skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously.

My son is the same. He started kindergarten completely comfortable with negative numbers (we just always drew the number line with both positive and negative parts) and basic algebra and only was allowed to test to enter the gifted program in third grade.

They are finally doing algebra again now that he is in fourth grade (they do math grades 3 and 4 in third grade and 5 and 6th grade math in 4th grade) but if we hadn’t set him up with a tutor a couple of years ago he’d have given up on school completely.

My younger son in 1st grade has autism (and is also gifted), to the point that he is legally supposed to have a permanent paraeducator with him at all times to help him cope with classes and physically help him if he needs help with basic tasks like holding his pencil, or realizing that he is frustrated and can’t communicate that.

Covid meant no paraeducator. Oh, they had one on the payroll, of course, but they were virtual. So the person who was supposed to help my son hold a pencil and detect he was frustrated and so on, was just a person on a zoom call.

My son lost almost a year of learning because of covid. It would have been more but we sued the school district to demand they at least put a plan in place and miraculously the day they were served with the papers, they told us “oh, we were just about to have a solution for you” and miraculously the same week, he was back in school with his para helping him with the virtual lessons.

My youngest daughter started kindergarten during covid. Everything was online. Her assignments were all in class dojo or maybe google classroom. All of the assignments had written instructions for her to follow. She was just starting Kindergarten and couldn’t exactly read well enough to follow the instructions.

All of this mean my wife and I basically spent all day as full-time teachers aides, because the kids couldn’t be left for even a few minutes by themselves. This is a difficult thing to do when also working full time.

Covid especially sucked for families with young special needs children. I think these kids were done a huge disservice.
I dunno, maybe the localized increase over background levels? As they say, "dilution is the solution to pollution"... a little oil or radiation here and there will be reabsorbed by the ecosystem without much incident. Seemed like Fukushima was basically dumped into the sea and we didn't end up with Godzilla (too bad, really).

Likewise, some slow underwater seepage probably just gets washed away? But if you add a whole bunch of oil on a seashore that normally doesn't have much, it'll kill a bunch of cute animals and make your PR team have to work weekends.

If you drastically increase the background radiation near a suburb by piling spent fuel near it, the residents won't scientifically analyze the risk, they'll just try to keep you away. If you try to build a new plant, every politician within bribing distance of some special interest goes haywire.

Yucca Mountain might've been an option but that got shot down too.

A mix of precaution and NIMBYism, some of which is good science, some of which is just junk politics, and much of which is just people being primates. We're not evolutionarily equipped to make these sort of large scale long term decisions, only to live and die by our tiny, intimate lives.
I find this very intriguing. As a runtime, .NET exposes a lot of high and low level stuff to the developer.

Can you give me an example of this offbeat thing you wanted to do that involves overriding an obscure interface?

.NET is big, but if you are using it for web app, your focus is only on that set of libraries. Comparing with similar stacks, none of them cover the area .NET covers.

Also, look at python. People don't see it as big because it does not have an IDE that asks you to select projects and what not, making it seem like it is a tool small enough for their work. However, if you combine every library or framework that covers what .NET does in Python (Web, Desktop, Gaming, System, ML) you will find Python is also just as large.
Show HN: lcdb – LevelDB Implemented in C
Ya know, I might approve of putting ads on toilet paper. Then I can wipe my ass on their brand and flush it down the drain like it deserves. It'd be cathartic.
While we're understanding demands, let's consider the implicit demand of NATO members that every sovereign nation in the world be allowed to sign treaties without being invaded by a dictatorship.

Given that NATO's demands are not compatible with Russia's, I suppose people need to decide which side's demands are more reasonable.
Smart TV retail prices are subsidized by revenue from data analytics on content search and viewing.

Web browsers are subsidized (free) by search (ad) revenue.
This is more-or-less a line-for-line port at the moment (though, a number of C++ primitives had to be implemented in C in order to do that). It took a few weeks of coding to get this in a state where I'm comfortable open sourcing it, but I figure this may be useful to those who are averse to linking to libstdc++ for their C projects.

Also, this project is unofficial and not endorsed by Google in any way (have to put this here).
It seems fairly unreasonable to suggest that it was a mistake to not or that it would be reasonable to have retrofitted all public buildings to have underfloor (sometimes underground) HVAC ducting added. Think about the typical large slab-on-grade grocery store, Target, Home Depot, Walmart, etc., which is the majority of the places I’ve had to go in the last two years.

Given where we are with COVID, that seems like it would have been a massively wasteful over-reaction.
Kestrel is the web server that Asp.Net Core runs on by default. It's part of the application.

