skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Differently abled" makes me think "yeah, the difference is I'm unable to do certain things" every time.

The universe is not balanced and fair. It didn't give me something in exchange for what it took from me, and that is okay.
This is the right answer. Yes people still write on rails but in my experience it’s because they haven’t used other tools.

I had a couple die hard rails members at my last company who claimed nothing was better. We made them write Go for a year and now they are die hard Go fans.

If I were writing a web app I would start with Go. It’s a great language that’s easy to learn and fast to write, with all the security of static compilation. It scales exceptionally well with large teams
>I would imagine you'd be treated worse by the average person, if you're signaling wealth.

This runs completely counter to my personal experiences and observations.
You are leaving out who is involved and what commercial interest will be benefitted from these policies. It is likely those commercial interests are the ones sponsoring and pushing these by finding sympathetic folks.

The important thing to note here is- if you reduce the bar in high schools, a lot more students will end up in college - more money will spent, more loans will be written out etc.
Or that the fast growing startups using it are large-scale now and hoovering up available talent. Github, shopify, airbnb, gitlab, coinbase, hulu, twitch, etc.
Optimism is fun and pleasant and thus people are drawn to it. It is therefore the tool of charlatans. Pessimists develop from repeatedly watching people be wooed by charlatans. It's a useful personality trait that balances out the wolves in sheep clothing.
FBI chief Wray addresses 59% jump in police officer murders
Many public schools take local college credits. There is always a path.
Seeing the frequency of the days off and the reasons really humanizes these people that (at least I) just imagine as some alien beings that I had nothing in common with.

Also there’s just some that are funny given cultural norms today - I’m assuming it was more akin to taking bereavement leave, but imagining telling my boss I won’t be working because I’ll be drinking for 3 days is pretty comical to me:

day 24 (LIBATING TO HIS FATHER), day 25 (DITTO), day 26(?) (DITTO)
As someone who is prone to obsessing over gear I really appreciate Tom Morello's approach to it as an antidote. Way back in the '80s(?) his stuff got stolen out of his car, and since he had a gig that night he had to scramble to just get whatever shitty amp he could. He's been playing through that shitty amp ever since. His main guitar is still the Telecaster his roommate traded to him back then too. He says he used to obsess over gear and finding exactly the same tone as someone else, and then one day he just said, you know what, the tone I have is the tone I have, and I'm just going to make that mine.

All that and more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpY4IIy6b98
That's sigmoid (starts exponential and then smoothly changes into an asymptotically constant)
I am from Brazil...

The monarchs here been very useful:

1. Pedro I declared our independence, and later helped Portugal with some crap and became known there as Pedro the Liberator.

2. Pedro II believed in technology, half of all railways in Brazil was built during his reign, he installed the second telephone in the world in Brazil (the first was obviously, Graham Bell`s one), built a research centre in the same place that produced awesome results (it is not heavily celebrated as launching rockets but most of the food production from Brazil, including exported things, are stuff developed by them at some point) and heavily defended that the education level should rise as whole. Also he, ironically, strengthened a lot Brazillian democracy, he himself believed monarchy to be useless and left basically voluntarily.

Brazil immediately after the coup derailed, the first republic was basically a crappy military dictatorship disguised as republic, it ended with another guy stealing the "throne" and becoming dictator himself, then a period of actual republic voting but with lots of instability and flirting with both fascists and communists, then another dictatorship, and now we have a republic where there were more failed to finish the rule than successes (1 president died, before taking power even, 2 were deposed, and only 2 actually got elected and finished their time in power)

The reason monarhy works, in principle, is because the monarch has to think long term, he can't fuck up the country or his heirs will be screwed. Of course there are always someone that go off rails but this apply to any system of government.

The advantage of democracy, in theory, is that there is less violence to choose who is the next ruler... That said our current president was stabbed during elections, a former president was in prison for a while, and politicians here have a knack of having very weird deaths in inopportune moments...

EDIT: I realized I should explain why Pedro I became Pedro the Liberator: Portugal was basically conquered by someone wanting to return Portugal to absolute rule, with the monarch having all the power. Pedro I despite starting with a heavy disvantage managed to free Portugal from the absolutists and put in power a Liberal government.
The “lab leak theory” was propounded by a bunch of people who did flat out lie, and made all sorts of bad faith claims (including e.g. Fox News commentators, predictable anti-China trolls, and fringe conspiracy nutters [not mutually exclusive categories]). They well deserved to be mocked and disparaged, and without them the conversation would have been dramatically healthier and more productive.

There were also serious people asking legitimate questions, but those got much less media-circus attention and their commentary was much less self assured, full of caveats and explicit attention to the speculative/hypothetical nature of the claims involved. Those were part of a more scholarly/careful conversation (still ongoing) and were answered carefully and respectfully.

