skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a lot more than that from a QOL standpoint.

Private schools

- a lot less paperwork and mind bending BS.
- flexibility is higher. Hey, we're going to teach outside on stumps during the pandemic -> no problem. This is with most things. That said private schools tended to stay open with modifications (so if you didn't want that public school would be better to be at to check out during pandemic).
- Teacher has a lot of authority in their class.
- Teachers / teacher aids etc that don't work out, pretty simple process not to bring them back for the following year - so peer group tends to enjoy working with each other.
- You don't have to wade through the massive teacher certification processes necessarily.
- Admin often has your back on discipline issues.

Some downsides too.
- You can be let go easily if school feels its not working out (practically, if you have things covered its hard enough to find teachers they will work to keep you).
- Pay is lower.
- Expectations can be higher at good schools ie, you might need a masters etc.
- Quality of programs varies WILDLY!
Considering that even futur users of crud applications cannot come up with decent requirements for these applications, I am not sure AI will help.
Also dishwasher design hasn't improved in 100 years, so as long as it's working any dishwasher is as good as the others.
I think this is it, and I think all of these events need to be making deals with 1 or more streaming service to get major front page features. Network TV is holding onto them like a life-raft, and it’s causing both to drown. Tastes haven’t changed that much; audiences just aren’t seeing the events in their ecosystems.
Having worked on this the realization came that the problem isn't one that can be solved with software. There are a million solutions that in theory should work, if that were the case. The problem is a large percentage of people who work in the trades are flaky. This is not something that the SV crowd can understand. They don't want to be more efficient. They know their jobs can't ever be outsourced. They want to work when they want to work and to be at the bar or on their boat if weather permits.
I like this take. Big, spectacle events have almost lost their luster.
S3 bucket?
AlphaCode is a piece of academic research. It's about demonstrating a possibility of using a particular type of a model to solve a particular type of tasks. It's not about making a practical tool.

People can certainly take this approach and build tools. That might take different shapes and forms. There are many ways these models can be specialized, fine-tuned, combined with other approaches, etc.

For example, somebody can try to apply them to a narrow use case, e.g. generate front-end code in React/JS and CSS from a backend API. They can fine-tune it on best example of React code, add a way to signal uncertainty so that specification can be clarified, etc.

Nobody expects these models to be able to write an entire OS kernel any time soon. But a lot of types of programming are far more regular, repetitive and can be verified a lot easier.
Hopefully they do more than "consider". Pulling the plug would be a benefit to every European citizen (EU member or not).
You are never lost if you've found yourself. Rejoice.
Lmao this is one of the most out of touch posts I’ve ever seen. This has to be a troll.
no, but it's not a demonstrable improvement in the space either, so why bother?
With Covid we’ve witnessed the neoliberal dystopia blossom. Government and big tech is fully united, with any mild free speech aspirations beaten out via threats of regulation.

Attempts to silence Joe Rogan is just another nail in that coffin. They can’t control what he says, so they need to stop him from saying it at all costs. Ideally before the next election.

Everything liberals don’t like is “literally fascism” and people who disagree with them are “actual nazis.” And this is regarded as Very Serious Discourse among the self proclaimed highly intelligent.
> The generation that grew in 90ties just was not better behaved.

I'm not talking about better behaved. I'm talking about better behaved in school, or you got expelled very quickly. That left others who were there to learn (or at least not to be disruptive) move forward in peace. I have no opinion on if kids were better behaved outside the classroom - likely not, having grown up during that time.

A single kid can ruin an entire semester for 40 kids in the classroom. I've personally watched it happen, and there was nothing the teacher could do. Averages don't matter in this situation - only outliers do.

I'd go back to a "rougher" generation that learns to behave when appropriate (and those that don't learn, get removed) any day of the week over what we currently have in the average urban public school system.

Edit: Heck, I got suspended from a couple classes in high school due to attendance issues. Rightfully so since I was holding back other students on group projects and the like. Today that would be utterly unheard of in that same school system.
Spankings are beatings
Lots of things aren't patented that are exclusively produced by multinational pharmaceutical companies.
> The problem is that US audiences only want to watch American competitors

I think there's a [citation needed] here. This is what people think is true, but I'd argue is wrong--as evidenced by a collapse in viewership!

People want entertainment that is fun and emotional, and the US coverage isn't providing that, perhaps because they are constrained by thinking that US audiences only care about US athletes.
Not everyone has fully remote. In fact the largest employers of tech in New York are going the opposite way. I.e. financial services.

In January the business leaders met with the Governor and the Mayor to figure out how to encourage people to come back. It's really happening. Even with hybrid, cheap housing means long commute times.
Travel is no cure for the mind (2018)
Yeah, I'm trying to understand how this is allowed? It seems like it's in incredibly bad faith. Can anyone explain how this can happen?

