skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since we’re doing this… ;)

I’m actually coming around on really narrow conventions since tiny laptops started getting really good.

I used to think 80-wide columns and 1-2 space indent was silly retro stuff in an era of modern displays.

But on an M2 Air you can just barely get 80 + 80 side by side if you full screen SFMono at like 12-14pt.

I’ll never sell my colleagues on it, but I’ve been playing around with setting the formatters to 1-space indent. It’s not as heinous as it sounds.

Bring it on! :P
So why not Linux? It is more Unix than macos, and is for power users unlike macos which tries to hide all the advanced options.
if it's not in ram, you have to do an extra IO to look it up. i don't think you understand how precious metadata space is in a large scale storage system. if you pollute the metadata cache with useless junk like this, you can't cache as many things, your hit rate goes down, and you have to do more IO operations to service each request on average. name one popular distributed file system or object store that compresses everything by default like you are claiming. you won't be able to, because none of them do it, because it's better to leave it to the application.
>Counterpoint: teachers' pay is great, it's just backloaded in pension plans.

Pensions are cheap. I have a much better pension plan than the teachers in my state and the long term cost is about 16% of payroll - 8% from my employer and 8% from me. Hardly unreasonable cost, and yet I'll be able to comfortably retire around 55 and never worry about money again. That's not insignificant but it's not what is causing public schools to be underfunded.
> But basically the only reason we can afford to live in the Silicon Valley is because I'm an engineer with a decent salary

The existence of California -- and San Francisco, in particular -- makes discussions like this one difficult, because yes, sure, San Francisco is too weird to exist and is therefore basically irrelevant in national policy discussions.

I live in Rhode Island. East Coast. An hour from Boston. Expensive real estate, high-COL (top 10 or 15, depending on which numbers you trust), etc, etc -- and yet, we are just absolutely nothing at all like California, which is its own very weird outlier that has nothing to do with the experiences of the almost 300 million Americans who aren't Californians.
The emphasis on "classroom control" personally doesn't surprise me. If two or three students start refusing a teacher's orders, that teacher is done for the year, and maybe forever at that school. In my middle school, discipline was all but lost in most of my classes. Play cards in class, tell the teacher to shut up. What's she going to do? We stole her phone and keys in first period, locked the doors to the room, and we disconnected the intercom weeks ago.

You can send an administrator or a police officer to sit in the class, but are they going to sit there all day, every day, until the end of the year? Are they going to do that in all twenty classes that need the treatment? The second they get called away because someone set another fire in the woods, it's game on in the classroom.

At least we almost never actually assaulted staff. Someone I grew up with became a teacher and quit after just a few years. She had a student actually beat her up.

I regret a lot about my behavior in school, and reflecting on that has led me wonder why so many students hate being in school so much, and how—if?—we could educate children without making them resent the activity.
I like how he literally has no need to do this, and in spite of the concerns you mentioned is doing it anyway.

I lived in Singapore for 3 months, and as a gay man never felt unwelcome or unsafe. I benefit from other privileges that probably affected my experience, but Singapore is a pretty harmonious place.

Times are changing.
I went to check on this a bit further. Here's a list of editorials, in reverse-chronological order:

https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?type=editorial

Many of the editorials seem approximately apolitical, e.g. "Get childhood immunizations back on track after COVID" or "Protecting the ocean requires better progress metrics". People of most any political stripe could have written them. If the editorials were all like this, Nature would look impressively unbiased.

Then there are a bunch of editorials that are obviously political, but in a science-adjacent sort of way. "Equity must be baked into randomized controlled trials" has a very pious vibe to it, though thankfully it also has some obvious points about RCT design thrown in. "Europe must not backslide on climate action despite war in Ukraine" contains some legitimate information, but its message would not play well for most of the ideological spectrum. At one point there's an article titled "Science must overcome its racist legacy" and subtitled "We are leading Nature on a journey to help decolonize research and forge a path towards restorative justice and reconciliation."

Finally, there's a category of editorial that's just taking a stand on [insert current hot-button topic here] and sprinkling in enough science mentions to lend it an air of authority. The endorsement of Joe Biden falls squarely in this category (I read the whole thing to make sure), as does the condemnation of the overturn of Roe v. Wade.

So, yes: Nature's editorial section is a completely one-sided ideological monoculture. You can tell that it's mostly one-sided just by scanning the article titles, but the true magnitude becomes apparent when you read the articles themselves: there's no serious attempt made to persuade, nor to rebut the usual counterarguments. It's unmistakably preaching to the choir, and I can't help but think that this reflects a lack of people at Nature willing or able to play devil's advocate.

