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One thing has changed dramatically in education over just the past 100 years. This [1] is an entrance exam for Harvard in 1869. It was expected that the applicant would be fluent in Greek, Latin, English, that they would have a exceptional grasp of history and geography across the entire world, be able to carry out complex mathematical calculations, compose geometric proofs, and more. That trend also was the same as you went down to high school and even middle school.

The reason the curriculums were like this is that education was largely optional, and so it was designed for the exceptional over-achievers who would voluntarily, with no extrinsic force, opt into such. Now a days education, including tertiary, is designed for anybody with a pulse. And this creates a terrible scenario for overachievers and underachievers alike. The overachievers are bored senseless in lengthy classes because "Yes, I got what you said 40 minutes ago. Why can't we move on?" By contrast the underachievers lack the attention span and focus to follow a 50, let alone 90, minute lesson, so struggle even given the much slower pace.

A 'TikTok-ified' education is really just a desire to stop wasting so much time, but we waste that time because of this change in education. And far from creating a nation of scholars - middling or otherwise, this change has instead just created a nation where your barista probably has a college degree, and 6 figures of debt to show for it.

[1] - https://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/education/harvard...
> we place the utmost importance on the protection of your data which is why it is encrypted in our vector DB. It can only be decrypted by you

You need to explain this in a lot more detail. It sounds essentially impossible to provide this service with zero-knowledge encryption, but I'm open to being wrong about that.
You might want to read up on the history of WebKit...
I may be missing something, but the top answer is pretty good. And the comments even explain why searching for an answer on google might be difficult, and suggests how to.
How are you maintaining the tax rules? I considered building something similar to your tool and found this, which would decouple that hairy task:
https://openfisca.org/en/

Also, plans to add Danish tax? A stretch I know for our small country.
> And then there’s Babylon 5. Those effects looked a little crude, then really crude, and now… kind of weirdly cool and artistic and ahead of their time. (The show’s approach to real-physics spacecraft maneuvers and modeling came to influence later TV like the 2000s reboot of Battlestar Galactica, which also used LightWave 3D. There is even a Babylon 5 station model tucked into an early scene in the escaping fleet.)

There is one of the original 3d artists of Babylon 5 that re-rendered some of the original assets and scenes at high res... Simply looks awesome TODAY. The 3d art of Babylon 5 was limited by the output medium.
This sounds right to me.

If I were building a Q&A site that genuinely wanted to encourage high-quality answers, I'd implement something like a 1-hour window where all answers are invisible immediately after the question is posted. This is to give people time to work on a good quality answer, without racing to be the first and gain those precious early upvotes. The UI could still indicate how many other people have answered / are answering, and if answer volume became a problem you could perhaps block new answers during that window after the first 20 or so have landed. When the hour is over, answers are displayed in random order and the existing site mechanics around upvotes etc kick in.

It feels like that could potentially address the problem of low-effort answers killing off the good ones.
I was learning Golang nearly a decade ago while participating in a performance competition.. Asking questions about unsafe in Golang Nuts was nearly rage inducing.

IMHO Copilot Chat has picked up on these bad habits.
Maybe people just got better
Other pertinent new world crops that drastically altered staple cuisines in Asia: potato, tomato, corn. Then of course there's tobacco / nicotine, and from more of an ornamental standpoint, the frangipani appears critically entwined with temples across numerous Asian countries and religious and philosophical traditions however is also a new-world Johnny come lately.

Some things that come to mind that spread in the other direction (Asia to Europe/Africa/America) in a little known and relatively late fashion were citrus and the chicken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken
X also stands for ex-, as in, something which belongs to the past.
I know the feeling. The precursor to PL was a hideously complex spreadsheet of my own. You're probably a better spreadsheet wrangler than me, b/c in my case all the formulas eventually got so out-of-hand that it became cumbersome for me to maintain and really trust that thing.

When I was initially casting about for alternate tools that might be a step up from that spreadsheet, I found myself frustrated when I ran into anything opaque or where methodology / assumptions weren't clear. With PL, I've made an effort to expose as many of those as I can directly to the user (while packaged into a UI that tries not to overwhelm), but I'm sure at the end of the day it's always going to be a reflection of the parameters and decision space I had in mind when designing it.

If you ever check it out and run into areas where you feel the model needs more clarity, definitely let me know.
If this is the KGB tactic again, I _actually_ recommend just getting a therapist. It's their job to listen to you and not argue much. Not sure how it's with your country/employer, but you might be able to get them to pay it for you.
I think we're rapidly approaching a point where any content that come with ads is suspect. The fact that only Wikipedia has managed to largely escape deterioration (or as some call it, "enshitification") is testament to this. A search engine that can selectively search non-sponsored content or soft-paywalled content would be potentially quite popular. However, monetising such a service without ads will be a challenge.
This is 100% because of ChatGPT but the problem is that ChatGPT got all its information from StackOverflow... That means fewer people contributing to SO which means ChatGPT will deteriorate and people won't know why.
> Please be aware that this version still has some bugs

That's ... very obvious, but thanks for the reminder.
The Go toolchain is unique and it has a number of benefits that others that produce more efficient binaries generally lack.

