skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apart from the effects of the disastrous consequences of a largely pointless lockdown, the education system is and has been failing to educate in the true sense of the word for some time

I have always been dismayed by the overemphasis on funding at many educational institutions. "We need all this equipment! We need this, we need that!" As far as equipment is concerned, a good, true education is not that expensive. A lot of what is emphasized today boils down to frills and bells and whistles while the core of what is important is neglected.

This is one reason why classical schools are popping up all over the place that are inspired by the trivium and quadrivium and updated accordingly. They are also cheap.

The education industry is shot through with grift.
> The quotes and other horror-scenario errata also come off a little thin. If Hinton really, genuinely believes the world is ending, then why is he working on the generational successor to backpropagation [1]?

That paper was published 27 Dec 2022. He quit Google in order to warn people about AI on May 1 2023. He realized advancing AI will lead to the world ending and so he _stopped_.
Uber is different because every place it has to operate is different. Maybe something weird happens in XYZ city that requires drivers to route around a certain street so they need a feature that generalizes that. or some such deal. Reddit OTOH... nope.
Thanks, I can definitely understand the classroom use-case.

I've seen a lot of bad engineering go into solving that problem, this seems like a better way.
We love Knex, and are inspired by it. Sadly its not type-safe and reaching type-safety would require a rewrite.

We care a lot about our TypeScript compilation performance and Developer eXperience in general.

v0.25 introduced internal changes that doubled the possible complexity of CTEs, joins and conditional selects.

We also provide helper methods that "reset" the stack in a type-safe way.
Oldest known Neanderthal engravings were sealed in a cave for 57,000 years
Wait, your product people talk to devs?

/s (at my previous company they did not ... lol!)
Yeah there is likely tremendous backlash from this, and now they want to drop it off. The phishing reports discussing .zip highly likely clash with Mandiant's report-writing.

Mandiant: ".zip is bad, stupid idea"
Google: "We own Mandiant, and yeah."
Mandiant: "Google dumb, why they own us?"
Google: "We sell our entire domains solution"
If you like the glacial pace of Redhat you'll probably be happy with Debian stable.
Why are you less able to ask to see the electronic version than the paper version? I don't think kids are eagerly sharing their graded papers with their parents otherwise.
Having kids and knowing parents of younger kids, I have thought about it and do have an idea. If a kid is doing great, their path remains the same. If they are lagging behind: make one monolithic math course that everyone enrolls in. Institute mentoring. The older kids help the younger. Remove any negative consequences of just trying (that is to say no one will fail)- use only positive incentives. Maybe a scholarship fund for kids who help others.

Remote school was a disaster for younger kids. All schools- public or private- are bureaucracies with rigid hierarchies. The pandemic showed the cracks in many social institutions. Schools were no exception. With a more horizontal and open structure, schools could have responded more flexibly.

Also there should have been a massive social safety net similar to the Great Depression supporting families AND businesses during the worst of it so parents could just be with their families.

In a vertical market-based Capitalist social structure, there just is very little wiggle room and the system fights like hell to maintain its own homeostasis.

A pandemic is classic example of a situation that would benefit from Capitalism stepping aside and let Socialism handle the hard stuff during the crisis- until Capitalism can step back in. It doesn't have to be binary. To not embrace this kind of flexibility is like building a structure in an earthquake zone with no provision for movement. It's going to fail during times of stress.
What bothers me about Google's CAPTCHAS is they have to /know/ the answer beforehand meaning they had to be pre-trained. We're not training them, we're just providing the right answer. It's the opposite of what a Turing test should be.
If I’m reading this right, it’s more focused on procedural/operational stuff rather than true analytics?
You don't need a darkroom for film development. A changing bag and some light proof tanks allow for this. To develop 54 or larger large format film (for contact printing) you need light proof trays, or you can use a 54 adapter for a jobo tank.

I guess you then have to have some registration holes in the paper + film to align them correctly if you want to check paper exposure during development, but my understanding is that the process is slow enough that you again aren't in a darkroom, you are exposing the paper with sunlight, and then fixing can be in a tray.
I bet similar startups are now loosing investors and funds, and probably for manned ait vehicles it will be similar at some point, one incident of a rich dude..
Takedown reasons?
Which unfortunately seems more like the norm nowadays
But why would I want to know a price when I could instead spend a bunch of time connecting with a Lunar Install Partner?
> but were never taught their very basic and intuitive relationship and derivation from the Pythagorean theorem

And how is this not just another fact to be memorized?
> Most recently in Linux, for example, Rocky Linux and Alma Linux both promise “bug for bug compatibility” with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), while contributing nothing toward Red Hat’s success.

