skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We built that big cement dam decades and decades ago. We've learned so much about engineering and risk assessment since then. It makes sense that we might need to do a little debugging and refactoring now and then.

It's pretty reasonable to drill a few small holes in the dam, and to defer maintenance in favor of more urgent priorities.

Dogmatic commitment to the old no-hole-drilling and take-maintenance-seriously dialogues of the past is just a quaint antiquarian tradition.
I don't think it has to be related to any point you put in here. I think when STEM people comment on math education, they easily forget K-12 math education is for all students, not future college STEM students.

Lots of controversies in math education between STEM professors (especially mathematicians) and K-12 math educators/researchers are rooted in this. In the community of math and science education, we educators/researchers always focus on average students who will grow into future citizens, not STEM workers. This is really a different mindset to STEM professors.
Yeah, sounds smart.
For a statistically insignificant portion of people, sure. It doesn’t make it any less correct.
"You don't have to monetize your joy" - via https://repeller.com/trap-of-turning-hobbies-into-hustles/
I miss ALPS switches. They were absolutely the best. MX is no better than nice rubber dome in my mind (which I use today) while being much less reliable.
For people in this thread comparing _Rails_ with _Go_ can you please help me understand something about Go:
Is it a language that also has in std/core library web framework like support? Like PHP?

I ask as I dont understand why people say drop Rails and learn Go. And I am looking to learn a new language along with Ruby and Elixir.

Why is Go compared with Rails and not with Ruby?

If Go does not include a default support for web frameworks then what web framework would you suggest for doing a web SaaS like management of posting on social media?

I dont want to create this but i use it as an example as it has image uploads, date/time, jobs, … things I can do easily in Rails and have already battle tested solutions available.
People are drawn to strong emotions, positive or negative. It could be anger, fear, joy, cuteness, anything that evokes our lizard brain. It is orthogonal to making the world a better place IMO
As far as I can tell, the point about Kotlin is correct.
native-image takes a minute to compile the binary from the jar but after that it's pretty smooth. I noticed my css styles where a bit different here and there but that could be due to differences in the default stylesheet used in my jvm build (OpenJDK with OpenJFX) vs the native-image build (using Gluon and maybe a customized JavaFX version)
Not sure Go is a very good example here, compiled languages have a huge maintainability advantage in monoliths (at the cost of compile time).

Ruby/Rails' culture is a huge contributor to why Rails monoliths are so much more difficult to maintain compared to other dynamic languages. Things in Rubyland just love to be global and manipulate things globally and go out of their way to make that behavior hidden.
In this discussion, browser and hardware are intrinsically linked, because the hardware is the platform that the browser lives on, and iOS as a platform has specific restrictions about what browser engines can be used on it.
I do support this in principle, and I don't think apple should be allowed to block other browsers, and I also think they should be forced to allow sideloading in general.

That being said, in practice, I fear that this will lead to badness. Google already has so much power over what the web is and is not, and this will only strengthen it further.
How do you shutdown?

I'd lose my mind if this had "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing"
Why does nobody remember the role in slavery of Africans, Arabs, Asians, and other ethnic groups?
The intention was to dumb down mathematics. If you lower the bar sufficiently you can get everyone over it. Then we'll all be equal, which is the goal of this curriculum.
> "How can this optimism be justified? Not on the basis of specific future technologies—which, again, are unproven—but on the basis of philosophical premises about the nature of humans and of progress."

The premise is "optimists make money" but if there is no clear understanding of where the next technological breakthrough will come from, then it seems like the author is suggesting just going long on the S&P500? The Wilshire 3000?

That's hardly anything revolutionary and won't make you anymore money than your peers around who'd also employ the same tactic, not because they had a philosophical enlightment but because their wealth manager at whatever bank produced for them the most classic 60-40 equities-bonds portfolio.

We all like an optimist article about optimism but can we focus on the making money part?

Maybe using leverage on the S&P500 when there are signals of a breakthrough? But again, if you can't predict the company or even the industry it would come from then how do you know to be on the cusp?

It reads like something like: BS-ing yourself into believing your own hype and go on a binge of irrational exhuberance based on philosophy and past breaktrhoughs which happened when everything seemed static and decaying...so they will happen again at some point in some sector of the economy.
I am pretty sure people used to call others stupid or intelligent even in Ancient Egypt. Quantifying that measure is not really such a huge leap.
But how would you "motivate" the formulas without knowing where they came from? Why is this the formula we use and not something else?

To go back to the car analogy, I know why I need an engine, you might even say I know how to use the engine, but if the engine dies or I want to use the engine for some other purpose, I'm not equipped to do anything.

