skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the argument (though not necessarily one I agree with) is a spin on what you said:

The current system pushes 50% of the kids into calculus and 50% into 'I hate math.' Of the 50% that go into calculus, 50% go into STEM.

That leads to (hyperbole) 25% A's / 25% B's / 50% F's.

The intent of the new rule is to maybe be more like 25% A's / 10% B's / 50% C's / 15% F's.

The key questions are 1) Is that actually better (I certainly think bringing up the floor is a good idea, but at what cost)? 2) Is this policy even going to get us there?
You have to consider at least the minimal context of the Eisenhower quote, i.e. that it's _Eisenhower_'s quote, who in no uncertain terms could be considered anything close to a pacifist or idealist, he understands that military means are necessary.
You could run a chromium build or Edge. Perhaps Firefox would work, or one of the upstart new browsers.

What apps/sites are Chrome only for you?

I tend to think this is a huge non-issue, & outsizedly bemoaned as a convenient way to dock the obvious advantage of freedom. In practice I expect this only to be an issue where it is critical, such as the top current comment's example of running Unreal Engine, which Safari just cant do. The web still has enough collective memory of the bad times that social pressure against favoring specific browsers will be strong. I havent heard actual examples of problems/ outrage yet; if it became a significant issue, I'd expect then we'd see real vocal & concerted pushback.

In general I favor not governing technology choices/alignment by fear of the unknown. We dont know yet on tbis one. Insisting on a conservative limited approach, based on fear, without enabling exploration, consigns us to limited sad fates.
MATLAB or something from MathWorks?
Ah, ofc...it is someone else's job to grub for money. You just like people to give you the money...a bit like pre-Revolutionary France, someone else gets their hands dirty, gives you the money for cultural reasons.

The purpose of my comment wasn't to suggest how to remedy the situation but your answer is indicative: there is no separation between money-making and non-money making (engineers' viewpoint, as with everyone else, on who is making the money tends to vary quite significantly...when it is pay discussions, they are responsible...when a product has gone wrong, I can't believe these managers did this to me), if you work at a company your job is to make money...that is where your salary is coming from, customers. The precise problem is that so many engineers are paid for specialising in arcane knowledge unrelated to any revenue or consumer demand. In my experience, companies that move this responsibility over to engineers do better (indeed, companies that don't, won't survive at all...the only reason these jobs exist is because some tech companies happen to have monopoly products and choose to overhire...if banks had a monopoly product, you would see a profusion of very over-educated people specialising in some arcane area of finance with no consumer demand but which get hired for cultural reasons).

There is no-one else to blame. The distinction between product and engineering is a function of dysfunction.
Sorry, the hips are always a lot more sunk in than say, an Angus cow. Not just a little bit. It's a pretty startling difference if you grew up in beef country. They've got a hind end more like your standard US and UK milk breeds.

Edit: The ones in the picture are in the indicus group/category/I don't know what the current technical term is. Angus, Jersy, Holstein, etc would be in the taurus group/ect.
If you want to be pedantic...

You mentioned the M1, which is an SoC, not a computer. So when you said the M1 only supports one external monitor, you were being vague and incorrect. The M1 Mac Air only supports one monitor, but the M1 Mac mini supports two. If you expand the M1 SoC to encompass both the Pro, Max and Ultra versions, you can connect 3, 4, and 5 displays respectively.

14-inch or 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Pro: Two external displays at up to 6K over USB-C and one at up to 4K over HDMI 2.0

14-inch or 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Max: Three external displays at up to 6K over USB-C and one at up to 4K over HDMI 2.0

Mac Studio with M1 Max or M1 Ultra: Four displays at up to 6K over USB-C ports with Thunderbolt 4 and and one at up to 4K over HDMI 2.0

https://www.macworld.com/article/347919/how-many-monitors-ca...
The problem is, when somebody is disagreeing with you it's extremely tempting to declare them "in bad faith" or "flat out lying." For example the "Lab Leak Theory" was banned as disinformation and people mentioning it were roundly mocked and disparaged (I was somewhat guilty of mocking those people also because it seemed too conspiratorial to me and many of the "usual" conspiracy nuts were all too eager to jump on Lab Leak). But then we found out that it was actually more plausible than it seemed. However the accounts of people honestly trying to make the case had long been banned already, and there was nowhere to go to get their reputations back.

So I fully agree that "Systematic omnipresent bad-faith argument appealing to strong emotions and flat-out lying" is poison to the mind, but I think it's also reached for way too quickly and can and has been abused to silence opinions we don't like.
Clearly a guy — he fucks things up so often!
Define dead. Some people don't think Cobol is deal. Or Fortran. In this sense the code is still run somewhere and there are still jobs to be had.

But the question is probably around one's personal choices: is this the framework to invest my energy and time? Are there far better frameworks? Where is the market headed?