CentOS was huge towards equipping smaller IT departments, startups and student on the RHEL ways, allowing them to jump on "real RH" when they got bigger. Alma Linux is the same. Rocky Linux does sell support, but even then it's still advertising RHEL.
Good point. If I was holding stock/options close to an IPO, I guess my interests might be better aligned than usual with whatever short-term corporate moves that pander to Wall St.
A friend of mine who is a software engineer there has #opentowork plastered on his LinkedIn profile picture. He's been at Reddit for 7+ years.
Uber is not really a taxi company. They do a whole lot of general transport infrastructure not for laymen.

But 36k still seems absurd.
My son and daughter both went to the same elementary school, but at different times. We chose this school in particular because was well-funded (for a public school anyway), had a good reputation, and was diverse. My daughter is now a teenager and is an A and B student. Zero problems academically, other than constantly forgetting to turn in already-completed assignments. Despite going to the same school and having the same teachers, parents, and home life, etc my son is really struggling, though. They're both bright kids, but what changed for him?

Two things that I can see. One is that the COVID quarantine, while necessary for public safety, set most kids back developmentally at least a year, often two. It was far worse for younger kids than older kids because Kindergarten through 2nd grade are absolutely foundational points in their education. Kids who don't get a solid grasp of reading, spelling, and arithmetic at this point sometimes never catch up to where they should be. Hopefully my son will.

The other is that around the time my son started at the school, they got rid of the special education (or whatever is the correct phrase) classrooms, laid off those teachers, and put the students in regular classes instead. This is going about as well as you'd think.

The kids with emotional issues do not get the special attention and resources that they need, and the rest of the class is severely disrupted to the point that almost no learning gets done. According to my wife who works at the school, his class this year had four special-needs students in it. My son says that these students were constantly disrupting the classroom. They bullied the other students, they verbally and physically fought with everyone (including teachers), they scream when they don't get their way. The teacher is not allowed to send them to the office or another room. The whole class didn't get recess for over half the year because the teacher couldn't handle the kids outside. (One of them would just run right off the school grounds every time, apparently.)

The school used to have a strong positivity vibe and a zero-tolerance anti-bullying policy. Now, when an emotionally-troubled child draws blood on my child (which happened), the response from the faculty and staff is so silent it's deafening.
It seems to me that we have been living in this world for some time now. Ai explains the sheer amount of political astroturfing we have experienced in recent years, it's just that the cat is out of the box now and there's noone to be held accountable.
95% of unit tests will bring 5% of value and 5% of unit tests will bring 95% of value.

Most unit tests should be handled at the integration level.
I live in the UK, but a few kids in my family are around this age and we've had similar declines in test scores here too. I'll comment on a few things I've notice - at least as someone from my working class background.

Covid lockdowns were brutal for kids of this age bracket.

Kids in my family were mostly just locked in doors watching Netflix and playing video games during lockdowns and did next to no physical activity, socialising, or anything mentally simulating.

A couple of kids in my family have also developed mental illnesses as a result of lockdowns – and I don't use this word lightly.

For kids from my background school is really the only opportunity they get to experience normality. A space free from all the various social issues that plague families from this socioeconomic background.

To be more specific here, one kid ended up becoming extremely anti-social during the lockdowns since violence is normal and common within his household. The other has develop extreme social anxiety and depression and now refuses to attend school. I'm sure other kids have developed post-Covid anxiety, but those kids probably have parents that care enough about their children to ensure they attend school.

Obviously if they had better parents this stuff probably wouldn't have happened, but school is so important for people of my background. It's the only place in their life where order and discipline will be enforced. It's also the only place they get to socialise with normal people who are not criminals or drug users. And the only place they'll get to feel safe.

I have no idea how much of this decline in tests scores is related to the pandemic, but if other kids took the pandemic as bad the kids in my family then I'm not surprised by this at all.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25375921
Great feedback, thank you so much!
1. fixed
2. you are so right. Will improve the landing asap!
3. WIP - very important, you are right!
4. Very good catch! Just pushed an update including autocorrect for email, phone & url.

Do you have anything else you would like to see implemented?
Many of the reddit refugees are coming here which is why all of the reddit stories keep trending and also why comments like yours will be buried even though you just stated reality. I can't wait until reddit goes back to being irrelevant.
The corporate culture is slowly becoming mainstream culture. Look around you, it’s happening everywhere. Our culture isnt driven by musicians or athletes or writers or movies any more. It’s driven by the values of HR and advertising departments, and what content advertisers will pay to associate with
Don't forget optimizing the UI/UX to be as unpleasant as possible
An AT&T-backed cellular satellite company sent a 4G LTE signal from space
Previously, I had heard that the best way of teaching kids absolute pitch is to have them listen to modern jazz and modern classical music, where unexpected pitches often show up. That innately trains them to think of individual note pitch as an important detail to listen to. That would suggest that reference pitches aren't needed, beyond giving each note a name later in life when the kids go for musical training, which in turn means that color and pitch discrimination are actually fairly similar processes, we just decide that one is important and the other is not.