Taking this to it's extreme, can't you just buy some property so that you owe 1 million dollars, put that debt into it's own company and then say "sorry, that company is bankrupt, I can't pay".

Is that not what's happening here? I feel like I must be missing something.
It's like implementing a chess game except your knight moves 1 square forward + 1 square to the side instead of 1+2. Sure, you can play it, but the game is wrong.
I have a single 28” 4k monitor and is great. At my work desk I had 3 displays and I don’t think I appreciated how much trouble it was for me. I use multiple desktops to split my focuses, but my single monitor helps me have just enough in front of me.
Team 17 didn't make Overcooked 1, only published it.
Yeah, IMO it's just a populist negotiation tactic that Zuck hopes has the effect of the EU public lobbying their politicians to "please keep Facebook in the EU!".
Boötes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDSS_J1430%2B2303
I find Rusts error messages a little verbose for my taste. Sometimes it's hard for me to parse what's the actual error, and what's just "helpful hints" about where the real error is.

That brings up and interesting point missed in the OP. The term "Good error messages" is also context dependent. Rust has to have verbose error messages, because those messages are doing a lot of the heavy lifting of teaching people the "high concept" of rust (lifetime analysis).

So we see that good error messages (like all writing) also depends on the audience. Your log message that "config.yaml couldn't be parsed because key x has a wrong value" might be great for someone writing the config.yaml himself, but for someone using a configurator gui, that may be next to useless.

By the same logic I'd also expect Rustc's error messages to become less verbose in the future, as people get more familiar with rust and don't need as much guidance.
(edit: was) showing 404.

source: https://github.com/susam/spcss
It is a sad state of affairs when such important jobs like teaching young kids are not respected and compensated well.
Yeah right.

After all that trouble for getting an extra billion users, they would abandon 350 million popular in targeted ads ones.

Sure. I'll believe that when I see it.
I’m wondering why schools have active shooter drills but not lightning strike drills?
Spoilers!!
Jeff Bezos can't get his employees to do the same, apparently. That's why meetings at Amazon start with a reading period, to ensure that everyone has read the memo that's on the agenda. The "flipped classroom" is an edfad than only works in advanced courses. Even worse: process-oriented guided inquiry with students who don't want to be there.
I see a korg nanokontrol2 in the video clip, not sure about the others. midi controllers run over USB nowadays.
Well theres only 100 of them. For what I care for she’s always on the other side.

The only time I agreed with her was her torture work, but that revealed her hypocrisy.

So, on the whole, I disagree with her and I believe her to be a massive hypocrite.
Oh boy, this may have solved one of my problems. Will try it asap!

Edit: oh, it's not free... I mean, $40 isn't bad, but then I expect a decent level of support. Also, $40 for... a year, a life?
I totally agree, a humidifier is a game changer in dry climates.

I imagine a number of people here will go ahead and buy the first thing labeled "humidifier" after reading this comment, so I'll be that guy and mention that ultrasonic humidifiers (not steam, as you mentioned) are potentially dangerous because they aerosolize not just the water, but everything in the water - minerals, bacteria etc. The idea is that these tiny particles of minerals are absorbed into the alveolar sacs and ducts of the lungs, where macrophages ingest these particles and trigger an inflammatory response. Enough of this inflammatory response causes silicosis and/or cancer, but exactly how much dust is needed is under debate. As far as the bacteria go, it's obvious why that's undesirable.

In any case, it may be best to avoid ultrasonic humidifiers unless you can run them with distilled water. The EPA claims that impeller humidifiers also disperse large amounts of minerals and bacteria into the air, although I imagine the particle size is larger.

The other two types of humidifiers are evaporative (usually use a filter) and steam humidifiers, which also have problems - for the former, you have to buy filters regularly as well as clean them carefully as they are also breeding grounds for bacteria. Unfortunately anything warm-ish and wet is a bacterial haven, so the EPA recommends that you dry and wipe down your humidifier every day, as well as a full scrub down once every 3 days, regardless of the humidifier type.
But that's the thing, you can't "play it just fine". You can play a broken version of the game. Nobody is interested in a game that is 90% correct.

And then on top of that you're being defensive when you receive very valid feedback instead of gladly accepting it. What's the point of even posting to HN if you're not welcoming feedback?
But WHY is private education better?
> Fwiw in hindsight it appears that structural regulation like Glass-Steagal is what stabilizes the banking system.

This is not at all clear.

> Separating banking, investment banking, and insurance into separate legal entities and preventing the banks from consolidating into mega-banks prevented another a Great Depression for ~70years. Then roughly 8yrs after we repealed all that, we unsurprisingly had another Great Depression level financial crisis.

