skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Romania before 1989 had long lines for bread, it had food rations (like other countries in war time), people had to wait for about 5 years to buy a car. You could not move from one city to another, except if your job moved or you got married with someone from the target city. You could not buy milk, except if you had infants, or with a doctor’s notice. As a 14-old kid, convalescing from Hepatitis, I had such a notice, so my Dad had the priviledge to wake up every morning at 5am and go wait in a very long line for 2 hours, so I could drink milk (which was said to help the liver). We had electricity blackouts on a daily basis.

Yes, we were all equal. Equal in our collective misery.

Except for the Party leaders.

It’s very easy to look back with rose tinted glasses after 33 years. But in reality things were truly bad back then.
Let's leave Microsoft's bad ideas on Windows mmmkay.
Well, IQ tests given in the 1930's and 40's(?) had the results re-scaled today, and the average IQ was 70.

Note, that we're all trained today in taking IQ tests. E.g. one question asked "There are no Elephants in Germany. Munich is in Germany. How many Elephants are in Munich?" with possible answers of 0, 1, 2, 12.

Back then a layman might think "Munich is a big city; I bet there's one or two in the zoo there!" and answer 1 or 2. Because they didn't understand it was a logic question and there is an expectation when taking IQ tests that common sense is not being tested.
I'm not blowing away the takeover and I really like the "free speech" idea of Musk but I hope that Twitter will have "checks and balances" not to preserve the free speech but to preserver the minority and human right.
It's almost a case of inmates running the asylum --but in this case, it's not even the inmates but their caregivers who in their maternalistic view seem to think they know what's best for the "inmates" and are guiding them to the path to "hell" --hell being a reduced education in an increasingly competitive labor market.
I think GrapheneOS does things completely differently, with actual Google Play Services in a sandbox, and doesn't need signature spoofing.
Large mouse pads.

Growing up playing first person shooters has wired my mind to a degree that it's difficult to overcome the muscle memory. This makes mouse acceleration terribly frustrating. Fortunately, using a track pad with mouse acceleration doesn't use the same muscles and is much more bearable (if slower) to use.
Gouse.nvim – silence ‘declared but not used’ errors in Go
I wore exclusively mechanical watches for most of my life, starting with a Rolex I inherited from my dad in the mid-80s.

When he bought it, Rolex wasn't yet as insanely upmarket as they've become. It was kind of the obvious token of upper-middle-class success of the era. Dad's is the two-tone DateJust on what Rolex calls a "Jubilee" bracelet, and you've seen the color scheme and overall look on a million knock-off Citizens and Seikos.

Rolex SAYS you're supposed to service these annually, but even when I wore it daily I didn't do that. I think it's been serviced maybe 3 or 4 times since I've had it; aside from a replaced mainspring a few years back, it runs fine and keeps time as good as any mechanical. That's kind of the appeal of Rolex, or at least it was in the 60s and 70s: they're VERY VERY robust, so you especially see them on wrists of successful people in jobs that would be hard on a less robust watch. (Thinks chefs, or contractors, or -- like my dad -- veterinarians.)

I had a good dot-com era and bought a couple of my own, but nothing in precious metals or super expensive. And then, a few years ago, I was training for a half marathon and wanted a running device with GPS. I ended up with a gen-1 Apple Watch, and the damn thing was so HANDY that I upgraded to a fancier (steel, sapphire crystal) model for Series 3, and now I almost never wear the fancy mechanicals. I still LOVE them -- it's very cool that humans figured out how to keep time using springs and gears! -- but for day to day wear, it's almost always the Apple now.
Ah I see, I misread the 100k as retail (for both).
The person quoted (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Boaler) is a "Nomellini-Olivier Professor of Mathematics Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education" who "won the award for best PhD in education from the British Educational Research Association"

I'm not saying I agree with the proposed California Framework. As a formerly gifted maths student, I hate it. But let's not dismiss the rigorous work of an academic who is attempting to improve education for a public education body for a state with 40 million people as "bonehead" (or "woke nonsense" as another commenter did).