In the early days of Rails, and indeed any popular framework, the sense we get of an explosive growth. As a result of this there is an imbalance of jobs and developers and jobs seem easy, plentiful and well compensated.

This is really a question of the ratio of dev:positions. Most answers to this tend to focus on the positions component (take a look at stack, or upwork or indeed or whatever!). Perhaps someone on HN will suggest a metric or public gauge for the competition as well.

Edit: added slightly more context
Which Gen Z people are doing this? The oldest of them are 26 and don’t exactly have a lot of capital to spend on houses.

Your explanation for why millennials can’t afford homes is that… other millennials are buying all of them up?
Discussed at the time:

The Problem with Mechanical Switch Reviews - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13006608 - Nov 2016 (5 comments)
Gmail.com marked as malicious – all my emails going to spam
That post seems extremely suspect. I'm guessing that what they mean when they say "the most in demand skills" is the skills that when present on a resume, increase the odds of a user being contacted by recruiters, which isn't so much in demand as hard to find. By that metric COBOL would probably have been at the top of the list if hired had clients that used it.
You can be optimist about your goals but pessimist about your means. There's probably any number of quotes from military strategists about that kind of thing.
Anything Raymond Chen writes is worth the time to read.
for people who want to do something like this, not a cellphone but an actual desk phone, you can do it a lot cheaper if you want a rotary phone connected to modern phone networks.

there's various oldschool bell system type desk rotary phones on ebay for $35-60

and then add a pulse dial/rotary compatible ATA ($25-55) to speak SIP to asterisk or other standards-compliant voip systems. typically this will have a 100BaseTX ethernet interface.

the rest is just ordinary voip phone setup, assuming you have an asterisk or similar system to talk to, main limitation is the rotary phone obviously can't send DTMF tones.

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=203...

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=pulse+d...
But there is a often a good reason to be pessimistic, mainly that it's not like you get infinite attempts in life or at anything. Life is not like practicing basketball or an instrument, in which the cost of failure is zero. Failure can have irreversible consequences professionally and personally. You have to be cautious in knowing what sort of things can trigger an irreversible failure.
Really sounds like an awesome tool. Fits right into the serverless / JAMStack kind of systems too. Just like Netlify CMS.

I was actually in the process of tweaking Netlify CMS to be more easily hostable yourself without depending on the Netlify Pro plans as much. Basically involves hosting a combination of Netlify Identity and Git Gateway compliant backends in GCP CloudRun or AWS Lambda. Maybe even making it easy to configure a build pipeline on CloudBuild.

I wanted to use this for small business websites, but also configuration management and translations for projects at work. Sounds like FlyCode is a great (not self-built) alternative I can recommend. Great business model as well. Almost no databases needed (auth only?) and easy to host stateless on serverless offerings. Scales linearly
> 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.

That is not true, though. Self-publishing video on my personal site has effectively no utility compared to publishing it on YouTube. For my job (and the job of, thousands? millions?), it is the only game in town.

An ISP comparison would be hosting my personal site on The Internet vs. a splinternet.
Things might only work fine now because people are forced to test mobile apps in Safari. If Safari’s market share drops significantly over a 3-5 year period, you might see “Works best in Chrome” start to appear again…

I get it though. Every so often I find a site that works well in both Safari and Chrome due to WebKit but doesn’t work in Firefox. It’s pretty rare, but it happens.
A post-mortem with non-ISO dates? Even on THAT date?! :)
Is calculus an important highschool goal? I feel like I may have benefited more if that time was spent on statistical literacy than calculus. I encounter stats very often in my adult life, calculus style problems are rare and I don't remember the formulas offhand, so end up just looking up what I need.
Christopher is reporting some very wild stats:

For instance Ron DeSantis getting 96k followers in one day:

or MSNBC vs Fox News

or Jair Bolsonaro getting 42k in one day:

https://twitter.com/cbouzy/status/1518953731961802752

Something definitely smells like shit to me.
I've never read Chomsky (*).

Ironically, the same double-standard we apply tech billionaires vs Saudis/Waltons, etc, also exists when it comes to campaign funding. The same people who decry money in politics, are overjoyed when their candidate is outraises the opposition.

(*) In part because I don't want to be that guy that's always quoting Chomsky :-) "The last Toy Story movie was clearly nothing more than manufactured consent!"
There’s a great reference to this concept in The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
While true, there are far more young people than old people dying at least in the US: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2016/...), and in general there have never before been as many humans on earth.
Did you never want something because it’s nice and inspiring? A sports car, a big Lego, a cap of your sport hero, a computer full of LED? Did you want this only to impress others? Have you had such a watch on your wrist and felt how it wore? Once you start learning about how those are built etc this becomes a small hobby that’s very nice to enjoy in all the trouble nowadays. Of course some wealthy people will buy those just because they can afford them, but those are not the collector enthusiasts who built the watch culture that allowed those brands to grow to where they are now.

