skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True school choice is an illusion as long as private schools are free to decline unwanted students that cost more to teach. The advocates of such policies tend to ignore the fact that it would leave disabled and other special needs students in a public system that no longer had enough other students to pay for their higher costs. That’s a problem that requires an adequate solution before any type of voucher is reasonable.
There's nothing wrong with reporting the level of performance you'll get for emulated games too, but the claim being made is that the hardware can't do better than that.

To make the headline accurate, you have to add a disclaimer, going from:

>Apple's new M1 Ultra isn't faster than an RTX 3090

to

>Apple's new M1 Ultra isn't faster than an RTX 3090 when running x86 games under emulation
hey clipped that data to manipulate the graph.

Note also "GPU performance" is a metric that includes many things. What did they test, specifically, here? ML training? Gaming? Or 2D ops used commonly in photoshop?

I found this review useful: https://www.theverge.com/22981815/apple-mac-studio-m1-ultra-...
TL;DR: many professionals who work in 2D or psuedo3D could buy this and immediately be more productive than they were on their previous Apple device. But that chart is still extremely misleading.
I'm getting it from what the author does, rather than what they say. The calculation for high temperatures is based on annual averages. The calculation for low temperatures is based on the coldest time of the year.

I had missed that sentence, but fail to see how it makes things better. It just means that the author is aware of the problem and has no excuse for using a different methodology for the two cases.
I mean I wasn't just focusing on arable land. I mentioned erosion, desertification, and forest fires as well. People aren't going to want to pack up and move to a place surrounded by a) smoke all summer long <see also the pacific northwest last summer> and b) with no economic life near.

In any case in areas that aren't already settled industrial centres, agriculture is usually the first primary industry to develop. Though perhaps now it could be oil & gas and forestry as well.
I was pretty sceptical of Copilot when it was announced, but after having used it for a while I think it's more that it's been kind of sold as something that it's not.

What it does offer for me, in practice, is basically "clever autocomplete". Say I wrote a little bit of code:

bounds.max.x = bounds.min.x + width

Then copilot will suggest that the next line is:

bounds.max.y = bounds.min.y + height

That's reasonably smart, and it adapts pretty well to whatever code you are currently writing. It makes writing those little bits of slightly repetitive code less annoying, and I like that – it feels like a useful productivity boost in the same way as regular "dumb" autocomplete is.

However I'd say too much of the initial coverage was along the lines of "you can just write the function name and it will fill in the body!". That will work if you want to write `isEven` or `capitalise` or something, which again is quite nice. But I have found that basically any other prompts product a function that either does something completely wrong, or introduces a subtle and non-obvious bug. And this actually feels kind of dangerous – I'd absolutely caught myself a few times from just going "it'll probably be fine" and accepting whatever Copilot has spewed out.

I'll remain sceptical of it as a system that sucks up and regurgitates vast lakes of open-source code and sends my every keystroke to Microsoft, among other things. But it's definitely something I'd pay for a local version of.
Isn’t that what a cat does?
No.

It's faster at _literally everything else_.
So is a 3080.
So is a 3070, most likely.
For many people, this level of difficulty is just impossibility.
There are many, many reasons why Ukraine would not have been able to join NATO in the foreseeable future, and this was very clear to all parties. Ironically, the Crimean situation is one which Russia has direct influence on. Ukraine's retaliatory moves on the status of the Russian language likely would've been naturally on the table in the context of joining either NATO or EU.
Am I the only one having problems with the interactive example on numpy.org on Chrome? The "Try NumPy" doesn't work in Chrome (v99 on Linux), although Firefox runs fine.

I love that Pyodide is bridging the gap between Python and the browser, and really hope they succeed.
> The limiting factor for arability in the north here is not temperature, but soil (or, rather, the absence of it.)

According to Wikipedia, "Approximately half of Canada is covered by forest."[1] If the soil is deep enough to grow trees, why can't it grow crops?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forests_of_Canada
> Now Google tries even harder to figure out what you "want" and filters you results invisibly for you.

Google trying to interpret what you want is, in my opinion, the largest reason that the search has become so bad. It guesses very poorly, and I end up having to try to guess what the magic incantation is to get it to give the what I'm searching for.
Atom was just to slow and clunky. The idea was great — see VSCode. But at the time, while being able to hack your own editor was nice, the performance issues and lag was the reason I never used it long term. And pretty much the only reason I ever heard from others.
Can you answer the simple question about why the dotted line stretching from the max apple performance is higher than the GPU?Because that's what the chart says (in addition to the power details).
I wonder if this was what inspired Patrick Rothfuss to introduce "Yillish Knots" to Kingkiller Chronicles.
Airbus A320 Missed Airport by 100 Miles, Why? – Northwest Airlines Flight 188
What probably should have been done was to write a provision into the law for priority projects, allowing some activities to be waived or timeboxed.