Building an app that has the runtime bundled with it (no need to install .Net) or a single file executable is just a matter of setting a few build flags.
To the public it seems that way but in reality US,Russia and China having all those nukes and huge land mass theit leaders always see themselves as the big guy. Have you seen Putin at G11? He has to be at the center when they take pictures because of his ego. Hard to believe him considering himself lesser than Xi.
Blazor IMV is more sane than React. It is an SPA that is structured around routing and pages, which happen to have component hierarchies in them.

React is the other way around. Routing in React seems to be an afterthought. And I hate it with a passion.

Page based way of thinking (or "screens" if you will) is a better way to do web dev.

Also, the Dependency Injection system is extremely productive. State management in Blazor is very easy and a breeze to use.

If not for the intricacies of hosting models, and a slightly large default build size for the full WASM client mode, Blazor would have replaced React / Angular / Vue by now.
Putin may as well consolide his power further should anyone express thier disatisfaction with him. Im talking about the power hierarchy he’s sitting atop of, not just the Russian populace who already have some significant percentace of dissatisfaction - the real number is unknown since voting is heavily rigged and manipulated and the electorate is heavily manipulated by obvious propaganda.
To all the people so eager to downvote me, tell me this never happened.

https://bytes.com/topic/c-sharp/answers/230230-visual-c-net-...

> 3.4 Benchmark Testing. The Software may contain the Microsoft .NET
Framework. You may not disclose the results of any benchmark test of the
..NET Framework component of the Software to any third party without
Microsoft's prior written approval.
I bought a newer home (2016) with a gas range and it doesn’t have the wiring either. We desperately want induction plus a outdoor vented range hood, so we are considering a partial remodel to do it. The idea is to bring in an electrician, replace our 150A panel with a 200A one, bring up wiring for induction into the kitchen, and wrap wiring around the house for a level 2 EV charger (another want, might as well knock it out together if we have to get an electrician in anyways).

My house was built 6 years ago but is already outdated in this respect. Replacing the panel is a pain as it requires shutting of electrical service for the day and an inspection from the city when they switch it back on. At least our meter and outdoor wire to the grid are already 200A…I hope.
Yeah I'm running the .NET 6 version of Omnisharp and it's definitely a major improvement, but it's still got a ways to go.
I did what i think is the logical extreme and put a pihole on my tailscale network and use that as my dns on any device connected to that network so i have it on the go
>You'd need huge amounts of capital with big risks and little profits foreseen.

Ok, so nationalize it. Problem solved.
There's a performance penalty which happens if you don't need async (eg, if the innermost thing is actually using Task.FromResult), and I've never tested but there's probably some cutoff point where if an awaited operation is faster than x, it's faster to write non-async code (though x may vary by cpu or some other factors).

Practicality speaking, this isn't much of a concern for most code, though. I've only really run into this in a couple specific scenarios: unit tests, and when using something like a message bus or cache layer that has a local/in-memory implementation. I noticed only incidentally (as opposed to because of a perf problem): on unit tests where the time got slightly longer when we changed to async, and in the message bus case when doing some performance profiling and using the "local" dev version.
Thanks. That’s very common in weak relational database schemas where people like adding redundant stateful columns.
I think the problem is morale for russia. If they have it, they can annex ukraine like the USSR days. Chechnya fought very hard like ukraine.
> Why can't we have anonymous digital transactions

It makes law enforcement work.
There's a great quote about being a parent that's often attributed to Mark Twain:

> When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

It's unlikely he personally said it, because his father died when he was about 11. But it sounds like something that he would have said in one of his books. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Marshall_Clemens
That seems like a problem that can be accounted for in the initial design. I’m sure you can design a plant to be cooled down by even 99C water, and if the river is that hot we have other problems.
Part of the problem is that it's a rather terrible, leaky, and easily-worked-around hammer. It mostly only continues to work because they haven't bothered to do simple things to prevent their more technical users from blocking it.
Many of the biggest ISPs in the US are actively monitoring DNS queries, collecting the data of which sites you visit, and packaging it for sale to ad networks and data brokers. DoH stops that.
Well, we're about to find out whether or not McDonald's Peace Theory[1] is true or not.

> In Thomas L. Friedman's 1999 book The Lexus and the Olive Tree,[56] the following statement was presented: "No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's". He supported his belief, as a theory, by stating that when a country has reached an economic development where it has a middle class strong enough to support a McDonald's network, it would become a "McDonald's country", and will not be interested in fighting wars anymore.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_peace
.NET now has a lot of functional stuff. It has a whole functional language (F#), that can natively interop with .NET libraries (even if they are written in C#)

C# itself has many functional constructs.

With the modern minimal APIs, you can create a single file web application servers, without ever creating any objects.

OOP is the bread and butter of .NET, just like Java.
More PRC will invade Siberia wank. In order of benefit for PRC: no invasion > russian victory > nuclear war in europe > russian defeat. There's no upside to RU defeat.
Ukrainians protested heavily and violently when there was fraud during presidential elections, and they effectively deposited the president who usurped the chair while not being legally elected.

