skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This lady was raised by parents who beat her, then she reflected and studied hard to find constructive ways of raising her own children without needing to lift a hand against them.

A commendable example of self reflection and improvement for the next generation. Her children won't ask her, "why didn't you hit me more often?", they will thank her.

If future generations are moral they will come to look back on this practice as barbaric.
The problem is that this type of reply reflects your own deeply unexamined prior (e.g. that software can't play a part of solving this issue, or that anyone who said X believes Y, etc.), and so sets up an antagonistic interaction with the other person where you are each arguing from atop your ladders of inference, rather than climbing down those ladders and deconstructing those priors in more detail.
Bit if a tangent but I absolutely love the Johnny Decimal system so much. It has become my defacto way of sorting things now. Didn’t know the person who invented was Aussie too, very cool! Good luck with your job search.
As if none of that existed in the past?
Coincidentally just yesterday there was a big news article in the largest daily newspaper about the problems teachers have with uncooperative parents. One memorable case was of the parents calling the teacher and informing them that the parents have agreed with their kid is exempt from reading books. In another, during a disagreement with a teacher, kid called their parent, put the parent on speaker, who then proceeded disparage the teacher in very low language in front of the rest of class.

The article is here https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000009001096.html : it is in Finnish, but Google Translate manages to make sense of it in English.

The social standing and respect teachers have varies a lot in different social spheres, but it is certainly not as high and universal as doctors.
Well sure, just tell everyone to do that with Facebook products too. That will definitely solve the issue, right?
TLRTF (too long, read too fast): they were the greatest thing at the time (especially for cinephiles). Superior contrast, better viewing angles. Disclosure: Former Pioneer plasma TV owner
Fwiw, the blog post that I wrote (referenced above) goes specifically into these.
On year 3 of a startup I cofounded in 2019. A lot of our success dealing with scaling and reliability for our users come directly from how well designed phoenix is. Channels and OTP power some of our killer features and I wouldn't envy someone trying to replicate what we have with javascript or go.

Some people say ecto is limited. I love that it lets sql be sql. It lets me think of the solution in sql and write that sql almost directly in elixir with better ergonomics (being able to make a subquery a separate variable that I join into is a HUGE improvement over raw sql). Those uses of fragment can easily just be turned into macros that integrate cleanly into ecto when I use them enough.

Thanks for one of the best developer experiences I ever worked with. when I have a side project, I'll be trying fly.io and I've already recommended it to other founders. We be using it if it was at its current state in 2020.
Low dose melatonin works within 30 minutes and its effect is very noticeable.
Sure, I wouldn't expect clojure.core to break ever. Maybe we'll get some future version based on Project Loom and that'll require some thought.

But I've had to work out weird command line incantations for various libraries that touch crypto or JavaFX namespaces. And things like Quil are still in a weird state on modern JVMs.
> This has been the bane of science for as long as science has been around: How do you take something that isn't particularly interesting to laypersons and help them understand how important this little micro-bit of progress might be... on not be... It's hard.

I mean, I've seen my own work go through the Science News Cycle ( https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174 ). I know what it's like. I'm just pointing out that British universities have a reputation for being absolutely terrible about this, to the degree that there's no point trusting a single thing their PR departments say anymore.
Here’s a description of the new map implementation and why it’s more efficient: https://www.pypy.org/posts/2015/01/faster-more-memory-effici...
Contrasting point: lots of non-functional PlayStation games at this point, which despite not being scratched, have suffered disc rot. Buying them is becoming difficult.
My family had the same mindset when we moved to SoCal in 2011. Unfortunately, you may want to throw dreams of "walkable" out the window. In SoCal you will absolutely need a car.

The best schools are usually in the suburbs, but the suburbs are always the least walkable areas.

Relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHlpmxLTxpw
Per discussion, header should be revised to "Awk kerning again a unicode mul-tics Tex thing"
Too expensive, chunky, and power hungry while LCDs kept getting cheaper and better.
I don't want to wait there and stare in typing icon while you are typing and retyping and figuring out what you want to send.

That is why hello is annoying. People are capable to talk immediately, but take forever to finish writing.
The rise of vertical farms: could indoor plant factories be the norm in 10 years
Yes, I have been working 4 days a week (80%) in Switzerland for ten years.

Here in Switzerland there are many job opportunities in different positions, from junior to very high positions, including engineering management.

Nowadays it is not uncommon for other colleagues to work 80% as well, especially if they have become parents.
> Your beef is with the science, not the communication. And you shouldn’t mix those two up.

No, my beef is that communicating this was irresponsible because it does not represent meaningful progress in an accurate understanding of the physics of water, and thus no impression should be given that it does.

