skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even without COVID the public education system is such a travesty. When I was in highschool, one year, I had a math teacher who clearly didn't understand her own subject and would routinely get lost and contradict herself and was just generally useless in trying to teach what she did not know. In another year a math teacher may have known the subject but had zero control of the class and the students rebelled against him and there was never any real teaching because kids were acting out to an absurd degree. Basically, of my four years of high school math two were literally a complete waste. And that's pre-covid.

The obvious culprit, to me, is teacher's unions. Why don't we fire bad teachers and hire good ones? Seems like the teacher's unions prevent that. Compensating teachers based on tenure rather than performance is another teacher's union problem.

I find the whole thing very discouraging. Society is allowing immense waste of time, effort, and potential over very obvious problems.
I have often wondered if some airbag/spring like device could be created that can save a freefalling person upon impact. A lot of people die in paragliding, skydiving, small aircraft crashes etc. Would be cool if some of those lives could be saved.
I guess that's true. Assuming you yourself also get 7% interest, that would be another $15,000 you'd get, making you only lose $16,500 more.
Solar Cell Pioneer Wins the €1M Millennium Technology Prize
Yes but then location comes into play - offshore power needs to be delivered!
Withdrawals are subject to taxes which is fair because you haven't paid taxes on it yet. While there may be some wiggle room for 401k administrators or the IRS, generally if you don't have other resources for a down payment on a house then you won't see any penalties for the withdrawal. The 401k loan will depend on your plan, but the terms are defined by your general plan, not something that the administrator will deny because you have poor credit.

That said, both of those generally sound like poor choices, but if you truly need it they are options(if your company allows loans). Saving for retirement is really meant to help you in retirement.
I was given a Lego RCX kit for Christmas in about 98 at the age of 12. It was my first exposure to “proper programming” with its visual flowchart based language (I was already playing around with HTML). I spent days building various inventions with that set. It very much set me in the path I’m still on today.

I’m sure someone will come out with a new product range that fills that gap. My eldest kid is 8, I was planing to introduce her to Mindstorms in the next year or so…
https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/web-product-and-digit...
That's somewhat bittersweet. The company I now work for and lead was inspired by mindstorms. Our founder had written a DOS based software for alarm receiving centers. Even back then he and his prime customer were unsatisfied with the restricting logic of managing alarms by only having a few choices how to react to an alarm. Usually show some text, and have a person call someone and then write up a protocol. So he build some sort of programming environment for alarm receiving software.

Now they could implement individual alarm workflows for their customers. But that was still nothing his customers could use themselves, because they still would have to know how to program.

But then he saw an ad for mindstorms in the Lego catalogue his son brought home from the toy store. That inspired him to write a completely new software. Windows based with a their own graphical programming environment embedded.
Twitter failing to live up to tech utopian ideals in the face of their platform being used as the medium for a real life attempted coup is one thing.

Leaving free speech in the hands of Musk is another thing entirely.

I'm half expecting a freenode style implosion.
To a limited extent, the churches sometimes receive a bit of government funding for these activities (food banks, help for the homeless, etc.). It certainly doesn't cover costs but it can make the difference between being able to do something and not being able. However that is drying up. In my town, we used to run overnight accommodation and two meals a day for the homeless for 3-4 months in winter until COVID stopped that in March 2020. We had a grant via the local council but from central funds to cover the employment of the administrator (a very necessary cost!). We can't restart because the policy is now against it and that funding has gone. I don't want to frame this as "Tories Bad!" - in fact there are some arguments for stopping it, but on balance I think that it is still needed.

Another issue is that church people tend not to be rich, and are dying off from old age with few people replacing them. We have to pick what we can still do with increasingly limited funds and people.

Btw, while I am liberal/left, many of the people working at the coal face are conservatives. I think one has to distinguish between Tory MPs and Tory voters, some of whom are socially liberal (though they would be offended to be described as such).
Have to, no. But who would stop it? Corporations are basically the beta prototype for AI overlords, and there's practically no complaint.
I would love this. UT99 has aged wonderfully (gameplay-wise, anyway) to this day, but getting it running on modern systems has always been a pain. Ironically, I've had better luck getting UT99 running under WINE in Linux than on Windows 7+.
Been happening long before the present century and long before Trump. Reagan, Schwarzenegger, Bill Bradley, Jack Kemp, Jesse Ventura, Al Franken, Sonny Bono.
Heavy list creation is one way to really slow down Python.

