skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My kids wear masks to school too. My oldest is probably not as heavily impacted by this but I feel like my younger child has been (started K in 2019). He doesn't really know what his friends look like, he doesn't get to see facial expressions of his teachers or peers as part of their emotions, he doesn't get to see the teacher enunciate words with their mouth, he's spent a lot of time learning virtually at a young age, he gets to hide his own reactions behind a mask. He's soft spoken and his participation in class is probably suppressed a little further and dampening him being challenged or as confident. Compared to my older child, there's less enriching extracurricular activities available for the last two years as well, clubs and PTA events and sports have all been impacted.

I have no way of quantifying any of this but there's just tons of little things that have the potential to be negative impacts to his long term success. Even if my kids cope, I worry about their peers and the worrying trends in academic test data compared to previous cohorts.
Yeah, fair enough. I mean, after all, mutations are random, it can get worse.
Sure!
Moonlander pros:

- QMK is second to none. With the moonlander specifically I can flash my keyboard from any OS with nothing but a browser and a paperclip.

- Tenting is easy, adjustable, and feels good to use. I liked the thumb cluster tenting (over the ergodox) because it felt more natural.

- Excellent build quality, wrist rests are comfy, and it's pretty portable (it's in my carryon bag right now).

- High quality switch and cap choices (mostly, the custom thumb buttons are obviously nonstandard. But I strongly disliked the rubber function key row of the advantage 2)

- I occasionally play FPS games, and like that I can disconnect the right half of the keyboard and gain more mousepad real estate.

Kinesis pros:

- Mainly the shape. I think the kinesis is probably the most natural device to type on. The moonlander is comfy, but I think the kinesis is still more natural overall. The sculpted key-well is ideal, IMHO.

Both keyboards have eliminated my carpal tunnel symptoms, so I don't have any issues recommending either. If you're going to travel with a keyboard, definitely get the moonlander. But I think from a pure ergonomic standpoint - the kinesis wins.

If I ever switch jobs and have a keyboard stipend, I'll purchase the Advantage 360 and write a full review. But I'm very happy with my present position :)
In the long run, sure, but it takes years to train a nurse. It’s not hard to imagine that there are simply too few with the training able to do it.
To be honest, I don't find the term or the wiki article that illuminating. Scott's way of doing things from scratch, in his own words, feels more worth my time. And IMO he is doing something way more interesting in that article than just rehashing a concept we happen to have a name for.

Subjective feelings aside, it would be more interesting to give an example of an author who addresses the topics Scott addresses at a similar level of insight and manages to do so more concisely. I don't think Stallman is much of an example of that.

Good writing is not some universal fungible. It really does depend on what you're trying to say. And there are basically no other writers I can think of who are trying to model a way of thinking like Scott.
I was on a small team at an early-stage startup, and felt forced to do 7+ hours of good work every day due to pace and visibility.

As a self-proclaimed productive dev, it was pretty obvious who was slacking or incompetent, and I definitely had some dislike of them for that. It felt unfair that others could coast, or create buggy code and then spend time fixing it, while my higher quality output wasn't rewarded in a way I cared about ($$$). Knowing this was going on did also contribute in some way to demotivating me and maybe deciding to leave.

In the end, we are victims or volunteers. I volunteered for the position, I volunteered to stay to earn equity.

If we don't like something, we can always volunteer to fix our current situation, whether by negotiating or finding a better-suited role etc.
simpler answer: look what happens when you ban things
Hah, I know, right? Few things make me roll my eyes quite like HN's general sense of self-satisfaction.

Yes, I realize I'm here too.
Certainly you can't buy time and it's a limited resource.

I like the concept of 'time-millionaires', once I read about the idea in an article shared here on HN. The idea is that nowadays many people think about wealth in monetary units, but that it would be healthier to consider that wealth is more about the time you have available to do what's valuable for you.

So somebody who makes a lot of money but hates his/her job is a 'time-pauper'. Of course, if you like to work 50 hs a week you would not be a time-pauper, because you enjoy it.

I find the idea of individual net-worth as quite insane. It places value mainly on things instead of placing it in subjective well-being. In the USA it seems that there is more time-poverty than in Europe, where people have much longer vacations.
It’s a photo of a generic AirTag, not the actual tag that was found—that one was apparently thrown away, which a few folks here (including me) find a little strange.
The idea that poor parents don’t care about their kids’ success enough to want to choose what they perceive to be better schools is belied by the lengthy waiting lists for slots in charter or magnet schools and voucher programs.

What we have now is a market-based approach, where the price of admission to a top flight public school system is a $1M mortgage.
On the Apple help site, it says you can disable an AirTag that is following you:

> To disable the AirTag and stop sharing your location, tap Instructions to Disable AirTag and follow the onscreen steps.

