skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Different school districts offer vastly different levels of education, depending mainly on wealth

The data show that causation mostly flows in the opposite direction. The main determinant of whether a school is "good" is the average academic ability of the students who attend the school. And that, statistically speaking, is largely a function of race and income.

Policy interventions based on the idea that school quality determines student performance have consistently failed to show significant results. These interventions include local and regional busing. Putting lower-achieving students in close physical proximity to higher-achieving students doesn't make much of a long-term difference.
If you gave up on it, why still keep saying it is slow, when you have no current information about that?

Also, when you're talking slow: why is it that any performant Perl module, actually has most of its logic written in XS (aka C)? So I think it's shows quite a bit of hutzpah to call Inline::Perl5 "an ugly last resort solution", whereas a *lot* of upstream CPAN modules rely on the hack that is XS to make them performant. To give you an example: the pure Raku version of Text::CSV is more than 2x as fast as the pure Perl version of Text::CSV.
Sorry -- didn't see your reply before posting an update to my comment with a link to the transcript.
I'm not saying all the big vessels to deop their navigation instruments and switch to iPhone.

It's just a super convenient way to navigate around, not for mission-critical tasks (even for those it would probably work but of course not worth the risk without redundence).

I mean anyone who is in a small vessel and a boat would use iPhone maps in daily life, (while keeping other ways as a backup) why not?
gparted is also nice, although Disks seem to display more information by default.
My point is that email basically hasn't evolved meaningfully from the 80s and other than the main feature of sending text all of the functionality is locked between specific providers. Tags vs. folders vs. labels, chat without email, encryption, etc. Nothing other than the baseline functionality is standardized.
They had vastly more covid deaths than their nordic peers. That's a consequence you can argue is justified, I suppose, but you shouldn't try to dismiss it as "did fine."
Would you consider adding support for PostgreSQL instead of just MySQL. I realize that it can greatly complicate things, but PostgreSQL is generally a much better DB.
What does this company do?
What do you mean by that? Can you formulate?
> "if it's important, it'll find its way to me."

.. because someone else has been watching/reading/listening to the news.
> Your original comment was low quality, and now you are doubling down by being rude.

I was not the original commenter with whom you were speaking. I'll admit that my comment could be rude, and for that I'm sorry. The length of the mockery was a bit much, but I don't think it was uncalled for. To assume that venture capital exists without the primary motivation and purpose of making money is misleading at best and delusional more generally. Tangential motivations such as investing for impact or being motivated by other considerations don't change the underlying goal and assumption of the act of venture capital.

> I admit my second comment wasn’t much better, sorry.

Placing venture capitalists within some special class whose reasoning or motivations are beyond the understanding of most people is where I take umbrage. Yes, there are considerations such as the underlying technology, exit strategy and timing, rounds of investing, and risk assumption. The vast majority of the time venture capital is performed under advisement of attorneys, accountants, and consiltants. Venture capitalists perform no special function beyond writing the check, transferring the money, and rarely coaching or dealmaking with founders. However the chief expectation is outsized returns for above average risk in a least a few of the ventures to make up for all of the startups that failed. If the aim was social good, there are very many worthy causes and charities that need that capital. 'Stablegains' is not and was not a charity working for the collective good of society and neither are an alarming number of startups and YC-backed startups these days.
I have uBlock filters to bin off these cookie popups, I'm amazed those irritating things ever became law without someone pointing out how completely futile alarm fatigue makes them.

Now if the GDPR could realistically do something about the tidal wave of spam I've got from pubs in random parts of England and Wales I happened to visit once while waiting for a train back when they were insisting on doing everything through an app that would be nice! I'm fairly sure most apps don't need to be apps at all, they could be websites if companies weren't desperate to inject analytics and yet another vector for spammy marketing into every interaction with them.
> the Euro is backed by the power of violence

Is it though?

I'd be willing to agree with that argument for the USD, but the Euro? Apart from a few old firecrackers in french submarines, what violence is Europe capable of exactly these days?
> So this might add up to 300K. Which is a number that is unprecedented in history. Throughout most of history and to this day in pretty much every place in the world, such a salary would be reserved for the executive branch.

I'd slow down on the hyperbole. That number is specifically for the US so let's look at other white collar professions in the US that fall in similar ranges:

- Finance

- Consultants

- Lawyers

- Doctors

- Accountants

- Dentists

...

This person is probably in the top percentile of their field if they're teaching at a top CS school so let's use the high end of those fields and not the average.
In some tables it's possible to set whether you want to create a donut C.

(createdonutc)
That hasn’t stopped anybody so far - what makes you think it’ll stop people in the future?
No. Ghost.org provides a hosting service, that makes 4 million dollars a year.

