skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there are structural problems and personnel problems. Most big, intractable problems come down to a combination of these two -- and the personnel problems are from structural causes.

The biggest issue is that we have no systematic tracking in the U.S. That means students are not given the opportunity to go to a vocational school, everyone is routed to a "college prep" high school. That causes people who would rather work on more practical things to listen to more abstract things, but watered down to the point of being uninteresting. Math is too boring for the smart kids, and irrelevant for everyone else.

The second biggest issue is personnel. Our math teachers aren't very good at math, and tend to be at the bottom of the barrel in terms of SAT scores. In other countries, the brightest college graduates go into teaching, or at least those in the upper quartile. In the U.S., it's those in the bottom quartile. I used to tutor Math education majors in Arizona - of all the majors I tutored, the math education majors were the worst, in terms of their knowledge and enthusiasm for the subject. At that time they needed only a single class beyond the standard freshman math curriculum. It was called "Advanced Calculus", but was basically just an introduction to real analysis. Basically you just go back over single variable calculus and are told the completeness axiom and Cauchy limits, and then you prove the major theorems of single variable calculus. That's it. The Math majors generally took this class in their freshman year (since they would AP test out of calculus, which was the only pre-requisite). The Math Ed majors would typically take it in in their Junior year, because almost none of them took AP calculus and many had to take remedial math classes. And it was a massive struggle for them. I would hear so many math ed majors complain that they hated math that one time I asked one "Why don't you try another major, if you hate math?" and the response was "Oh, I like teaching, but I hate math." That was really a moment of epiphany for me since I looked back on all the terrible math teachers I had, and saw the other side of the coin -- they hated the subject. They were having as much of a bad time as I was. That comes through, and influences the pedagogy.

In terms of books, I recommend anything by George F. Simmons, who adds historical notes and examples to his books. For example, "Differential Equations with Applications and Historical Notes".
Yes, doing it anonymously makes a big difference.
Mutagen is what you're looking for!

- Local and remote copy of files
- Two way sync

I've been using this for years, editing locally with Sublime, while running everything on a remote Linux vm. Because it's two way sync, anything created/modified on the server is also sync'd back to your local filesystem. I end up syncing most of the remote $HOME so I can easily fire up a new VM, sync, and go. It really is fantastic.

https://mutagen.io/documentation/synchronization
It’s rarely seen but possible to https://git-scm.com/docs/git-replace a commit and keep its SHA.
Paywalled, post a way back links pls
Some other names that I've encountered for these kinds of programming constructs:

* simulation variables (presumably because the separation into x/x' is similar to the now/next calculation of state in a lot of simulations).

* SSA (although there is a subtle difference as x' becoming x in the next period isn't really SSA without some extra edges in the graph).

I wonder how phi nodes would fit into the author's scheme?
Hstr: Bash and zsh shell history suggest box
A blog by Mastercard developers that finally makes clear one of the most misunderstood parts of Jenkins..."where does my Groovy code run!?". It also delves into an approach that tries to strike a balance between ease of use and performance.
The proposal here seems to make the idea of STM more natural by creating a language that keeps to that core concept.
> “A rose by any other name is a rose,” he said. “In the end it’s how a symbol affects you visually and emotionally. For many, it creates a visceral impact and that’s a fact.”

I'm sympathetic to both sides of this argument, but I think the "rose by any other name" allusion is inapt. The rose by any other name would smell as sweet, because the physical existence of the rose is independent of our social or cultural understanding of the rose. The swastika is a symbol and its offensiveness is due to our cultural understanding of its meaning as a symbol. The swastika is neither inherently a symbol of hatred and murder nor one of peace; it has no objective meaning or reality in itself.
Surely you should add Scott Aaronson to your list of world class reserchers and prolific bloggers. He's also quite often quoted in the main stream media.
Neat info! Yes I believe it was a kit. Would love to find the original catalog where it’s from.
I think part of the issue that appears to be glossed over is that the lockdown measures as such faced a real legal challenge in US. Reasonable people may agree that there was a lot of initial risk due to lack of knowledge of the nature of the risk ( transmissibility and so on ), but, even for a full blown lockdown, the US system does have a solution in place for that ( it was not utilized however ). If there was a time to use that solution ( martial law ), it was at the very beginning, but needless to say, politically it was not a palatable move. That, however, unlike what followed, at least would have been in line with our supposed form of government.

But since that happened and life does go on, states started doing things that clearly stepped over the line for some people without appropriate authority unleashing legal challenges in the process[1].

