skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't change whether or not it's a good heuristic. Whether it's a good heuristic depends on how often "extra chlorine hanging off the side" is indicative of toxicity. He didn't make a claim about one atom changes in general, and even if you did you would need to show that on average across many instances from the sample population (substances we are likely actually to run into) it's misleading.
Related SSC Book Review, which I've probably only read because it surfaced here recently anyways: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-un...
If the public wants that credit, tax ‘em and pay for the programs. Otherwise I’ll give you the government didn’t discourage the effort.
Then I will have to be the annoying person who points out that English is not a prescriptive language and that the more we push for incorrect spelling the more correct it will be.

Anyway English is an ugly hack of a language, the more we mispell it, the better chance we have to get it fixed to something closer to Esperanto.
>>Think about it for a second

Perhaps instead of telling everyone to think on things for a second, you should think on things for longer than a second?

>And how vulnerable are you to phishing if your special-purpose email address that you only use for one specific purpose receives zero spam?

This would depend on how you setup the email address, if it truly a separate email address i.e a separate account not just an alias then phishing is not the concern but management of the accounts becomes a huge problem

I use separate alias's for every service against my own custom domain that has a single email account. This is not to prevent phishing but to detect when a breach occurred or when my info is sold, you assume that when you sign up for a service only that service will ever have access to your info, many many many companies and service sell your email address to marketers.
> Make has a bunch of cryptic magic variables that refer to things like the targets and prerequisites of rules. I mostly think these should be avoided, because they are hard to read.

> However, for the sentinel file pattern, the magic variable $(@D), which refers to the directory the target should go in, and $@, which refers to the target, are common enough that you quickly learn to recognize what they mean:

So, avoid using the magic variables, but actually you should use them because they're useful and common. Got it.
Don’t conflate education with intelligence.
> Even then, Apple gave the user choice

Interestingly, Apple puts tracking for its own apps behind another setting that ignores the global setting.

Unlike its competitors, Apple does not give users a choice about whether to send location data to Apple (if you want to see your location at all) or about whether to send app install and search information to Apple. Apple's devices are worse on privacy on every axis when you consider whether they give users a choice.
You'll have to provide examples of this, because I don't think that's clear and obvious.
That's the essence of adaptive streaming - the player continuously selects a video bitrate that can be downloaded quickly enough given the network conditions. That requires multiple video bitrates being available, and each one must be encoded such that the player can switch between them at known cut points.
Has anyone simply tried NOT using any email verification? Sure there will be a Low % of mis-keyed or fake emails.. but it does remove a HUGE wall and reduces TimeToFirstAppExperience.
As a long time DDG user, Google Search is better. I end up searching again on Google about half of the time I search for technical stuff (software) or for non English sites. I just feel DDG didn't understand what I want and Google usually does. I don't login on Google and use a Firefox extension to clear the cookies so Google might only rely on the search term, not my history, but who knows.
An interesting incident. First, who’s behind? If it’s Ukrainians, that makes Putin look weak. If it’s a Russian inside job, is this a sign of the power struggle Putin is facing? Then again, Putin is the guy who attacked his own citizens to justify his rise to power, so who it could also be him.

Second, Dugin (and by extension his daughter) is a dangerous thinker I don’t know if it’s media hyperbole to say he’s “Putin’s brain” but it certainly seems like Dugins ideas have been implemented: 1) supporting racial tensions in the US, 2) separating the UK from the EU, 3) supporting various far-right politicians, and 4) annexing Ukraine.
Good conversations have lots of doorknobs
Oh no, now the vacuum of space is leaking into the base of a mountain!
Thats just an argument that Non-profits should exist.

I think this misunderstands that the entire point of having a non-profit tax status is to create a tax dodge.

We want them to avoid taxes because we want to promote the products they generate.

>If they make millions or billions from licensing to HBO then they don’t pay taxes on that. They can also distribute those gains to employees and management in the form of bonuses or featherbedding.

Why should we care that they don't pay taxes? If they give it to employees, then they have to pay income tax at a much higher rate than a for profit would.

At the end of the day, the public wanted high quality educational content produced, we set up tax incentives to support it, and the content was made.
Don't make the mistake of thinking there are some people (you?) who are so innately special that they don't require any training.
I've literally looked for things that I could reasonably expect to be on the Internet and couldn't find them on the Internet. The newest hot thing is still available, of course, but an obscure 5 years old show may not always be.
So the plan to increase trust in our institutions is to control how you can criticize them, and label any dissent "disinformation?"
You're probably right. I would love it if someone could put it in a physics simulator, though.
There's an intermediate option which is overlooked: tamper proof-ness/transparency logs/signed actions. Ie the writer is traditional central authority but the readers can store and later prove that the authority acted incorrectly/maliciously, should that be the case.

