skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the cause/effect is reversed. Society is damaged because parents cannot raise kids properly for a variety of reasons. You have kids who don't come to school, entire classrooms where 80% of the time is spent managing behavior, kids who receive zero parental support at home because the single parent is working two jobs, etc.

That problem is hard to fix, whereas the curriculum is soft and malleable. You also have an entire industry of education PHDs who have never taught class for any appreciable amount of time who have a neoliberal fetish for minor policy tweaks as the path to heaven.

Teachers have the same problems as police, random societal functions have fallen to them by default because there's no alternative. They're surrogate parents, social workers, mental health counselors, etc. and there's barely any time to do any teaching afterwards.
Nothing beats gron in my view.

That plus good old fashioned sed/grep/awk give me everything I need to do on the cli.

If I want more, it's python or node.
> The question is, does science contradict how maories build boats?

as you claim in your next sentence

> The question is not if Maori had incredible seafaring skills and knowledge about navigation.

so no, they work therefore they don't contradict science. And the thing is, that science class is anyhow highly simplified, so you may as well teach them in a Maori context.
Damn Simcity 2000 crashes, that's disappointing
Watches are a good example of the fact that, past a certain point, the only thing you can really do with money is paying other people to do your hobbies for you. Like you could learn how to make mechanical watches yourself, but wait, no, why not pay someone else to take up that hobby for you.

At the same time, if you actually like doing your own hobbies then money loses its utility pretty quickly.
We had 21" CRTs back in the 90s for full page displays. I remember someone at a client injuring their back moving one. One of my former coworkers broke a desk by putting a CRT on it.
I had a 27" TV that I could barely lift. Now I can easily move 55" TVs. I haven't gotten stronger in the past 30 years.
Makes sense, the drilling that works for one student probably doesn't generalize all. Thanks for your perspective!
macbugs is not installed...
Californians would do well to compare themselves to Massachusetts https://www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/math/2017-06.pdf
Considering the fact that the vast majority of students aren't going to go onto 4 year STEM degrees, it doesn’t make sense to track all students towards that goal.

I feel as though there is too much focus on giving everyone more or less the same type of mathematical education in high school. This is probably due to limited resources (ie teacher availability and class sizes), but ideally there would be room for a more varied approach wherein students don’t need to have every year build on the next if the aren’t STEM tracked. Too many students fall behind and never are able to recover. Math class just becomes dead time, and those that do make it to college end up retaking the same subjects over again.
Again like you said, the reason not to wear is nothing specific to watches. At the high end of collectibles markets, condition grading is extremely fine and detailed. A knowledgeable person can see the difference between something that has never left the box and something that was used/worn once. Additionally, there's often a substantial value difference between a #1 condition item and a #2 condition item. As the participants in any collector market become more sophisticated, condition difference between individual items becomes both more legible (as grading methods are created) and has a greater effect on value (as the market expands).

There's also a sort of status game being described in the part you quoted. Self-identified collectors/dealers intentionally don't wear their collection in order to signal their understanding of the watches' value and therefore their own knowledge as connoisseurs.
Everyone remembers the civil war. It wasn’t brushed under the carpet like this was, no matter how hard one particular political party tries to reframe it as “states rights”. Plus there are a lot of monuments to it already.
When I "got into watches" a decade ago, I got a bunch of interesting looking ones from Gearbest I think (today it'd be Aliexpress). Mechanical, quartz, retro, futuristic, large & small, multi-dial crazy kitchy contraptions and plain classy ones. Got it happily in and out of my system for couple of hundred bucks total, probably 12-18 or so different pieces :). Don't understand paying more than, say $300-400 for a watch, absolute MAX - I think there's a point up to which you get more reliability/features/functionality, and a point after which you don't.

My favourite / most expensive watch is still the Citizen BlueAngel Navihawk (gift when I was taking flight lessons before my enthusiasm phase). It's also however by far the most finicky / least reliable of the bunch, so go figure :-/
Only 42% of the African population has access to electricity. Perhaps Africa needs a robust electrical system before the mass adoption of EVs.
They went on to buy a 130k market value watch for 30k (retail) or something
How smooth is JavaFX compilation to native? Any bugs/issues running the native version of JavaFX UI application?

Thanks
Twitter is 16 years old. So more like a decade of that.
Because he totally mishandled the bid, his communication skills were terrible, it was an internal tech hire (I do not know the process, but was it competitive?), TWTR's board is notoriously dysfunctional (so I am guessing they just went with what Dorsey said, they were quite happy to let him run the company off a cliff...so why not let him appoint his successor), and he appears to have been on leave for a large part of 2021 (when the shit started to make contact with the fan for TWTR).

