skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of human interaction and artistic expression exists in the 'real world', I think using that term to exclude everything other than simple physical phenomena is misguided at best.

> nor is he saying that in the absence of empirical knowledge you shouldn't use other less rigorous information to make decisions.

As I read it, he's saying that only empirical knowledge exists [at least in the context of "real world" or physical phenomena], rendering the term 'empirical knowledge' essentially redundant. How could you use non-emperical knowledge if such a thing doesn't even exist?

Limiting the scope of consideration to simple physical phenomena: What about your innate intuition about the way physical objects behave? Is there no use for that? Nobody gets out a pencil and solves kinematic equations every time they try to catch a baseball. There's a great deal of utility to be found in the intuitive knowledge of how the physical world works.
Amazon and apple probably both have more capital invested in factories, warehouses, etc than Tesla does. Apple is also kinda a high end brand. They seem a lot more similar than different.
> Resource and knowledge flows that were direct consequences of military expenditures

Can't agree to that. As noted, correlation isn't causality from or consequence thereof. Wikipedia's list of critical tech for industrial revolution is textiles, steam power, iron working, machine tools. That seems reasonable. In context, the key developments of all happened upstream of military use/development (although they had military use, military expenditures were not causal).

Take Watt's steam engine improvements. The development was substantially if not entirely civilian. Ran water pumps for coal mining which supported many industries including military, and military use was not critical for development.

Possible counter example is Harrison's marine chronometer. Development was militarily supported and spurred on by a naval disaster. However, while contributory, wasn't essential to success of industrial revolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution#Importan...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt_steam_engine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison
These things go in cycles. A lot of people don't realize that Scopes actually lost the Scopes Monkey Trial, and that the tide didn't turn overwhelmingly to rationalism in public education until the 1958 National Defense Education Act (which was motivated by the idea that there was a risk of the nation falling behind scientifically). The tide will turn towards rationalism and rigor again, eventually.
very cool interface! login thru public key + ssh and lists contributed via scp
At the time MS was old hat. They only grew because Office 365 extended their natural monopoly in enterprise. Definitely a good stock pick in hindsight, but not the new type of ‘new’ platform growth that was going on at FAANG at the time.
I don't think either system is great right now. From an American perspective, I really wish that there were still trade-type classes in high school, and those were more accepted as a viable career path at that stage of life for those who want it.

One path could be partnerships with local community/technical colleges. My high school participated in a program called "Middle College" where high school students took classes at a local community college (can't remember if it was all or just some) and that seemed to work well.
Sure and that’s relevant because why?

Let’s look at a HVDC list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HVDC_projects

VS say: https://cecgis-caenergy.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/260b451...

Looks like as I said HVDC are rare. It’s ok not to be an expert on something but don’t try to fake it you just look like a fool.
anyone still using KDX? i have a server running on telnet.asia
Content moderation doesn't need to be hard. Nor does Musk have to solve it all by himself. Twitter has a lot of engineers to work on the problem.
Disinformation (spreading false information that you know is false) is illegal in the US [0]. The question isn’t whether people should be free to knowingly spread false information. The question is who should decide what is false information.

Giving a single billionaire the power to decide what speech is allowed (and what isn’t) is dangerous. No individual’s incentives align with everyone else’s. And the wealthiest person in the world has especially unique incentives.

If we want to align our social media platforms’ rules with what’s best for society, then we need society to decide the rules.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/35
I needed this today, thanks!
Potential reason it's rational: The shoulders of those giants are higher than ever before. Climbing to those heights is correspondingly harder to do.

Speaking for myself, I had to worry very little about computers until late in high school (Senior year, specifically). There were no spreadsheet or word processing classes, and the typing classes were only for the girls. There was Algebra (up through Calculus as an optional course), but many others that my niece has that I didn't.
Seiko 5's are great, rock solid, last forever. My dad handed down his Seiko 5 to me, it was a 1982 model, that still runs like a champ. Take that Apple Watch we'll see if you're still running in 2062.
When I moved to MA, it blew my mind when I learned that what Florida considers an 'advanced' or even 'specialized' education is literally the baseline education in Boston and the suburbs. The best schools in Miami Dade County would be median in Middlesex.
I agree, nothing about Tesla and SpaceX has anything to do with a aggressive cost cutting type of strategy
>> Updates should be required only when specific apis or
>> features are deprecated and the app in question uses those.
>> But there probably isn't an easy way to test whether an app
>> uses them.

Xcode tells you what deprecated calls you are using every time you do a fresh build. The list varies by which minimum iOS version you state.

Xcode also tells you if your project settings need an update, and will do it for you.