It's a bit unreasonable to expect a process that efficiently handles $x million / 2-year projects to scale to $xxx million / 10-year projects.

If the risks of not having a port expansion / bridge or dam repair / rail transit / nuclear power are greater than the risks of not completing a comprehensive environmental review... well, there you are.
Retaining more individual capability does allow people to commit crimes (though in the public ledger case this is often a stupid idea if you stay in the jurisdiction where what you’re doing is a crime).

Not all governments are good, not all laws are just. It’s easy to roll eyes at this in the west, but a lot of countries in the world are lead by bad people acting in their own self-interest.

The other bit you get from Bitcoin at least is programmatic guarantees of supply. This protects you from increases in supply inflating your savings away. It makes it a better store of value than fiat.

A standard currency is not always available. The same is true for safe financial systems. This is more relevant for people trying to save in places like Venezuela. Crypto provides new capabilities that may be your best option.

If one potential future is authoritarian governments leveraging total control on their citizens financial transactions via centralized financial systems (what the ccp is trying to build) - crypto is a technology that provides a relief valve from that. It’s a good thing it exists imo.
Maybe people should abandon these cities. It's sunk cost fallacy, I think? This land is valuable, therefore we'll invest enormous resources into keeping it livable, creating even more climate change, requiring even more investment...

Eventually they'll have to be abandoned anyway, that energy use would be way more efficient just a few miles inland. Which I just realized is in part what you said :D
Yeah. The major slow projects I can think of in recent years; Second Ave. Subway, East Side Access, Crossrail, etc. all involve deep bore tunneling through some of the most densely occupied land on Earth. Utility relocation, minimizing disruption to residents and businesses, etc. are the "hard part" here. If you could just nuke Midtown, East Side Access would have been easy. If you could demolish half of the Upper East Side, build a subway in the crater, and then cover it with new buildings, it would have been ready sooner. But, that's impractical. People are emotionally attached to their homes and neighborhoods.

That said, future projects can probably done more cheaply. IBX and QueensLink won't involve much underground work, and the right of way is already clear. The problem is that the benefit isn't clear enough to actually fund the projects and get them started. (That is an even more complicated problem. The MTA is a state body, subway lines entirely within the city are not something people on Long Island and Westchester want to pay for. Maybe there should be some sort of Independent Subway that the city itself pays for ;)
I totally agree, though I think these primarily stem from one thing, which is that America hasn't been seriously tested for a very long time. When you're not challenged, you can easily settle into what is adequate, even if you support progress and innovation on paper. America is a great place to live despite its faults, but it's also stuck in the past. Take for instance our major cities; somehow much older cities around the world ironically have more modern elements than cities like Los Angeles and New York, which for all intents and purposes aren't significantly different from where they were in the 1970s (besides greater population and in the case of LA much less smog).

If we want to build quickly and actually begin to address problems rather than just accept things as the way they are, we need to be knocked down a peg. I don't think that means getting nuked or whatever, but it would mean that our "too big to fail" status would need to actually be jeopardized in a meaningful way. Once the current generation of grey-hairs in government finally croak and pass on the torch, then there would be the chance to garbage-collect excessive regulations and better pick and choose what should be regulated heavily or not, rather than regulate with a broad brush. Laws and regulations should be designed with exceptions in mind, and not just for fat cats in the club.
Co-pilot is useful for mainstream languages/frameworks like PHP/Laravel, Python/Django but becomes less and less useful or effectively suggestive with less mainstream ones like Elixir/Phoenix.
cmake does provide support for conan and other C/C++ ecosystem tools via plugins. It works okay.

I'm not sure adding a layer of Lua helps the situation.

cmake isn't perfect, but the best we have for now. The C++ community has unfortunately been loathe to select a language-wide build tool cum package manager. It's like the early days of Go with all the warring Go dependency systems.
While not quite ready for public consumption, I'm working on a project that allows front end developers to build websites visually with templates and utility classes called ProductDiv https://github.com/awestbro/productdiv. As a web developer of ~10 years I wanted a tool that could match the productivity of something like Elementor while producing clean code. There are a few other tools out there, but I wanted something that:

- Focused on utility classes and clean code

- Is extensible with your own templates

- Local config, not service based so everything is version controlled and always available for all members of your team

- Framework agnostic, but configurable for utility classes (currently bootstrap) with any framework that produces HTML

Visually building and sites is a game changer for me as I can save a ton of time dragging templates onto pages while making small adjustments with the utility class editor. To give it a try, you can download the repo, npm i, and npm run dev. I'd love some feedback on UX!
Not when anyone can sue because a certain detail is missing. The fundamental interface to environment work needs to change not just the length of the reports.
> I got fired due to 'financial reasons' and wanting to have a more on-site work which I could not do.