I don't have "literacy" with engines, I have rote memorization of a series of steps. I don't have enough information to know why the steps are what they are, nor could I know under what conditions the steps should change or what they should change to.
I used Digidesign Sound Tools and Sound Tools II on a Mac IIx at the studio from 91 to 93, also Opcode Studio Vision (using the Digidesign card); then we upgraded with another piece of Digidesign kit that was some sort of "ProTools lite", with a large rack-mounted audio I/O box.

Most people still used Cubase on Atari 1040ST back then for their musical musings ;)
Where can you get a house for $250k?
And despite this still being so embarrassingly pathetic in real fighting
Yes. High loads, and high stakes (hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of transactions per hour, is one metric I do know).
It is intriguing to see EU’s vs US’s philosophy differences. Such legislation would never fly in US. People will be up in arms about government interference and not letting businesses figure things out. The general sentiment in US is that government is stupid, incompetent and inefficient. They put more barriers to progress and almost always screw things up even when they are well intentioned. This philosophy has worked out well at least considering there in no Apple, Google, Tesla or other thousands of companies in EU and some how all these creative giants almost always born in US. The concerning part is that all EU legislation get automatically applied in US. For example, none of the US companies have to do stupid “accept cookies” things but they are forced into it anyway.
The Infiltrated Country
I figure the carving hieroglyphs might be a pretty middle class job.
To put this into perspective, the US spent $4.7T on social programs in 2021.

https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/spend...

Other categories were defense + veterans benefits (about $1T), general government (about $.25T) and interest on the debt (about $.35T)
If you're looking for something to deliver an app you can share/sell, you should still do Electron. Tauri is still quite early and I don't know about node-gui (likely the same).

Electron is stable and has figured out all the quirks of delivering apps to windows and macos (packaging, signing, notarizing, etc.) which are a massive pain in the butt. The memory usage is terrible, but at least, you can deliver something.
> Are you aware that the U.S. spends among the most on primary education

Yes, and I'm also aware that in the US we expect the public school system to be a primary treatment center for the disadvantages and traumas associated with poverty and unequal opportunity.

It's more expensive (and harder) to educate hungry, ignored, and traumatized children than it is to educate children who are well take care of. They need more support staff, more psychologists, more free lunch programs, after-school care that their parents can never afford. And it's hard to attract good teachers to teach academics in those circumstances.

The major problems with primary education in the US are largely faced disadvantaged communities, not prosperous ones. If we decide to remove educational funding from disadvantaged communities, we have to be prepared to either put it into those communities in other ways, otherwise we'll face even greater problems in schools.

None of that is to say that there doesn't need to be more accountability in school systems - there is a lot that needs to be done to re-examine how education is delivered. But just looking at the situation by comparing $ spent on primary education between countries is oversimplifying things.
Why should I have sympathy for someone who rents at premium prices but doesn't get premium services?

They can, wait for it, MOVE. (One benefit of being rich is the ability to respond when things are not as you'd like.)
I'm also willing to bet good money 99% of criminals don't care about the data and just want to flip it for cash.

Unless you're being targeted by someone, of course. In that case you have way more problems to worry about than your laptop being unlocked...
> Most things people do aren’t that hard and people have the ability to learn to do them

Have you considered that maybe you're just unusually talented? I know most things people do are very hard for me, and the few things I do are very easy. Learning history is an uphill slog even though I love it, but math doesn't warrant effort. For a while I just figured people that failed math were lazy and people that passed history were geniuses, but it turns out people have different amounts of natural talent. It's not the start, it's the slope
Nomad is definitely the future
I'm definitely going to put Caddy on my next NAS build, sounds like a delightful proxy to setup.
What no one told you about HTML z-index (2013)
I'll do it :)
Will it run bolo?
The hosts are very sane with their movie reviews as well, nearly every film receives 5 bags of popcorn, even if it was painful to watch!
Sounds useful.

Could not find any mentioning of the license of their client at least in mobile view on their home page.

This seems also useful for more criminal activities than I can imagine. How long will this stay free and open to the public?
In particular the traditional Persian new year (Nowruz) starts in spring, and is celebrated throughout central asia as far as Kazakhstan.
s/deciminate/disseminate/
>"We went into Iraq primarily because a group of Neoconservatives were drunk on the unipolar moment and believed the US could spread democracy at the barrel of a gun and remake the Middle East"

Ah sorry. All valid and noble reasons. No crime here. Dead, mutilated, starved, displaced and otherwise abused Iraqis salute you.

Also message outlining your honorable goals should be directed to the parent to whom I was replying. Was not my claim that the US did it for oil.
it's sad how the framing of these as "excuses" rather than "reasons" for missing work has been pushed by the blog post (the original article did not use the word), and blithely accepted.
I have done this in the past (printing in the Z-direction) but it is very limited for the reason you are describing: the print head gets in the way.