I didn't realize there were methods like Deutsch's, and they honestly seem a little wonky. I'm glad it worked for her.
Yeah, having gone through a company that IPOed -- 100% agree. You're crossing your fingers and using your calculator to try and figure out how likely you are to hit the jackpot (or much more likely the massive tax burden). The company as a whole is basically going through a checklist to batten down all the hatches and implement pretty rigorous controls. So, they are likely seeing a lot more formal process for doing things. This along with trying to make the company look as healthy and profitable as possible. All this API business could even be a result of them going through the Risks section and seeing that having competing apps using their API is a major risk.

Also, chances are you are going to see zero communication from them when they do formally file. Since I think once they actually file they go into something called a quite period where they don't say anything publicly.
Per their protein content, chicken meat is only 2 to 3 times more expensive than legumes and only 3 to 4 times more expensive than cereals.

Moreover, in legumes and cereals the proteins are mixed with large amounts of starch and if the proteins are separated from starch in industrial processes the cost of the protein extracts is many times higher than the cost of chicken meat.

Only wheat flour is an exception, because the gluten from it can be extracted without special equipment or chemical substances, so wheat gluten is the only source of pure proteins that I am aware of and that is cheaper than chicken meat.
> with school choice programs, public schools get to keep almost all of the federal and local tax dollars and usually a portion of the state funds allocated for each child https://www.edchoice.org/school-choice/faqs/how-does-school-...

Since the fixed costs of running a public school are effectively covered, the public school saves the marginal cost of educating the student that has diverted their funds. The school then has the same means to improve on a per student basis.

Also keep in mind that "improving" often means replacing costly and ineffective process with better ones.
Why? Keep build artifacts and deploy any build you like. Do you have a state or dependency problem?
Is that actually a different idea though? Augment and protect.
There are comments on HN I find correlate to blithe superciliousness. A light expression of common sentiment (math is beautiful!) without domain knowledge is somehow a marker of social superiority... yeesh. kandel's sibling comment being the kind of reasonable rejoinder that shouldn't have to exist if there was a good faith follow-up to this sort of conversation, instead of turning up the nose...
I think what you're talking about with "stable" and "dynamic" are error constants (like `io.EOF`) and instances of error types (like `url.Error` https://pkg.go.dev/net/url#Error). You use `Is` for the former and `As` for the latter; fmt.Errorf's %w directive doesn't inhibit either case.
if you find yourself saying something like 'non-woke' unironically you are part of the problem. You're suffering from an acute outrage pornography overdose. Your prescription is to go touch some grass.
K2 and creatine as well.
Few years old: Navy Submarine using xbox controller.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/18/17136808/us-navy-uss-colo...
I don't find this rambling insightful at all. Here is what the BIPM actually says about the topic:

The SI unit of frequency is hertz, the SI unit of angular velocity and angular frequency is radian per second, and the SI unit of activity is becquerel, implying counts per second. Although it is formally correct to write all three of these units as the reciprocal second, the use of the different names emphasizes the different nature of the quantities concerned. It is especially important to carefully distinguish frequencies from angular frequencies, because by definition their numerical values differ by a factor1 of 2π. Ignoring this fact may cause an error of 2π. Note that in some countries, frequency values are conventionally expressed using “cycle/s” or “cps” instead of the SI unit Hz, although “cycle” and “cps” are not units in the SI. Note also that it is common, although not recommended, to use the term frequency for quantities expressed in rad/s. Because of this, it is recommended that quantities called “frequency”, “angular frequency”, and “angular velocity” always be given
explicit units of Hz or rad/s and not 1/s.

I find this very concise and clear.
Uber drivers are allowed to use 3rd party navigation apps like Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze, etc. I'm honestly not sure if they require specialists for each major city to handle city-wide traffic events. The 3rd parties that drivers piggyback on do it for them, to some degree of success.
> I say it's weird because NASA almost certainly has its own internal Linux support paid through overhead in one form or another

Why do you presume this?

(Former NASA contractor here: they don't.)
I enjoy my prime video. Not really sure what the complications are for you. Even the non-techies in the house can easily click into it from the app on our TV.
Just for the meantime:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...
The second sentence of your link literally says the average income for white people was four times higher than black people.

