skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scott E Page - The Model thinker. He talks about school size rather than class size, my mistake. He says “Failure to take sample size into account and inferring causality from outliers can lead to incorrect policy actions. For this reason, Howard Wainer refers to the formula for the standard deviation of the mean the “most dangerous equation in the world.” For example, in the 1990s the Gates Foundation and other nonprofits advocated breaking up schools into smaller schools based on evidence that the best schools were small. To see the flawed reasoning, imagine that schools come in two sizes—small schools with 100 students and large schools with 1,600 students—and that student scores at both types of schools are drawn from the same distribution with a mean score of 100 and a standard deviation of 80. At small schools, the standard deviation of the mean equals 8 (the standard deviation of the student scores, 80, divided by 10, the square root of the number of students). At large schools, the standard deviation of the mean equals 2. If we assign the label “high-performing” to schools with means above 110 and the label “exceptional” to schools with means above 120, then only small schools will meet either threshold. For the small schools, an average score of 110 is 1.25 standard deviations above the mean; such events occur about 10% of the time. A mean score of 120 is 2.5 standard deviations above the mean; an event of that size should occur about once in 150 schools. When we do these same calculations for large schools, we find that the “high-performing” threshold lies five standard deviations above the mean and the “exceptional” threshold lies ten standard deviations above the mean. Such events would, in practice, never occur. Thus, the fact that the very best schools are small is not evidence that smaller schools perform better. The very best schools will be small even if size has no effect solely because of the square root rules.”
The x64 term never really sat well with me. I prefer the bsd method and call it amd64.

i386 intel's 386 architecture
ia64 intel's 64 bit architecture(aka the itanium)
amd64 amd's 64 bit architecture(aka the 64 bit extensions to i386 aka x86-64 aka x64)
Reason number 379 why I love HN.
Interesting. More than the code i'd be curious to know how they operate because it seems high quality / high velocity, which is very impressive.
It's not so much a leader just saying "SA is bad," but more a leader taking decisive action to shut it down as soon as it pops up. That means a harsh warning on the first offense, and dismissal on the second, regardless of the offender's rank or skill. Anything less means there's room for abusive behavior to take root.
Expected, and this will change as the brand either dies or gains more value.
> A few years ago… a few hundred $k sitting around… getting 0 return on it.

People say this with poorly invested money all the time, but I must be missing something. You could invest it in an index fund, say the S&P 500, and annually yield over 10% on average [1].

[1] https://www.officialdata.org/us/stocks/s-p-500/2016?amount=1...
How Britain Built Its Top Secret MI6 HQ
Flighty – A new way to track flights on iOS
Not sure people really want that much propane. But really, this kind of process is still being pursued for e-Fuels despite horrific economics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_proces...

The economics are so awful because of a complex network of reactions, there are processes that build up larger hydrocarbons and break them down and you have to balance these just right to get liquid fuels and not paraffin wax or methane. Some kind of single-entity fuel has always seemed to make more sense to me: methane isn't that good of a destination because it's not that easy to handle or liquefy, propane is quite easy to handle in comparison.
Sure, check Fighterbomber's TG
Kind of disagree with this, which seems outdated given that it becomes easier and easier to implement best practices. Setting up CI/CD for a basic MVP is trivial, making it super easy to contribute makes iterations faster than just working on "product fit"
> inherently unstable

This comes far too close, in my opinion, to the view that men just can't help themselves and therefore don't really deserved to be blamed. I think you can take the view that a systemic treatment of the problem is needed without voiding the significance of personal responsibility.

Once you take personal responsibility into account, the potential treatments become more numerous (and less onerous) than permanently isolating men and women (with, one would hope, fair treatment for trans people, but they tend to get left by the wayside in discussions like this). We can ask questions like "how do you create a culture where all men see any form of sexual harassment as obviously unacceptable?" and "How do you make sure men are not incentivized to cover for each other?" and "How can we ensure that reports of harassment or abuse are properly and fairly dealt with, and that the credibly accused are not able to further harass victims?" Unless, of course, you think that evolution has just made male sexual aggression inevitable to the point where we can't rise above that as a species.
Russian Military blogger on Telegram. He spoke about the attack and the challenges, Ukraine said that 13 of the 16 made it to the intended targets. There will be video or satellite imagery released at some point. I tend to believe these reports since I understand who is providing the targeting information with precise coordinates and information. You can believe what you like.
Unless the framework you used came from Google that is an unfair statement.