Science grows through communication. The two are not separable.
I use materialistic also, but as far as I'm aware that hasn't been an update to the app in years. In addition I believe the materialistic app listing on Google Play is also been removed.

Do you have some updated version that I'm unaware of?
U.S. Companies on Pace to Bring Home Record Number of Overseas Jobs
Well, that kind of comment adds nothing to the discussion. It's certainly not as an unpopular position among the "experts" as you probably think it is [1]:

> "For the Greeks, the concept did not meaningfully exist at all; the social identities we today understand in the West as a gay man or a bisexual woman, for example, simply weren’t something that people recognized."

[1]: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/rules-attraction
It kind of isn’t. This has been studied regarding recidivism and drug use. Rehabilitation and "corrections" are anything but, and are often roadblocks for users trying to get clean, and typically make it more difficult to rejoin society. Due to the insanity of the current system, most people go in and get worse, not better. Harm reduction, on the other hand, cuts out that element, and helps both decriminalize and medicalize the problem. It provides easier routes for people who want to get clean and caps the drug addict to criminal pipeline.
30 years ago teachers were respected and parents trusted teachers with their kids.

If the kid was misbehaving in class or getting bad grades -> was properly managed by parents.

Right now parents are delusional about their kids. Blame teachers if something is wrong with the kid.

Cant understand that most likely they are the issue why the kid is behaving this way.

Dont want to take the blame.

At least those are my obesrvations - my mom was a teacher with 40 years of experience and national wide fame.
Ha, I’m in PST working with a lot of people in EEA. So yeah, if I’m taking a 7am meeting I’m clocking out “early”.
I'm the kind of personality that doesn't often take those statements as gospel anyway. I've found a lot of value in life by going against the (mainstream) grain and digging in on occasion, it's certainly happened enough times that I've become super skeptical of those that come off as reactionary skeptics.

But that probably means I've wasted a lot of time proving things people just told me. It's a trade I'm happy with :)
My kids have gone through about 9 schools. None of the librarians had masters degrees.

The librarians in my city manage computers in the library and manage short term loaners of tablets and laptops.

I work with librarians who have masters and phd and I don’t work in education. It’s an interesting job.

I think I have enough of an understanding that it’s fair that a librarian could manage the iPad distribution for a school. It’s busy two times of the year and other times they could do more productive tasks.

The current iPad wrangler is there all year and does nothing beyond hand out and collect iPads and coordinate the repairs (<5%/year).
English etymology doesn’t get you there and encourages exactly the kind of distinction without a difference that I’m pointing out.

One is Roman. One is Greek. They describe the same concept, but it’s a concept that has been implemented differently both in their time and in ours: self-government. The forms and institutions are distinguishable as “Roman-style” or “Athenian-style”, but the same is true in 2022 of “American-style” and “French-style” republics.
There's a saying that goes something like "Americans think 100 years is a long time, and Europeans think 100 miles is a long way."
Learning is social. Very close to 100%.

That is why the Nuremberg funnel was never really invented. Technology as a teacher substitute has never proven itself in practice (i.e. outside of laboratory environments). There are a few students that are exceptionally driven, but even they learn socially.

That we have tried to get better schools by economy of scale and standardized testing is reason for some of the problems and therefore cannot be solved with more of the same.

* Social learning is more enjoyable and motivating. We learn from people, with people and because of people.

* Interaction with others gives meaning to ideas. Ideas mean little without a social context. This has been proven again and again.

* Discussing ideas increases understanding and retention of those ideas.
Youtube is about lecturing, not about teaching.
You can disagree strongly without ridiculous hyperbole. GP doesn’t deserve to be banned for being a radical optimist, get a grip.
Negotiated it to 32h due to COVID pandemic; there wasn't enough work for 40h, so I floated the idea, boss was OK with it. Never going back to 40h though, 3 days off in a row is pretty spiffy :D
Plasma has much better black levels than all LCDs. Only OLEDs are superior. (Or, at least, equal.)

The downsides of plasma are weight, heat, and screen burn. (Though OLEDs get screen burn too.)
I do not trust reviews anymore, they get gamed to a large degree.
>Autocracies don’t have the feedback mechanism, and dig themselves in by believing that the advantage of autocracy is bold and decisive decision-making.

Sound familiar?
I’m not blaming a vendor. I’m calling out how I think it is immoral. And I don’t donate to such vendors.

I understand why they do it as I like money too.
What I am saying that it is at most a Pyrrhic victory that Google only managed to statistical capture the 30% poorest demographic and still has to pay its competitor to keep from being locked out of being able to reach the highest income demographic.