You should always be able to do a fresh build, or your app is effectively abandoned.
> The major impetus for watered down curricula is the very rational fear that large swaths of the student population will fail if expected to perform at the prior standards of rigor.

I don't think the previous standards of rigor were ever so high for most students.

When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s in the suburban working class Midwest, the vast majority of the students in my high school didn't advance beyond algebra. This was in a well resourced school district.

But that was a time when it was felt that most people didn't even need to know anything past basic math to be employable. Times have changed of course, but the vast majority of educational paths, even STEM paths, don't require calculus.

However a great many do require basic data analysis abilities, so it's reasonable to emphasize those.

This shouldn't be done at the cost of offering calculus as an option for students who are prepared for and motivated to do it, though. Of course in the end this is about cost. Assuming the same resources, to teach a broader set of students data science will require reducing the availability teaching resources for something else.

I also recall that in the 1980s in some places there were programs that taught calculus at public community colleges for students who were on an accelerated academic path in high school. That is another option to consider.
I have strong suspicions that certain countries are Astro-turfing movements on western social media to lure talent back.
> An American analogy would be if the National Academy of Science were taken over by Christian creationists, and the teaching of evolution were condemned as "hurtful" etc.

The subset of people in the US who would be willing to push that agenda are neither insubstantial nor marginalized from political power (in recent memory they've been within an unhealthy septuagenarian's heartbeat of the presidency).
And how much different is it from using stripes checkout.ja
14b is a lot of money for what at least to me looks like a mere feature.
>That does not make any sense. Suppose I was upset that other people now have free speech; how would me quitting twitter affect it in any way? If I really wanted to somehow (what whatever reason) prevent others from having free speech, how would me closing my twitter account achieve that?

They really don't want to see what the censored people have to say.

>The reason I closed my twitter account yesterday is because I dislike Musk and do not particularly want to participate in his social media platform.

That seems fine with me.

I generally dont do social media. Best to stay away.
I've been using this Docker image in a Docker Compose configuration to run some apps on a VPS

https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy

Pretty nice, handles routing to your containers and manages LetsEncrypt for you. Response times are super fast too (<= 100ms for an ASP Web API application which uses Postgres via Entity Framework).
I wonder if the intent of this is to prevent not harm but to prevent hiding their corrupt management of narratives.
Sure. And I know it isn't directly comparable to WhatsApp but it isn't mind boggling scale really.

You want to work on the adtech side of it there's quite a few of those exchanges similar in size around, they just aren't house hold names. Where is the fun? I'm genuinely asking.
I am a fan of another Japanese watch brand, Citizen, particularly the Eco-Drive models. Solar powered, very durable, and they look great. Prices range from $100 for basic models to over $3000 for the Hakuto-R (there is some connection to the Japanese lunar mission, https://www.citizenwatch.com/us/en/product/CC4016-75E.html). Most Citizen watches are water resistant as well.

I've had one model running continuously for 12 years. I love never having to charge it or change the battery.
Shows up as 577,960 USD for me.

EDIT: required javascript, clearly price discriminating.
My understanding (outsider / second hand) is that Musk reduces wages. Others may have better info.
Awesome! I'm going to dig up the source for my custom After Dark module and see if it works!
Discussed within the last year (which is the criterion for dupiness on HN - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)

Effective Go - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28735620 - Oct 2021 (166 comments)
I'm not particularly making an assertion about whether working two jobs is ethical, just that doing the minimum is. Again, if the minimum isn't the least it is acceptable to do, then what is, then what does that word even mean?

What exactly an employer is paying for with a salaried employee is fairly nuanced and specific to the work. "They're paying for your time" isn't wrong but it's insufficient to explain a lot of the real dynamics there.

Specifically that would make every time you look away from the computer a privilege purely at the discretion of your employer. Not a condition many of us would accept given other options. So it seems to me either this isn't the pure moral reality of the transaction, or we're all transgressors here.
Thank you! I've been having a blast with the workflow. I think I'm going to make a sibling service that does the same thing but a more traditional blog platform with markdown support.
I find the stateless streaming paradigm in jq very pleasing.

Results can be emitted iteratively using generators, which are implemented as tail-recursive streams [0]. Combined with the `input` built-in filter, which yields the next item in the input stream, and jq can handle real-time I/O and function as a more general-purpose programming language.

I built an interpreter for the Whitespace programming language in jq using these concepts and it's easily one of the most complex jq programs out there.

