skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the key observation: these surveys aim to determine the general English literacy of the American workforce. You don't have to be a US citizen or a voter, or even an English speaker to work in this country.

A more accurate metric would be "prose literacy in the individual's at-home spoken language," which would probably yield a significantly less drastic picture. Perhaps not the best one, but nowhere near as eye grabbing as "54% of Americans can't read beyond a middle school level."
Not only that, most gov projects have to outsource (that's why we have such big consulting firms like CGI and LGS). This make project costs skyrocket. All that because they can't offer good wages (or condition - working conditions are pretty much set in stone).
A Venetian Poltroon
Ballsy instructor to leave it that long. :)
Well that would certainly explain the meme culture.
I’m not a licensed pilot, so I’m just arguing from my intuitive understanding of the risks involved.

> The only reason to jump out of a plane is if you have 0 chance of landing it safely.

I understand that’s the responsible professional attitude. But if it was me in that plane and I saw a 10% risk of serious bodily harm / death in trying to land and a 0.1% risk in jumping, it would be tempting to jump.

As I understand it the landing attempt here would probably be on a dry river bed or a dirt road. That’s not the same thing as turning back to an airfield. There’s serious risk involved.
Lol at 1.

> Did COVID-19 Originate in Market 400 Meters From CCP Lab Studying Coronaviruses?

False. The wuhan lab for coronaviruses is actually 15km away.
I have distaste for the author speaking on behalf of autistic people. Also i have a distaste of the author listing their "disabilities" in their twitter bio.

Its probably some kind of US identity politics thing. I don't think defining yourself via your diagnoses is socially acceptale where i live.
Can't really argue with that, I found the actual responses very polite as well. I absolutely criticize nothing.

I don't think "F2018 conformance will be fixed faster if..." implies that there is any actual timeline at all, especially to the presumed target audience. Maybe that's what I'm seeing, that phrasing to me means WONTFIX unless the other party takes some kind of action.

The reason I like it is because it actually specifies what the other party can do to take action without calling them out. Calling them out is still certainly entirely fine. But if the goal is to get a purchase order issued from a negotiation perspective I think it makes sense to basically say "sure, we're willing to work on this seriously if you contribute", which then turns obviously to "I don't code" or "here's your patch", which then obviously turns to them contributing one way or another.

Patience and personal morale justifies a lot though IMO, the maintainers are of course under no obligation to care about any of that one bit, Bill could always have just patched the code and not worried about upstream. Embarrassing.
Most of my professional life involved continually being surprised how little most people actually read.
Epic scientific mysteries researchers can’t solve
If it quits for real, you do NOT know you are sweating until you land. At least not in my two. For me, it felt like time slowed down and everything was crystal clear, like a yellow brick road appeared in my vision. OTOH, I fly a twin...
Everybody's got questions and suspicions, but here's my rather subtle one: If you're editing dramatic video footage for YouTube, why exclude the exciting moment when the engine suddenly quits? Why edit out the suspense of your repeated attempts to restart the engine? Why omit the drama of your repeated radio calls?

I think if you're a YouTube narcissist, you leave everything in that attracts attention and views. Now of course maybe if your ego is especially fragile, you edit out anything that makes you look bad. (Bad in your own opinion, mind you. There were numerous things left in that make him look bad in my opinion, but I digress.) So maybe he thought he sounded panicky on the radio, and maybe he thought he looked inept trying to restart the engine (or maybe he was too dumb to try either of those), but that still leaves the moment the engine quits - why leave that out?

Now you know what they say about assume: it puts U between me and some ass. Which I don't appreciate. But nonetheless I assume that moment is not shown from the cockpit camera because he killed the engine. And if he killed the engine, he probably never tried to restart it, and never made any radio calls.

