skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The approach when I did CS seems pretty reasonable: Lectures were attendance entirely optional for most courses (exceptions were some courses with small number of places; e.g. I did a "French for sciences" class where attendance was compulsory), and for the intro course I showed up to the first and last lecture, but you had some compulsory lessons in smaller groups and a couple of compulsory group projects.

I got to save plenty of time by opting out of most of the lectures, but the groups and projects gave you feedback if you started skipping too much (something I learned in the introductory maths course that I also first thought I could get away with not going to every lecture for) and forced you to read at least the main set books so you got a good idea of whether it was material you understood.

It's indeed easy to think you know more than you do, but at the same time, sometimes you do know exactly what you know - been in both situations.
For me it’s about context. Steam ads do not bother me that much since it’s easy to turn off/dismiss, but also importantly they're "first party" - I’m already on steam and a gaming mood so I don’t mind checking out offers for other games.

Streaming ads are annoying because under no circumstances I'd be thinking of picking up tampons while watching a football game.
I don't think it was owned by google when hn started using it for the API.
The discussion was around prints of naked adults and why stores might have policies to not develop those.
I offered an alternative reason based on the legal landscape rather than a cultural one.

> You can't even take a photo of your own kid.

You missed the part where we're discussing a sub-topic off that story, someone's experience working in a photo store, and the policies in place there.

> Why would you assume a crime by default?

I assume you mean "you" as in a photo store that finds such negatives in a job order, and not me directly?

Because as I said, your liability or even reputation if this isn't from something legal, is not worth the profit made.
I admittedly haven't looked into this at all, but I suspect a majority aren't available on DVD, particularly the ones from the 80s and 90s.

"Thousands of hours of historical Sesame Street" is exactly the type of content that streaming services should be making economically viable for the first time.
That combination kinda came by default, since I opted to use TipTap: https://tiptap.dev/

My real trouble is the fact that this is an existing application, with hundreds of thousands of pre-existing documents, all stored as html strings. I've been trying to extract the html on the server, but it's incredibly difficult. I've actually given up for the time being, and using a hacky workaround.
Never considered the speedrun route, but I also had someone (a prof. in my case) tell me something that changed the way I viewed college/the curriculum.

Paraphrasing, he said, "don't get too wound up with the syllabus, treat class and deliverables as touchpoints for your own self study". I guess it may have the same net result as "read the text" or "study outside of class" for some, but that view of things really resonated with me.

It felt a lot healthier to me to work in this way. I went down whatever rabbit holes interested me. It's not very efficient in terms of grades and stuff, but I had the time back then anyway, and I never really felt like I was cramming or grinding. When exams rolled around, I usually felt like I was in decent shape, just needed to do a little adjustment based on class hints or whatever.
The same could be said about the UK. Anecdotally, every single teacher I know has either quit or moved into the private sector, with the exception of those with partners in a better paid profession. I'm genuinely surprised that anyone will do the job.
Source paper: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

"Question What proportion of individuals who recently contracted the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant were aware of their infectious status?

Findings In this cohort study of 210 adults with evidence of seroconversion during a regional Omicron variant surge, 56% reported being unaware of any recent Omicron variant infection.

Meaning Findings of this study suggest that low rates of Omicron variant infection awareness may be a key contributor to rapid transmission of the virus within communities."
I think you've misunderstood the field of this debate. With regard to manned flight, there is no debate at all; 10,000 Gs isn't compatible with human life. Nobody, not even Spinlaunch, is proposing this for manned flight.
> Their vision was to build the hardest parts of building a database, such as transactions, fault-tolerance, high-availability, elastic scaling, etc. This would free users to build higher-level (Layers) APIs [1] / libraries [2] on top.

That is very interesting and simple and valuable insight that seems to be missing from the wiki page. But also from the wiki page <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FoundationDB>, this:

--

The design of FoundationDB results in several limitations:

Long transactions- FoundationDB does not support transactions running over five seconds.

Large transactions - Transaction size cannot exceed 10 MB of total written keys and values.

Large keys and values - Keys cannot exceed 10 kB in size. Values cannot exceed 100 kB in size.

--

Those (unless worked around) would be absolute blockers to several systems I've worked on.
That's why reading in its entirety is pretty important.

Context matters.

There's a lot of violence in the Bible, just as there in in the world today.
It's weird-but-unexpected that they seem to frame this a bit as if such a war would have been a good thing to prevent. But usually it's best if these big companies ARE at war as much as possible.
Help me understand the proud dropout concept. I cannot wrap my mind around it.

My single mom worked three jobs to put me through private school and pay for my college. I grew up thinking that no college == bag groceries for the rest of your life.

