skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a friend who is an administrator at the Las Vegas School District and he was just telling me about this program.

In his words, it sounds all well and good that students have all the time they want to learn the materials. In practice though, you now have no way of gauging how well students are retaining the lessons until the end of the quarter. There's no way to actually catch them up, so the solution has been to drop testing standards as well.

Teachers themselves aren't complaining so much about it because it's a lot easier for them - less grading, less conflict with students, and they can stick to their planned curriculum without slowing down for students.

The "equity" piece of it is mostly window dressing - outside of some grading chicanery there is no reason to believe that it would do anything other than increase the disparity of outcomes between students later in life.
He still likely lost money. What if this guy did this process 5 times over the 5 years (build/sell) instead of sitting on a single property, taking his time?
This is a weird question.

You can't objectively define that because what adds nothing to story A could add everything to story B. However, it's not very difficult to read an individual story and pick out which parts do and don't contribute to the plot well. This is just talking about Chekov's Guns.
This is just my opinion obviously, but I don't think those advantages particularly matter for gaming.

1. Gamers don't want cloud gaming. Latency matters. Cloud gaming is at best an addon for when you can't use your console.

2. Xbox is the least popular gaming platform. If things keep going the way they are I would not be surprised if Microsoft got rid of Xbox before the next console cycle.

3. Windows being the leading operating system has no impact on the gaming industry

This honestly reeks of an analysis done by outsiders that don't actually understand the industry. On the other hand, this consolidation also sucks to see.
Your problems mostly stem from the fact that your son's teacher doesn't know his elbow from his ass, mathematically. Which, given the current climate, is unsurprising, as anyone with a basic understanding of mathematics will run[1], not walk away from a teaching job.

Unfortunately, it's a valid criticism.

More unfortunately, switching to another standard for teaching math isn't going to solve this.

[1] Why be society's punching bag, on the front-lines of an insane litigation and culture war, have your heavily-backloaded pay be contingent on putting up with decades of this kind of bullshit, all while trying to do a mixture of teaching and social work?
"Flexible generation" also means coal and gas... So it is not an elusive technology. Neither are hydro power plants which can be varied in their output.
Is there something like that, but for EMV/POS?
A then Transmeta employee (of mild fame) says that the raw Transmeta architecture isn't really suited as a target for normal end user code, as things like memory protection don't actually exist in the "real" architecture. (https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=105606848227636&w=2)

Some people did do a bit of dive into the raw architecture (https://www.realworldtech.com/crusoe-exposed/) but I don't think anyone ever really tried to create a compiler for it, and it would be a moving target anyway as the different Transmeta CPUs seem to use different instruction sets widths (128 bit wide on Crusoe, 256 bit on Efficeon).
Yeah, so, if the tax office applied specific penalties for the delay, accounted for cost of sale, and deducted those specific costs, assessed with due process and challengable on their own merits, before refunding any excess value, that would be one thing.

But “we don’t profit in net from this practice so we should be free to keep arbitrary and unlimited excess proceeds from every individual subject regardless of the actual bill and reasonable costs in the specific case” is simply not a viable takings clause argument as I see it. And I think the Supreme Court majority is less favorable to the government on taking clause issues in general than I am...
Interesting. Linus Torvaldes was once a Transmeta employee.
Very interesting to see this agreement happen! I'm sure a lot of rural Canadians would appreciate being able to send text messages from remote areas in emergency situations, etc.

Especially for hikers/campers who go up there for weeks at a time - would help with those situations where you want to stay camping for one more week but you can't as you've told your loved ones you'd be back by a certain date/time. Instead, a quick text to say you're okay and you plan to stay a while longer would be a nice convenience.

Unfortunate that Canada seems to be allowing the mergers of massive telecom companies without any concerns of monopolization, price fixing, etc. etc, though that's a bit of a tangent.
On the contrary in a capitalist society wealth taxes are the most moral taxes. The reason is that capitalism is inherently self reinforcing, if you have money you can make money. This causes a feedback loop that accelerates wealth upward until you end up in a feudal state. So it is the moral duty of the state to push wealth back down to keep the system from collapsing.

Taxes need to be focused on passive sources of income like investments. Income that is generated by work that produced goods or services should be minimally taxed to encourage more of those activities.
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For anyone who is low to mildly interested in sports, this is pushing them to consume zero sports. I wonder if they're not shooting themselves in the foot long term.
They would have no way of knowing if your wife or you are using your wife's account, so of course it doesn't include that. Why would you need to clarify that? They don't have spyware turning on your camera for facial recognition lol
OPs admit to it all the time in the comments.
I get about 4mi/kWh and electricity is $0.10/kWh so approximately 2.5 cents per mile
Common core standards are pretty good, if you have the chance read into them you'll find you agree with most if not all of it.