[1]https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/10/legal-challenges-cd...
The return of the raycasting renderer, with a vengeance. ;)
Stretch the timelines out a bit. Say the asteroid is two years off (a fairly typical startup runway). I would much rather know the planning, decisions and execution of the one thing that could save my life were done by well rested and level headed individuals, not stressed out sleep deprived people more prone to missing details and making mistakes.
Peddled Mitt Romney’s 1990 health plan in 2010? And what did numerous states do since to make it worse to slow/prevent change? Lawsuits.

Being socially behind the rest of the world by 30-ish years is about right for the US.

That it was a tenable Republican plan in 1990 and a tyrannical expansion of government to Republicans by 2010 just highlights the social regression.
In my town, the previous mayor had all the red light cameras removed, as it was considered a regressive tax. But now, the number of people that blaze through just-changed red lights is out of control. So the fix? The delay between red to green was increased. Some intersections now have a 5 to 10 second overlap of reds to allow for all the maniacs to speed through the just-changed light.
Who pays taxes on cash income?
Curious, what site do your recommend to get a VoIP number?
Getting a throwaway real phone number isn't always an option, let alone a private one.
Yeah, that is when the movement was already rather large and growing. Also, the previous Beer hall putch was know about internationally - it was big news.

Those dates don't predate nazism nor the symbol usage by Hitler.
When diving, I have a sense of flying/floating and when I am under it almost feels like I’m wrapped in a big fluffy blanket. When I dive, I feel like I am part of the environment, rather than just observing like you would at an aquarium. Snorkeling, while nice, doesn’t have the same feeling.
To argue for something politically I am not mentally tied to that concept (obvious problem is how human rights were introduced in the first place if there was no conception of human rights), for example looking at the morality (which is not synonymous with notion of rights), the practicality or utility of a given problem or just plain personal preference.

I believe that in the end any "right" is just a privilege, there's nothing that makes them 'happen' by themselves. Surely enough, you can strip every "human right" away even if they're declared to be inalienable and before modern times, there were plenty of regimes that violated them. If they exists as something independent of western conceptions of thought, how come they were not a thing until now? The history is much longer than the 200 or so years that they have existed in our minds.

Do you perhaps have some method by which you discover new human rights?
Good point. Might still be worth it though. When fetching all tags it becomes ridiculous after just a few thousand builds.
>If someone's job is in customer service and the key part of their role is to answer the phone when it rings/respond to the email when it arrives ... you don't need research to determine that if they are not there, the phone/email doesn't get answered.

You're correct that the phone doesn't get answered. But that's not "productivity". Productivity is the function of the hours worked and the results gained. Their job isn't just to answer the phone, it's to resolve problems and leave a customer satisfied. Too little sleep and a foggy brain? Might take them more time to resolve an issue. Might leave them unhappy and the customer can detect that.

The results might surprise you, they could be more productive and more phone calls are answered in less time because issues are resolved quickly. To get around the problem of no phones being answered on a Friday you could propose a rota so staff is properly covering every day of the week. If everyone is 20% more productive, then every day can afford to have 20% less staff. Problem solved. 24/7 businesses already rota customer service staff.

Maybe the rest of the staff are more productive and there's less problems. The knock on effect being that there's 20% less phone calls. The problem sorts itself there, they don't even need to be more productive.

Lets say that there is no productivity increase at all. Well, hire 20% more staff then. Large companies can afford it. The wealth gap is widening, capitalists with hundreds of millions or billions of pounds have convinced workers there's not enough money to go around, but we know that's bullshit.
NopeCHA: Captcha Solver
wen AI movies generated on the fly....
I have a slightly different issue. I feel a lot less productive when reading on monitor (laptop or otherwise) compared to say a paper copy. At the same time the amount of content I go thru is fairly large (lots of preprints). I have tried iPad but ends up being distracting. Never found a comfortable path to opening pdfs on kindle. Atm considering giving remarkable tablets a try.
Based on HackerNews' current policies, it is impossible to address your concerns surrounding content posted.

HackerNews leadership have chosen to not allow anyone to delete content after a period.

Regardless, it would be pointless given how easy it is to scrape this website (on purpose).
https://github.com/moby/buildkit it looks like it is not, kind of?
like everything else on the internet, this needs multiplayer ;)
> near universal

For those that prefer numbers, nonelderly Americans were ~17% uninsured pre-ACA, ~11% uninsured post-ACA:

https://www.kff.org/uninsured/issue-brief/key-facts-about-th...
Worked fine on i7-9900k + AMD RX 580. Not sure about supporting nanite/lumen though.
I recall this too. It was very controversial at the time and fizzled out.
Do you really want JRandomUser to be able to add notes to your repository? What additional permisioning and hooks would you need to set up and maintain to allow JRandomUser to be able to add a note to a commit but not create a new commit? ... but they need to be able to create commits on well known branches in order to add issues. Can they make it so that mirrors run out of disk space by adding notes to all the commits or extremely large issues? Should people who have the ability to force push be able to rewrite the contents of anything anyone wrote as an issue or note?