How could anyone be proud of depriving themselves of the tools to succeed in life? It's like being proud of gouging out your own eyes and walking around blind.
Corporation exists at the sole benefit of the shareholders unless they are a B corp.
Check out https://getsession.org/
The translations that were purposely cut from the post:

Chunk 1

Unlike the day of the week and the date, %s and %z are independent, so I don't see the problem.
> Here, independent means orthogonal, so changing one doesn't change the other.

It doesn't mean there is a problem, it just means they are different.
For example, it is possible to write a date in UTC and then change it to local time.
But this time it's only %s.

Suppose I am in Japan and dealing with UTC time.
Let's say I'm in Japan and I'm dealing with UTC time.
The given time is in UTC, but I'll refer to it as +09:00.

2001-02-03T04:05:06 UTC (+0900)

Since this is not common
DateTime.parse('2001-02-03T04:05:06').new_offset('+0900')
This is not common, so the description would be something like

Now, this kind of description is not currently in ruby, but I feel that what is required for the '%s %z' thing is something different from what we have been dealing with, which from my point of view includes this kind of thing.

Chunk 2

Perhaps if you could elaborate a bit more on what a date is or something like that, it might make it more understandable.

When I say date, I am including such time.
I think of this date as a kind of name assigned on a time axis based on certain rules. In space, it is like a milestone.
There are actually more imperfect dates, which are also dates.
Sometimes they can be identified by context and other information, and sometimes they can't.

Chunk 3

If you think the time difference has special significance, you can describe it in local time.
>
> The question is which local time, not the local time set by the OS, but an artificial local time with a > fixed difference from UTC.
> > I understand that you are talking about being able to record the given time difference as is.
> I understand that you are saying that the given time difference can be recorded as it is.

I'm not sure what you mean.

Since %s seems incomplete to begin with, I don't know why you are so hung up on it.

If we replace %s with space, we can't place milestones with it, it just shows the distance, and we can't define the distance, can we?

Also, just for the record, I would like to confirm that what Mr. Tanaka is referring to as fixed time difference is not universal.

The given self-evident local time is also useful, and the time zone = time zone information, not time difference.
It contains more information than just time difference.

Isn't it important to have the actual time system and format we are referring to, such as daylight saving time?
In that sense as well, I feel uncomfortable with the trend of %s bias.
HBO Max has been dropping content ever sense the Warner merge. I totally believe the plan is to kill it and move everything to a discovery+ combined platform.
> choosing to use the pointer form is often just introducing nullability where you don't need it.

_Nonnull int* whatever;

Tada! Nullability avoided. https://releases.llvm.org/3.8.0/tools/clang/docs/AttributeRe...
Fears for patient data after ransomware attack on NHS software supplier
Wow. This is atrocious.

> You really just need the .RECIPEPREFIX = >

Now I can't copy & paste a block anymore (into the shell, to run it), and all my editor indentation settings are broken.

> SHELL := bash

And the Makefile is now non-portable.

> .SHELLFLAGS := -eu -o pipefail -c

If this matters, it's likely you're wedging too complicated things into one recipe. But less bad than the other suggestions.

> .ONESHELL

Funnily enough using this is the primary reason the previous item becomes important. The subtly changed behavior also turns multi-line recipes into a giant footgun if you end up with a non-GNU make.

(skipping a few that are not as bad)

> out/image-id: $(shell find src -type f)

Might be OK in a single rule. Otherwise, it's calling find more... and more...

> Sentinel files

Actual good practice to end it on.
Often jobs like those have open houses, especially in todays hiring market. However, as you note, it’s common for follow up and hiring to require, or be much easier with online paperwork.
Can't they get hurt by the propeller if the engine is running?
You mean, the kids won the Genetics Lottery?

Yes, getting born with parents who care about you is definitely a smart life hack.
That’s not what he said.
> Counterpoint: teachers' pay is great, it's just backloaded in pension plans.

Nonsense. Even the most basic look at the numbers shows you this is absolutely false.

Let's take a rich liberal state first. MA. Average teacher salary: $60k. Average pension $43k. Teachers contribute 9.78% of their salary in order to get this pension! The state contributes 18.17% This is not all that different from a 401k.

You're confusing teachers with police officers, where the average pension is twice as high.

> Why didn't I end up in teaching? The licensing requirements in Minnesota are insane. Counselor's straight up told me I'd have to borrow ~$50k from the UMN for a MS in Curriculum and Instruction before I could teach.

Then you got terrible advice.

Because the licensing requirements in Minnesota are very lax: https://mn.gov/pelsb/aspiring-educators/portfolio/

You take two tests and fill out some forms. You don't even need a Master's in education.

They should really tighten that up. btw, you can definitely do that MS for <$20k online.
>Our daycare gets more expensive as the child ages - not less.

