skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have worked in education for 16 years and just wanted to add my perspective. Here in Illinois over the last few years the state has shifted its goals to "equitable outcomes". This in and of itself is responsible for much of the lowering of academic standards since it is a flawed (but perhaps well intention-ed) goal.

In a excellent school district in a suburb of Chicago a district goal was adopted to reach equitable outcomes in higher Math. In a nutshell since black students scored statistically lower on AP Calculus this was seen as a failure in the school district. Despite increasing the number of black students able to pass AP Calculus the school district looked to cancel offering the course since Asian and affluent white students still scored statistically higher.

The idea that all races, genders, or whatever categorization you can come up with must have the same equitable outcome is a flawed goal. Education used to be about taking a student where they are and showing improved learning outcomes.

Equality used to be about striving for equal opportunity. The shift to conflating equality with equalized outcomes simply doesn't work.
Honor System for Google Play Privacy
How does this new privacy listing of each App in the Google Platy store is going to work?

Will these developers be on the up and up?

How does that contrast with Apple App Store actually verifying most privacy settings?
But hiring engineers isn't constrained by region or location so this feels like an odd argument to me.

Rails has been around long enough that there's surely no shortage of junior to very very senior engineers that will write code for you from wherever they happen to live.
Old-Fashioned Economic Tool Can Tame Pricing Algorithms
The premises are undemocratic, yet censorship advocates attempt to appeal to democracy.

>...but when the counter is the end of democracy then that's not really an option.

I've said it elsewhere in this thread. If you do not trust the discernment of voters, how can you trust them to vote?

How is the state tabooing information not the same as the state manipulating the outcome of an election?

A simple and coherent response might be: Authoritarians do not trust the discernment of voters. They do not trust voters to vote "correctly". Propaganda is necessitated. The force of the state is applied to prohibit contrary information.

Democracy as it is used in this case is nothing more than a window dressing, a catch phrase.

>A ministry of truth with a well defined scope isn't any more unreasonable than a ministry of food cleanliness (FDA).

It is 2022 and we are actually having this conversation. We might observe the mission creep present in all gov. bureaus. Although I'm not sure I can connect here. We appear to have very different premises concerning the role of the state.

>Anyone that set's out to solve this should go in with a really specific definition (something like verifiable false based on expert consensus), make it enforceable with stiff penalties, and appealable to the courts.

Who should select and accredit the "experts"? Who's experts have sufficient expertise to claim an exclusive license on objective truth? From where I stand, I don't see this problem as solvable by fallible men. Omnipotence would be a prerequisite.

Humans have subjective opinions. We have a diversity of views. Yet those who would prohibit that diversity of opinion, a prerequisite to democracy as we understand it, claim to do so in the name of democracy.
Very well said. I used to attach my self worth to my release and if people didn’t like it I would feel it was a personal affront. Then I realized that

1) you can’t please everyone
2) if I put in the best effort towards the finished product that I really could see that the song was simply a creative journey I went on and it may not be for everyone but it was the best I could do with that idea.
3) acknowledgment of “The Muse”. Sometimes it’s there and things just flow out like magic. It feels like you’re a vessel of the universe. That is what makes music making fun and rewarding. The end product is usually better when this is happening but not always. Sometimes, though, you have to grind out a song and every step is hard and unnatural feeling. These sorts of projects can also end up great and that too is rewarding.
4) I’ve said this on hacker news before but it bears repeating- as long as you are putting in your best effort don’t make your music so precious. It’s just a song. Non musicians will either like it or not and not really care about how you crafted the song. They don’t care that you spent 30 grand to buy a vintage Jupiter-8 for all the keyboard parts. Use the gear you have that inspires you. Make music often and finish everything you start before starting something else. Forcing yourself to finish creates a habit of focus.
I'd like to edit this comment but unfortunately it's probably too late to edit - it appears I was at least partially mistaken. LOS declined to integrate MicroG because of security concerns from spoofing signatures, as per the Wikipedia article of MicroG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroG)
Yes unfortunately.

The unfortunate part is we don't educate enough of our own citizens for these well paid jobs.
Not even close. IE did things like include directx filters (which obviously need directx to work), activex, choose a non-standard box-model (which webdevs might choose these days, but back then there was no choice) and many, many more things. I don't like chrome and especially on the privacy front it's bad but they usually try to make sure that their features are at least technically adoptable by other platforms.

We don't have to call a browser "the new IE" to argue against their anti-features.
I have a handful of old back-to-the-land-era books from the 70s, and for protein the most compelling way I've seen it recommended is to create a fish pond and have ducks. That will set you up with meat and eggs! The traditional Vietnamese style of farming[1] seems to provide full nutrition needs in a compact space, and it's based on that model. It should provide all the needs on as small as .5 acres (and has been successfully proven for many years and many people!)

