skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As anyone who has read random fanfiction.net stories or middle school penmanship homework can attest, being able to write is not that same thing as being able to write well.
That is unmistakably the former Bell Labs research building! What a fantastic choice of location to film in. I’ll have to watch this for that alone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs_Holmdel_Complex
That trial failed
Graceville isn't really the midpoint of anywhere so I'd still be curious how it ended up being picked as the location.
Most learning is neccesity driven learning. If you speak English, in most major cities around the globe you need nothing else.

Canada has a kerfuffle about how the CEO of a major company here didn't speak any French after a decade of living in Quebec, but virtually nobody I know who has lived in Montreal has picked any French up at all (assuming they started out Anglophone).

I know people in Germany who have picked up next to no German too.
> You're complaining that a service you use all the time for a decade for free now might cost the equivalent of a cup of coffee per month?

People always complain about bait and switch tactics.

Give them a way to revert to a free personal account without losing access to their files, data, and any digital goods they may have purchased and let them decide if they want to covert to a paid account or not.
I've had exploring mxroute as a low-priority todo item for a while, I like that pricing is roughly per gigabyte, not per domain or per user. Do you use it? Does it deliver to gmail and others ok, or does it go to spam?
Oh, yes, it's healthy. I (I believe correctly) interpreted it as a criticism of US politics. It's not. It's a valid criticism of the Republican party. I was pushing back on a nebulously worded "both sides are bad" undertone.
Cheapest ? No. Most effective ? No. Most persistent ? No.

They compare with disks but don't compare it with other materials such as marble.
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> For some reason, the entire anglosphere[1] is just plain bad at language education[2]. That's not to say that learning a new language is easy, of course. It's just that we aren't even really trying. The anglosphere is perfectly willing to just sit and make the rest of the world speak our language.

Is this fair framing? Doesn't it seem likely that English speaking countries are bad at learning languages precisely because there's no urgent reason to learn one?

And is it really "making them speak English"? There's always going to be a lingua franca and it's English right now for complicated historical-political reasons. There's no reason to assume it will be English forever.
Title is from the conclusion of the study, your suggested title exceeds the character limit or I would have already used it.
> Can you provide any evidence that G&T programmes exacerbate weaknesses?

None at all other than anecdotal.

> Most school dsitricts don't have such programmes at all

This doesn't jive with my experience where literally every school I attended had some sort of program (and I attended quite a few schools growing up- more than grades). Often in single district areas too where it wasn't possible for my parents to have chosen the right school. A quick google search reveals 6% of schools are enrolled in the national gifted and talented program. Perhaps that is your definition? I imagine it is far too narrow a criteria and that plenty of schools offer special classes for a small minority of their students.
Yes, and Pruneridge, a perfectly good east-west street, now no longer goes through to Wolfe because of the Spaceship. Money talks.
Your mother is awesome.
Memorandum on Improving the Cybersecurity of National Security
It may seem icky but I think once a company hits a certain size it is important to define some basic rules for external communication of any type, otherwise it becomes a garbled mess.

Overall the policies seem pretty common sense and hands off which is good! Hopefully this community is robust against astroturfing (something I'm worrying about with Reddit)
> IPO'd devtools crew

Is this a specific group rather than just devtool founders of IPO'd companies? HashiCorp founder Mitchell is still here: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mitchellh
Isn't aerospace engineering the field that gave us pitot tubes that froze up at high altitude?

> well-understood and rigorously accepted simplifying assumptions that were conservative (from the point of view of a factor of safety), and fully encapsulated all the understanding I needed to produce a part fit for use.

Isn't even this "reaching for abstractions"?

I would argue that software engineering has two factors that result in higher bug counts: the lack of consequence, and the youth of the field.

Lack of consequence shows up in errors in other fields, too. How many times has a civil engineer created an intersection that doesn't drain properly, or a curb that was slightly too high?

Youth of the field shows up in other engineering fields also. See: pitot tubes, above.
Heck, criticizing political leaders who aren't underperforming also seems important. There's always more that can be done.

I wasn't lamenting that there wasn't more politician worship, I was saying that it is confined to the Republican party.
Debating language design with people who don't actually know the language (or understand the features) is extremely frustrating.

But anyway, thanks for your work on Zig. Your metaprogramming concepts were heavily influential for some of the ideas in my own language, Empirical.
> If it was finished they'd close their doors and find a new way to make a living.

Feature-complete, then. It needs updates but it doesn't need significant development work.

> Great way to make my point. MS tried taking just 3 dollars a month for an entire OS, but because they were asking for money upfront they had to turn to a mixture advertising Candy Crush in the start menu and privacy abuse.

They make most of their money off new computers at an even lower price. Adding candy crush and more tracking came after they switched to making upgrades free, and I really doubt it's worth $100 a seat.

