skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fifty-five percent of TikTok users create their own videos on the platform.

I wonder how many of those ever reach outside the immediate contact and temporal circles of their creation. I'd cast cynical words about how "that can't last, the number will drop as the platform ages"; but it hasn't yet and that's just one of the many things i fail to grok here.
Follow up question: what rate should the 25% of the population who are minors[1] and the half of older adults who are retired[2] pay? Combined, these groups are ~40% of the US population as far as I can tell.

[1] https://www.aecf.org/resources/the-changing-child-population....

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/11/04/amid-the-pa...
Texas librarians face harassment as they navigate book bans
Do terms of the agreement also include:

1. Safari not allowing adding of any custom search engines/services not on the list? (see 4)

2. Not having Safari on Android?

Is this a three way GAMe noting also that [0]:

3. No Safari on Windows.

4. In most countries search choices in the choice list are only Google, Bing or Bing syndicates?

[0] https://blog.mojeek.com/2022/05/gatekeepers-of-the-western-w...
This is what I'd personally like to see. Anything not related to education should not be part of the education system. If some third party wants to establish various sport systems then that's fine.

There are so many non-traditional ways and skills to teach kids that I think would be worth exploring, but sport doesn't even register on the scale of usefulness. Apparently we don't even teach finance in highschool yet or any kind of professional development skills.
It's database-backed so not really a static site generator. Think of it more like a Wordpress competitor--it's a nice CMS and publishing platform you can host yourself or pay someone to use a hosted version. Ghost is known for having a great editor with a huge focus on ease of writing. Lots of bloggers and writers swear by it.
I think it really depends on the student and what their primary challenges are. School isn't merely about accumulating knowledge, it's about learning how to learn, how to work, how to plan, etc. And those are the issues my son is struggling with. Stuff he's interested in, he picks up very quickly. But actual projects he needs to finish, he doesn't finish. Or he doesn't even know how to start. Or he finishes them halfway and then doesn't submit them. He frequently fails to read the assignment properly and ends up doing duplicate work as a result. He doesn't study for a test that should have been easy for him. He keeps postponing stuff that's already overdue.

These are the things he needs to learn, and they're probably a lot more important to the rest of his life than French grammar.
This is the approach I took when I was teaching myself C in the late '90s. Indent with tabs, align with spaces intuitively made a lot of sense.

Then I started using code formatters, initially `indent', then vim plugins. Eventually, I found myself using Visual Studio professionally, and became content letting the IDE decide how code should be formatted. Now, I do whatever the language/community seems to prefer. For .NET stuff, Visual Studio defaults; Go and Rust have their own formatters, RubyMine defaults for Ruby, etc.

Everywhere I've worked whenever the code formatting debate comes up, "use the IDE/compiler/community standard" always wins the day. The hardest thing seems to be convincing Windows users that text files need to end with a newline. Is there a git option (like `autocrlf') for that?
This particular conversation typically conflates two separate questions: 1) is a person's decision to get a vaccine based on (however defined) accurate knowledge of vaccines and how they work? and 2) how can we ensure that individual rights to choose one's own medical and preventative treatments are protected regardless of the perceived answer to #1?
Whats even worse is when vendors do this without even having any affiliation with the companies they are name dropping.
Example: planetscale.com "Trusted by Github, Square, Soundcloud...)" just because they are using the same open source database.
I can name some peaker plants but I struggle to name storage facilities other than a handful of oddities like

https://damfailures.org/case-study/taum-sauk-dam-missouri-20...
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>SpaceX paid an employee $250,000 to settle a claim she was sexually harassed by Elon Musk in 2016, according to a report from Insider.

So why even submit this article rather the one from Insider? In any case this is joke journalism. The supposed settlement was reported by some third party ("a friend") since the matter (assuming it exists) never reached court and also (as an "attorney told her") she cannot share any documents.
> Just because the passenger pulls out their wallet and hands over a bribe at the first sign of friction, does that make the passenger more guilty than those who set up this corrupt system? Those that benefit from the corruption?

If they set up the corrupt system and everyone is expected to pay bribes, then the newly incoming passenger is not really the initiator, in that case the corruption is systemic, and i would put most blame on management to not make steps to eliminate it, but i agree that in this setup the bribees are more responsible than bribers, as they have more experience and information about the corruption in the system.

But let consider a slightly different case - a bureau (say building authority), with many twisted bureaucratic rules and procedures, where any request takes long to proceed and is often denied, but generally not corrupt. People just patiently do the necessary steps and accept it, or shrug off and go away. Then someone does not accept that and instead offers a bribe to get pass their request fast. In such case the initiator is clearly responsible for corruption, while the bureau is just responsible for general bureaucratic inefficiency.