[1] https://www.permaculturenews.org/2008/10/04/vuon-ao-chuong-t...
I don't think the butcher shop would agree to be their weekly butcher shop anymore if they pulled that shit.
BRIC countries largely dominate the high volume / low end of the range [1], so the share will change drastically per country and region. iOS is at 22% globally [2], but much higher in the US [3].

[1] https://newzoo.com/insights/rankings/top-countries-by-smartp...

[2] https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-smartphone-share...

[3] https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/02/15/apples-iphone-dom...
RoR is the Supreme t-shirts and Air Jordans of programming. They very much matter and are the center of the universe to the people who care, everyone else just kinda shrugs and goes about their day.
Probably the optics that will ensue - Our public schools seem intent on making sure that to ensure everybody is as achieved as everyone else, but rather than improving education for the bottom percentile, they'll simply remove the advanced stuff for the top percentile.
Here in M-V I had to go through "Orientierungsstufe"¹ which I partly blame for my learning difficulties and anger issues later in school, since in those two years we later had to find out that we missed 1-1,5 years of material and/or learning methods depending on the subject.

I mean... e.g. in Philosophy the teacher was absent for most of those two years resulting in us having to entertain ourselves for those "lessons". When we finally entered Gymnasium at 7th grade we received a culture shock when we had to learn the "Zauberlehrling" by Goethe in 1,5-2 weeks for recital in the first weeks.

Realschule felt more like Kindergarten from the treatment by teachers like their attitude while teaching and them not being interested in bullying unless it turned really physical, then protected the bullies when the bullied hit back.
What I'm saying is, as the slightly fat kid who also didn't get all the shiny new things from his parents I was bullied by a group of other students surrounding and harassing me almost every single day during breaks those incompetent "teachers" only had the "advice" to basically let the bullies tire themselves out from bullying but heaven forbid once trying to break out of the encirclement i tried to hit one of those bullying lowlives, the teachers descended like vultures isolating me in a room for the rest of the break questioning why I did that instead of "just ignoring the bullies".
Those bullies never received any kind of discipline/punishment.

Later in Gymnasium, I once had a very heated verbal altercation with a classmate within earshot of a teacher, we were taken aside, our parents called in for an evening sitdown that same week, there we resolved our differences with some guidance from a teacher and remain friends even now.

Both schools were only staffed by older teachers with the youngest being late-40s/early-50s and several teachers retiring during my stay at the Gymnasium, so probably little to no influence from education during newer eras of teaching.

Honestly I wish I could smack that idiot Brodkorb for all the stupid shit he did as education minister.

¹: no split after 4th grade, instead have everyone go through Realschule for 5th and 6th grade, only starting the split at grade 7.
A moderator tagging a post as a shitpost leads to shadowbanning. Even if the post is non threatening or libelous.
Still relevant. We're deploying a lot of customer apps that are written on Rails
Books I have read [1,2,3] have all discussed the "incremental learning" approach without calling it that. They frame it in the context of daily repetitions of the material in order to gradually solidify it in your mind and commit it to longer-term memory. However, their approach goes well beyond that and explores many additional factors that play into the learning process as well.

The fact remains, in order to learn ANYTHING, there are no "tricks" for most of us. It takes effort, engagement, focus, self-discipline, commitment, and consistent application of the material, call it repetition whatever.

I have not found any short-cuts and while there may be techniques that might help with memorization (mnemonics and phonetics etc) your brain is dependent upon the amount of rest you get, the quality of your diet, the degree to which your brain is not under external stress while it is engaged in learning and a desire and willingness to be engaged with your topic, IMO.

[1] The Science of Self-learning, Hollins, Peter ISBN: 978-1731416735 (Although Hollins goes into more detail around how to read, self-discipline etc.)

[2] The Self-Learning Blueprint, Hollins, Peter ISBN: 978-1077241275 (This book, from the same author in [1] is completely different in that he addresses the 4 pillars of learning: Transform and Synthesize Knowledge, Combine the New with the Familiar, Self-testing and Retrieval, and Absorption)

[3] Teach Yourself How to Learn, MacGuire et al, ISBN: 978-1620367568 (This book treats metacognition, positive emotions and motivation as the cornerstones of Learning)
I have two theories:

1. Math is a differentiating subject for getting into those competitive colleges, departments, and professions. In the meantime, the progressives simply refuse to believe that some people are just better at studying math. The logical choice, then, is to dumb down math to "level the play ground". It's the same unspoken reason why so many people pushed the magnet schools to use lottery to pick students (I actually think lottery with threshold can be a good solution, but that's another subject).