They made home windows into a loss-leader. If there was a choice to pay to remove those things I bet they'd make somewhat more money. But it's not where their big revenue streams are so they don't care.
In 01972? Maybe Pong, but that was at the pizza parlor, not in your house. And it sure wasn't cheap.
Its also the top 3 on other non covid website like the DEP of commerce -

https://analytics.usa.gov/commerce/

You can get a JSON of the data also and see they have “ZZ” and “not set” as two cities excluded from the front dashboard.
https://analytics.usa.gov/data/live/top-cities-realtime.json
It's a bit funny that some commenters relate this to vaccines. I also see a similarity, but maybe in a slightly different way.

The tobacco industry paid doctors to become outliers and promoted them to imply expert consensus and push their product.

People not very fond of vaccines also promote outliers attempting to imply some form of consensus or at least scientific validity. Quite a few of them also have products or a whole world view to sell (which often includes buying specific products).
I watch a lot of foreign films and dubbed version misses a lot of nuance - complexity of spoken language, inflection, depth.

So maybe I watch the kind of stuff where that kind of performace is required. Maybe it has certain genres or mediums where dubs work well like Romcoms or Marvel movies.
It would be foolish and self-destructive not to have such guidelines. Like it or not, social media such as HN can be crucial to company success.

Additionally, a lot of the rules on the page make it more likely that contributions to HN by Gitlab team members offer good community value.
Why is this article written in bullet points?
iMessage being incompatible with different platforms makes it pretty shit compared to other apps that work on everything.
Outside of the US iPhone users have other messaging apps on their phone.

But I don't think Apple ever really wanted to corner this market anyway and don't really care. Same way they never wanted to beat Windows or Lenovo with their Macs.
Canada Post employees may be sent home for wearing N95 instead of cloth mask
> Our revolutionary storage drive helps you to retain control of your data while reducing your dependence on third parties and the Internet, where these files can be easily copied or stolen

Odd of them to think that an object made of gold won't be stolen at some point in the far future and melted down into whatever shape its new owner deems fit.

The cheapest and safest long term data storage is stone tablets. Terrible information density and a logistical nightmare to move around though.
They have nuclear weapons
I initially felt that way but less so as I read.

Also, any large company has procedures for PR. It’s a part of life.
And Netflix in particular seems to love defaulting to 5.1 tracks when it shouldn't.
This company has done layoffs, which make their patrols less effective. Due to less patrols they have higher thefts. The crimes are federal, but the company is classifying them in a way that puts them under local jurisdiction.

This is a PR story, meant to distract you from the fact that the company has opened themselves up to these thefts, and is using cop propaganda to do so.
Conversely I placed an order and had it sent to my PO Box with no hassle. I don't live in an area where (free) box only service exists.
Marble reacts with almost anything, gold and nickel is the last thing to react. Elementary school chemistry: Gold is the least reactive metal
Yup. Lots of farm kids' lives could have been saved by paying more attention to that fact.
How is it gaming the system to have clear guidelines that respect community rules and the spirit? Genuine question.
there was plenty of research available that smoking was bad as early as the 1920s, it just got silenced. Mainly because Germany was one of the countries that led the movement. Plus billions of dollars working to stop anybody trying to end the money printing from the tobacco industry

>In 1930s Germany, scientific research for the first time revealed a connection between lung cancer and smoking, so the use of cigarettes and smoking was strongly discouraged by a heavy government sponsored anti-smoking campaign

>After the Second World War, the German research was effectively silenced due to perceived associations with Nazism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_control
How do you see cigarettes as a valuable tool? As an ex smoker, I agree smoking is enjoyable, but it's so addictive and objectively unhealthy I don't really see a place for it (of course I do support people's right to make their own choices, but I'd never call it valuable)
On the contrary, I think it's refreshing to see a company have policies that are appropriate and understanding of the community they want to be a part of.
If iMessage is such a pocket ace then perhaps they are abusing their market position.
I think you are missing the point - quite a bit. No one is asking Apple to give up iMessage and replace it with RCS. The ask is to replace SMS fallback with RCS fallback. When you message someone without an iPhone, you currently use SMS. Even though you are using the iMessage app, the message is sent using SMS.

With RCS instead of SMS, iMessage will continue to "Just Work" as it does right now. iOS<->iOS will still happen over iMessage.

> I had an Android phone when RCS was rolling out. It never worked.

It has rolled out now though. No one asked iMessage to support RCS back then. They are being asked now. So it's not relevant what happened with you whenever you had Android phone.

> Well before then, iMessage - like most message platforms - already did everything that RCS did and far better.

iMessage did that for iOS<->iOS communication. Not for messages sent over SMS.