You don't blame Microsoft for Adobe Flash not working on Windows 11 store, do you?
For people who follow "this thing", its seriously hard to "find again" sources due to amount of information that created every day.

but just for you: https://t.me/fighter_bomber/13797 (not sure where from op got his news)
There is no best win option, but you can also publish your app separately - these are Play Store requirements, not Android requirements.

It's far from trivial in many cases, and it'll never get anywhere near as much use as the Play Store version... but it is nice to have an escape hatch.
I interacted with that guy in another comment and well... You are probably right, even though you are getting downvoted.
While there are a fair share disposable/modern style abandoned houses, there are also these incredible traditional style properties.

While I understand some of the underlying reasons, I'm still shocked that they are just allowed to sit there falling apart. Part of me wants to spec out deconstruct/container/ship to the US for for rebuild.

Obviously it's not economically feasible, but some of them are that interesting.
Not only it is not working, believing it does work with regards to other people, especially one's children or pupils (with or without ADHD) can be toxic and harmful. I have been too lazy to stay on track on many things, yet on others I wasn't to lazy to fight day after day til I won. I surely am happy I didn't keep putting effort in the hopeless efforts to improve my penmanship skills.
My concern is primarily around standards of education.

If your government school gave your kids wonderful educations with excellent curriculum, more power to you.

The issue I have is that's not universal. It's that I've seen far too many examples of high school graduates that are illiterate.
Yes, according to Elon! We also know that he lies prodigiously.

Since X/Twitter is a private company now we don't have half as much insight as we did last year.

But there are a few clear warning signs that the company's ability to build features and maintain existing infra has been significantly degraded. De Santis's botched campaign launch was one such example.
I love the smell of Musk apologists in the morning.
Getting really tired of these posts telling me how to sleep.

I tried going to bed earlier. Getting enough exercise, but not too late. No coffee after lunch. No eating after 20:00. I would have 8 hours of sleep or slightly longer and feel exhausted every day.

Turns out if I go to bed later and sleep 6-7 hours, I feel much better, even if my "sleep scores" are much worse.

If I'm not tired, I can lie with my eyes closed for hours. It's better to get out and do something else for an hour, then try again. For me, at least.
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> Western classical music is, if you were to caricature it, about the elevation of harmony above the other elements of music.

While that is definitely important, don't overlook structure. Bach is the quintessential puzzler, Beethoven is nothing without cells and development, Brahms follows both, and the serialists you mention tried to push it even further.

> let's defend Eurodance too

Too bad its timbral complexity never leaves the boink boink boink phase.
Any recommendations for this particular use case?
Anecdote: I've gotten all my work through twitter for the last several years without having to send a resume or fill out an application. I never use LinkedIn anymore.

The current leadership changes might upset this applecart -- time will tell? The recipe of do-work-publicly, receive job leads in DMs has been so much more effective than all the other things I've used in my career - indeed, linkedin, dice, direct applications etc.

The thought of logging into linkedin makes me feel ill. Last I saw, it was full of vacuous public demonstrations of people showing their dedication to the idea of working. Managerial medicine men claiming that they unlocked the true keys to business and that everyone else had fake keys. Lot of vague platitudes about team playing and working hard playing hard. Synergy, 300 articles about emotional intelligence. Innovation innovation innovation!

There's some of that on twitter, but critically, people post actual work product more. At least that's how it was, haven't been on in a few months.
Could it be the quiet and calmness?
If you're searching for a name, it looks like they're mostly in alphabetical order by surname.
I agree, it changes the semantics of dictionaries in a way that doesn't feel right. There are several things that are off-putting, but another example in vein with the mixed key types is the implicit ordered dict.
> What does it mean to understand a piece of work? Do I have to read the sheet music? Do I need to know musical theory? Should I be familiar with the composer's background? The definition is somewhat vague.

Oh no, I didn't mean any of those at all. Quite the opposite.

I mean "understand it" as the opposite of "it sounds like nonsense." It's at the intuitive level, not about the ability to reason the structure details or whatever.

Everyone grows up listening to some particular types of music in their household, culture, etc. You naturally develop an intuitive understanding, in the same way a native speaker has adopted the rhythms and tones and phonemes of their local language. A typical modern American listening to Charlie Parker rip through a bebop solo, is not too different than listening to someone speaking Mandarin. The sounds don't map onto anything recognizable. But you listen to it enough, and the brain starts to understand the structure. It's not just a blurred stream of saxophone, but a series of phrases, with inflections, patterns, meaning. Listen to it long enough, and you hear every individual note as it flies by.
I started with Bell Labs Unix, transitioned through many variations, and then when I came to OpenBSD and Linux, they were both pretty straightforward compared with, say, porting to or from System V Unix.