Another limit is that it takes time for the plastic to become hard. So if you print in the Z-direction you sometimes have to wait before you can continue.
I get the sense that "disabled" is still in its avant-garde phase. "retarded" passed that in my circles maybe a few years ago, but also there was a time where it was much like "disabled" is today.

Aside, somehow "retarded" got replaced by "special needs" or "short bus" in some circles which also sounds insulting to me, so maybe we'll continue this treadmill for awhile longer.
> Competency is not established for the individuals involved in the study!

They are being talked to in the terms of what the groups they belong to care about. What about that did you fail to understand?

> Using the revised liberal definition of racist that requires one to discriminate against asians and assume black people are incompetent, sure.

No, using the definition that people who think different races are less intelligent due to genetics. You clearly haven't read it, or if you did read it, you didn't understand it. Being a liberal, I won't reach to thinking this is due to your poor genetics but will instead point out that your poor reading ability is something that can be fixed and that society should strive to fix.

> Do you still think it's a good idea to teach this stuff in math class?

Sure, why not? This is real data that they're being asked to fit a polynomial to. The fact that you are offended by what the data shows does not make the data less real or the exercise any less instructive.

> Using my definition of racism?

To be clear, your definition of racism is to speak to people according to the problems that their communities face (whether it be competence of politicians or politicians who ignore their problems) instead of in exactly the same terms. I have heard of nobody else who shares your definition.

> Not the ones I've talked to who have been trying to repeal constitutional prohibitions against racial discrimination in order to bring about policies of systemic racism and discrimination in their institutions

The policies they are pushing for are to reduce crime and poverty, which helps all people. Giving support to groups that need it instead of groups that won't benefit from it necessarily involves discrimination. It is beneficial to debate which policies are likely to have the largest benefit, but sticking your head in the sand and ignoring the problem (and then justifying it by hypothesizing that no policy will help due to genetics without providing any evidence for genetic difference in intelligence) is the type of lazy thinking that permeates conservative thought.
SAP System/C(lay)
My Apple IIe was a BBS in 1982.
The answer is "yes it's on there", but more meaningfully - does it handle networking enough that we could have a massive bolo lan party?
It's a real travesty that law suits cost money. It basically ensures the one with the deepest pockets has the largest chance of winning. I would love to see a country that doesn't allow commercial lawyers for lawsuits. But instead both parties get a randomly assigned lawyer from the state. The party that is suing also has to pay a sum of money which they get back if the case is deemed non-ridiculous.
At the risk of getting downvoted for sarcasm...

"Stop"? That's harsh
"Tellling?" That excludes people who are unable to talk
"People?" Whoa, aren't we constantly going on about animals and even plants being sentient creatues?

So "differently continue communicating to sentient creatures"... Oh wait, creationism? ...
BREWING THE BEER is a good excuse, ngl.
I mean, there is literally no way to confuse it with another date, unless you go back 100 years, when Slack didn't exist.

There is no 22nd month, so we know the 22s are the day and the year, leaving only the 2 to be the month. Is it really that difficult to parse?
Context:

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2018/07/13/macos-10-14-mojave-remove...
I have similar story. Studied film animation at university for 4 years, last year working in game industry... Most skills I learned that last year at work. At uni first 3 semesters was actually for learning something new - mostly in working with software, but the rest not worth it.

In art industry diploma doesn't mean much. Portfolio and contacts are everything you need.
Single File Applications
> I'm using a popular, >$1300, very favorably reviewed monitor, and the text is ever-so-slightly fuzzy.

Some programs let you use pixel-perfect fonts, even today. For example, in iterm2 I do "Profiles > Text > Monaco Regular 10pt non-antialiased"
I suspect the JMESPath people would argue that if you want to do major transformations to the input, you should write a proper program, and that a CLI query tool should focus on, well, querying.

I'm personally trying to move away from jq and towards jp, because

- there's a standard defining it, not just an implementation, decreasing the odds of being stuck with an unmaintained tool

- there are libraries supporting the syntax for most of the major programming languages

- JMESPath's relative simplicity compared to jq is a good thing, IMO - Turing-completeness is a two-edged sword

- JMESPath is the AWS CLI query language, which is a convenient bonus
What I'm wondering is why it even matters. Is a twitter follower count important for anything?
I doubt that it is.
https://archive.ph/20220418100835/https://www.theatlantic.co...
How do they deal with the late bloomers?

I didn't really find my academic ability, and programming until I was in my twenties.
You're only closer to the homeless guy with a completely naive take on the utility of money.
Somehow it feels like languages are clashing here.

