skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are assuming special ed kids are academically slower and I have to push back on that. Special Ed encompasses students of all types. Some are mentally handicap, some have physical disabilities. One of my friends was wheelchair bound and had to leave class 5 minutes before the bell in order not to get stuck in the hallway. Others have respiratory issues that require classrooms with special equipment, special buses, etc. And then you have the deaf and blind students, hardly slower than anyone else, but they still require additional help that has nothing to do with being disruptive. Most of them weren't disruptive, just students trying to get a solid education like everyone else, and as guaranteed by the Supreme Court.
Like I said, this has been heavily litigated. So much so that I think you'd have difficulty coming up with an argument that hadn't been made already about it. Not making other people's comment scores available is, as I said, a part of the premise of the community. There are other communities that work differently. There isn't a single optimal set of policies.
Install AOSP keyboard, Signal.

Use GrapheneOS, or throw money/time/love to Pine64.

There's no way we can fight the people who have the money to buy laws, so help their opponents.
That's because most threats to democracy would shift it to being an autocratic, dictatorial republic, rather than say a monarchy
Why wouldn't you upload the file to all the servers, and then deploy them all in succession, rather than upload and deploy in sequence?
> They probably see some benefit from a little friction to prevent spam or perhaps it’s just pure stupid bureaucracy.

More likely the latter, because the crApp Store spammers/scammers seem to have plenty of persistence and somehow manage to make it through review.
> The Schuman declaration refers to the European Coal and Steel Community, which was about making war between countries materially impossible ie. through economic, not political, integration.

Right, I’ll quote it here for you:

“The contribution which an organized and living Europe can bring to civilization is indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. In taking upon herself for more than 20 years the role of champion of a united Europe, France has always had as her essential aim the service of peace. A united Europe was not achieved and we had war.

Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity. The coming together of the nations of Europe requires the elimination of the age-old opposition of France and Germany. Any action taken must in the first place concern these two countries.

With this aim in view, the French Government proposes that action be taken immediately on one limited but decisive point.”

The CECA was from the begining the first step towards “a United Europe”, however close that unification might be. They just realised that they needed gradual steps. You can disagree with the steps, their size, and their frequency, but the end goal was explicit from the beginning.

> The red line for the UK government is freedom of movement.

And the common agriculture policy. And the fisheries policy. And the customs union. And the human rights. And Ireland. The British government had a lot of incompatible red lines from the beginning. This was obvious to anyone who has been paying attention.

> If the EU remained someething akin to ASEAN, ie. prior to Maastricht, the UK would rejoin, and everyone would enjoy sensible trading amongst similarly economically developed countries again.

That was a position (participation in the EEA but not the EU) the UK did not want to take. Besides, it was not even realistic in the first time. We are not in the 1980s anymore and Europe has changed quite a bit since then.

> The EU's dream of German and Greek citizens voting together as "EU citizens" in powerful European Parliament on fiscal issues such as a shared pension age and sharing taxes

That is not going to happen, at least in the foreseeable future, for several reasons. The first one being that the member states consider that their national sovereignty and they are the one pulling strings in the council. The Parliament cannot do that on its own, it’s just a convenient straw man.

> will never happen, so we have to wait until that folly is over and peoples using the Euro will continue to find out that they have ceded their democracies to undemocratic institutions.

More undemocratic than the Parliament in Westminster? You must be joking. And how accountable is the Bank of England? But yeah, rule Britannia.

Also, you forget that the British government pushed all the way along this drift towards a more neo-liberal, insulated from the whims of its populations, Europe.
Optical media doesn't last well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot
The cool thing about tabs is that you can do that 1-space indent without spreading your madness (but yeah, I think I got a preference for 3 spaces -- actually tabs with tabwidth set to 3 -- while using a little, now old, netbook).

One nice advantage of 3 space tabs is that if somebody mixes tabs and spaces in Python, leading to mysterious IDE-dependent bugs, it immediately sticks out (my example is from helping student in an intro to python class, hopefully this doesn't occur much in the real world).
Yeah but did you then cut off your customers' phone lines, redirect all their mail, steal all of their previous photo albums...
Fascinating.

Do you think (remember) that the incentives for bands were different? I know people listened to more full albums because it'd be tedious otherwise, but was consuming music more of a dedicated activity than it is today?

If so, with record sales being viable income streams, it'd make sense why it'd optimize for more varied, blended, complex, and interesting listens (indexing on FM play for comparison; we're awash with incredible music elsewhere).

I enjoy some music for accompaniment or sing alongs, and then some as a captivating experience (like a movie or even more so a roller coaster).

The blues, jazz, and fusion scenes were vibrant as well and had the same _music as activity_ feature distinct from a dance floor. The audience is expected to actively respond mid song to leads and fills that were moving.