And itertools is a real gem, full of lots of goodies to handle list manipulation tasks.
I agree, I was just pointing that this is not a "donation" because Larry is Santa Claus but just a business move.

Which I have no problem with.
I have the following unit file saved for that purpose:

[Unit]
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36729207/trigger-event-on-aws-ec2-instance-stop-terminate
Description=unlink agent from remote server
Before=shutdown.target
[Service]
Type=oneshot
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/environment
KillMode=none
ExecStart=/bin/true
ExecStop=/opt/service-name/shutdown-unlink
RemainAfterExit=yes
User=root
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

If I recall correctly, the KillMode=none is important as it causes the shutdown-unlink binary to escape systemd process supervision. Without it, you may deal with systemd immediately halting your shutdown unit (and killing the process) when it hits the shutdown target.
Performative theatrics is attempting in any way to contrast Intel vPro with the Holocaust.
Revenue increased by 2% on a constant currency basis.

And yes costs are up but they are having to do hardware R&D that they have never done before.
Surely it's not giving impression that employees don't actually work at the company, but sexism, right?
And probably included a pot joke.
Is anyone surprised?

We have a sizable number of people in western academia saying math is racist.
She will be unemployed within the next 6 months. Same applies to young shopify entrepreneurs (dropshipping)... I don't think it is about gender.
> With GCC adding Rust support there is no longer one "official" compiler.

No, there's will still only be one official compiler – the one written and provided by The Rust Project.

> If Rust wants to supplant C in embedded, a specification is required.

You're getting your history backwards.

C did not become successful because of its specification, it got a specification because it was successful.

Similarly, if Rust becomes successful enough, it will probably get a specification. But the popularity will drive the work on a specification, not the other way around.
Although they claim to not be abandoning the idea and the trademark altogether, I don't really understand the reasoning behind not using such a seemingly strong brand. Mindstorms appeared pretty popular with hobbyists and in education.
I'd phrase that as legal departments don't have veto power on anything unless management gives it to them.

If I -- Minion #64752 in BigCorp -- run my ad copy by legal and they strike it all as a legal hazard, but I run the ad anyway, my boss -- Low-Level Manager #11235 -- is going to fire me the next day, and hope that keeps his boss -- Mid-Level Manager #3142 -- from doing the same to him.

If legal doesn't have veto power on ad copy, it's because the management hasn't given it to them, or because management is making the decision to disregard legal's advice.
Musk doesn't listen to legal.
Indeed, this is exactly how the FAA medical system works. People either avoid medical care, or conceal it by paying in cash for everything, rather than risking their medical status.
Are you aware of how many government grants and tax benefits Tesla/SpaceX have collected[1]? They're as much "government money sifting leeches" as the rest.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-201...
Poll: Who do you trust less, humans or computers?
Alternatively: Computers programmed by Humans, or Humans programmed by computers?
It's entirely possible DOJ decided this was a good time to leak this information. For instance, just spitballing, they might be saying, "hey, we're going to bring charges, but not for a while, and we want to tell investors ahead of time so that the news causes less volatility, and the volatility will be better isolated to just Tesla."

No real way to know from the outside, unless they bring charges against a leaker.
This should also be the case for nim. Generated C always looks very simple with -d:danger (when all memory access checks disappear).
You are not alone. I've been using an iPhone for over a decade now. I've had Siri turned off the entire time. I have never turned it on. I do not now, or ever, want a "voice assistant" or any technology that listens to me and tries to understand what I want by listening to me. I want technology that does exactly what I tell it to do and nothing more.

Siri is a better option than the alternative "voice assistants" on the market, but they're all bad in my book, and I don't want any of them.
'Mindstorm' are more suited for over 10 yo children. For younger children the 'Boost' line (17101 set) may be a good choice (there is nothing said about it in the announcement). Also there is plenty of chinese clones of the previous generations of Mindstorm (and maybe the reason for the discontinuation).
It's almost like trying to invade the capital is a crime or something.
I think it depends on the details of the install, if you can install it directly in line of the cold line input and the boiler, I think that works fine.