I don't think you're wrong about anything. It's true that one may need to pore over kernel code, and yes, often you have the "duty of knowing how the specific Unix was implemented". I just that that you're over-emphasizing the difficulty.

Life is hard (including programming), but that's where we calibrate our zero setting.
It could also be that ice cream is very close to glass in Swedish. Matter in fact ice cream in Swedish is actually spelled the same as glass.

So depending on how well you pronounced it, you may just have said: I can eat ice cream, it doesn't hurt

edit: added a missing word
Ask HN: Have you noticed X/Twitter is filling up with people asking questions?
I'm not sure what your code example is supposed to demonstrate... All I can say is that Lua uses lexical scoping for local variables (which need to be declared as "local").
In iOS it’s also buried deep in the “share” menu which makes absolutely no sense as you are not sharing the website with anybody.
It's as if they'd never seen A Clockwork Orange!
Phoenix is quite nice if you're coming to it from a dynamically-typed environment, but I'd strongly dispute that its type system is "good enough" at large (human, not technological) scales. Phoenix itself makes good decisions in a lot of places but it relies on things like Ecto for database manipulation, which (as just one example) is absolutely not enough for substantiative, human-scalable development--your "minimal testing" is my, as even a comparatively easygoing TypeScript-down-the-stack enjoyer, a whole lot of extra stuff.

It also faces impedance mismatch with a lot of cloud tooling--which is not a disqualifier by itself and BEAM might not even be wrong, but most Elixir-in-anger systems I've seen end up abandoning much of the benefit of BEAM clustering and running a bunch of horizontally scaled web applications because they've got containers to manage and it fits the overall get-it-out-the-door plan better. This makes things like "just add another genserver" not really map to reality all that well, though of course genservers are a good layer of abstraction and modularization on their own.

LiveView is great, though. I am hopeful for React server components and server actions to continue to mature; they're promising as it is.
I would expect Ukraine could learn how to produce their own in a couple of weeks. Have patterns and a press to cut out the pieces and mass produce them. The effect of thousands of these would be similar to massive volleys of arrows in medevil battle, only in this case each has targeting and 5kg warhead
"Anti-piracy coalition ACE"

Can you imagine a less-inspiring place to work?
> ... competing against 5% no risk return

Until recently, this was less than inflation. A year ago the inflation rate of the US$ was more than 8%. So the net result when applying an interest rate of 5% was -3%. Less than in most of the period before 2021 when assuming an interest rate of 0%. I doubt that investors are not aware of this, arn't they?
Looks like the big trend is to ask questions to get your engagement numbers up so X will pay you money.
This kind of crazy feature creep is why I switched to Wayland.
Glad to hear that's changed. There were strident statements from the developer on Github last time I researched it to the effect that implementing '!'-style history expansion was contrary to the fish philosophy and that people just need to learn the fish-y way. Looking back it, I probably could have fixed the issue for myself by setting up vi-mode in fish, but I didn't come across that option at the time.
I love it! This is a great habit.

ADHD or not, it's all about reducing cognitive load.
Obviously the administrative cost of taxing some other emissions source is going to depend on the nature of that emissions source, but if hypothetically evaluating emissions from certain sources turned out to be prohibitively burdensome, that would not be any excuse to avoid doing it for fuels at a minimum, which constitute the majority of emissions anyway.

And a more efficient way to handle imports would be to impose general tariffs on imports from countries that don't themselves impose a carbon tax, rather than trying to calculate the effects of something happening in a foreign country. Which would have a more significant effect anyway, because causing the entire country to reduce its own emissions would be a much bigger win than causing only their exports to do so.
They could still allow adding more RAM that would just be slightly slower.
For those that want to read up on the BFF pattern: https://bff-patterns.com/
Apparently Elon was more serious with that kitchen sink gag than we realized...
Animal Welfare in Nazi Germany
> And I don't think you can produce a single example that was homeschooled.

I'm on board with criticism of government schools, but home-schooling isn't perfect and I have seen examples where kids were kept uneducated, up to functionally illiterate.