(I know I riffed on my own question but it's not intended to be rhetorical)
Same experience here going to school in the 90s, but I have the exact opposite take. I was taught to question authority and think this was one of the few really important lessons I received from school. I think that's why I was instinctively able to see through all the flag waving conformism after 9-11 and the current MAGA death cult. The lack of critical thinking I see from so many of my peers didn't arise from being taught to question authority, it's because many of these people are just dumb as hell and didn't learn jack shit at all.
And "Green River" was about Putah Creek which drains from Berryessa.
I've been doing this for many years. The latest incarnation is an Intel NUC, which you can also use for other random home server stuff, and for vintage console emulation.

What we need is a good, simple dumbtv interface for a computer with network access and a DVB card/stick. One that can also bring up a full-screen browser window to deal with streaming service DRM. Have been considering getting something together with rust+gstreamer starting by cloning my old Philips dumbtv interface while using mplayer/mpv hotkey standards for everything else.

The all-encompassing, endlessly complicated yet somehow still inflexible Kodi is a bad solution for people like me. Let's start by making a dumbtv out of a cheap linux box + a monitor.
Someone should make a game like Papers Please, in which you are an app store reviewer.
Skyrim is the raspberry pi of video games. So many hours getting something “just right” to the follow up by never using it for that purpose. Always good to have around though just in case.
Exposure.

Also, IIRC/AFAIK, only macOS App Store-distributed apps have the ability to use parts of iCloud, especially w.r.t. data synchronization.
> The woman golfing uses 4 bytes in UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32.

No. It's made up of 5 code points. Each of these takes 32 bits, or 4 bytes, in UTF32. So that emoji, which is a single grapheme, uses 20 bytes in UTF32. Once again, just try it yourself, encode a string containing that single emoji in UTF32 using your favorite programming language and count the bytes!
Until Dieselgate at least.
This post is about "database cursors" and "keyset pagination". In practice, these terms refer to the same thing, one seen bottom-up the other seen top-down. Implementation-wise, one saves the state of the cursor in the pagination [parameters] and resumes reading from the DB with an equivalent cursor.
I think your response reveals how accustomed you have become to the luxury of having plentiful resources. You ask how it is good for anyone to not spend substantially more on students with special needs, but in many of the poorer countries of the world this attitude would be baffling. In many cases these students will never be able to contribute enough to society to recover what was invested in them. Hard choices have to be made that cause sadness, but unfortunately that's the way it is. If your country becomes less anomalously wealthy in the future, you may also have to make such decisions.
Yeah with all due respect but hacks like these are a bit amateurish. I heard of a dude i think at intuit building their queues in a relational db because they work “just fine”. Prompted a giggle or two. Use the right tool for the task at hand, dont do clever hacks as they bite back later on.
Security software written in C, with no unit tests. You cannot run away from this software fast enough. I cannot think of any worse idea than "I wrote my own base64 codec in bare C without tests and without code review". "Minimal dependencies" does not even begin to make up for how bad this idea is. It would be strongly preferable to depend on third-party code that has been reviewed, tested, and implemented in a reasonable language.
Are you saying "whatever it costs, it doesn't matter"? Because I can't agree with that. Nor is it good public policy to just be "not assholes."

The absolute dollar amount does matter, and it has nothing to do with being assholes or not. There are different ways to meet children's needs and spending an infinite amount of money is just not sustainable.
I found this interesting, looking at the Firebase API. I guess one could get the min/max item ids for the child posts, and query the range of ids (startAt(), endAt()).

Van Puffelen answers some of this here, but he doesn't get into specific queries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66lDSYtyils

He also mentions here that Firestore offers a bit more for WHERE type clauses over Firebase:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26700924/query-based-on-...
Vitamins and minerals have cured my hopeless eczema. No doctor could do that for nearly a decade
slip of the tongue/keyboard. It was obviously supposed to read "There's no such thing as cloud storage, just somebody else's computer." It's a fairly well known phrase[0][1]. It's even a laptop sticker[2].

And no, they're not going to spin up a VM. They should buy their own NAS and back everything up to that if they care enough about privacy to avoid cloud storage.

[0] https://pocketnow.com/no-such-thing-as-the-cloud
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/argram/the_clo...
[2] https://www.redbubble.com/shop/there+is+no+cloud+stickers
> Another messaging channel is fine of course. You could replace email address by a phone number for SMS/WhatsApp/Signal. Is that more secure though? Would a user rather give your random app their phone number than email address?