[0]: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/#Generatorsanditerators

[1]: https://github.com/andrewarchi/wsjq
the size of garden is only one aspect.

the amount of labour required; the cropping capacity of the land is not inexhautible, and must be borrowed from elsewhere [fertiliter] if you use the same land for succesive crops.

if average human lives 70 years thats 70 crop years times acreage of 1-2acres required. either the same piece of land is farmed and reamended 70 times or location changes periodically when a piece of land becomes crop barren.

certain crops such as corn will decimate the soil content, and have to be grown in rotation with soy or others
Anki (http://ankisrs.net/ and https://ankiweb.net/about) is what I'm familiar with. All versions are freely available except the iOS version ($25). I use it to memorize all sorts of things, including phone numbers (something I used to do as a kid before mobile phones), birthdays, vocabulary (English and other languages), and poetry.

Reading a book and then taking a walk is a form of incremental learning. Reading a page and pausing to question yourself about what you just read is incremental learning (see Make It Stick: the science of successful learning, by Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel, 2014).

SuperMemo is one way to go about it, but it seems like icing on a readily-available cake.
Lunatic Fringe was part of After Dark, which is in the Control Panels & Extensions folder. If you drag that to the "Control Panels" folder in the System Folder and restart, it'll be enabled, and you can choose it.
Miscommunication. This probably has knock-on effects when it comes to lying and deception which I cannot figure out in my current non-divine state.
I can heartily recommend Obsidian[0] as a way to augment "markdown documents in Git". It lets you cross-reference between your markdown documents using [[wiki links]] so you can start building a knowledge graph.

[0]: https://obsidian.md/
The tension here is that educational achievement is a proxy measurement for IQ and in capitalist societies IQ is directly correlated with income. The cultural ideal here in the US is that hard work, effort, and grit is what is necessary for success. It is supposed to be purely egalitarian; you get what you give. However whether you are born with a high IQ is purely random, and even worse IQ is heritable. This is creating a technocracy which is at odds with the egalitarian ideal. This along with the expanding wealth gap is causing the schism you see today.
I've struggled with releasing music for years, because the music, in my mind, has to be a finished product. Polished. Perfect. Flawless.

For years I felt the same way about art too.

I come from a video game background, and games have to be "done" before you start showing them off.

Two things changed in my recent past: 1. Getting an art mentor who encouraged me to show off partially completed artwork, showing my working progress. 2. Joining a company where we encourage each other to show off our work that is incomplete, broken or "not even a functioning prototype" with no expectation of criticism or feedback other than an acknowledgement that you have progressed.

And then in December of last year I resolved to release stuff, no matter it's state. Once a month I had to release a music track. And so far, I've done pretty well. I slid a little in March, and April came in a little later than I would have liked, but so far, it has been working out well for me.

And yeah, number 6 is the gem. I've always held the belief "I create for me, even if nobody else is paying attention." So if I am creating for me, why do I care if it isn't ready to show the world? Just put it on a virtual shelf for display and be proud that I did _something_, _anything_.
Also this, from way back:

Effective Go - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4285461 - July 2012 (19 comments)
Insurance on a $100K watch through Hodinkee is around $1400 a year, although I'm sure you can get a better deal.

If you're an enthusiast then you're paying for peace of mind. If you're an investor then that's the equivalent of a 1.4% management fee per year.

The price action right now is absolutely ridiculous, but if you already bought at say 5x retail then that dramatically eats into your potential profits. It's just not worth it, you shove it into a safe and never let it see the light of day.
Here's a comparison between MA and CA standards: https://twitter.com/BethKellySF/status/1518991575526699008?s...
"too stupid to have flipped it"

What a time to be alive when you're called stupid for not being a greedy "playa" flipper.

Maybe some folks who waited on a waiting list for a couple years want to wear a watch they purchased in good health?
I've seen companies in similar situations stop issuing RSUs but also not increase cash comp in order to encourage people to leave as their RSUs vest.
Out of curiosity, is that a hunch or are you aware of any schools teaching multiplication tables even in Kindergarten? This used to be done in second grade when I was a kid.
No discussion necessary. "Flag it".
I'm guessing that's because they want to remove the referrer header from the request to the site (such that the site wouldn't be able to see what you were searching for). The reason it's not on the JS version (and I'm guessing again) is that if you have JS enabled, you're probably using an up to date browser which supports the referrer meta tag (where you can specify how the referrer header should be stripped).
Most of the time when I notice poor font antialiasing it's due to the OS resolution or subpixel antialiasing not precisely matching the panel. An old OS will not have subpixel antialiasing, so if it looks correct you could try disabling subpixel/ClearType, or testing a bitmap font. If the old OS still looks wrong, your panel may be pretending to be 4k and actually stretching things a little. Also, any OS level scaling is likely to mess with things, so check that it's either 100% or 200%.
Safari already supports those.
I don't live in CA and this isn't my circus, but I have some things to say about math education. From the statement:

> We write to emphasize that for students to be prepared for STEM and other quantitative majors in 4-year colleges, [...], learning the Algebra II curriculum [...] in high school is essential.

