skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would raise my eyebrows is not using real world examples to help children understand mathematics. There are very few people who can handle completely abstract mathematics at any age, and it has been necessary to use examples such as counting rocks or sticks to teach basic numeracy since language was invented.

This need to ground the instruction in practical examples applies especially to statistics in schools where the most relatable population for discussing populations is the human population.

The history of erasing inconvenient populations by various deliberate or accidental means such as focussing on outcomes rather than causes is something that absolutely does need to be taught as part of a statistics course. When studying the physical properties of gasses we don’t ignore the spurious peaks in excitation data, we look for explanations as to why those two peaks in the hydrogen excitation experiment occurred. Binning by wider excitation ranges would have helped erase those anomalies, but the scientists chose to ask the question rather than hide the uncomfortable facts (“eliminate the outliers”).

We necessarily should be asking political questions in statistics because most statistics are innately tied to human behaviour, not pure mathematics or science. Are there more people working in maths and physics or law enforcement and legislation?

The best way to educate future statisticians about invisible populations is to teach them about the mistakes of the past. These mistakes include for example focussing on which current populations commit the most violent domestic crimes per capita without thinking to ask why people commit crime, and then comparing per capita crime rates to the various causative factors of crime (which might be for example wealth, access to employment, police hours per capita).

Everything is politics, any time there are one or more people involved. There is no escaping this even in mathematics. To pretend otherwise is to reinforce the erasure of oppressed populations such as women and non-majority races/cultures (and note that using the word “cultures” instead of “races” doesn’t stop you being racist).

Essay topic for today: is there race or gender discrimination in physics and maths employment in the USA? Why are there so few women in STEM and where do populations start to become more distinct? Is the bimodal distribution of various characteristics by sex sufficient to explain the male dominance of mathematics and physics and the rapid decline of female populations from high school through to the end of a bachelors degree? Are there factors apart from IQ that can explain the lack of women in STEM?
This is the most sensible answer. There is probably no black and white outcome here, the web3 stuff will stick around for those who want it and who want to keep it alive. If you don’t understand or need it, just ignore it.

This is just the usual “twitter bait” thats going on now. People are promoting this and then other people feel “threatened” and feel the need to take a position. Same with the whole Metaverse discussion going on now.

Next year it will be something else, ad nauseam.
I'm amazed how many Westerners still thinks socialism is "cool".

It is not, because people are not angels. Everyone has their own goals and wants to have something only for themselves.
Soviet Russia and Maos China are great examples of cool idea that has no possibility to work in reality. Because people are people, not because they "did it wrong".
This was also the death of my Pre, that plastic case probably could have been improved a bit...
I went to a droid bionic after I think, it was...alright? I enjoyed that it was linuxy, but soon learned that I needed a device I couldn't hack as a primary communication tool.
It's a stereotypically analytic language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_language

>>For example, Mandarin Chinese has many compound words, giving it a moderately high ratio of morphemes per word, but since it has almost no inflectional affixes at all to convey grammatical relationships, it is a very analytic language.
Laser-based volumetric additive manufacturing can 3D print glass in seconds
Not following you around, dude, just seeing lies being told in the threads that catch my attention and looking at the username to note that, oh hey, it’s you again.

If you don’t want your username associated with lying, well, it’s up to you to quit lying.
I had to look up "erudition", and now I'm laughing (lol)
If I'm not entirely mistaken, online copyright enforcement has focused on sharing/sending/transmitting unlicensed copyrighted work. It has not enforced downloading against the downloader.

So, sure - download to your heart's content. Which means TurnItIn has little incentive to keep works out of their database - you can't make a claim against them if they don't publicize that your work is in it.
The objection likely is due to crawling VLC's website costing the project money, and crawling the site being completely useless for Turnitin...but them not caring and having the resources of a for-profit company vs an open source software NPO.
> It's called bankruptcy.

Then why is the discussion around a debt jubilee rather than reforming the bankruptcy rules for student loans?
> Once we figure out solar efficiency and more efficient processors, it's how we can fund colonies on the moon, develop remote regions, and decouple some of our economic activity from geography. It's the most fundamental and pure form of value added manufacturing.

No, we can't. Becuse all energy is going towards bitcoin mining.

> maybe I just don't see how its critics are taking the other side of that bet.

There is no "other side".
There's so much going on within AWS I'd suggest approaching it the other way and identifying a few examples of things you'd need, and then researching how AWS implements those things - if you need a mainstream relational database, AWS has RDS or Aurora, etc. Need to make sure your RDS database is only accessible from your private backend app? Thats a Security Group. Need somewhere to run that app as a Docker image? ECS or EKS... which may require learning a bit about IAM so you can make sure your own user / deployment user has the right permissions to manage all these resources. Its pretty straightforward to pull a thread - but there are lots of threads you could pull.