> No other messaging app is as simple and easy to use as iMessages.

This won't change with RCS.

> I will never trust a google messaging service to last and be around in 5 years.

The protocol should stay there as the SMS one is still around. If G gives up support, the fallback for RCS is... SMS which is anyway supported by iMessage already.

Disc: Googler but nowhere close to Android, RCS, any messaging app.
As a (paying) Hashicorp customer, my #1 problem is that there doesn't seem to be a lot of talent out there that actually knows how to use these tools and is deeply experienced in them.

And they are all critical pieces of infrastructure. I am very nervous to run a business critical site and store all its secrets in Vault, service discovery in Consul, and containers in Nomad (even though I really like all 3 and they've worked well so far) because we've had a couple of catastrophic cluster crashes where none of us had a clue how to recover without downtime and data loss. (Fortunately they happened in QA but it has delayed our production rollout of this infrastructure)

And I still don't have access to an "expert" – apart from one vendor who seems to know it inside out but is extremely expensive. So there isn't much of a choice.

So then there are two things I can do: become that expert and add that to our business offerings, or abandon the stack since it's too risky to be stuck with it. I don't want to make the mistake I made with Ember.js (nobody really knows it, it's beyond dead outside of a half dozen fortune 500 companies). I don't think that'll happen with Vault etc cuz they really are great products and ideas.

But it is a concern.

Hashicorp must know this, which is why they are betting big on HCP. I'd gladly pay for the uptime of these components to be their problem. And I am paying.
This is an interesting idea, and it's neat to see companies thinking about long-term data storage. The density in this case seems rather low, which might limit the usefulness for most applications.
Honestly no, I have never once wondered that, because anyone who makes money necessarily knows how to deploy it with greater impact than the general revenue account of a government. At least if they just set it on fire it would reduce inflation.

The only reason a wealthy person would want to pay more tax is as some hopeful implied contract that ensured they would be left alone and secure with the rest of their wealth. Even still none of them are that naive, because if what they're paying now hasn't reduced govt demand for their money, why should more?

Yes, some billionaires have asked to be taxed more, but that's only because they deal with capital at a level of pure abstraction. It's meaningless to them whether you increment or decrement one of the many variables they manage, so long as you don't add new ones. Not only does it cost them nothing to say that, but it often yields 4 years of non-interferance in growing their capital.

Regarding cynicism, I just think the merit we assign ideas should be based on something more than applause, and this "in tax we trust" astroturfing campaign doesn't meet that bar.
Oh wow! That is amazing. The examples I was describing were in anime so I have no doubt they were in ASS as well. Very cool.
It’s a race to the bottom. Buy the ticket, take the ride.
Perhaps the time has come to regulate the oligopoly so more competitive upstarts aren't strangled in the crib?
Likewise, Japanese kids were taught that kappa lurked in bodies of water and under bridges, and would snatch and drown them if they got too close -- so they didn't, and avoided drowning.
Not really because:

1. Other companies probably have similar strategies but it's behind closed doors to act however nefarious they would like, not open docs that can be criticized here publicly like Gitlab has.

2. The MO (modus operandi) here seems entirely about reading customer feedback and engaging with it. That's like YC startup advice numero uno. They explicitly mention not to submit content or get people to upvote.
Well, depends where you live. But my house is about 250k per non commons area room. If I had another child, there would go my office most likely
The comparison to Office Space is specious at best.
Why gold? Seems awfully soft for something meant to last forever.
I have seen no indication of system design documents falling out fashion. If anything, the problem is the initial, pure document is used as a reference for too long instead of proper up-to-date documentation.

I'm currently putting together a design document (very simple system and still high-level) to ensure my idea is communicated concisely and unambiguously.

The main motivation is I'll have a refined reference to point people to so I don't have to worry about repeating context to all possible stakeholders.
Maybe he got suspicious because "assessment" was misspelled the exact same way every time it occurred?
Who better to talk about gifted education than Terrence Tao

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/advice-on-gifte...
Stories are powerful avenues because they involve human emotion.

Unfortunately, human nature is dark in its essence, conditioned to lie, so the truth will always be tinted.

Recommended book: Everybody Lies, by Google data scientist
This. And I always laugh when people say gold has no value. It’s literally the best metal known to mankind. The reason why it’s not used much is because of its price.
That link doesn’t work!
There's this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.aud...