It's kind of like when your cell phone is turned off all day, on the same day your spouse happens to get murdered. Nobody can triangulate & prove you were at the crime scene... but.........
This sounds great to take quick but organized notes for my use case - researching and prototyping, but when the notes need to be converted into a more formal 'report' later.
The people smart enough to make progress can of course read no problem.
Also Cranelift, though I personally don't know a lot more about it than its name. IIRC it has some kind of graph-based IR.
What are the benefits of those platforms over swagger?
Yeah that's terrible, even for canadian software engineering standards.
Out of curiosity I googled the current state of articles regarding "Wuhan Lab Leak" theory and potential NIH connection to gain of function research. Both issues that aren't clear-cut but have compelling evidence. None of these articles show the nuance you are claiming they would show.
Not always, ATAK[1] was release open source on purpose so emergency services and civilians can use it too.

[1] https://github.com/deptofdefense/AndroidTacticalAssaultKit-C...
What do you mean?
All of those people are being paid to create something for the benefit of other people. They do not benefit from it themselves.
Solana is centralized, no? If a handful of people can shut down the entire network in a few minutes, how is it a strong network? How is it not centralized?
Can recommend. I followed Josh Doody's advice last time I switched jobs and I did really well in negotiations. Even though in the beginning of my job search I had given a recruiter my preferred salary range (my mistake) and of course the company's offer was at the bottom of that range, I was still able to negotiate and recover quite nicely in the end. Though, having multiple offers on hand helped a lot.
Though, you can turn off the ads[1], which makes all the difference.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/settings
As in reading for pleasure?
Holy crap! That's Dave Benham[0] who has answered metric buttloads of questions on Stack Overflow re: CMD.EXE. If there's anybody who knows about arcane and idiosyncratic behavior in CMD.EXE it's him!

He wrote a really fun snake implementation in batch, too[1].

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/users/1012053/dbenham
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EZeDoZjnsc
Flight Chops is based in Canada, so anytime he's flying up here he'll fall under Transport Canada and Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARs). There are no legal requirements in Canada for pilots to wear parachutes.
I got basically thrown in the deep end as a sysadmin in the old days. I probably saw more “counterexamples” than well architected systems early on. But you learn real fast when the org decides that you should somehow be the expert on how all the miscellaneous pieces fit together after years of abandonment
The game client is built with PixiJS, and otherwise mostly uses vanilla JS. The backend is built with Node.js, and the game uses a custom WebSocket protocol called Ribbon.

In fact, there's a whole list of open source dependencies at https://tetr.io/about/acknowledgements/.
This was one of those times I couldn't believe the media took the bait.
1. Trump wants media to report on Hillary deleting her emails.
2. Trump claims Hillary literally acid washed her emails.
3. Media jumps in (they can't help themselves). "Haha Trump is so dumb he thinks Hillary literally acid washed her emails. What really happened is she used software called BleachBit..."
4. Everyone knows how Hillary deleted her emails.
>I also wonder how much the immigration rate affects this stat.

Probably not much? Looking at reading achievement by race, we see that whites do worse than asians, and blacks doing worse than hispanics. In both those pairs we see the group with more immigrants do better than the group with less immigrants.

https://i.imgur.com/sA7vPJ5.png
> Beyond that, if you're flying an airplane, I think you have some responsibility to not jump out at the first sign of trouble.

I agree, and in the video it looks like he abandons ship very quickly. But there could be a section of video edited out.

EDIT: It doesn’t help his moral case that he’s carrying a selfie stick though, and is filming himself as his plane is potentially landing on someone.
…but their intentions are good so the results don’t matter.
> Much less have the only viable candidates belong to one of two viable political parties, both of which have cartoonishly stable views over time.

There are lots of things you can say about the major American political parties, but that they have stable political views over time is not even close to one of them. (This is, in fact, a direct consequence of duopoly, since coalition building occurs within big-tent parties rather than between parties as it does in multiparty democracies.)
Still, it is interesting to look at questions that most people failed. Apparently in the 2003 round of evaluations only 16% of participants could answer the question "What is the purpose of the Se Habla Espanol expo?" after reading this short magazine article.

https://nces.ed.gov/NAAL/sample_imgtxtequiv.asp?Imageid=164
i wonder if it might be helpful to go a step further and define an alias type that has the tag applied and accesses examined?