I have shopped around daycares on east and west coast, and I have never encountered this type of pricing. Infants have always been more expensive than toddlers and pre K in at least 10 to 15 daycares I have priced.

I also do not see the purpose of comparing prices for different prices of labor for justifying the prices.

Physics teachers may very well need to be paid more to attract enough people to meet the desired teacher student ratios and quality of teacher , but it has nothing to do with how much daycare teachers are paid. It just depends on supply and demand of that particular type of labor or service, hence the futility of comparing per student costs of daycare and high schools.
> And the Makefile is now non-portable.

The article calls out GNU Make, so almost everything else in there is also non-portable.
1) healthcare.
2) education degrees are a problem. They make becoming a teacher financially very risky. They also don’t seem to actually improve teacher quality
> Pointers can be presumed in some code bases not to be null with nullability being the unusual and documented scenario.

So document it regardless instead https://releases.llvm.org/3.8.0/tools/clang/docs/AttributeRe...
MatMult = the dot product, effectively. I can't believe that allowing smaller vectors is difficult or even non-trivial in hardware.
Fascinating — but I'd be curious how much of the production was funded with those licensing fees. Maybe they're not legally obligated to keep it public — but ethically?
> As such, it seems like there should be some kind of legal obligation to keep it public.

The challenge here is royalties. You have to pay people royalties for broadcasting their work. You could take the position that publicly funded media should be in the public domain, but then it's going to cost considerably more because you'll have to compensate people for the royalties they won't receive.

> I might be wrong in this particular case though — maybe the public funding was always indirect, through the broadcasters?

Yes, Sesame Street wasn't commissioned by PBS, it was originated by the Children's Television Workshop which was funded via grants (some from the state, but mainly by non-profits like the Carnegie Corporation). And originally it aired on the precursor to PBS (National Educational Television), which was funded by the Ford Foundation.
This makes me wonder… if Conservative strategy is to run it into the ground and then privatise, which is an unpopular plan with the public, then how are they able to consistently win elections?
> The rallying cry seems to be that "2+2=4 is racist".

Source? This is such a wild claim it has to be made up. A cursory google search brings this article: https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/teaching-math-throu...

Which is distilled down to "teachers teach math in a way that is topical to the current environment, such as BLM protests which is really nothing new. You might disagree with it, sure, but to say that this is "the wokes" teaching 2+2=fish, that's frankly ridiculous.

In fact, the only thing I can find reporting on "2+2=racist" is this Washington Examiner article deriding a math teacher from NYC for her tweets (article here: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/math-professor-claim...) which sounds _awful_ but it's a single person tweeting, and it seems to be in relation to using "math is pure and objective so it always must be neutral" as a defense for situations where data/statistics/algorithms presented show a clear bias. Which I think generally is an agreed upon phenomenon-- depending on the sampling and interpretation of the data, folks can come to _wildly_ different conclusions, especially if data was accidentally omitted.

Best example of this phenomenon is facial recognition software, which can perform very badly when deviating from the sample data. https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2019/12/nist-study-eva...

> For one-to-one matching, the team saw higher rates of false positives for Asian and African American faces relative to images of Caucasians. The differentials often ranged from a factor of 10 to 100 times, depending on the individual algorithm. False positives might present a security concern to the system owner, as they may allow access to impostors.

...

> However, a notable exception was for some algorithms developed in Asian countries. There was no such dramatic difference in false positives in one-to-one matching between Asian and Caucasian faces for algorithms developed in Asia. While Grother reiterated that the NIST study does not explore the relationship between cause and effect, one possible connection, and area for research, is the relationship between an algorithm’s performance and the data used to train it. “These results are an encouraging sign that more diverse training data may produce more equitable outcomes, should it be possible for developers to use such data,” he said.

All the other sources I found on google were either think tanks, facebook posts, or spam sites.

ETA: even in the most pessimistic reading of those tweets, I'm personally hard pressed to find that one person tweeting means that all math teachers everywhere are trying to take math down to "2+2=racist"
Any reasonable version of it (what must look very different from the prototype) is an incredibly expensive investment, that must be diluted into what is currently an outrageous number of launches to pay for itself. Besides, there are some very problematic known unknowns involved on submitting things that want to explode to high g.

All of it looks patently possible, given enough money and engineer-time. It's the kind of project that may change the relation Humanity has with space, but has huge odds of bankrupting the entity doing it even if it succeeds in reshaping Humanity.

So yeah, it's either government built or it won't get built at all.
Why does it bother you? Part of the appeal of the streaming services is the long tail. That shows produced / funded by the service will remain indefinitely. That's become one of the expectations. When expectations are broken, people become unhappy.