Fast compile times

Pure self-hosted toolchain (no C)

No libc on Linux

For a garbage collected language, Go isn't bad in terms of efficiency. If garbage collection is a core feature of Borgo, one could do a lot worse than Go.
At midnight the Warrimoo lay on the Equator at exactly the point where it crossed the International Date Line!

The consequences of this bizarre position were many. The forward part of the ship was in the Southern Hemisphere and the middle of summer. The stern was in the Northern Hemisphere and in the middle of winter. The date in the aft part of the ship was 31 December 1899. Forward it was 1 January 1900.

This ship was therefore not only in two different days, two different months, two different seasons and two different years but in two different centuries-all at the same time.
My assumption whenever I see that behaviour in a response is that the responder simply does not know the answer to the question asked.

It’s fine, I think, to answer a question and then suggest a better method. It’s presumptuous in the extreme to dismiss a question with some pseudoacademic neologism.
ADHD is so prevalent in the US, far more so than most (all?) other disabilities; I believe one of these must be true:

- ADHD is severely over diagnosed

- ADHD is a trait that was adaptive in the past, and is only pathologically maladaptive in modern life

- ADHD the trait is caused by some aspect of modern life (this seems least likely to me)

(saying this as diagnosed, with the usual problems)
I would rather have it as Windows and AIX do, or even mainframes, or by gone systems of similar age like Xerox PARC or ETHZ ones, yes they are in the kernel.

In any case, modern security considerations have already shown that dynamic loading of foreign code into process memory isn't that much of a good idea after all, unless there are hardware restrictions regarding performace and memory use.
It's irrelevant to the argument, because growing roots isn't learned behaviour.

Edit: I feel like I can expand even more on this. Plants grow roots to get water is a simplification, roots can serve a lot of purposes. Roots can anchor you so wind doesn't blow you away, and it helps you to extract other nutrients from the ground with their high surface area.

It's entirely possible for evolution to cause something like roots to form in an organism because it helps one of these purposes, only for it to become useful for another purpose some time later.

The ability for roots to extract water from the ground does not mean that roots were evolved for this specific purpose. Case in point: many kinds of algae have roots and they are literally soaked in water at all times.
It's a very personal thing. Some people happily do it all day, others declare it a blurry mess. I'm somewhere in between. I enjoy doing stints of 1-2 hours in there just for a change of scenery and to help me focus. It's perfectly usable for me, but it's not as good as a real multimonitor setup in general.

A key element is that although the resolution is lower than a real monitor, you get to make the monitor bigger. So the limit ends up being when you start having to turn your head to see what's on the other side of the monitor, which sounds benign but is an ergonomic disaster.
Couldnt agree more, the 'make technical arguments' nonsense when WEI, and many similar issues, arent problematic for technical reason is ridiculous.
This professor takes some pretty good notes for his CS courses: http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/aspnes/#classes

I might add that if you like the feeling of understanding a subject from top to bottom, if you haven't taken higher mathematics already, be careful... if you start studying math you might fall in love and have other subjects ruined for you. Colleges do us extreme disservices telling us basic calculus/linear algebra/diffeq are "math". Mathematics is like going from XOR (ZFC and basic set theory/logic) all the way up to the wildest things you can imagine.

I highly recommend anybody who enjoys the sense of complete mastery and "extremely nitpicky but capable of doing anything I can imagine" that computer programming tickles to try learning propositional logic, abstract algebra, and real analysis. Then graph theory, theory of computation, and actual algorithms research (ie whats in algorithms journals, though TBH stuff from a few decades ago is way more approachable and applicable). The guy I linked above has a great survey: http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/aspnes/classes/202/notes.pdf.

It honestly took years after I finished grad school for it all to fully click to the extent it has with me now, but not only does higher math teach you to think in an entirely different way, it unironically teaches you the underlying structure of everything. Well, maybe it's not great at solving super fuzzy human problems but especially when working with computers, knowing about things like chaos theory in distributed systems, invariants, graph algorithms, structural isomorphisms, cryptography, analyzing your shit in a way that's actually statistically useful... it's everywhere.
Bitcoin is the best bet at doing that. Otherwise, what's your better idea than bitcoin to distribute such a coin in such a way?
No, the brain is self optimizing for less calorie usage, thus the state of affairs is normal. The actor for the interests of all (democratic state) used to have the task to push everyone to their limits, for the benefit of all.