// +checkatomic
type atomicint int64

type mystruct struct {
count atomicint
}
I think this is a bit different. Pony's div is total, and in order to be total div by 0 is 0, which is not a particularly absurd idea.

That said, I do feel that Pony should have added a 'panic' concept and then forced actors to handle panics, but that's me.
Well, I'm going off more ICAO rules than NTSB specific - what I know for sure is that the differences you just specified are prerogative of NTSB and its parent govt to hash out (and seen it being decided upon in Polish PKBWL)
I installed a fresh iso of Windows 10 Pro on my mom's desktop the other day. The experience has changed for the same operating system over the last five years. It felt like I was installing a huge piece of malware. When it pegged the cpu at 100% installing one drive (after I told it not to) I just pulled the plug and installed fedora (which I had recently evaluated for myself). Try installing and running fedora for a few minutes. Blows Windows 10/11 out of the water. I knew that if I sent her machine back with Windows 10 it would be a support nightmare.
I believe that, when we're talking about the reading level publications target, that's typically evaluated using a linear combination of the average words per sentence, and the average syllables per word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch%E2%80%93Kincaid_readabi...

If so, then the difference between 8th and 6th grade level works out to about 0.17 syllables per word, or about 5 words per sentence, or some blend of the two. So the gist would seem to be, don't be like me; use periods instead of commas and semicolons, and don't use a word like "orthography" when a word like "spelling" will do.

I doubt that that this is what the department of education was looking at when they assessed adult prose literacy, though. But I'm having a bugger of a time tracking that down, too. I'm not sure that I agree with Wikipedia that a Forbes article that doesn't properly cite its own source is an acceptable citation for that figure.
That is an interesting one. Snopes gave it mixed because technically she was never convicted of terrorism by any court, thus isn't actually a "convicted terrorist". In this case a mixed verdict does seem fair as the lack of nuance in the claim doesn't match the reality of the situation.
Leaving asides the offense/racist grandparent comments, the worship of money is what has made America prosperous, and what still allows us to get the best and the brightest.

Ask "them enlightened" Europeans (or Australians or...) how much they make, and rejoice we get to live a prosperous life here in America!

And no, before someone says "but what about universal healthcare?", health insurance doesn't count, because if you work at a normal job, you get that, and if you don't, the ER never refuses anyone thanks to our legal system which you also disparage.
Former believer here. Fucking done.
There's a recommendation in Ontario (Canada) against giving Moderna to males 18 - 24

"Ontario now recommending against Moderna vaccine for men 18-24 years old"
https://torontosun.com/news/provincial/ontario-now-recommend...

> This comes after public health officials determined there is a 1 in 5,000 risk of myocarditis — a form of heart inflammation — following a second dose of the Moderna vaccine.
Python Type Hints – How to Handle Optional Imports
What a story. Anybody interested in seeing this Alan Pollock, I guess this is him: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YhGsknrK8Io/SE-QN8bsQDI/AAAAAAAAC...
> That is according to Chinese space authorities, who told state media about the new completion target for the unmanned lunar station, which is being jointly built with Russia, on Monday.

I'm not sure I'd count something unmanned as a "moon base". By that criterion, the US has several bases on Mars already.
RE: Debugging D in VS Code, this hasn't been my experience at all

> "Another challenge I’ve faced is the lack of a good debugging experience for VS Code on Windows. The C debugger for VS Code displays, for example, a string as a length and a C string (which might have trailing garbage). I’d rather not confuse them with this. I have read that Visual D has a better debugging experience, but I need dub support for these projects, and Visual D focuses on Visual Studio integration, something I don’t necessarily want to deal with in teaching these kids. "

You need to use the Microsoft C/C++ "cppvsdbg" option in your "launch.json" config as the "type", and also to use Webfreak's custom Natvis file for how to display D native types in the debugger:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/cpp/launch-json-reference...

https://github.com/Pure-D/dlang-debug#natvis-with-vsdbg

This makes associative arrays display properly, and strings, etc.

