skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems the the conclusion that remote learning causes learning loss is very premature and not differentable from a lot of other factors that occurred simultaneously. Massive job losses, or incredible stresses on parents and family units, learning curve on remot resources, not a full year with massive educational environment changes, alternate standard testing regeimes, etc.

That conclusion does however support a push for a return to work economic policy.
I don’t copy and paste code from stackoverflow anymore. When I was a beginner I used to but now because of the complexity of things I work on the snippets don’t work as is and I just look at stackoverflow to find an approach and then look at the documentation to apply it to my problem.

The one I am guilty for copying and pasting is command line stuff. I know its dangerous and I try not to paste it directly into the terminal but some of the commands are so complicated and backspacing in the shell is annoying its just easier to copy and paste.
Totally agree. Charge the same price for everybody no matter how they are paying.
Censoring in SMS messages. Certain anti-abortion links, and a distributed youtube alternative are censored.
Ha! If we manage to solve death then he'll be the real winner 8000 years from now.
This probably misses people who use drag-and-drop anyhow.
> You literally cannot pay for it

Sure you can. You can hire someone to fix it to your liking.

As an example, I'm pretty sure that's RedHat's M.O. Pay them to fix whatever you want them to fix.
Disinformation on HN?
What do people think is the extent of disinformation on HN? The admins clearly have access to HTTP logs which could filter responses by IP address. Is there a reasonable metric to assess that the community is honest or not?
It's pretty sad that there is basically nobody in DC who wants to improve the healthcare system. Certainly not Biden.
They mean it is older than 18 years. It can't vote.
I maintain that Fabrice Bellard, like Armin Rigo and Wietse Venema, are evidence that self-aware AI has already developed.
Been using it for close to 15 years.

Too much work for very little gain.
I really like this concept, and I appreciate dollars being thrown into it - even if it ends up not being viable in the end.
Like sibling comment said, I'd love to see actual science behind it.

> a caricaturish view of how NPS is used in the real world. "It's not 'oh no, our NPS score is down, let's hire more people to focus on customer 'happiness'"

That sounds exactly like what responses at many companies would be. There's often much nuanced discussion about how/when/why to adopt certain metrics, but once they are they become sacrosanct and any deviation from "good" results is a crisis needing immediate action.
When she needs support or assistance, that theory holds about as much water as a fishnet.
Straightforward healthcare reform would start with eliminating this unprecedented and nonsensical ability for hospitals to engage in arbitrary post facto billing, require well-defined contracts for non-emergency care, and require providers to publish a uniform all-payer rate schedule for emergency/urgent care. Any deviation should result in a non-enforceable invalid bill, with easily claimable punitive damages if such fraudulent charges end up being mistakenly paid.

When I walk into a grocery store, buy some items, and leave there is absolutely no chance that I will later get a bill in the mail from the cashier for their bagging services. If I were to, it would be laughably unenforceable. And yet, this is precisely what the medical establishment feels entitled to do when they refuse to answer basic questions about prices or "network" status of providers, and then send you multiple bills for a single engagement!

While this would do little to help healthcare affordability for those who truly cannot pay, it is a necessary step to creating a functioning market regardless of who is paying. The point we're at now, where even people with the ability to pay have no clue how exactly the system will attempt to screw them, is utterly untenable.

For what it's worth, this is the kind of reform the Republican party could be loudly and persistently pushing if weren't primarily interested in dysfunction. As it stands the only popular avenue for reform I've seen is to punt the whole thing to the government, which I'm forced to reluctantly support even though it feels like giving up on actually solving the problem and letting the organizational cancer metastasize and feed on taxpayer money.
Don't worry, you can take an electric scooter in the cabin with you to solve the last mile problem! Phew, that was a close one. You almost became a cyclist!
Nice, I was wondering how it would embed twitter links but those submissions seem to be hidden by default
We Sent Garlic Bread to the Edge of Space, Then Ate It
Yep, absolutely 100%.
Microplastics are not coming from packaging directly, they come from particles released by washing clothing, which then goes into the water, and from plastic litter that gets broken down over time.

Changing food packaging won't do anything for this, you'd need filters on every washing machine.
Very nice work and good design.

I'd prefer if the expand button was on the right on mobile as it makes it easy to reach it with the thumb but no biggie. Also a similar collapse for viewing the top level comments can be a wonderful idea.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=guNVlmIAAAAJ&hl=en...

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C10&q=bac...