And lets consider third case - driving license exam, and someone who fails it just bribes driving inspector to instead make it pass. In that case it is not even inefficiency, the license should be rejected and the briber just seeks unfair advantage. That is even more clear that initiator is more guilty, although the driving inspector has the power.

So, i would say that there are two kinds of corruptions - first, where briber wants something that should get without bribes, and second, where briber wants some unfair advantage.
The user facing part of the technology behind such a company is just a fragment of the whole puzzle
That’s pretty accurate. I suppose what I should’ve wrote was that there a some template data helpers that can’t be modified or reimplemented from the vantage point of non-Ghost contributor. And somewhat more painful, adding new Handlebars helpers can’t be done within a custom theme. This would mean either forking the engine or switching over to the headless API mode and building something like a Next.js front-end.
I like the "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" measurement system by the San Miguel Sheriff. - https://twitter.com/SheriffAlert/status/1221881862244749315
So in other words, Russia is artificially inflating the value of its currency in a way that doesn't represent (misrepresents) its value to the rest of the world and indeed to other Russians?

This is what people call "fraudulent".
> Perhaps this guy should grow a sense of humour.

Agreed!
Stop regulating crypto! (Unless I've been hacked, then we need to regulate it)
have you worked at a large tech company before? there are so many opportunities for micro-optimization that, if they pay for themselves, are worth hiring for.
This solution appeals to me, though I'm wondering what the implications are. Like what does a 12 year old who finished the curriculum do for the next 6 years? Early college? Continue to go to public school anyway even though they've mastered everything?

I'm not suggesting the solution wouldn't work. Just interesting to think about the new problems that would arise from it. Especially given that public school doubles as "babysitting" for a lot of working parents.
Sugar is a conservant too. Kills organisms by osmosis.
The people who genuinely believe "code is law" are stunned to learn that: a) humans won't act "rationally", b) regulations exist for a reason, and c) no, the law is law, code is brittle.
Is this actually a problem for music though? Who are the future professional musicians? "My most motivated, talented and best supported students are on schedule or slightly ahead." So it's not clear that we're losing any potential virtuosos here. If a generation of amateur musicians end up being a little less proficient in music, that's unfortunate, but hardly worth panicking, I think.

I personally started playing guitar, and tennis, too late in life to become a professional. This had nothing to do with the pandemic. But I can still enjoy them as an amateur.
The Federal Reserve only has a couple of tools at their disposal. They can:

adjust the Fed Funds rate: which is used as a target interest rate for many savings / lending instruments

Bank reserve rates: How much cash banks have to hold - that they can't lend.

Buy Bonds / Securities

In a more "normal" economy, adjusting interest rates has the biggest impact. Though, during the last financial crisis, you saw the direct buying of securities. However, historically, the fed often buys / sells bonds. Reserve ratio adjustments is the other common tool, though I'm not sure how frequently that's used.
You love to see it. Love to see crypto taking Ls.
I don't understand the USMC. They were active in Afghanistan- a landlocked country with zero.zero beaches.

Reminds me of the German "paratroopers" who spend most of the war as overly qualified infantry.
China Eyes Compressed Air as Battery Competitor in Energy Storage
To be fair to them, Uber is more than just a ride hailing service.

It's also a food buying marketplace with, a package, grocery and meal delivery service.

There's also their autonomous research division.

Plus even with just the ride hailing service, they have tons of things that require engineering like load balancing of their drivers to requests in an area, and predictions for pricing and route timing.

There's also the whole messaging component to it.

It's a lot more complex of a company than it appears on the surface.
Which is why aircraft carriers aren’t tooling around the ocean on their lonesome.
An aircraft carrier can operate 400-1000km from a target, while moving at 40 kph. Much more time to mount an adequate defense compared to the Moskva 50km distance from the coast while sitting idle.
For a long time, i called them Fren-sell lenses.
No, it is not a small problem. There are processing plants that show elevated cancer rates in the population living near them and a significant part of radioactivity is just pushed into rivers or the ocean. That is after we have forbidden the practice to just drop nuclear waste in barrels but this is still a legislative shortcoming.

Sure, there are better reactor designs and processing methods but they aren't available yet. We should never exclude fission power completely, just that it isn't a good option right now. If research is inhibited by not using bad and costly technologies, we need other sources of funding. That is an issue that could very well need solving.
This is the whole reason carriers move in groups. Plus in modern naval warfare, if you can see the enemy on the horizon, they are already too close.
you act as if everything about web3 has to be solved right from the starting gun to have any legitimacy :) there are many different competing consensus mechanism and the balance of trade-offs is still playing out.
dd indeed has advantages: skip, offset, being able to ignore errors to name a few.
>I still find it hard to comprehend how a one of the tools of a taxi calling app has this much complexity and have thousands of engineers working on it .