90% of the reasons why kids say "<subject> is stupid, who needs it" it's because they are not enjoying it or struggling with it and using this as a defense mechanism. Noone who is doing WELL at a school subject dismisses it as useless.

So maybe, just maybe, it's worth evaluating the education process to make it easier to teach kids to give them the foundations that then the more gifted ones can invest and build on top of, and everyone comes out with baseline math competency.
If I learned anything from the tablet, is that I should let my friends use me as excuse for getting out of work.

> DRINKING WITH KHONSU

Legend
Earlier this year the DoJ charged Stewart Rhodes and 10 other Oath Keepers members with seditious conspiracy for allegedly plotting to prevent by force the transfer of presidential power to Joe Biden. A number of these conspirators were involved in the siege of the Capitol on 01/06/21. Court papers say the group also had weapons stashed at a hotel nearby in Virginia and a quick reaction force ready to ferry them into Washington, D.C., if Rhodes gave the order. A magistrate judge in Texas ordered that Rhodes remain in jail pending trial.

Federal code defines seditious conspiracy as two or more people conspiring to overthrow or destroy by force the United States government, or to prevent, hinder or delay the execution of any U.S. law.
Yes. It’s not the super cool framework it once was but it’s still excellent, and still in active development. Rails 7 is a fantastic release too.
Math perpetuates an -ism so we must change math.
The increase in flipping means that there are no starter homes. All the starter homes got renovated and relisted at much higher prices
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted because your opinion is (in my opinion) perfectly valid. I spent 6 to 12 months forced onto a Mac by the company I worked for and I reached the same conclusion. Learning to subjugate one's personal preferences to the way the designers designed it is a good strategy on Mac (and to some extent Gnome on Linux).

I spent untold hours on Mac trying to recreate my Linux environment, and after cobbling together a number of different tools (some paid, some not) I got it pretty close - and then a new version of the OS came out and broke everything. It took a few months before most of the tools I used were updated, and due to accessibility API changes some of them never did get updated.
Homer Hickman came to my mind reading your comment. His Sputnik moment catalyzing the journey from coal mining town to NASA is a metaphor for that ideal. However, I’d have a hard time imagining America in 2022 has anything in common with 1959’s West Virginia.
Why wouldn't you just let everyone take the same class and the same exams, but let the kids who have interest do extra work? Want to do calculus a year early? Here's the book, here's the exercises, why would I stop you?
Performing a bunch of calculations for tabletop wargaming is basically the same as learning multiplication tables and solving related problem sets. It should help every time that for example you have to simplify a polynomial involving fractions and similar operations.

As I stated in another post, I don't know when it is neurologically ideal to learn arithmetics, it seems something that would be important to study carefully (personally I learnt before grade school, when I was 3-4 years old, but I didn't learn to read until I was 6, something that is often taught earlier).
Started yesterday to read Churchill's "The Gathering Storm", where he describes the follies of the victors after the first world war:

"Wise policy would have crowned and fortified the Weimar Republic with a constitutional sovereign in the form of an infant grandson of the Kaiser, under a Council of Regency. Instead a gaping void was opened in the national life of the German people. All the strong elements, military and feudal, which might have rallied to a constitutional monarchy and for its sake respected and sustained the new democratic and Parliamentary processes were for the time unhinged."

I will not quote further but in essence he speculates that in a still young Germany, a monarch could have provided the stability that it came to lack, and which in time lead to the fall of its young democracy. A monarch may not be the right answer always, but sometimes it may very well be.
Like I said, sounds good to a layman in general terms (just how you explained it). But the actual implementation is half-baked, short-sighted, and favors a weak/easy solution rather than something more well thought out and complex.
Some of the biggest changes in gaming engines is that they have gotten much much more advanced about streaming first low res assets in, starting the game, then continuing to stream high res assets in on the fly.