This way leads to madness. I'm sure it would be possible... but these are not headaches that I want to have.
It would also be nice to have functional scrollbars again, instead of the 3 pixel wide ones we have now which have removed support for clicking to scroll.
For me, Python's "from library import module as myname" is unbeatable.
I like to choose my own namespaces and assign whatever bits of a lib
to it as I feel like. It seems robust and flexible.
Most of the stuff people talk about as next gen is more like feature sugar, while the core of Godot has lots of the same core features in a different state. I recompile main branch almost daily, and things like Vulkan are working very well. Of course I'm not saying feature parity, but more to the point that despite the lack thereof, licensing itself is one of the things that does and will make Godot so powerful and why I think it or another FOSS engine like it will become much more than what people assume now.

I won't go too much into Epics lies about the engine and other issues (things like refusing all of the linux editor pr's and a community run one was better maintained, not releasing a launcher, using phone home stuff, to be fair this was UE4 days) TS talking lots shit about linux, pushing more launcher fragmentation via store exclusives, and other things that just showed me repeatedly Epic is not to be trusted... and thats before we even get to the license stuff.

Commercial licenses are bad, copyleft is good. Even for games, and sometimes I miss out on a few features by making almost all of my daily stack gpl-compat, but I also believe that computing is an inherently philosophical choice and I wish, more than anything on the topic, that people would get over their fear of selling copyleft software.

Tron fought for the user. Thats what copyleft does. Commercial licenses do not. Niether do BSD style licenses.
That's only 520x520 transistors. Using sot23 it would be maybe 2x2m.
You do realize that duckduckgo is primarily a frontend for bing right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Search_results
(1) Whenever "othering" is going on the weak are victimized but the strong are able to protect themselves. Sam Vaknin presents a particular case study because his whole narrative and behavior around narcissism is an obvious manifestation of the disease. (Look at "Stack Ranking" as an institution where a person who can convince management that their glass is 70% full and that yours is 30% empty will always win out.)

(2) If you've ever talked to someone in the limerent phase of love you will recognize that such a person will not bide any discourse that the love is a lost cause or that the love object is no damn good. "Naming and shaming" is a highly ineffective way to change people's behavior.

(3) The psychology of narcissism is full of insight into everyday psychology, ordinary behavior, and questions like "why do social interventions often have the opposite effect as intended?" If "narcissism" just becomes a label we slap on some other, we can't have conversations which might actually proof people from damage by narcissists.

(4) To take an example, some people would say the last president of the US was narcissistic and that he was a threat to democracy. On the other hand, one might say that democracy itself is problematic if somebody like that can run the gauntlet to get elected. Maybe that's "blaming the victim", but the real problem is the vulnerability of the population to a person with certain characteristics and simply calling out this person's characteristics has a polarizing effect where the people who weren't going to vote for him will glom on to this label and the people who were going to vote for this people will reject it. Daniel Boorstein in his 1963 book The Image thought that it was just a matter of time before celebrities would outcompete ordinary politicians and he might have been surprised it took as long as it did.

The problem is bad enough that one might conclude that democracy is not such a great idea after all, but one thing for sure is that someone is going to try to replicate his success again.
On US homes, drips are typically galvanized steel because they are a commoditized roofing product.

Gutters are usually aluminum because gutters and downspouts are a specialized trade and those businesses fabricate components on-site from aluminum roll stock to correctly fit the building.
Zsh-autocomplete: Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh
>I think it helps to start with the assertion that benefits from economic/productivity growth have accrued to owners, not workers, and that a correction is overdue - if you don't agree with that, discussion over working fewer hours feels moot.

That is exactly what I meant by this being a political project to which we try to will evidence into existence.
The problem entirely boils down the size of the US and how normalized it is for people to relocate entirely away from their family for work.

I have a very large family that was stable in one city for a very long time (100+ years). I moved away for work (not even very far, only 3 hours drive) and it's very different from my cousins who came back. I've always assumed since there are so many other countries smaller than many US states (geographically) that this would be a less common problem.

Not to go all conspiracy theory either, but the involvement of politics in activities that routinely brought communities together have certainly had a noticeable impact as well. It's happened so much in the last 15 years especially that it seems intentional.
6-7 for the month, then take the next several months (or longer) off.
Why not a issues/ directory with one file per issue ? Put comments there, track them by author as commit author. Consider them part of a branch or a release. (So a big could be fixed in a branch and not in another).
I hope we see some hibernation breakthroughs in the coming years, but I think that (unfortunately) our species is going to remain “grounded” if we don’t develop Faster Than Light (FTL) travel capabilities.
The US doesn't subsidize those vehicles. In 2008, the Obama government passed the CAFE emissions standards which carved out an exception for vehicles used for commercial purposes. Most pickups and large vehicles fall under this exception and can be profitable due to lower emissions standards.

