skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One problem is that if all the engineers are devoted to web3 nonsense, who is working on the real stuff? I know it’s not a zero sum game but at the same time we only have limited resources, and at a country-level scale the corporations interested in web3 employ a lot of engineers, at a scale where whatever FAANG is doing, the rest of the world is keen on doing.

I guess what I’m saying is web3 being terrible, scammy, and useless don’t strike me as reasons why it won’t supplant the web as it exists today. It could just win through attrition, as everyone interested in keeping the current web going retires and dies, as there’s no money in maintaining old systems; while those making fortunes off web3 scams are massively incentivized to keep the scam money flowing.
One reason it might be an issue. is when you apply for a loan you get a preapproval letter with a upper limit on how much you can afford. usually that calculation wouldn't take flood insurance into account. So, when you go to apply for a loan and it has flood insurance in the calculation it could go over the debt to income required for the loan.

Also, people could balk at the cost of the insurance.
I played a similar game in class, in our case we put a lot on both R&D and marketing, selling expensive high quality and well marketed products. We "won" the game but our teacher was not happy about the outcome and thought he would have to make some changes to the simulation.
Mind you, it was only one or two years before seeing everyone buying Apple laptops :D
If the PayPal transfer was funded by a credit card they’ll often put a “hold” on it until it finally clears.
Most UK papers are in the tabloid format now (i.e. in the physical sense, not that they're all about sex and celebrities), with very few stories written over pages, nor a meaningful fold (I like it when the crossword is on half a page but beyond that it's irrelevant).

Glad that you mentioned voting though, as much as I don't think there's much I can do about most world events, I do still feel the responsibility to be an informed voter, however slim the pickings might be. I have also found that print media (both newspapers and magazines) have made it much easier to engage my kids on various issues.
What does being "behind" even mean? The dirty truth of the US educational "system" is that there is no system. Different school districts offer vastly different levels of education, depending mainly on wealth (i.e., the property tax base, because schools are locally funded). When I was a kid, my family moved from one city to another within the same state, and suddenly I was way behind in my new school, especially in math, simply because my new school moved at a significantly faster pace and had higher expectations of students. But I eventually caught up, and it was fine. So I suspect that this problem is vastly overstated.

It's not like the US educational system was doing a great job before the pandemic. I used to teach in college, and a lot of student were not properly prepared. We rely a lot on "social promotion", where mere age and time spent in seats is taken as the standard for educational level.
what "bad actors" are you referring to? what are their "bad intents"?
Building a Movie Recommendation System
The way to achieve interoperability while still being able to innovate is to follow the model of browsers (HTML, CSS and JavaScript). The process works something like this:

1. Everyone has the same basic functionality, you can switch between browsers and (mostly) everything works the same way, renders the same way and so on

2. Browser XYZ decides they want a cool feature where they expose data from a fingerprint reader as a JS API

3. Browser XYZ implements said feature and sees if websites starts using it.

4. Standards-bodies might start noticing that the feature was implemented in Browser XYZ and keeps an eye on it

5. If a second browser implements a similar/the same feature (although slightly different API or other incompatibility), standards bodies starts working on creating a standard for said feature, together with Browser XYZ and the others who participate in the standards organization

6. Once standard is done, reviewed and published, the browsers who want to have the feature go back and adjust/add/remove things until they comply with the standard.

Obviously, it's not exactly like this, but the process is more or less like this.

It's not hard to imagine the same for messaging services. The base-layer is that everyone can send text messages to everyone. This we can all agree on, so a standard would be for that first.

Then if some messaging service wants to add a new feature, they start working on that and deploying it for their service. If a second messaging service deploys the same feature, standard bodies should work on getting a interoperable model of that feature, that then all messaging services can use and hence work across all of them.
I'd like to see how well the knowledge is retained in kids after let's say 3 years.

I believe most of the knowledge the kids were taught that long ago is not present in their memory anymore as if it was never taught.

I remember happily forgetting all information I learned and it took me just summer vacation to do that.
I've never known people who have contacts/good experience and can deliver to "have to grind leetcode". This may be the case for new entrants or areas with huge amounts of competition. I've known several people to get jobs at Microsoft and Google due to their educational background (PHD projects), industry knowledge and conference presence, and general competence. I'd be very surprised if any of these people was working through these lists of questions and I've never directly used these tests when I've been interviewing, although I have used some of the concepts of course.
That's why my favorite ORM in Java is MyBatis. It doesn't do SQL generation; it only maps objects to SQL parameters and results to objects.
Oops! You are correct, I meant to say Android.
Is there any reason to think it's more than buying ads and giving exclusive contact? That leads to the kind of influence that doesn't need any vast conspiracy, Microsoft controlled the information they want and the money they need.
> at the moment