It's failing stem entirely from implementation and execution (on every level), leaving a lot of people wondering if general standards top-down are even the solution here, seeing how No Child Left Behind was handled.
> Of course it’s in question. Taxes must be apportioned according to the Constitution.

Federal taxes, other than those on income, maybe, but this is not about federal taxes.
The way I think others are thinking about it is that to Activision, making innovative new franchises or long term investments in general is a big risk since they are 100% a games company. Whereas if Microsoft owns them may face less pressure to cut costs/long term investments since it would make up a much smaller part of Microsoft's financials.

Whether that is how things usually turn out in practice with these sorts of acquisitions is a question I don't have a good answer to.
Apparently they looked something like this https://i.imgur.com/PcEixHo.png

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I struggled with German in middle school because it was the only foreign language available there and I wanted to hone my English instead.

Ultimately what helped me to pass were dubbed animated series like The Simpsons. Live action stuff usually had too much background noise for me to follow properly.
I’m going to quote Chateaubriand, talking about the French of his time: “the French instinctively go where the power is; they don’t love freedom at all; equality alone is their only idol. And equality and despotism have secret connections between them. Seen under that light, Napoleon’s rule drew its power from the very hearts of the French people” (badly translated by me on a small iPhone while reading Compagnon’s The Antimoderns)

As such, it isn’t me or people thinking like me that you should fear (i.e. people who quote Chateaubriand to a total techie stranger on the web), you should fear the “quintessential” French (or Westerner, in today’s age) that goes “where the power is” by instinct (on this La Boetie was right centuries ago). That is if you people really care about your freedom.
The logic doesn't make sense, and Microsoft also doesn't have a market power advantage here.

The Xbox Series X/S has been a bit of a boondoggle and Sony is vastly outselling Microsoft this generation. Not to mention the existence of Nintendo, Valve and other PC gaming stores. The argument that this would weaken competition for gaming consoles is laughable.

Sony and Nintendo have exclusive games to gain an advantage. Now an American company wants to do the same thing, and they are blocked.

American companies are being put at a competitive disadvantage due to ridiculous anti-trust interpretations. Basically the CMA and FTC are trying to prevent any American tech company from acquiring another tech company for political points at home. How did we get to this point?

It is extremely dangerous to throw logic out the window, as this results in bureaucrats picking winners and losers.
It's not the CMA's job to make that judgement, that's what expert testimony is for.

But:

- Residential broadband quality is stagnating in large parts of the world; theoretical peak speeds keep increasing, but so is overprovisioning, and latency is worsening due to increased reliance on 4G/5G for residential connections, leaving vast demographics incapable of having the required stable, low jitter, high bandwidth connection during the typical "prime entertainment" time slots. Noninteractive media can compensate for that easily, interactive… not so much.

- Externalizing energy and cooling costs to customers can be attractive, especially in high-cost locales like Western Europe. Additionally, space for data centres close to customers is limited, and competition is high. Microsoft has enough synergies with their other cloud offerings to make this feasible as long as demand is low-ish, but if it dramatically increases, they'll have to make tough decisions wrt pricing. And even if it comes out ahead… this is the sort of monopolist advantage that CMA is worried about. Sony etc. don't have this advantage. (Presumably one of the reasons why Sony's current cloud gaming offerings are noticeably worse in quality.)

- Game console manufacturers aren't doing much R&D these days, the machines are standard PCs/tablets with mildly modified off-the-shelf software on top. Customers, meanwhile, are much more likely to be loyal to and seek to justify their invest into the $500 box in the living room, than a service they can subscribe to when a new game comes out, and unsubscribe from at the end of the month when they're done with it.

- Leasing has been the dominant model for 10+ years. Steam and other game launcher do not let their customers own anything, and "subscribe to play the 5 most advertised games" services are highly popular. Cloud gaming is not required for this business model. Indeed, freeing these services from the requirement to own a $500 box would make it easier for users to keep switching to whoever has the best offering currently, which reduces profits.

- See above, game consoles are already highly standardized with little effort needed to port between them. And cloud gaming just adds more platforms, since each vendor will have his own (vendor lock in) optimized image formats/APIs/whatnots.
Huh, what? It's completely reasonable to question the methodology. That's not nitpicking.

I get it. You want to take the data at face value without questioning anything.
There's a great paper from 2004 about reverse engineering the CMS of the Crusoe:

https://www.realworldtech.com/crusoe-intro/

To my knowledge the foreshadowed followup was never released.
> I too have noticed the big gap is writers

I started watching "The Night Agent" but the dialogue became too painful for me to carry on after about four or five episodes. That coupled with a script where two secret service agents bitch at each other like children eventually nailed the coffin.
What 2b1b, as well as other science YouTubers do is that they give you insight that more conventional teaching may lack. What YouTubers don't offer however is training, as in, the sometimes boring part where you do exercises.