The rest is true but a bit complicated. The US Federal government subsidizes arterials which gives local governments an incentive to build more arterials so they can receive more federal funding.
Nothing happens without reason and some of those reasons maybe due to choices made earlier in life. Take responsibility for those choices , and most importantly if someone is feeling lonely please consider to wholeheartedly getting involved in volunteering and helping others. It is not a replacement for a relationship but it opens doors to human connections. Life is impermanent , we come alone and go alone , whatever time you find in this planet try whatever ways you can connect to others.
I'm a big fan of Streaks!
800k+ people is in line with expectations from the population and incidence rates of narcissism.
Sam Bankman-Fried, Elon, and a secret text
>fucking no one uses Vulkan

Doesn’t valve/the steam deck?
Curious why downvoted ?
Coupling healthcare to a job is exploitative. Those business owners are not owed anyone’s labor. If they can only survive given politically correct shackles on social agency, they should not exist as businesses.
> I've been in front collisions with European cars a couple of times

I hope you doing some sort of crash rally?
It happens so often that I, too, assume it is done for precisely the same reason.
Can someone please tell the Windows Start Menu designers? Have completely ruined the experience as it constantly juggles items as its heuristics are seemingly updated. I especially enjoy how Bing results get prioritized over local applications and files.
Off-topic Rhetoric about productivity is unrelated to observations of political nastiness from covert narcissists responsible for polarizing toxic environments.

Talented people with options tend to identify such situations, become disenchanted with being exploited, and eventually leave.

Enhance your calm =)
It’s making me wonder if permanent ornamental LED lights aren’t an option. Checking that…

Well, looks like both permanent and seasonal professional installs are happening.

https://tulsaworld.com/lifestyles/home-and-garden/merry-and-...
an intriguing idea :)
Eight countries will make up over half the projected total population increase by 2050:

India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania, the Philippines and Egypt.

India is expected to overtake China as the world’s most populous country next year (2023), when China’s population is expected to start declining.

61 countries are projected to experience a population reduction by 2050.

(Source: United Nations Population Fund, 2022)
If you're interested in this, you might be interested in the terrestrial radio navigation systems that predated GPS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_%28navigation_system%29

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loran-C#e_LORAN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_navigation
> Also, most of the time, models don't really matter. What makes or breaks most DS projects is soft-skills, stakeholder management, and data cleaning / feature engineering.

I have the same impression. I did my Master's degree in data science, but I quickly realized that coming up with ideas and running the models is the easy part. Doing the engineering work + synthesizing everything such that value creation occurs is more difficult.

I'm happily doing mostly data engineering + stakeholder management instead of hyperparameter tuning.
Moby is Docker.
Well yes, but if I had reflection I could make a general 'serializer' routine that has backends for multiple formats (JSON, HDF5, CDF, ROOT, etc).
Overlaps with functional reactive programming
> When dealing with a large project, whether it is a new plane, a big infrastructure, anything large and unique, you should take any budget with a big pinch of salt, there is no way anyone can predict precisely how a complex project, that involves a lot of research, millions of moving pieces, is going to cost from the outset.

You are talking about uncertainty -- e.g. risk. But that should lead you to overestimate as often as you underestimate so that you're average is on target but there is wide variation in individual results. If there is a systemic bias causing you to underestimate costs consistently, then you cannot blame uncertainty for that.
Looks nice. Can it import/export subscription with newpipe ?
Spotify (on Android) is the worst offender for this.

The playlist shortcut shows six playlists, but 2-5 seconds after rendering these, about the same time it takes you scan over them and see if the playlist you want is offered in this set and get your finger into position, it re-renders them with different content & different order.

The full playlist selection does the same thing, using some hybrid and opaque MFU / MRU algorithm -- I'd be delighted with a pure alphabetical ordering, rather than having to visually scan down an unsorted list that's re-ordering itself as I read.

Mind, the Spotify UI can be held up as a shining example for basically every user-hostile anti-pattern, so I guess there's some consistency in their design.
Yeah I’ve done extensive work on the house and anywhere that’s original is in great shape. All the wood is old growth. It had termite damage at one point but the termites only ate areas where newer (lesser quality) wood was used.

Heck, even the mirror in the bathroom opens and closes perfectly and it’s 110 yrs old.

The downsides are there was zero insulation in the walls when we bought it and the leaded glass windows are single pane. I’ve mostly fixed the insulation problem but the windows will always be pretty to look at but inefficient.