skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think folks that work in the corporate world, particularly those in tech, engineering, manufacturing, etc, can easily underestimate how different and challenging it is to run a school in the current era of American public education. You have vocal and powerful groups and sub-groups of parents, students, teachers, unions, higher ed and the state all pulling in different directions. The feedback loops are long, the data is extremely noisy, there are very few factors you can control for and the cost of fucking it up is very high.

It's a pretty tricky job that is largely thankless and the pay is pretty mediocre. I just looked up what a local principal, whom i feel is actually a pretty excellent leader, makes. He's got a masters degree, has 15 years at this district, runs a building of 1200 students, has ~50 directs reporting to him and made $97k last year.
End mass jabs and live with Covid, says ex-head of vaccine taskforce
I was looking at a variety of discussions on age-gapped relationships and have noticed the same, people blame the relationship failing on the age gap and the younger persons own admissions about how they look at it differently, instead of the general distribution of all relationships failing

People basically get what they want tk hear out of it, instead of checking whether the same standard yields different results elsewhere
> SaaS companies trying to provide a free trial can prevent abuse by verifying unique personhood using web3 tech without needing to ask for any more information about the user

A trial is usually backed by a financial instrument. Usually that financial instrument is a credit card. A credit card can be uniquely identified, and so if you really are concerned about trial reuse, you can check reuse of the credit card, and that gets you pretty far. Folks can use prepaid cards, but you can also block those, which isn't totally unreasonable when you are talking about a subscription-- and a lot of subscription services do block them. Is it indefeatable? No. Is it good enough? Yeah actually. So why do I need to replace the concept of a credit card with an entirely new type of financial instrument that most users (especially non-technical users) don't have or understand?
Had there been a pandemic in my youth, had I had to endure my parents 24/7 without escape for almost 2 years (and counting), I would have killed myself too.
Cannot agree more. We don't need the malware but AV venders do: if there were no malwares, AV software would be useless.
So why should we install something from someone with conflict interest in the first place?
Is it unfair?

In Spring 2020, in this forum, the vaccine experts here told me in no uncertain terms that a vaccine would take 18 months to develop. I said it could be done in 6 if all the slack was removed, and things done serially were done concurrently. I was told that was all completely unreasonable and impossible.

6 months later, the vaccine was released.

The JWST has what, 390 single points of failure, and cost $10B. I.e., it cannot afford to fail, so $10B was spent to ensure it would not fail. And it worked! But suppose for $1B one could build a less reliable JWST. They fail like Musk's early rockets, but since they're cheaper the failure is not career ending, and you can iterate the design fixing the things that broke rather than trying to make everything perfect. You wind up in the end spending a lot less money.

BTW, the airplane industry long ago gave up trying to make parts that could not fail. (390 parts that could fail and end the mission is pretty darn risky.) Instead, one makes redundant systems. It is far, far cheaper, and yet more reliable than going for perfection. Yes, it'll be heavier, and that will cost more. It makes airliners heavier, too, and it indeed costs more. But in the end it costs less, much less.

Do I know how to build satellite telescopes? Nope. But I do know how airliners are designed and built. And I know that Musk upended how rockets were designed and built.

As for different technology telescopes, I bet a lot of the telescope could be the same from design to design, just changing the instrument package.
I think 16-bit quantization noise level is usually lower than the noise of all the analog hardware before the ADC, but 24-bit quantization noise seems to be lower than even the internal noise of audio ADCs so there seems to be no reason to go higher.
This is a systemic problem of universities having become money-making machines, hence opening as many PhD positions as they can with as few tenure-track positions as possible. Changing PhDs to become vocational schools is like putting a band-aid on a skull fracture.
It's interesting that the article touches on the reasons why end users might not want to run servers but doesn't mention at all one of the ones that comes to my mind most quickly, which is security.

Running a production server on your home network is a risky thing to do as, if there's a vulnerability in the code (and historically this has been quite common, especially when products are new), it allows attackers into home networks which are very likely to have a load of easily compromised unpatched consumer IT products.

Obviously it's possible to do this securely, if you have the right technical knowledge and the time and dedication to apply it, but I'd guess that it's a very small percentage of people who fall into that camp.
Near the end of the article, I was surprised to read "In some countries, cash rewards and government jobs await those who ascend the highest peaks." Is this a thing in countries where mountaineering is an important source of tourism revenue, or just a reward for boosting national "prestige"?
Maybe the reason is Marketing ?
This part was in article. Just don't run Windows. Windows already has access and network.
1. How about we stop calling this NFT thing Web3? Isn't it in its current form at least an insult to both the original web and web2 (and with that I mean what it was thought of back when we talked about it: interactive pages leading to user generated conten: everything from comments to ratings to tagging/folksonomy etc)

Shouldn't Web3 be reserved for something important and web related, not used to hype up the current crypto rush which seems to be mostly scams?