The protests were large, insistent, and sometimes life-threatening for the participants. There was no major support from outside, except moral support.

When people trust that they are right, and, importantly, a large number of other people around them share the same commitment, they keep on fighting.

If Russia ever occupies large parts of Ukraine, they'll face fierce guerilla warfare. Much like the Germans faced during WWII on the same territory, much like the Soviets faced on westernmost parts of it after WWII. Traditions are there.
> or preparing many ballistic missile interceptors.

What happens after the missiles are intercepted?

Russia still hasn’t reached Kyiv - 5 hours from the Russian border, how far can they project power beyond their borders ?
Until they do a deal with Amazon to use Sidewalk, or the ROI on putting a cellular modem in works for them.
MBS is a highly biased source to work from. Not just qisas: https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/10/20/saudi-arabia-alleged-chi...

Laws there are, to put it politely, archaic. It should be acceptable to discuss the law in a hacker sense -- what are the rules, how are they broken, what are the security concerns etc. I've no interest in diminishing other cultures, but any law of any land is ripe for review.

In this situation, we collectively look the other way because oil.
My guess: cast-iron cookware and induction stovetops designed for them. That gives you pretty much the best of both worlds, with the ability to retain heat while manipulating the pan while still having extremely precise temperature control.
Primaries should be held on the same day nation wide. There's no reason a handful of states that happen to be first, and only about 30% of the registered voters there, should be narrowing the choice down for the other states that have their primary later.
It would be nice if multiple organisations that host E2EE web apps worked together to support a browser extension like this that was compatible with all of their sites.

That would hopefully convince browser vendors that this functionality should be supported natively in the browser itself, and make JavaScript crypto potentially no worse than its native app equivalent.
>Just wait (perhaps it's already happening) until TV manufacturers install 4g/5g modems in their devices.

I hear this raised every now and then, but is that even feasible economically? Those embedded cell connections are a recurring cost, after all. I'm curious if the per-unit revenue from ads and tracking is large enough to justify the per-unit cost to send/receive that data over a cell connection.

Seems like UI nudges and dark patterns to push users into connecting their TVs to their home internet connection would be cheaper and more effective.
I think we already know answer to this question, which is "yes".
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I remain reassured, and indeed confident, in the idea of western civilization.
Simply, because using absolute points would lead to debate over every single decimal of a point. A student with 89.95% would be determined to fight to get 90.05% and then continue to fight to get 90.15% so it only makes the problem worse.
Strangely enough, my family has been running a business in Dongguan (not Guangzhou, but close enough, still a major Cantonese industrial city of Guangdong province), since 1980s and we have seen nothing like that.

You can't say they "refuse" to speak to people in Mandarin because they simply _can't speak_ Mandarin. Back then, many people simply did not have enough schooling to learn Mandarin, and so they simply couldn't speak it (at least not fluently). The government was not stupid. There was utterly no reason to enforce Mandarin and deprecate Cantonese when they were expecting so much investment from Hong Kongers (who usually did not speak Mandarin either) during that period.

Cantonese TV stations and radio stations are still doing just fine today. And then of course you can't have just Cantonese when there's an influx of labour from other parts of China, which is why, as a simple matter of economic adaptation, Mandarin gradually picked up. But Cantonese is not being threatened in any way. In fact, there is now a more widespread understanding of the importance of Cantonese, because it is _closer_ to Middle Chinese from the Tang and Song dynasties than many other dialects. It's an important dialect for properly studying and appreciating Tang poems. I know people in more Northern parts of China who know Cantonese songs from the 80s and 90s of Hong Kong because they appreciate the more classical wordings and rhymes of the lyrics.
>largely the same technology

At a high level right? Like both "PESA" radars, but completely different implementations. Similar, but not at all the same missles, etc.

And it's not clear a Patriot system was in Irbil, in the right spot anyway, right?

So this all could mean something, but that's unclear.
Watch the youtube videos on FSD. It's insane how fast it's improving. Zero disengagement trips are becoming pretty common.
Doesn't he risk a 15-year prison sentence, by writing this? Pretty gutsy, to let it be published while he's still in Moscow.
I think you're confused. Facebook has both a "Sad" reaction and an "Angry" reaction. They can both be used to agree with and disagree with the recipient, depending on context.
I think this line of argument is not complete enough. Of course, everything can be used for good or evil. And I don’t think the internet should go away. Because it does a lot of really cool things.

BUT. The internet spreads disinformation (and other ills) at a scale that is off the charts compared to paper, word of mouth, or various forms of radio transmission. I think we have to honestly accept that its efficiency in both speed and reach is a bit of game changer/transcendental/new level.