The key part of their reaction to their education boogeyman is to squash any attempt at showing how broken its always been
> Blockchains are just another kind of centralization, a single central source of truth

If you really believe this, you don't understand blockchains. They are the exact opposite of that. A decentralized, distributed, immutable, censorship-resistant, trustless, permissionless ledger. You don't need centralized authorities, and you don't need to trust anybody. You don't need anyone's permission to participate, and nobody can keep you from doing so. Moreover, the data is immutable and extremely safe, as it is replicated globally.
Try being an embedded software engineer, it tends to pay more than a HW engineer gets and still have all the fun
Well you can read how they were created (unscientifically), and AFAIK there is no evidence that they are beneficial or detrimental to creativity, so if they do work, nobody has tested it, or it's in a way that's not easy to measure.

Is 'scientific' a requirement? IMHO not at all, in fact it's part of the charm, but if you are looking for a system that is 'proven to work', then obviously this fails.
This is the same logic behind the "great replacement" conspiracy theory, the idea that Democratic politicians in the US will encourage mass immigration so that they get more voters.

However much we want to doubt our politicians, I really don't think they would change the demographic makeup or worsen the education of our country simply for votes.
I've seen stories detailing how they were ready to switch to PoS by "the end of the year" as far back as 2017. Ethereum has been PoW for it's entire existence, and has also been promising PoS for almost 3/4 of that time. It's not impossible that this time it's really true, but I'll believe it when it happens.
Yeah, paper thickness, color, paper type, and any coatings on the paper. All these things should matter for a proper setting of the fuser temperature the printer uses. If your printer is advanced enough, it should run the fuser at the proper temperature for the stated paper.
You can say that raggi is a failure, but that doesn't mean that liquid voting is.

The question is did the people want raggi and did they get raggi
Nope, the user can use another app and than upload the picture without have the pic be market with the label
Yeah the illusion that twitter _is_ public is one of the big reasons why there's so much hand wringing over the company and its effects on "free speech".
Both federation and p2p still require some kind of centralization, currently. Furthermore, there is no decentralized governance nor incentive mechanisms. "Web3" is simply bringing a decentralized approach to p2p, governance and operations. Doesn't necessarily mean a token that is traded on an exchange. But what blockchain (and more importantly the consensus models) bring is the ability to create a decentralized FaceBook, WhatsApp, Insta, etc. allowing anyone participating in the operation of the network and anyone able to consume the network without anyone profiting in the middle. I think where opponents get hung up is the incentive mechanisms. Today the good is so overshadowed by the scam/bad. But if you want a good example of a shared utility build on blockchain look at Helium.com. It is a global wireless network operated by people that host their own hotspots--a true utility model. When you look at some of the services we use on the web, they are utilities and there are real value in both delivering them and consuming them. This is where web3 is trying to tie that all together so some giant company isn't in the middle monetizing both sides.
I create my own classes for this. (Essentially to do the same thing as sklearn pipelines, but I like creating my own classes just for this debugging/slowly expand functionality reason.) Something like:

class mymodel():
...
def feature_engineering(self):
...
def impute_missing(self):
...
def fit(self)
...
def predict_proba(self)
...

Then it is pretty trivial to test with new data. And you can parameterize the things you want, e.g. init fit method as random forest or xgboost, or stack on different feature engineering, etc. And for debugging you can extract/step through the individual methods.
> Still, he's smart, seems to understand all the material, and he still has a couple of years to work on his problems before his exams, so with enough work from him, school, us, and the extra tutoring we fortunately can afford for him, he'll probably be okay. But there are probably tons of kids far worse off than he is.

It's sad to me that this is the way things work. Being smart and understanding the material are the important endpoints. If he's already achieving those then it's backwards to make him do lots of extra work just to jump through the hoops of exams.
Thanks. Most of that was from memory and not tested.

The specific recipies should be vetted. The stated goals can be achieved with proper invocation.
Google can easily afford to have people verify a link should be taken down before doing it. And yes spammers find ways around gaming bounce rates.

If we forced spammers to make web pages attractive and informative to humans instead of crawlers we’d be in a much better place
OK, here's a specific case that's relevant to the HN audience: I want to stay informed about programming languages and frameworks so I can make tech decisions for new projects without becoming set in my ways and making decisions that are suboptimal in the current world. For example, I don't want to become my generation's equivalent of a person who assumes that all new applications should be developed in C. At the same time, I don't want to get too sucked into hype. Any suggestions?
Just a note -- despite the title, the article eventually presents a nuanced view and points out that "dd" has some uses.