To be fair and honest I should note that I was wrong about the web when it was introduced around here when I was an early teenager and I won't get caught in that mistake again so I assume something useful will come out of todays crypto hype. (Again no, I refuse to call it web3.)

Although to be fair to teenage self what I doubted most was the ads about the web and in that regard I was mostly right. And if someone comes around 25 years from now and points to this comment: No, I'm not saying distributed crypto systems aren't useful, only that the current ones are deeply flawed: Some NFTs at this point is just a URL reference to another webserver that can be taken offline at any point! Others are run by commercial companies in ways that mean they can disappear at a whim. There is no permanent ownership in most of todays systems.

2. For some reason people around here think that if something doesn't have a significant percentage of the users it doesn't matter. So since less than 5 or even less than 1 percent self host it doesn't matter. Wrong! Just remember: at some point Google had less than 1% of the worlds searches. Linux was a thing for research communities and nerdy teenagers.

It takes just a few to keep the seeds of knowledge and passion alive and if and when the time comes it suddenly breaks through in one form or another.
where does this come from?
Important NPM package colors from Marak causing console problems at the moment
I have a rule: I do NOT communicate with anyone who threatens or implies legal action, and I immediately forward any emails to my lawyer.

Like others, I strongly recommend you immediately stop all communications with the client or their representative and you talk to an attorney.

I wish you a happy resolution.
John Deer has many more competitors than Boeing; farm equipment runs at slow speeds using off the shelf industrial diesel engines, and never (intentionally) leaves the ground or exceeds 30mph. Most medium sized countries have tractor factories, as they're essential for food production for the population.
Thanks for your article and responses.

I was thinking about famous "I" and "T" scientists in history and I think there is a connection between "T" and "I" scientists and Freeman Dyson's "Birds and Frogs" essay.

Examples of Frogs or "I": Francis Bacon, Freeman Dyson, John von Neumann

Examples of Birds of "T": Descartes, Yuri Manin, Hilbert
AO3 is OSS and vastly understaffed. Having worked on some of their tickets, IMO they could use 20 contributors working part-time for a year or two to stabilize it until the idea of useful new features becomes viable.

I strongly encourage anyone with Rails experience to contribute [0]. There is a giant test suite which definitely helps with stability. The ticket time-to-resolve is simply quite slow due to the above-mentioned understaffing, so don't be discouraged!

[0] https://github.com/otwcode/otwarchive/
obligatory xkcd: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tcmp.png
> The pandemic has been good fuel for inflation and continues to do so

Not just some abstract "pandemic" but specific policies adopted by specific people. Don't turn it into a Hegelian providence as if no one is responsible and it's a self propagating process that would happen regardless.
Mayhaps they were “Requests For Comments” rather than “International Standards” or “Specifications” with some sort of recognized enforcement body behind them?

It seems as though good “Walled Gardens” make “Good Neighbors”, so requests for comments may not be as important as they once were?
In case you see any strange console output when using node packages or CLI, in particular, if you see "LIBERY LIBERY LIBERTY". It is probably due to a bad reload of the colors package. Can be fixed by pinning the dependency to 1.4.0 by adding "resolutions": { "colors": "1.4.0" } to package.json
https://neocities.org/

This is part of a book I am planning about the "other internet". Neocities pages, minimalist non JS sites, "notebook sites", in general, modern websites that try to be as far as possible from the "walled-gardened" internet which is sadly the norm now.
I love literal programming.

But I don't like the idea that the prose you read is out-of-order relative to the code you write.

I prefer a modern language that reads well in-order, that you can read as an outline. That way, you can use tree depth for significance.

Important stuff on the first or second level. Less important stuff under a sub heading, because it doesn't contribute to the narrative.
Hi, one of those parents here.

I have on occasion reminded my daughter that the world she’ll grow up in will not be as abundantly beautiful as it is today. Just as it isn’t for me compared to when I was younger.

I’ve also, at those times, reminded her that she has the power and responsibility to be a good steward of the world because nothing is writ in stone.

Just reminding you that cautionary tales aren’t always simply doom and gloom. As an adult who grew up with parents who were dismissive of the worlds problems, I felt sheltered and out of touch when I finally learned about some of the problems we would be facing as humans on this planet.

I have no desire to set up my kids like that. People like my parents took our world and shit on it for all of the generations that follow. They felt it was more important to be positive than face consequences. If we have another boomer generation, we _are_ goners.
Don't you find it contradictory: "non existent" vs. "individual choices"? What happened that people suddenly started making bad decisions?
RSpec Is for the Literate (2011)
How to get fundings for my open source project
github repo: https://github.com/SoftMaple/Editor

I have to eat, and I also want to maintain this project, but I don't want to get money from students, maybe there is a rich man can help me.

