skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Really opens up some beautiful coastal areas to explore where the tides are big.

It's also quite nice to know that if you happen to run into an unmarked sandbank, you'll only have to sit there, and not sit there sideways ;)
This is only really true in north america (especially if you're of Indian descent). Women have much more realistic expectations once you get out of that cesspit
Still happy after 4 years with my Odroid XU4/Cloudshell2 - now runs with Dual 16TB. But yes, it is only a storage backend (for Borg Backups), not much more.
I don't know, looking at the example questions the usefulness of some of them still seems limited.

Calculating fractional number division without a calculator for non STEM teachers is not a very relevant skill in my opinion.
> these types of thefts with multiple people running into a store and grabbing items are not new [..] Nor are they isolated to the Bay Area or even to progressive cities

But have they become more common recently/in San Francisco? It's very specious to consider only if a crime ever occurs, and ignore the rate at which it occurs.
Look up dubai crypto hub
> There are good reasons people choose not to use Linux

This can be true at the same time as "linux would need to be installed by default for that to change dramatically", and in fact the latter almost certainly is. There's strong scientific evidence for the claim that default values matter (e.g. with organ donation rates[1]), and no reason to believe that that wouldn't apply to Linux, as well.

> it is annoying that the community continues to tell itself variations of this kind of thing

Barely true, definitely not relevant. The majority of Linux users will happily tell you the flaws that it has.

> Even starting out a potential user has to navigate a ludicrous number of distros

False - you're conflating "available options" with "number the user has to care about". A quick Google search "which linux distro should i use" will have Ubuntu topping most of the lists, which is the one users should start with. Not a problem.

> as soon as they ask for help they'll likely be told to try a different distro

As someone who has asked hundreds of Linux questions from a half-dozen different sources and never once gotten this reply, this is definitely false.

> every single manufacturer wants to build their own distro

That's not the case for Android or Windows - why would it be the case for Linux?

You seem to have had a very bad experience with Linux and the Linux community. I'm sorry about that, but you have to realize that it's very non-representative with the average user experience.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S008525381...
Face recognition is being banned, but it’s still everywhere
Doesn't law explicitly allow sharing this kind of data?
We were all doomed to die on Friday the 13th, 2029
There's another catch, many services use the email address as an immutable identifier that cannot be changed. For some that doesn't matter, but at the very least it is a lot of time/effort.
In a perfect world, I do not think it should be stressful, but we don't live in that world. I think a stress response is reasonable, given the risk of legal consequences.

Perhaps it is a learning moment, but I think the lesson should be to consider the impact of these kinds of studies.

I'm sure it is a learning experience for bloggers as well, and some of them will learn that hosting a Blog is not worth the legal risk and take it down
I still play my Dreamcast a ton.

There's, to this date, new (indie) games being released, new/old builds of long-lost games do surface [0]...

The Dreamcast is a gift that keeps on giving...

[0] https://en.sega-dreamcast-info-games-preservation.com/
> Because they are the ones who will see the biggest benefit from a good teacher.

This is a big assertion, and one not well supported by data[1][2].

Money is not the bottleneck at any public school in the West. A student's performance is very well correlated to external factors like parental income and education level, and is NOT well correlated with the amount of money the state spends on education. Utah spends a third of New York per student, and still outperforms in test scores.

I agree that the best teachers should go to the students who would benefit from those teachers the most. The students that would benefit most from good teachers are the good students, who exist in an environment that enables them to learn and excel.

[1] https://medium.com/@tgof137/increased-school-funding-doesnt-...

[2] https://www.alec.org/article/increasing-education-spending-e...
Haha I do that too sometimes. But for perspective, it's quite a leap for me (and it seems most others reading this too), and not at all "strongly implied" by your statement, even in context. I'm sure that chain of inference might be natural and automatic with your style of thinking, but my mind naturally goes down a completely different path when confronted with your initial statement, so it's probably best to elaborate what you're actually implying to avoid miscommunication :)
InvestAnswers is good. He's willing to share both good news and bad news, and isn't entirely focused on crypto (like 90% of it is, though).

I've had good luck with just throwing a set amount of each paycheck into the top crypto (mostly bitcoin and ethereum, lately more solana) with an auto-buy and not worrying whether it goes up or down. If it goes down, I just end up getting more coin for my purchase. Rode the last crypto bear market down like that, and a few years later (now) it ended up paying off big time.

Was super easy, didn't even have to think about it. Been trying to pay more attention this time around and it might not have been worth all the extra time and mindspace, honestly, except if I had started watching InvestAnswers six months earlier I would have put a big bet on Solana when it was ~$8 and been semi-retired by now, probably.
I do.

Just as I would use this (would look into it more first though), the netcat trick mentioned here or python3 -m http.server over ever considering installing Ansible and/or nginx/apache.