Probably specifically refers to "Concurrent cycle collection in reference counted systems" where Bacon is first author?
The Ultimate Guide to Finding a Startup Job
> you don't like 'government'

You evidently missed when I wrote that the function of government is to be the guarantor of rights.

> You seem to have little regard for the fact that your countrymen have laid down their lives for your rights

You would be very, very wrong about that. I have many family members who fought in American wars, all the way back to the American Revolution. I know what they fought for, and it wasn't socialism.

> Every right you enjoy, from a fair trial to your very freedom, has been won in blood

You're right, and I enjoy those rights and thank our American soldiers for fighting for them. You are very, very wrong about my feelings about GIs. My own father volunteered to fight the Nazis at the sharp end of the spear, and volunteered again for the Korean War at the sharp end. He also served in a support role during the Vietnam War. I take American freedom very, very seriously.

I am grateful for all American servicemen and women who risked their lives for American freedom.
It’s okay for privilege to be intersectional. A straight white cis male can still suffer from ableism and classism. But it’s also okay to acknowledge that even in circumstances like being disabled, being perceived as a white cis straight male will have benefits compared to a black trans woman in the same situation, even if that situation sucks for both parties.
I did the exact opposite. I was on MacOS since 10.2.

But lately I felt things have become way too locked down (both hardware and software), too dumbed down (too many apps resemble mobile apps with limited functionality) and too opinionated. Sometimes I just want things differently. Another reason was that many new features are specific to iCloud integration and as I use many OSes (both computer and mobile) I could not take advantage of those anyway. I need cross platform. So a lot of selling points became irrelevant.

I moved to FreeBSD with KDE on top and it felt like a breath of fresh air finally being able to set up my system the way I want it. This is so empowering.

It became my daily driver about a year ago and I haven't looked back though I still use Mac and Windows for work, Windows personally for gaming and Linux for some servers.

Of course I lost some stuff too like Apple's excellent multi DPI and great hardware integration. And many apps that were great like pixelmator. But I gained a lot of configurability and the ability to upgrade my hardware again.
Rust's slow compiles are such a turn off for me. Like why does it take tens of seconds to recompile when I am just changing a single number in a file? Does it really need to waste so much of my time to change a single byte in the output binary?
Star performers will look at the maximum, not the minimum
I wonder why they used QuickJS instead of a faster engine like V8 or JSC?
IIRC they recently added support for some half-assed tiling, only for two full screen windows side by side. It's called Split View.
I have no idea if the designers had any plan for how to change out the tops. My guess is they didn’t think it through that far because this whole concept seems poorly thought through.

If you were doing to change the tops, though, I would expect some external lift would do that job. Adding lift capabilities to the base or to the tops would add a bunch of weight for no reason. (Those extra tops have to be stored somewhere. Might as well keep the lift mechanism in the storage facility.) The obvious answer is that a forklift is used to put the top onto the base.
>median income for a 50 year old American at 90k is skewed high by a small number of people way above 300-400k

Medians don't work that way. Maybe you're thinking of the average.
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Camera view of JWST separating from Ariane 5 upper stage
It's not just the non-police record holder's own liability, it's very common to be subpoenaed over a case you're not party to and those can easily turn into expensive fishing expeditions. No excuse for the cops and pretty clearly those requests can be entirely legit, but there are other organizations that have financial reasons to see old records as a liability. One employer that got massive numbers of subpoenas had a business requirement forbidding audit trails and logging because as soon as a lawyer saw any sign of logging they'd go digging. We were never sued, we were just a convenient source of legal ammunition.
Use address bar as temporary editor / buffer. Ctrl-C, Ctrl-L, Ctrl-V, ctrl-left or ctrl-right to edit/confirm correctness, then ctrl a and ctl c
neato! I've really enjoyed using sciter.
Is it illegal to schedule the transactions months in advance, but then intentionally (but with plausible deniability) slow the release of damaging news like this till after the transaction completed?
There is nothing wrong when it comes to subjective taste. However I think there is some level of objectivity to many things that can be applied to an extent. For example, if there is so much bass that much of the other frequencies are not audible, then I think it is an objectively bad setup. Or if your food is prepared with so much sugar/salt/fat/seasonings that you can't even taste the main ingredient, then it's objectively not very good (or at the very least, a waste of the main ingredient).
>Without free will how could there be sin, and without sin what did Christ die to save us from?

There are various parts of the Bible which suggest free will does not exist, and belief in predestination has a long history in Christianity. This verse in Romans is a good example:

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Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac. Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand: not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! 15 For he says to Moses,

“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.