You can install it on your phone and it'll subtitle your life if you can find a good place to put it down. It's meant for the deaf and hard of hearing (hence features like visual alarms) but in my experience it'll transcribe stuff that's being said pretty well as long as the mic catches the audio you want to hear. Perhaps it would be even better with a quality (bluetooth? 3.5mm?) external microphone.
It's mostly people tracking their online shopping. Most small, lightweight packages that aren't delivered by Amazon are delivered by USPS. Lots of stores/receipts will link directly to the package's tracking page on USPS's site.
I’m not gifted at all (well around here at least). When I was a kid my parents found a retired Russian maths professor to tutor me. In reality he was more like a mentor, he was the first ‘intellectual’ I had ever met. He spent time building telescopes, translating Pushkin into English and producing educational maths videos (this was long before youtube or MOOCs). He introduced me to astronomy and computers among other things (we didn’t have one in the house until he told my folks they must buy a Macintosh Classic). He really had a big influence on me. I still remember with great fondness eating Russian dumplings at his kitchen table with his asthmatic dog Boris at our feet. He was one of the few adults in my life to whom I wasn’t related that I spent time with. I realise this is quite rare actually - families seem to have become more insular in the last 25 years, a lot of kids don’t have any relationships with other adults who aren’t family.

Anyway, I think that many, perhaps most kids need mentors/coaches. Parents can only do so much, and teenagers don’t want to listen to their parents anyway. Gifted learners surely aren’t any different. The ‘content’ problem seems solved - there is just so much interesting stuff out there, and so many great resources. The guidance and encouragement and diversity of influences is what is missing. This seems very hard or impossible to scale up.
Research Spotlight: Walking away from an early grave
And very helpful for slang too. I speak Spanish well, but I always add subtitles in English or other language in case I miss a word of two from another Spanish variety.
I'm not saying it wasn't a complicated situation.

But that's not how this is depicted or thought of in Sweden.

In Sweden's blinkered, self glorifying version, Sweden really were neutral (in the intuitive, common sense understanding of the term), when in reality they aided the nazis a lot

and they were neutral because neutrality is the correct lofty moral ideal which only the few and enlightened nations like Sweden and Switzerland understand and commit to, when in reality, they were "neutral" only because they didn't even care to entertain the thought of putting up a fight.

Last but not least, I for one doubt the popular notion that Sweden had no option but to appease the nazis - this is always just taken for granted with zero real thought or justification. (which again says a lot about how effective Sweden have been at controlling the narrative in their favor)

For the nazis, gaining the degree of control of Sweden they needed would have been a very formidable challenge - it's a huge country with diverse terrain, and ww2 was well before the current modern highway network. Sweden could have easily destroyed the nazi troops they transported by rail, or the rail itself so it couldn't be used to transport troops or resources, period.

Granted, at the end of the day this is all speculation and people will never agree on everything, I'm just saying, I think their version of events is very dishonest and people let them off the hook far too easy.
Healthy skepticism is warranted and welcome of course! My account is currently at 1.4M. Taxes and living costs are taken out regularly. I'm not giving anyone access to the source of the models, only the output signals and trade history. I do give brief descriptions of some of the indicators that each take into account, but none of the details of how the complex system works which is the tricky part. You can find huge list of potential indicators for algotrading for free lots of places online.

Lastly, the 75% is a bit of an anomaly. As you can see, the top model is only expected to return about 60% pre-tax. It's unusual that in live trading we have exceded the back test--2020 was a bizarre year and we also started after a big bear market so we benefited for a huge bull that year + nailed the June and September crashes (check the trade history). 2021 was a below average year by contrast, and over the long term, any algotrader should expect the live results to be a bit under the backtest as despite our best efforts (and I consider my anti-overfitting engine to be the biggest accomplishment here), all systems are to some degree overfit to past data.

Lastly, as I mentioned in another comment, I make no guarantees of always publishing this site and signals. If I decide in the future (perhaps once my account is to that 50-100M range) that the site is more of a liability for me than an asset, I may close it, with or without grandfathering. However, obtaining 1% of Seeking Alpha's userbase would be 5M+ per year in revenue from the site which is a few multiples of my current net worth. Even with a hypothetical 50M net worth 10 years from now from 40% post-tax, post-living expense returns, 5M is still meaningful. If we fail to gain that much traction, or the bot does so well that I hit that kind of figure much earlier than expected, I may halt the publishing.

As of now, and for the forseeable future, the site makes financial sense to me, and it's been a lot of fun, so it also makes pleasure sense for me. Life is about more than money of course.
It's not redefining it, and I don't know what "power theory" is nor have I heard of it. Those are the definitions. Discrimination means nothing without the power to make it consequential. Protected classes in law have always been defined around power, as have been laws protecting minorities and women.

There's no reason to think a sexually assaulted male is in a position of power.
Well, my first clue is that there's all these people stealing stuff. Then the authorities decline to prosecute, in other words, they let them steal stuff.

I admit I am making an assumption that they are doing this with the belief that it will solve some of society's problems. I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt that they are not actively trying to make things worse.