We’ve relied on the lack of reach and speed of spread to create a “drag” on bad info in the past. People had time to “sleep on it.” Generational knowledge was accumulated. We’ve lost that, and it’s getting worse. The fact that this has evolved so quickly (just 30 years), has prevented society, which evolves slowly, from keeping up with and generating wisdom and rules to handle this new fire. Policy makers (mostly older) worldwide still don’t understand it and want to map experiences from their earlier formative years onto it.
It would be shocking and the first time ever if the sales pitch of a product was completely made up and false. And the product turned out to be worse than the current solution in place. /s
I run a simple VPN at my house alongside pinhole. You can block ads anywhere that way.
"Ideologically Correct" is the perfect description I've been looking for
How China Built an Exascale Supercomputer Out of Old 14nm Tech
Yup. A lot of people are short sighted when they think Russian history begins with the October Revolution. As you show, it is a pattern of Russia that extends well before the October Revolution. I read Gary Kasparov's Winter is Coming and as he says, the best way to understand Putin is to understand Russian history in its entirety.
Built-in separate cooktops are only the fashion trend right now, there isn’t anything intrinsic in induction that require such controls. This goes hand in hand with the separate built-in oven trend (often with a second oven or a microwave). Kitchen renovation fashion, I guess.
I suppose that once the regime changes, the international support may very well return.

Looking at the low-efficiency, high-cost warfare Russia is now waging I suspect that the regime is brittle, and lacks talented people willing to work for it. Some more capable forces may replace it relatively soon, naturally or violently.
Russia is now blocking a bunch of sites like Twitter, Instagram and western news orgs after the invasion started.
What I believe is that

* China did not anticipate that Russia would launch a full invasion on Ukraine. If it had, it would have pulled Chinese citizens in Ukraine much earlier.

* This quote "and two major Chinese banks, the Bank of China and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, have even refused to help Russia process export transactions." does not prove anything. China has a Kunlun Bank that specializes in dealing with US sanctioned entities so that other banks can work with the US normally.
> Wheeler called upon J.R.R. Tolkien, as Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University, to investigate the etymology of the name "Nodens" referred to in the curse.

Whaat..?!
They may pound the poor Ukrainians for months to come to some sort of despair and depression if the war continues that long but I agree that they’ll never fully control the Ukrainians without full destruction. The built up resentiment is hard to dissipate especially now after the war started.

I hope either that the Russians withdraw without a very bruised ego so they leave poor Ukrainians alone to rebuild their country or that they simply collapse altogether and start afresh without Putin. Would like to live to see Putin condemned and perhaps imprisoned or executed by his own people, that would completely vindicate the Russian people in my eyes but I very much doubt that.
There is no point in placing blame on a part of system that is not under your direct control, because you have no ability to make that part to behave in some other way so the outcome would be different next time. No point to blame gravity for your fall from the cliff, gravity will be unmoved by it and next time gravity will do exactly the same: it will pull your down and smash against rocks.

It is not my own idea, I read it from Yudkowski, but I cannot find it on lesswrong.com to give you a direct link. DDG finds nothing on LW, and lesswrong.com now is drowned in third-party scripts and it's own search doesn't work for me. So I reproduced it by memory.

But I'm not quite agree with Yudkowski. Gravity is a very real cause of some effects, so nothing wrong to hold it responsible for it's actions. The mistake we might make is to stop after blaming it. Just stop believing that the finding a scapegoat removes a responsibility from you. Somehow we tend to believe that cause is something very real and objective, that any effect has one cause, but it is not. Cause is a mental construct, it is very fuzzy. For any effect Y we can find dozens of causes in a sense "if there was no cause X, then there would be no effect Y". And our task is not to find just any X and forget about it, our task to find such an X that we can wriggle and to change outcome.

It doesn't mean that you (and Yudkiwski) are not right, it is just another perspective leading to (mostly) the same outcomes. But when you think about social problems (or maybe more general: about really complex systems?) it is not enough to find one good cause X, you need to find as many as you can, and deal with all of them at once. You need explicitly search for all the ways to change the outcome, never allowing yourself a luxury of placing blame on something/someone and stopping there.

There is one good reason to place blame: when you are dealing with people, "blame" is a well understood construct by everyone allowing a group to inform some member that avoiding some outcomes is his responsibility. It doesn't just inform about it, it reminds all others about what comes with a failure to be responsible. When you deal with a system made of objects (not subjects) then blame has no value at all, you need to work with causes. And yeah, in this case you are the only subject in the system, so if you pulled blame into the picture, then you and only you would be responsible for everything.
What a great saying. Gonna remember this.
The brain drain began in 1990 and never stopped.
Last time I was in the mall in my town, they'd opened a place where you could go _Office Space_ on old electronics in a former storefront. The anchor stores have gone, of course.