skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The teaching failure lies making what you struggle with a required component of education, and measuring you on it in the same way as others, while providing you with no alternative route to success that doesn't require you jumping through hoops.

To give an analogy: someone who can't walk has a disability, but it would be a failure of the instructor to make 5K running the only way to get a passing grade in physical education, while simultaneously not making barbells available.

And looking at your very well-written and perfectly structured comment, I struggle to accept its conclusion. If all you need to write this well is spell-checker — a tool more common than a ballpoint pen at this point, and one that's been around for decades — then the instructors that didn't teach you to use it were failing at teaching.

If you can speak well, and they never even suggested dictation software (again, something that's been around for a long time), it's a teaching failure.

Writing is not about spelling words the same way dictionary spells them. Writing is about communicating ideas clearly, and your written prose is great.

You can't write without a spell-checker; your tutors can't write with a quill, most likely. There's no difference.

That you think that your prose is poor — there's the teaching failure.

Do you see what I mean now?
Not everything does, but it seems like you're suggesting they throw out a lot of good data indicating that many things do. It's an issue because disparities in areas like criminal justice tend to be self-perpetuating and mutually reinforcing.
I think that there is a strong argument to be made that it's not about the US having especially poor literacy attainment, but markedly accurate assessments of that attainment.

A somewhat similar study is the 2016 OECD report (based on a survey conducted in 2011--12), "Skills Matter: Further Results from the Survey of Adult Skills "

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/skills-matter_978926...

Jacob Nielsen addressed that in the context of computer UI/UX requirements for general-use application and website design, "The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think":

Across 33 rich countries, only 5% of the population has high computer-related abilities, and only a third of people can complete medium-complexity tasks.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/

I've referenced both in my own essay, "The Tyranny of the Minimum Viable User", which acknowledges both that general-use systems must be generally-usable, and that this requirement reduces functionality for advanced users by numerous mechanisms.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...
There might be the perfect amount of paracetamol to take to treat your light headache.

But in practice people just take two 500mg tablets and call it a day. Works well enough most of the time, even though it might be 'wrong' in some platonic sense of the word. (Eg you might have been helped enough with a slightly lower dose. Or perhaps 1250mg would have been better and suppressed slightly more of the pain. Who knows?)
The terms you decide on can preclude you from offering a similiar product plus the new contract you signed. The fact that he mentioned wanting to control his destiny probably means he wants total control over the project which could stop a similiar saas in the future.

If you want to sell use a lawyer to handle interactions.

Regardless of what you choose things can go sideways and your position might not be safe. So don't base it on that.

If you don't sell he may try to replace it and you. If you do sell they may start treating you differently and the autonomy may disappear. Being the highest paid makes you a good target in the type of company you describe. The fact that he wants to buy the software now is a red flag that they are thinking of replacing you anyhow.

I would say to the CEO don't worry you already control your destiny because I work here and I can't see that ever changing. We are a family.
> Don't count on it.

This.

People change their wills, sometimes secretly. Maybe your parent favours your sibling, and you didn't know; maybe they want to leave everything to the cat.

Make your own life, and if something trickles down, that's a pure bonus.
Your non-belief against a strawman and that smug sense of superiority is not out of the ordinary. In fact it is very common around here.
That's the thing, though. What is considered undefined by the standard is NOT necessarily undefined by the compiler or target architecture. Type punning via union is UB in the standard, but well defined in `gcc`. Signed overflow is UB in the standard, but well defined in `gcc` with `-fwrapv`. Casting a void pointer to a function pointer is UB in the standard, but well defined for pretty much every non-MCU target arch (dlsym relies on it, after all!). Dereferencing a runtime-known NULL pointer is UB in the standard, but is well defined to trigger a segfault in pretty much every arch with an MMU. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
Cloud vs. Edge
This comment is both patronising, rude and incorrect at the same time. Social mobility is broadly the same in the US and Europe. What is different is that people in the US overestimate their social mobility:

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/02/14/american...
> Then either the scholars become disproportionately more powerful or are stoned for not having simplistic views.

In sociology, it’s evidently the latter.
I once saw code like:

unsigned short main[] = {0104525, 0xb8e5, 32, 0, 0xC35D};

and I made a tool to generate it automatically from a function [0].

[0] https://rkeene.org/viewer/tmp/ret32-maker.c.htm
It still has stronger type safety, that is why C89 is mostly C++ compatible, not all of it is.