One of the biggest problems for anyone asking careful serious questions is the likelihood that they’d be mischaracterized and amplified by the crazies and then interpreted by the general public according to that mischaracterization and roped into some broader political fight.

> found out that it was actually more plausible than it seemed

It was always plausible, as scientists have maintained from the start. It still today (if you listen to conversations among experts and look into the details) seems unlikely, and the “natural origin” theory has somewhat more convincing evidentiary support. But the Chinese government’s reflexive secrecy has made it impossible for independent analysts to gather the information needed to prove or disprove the theory.
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Using macOS is for a certain kind of experience. it's like fast food, they want basically every use to have the same experience indeterminate of skill level. also, cyberduck is pretty amazing for ftp/sshfs and so on.
I can right now look at every single applicant to YC, predict they will fail, and be right the overwhelming majority of the time.

I can look at every amateur scientist who has found "a problem" with mainstream science, predict that they are a crank, and be right the overwhelming majority of the time.

I can look at every "breakthrough in battery technology," predict that it won't be on the market in 20 years, and be right the overwhelming majority of the time.

Nevertheless, there are YC applicants that found successful companies. Amateur scientists have contributed to scientific breakthroughs. Battery breakthroughs have made it from lab-to-market in much less than 20 years.
It varies throughout the country. But for me it was:

* Calculus I: limits, derivatives, integrals

* Calculus II: More integration techniques (substitution, by parts, table), infinite series and convergence, basic numerical methods

* Calculus III: multi-variable calculus (partial derivatives, multiple integrals), vector calculus (gradient, divergence, curl, surface and line integrals)

ODEs were a class you could take after Calc II.
> Why no smoking?

Smoking can be an appetite suppressant: https://www.npr.org/2011/06/09/137085989/the-skinny-on-smoki...

> Why no diabetes, given that this is an overweight subject group?

Given the goal of intermittent fasting is to get insulin levels low enough that your body burns fat instead of sugar, and based on this article at least IF requires closer monitoring of your diet, maybe they wanted to eliminate a variable/variables.

https://www.verywellhealth.com/diabetes-and-intermittent-fas...
You can do quite a lot of useful stuff with just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative_distribution_functi...

You only need measure theory when working with something that is not easily replaceable by R^n, Z^n, or finite sets to meaningfully define integration, otherwise (in)finite sums and Riemann integration get you very far.

I am a bit rusty on my advanced probability theory, but IIRC the only thing that required* measures was defining conditional probabilities and expected values on zero-probability events.

Of course redoing that class without Lebesgue integration sounds excruciatingly painful.

* Not just to make proofs nicer and theorems more powerful
I don't think calculus should be a goal to be honest. Or at least not as taught. Calculus could be greatly condensed to a shorter theoretical view. The ideas of understanding differentiation and integration are great. Memorizing the rules of doing it is pretty painful and likely won't stick. But that's the bulk of classroom time, homework, and testing.
Again, making shit up: The topic here is a specific installation with exactly such a "rare" HVDC transmission line.
As a writer, I am glad that I hold IP to my books and no one can rip them off just wantonly.

I would agree that current IP protections are too extensive - I would be fine if copyright protection lasted just 20 years or if it required payment of yearly fees after a certain period - but its complete absence would upend a lot of the creative industry. Writing books is at least cheap, so we would still have hobbyist authors; but making a movie can be darn expensive. Who would invest into a next Lord of the Rings adaptation without IP?

Well, yeah, maybe Musk would. But then you end up with the old patronage system, where artists need to be on good terms with the ultra-rich.
The exact way of getting stung by a scorpion while peeing would be most interesting -- I honestly cannot imagine the exact mechanics. A bee, a wasp, OK, I can imagine. A scorpion cannot fly, so how did it get so close?
I thought that was always true of any ai? You only know the input data, weights, and starting conditions/code, but know nothing about the actual workings once started.

You can only audit that by duplicating the results, corroboration, and consensus, like with scientific research. IE, other ais doing the same job but using other code and run by other people, do they produce the same output, or the same pattern of output.

I'm not in ml/ai so I'm not stating that as something I know, just something I always assumed.

I would be stunned if you said that people actually thought they could audit ai inner workings after kick-off.
No, even Ayn has never claimed to be a psychic, able to penetrate the deepest thoughts of school board members to distill their entire world view down to a bulleted list.
Wow, thanks for posting this. I always felt like something was off in a subtle way with most mechanical keyboards I've used, but your explanation nails it.

Totally explains why I ended up settling on HHKB, which actually feels like it registers the button press right when you feel that "click" (given it is much closer to IBM Model M than to the usual mechanical switches).
I wear face masks more often than I wear gloves and I sure hope facial recognition doesn't just throw away half my face. Combine that with the fact that in certain Asian countries it was normal long before COVID to wear masks when you're not well and I'm not sure which one makes more business sense.

