge to bring down the house. It always seems to happen around an IPO.
>Back in the days when people were using mainframes without networking, the biggest uncontrolled authentication concern was cracking.

When we first got our terminals, at first, shared terminals, there was absolutely no guidance on passwords. Password security wasn't part of the consciousness. At least in my corporate experience in the 80's. Especially with all the data being on tapes. A security utopia, briefly.
Source: Am a (private) school admin.

A lot of these enrollment metrics have been driven by early childhood education, so I wouldn't put that much stock in this being some sort of wider trend in terms of desire to enroll a child in school. But there absolutely is a trend in terms of the LACK of desire to be in a school as an adult; it has gotten harder and harder to recruit, and, speaking quite candidly, the job of being a teachers has actually just gotten worse. Naturally, this correlates with a reduction in the quality of the folks that we get to be in our classrooms (even at institutions like mine that pay top dollar for teaching talent).

Even from where I am sitting it is extremely hard to confidently extrapolate what the long-run equilibrium of this will be. There's a camp that believes that this could have been a watershed moment for online instruction, but if you followed the play-by-play on the ground, it was almost the complete opposite: folks have been so disappointed by what counted as online instruction that in-person, good-ol-fashioned teaching has never been so highly sought. My guess is we will normalize with COVID protocols, staffing, and the rest fairly soon, and we'll returns to previous trends. The worst kept secret in primary education is that even at the high-school level for the most part we're little beyond a glorified day-care, and that the folks' who ought to matter most (the students) are pretty voiceless. This all combines for a fantastic recipe for why there is so much stasis in education, and unfortunately I think the smart money is on betting this won't change much at all, even after COVID.
It’s a great time given the current uncertainty in social networking.
Really cool stuff.
If Apple did not retain such tight control over iOS app distribution (and considerably looser controls over Mac app distribution), then they would still have a moral obligation to help their customers defend against malware. And this application is definitely close enough to being malware that Apple would have to assess it as a potential threat and at least consider the possibility of blocking it.

You can't exclude Apple from having to make a judgement call here unless you want Apple to be thoroughly hands-off about security and privacy concerns to an extent that was really harmful to Microsoft's reputation back when they weren't taking security at all seriously.
>It's really ok if someone disagrees with you. It doesn't make them argumentative.

No, but tone does. As does uncharitably interpreting comments.

And I never said hardware itself mattered, I said the level of software engineering in seamlessly transitioning MacOS across different architectures was impressive and resource consuming. Rosetta (executed flawlessly twice) in particular is an incredible feat. As were Time Machine (effortless backups), full disk encryption (seamless and transparent) at the time they were released. Not world changing, sure - but what OS feature in the past 20 years is?

>Apple has inexplicably ticked forward every year since 2012. What are the differences between Monterey and Mountain Lion that warrants their distinction?

You've moved the goal posts. The comment I replied to was:

>Fundamentally there is very little difference between Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah and macOS 12 Monterey.

Anyways, I'm no Mac fanboy so it feels weird trying to hype MacOS up. My only point was that the above statement comes across as more than a little hyperbolic.

I'm not entirely sure how to counter your argument since you've provided no criteria for how much the OS should have changed over the years. You've only said it hasn't changed enough. That's a bit vague. What OS meets your criteria? What obvious feature is MacOS lacking? What's your gold-standard benchmark for what an OS should be?

To be clear, I agree with you that many (most) MacOS changes are marketing-driven fluff. But I also fail to see any significant advancements in other OS's that MacOS sorely needs.
The us-west outage did not affect connectivity to the west coast. Our west coast customers had no problems with that connectivity, but our east coast and overseas customers had problems for a couple of hours.
China Uses Western Influencers as Pawns in Its Propaganda War
Mine allow me to see a future where:
The product is a flop because they forgot to make it cool, this is obvious to everyone with half a clue, but apparently not the super smart people who run the the project at google. The company throws good money after bad for years and then ultimately shutters the thing leaving behind a rabid handful of fans who (rightly) argue the google version was way better technology than anything else out there, but those fans are ultimately abandoned and forgotten just like all the other times.

Oh wait no, that was just me remembering the last five times they failed at something like this.
well I apologize for not knowing all laws across the world.

clearly I am unfit to be part of the blockchain discussion given that my knowledge of mining laws is not entirely complete and fully up to date.

forgive me senpai!

by the way, all (all) blockchain and NFT stuff are complete and total scams and one should kick the scammers between the legs, hard, whenever they are encountered in daily life... if you wanted to know my true opinion on this.
Good point. I have no data in interest vs execution.
there's been a bit of back and forth in tech lately and there are some signs it is nearing or passing a peak valuation. Get the money while you can and don't look back. Reddit's getting old too
We know what happens. Educational outcomes drop. There's a strong bloc of hard-right ultra-religious conservatives who don't care if Jonnie or Jayden or whatever learns how to read or add, and they really don't want Kayden or Charlotte or whatever to learn any biology or autonomy.

