skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a real difference between giving your kids the tools to succeed and forcing them down a narrow path.

IMO, everyone should know the basics of a wide range of things from cooking to statistics. It’s just a question of diminishing returns. Failing to understand the basics of say investing is really costly even if all they do is dump 90% of their money into a low cost S&P 500 fund and forget about it that’s vastly better than what most people do.

The same applies to school, teach your kids the basics of reading and math let’s them coast for years.
> you don’t deserve the right to defend in a way that would harm them?

If that's your strawman interpretation of what I said, then let me turn it around and infer your position: People's rights should be based on their ability to do harm to those trying to violate their bodily freedom.

I don't think that actually is your position, but it is at least consistent with your view that vulnerable children should have no rights at all.
A cheat sheet for the next tech downturn
First look up the manual to make sure the battery isn't replaceable from the outside. My fire safe has an electronic lock, but you can replace the battery by twisting off the face of the lock (which isn't obvious from looking at it)
Also shout-out to https://glitch.com/ which puts particular emphasis around community and learning. I use it anytime I'm preparing code for a class, workshop, demo, or open source documentation.
“It Is Getting Worse. People Are Leaving”
My backup iphone starts randomly - even just sitting alone in the corner unplugged.

I regularly have to recharge it.
Billions of investment? Not unique to ride sharing, but pretty much every other common type of business.
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> Which is why I wish I could home school them, because no teacher or school I’ve found can seem to customize their lesson plan enough.

I believe this is largely why private tutoring can also produce exceptional results.
So that they can see through the BS explanation of “glitch” and call out the news for never digging deeper.
May be this one didn't? Have a little sense of good faith for foone (of all people)?
debugging mechanical engineering is quite similar, just more expensive ;)
> I want less government in every way - let local people decide for themselves what they want to do.

Have you considered that local people might decide to form tribes, arm themselves with weapons, kill a bunch of people, and impose their own new government by force?

This is what often, perhaps inevitably, happens when there's a power vacuum.

The United Nations was formed in the aftermath of World War II, during which local people decided what they wanted to do was invade other countries and commit mass murder.

"If government just gets out of the way, then everyone will play together nicely and peacefully" is never how it works.

The key is to maintain a healthy balance between government and personal freedom. It's a difficult balance to maintain, but the alternatives — authoritarianism or anarchy — are always worse.
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I guess you bring a fair point, I didn't realize they were bought out till this thread. I'm guessing Salesforce is in it for the profits, which is probably fair.
I'll add the Storybots TV series to the list here. It covers a wide range of learning topics and is entertaining enough for the grown-ups to watch as well!
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1454808104256737289

That's the original tweet where Elon Musk first appeared in the conversation, as you can see the article he's replying to is where the misinformation comes in. Basically the WFP said "we can stop 42m starving for a year with $6b, which isn't a lot for someone like Elon Musk" -> CNN Business reports it as solving world hunger in general -> Elon Musk says he'll give them $6b if they openly show how they can solve world hunger. Which they obviously never claimed they could do, so when they eventually replied about how the $6b would be spent it was just ignored because it didn't solve world hunger, just temporary starvation.
In case there's a paywall for the editor's note: the tl;dr is that today's word was originally supposed to be "FETUS". Last week the NYT noticed this and made a change, but this change wouldn't propagate to all the Wordle players who still have the cached word list in their browsers.

Full text below:

It’s been just over three months since The New York Times acquired Wordle, the hugely popular puzzle created by Josh Wardle. Wordle continues to delight millions of people every day, but as we move it over to The Times’s technology, we have continued to discover challenges.

Today, for example, some users may see an outdated answer that seems closely connected to a major recent news event. This is entirely unintentional and a coincidence — today’s original answer was loaded into Wordle last year.

At New York Times Games, we take our role seriously as a place to entertain and escape, and we want Wordle to remain distinct from the news.

But because of the current Wordle technology, it can be difficult to change words that have already been loaded into the game. When we discovered last week that this particular word would be featured today, we switched it for as many solvers as possible.

You won’t receive the outdated version if you have refreshed your browser window. But we know that some people won’t do that and, as a result, will be asked to solve the outdated puzzle.

We want to emphasize that this is a very unusual circumstance. When we acquired Wordle in January, it had been built for a relatively small group of users. We’re now busy revamping Wordle’s technology so that everyone always receives the same word. We are committed to ensuring that tens of millions of people have a gratifying and consistent experience, every day.