> If an alias specifies -a, cp might try to create a new block device rather than a copy of the file data. If using gzip without redirection, it may try to be helpful and skip the file for not being regular. Neither of them will write out a reassuring status during or after a copy.

> dd, meanwhile, has one job*: copy data from one place to another. It doesn’t care about files, safeguards or user convenience. It will not try to second guess your intent, based on trailing slashes or types of files.

> However, when this is no longer a convenience, like when combining it with other tools that already read and write files, one should not feel guilty for leaving dd out entirely.
people forget that web3 doesn't cost money - it costs tokens! those tokens are minted "out of thin air"... you either produce some by contributing the network, or contribute the network by buying some. the "grass, gas or ass" of computing. no free meals, although some meals are bigger than others...
First, regarding unhealthy obsession I was referring to this Stephen Diehl character. Everyone's free to dislike or hate crypto, but most ordinary people would express that opinion and carry on. That's quite different from making it your life mission and devote all your energy to it. I find that obsessive and suspicious. Like a crusade.

As for this community, I too find it disappointing how it engages with the crypto topic. I understand that crypto gives plenty of reasons for skepticism. I personally share the opinion that > 90% of it is garbage without utility.

And yet still I think there's room to intellectually engage with the good parts. Even parts that are good "in theory" at this point. Even more so when it's so common to bash "web2" tech monopolies.

I do get it though. Crypto is huge, complex and fast-moving. To get a deep and nuanced understanding of it means investing a huge amount of time without a tangible reward. Hence, people resort to simplistic binary conclusions. It's terrible or the future, there's no middle ground.

It's even worse when a topic gets politicized and becomes part of the culture war. A lot of brands are looking to experiment with crypto but are walking on egg shells or have to retract plans as to not offend the Twitter mob.

Is Elon Musk a Disney-style billionaire villain or our savior? It can be only one of those two options, such is the way of the world right now.
> Bad software engineers also tend to hide behind their best practices.

I don't believe I've ever encountered this. Can you elaborate on what you mean?
It’s funny you mention browsers because there are a ton of sites and features that only work on chrome and not safari.

Not sure that’s the model to follow. Fundamentally though chat is different - where would the messages be stored for example? Who will guarantee deliver ability?

Email is federated and has all of these things but sucks and so everyone made their own thing. I’ve yet to see evidence this just wouldn’t regress to email again
Product work and knowledge management processes future
Having actually read the very short thread, it makes sense now: this isn't an article, it's a beef. That's why they're @-ing various people. There isn't any substantiation, and it's an anon; this is just part of the online fight over the ruins of Luna. It would not make sense to have it as a blog post. It's part of a "conversation". And ammunition for retweets for those engaged in crypto.

There almost certainly is foul play, but you'll have to wait for the court transcripts of Kwon's trial to determine exactly what.
>That leads to the kind of influence that doesn't need any vast conspiracy

That's already a conspiracy, as ad spendings are only supposed to buy you ads, not editorial influence.
> power consumption … would go way down in winter as efficiency is greatly increased

Not sure where you live, but in my experience living across the USA, I don’t think switching all heating to heat pumps in winter would reduce electricity usage. Most homes heat with propane, fuel oil, kerosene, or, in places like NYC, steam. There are certainly some homes out there with electric element heating but they are so expensive to run that they’re not very common.

It might be better for emissions if we used renewable energy to generate all of that power. But we don’t right now.
If there are say 1% stupid people who won't follow safety rules, the sheer amount of personal danger is quite different if you have 100 gun owners or 10.000.
It just seems lazy, using race as a proxy variable without positing a hypothesis for what it means. It doesn't tell us, as readers, anything about why some kids didn't perform as well as others.
I don't exactly know what Pycharm does but I only add type hints when Pycharm's default type checker raises a complaint or is unable to infer the type. To me that's just the perfect middle ground.

Sometimes adding a type to a single object (e.g. `df: pd.DataFrame = ...`) only once at the top of a 20-50 line function, is usually sufficient for Pycharm to infer all other types downstream without ambiguity.
In the UK we have a category of "worker" which is between self employed and employed. I strongly suspect the fact that google play is the sole marketplace for most apps has an effect that brings people into that definition. It is about whether or not a business is captive, and whether it relies entirely on one platform for its customers. These things are what got GMB their victory over Uber in the employment tribunal.
Let's not mince words: "batshit insane" are the people you disagree with, and "somewhat reasonable" are the people you agree with. You completely mischaracterize the side you disagree with, and then excuse the side you agree with as simply "over-correcting."

