skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh man, I have some vitriolic opinions on the sate of modern teaching -- especially vis-à-vis textbooks and written "pedagogy" that go crazy with this "isolation," "abstraction," and "distillation" of the concept: I hate it, please stop doing this.

I feel even more strongly about this for mathematics and computer science: you cannot strip away the context of a technique/idea/concept, and hope to have people understand why it's useful. For example, I'm currently self-teaching myself mathematics. Calculus and its techniques (integration, differentiation, solving PDEs/ODEs, whatever) are easy -- when you understand the context: physical mechanics. Strip that away and what do you get? Symbols and equations that have zero meaning in the real world. It's effectively indistinguishable from GPT-3 text -- it's utter nonsense that doesn't make any sense unless you've already learned the concepts somewhere else, and can piece together what the hell the author is trying to get across (sometimes, the author doesn't even know, but pretends to know!).

Same with probability and statistics. I cannot understand the sheer myopia needed to completely strip away probability from its gambling context: how does this benefit learners? I wasn't able to teach myself these things from regular stats & prob books, because it's schizophrenic gibberish without any context -- without even a single example of a practical application, much less "why is this useful? Why was this brought into the world? Why are you using Brownian Motion for actions of living things???" And then I picked up some theory of gambling books, and lo and behold everything makes sense. There is no cruft. There are no "gotchas" where you need to slam your head against the desk, and force yourself through the problems for it to "click"; everything just clicks because you understand why a certain technique or concept exists, and where it's applicable.

In short, the original context that lead to the creation of a certain technique/concept is enough of a "stage" to teach it; anything more abstract and you're cutting through bone.
It would have to be an International Treasure, because this is The University Of Cambridge, as in the real one in the UK not the belated US knockoff ;-)
this is just false. you can not find reasonably well written Julia code that runs 10x slower than equivalent fortran.
Why Ruby Has Symbols
I've literally been told by a person before that because my example used in a discussion had no relevance to anything that might happen in THEIR life, that it was a pointless and useless example. They later toned it down to "not as good as theirs", but I digress.

If I could tell the world one thing right now, in regards to this topic, it would be this.

"You, yes you, have NO RIGHT to diss or judge an example made by someone else; when the sole reason of said example is to try to share understanding of a certain lesson or fact. Even if the example is not as great as it could or should be, the act of yourself judging that example completely ignores the fact that YOU didn't fucking know anything about that thing in the first place; hence why an EXAMPLE was needed. That's all it is, now get over yourselves. P.S. Also stop trying to be moral police, none of you have any right to do that either, hypocrites."

I say this in regards to the world, because while it was just that one person who did that, that day; I have heard similar arguments as per the article title and my own experience of running into a fuckwit like that fellow, just with other people over the years.

I don't know why these people think they have a right to judge everything, since they know barely anything. Which means they have a right to do fuck all, and that's that.

P.S. The hypocrite part was added because a large populous on earth always needs to be reminded of that. Always...
Incompetent management wouldn’t be able to be consistently incompetent. That’s the big issue with incompetence.

Apple is unique in that their product marketing has a big role in the product design process. If you step back and look at what they do objectively, there are a few journey mapped “happy paths” that Apple designs to. They actively remove features that distract from the true paths.

It’s noticeable with them as Apple has no sympathy for legacy. But you can see it with other companies. An easy one is Google Drive/Docs - they make it easy to find a file, but didn’t consider that you may want to see the folder context of where the file is.
I think you may have mis-parsed the parent comment. They're saying exactly what you are saying.
Actually, every newspaper has some bias regarding the information they publish, and it's unavoidable.
The most honest ones acknowledge that, contrarily to "Le Monde" and all the others main french newspapers ("Le Figaro", "Libération") claim.

Regarding Mediapart, it is indeed strongly opinionated newspaper, but you know that beforehand.

They have significant issues, but I'll never say it's not quality journalism (part of it actually). I've been a subscriber for years because of the quality of their investigations. For the record, none of these are pursued by big newspapers in France anymore: "Le Monde" and all major newspaper just relay the general information/propaganda, with no strong analysis. When they talk about scandals, they are never at their origin, and mostly relay the work done by others.

And when you know that most of them are owned by billionaires who have their own agenda, and that a significant chunk of their money (several millions per year) comes from the French state, you understand why.

You cannot be independent if your owners are billionaires, and if your income don't exclusively come from people who are paying for you to be independent (ie. subscribers). Everyone that argue against that is a liar. And you have in France 2 newspapers matching this criteria : Mediapart, and of course "Le Canard Enchainé".