On top of that, Google doesn’t even compete in the worlds largest cellphone market - China. Sure most phones run “Android”. But without any Google services.
In Python, if you save your file with tabs as spaces, the code 1) still works, and 2) does the same thing it did before. Furthermore, it prohibits mixing tabs and spaces up in the same file, on the basis that it's impossible to reliably determine indentation levels then. So this isn't really a major issue with Python, unlike Make.
And 5 minutes later oled came out, viewing angles improved, brightness of 100nits wasn’t cutting it, and they were not worth it. They had a moment.
Edit: my point is that there is no mystery in the article. What happened with them? Nothing. The technology was only good in that context, like many others, but it wasn’t any holy grail once LCDs improved a bit.
An equal monetary investment for disabled children would mean they don’t have a teacher. You might be able to teach 50 non-disabled children with 2 teachers that costs $100K each to employ.

An equal $4000/student/year is not enough to hire anyone for a special needs student, who 1) won’t be able to benefit from the economy of scale in a normal classroom and 2) has needs that require a larger portion of a person’s time to attend to.

You need many multiple times the investment to accommodate kids with special needs because they have special needs.
Let's go to the source:

https://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html

> Q: Should I use UTF-32 (or UCS-4) for storing Unicode strings in memory?
>
> This depends. It may seem compelling to use UTF-32 as your internal string format because it uses one code unit per code point. (...)

It also confirms what I said about implementation vs interface (or storage vs access, whatever):

> Q: How about using UTF-32 interfaces in my APIs?
>
> Except in some environments that store text as UTF-32 in memory, most Unicode APIs are using UTF-16. (...) While a UTF-32 representation does make the programming model somewhat simpler, the increased average storage size has real drawbacks, making a complete transition to UTF-32 less compelling

Finally:

> Q: What is UTF-32?
>
> Any Unicode character can be represented as a single 32-bit unit in UTF-32. This single 4 code unit corresponds to the Unicode scalar value, which is the abstract number associated with a Unicode character.

So, it does in fact reduce the complexity of implementing it _for storage_, as I suspected. And there is a tradeoff, as I mentioned. And the Unicode documentation explicitly separates the interface from the storage side of things.

That's good enough for me. I mentioned before there might be some edge cases like ligatures, and you came up with a zero-width joiner example. None of this changes these fundamental properties of UTF-32 though.
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My wife teaches elementary school ESL and Spanish as needed.

The school day is 8 hours of solid work, plus 2 hours of grading and two hours of planning. The minimum number of hours for most teachers is 60 hours, plus extra time for maybe coaching, or being and advisor for an extra-curricular (which are a dying bread of program in many schools). This is for doing the same thing you do year after year. Changes in academic guidelines, school policies, textbooks, academic fashion, technology and student aptitude variance from year to year force you to re-invent everything, every year.

It's a horrible job not because teaching is horrible, but because we've turned our schools into the intersection of social engineering and politics. For every child there's at least one highly protective parent, with some political hot button. It's just a nightmare. For example, my wife teaches ESL and Spanish and had to go to meetings with a parent that thought her class was part of a "critical race theory" conspiracy. Another parent wanted my wife to teach Spanish without gender in the language. Still another was upset about having first graders sing, because the kinds might be "too judgey."
I get the impulse, but I just think that if the goal is to correct someone--not just to be correct--starting with snark is most likely to be counterproductive. Even if the first comment is actually in bad faith, I consider my audience to be any reader, not just the one I'm replying to, and snark undermines credibility there, too.
Sport gps watch, measures vo2, bpm, etc
They already have. Apple complies with hundreds of thousands of federal data requests every year, they send messages back to HQ every time you launch an app, they help China hunt down religious minorities, they give the FBI access to iCloud data without a warrant, they collect a list of unique identifiers for every photo on your phone, and at the end of the day you're still vulnerable to exploits like Pegasus and RCE through iMessage image decoders.

If you think Apple hasn't violated that promise, you must have an extremely selective definition of privacy.
> Inflation is sky high everywhere, that will eat up a lot of convenience in daily life. There is a small chance that this will reduce wealth inequality but it may be only temporary.

High rates of inflation increases wealth inequality over time.

Those working paycheck to paycheck (or anything close to that; ie income dependent) can't outrun it, attempt to hedge against it, or typically even keep up with it. They rapidly fall behind. Their standard of living gets demolished quickly, as they're very sensitive to price increases on staple goods, energy costs (whether heating or gasoline et al.), or rent.

The capital / asset classes can keep up with or outrun inflation however. And the impact on them in terms of standard of living is entirely trivial. Elon Musk at $200 billion isn't much richer than Bill Gates was during his peak circa 1999-2000. Inflation adjusted they're quite close. The rich have kept up with inflation because they own assets that are capable of doing so (primarily equities, although other rich-person asset classes have done moderately well also, such as art and extremely valuable real-estate), the rest of the people largely have not kept up (and never will in the case of high inflation).