They are complementary, an entertaining YouTube video may first give you motivation to get into a seemingly boring subject. It may also help you after you took your classes, to help make elements fall into place, but it only works if you have learned the elements beforehand.

As educative these videos are, they are entertainment, and they are driven by the rules of entertainment, they wouldn't get much views otherwise. So it leans heavily on accessible and clever explanations, surprising results and relatively short form, the boring stuff is often left out, and unfortunately, some of it is necessary to progress. Most science YouTubers admit it, and urge everyone to take school seriously.

I have never learned a field just from YouTube videos. It either left me with superficial knowledge (which is better than nothing) or acted as a way to consolidate knowledge I already had.
> Epic is one of the good ones

Maybe if your only comparison is Activision and EA. When you consider all the dark patterns Fortnite employs to encourage logging playtime and making purchases, they're only separated from those others by degrees. Stacked up against developers that largely avoid those patterns (FromSoft, Nintendo, CDPR, etc), Epic is most certainly closer to the "bad" side of the spectrum.
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> hachyderm.io had trouble scaling ... with 30,000 users and over $5000 worth of equipment... They were able to migrate ... to Digital Ocean ... at a cost ... [of] more than $1000/mo.

1 TB of data fits several time in a typical consumer HDD. Is it really not enough to have $5,000 USD of hardware to run a 30K-user Mastodon instance?
That "minor nuclear incident" required a clean up that still isn't finished and already ran up a tab of about a trillion Dollars.

Pro-nuclear propaganda tries to focus on "only" one direct fatality, and conveniently ignores all the cost associated with not running up that number.
In some places men from the government will show up at your house to punish you for going online and saying gamer words.
"This whole idea that we can just get rid of formal languages entirely and replace them with natural languages isn't going to pan out; we have formal languages for a reason -- you don't have to guess the magic spell that will cause the output you want, you can get the output you want because you know how the system works"

This reminds me of Inform 7 (where you can use "natural language" to program text adventure games) and "visual" programming languages like Pure Data.

They are fine for simple things, but when you want something complex or want to debug something they can become a nightmare.

LLMs are currently better in many ways than Inform 7, and they'll likely get better still, but there will likely still be a role for formal languages. Fortunately, LLMs can take formal language as input as well, and with the addition of plugins, they'll be able to execute programs written in formal languages.
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You're off by a few centuries. Even if you use the boundaries of present day India as the threshold, Muslim led empires have controlled a majority of the land and the people since at least two centuries before Babur. Nor was it restricted to just North India - the Khilji controlled almost all of South India, even beyond Madurai, as early as 1320. As the power of the Delhi Sultanate waned, its territory was snapped up by other Sultanates, with even more territory held by vassal states. By 1300 the Sultanates would hold more of modern day India than not, and would continue to do so till their consolidation by the Mughals.
There is a newer version of the second article https://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/annotated-transformer/
I’m asking if it’s good faith because it feels like it cannot possibly be.

You can have any opinion you like, but it’s kind of pointless to think that your small experiences are sufficient to generalize. on top of that, I feel like you’re probably just making up your anecdata or exaggerating the size of it to justify your desire to state an opinion you know other people will not like.

I don’t really care what your opinion is either way. But your experiences are about as valuable as my grandparents’ experience with “the Blacks”.

No, you don’t need to conduct a study to state your opinions. But at the same time, your opinion is meaningless, and it’s not “silencing conversation” to acknowledge that and end the discussion there.

But let’s have it anyway.

I don’t have any opinion on whether transwomen are more aggressive than cisgendered women. If I had to guess, yeah, they probably are? Why does that matter?
I found the iTunes family sharing stuff too complicated and just lent my password to my family instead. Which I wouldn't do with friends because that's actually a lot of access.
> They don't have spyware turning on your camera for facial recognition lol

Yet.
Yes, I understand all types of people create valuable things, and I absolutely do not mean to imply that just because someone is not highly educated,they cannot provide something amazingly worthwhile. I also very much enjoy food from other cultures, and would not want it to disappear.

So, let's take a look at food - and some data.

Only 150 years ago, it required over 70% of the population to produce enough food for 100% of the population. Today, it is under 5% in rich countries, and about 65% in poor countries [0].

Obviously, given the uneven distribution of technology and knowledge, those people are today contributing to society.

But it is also true that fully distributing modern agricultural technology will make entirely redundant (to the maintenance of a technologically advanced society) something like half of the world's population.

