skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parent (boys aged 6 and 9) here. At first I figured that school at that age (kindergarten) was basic skills, not very critical, and as you say mainly a way of getting kids out of the way.

With some experience now, I think that school provided more than I thought:

* socialisation

* authority outside of bfamily

* development of personality

* habit-forming for later school

.. aside from the fact that even if you're a good parent and have already exposed your kids to letters and numbers, you will likely not have ensure a complete coverage.

Example of importantance of school choice: my first son went to a regular public kindergarten and lost some of the autonomy he had built-up with us. Going to the bathroom was done together with an aide at school, so why not at home?

My youngest ended going to a Montessori kindergarten by accident. They focus a lot on autonomy and as a result he is very much 'his own boy', even at the age of 6.

And beyond kindergarten, even just in primary, the 'skills' part of school is difficult to do 'in-house' unless you spend a lot of time on it. There's a reason we applied Taylorism to education.
I never said I wanted lightning enforced though.
I’m talking about evolution of the design of the plug, not its software specs.
> You are essentially pre-selecting for people that share your cultural background.

It's not like you have to type this kind of document ad hoc while being watched. Such a document usually is carefully crafted beforehand. There are tools for performing automated spell checks. Not using those has nothing to do with cultural background.
I can only predict that both the people signing this letter and the crypto maximalists are going to be very disappointed that this will somehow be the end of all cryptocurrencies or the full adoption and dismantling of the current system with one cryptocoin being a reserve currency. An example of such is where the critics were screaming over the so-called NY bill on 'banning' of PoW [0], but it turns out that not only it doesn't affected PoS cryptocurrencies, but only affected PoW with carbon methods and not via renewable methods.

As for the same letter [1] being pushed by critics like Grady Booch, ghuntley, Molly White etc al. who many here know in the industry, we would like to also know the ones who are left blank like 'Darren W. Seng' and 'Stephen Diehl' who are the most extreme and prominent names arguing against crypto. But it turns out that they seem to be connected as C-level executives and co-founders of a private blockchain startup named 'Adjoint' [2] that appears to be in direct competition with public blockchains like Bitcoin, and especially Ethereum.

Again it's very strange to see why that wasn't mentioned in the first place and why it's only specifically 'public blockchains' and not all blockchains both 'public' AND 'private'? This critic [3] seems to attack both of them and doesn't see any difference to them at all. Any idea why all of that including something called 'nanocoin' was deleted and scrubbed off of the internet?

Maybe cryptocurrencies like Ethereum (which has smart-contract capabilities) are the reason why the folks at Adjoint are eternally at odds with the crypto industry and are dedicated every single day to totally getting rid of all cryptocurrencies? I'm sure many have tried going down this path and Seng, and Diehl seem to have already deleted their repositories and associations [3] with the whole of Adjoint to pursuing this long utopian conquest and bringing others on board.

These crypto-assets for sure will be regulated, but once again the goal of getting rid of all of them is a similar path that has been trodden by the free-software activists, anti-IoT activists, privacy activists, anti-AI activists and anti surveillance-capitalism activists etc before them and it has resulted in co-existence rather than a complete and total removal or outright total ban on what they were against. Cryptocurrencies are no different and will co-exist rather than wither away. In this latest push, at least they learnt their lesson with this failed petition in the UK [4].

[0] https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/A7389

[1] https://concerned.tech

[2] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/adjoint-inc

[3] https://medium.com/@johny.codes/private-blockchains-even-wor...

[4] https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/601629
Glad this submit on got ignored so much. What a shitty article.
If everything is so cool, so why is this Google engineer reviewing USB-C cables? https://www.theverge.com/2015/11/5/9674462/usb-type-c-google...
Demand side also drove up prices. Shipping times have almost doubled from Asia to the US due to increased freight.
The surveillance states wet dream, where you can just look up who took that ‘unfair’ video of your agent breaking the rules.
> "Making a car is expensive, so let's not do that to explore 1000 miles out. Let's just have 1000 people walk one mile and explore."

"Making a car is expensive, so let's not do that to explore 1000 miles out. Let's instead build an airplane."

The problem with next-gen LHC is that there are no guarantees of any new or interesting physics for that $100 billion. And particle accelerators are not the only way to spend large sums of money, so there is an opportunity cost. Why not spend that $100 billion to build more space telescopes or more sensitive LIGOs to detect gravitational waves, etc.
My personal observation is that most pro office folks are seeking to substitute gaps in their personal lives with onsite work. A drain on their coworkers to be frank. Lack of friends, proper housing, lack of exercise you name it. A tiring hindrance on those whom understand that most of these issues are caused by being farmed in offices 8 hours a day and clustered in crowded, poorly planned cities. Of course there are valid practical reasons as well for onsite work.