Even if a user doesnt have cached assets (which i think is the main point against your supposition, that assets can be cached after first launch), ideally a modern game could still load very fast at very low fidelity & keep pulling down higher fidelity assets as the user plays.
In other words, we need elite gatekeepers of information because the dirty peasants can't be trusted to think the "right" way. How democratic.
Is Caddy scriptable? I don't know much about it. But ever since I discovered nginx-lua-module and OpenResty it's been pretty much a game-changer for me. Curious if other popular webservers have done similar? Not really talking about things like mod_perl/php. Although I guess those are somewhat the same thing.
Everyone starts from a different position. I don't think it's worth letting yourself get irritated or depressed by other's success. Just try change the position you're at to a better one.

and.. of course startups have title inflation ;)
Algebra does use numbers. I learned to move the numbers to one side and the variables to the other.

10x+7 = -2x+31

Move 7 to the other side (picking up a minus sign)

10x = -2x + 31 - 7 = -2x + 24

Move -2x to the other side (flipping sign)

12x = 24

Recover 12*2 = 24 via memorization, quick division (though not long division), or whatever method

Therefore, x = 2. Then I drew a square and was done.
I've been using jurigged [0] for hot code reloading which is great. It works by replacing code objects in place at the function level which naturally handles many cases like applying to existing objects, avoiding loading a module multiple times, etc. As others noted the actual source of this one is not there so it's hard to know what it's doing. The published package contains a binary shared library so I suppose it's written as a CPython extension.

[0] https://github.com/breuleux/jurigged
Pretty sure it's Paid Time Off at least here in the US
Fun with AI Translation
Yeah I felt ridiculous saying that. Perhaps that false contrast betrays a romantic idea more than representing any material reality
I think it depends on the region. I started a project in Rails, and when I tried to hire people to help I found out there are very few people in my city who know anything about Rails. It's all Python and Java here.

So I'd recommend to look for job ads on local platforms and check if companies are looking for rails devs.
Introduction to Causal Inference (Causal AI)
I doubt it. I use Firefox on my phone (as in, actual Firefox, not the Safari shim available on iOS) and pretty much everything works perfectly fine. Web apps, addons, you name it.

Of course, Firefox and Safari lack a completely different set of features, but people actually need to test for Safari because of Apple's iron grip over their customers' phones. Nobody tests on Firefox, especially not Firefox mobile!

Sometimes someone here links a fancy new piece of tech relying on Google's weird proprietary APIs, and that's when I switch to Bromite.

You'll be fine. I don't know what applications you need to use Chrome for on the desktop, but I very much doubt there'll be an exodus from the app store to the mobile web any time soon.
I opened a ticket some time ago about performance with Jekyll and liquid templates. At least in that case, yjit was way faster. I'm happy to retest though. Anything that would make my jekyll builds faster would help.

Thanks for your great work!

https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby/issues/2363
And yet here, plus a lot of other forums, you don't constantly see people say things that would earn them a punch in the face IRL
I really want to try make it all programmatic but yea in the docs is probably the easiest to start. Thanks for the feedback.

You can see the rest of the source for the site and client libs in https://github.com/m3o. I'm separating Dev UX from the actual underlying platform and services in the hopes that others might also build things around them.
SF CA resident, parent of two school age children chiming in. The direction with math seems pretty dismal, in that as of right now, everyone is singly tracked together for math through freshman year of high school. This results in children who have higher aptitudes[1] to not be well served by schools. The majority of people I know who have the means opt out of the public school system, which probably makes the problem worse generally but solves a pain point for them.