Fyi... have you already seen the famous Uber engineer comment on the complexity of the app?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376346

As a case study, the simpler non-profit RideAustin app fails customers even after Uber/Lyft left Austin: https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/12/austin-is-fine-without-ube...

It takes a lot of money and engineer salaries to make high-demand apps that work. That's not to say Uber staffing isn't bloated; they may be. That doesn't change the fact that armchair observers may still drastically underestimate how many hundreds (or thousands) of programmers it requires to build something equivalent.
Are you saying you wrote the fucking manual?
im a big fan of loguru.
Apparently a typo on the post I was replying to...there is no "-b" switch, it's "-c" or "--bytes" for gnu head. Though there are versions of head without one or both of "-c", "--bytes".
usually `info` only works on a GNU derived OS. `man -k` has worked on every flavor of unix I've met.

edit: `man -k ''` might be a GNUism too. Just tried on a BSD derived OS and got back nothing.
>But split is not the single most important ergonomics aspect IMO. A planck-like ortholinear keeb is more ergonomic than those "alice" splits that have staggered-row-layout, for me at least.

It think it all depends on your typing style and body.

The issue with standard boards and the planck is people typically type with their hands parallel or near parallel and their wrist are bent. This can cause wrist pain over time.

On "alice" type boards the wrists are straight so typing is quite comfortable.
> The rich just suppress wages and use that money to pay the extra amount they're charge

Implausible. If “the rich” have the unconstrained power to set wages that this requires, they aren't going to refrain from fully using it depending on tax rates. All that changes is that with higher taxes on them, more of what they squeeze is taken from them and used for other purposes.
Sure it's a highly productive language with an enormous variety of quality libraries available, but uh, some guy on the internet doesn't like the developers or something.
Threadreader link: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1528581923446181898.html
The whole web3 hype is that it promises a utopia version of the Internet hence no matter where you choose to attack it, it almost always seems vague.

But remember this, Internet itself is someone's utopia in very beginning but it morphed and transform from inspiration and motivation into a technology that we use almost every day. Having a vision is the necessary step for disruption to happen, the wilder and more resonating it is the bigger the disruption is going to be.

However, when someone tries to define the future (or un-define it like in this article), it is almost always cringey. The next web or the next big thing cannot be define, if it could be then it would already happened, the technology would already be accessible right from our pocket.

If one look closely underneath the web3 blanket, there are lots of innovation to was expedite as we are throwing in so much resources and talents.

Will all of them come together and form the next web? I doubt it but will one of them preserve, stood the test of time and finds its application? I remain very optimistic.
If you're writing internal tools for your teammates, don't use the latest release. Your coworkers will almost certainly be on something older and you'll get super weird bugs. And you'll get the most bizarre sounding pushback when you tell them to install a newer version of Python.
Or: 𝐹𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓃𝑒𝓁.
> School taught me to think scientifically and critically, to write and to speak, as well as made me confident interacting in the society I live.

I had completely opposite expeirience from primary and to some degree secondary school. Especially on the last item. But also speaking and writing and thinking. It didn't develop me in those areas. If anything it stunted me for life. I had to painstakingly recover from it after it was finally over and I'm sure I'll never recover 100%.
Given that no party accurately matches 100% of your policies and that they’re unlikely to achieve a majority and force through the less-palatable-to-you policies (regardless of what they are) it’s probably best to vote based on the critically important issues, which currently is pretty much the climate crisis.
"The biggest mistake we make in marketing is believing choice is a benefit. No, it’s a tax. Consumers don’t want more choices, they want more confidence in the choices presented. TikTok has taken this to a new level by eliminating the burden of choice entirely. Its content is a continuous stream of videos where the decisions are made for you. Your only choice: what not to watch."
Let's put it like this: The South China Sea isn't called Sea because it's landlocked.
Sure, CO2 removal is much less efficient than point-capture, but if we're talking about using excess power generated at wind and solar installations, we may as well, right?

...Of course, this isn't what you meant. But there will always be better ways to use 'excess' energy than bitcoin's proof-of-access-to-energy-arbitrage scheme.
ICO fines Clearview AI Inc £7.5m and orders UK data to be deleted
I was well into my adulthood before the internet even became a thing outside of academia. So we had to awkwardly fuddle our way through all things romantic or rely on poor information from that kid who started shaving at 11.
Clearview AI fined £7.5m for illegally using images of Brits scraped online
I'm not sure if anybody wins in this case.
They are very easy to recycle back into oil with a pyrolysis process
Mine just stops renewing certificates so I stopped fighting it. Haven't replaced it with vanilla Nginx yet but that's a project on my todo list.
"The company is accused of illegally scraping 20 billion images of people's faces from the web without their knowledge or permission, and then using them to form a global facial recognition database."