For instance, you have traditional moderation. No hate speech etc. It works fine. Then you see that your comment was removed but it was only a dissenting opinion. You can then prove to others they removed it. The idea is to keep the authority in check through transparency.

This also works well for promises of discounts, overbooking of tickets, non-spoofable reviews, etc.
There is a lot of room between "teachers have it really rough" and "high schools are prisons and we should blow it all up".
Really? I love cloning a project and seeing a Makefile. The install instructions are usually something like 'run make install'.

mosh is a good example: https://mosh.org/#build-instructions
For the purpose of self-promotion, i guess. Being confrontational brings attention.
I used dehydrated pretty effectively (along with openssl) to renew and sync certs between several layers of proxies/loadbalancers. I ended up creating a nice k8s deployment with CronJob to implement this with ingress-nginx.
> This is to prevent people from subscribing to a service, watching a whole season, then canceling the service.

I might be going against the grain but I actually like this... I prefer being able to digest a show at a slower pace so it can have more of a cultural impact. This allows me to talk to my friends about what we just watched and follow along, plus get other people to join us in the watching experience. It makes it a much more communal activity that helps us connect with others.
Maybe CA is different, but in most states small claims can't order equitable remedies (reinstating his account) and can only award money damages.
Different strokes for different folks.

Michael Faraday was brilliant and driven, but his intuition did not come from understanding the math as he was famously math-illiterate.

On a personal note, the subject I had the most trouble with was classic electromagnetism (calc-based freshman physics):
It was the first time I hit a wall/limit on what I could grasp.

The wall was because I could never couldn’t develop an intuition for the physics behind it.
The age of downloading content to your device is largely dead mon frère!

It's sad, because things like the despecialized editions of certain "Disney" movies will never see large scale distribution.

The world of bit torrent + the world of copyright / residual payments doesn't seem to meld well.

If they made a player that was "legal" and any content you played would pay residuals back to the creator, they could just normalize views and make it fully "not for profit". Seeders would be purely altruistic. You would pay for the residuals you watched, and there would be no middle men making billions (NFLX making 1.5B per quarter).

Side note: Is sesame street highly pirated? Are you really looking forward to more seeders of sesame street? ... why???
Woman fights government to live in her own house
Ever heard of something called AirBnB? Or Turo for that matter.
In Finland you are not allowed make a copy if you need to bypass a strong copy protection. According to decision from 2008 from appeals court (supreme court did not grant appeal) DVD's CSS is considered to be such. Given that it's not very strong from technical point of view and that pretty much all CDs do contain some form of copy protection it's hard to say if you are allowed to make personal copies of most of the commercial CDs.
The difference between subcontracting and embezzlement is the closeness of the relationship. If I receive public funds with the goal to advance public education and I use it to set up public schools, that is a valid pursuit of that goal. If I receive those same funds and use them as grants for private schools meeting specific goals, that can also be a valid pursuit of the goal. But I choose to direct those funds to private schools, and I sit on the board of some of those private schools, then that makes a strong case for it being embezzlement.

Where the close relationship comes from may differ. It may even be from trying to avoid conflicts of interest (e.g. an agency whose policy forbids holding assets, and therefore has been the sole funding of a nominally independent production company). Requiring publicly funded would to enter the public domain would be a way to prevent this entire class of misdeeds.
> Are they really better than khan academy at doing a lesson plan?

Yes

> like a software engineer complaining they have to write their own database driver in their spare time after work?

No
It’s more nuanced than that. The TechCrunch piece elides a lot of context.

None of the OSS frameworks do anything better than what Godot does. A core dev sitting on a special fork they share with devs who have signed NDAs is not scalable.

Source: https://godotengine.org/article/godot-consoles-all-you-need-...
I agree that the "you're doing it wrong" tone of the article title is off-putting and that if you're just using Make for some minor automation once in a while here and there, you probably shouldn't worry, but I found most of the tips genuinely helpful and the reasons for doing so are stated or obvious.
> the age-old dichotomy between the fire-and-brimstone Old Testament God vs the turn-the-other-cheek New Testament teachings

There are heterodox Christian sects who believe the Old Testament God and the New Testament God are two completely different entities. In some cases, with the Old Testament God having polar opposite morality. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharism#Beliefs
I turned this into a canned query: https://scotrail.datasette.io/scotrail/assemble_sentence?ter...