[1] - I take it as a fact that different people have different talent levels for different things, but not everyone agrees with that, and disagreement on this point is a big driver (but not the only driver) in the "everyone gets exactly the same" approach that is trending now.
‘Disabled’ is not a bad word. Stop telling people with disabilities it is
Interesting. I would not have thought HN would take a Burkean approach to innovations in community management.
As with all industries when you pull away subsidies their business models either adapt or they die off. In this case, it'll definitely result in a die off of some wind turbine manufacturers and wind farm projects but over all it's better than keeping the thumb on the scale. Also, this is doubly true with respect to the petroleum industry. The US continues to prop up oil companies via subsidies and various tax evading credits. If a similar attitude was taken with oil with the removal of such thumb-on-the-scale subsidies then we'd see a massive die off of oil companies across the board. Frankly, if this is was done I suspect all renewables would look far better to investors than oil does.
We can blame boomers for owning 2+ properties and their NIMBYism
> If you look at people that are not academically inclined and call them under performers then maybe that’s part of the issue.

It's not me doing that, it's education schools telling prospective teachers that their students will just be "learning their math by themselves", and the teachers can simply be facilitators. It must be a comfy job teaching math class to little Carl Friedrich Gauss and the like, but what about the remaining 99% of students - who will need actual teaching?
Does it have implications for long-lived connections like SSE and websockets? It seems like restarts would have been disruptive to those but now might not be?
> institutions to protect humanity

But why do those institutions have to be armed? In theory, if corporations were under sufficiently vigilant democratic control, and the electoral/political system meant that leaders and policies reflected the best interests of most people, then sociopaths would have their power taken from them the moment they tried to wield it in an inappropriate way.
No app is feature complete on a changing platform. The OS changes and the new hardware is different. Assumptions made years ago no longer hold.

One of my apps has been in the store for 10 years (Mac & iOS) and I have had to make many updates to keep it fresh. (Adding Retina support to the 3d rendering code and the picture assets, going 64 bit on iOS, dark mode, adding ARM to Mac, replacing deprecated API use, etc, etc.).

These changes are in addition to updates that fixed bugs or added actual new app features and are part of the cost of doing business.
> That changes how the brain operates.

I didn’t think our understanding of the brain was that advanced yet. AFAIK we run some experiments and observe results, but we can’t explain why those results were observed.

Which is useful and awesome from a learning perspective, but extremely worrying we use it to craft public policy.
Interesting. I do not know much about dyscalcula. At an early age do word problems make it worse or better?
Re: built for a purpose, I think a lot of folks today just see Rolex as a luxury brand, but when Sean Connery walked out of the waves in Dr No wearing a Rolex, it was because it was precisely the sort of robust, fault-tolerant timepiece a super-spy WOULD wear. Moreover, back then, they weren't NEARLY so expensive. Rolex's prices have drastically outpaced inflation FOR SURE.

I had thought I'd buy a Subbie, too, but even at the turn of the century they had gotten a bit nuts. I opted for a Seamaster instead, at HALF the price.

>I can pass it down to my kiddo

As I noted uptopic, my first fancy watch was a 1970s Rolex I inherited from MY dad. Someone will inherit it from me. My friend C. has his grandfather's steel Rolex; his son will inherit that one.

That's a nice thing about mechs you can't really get out of electronics.
And? Free speech means they can say whatever, if you don't like them you can unfollow?
I have been watching a lot of youtube videos from "wristwatch revival", Marshall has an oddly soothing, breezy voiceover as he services mechanical watches. Its kind of like Bob Ross.

The workmanship in even prosaic mechanical watches is neat to see as he disassembles them.
Anecdote: my then 5 year old and I would "practice counting by different numbers" on the walk to school. By the end of kindergarten, she could count by everything up to 12s. In 1st grade, we started reversing it and asking how many 4s in 48 and the like, and by the start of second grade, we were firmly in adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators (though, on paper at this point, no longer mental math).

She had (has?) a solid grasp on numeracy. I recall asking her why, around 7th grade, "0.999..." is equal to 1. I was prepared to show some fancy algebra and she one upped me when she said "well, 1/9 is 0.111... so 9/9 is one and 0.999...".