Thank you for your patience while we work on making improvements to Wordle. We wouldn’t be here without our amazing community of solvers.
Everything powered through electricity should have a on/off switch.
> Hidden Valley Ranch dressing, still the reigning ranch champ, but hopefully from a compostable squeeze bottle by then

So this is a dystopian future? Our descendants will look like the people in WALL-E? I think an optimistic prediction would have our diet in 100 years look a lot more like our diet 100k years ago, preferrably out of choice rather than because that's all that's left after WWIII.
It's just the cheap no-name calipers that eat batteries. Genuine Mitutoyo (and probably similar brands) treat their batteries very kindly.

I have used vernier calipers but the time savings of not having to scrutinize the vernier scale every time you take a measurement is quite worthwhile. Just buy a good set.
From the sound of it Heroku has not had much changed about itself in too long.
Well, the PSD2 opens the banking to third parties (basically OAuth, just for banks).

So an approved payment initiation services (PIS) can do transactions on your behalf. But you still want to have control over which transfers they actually send, so you want to make sure the confirmation code only works for a certain transaction.
> The unfortunate side effect of this is, less technical people might see a digital signature as a full and complete proof. While it definitely is not.

It's far better than the status quo where easily forged documents (passports, driving licences, utility bills) that have a validity period of 5-10 years are considered infallible proof of everything.
Sounds reasonable though, if CSAM or the like were delivered from their servers they would get into legal trouble, guilty or not.
I'm not endorsing it, and I would rather that we didn't, but

> Having more world wars? Shall we declare war on Russia and send troops to Ukraine? Would that create more "progress"?

War driving technology forward is a pretty popular idea; it's plausible that if modern society survived WWIII it would create more progress... for the survivors.
> Diablo 2 could erase weeks of work by one monster spawning an unfair combination.

Only if you play Hardcore mode, which is entirely optional.
How does one instill a value with a young person a concept that takes half a life to discover?

I overuse 'flossing' as an analogy for anything that takes a long time to appreciate the value of. I've tried to promote flossing with various narratives - that its prideful, that it steals money from dentists, that it's the last people do but the first they should.

I always figure that the floss analog is falling flat, that it's not amusing or easy to understand or relevant as an analog, but I always come back to ulterior, that I just have no clue how to instill a value with a person that can only appreciate through decay.

Anyways I have no idea how to transfer these ideas to young people and since its the only way to 'give back' that I know, I'm feeling really useless.
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What the useEvent React hook is (and isn't)
I my state, local sales taxes (which are a consumption tax) are hugely popular, especially in conservative areas. The reason is simple: voters know upfront what the taxes going to be used for (usually education related capital expenses and road improvements), when the tax will expire, and that it will only be used in the county instead of being shipped off somewhere else to be administered and a portion skimmed off. Each time they come up for renewal, they usually get passed by a large margin. So maybe the problem isn't that people don't like consumption taxes but that they don't like taxes disappearing into a black hole with dubious or non-existent benefits or even used to create negative value to the community.
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Wow, I don't even know how to pull that off. I would of thought it wouldn't let you do that!
I’m interested in a source for this.

Based on online news reports and a couple of documentaries on the topic I’ve watched (Frontline, Netflix), the regulatory constraints mainly entailed having new airplane designs go through more extensive scrutiny, which would mean greater expenditures for the company.

In order to avoid this (and therefore stay competitive with Airbus), Boeing reported the MCAS program as merely a minor upgrade of the existing system, and subsequently failed to train pilots in its use properly.

If this is what you’re referring to, I feel like “mainly caused by regulatory contraints on design” is a reductive and slightly misleading take. Or is there some other information to support your claim?
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How does one even get a domain like that, seriously
Because it's a form of literacy. If they don't want instinctively to learn is because educational institutions aren't making it interesting or engaging.

It's important because it allows us to instruct computers to do things on our behalf. The only infinitely versatile tool in human history.

Why should they only use their computer for browsing & word processing?
They may believe they will have a better life in another country, but also that Rusia would be worse without Putin.
Both Indians and Pakistanis realize just how much they have in common once they leave their respective countries. Just don't let religions or politics divide people!

Not a fan of this song but there are other Coke Studio songs that I love. For instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjaH2iuoYWE
From the article:

> The men who consume this stuff — and yes, it’s almost exclusively men — tend to believe two things: that ancient Greek and Roman culture are the basis of Western civilization and that these cultures are the exclusive achievements of white men.