But he also gave the impression consistently of someone who was in the wrong job. Communication is an important skill for a CEO, the least worrying interpretation is that he was making choices about PR with no reference to his PR people...least worrying...if PR actually was involved, that is worse.
To be fair, it was potential buyers who are buying sight unseen with an open ended delivery date. The potential retail market is likely an entirely different number.
This was also asked 9 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5483752

Interesting to compare answers to today.
My nieces grew up in Oklahoma. Mom would come home and sometimes there was a drinking glass somewhere in the house with a scorpion trapped under it. The kids (5 or 6yo!) would casually capture them in this way so Mom could deal later.
We had an interesting experience with this recently.

A butcher accidentally added an extra zero and charged us $640 instead of $64 for our purchase. We realized a few days later when I noticed our credit card spend looks strangely high for the month.

We're regulars so the next time we were there we said "Hey it looks like you overcharged us last week. Can you fix it? We got x,y,z and it doesn't sound like that adds up to $640??"

The butcher people were super apologetic, reviewed their numbers, and refunded us. They specifically said "Wow you're so nice about this! Most people would be shouting and screaming and going crazy"

We're fortunate enough that a hiccup like that isn't a big deal. Plenty of credit card balance to buffer the hiccup and if worst comes to worst, we can issue a chargeback. And if even that doesn't work, eh we'll be unhappy but fine.
Shopify is hiring like crazy, and their stack is almost all Rails.
I did not say there is some specific written clause in the constitution tying speech and sedition. I am not an extreme textualist SCOTUS member lol.

To the below comment, I do believe courts have interpreted and created law which applies to Trump's words and actions, specifically on reasonable restrictions to speech which incites, creates, has immediate danger.

Trump's actions and words fit that and he is culpable for the actions resulting from his words.

On the actual law surrounding the consequences of his speech and attempts to subvert our Government and Democracy

Fourteenth Amendment
Section 3
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Law specific says incites
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/par...
So no company is well-run? We just give everyone A+ and say how impossible the whole thing is?
> and vesting

A question I'm curious about, what happens to RSU based compensation after the company goes private?

Clearly RSUs that have vested will be paid out at the $54/share, but what about unvested?

Additionally, like most tech companies, roughly half of Twitter TC is RSUs. Will this end up being a massive pay cut for Twitter employees? I can't really imagine Musk matching with cash, especially given the notoriously low TC for Tesla/SpaceX SWEs.
I don't doubt he could go that way. I just don't think he is loyal to the same people twitter is currently loyal to.
I'm not talking about macOS's green button. That doesn't maximize windows: it creates a dedicated workspace which might have one or two windows.

I've referred to macOS's "maximize window" feature, which you trigger by double-clicking a window's title bar.
If your employer is breaking the law, you should probably gather evidence and notify law enforcement, not mess with it’s product code to do nasty jokes.

Update: sorry, I’ve misread your comment. If what you mean is that current management wants to hide something, then yes, this might be a good idea from Elons perspective.
What is the allure of these things? They keep worse time that an ntp synced phone, have no internet connectivity and few features.

It’s all conspicuous consumption, right? If you know, you know — a way to signal wealth without being too brazen.
Stocks that are more volatile upwards are also more volatile downwards. If the entire market is trending down then volatile stocks will trend down more.
New Jersey also has an excellent practices of magnet schools at the county level. So that even if you are in a poorer school district you can go study and apply for a magnet school at the county that is better and more focused on high academic schools. These schools focus on basically college level education for their area in health care, biochem, technology, arts, etc. with many AP courses. The normal public schools are also good in NJ with a solid baseline, but the magnet schools open up access to what would otherwise be private specialized schools to all income levels.
England mostly doesn't (though there's some local variation). Most secondary (11-16/18) schools are 'comprehensive', covering the full range of abilities. It is standard to set pupils by ability in most subjects, but uncommon to track/stream pupils by general ability across the whole curriculum.

We previously ran a split system, with exams splitting pupils at 11 into academic ('grammar') and non-academic ('secondary modern') schools. Many grammar schools were good; most sec mods were awful. The exams also famously had pretty poor predictive power for underlying academic ability as an adult, so pathways had to be developed to allow bright pupils to go to higher education despite being mis-sorted in the original exam - which somewhat undermines the point of the system. Comprehensivisation has never been nationally mandated, but nearly all areas have now done away with academic selection at 11. The remaining holdouts are mostly suburban Conservative areas where political power is in the hands of the well-heeled upper middle classes who are strongly in favour of grammars (and expect their own children to go there). Interestingly, Margaret Thatcher (as Education Secretary under Heath) was responsible for more grammar school closures than Labour was.