And that is just an example from one industry.

The point is that declining replacement population does NOT automatically mean that the technological level of society will decline.

Correlation is not causation.

If anything, population increased as a result of technological advance — ability to generate more food, better shelter, better medicine — technology was not the result of greater population. Once we have the technology, evenly distributing it will require far fewer people to build and maintain it.

Let's take it a step further, and say we want to avoid using massive amounts of fertilizer and pesticides common in modern agriculture. That will STILL not require the same amount of people slaving in the fields. The technology that will enable scaled-up organic farming is also massively labor-saving — agricultural robotics, not only planting and picking, but most critically monitoring for and eliminating weeds and pests [1,2].

Yes, there will be a greater need for people fabricating and maintaining agricultural robots, but that will be dwarfed by the number today's slaving-in-the-fields-jobs that will disappear in a near future decade. If they do not reproduce at full replacement rates, we will still have a society that has both technological workers, and others who contribute much more to the culture, including authentic cuisine.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/employment-in-agriculture

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/five-roles-robots-...

[2] https://www.ieee-ras.org/agricultural-robotics-automation
I know wind varies a lot with altitude and there are a lot of available maps of wind such as 2m, 10m, 850mb, 250mb, etc. What altitude wind are you showing on the vis and what are the heights of these wind farms?
That's my understanding too. At the end of the day, I'm sure this will be a PITA, but what stops Activision from spinning off its UK business operations into a separate entity that will not be part of the Activision-Microsoft deal?

Not to mention that the only part of distribution this can affect is the physical one. I mean, if I want to sell a game on Steam and sell it in all the regions Steam operates in, I can do so without needing a business presence in every individual country...
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This has been incredibly frustrating for me.

DJI arguably makes the best consumer drones - and as a platform I love my Mini Pro 3. It's small and light enough to easily put in a pack, easy to fly, and just works well apart from DJI's geofencing system.

HOWEVER - I'm heavily restricted from using it at my own property, not because of the FAA or any other government restrictions, but because of DJI.

I live about 10-miles from an airport. Per the FAA's on "B4UFLY" app - my rural property is clear of any restrictions, outside of the altitude restricted zone of the airport. However, DJI draws their own "FlySafe Geo" map differently, and places me in an altitude zone where I'm limited to 150-meters.

This wouldn't be so bad, except that I live next to a large hill/small mountain, that's a great place to fly over and take photographs.

If I were to go to the top of the mountain (also in DJI's altitude restricted area) and take off, I could fly out 150m from the top of the mountain, no issues. But since DJI takes no note of the ground height changing as you fly, if I take off from my property and try to fly my drone to the top of the mountain, I'd crash into its side long before I got there.

There's really no solution to this issue, besides hoping that someone creates a hacked firmware for my drone that ignores DJI's restrictions, like they have for other DJI models.

If another manufacturer developed a comparable drone that didn't suffer from DJI's restrictions, I'd buy it in a second.
And like the proposed Mill design, the Crusoe had a skewed pipeline (the Mill folks call is phasing for some reason). That is, different parts of the instruction complete at different clocks, typically load then operations then stores allowing for single instruction loops for, say, copying an array while doubling the values in it. Easy for compilers to handle but I can't imagine writing assembly like that by hand.
I'm aware privacy law applied to facial recognition, not copyright law. Nowhere did I imply that it was copyright law. I brought it up to illustrate that "activity + human" vs "activity + computer" can differ in legality for the same activity.

> go pass a law amending copyright law if you think so

I don't need to do anything. Let's see until one of these cases come to the courts. You're talking as though it's a foregone conclusion that they'll rule the way you think. I wouldn't be so sure myself.
In my experiences, "morality" is used by other people in order to browbeat their choices into you, via peer pressure or shame.

Ethics, on the other hand, is a set of self-imposed rules or rules of a group that you wilfully accept and join.

I'd say the issues surrounding ethics and morality is that of consent and willful acceptance. I do not consider 'morality' itself to be ethical.
The group-think around nuclear power on HN is indistinguishable from religious fervor and doesn't agree with average public opinions in any countries I know of. Certainly not Germany...
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Highway tolls in France have been doing it for something like 20 years.
Here's the library: https://github.com/mboeh/toe_tag

It's a decade old and less than 100 lines so it might be more useful as an example than a gem. The last time I needed to do something like this I just rewrote the parts I needed. The ecosystem is just generally better about exceptions than it used to be, too.
Employees of Taiwanese fans work insane hours and one of the problems with replicating it here was workers not willing to work the hours that Taiwan did. Don’t know if pay in Taiwan is competitive, but when we’re talking about work/conditions, it should be pointed out.
Or a court ruling.