"Financial reasons" is bullshit. They wanted someone at the office, and you couldn't do it. Management's decision was easy.
The 9-lines thing.

May've just drawn a circle and claimed that it describes all of science.
Growing up in Another Appalachia is more relatable than you think: Neema Avashia
So what? That is, like I said, 100% by design. In order for currency to be useful as a currency, it should inflate gradually. We're slightly high right now and were even higher for a while 40 years ago, but in neither case has the system broken. Sellers and employers know what to expect and how to pace prices and wages in a sensible way to keep pace. When the system starts to buckle, policy makers have mechanisms to fix it and they have. Bitcoin fluctuates wildly and its price is 100% speculative. It is neither backed by commodities (ie gold standard), by promise of dividend, by equity, nor by the "full faith and credit" of a nation. It's pure supply and demand where supply is arbitrary and demand is 100% elastic and could drop to zero at any time for any reason. Consider the recent pandemic where GDP contracted at an apocalyptic rate for a few quarters and yet policy makers were able to bail out both employers and workers with the help of massive fiat monetary assistance. Poverty actually decreased in the US during the pandemic.

What would that 70 year old say if they bought a house 10 years ago for 400 BTC and solid it today for 5? On the flip side, someone working for BTC 10 years ago might have expected a salary 50 BTC a year and someone being hired today might be 1 BTC a year. Is that a better situation? While the price per coin skyrockets, the only sensible position is to hoard it and never spend or invest anything. That would be a disaster.
Russia faces a smartphone shortage as Apple and Samsung exit and China retreats
“Don’t do crime, but if you do, I guess keep doing crimes forever because we’re going to make it hard for you to get a real job” isn’t really a compelling strategy.
I wonder what do you mean by "vastly superior". For search i use Kagi, for a browser i use Firefox. For mail you can use Protonmail or i guess there are other alternatives also. Only thing i miss is Gmail message threading. Other than that nothing else. So i think people are only used to Google, that's all. I don't think it's vastly superior in any area anymore
> The decision comes after the messaging app (...) failed to respond to court orders

They are being blocked for not responding to court orders.
Good tests. We don't have fantastic tests at my current job, but we're working on it.

Noticing something broke in a place you didn't expect before it appears in production ends up being a massive time saver and anxiety reducer.

Good tests seem tricky, since you want a combination of flexibility and rigidity, which can be a tricky balancer, but well worth it if done right.
Isn't this most people in rich countries? The line's pretty fuzzy, but in most rich countries you're disconnected from nature unless your job is in nature (ranger, landscaper, farmer, ag researcher) or homeless.
As the other response to you shows, you're the one missing the point. Population growth massively slows down the more your basic needs are met. Countries that have high children counts are countries where the solution to actually reaching wealth is multiplying until few of them die, or one of them ends up making a lot of money (relative to the country they live in).
Perl 5.34.1
More info on: https://perldoc.perl.org/perldelta
used it briefly, seems great to me.

it needs some big sponsorship to be mainstream, a very promising project, best wishes.
There is a problem with this though. FOSS licenses (by OSI standards) demand that you should have the right as a user to redistribute that software and that the license should be non discriminatory. Now I'm going to go out on a limb and say that as a government licensing your custom built missile defence system control software as open source is not a good idea, because you probably want to restrict it's distribution for very good reasons. While this is an extreme example there are lots of other bits of software that you might not want to give away to your geopolitical rivals. So no, OSS has its place in government, but it shouldn't be universal.
There was, Hoartfrost stomp, Sword of night and flame and Royal knight resolve, but they got patched. You can always downgrade or use cheat engine.
That's really neat, so you install Asahi Linux first and then after that it's easier/possible to install OpenBSD.
What Type of Hard Drive Do I Have and What’s the Difference?
Yeah, that'd probably work better in email phishing. I was thinking, if you have a public AP with a decent number of users, you redirect all of their requests to your phishing domain, get the credentials, ???, profit.
Before you wax poetic about this period, please read more on the complete disregard for the families and communities impacted by the large construction projects from that time. Replies comparing the US today to China would also benefit from the same. Public works has a lot of issues with cost and inefficiencies, but I think we should all be happy that eminent domain is not wielded with the same disregard for human life as it once was.
Why is it that exact searches used to actually work reliably, then? What's changed?
The rather enigmatic English elimination of "ematic"..
Yeah. Someone did ask today to be able to increase the circle's radius for cases like this
She had one job.
Yup. I'll leave it as a 1-star Google review (not that many people read reviews before choosing a gas station), and then going elsewhere. My second-closest station has these TVs. I forgot once or twice and returned by accident, but now I never forget.
> and was the main catalyst for why the U.S. entered into World War I.