Watch enthusiasts will say all tech is conspicuous consumption because it lasts so little and loses value very quick. There is little more sustainable than a Rolex that still wears nice after 50 years, and can probably hold 100 if taken care of.
Ask HN: Has anyone been scammed by Samsung?
I placed an order for 870 QVO SATA III 2.5" SSD 8TB (total amount: $816.19). However I received 870 QVO SATA III 2.5" SSD 1TB, an item which I did not order. The item sent by Samsung is only a 1TB SSD ($109.99). In plain English: Samsung charged me for a product advertised as containing 8 terrabytes of storage capacity and costing $816.19, but they sent me a product containing only 1 terabyte of storage capacity and costing $109.99.

They are refusing to issue a refund. What would you do in my shoes?
I'll bite. Why is calculus a goal?
Are you kidding me? Read the second half of those sections. Come back and tell us what the rest of the sentence says.
> disc detainer he helped design

You mean, to quote, "the tool that Bosnian Bill and I made"?
Irrespective of specific educational curriculums, I'm curious what does HN think about Calculus?

I absolutely loved learning Calculus in high school in Math and 1st and 2nd year of University. I consistently got 97+% on my grades.

And I've never had to use it in my Computer Science degree or my 20 year Software Engineer career since.

Am in a bubble because I don't spend much time in the Machine Learning domain?
In the 80s, there was indeed a deep economic crisis.

It resulted primarily from economic warfare. The country was offered the chance to sell to the West, under the condition of taking IMF funds. After spending them on developing factories, we were denied the ability to sell the products (mostly industrial equipment). We were only allowed to sell agricultural products to pay off the debt, hence the rationing. Today, that would be called sanctions.
As far as the rooting-related problems go, there's very little reason to root an Android phone today (unlike, say, 6-8 years ago). Most of the things you used to need root for now have a working API (like VPNs).
Yep, tracking students into systems like high/low early on makes it very hard to ever escape that track, as they're a sort of self-perpetuating system. That has downstream effects for one's entire life. It's a crude method of personalizing education within the context of factory education.

Downsides are that kids develop at different times, have different educational needs, have home life issues that can temporarily derail progress, etc and if those happen around the time kids are getting tracked, they may not reach their full potential.

A good education system would offer students a way to rise up whenever they're ready to rise up, let them learn at their pace, focus on mastery, build upon knowledge gained rather than schedule followed, etc. There's a lot of edtech out there that incorporate these concepts but school models struggle to integrate it into the (literally) old school way they operate. It's quite difficult to reorient school around these new concepts at scale, it has to be done school-by-school, leader-by-leader, school board by school board.

Agree its complex, as it may be the 'best of the worst' option for certain contexts. Anything involving balancing equity/access/etc is like that.
You mean this book, right?

https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Techno...

Yes, I read it. Yes our org put it in use.

Actually for today's year (2022) the book is not so much of a great news compared to when it was released (2018). Today almost everyone already understood that software development is done this way (at least the right software development process).

In 2018 for me this was an excellent book, it changed the way our organization positioned ourselves regarding software development, and we are very grateful we did that. At that time, before 2018, the "modern" software development companies were talking about "digital transformation", we were already in the agile world for some years but the book gave us a name to go for, "accelerate".

It's an excellent book and I agree with almost everything that is written in it (I work in the software development business for over 26 years).

Hope I helped with this comment.
I always wondered what it would feel like to not have weeks, or even years, but to live life in a continuous stream of days looking forward. I'm not sure if we would feel a horrible lack of closure or accomplishment, or if it would make us more productive and forward looking and moving. I wonder how much of my life I waste just trying to close out a week/month/year.
What areas of Causal AI do you think have progressed more since you made the course?
Yes that seems to be correct, it's explained here: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/rd...

You can turn this off in your settings if you like, but it's actually there to protect your privacy.
If every supermarket in the West half of the country is owned by one company, that is a monopoly even though they only have 50% of the market, as "the relevant market" gets analyzed to mean "the west side of the country". The real question is whether one believes that iPhone vs. Android counts as morally equivalent to West vs. East, due to how: 1) most normal people only have a single phone, and thereby they can't just randomly pop over to Android to buy something the same way they can just pop over to a different supermarket in a market with competing supermarkets; and 2) high switching costs--which are partly born from an active decision by these companies to make purchases be non-transferable--prevents people from even "moving to the other side of the country" (similar to the high switching costs of physically doing literally that) in order to switch markets.
My time-travelling archeologist self in another reality would prefer watching this in action rather than the Jira ticket/corporate values/KPI grind, given a choice. Though as a worker, I'm sure I'd prefer being a cubicle slave to being a pyramid day laborer.
Kind of (indirectly); we don't have an interpreter built-in, but the JSON config is managed natively through an API: https://caddyserver.com/docs/api

So yeah, you can write scripts that control Caddy while it's online.