I think this has been integrated in latest code-d. You want to compile with "-gc" flag though (not sure if this is the same flag name on DMD as it is on GDC/LDC).

The LLDB debugging is worse than the "cppvsdbg" mode IME.
This question doesn't seem to be getting any traction so thanks for getting to write and pointing that out. I'll keep looking for resources to learn about pitfalls of ZFS on small device setups like mine
Still 100% true and applicable.
>What's the gap between an 8th grade reader and a 6th grade reader?

They can both interpret the instructions on the side of an AT4 but the 8th grader will be able to tell you that it did not have any alliterations, foreshadowing, or personification.

People always forget that at some point in middle school "getting better at reading" stops being about interpreting the literal meanings of sentences and paragraphs and starts being about spotting and understanding the more advanced structures that makes for good creative writing and (outside some wordplay the advertising department engages in) is completely superfluous to what it takes to transact business.
"This license does not include the right to compile photos from Unsplash to replicate a similar or competing service."

This last line is funny, as they only added it later. They have all this fluffy language about how awesome and humanitarian it is when photos are free of rights or restrictions. Except of course when this freedom is used in a way they don't like.
Jaynes, Probability Theory: The Logic of Science (https://books.google.com/books/about/Probability_Theory.html...)

Grunwald, The Minimum Description Length Principle.
I wonder what Mark Reed at Yale has been doing lately.
I'm not sure where you're from. I'm from the UK and it feels more generational than location based.

And "not socially acceptable" doesn't feel like the right way to describe it. More that people younger than me are comfortable with things that feel like over-sharing to me.
I agree with you -- if tinkering with your editor isn't appealing, then don't install emacs. Vim is probably a better choice.
> Outsiders profit from a public commons project, so we shouldn't contribute to the commons?

That actually really resonates with me, thanks for writing it. It sounds like something I'd say in a conversation, flipping/re phrasing the argument to make someone see it differently.

I often try to equate OSM to the commons (physical land, and digital software/media/culture). I'm glad I found OSM, it's the sweet spot for me, technical enough to interest me, but not to complicated that I can't contribute. I've tried (sometimes successfully) to contribute to Free Software, but unfortunately I'm not a developer. Obviously I can't add more physical common land to the world, but I do advocate for it, and our PRoW.

Thank you.

> When I clean trash from a local river, Sam's Row Boat Rental benefits. Should I stop cleaning the river?

But should Sam's Row Boat Rental contribute to cleaning the river too? What about Sam's Fish and Chips, whos packaging is littering the river? Do they have a responsibility to clear the river post-littering? Do they have a responsibility to put bins around to stop the river being getting littered in? :P
just put "steam" in the url?
can you elaborate on the Amazon one?
Only of value in states with open primaries.
Honestly does the average reader here know the word "prose"?
> Another "unlikely things a pilot does in an emergency" from my side then.

Well, these youtubers are strange people. It doesn’t strike me as that odd he’d consider his fame before his safety.
The basis for the numbers are really no different than the color-codings here, and the analysis of why they all tend to be circular reasoning. "I act like a red because I'm a red" is similar to "I act like an Enneagram 4 because I'm a 4."

It might be useful for introspection ("I identify with feelings this model gives to 'reds' or a '4w3' "), but it's not a scientific or testable prediction about the way people act in the world.
Same thought here, but at the same time I believe the obsession with having an active OSS is partly to blame. Maintenance would be much lesser if we just stopped development when it's "good enough"
I agree, I honestly thought the people here would be better than this
I don't have an F12 on my keyboard. Should have been considered since we are discussing the boot sequence of Mac. Just sayin
I mean, I'm not jeff bezos rich but I am in the 0.1% of income for my age group according to [0] and I don't want that. Why would I want that?