But if your excuses for wanting to drag people back into offices are that you cant walk on your own, dont have friends, cant play politics, cant hold remote conferences or online chats, then i am sorry but you are on your own. Too many have been conditioned to think that you need to sit in a building and slave away for a praise and a rushed holiday every now and then.
"I miss it, but I won't use it" heh

I also miss videogames but can't be arsed to play any since I lost interest. It's kinda weird how that works.
Apple already moved the ipad and macbook to usb-c charging, and have stated the iphone after next would be usb-c anyway. I doubt this changed Apple's plans a bit. In fact, Apple's decision might have been the driver for the EU to move on this.

Anecdotally, while I've had usb-c connectors break off about as often as lightening ones, the lightening cables seem to just stop working sometimes, and I've never had that with even cheap usb-c cables.
I wonder how the conjecture originally came up with 1.64 anyway, seems like a rather arbitrary number to establish a conjecture that takes decades to prove. If there was some way to actually come up with that number initially, wouldn’t that itself have been on the way to a proof?
Happy to see UDP being used here, because it means that networks that don't properly support UDP are now "broken."

There was for a time a risk that the Internet would become a HTTP-only network (at least at the endpoint) supporting TCP to port 80 and 443 and not a lot else.

Really. I've seen networks like this.
Isn't the point to prove physical access to the camera. As in, this stream originated at this TPM which was sold as part of this camera.

So, the best you get is that the stream shows it wasn't produced with access to a particular camera. Then impersonating a YouTuber, say, requires access to their physical camera.
The two greatest problems in computing are: naming things, multithreading, and off-by-one errors. It looks like your comment helps me fix one of them. Computers (or more generally 'machines') in my network tend to be named stupidly, or at the very least uninspiredly. I will choose a pre-existing list of things that suit me, and name everything after them.

Thanks!
So finding Black-holes is not significant because it was already predicted?

And btw there is so much money around...we should not fight against different project but the spending that goes into science itself. LHC and NASA is really just a small drop compared to military spending (in the US).

https://twitter.com/WillPVGreen/status/1363179862706503681/p...
A monad is just an object.
yeah me too, the x86 docker randomly segfaults and using it is really clunky in general
> Isn't JSX essentially syntax sugar for function calls

Yes. Which makes any issues the gp mentioned entirely up to the implementation of that function call.

> seems like everything the parent said could apply to any use of JSX, except for the attribute naming issue

If by "could apply", you mean anyone could write a function that has those issues, then yes I guess. My point was that if you want to avoid those, they're in no way inherent to JSX. Is that what you meant?

I mean, I guess "blurred line between rendering and code" is less about the function implementation, and more about project / file organisation choices (including conventions of a frontend view framework community), but it's still certainly not inherent.

> I think template languages are also prone to rendering / logic mix

True. I think you do need a lot of discipline if you want to keep a clear and consistent separation, and it's also not always worthwhile (there's a codebase-approachability trade-off with abstraction & locality of context).

For arguments' sake though here is a quick-and-horribly-dirty example of JSX syntax separation (not recommended but demonstrative): https://codepen.io/lucideer/pen/jOZvwVz?editors=0010
Agreed. Amazon is notorious for their written culture. While working there, this book was listed as a recommended read for anyone interested writing clear, concise prose and I'm so glad to have picked up the (97) version of this book
We aren't in 2015 anymore.
I'm waiting for computer tomograpy feature before buying one.
The headphone jack did take up a considerable amount of space and made waterproofing quite a bit harder. It't not like it was not a well-considered tradeoff. Companies don't work based on spite, but based on profit.
Perhaps in the US that is true, but "All" and "any" doesn't extend to other countries very well.

In the UK https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ power a lot of apps, in Norway it is https://www.yr.no/nb . I'm sure most countries have their own weather providing service.
"Which country and city governments have a four-day work week?":
https://buildremote.co/four-day-week/4-day-work-week-countri...

I am surprised the lack of mention of Denmark, Sweden or the Netherlands. Most business persons I contact, normally only work 4 days a week.
I don't believe this is true. DarkSky aggregated data from various sources. They also provided "hyper local" forecasts which were very accurate - I don't think NWS has anything like this. And I don't believe the NWS provides weather outside of the US - when I try to get the forecast for Mexico City, for example, I get "Data Unavailable For Requested Point" (https://api.weather.gov/points/19.4333,-99.1333)
It's obviously the failure of the spec. Why cables with different capabilities have to look exactly the same? Put the looking aside, I wondering if anyone can tell what's the exact differences between different specs? USB standards are already a mass, USB-C just made things 10 times if not 100 times worse.
It would be so ridiculously crazy that an established A-list actor would willingly promote those crypto scams. Must have been a deep fake!
I keep an encrypted backup and second yubikey at my workplace.
Great question!
4 days of stress was definitely better than 5 days of stress as I felt more recharged after the 3 day weekend. Also my output didn’t drop as I was feel less burnt out.