Not sure how much this affects the non-editorial part of Nature, but man, it makes me suspicious. Which is very bad for Nature's credibility. If I were in charge, I think I would either get rid of the editorials entirely or move them to a semi-adversarial back-and-forth format like the monthly discussions at Cato Unbound (which has a strong ideological bent but has a format that prevents it from being one-sided.)
Great read. The pandemic forced my close friends to go from in person drinks to zooms but then quickly transitioned to async voice messages. The by product of this is everyone gets a chance to be a giver and taker without having take the spotlight immediately. Sometimes our conversations last weeks as someone comes in and reignites debate after bringing a new point. It’s all async. Curious is anyone else has found similar success with voice messaging as a medium.
Right now, I'd say Robin Hanson (@robinhanson https://www.overcomingbias.com/).

Mostly resonates with me because he seems to freely challenge established norms in very thought provoking ways.
> This is the almost the very definition of subjective.

The implication is that the manager is the subject if the object is their interaction with the employee. Thus the answer would be fully internal to the manager if it were subjective.

Of course which answer is correct depends on which problem you are solving. By that metric every problem is subjective.
Somehow, in the US government it's only "benefits" that are considered. "Cost" never is.

As I said elsewhere, I defy anyone to claim that Finland doesn't care about kids' special needs. They have the best education in the world. What percent do they spend on it?
Because if the possibility turned out to be true, it would be extremely damaging at a social and political level. Not just on institutions, but on the psyche of people in general. I think everyone understands this at least on a subconscious level. There must not be any truth to it, because if there was, it would do too much damage.

So why would I want people to discuss something that could potentially have that kind of impact? Because I want people to face all of the possible consequences for their choices, not just pick and choose which ones they will consider and acknowledge.
https://www.toptiergas.com/licensed-brands/ says:

"All retail locations within the licensed country must meet the high standards of the TOP TIER™ program."
> Streaming services have already stopped publishing entire seasons, going back to the TV model of an episode a week.

I don’t see Sesame Street’s audience as prone to binge watching. It may be a way to avoid paying for the material.

I hope that, in that case, the rights revert to the original owners (be them PBS or Henson) so they can make the material available elsewhere. HBO may keep the deal for the most current episodes as they have now.

BYW, since the current government seems sane, shouldn’t they properly fund PBS as something of strategic interest?
“It makes it near impossible to tune/optimize.”

I recommend using elastic search or a nosql database to optimise performance. Relational databases can be slow for this use case.
Last week Bolin launched so you probably haven't heard of it. I wrote an article on how it compiles. If you reply to this comment I'll try to answer your question. The front page and highlights should give a good summary of what the language does. I also put up an FAQ based on questions I received last week
I do think that the special ed model is completely broken. I think public schools overspend on special ed, and a lot of that funding is about getting special ed kids into the same classrooms as other kids and reducing the disruptions that they cause.

Instead, all students would be better served (and served more efficiently) if schools would admit that people learn at different rates, and segregated the children based on that. The disruptive special ed kids, who are often years behind, should have very small classes with other kids of the same level and lots of attention from teachers. Conversely, the kids who are good at math or reading should be put in accelerated classes.

Unfortunately, this kind of separation makes parents unhappy: they want their kids to all be in the "super special" classes despite the fact that on average, their kids are average. Parents are the ones who vote for school board, so school boards are unlikely to do anything that makes parents unhappy.
When I was younger and more pretentious I used to get annoyed at friends for answering "what's up?" with "nothing much" because in my head by asking that I was obviously fishing for conversation material so you should just bring up something that we can talk about.

Something that happened recently or something that you heard about or something you remembered or something you are looking forward to, just... anything.
Bethesda releases aren't games you play, they're hobbies you pursue. Imagine all the enjoyable hours you'll spend browsing nexus and creating a stable environment for each of the games you own. It's almost like having an aquarium.
Not in the YouTube app (random videos about the series) and not in Play (nothing about TV or movies - don't they sell movies?), but I'm always logged out so I might be missing something and/or don't know where to find it.
Yes, good point, I retract what I said before. Thanks!
10% of America lives in California. Can't really call it an outlier.
Particle Man, particle man. Does whatever a particle can. File size bloat on a pirate boat? Particle Man, particle man.

Business Man, business man. Extracts all the value he can. Residuals to pay, for old shows: no way! Business Man, businessman.
Why would Goldman Sachs care about this? It's funny to me because same sex relationships were never an issue until the arrival of Judeo-Christian values via colonialism from the West.

Japan also had a long history of same sex culture, as did Korea and many other countries.