They vote with their vouchers for truly terrible schools. It siphons a tremendous amount of money from "traditional" public schools and delivers a hugely negative return.

It's a mistake, but it's a mistake we can't help but keep making because we're so determined to make everything function like a pseudo market.
That person isn't even from SF and only has an ideological agenda in this. They should be ignored.
By far the best kids I’ve ever seen in terms of interacting with strangers have all been homeschooled.
I'm still using .compact for mobile browsing
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You could google it. There's actual polling and data that backs it all up. Why write up all this without just doing a google search? It's not like we're talking about something that's hard to find....
I hope they have enough to point to from other instances to show that it's a bad idea.
90% of my users are either in Florida or Alaska.
I first learned rails almost 15 years ago and at the time, there was already a proliferation of getting started blog posts targeting different major versions of Rails. It was a hot mess with older tutorials referencing modules that were deprecated, unmaintained, etc.

A good example is authentication. There was one widely used community module that made it easy to add authentication to an app... Until it was no longer the popular way to do things and all the tutorials had moved on to something else. I believe that module was eventually deprecated entirely with the next major version of rails.

I haven't touched rails in maybe 10 years now and I'm scared to try to find the right way to catch up.

Anyone have a good recommendation for how to learn modern Rails?

Fwiw, I'm not looking to start and flamewar but having been a (mostly backend) Python guy for the last 8 years, things seem to still move quickly but have fewer breaking changes in the Python world.
The problem upthread was stated correctly. The video shows the solution for a similar but different problem.
Everyone who wants to understand this should read Tressie McMillan Cottom's Lower Ed:
https://thenewpress.com/books/lower-ed
> Perverse competitive incentives on all fronts drive prices through the roof

I don't think it's been established that competitive incentives are driving the price through the roof. There are other theories, e.g. that massive increases in subsidization via guaranteed loans and other mechanisms are driving the price from the demand-side.
Dnsfs – Store your files in others DNS resolver caches (2018)
Reddit already has embedded GIF comments, ie.

https://old.reddit.com/r/InsanePeopleQuora/comments/kip08x/w...
What is .compact?
Don't mention it! If you remind them it exists they'll destroy it.
Mandatory guideline quote:

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

The actual quote has a bunch of links that I worth looking at. People were echo'ing your comment 7 years ago.
IIRC, Leslie had the better design, but they also patented important parts of it. So Yamaha had to do this crazy thing to get a similar effect.
My first thought was that the interest rate hikes coming next year may have spurred it, but I'm guessing this sort of thing has been in the works for quite awhile now.
I’ve been here for a while. Maybe we can break the rule in a thread about Reddit going for an IPO? :-) Also, I am not saying HN is turning into Reddit. We are just degrading.
> Reddit has been passed around more than a joint at a Grateful Dead concert.
"Say what you will about those Fascists, at least they made the trains run on time!"

(Note on the above off-repeated cliche: they did not, in fact, make the trains run on time.)
> It only applies when you have iCloud Photo Library enabled.

For now. There are no technical limitations to Apple's proposed solution that preclude it from being always on. It's a policy decision only, and you can be sure there would be immediate pressure to force it to scan full time.
The easy option is firejail, which ships with premade profiles to give things exactly what they need to run, ex. https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/blob/master/etc/profil...
Redesign also loses your place when you tap back. Unusable.
I think it's due to new accounts starting with a higher Elo, and the fact I think LiChess' isn't even really Elo but their own measurement
Content aside, Reddit is possibly the worst performing large commercial website I have ever seen. Like half of all page loads and requests end with “something went wrong”. Search has been unusable from day 1, and somehow getting worse. Their new video player makes me want to throw my computer across the room. I have been using it on and off for a decade now and I can’t think of one aspect of the site (whether in terms of performance, reliability, UI, usability, features) that hasn’t degraded in quality.

Happy about the IPO, but PLEASE invest in some engineering and infrastructure work.

(Edit: weird that this comment was sitting at the top of the page for an hour and then suddenly moved to the very bottom. Someone on the HN team must really like Reddit.)
Large Ohio Hospital System Still Distributing Non-FDA Approved Pfizer Vaccine
The day they shut down old.reddit.com will be the day the site dies for me. I feel like it's inevitable that it will happen at some point.