My original comment still stands though, a stress free 5 days is much better overall than the stressful 4
This has been the story for years and we just keep solving the problems. Perhaps one day you’ll be right, but it won’t be N5 to N3.
I think it's the opposite: e-bikes are bought for commuting in cities. They're cheaper than a car, and can even be cheaper than an annual ticket for public transport. They're quick (not stuck in traffic jams) and unlike a classic bike allow reaching the destination without getting sweaty. OTOH people who like cycling for the sake of it prefer real bikes that don't take the fun and challenge away with a wobbly torque sensor.
A knife is a multi-purpose tool that can be used as a weapon, and one that has so many important non-weapon uses that not having it would cause far more harm than having it would. This is intended primarily as a weapon, even when used defensively. There's an important qualitative difference there, though it's tempting to gallop down the slippery slope.

Regardless, I'm not proposing to ban either knives or this tool - I've been very clear about that. I do think that - with anything that has potential for harm - it's important for people to consider the possible consequences and to actually engage in the discussion about usage, rather than either washing their hands of the issue or declaring that any consideration will soon lead to arresting everyone for everything.

This is a path we've trodden countless times. With some things, we've collectively decided that no controls are necessary. With other things - poisons, nuclear weapons, a host of things depending on location - society has enacted controls of various efficacy and validity.

The responsible choice, regardless of whether you end up being for or any any given restriction for [thing], is to spend time thinking about it, discussing it, and - particularly when you've chosen to release something - acknowledging the potential issues.
But what are the consequences of the .1% of people who get over that hurdle?
I think work is just like everything else in this regard. Providing you have standard white collar job, as things continue to improve and get better, we just find new things to complain about. e.g. parent poster complaining about 'business casual' when it wasn't that long ago business casual was a nice step down from having to wear a suit. The workplace continuously adjusts but so do our expectations.
I suspect that's mostly an excuse and they just want to keep it to themselves for commercial reasons. I mean I'm sure they are happy not to have to deal with any ethical issues by keeping it private but that's probably a secondary motivation.

It's not like they release their state of the art ML stuff when there aren't any ethical issues anyway, e.g. for voice recognition.
That would be indeed a worthwhile addition, though hopefully the legislation won't kill off a potential better update without it either.
Atlassian Confluence Server CVE-2022-26134 being actively expoited in the wild
CVE only became public on friday and is already being actively exploited.

More info about the CVE from Atlassian here.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-security-adv...
> I’m pretty sure there remains a discrepancy between the predicted mass of the Higgs boson and the measured mass in experiments. Is this resolved then?

Sort of.

The higgs boson mass is a parameter to the Standard Model. As far as the Standard Model is concerned, that is the end of the story. There are just a series of constants need to be fitted to data in the Standard Model and that's one of them.

However, the "problem" is why ~125GeV. If there are extremely high energy particles (which are expected in a Grand Unified Theory), then corrections to the Higgs mass would be enormous. This is a fine tuning problem where we arbitrarily tweak those corrections such that we magically end up at 125GeV. Supersymmetry and other Beyond Standard Models look to 'fix' this, and that's where my knowledge ends.

Honestly, when I was doing my PhD I took the pragmatic view on this. Trying to infer things at energy scales we can't probe struck me as more as a mathematical exercise than Physics. Many, many people would disagree with that though (and staked their careers on it).
Will that have an effect on the devices sold on the US market? I would love an iPhone with USB-C.
For me it was Apostol's Calculus Vol 1 and Vol 2.

I am searching for books in mathematics that teach both the how and the why, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31650459

I hope to get some insightful answers soon.
If I stab someone with a knife, who is responsible?

The inventor of knives? The knife‘s manufacturer? The store who sold me the knife? I would say the responsibility lays 100% with myself.

I do not think it makes sense to pursue inventors for what happens to their creations, unless they actively encourage misuse.
And I’m guessing I still can’t change how emails are sorted in 2022.
> People can help with firefly conservation by avoiding pesticides, [Marten Edwards, professor of biology at Muhlenberg College] said, and turning off outdoor lights, which confuse the bugs’ mating habits.

> Another way to help, he said, is to planting trees and native grasses, and to allow log and leaf litter to accumulate.

> “They prefer longer grass and they like to be in the leaf litter from the leaves that have fallen from last year” …
No, that doesn't work as you say and it's not a matter of accepting philosophical positions.

That's because the EAs are not making a philosophical argument but a mathematical argument. And if you think their maths are right then you must agree with their agument, otherwise you must think the maths are wrong.

What the EAs' maths are trying to do is to define an objective measure of morality. That's the point of attempting to quantify the value of a human life and that's the purpose of using maths in general: because maths is objectively true or false, while morality is otherwise not. So if they get the maths right, their conclusions must apply to everyone and anyone, regardless of other assumptions.