Then those cultures that imposed this discrimination turn around to poke fun at Islam for burqini or burka when as a secular outsider, its no different than Judeo/Christian/Abrahamic religious attitude and persecution of same sex relationship.
> PowerShell isn't that bad,

IMO powershell is amazing, I even use it as my shell on Linux when I have to use a Linux machine. It’s just “different” so a lot of people don’t bother to learn it or expect it to be bash.
What kind of NoSQL database are you thinking about? What strategy would you take with that database to optimize this problem?
When someone makes "Don't be evil" their motto, it's obviously been lurking in their mind for a while.
In China, Winnie the Pooh is illegal, because the dictator looks similar.
Generally speaking a const member function can't call a member function that is non-const or a member function that modifies a member variable that's not declared mutable. If the present const member function has a const reference to something that's marked mutable, then it's effectively a no-op as far as const value qualifications are concerned.
I’m not saying health care companies are competent. I am saying at least they have legal obligations to try to keep your information secure. Google has no such obligation.

Besides, there is less likely of a chance that a medical app targeted toward virtual care for babies would be flagging parents for sending pictures of their children to a doctor.
Quality is hard to prove. Everyone thinks they're "quality."

The fact is most people are average. We freak ourselves out about these very few super teachers or super devs but most are not these people and they still need jobs and perform valid functions.
This! Thanks for also mentioning it. So plain easy and just does what I need!
Thanks to the author for publishing it.

I maintain my own patch, so tiny-acme supports an '--outfile' option (it originally only writes to stdout). This comes in handy when it is run by systemd service/timer.

The pull request is on hold, because the code then exceeds then 200 lines threshold :shrug:
Wayfair to lay off 5% of its workforce, or nearly 900 employees
Sentence 1 is relatively uncontroversial. Sentence 2 doesn't follow from it however. If you mean "if everyone wants large private blocks of land for their houses, and wants to be able to travel with minimal effort/inconvenience, they'll almost certainly need access to a car", then sure.
You're right. Outlier is a poor word choice. I just mean to say that increasingly we need separate discussions for the 10% of people who live in CA and the 90% who don't, because the experiences are really quite different.
Hurting the Feelings of the Chinese People
The idea of DRAM with lots and lots of tiny FPGAs is an intriguing idea. I wish I were a chip designer to run with it and see where it got me.
Getting rejected on Google Play sucks, but at least you can still sideload apps while you dispute it. Getting rejected by Apple should be illegal until they provide a way to use an alternative app store.
The little experience I had with AppStore approval is that it’s mostly a game of persistence. They probably see some benefit from a little friction to prevent spam or perhaps it’s just pure stupid bureaucracy.

I was rejected for asking access to the camera. The App applied filters to images taken. I stated as much in XCode, something along: this app needs access to the camera in order to apply its effects. Rejected for not being clear enough. I reworded, basically adding more cruft: accepted.

I doubt the second version was clearer, in fact, it probably wasn’t. It feels much more like a test to see how much does this account want/need to publish and are willing to cooperate, than actually following rules that make any sense.
Anything like this ever happen to you before?

https://felipec.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/no-gnome-doesnt-wan...
I don't think we've solved these problems in the past. We simply didn't have such problems at the scale we have now.
In case that was not a joke:

No. LibGen is not a trivial amount of data (a few hard disks full). The blockchain can only handle tiny amounts of data very slowly.
Take small bets, explain the value you are attempting to deliver and basically learn how to sell. Especially to skip levels. Be willing to fail.
I used to think FSD without lidar was just too far away (a decade+), but I've been checking every now and then of FSD beta progress for a couple of years now, and at the current rate of progress I changed my mind and I believe that in 2 or 3 years, and with one more hardware upgrade, it will be done.

Their latest 10.69 FSD (released yesterday) is quite impressive already.
I had exactly the same thought.

My guess is a dog-whistle is expressing an opinion the user of the word "dog-whistle" doesn't like.

There doesn't seem to be much more to it than that.
Way down FTA:

Scheme is Only the Beginning! ... and it will also offer Clojure as an
alternative

It did take me awhile to understand this is a paid offering on top of office 365 though.
In my experience "friends" are clueless, especially if they have ni clue about IT and the possibilities.
They only see "virtual product" and can't imagine you being successful because after all they aren't and you can't be better than them.
I got rid of those friends. In fact if you have them on board sooner or layer you'll have trouble with them.
Them not working hard enough or not taking it seriously enough or not only not supporting your vision but actively fighting it.
It's bad for the friendship and bad for the business.

