skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://archive.is/gltJz

The reasons for why the star changes are three part .

1. Lucy Calkins feel free to google her . (clarifying she is pedaling a bullshit program that for many years promoted anti-phonics. People bought into it as it was new and from Columbia university. So it must be good.)

2. Lucy Calkins Runs Columbia’s Teachers College to some extent. Combined with the bias that Columbia’s program must be better then anything else ever , because it’s “Columbia” and “ if you were this smart you would have gone here !”

3. Local school districts in NY State operate as defacto municipal governments. Orton Gillingham / science based literacy programs are not promoted as they are A. Thought of as not fast to teach and there for will cause added expense . B. The teachers who get trained and certified are not incentivized to stay employed where they were trained. They use it as way to make more money . C. Outside firms who provide OG based services to school districts ( Wilson , Spire etc ) tend to a charge the schools a lot . Remember in NY it’s not the state taxes paying for it but local residents. D. Teacher bias that only “ ADHD , Poor , Minorities ,Non Native Speakers etc etc “ students can’t learn to read .

So while NYC is leading the way the rest of the state needs to follow suit. To be fair many other states are failing for similar reasons. Florida state has a free OG based reading program . IIRC it’s 2-Clause BSD licensed .
Protesting itself is meant to be disruptive though - otherwise what's the point?

You can stand around in a group in a fenced off corner and make some noise and no one will care.

You can annoy people, disrupt a small part of their lives and suddenly they will have an opinion on what you are protesting about, but also an opinion on what protesting should be.

Disruptive protests do eventually change the little part of the world around you, for better or worse.
If it were to happen "legally", instead of "civil war II: the farce", I suppose the obvious bit would be to pass a constitutional amendment[1] to allow Texas to secede, probably after a Texit referendum. Presumably similarly to Brexit all the nitty gritty minor details like "not destroying the economy" can be worked out in negotiation between Texas and the USA, which will no doubt leave the newly independent Texas in a worse place and generally unhappy, but FREEEEEEEE.

[1] "Why would the other states ratify this?" you ask? Lets not quibble over minor details in silly make believe scenarios.
To put a rough guess on some numbers, with a phonics-based program I reckon you will get something like 80-90% of kids to read, with a "whole language" one, about 30% at best (though some more kids will end up reading because their parents hire a private phonics tutor, or do what your friend did).

Kids with dyslexia or other disabilities affecting reading will need special help (this includes the case of kids who simply need glasses so they can see the letters properly!), and for some severely intellectually disabled kids, they may never be able to read.

One of the promises of "Reading Recovery" (the non-phonics based approach) was that it would help the 10-20% who were still struggling despite phonics at school, and if it had done that it would have been worth celebrating. The problem is that switching to that approach in schools actually massively reduced the proportion of proficient readers.
> even aircraft

Brilliant, I'd love to see that enacted!
> Claiming wisdom based on the Bhagavad Gita, the bots frequently go way off script.

Is the problem really that they go off script or that they follow the scriptures too accurately? Not sure how the Indian literature compares to the Bible in that regard.
Why does the protest have to be right in front? Isn't a march through the city just as, if not more, effective to get your voices heard? Of course you won't be able to terrify vulnerable young women, but it'd be great if we could all agree that's a good thing!
> then it is no different from the US dollar

Yeah?

Can you decide to create more gold out of thin air on a Monday morning like Washington has been doing for the past 100 years with the USD?
Oh my. After about a single night of that I would invent a water clock.
The only way YouTube and Twitch can stay in business is because their respective owners have the scale to demand massive, massive peering discounts from "last-mile" ISPs and, at least in the case of Google, can avoid middle men on the intercontinental fiber links as they simply have their own cables where they don't need to pay rents to anyone.
So they do care about desktop users?
A proper, written constitution and a suitable head of state and court to uphold it is the primary objective of the republican protesters.

https://www.republic.org.uk/britains_daft_constitution
No conspiracy here, just people in power trying to increase their control over people's lives, as usual. It's a distributed phenomenon that arises from human nature.

https://thecritic.co.uk/have-we-really-lost-the-plot/

" Pundits continue to sneer, dismissing critics of 15 minute cities (a critique, as the great Simon Cooke points out, that it’s perfectly reasonable to make) as “conspiracy theorists”. "

https://simoncooke.substack.com/p/smart-cities-are-just-muni...

"In this explanation we begin to see just how authoritarian the urban green agenda has become - not a surprise given that Moreno is an advocate of ‘smart cities’ and literally profits from authoritarian smart city technology:"
I have agnostic/atheist friends who are “better Christians” than many of the professed Christians I grew up with in Central Texas, and the country I live in, Germany, is currently more of a “Christian” country than my home region, despite (or because of?) a much lower level of personal faith, if you use “what did Jesus tell us to do” as your main metric (feeding, clothing, housing poor), but less-religious Finland is even more Christian by that measure.