But I think instead often the heat recovery is installed somewhere in-line after the boiler, to make piping easier, but it makes heat management obviously more complicated.
I think you missed the end of the article where any MacOS app could turn on your AirPods microphone without any permissions at all and at any time at all.
More like the complete lack of anything resembling work.
I would sooner assume this was an outdated anecdote.

Companies are more willing to bend over backwards in their early days, when they're still trying to make a name for themselves (the honeymoon period). The abuse starts once they've bested the competition and become a household name.
Any idea what some good search terms might be to find it? Googling hasn't yielded any leads for me yet. Good chance it's down but maybe it exists on archive.org somewhere.
Which is just patently silly from a cursory glance at history and the horrific acts committed under every economic, religious, and social structure ever.
The point is that the answer is "everyone who needs to be able to".

The number of expert and curious people, with the means, is higher than the number of new chip types Apple or Intel produces. There's always a detailed die photo available within the first few weeks of a product launching.
Advertising can be helpful if it’s done carefully, with taste (Daring Fireball is a good example).

Apple it would appear are losing their taste which is a real shame, because they’re willingly giving up their edge over Google.

If I’m forced into ads, I trust Google to do them better.

I find it remarkable that the rest of Apple internally hasn’t politically shot the ads division in the face yet.
Siri's performance and quality seems to depend a lot on the on-board ML cores since it switched to on-device. It was basically unusable on my 6S Plus with its early ML cores, and now it's great on the 14 Pro Max I replaced it with. It seems like they ship a Siri to match the device capability.
You've probably got a minute or two to practice, yeah?
Typically you would say it's a drop of X percentage points, or just "points", or a decrease of Y percent. Using X instead of Y is simply wrong - whether it's wrong mathematically or verbally is philosophical.
How much does cocaine cost around the world?
Right, there are failure modes that have to be tested and accounted for, and one of them is the state being inconsistent after a shutdown.

The previous poster seemed to advocate for not thinking of this as a failure mode at all but rather normal operation, which I just don’t see as true.
> Revenue increased by 2% on a constant currency basis.

Yeah, but flat isn't much better.
I agree with all the above. Nothing to do with the username, either.
In this case I suspect it’s also a ‘Elon musk has too many lawyers and is acquiring a company that “buys ink by the barrel”’ problem too.

Everyone involved is going to be very careful to not end up personally targeted or liable, and that nothing done could be twisted to make themselves or the administration look like idiots.

It’s a big part of why ‘the rich don’t have consequences’, as is the current fashion to say - they can defend themselves against all but the most careful prosecutions, and can afford to hire people to make sure their asses are covered (if they think to do so).

As to if Elon actually did cover his ass here is yet to be determined. I think he probably didn’t sufficiently, but can muddy the waters enough to not go to prison, and would just have to shell out some money in a decade or so to fines or civil suits.

Only time will tell!
Or have very young children.
It's the claims he makes about the present that are a problem. Also, when he's selling "beta" access with the expectation that "release" access will be more expensive and a neverending promise of "this year" and "next year", that sounds like reasonably clear-cut fraud to me.
Meta's real problem is Zuck.
People constantly bug @TimSweeneyEpic on Twitter about this topic, including myself, but he never answers. I suspect UE1 has too many third-party licenses that it would not be worth it. Bink from RAD comes to mind.
Teaser trailer for kons-9 Common Lisp 3D system
Teaser trailer for kons-9 Common Lisp 3D system. Complete with cheesy epic music.
Looks like Bun and uWebSockets are the next two technologies I’ll be exploring. Very exciting!
"Full TCC Bypass on macOS"
You could try reaching out to Kate Swanborg. That sounds like some sort of partnership deal that she may have been involved with. Worth a try!
> plenty of cases

If so, can you mention just a few more?

The address change fraud is a real problem, but the personnummer is used for identification and not authentication in that case as well.

The government cannot mandate all citizens to have e-IDs, so other alternatives to change your address must be provided. Since having an up to date address is mandatory, this alternative process must also be accessible (e.g. the closest tax office might be far away, so requiring the alternative process to be in-person would be impractical).