Orania has 2066 people, and a third of them are children. That leaves 1363 adults. The official stats say there are only 609 people employed there, which means less than half of the adults work. Combined with making their own currency, elections, not having any real police force or public services, and the rest of SA basically leaving them alone, this all screams "racist white people with a lot of money who want to roleplay Fallout mixed with Atlas Shrugged".
It's not exempt but advertisers do it anyway.
Yep you can redistribute it. But they can terminate your subscription so they don't have to give you the next round of updates. Basically a new "customer" would have to pop up and leak the sources each time there is an update to a package for a bug-for-bug RHEL clone to exist
Yes, I think you've touched on something here that goes all the way back to Aristotle's three appeals (logos, ethos, pathos).

His belief was that a good argument relies on a balance, between appeals to logic (logos), appeals to emotion (pathos), and appeals to what is just / ethical (ethos).

People typically claim logic or objectivity as a simple shorthand for "better", they rarely include formal inductive and deductive logic.

And while formal logic can tremendously enhance the structure and impact arguments, it provides a hollow foundation without appeals to what is right/just, and of little motivation to the reader without appeals to their emotion.

The horrifying thing about our species, is that when you get down to it we care little for formal logic. Caring requires emotion, and emotion often requires ideals about how things should be; consequently, ethos and pathos are necessary for logos.

The pursuit of logic comes last, or as you've noted, sometimes not at all.
It's in one of the comments on the linked article, and was reposted in the top comment in the thread in which you're replying. It seems to be sourced originally from here:

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3697733/chatgpt-s-parasiti...
Company That Owes Its Existence To The Free Work Product Of Thousands Of People Not On Its Payroll Tired Of People Who Don't Pay For Its Product Having Access To Any Part Of It
Show HN: Stava for books. track your progress
It sounds like you may have perfect pitch, but not enough ear training to link the note "colors" to names.
> AFAIK wearing outdoor shoes indoors is mostly an American thing,

It's ultra common in many european countries. I've got one friend where the rule at his house his "shoes off" but most others keep their shoes inside.

It's also highly common for people living in houses to have a "shoes on inside, but only on the ground floor" and shoes off upstairs.

So I guess YMMV.
Every kid should have a globe to understand countries and distortion better.
I remember watching the walmart movie, and they had one part where walmart would not put security cameras in their parking lot. Robbery, rape and murder.

But one store did have cameras in the parking lot - for surveillance of employees trying to form a union.
There was a fantastic Hacker News discussion about Sold a Story a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35599181

Apparently the same sort of analysis with math isn't quite as straightforward. There is some evidence that pure constructivism is not successful with struggling math students. But unlike reading instruction where skilled readers never use the strategies taught in things like three-cueing (for "decoding", anyway), skilled mathematicians do approach novel problems in an exploratory manner.
Takedown == getting issued a scary cease-and-desist warning letter by high-paid lawyers.
Corn is subsidized, and chickens eat a lot of it.
> as there are official plugins for VSCode that are so much better than anything I've found on the Jetbrains marketplace

It's a damn travesty what JetBrains has done to the CloudFormation plugin and by close-sourcing the terraform plugin then basically abandoning it. I'm aware there is a commercial ansible plugin but my experience with it is that it's not worth the money to me when, as you pointed out, the vscode language server for ansible does a fine job for the yaml, but sadly does nothing for the jinja2 snippets therein
If I remember my tech history, by 2012-13, FB had realized that their html5 FB app wouldn't cut it on mobile devices and had gone all in on a native app.

https://magazine.wharton.upenn.edu/digital/the-pivotal-tale-...

I mean, I myself left Wall Street to work on iOS apps back in 2011. Only a willfully blind person would have ignored mobile/smartphones by 2012-13.

Of course, they could have botched their mobile transition - Reddit's ongoing dumpster fire is an example of corporate self immolation - but even back then Mark Z was no schmuck.
conflates a few of the sub-topics and gets some of it wrong, but a good read nonetheless.

my first experience with handles is from early classic macOS, "system N" days. Most everything in the system API was ref'd via handles, not direct pointers, and you were encouraged to do the same for your own apps. Memory being tight as it was back then, I imagine the main benefit was being able to repack memory, ie nothing to do with performance as is mostly the topic of TFA.

I guess ObjC is unrelated to the macOS of olde, but does it also encourage handles somehow? I understand that one reason apple silicon is performant is that it has specific fast handling of typical ObjC references? Like the CPU can decode a handle in one operation rather than 2 that would normally be required. I can't find a google reference to substantiate this, but my search terms are likely lacking since I don't know the terminology.
People are protecting their houses with 2m tall electric fences so that politicians don't come in?
I saw a ferry in a YouTube video the other day that had "Uber Boat" plastered on the side.
Zero phones in the US ship with AOSP. 100% ship with Google Play Services. AOSP, in the US, is dead as far as any reality is concerned. China is different but Google wouldn't want to even be there.