skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My anecdata...

I started trading on RH in 2019. They make investing simple and approachable for someone who like me who knew the basics and just wanted to play around a bit with some spare cash.

But after a couple years when I want to start taking it more seriously, their platform has failed to grow and improve. In the three years I've used them, I can't think of a single new feature they added that I use. Meanwhile, there are plenty of things I'd like. For example, it's beyond ridiculous that price graphs don't have their axes labeled. When selling stock, it's always FIFO, so I can't choose which lots to sell to optimize tax liabilities.

The problem is that I have a hard time leaving because their margin rates (~3%) are so damn good compared to the major players (8% or higher).
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31172773
I've also noticed they've added ads after a video ends, even when autoplay is off. Annoying, but it makes sense to show ads while browsing for the next video to watch.
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Seems reasonable after a Twitter employee deleted Trump's account on the employee's last day of work. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/02...
The issue is a great deal of the rest of the world don't do this, so you need to decide whether to apply best-guess heuristics to parse it or decide that it's a typo ("ah there's not 22 months, so maybe it's the 22nd of February or someone fat-fingered the 2nd of February...?").

In this case you can lookup Slack outages to disambiguate it, but the frustration here - and I share it - is directed at the stubborn refusal to use a standard format that the reest of the world has agreed upon.
That doesn't sound right. The operating income grew from 16.4B to 20.1B. That's 21%, not 35%?
> a lot of his concerns seem entirely commonplace today

Because a lot of his concerns dealt with the human condition. That will never change.

Other things that were commonplace in roman times - graffiti and dick jokes...

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-lewd-graffiti-of...

Nihil novum sub sole.
I'm thinking that this is a funeral ritual because his father passed away.
I prefer them too for the same reasons, they're even available with a really similar syntax in React's JSX extension: <button onClick={onClickHandler}>

I'm a big fan of the data attributes for the same reason, they bind onto the actual element they belong with, they're available in JS and CSS, and they add semantic meaning to your markup when you're reading the source.
> “When kids struggle, they immediately say ‘I don’t have a math brain,’” Boaler said. “That changes how the brain operates.”

This really jumped out at me.

I didn't read any context, but students CAN and SHOULD learn to struggle. Productively. Without thinking they are failing.

Imagine you thought everything should come easily? That's not my experience in the world.

The fact that students (are reported to) shut down when faced with difficulty is a failing of the educational system and something that should be worked against.
The ecosystem might be small but as you said it can grow and I think there's enough people out there willing to give a new language a try if it seems appealing enough, it's quite common to try a new language for Advent of Code for example.

That being said, honestly the thing that stops me from trying/using Nim that the compiler enforces a style and that style is just wrong (it enforces spaces). Same goes for Go which enforces the opening brace on same line style. The people writing those languages can have whatever style they like for their code, but forcing me to use it is very off-putting to say the least. I get that this is probably a minor issue for most people but I can't deal with change that well and things like this are super annoying, especially since there is not one single reason for forcing a certain style on everyone.

I'm aware that `#? replace(sub = "\t", by = " ")` works, but it's a hack and I'd have to inject it everywhere, not a good solution. But at least it's better than Go in this regard.
Our Independence Day is probably a special case. Clearly language is flexible enough to say all the formats, but the date format we write matches the most common verbalization.
AddressSanitizer aka libasan is also wonderful for tracking memory errors. I find it both faster than valgrind and it has fewer false positives. I still use valgrind for 3rd party code, but prefer libasan for first party code, and insist on a clean run of the unit test suite using a libasan build before merging.
Pessimism's intelligence is not durable. Applied to a short time frame, it sounds intelligent. Over a longer period of time, pessimism loses it's IQ. It may be that constraints are much more concrete in the short term, but when you add the dimension of time, it is very difficult to identify concrete constraints, and many factors that were constraints, are removed over time. That said, being an optimist does not guarantee correctness or success.
> His problem seems to be the extension of it to epistemology

Isn't that a bit of a strawman? Bayesian epistemology as stated would require someone to believe something like "drawing without replacement from this urn, I got 100 white balls and 1 black ball, therefore there is a nonzero probability that this urn contains only white balls", which is not a belief I can imagine anybody to seriously hold.
As a junior engineer with 1 year of experience, I was really looking forward to my first job switch and salary increase.