After all friends are just people you spent time with more than with other people, because circumstances or similar view on things. That was then but life goes on and people change.
> this was part of a much broader line of messaging

When you start to do this, you've drifted into censoring people rather than misinformation. You can't censor things that are true for fear that they'll embolden forces that you are against. Well you can, but that's a dictatorship.
500 years after Luther the ecumenical movement is strong (2021)
So they started exploiting foreign students by charging them 150% on top, and now there is a crisis as universities prefer foreign students because they are allowed to exploit them, and their proposed solution to the situation is to get permission to also further exploit domestic students?
> Goldman Sachs partners had something to say about this law

Don't you think it's absurd that an investment bank has influence over a country's social policy? For all the cheerleading we do about democracy, we also don't seem to care that behemoth US companies exert their influence over other countries, thus diluting the value of a citizen's vote. No one is concerned that there is no wall of separation between business and politics.
This is why views are so nice. You can reuse the view and controller logic and only write a new data model that updates instead of creates (tbh though those can just be two functions on some data model.)
If your network is good enough to gather a microphone's data from each soldier/drone on the battlefield, you could centrally assemble a very accurate location and type on any weapon fired and other ambient sound. That data could be used to evaluate risks and return fire accurately within milliseconds. It could give a general a lack of fog-of-war only available before in simulations.
Goldman Sachs is a stand-in for the kinds of international companies that might have offices in Singapore. Being an international finance hub is valuable to singapore and those companies will often employ lots of western expats in the country. Those expats are likely going to care about this and they will make their employers care somewhat about this too.
Not everything I do is a job.
I wish I had good news, but...

I was diagnosed with sleep apnea, not because of any obvious problem, but because my psych wanted to put me on drugs that might make me drowsy, so he wanted to make sure I was OK in that regard. A sleep study showed that I had mild to moderate sleep apnea.

I spent the following two years trying various things: turbinate reduction surgery, and 6-9 months adjusting my CPAP to no avail. No matter what we did, my AHI never went below 20. In fact, all of that actually caused severe insomnia that took me another 3 or 4 months to finally resolve.

I continue to look for ideas and new technology, but I'm not willing to do anything surgical. These days I just deal with it by getting at least 9 hours of time in bed (not 9 hours of sleep, because the result is more like 6 hours of actual sleep). I still wake up 3-4 times per night, but it's just enough—along with coffee—to continue to function.
What about the need for diversity (of thought)?
Scoop on windows just works for me as a package manager.
The fold is really creative but I'd be afraid of an off by one error. I could reason it out, but being sure they meet where I think they do at the center and that I indeed can multiply by 50 would take more time than it should to convince myself.

I'd instead look at trying to collect/aggregate the ones, tens, & hundreds column. It turns out this is kind of a symmetric problem.

First, aggregate the singles column of this addition. You'll have 0-9, repeated 10 times. Add 1-9 and you get 45. Multiple by 10 since they're repeated for the aughts, the 10's, the 20's, &c. 450 is the total value of the first column of digits.

Second, aggregate the ten's column. The order is different but the values are the same. so it'll come to the same 450. 450 * 10 = 4500.

Last, add the hundreds column; just 100.

450 (singles aggregate) + 4500 (tens aggregate) + 100 (hundreds aggregate) = 5050.

I really like the author's late conclusion on the many approaches to solving the problem:

> What I discovered when I tried this experiment is that it's really hard to do it the hard way. You may set out to plod dutifully through all the addition operations, but shortcuts present themselves even when you're not looking for them.
https://archive.ph/NxgqA
I've found Mac window management to be completely un-usable... Until I install Magnet from the app store for $3. Then sanity prevails. And with much weeping and gnashing of teeth, I've managed to get the right combination of dongles to get my 32" and 49" monitors to work at the same time. It was worth the pain to be on a Unix machine, at the end of the day.
This reminds me of the “no hello” proposal for workplace chat messages (e.g. https://nohello.net/). It’s much less of a big deal for personal communication, but I can understand wanting someone to just say what they want to say without a manual SYN/ACK first.
Avocado trees on plantations are usually specifically pruned not to grow past 2-3 meters to make them easy to pick. In the wild they can grow 5x this size, but the article is specifically talking about a plantation
> Why not replicate that (IMO) success?

We have two models. People who like one can choose that. People who don’t can choose this. Sometimes solutions have multiple equilibria.
Bringing lessons from cybersecurity to the fight against disinformation
Ad hominem aside, I was thinking of the midwits with lots of education who conspire with their in-group to manage others. The right thing to do is tell them to leave us alone.
Rules for an ocean economy would help the whole planet
> While the people that work there are not the problem

They are not responsible for the lack of funding but my experience with NHS's admin has been pretty bad and they can't blame "government's cuts" for everything.

I know people who work in consulting in the Big Four and everyone wants to avoid NHS projects because of their internal organisation and waybof working.

The NHS has a big organisation and quality of people problem as well.

It is a sacred cow, as you mention, and in general people are reluctant to say anything bad about it.