Totally different use case though.
You are right, but judge should make use of common sense. The quote is explicitly "we do not think such an inference can be made on the basis of logic or common sense", which is completely ridiculous.

Edit: In other words, is this judge willing to bet? If not why not?
You might not notice if you… don't ever scroll anything, I guess?
Transparency leads to accountability
Yes, all the Mike Hunts whose parents didn't think very hard are laughing it up right now.
Well they still haven't figured it out with YouTube.
Yeah, I think they're testing if someone will recognize that division by 0.19 is approximately equal to multiplication by 5 and ballpark the answer.
I guess time will tell...;TLDR

one of us will be eating crow soon enough.
It was absolutely the PS2 that tanked the Dreamcast. Perhaps the author meant Xbox.
Agreed, particularly at a secondary level at least a basic understanding of math concepts is important both in general and in social studies - graphs and statistics are what first come to mind.

And if they're not at the secondary level, they're probably supposed to be teaching math.
You can always contact me/us at hn@ycombinator.com. Don't worry!

(I'll try to respond to your other comment later)
And how do firefighters open these arkward doors without a proper door handle?

All cars without a sturdy door handle seem like a death trap to me. I would never buy a car that sacrifices that aspect for a little improvement in aerodynamics, or for aesthetic reasons.
Tommy Wonder wrote a two volume book (for magicians) which includes this effect. But although it is described, the reality is that many years of diligent work and thought is required to do this. The basic mechanics of the trick just scratch the surface.

https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/stage-and-parlor-magic/the...
Irony and sarcasm pointed at actual people shows disdain and contempt.
I think this comment is on point and related to your points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29646492

I'm not familiar with Robinhood, but I think it's mostly about buying stocks. Blockchains won't help you do this, at least not in a decentralized manner. You'll be stuck buying tokens with no real connection to e.g. the US economy, until it's been approved legally.

> Follow the logic of what's possible with the centralization of money, and quickly you would realize that you really own nothing

Inflation is a problem, and has had dramatic impact historically, but there's no indication that bitcoin is a solution to this. Just look at the USD/BTC rate over the last year.
Cynical (imaginary) counter-move - drop the literacy and verbal reasoning requirements for admission to law school to ~1st-grade levels. Ditto for the bar exam. Justify that with wording which imitates the offending court rulings. After their own elite social group's standards & status are threatened by dumbing down, the judges will suddenly start pretending that they actually care about their nation's future.

And maybe start work on an amendment to the Canadian Constitution, requiring that judges pass a statistical proficiency test every year.
All taxable income is public in Finland as well, although the information comes with a delay of about 1 year, so you can't make out exactly how much your co-worker or neighbor makes right now.
A great innovation of Go is that it includes a built-in reference type with both inner nils and outer nils.
I am not using statistic methods?

But I also think that there should be specialized teachers for math long before high school. Teaching math (or whatever) is not just about knowing it, it is also about know how to teach it at this or that age. And I don't think general purpose teacher can be good in knowing how to teach all subjects.

I am perfectly fine with teachers who cant pass this test teaching subjects that are not math or physics (or chemistry I guess).

I am absolutely not fine with math teacher who passed this test and that is extend of it. Specifically, math teacher should know a lot more.
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Related:

US Air Force connects 1,760 PlayStation 3's to build supercomputer
https://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomput...
Yeah, apart from the terrible typography, which seems to be mandatory for these kinds of test, there are plenty of terribly phrased questions as well:

> 7. A number cube is labeled 1 to 6. [...]

What's wrong with the word 'die'?

> 12. There is a linear relationship [...] What type of variation is this relationship and what is its initial value?

What on earth does 'variation' mean here? As far as the answer key is concerned the answer should be 'A partial variation with an initial value of $50.'. Which makes no sense to me whatsoever.

> 13. A rectangle has an area of 5^𝑥2 + 15𝑥 square units. Determine expressions for the length and the width of the rectangle.

Surely that depends on your aspect ratio? It could be sqrt(5x^2 + 15x) for both.

Also their answer key lists the area in question 4 in cm for some reason, if you're going to use units at least use the right one. And you just know someone is going to be anal about question 8, since the answer key doesn't list the exact value '100m/pi' but the approximate 31.8 m.

Also I hope they got a calculator otherwise the answer to question 15 which involves trigonometry is downright unfair.
Wow, super responsive. Great work. I don’t want to ask how you scraped these, but can you talk about your software (solr?) and compute resources?
Off topic, sorry, but:
Why do web designers think that they can provide a better scrolling experience than the default system behavior that the user expects in every other interaction?

By the way, hijacking scrolling behavior often breaks other things, such as searching for text in a page. Go ahead, try it, search for a term in that article.
That is the point of schools! To teach people skills they don't have.