Users of Ghost (whether on Ghost.org, or self hosted) who have set up payments, bring in 10 million dollars a year to themselves, in total.
In this paper not somewhere else. Ok, more precisely

In the datasets used for text comprehension
> One problem is that if all the engineers are devoted to web3 nonsense, who is working on the real stuff?

Very few engineers are working on web3 nonsense.

> and at a country-level scale the corporations interested in web3 employ a lot of engineers

They're really not. Like, if you're defining "interested in web3" as "they have occasionally said the word 'blockchain' in an attempt to get some press", yeah, sure. But not that many large companies are actually putting significant resources into this. Of the really big tech companies... maybe Facebook is putting substantial resources into it, or has in the past? Though surely not a significant part of their total resources. The others, not at all, really.
Actually, since English borrowed many spelling convention from French, and then invented quite a few for itself, I find it quite ridiculous to say that French is worse than English. In French, pronunciations is usually not an issue, the rules are quite straightforward and quite regular, despite what you may think. Grammar is pretty complicated, but it is very very rare to have words in French for which people might wonder what is the actual pronunciation. Usually, the problem will only arise for words borrowed from a foreign language with a foreign spelling.
Do you still wish you had written Ghost in Laravel/PHP like you mentioned on the SE Daily podcast back in 2018?

Reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31478649
Parents were mostly fine from it in the end. Look by all means lockdowns made a lot of sense early on in the face of an unknown disease. I hope we can all agree they no longer make sense for Covid.
> Uber does not have any plans to use zig-the-language yet.

I would say that Uber uses the Zig toolchain, title is a bit misleading as I thought that Uber uses Zig (the language)
I agree with you, it is interesting this came from Wired.

But I have a strong personal bias against the Economist, and I feel like you used it as an example of a more serious journalist-y news.

I feel that the Economist is resting on its historic good name but has become a simple liberal rag that people use as a virtue signal. It's a terrible news source, incredibly and unabashedly biased, and the only time I have ever heard of it has been in Washington DC where only the most insufferable people smugly declare they read it cover to cover.

I would humbly submit better outlets like The Week, Barron's, or maybe Quanta.
For what it's worth, I do think this is (or was) a problem. For awhile late last year and early this year a large proportion of the people I saw leaving my big tech company were going into blockchain stuff.

I suspect the current correction will put an end to that though, which I must say seems like a good thing.
I'm still on the fence about this one a bit! From a product PoV — god yes I wish we just used Laravel. We'd have been able to move about 8x as fast and get so much more built for users just because the ecosystem is so much better developed. When Ghost first launched in 2013, there wasn't even an off the shelf RSS lib!

That said, Ghost succeeded in large part because it was a new and interesting Node thing, and we might never have gotten as far as we have done without that :)
Eh. There is really nothing there. Just ignore web3 peddlers and move on. It’s not really “dangerous”, it’s just newest MLM under the Earth. There was Amway and Rainbow and scientology and Herbalife; now we also have crypto.

The only thing that makes me angry is how many jobs are in this nonsense. Just look at the job market anywhere… half of the job openings are just The Blockchain.
Sure, but GP said "most immediately important stories bubble up to the top".
Big Tech Is Getting Clobbered on Wall Street. It’s a Good Time for Them
"Most states" qualifier supports the claim that funding varies widely from state to state and town to town. State and Federal funding grants alone are not going to sustain a school district.

Also, your link is basically a charter school industry propo campaign. Hardly unbiased when talking about public schools.
Your comment is completely irrelevant to my comment as I'm not commenting anything related to getting weather data.
Is the IDA non-reputable?

> Founded in 2012, the IDA is a joint venture between Harvard University, Oxford University, and Dubai’s Museum of the Future, focused on digital imaging techniques in archaeology. It digitally reconstructed Palmyra’s third century “Triumphal Arch”, which was destroyed by the Islamic State group in 2015.

I don't know anything about the Dubai Museum of the Future, but the other two are pretty reputable institutions, unless there's something I'm missing.
>pre-COVID the numbers are about 5-10 points higher

To me this says the schools are worse than they though. Now that they can sit in on the classes they see what's actually being taught and don't like it.
Here’s a different source contradicting that: https://www.pubintlaw.org/cases-and-projects/our-expert-repo...
That is really interesting. Can we cultivate sea grass to make carbon capture ponds or forests?
> To come to a high confidence conclusion on the whole of web3, one would have to actually read hundreds of articles at least, and spent significant time actually using the many products. I would doubt that you did so, and couldn't even pass the most basic test.

But then, above,

> Further, when you use Stephen Diehl as a source, you already lost. This guy has an unhealthy obsession with hating crypto fueled by his own crypto startup failure.