2. Progressive math educators have been advocating self discovery and that everyone can learn math in their own pace for years. What educators need to do, per the progressive argument, is to protect the fragile passion and creativity of the kids. Jo Boaler even argued that kids should discover all maths by their own. Naturally, we have to dumb down math courses, otherwise we would inevitably hurt the confidence and passion of some kids. As progressives always said: no kid should be left behind and some people got better at math only because they were socially privileged. I disagree with the progressive view of math education based on my personal experience, as so many classmates of mine simply were not interested in STEM, and maths in particular. I'm not sure why we don't accept that most people will hit a wall sooner or later when learning maths. To some it is arithmetic, to some it is calculus, to some it is abstract algebra, etc and etc. To me I definitely lost my drive when taking courses like model logic, and I certainly do not have interest or talent to get good at things like functional analysis or topology or algebraic geometry, but I make peace with it. I really don't understand why the progressives are hell bent on insisting that everyone can learn maths equally.
But that's like saying everybody who learns to program needs to know electrical engineering so they understand how CPUs work. Just as most programmers don't need that to be good programmers, knowing useful statistics doesn't mean deriving things from first principles but rather knowing what statistical test to apply to analyze data and how to interpret the results. This doesn't need calculus.
This is really the big reason. IOS blocks applications from running dynamic code. The kernel is immutable and replaced on every update, and safeguarding the JS engine is a huge benefit of controlling the OS. Antivirus's really struggle with this on PC because of all the dynamic code being ran that they can't really enforce things like code signing, requiring executable code to be mapped to the disk, etc.

This is going to make everyones phone ALOT less secure. There's a reason android malware and hacks are a big issue and there's almost none on IOS, as the footprint is so low due to things like this.
This is an entirely fictional history of the world. IE was never defeated on the scale we are currently forced to suffer Chrome. Firefox took some consumer market share (until Chrome took it), but most businesses stayed on IE for an extremely long time, until enterprise apps left Java/ActiveX only a few years ago for more HTML5-based design. Then Chrome took a large chunk of enterprise, and finally Microsoft killed their own child by forcing everyone over to the new Chrome forked Edge.

Comparatively, Chrome controls the majority of consumer, business, and mobile, and the sole defense against a completely proprietary web platform is Safari being required on iOS.
> pressing an agenda by presenting information and then retroactively fitting your rationality into it

Healer, heal thyself.

I'm pretty clear about my agenda, and have been for a long time. As the Hindus put it, "May all beings everywhere be happy and free." One specific application of that is helping to end patriarchy, the millennia-old system of oppression of women.

You certainly have a facility for objecting so much to every twig and branch so that you don't even glimpse the forest. And obviously, I can't make you see the it, so I won't try. But just so it's clear for others, I think patriarchy is also damaging to men and that they especially need education in coping with a post-patriarchal world. It was certainly a struggle for me to throw off a lot of that nonsense. Women need less help, especially these days, because a) a lot of that education has taken place starting with the suffragettes, and b) a lot of the post-patriarchal changes for them are ones of increasing opportunity, and so are easier to adapt to.
That's been my biggest frustration as an engineer reading this - is people seeing "CHANGES TO TWITTER CODEBASE FROZEN!!!" as if it's part of some story of leftist anti-Elon engineers that would sabotage the codebase, rather than standard tech acquisition practice.
I'm not aware of any schools teaching multiplication tables in kindergarten, but I did memorize the 9x9 table when I was in kindergarten because my older siblings' Big Kids Notebooks all had the times table on the back and it formed a rhyme/ditty in the local language. After it was explained to me that multiplication was repeated addition, that made perfect sense.

But don't ask me about division, my siblings/parents/whoever tried to explain it as "the opposite of multiplication", which was complete nonsensical gibberish and I didn't learn division until years later.
if games work in browsers, then they would have to ban the browser, which would presumably run afoul of these rules....
This wouldn't be acceptable under the spirit of these regulations. And definitely wouldn't be acceptable to a lot of us.

If apple wants, they can split their OS and their phones if they want to "make money for writing an OS". At the same time that'd also obligate them to make it possible to install android OS on their hardware.

But yeah no, apple does not "deserve" a percentage of your revenue because they have written the OS and don't let you switch the OS.

Imagine arguing Microsoft should charge people x% of every software sale because they write the OS.
Do you have any evidence at all to support this or is it just a guess?
> Equality used to be about striving for equal opportunity. The shift to conflating equality with equalized outcomes simply doesn't work.

Note that to the extent there was a shift, it took place in the 70s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact#The_80%_rule
Ruby has been on the downswing for a while, getting squeezed from all sides from the meteoric rise of Python on one side, JS/Typescript on the other, to higher performing static languages on another:

https://octoverse.github.com/#top-languages-over-the-years

It also has a funky syntax, while not a big deal, doesn't do it any favors in a C --> Javascript world. Django, golang, etc. are free. I don't recommend starting new projects in ruby, but as always YMMV.
Maybe it was misread, but I'm not commenting on any individual or even any idea belonging to any individual. As I've done before, the suggestion is that "the entire situation of having to deal with so many options for readability when we could easily have devices that allow us to customize this for ourselves in a simple way" is stupid.
This seems like a really elegant solution - it simultaneously improves browser technology for all of the internent and avoids the appstore walled garden tax.