With under-screen fingerprint scanners, or the power button fingerprint scanners on some phones, that "two step process" turns back into a single step. My unlock process is to put my finger on my screen (where the fingerprint scanner is) and pull it out of my pocket. It's honestly no different from the swipe up that you need to do on iOS. Because the scanner is on the front, it also works pretty flawlessly when it's attached to a mount of some sort.

Wet hands are one place where improvements can be made, but modern fingeprint scanners are doing quite well in that space as well.

I've used Google's facial recognition system for ages before I had a phone with a fingeprint scanner and it was always pretty snappy for me, but I didn't set it up with this phone and I haven't missed it so far.
> I don't understand if you're saying that every kid is equally good at math.

I'm not, there are always extreme outliers and exceptions, but I do believe that the vast majority of children can meet the incredibly low bar for mathematics education that is considered normal in North American schools.

I also believe that teaching them to be afraid of math, (and having their teachers be afraid of math) is a major contributing factor for why so many of them struggle so much to meet that bar.
Sounds like FUD to me, especially considering nobody is forced to use Chrome on Windows, macOS or Linux, and that I've been using Firefox on Android for a decade now.
Seriously this. The average American doesn't grasp how basic graphs work. This simple idea of trends and how different functions imply graph differences is a powerful basic thought model. "Is this a linear or exponential curve curve problem?"
Pretty sure you can get the browser to cache websites no?
It's easy to be pessimistic because doomsayers are always right on a long enough timeline.

Let's take twitter as a hot button example.

Twitter will eventually fail. As does everything. When it does, everyone is going to revisit their hot takes and point to them as them being uniquely prescient.

The focus Ashton Kutcher had on being the first user with a million followers, all the GamerGate stuff, Donald Trump, wilw, SJWs, fail whales, Elon Musk, NFTs, etc.

Whatever their point that they decided was the beginning of the end, they'll crow about. They'll crow about how they were right. Twitter did fail. And they'll think that made them right. That their decisions are smart and good because, by golly, they called it.

They'll neglect to see why twitter hypothetically failed. And it's likely that the reason they believe twitter failed is not the reason it did fail. Sure, we could trace a thread from the end to their nexus, but we can do that with anything. Everything contributes to everything else, but it's a matter of degrees. If twitter replaces all of its infrastructure with warm, buttered toast, it will fail. And we can trace the mindset behind that decision to any other decision we want. "Well of course twitter did that, they also did X"

But that's not to say we shouldn't listen to the cynic. It is the cynic who will warn us of the pitfalls. It is the cynic who tells us that warm, buttered toast cannot host services. The problem is learning which cynic to listen to and when. You don't want to beat the cynic, just his timeline.
Oh, and let me guess, the collector would happily take the watch off their hands? Who's the idiot?
I'm going to try this advice. I have a tendency to get stuck in the 4 or 8 bar loops quite often, yet in my head I don't seem to have trouble thinking about what comes next -- but once I get in the actual DAW or pick up a guitar I end up stuck in that pattern. Thanks for sharing, wish me luck ;)
Not intentionally! I am having a stressful day, but in this case the etiology has more to do with the press of demands on my time than with any direct effect of cortisol, I think.
1. This is kind of a founding principle of the country, so...

2. This follows from #1, if we rule out nature then it must be nurture. Also, you must not be a parent if you'll accept "some kids are just dumb" as an excuse

3,4. Replace "oppression" with "competition". I think it might sound better to you. But the conclusion is the same.

You want to prevent winners from accumulating an advantage, eliminating all others (which sounds vaguely genocidal in this context), then you have to handicap winners and support the others. And the fact that the wealth distribution in America is so uneven certainly suggests that the initial premise is true (i.e, winning allows you to accumulate and compound advantages with repeated victories).
I bought a new Seiko 5 that gradually started running faster to the extent that after a couple of years it's now couple of seconds fast every minute. So after a day or so it's pretty far off the actual time. I have an Apple Watch now which is very nice for doing sports or sneakily firing off messages during meetings, but when I got the Seiko I was determined that if it held firm I would use it as long as required. Maybe I should get it serviced, it could be a very easy fix but I felt really let down.

So yeah, seems a little bit YMMV. The Apple Watch has its drawbacks and definitely has a finite lifespan with little hope of repair in the event of a failure, but it doesn't let me down in the one thing a watch is supposed to do.
Do you use any drugs other than caffeine ?
I'm a product of public schools and a state college. Due to my experiences I will never vote to give teachers one more dollar in funding until major changes occur.