Starting to look like I missed the golden job market between this and Meta/Twitter hiring freezes.
Good margin rates will be difficult to find in a rising interest rate environment. You can get lower rates from traditional brokers if you have a substantial net worth btw ($1MM+ AUM).
Fair point. My first introduction to stats was at second year in uni though, far too late. By that time I had already done a lot of calculus, which while important, hasn’t exactly been critical in my daily life.
> Those countries did so by making absolutely massive infrastructure and human development investments in their poor populations during their industrializing phase, very similar to what the US did for its previously poor white population after the 2nd world war.

Japan and Singapore aren’t Nordic social welfare states. They invested heavily in development but not particularly targeted at the poor.

> The people who face the greatest educational obstacles in the US today are disproportionately people who were also largely excluded from the huge post-WW2 investments and ensuing economic miracle, and have since faced the economic brunt of de-industrialization.

Only if you pretend that white people in Appalachia are the same group as white people in Massachusetts.

> They have far less crime and trauma to deal with, are not awash with weapons, and had very strong communal support systems. They were/are also quite authoritarian. Those are very different societies with very different circumstances.

That indicates that America’s problem is culture, not the availability of school psychologists.
This is one of the purposes I think Deno should have been built for: Use JavaScript for oneliners in the command line. We had

... | deno xeval '...stdin processing code using special var $'

which was close to xargs in terms of conciseness. Unfortunately, it was removed as being considered "too niche" [1].

[1] https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/3230
This honestly has me laughing.
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Education content is definitely ample now, including text books and references. we even have great communities to get answers to our questions. Unfortunately the bottleneck of education just switched to access to good teachers. A good teacher inspires students, identifies exactly why each student has difficulty understanding something, explains intuitions behind the most difficult concepts, designs highly tailored homework, leads engaging seminars, and keeps students in their discomfort zone. As in STEM field in general, lab staff, equipments, chemical agents, lab materials are generally scarce resources too.
I tried to do the same with my TRS-80 CoCo, but couldn't log in because the CoCo can't do lowercase letters. One of these days I should make an all-caps user with a couple of command aliases and try again. The same setup works well with my WYSE dumb terminal and Macintosh Classic, though the Classic should be able to handle some graphical browsing as well.
> The drill-out took 5 seconds at most…

This is the far more concerning part.
I am aware (in the same way that I am aware that BJP weren't the first political party in India to introduce special requirements to regulate interfaith marriage), but that was a good article thanks. I am not sure, however, what the point of you repartee was. It does not contradict my comment comment.
Given the situation on the ground you can comment that it'd be great to stop de-valuing college degrees but I think it's pretty clear that ship has sailed. A lot of jobs do unnecessarily demand college degrees, even going so far as to accept irrelevant degrees... anytime you see "Our ideal candidate has a BS from an accredited university" you can be confident that an arbitrary and discouraging requirement is being placed on the post. Now, in reality, a lot of employers don't actually care about those "requirements" but young people often don't realize that, and the ones that do can't be certain their uncertainty won't be invalidated by the time they secure a diploma.

I don't have a specific comment on the policy under discussion, I'm not a californian and I'm not familiar with the specifics - but telling people "You'll be fine without a degree" isn't going to go over well and, honestly, is asking the recipient to accept a large risk regarding their future while you, an employed person, have already passed that hurdle. American colleges definitely have issues with over enrollment but even if wanting that state is a "bad belief", it's certainly an accurate belief.
That was true about electric cars and rockets too. Musk may fail at this one or another future project, but you can't blame the guy for not being refreshingly original and dynamic
But Twitter is an ad delivery system, not a truth delivery system.
> it would not be something I would want to do without someone skilled in the craft.

I mean how is that different than any other hobby? I've never made a watch but I forage for mushrooms, and you wouldn't want to do that without being skilled in the craft either. It's pretty much the same for any hobby; the whole point of having a hobby is to become skilled at some esoteric thing.
I was able to start Marathon 2, but couldn't figure out the controls. (I didn't play it back in the day but knew of it)
"Short bus" was always a slur.
As a creator it takes a ton of time to do editing on something 15 min vs 2 min. I would much rather created a series of 2 min videos.
Google docs get you 99% there. But Microsoft's moat is in the 1%. e.g Finance and other niche stuff where the programming language is Excel.
Appreciate that this can be a reasonable conversation.

It’s important to note that there is a significant portion of the people employing this term in bad faith who are doing now intentionally and to cause confusion. The problem with a new term is that it will, almost inherently, be co-opted by these same groups.