The main issue I had with Mediapart (which led to cancel my subscription) was indeed the fact that on some subjects (mostly the "woke' things), they twist the facts to match their agenda. Some would say it's another view on the same facts but my opinion was that sometimes, they tried to make allegations on something not strong enough.
Regarding the other subjects, I had nothing but praise for them.
That betrays the cooperative principle. Such an institution could not survive.
This is a curious move. I don't know if the board expect Americans to be really that interested into the depth of local french politics (I supposed late night comedians would have a ball commenting on Jean Lassale's speeches, but would it really get an audience ?) ; or if they think they can provide a different take on world events - but I honestly don't see any difference between their editorial line and that of The Guardian, The Economist or the NYT. (And I don't have any particular problem with those lines, they're legitimate and debatable and not exactly subtle or contrary to the reader's interests.)

I wonder if they'll translate the "Décodeurs" section, which kinda brought the "fact checking" thing to France, for better or for worse. The original editor in chief for this section burnt out after one too many twitter mob shitstorm, and wrote a very nice "report from the trenches" book about social networks madness [1]

[1] https://livre.fnac.com/a15174266/Samuel-Laurent-J-ai-vu-nait...
Nuance like what? He's spot on imo.
It’s a very pessimistic worldview. While it’s true that they are great filter ahead of us I think climate change is not the biggest concern.

Look into Tony Seba to see how fast the transition to RE is happening.

We could also geoengineering the climate if it become a real problem.
The time requires to get the subsidies and the contortion you make to be in the boundaries of the program have a cost.
For me, it was about stress. I never did and still have trouble enjoying good things in the moment, because I’m always thinking about the next thing and how I need to prepare for it. Even when it’s unnecessary…

Our younger selves would never listen to us now anyway, but I’d probably tell my younger self to meditate and be more positive. It’s free to have a positive attitude and it helps a ton.

I’m not sure about others, but I do think I’d be roughly in the same spot if I relaxed more. I’m skeptical how much doing that extra 1% effort really helped me get further when it cost me sleep or joy.
Recent Graeber and Wengrow research has discredited Dunbar's number. It's nonsense, upon which so much more nonsense has been built.
I also found that running a PostgreSQL database is really simple. Especially if most of your workload is read only, a few dedicated servers at several providers with a PostgreSQL cluster can deliver 100% uptime and more than enough performance for pretty much any use case. At the same time, this will still be cheaper than one managed database at any cloud provider.

I've been running a PostgreSQL cluster with significant usage for a few years now, never had more than a few seconds downtime and I spend next to no time maintaining the database servers (apart from patching). If most requests are read only, clusters are so easy to do in Postgres. And even if one of the providers banned my account, I'd just promote a server at another provider to master and could still continue without downtime.

I recently calculated what a switch to a cloud provider would cost, and it was at least 10x of what I pay now, for less performance and with lock-in effects.

But I understand that there are business cases and industries where outsourcing makes sense.
except, one that one couldn't opt out of without it first crashing. that's not a good beta feature.
Cloth masks do very little. I recommend you listen to the explanations by infectious disease experts Dr. Monica Gandhi and Dr. Michael Osterholm.

https://peterattiamd.com/covid-part2/

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5VSukFrMYGae1ILd0e4HuR?si=F...
More North Sea gas and oil because it's lower carbon!

Reminds me of this line: "And if political correctness has achieved one thing, it's to make the Conservative Party cloak its inherent racism behind more creative language."
Most of the first wave of the Lebanese diaspora in Mexico were Christians. So, I don't see any dietary religious restrictions to their choice of going kosher and presumably forgoing pork in their commercial recipes for that dish.
It's an important question.

A lot of the discussion around basic income takes place in the context of Modern Monetary Theory. I mean, it kind of has too, because otherwise basic income is pretty unaffordable. I've done the math, it is possible but really hard.

To significantly oversimplify one stream of thought in Modern Monetary Theory, the idea is that you grow the money supply through government programs and shrink it through taxation and that's how you keep inflation in check. (That's also why you don't have to worry about the cost of government programs. The government can print and spend as much money as it wants, because doing so is just growing the money supply. And if inflation starts to go up, you just raise taxes in response.)

If you look at what's happening with inflation right now, some of it is wage growth pressure. You could argue that some of it was growth in the money supply - although I would give serious side eye to that argument because not very much was given out in those stimulus checks. But if you really look at what's driving price increases, you have to look at what's happening internally to companies. Wages are growing, yes, but prices are growing faster than wages. Why? Because corporate profits are growing even faster.

So one of the primary factors driving inflation isn't the increase in the money supply, or workers wage increases - it's companies taking advantage of the inflation to raise their prices even more. If you look at the numbers, if worker wage increases would require a 5% increase in prices, companies are taking that and then raises their prices 10% and taking the difference as profits. Corporate profits were already at all time highs, so they absolutely do not have to do that. It's effectively price gouging.

