skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Educational games are not the same as "gamification" as an incentive structure, and I also think you're being very prescriptive of your own research style. I knew several academics in my PhD that thrived off being able to publish papers in better conferences, faster, etc than their peers. Also there's a pretty strong niche of puzzle game solvers (think the MIT Puzzle Hunts) that love thinking through problems in gamified ways.

Educational games are just games that also teach fun things along the way. I grew up playing the Carmen Sandiego games and it sparked a lifelong interest in history. When I got to college I took a bunch of history classes and even did a bit of undergrad research in it (well "history" is an incredibly broad topic and not something you research, but rather focusing on a topic that I was interested in) on the side. Think interactive fiction games exploring historical settings or works of literature. Games with some light math-based puzzling.

I don't think high level academic work can ever be taught through a game, but students feel the freedom to explore high level concepts when they are comfortable and confident with low level concepts, something that games can bring across better than the underpaid, overworked teacher in a lot of schools.
Speeding up incremental changes with AWS SAM Accelerate and nested stacks
httpie is what people use on the command line as far as I know.

Personally, I prefer using Postman or ThunderClient. They're bloated but featureful.
Finnish is a beautiful language, and I love to hear it sung — there's a wealth of Finnish folk groups doing great music that melds tradition and innovation, borrowing from musics from all over the world. But that's the drawback in learning Finnish: what if, understanding the language, I no longer wished to hear the music? The great advantage of Finnish, for me, is that I am unlikely to ruin a song by accidentally becoming aware of its meaning, since it apparently completely lacks cognates with English.
So we agree? Most nations have stayed neutral or sided against Russia. The only nations that side with Russia are Syria, Eritrea, North Korea, and Belarus. None of them have either the economy or military to do even the small amount except for Belarus. And Lukashenko knows sending his troops to Ukraine makes him vulnerable to his citizens and Russia at the same time. His military is the only thing stopping the people or Putin from kicking him out.
I've been scarred by C++ from my attempts to use it back in 1997, but recently I was considering Go or Rust for my next language. Partly because I have a small work project that I might want to make for my Windows developers, without needing to have a full Python environment, so I was considering them partly because of Tauri/Fyne cross-platform kits.

I've ended up deciding on Rust, based largely on recommendations from people I trust that Rust is the better language. I've just done some intro videos on both, and like the look of Rust.

One thing to consider: Make sure that there are libraries for what you want to be building.
It’s completely out of our control. It would be better to invest in tech to mitigate the impact
I'm not a Christian, but it is a fallacy to assume that the only way to arrive at truth is through controlled repeatable experiments. Watch this lecture to get a more nuanced view on the subject: https://youtu.be/If3cNUixEBM
A beautifully simple language with the world's hardest writing system.
When NCGs say "TC" (or at least the NCGs I've interacted with) they calculate it as Base_Salary+Total_Equity_Grant, when in reality it should be Base_Salary+(Total_Equity_Grant/Vesting). I've seen a couple experienced (10+ YoE) people do the same mistake as well, but this is all anecdotal of course
I think many of us wish Twitter wasn't a company at all...
It's probably more accurate to "Oh noes this HN post is going to get this guy a few dozen really lucrative job offers".

Doxxing usually implies ill intent but having your personal information broadcast to HN is likely only to result in a few of the hiring managers that haunt here sending a cold offer.
I live in Amsterdam area (not Amsterdam) and the commute is short and pleasant. For the rent I pay I'd get probably about half of this size in Amsterdam. If anything at all. Also, the problem you described is a chicken/egg issue which requires effort and investment. It can be solved, but not overnight.
> I would like to see how this is coded into Delta's flight logistics software.

By cancelling the service to Accra, probably.
It's true that San Francisco is not representative of the US as a whole - it has only half the murder rate of the US as a whole. That's still 5x that in other developed countries though.
Lots of people are working on this problem in different ways. But you're still right that it's a good answer to the question posed here!
This article is about parking tickets. Do you have a source that the NYPD were told to issue fewer parking tickets? Or...any source at all?