On top of this, the Fed's perma low rate program, required by the US Government's debt situation, bolsters the wealth inequality significantly by artificially inflating assets such as equities and housing.

Workers primarily do well in environments of low inflation with a supply / demand imbalance for labor (in favor of labor). That environment existed, most recently, in a stable manner, in parts of the 1990s and from roughly 2014-Covid.
This article reminds me of "The Church of Interruption", the best short article I ever read about communication styles: https://sambleckley.com/writing/church-of-interruption.html
So... are they hiring? :)
I had a Panasonic plasma TV at the time and it was great. Way better picture than any competing LCD at the time.

But you had to be careful, it didn't like static pictures, they could burn in, similarly to OLEDs later. If you watched movies, it was not a problem. If you let some station run 24/7, with static logo somewhere, that could be a problem.
> i) I am available to talk and ii) the message is safe

If I’m at work, I’m always going to be available to talk, and anyway, nothing is lost by them sending me what they want to say and me responding when I become available.

I’m of the opinion that you shouldn’t ever send messages that are unsafe for 200 of your colleagues to see.
And actual yellows.
Especially obvious when the scene includes fire
I remember there was an Italian father getting arrested for beating his child in public while on vacation in Sweden a few years ago. Corporal punishment doesn't seem illegal in Italy, or in quite a few other western countries as well for that matter. [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporal_punishment_in_the_hom...
Try: "Oh, hello. Do you have time for a short chat right now about a database schema change?”

I almost always have time to fight fires — unless busy with a larger conflagration. I may or may not have the time to debate the finer points of table naming conventions however.

Without context I might say yes and then have to take it back once I discover the topic.
Ok, so what gives you reason to think subsidisation (or even just recognition) of non-traditional marriages is going to damage your culture at all?

I actually thought marriage itself was likely to die as an institution until I saw just how much support there was for gay marriage in my own country (it has something close to 70% support now. Maybe not "vast majority" but pretty close). FWIW the lowest divorce rates in the last 50 years were all recorded after same sex marriage was legalised.
Where I live, something like half of all addicts on the street are struggling with mental health issues and self-medicating to cope. If we can address that directly, it would greatly help.
How many layers of SQL are you on?
Even if we don't waste money pretending we can "stop" drug use with cops and jails, we still have to pay for the costs associated with overdoses and the spread of disease and a black market. It's cheaper to give someone a clean needle and a test strip than to have them in an ICU bed.
I remember the guy behind VoltSim posting his project on reddit some months ago, claiming he wrote the circuit simulation under the hood from scratch by himself.

When he was called out that all his components used the same values and variable names as falstad [1], implying he just ported falstad's circuit sim to android, he deleted his post.

Looks like he still has his app on the app store and is still not honoring the open source license and not giving proper credit to falstad's circuit simulation.

And now he even put many components behind paid "extension packs" and wants to make money from falstad's work.

[1] https://github.com/sharpie7/circuitjs1
Yeah I bought a Panasonic plasma TV in 2006 when I got married and at the time LCD was in its infancy, very jerky and barely watchable. The only advantage of LCD at the time was that plasma was not available in sizes below 38" and was slightly more expensive. Furniture has changed too since then; with HD it's unlikely that you'll be anything below 45" these days.

I still have it in fact, I don't like how power hungry it is but it doesn't really matter for the very little time that I watch TV (which is mostly during the day in the weekend, when my electricity is self produced solar anyway). That said it's probably time to get a new OLED TV and I am just waiting for the day that I will need new furniture.
Well... let's say that as a child, my family struggled with hunger. There often wasn't enough money for food. I grow up, I get a good job, now I don't have a problem with hunger. So I eat a lot. But obesity, arterioschlerosis, heart disease, and diabetes don't mean much to me. They don't have the emotional punch that hunger does, because I lived hunger, whereas obesity is more of an abstraction, at least until my first heart attack.

I think there's a heavy emotional component. Escaping from the problem that I've carried the emotional weight of, for years, is a big deal. It feels worth it, even if I trade it for another problem that is objectively just as bad.

But in context, "just as bad" doesn't apply. Collapse is objectively worse than sitting in an office at a meaningless job, or poverty from student loans, or inadequate health insurance. People cheering for it are short-sighted, no matter how bad and how emotionally scarring their current experience is.
German here, where part-time arrangements in tech are somewhat normal. I negotiated my 32 hour work week right at the beginning, and there was no discussion about it, and none was expected.

I kind of get only an 80% salary, which seems a bit unfair as studies prove that part-time workers are more efficient [1], but the way better work-life balance is definitely worth it.

[1] Researching the validity of this claim is left as an exercise for the reader.

[EDIT] I have Wednesdays off, which is fantastic and somewhat based on science: https://www.rdasia.com/healthsmart/conditions/mental-health/...