"The company's customers include numerous commercial and police organisations and its database has provoked concerns from US politicians and civil liberties organisations."

"The watchdog had in November 2021 announced its provisional intent to fine the company over £17m as part of a joint investigation with the Australian privacy watchdog. It is not clear why the final penalty was only £7.5m.

It has not published the formal monetary penalty notice - which normally includes details of the investigation - as the document is still going through a redaction process"

Founders and investors:

Founders are Hoan Ton-That and Richard Schwartz and an investor is Peter Thiel of Palantir the company that provides big data analytics for analysts in the United States Intelligence Community.

my comment - £7.5 is a good price for the data! Good job Peter! /s
Many (most?) animals cannot digest straight glucose, e.g. cats, which are obligate carnivores. I suspect most animals would have to be able to digest starches to be able to process sugars (though a good exception is the bee, so my surmise could be bogus).

I believe that cats don't even have sweet taste receptors. I've done "experiments" over the years, offering my own food to various of our household (terrestrial) pets. Cats and rodents are the most picky; dogs will eat a proper superset of what cats do, except that I have never had a dog that liked drinking milk (eating cheese, though, sure, and ice cream). Dogs seem OK with sugar (not crazy about it) cats are utterly uninterested.
I'd tend to agree with you. People with money and power will push for laws that protect them though. But this situation is why I'm skeptical of these kinds of contracts - too much potential for problems.
> yet to make the electric grid work they have to burn natural gas when renewables aren't available.

Also, keep in mind most renewables are biomass ( aka burning trees for energy ).
Paint Holding – reducing the flash of white on same-origin navigations (2019)
Broadcom, VMware deal could be announced by Thursday
We have a commercial relationship with every company in our top banner.
Or unless you've lost money! Lots of people saying "the fed could make crypto losers whole without putting up a sweat" the last few days.
I should have been clear in my original comment that I was referring to virtualization, i.e. ARM Linux guests.
Anything a bit more recent?

Like, Marx-recent?
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My son's challenges are primarily in planning the work, starting the work, and finishing the work. And those are things this particular tutoring is supposed to really help with.
'APFSDS and heaviest armor' same as 'designed to engage another MBT [with their main armament]' I would say. If you count destroying MBTs with ATGW then you'll start calling infanteers 'tanks'.
> Being a good student is largely a function of intelligence and conscientiousness, which is largely a function of parental intelligence and conscientiousness

Only partially - only ~40-50% of a person's IQ are a result of parental genetics [3]. The rest is a result of the environment in which the child is raised - and there are very important factors at play that directly correlate with income of the parents:

- Does each child have their own, adequately sized, room with a study desk to work in and concentrate? During the pandemic it turned out to be a real problem that children who had to share rooms had issues following streamed lectures.

- Are the living conditions actually healthy? Poor people are often forced by their poverty to live in decrepit conditions: noise from highways or rails, toxic emissions from nearby factories, general issues with toxicity (paint, lead water pipes, mould). All of this has direct outcome on performance of students.

- Do the children, particularly those of working age (14 and above, but especially 16 and above) have to work actual jobs to make pocket money or contribute to household income?

- Are the parents largely absent from their children's lives because both parents have to work full-time or worse jobs just to make ends meet?

- Can the parents invest time and money into furthering their children's education? Can they sit together with them in the afternoon/evening and work through homework problems? Can they afford side education, playing instruments or similar activities that have been shown to have a positive effect on education?

- Do the parents have enough money to feed the children? Hundreds of thousands of students alone in New York depend on schools handing out free lunches, which turned out to be a massive problem during the pandemic [1].

- Poverty causes stress - not just from being cooped together in too small living spaces, but also in food insecurity, increased fights between parents over the stress, or in the worst cases from literally being homeless [2].

[1] https://www.foodandwine.com/news/new-york-city-school-childr...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/nyregion/nyc-homeless-chi...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ#Molecular_g...
That's a great point! I vaguely tried to go in that direction by plotting the average over the past 7 days, the average over the 7 days before and the average over the year to date. Yet, I fully agree one might want to push this a little further and do as you describe. Thanks for the suggestion!
> Progressive tax rate implies that taxes actually being paid at some rate. That’s not the case here.

Yes it is. Both zero and negative numbers have been recognized as actual values for...quite a long time.

Progressive taxation means that the first derivative of taxes is on average decreasing with increasing income, it does not imply that taxes (or, a fortiori, as the upthread comment is actually referring to, the net of taxes less transfers) is always positive.
A billion hours ago, human life appeared on earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianity emerged. A billion seconds ago, the Beatles changed music. A billion Coca-Colas ago was yesterday morning.

—Robert Goizueta, chief executive of the Coca-Cola Company, April 1997