What major city didn't see a spike in crime during the pandemic in 2020? 1 in 6 NYPD officers was sick during this period, some precincts lost a third of their force for a while.

Crime is now dropping, is it because the police were told to do their jobs again?

> instead of being pulled over for a traffic violation a criminal wouldn't get caught...until they killed someone

This talking point was stale in 2020 but I've never heard it put so unconvincingly
No, I said nothing of the sort. High temperatures are harmful, capsaicin is not.
Believe it or not, you might have very specific interests :)
"The Governor's lobbying, while ultimately successful, proved to be controversial. The controversy stemmed in part from the fact that governor's request violated a required waiting period of five years after a person's death prior to renaming a geographic feature; Piestewa had been killed earlier that year while deployed on active military duty in Iraq."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piestewa_Peak#Name

Googling "five years after death geographic feature" gives me a United States Geological Survey Source
https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names/how-do-i

If a monument could be named a day or a month after someone's death, that may create a Perverse Incentive for "early deaths" for brownie points...
I actually like Esperanto and the concept of constructed languages in general a lot. Esperanto's grammar is very logical and easy to learn. Its a shame there's not much online content in it and the community is fairly small in comparison to what is often claimed. They actually have a Duolingo course and Google Translate works with it, so that's something.
I know that BNSF did wonders with modernizing how they dispatch trains (the old way is build a train until it's as long as it can be and then send it off, which meant you never could really predict when something would arrive) and they also are doing monitoring, etc:

https://www.bnsf.com/news-media/railtalk/safety/artificial-i...

How much of it is fluff I don't know.
I still think it's mail.jobs@ - so I'd hope the engineer set up collection on both addresses.

It'd probably be a lot safer to just have the line be "jobs.at.[...]"

Edited to add: Oh also - from the same line you can infer that a dot means a dot - the ".org" at the end confuses the meaning. Perhaps it'd be clearer if they went 100% slashdot and had ".DOT.org"
Maine banned all billboard style advertising decades ago. Our economy functions just fine thank you.
Latin fonts also have italic forms, sometimes materially different in shape from the straight forms.

This is largely similar.
Presumably the blasting itself could have been done by specialist free men. But the blasting itself is only a small part of the process. First you need to drill the holes by hand, that means beating a rock drill with a hammer for hours, just for a single hole, and you need dozens of holes for one blast, countless thousands if you're trying to go through a mountain.

There were steam powered machines for drilling rock at this time, but they were cumbersome and temperamental, most of the drilling was still done by hand. Hence the folklore of John Henry racing a power drill to see who could work faster. I believe most of the drilling in the west was done by hand, by Chinese immigrants.

Then there is the matter of the rubble. Explosives only break the rock, who hauls that broken rock? That's more manual labor.
Whatever Happened to MOOCs?
> instead of another

Yes, while putting up a poster on a blank wall is spending more.

Replacing a poster + tape with a framed poster + fasteners is also spending more.

My point is vineyardmike only looked at acquisition cost, not TCO.

I don't see how you can be so sure there is only cost substitution, and that there is no additional cost.

We even read that Chaz Stevens raised $14K to distribute Arabic versions of the sign to schools. Someone in each school needs to receive the sign and decide to toss it.

That's a additional cost which wasn't there before.

Again, agreed - it's small. But I don't agree with your assessment that it's zero.
Previous discussions:

2021.03.01: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26302139

72 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31750560
No because I will prevent you.
I don't know why you disagree, because I think we're actually in agreement!

It's perfectly fine to judge the internal consistency of a work of fictional world-building. I think AGoT is fairly consistent, give or take.