Please get your story straight; all I am getting is ad hominems.
If we are going that route, please provide me with enough reason to not believe that you are one of the hordes of bagholders who bought into a pyramid scheme covered in layers of jargon in 2021 and are now trembling with fear after losing half of your gambling money that you were promised will double in no time; and are now desperately trying to draw in new marks for your decentralized MLM by advertising and name calling on hackernews.

See how it works both ways?
Well, I read "accomplished" here in a different way: he didn't just create a few startups, but they were successful.
I think hardware attestation is the most dangerous thing in recent history. All they have to do is convince the public that certain programs are like owning a gun or a bazooka that can do real harm, and begin normalizing the idea that only applications signed by microsoft or the gov should be running on your computer for national security. We've already become friendly to companies owning devices on tablets/phones. Then extend that with attestation so virtually every website or service you interact with is confirming you're using unmodified software. I recognize this is tinfoil hat stuff, but the pieces are there to make things painful. At minimum it becomes inconvenient to use any software you like. At worst, the content we enjoy begins owning us. </tinfoil>
Reminds me of the extensive discussion of "animation cancelling" in Genshin Impact. You can't accelerate the start of an attack, but you can cancel the animation between that and the next one, and this is apparently quite important for some characters.
Are sunspots/coronal mass ejections affecting your systems?
We run a fleet of high-performance desktop PCs for our continuous integration pipeline. They are bare-bones and do not have ECC RAM.

The statistics on system lockups/coredumps has been trending up, somewhat correlating with solar activity. They are not correlating with anything in the local environment such as power or cooling.

Of course when a system halts we just power cycle it and get on with our work, but the coincidence remains.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression
While Netflix may be bad, what kids watch on YouTube and TikTok is far worse. Netflix content was at least written by an adult, maybe even edited.
Until and such time as there are consequences I wouldn't hold my breath. America is nice if you're rich. It's not so great otherwise.
>> There must be some examples of something useful and popular that has been built, if it's such a revolutionary technology?

That’s a very high bar. There are lots of fun web2 websites that are useless, fun and used by a few people. Also, useful is highly subjective. For example if you are into NFT’s you might find OpenSea popular and useful. If you are not, then you won’t.
> What does being "behind" even mean?

In my case as a guitar teacher, I see two patterns:

- Students with less support at home or natural feeling for guitar are about a year behind where they would normally be after four years of studying.

- My most motivated, talented and best supported students are on schedule or slightly ahead.
I've also found paying strangers on Monzo to be ridiculously easy, you both turn on bluetooth and go to "pay nearby" screen. You just ask them "Are you <full name>?" to verify, then send money.
If you are dependent on binary packages rather than building extensions from source (more common on Windows), there may not be prebuilt packages for some libraries for the newest version.
Right - the former case is one that’s unavoidable and, in the case the first developer didn’t get it quite right, should ideally be covered by code review, but doing a good code review is IMO pretty hard, and giving that sort of feedback requires that the reviewer also understands the problems at hand (which in our case is frequently not the case as our development teams are small and we’ll often have a backend focused dev reviewing another backend focused dev’s frontend work).

And in the latter case, at least in my organization, we don’t often have hard “must meet” deadlines, but instead have more self-imposed deadlines that become externalized and concrete when these “deadlines” (aka ship date estimates) are communicated org wide.

So all I can figure to do is give zoom talks, write documentation that’s shared to all developers, and try to encourage coworkers to take the opportunity to push soft deadlines back if needed to pay down tech debt.
What I'm saying is that there's no uniformity. Incoming college freshman are mostly the same age, but their preparation for college varies dramatically, depending largely on where they came from. At any given age, many US students are "behind" their peers, because they're not all receiving the same education.
Given the long and blemished history of failure, grifts and outright lies coming out of the cryptocurrency community, that is a ridiculous position.

Please stop wasting your time trying to defend cryptocurrency. At this point nothing you say will be believe because cryptocurrency bros have a long history of hype that goes nowhere. If you want to show the world that cryptocurrency is useful, go figure out a way to make it useful that doesn't involve breaking laws or wouldn't be better solved by using a DB instead of the block chain.
(Author here) The aspect of flexibility is really interesting. On the one hand, the lecturer role is way more flexible in that I can get my prep work done whenever I want, and if I did find myself all done with prep, I could garden all day instead with no guilt. (That happened once in my 1.5 years!)

On the other hand, there's a lot that's more inflexible than in a SWE job: lecture times, university-dictated exam times (at night! I had to sleeptrain my toddler to make them), staff meeting times (hard to find a time that works for a staff of 50-100).