Vocational/academic choices are now being made at age 14 and 16 either within the secondary schools or by moving to local further education colleges (similar to US community colleges and trade schools). Vocational classes are low status. Britain no longer has a strong industrial sector to use such skills, and although both parties advocate for better vocational education essentially everyone who matters would be most unhappy if their darling children were diverted from a university track in the direction of trades. That's something they want other (poorer) people's children to do, not their own. We've never developed good vocational training for offices/services jobs, and although such courses do exist they're not taken particularly seriously by employers, despite several rounds of national reforms.
I could not run create a new file with PowerPlant Constructor. It complains "because selected printing resource could not be found."
"through Friday" … "changes will require approval from a vice president" … "temporary ban"
Very exciting if this means PWA support on iOS can now reach parity with Android.
Arm Introduces Cortex-M85
> At least in other countries, the upper class ideal is a renaissance man.

Sadly, I don't think that is very true in many (most?) places.
We prevented missing SQL index outages
As I said, I agree with most of what Krauss said. I object mainly to his assertion that empirical knowledge is the only kind of knowledge. Whether you restrict the scope of consideration to physical phenomena or not, he's going too far with that assertion.
Not if you want to make building websites complex so that you can charge your client more.
>>So I really like mechanical watches but I've kind of lost interest because it's nigh-on impossible to buy anything new (unless you're a high net worth individual)

As a sanity/reality check, I think we really really need to distinguish "Mechanical Watch" (which can be gotten for as low as $25USD for a crappy cheap but functional and self-winding mechanical piece), and "Rolex" :->
He didn't borrow money. They issued stock. Significantly, this reduced Elon's share below 50% which I doubt he would have done lightly.
Intellect is not 100% inherited. The percentage is debated, but it is almost certainly not 100.
Twitter workers face a reality they’ve long feared: Elon Musk as owner
Seems that I got my wires crossed. Many slaves in the colonies had gotten the wrong impression that Britain was easing up on slavery. The Crown tried to capitalize on that by trying to galvanize the slave population in the South against the landowners. The landowners were even more motivated to win the revolution. There were Black Loyalists who wanted to fight for their freedom (or what they thought would be their freedom) while others fought on the “liberty” side.
Unifying around freedom makes sense to me. Unifying around fraternity sounds entirely circular.

Military service doesn't sound like a way to unify the world -- who is the enemy?

Unifying around a business is about producing/creating. That is a major common ground in the world and has (in my opinion) created a lot of peace. It doesn't feel like a complete answer, though -- for instance China still feels very distant despite our economic ties.
A lot less than that nowadays. I set up a very similar experiment about 3 years ago at my school, based on a series of papers by Mark Beck, now at Reed College in Oregon, US. Here is one of the earlier ones, and it is this experiment I [mostly] duplicated: http://people.reed.edu/~beckm/QM/Hardy/Carlson_ajp.pdf

I 3D-printed a lot of the optical hardware, re-purposed older electronics that we had in storage, and the photon detectors have significantly dropped in price. I think all told I got it together for about 8000 USD.

The linked paper by Dehlinger and Mitchell is one of the most important papers in conceptually bringing quantum entanglement experiments to nearly any undergraduate physics lab. Mark Beck applied their ideas and nearly single-handedly taught all of us how to actually perform the experiments. (I had the privilege of taking one of his workshops.)
Other countries do a lot of "pre-algebra" in the later grades of primary education, when the kids are quite ready for it; "drill and kill" rote methods are generally focused on in very early grades, since they help build familiarity with the sort of rigorous, algorithmic thinking that's required for good math proficiency. This is what Russian Math, French Math, Singapore Math, etc. are built on, and the approach has stood the test of time indeed. The fuzzy "Common Core" approach pushes abstract content way too early, and ends up confusing kids as a result.
The irony of course is that focusing on who they are not what they do has to be more racist by a rational definition
Just imagine if Sony priced PlayStation 5s based on supply and demand and no loss-leadering for game sales. It’d be around the price scalpers charged.
I was in the "middle" tier math program in high school. But around sophomore year I wanted to get more into science/engineering but you can't switch tiers or catch up to those ahead of you, no matter if you're making extra effort and doing well. It was frustrating.