If I’m understanding this correctly, this means you can defeat this type of stalking easily. On the other hand, this makes AirTags less useful for tracking stolen items, as presumably the thief will disable it.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT212227
It’s true but as an approximation it’s pretty good no?
They begin beeping at a random time between 8 and 24 hours after separation, not immediately. Probably it was still too soon?
buy a sailing boat, move to live aboard in a worm country, and slowly start getting into the sailing world: work and live from there: a privileged world from better observing the world and not miss the essential
How does "I don't buy the idea that this is a crisis. Is it bad that some people have high home loan balances? Yes. But is it so bad that it's a crisis? I don't see why." sound around 2008?

The problem isn't that "some people have made bad choices" it's that we are lending money to people they will not be able to pay back. When people default on their loans what happens to the lenders who are ultimately fed backed banks?
> Just because a position is held by some progressives in the US to appeal to their young student base does not make it a 'liberal position'.

Well, yeah, liberal and progressive positions are generally opposed.
You're trying to optimize (finding "the best" resource in a field you know little about) when you could use that time to actually learn and, ironically, refine your Knowledge for what a good resource is.

Many of the most popular resources are good. Pick one. Get started. Learn from it. Pick the second one. Repeat. You'll then know what you lack and where to improve.

This is opposed to spending weeks and months trying to find the right one.

This is valid for many endeavors and many people spend years preparing/searching for the right setup/resources instead of just starting.
The person probably is doing more work than they claim.

Is it that easy to spot people? I always felt like the baseline for work at my jobs was 2-3 hours a day of productivity + 5 hours of screwing around for most people.

There were always the outliers who seemed 2X-3X productive. Anyway, you would be still doing double the work of the lazy people.
The syscall to list a directory is synchronous, but the follow-up stat calls to read file attributes (type, permission, attributes, size) are done one file at a time, so there are opportunities for parallelization.

Incidentally, this is why ls without colors or type symbols (-l, -F, --color, and so forth) is a lot faster: it doesn't have to query every file to find out what it is in order to display the color/symbol/permissions/etc. Handy if you're on a slow networked file system and just need to see names.
That is fascinating and surprising; I previously considered a Darmok-like language to be implausible, but it sounds like that’s exactly what you’re experiencing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok

(Edit: my inner cynic just popped up the question “are you sure she’s not just being a stereotypical teenager?” even though you didn’t mention her age).
No, this whole "embassy grounds are the guest country's territory" thing is a myth. There are special privileges granted to embassies, but they are not technically "foreign soil" or sovereign territory of the guest country.
I don't think assembly has any relevance, and the thing with CS that's relevant is almost entirely with complexity theory. This sounds fancy, but it basically boils down to recognizing O(n^2) vs O(n) vs O(n log n), which in practice can be reduced to "use the right datastructure" and "use the right query".
Of course they keep making them. They don't want bloodshed where it's not needed.

But you seem to think that this trend can go on forever no matter what. That is a dangerous mistake. What's needed is deescalation, not more escalation in the faulty thinking that they will continue to do nothing no matter what happens.
The problem is that each of th eEU countries is a country. With its own interests, culture, history.

We are eons from a country such as the USA, which highlights how federal it is. It is still one country, with one president, one army etc.

We (in the EU) are countries that love or hate other for over 1000 years. Some of the dislike is deep, some is surprisingly different now (France and Germany for instance, forever enemies and now counties that are really close to each other thanks to the post-war efforts).

But when it comes to money and politics, we are often each for its own.
One octal digit comprises three bits: read, write and execute, with values 4, 2, and 1. Add them and you get the octal digit: 7 is everything permitted, 4 is read-only. The three octal digits represent permission for owner, group and the rest. So stay way from 777.
Depends on the street. If you are in downtown San Francisco for example, all bets are off...
How is this really "Merit"? I'm "sociable" in the sense that due to my familly on my mother's side, i'm very used to talk to small business CEOs/CTOs, and from where i lived and studied, i'm comfortable talking to people who grew in a lot less fortunate households. I don't have one friend among those who did well in the corporate world. Because being "sociable" is more about cultural inheritance than anything. I am an introvert, but i was taught how to live with it (theatre, playing violin in front of a crowd, stuff like that). It was not particularly expensive in my country, so it is true that anyone could afford to do the same, thus "Merit", one could argue, but inheriting my grandfather violin, having my mother doing an art degree (and a medical one) and my father working as a social worker while being __extremely__ well taught tapestry then painting gave me conversation subject and "useless" knowledge for ages. Because knowing the reasoning behind impressionism, which impressionist school did what and how it evolved did a lot more than knowing how to code a VM for my current career.
Agreed. I gave up on exa because `ls -tr` doesn’t work.
Not the expert you're looking for, but I recall a past Derek Lowe article mentioned in passing that it was much more labor-intensive (presumably by a trained lab tech) to get T-cell data. Again, this is just my memory of a past Derek Lowe article, which I might be misremembering.
It's not reading the folders that is the main slowdown in ls (and exa and similar) for more complex lists, but all the extra work done per file.

ls and similar can (and do) requests the files in batches, so if the directory has enough files for speed to matter you can request one and then asynchronously query whatever additional information you need.