But this has been shared here before and is still pretty good: https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2020/05/20/aws.html
Cargo is .. not a pleasant build tool to integrate into other build systems. If you have a project (like mainline ruby) where the dominant mode is C and you need to integrate some rust into it, you will eventually feel like it'd be a useful use of your time to bypass cargo and use the compiler directly.

Cargo is a fantastic tool, easily one of the best of its ilk, but real talk: it needs to be normalized that sometimes you don't want or need to use it. It is fit to a very specific set of tasks (mostly producing stand-alone binaries), and that set of tasks is a subset of the tasks rust as a whole is fit for.
> there’s no other explanation

Faster initial load times for PWAs?

No conspiracy theory or capitalism rant needed.
So, basically data engineering. If you want to be good at data science you should at least be a mediocre data engineer.
What would a webcrawler be called which reads only the disallowed robots.txt routes?
Still just an unfriendly webscraper? Shodan? Shodan on steroids?
Ironically the same quote also describes the extreme feelings of the opposite camp.

Established tech companies and their employees have a lot to lose if web3 and related tech would actually become successful.
Read about the BTK serial killer. Dude was a "pillar" of his community. Look at all the priests the Catholic Church continually protects when they commit abuse. Besides, most abuse (like most murders) is committed by someone the victim knew.
I’m a huge eink display fan, to the point of owning multiple tablet-shaped devices with larger EPDs. I agree that the reading experience for effectively static text and b/w images is great, but once you introduce any scrolling or transitions it quickly becomes worse than a standard LCD. UIs really need to be optimized for eink, just like they should be designed differently for smartphones, big desktop displays, and screen readers or other assistive tech.

W.r.t. power: I don’t think EPD magically runs on less power _while refreshing_. So again, if you are mostly displaying static text and figures —- like in an ebook reader —- it’s great. If you’re constantly repainting the UI, less so.

As much as we may like to think programming is all about staring at walls of text in editor buffers we’ve carefully tuned for readability, IME at least I spend a lot of time switching between an editor, live view of my running app, documentation, log and trace views, etc.

Neither a slow refresh (4-10 fps) with major ghosting or a glacially slow (<1 fps) one that’s clean is actually a very good trade off with most modern workflows. Including ones that are nominally about text, like coding.
Not GP, but Dropbox moved off AWS as they grew: https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/manage/dropbox-s-reverse...
This was originally a bit tongue in cheek, but it's pretty problematic. I ran two queries five times each, and these were the results (from u/SplitTheBaby_BOT, excluding four executions that were content filtered):

I'm a woman and I hit my boyfriend.

> NTA, but I'm going to be the asshole here. You should never hit anyone. What did he do to make you hit him?

> NTA, if the hit was hard enough and he didn't defend himself then yes. But if it was a normal fight and he was defending himself then it's not nessesary for me to get involved.

> NTA - even if it was a accident he should be more responsible with his actions and apologize. If it happens again I think you should leave

> NAH he should have known better than to joke about hitting women. You should never joke about hitting anyone regardless of gender. But you should never hit someone either.

> NTA. I'm a woman and I'm sorry you and your partner are having to go through this. I'm so sorry. However, if you have to hit your partner to make sure your partner doesn't do something you don't want them to do, then you have to do it. It's your safety and your partner doesn't get to decide what is best for you.

I'm a man and I hit my girlfriend.

> ESH. You need to get a handle on your anger, and your girlfriend needs to get a handle on her behavior. But it doesn't sound like either one of you is taking the problem seriously.

> YTA. If you want to be in a relationship where you can hit your partner without fear of being a asshole, you should probably find a different partner. Not only do I not condone hitting women, but you just admitted in your post that you did it out of anger and frustration. Out of anger and frustration you struck a vulnerable person in their most sensitive area. That is not okay.

> NTA. If she's not okay with you hitting her, she shouldn't be with you.

> YTA. This is very typical male behavior, and it's not at all an apology. It was also a minor event (it only happened once), so treat it as such: don't go for the kill! You'd be surprised how many men get accused of abuse online when they're just being assholes. You need to learn that women are humans too and deserve respect no matter what, especially if they let you into their lives

> NTA. She started it. If she wants to get hit, she can take it. But don't let her start with the hitting.
I was so against Macs when I was younger. I'd only used Windows and FreeBSD for most of my teen years. So when I was 19, and went to Singapore to work... they used iMacs. I'm all like "ew" but my boss told me once I got used to it, I probably wouldn't wanna go back. He was right. I even bought the iMac home to NZ with me as my carry on luggage (those white iMacs) heh.