Are we forgetting the inflationary period in the 70s? How the gold standard was lost during this time? All the emerging market crises? How the USD has lost 98% of its value since the 70s? How inequality is sky high due to interest rate suppression causing asset price inflation? How we have a massive trade defect leading to an extremely large negative net-foreign-investment balance? Does it makes sense to you that countries that are much "poorer" than us are lending us money?

> The Fed’s lending support, along with govt stimulus, prevented the actual depression from happening, so you could argue that the Central Bank does have some impact on banking system stability. But it was only necessary because we removed the structural regulation that had maintained a stable banking system for over half a century.

We trade depression for inflation then. Is this good? Bad? Not sure. We are living in that experiment though. One day this excessive debt and money printing will catch up with us. It has happened to every single fiat currency in history.
The best Olympic coverage I’ve seen was the NBC HD broadcast of the 2002 Salt Lake City winter games. HD was still pretty new in the US. They didn’t have many HD cameras and they didn’t have an HD workflow integrated with the SD broadcast, so it was completely separate from the “overcoming adversity USA athlete” coverage.

For example, they set up the HD cameras and trailer at the ski jumping venue. They showed ski jumping start to finish—all the competitors real-time without editing. The commentators were ski jumping experts, since the professional commentators were all off on the SD feeds. Almost no breaks because they only had one HD commercial.

I learned so much about the sport and cheered for competitors from random countries. It was miles beyond the standard NBC coverage and probably even better than watching it in person.

20 years later and it’s the most memorable Olympics-watching experience of my life, going back my earliest memory of the jetpack in ‘84.
I’m with you - no one has even mentioned the Olympics to me in any way this time around. I saw the waning interest coming with the last couple Olympics as well. I think many factors contribute to this trend:

1. We have other ways to connect globally thanks to the internet, so we don’t need the Olympics to see a shallow representation of each country. YouTube is a better view into other cultures.

2. We are more aware of the impact and drawbacks of the Olympics, like the costs and associated corruption. It is incredibly irresponsible for any city to volunteer to host it.

3. The politics of the Olympics is not new but it is much more visible and easy to recognize, and that turns viewers off. Things like China having a female Uyghur light the Olympic torch.

4. We have other, better forms of entertainment that use up our limited time.

5. I think collectively there’s a pullback from broadcast sports even as there is a renewed interest in participating in sports personally. It’s not just the politics of it, although that has become a focus even outside the Olympics (NFL NBA etc). It’s that there is an absurdity to caring about what someone achieves when they throw away the rest of their life and just focus on a sport. Someone with that kind of focus in the interest of science is capable of producing lasting impact and move humanity forward. But with mass sports it’s just entertainment and vanity. I think there’s a rising consciousness around this aspect.
The tech is valuable and excellent. I never thought it would be killed off.

It's not surprising that Google can't and doesn't want to support this consumer product. They have shown zero aptitude for this kind of thing.

It's a shame they don't do this with more of the products they kill.
Links? I use drying racks, but I'm curious what you consider high quality? Mine are just target specials I've put lock tight on the screwsto keep them from falling apart.
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I was a teacher and my experience was that I always felt administration as a whole was counter productive, but almost all of the administrators I could think of were really great. They were great teachers who had great relationships with students and knew how to teach well. So it stands to reason that the problem is with the system and incentives, not the individuals.
https://github.com/chip-red-pill/IntelTXE-PoC
The “hook” is the worst part. It’s so hard to start a conversation from nothing and get it to stick in a meaningful way. People like to joke that those who treat Twitter like a dating app are misusing it, but I think it’s a better analog for real world dating than most things.

Once you build a sufficiently big group of mutuals on Twitter and get to know them a little bit without the pressure of relationship expectations, sparks seem to happen so much more naturally and organically just as they might in a workplace or school setting.

I don’t have much hope for online dating in its current form unless it gets to a level of AI invasiveness like in that one Black Mirror episode. Gatling gun dating just isn’t fun or effective.
> For example, we had an important user still on a legacy browser because they couldn't afford to upgrade their old laptop. Instead of adding a complicated legacy layer, we bought them a new laptop.

I'm curious about the specifics regarding the combination of "important user" and "couldn't afford to upgrade".

Was the user's importance social rather than financial? Were the hardware requirements particularly hefty?
I believe modelling the space of images deserves a bit more appreciation, and the approach is so unexpected - the generator never gets to see a real image.
> The problem is that US audiences only want to watch American competitors

Is this an established fact, or just a widespread belief among US broadcasters?

And yes, the BBC Olympics coverage is awesome. During the London games, I chose to pay for a proxy service so that I could use iPlayer and catch the BBC rather than suffer through NBC's useless attempt.
The answer is simple, it's just kind of says an ugly thing about how computing has shifted; it's essentially the same reason e.g. the iPad didn't have a file manager.