So yeah- more flexible in some ways, less flexible in others, it depends what sort of flexibility you're looking for.
Railway – Bring your code, we'll handle the rest
In this context: Saves both content and the web application itself as and output html.

The wiki/app is the html file itself. If you add / remove content, you get another html file that contains the wiki app and the added / modified content.

No need for complicated applications, compatible wherever a browser runs (All OS), always compatible cos html (the raw html is human readable). No proprietary format lock in.

For the strict meaning:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)

For mindblowing stuff:

Quine Relay - A Ruby Program that generates Rust program that generates Scala program that generates ...(through 128 languages in total)... REXX program that generates the original Ruby code again. https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
Before the smartphone revolution we had stuff like these, from 1989, the same year Game Boy was released,

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

An example among quite a few, like the Apple Newton, Palm Pilot, Nokia Communicator, Compaq iPaq, Sony P900, ...
I would rather just have one code base per problem rather than one abomination per spectrum of problems.
My hate is based on how useless it is and how completely goes against the ideas being claimed for it.

It is capitalism at its maximum exponent and the only thing that managed to do is more wealth concentration (of USD BTW)
The math prodigy whose hack upended DeFi won’t return funds
> Netflix content was at least written by an adult, maybe even edited

Eh after spending the holidays with siblings around the age targeted by these things, I highly doubt the quality of Netflix material as well.

On the other hand, I was impressed by the ability of shows who’s IP is owned by massive corporations pump out material that looked worse than a HS video editing project.
I'm sure you watched the news from Buffalo with glee, scum.
> What does being "behind" even mean?

Or matter?

Is extending parental dependency the problem? If someone starts college at 20 instead of 18 they are likely at home longer. But a lot of people aren't leaving home for college anyway, or they return home after college whether they graduate or not.

If a bunch of kids start high school at 16 instead of 14 is it going to cause serious problems? It seems to me the only issues would be those that we create by our own expectations.
While very true, I think the point is that if you come across someone not using Monzo as their bank it’s almost just as easy to send them money.
web3 is being hailed as changing the world. So far all it has done is create countless scams.

However I am open to change my mind. Could you provide a single example of a popular and useful project that has been done using the revolutionary technology of web3?
If football is so disruptive to the primary purpose of school, which is education, then it should be completely eliminated from schools. No taxpayer money should be used for this entertainment nonsense.
Oh no. People are burning down the Brazilian rain forest for even less to gain.
You're definitely on the right track. A tank is best defined by doctrinal use, not by physical characteristics because many things have been officially used as tanks that would not fit a simple definition.

The definition most people would come up with would best describe an Armored Fighting Vehicle (AFV). Tanks are a type of AFV but not all AFVs are tanks.
This is answered in some detail in the post :) Ghost uses Knex and Bookshelf, and can work with any database that is fully supported and made interoperable by those packages. So if anyone contributes to the upstream repositories, the Postgres will work automatically. The core Ghost team focuses on MySQL because we're a small team and we can only really have the resources to document and support one environment properly.
Sea grass already grows pretty much everywhere it can grow, so I don't think we can cultivate a lot more (at least not without disrupting other sensitive marine ecosystems). It's more important to prevent pollution that would kill existing sea grass.
The title is as misleading as you want it to be, Zig (the language) is famous for not being yet stable, did you really expect Uber to use it in production?

edit: I just realized that maybe you were referring to the HN title. The real title is "How Uber Uses Zig" but HN cut the "How", making the title seem a stronger statement that what it's intended to be.
That's their decision to make

I too don't follow live news, I'm not suggesting others do it. Description, not prescription.
They obviously were not genuine. If they were he would have bought them from Apple.
https://archive.is/Mi1nz
That doesn't mean they're not behind, though? If anything it just means most students are behind. It's strange you say that the problem is overstated but also say that you encountered many kids yourself who were not prepared.
Open source voice assistant, not unlike google home or amazon alexa. The voice assistant itself works pretty alright but currently relies on google's speech-to-text to get good results. The technical infrastructure is a bit baroque and it's missing things you'd probably consider to be pretty essential, like an android app.

Their goal is to become the platform for embedding voice assistants in things like cars.
I bet in 1-2 days you will find some twitter users who will write an essay about how we should harvest ocean sugar and plant more wheat instead of corn or sugar beets.
These are stolen good, really it should only be the rightful owners' opinion that matters.
Any good reason for the project to still need "bluebird" as deps?
Gracias por escribir y postear! Siempre busco más historias para leer con mi hijita, porque estamos aprendiendo español juntos.
While this can be achieved using Traefik, it requires some creative combinations of static + dynamic configuration to get my_container.example.com with HTTPS and HTTP → HTTPS redirects and Let’s Encrypt. The container labels are a PITA.

I’m not sure there’s an easier solution though.