It's not an accurate depiction of medieval warfare -- the blog's author argues it's actually a better match for the Thirty Years War, with its large professional armies and its loss of human life -- but then it doesn't claim to be. Judging the vassal system ("bannermen") and how it differs from medieval history is interesting, but it's unfair to consider the fictional world "shallow" or "ridiculous" simply because in real medieval history, vassal armies and levies were much smaller.

All things considered, the Wars of the Roses inspired political infighting and feuds that resulted in shocking betrayals and murders are pretty "truthy". Way more than say, how Lord of the Rings depicts aristocracy and the behavior of "rightful" kings ;)
I've had people tell me that a kid building things with LEGO bricks is an engineer, so that means Musk is an engineer, too. Apologists will stretch the definition of an engineer in order to claim that Musk is an engineer, as well. It's often stretched so thin that pretty much anyone who built anything would be qualified as an engineer using the definition that also qualifies Musk as one, too.
Oh c’mon, it’s Australia. They have other marsupials there.
Discord is a closed-source service hosted by a 3rd party on the internet. It's by definition not private either.
For me it was flirting with girls on ICQ, and getting owned at StarCraft 1 before voip was a thing.

Nothing teaches typing better, in my experience.
One thing we're strongly missing is the kernel being able to notify that a sysctl parameter may help.

Sometimes it does things like "clock changed, is all hell breaking loose" but it could do much more when queues back up, etc.
They aren't making them take care of the plane though. Delta is just routing the plane to go to European countries now instead. Delta dgaf
Oh, I understand now, thanks. So in theory, if Mary had had multiple children, it would have really messed up the idea of the Trinity (3)
I see this post pop up often so I think there's demand. But Apple only cares about solutions that make money, and this one doesn't. With Apple, I'd expect them more to block free solutions, and require an iCloud subscription to enable it.
Also good for those full screen fizzle fade-ins.
Online safety education for the younger generations. There's of course outliers, but as a rule I've seen some scary amounts of zoomers who have zero idea of why giving out a photo of their government ID card (unredacted) to total strangers for age verification is a very bad idea.

It's a far cry from the old "don't give out your A/S/L/(and name)" that I got.
, When I was at Microsoft ~10 years ago there was a single guy who truly understood how tables in Word worked. I'm sure they've fixed it by now but back then if you wanted to touch the tables code in Word you had to talk to the tables guy to make sure you wouldn't break everything.*

Every business I've worked in over the past twenty years have two things in common - one person who knows a key piece of thetechnology, and there's a woeful lack of documentation around processes and understanding. There's often reasonably good code docs, but that only ever tells you what the code is trying to do; it doesn't tell you why the code exists in the first place, or what the code should do. If you ever need to check the code is correct there's rarely any resources apart from that one person. In the worst cases that person left a few years before.

I've become quite good at technical writing because I always end up establishing a project to fix the docs.
> I was verbally refused entry (as in explicitly they said I would not be let into the country)

> I was finally allowed into the country

With regards to the discussion here, note that you weren't actually denied entry, regardless of how the officer may have phrased it to you verbally. Your permission to enter was withheld for some time and you were given a (very) hard time (as I mentioned can happen in my initial comment), but eventually allowed to go through. If you were actually denied entry, you would've been (say) placed on the next flight back, or left at the airport to figure your way out, or something like that—not taken in for interrogation and eventually let in.

(Obviously what they did to you sounds horrible; I'm not questioning that here. I'm just clarifying that, for the sake of the original discussion and the OP, this this was not a denial of entry, and is of course also unrelated to lack a passport.)
This is an interesting answer. What in your opinion are the main blockers to this ability?
It's way worse than that. Mine is a 2015, so has only a 24kWh battery. I'm down from around 90 miles to around 75 miles. Winter is less, but not catastrophically less.

When I was in an office, it was 8 miles away. Our grocery is 1 mile away. The farthest kids' friends house is 2.7 miles away.

As proof that there's utility there: the LEAF does more miles per year than our ICE car, so it gets plenty of use, even with the severely limited range compared to higher-end EVs.