In my case I got a letter about summer school at a local university. So I pre-calced over summer school to get moved into calculus in high school. It honestly changed my path. I get having tiers, but once placed into one its hard to move. If I wasn't self motivated, and had the opportunity to try I would be in a different place.
Maybe they are not marginalized from political power in the civic realm, but they are certainly considered outliers in the academic world (aside from a few evangelical colleges).
> Rich kids are on track, poor kids are far behind

The achievement gap is growing. Part of this is explained by union dynamics [1]. Part by California's elites caring less about addressing the gap than talking about it.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/0013189X2110063...
A rare watch is an IYKYK item and the iconic pieces are immediately noticeable from across the room. I do wonder if the deflation in asset prices (driven by increase in interest rates) will put downward pressure on some of the craziness right now.

But for someone who is outside looking in, and wondering what the fuss is all about: A watch, especially Patek Philippe is much better for signaling status to those you want to send that signal to, while completely being unnoticeable by an audience from whom you don't want negative attention. At the same time, it appreciates like fine art that you can take with you on your wrist. It has a lot of the characteristics of investment assets that are desirable.

It's crypto v0.1.
Interestingly, that the progress bar/URL field combo was co-invented by Steve Jobs: See https://donmelton.com/2014/04/10/memories-of-steve/
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/037/756/tumbl...
There are many places where Comcast is the only option for high speed internet. There are no places where YouTube is the only option for watching or publishing videos.

But the real defining characteristic that makes an ISP a public utility is that the utility (in the sense of "usefulness") of the internet is strongly bound to its uniqueness, just like the phone system or the road network. Phones and roads and the internet become inherently less useful if there is more than one network. Videos do not become less useful if you have to get some of them from one provider and others from another.
Talk about going on your permanent record...
My guess is the intention is to be able to say that the framework benefits disadvantaged people. But like almost any policy like this all it does at best is pull down people at the top, at worst pulls down everyone making the situation worse for everyone.

You can have separation of education by ability, and progress, or you can have equality, and everyone being pulled down to the same low level. And suffering for everyone. You can’t have both. Take it from someone who has direct experience with communism, which is the same mentality that drives this.
Arguably the same pattern exists in our historical energy consumption. We moved from societies that mined recently sequestered biomass for energy (AKA wood burning) to a society that mined biomass sequestered eons ago for energy (coal, natural gas, petroleum) without realizing soon enough that the former of biomass was mostly atmospheric carbon neutral and the latter type was not at all carbon neutral.

And now we are paying the environmental consequences and trying to develop the global civic sense to fix the issue.
I think, this is a rather relative statement. Modern UIs would have been perceived as toy-like and not fit for business back then. It all comes down to what we are used to. (That said, personally, I always favoured the System 7 UI over OS 8.)
I mean they are completely different measures. They both contribute to success but can be tested independantly.

Also assuming that "capacity and willingness to do hard work" is a personality trait, that is also largely random. So no matter which way you slice it, you gotta get lucky on either the intelligence or industriousness axes (or both) to be successful.
The ASCII Character “Octatherp” [pdf]
I think mRNA has been well debunked at this point. What I have been following is the follow ups. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novavax_COVID-19_vaccine

We should absolutely work toward eliminating viruses that cause colds and flus.
I was one of those "whiz kids" who was "good with computers" and got a job programming straight out of high school. I went to college, Ohio State, but left after a couple of semesters because it was boring.

Fast-forward a few years into the economic downturn of the early 1990's and the company I worked at for my third job collapsed overnight. The market was flooded and I had a really difficult time finding another job because I didn't have a college degree.

I finally got another job and even better, they paid for me to go back to school. I went back to Ohio State year-round taking a couple courses per quarter (they were still on the quarter system back then). By that time I was married, into my mid-to-late twenties and able to avoid all the student life BS. I knew exactly the weaknesses in my knowledge, tested out of as many of the basic courses as they'd let me, and learned a lot.

One of the benefits I got from testing out of so many courses was I still needed hours - they cleared prerequisites but I maxed-out the hours. That means I was eligible to take a lot of graduate-level courses. I took all the core courses comprising their Masters program. Like, I said, I learned a lot.

And my employer paid for it all! The most shocking thing is after I graduated my employer gave me a 50% raise! I even said, hey!, my job hasn't changed I'm doing the same thing now as I was doing a month before I graduated. Their response? Your market rate is different, you're more valuable now. You're a Staff Engineer with a degree.

College paid off great for me!