The hope would be to that Unreal makes a generically useful browser that can navigate to any web page (include hacker news) so it can't be blocked from/taxed by the appstore. But also provides W3C/industry standard compliant WebGPU advances and ways to cache login info/game assets/game states and handle game networking - of which Unreal as well as its competitors such as Unity can use if they wanted to.

If Unreal implements its browser hooks in a non-standardized, purposefully cryptic proprietary way - then they are really just creating their own walled garden - which they can do but can't really claim any moral high ground (if that's important to them).
The fact that there's entries for Ruby and Ruby on Rails also makes me think this, perhaps this data was just parsed.
I suspect that he may be the other goal post and a free-kick will be performed.
That's really cool. I looked for one I could just buy for a couple years and never found anything like it. How did you find this?
I say this as a fellow language developer: Nim is impressive as hell!

I'm particularly excited about their region isolation [0]. A lot of new languages are exploring it, and it has a lot of potential to change the way we program over the next decade.

[0] https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/244
What store did you buy from?
I'm a newbie on this subject. can you really make your own watch? don't you need to buy all the pieces for it? or need a blacksmith shop or something? how much would it cost for someone to build a watch from scratch with no workshop or prior pieces on hand?
Arthur C. Clarke's First Law: “When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, they are almost certainly right. When they state that something is impossible, they are very probably wrong.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws
I've never understood the cult of calculus. I think it comes from mistaking the importance of its discovery for the importance of teaching it. It was a huge unlock for science, but is in no way a huge unlock for most people's lives.

On the other hand, I feel psychology and stats are the biggest missing pieces in K12 education. We need to build greater awareness of human needs and fallibilities, and awareness of how to make decisions in uncertain environments by understanding probabilities. Both are about developing a nuanced perspective on life and making better, more sober decisions, and they build a great deal of empathy to boot.

Finally, psych & stats are inherently relatable - everyone deals with people and has to make decisions. So much of the K12 experience isn't relatable, which is why students often hate school.
You should look at the history of Netscape and Microsoft.

And how Microsoft would push proprietary features e.g. ActiveX which took nearly a decade to become a HTML standard and locked websites specifically to IE.
Altered Carbon too: if anything they downplayed its themes of the ridiculousness of bigotry.

Unless they were only going to adapt actual fascists like Campbell, it is impossible to create science fiction without questioning the premises our society is based on. That's sort of the whole point of the genre. If one considers science fiction "woke" that says more about the person watching than it does about the company making Hillbilly Elegy and Cobra Kai and The Crown.
Some cultures consider(ed?) the women unclean or cursed during this 'period' of time, and all in their vicinity. Some cultures had the women go live in separate huts for the duration[1]. It could very well be that custom dictated that he not show up to work during this time because he was also considered unclean. Note that he also missed time when his daughter was bleeding. Only speculation, but it's not a stretch to assume that there was social norms dictating how women interacted with society during menstruation, and by extension members of their household.

sauce:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_and_menstruation#By_re...
Seems like pretty sketchy privacy algebra, the number of browsers that don't respect

Referrer-Policy: no-referrer

is very small, and at the same time this allows them to gather statistics on which links are clicked, the latter is a far bigger privacy concern.
> Our crypto APIs are currently powered Finage.co.uk. We do some level of caching on our side but only for 5-10 mins.

This seems very much at odds with the description of "up to the second cryptocurrency prices, quotes, previous close information, and news."

I wouldn't want to act on stale information, especially when the timestamp is truncated so much.

crypto/handler/crypto.go:172:
rsp.Date = time.Unix(0, int64(res.Timestamp)*int64(time.Millisecond)).UTC().Format("2006-01-02")

I understand the need for caching, of course.
Thanks! Sure, if the data is already in the wiki that should be doable. Gonna have a look.
I guess this is to prevent sabotage from employees who have rather radical disagreements with Elon. The terms probably have a clause that "Twitter shall remain in exactly the same shape by such and such date, or the purchase agreement is void."
Some go for astronomical prices, most notably the Paul Newman Daytonas [2], which are funny because when they were production watches they typically sat on shelves for years because no one wanted them.

There was an episode of Antiques Roadshow where someone brought in one of these in new condition. I think the story was he had purchased it at the military Px in the late 60s and then it ended up in safe deposit box for many decades. When the auction expert told him it was worth $400k he literally fell down in shock.

ETA: $500k. He bought it in the early 70s. https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2020/01/29/a...