One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’” Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?

Romans 9:10-21

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Of course, there is also plenty of evidence for free will in the Bible, the Genesis account being one example. And trying to square that circle can get complicated[0,1].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will_in_theology#In_the_B...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination
I don't know about this - RAW files are recordings of sensor values. Those sensor values are accurate of what light the sensor measured.

Then the sensor values are converted to a JPEG. So it's still an accurate rendition of the light - even though yes, it is a rendition of the light.

But to completely replace some sensor values with some computer-generated values is a different ballgame, IMO. It's more akin to Photoshop editing, as opposed to Lightroom.
My guess is probably the QuickJS has less resource usage compared to the more performant V8.

UPDATE:
Now I have read the linked article, here is the reasons (copied from the article):

API and integration principles are close to what TIScript uses – it took me just 1 month to add QuickJS to Sciter core. And 4 months more to expose HTML/CSS runtime to JS.

Relatively compact implementation – QuickJS is slightly more fatty (by 100 kb) but still in acceptable range. For the note: full version of V8 is about 40 mb – 5 times larger than Sciter itself;

Liberal MIT license. Sciter cannot use GPL/LGPL code – many customers expressed this requirement;

Readable source code. Well… almost readable.
The result of the banality of slow-creep censorship which lots of people winked at because it was censorship they could live with.

Don't worry, they said platforms have a right to censor the content they carry, they are not "dumb pipes" and many other ways people dismissed the threat from censorship.

Now we have "dumb pipes" censoring certain services as well as content.

Of course politicians love this. They will not oppose censorship. Power loves censorship.
Thanks for the list. Regarding screenshots, I like macOS' built-in screenshot keybindings:

Command+Shift 3: Captures the entire screen.

Command+Shift 4: Captures a specific region (You have to select the area each time).

Command+Shift 4, Space: Captures a specific window.

Command+Shift 5: Captures a specific region (Remembers the last selected region).

Command+Shift 5 also displays a menu at the bottom of the screen that lets you select any of the screenshot options as well as options to record a specific window or the entire screen.
> It doesn’t make him (or Filo) someone who gets it.

I don’t know what this means. If “gets it” means “capable of growing a $40 billion company “, then the set of people who “get it” seems exceedingly small.
C: No matter what the newest hippest toy will be, it will be running on a large layer of C code.

COBOL: No matter what where how, the airlines and banks will still be running on COBOL.
People have speculated that he is not one person.

His/thier history is documented on Wikipedia, but its possible just one representative has shown up to events in the past.

Even for a small team the output would be incredible, but I choose to believe it is just one super-human. One day I hope to meet him.
> I’m not sure who should get to decide the definition of a “normal” car. You?

The definition is something that comes from the NHTSA and the legal statutes of each state.
I like the fact that you can expand the content of link submissions. I wish my fav HN reader app Octal (iOS) had this feature. On the other hand, to read comments with HackerScroll you have to go the original page ( which is less pleasant to read), whereas with Octal comments are laid out really nicely.
There is a difference between getting the colors subjectively wrong and replacing the entire texture of the material
Here comes gating copy and paste behind a subscription. /s
I'd really like to see Sciter take off to mainstream. If I was asked to do an application with specific custom designed UI, I'd use Sciter.

I have given it a go some months ago, alongside with Delphi and it's really really easy to get started.

It's not open source yet, but... hey! it doesn't have to be to be to be successful.

Of course, Terra Informatica doesn't have the same level of marketing budget than Microsoft/GitHub to promote it as Electron, but a project can rise to relevance by its own merits I believe. I usually err on the side of naïvety for these cases.
MacOS does support tiling. You can tile exactly one window across the entire screen by pressing the green button. If you want to tile more than one window, you can buy additional monitors.

(This is sarcasm.)
History of Retro Game Consoles (For Programmers)
Based on some of the other people the author cites, it seems like low remote engagement is a problem specific to some particular European country.

> “It really stings how the local culture and remote work ethic don’t mix. Many people
> frankly optimise for working 3-4 hours/day and “abuse” remote. We’re starting to hire in
> the UK for 30-40% more as we don’t see this attitude there.”
This is a pretty astoundingly condescending essay you've written here. There are a lot of things about it I disagree with, but to save time let's just focus on the "incompetence as a strategy" angle.