She never liked math though. She spurned calculus.
Most likely will automatically vest.
Bought one of these a few years back to use with my old butterfly keyboard MacBook Pro: https://shop.bird-electron.co.jp/?pid=128928848

Nice to see something easier to obtain and 3D printable at that.
But strong arithmetic fundamentals are absolutely necessary for strong algebra. I've watched kids struggle with basic algebra because when they don't instantly recognize that 7x8=56, they also don't recognize that 7zx8z=56z(edit: squared).

Edit: thanks to the reply; HN ate my superscript 2. Apparently it doesn't like the unicode multiplication x, either: × ² ?
How nuanced to credit the usually thankless job of logistics. All those Hollywood movies about supply lines and transport during WWII is finally making an impact on the popular mind.
Incredibly relatable on the Christmas music. I did this in 2020 with my roommate and it really was a lot of fun - I wrote that up here: https://bobbiechen.com/blog/2020/12/22/the-making-of-christm...
True up to a point. There's a difference between content and production values. Production values are the frame. But you have to put something strong in the frame, otherwise the frame looks empty.

Give Paul McCartney a shitty USB mike and a shitty guitar and he'll still sound like Paul McCartney. Whatever he creates will be unusually musical, even if it's not polished.

Give most people world class studio time with a top engineer and they'll produce something mediocre at best, no matter how how much effort goes into it.

Good tools get out of the way and sound right without much effort, but all that really does is remove one layer of distraction/excuse.

The gear fetish market is driven by people who are mostly just collectors. Some musicians are also collectors. They will buy special vintage guitars, synths, studio processors, and so on because they're useful and the sound works for them.

But mostly it's middle aged middle class professionals - dentists, doctors, lawyers, some software developers - buying equipment as a hobby in itself, because buying is a lot easier and less stressful than creating.
For me to consider using it, the company would need to have millions of users, a large team of highly credentialed security engineers working on ensuring it is not vulnerable, and 6-figure bug bounties. If your unproven company can't be on the hook for $250,000 bug, why should anyone trust it with their banking info?

Basically there are not enough signals here for me to believe they are life-or-death serious about it. I know it sounds dramatic, but people's finances, careers, lives, etc can be destroyed by mishandling the information that flows through the browser. They need to take it that seriously, and signal that to everyone.
This is standard Russian propagated nostalgia. Romania was a poor corrupt vassal state of the USSR.

The working class did not have control of Romania, Nicolae Ceaușescu did from 1965-1989 as the general secretary.

The 1980’s in communist Romania were a time of austerity, not the other way around. Median household income is now 3x higher.

I’m not sure why I’m replying to such a disingenuous person and plain deceitful post but i guess i wanted to argue with liars on the internet today.
prevalence != difficulty of treatment

people's unwillingness to cooperate != difficulty of treatment

Asthma also isn't the only condition that is hard to treat in morbidly obese people. For many conditions it will be too late to start paying attention to one's calorie intake, but asthma is one that is survivable in the meantime. Severe discomfort and possible death tends to be a good motivator.
>You are right that this is a lot of nonsense. Specifically, 'you aren't good at math/math is hard' is the nonsense meme that gets hammered into student heads so frequently during school that most of them actually start to believe it.

No, the nonsense is the idea that we are all cut out for math. That's the fundamental underpinning behind the "wokies" push for equity, a silent conflation of equality of opportunity with equality of outcome based on the totally untrue premise that we are all equally capable given identical environments.

The only possible resolution to this goal, given the obvious uneven distribution of innate human ability, is the handicapping of those who are capable, because there fundamentally is no way to boost those at the bottom to match the middle and top.

And I don't think people understand how dangerously pervasive this mindset has become, as it is also the foundation for diversity and inclusion in the workplace, the equally misguided idea that given equal opportunity all demographics would see equal representation in a true meritocracy.
You might be thinking of contract manufacturers like Foxconn.
It's not only not dead, I'm excited about the new stuff in Rails 7.
Thanks for the info! Sounds a lot easier than anything I was imagining. I'll have to dig up a couple of those 4-pin sockets and see if I can source a battery.