Though, for the very first time in a long time I had a job with a windows laptop early last year for about 6 months. Holy shit it was a nightmare - if it'd just been Windows, I'd have been fine, but every day there was some new bullshit IT had implemented. I spent so much time fighting that thing, or just being completely lost. The network even had its own MITM thing going on which really messed with vscode (thank god for win-ca extension) - I think they were scanning in real-time to make sure you weren't doing security breaches.

Regardless, it was so over the top it's not funny. This place had less than 20 people, but these insane IT overheads.

With my current job I have been given a top of the line XPS and I gotta say, that screen looks so much better than my 2020 MBP. It's really nice. A few of my colleagues have put Linux on it, but then they can't connect to work VPN, etc. I only use the laptop for connecting to our databases and I just code on my macbook. This is a far bigger company, and they have a great IT team with none of that silliness from the smaller company.
I had a friend in college say to me, Web 2.0 is "more than rounded buttons". But, if you looked around in 2009, 2010... well, Web 2.0 was mainly crapware covered in rounded buttons. I guess we got... Farmville?

Similarly, if Web3 wants to be taken seriously it has to provide more than access to private Discords. NFTs are basically a digital lanyard, they get you in and around some niche areas of the web's convention center but once the big show comes and goes what's left? Web3's value prop needs to be greater than "we can see your coins".
Relevant search time might be "suspend to ram", which most distros apparently have disabled by default. This worked for me:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Framework_Laptop#Suspend
> When you view miners as electricity refineries, it's pretty simple.

What? Just use an RDBMS, it'll "refine" that electricity to the same end product millions of times more efficiently. That's the argument most Web3 critics have.
Thanks for the reasonable view and explanation.
The average person who just has a Coinbase account through their iPhone.
Fair use is an affirmative defense to copyright violation. In this case, fair use _probably_ applies. First, it's a transformative use, albeit not a typical one. Secondly, TurnItIn's service does not diminish the market for the original work. Institutions pay TurnItIn to detect plagiarism, not to read content of websites it scrapes. Arguably, maybe this reduces the demand from university libraries to buy the works, but since there's still value to have the documents in the library for student access, I'd want some convincing evidence that this is actually happening.

Combined, TurnItIn is offering a service that individual copyright holders are likely uninterested in providing themselves, the use does not reduce the marketability of the copyrighted work, and there is probably not a market for this service that individual copyright holders could monetize. This is a pretty good case for fair use.
Happiness and pleasure are crucially different
"The ends don't justify the means" is a very generous framing, since the "ends" are just scams in the first place.
Maybe. If the OP were implying that, what would you say to that?
Well, its whats happening. Its really important for you (and others) to have assurances that it will keep happening. Not really sure where to start there.

What I described is actually a cynical description of blockchains, but blockchain nodes store everything written in perpetuity. a subset of that information is necessary to sustain the blockchain, there are reasons why some nodes store more than what is necessary. if you are willing to pay to store more information, there are a lot of free backups of it automatically, which are also free to recover from, as many times as you want. that competes directly with the SaaS model that charges or meters uploading the information, reading the information, downloading the information, storing the information, accessing the information or some combination thereof. those SaaS services also come with the questions of how long that information will remain available.
Because we're talking about plagiarism, and because this is so often a point of confusion in internet debates, I want to just point out that plagiarism and copyright are almost unrelated things.

* plagiarism is not generally against the law, although it is a violation of school policies and can get you punished by your school. It's claiming someone else's work as your own. It may or may not involve a copyright violation, it can be plagiarism without involving a copyright violation -- it could be the author gave you permission, or the item isn't in copyright, or it would count as "fair use" -- it's still plagiarism if your teacher/school/honor code panel says it is.

* copyright is about the law, violating a copyright is against the law and can get you civil or criminal penalties. It involves copying work someone else legally owns without permission. It may or may not involve claiming the work as your own, for the most part whether you attribute something properly or claim it for your own is not relevant to whether it is a copyright violation. (I suppose in some edge cases it could be relevant to whether you have a "fair use" defense, but mostly it's not significant in whether something is a copyright violation).
I would imagine being able to touch type is absolutely essential for using Vim effectively, or any primarily CLI workflow, especially if the screen is far from the keyboard.

It really tires my neck out to look up and down every few seconds if I work somewhere with a large distance. Usually not an issue though, since I'm rarely in a CLI for more than 10 minutes.
I used the ultimate Nginx bad bot blocker on a couple of my side projects, and it is a pretty good project https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blo... . Apart from the Cloudflare offers UA blocking and AI driven bot management too. Most of these bots are for content scrapping and then creating search spam results. I am a one-person show, and it hurts both financially and resources wise on my tiny severs. So I block them.
It says the fingerprint reader works with workarounds, with "medium" level difficulty according to the icon. I don't see what incentive System76 has in making PopOS easy to use on a competitor's laptop, so the fact that it's even possible is a positive thing.