And updated the blog entry with a new section about how it works: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Aug/21/scotrail/#assembling-s...
This is the case in many countries not just USA but also EU.
I see you’re coming from a good place. I just think taking away voice amplifiers (smashing the printing press, so to speak) hasn’t turned out well in the past, and I don’t see a strong enough reason to start doing that now.
I’m in the exact same boat. One thing I enjoy doing is guest lecturing at local colleges in CS classes, around topics I have professional expertise in. If that sounds like something you’d like to do as well, I’d recommend getting involved in your local ACM chapter, as most college CS programs have an ACM tie-in.
Hackers Steal Session Cookies to Bypass Multi-Factor Authentication
There seems to be some confusion here about what is going on at HBO. The new leadership is cutting a bunch of stuff, not just Sesame Street. There are two basic reasons for this. Either it was costing more to show than it was bringing back in terms of people actually watching it (presumably the case w/ Sesame Street) or the quality was deemed potentially damaging to the brand (i.e. Batgirl being axed without ever getting released at all).

And yes, HBO Max is merging with Discovery+ into a combined platform. It will use the Discovery+ software (which is presumably better because HBO Max is terrible), but will offer all of the content that remains on both platforms by the time this happens, likely next summer.

https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/2022-08-19/hbo-max-cut...
I think that us-vs-them mindset you're describing is not a distinctive feature of religion, but really of a human nature. Anywhere people are organizing in groups us-vs-them mindset can form. It doesn't matter, if it's a football team, a chees club, a business, a nation or just a group of music fans... It can literally appear anywhere. Organized religion is no exception.
Sure https://criticalrace.org/ details anti-white hate training in higher education including teaching colleges as well as elite private high schools, and the Minneapolis Teachers’ union’s new anti-white hate policy has been widely reported for example by msn https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/minneapolis-teachers-union...
Among other things, Steam is not operated by a publicly-traded company.

They don't need to answer to faceless shareholders at the end of every quarter. They can settle for making whatever they consider to be "enough money" without chasing endless growth.
> I don't know why this system is such a magnet of internet skepticism.

Because even if it works, it's still bonkers. Any proposal that involves extreme engineering never done before is going to illicit a lot of skepticism.

And this proposal also catches all the general (often unfounded) skepticism people have regarding space. And it catches the skepticism people have for startups proposing radical new technology. And being a space startup, it catches the skepticism inherent to being Musk-adjacent. Spinlaunch is a perfect storm for raising eyebrows.
in japan, children play a game called Kancho, where they put their index fingers together and try to insert it into the anus of their unsuspecting friend.

in america, you could destroy someone's life over that. (possibly even multiple lives)
What would you recomend, then?

At least the two I recommend won't destroy your whole digital life if they don't like you.
This is true in almost every country. Education is a money pit.
For homogeneous real-world materials
I don't know if it's a well-written makefile, but Python builds are straightforward, even with stuff like LTO enabled. Also sqlite.
This is why I still torrent, and never managed to hop on the streaming bandwagon.
Tubes.

Technopoly.

Amusing Ourselves to Death.

The Glass Cage.

Overcomplicated.
4% of Sesame Street's operating income is government funded: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/sesame-s...
I'll play:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4121509

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/iraq...

Or has Infowars started a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people which I haven't happened to read about?
The point is that there were 2-3 layers of humans applying their best judgement and there was a process in place.
> From the quotation marks, I surmise that you're wondering what a non-full dependent type system could possibly mean.

That wasn't the point. Scala has a few variants of dependent types but that features are constantly diminished as not being "full" (or sometimes even "real") dependent types. I don't buy that as dependent types aren't defined as being like dependent types in say CoC (the Calculus of Constructions). For example Singleton types match also the definition of dependent types when derived from literals; even such types are still weaker than the usual "full" dependent types à la CoC.

Regarding Python: Python has only one type, the "almighty-python-runtime-type", as it's a "dynamic" (unityped) language. Therefore it does not make much sense to talk about "types" in Python at all…

https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/dynamic-lan...
> teachers seem to be grossly underpaid

Is this true? It seems like teachers in the US [0] make the 7th highest in the world on average. Of course the US is big and has lots of diversity so there may be pockets that aren’t paid more. But I think they are paid more than other countries.

I think the issue isn’t pay as they are paid more than the US median and mean for annual salary (since they aren’t paid for their two summer months off). And they have more vacation days than any other profession with their 40-60 days of leave.

It’s an important profession, but it’s pretty well paid and stable.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/teacher-salaries-by-country-...
Depends on what you mean with 'career'. Brian Kernighan doesn't do this because he needs money, but because he would get bored otherwise.
> Why should we care that they don't pay taxes? If they give it to employees, then they have to pay income tax at a much higher rate than a for profit would.

Can you provide a source for this? I'm not finding anything that suggests that an employee of a non-profit organization would be taxed at a higher rate than an employee of a for-profit organization.
This. The Internet obviates most of our current educational system. E.g., textbooks are absurd in a world where every child has a radio-networked pocket supercomputer.