The attempts to mislabel are intentional and coordinated. I think you are coming from a good hearted place, and it’s nice to be able to have this convo, but a new label won’t fix it because the label isn’t the problem the use is.
> Not only does the earlier version of the framework explicitly reject this view

Can you share that explicit rejection of the idea that there are not innate differences in ability, in the CMF? I have not seen it myself, thank you ahead of time.

To share what I've read, and colors my views a bit, is the following, from 'Chapter 1: Mathematics for All' of the Second Field Review [1]:

> An aim of this framework is to respond to the structural barriers put in the place of mathematics success: equity influences all aspects of this document. Some overarching principles that guide work towards equity in mathematics include the following:

> All students deserve powerful mathematics; high-level mathematics achievement is not dependent on rare natural gifts, but rather can be cultivated (Leslie et al., 2015; Boaler, 2019 a, b; Ellenberg, 2014).
...

> All students, regardless of background, language of origin, differences, or foundational knowledge are capable and deserving of depth of understanding and engagement in rich mathematics tasks.

> Hard work and persistence is more important for success in mathematics than natural ability. Actually, I would give this advice to anyone working in any field, but it’s especially important in mathematics and physics where the traditional view was that natural ability was the primary factor in success.
—Maria Klawe, Mathematician, Harvey Mudd President (in Williams, 2018)

> Fixed notions about student ability have led to considerable inequities in mathematics education.

Note that my pointing to this doesn't mean I inherently disagree that hard work/education can't help improve outcomes. I show the above citations to show that the CMF is not explicitly denying the Blank slate theory, which is what you are suggesting. If anything, they go out of the way to view ideas of innate ability negatively. I'm happy to also look at the references that you alluded to but did not cite.

[1] https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/ (it's in the bottom section, the format is .docx, so don't want to directly link to it as that format can sometimes be cause for concern on random links shared on the internet)
Tap with three fingers does the spotlight quick lookup of what’s under the cursor by default. On a machine from 2012 and an OS from 2018.

I’m not certain but I think if you turn it off, bettertouchtool would let you make it do something (anything!) else you wanted.

Edit: I think I misread your “Apple cant do it” meaning physically, while you probably meant exposing a setting without using (paid) third party apps
> know less in exchange for doing more

That is very rare event with established tooling.

Most of the time complexity is just shifted around.
The difference might be that Brackit uses sophisticated join algorithms for these kinds of implicit joins as known from relational query processing.
Of course it does. Hard to be altruistic when you're figuring out your own survival.

Anyone who says economics doesn't matter is wrong.
I think their main complaint is that you can't iteratively operate on a stream as a whole without first converting it to an array, which besides sometimes requiring awkward syntax, can require a lot of memory for large datasets.
Just my personal take, I think this is a really well-written incident postmortem. It's specific, extensive, candid, and dare I say, entertaining?

Many incident reports are fully lacking in any meaningful detail, or wholly unapologetic. I actually enjoyed learning tidbits about the author, in particular their mention of https://how.complexsystems.fail/.

Reading this boosted my confidence in Slack's teams, which should ultimately be the objective of a release like this. It's not pure PR nor a gruff legally-obligated disclosure.

It helps that I wasn't really affected by this incident.
As a person I have silos of interests and ideal content desires.

Sometimes I want to watch long podcasts about war and other times I want 30 second puppy videos and I don’t understand why I can’t have algorithms for both silos without separate accounts.
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I have been developing almost exclusively in Python for the last 4 years (occasional C#, Java and PHP) and although my entire team disparages PHP it is really quicker and fewer characters for most stuff.

Luckily IDEs can auto add the imports, but sometimes a slightly mistyped piece of code auto adds an import I need to delete, I love avoiding imports and circular imports in PHP. The other nice thing is avoiding random python behaviour differences in MacOS, Windows and Ubuntu. Code that works fine in CircleCI but not locally. Works on a Mac but not on windows etc… I didn’t experience that with PHP.

Not sure there are a huge number of long term PHP devs who switch to Python or the other way around to have a reasonable opinion.
This article [1] took a look at a lot of studies. This whole Ivermectin is just an internet phenomenon.

[1] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...
Interactive Brokers have always had the best margin rates: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/margin-rates.p...

Current max is 1.83% but the more you borrow it asymptotically approaches 1%. (subject to change, same as RH)
So you believe that certain people deserve the privilege of not ever being criticized, and you count Musk among those people?

You only gave an explanation of why you are a fan of Musk and why you don't agree with (any?) of his critics, not why his angry reactions to critics and attempts to shut them down are OK. Or did you want to say that this is just "for the greater good", and thus should be judged by different rules?