As for why it's acceptable: the car was $22K new after incentives. In 7.5 years, I've just now changed the wiper blades and cabin air filter for the second time. I turn all the wrenches on our family cars and I have literally only put a wrench or socket to the LEAF once in that time: to remove and charge the battery after we parked it for almost 8 weeks when COVID first hit and my little OBD2 Bluetooth dongle ran it down. (Wipers and cabin air are changeable without tools, as is filling the washer fluid tank.)
You seem to be under the impression that defining Champagne as coming from Champagne is a recent thing. It's not, it's been like that since the 19th century, even being codified in the Madrid treaty of 1891 - long before anyone was making sparkling wine in the USA .

The fact that the US didn't initially sign these treaties and allowed people to sell fake Champagne to their consumers for so long doesn't really change that
Steve Wozniak would get sheets of $2 bills, and sent them to a binder to be cut into strips of four or so, perforated, and bound with that gummy stuff that lets you tear pages out cleanly. So he had a notebook full of legal tender that he could tear bills out of to pay for random things. Basically the sketchiest way to pay cash, and sure to get comments.
The use in fades goes back at least to early Apple II games where I probably learned about it by reverse engineering a game or reading about it in Nibble Magazine.
Combination 'polypill' lowers risk of major cardiovascular events, study finds
I added this to my `.bashrc`:

if ! grep -q "pam_tid.so" /etc/pam.d/sudo ; then
echo "touch ID no longer enabled for sudo. Insert the following line as line 2 in /etc/pam.d/sudo:"
echo " auth sufficient pam_tid.so # enables touch id auth for sudo"
fi
>designing tools that make learning fun

While I don't wholly disagree, there's a lot of edtech out there premised on the notion that all subjects, even sometimes challenging ones, should be like playing a game for all people or you're doing it wrong. I submit that you're always going to have some percentage of students who pretty much hate math however you teach it and some percentage who don't want to read books even with relatively "fun" and easy options.

Can I find plenty of problems at all levels of education? Sure. Are there more engaging things we can do even in an environment that's largely not personalized? Of course. But everyone should have fun all the time is not really a realistic goal unless you just let kids do whatever they want.
It’s on PC, Xbox and PS at least, not sure about others. Really cool experience because it also includes pictures of artifacts and audio commentary from scholars. They did the same for Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla aka Viking Simulator.
44Net and hamnet are also interesting to those with radio amateur licenses. Many folks run their own AS an BGP in that range.
Off-topic but a little tangential: There's a designer named Zander Whitehurst[0] on TikTok/Youtube Shorts teaching Figma in 30 to 60 second videos and I'm in love with the format. I do wonder whether it's effective, but I've learned quite a bit of Figma from him.

[0]: https://www.tiktok.com/@zander_whitehurst
It often is the better way, because you have ONE implementation that everyone uses (even if it might be wrong at some point) vs multiple implementations that are all subtly different and never align.
I say decrease demand, because people are going to college for the wrong reason. People have been told that they cannot get a good job without a college education, and that is simply not true. Because everyone thinks thy need one in order to live comfortably, tons of people who otherwise would not think of going, or even want to go, end up going. This ends up raising the price, because universities know they can get away with it. If people were going strictly to learn, I would agree.

At this point though, I think the only thing that is going to fix this situation is the government setting limits on tuition. Future generations are going to have it worse than even we have it unless something drastic changes the market.
That sounds doable, but... why opensource? Does this mean that people / companies are not prepared to pay for the product or service?
> all the Pope Gregory the 13th did was account for leap years by adding in an extra day every few years to keep the year aligned with the astronomical year.