>D should worry less how great language it is,

You are just replying to some guy expressing an opinion on internet about how to do something better, and using D as example.
If by the end of fossil fuels you mean tripling down on coal instead of oil then surr
Might as well get a head start on that edit button.
Useful website, in principle. HORRIBLE READING EXPERIENCE. My eyes gave up after a couple seconds.
I don't often notice downvotes by virtue of rarely spending extended time on HN, and don't stress out over them when I do notice them because, beyond expressing a nebulous and rarely actionable sense of community disapproval and changing a number on my profile, they don't provide any signal worth getting excited about. But thanks just the same, I suppose!
When I read this article I think of transgenderism. It sterilizes its followers, but enough of them promote transgenderism that the fraction of people identifying as transgender has grown dramatically.
Researchers generally analyze intervention success by intention to treat.

If a treatment is telling people to "start paying attention to one's calorie intake," and that doesn't have the desired effect, whatever the reason, I think it's fair to say that intervention isn't useful.
It's reasonable to expect that Musk might need to sell off some stock to cover the purchase. Though the amount of the sell-off is five times the amount of cash Musk will need to pony up.

It's also not unreasonable that Musk might sacrifice some attention to his car company, though it's unclear just how much magic he brings on a day-to-day basis.

Overreactions are not unusual in the stock market, especially in highly volatile ones.

Disclaimer: long TSLA
> If you very soberly, wisely, prudently stick to the known and the proven, you will necessarily be pessimistic.

I consider myself optimist but I don't trust any unknown. If I have experience with something, I will soberly, wisely, prudently stick to the known and to the proven.

I guess it's a matter of defining the known and the proven though: for me nothing is absolute because there are too many variables to most nontrivial situations, way more than a person can hold in their minds, save, recollect, and even verify, that affects an outcome in ways you don't even imagine. Life is not a tic-tac-toe match: way more things are connected than we can put in a human brain, or even multiple human brains.

So even navigating unexplored territory a thousand times may not transform it into explored territory and you will only realize it when you optimistically expect things to go according to your plan. You are not consciously 'trusting the unknown': if you have experience and hope it is correct but soon reality will slap your face and tell you where you messed up.

So I disagree: you can be optimistic and not believe in the unknown. Just accept you're not a smart ass, that you don't know what will happen in the future but whatever happens you will do your best to understand and deal with it. That is optimism. Everything's gonna be alright.

Also the "economic growth" transforms the "known and the proven" into the "unknown and the unproven".
In a healthy free market a competitor to Amazon might fix the problem and grab serious marketshare in the process. I have some hope. Not much though, due to the sheer size of the behemoth.
"Long feared"? A week isn't exactly what comes to mind wity that phrasing...
See adjacent responses
Meh! Chromium is the standard, not what Google builds on top of it. There's Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi etc. which will continue to exist even if Google suddenly disappears.

Besides, Apple maintains Safari the way it does for no other reason than for disallowing people from building more functional open web apps so that to reach iOS users, one has to build native iOS apps.
I think "Brewing Beer" would be a perfectly acceptable excuse in a lot of these new hipstery startups
Later on in the tablet, they refine it into "MAKING REMEDIES WITH KHONSU".
No they're usually defined by military and government officials taking over institutions to overthrow the elected government. None of which happened.

And when crowds do lead to governments being overthrown, usually it's crowds in the millions encouraging those institutions to overthrow the government. Again which didn't happen.

By any definition it wasn't a coup d'état or even an attempt at anything with a chance of success.
So this is voxel printing. But after reading the article I still don't get why the resin only cures at the focal point and not in the beam. To me it's also unclear what the red laser has to do with it.
Deep dive into top web developer pain points
The HN guidelines state:

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

You responded to

> Having to mark everything as evaluatable at compile time is a stupid, stupid, decision that only C++ could think was a good idea.

with

> D should worry less how great language it is, focus on fixing long standing DIPs and compiler bugs, and actually have an ecosystem that makes it worthwhile using in the industries where C++ is the first choice.

Definitely qualifies as both "flamebait" and "unrelated controversies".
The companion site is http://68k.news/ which renders news articles using a similar pipeline.
Have you considered confounding factors?
I really appreciate the ability to have live chat next to the links. Threaded comments like HN are nice but a single flowing chat room has it's own perks.
I have read (but can't verify) that credit card fees are similar to the costs of cash handling.
Working Model, by Knowledge Revolution. I used to work there, and my first project was making the jump from 2D to 3D.
It is a drop-in replacement. Deno has a Node compatibility mode [0] which — besides the execution — also applies to LSP, so the Node-specific idioms are processed correctly.

It is not cosmically faster than tsserver, but some — including myself — do prefer it. I wouldn't recommend to change anything if you are busy — but maybe take a glance when in the mood for checking out new things.

[0] https://deno.land/manual@main/node/compatibility_mode
I hate that Facebook removed their personal API because I can no longer use it to remind me to message people if I haven't messaged them in x amount of months.