In reality, the "batshit insane" people were closer to the truth, which is that the shitty cloth masks that were considered acceptable and worn by the majority of people did little to nothing to stop the spread of Covid.
Are they though? How many people do you know working on shitcoins? How many people do you know working on real things?
In the case of the CEO it probably refers to the decade he spent building and then selling two companies for around $200m, the larger one of which he founded.
> had a similar function on the battlefield to what tanks do today

nonsensical question to start with if you have ever read any story of roman battles involving chariots. A tank has an asymmetry on the battlefield: it's very powerful and very well protected. None of this is true for chariots.
I don't see how you can suggest you have a deep understanding of Python's infrastructure while concurrently not being aware of any unbiased benchmarks from critical outsiders.
Which ones do you suggest/recommend?
It might depend on what we call a house. A house with courtyard, a small apartment, a big apartment. In the best part of the city, in the worst part of the city, in a near suburb, in a far suburb. A huge house, a tiny house.

I can get a house in one of the cheapest villages in my country for 2-3 monthly salaries. The small apartment I live in I can get for 1 year worth of salaries. A big apartment or a house in the best parts of the city would take 20 years worth of salaries.
Have you checked POAP (Proof of attendance Protocol)? poap.xyz 5M mint, one the most used protocol, everything is free. Look for it on twitter and you will go nuts.

It's an ERC-721 compatible token, free to create, free to mint and collect

POAP stands for Proof of Attendance Protocol

— POAPs are NFTs that function of digital badges to prove you attended an event

— Using POAPs benefits event organizers by creating a direct line of communication with attendees, allowing more interactive, more responsive events and a more reliable way of building relationships with guests and followers

— POAPs benefit individuals by creating a completely personalized story of a person’s life, linking them with moments in time without sharing any data with big centralized platforms
Run by whom?
I show claws.
There are some written guidelines. The CDC "uses a blood lead reference value (BLRV) of 3.5 micrograms per deciliter to identify children with blood lead levels that are higher than most children’s levels." (https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/prevention/blood-lead-levels.h...). The difference between lead and sunlight as described is that there is likely some lower bound with sunlight as well, too little sunlight is unhealthy, which makes the advice "all sun exposure is bad" not only unhelpful but possibly unhealthy.
People can only hope that these approaches are rarely chosen because practically it would only further cement discrimination towards low income groups. Surprised they referred to the smoking tax here because it can easily be an empirical counter-example for such strategies as it is more widely spread in economically disadvantaged layers of society. So the approach might simply not work.
I've been a fan of cryptocurrencies since 2010 and these days basically no one who puts money into it knows how it works. People are putting there entire life savings into it, and they have no idea what it is.

There is so many clueless people who hope to get rich by getting in before something takes off that even the dumbest of things is a thing these days.

Just as an example, let's look at NFTs. People are buying NFTs for insane prices, but they don't know what is actually is. Often the thing people are "buying" are centrally stored and controlled, and by that point there is no point in using a blockchain.

There are also a lot of other things that blockchains are used for that is completely pointless as it can be done without it.

Some times I wonder if most people think that blockchains is the only way to use cryptography...
They would get arrested maybe - but only after I was already shot.
Seems like it starts with some examples of what doesn't work well and then teases the reader with potential solutions, which don't have examples.
Especially in high school, an astounding amount of time, money, space, and personnel are dedicated to sports, and this does not just impact the athletes. In many schools the entire day is structured around the football team's practice schedule. Make school sports a truly after-hours extracurricular activity and remove their impact from non-participants, and I'd estimate you could see around 20% improvement time spent on classroom instruction on core subjects.
I believe Taleb's timeline is not as long term as the heat death of the universe or end of civilisation.

He's saying that a rational market should value bitcoin at 0 because it has 0 utility. If I buy shares in Walmart I receive a dividend, if I buy shares in Amazon I know they will do share buy backs with their profits and hence increase the value of my investment.

Bitcoin has zero value or utility for me, unless I can sell it to someone else before it eventually goes to 0.
Unfortunately with respect to Feather Wiki, fuse.min.js is too large (23KB) :) But the fuzzy search is a good idea. If you find a very tiny js search lib, please post it here on HN or here: https://codeberg.org/Alamantus/FeatherWiki/issues
One nice side effect of this is the feedback loop to the OEM and another metric around useful life. I'd love to give a window AC unit back to the OEM with some notes.
Why Catalonia Failed
I thought so too, until I got to a point in my education where it actually required work to continue making process, and the discipline to do it wasn't there. Habits are hard to break, and forming healthy study habits early is as valuable a result of education as the acquisition of that day's knowledge. Maybe more important.

The school system often fails to do that effectively, but their failure does not invalidate the goal.
So when a group of friends goes to the movies its always the same person deciding and not consensus?