So if we look at a basic income, if we implement it in isolation, it's reasonable to believe the same thing will happen. Companies will simply raise their prices so that the top 10% (who own the majority of the stock), walk away with all that new money added to the supply.

If we really want basic income to have the impact we all hope it will have, we have to implement it alongside income and wealth caps. Basically, if you actually want a more equitable (and healthier for everyone) distribution of wealth, then you have to put hard limits on hoarding. And that's how you manage the money supply to manage inflation. You implement basic income alongside 100% wealth and income taxes above a certain level.
https://www.talhoffman.com
As simple as it gets
Which likely means the zero byte /bin/true is SLOWER than a compiled correct one because it has to first ENOEXEC and then reexecute via the shell.
Advances in findings have indeed been ignored, since Dunbar's number has been discredited yet people continue to recognize it as legitimate. I think it's an incredibly dangerous idea which has convinced a lot of people to run to their chains. See Graeber and Wengrow research cited here https://twitter.com/davidwengrow/status/1116786595351470080
Did I dream things up, or has the project never been clear about the fact it is macOS only when it was in closed beta? I have received countless e-mails from them (because signing up to the newsletter was required to be registered to the waiting list), but I would never have signed up if I had known it is macOS-only.
You should email HN using the Contact address at the bottom of the page for questions like this.
If so why?

Company policy change. We went from each office (or even department) basically doing their own thing and having their own billing accounts and negotiating (or not) their own deals, to one central cloud deal with central billing and administration.

The change from everybody doing their own thing to having a central devops strategy we all had to work within was a much bigger change than the actual changing of cloud providers.
I would agree that a bit more is required of Pilots, but similar to truck drivers, the skill required and hence the salary provided, will go down as the AI gets better and better.

I can easily imagine that at some point, pilots are replaced with technicians who are just there to fix redundant AI systems in case of failure.
I like the idea of situated knowledge. No one speak out of nowhere without any bias.

No one can cover all facts, and so any report will inevitably reflect biases in picking. For example, most human media out there are heavily anthropocentric. That doesn’t mean it is intrinsically bad, but this will definitely lead to covering events of the universe as if human actions was some kind of epitome phenomenon, despite the fact we have been capable of standing back as far as having pale blue dot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
I don't understand the hype for v3. There are a number of other secret detection tools out there that leave this in the dust. Plus, for all the money they took on (wasn't it more than $10M?) I'd expect a bigger delta between versions. From the commit history it looks like they superglued this thing together in ~3 months. Looking at the codebase, they also don't seem to know Golang very well.
Yes. I once did zero downtime migration first from AWS to Google, then from Google to Hetzner for a client. Mostly for cost reasons: they had a lot of free credits, and moved to Hetzner when they ran out.

Their savings from using the credits were at least 20x what the migrations cost.

We did the migration by having reverse proxies in each environment that could proxy to backends each place, set up a VPN between them, and switched DNS. Trickiest part was the database failover and ensuring updates would be retried transparently after switching master.

Upside was that afterwards they had a setup that was provider agnostic and ready to do transparent failover of every part of the service, all effectively paid for through the free credits they got.
“The Australian” is a national aggregation of the local city based Murdock owned papers.

It should not be listed without its competitors the Fairfax owned papers the “Sydney Morning Herald” and “The Age” also being listed.

Both the Murdock and Fairfax owned papers are equally prominent in the Australian media landscape and are essentially a duopoly in Australia’s biggest cities.
Important to note that LMD is owned by Le Monde, but has full editorial autonomy.
> Why do you use Comic Sans?
Because it's the best font ever invented, for everything. And because I know nothing about typography.

> I also use it for coding and love it: https://github.com/dtinth/comic-mono-font

I'm not sure if my taste is just awful but that actually looks amazing for programming. Going to give it a try (and see how long it takes my coworkers to notice).
My vague understanding (just from reading blog articles) is that iTunes became an insane metamorphization of the Eye of Sauron, an infinite pit of quicksand (blub blub) and Yes™, Inc (all things to all people).

Y'know, iPod (and later iPhone) sync, music browsing and purchasing, (payment handling), intelligent media organization (or some approximation thereof), working with giant media libraries...

I get the idea that everyone just feature-piled on top of the SoundJam code without fully scaling the design to the point of being able to coherently load-bear the additional functionality. So basically failure to adequately PM where it counts. That requires PM that understands engineering, which is sadly a tall order out of the gate and generally the most crucial before projects get big and the need for support becomes obvious.