So the alternative process is that you fill in a form, sign it, and send it to the tax agency. To specify whose address is being changed, the form asks for your personnummer (it also asks for your name, but neither is intended to authenticate you). As verification, the tax agency sends a letter to your current address.

If the fraudster is able to intercept your mail, or if you do not notice the verification letter, the fraud is successful.

The e-ID alternative cannot be easily made opt-out, because the people who need the manual process also would be unable to opt out electronically. So as it stands, it’s opt-in, and almost everyone should opt into it.

Is this a mess, and a consequence of having a mandatory public address registry? Yes. But the personnummer isn’t used for authentication anywhere in this mess.
Bittersweet‽ What's the sweet part of Lego discontinuing Mindstorms?
I had thought the depopulation was slowing. Apparently not.

Can’t imagine this being any ruling party’s political priority with whispers of a recession in the air (I’m sure many will pay lip service)

I have no idea what to do about this. It’s such a severe, long term, tragedy of the commons situation.
You're absolutely right that children are not to be blamed for the sins of their parents. But in order to advance society we must work with human nature to make incentives aligned between disparate entities.

One of the most fundamental parts of human nature is that parents want to see their children do well, and it's often the biggest reason why people toil and overcome great difficulties instead of settling for the minimum it takes to sustain themselves -- all so that their children might enjoy a life better than theirs. Once government steps in between that relationship and guarantees that children will be fine no matter what the parents do or don't do, you remove that important incentive.

Should we let children born to poor parents starve or dumb parents stay uneducated? No, let's do what we can to alleviate that. But how far will you go to ensure that your parentage has no effect whatsoever on your life? Clearly it's not my fault that my parents aren't Yao Ming (7'6") and Ye Li (6'3"), but nevertheless I shouldn't expect to have the same chance at making the NBA as their children. Then why should a child who was born to parents who don't value the qualities it takes to succeed be equally successful as one who was born to parents who did?

In other words, how high should your equalizing bar go, to remove the influence of parents on children, especially in the face of the fact that public educational outcomes in this country are stubbornly refusing to budge as the amount of money spent per pupil rises year after year?

There is legitimate debate to be had here, beyond just downvoting me and calling me an unsympathetic child-hater.
"It was an insult to our customers".

This sums it pretty well. It is dissapointing to see Apple see this otherwise. There is enough ad-supported big-tech out there already. Think different.
Well said about the fuzzy nature of real world requirements.
Given that there may be tons of cost savings if they could get Product Managers to get to define requirements in a more testable/quantitative way.
There may be a push towards getting more out of the Product and Requirements side of things. Like making them define things vis-a-vis leetcode/topcoder style of problem statements.
Probably likely in companies or divisions where the requirements can be quantified in such a fashion.
I’m jealous, I’m grinding away for 8 hours at desk, not chilling on a roof, eating and dancing. I’d take that fake job. Plz…
Fischertechnik - Basically the direct competitor to Lego Technics. At least in Germany.
Studies have shown that people tend to converge to their natural potential, regardless of tutors, early life interventions etc.

The end product of career success seems to be much more nature than nurture
For the average age at death to be above life expectancy, virtually everyone who died "of" covid must have been elderly. And because humans don't live that long, the numbers of elderly who died must massively exceed the number of young people for that stat to skew so high.

I don't know if you read your link, but it makes my point perfectly. As a practical matter, the only people that died with covid were those so frail that they would have died anyway. This has always been the case for other mild but highly transmissible illnesses, such as the flu. It seems clear to me that if it wasn't for the unprecedented manner by which these deaths were attributed, the pandemic would have been indistinguishable from a bad flu season.

"Every vaccine anyone is allowed to offer to you is a lower risk than the disease." ... "That's how the various drug and medicine safety organisations worldwide work, what they are for, and the fundamental point of them."

And that's why they have objectively failed. You don't account for incompetent or corrupt authorities. Or that different products, both called "vaccine" can have different risks and benefits. The covid vaccine is nothing like the measles vaccines, by any metric.

"If one really think those risks count as negligible, why be afraid of the vaccines?"

... The risk of covid being negligible puts an upper limit on the potential benefit of the vaccine, but says nothing about it's safety. The risk of the vaccine is not zero, and for certain groups, ie. Young men, is quite significant (and no, not exceeded by covid).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10928-z#Sec14