If you have a idea, please leave a comment, or just hire me, look more details about me at here: https://github.com/007tom
> Please read the links I provided regarding economic freedoms in the world. China alone is ~ 20% of the worlds population and has currency controls prohibiting its citizens

I will only answer this because it's both hillarious and sad that crypto peddelrs have literally zero understanding of how the world works.

- Does China have currency controls? Yes

- Is China an authoritarian regime for some unspecified definition of authoritarian? Yes

- Does this mean it's dysfunctional and its citizens need help from crypto? Ahahahaha, no.

And here's why. An average person in a functioning state couldn't care less about not being able to spend some other country's currency somewhere else.

- Does China have a functioning government? Yes

- Does China have functioning banks? Yes

- Does China have means by which its citizens can procure and use goods and services? A resounding yes. As an example, on Singles Day AliPay alone handles over a bllion orders a day.

- Does China have means by which its citizens can participate in global economy including, but not limited to trading with other countries? A resounding yes. Between the EU, the US and Japan China does almost 2 trillion of dollars of international trade. Hobbyists and entusiasts all around the world routinely order made-to-order things from small companies and individuals in China. etc. etc. etc.

> I'm here because you are coming across as minimizing the economic struggles of millions of people.

Once again, stop pretending I'm doing and saying something I'm not. The only ones who minimise and frankly have no idea about struggles of millions of people are crypto peddlers in this thread.

I mean, you are literally saying that people in China are struggling because they cannot do currency speculation. How out of touch with real world can you be?

> Unless I'm mistaken, you seem to think that people can't/don't cash out abroad.

Yes, you are mistaken. I never, at any point in the conversation ever even talked about taking cash abroad. And since you decided to present China as an example... Have you never seen a Chinese tourist? They have no problems taking cash abroad it seems.

> I suspect you didn't notice that this is our first interaction

I honestly can't distinguish between people with identical behaviours.

> I suspect some of your anger/confusion is because you are confusing us?

I suspect my anger is because you are identical:

- you invent arguments your opponent never produced

- you have literally no understanding of the world around you. For example, an authoritarian regime is not necessarily dysfunctional, and people in authoritarian regimes don't necessarily suffer. Yet, you keep pretending it's the same things, and people necessarily suffer

- You keep pretending that the only thing people en messe care about is currencies, and are suffering if they can't buy/spend other currencies than their countries'.

And on and on and on.

This is my last post in this pointless thread. Do come back when you have learned:

- how to answer what your opponent said, not what you imagine your opponent said, and

- how the world works. Go visit China, for example.
In many places in the US they'll take your kids into protective custody if you leave them unsupervised.
How did individual behavior suddenly go bad 50 years ago? I know that no external factors can ever explain individual decision-making, and especially individual responsibility, and that social and dietary "sciences" are delusions created by the spiritual adversary of rationality, but perhaps there is something we can meditate on to help us cope with the realization that people became intrinsically more sinful and flawed just a generation or two ago.
Both authors are conflating 2 different things and managing to talk past each other.

Moxie did conflate the state of Ethereum with the technical state of blockchain technology as a whole. In practice I am not sure this conflation actually matters though as right now most of the interesting stuff that is happening -is- on Ethereum. For the most part Moxie's arguments are completely on point regarding deficiencies in the offerings and the improvements he suggests would both be simple and materially improve them (whilst not addressing Mike's main problem which is semi-centralisation).

Mike manages to completely miss Moxie's point regarding how cryptography can be used to obviate some of (but not all) the problems with centralised infrastructure and work with the devices people actually have and use (mobile phones). He goes on to argue that if "people would just have desktops/linux servers at home this would all be different". But that isn't going to happen, that is a fantasy land.

The world isn't going back to a fully decentralized web. There are very good practical, commercial and political reasons for this.
I think your brain is working quite normally. It knows that there is something very interesting and novel nearby so it wants to keep an eye on it. You can’t expect to just simply control or subdue this because it’s kind of a core cognitive function, as far as I can tell. But you can exert conscious changing of your environment.

I don’t think “listening to recorded music alone” has been a big part of human behavior for more than a few years in the 20th century. Music used to be something you’d attend to with company in convivial places. That’s a very different context for your attention.

The phone is like a very compelling alternative. Imagine a negotiation: you’re always referencing your backup alternative. Even a lover can have a hard time competing with the infinite jest of the internet. This is our world, maybe our central challenge.

Maybe you can clean your place in a way that’s more radical, funny, joyous. Maybe you can do it while listening to a podcast. Maybe you can turn it into a thrilling kind of spiritual exercise.