Then you also get namespaces, modules, compile time execution, type safe macros (aka templates).

It is a bit more than syntax sugar.
It's not hard to describe what monads are, but it's probably not going to convince anyone of its importance without an appropriate language. The monad per se is an extremely simple idea. In fact, monadic interfaces are ubiquitous:

Rust: Result::and_then()
Scala: Option.flatMap()
JS: Promise.then()
...

I agree it can take some time to discover the similarities between these interfaces. But a monad is just that. It's so simple that we are blind to see.

Unfortunately, it requires a sufficiently advanced language to express the concept of Monad. You need at least higher-kinded types and means to describe behaviors of HKTs.

Can you understand or describe monads in a less powerful language, say Rust? Definitely!

But will you appreciate the power that monads give you in Rust? Probably no.
Escitalopram is what I found worked for me. None of the SNRIs did (Effexor and so on), and bupropion isn’t even prescribed where I am for depression for what it’s worth, but I’ve heard some people have decent luck with it, typically as an adjunct with an actual SSRI though.

It took me months to find the right one for me though. Worth talking to your doctor about it if it’s not helping much!
Yes. Depending on the severity of the depression, a depressed person might have problems with even basic things as brushing teeth and showering regularly and being able to do household chores.
That is magic of front page of HN.
Yea and whoever owns this domain needs to hand it over to someone who produces H.264-compressed videos.
Sure! Though I drink basically not at all when I’m not in a depressive episode. It’s more of a subconscious “self medication” thing, and the symptoms don’t subside even if I’m not drinking sadly.
> If the treatment costs $4000 dollars yearly and makes the difference between debilitating depression and functioning taxpayer that is self financing for the public healthcare.

That's a good bargain for people who pay out of pocket as well.
The Night of the Bridges had nothing to do with the war of independence as it happened in 1946 and was intended to disrupt the logistics of the British army not to prevent an invasion by Arab states.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Bridges
Most people don't need everything SQLite offers, but almost all programs needs some of its features. And even if you literally do nothing more than storing rows of text, the API SQLite offers is still more convenient than most filesystem API's once you go beyond the bare minimum.

That is to say that there are remarkably few usecases where SQLite isn't better than plain file access.
Gerbiling sounds both hilarious and terrifying.
From the paper:

These cloth masks had substantially higher filtration than common commercial 3-ply cotton masks, but lower than hybrid masks that use materials not commonly available for community members in low-resource settings

and

In our internal testing, we found that cloth masks with an external layer made of Pellon 931 polyester fusible interface ironed onto interlocking knit with a middle layer of interlocking knit could achieve a 60% filtration efficiency. Upon discussions with the manufacturers, we learned that those materials could not be procured.

It may be theoretically possible to improve cloth masks, but the ones you see people wearing around here in California aren't that.
There were such people. It really depends on what you want in life. One thing that 1960-80s USSR was very good at was stability. So, you might not have much food on your table, and it might not be particularly good, but you knew it'd be there. Ditto for housing, transportation etc. I can think of some people in US that'd take this deal, even if it meant they would have no freedom of speech or movement, and no political power, thereafter.
Willing to say? http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html has not been refuted. Novice approachability and staff fungibility are dead ends for our profession. If we want software that even begins to work, we need to accept longer learning curves (which not everyone will summit) and let experts reach for deeper languages and stronger tools.
Hong Kong pro-democracy news site closes after raid, arrests
Sure, here's the practical description :

A monad is a data structure that holds one value, but that value may be of one of several types. It implements a `map` function which allows conversion to the same monad with different set of types, eg there is some function `map` defined as :

fn map ( f : Tn -> Un, Monad<T1, T2, ..., Tn, ... TN>) -> Monad<T1, T2, ..., Um, ..., TN)

for each type the value may be in the Monad.

Two commonly used examples are the Optional and Result monads. An Optional is either a value of type T, or the empty type None. A Result is a value of type T or some error E.

The utility of monads is their ability to chain operations. With optionals, you can map the results of functions that may or may not return results without handling the None case explicitly. With Result types you may chain operations that return errors, and handle both the successes and cases where you need to convert errors.

Monads can be expressed in many languages, but they make the most sense in languages with algebraic data types (to express a value is one of a set of possible types, aka union/sum types) and first-class functions (where functions can be passed as an argument, or else implementing `map` may be difficult).

The mathematical parlance is really harmful to their adoption because as an abstraction, monads are stupidly easy to use.
The fun starts when there is a new compiler version in town and that changes.