And I say that as someone who still considers herself to be a Christian.

The Western world is a lot less authoritarian than it was 60 years ago for people like me - women, that is. In the early 60s, I could not get a bank account, a job or a driver’s license without my husband’s permission in Bavaria.

And that was nothing to very Catholic Francoist Spain, where I couldn’t leave the country or study at university without my father’s (if unmarried) or husband’s permission.
> They control the redemption process,

Not if the redemption process is inscribed in the constitution, in which case, "controlling" it is subject to quite a number of hurdles.
I continue to refuse my Nest app's demand that I "upgrade" from my old Nest account to my Google account. Perhaps there are more advanced features I don't know about that no longer work, but the strategy of keeping away from Google "upgrades" has worked well for me.
Try to automate the time consuming meeting with meeting automation tool to stay productive.

https://www.scrumrobo.com
Any chemists around should read his 'Delta Star' set in the CalTech Chemistry Department. Apparently he was buddies with Harry Grey and spent some time around the school. Grey, the only non-fictional character in the book, spoke highly of his work ethic (something like 'he turned up to all of the classes, which is more than most of our students do').
The paper is obviously controversial, but I hope people discuss it instead of flagging it.

As for me, I’m not sufficiently educated to evaluate a paper like this.
There is another way to look at it.

In a time of increasing idleness and voluntary economic non participation by wider and wider sections of society, as their existence is subsidised by the state, by other tax payers, by ex husbands... and in the case of XR&JSO, by donations there might be a need for change.

They have discovered that a handful of people can cause misery to thousands by blocking roads, already an offence, but one selectively enforced when it intersects with so called protest due to court precedent set in recent years.

These groups often have no particular goals that they articulate, no achievable ones in particular and it cannot be assumed that their stated goals are their goals. I believe i have insight as to their motivations and goals and they don't align with the ephemeral nonsense they claim they want to happen. It wouldn't make sense to do so. On that basis this isn't legitimate protest - it's low level terrorism.

If you have to live in proximity to this near endless lunacy it is obvious how ridiculous it has become. How much of society will you allow to be interrupted before enough is enough?

XR/JSO ran for election in London very recently for Mayor - the city they attack the most - and got fewer votes than a comedy candidate called Count Binface.
No problem with abortion but protesting outside an abortion clinic isn't doing harm; not in the criminal sense at least unlike all the domestic abuse the MET have failed to prosecute.
How do walkable cities lead to roadblocks? Aren't they completely separate issues, especially considering you literally admit the reason for roadblocks is reducing pollution?
> Imagine not getting pleasure from helping your child learn to read.

Bizarre reply given the full context of the comment.
Getting ready? Many in Texas never dropped the idea.

They even have their own separate power grid, just in case.
I'm the number two and must I agree, the need is punctual and there's quite some networking required to be able to reach to those corners of the (big) organization where they feel lost. It's almost always about some legacy thing and it's way cheaper to get me to fix and document it, right before thinking of rewriting/replacing.
I agree that the information is much easier to come across, but the SNR of reliable information is much lower overall. Additionally, the amount of content and depth you must go to truly understand a topic is far greater.
I moved over to bitwarden (using the vault warden branch for self hosting) and I love it.
note that one of the more practical applications of the abstract problem is "what portion of a value chain is it most profitable to vertically integrate?"
„Swedish Radio News reporters have tested the tip-form on ECPAT's website and found that their name, email and telephone numbers were shared with Facebook.“

How the hell does this just happen? Have people forgotten how to build simple forms and just use Facebook?
In other words, marketing is necessary but not sufficient.

What percentage of non-marketed artists hit it big? If equal to the marketed artists, why spend the money marketing?
Why don't you consider an alternate option - allow people to stay in a 15-minute city if they want and walk to shops etc as they desire but allow others to take a vehicle and go elsewhere if they want?

The problem only arises if you remove that option or if you penalise that action in some way.
History and tradition plays a major role in those opinions. No one is saying it is fair, but most are willing to overlook it.

Why do you, so confidently, state that the reason is the school system/indoctrination? I've gone to school in these countries, and I've never heard a pro-monarchy argument in class.
I asked my Asian friend if this font is a good way to learn Chinese. He said a better option was to get a girlfriend who only speaks Cantonese.

Noted.
Working as a HFT developer making good money in Mumbai, India :)
When I bought my house we had one false alarm at night. Since the smoke detectors were past their prime (you are suppose to replace every 10 years) we replaced them all and haven’t had any problem since (>3 years). Just went off a few times when things got smokey in the kitchen.

We replaced with this: https://www.lowes.com/pd/First-Alert-3120B-6-Pack-AC-Hardwir...
> In the meantime, look how much purchasing power your dollar has lost since 1971.