Problems with math are one of the most common reasons why students encounter difficulties in STEM education and careers. The most common problem is difficulty with high-school level algebra.

I agree, fundamentally, with the relevant premise of the CA effort here (and agree with Aaronson's criticism of its implementation). That premise is that you shouldn't have to be on an accelerated track in middle school in order to take calculus in high school. And yet... the fact is, we get a lot of adults in college or graduate school pursuing STEM degrees, who have shaky foundations in high-school algebra.

Just looking at the "typical" math track in US high schools it does seem a bit arbitrary. Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Pre-Calculus, Calculus--this is the most common math track I see, with accelerated students starting Geometry in 9th grade, Calculus in 12th grade.

The thing is... individual performance is highly variable in math classes, and to make sure that everyone gets good foundations in mathematics, we see high-school mathematics curricula that repeat the core algebra concepts in different classes. This repetition and focus on fundamentals is why the division between classes seems so arbitrary--what is presented as a sequence of classes is really more of a unified curriculum spread across multiple years. When you combine these two factors (variable performance, repetition in the curriculum), you end up with a population of high-school students who develop good foundations in algebra early on and are bored by the repetition, and a population of students who really benefit from the time spent mastering algebra, and it's hard to serve both.

I think we can figure out a way to let high-school students take AP calculus in 12th grade without expecting them to take Algebra I in 8th grade, and we don't need to push everyone into calculus faster in order to do it. And yet, my experience with high-school education in the US has left me very cynical about it. Letting students progress through the high-school math curriculum at the right rate requires a kind of "personal touch" that seems to only happen to individual students when their parents are involved, but not pushy. It's rare. The school system would rather do the easy thing (everybody moves in lockstep to the next class in the sequence), and parents are largely either uninvolved or overinvolved.

(This is more or less what the article says, I'm agreeing with the article.)
> “…no self-respecting teacher wants to be stuck teaching underperformers.”

If you look at people that are not academically inclined and call them under performers then maybe that’s part of the issue. I think everyone has strengths and weaknesses, and if someone is more inclined to do vocational training rather than the standard track I think their strengths and interests should be developed / encouraged. An educator teaching someone that is actually interested in what they are being taught sounds like a more rewarding experience than lecturing a class where maybe 5 of 40 (not an actual stat) students are actually engaged.
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) and the secondary market is utterly insane.

Example: Rolex Daytona in steel retails for ~$13,000. You can buy that from the store and immediately sell it on the secondary market for $30,000+. The Patel Phillippe Nautilus 5711A is similar ($25-30,000 retail, $75,000+ secondary).

As it happens when the current Rolex Daytona came out a few years ago the market wasn't anywhere near as hot and the market was flooded with people flipping the old model for the new. I happened to buy one of the old Daytonas for $10,000. Last time I checked it sells on the secondary market for $35,000. It's nuts.

For anyone who is interested in this, the plae I would start is with only these two brands: Rolex (first) and Patel Phillippe (second). They completely dominate any sort of demand and have a healthy secondary market. With vintage watches you get into all sorts of weird preferences that make massive differences in value and some of those details can be pretty minor (eg rail dials [1]). Some go for astronomical prices, most notably the Paul Newman Daytonas [2], which are funny because when they were production watches they typically sat on shelves for years because no one wanted them.

It's a fascinating world because what you discover is that Rolex are absolute masters of brand management. Like they are absolutely second to none. Omega, for example, produces some high quality watches, sometimes much better than the Rolex equivalent from a pure utility POV (eg Planet Ocean over DSSD). But Omega produces too many watches and too many models. Rolex quite famously has very limited product lines, which is fantastic for a secondary market. Rolex watches really are almost as liquid as cash.

The other interesting thing is you get into the pedigree and history of each of these watches. For example, GMT watches came about in the 1960s to solve a need as pilots started crossing time zones. The Daytona was for race car drivers. Submariners were (and are) for divers. Sure they'r emore of a fashion item now but the history is fascinating.

[1]: https://www.bobswatches.com/rolex-blog/resources/rolex-rail-...

[2]: https://www.bobswatches.com/paul-newman-rolex-daytona
Hard to know. The public perception of public employment as a whole has gone considerably down since about the Reagan era. The pay is mostly not very good, and states and the feds have much more power over things that were traditionally local.