I had multiple high school teachers that were checked out. Would watch movies and do worksheets. We learned nothing in their class other than how bad they thought students were now days. Yet they were never fired. Some lasted another 10 years before retiring.

I also had multiple professors that would start terms by saying if you have conservative views and you express them in class I will fail you. Had another professor joke about how she found out a student was part of a club she didn't like so she failed him. Often times these were not GE classes but CS specific. Politics have nothing to do with a class on OOP or AI. That is not teaching IMO. I have a ton of friends that feel the same way. Until this issue is actually recognized and addressed I do not believe you see anything change.
You're singling out one particular market and claiming that represents the big picture, when it very much is an exception. Specific niche markets having a small majority of one or the other isn't concerning, someone is going to be on top and 57-43 is basically as equal as it gets even in your cherrypicked example.

Globally, Android has 87% of the market and iOS has 13%. That is far far more concerning than Apple having a small majority in one specific market.

And to be clear it's not over 60%, even your own source says that's false - you're backing a literal browser monoculture with 87% global hardware marketshare and 90% software marketshare by wrapping yourself in the language of antitrust and competitiveness, and you still can't do it without using falsehoods and exaggerations.
I don't think that those beliefs are a workable explanation here.

These proposals come from committees and groups of people, and it's just not realistic to write off the entire group of people behind these proposals as having some uniform set of beliefs like that, especially when they give other rationales for the proposals!

The current school system makes decisions in middle school (8th grade and earlier) which determine whether or not each particular student will be able to take calculus in high school. This is, simply put, insane.

Because it's obviously insane, when you introduce questions of race and class into the mix, then it's easy to apply pressure to the department of education to come up with a proposal that changes things. And then you end up with bad proposals... why? Because these proposals are produced by poorly-shepherded committees full of government employees under political pressure, and it's much easier to come up with a bad proposal that responds to political pressure than it is to come up with a good proposal.

There's just no need to try and explain that this proposal is bad because the people who made it have bad beliefs. I'd characterize this as fundamental attribution error here... "the committees made a bad proposal because of wrong beliefs" versus "the committees made bad proposals because it's easier to respond to political pressure than to write a good proposal".
Stats requires calculus; you can't even define a probability distribution without some pretty advanced notions of real analysis.

Only in the same sense in which operating a car requires advanced knowledge of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, aerodynamics, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, etc. IOW, in no sense related to the everyday, ordinary practice of operating a car.

Sure, statistics requires calculus... and real analysis, and probability, and measure theory, and FSM knows what else - IF you're doing statistics research or trying to break new ground, or do really advanced things. But all of this is light years away from the level of statistics knowledge needed by Joe Q. Public to better understand (and not be misled by) the "statistics" frequently thrown out in news articles, government reports, etc.

Please, for the love of FSM, can we stop this HN "thing" of assuming that every mention of any mathematical topic implies that the goal of the user/learner is to do original research in the field?
> Then again , the nazis might just have turned the emperor into an impotent figurehead (as happened in Japan and Italy).

I bet that is exactly would have happened. The reality is that the advance of science and technology and general literacy was quickly eroding the traditional notion of the monarch having the consent of God or heaven.

By the turn of the 20th century this was almost complete, and largely irreversible. From that point on, the only value left in the monarch in industrialized societies was as a symbol of a national ethnic identity for societies that defined themselves in those terms.

Today, only the most extreme religious movements around the world see a return to monarchical society as a goal. Even the neo-fascists would prefer a dictator drawn from their ilk, not a king.
My school allowed changing tiers, and I am very grateful that it did. I had a bad year in my early teens with some mental health stuff, and spent my first year in high school with kids who needed much more time and practice to get a handle on concepts than I did. If I had been forced to stay in those tracks, my life would have taken a drastically different course, as I didn't really need to work to learn. Getting bumped into a higher tier challenged me, and that challenge is what prepared me for college.

Had I gone into college without that work ethic, I almost certainly would have failed out early.
I assume they'll keep getting RSUs, just that the stock won't be tradable. And the company will probably offer liquidity events for employees to cash out.
Just wanted to say this is a cool little project. I hope you get some interesting lists on there!
He didn’t seem to mind when it got him elected.
I remember two programs like that, one that my middle school had called "Fun Physics," and one my high school had called "Conceptual Physics." The interfaces were exactly the same, and it wouldn't surprise me if Conceptual Physics was a rebundled version sold along with Paul Hewitt's course. Unfortunately, those names are so generic that I can't find them on Google.
In a world where one can be "famous for being famous", where pretenders to titles and thrones can spend half a century pursuing Diplomacy as a semi-professional hobby, and where high-ranking government officials are often out of office within a few years, well-prepared pretenders can occasionally prove quite useful.

And when they're not needed - it's not like they're being paid anything, to keep waiting in the wings.