I don't disagree that in society today, you are often better off being uselessly incompetent unless you're a serious expert, but I wouldn't blame that on "lazy, feckless millennials." The education system we put students through is practically designed to produce this mindset. You can bust your ass all through school and get straight A's or you can do the absolute minimum, demanding clear guidance and instruction every step of the way.... and get straight A's. We don't ask students to ground their thoughts in real-world application or call out stupid/pointless processes, so I don't know why we'd suddenly expect them to be good at it when they hit college. I certainly wasn't and neither were my peers.

This is something that I feel really hurts us from a diversity perspective as well. If you have business-savvy parents you'll learn "how the world works" from them. If you don't, you have basically no hope. You're certainly not going to learn it from your barely-more-than-minimum-wage earning "civics" teacher that is fresh out of school themselves with a bachelors in education. Even less likely if you're in an area where schools don't have a lot of resources or opportunities to expose students to "white-collar life" growing up.
Part of the medical evacuation. This is bad.
Sure, but altering the hue/saturation/lightness of colors is a little different than replacing a bunch of pixels to achieve a "prettier" result.
"using a declarative input in the form of a markdown file"

You mean a markdown formatted config file. All config files are declarative; an imperative config file would be bizarre.
With Mac you can usually just copy your entire ~/Library/Preferences folder to get all your apps back the way they were on a new Mac. It's a collection of pliat files that basically are equivalent to the registry on Windows.

There's even a system wide equivalent at /Library/Preferences
>"Internet access is a human right," is just a sneaky way of saying "someone should give people free Internet."

This isn't correct. It does not mean someone should pay your ISP bill. Human rights are standards of living that are protected by laws.
There is a section with the key reasons it was picked, in particular:

"Relatively compact implementation – QuickJS is slightly more fatty (by 100 kb) but still in acceptable range. For the note: full version of V8 is about 40 mb – 5 times larger than Sciter itself"
How do you know they aren't? What happened in 1 CE? What happened in 1 BCE? What happened during the year in between?
Theory and abstract principles - databases and client/server architecture, data structures and algorithms, distributed design and the two generals problem (also extrapolated as CAP theorem), race conditions and locking, queue theory and cybernetics, etc etc.
But if you build it on x64 hardware, then it wouldn't be a Lisp Machine pretty much by definition, no?

Or do you mean a machine that boots into Lisp, effectively using it as the OS, regardless of hardware?
I think speed is separate from caching, albeit overlapping. If the compiler can see exactly what changes your code will have in the final binary, then it can do very very little work. However, it would also suffice for the compiler to just be so fast that it can do a complete compile from zero to finished in some acceptable time (tcc and I think Go favor this). Those are different goals, or at least different ways of achieving the desired outcome.
No one cares about the checks you cashed. Thiel is not a good person because he paid a random employee well.
> You seem to be implying that the goal is to improve the photo to be better than reality but I don't think that's the case.

I think it is, Afterall that's what all the Instagram filters are for, and that's where most photos end up
There is a short caption here:

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2021/12/Webb_separ... ("Webb separation from Ariane 5")
Please do share your experience then. Because it's been working amazingly out of the box since years.

I love macs but I have to spend way more time installing tools and configurations to get it to a level comparable to a similar Linux/GNOME installation
Being in the hospital is a negative externality in a world where health care is delivered by humans with a lot of long training.
Plasma has workspace-like features and check this out for gestures[1].

[1] https://gitlab.com/cunidev/gestures
> Prosecutors words are believed at face value.

You've implied I'm taking the prosecutors words at face value, but I'm really not basing any of my opinions on the prosecutors words at all. The plea deal was communicated by Swartz' lawyer. The evidence against him is documentary and laid out in the indictment. There's expert testimony as well. Swartz' consciousness of guilt is laid out in video evidence as well as on his blog in his own words. There's very little the prosecutor has to say in the case against Swartz.

> If you spend all your money. You aren’t high net worth any more.

I said Swartz was prosecuted because he painted a big target on himself. Yes, being high net worth and well connected to billionaires is part of that. It really doesn't matter what his net worth was at the time of his demise, when at the time he allegedly committed the crime and caught the eye of prosecutors he was a high net worth individual.
> if structures near fire-prone areas were designed and maintained to withstand fire, we might not need to fight some wildfires at all.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-to-burn/

I think you might be getting downvoted for "fireproof" which sounds absolute, and is probably not realistic. But you're right that regulations should evolve to require responsible home design and maintenance in fire-prone areas!
Did nobody proofread this before publishing? It's hard to take it seriously when it is so slapdash.
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