He claims to be a defender of free speech for everyone, but he's clearly not able to handle free speech when it comes to him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paid_time_off?wprov=sfla1
Was it a chargeback (i.e. a fraudulent transaction) or services not rendered (i.e. faulty product etc.).
So by attempting to use Datadog to help track and thereby offset some of the costs of what would be considered minor data ended up driving up costs due to the sheer number of these requests? Is this a problem that is more centered around serverless?
It wanes as people advance in age :)
They are not really monarchies, they are democracies with a small amount of monarchic elements.

Monarchy in my understanding implies the rule of the monarch.

The Monarchs in most EU countries do not rule, through some have some restricted political influence.

I think the UK might be an exception, where as far as I remember the royalty still theoretically holds pretty much all the power just politely decide to pretend they don't know they still rule. But that might be a misconception of mine.
Clearly the person you responded to wasn't asking what Franco did for that particular coup. Having ceded that one king did one useful thing, they pointed out that another was...perhaps less helpful.
That's fair, although part of the reason I call Mastodon the "cool" alternative is because of its federation. AFAIK the right wing forks don't generally have that.
As a wise man said, on 4chan smart people pretend to be stupid. On Reddit, stupid people pretend to be smart.
Just don’t include formulas you can’t motivate simply.

Will it result in students not knowing as many formulas? Of course, but who cares?
> competition is how we get out of local maxima

Careful. The prisoner's dilemma shows us that competition can drive the system to the globally worst outcome.
> I'm not sure what `$name` is but `$body` is the string passed to the handler attribute in HTML.

The name of the synthesized function is the attribute name itself. So `<button onclick="alert(arguments.callee.name)">` will alert "onclick" on click.
> I didn't read any context, but students CAN and SHOULD learn to struggle. Productively. Without thinking they are failing.

Unproductive struggling with math is the natural consequence of substandard math education, such as is encouraged by the unscientific and arguably insane notion (which is however common throughout the Education field) that all students can simply be expected to "learn their math by themselves", and therefore have no need for actual, focused and direct teaching of that subject.
> Pessimists do not discriminate between charlatan and innovator. They just sit on the sidelines and crap on everything because a) it doesn't require any work, and b) ideas and attempts are imperfect, so it's easy to point out flaws in them and be correct.

This is the complaint of a salesman (or a follower of one) who's upset his job isn't easy, and wishes everyone was an optimist who'd just buy what he's selling based on his pitch.

The difference between a charlatan and an innovator is an innovator delivers and a charlatan sells.
Wouldn't cutting out high level math courses make even more kids underperform below what they are capable of?

The cited issue was that higher level math courses were making other students feel like they weren't cut out for math. So it seems more like the issue is a mindset one. They shouldn't be looking at better performing kids and think "I can never do that". We should be instilling a better growth mindset to these kids, so they understand that they can overcome their inabilities.

The "woke" solution of removing high level courses actually achieves the opposite. It reinforces the idea that such a level is inachievable for some people so it should be cut out for all people.
Good example. Thank you!
Mine actually works about half the time with a mask on. Seems weird, but I'm not complaining
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> The requested URL /infrastructure/disaster-readiness-test-failover-blackhole-sjc was not found on this server.

> Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I see which data center was hosting the article, then.

Internet Archive to the rescue: https://web.archive.org/web/20220426191128/https://dropbox.t...
Can you recommend a good reference/source for translating legalese? I'm not sure I've ever found a good source for determining which words should be interpreted normally and which are landmines.

The ambiguity about what words mean may be part of why people assume patents are so broad. Most people know that some words and phrases, when used in a legal context, have vastly different (more specific, broader, or even completely disconnected) meanings than what you'd expect in normal writing or speech. Without knowing what those are, the safe approach is to ascribe the least favorable possible meaning to every word. "Does language X mean Y" becomes "could language X possibly be interpreted by someone who doesn't understand the material to kinda vaguely reference Y," and you get the type of broad assumptions you're lamenting here.
See "The gambler's fallacy is not a fallacy"[1] (which was recently discussed[2] on HN).

[1] - https://www.kevindorst.com/stranger_apologies/the-gamblers-f...

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30973324
That’s great… but that’s not what this module is for
Well, either you can remove the noise, or you can remove your ability to hear it. Have you considered just using headphones? Computer fans are usually quiet enough that you won't even need noise-cancelling ones.
It isn't binary - magnitude, intent, and frequency matter. "I did not have sex with that woman" doesn't threaten democracy. "The election was rigged." does.