No, the main catalyst was definitely Germany's submarine warfare against U.S. civilian ships. Prior to that, orientation in the U.S. was largely against the war despite the Zimmermann telegram.
In Ontario, the teachers ratified a three year contract in the spring of 2020 (i.e. COVID-19 was already raging), with the most notable feature being that remote learning would not be permitted, conceding to a paltry 1% raise in order to get the 'win'. Funny part is that they caved to the remote learning pressure in the end anyway.
> I understand the problem, I’m saying this solution is ineffective
That's probably why they included the Mac-first, native Geekbench score.
Two poles are still multipolar. I don't understand this article
I know the author can’t possibly include every cause of slowness but it seems disingenuous to not include the preservation movement, especially given the decision to talk about downtown San Francisco.

The 70s saw a change in how historic preservation was handled, I’d argue because of the success of Jane Jacobs. It became less about saving patriotic sites and more about saving the look and feel of the idealized early 1900s city. From the 70s to the 90s we stopped protecting battlefields and started protecting whole neighborhoods.

The big catalyst here was in 1972: State Legislation
The Advisory Council of Historic Preservation provides guidelines for State Historic Preservation Legislation. State Preservation Officers were established in 1966 as well, but each state had different legislation. While every state has its own priorities, the guidelines were meant to streamline the legislation.

Now, standards that were explicitly written to help preservationists maintain places like Mount Vernon apply to important chunks of our major cities. Sure Chicago and sfo have maybe 2-3% of parcels protected, but they are highly clustered in desirable areas. And blanket block or neighborhood designations cover parcels of dubious distinction. Additionally it seems like every time there’s a major project announced in major cities these days, someone is going to come out and try and protect the “landmark.”

In Milwaukee there’s a project proposed to tear down an early 1900s hospital on the college campus. The school doesn’t have funds to maintain it. It’s a minor project by a minor architect and is not particularly unique. The preservationists are trying to block the demolition and honest to god, the reason given is that some of them were born there. They’ll probably win.

I think the authors point on heavy handed but well meaning legislation from the 70s needs to be revisited is applicable here as well. I’m for preservation but the mechanisms seem to have gone completely out of whack with the realities of our cities and current needs.
Unfortunately, mc has been broken since 3.2.0 IIRC and nobody's working on it.
My argument is that Soros' support for activists has primarily been a means to undermine the sovereignty of the nation state as a thing everywhere, and install technocrats with the aforementioned agenda to subordinate all of humanity. I am saying he experienced this from the Germans and Soviets, studied it as a mechanism, and now funds a movement with this aim in mind. Co-opting popular movements and using them as vehicles for this agenda is specifically what Arendt identified as the mechanism.

If you do some reading on the topic, the necessary condition of the technical term of totalitarianism, as distinct from say, mere authoritarian ideas like fascism or communism, is that it is a movement that uses the nation state as a host, but whose intent is the absorption of nation states into its system of control, and that its key tactic is the dissolution of truth as a means to atomize and liquidate the individual.

"Resisting oppression" requires first that you identify as oppressed, and if you are a Daniel Dennet reader and use his (flawed but useful) model of self as an example, this very identity is the effect of language and narrative. The aim of these movements (and initially of marxism) was to create an identity ("consciousness") relative to a percieved material oppressor - that's the heavy lift, or leap of faith, and once you've convinced someone they are a victim, you can convince them of anything, because they have accepted the core axiom of the rest of the ideology, and the demagogue becomes the source of narrative truth for that identity.

You don't need to enslave people when you can just convince them they are slaves who must do what you ask to become free. It's a simple begged question and low rent street hustle. This grand deception that underpins Marx's whole system is about as sophisticated as a predatory pimp persuading a target she owes him the money he's forcing her to work for, except instead of monetary debt, he's selling you an inferior identity that you can redeem yourself by organizing and following some political huckster.

So, what do you think is more likely, that a few activists are enlightened and the rest of us live under a false consciousness of oppressive supremacy, or that a minority with an infinite will to power are selling a snake oil pseudo religion and they're no better than any other televangelists and demagogues?

Soros has not resisted totalitarianism at all, he has funded and co-opted movements against nation states as a means to subordinate and dissolve them.
We can't disturb the habitat of the western red land grouse in the name of progress.

How dare you.
and zero fictitious dollars to fund such motivation to fix.

Only dollars too fund(sustain) suppression....
But we have studied learning and how memories are formed. I hate when people make stuff up because it worked for them it must work for everyone. Things like spaced repetition and Khan academy are completely valid ways to learn.
Streamers (e.g. MoonMoon's playthrough) are pointing out that if you go "everywhere" and do "everything", truly immersing yourself (as perhaps intended), and you don't rush from boss-to-boss that that "difficulty" is greatly reduced to non-existent. Yes, some very hard spots, but far less than one would assume from the outset based on quick overviews. There are also builds that greatly reduce difficulty making some "impossible" bosses trivial.