Parents have a right to home-school their kids. There will be kids that come out poorly -- it's going to be _fewer_ than if they'd gone to government schools.
sure, but being UK is also not perse bad.
This is essentially the Canadian model. The federal government mandates that every province must put a minimum price on carbon. If they don't the federal program puts a direct price on carbon and rebates the residents of the province directly. About 90% of the money goes directly to residents and the other 10% is directed by the federal government to programs within the affected province, for example in Ontario they used the money for energy retrofits of public schools.

https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services...
Generative AI and Intellectual Property
Single-use also dramatically expands the envelope of workable chemistries.
That will have to change in 2027 with he new EU battery regulation.
Music certainly has a psychological effect. I do feel somewhat sorry if you can't enjoy it, because for me the effect is quite positive.
So lately I've been using it to build things against APIs I've never worked with. I needed to write something that would check circleci (ci/cd system) for jobs in ANOTHER repo running and hold off starting a job in a DIFFERENT repo if there was one running in the first. Basically something to check every 30s-1min and succeed and move on to the next job if that repo wasn't running a workflow. Instead of having to dig through circles API docs or stackoverflow for examples I just typed in something like "How can I use ruby, go, bash or python to check a different circleci repo for running workflows before starting a workflow in a different repo?"

I had to go through several iterations and I bounced from wanting to write it in go to I think eventually just doing it in bash, just simplicities sake, but it absolutely saved me days of research. I definitely had to fix a lot of things and tailor it to my needs and it lead me astray quite a few times but it really was more like asking a professor the question vs googling it and hoping that SOMEONE out there has done something similar. Or combing API docs.. It was such an ancillary thing that I didn't want to get hung up on it for more than 1-3 days and it literally got me going in maybe 3-6 hours.

I also write a ton of very advanced terraform and cdk with it. I already know both very well but it absolutely speeds me up if I haven't used a specific function or what not in awhile, or it's newer to me.

It's great at leading me to the water, sometimes I have to still teach myself to fish but it will give me ideas and get me going if not even more.
Why wouldn't people just use their UBI on buying more things, which, as rudimentary understanding of physics goes, yields more demand for production, which increases C02 output?

Perhaps I'm missing something, but I don't understand how taxing and redistributing the money does anything besides shifts the consumer power a bit???

I mean, wouldn't a better solution just be to have a carbox tax and then destroy the taxed money?
A probably healthy way to look at the issue would be "terrible things happened throughout history, but how does that matter to me right now?"

It seems to me like most people here either fall into the camp "We must remember the terrible things that happened and do everything to make sure it never happens again!" or in the "I am sick of Nazis here Nazis there, I don't care about Nazis!!!!"

I don't feel like any of these extremes are healthy. I also don't believe the daily Hitler documentaries on TV provide much valuable information beyond sensationalism and keeping the narrative alive.
Using SOCK_SEQPACKET would be saner than pipes or SOCK_STREAM.
While I am not a fan of the settler movement, their "new" homes are mostly very close to their place being born.
> Getting really tired of these posts telling me how to sleep.

Haha -- if you meant it as a joke! And if you didn't... nobody is telling you how to sleep. It's just someone with an opinion.

> Turns out if I go to bed later and sleep 6-7 hours, I feel much better, even if my "sleep scores" are much worse.

Sleep cycles are generally between three-and-a-half and four-and-a-half hours long, I think, but maybe yours are slightly on the shorter side.

Either way, if you're getting two cycles in and you wake up cleanly after the second one, that is a great place to be. If you're sleeping such that you're being woken by your alarm in the middle of a sleep cycle, that is hell after a while.

Before the industrial revolution really settled in, before the electric light, many people used to routinely have "first sleep" and "second sleep", splitting up two cycles, and they would have meaningful time to do stuff in between. There are references to it in stories and it's seemingly where the whole "midnight adventure" trope in children's stories comes from.

Sometimes I am like this, depending on my stress levels. That time in between sleeps can be lovely if you know you have time for it.
Here is another statistic from Arch: https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/compare/packages#packages=budg...
Life and Career Advice from Bjarne Stroustrup [video]
Yes, I compiled with -O3 for maximum speed. That would be an unusual flag choice in most cases.

I just wanted to use 6502 code (so many seem to be able to read it!) with C side by side. x86 would have worked as well. Where the fastest answer would also be the same construct, assuming the dependency on an external routine.
I mean better late than never, but somehow I don't see this reducing carbon emissions so much as slowing them.
Pillow under my knees and a thin one to hold on my chest and fold my arms on top of helped me get used to sleeping on my back.
That menu does far more than share, such as opening the URL or document or whatever you are viewing in a different app or saving it somewhere.
Vacation homes might bring occasional injection of cash, but they do not really support local community and local services for most of the year. So it is understandable that unless community is build on that type of industry they do not want it and instead focus on those that bring more revenue.
Ok, you're joking, but still, are you referring to the 1987 Liskov Substitution Principle? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liskov_substitution_principle
That's great news.
It managed to kill it’s only meaningful revenue stream.. so yes, it’s currently missing one of the core requirements of running a business, a way to make more money than they are spending.