Even Linus got to enjoy that fun.
Not true. A strong effect can be meaningful for small n. This is well known from power analysis: https://statisticsbyjim.com/hypothesis-testing/sample-size-p...

I also think middlebrow dismissals are discouraged on HN: http://www.byrnehobart.com/blog/why-are-middlebrow-dismissal...
The paddles they give your heart an electric shock with don't "fix" your heart. All they do is snap it out of a bad attractor. They sort-of reboot the system.

That sort of shock doesn't need to be very sophisticated, like fixing a clock work would need to be.

I imagine it might be similar for this treatment.
I like the distinction made by Haskell:

- A Byte (AKA Word8) is 8 bits. It has no inherent meaning.

- A Character (AKA Char) is a Unicode code point.

- A ByteString is a sequence of Bytes. It has no inherent meaning.

- A Text (AKA String) is a sequence of Chars.

In particular, Char != Byte and String != ByteString; we can juggle bytes without having to care about encodings; and we can manipulate text without having to care about its representation.
I wonder how many of these people are depressed because of their environment instead of chemical imbalances
edit: not sure why the downvotes (-3 so far) since I just stated my experience on the project. There must be something blatantly wrong in what I wrote and I would appreciate criticism.

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An architect demoed the failure of a shard and the automatic promotion of its backup shard to main, in production. They actually test their failure models.

As I see it, sharding is not very hard. HA is not very hard given a reasonable SLA. But sharding with HA on a large setup that actually works is pretty hard.

Another thing that stuck in my mind was their high throughput-per-provisioned-hardware ratio. With not much hardware they were pulling 80k queries per second with room to spare.

Although I have to say, that's not much compared to GitHub which pulls 1.2 million queries/sec on Vitess [0].

[0] https://github.blog/2021-09-27-partitioning-githubs-relation...
It says a lot that most of this is counter inspired by Ruby
https://outline.com/g9Ezjx
People really out here writing articles on Christmas
Not only could you sell stars as well, you could sell the same star on multiple chains!
The United States Department of Education has performed several detailed assessments of adult literacy since the 1980s. Whilst many countries report literacy rates based on very basic reading abilities, the US studies differentiate by skill level, with results that are occasionally pointed at by critics of various aspects of US institutions. However, there is a strong argument to be made that it's not about the US having especially poor literacy attainment, but markedly accurate assessments of that attainment.

A somewhat similar study is the 2016 OECD report (based surveys conducted in 2011--12 and 2014-15, involving 215,942 and at least 5,000 in each country), "Skills Matter: Further Results from the Survey of Adult Skills"

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/skills-matter_978926...

Jacob Nielsen addressed that in the context of computer UI/UX requirements for general-use application and website design, "The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think":

Across 33 rich countries, only 5% of the population has high computer-related abilities, and only a third of people can complete medium-complexity tasks.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/

I've referenced both in my own essay, "The Tyranny of the Minimum Viable User", which acknowledges both that general-use systems must be generally-usable, and that this requirement reduces functionality for advanced users by numerous mechanisms. That conflict seems inevitable.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...

There is additional research in the field of cognitive development with similar trends (see generally Jean Piaget).

For those interested in a detailed, long-term, large-picture view of the US educational system, see US Department of Education, 120 Years of American Education: A Statistical Portrait (1993):

https://www.google.com/books/edition/120_Years_of_American_E... (downloadable PDF)

It's worth noting that in 1900, the high-school graduation rate within the US was 6%, of whom 60% were female. That rose to 76% of 17 year-olds by the 1962-63 school year, and has fluctated around that level since. (Subsequent attainment of a HS diploma or equivalent general education diploma (GED) certificate by age 25 is somewhat higher.)

The upshot from all of this is that literacy and skills of the general population are likely far lower than you would expect, in both technical and nontechnical areas. Whether you're designing UI/UX, writing journalism, running for elective office, or engineering or combatting propaganda, these facts must be taken into consideration. Blind faith that "all the children are above average" will doom plans. Though so too may presumptions that literacy or technical skills are themselves direct measures of intelligence.
I'm agnostic, but I used to be mormon. Recently, I've been noticing more and more mandela effects... Some big ones affect the bible, many 'believers' think it's some satanic nefariousness, I've seen as many non-biblical mandela effects to think it's just randomness, or concensus algorithms (51% of people remember x, so x exists in reality the alternate is erased).