That is the appeal that EA has to quantitatively-trained and generally mathematically-minded types. Let's do away with the subjectivity of moral philosophy and calculate the truth about morality. We face a question of morality? Calculemus!

So if you think their maths are right you must accept their conclusions, and you must donate one of your kidneys or accept that you are acting immorally. It doesn't matter when you choose to do it or how moral you think it is, what matters is that you accept it is the moral thing to do.

You can't have your cake and eat it: either the maths are wrong, or refusing to be a live kidney donor is wrong.
> And people that work 40 hours should get more than those that work 32 hours.

Someone who’s 25% less efficient at their job should get paid the same as someone else who’s more efficient?
Birth rates of children born during the baby boom (the baby boomers) is 2/3 to 1/2 of their parents generation.
> to get to really high energies you need to build bigger

Superconducting magnets enable much higher energies in smaller (granted, theoretical) fusion reactor designs than previously possible. Does the same not apply to colliders?
Those are two streams I sure as hell don’t want to cross!
Dilbert had his own desk, with his own stuff, he had a modicum of privacy from his colleagues

The cube farm was hated at the time, but things only ever get worse if you work in an office.
Because this was in 2015 and the cables were bad? There is many low quality lightning ripoffs on Alibaba too
Interesting, I've never seen a charger with microUSB permanently attached, all my chargers have a USB-A port where you can change the cable.

In any case, you can just stick tiny plug adapters on all your chargers. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G54XXZZ/
> Unless we cut off the chain of responsibility somewhere

We can do that. We do it all the time, assigning varying levels of blame to different parties for different things.

Determining between proximal and ultimate causes, or assigning more weight to one cause or another, is not some impossible burden.
I'm just as guilty as everybody for not doing this, but ...

perfect is again the enemy of good. Instead of a technically superior backup with rotation and all, it may be better to have some arbitrary, incomplete old backup lying around on a disk at someone's place.
> And you can mark a message as unread if you can’t respond in the moment and want to come back to it later.

I find it funny and sad at the same time that we ourselves have created such a social pressure for synchronous communication that we prefer to use a form of lying rather than change the status quo and learn people to accept the fact that reading a message does not mean one has to reply immediately, and that one is not rude or disrespectful if they reply later.[0]

[0] Unless you are dating and playing one of those status games trying to prove the other person cares more.
People in a company often collaborate so having them work at the same place/time is useful. Companies often collaborate or use each others services so having all companies and all people work at the time is useful. Parents need their kids taken care of while they work, so school hours mirror (to an extent) working hours and vice versa. All very explainable I think.
Except that the money in this case is actually electricity and all you're doing is advancing global warming.
Apple is already doing that on MacBooks. They have USB-C connectors for charging (that will be mandated by the EU law in the future) and they have a MagSafe connector (their innovation).

They can do the same for iPhone: one USB-C connector for charging and one innovation connector.
Tesla only sells luxury cars, even the Model 3 is considered luxury ($48k). Supposedly Tesla was going to sell in the luxury segment then ramp up production for other market segments.

When exactly is Tesla going to offer an economy car? With their margins they could make the Model 3 priced like that to win market share before other automobile companies catch up. I don't follow them or their product releases but haven't seen anything in the press about that direction of the company.
> has anyone ever sat down to watch an RS/6000 boot? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7bN1hYqD7Y

The ridiculously glacial boot, which ended in a system artifcially crippled by license restrictions, not to mention the eye-watering prices, is what killed the commercial Unix industry. They were all like that to some degree, really.

I used to have a dumpster-rescued RS/6000. You could telnet into it with a maximum of three simultaneous sessions, after that you just got a banner saying to buy more licenses. It went back into the dumpster.
You sleep a full third of your rotation. You rest and relax while you are awake. Alpha quadrant has far too much down time.
It's up to the employer to decide for how long they contract someone, whether they are more or less efficient is something that is their problem, not the employees' problem, they are reserved for more time so they should get paid more. Lots of jobs are paid by the hour, and that is the sort of job that I believe we were discussing.

The variables then are: your hourly rate, how many hours you are contracted for. I've never seen 'efficiency' in a labor contract as a metric, though, performance reviews may indicate that compared to your peergroup you are not performing well. In the end that then becomes an economics exercise, which in turn might lead to the company deciding that employing people for 32 hours is more efficient.

But until then they should pay for what they receive in terms of time spent on the job.
But you are making the argument that releasing it is protective, and there is no basis for that argument.

> Society must unlearn that seeing is believing.

A total lack of trust of our shared perception? Let me know how that works out. Might as well have everyone on acid 24/7.
You are a partly reason for misuse, but you are not morally responsible for it. Causal relationship doesn't necessarily imply a moral one.
HTML Jinja templates are supported in many editors. Jinja + plain Python is my favorite way of building static web pages.