See also the amount of deflation that has occurred over the decades:

* https://www.huffpost.com/entry/radio-shack-ad_b_4612973
> Just a few minutes' reflection

I believe the person who has to spend - likely more than - a few minutes reflection isn't who you think.

IOW, burden of proof is on you.
is this related to the new curriculum from this submission, or is it a different approach?
Not unlike a “two” party system
By sharing the anglosphere
Our good old CRUD app does that. We dynamically generate a WHERE clause based on the column(s) the user wants to search for, set the parameter value(s) based on the search values and rerun the query.

This approach allows us to have a one-liner to enable searching in a grid, and scales well to grids with millions of rows and 50+ columns.

Of course the user might issue a search on a single non-indexed column, but this hasn't been an issue in practice. Either it happens very seldom, or they've already filtered on something indexed.

We also have use dynamic SQL for cases where we needed to select from different tables or views depending on some run-time condition, or similar. No direct user input there though so don't really need the safety that parameters bring.
Right. I don't think copyright should apply to similar songs, even intentionally similar songs. Musical traditions worldwide rely on imitation, elaboration, recontextualization of known works.
> The tragedy here is that people were genuinely trying to do good, followed an approach that felt compassionate and humane

I don’t think this assigns sufficient fault to the teachers. Being insufficiently skeptical of newfangled approaches to something fundamental like how to teach kids to read is blameworthy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IUj1EZwpJY&t=34m12s (one of the best illustrations, using Windows volume control components)
Tracking modifications, or "redlining" as it is more frequently called, is a phase in contract lifecycle management that relates to the changing of contract provisions. Tracking changes frequently necessitates many individuals and/or legal teams commenting on, reviewing, and making comments or amendments to the most recent iteration of contract terms.
Yes, many people who crave power and control will gravitate to positions of authority. In many cases it's a diagnosable psychiatric disorder, a personality disorder, that causes it. The behavior is compulsive, they have to be in control at all times. And there is a cluster of symptoms that come together, it's possible to spot this.
When your inbox owns you
> so that there's no way to actually save money in the long-term.

Besides equities? Besides TIPS?

* https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/tips.asp

Do you literally keep bills under your mattress or buried in your backyard? There's your problem.
All the library funding in the world won’t help if you don’t teach the kids to read in the first place. That’s either done with phonics, or with abysmal failure rates.
I like this approach - will definitely try this (with FedEx signature delivery) in future!
So, from my perspective, I've been through this evolution of home computing from the early hobbyist days until now.

In the hobbyist days before I got involved, you might build your own computer. The Altair 8800 and Heathkit type systems were meant to be assembled by the end-user. Of course, the tinkering did not end there, as they were programmable, and you typically didn't purchase a library of apps to load onto it, you wrote your own.

Now my family purchased a VIC-20 and soon after, a Commodore 64. Since I was a child, there was a heavy dose of gaming done on these machines, and I had joystick controllers and a library of commercial games that I could load. But, it was also very much an intro to systems architecture for me, where I learned how the memory is laid out, the function of various chips on the board, and how to program various subsystems from BASIC to do what I wanted. So at that point, the computer was really a good tool, and educational, with all sorts of ways that it could do my bidding.

In this era, BASIC and other end-user languages such as LOGO taught us how to program from the metal on up. And this was the joy of personal computing to us, the hobbyist.

Soon I graduated from high school and was presented with a real business-oriented 286 system, while my father got a similar one. We would run DOS and Windows 3.1. There was a lot less of programming it ourselves and a lot more of loading commercial software on those. So I think that was the turning point of home computing, from hobbyist workbench into a business appliance that was a real means to an end.

My later computers, a 386 and a 486, were partly gaming machines and partly Internet terminals, and of course my phase of programming it myself had fallen by the wayside, in favor of loading ever more complex applications and operating systems, and that was where my tinkering focused for the next phase: the administration of the OS. So in my career I became a systems admin who enjoyed configuring stuff, taking security measures, and tweaking the OS for performance. I also enjoyed building my own computers, as they call it, "LEGO for Adults".

A year and a half ago, I shut down my Linux system. It was the last desktop system that I owned. I had assembled it myself from discrete parts. I had tweaked the Ubuntu OS endlessly. I no longer needed this power-user stuff.

Today I get by on notebook computers only. I run Windows and ChromeOS. I'm truly an end-user, if on the power-user side, but I never program the system myself anymore, and I don't tweak the OS like a systems admin, I just dutifully install the updates. Because my computers are "in production". They serve me to work for my employer and to manage my household. They are an integral part of it, rather than a hobbyist's workbench. I don't know if that has somehow "gone wrong" along the way, but it has definitely changed character since 10-year-old me picked up that VIC-20.
This is an endemic problem across all of the education system, in the UK as well.