Yes! Even insecure SMS is more secure than email. You know why? Because everybody and their mother is logging and inspecting email, I see people's reset codes and links all the time to everything from banks to porn sites! Many messaging systems including sms have no "account" to get phished either so while other attack vectors like malware infection remain (as with email), credential phishing as an attack vector is eliminated when using these messaging apps. Yes, many people in non-US countries use whatsapp,wechat,facebook or viber but don't even have an email until some retarded app forces them to get one just for the retarded registration system (in some, "internet access" even costs more with just FB,viber,whatsapp being the cheap default). Many gen-Z'ers also use messaging apps over email, it's like asking them to use aol or icq! And it is very convenient to block unwanted senders on those apps if you decide to sell their contact info or spam them with email (where with email it varies greatly with email client and provider). If you go by the numbers the majority of internet users are coerced into using email because people who design apps stuck in the 2000s.

> Secret questions are usually very much not secret (less safe than password). They are way easier to uncover about a person, and still very much subject to re-use across sites.

Depends a lot on how you implement them, again if you read my comment before replying I suggest pictures,emoji and patterns, you can ask them just about anything so long as it isn't information about them others can also learn easily. It is no different than passwords themselves being reused across sites, except here you control what easy to remember questions and answers to ask like "what are your too three emoji from this list" or "create a passphrase from a combination of these common words below", again, not a difficult problem unless in 2022 your assumption is there are many internet users incapable of remembering anything more than their mothers maiden name (who even knows that shit?) or whatever in which case there are plenty of other ways to provide challenges.

> I am telling you that I haven't found anything as good and you reply that I must not have taken a single minute to think about it. I guess there's nothing more for us to discuss.

You literally ignored the possibilities I listed, if you are disagreeing with my comment in ignorance of what I said then yes, let's not waste our time here.
In my experience it's the other way around. Most people I know just buy the game on steam because it's a much better experience overall, you get updates, you don't have to worry about malware, etc.

With movies/shows however it's the other way around. You get a better experience if you pirate. You get all the languages and subtitles. No ads. No annoying autoplay of other unrelated content. You get the actual video file so you can watch it without internet connection, on other devices, you get to keep it forever, etc. No invasive DRM. Much faster playback because it doesn't need to buffer.
You're missing the obvious business model: ad-supported compiler.

You're going to be staring at the compiler output anyway, potentially for minutes at a time waiting for the build/tests to fail. Throw some ads in the progress bar.
Well, isnt the West also backing the Ukranian Far Rights, too?

There was a absurd article in the major German newspaper WELT today speaking about Ukranian soldiers with swastika tattoos and yet "having a lot of respect for Jews".

When this war is over, we MUST seriously take care of Nazis in Ukraine and even now do EVERYTHING to stop any weapons delivery to the Ukranian Far Right.

No, you will NOT downvote me! I am not speaking about people serving in the army without Nazi ideology, I am speaking about those Far Right radicals.
Professional sports. If you work in professional sports there is a baked in 1 to 2 month vacation for all players, coaching staff, and assorted player personnel.

Teaching is work. I have the feeling you haven't been in a 5th grade classroom in a long time. Or any grade. People get into teaching because they want to help others. Especially if they get into special education.
I assume the purge tank will be either reprocessed through the refinery again, or it'll be used for uses where the exact composition doesn't matter - for example many industrial processes can use almost any hydrocarbons for heating stuff, and therefore they use whatevers cheapest, which is probably the purge tank contents.
I don't think so, but I am running the Pro version so I can't speak with authority. Windows does do some weird stuff particularly after larger updates, but I haven't run into anything quite as egregious as that.
This is the argument I hate the most from Americans w.r.t. nationalised healthcare. It's unbelievable
> Getting rejected by Apple should be illegal until they provide a way to use an alternative app store.

This is misinformation - you can still side-load apps on macOS.
You're right. Looks like the header is missing. And the "thumbs up" icon is way too big. I'll look into it tomorrow. Thanks for sharing this bug, really appreciated!
> The moment he stepped back on U.S. soil, he delivered a lecture titled “The Fallacy of Phrenology,” where he attacked the notion that head shape and size dictates the relative intelligence of different racial groups.

But what if phrenology was based on machine learning?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.04135v1

> Also, we find some discriminating structural features for predicting criminality, such as lip curvature, eye inner corner distance, and the so-called nose-mouth angle.

/s
I have the exact same experience: watching family members work in teaching, seeing them do overtime, getting a software job and beating their salary after 2 years in the job.

It's disgraceful.
When dealing with Time Series databases, I always got confused with Sample vs Metrics vs Cardinality.

Here's a thread to offer an explanation as I have understood it.
Same content without Twitter: https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#soli...
Can you allow login and write operation via the API?

I want to build a HN web client but it's not possible without scrapping the site which won't scale.
I find it funny (no, not funny, tragic) how alledgedly the most efficient companies around can go down to Aristotzkian levels of bureaucratic gaslighting.
You would be amazed how popular reality TV is.
> No downside!