*IFF* that happened in this case (I have absolutely no concrete idea), my question would be a) where "Steve really wants this - put a good PM on it" and/or b) where "this code explosion is killing everyone, we need PM help", ended up.

iTunes history anybody? (Genuinely curious, wondered for a while)
Instead of competing with the fresh grads, he should use his age to his advantage. Learn COBOL, and he'll be in-demand by US big banks/financial/insurance companies for the next 100 years.
> Yet we focus on these artificial goals set by childish dreams, society or life events.

I think this is your problem: you see artificial goals as a bad thing.
Hey thanks! It's built with Jekyll and Netlify. The galleries are all driven from a Google Sheet as a sort of DIY database.
Even visible wavelengths, especially from fluorescent/LED lighting, can skunk beer. So it's not impossible that this could happen to milk, for whatever that's worth.
I don't think it's sponsored. Wendover's entire channel is like this and doesn't necessarily focus on the corn industry or agriculture. It definitely has a logistic bent. A lot of the videos are focused on airline logistics/industry, which is where I think they got their start, and they've been branching out to different industries.
Thanks, I checked it out. Awesome! So many mind disturbing images.
> Being married makes the family more financially stable due to sharing of expenses either having two earners or being able to divide working and taking care of the household.

This does not seem to be supported by real world. In real world, poor people marry less in the first place. And when family income goes down, people divorce more.

> Domestic violence is an orthogonal problem that’s common across the developing world,

This is not true. The ability to divorce and leave partner makes it lower. The inability to divorce and social pressure to marry makes it higher. It is primary ability to be single when you want/need to that makes it go lower. Whether you will report domestic violence or not also depends on your ability to leave - because if you report it and then stay married, punishment will follow.

And afaik, unfortunately, it is mostly common among cops.
I love LMD, but I have to agree with the bias warning here. LMD makes no effort to be impartial. There are definitely things I strongly disagree with in LMD, and I'm still looking for a similar paper with different opinions in my news consumption.
Holding you hand in front of your mouth panther utterly useless either.
Archaeologists find ‘perfectly preserved’ fossil of dinosaur
I'm certain they did, but maybe before writing a whole blog about a topic you should do some basic research?

I guess it's disappointing is all.
It confirmed my observations about teams of 100+ people. It serves a purpose for me as a way to start discussing the issue of communications and management within a team.

Not a huge thing, like many things. But it is a useful pice of a puzzle that works, for me.
squid ink soft serve is common and not weird
Funny, but honestly, a single dedicated server should easily be able to handle a million users, for most CRUD apps.
I think Politico.eu is also pretty good for EU coverage. Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium with additional offices in London, Berlin, Paris.
Seed oils.
Did You Receive a Text Message from Yourself? You’re Not Alone
I'm still not a fan of the second way. If you develop all your software to tightly integrate with AWS, you might save time developing the software but create a huge amount of technical debt.

Managing your own infrastructure (with dedicated servers, so no hardware management) isn't too hard, even if you're a small shop. And managing a fleet of AWS services isn't necessarily less work.

Maybe there's a reason all ads for cloud tend to compare it to running your own data center. Because once you get rid of hardware management, it's not really that much easier being in the cloud, at the risk of lock-in and huge surprise bills.
Depends whether you download it or just stream it.
The web is overrun by pop-ups and blockers haven’t worked in years
I had a similar feeling of pointlessness. For me I realized that that feeling stemmed from viewing myself as powerless and small in the face of the complexity and chaos of the world. How could I possibly make any meaningful change from where I am?

I came to believe that everyone is in that same boat. Those we look up to as having made "meaningful" change were just the right people in the right place and time and had relatively little control over that destiny. That probably won't be me or you, but it definitely won't happen to someone that starves to death, dies from a preventable illness or is just fighting to survive each day. So, I came to believe that the greatest leverage I have for making change in the world is to remove barriers for as many other people as possible and just increase the pool of people that might be the right person in the right place and time to solve the really big problems we all face.

Furthermore, spreading the idea that helping others is the best way to help the world can leverage a network effect. You might help the person that helps the person that is then able to solve a really big problem.
The strengths of Matlab is that it's a domain-specific glue language with a domain-specific interactive environment. It's great if the benefits to you are worth the specificity and investment. Otherwise, something like Python might suit your needs better.

Either way, there's still often at least some native code you have to write and wrap. That's where a professional programmer might get involved. But probably more often than not, it's the engineers and scientists themselves.
Presumably, most anything worthwhile would still be in Z/OS from whence it would have pretty naturally made its way into IBM's Unix and eventually Linux.

OS/360 was quite different from most modern operating systems--most notably it was batch and designed for very small memory sizes--but different isn't really better in this case.