If you only want the filename and whether it's a directory, device or file, then you won't do much better than ls, but you also likely won't do much worse.

But the moment you want e.g. filesize you need to stat() files. That too will be the same whether or not it's ls. But exa also does things like check git and that will add significant overhead that they may or may not alleviate by doing it in parallel.
> ... but it still reduces the amount of strain put on the health care system

Sure, but the case for a vaccine mandate pretty much collapses at that point. I have some anti-vaxxers living across the road from me who earn a lot of money. They'd be paying an above-average amount of taxes.

So the mandate argument to them is essentially "well, we're going to force you to do something, otherwise you'd be more likely than average to consume services that you pay for". Now that is a good argument for getting vaccinated, no doubt. But it is a terrible argument for banning people from public life as a vaccine mandate requires if it is going to be implemented.

It is also a bit questionable to be reaching out and forcing medical procedures on people based on being unwilling to expand the hospital system. If the unvaccinated were given an option to just pay for the extra capacity required (some form of insurance, dare I say) then they can get what they want and stay vulnerable at no cost to others.
As a Russian I am pretty biased, but I can't help but marvel at the West.

Lithuania started this row over Taiwan. They literally pissed in China's eye, knowing full well what the Chinese response is going to be. But then, somehow, it's still China's fault for engaging in Cold War rhetoric and ratcheting up political aggression? I am sorry, but I don't buy it. The equivalent here would be China opening up a Scotland or a Catalonia embassy in Pekin to troll Spain/UK, then being surprised Spain/UK break off relations.

This whole story also vividly reminds me of what the British did a few months back in the Black Sea. They knowingly sailed too close to Crimea, filmed our response (jets flying overhead, etc), then for weeks showed these clips to the world as proof of "Russian aggression against freedom in Europe." Wtf? Queue eye roll. I see the same dynamic playing out now with China now.

You Westerners go out of your way to initiate conflict, then play the victim card.

It's very strange. I don't understand it.
That works in a static environment, but when you're constantly deleting objects, you need a hash or tree. That has more overhead.

The basic constraint inside virtual world viewers is that anything can change at any time, but usually it doesn't. The "not changing" case has to be efficient.
zig-libgc
> I know this is a poor form but fuck you.

Please don't do that here, regardless of how strong and legitimate your feelings are. It only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There's a Lebanese film with a similar premise: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capernaum_(film)
I think I say this every time I see a headline like this on HN, but I'll say it again: The past decade of social science research publication has proven that provocative-sounding results should be considered fraudulent until the underlying data has been published, and then (assuming the data passes muster) should be regarded with skepticism until independently replicated with a fresh data set.
Payed crap. It setup me up for success.

Learned more in demand stuff and my pay is top notch.
As someone who paid off my student loans (and struggled to do so, put off marriage to do so) I'm more than happy for student loan forgiveness. That aside, going forward, college is not much of a choice for many white collar jobs these days. Not necessarily to do them, but to be considered for them. If community colleges were state funded and made into four year institutions, available like high school extensions with degrees in the most needed areas, tuition free (no housing, buy your own supplies)... I don't see a huge down side. There are plenty of bloated budget costs that can be cut to bolster needed education in sectors where we are lacking trained people. If people want to go to a more prestigious college that a community college, they can pay for it. If they want a degree outside of the limited scope offered from the needed degrees, then they might have to pay for it. It sounds a bit draconian, but it's a service contract of sorts =/
> lazy parents

That is both name-calling and flamebait, and therefore breaks the HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Can you please make your substantive points without doing that? Note this guideline also:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

Parenting is one of the most emotionally activating topics that exists, and therefore one of the most divisive.
old tech blog about improving youtube page weight -- it paradoxically worsened their long tail stats

once they sliced it geographically, they found that the increase was all in places like siberia where previously the site was unusable

https://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters
Whoops, didn’t mean to include the link to that comment... that’s a much better explanation!
> Of course they keep making them. They don't want bloodshed where it's not needed.

Exactly, I agree. They keep making threats, that they don't follow through on, and they will continue to not follow through on them.