Interfaces got really good and slick at the same time it became profitable/useful to alienate people from their own data for profit.
This depends heavily on the density of operation; globally at least for heavily used lines the total cost of operation (infrastructure, locomotion, etc.) is much lower for electrified lines, in no small part because each locomotive needs much less maintenance.

From that regard, it's somewhat surprising that none of the busiest lines have been electrified.
I exclusively socialize offline. I like to be alone for my online work. Completely immersed without distractions.

I am quite nomad, spending several months in random cities around the world, so socializing is important as I can’t rely on just building a circle of friends.

- I volunteer in things related to kids education

- I eat outside my home twice a day, I often put up a piece of paper saying I am willing to entertain a conversation

Quite often, people will just come and sit at the table and we will chat. Often we exchanged contacts and meet later
Should this be `before certificates`? The seal didn't stop you from opening or viewing, just tried to establish authenticity and first viewing. (I realize certs don't guarantee first viewing)
i have a NUC i plan to dedicate. i seem to recall that there were some features missing from the installs that were not managed (or whatever the Whole OS thing was called?
This is no shock if you are friends with any teachers or have kids of school age. My wife and I have 5 close friends who are all public school teachers (2 of the 5 are a married couple). 4 of the 5 send their kids to private schools. I think that says a lot, given that they aren't paid well and choose to sacrifice and pay the tuition.

The harsh reality is that the pay sucks, you need a masters degree to even be a teacher, parents view public schools as glorified daycare system, and shitty bureaucrats run it all into the ground. Combined with the general lack of discipline and culture of disrespect among kids (I fault the parents), it's a completely miserable experience that was worsened by COVID and remote learning.

I've heard so many ridiculous stories from our friends that I'm shocked any of them remain doing it. In fact, 1 of the 5 I mentioned had enough and threw in the towel for the 21-22 school year. She's doing something else now, like running a study abroad program in association with the local honors university. She only gets the smart, disciplined kids who want to be there. The house of cards that is public education is coming down.
> Inability to punish students, lack of respect

It sounds like you leaving the profession was best for everyone involved.
Education is an area where I believe private competition against the public sector can have huge gains. If the local school board cannot implement simple evidence-based education reform, then they've failed to provide the community's children their most fundamental need.

Maybe a startup to facilitate the founding of private schools is in order?
What about the hundreds of millions of people that voluntarily use Facebook every month in the EU?
It's one of the largest countries on Earth, the one that is probably seeing the most growth and winter sports' practice in the world, and it's neither in Europe or North America and has the means to organize such global event. So it seems like a very good choice and the development of winter sports in the country was even mentioned by the IOC President during the opening ceremony.
And building on that, the real bottleneck in most domains isn't going to be computer power, it's going to be human understanding of how to curate data or tweak parameters.

We've already seen in games with simple rules and win conditions that giving computers data on what we think are good human games can make them perform worse than not giving them data. Most problems aren't possible for humans to ebncapsulate perfectly in a set of rules and win conditions to just leave the processing power to fill in the details, and whilst curating data and calibrating learning processes is an area we've improved hugely on to get where we are with ML, it's not something where human knowledge seems more likely to reach an inflection point than hit diminishing returns.
That blender add on looks awesome! Thanks, I hadn’t see that.

Watching Solvespace with great interest, who hung it could one day become a full brown kernel.
I stand in support of BLM, as in its core tenet, but I don't support that violence. In fact I think much of the violence associated with these protests are the work of agents provocateur working to delegitimize the movement. And it seems to be highly effective.

A sampling of such here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/08/protests-provocateur...

This isn't to say that some "real" protesters might not get caught up in the melee once it starts, but it's clear that outside agitators are actively working to destroy it.
I've made the switch to the 2560x1440 monitors (27") about the same time as you and totally agreed about your observation. For TV and video I think Full HD at 1080p is the cut-off but for text reading and editing 2560x1440 is really a game changer. Everytime you go back to 1080p even for smaller 13" screen it's a very annoyingly noticeable with the jagged lines around the texts and is a bummer.
This is right to some extent. They can have distributed ledger in virtual sense.
This is a great post but I should note it crashed Chrome for me and made Firefox very sluggish. Just from the raw amount of content alone.

Definitely keep reading until you get to the "Worms" part of "The Analysis", which I think puts a pretty plausible explanation for why so many reputable studies show Ivermectin working against COVID as well as they did.
FOSDEM'22 – Playstation 3 Emulation
My faith in Jesus has helped me to find my purpose and reinvigorate my outlook through my late thirties. My local church has provided me an outlet to help serve others and connect with many new friends. If pursuing everything that life has to offer hasn't made you happy, maybe it's time to look into something more eternal?