The daycare aspect of schools is broken, obviously, but that's a deep societal problem far beyond the ability of teachers to fix.

The educational aspect of schools is (mostly, but not entirely) redundant to the resources available for free on the Internet.

Perhaps we should separate those aspects from each other? (I dunno. I don't have children so it's not (immediately) my problem.)
This is really cool! I've always worked in interpreted code so this isn't that useful to me but I'm surprised that it exists.

I tried it myself though and it complains about not including stdio.h and wanting `int main` instead of `void main`. Though of course I still get your point.
Definitely a drop in EU nursing and health-related staff (up to 87% in post-referendum). This may have been balanced with an increase of non-EU staff, but the direction is still wrong (understaffing increasing year on year).

https://www.health.org.uk/chart/chart-large-drop-in-the-numb...
Some people can't recognize a clickbait title when it hits them in the face.
The flame bait response, as you put it, is more terse than the article. We’ve seen the appeal to authority and the censoring of those who questioned the science writ large over Covid. We’ve seen it heavily on this platform. Censoring things that have facts is wrong.
The Daily Mail has a very anti-immigration and anti-diversity agenda, which fits well into the pro-Tory agenda. That story is a winning combination.
Steam's most important advertising is actually quite in your face, and used to occupy a good part of the gaming sphere for a couple of weeks each year: their sales with discounts between 50-90% (calculated from the current "regular price" which for older games is often already far below original retail price). They've switched it up in recent years, making the summer sales tamer in exchange for more weekly sales, but the concept stays the same: sell "old" games for prices you can't refuse. And that's why people don't mind: when they tell you it's a great offer it genuinely is.

Everyone else in gaming is fighting for the newest releases. That's the battleground XBox and Playstation use, and that's where newcomers like the Epic Game Store try to beat Steam. Steam meanwhile is pretty toned down on new releases, and is going for long tail sales instead.
I think there's a very clear line we can draw between different categories of smashing the printing press:

- "banning books because they criticize the government"

- "banning books because they have immoral content"

And on the other hand:

- "shutting down a viral video with advice dangerous to individuals, where protecting the public from direct physical harm is the goal"

I don't know of any instances in History where we looked back at the latter in disapproval.
> In cases where they don't receive it though, they're not paying into it either.

If the "it" you're referring to is social security, this is, to use your phrase from above, "patently untrue." It would be comforting if that were the case, but there are cases where a person who has paid into social security will not receive anything from it, and will not receive their spouse's Social Security survivor's benefits, under WEP and GPO rules. As I explained above, I know one of these people and help her manage her money.

To the original point in my grandparent post: just having to do the math on this stuff could be deterrent to someone trying to make a decision about whether teaching is a smart career move.

> Maybe the union membership by in large doesn't want to?

WEP and GPO are a matter of federal law, although "maybe the unions want this thing that is obviously hostile to their members" is certainly... a thought a person could have. As it happens the American Federation of Teachers is lobbying to eliminate WEP and GPO, and I assume there are other unions who are acting similarly:

https://www.aft.org/resolution/repeal-windfall-elimination-p...

https://sports.yahoo.com/congressional-bill-may-soon-end-194...

(some potential disinformation in the second link, but the point is, this is a pretty active debate)

edit: It occurs to me that maybe you meant "maybe they do not want to pay into Social Security," which is probably true. To keep this in perspective, these teacher pensions which were considered an alternative/supplement to Social Security are a lot older than the WEP and GPO, which came along to kick those with these pensions in the nuts in the late seventies and early eighties. The teachers and their unions were already committed to the path they were on when the federal government changed the rules on them.
$1 per student in a 25-student classroom for 30 hrs/week for 36 weeks is like 27k, the base salary isn't much higher than that. So that's assuming a worthless teacher with 0 added value. The added value is probably at least 3x even for a subpar teacher up to 10-20x for a top performer and the actual time variables are all probably higher than listed above.

I would imagine the 10-20x value-adders aren't incentivized and are probably actively de-incentivized in the faculty senate/union dynamic unless they literally love the job that much which is debunked in the OP post.
I felt the opposite, I (among many) was winging my makefiles due to unfinished learning. I always appreciate high precision posts like these (even if some of the points are above the top).
Titles are clickbait, not dogma.
> Lobste.rs is basically dead compared to HN — largely because it’s an HN clone.

My outsider opinion is that lobsters is dead because the sign up process is designed to keep people out. I appreciate there's also the network effect of people coming here because people come here, but I for sure would visit lobsters too if I could participate without having to know a friend to get past the velvet rope