Even for the uber rich I feel like they wouldn't want that. Smarter population keeps us competitive which is good for the stock market which is where the uber rich have their money and it's not like smarter population = more cap gains tax from what can tell [1].

[0]: https://www.financialsamurai.com/the-top-1-percent-and-top-0....

[11]: https://taxfoundation.org/us-taxpayers-face-6th-highest-top-...
Do they even do that? My feeling is all recruiters just mass email candidates and neither understand nor consider backgrounds or requirements. All Meta recruiters I heard from certainly where like that.
Pilot here. That aircraft wasn’t built with an electrical system, and people only install them when they need to fly into populated areas— it’s basically an antique. No way to radio anybody, barely any checklists to follow; generally extraordinary simple— just throttle and magnetos, if it’s anything like the Piper Cub… so engine failure is usually due to fuel exhaustion, the more likely case because also there wasn’t a fire near the landing site despite the crumpled metal, or oil leak, unlikely because the prop freewheeled once the plane sped up, or maybe sure the magnetos were turned off.
More generally, there’s something off about the person… his emotional connection to his experience does not seem typically expressed.
In California, <50% of 8th graders meet the state's standard for 8th grade literacy.[0]

Many schools in Califonia use an unproven/inferior method/curriculum for teaching literacy, based on the work of F&P.[1]

[0] https://caaspp-elpac.cde.ca.gov/caaspp/DashViewReport?ps=tru...

[1] https://www.apmreports.org/story/2021/11/19/fountas-pinnell-...
https://citationsneeded.medium.com

You're welcome.
Instead of unfollowing I've found that muting specific terms or words to be fairly useful at tuning the signal
Is it hard to get citizenship where you live? Asking "for a friend". ;-)
Yes and the chances of you having never done so are 0%.
Both links place the 'laughed' piece of the claim in the 'true' column of the analysis, with more accurate characterizations and contextualization of 'about it'
Cool, thanks for that. I’ve been hesitating recommending looking into meta in Canada because so many companies see Canada as a cheap source of talent.
There are a lot of C compilers out there, and many of them have not implemented all of C99. Microsoft started to add C99 features in MSVC2013 and still doesn't support the whole spec.

The C compilers supplied by microcontroller vendors in particular are often, to put it charitably, not great at conforming with the latest standards.
Hum. Yes. It says a 4 degree difference is mucho significant. What we see today is already bad, no reasons more is going to get better.
> changed how we think about cats

Maybe I missed it, but it doesn't say how we used to think about cats, nor does it say how we think about them now. Rather disappointing.
i've been checking for the past few days and it looks like JWST is available now in NASA's little 3D space model. you can literally it in the solar system model now too!

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/our-solar-system/o...
From the safety of my armchair, it feels reasonable to go to a known landmark? It is a lot easier for search and rescue to find a crashed plane that a guy wandering on the ground. Additionally, the plane might contain salvageable food, water, medkit, etc.
>and yet homeschoolers spend vastly less in comparison to public and private schools (Finding a public source for spending that I am comfortable with is a little hard, so I am basing this on what I know of spending in my local homeschool groups. The test score comparisons are fairly easy to find.).

That seems...off. I would actually appreciate a source there because I just did some back of the napkin math.

If you are homeschooling a kid, how much time are you spending with them doing that? If you pull that together in terms of opportunity cost, I would think it would amount to more than $12,500, which seems from your source to be the average spend per pupil.

Let's say you home school 4 hours per day, 5 days per week, for 9 months a year. That's 20 hours a week, around 720 hours total. The average American makes around $18 an hour, so that's around $13,000 a year.