The Julian calendar has leap days every four years. What Pope Gregory the 13th did was remove it from every 100th year (except those divided by 400, hence why 2000 was a leap year). Otherwise the difference between the Gregorian and Julian calendars would be far more than the 12-13 days they are now.
The number of companies caught up in the Twilio hack keeps growing
As far as I know pinephone is a phone for software tinkerers.
not in the link gp was responding to
What does "OT" mean?
Maybe he should donate all the money he made from Twitter as a company to setting up a new protocol?
Sorry, it actually came up near the top of the comments of a similar article from the same author

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32566743

I misremembered
I just watched this footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySlKKe38Pnk

I can't help but think how awesome it would be to do that as a means of learning about WWI and WWII for example.
Check out Shift5
NATO headquarters a hive of activity after another successful honey harvest
I'm curious what your thoughts about Cory Doctorow's Metacrap [1] essay which I think summarized a lot of the problems with the semantic, informational organization approaches of the early-mid web. Are you also familiar with research in informational sciences these days?

[1]: https://people.well.com/user/doctorow/metacrap.htm
I speak 3 languages, attempted to learn the 4th one (German) on Duolingo and I find it very ineffective.

I recall having trouble learning English back in high school and then having a breakthrough. The breakthrough was, I figured out how to think in English when trying to debug my errors with the teacher who actually have lived in the USA. Once it clicked, I no longer had to memorise things but predict instead. My English is still not perfect but I can have fluent conversations and almost never need to look up words, I can figure out the meaning of idioms etc.

IMHO, the gamification in Duolingo is not geared towards making you figure out the mechanics behind the language. I think edge case exploration is way to go but the gamification usually revolves around memorising.
It is, but also its kinda concerning that some CS faculty member does this as a hobby[1].

[1]: https://samueli.ucla.edu/time-zone-king-how-one-ucla-compute...
I've never had a problem with the Michigan Secretary of State (which handles DMV stuff here).

There's probably some locations that are chronically busy, but I've had the luck to not use them.
Working on it. As a first iteration, I am thinking video games meets data visualization. Details at https://www.whiteowleducation.com/courses/data-visualization....
Maybe we should put a hyphen in polypill so it doesn't look like something related to polyps.
Who really killed nuclear power? I bet if you traced all the financial donations to all the environmental groups and people who have opposed nuclear power, you will find a lot of oil dictatorships and oil companies.

Follow the money...
come on, nobody is a polymath.[1]

There is some really boring stuff to slog through on the journey of a formal education.

In school, people tend to choose subjects they are fascinated with, to the detriment of the other subjects.

I think some subjects like history either benefit from actual life experience, or need some additional storytelling to appreciante.

we really don't need the "wooden straightback chairs in schoolrooms" mentality

gamification might smack of spoonfeeding, but it also might allow a much richer learning experience too.

[1] statistically speaking
My father has a background that's eerily similar to yours, right down to running a firm the same size, and he feels the same way you and yours does (so do I).

It truly is a lost art and there's a lot more hidden knowledge and reward that comes with knowing traditional drafting than it may appear on the surface. Patience, precision, a sense of intuitive aesthetics, and how to arrange a composition on paper to tell a story effectively ... thank you for sharing this comment, I'll have to tell him somebody else agrees. :)
Domination of English has more to do with British empire bringing it to large swaths of the world (India, Africa), and the US being the principal winner of WWII and expanding its industrial, scientific, and cultural might around the world.

English language is like Chinese: while simple structurally (no cases, constructive verb forms, etc) has a terribly complicated writing and pronunciation system, where there sort of are rules, but you never know when you hit an exception. Despite that, people take it up, because the important communication happens in English. (People who study areas like ML, or who work a lot with industrial production, likely pick up some Chinese, out of the same necessity.)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uD0NOhrPyEM

I thought you were going to link this guy but both work :)
It's interesting to me that so many of these horrible compounds have repeating names. Is that coincidence or is it something about chemistry?
> “With immediate effect, Delta Air Lines is being advised not to dispatch the B767-332 with registration number N195DN for flights to Accra.”

That doesn’t sound like it’s banned to me; more like they’re just pressuring Delta to use a different aircraft.