> But the idea isn’t merely to celebrate these ancient cultures. The goal is to turn a phrase like “Western civilization” into code for “white culture” and to cement a narrative about history that glorifies patriarchy and undercuts cultural progressivism.

Your framing of the article is wildly incorrect. It makes it pretty clear that White Supremacists aren’t concerned about history in itself, but in a framing that glorifies white men. Presumably its analogous to how neo nazis revere Hitler and the Nazi party.

The goal in each case is a yearning for “better times in the past” by emulating the past days of “glory”.
India and Pakistan are the same people and the same culture. as far as I understand, and from my own far away position (combined with "nearsightedness"), it seems to me like the India-Pakistan division was made up when the english pulled out of there.

I sense something similar to Korean culture being broken up into north and south. of course in all cases there's a local power helping... but the real drive for the split are foreign powers
I have no idea what the financials have ever looked like, but it's really sad and disappointing that a service that used to be so invaluable just gave up their lead and withered. There's definitely a lot of competition as Big Cloud offers more turnkey solutions (rise of serverless) and Small Cloud offers more power (Netlify, Vercel) so Heroku is squeezed on both sides. But they had the chance to fill all those niches first and they just didn't even try.
>Paid apps generally struggle to make the same money as ad-supported ones do.

I would say those are not innovative enough or the developer did not made the case why he needs support. People like me pay for a quality IDE even there some good enough free alternatives exists because for me quality means more productivity.

I would really like to hear from such a developer with a truly innovative app explain why only targeted advertising works for him.
I think a better analogy would be the engineering team we see frantically trying to keep the engines together in Sci-Fi movies/TV. The DBA is on the same ship as everyone else!
Using malevolent behavior to make someone's job harder so that turnover increases and wage growth causes market effects that induce owners to comply with laws because gov does not enforce their own laws .... God bless America where the exchange of power between consumers and corporations shall not be infringed.
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Alternate theory: A large-scale, ongoing A/B test on what gets the perfect balance between watching ads and keeping total view time high.
Contradicts actual economics research that voting out incumbents helps create opportunity for the public: https://www.nber.org/papers/w29766

I’m far more inclined to listen to the second most influential economic policy group in the US (after Brookings) than a random blogger who makes it sound like giving a monopoly on power is a good idea.
Because they're interested in it.

There aren't any other reasons to learn it.

At all.
Reversing Resy's API to create a JavaScript client
Check out render.com, it is pretty similar but cheaper and supports more stuff like HTTP/2.
Well it does have 100M+ views, so somebody is watching it.
I wish I had $212m to spend on something just to sunset it.
I don’t have this device, but reading the manual there is no mention of any off-switch or off procedure. There is only syncing, charging, programming back buttons, adjusting the lights, changing light modes. And as for the lights, there are only 4 modes, none of which is “off”.
That's funny, when someone says "pure JS" I expect exactly that, something written in JS and only JS. Language matters.
I worked in a kitchen at a summer camp for a number of years when I was a teen. That was one of the hardest jobs I've ever had in my life: waking up at 5:30am to get breakfast prepared, cleaning up, moving on to preparing lunch, cleaning up, take an hour or two break, then prep for dinner, cleaning up, and we'd be done work around 8pm or so. We had fun.

Labor laws now restrict this type of work for minors.
> I'm telling you so, as a fact, not an opinion.

Facts are that if you look at places that are experiencing growth at 9% or 10% YoY in real terms, meaning after adjusting for inflation, they are all places which are pretty socially volatile and have a very fast turnover of humans.

Nigeria, Ethiopia, Namibia, Vietnam, Philippines, Honduras...

In the US , the hotspots for unpredictability , high social volatility and fast turnover due to dropouts and new arrivals were colleges.

Those kept propelling US growth after such phenomenons had long subdued in the American society at large.

Colleges just aren't as vibrant anymore, so as the last bastion of vibrant culture fell, so did US growth.

And besides, you don't have to be watching FNC to see how the US transitioned from being a country of go-getters to being afraid of losing all the health and wealth accumulated up to now due to the efforts of the aforementioned go-getters.
They get automatically added yeah -- right now it's a very straightforward thing I wrote via genanki [1] which is the real magic, but if I wanted them to go to different decks it'd be a pretty easy modification to do so based on whatever criteria (say, post tags or something).