Nothing is needed, to do anything, given the fact that Taiwan is already independent, and that has been the case for decades.

> What's needed is deescalation

There is nothing to de-escalate. Taiwan is already an independent country, and it has been so for decades, and that will continue.

They have had their own taxes, laws, and borders for decades. And they have those same things today. Nothing has changed. They are already independent, and that was the case before, and still is now.

And anyway, the only one who can choose to stop making those empty threats is china. Complain at them if you don't like their big talk, and no follow through threats.
On one level I agree, but realistically I think they may not feel much of a hurry to do so since there isn't a significant supply ready to distribute. My understanding is that they already have authorization to use whatever they have, essentially as additional testing.
> I can understand why people crave a "grand unified theory" on how the world works and the importance of emotion is an obstacle to having an elegant, comprehensible model for the world, but that doesn't mean it's right to ignore it.

I agree that emotion does provide somewhat of an obstacle to building an elegant, comprehensible model for the world, but is it really that complicated?

If one simply models emotion as a specialized type/instance of thought, and thoughts as processes that run on a biological neural network (where processes are not isolated and cross contaminate each other), and consciousness and "rationality" are higher level, complex ~thoughts (predictive estimations of reality, perceived as reality itself) that emerge[1] from all of this semi-organized complexity...doesn't it seem fairly obvious what's going on?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
I'm willing to bet it's the fact that they're in a git repo. exa checks git status iirc, and of course ls doesn't. I'll try to repro it.

Edit:

Hmm, interesting. Certainly a lot slower, but not enough that I'd really notice unless I was doing this constantly:

time ls

real 0m0.228s

user 0m0.145s

sys 0m0.082s

time exa

real 0m1.209s

user 0m1.124s

sys 0m0.084s
There was that time in the 1970s that my dad rode bikes all over town to collect can and made enough money to buy new aluminum bicycles.
One thing that occurs to me is that the 'jungle law' is fairly one-sided in who can predate upon whom. We all laughed at the lady who won a big settlment for being burnt by coffee she spilled, or the people sueing Mcdonald's because they were overweight. But maybe those were opening salvos in a war that currently has the megacorps winning more ground than they should. Perhaps the parents of the next radicalised young person should sue Meta, and perhaps the jury should help take them to the cleaners. It seems to be working against Monsanto. Perhaps we need to recognise that we don't care nearly as much about how protective the megacorps are as we care about our ability to turn the tables now and then.
At just 15, Rudra has authored a scientific article on star parallax
Science, indeed any intellectual thought, won't progress without contrarian views challenging the/your status quo.
France weighs very heavily. With Germany, they led the move earlier this year for the investment deal with China. The decision was made to become reliant on China, and the pandemic significantly worsened this dependency because China's faster recovery essentially mitigated the economic effect of the pandemic.

But it was a choice. Germany's politics appears to have been totally compromised at the highest level by Russia and China (Scholz seems to have been hand-picked by China, his positions on China couldn't be more worrying regardless of what he has said in the past month). France is moving in the same direction, although it is hard to separate this from the profound weakness of Macron.

There is no equivalence with the US either. The French position (and German) position on Iran makes no sense, it is the equivalent of: pretend the problem doesn't exist, and it won't exist (again, with policy being led by business interests). The interests of the US overlap totally with the EU, the US has been funding European defence for decades to the tune of tens of trillions but, of course, France and Germany will continue to nuzzle up to Iran, China, and Russia because they waved their chequebook in front of exporters in economically weak regions.

The only saving grace has been the EU which has effectively counterbalanced France and Germany in these areas (they stopped the investment deal with China). But, again, the policy positions of France and Germany are incomprehensible. It is not that France is insignificant but that their policy is totally at odds with the US and the EU. The reason they aren't opposing China is because there is a strong desire to support China.
I don't know much about catalonia or flanders, but don't they participate in the national government? Dissimilarly, taiwan hasn't participated in the chinese government? Correct me if I'm wrong, I've been under the impression they are not integrated with the mainland in any meaningful way governmentally.
"GPS trackers designed to be magnet-attached to a car which report their location via cell signal cost ~$20 on Amazon. You then tend to need to pay for either a SIM card or a subscription to the device maker's service -- bringing you up to about the cost of an AirTag. These are much harder to detect, as you might imagine."

Yes ... but Apple has built a mesh network to report the position of people who don't want to be tracked ... and clearly are being tracked. And it's very possible my own iphone is being used in the service of an evil actor. That feels ... different. Ethically -- if not technically.

"It's tricky to make something that lets you find where you dropped your keys while walking the dog that can't also be used for nefarious purposes." This seems awfully blithe. I suspect you aren't a woman. Or that you don't have daughters old enough to live on their own.