In the case of Sesame Street, at least the missing episodes are available on Youtube. That mitigates things somewhat. But it's a shame the other shows were removed completely with no legal way to find them. I hope the resulting blowback is enough to keep streaming services from doing this again.
I'm more curious about Allulose[1] which is claimed to have anti-hyperglycemic effects by reducing glucose absorption in the intestines.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psicose

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32708827/
And CCR is from Berkeley. Not so much "born on the bayou" as the song goes.
There are plenty of leader election/replication libraries, shouldnt be problem if you pick one and give a shot if you are not confident about your self implementation or just benchmark and see how it goes.
Revenue from public television was used to fund new episodes. So the question is why it’s OK for public TV to have these kinds of arrangements not why Sesame Workshop can own it’s content.

Any way money can be extracted from a nonprofit to create private IP is dubious be that a University or public television.
Having a strong ego is not necessarily a wholly bad characteristic, as long as people are (1) capable of turning it off and (2) know when to turn it off.

One likely advantage throughout human history is that those with strong egos are more likely to survive extremely difficult challenges - they might keep going when others lay down to die. If this concept of ego is expanded to an entire society, then a shared sense of identity is also a kind of 'community ego' which leads to social cohesiveness, the willingness to help other members of the group with their problems, leading to overall group success. This is often called the utilitarian argument for religious faith (but not for multicultural mixed religion, which is said to cause schisms in the group).

In evolutionary terms, this might be called 'group selection'- although many religious people don't like to talk about evolution. For some reason, common heredity with 'the lower animals' upsets them deeply - a concept I've never been able to understand myself. This is't true of all religions of course, it seems more a hallmark of the Abrahamic traditions (Judeo-Christian-Islamic). I guess it's really about replacement of religious authority with scientific authority when it comes to origin stories, genesis, etc.?

Where the inability to turn off the ego causes problems is in social interactions. Every academic department, for example, tends to have at least a few narcissitic Napoleon types who view every interaction with others as a winner/loser competition, in which one party is dominant and the other submissive (rather like chimpanzees really). If they don't come out on top, they show 'wounded ego' syndrome, which requires future retaliation of some sort against the other party to restore their dominant position. Generally such people are described as 'a real piece of work' and everyone dreads interacting with them. Typically they try to control and abuse their staff and students as well (look up UC Berkeley professor abuse scandal for about half a dozen recent examples).

Incidentally, this academic phenomenon shows that 'Scientism' isn't any better than 'Religionism' at moderating the negative aspects of ego. It seems to be something some people learn how to do, and others don't. There don't seem to be any guaranteed routes to learning this either - some people say prayer and meditation, some people say psychedelic drugs, some people say extreme physical exercise. I often wonder if it's actually somewhat genetic in nature, a sort of narcissistic gene issue, perhaps an inability to feel empathy for others? Go figure.
Your concern of alien to us sounds similar to the concerns of alignment, which is a primary area of research:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_alignment
How the Banks Bought Bitcoin [video]
Algorithm randomly fired 60 Facebook moderators
Yep. Wanted to write the exact same thing.
It is a sort of Salarial Flynn Effect. §

People learn how to get promoted, and the hierarchy is rife with cronyism.

§_ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
I would guess you'd do something like try and cast any electrical components in something like a resin so it's just a solid brick that can handle the stresses. But 10k G is a lot.
I am surprised that SQLite can be plugged into FDB just like that.
I think the most important thing one can do for their own browsing security is not about choosing the most "secure" browser, especially on relatively safe networks such as in the U.S., where MITM is unlikely.

It's using an effective ad-blocker to avoid third-party javascript, and avoiding over-complicated websites with megabytes of opaque javascript inside.

This is my opinion as someone who dabbles in security things and has done many various Web things.
Apple kills many small businesses/apps unrelated to privacy but often wearing that shield as a defense. Why celebrate taking down another multinational when the reasons are self serving and creates bigger privacy issues?
transpiler :)
We could do the same to Google; it would require Apple working with the government, though, and adding more regulations is the last thing Apple wants. This is a shame, because we're never going to make lasting change by having private corporations do our battles for us. Furthermore, we have no way of holding Apple accountable if they're doing the same thing as Facebook. I don't care if you're the biggest company in the world, you still have to play by the rules.

> If you took the same ability away from Apple, they would be fine, because most of their business model is actually trying to provide something of value to the world

Sure, they make money hand-over-fist by exploiting Uighur labor for your shiny metal laptop. Bettering the world is just their nature!

Pragmatically, though, none of these companies will ever champion true privacy. What's the point of even arguing over this stuff when every one of these corporations is compliant in PRISM? Here on HN we love to white-knight for multi-trillion dollar companies and quibble over whitepapers, but everyone has lost. Privacy is unattainable. Security is feasible, but privacy? It doesn't matter if you're on iPhone or Windows or MacOS; you're not in control of your data. Period.