Some examples:

Isaiah 11:6:

Remembered: The lion shall lie down with the lamb, and the bear shall eat grass like the ox, nd the child shall play on the hole of the asp, and nothign shall hurt nor destroy in all My Holy Mountain!

Current:The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

Interestingly many biblical scholars, pastors, etc claim to remember the 1st one as well. I also could've swore the word Demon was in the KjV at least a number of times (currently 0), and if you look in a KJV search engine for "alien" or "stuff" you'll get some very funky modern-era sounding translations that ... where it should definitely be probably: strangers or possessions...

examples:

Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.

Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.

There's like 20 results for "stuff" and only 16 for "possessions".

Aliens: Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

Another fun one that apparently seems to allow for homosexuality which most religionists claim the bible is against says:

Luke 17:34/35 - I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

The context could be seen/understood as they're taken because they're lgbqt, but the next line says 1/2 men will be taken from the field as they labor...instead it sounds to me that the bible as it sits is fine w/ LGBQT lifestyles.

.....

So my belief I guess is we're in a simulation, and the bible being one of the most read and quoted books with so many different translations makes it so easily fucked w/ as far as if everything is some blockchain-like concensus algorithm when it comes to mandela effects.

I'll also die on the hill that the apollo 13 movie w/ Tom hanks has flipped back and forth I've seen both versions where there's hyper Tom Hanks screaming HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM! and a Non-chalent, calmer Tom Hanks saying... Uh, Houston - we've had a problem. (We vs We've -- plus a different 'tone').
Energy crisis 2021 – the China shock
> The egyptians kept stellar records

The best evidence is that the egyptians were very biased in what was recorded in ways that would be likely to have survived (triumphs, yes, defeats, not so much) and that even when things were recorded, events and persons who later fell into disfavor were actively eradicated from the kind of durable, monumental records that would be most likely to survive.

> and there’s no record of 100k people wandering the wilderness of a 20 mile stretch of land for 40 years.

What 20 mile stretch of land are you talking about? With the classical (but probably wrong) association of the Yam Suph with the Gulf of Suez, the “wilderness” would have been (or at least started) on the Sinai Peninsual, which is more than 20 miles in either dimension. (There’s a number of other interpretations of the Yam Suph, including the Gulf of Aqaba, which would have put the wilderness in (again, starting in) Arabia. (There’s good reasons to doubt the Exodus story, but you’ve completely missed the real ones: while the absence of records of the actual Exodus is much less surprising than you make, the absence of evidence of anything like the population that supposedly took part in it ever existing in Egypt at any time in order to leave in the Exodus is the big one.)

> It’s also a fact that the books of moses were first written down about 800 years after he would’ve lived…so how can that be infallible if it’s passed by word of mouth.... Ever play the telephone game?

Societies with high literacy may not be good at maintaining stable oral traditions, but those without it are known to be. Even if that weren’t true, mundane written documents aren’t infallible either, believing in infallible writing usually involves invoking a special divine gift of inspiration. But if that works for writing, there’s no reason it can’t work for oral tradition, or for writing that is remote from events.
I doubt you actually believe this. Let's take an example: you experience a lot of pain after being in a car accident. Do you: a) ask random people about the pain and what you should do about it, or b) go to the hospital.

Obviously anyone remotely rational is going to go with b). Why? Because they trust that the people there are more likely to better care for you than a random person on the street. And why is that? Because they are experts.
If it's not truncating, how do you describe its behavior when e.g. an odd number is divided by 2?
Speaking as an immigrant, there are quite a few countries out there that are more lucrative for third world immigrants than US. Canada, for example, or even Australia. Generally speaking, it's places with a decent welfare safety net.
Yeah, this is a fairly standard size for an early trial.

Trials cost money. Even if this is a lucky outlier and it turns out to be no better than the placebo in a larger trial, having a decently strong positive result can hugely improve your chances of getting the money (and interest) needed to run a larger trial.
Or at least that America's specific, very real race issues are not global or even universal across all English-speaking cultures.
Show HN: I Made Mac App to Hide Sensitive info while screen share
To provide an analogy: wifi has more or less the same kind of radiation as a microwave oven.

But wifi is much weaker and not inside a faraday cage. So it doesn't cook you.
I've seen mandela effects, or retcons in the past 8 months.... a year ago I would've thought you were full of it.... a flip flop esp. messed w/ my head, so now I can definitely see Simulation theory or something w/ the entire universe being a dream of a single consciousness as being a thing....