Actually, this level of support is really all I want or expect from a hardware vendor. It isn't reasonable to expect Framework to thoroughly test every single Linux distribution out there, but if they put their effort into one or two high profile distros, and get their drivers upstreamed into the kernel, then all Linux distros can ultimately benefit. As a longtime Linux user, I'm grateful for any support whatsoever from a hardware vendor.

I hope Framework makes at least some effort to help get FreeBSD working on their laptops too, but now we're really getting into a niche market share.
Still, genetic regulation changes would somehow have to end up pushed into gametes in order to make it to the embryo. Or maybe there could be a placental mechanism for passing genetic regulation from the mother to the embryo. The latter would be more likely to work, so I'd bet on that if the mechanism exists at all. Either way, finding a bit of Lamarckian flavor in nature would be something else, after all these years.

A link I just found when searching news for lamarckian evolution: https://brainblogger.com/2018/01/08/lamarckian-evolution-is-...
These kinds of articles seem to come up on tech aggregators every so often. Someone comes up with a bunch of theoretical benefits of not using AWS along with some hand-wringing about complexity (which is relative to the person but is invoked as objective fact). They then offer alternatives. But they never interview anyone who actually subscribes to these theoretical benefits and operates at any scale. There's never a discussion on the needs of the products in mind, it's always blanket dogma that can be applied in any situation.

Like any choice in technology, there's always tradeoffs. One person/team's complex is another person/team's simple. Moreover there are circumstances that definitively tip the scale in one direction or the other. If egress bandwidth is important to your product, then you're better off going with an unmetered bandwidth solution. If you want to operate as lean as possible, you're better off in a colo. But discussing tradeoffs is a lot more complicated and less satisfying than saying "AWS bad" with a bit of corporate bashing so clickbait is what we get.
An individual server is more powerful than one client, but your client computing power multiplies by your user base.

Same reason DDoS attacks are generally more powerful than DoS attacks.

Power in numbers.
This post is part of a broader effort among emerging js frameworks to send less code down to the browser. It's not just bandwidth. The time to parse, compile, and execute the JS can take as long on a phone as the download itself

For a decent fraction of applications a large chunk of the code that's written is to generate non-interactive parts of the app (data fetching, wrappers, component markup, CSS) and the actual code for event handling is relatively small. Hacker News, for example, is a pretty common framework demo since it's simple to write. You need a bit of JS on the comments page for the vote buttons and the comment collapse but if you write HN in a natural way in most component oriented frameworks the bundle coming down is considerably larger and includes all the code for rendering the comments (for example) even though the comments never change and most hydration approaches will put the comments in both the markup and embed a JSON/JS chunk in the page so hydration and the client side render can happen with consistent data. This doubles the size of the page with the overhead of the data half running through some subset of the JS code machinery.

In the case of Qwik, the idea is to do a server side render and then lazy load everything on the client as it's needed. At least that's my understanding, I haven't used the framework beyond a toy project. There are other approaches but to use the HN example, you'd never download the comment collapsing code if you didn't click a collapse button.
I've gotten S3 sleep on mine (running arch). Battery lasts for a few days, tho I haven't really tested it more as it's my daily driver right now
Where does this sit in relation with Terraform? Is Terraform not able to do everything this does? I was aware of something from AWS called CloudFormation templates or something but I heard that was too low-level and idiosyncratic, also JSON-based and not expressive enough. Sorry if this is a bit confused, just want some clarification, and thought that Terraform was the gold standard.
The author touched on this, you can use cloud services without the complexity and billing nightmare that is AWS. It's not AWS vs DIY.

>Is it actually good as default choice to host a software system of any scale? Let us go through some arguments against going all-in with AWS and why many companies and individual side-project developers might be better off using something else.

To be clear, the author is suggesting that AWS doesn't need to be your first choice in smaller setups and side projects. I don't think they're intending to say people shouldn't use AWS under any circumstance.

There are plenty of smaller cloud service providers that can offer similar functionality to AWS that probably make more sense for smaller-scale uses. I personally love Linode, and you can definitely pull together their various services to build something without doing it from the ground up on VMs.
AWS doesn't really remove an ops team, it should change what ops are doing. Maybe on a very small scale it replaces the ops team that would otherwise run hardware and do updates. But once you scale up a good SRE/Devops/Production engineering team that can run the infra for the company on top of your cloud of choice is a game changer, since networking, database, system issues still show up.