Religion, I think, has always revolved around this challenge, in different manifestations. Some old people might call it the devil, he’s always alluring, appealing, fascinating, charismatic, addictive… You might not want to be religious about it but still, you might need some powerful and radiant ally against the “adversary.” Or maybe you need to bow down and admit your weakness and find some paradoxical shimmering of strength in humility.
Thx for highlighting this. If Handshake becomes a viable system it will def. serve as an important milestone for making web3 viable. Problem is this is not the type of project that is getting significant attention or funding.
It's what you consider nicer. I consider dialog windows to be a slow and frustrating way to configure anything and on top of that in this case it loses me the ability for my computer to do what I want it to when I close my lid.

And if it simply remained at that, but left me alone I wouldn't be so irate, but I don't feel left alone and “Who would not prefer a better looking desktop?” already borders on this “My way, of the highway.” philosophy of Freedesktop, whose developers all too often tell one that one's subjective likings are wrong and that one is somehow “wrong” or “outdated” for favoring a machine that is fast to configure and does what one wants.

It also doesn't help much that on a purely visual level there design choices look ugly to me, and that these are also the same people that remove theme options lest the holy “brand identity” be compromised, as well as that their design blasts too much bright white light into my face when I'm already tiring my eyes out trying to learn to read a language that's not written in a script I'm accustomed to.
Are you sure about the latter? I mean yeah, responsible use and all that, but advising to take even a lightest trip being schizophrenic, depressed and anxious many times a day… I'd stick with the doctor option.
The examples give me the creeps. How can one obsess over readability of code (in form of comments) but not think about writing readable code?!

For example:

cell\* run(string s) {
stringstream in(s);
return run(in);
}

What is "s"?!

What is "in"?!

What the hell does "run" do?!

All this code commenting (which is bound to deviate from the implementation!) but no thought into naming and structuring code in an easy to understand fashion.

Replace "run()" with what it actually does even if it means naming the function "replaceAllNamesInTheInputStringByDoingAFancyComputation()" or whatever.

It's all better then "run()".

Replace the variables with easy to understand names!

I'd be mad as hell if my colleagues wrote that code.
I went to the emergency room after working from home for ~6 months when the pandemic hit. I was having severe chest pain, shaking uncontrollably, and feeling very uneasy. I thought something was really wrong, and ended up going to the emergency room, where they told me it was a panic attack, and everything was okay physically.

Like you, it was also the first time I had experienced a panic attack and learned what it felt like.
Personally I agree over the timeline, and hence I find it more worrisome, as a more abrupt change would cause uproar and resistance, while a 20-year long rollout won't be noticed by most (boiled frog effect)
There are also a multitude of programs throughout k-12, particularly in high school, where the student spends part of their day outside of the district. I think this just helps ensure that the state isn't paying twice for the same student when the external program is also state funded. (It also helps to remove any weird financial incentives to get the kids out of the building)

In my area I think this is where the vast majority of the district income variance comes from, and it is known about and largely planned for before the year even starts.
Presse ignore the latter part of this post. Psychedelics are not the solution to the issues caused by shizoaffective disorder.
Some concrete examples may be warranted.
There are lots of attempts to explain this in the comments: lockdowns, lack of socialisation, pre-pandemic poor mental health, etc. But is not it not much more simple? We were and are in the midst of a global pandemic. A once is a lifetime catastrophic event. The kind of life changing event not experienced in the west since World War II. Of course that's going to cause mental health issues in almost everyone (to varying degrees). It has affected our lives in so many ways (probably many that we don't even realise yet) that trying to pinpoint a specific cause seems like a fools errand.
BY the phrase not meaning what you think it means.

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

"A single point of failure (SPOF) is a part of a system that, if it fails, will stop the entire system from working."
Hmmm he is at first criticizing moxie for not making a difference between bitcoin and ethereum and then he is throwing signal and whatssapp in the same bucket …..

But okey writeup
It depends on who you’re reading: people building actual products and protocols will usually provide measured responses and be able to engage properly with good-faith criticism. See also Vitalik’s Reddit post responding to Moxie’s article.

On the other hand, if you encounter primarily spammers, speculators, and scammers, you’ll just get garbage (similar to anti-blockchain grifters that repeat the same “blockchain is a ponzi pyramid earth-burning scam” garbage repeatedly)
First issue : Access for simple project …

Ex a simple programming web site: if you want to use your iphone, working copy on you Gh-pages, edit test and publish a web pages with js,css&html —- you can. With full version control and even use library external if you have to.

Second issue : external integration which python as script and c (and c++) as os level “script” …

Third issue : hard to use it’s package system.

I am not anti-lisp, just spend $700 to get a Casio ai-1000 and trying to use ulisp.

Just not main stream like.

God’s programming language as said not used God and by mortal.
The proposed light client stuff solves exactly this; they can’t lie about inclusion of a piece of data.