Long for content is still around (e. g. https://www.lrb.co.uk/) but the ruined intellectual allmende is unable to parse it.
They surely are, as parents for their kids school projects.

Which is the reason why they were created in first place, UK's school system.
What I've seen missing in these discussions is what happens with Headless browsers. Yes, these are used a lot for scraping, but there are also many legitimate use-cases. If the Web Integrity API is available to everyone then you can effectively no longer use Headless Chrome to browse to any of these pages, or am I missing something?
I'm pretty happy with the current layout, at least since the change to a responsive width. I tended to miss the "more" link, so I increased its size with ublock origin.

news.ycombinator.com##.morelink:style(font-size: 3em !important)
> Attribution is necessary for advertising to work at all.

Yes, and since "attribution" as defined here is incompatible with user's privacy (which is a human right), therefore advertising should fail. Can it please fail early and fail often?
In the US most people have an iPhone, in Europe Android is much more popular, so it really depends where is your target audience.
to clarify - are you saying you use the Quest browser to connect to the vscode.dev environment? Or do you use an app like Immersed with a desktop browser? Just curious if the Quest browser is powerful enough for it and works well enough.
Being open one point in time doesn't mean it will stay forever like that, point 1.

Point 2, it was there first.
I never even realized that was a thing within their remit to do in the first place.

What do you know, something good has finally come of modern day scammers.
I doubt there is very much taste or smell left. It is well established that spices go stale in couple years, especially when grinded. And this has been around for much longer. Almost all components must have either oxidised or evaporated for volatiles.
Website performance analysis can seem daunting, but it doesn't have to be. This article will show you a practical, hands-on approach using developer tools. We'll delve into key metrics like the Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), discuss how to gather and interpret field data, and provide insights on utilizing the Google Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX). Let's dive right in!
> let’s have an aristocracy, why not?

You answered that:

> it functionally doesn’t work well.

We're not talking about taking the dregs of society and throwing them into ivy league schools: we're talking about people who didn't have 4 years of debate team and lacrosse and water polo but still managed to do quite well for themselves.

It creates a better environment for everyone involved, since like you noted, creating an aristocracy has traditionally not worked out for either side of the coin.
But they were, economic rational actors behave in their own self-interest
Trees / forests literally make their own rain.

E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotic_pump
I've literally included the search terms I used to ensure it wasn't a duplicate. Other times ice explained why this is clearly not a duplicate . Nope. Closed for being a duplicate.
"It should not be up to the pilot to ground the plane; shouldn't that be up to the airline or chief engineer?"

It's not up to the pilot; it's up to gravity. No fuel left means the plane is going down somewhere soon.
The EU should really go after this planned obsolescence bullshit. If you want to sell hardware, or license software for hardware, in the EU then you shouldn’t be allowed to stop supporting it after 7 years.

It might’ve made sense in the world that was, where hardware would actually become obsolete. However when I look at my MacBook Air m1 with the smallest possible configuration and how it’s capable of doing anything I need for work as a software engineer (rust, c++, typescript, c#, python) “fast enough” I can’t see why I would need a new machine until it physically breaks down beyond repair.

Then again, maybe the EU should just invest money in Ubuntu or similar as well as some office365/google education alternative and then run Linux on the “chromebooks” our schools buy.
Grain?
On the contrary, it was a rational attempt to limit their ability to break things.
I guess the world needs dreamers.
Sufism is extremely intertwined with mainstream Sunnism, which absorbed it. The mistake most people make, Muslim and non-Muslim, is to view Sufism as some sort of hippy feel-good Islam with less rules, less stricture, etc. It was, for most of its adherents for most of history, anything but, and a very large percentage of mainstream Sunni scholars during certain historical periods were members of Sufi tariqas.

> If it does not exist within the Qur'an and the authentic narrations/actions of the prophet

By this logic, the number of prayers, the full sets of rules for the method of prayer, the full of set of proper methods and rules for proper dhabh (animal slaughter), etc., would be an "innovations".
Those answers are >50% total junk though.
People can't accept that Elon could do something this stupid, so they assert that he has to be playing some kind of 4D chess.
Do these Chromebooks stop working or just no updates?
The absolute "best" answers are snarky that this problem is not applicable because they would be Facebook in scale or something if they had this problem. The person answering like that can do this because they've got lots of "Karma" and get tons of upvotes because other people want to feel superior to the one asking the questions. And the question or answer doesn't get removed, even when reported.

Stopped being active then. That was a few years ago.
Thanks, I needed a laugh with my morning coffee.
they moderated themselves out of relevancy
So with StackOverflow decline proving there is little left to search for, DRMs in browsers forcing ads and hardware expiration can we finally come to a consensus that Google and all other oligopol firms should be removed from power?