Whether they're successful doing it is different discussion.
I never did when I was maintaining an embedded web app. I checked in Chrome and Firefox. I would go in and figure it out if someone reported a bug in Safari but mostly no one at the company used Safari so it was really not tested for and the app just was never meant to run on mobile at all so safari wasn't much of concern.
Let people have personal experiences.
if high school science classes were about epistemology, then I might agree with your comment above - but they aren't, they're about learning some bits about biology, chemistry and physics. You don't really learn anything about epistemology, rationality, or even really empiricism from learning the periodic table or what a frog's organs look like.
For example, could you describe an instance where that impacts the kernel development in Linux? Where the network stack is culturally biased? Or the print server is racially biased?

There are already a multitude of cultures and peoples that contribute to Linux, it’s a worldwide phenomenon, not some US centric thing, and shouldn’t be subject to the social justice fad du jour.
I keep seeing this parroted, and while it may have some truth to it, it seems to just be a cover story for racial quotas.

Said another way, I think that a white, a black, and an Asian raised in the valley probably have a much less diverse cultural background than say, three whites from SF, Mississippi, and NYC.

But in that instance people would just complain it is too white and needs 'culture.'

I'm OK with the culture argument, as long as you don't just throw it behind racial lines, which does a huge disservice to everyone and makes a lot of not so nice assumptions.
Sometimes.

In particular the game Uboat stopped working after an update and I was unable to get it going. To be expected however, as the game is still in Early Access.

Another early access title that I ran into problems with after launch was Postal 4. I found a workaround is to replace the bundled direct X installer with some other silent installer that returns the expected return code.

Other issues tend to crop up around custom launchers. Usually in this instance I will search online for the command line arguments to bypass the launcher or simply launch the game directly.

The last subset of issues I seem to experience revolve around fullscreen/window mode. I find that some combination of ALT+Enter and F11 typically resolves this. If not I usually resort to running the game in a Window and undecorating it. However in some games this does not capture the mouse and can cause the window to lose focus if you click outside of the game window.
Tesla is severely supply constrained. Wait times in some areas is one year. They could easily sell 3-4 million this year if they had the supply, and this is before their $25k car which should be available by 2025.
...I passed this test without knowing any of the reading materials for section 3 (just by guessing what seemed reasonable). This was a very basic elementary school math test.

Section 1 - 5/5
Section 2 - 44/45
Section 3 - 16/21

~91%

If you can't prepare for and pass this test you really shouldn't be teaching anyone anything.
In a democracy, I strongly disagree. The masses have a tremendous impact on the society that your geniuses have to live in.
It's not just that, those flirting skills are not safe to use anymore. You can get an harassment charge for touching someone in the arm these days (happened to some lonely autistic kid). Having confirmation of mutual attraction first makes things both easier and safer.
I switched to Pop OS on my gaming rig and have been enjoying lots and lots of native and compatibility mode games for the past several months. However, FPS-focused anti-cheat isn't yet available (Battleye, EAC), so I'm unable to play my favorite title, Escape from Tarkov.

Then again, maybe I'm doing myself a favor.
The pedagogy section would really bother me as a teacher (https://i.imgur.com/3s9mVY5.png). They shouldn't be evaluated on the semantics of different mission statements.
"...Any other use of it is a criminal act, which endangers the social order by violating the private security of every citizen,"

I hear this in a deep and booming Orwellian voice. What specific danger does this put anyone in? I certainly can see the owners of capital being upset when their workers find out how egregious the disparity of income is, but outside of that?
Right now there's meh Deep Learning support on the m1 max. TensorFlow is ~supported~, PyTorch is not. Apple has their Neural Engine and CPU/GPU architectures sort of hidden and so it's hard to port or support them.
At $750 without memory, storage, or case and only offering a x8 PCIe 3.0 slot it seems to lose the advantage of being cheap while still being worse than a non-ARM64 box in terms of interfaces (and likely performance).
Yea, it's atrocious on this article – makes it unreadable tbh as scrolling muscle memory is completely messed up.
I would expect a professor of mathematics to get at least a few wrong because of awful phrasing and gotchas.
It sounds like they need to read a few books and remember concepts from them - something they'd expect from elementary and high school students.
As a non-serious user of Go, this was something I found to be a negative. What am I missing?
> Asteroid 2004 MN4 will come scarily close to Earth on April 13, 2029, but it will not hit.

Well, not from that asteroid, at least.
> but I encourage you to think about cognitive biases and take the time to assess crypto through the lens of a new technology.

So question - if you're so convinced in the technology, why do you need to advocate for me to understand and change my position?

If this is clearly a home run, what do you care whether I believe? Or whether the other viewers of this comment thread believe?

If this is a ponzi scheme, then your comment makes PERFECT sense. They rely on a fresh supply of new believers.
Pi 4 is unobtanium now. One of my projects is screwed at the moment because of that
Isn't this the norm in places like Sweden?

https://www.ft.com/content/2a9274be-72aa-11e7-93ff-99f383b09...