The nice thing about the API is you can code in whatever environment or language you prefer: no need to learn Caddy's scripting language or anything like that. (The config is JSON, so nearly every language can output it.)
> place two windows side by side properly is just like impossible

macOS has supported automatic snapping while dragging windows for years now. Just drag it slowly when you're approaching the edge of the other window and the window you're dragging will snap to it
Poor arithmetic actually drove me to learn how to program calculators and caused me to be interested in being a software engineer
Stats requires calculus; you can't even define a probability distribution without some pretty advanced notions of real analysis. Discrete math, linear algebra etc. are viable alternatives.
CC charge back?
Definitely a valid concern!

Though I would not let that dictate my choice of tools.

However if you want the biggest pool of "talent" and potentially the cheapest "talent" then going with the most popular is probably a good idea

Doesn't mean I'd advocate for the most obscure tech either, but it's all about trade-offs and your situation.
What you suggest is already the case. The book and exercises are "here" for you to do, nobody to stop you. It's called the internet. The calculus police doesn't come get you if you're reading a calc book in 10th grade. It's just that you don't have any way of getting instruction or school credit - so you are very unlikely to be successful, and not very likely to have your university credit you as having mastered the material without taking a college class.
I'm running a side project in Clojure (a guess-the-number-of-covid-cases lottery, https://koronalotek.pl) on a small VPS (Scaleway DEV1-S), and it is no problem either. It runs happily in the 2 GB RAM that the server has; I just installed the JVM, configured a nginx reverse proxy, and am using the standard cli-tools in a screen session to run it.
I think I can translate this:

It's saying that it is impossible to get the bulk of students (with the teachers we have) to complete the standard mathematics curriculum by the end of high school. This has always been true, in all countries, hence "streaming". But now they're saying let's do away with the advanced stream, therefore students can't complete the last part of the US mathematics curriculum (which is called "Calculus"). Rather than justify that move in terms of cost or fairness, we're going to say "because Calculus isn't important now".

This is obviously completely bogus. If their assertion that Leibnitz-style calculus isn't important now, they could replace it with Linear Algebra, Number Theory, or some other "important now" subject.

Add to that, the fact that in the US the names of high school mathematics classes are by convention. "Geometry" isn't all geometry, for example. And "Calculus" isn't all calculus. The classes are really : Math 1, Math 2, Math 3, Math 4, AP Math.
Your #1 is not a valid statement. OS, be it Mac, iOS, WatchOS, TVOS has a huge shared codebase. It's all OS, tweaked to the particular need of the hardware.
Best kept secret of Caddy+Docker.
> The opposite view is that progress is a matter of luck. If the progress of the last few centuries was a random windfall, then pessimism is logical: our luck is bound to run out. How could we get that lucky again? If the next century is an average one, it will see little progress. But if progress is a primarily matter of agency, then whether it continues is up to us.

Or perhaps: progress is subjective and transient and often comes with unknown costs, so we don’t need to make a big deal of it either way.

The author seems really caught up in some private neurosis about how they relate to progress, but surely they’d have more resources to contribute to their vision of progress if they stepped back a little and stopped trying to relate themselves to some conflict between “optimists” and “pessimists”.
Coronavirus Has Infected Most Americans at Least Once, CDC Says
'you aren't good at math/math is hard' may be nonsense, no doubt.

'you can be good at math/math is easy' may be an equal nonsense.

This seems to be a symmetrical situation to me. You can absolutely underrate or overrate a person's abilities to do X. I don't see how one is preferable to the other. Both are pretty destructive when taken to their extreme logical conclusions. For example, from the relative underrepresentation of blacks in advanced math classes, you can draw a conclusion that math as a science is inherently racist/white supremacist. Such sentiments can be sometimes seen in discussions and I consider them dangerous, toxic nonsense.
When did Ron censor something?
From your link, iOS is at 25% https://stockapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/market-domi...
I wouldn't choose RoR as a new tech to pick up in 2022. Think of it like a more stylish PHP - lots of it out there, but mostly not in companies working on things that are compelling, and the market share is on the decline.
You can spend a few days getting to know jq or you can happily live with your 100+ purpose-built scripts. I know which one I prefer.

I don't even process complex JSON...it's usually pretty basic. But being able to quickly select parts out of streams of JSON data on the CLI is incredibly useful to me, and learning even just the basics of jq has paid for itself a hundred times over by now.

Granted, a lot of my job right now is data forensics stuff, so I breath this kind of stuff. You might never need jq.
Indeed, many companies serve all kinds of budgets. There is interesting stuff at all prices.
Apache has built-in lua scripting support nowadays.