As governements and large companies run out of energy to exploit it's up to us to stop them before we don't have the juice left to maintain fundamental order.

Only 2 ways about it: stop consuming and producing their agenda?

When you abandon HTTP, you are lost forever.

See it's all the same thing.

YC if you understand go back to HTTP (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2289) for HN.
I am reading the same book right now, but with my eyes rather than ears. I don't actually mind the detail in retrospect, because it's used both to add flavour to the story and to reflect on ideas that are very unique, at least to me. I do agree that it's a bit terse at times though. The part about the monastery did make me bored
Absolutely love the soon to be unfolded shitshow
So far research and crowdsourcing from the community, but I'd like to get something more automated in place.

If you happen to be well-acquainted with the Danish tax system, one option would be to set up custom brackets/rates/config in Plan Settings > Tax. If you do take a stab at that, let me know how it goes -- if you send over an export with the config, I could probably get that added as a formal template.
> I think the world has mostly accepted the "good enough" versus "perfect".

I think you're correct, but I would also argue that this makes everybody worse off, and therefore, is a wrong trend. It cancels, to some extent, the advantages of division of labor, because the society is chasing diversity of experience rather than depth of it. It is also impractical because now each individual has to deal with more flaws of good enough products, which pulls everybody down.
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Scan with eyes, ignore. Doesn’t seem worth a technical solution.
You actually can't absolutely guarantee anything of the sort, but it makes sense that this is something you'd think because you apparently also believe Elon Musk over this and not Elon Musk (or his dad!):

https://futurism.com/elon-musk-denies-emerald-mine
I left SO because I was downvoted to oblivion for an answer that took me 2 minutes to write - but I had answered a similar question several years before (which I actually didn't remember). Searching for my own answer would have taken way more time than it took to write a new one.

When I pointed out that it's not the responsibility of the one answering to search for dupes, but for the one asking, I was told that I should still invest the time or otherwise don't answer at all.
I have two opinions about your post. One: I agree. Two: I disagree. My point: I see both.

I see "answer as comment" in my most mature tech subjects because people are afraid of downvotes. In my experience, the most mature tech subjects are carefully guarded by a small community of very unfriendly "fastest gun in the West" types. The C++ community is incredibly unwelcoming and negative towards most questions. Note: Comments can only receive upvotes. (In theory, comments can be flagged as off topic, or offensive, but assume -- for my commentary here -- they are not.) Examples of more mature tech subjects: Python, Ruby, ASP.NET, Java (language/foundation libraries), C# (language/founding libraries), C (but not yet C++!), Win32, etc.

For less mature tech subjects (or faster moving), you see many more answers. Example of less mature tech subjects: Python AI/ML libraries, Java/C# open source libraries (Spring, etc.), C++, Qt, Gtk+, Zig, Swift, Golang.
> moderators and posters are really just LLMs that have been jailbroken to insult you and close your post.

Better than reddit where you get insulted and banned by an actual LLM.
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Yes, both ChatGPT and GitHub Co-pilot have decimated my use of StackOverflow
Surely they wouldn't pay $20 billion to a guy who purportedly is buying Twitter because he's a "free speech absolutist" and is "defending the future of democracy of the world".

Even if it's just PR (and it is just PR, evidently), it's an additional burden to have your PR and your actions be consistently at 180 degrees.

Also, $20 billion aren't the "price tag". That money didn't go to Elon. They went to Twitter's shareholders. Elon only ended up with losses and loans, so far, to the tune of another 20-30 billion at the very least.

So where's the "payout"? If you "hired" Elon to do this for you, as a Saudi, and you spend $20 billion as a co-investor, and need to cover Elon's $20-30 billion loss, "the price tag" is now up to $50 billion, but we're still only at break even in the short term, and only when we don't consider opportunity cost of Tesla stock dropping last year and future losses to Elon's company brands and so on, because he's coming off as a lunatic and wasting his time on Twitter, instead of being at Tesla and SpaceX.

So what's the price tag now? $80 billion? $100 billion? $150 billion?

Reminder, the entire Saudi family, all of them, together, have about $1.4 trillion, and that's not cash in the bank, but assets, oil, real estate, all of it.

Which means any such "price tag" would imply them giving up all their liquid assets and maybe liquidating more assets, in order to afford this "price tag" so quickly.

It's just nonsense.
This is not a reply I'd expect at all @ hacker news.

If world numbers are not good enough for you, do you want numbers specifically for argentina or the us? Or some other from those 200+ countries that exist? From a random stranger on the internet, instead of doing your own research? In the age or google etc? Just so you'd reject those for some arbitrary bullshit reason again?

Come on.
Right. Well I'm just going to suggest to clients that we use <div>s from now on and see if anyone complains.
Surely no one would be dumb enough to participate in this.