I suspect in the future all salaries will be public.
Agreed - AI and training data definitely can have unfair bias.
That is the only reason. The only parties that benefit from lack of price transparency are large buyers and sellers. In this case, large buyers of labor would be big or well funded employers, and large sellers would be people selling their labor for above average prices.
When I was really young, I opened a few .exe files in Notepad to try to figure out how they were created. I remember at one point seeing all of the garbage character output and thought, "wow, someone wrote and understands all of this?"
SWIFT runs on dark fiber, or at least MPLS circuits, not the public internet.
> The experimental vaccines, not so much.

If hundreds of millions of administered doses under highly-observed and reported on outcomes from the world's most-respected (not perfect) public health agencies won't convince you, what will? It's been a year, and I believe there's only one vaccine ever to have emergent side effects after that time, and even then the median time to symptoms was <50 days (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11910-018-0851-5). Yet we have seen COVID definitely has side effects, and they have a much higher likelihood of persisting.

And if your response is "we won't know until it's been 5, 10, etc. number of years" then OK, fine, but the same then must hold for COVID itself. If I'm betting on the long-term effects to my health, does it not follow to choose the highly-researched vaccine with quantified minimal side effects vs. the highly-researched infection with worse side effects?

Now it's my turn to give up.
Anyone here nostalgic for Dabble DB? That's probably the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this.
I think people often confuse the representation for the object itself, and thus create a limited mental model that must be undone later. Analogous to a world in which all cookie shaped objects are edible and delicious. Sure it would be nice to live in that world but it's not reality and a more rich (but less pleasant) representation makes reality more accessible.

I'd say the same thing about any math that talks about "numbers" without defining which number system very explicitly, even at the Kindergarten level. The slop in these early abstractions is somewhat convenient but it erects serious mental barriers against more accurate abstractions.

Look at the sloppy way that many programming languages handle lossy casts for an example of the pernicious nature of the idea that "number" should have a highly intuitive meaning.

On the other hand, imagine all the nice notations/sugars we might invent that are highly intuitive and capture mathematical objects more elegantly than what we are using today. Representations are the interface between abstract concepts and brains evolved for eating, sex and lying.
come to phoenix/elixir land. Channels are amazing and the new views system allows you to seamlessly sync state to a frontend using websockets with almost no javascript
> Imagine you're Turkish, Venezuelan, Argentinian, etc.

> BTC might be your best bet.

I can sympathize with this idea, although if the US government just allowed Turkish people to open bank accounts in USD and transact with each other, they might do that instead. Many countries already use the USD as their de facto currency.

> Now guess which 1st world countries are next.

Why would they be next? I think it's rather the reverse: once a country is developed enough with a working banking system, it tends to rely on it because it's more efficient and provides more guarantees.
Link to download latest beta (with native arm64!):

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Does the web being 10x more complicated mean that 1. Google Chrome, which full disclosure: isn’t my browser of choice, deserves the same end as Internet Explorer? And 2. That the government is the means by which it should be brought to heel?

I mentioned this in another comment, but Google Chrome originally piggybacked on WebKit, homegrown JS runtime aside, before forking out of there. I think there’s a decent chance that the same could happen to Google via another Chromium-based browser. Just because it’s not immediately apparent how Chrome will lose its dominance today doesn’t mean it won’t ever happen. Nor does that mean it should. People actually like Chrome. I used to like Chrome, and it’s easy to see how people with a different set of priorities than mine still do.

The old song was about IE6, and today’s song is about Google Chrome. The lyrics might be different but it’s still the same old song.
US law does. That may or may not be the case in the UK.
There is no "the law", you'd need to be specific about which market you're talking about.
One game I haven't seen mentioned here was Ikaruga. It was a top down shooter from Japan. Like many shooters, you fought your way through hordes of enemies and boss battles. You of course could upgrade your arsenal along the way by collecting powerups. One innovative gameplay mechanic was the firing mode: you would fire either white or black bullets. When you were firing white bullets, white enemy bullets and projectiles could not harm you. The reverse was also true.

Really fun game!
I will agree with you that the manner in which we teach science has a lot of room for improvement, but in the aggregate, despite all the failings of the education system, I maintain that what I said is true.

The effectiveness of STEM education is certainly held back by the difficulties in keeping students engaged and interested, and in the failings of the educators themselves. I would suggest that raising the bar for educators (assuming supply wasn't an issue, which I recognize it is) would go a long way towards teaching STEM better, and augmenting its impact on students' lives.

Edit: I did learn about epistemology in school, but coverage was rather superficial and incomplete. I suspect people's experiences vary wildly.
A Christmas Carol
That's not a reference. Someone else just said that with no further backing behind it.