[1]: https://github.com/kerrickstaley/genanki
A counterpoint: if you get your child far enough ahead, a teacher may not have time/resources to give extra content in kindergarten. This could be because the level other kids are at in that particular class, resources at the school, etc.

One result of this could be your child may be bored and could get into trouble and could result in them not enjoying school. I don't know your kid so obviously that is one path, there are many. If your school can recognize advancement and handle it then this is a moot point.
Oh and to answer some questions I've seen around the thread:

- The items I am trying to sell are 3x used Nintendo Switch games (25GBP each), an audio interface (50GBP), a synthesizer (80GBP) and a groovebox (200GBP).

- I had to open a new account to sell because I moved to the UK and eBay would
not let me use my older US account with a new bank account, address, or phone number. So I had no choice but to be a zero-star seller because eBay can't handle people moving.

- I get that they're worried about stolen goods but they did not give me any chance to prove that the goods were mine. I could have provided receipts for all of them. One of them was even an item I bought on eBay! Instead I was just told I am banned forever.

- I can confirm that the person who "helped" me really just shadowbanned me. I see my listings as active but I can't see anything if I go incognito.
I did that when I attended college and I didn't have the internet to tell me what a stupid idea it was to blow tens of thousands of dollars I didn't have because I didn't have access at the time. I won't for a single second lament the decisions of people who refuse to do the bare minimum. They aren't victims of the system with regards to being able to simply look at the market and do basic math. They're too lazy to be adults.
Because more professions are increasing coding proficiency requirements.

- artists - you should be able to automate blender, photoshop, etc as needed

- finance - python increasingly required

- science - juptyerhub notebooks for data analysis

You don't have to know computer science, algos, and "correct" software arch. but you should definitely start getting comfortable with programming.
I have copied-and-pasted the strangest of kernel errors, compiler errors, god-knows-what-obscure-tool errors, etc. over the past 20+ years into search engines and have almost always been delighted and amazed at how somehow someone somewhere at some point in time had not only encountered the same thing but actually wrote a description of possible root causes and potential solutions that often unstuck me right away. The success of a site like stackoverflow is exactly this.

It turns out that if you actually do take the time to report the error, no matter how obscure it is, someone in a dark corner of the internet will spend enough time on it that they'll even see fit to document it for others to help their own selves out. And given that, per my initial post, nobody is smart enough to understand how the computer system/software they're creating is going to work under all circumstances, providing error verbosity is sometimes the most empowering thing you can give to your users.
No. Babylonian astronomers created arithmetical techniques for predicting key events of the moon and planets, such as the date that Jupiter reached a stationary point in the sky. (The stationary point is the positions where Jupiter starts its retrograde motion). They were not trying to explain the nature of the universe (cosmology). Ptolemy derived cosmological models based on geometry, but even he was interested in prediction, not explanation. In both cases, it does not matter whether the astronomer's view is helio- or geo- centric. Ptolemy used a geocentric model, but he did point out that a heliocentric version was a possible alternative.

Even Copernicus was not really that concerned with cosmology: he was showing an alternative to Ptolemy based on the heliocentric view of what he thought was the universe (now known to be the solar system).

In my view it was Galileo who really first proposed that these models went beyond prediction to describe the reality of the cosmos.
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A random 2000 people from twitter would give better government than what we have.
It's possibly a bit more abstract or philosophical than what you're looking for, but William Kent's _Data and Reality_ is awesome on data modelling.

Discussed by Hillel Wayne at https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/why-you-should-..., HN discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30251747.
The division was made by the British on the basis of religion.
> To claim that you can somehow inventory every possible problem in a computerized system and then provide a graceful exit from that or useful info is either ignorant or arrogant or both.

I don't think you read the book. I read the book in 2000/2001. The emphasis was on helping the user.

Not a single line in that entire book, IIRC, advocates silently failing. I have no idea how you came up with that interpretation, when almost every single example in that book highlights "silent failure" as something to avoid.
It’s like learning a second language.

You learn programming language to talk to computer
Just gonna leave this link to ublock origin here. If nothing else, install it as a small "fuck you" to dark patterns:

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
Maybe it's just me, but i somehow doubt that insects will ever become mainstream. I think plant based food will be on the rise long term. Especially with the possibilities of vertical farming, which i think is inevitable. The lab-grown meat might have a hard start in my country, since people are very strongly "anti-gmo".