Of course there is. Facebook and Oracle would immediately have some mandatory spyware you’d need to install. Curtailing developers’ freedom is a favourable choice for many consumers. Apple reflects that market pressure. (Android, its inverse.)
Solving the unaffordability of housing crisis is the step needed to unblock fertility.
The solution exist, yet it cannot be pushed forward in a democratic system as it creates a generational conflict.

Hint: LVT
they can't tell you which rule you broke, because that would give away the secrets </snark>
Fuck DAOs.
> We fled from the sinking ship of cable to the HMS Streaming, like our parents fled the sinking ship of $20 CDs to the iTunes buffet.

I am apparently your parent now.
> tools for thoughts

Given his dedication to the concept through decades, arguably iPad — together with apps for it like LiquidText[1] — embodies Job’s “bicycle for the mind”.

1. https://www.liquidtext.net/

Speaking of, not just for iPad, and with emphasis on “tool”, Obsidian[2] is emerging as a remarkable tool for thoughts.

2. https://obsidian.md/

One key to popularity seems to be the plugin ecosystem which ratchets up a swiss army knife aspect of tool, suggesting its macro power may be any number of “scratches exactly that itch” micro tools for thought.

While other tools are more extensible or easier to use, this one pulled the plugin ecosystem into first class citizen status very early, with browser and manager built in. This let the “public” not just ride, but contribute early and often, cementing investment.
> What would be a good argument against the point that we wouldn't bother teaching fractions if calculators had always existed?

Well perhaps the fact that we wouldn't know how to divide 1 unit into 3 equal parts?

And if you're going to respond that an approximation is always good enough "in engineering", how would you estimate the amount of error you're introducing if you don't know what fractions are?

> Math education is worse than religion

Another more recent religion is that of people who defend that you should only learn the narrow set of things that have immediate application in the work place (these people also forget that there's many different work places with different demands. These people normally have dumb jobs). If you learn only things that have evidence application, nothing new will ever be invented. Math education has a lot of problems, but learning fractions isn't one of them.

Learning LESS is never the answer. I'm being very honest with you when I say that someone arguing we shouldn't learn fractions might be the absolute dumbest thing I've ever read on HN.
That was funny! Thanks.
In my experience, you can create literally anything and there will be someone out there who will pay for it. Ideas don't matter in that respect.

The hard part is implementing methods and processes that will capture the early adopters and learn from them so that you product can grow into something that is appealing to a wider audience.

Tech implementation is easy. Business implementation is hard.
That's great to hear! I'm sure I could find it, but are the libreoffice coding standards written down (and could you send them my way)?

On the topic of coding standards, there's an excellent github repo https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines which even quotes Bjarne Stroustrup as saying "Within C++ is a smaller, simpler, safer language struggling to get out." There are hundreds of recommendations, like 'ES.31: Don't use macros for constants or "functions"'.
Apparently this comes in a package with a constitutional amendment that enshrines marriage as exclusively opposite-sex, which will make legalising same-sex marriage harder down the road.

https://twitter.com/kixes/status/1561334527808929793
You don't, but instead you can jump to an arbitrary place in the results. For example, you could show results starting from the letter P, or show results starting from 2022-04-02.
I personally prefer Windows style menu bars where the menu is at the top of each window, instead of at the top of the screen. I don't want to constantly be dragging my mouse all the way to the top and then back to my window.
Special Ed isn’t just mentally handicapped kids. It is also deaf kids and dyslexic kids and adhd kids and more.
And my favorite album, Abbey Road, was composed right before the crash. The concluding medley may only exist because they were spinning out.

RIP George Martin, you gave us much.
Im typing this from the iOS app HACK which somehow allows for writing comments and upvoting etc.
JPEG artifacts are ugly. With webp they sometimes improve the picture.

With blurry backgrounds for example JPEG invents new colors. webp just blurs.
Not a fan of Google, but

> How else do you explain how they are willing to pay a competitor $14 billion+ a year?

Obvious that they have more than >14B+ value extracted out of their competitor's ecosystem per year? I am not sure if you are aware of this or not but when Apple screwed FB with all the anti-tracking changes, there was one notable exception - the browser. Guess who benefited the most? All the ad dollars, which used to be spent on FB and other user-targeting based ad products, are now being diverted to search ads. Just read Google's earnings report - YT revenue declined while Search Ads revenue shot up.

> Who do you think business would rather target iPhone users or Android users?

Think 2-3 steps ahead. How do businesses target users? Via ads in a significant way. If they cannot target iPhone users anymore based on user data, what do you think they will use instead? The next best thing they know - Search Ads. Btw this is why you will Apple and Amazon's ad revenue surging as well.
Wait a sec — paracetamol requires a prescription in Germany? Even here in the U.S. it's over the counter everywhere.
Are you sure you aren't experiencing RCS? the upgrade from SMS that vendors have been rolling out

Try searching "SMS RCS Samsung"