There is a school in London that eschews modern teaching (no group work, etc. teacher is the authority). It gets great results but is a pariah as it subscribes to no modern education doctrine:

https://time.com/5232857/michaela-britains-strictest-school/
The parts where the author is scandalized about the tasteless use of technology in religion read less as a critique of technology then that of religion. If anything, they demonstrate that the human-written sermons were just as robotic.
I honestly don't think this is a problem with the chatbot, but with the text corpus behind it.
It's not that targeted. Factorial is a reasonable thing to do, optimising for the values that fit in a 64-bit integer is a reasonable thing to do.

If I read this in some code, I wouldn't think "Huh, that's a specialised feature, I bet it's attacking a specific benchmark" I would think, "Oh, that makes sense".
I hear what you're saying.

But I would argue that the Cornoation is an important public ceremony / event with every right to go ahead.

It's the same as when a foreign head of state visits and the police cordon off the roads for security.

In my view, this is different to pressure or protest groups disrupting traffic or public events.

If President Biden visits the UK, people should not be able to stop his going about a state visit. But they should be allowed to protest with banners and so on if they so wish.
Can't profiles be made private?
The construction works best with words of actual classical origin. When dealing with a supermarket delivery I do sometimes refer to the things that need to go into the fridge as the "refrigeranda".

(There are some fairly ordinary English words derived from this construction. The agenda is those things that need to be done. The legend (of a map, graph, etc.) is the stuff you need to read.)
right caudal anterior cingulate, right medial orbitofrontal, and left lateral occipital cortex

Does we know what this difference does? If you waved a magic wand and turned an equal-country brain into an unequal-country brain, how would the person's behavior/feelings change?
It's great what he did with Wikileaks.

But why didn't he released all the documents anonymously?

If you're just committed to share knowledge, give transparency to the world and the people, do you need to put your name all around and try to be the next Che Guevara?

Why didn't he kept anonymous? You get to public the stuff and not going to jail...

He's been clearly punished for his arrogance...
YouTube has a lot of ads nowadays. Of course it can do that because it's in a quasi-monopolistic position, which is a direct result of Google cross-financing it from search ads revenue. (Similarly how Chrome got into its own position.)
No love for pleonexia?
According to Urban Dictionary[1]

> Based

> A word used when you agree with something; or when you want to recognize someone for being themselves, i.e. courageous and unique or not caring what others think. Especially common in online political slang.

> The opposite of cringe

I think training an AI to tell people that killing for religious reasons is the height of cringe.

1. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=based
Minimal USB device with just a couple of resistors
Advice from a recovering workaholic: break free
I'm not convinced that South Korea is the best example - much of its economic growth(until 1987) occurred under what Wikipedia describes as dictatorial then despotic rule and I'd be tempted to attribute some of the difference to having the US as an ally instead of the collapsing Soviet Union.
No way around it. We already have some form of ecofascism by forcing companies to adhere to environmental regulations, for no other reason besides “the environment must be protected”. Getting a military involved is just the last resort when all other warnings fail.
If you are mentally capable of doing something then you should be mentally capable of hearing that doing that is wrong - it'd be great if we could all agree that's a good thing, also.

Using the term "vulnerable young women" is trying to remove the agency from them, which is despicable.
What is permaculture? (2015)
Nguyễn Phú Trọng was the President, General Secretary and Secretary of the Central Military Commission at the same time (2011-now, pres 2018-2021).
So it's because of some fancy Columbia prof that they're trying to go back to how they used to teach?
Not only that - their reflective wests bore the logo of the City of Westminster [0]

[0]: https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article29914468.ece/AL...
Trauma can cause changes in your brain, this includes cPTSD comming from long term constant stress and abuse where each situation by itself might not be traumatizing but the commulation is.

and systematic discriminatory can be quite traumatizing
Thank you! I’ve been looking for a good phonics book.
Exactly - if you take too broad a view, then the protesters having arms and fingers could be considered devices for 'locking on' to something.

Personally I think this has generated renewed interest and publicity for the republican movement, which means in a way, the protest has been a success due to the police action.
A bit late to the game, but this tool allows me to script anything locally: https://www.scriptkit.com/
Chile Plans to Nationalize Its Lithium Industry
They probably embedded tracking pixels because PR teams wanted to have data on how many people viewed the page vs how many people actually filed a report.
Unfortunately it doesn't have the same reach everywhere. Barely used in the country where I had my business, compared to Facebook/Instagram.
That's not a hack though, a hack is gluing things together to fix a certain specific bug that is not easily solved because the bug is related to the design instead of a mere mistake.

Otherwise with your standard of hack anything beyond hello world and baby's first input are hacks because everything else requires boilerplate.