skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While I respect that you might have experience with a particularly bad school,

Thanks for respect! Not sure the school is particular bad, but the general model picked for teaching reading is the one that minimizes possible confrontation, While I respect that you might have experience with a particularly bad school, one-on-one instruction, and is general the seems to require the least effort from the teacher.

> fuck off with

Ok. So respect first, but then I have to quickly go away? "screw yourself" is another interpretation, I guess. Thanks for the advice, then!

> That’s a disgusting slander for a very difficult job.

Oh for sure. It's usually underpaid and unappreciated by society. So given that, which model do you think they'll pick for teaching students? The one which requires more effort or least effort. They picked the one which requires least effort and least confrontation, both with the students and the parents (parents are usually are worse than the students).
Only if you browse the new tab would this matter to you. I do frequently so it matters to me.
Yeah, I think the process of socializing, especially in person, leverages some kind of hardware acceleration that we all have and counteracts these gaps in our security, but the moment people get online all of a sudden all that biology just goes out the window.

Just imagine, for example, the in-person equivalent of a YT conspiracy video. It would be some motor-mouth at a party who traps you in a corner to tell you all about how the field of archaeology is an elaborate hoax meant to keep us from finding out the "truth". You would basically smile and node, or maybe even humor them for a second, but the moment you get a whiff that there is an unlimited stream of this stuff you would look for the nearest exit.

Videos that play on people's insecurities would just be that friend in your group who's the emotional vampire, that always requires a tag team to manage.

And yet, as soon as these personalities take their form online, we find them interesting, irresistible even. Like, "But, this guy says that giants used to walk the earth and the fact that all pyramids look the same can't be just a coincidence.", and the next thing you know you find a community among others and some people get completely swallowed by one grift or another.

I guess this kind of thing has been happening for a while too, with TV, it's just become a lot more effective now with networked computers.
> ... it was always technologically superior to MySQL

No, it wasn't, and still isn't.

MySQL supports replication correctly and out of the box, Postgres still hasn't figured this out.

(Replication is the #1 important feature for any setup that is larger than one server.)
I skimmed the first 2 chapters and didn't see "YouTube" but it does seem like his style to mention a bunch of brands. He went as far as calling a key a "Yale key". The last page of chapter two says "Ralph Lauren" 3 times.
I cache certain info using embedded databases like RocksDB (formerly) and currently a LevelDB. Then just load that data into the templates and serve it.

I used to host on cheap 1cpu 512mb ram and 20gb SSD. I would be able to handle 7-9k rps.

Now I’m on a bit beefier dedicated hardware doing a few more things. But under simulated load this can handle close to 200k rps.
No dealers in my area have any cars on the lot to purchase. They all want you to buy them sight unseen and will deliver in months. I’d happily buy a EV today if I could just test drive it before placing the money down, but the interest is so high that they don’t need to cater to my request.
I have zero interest in using government controlled social media, nor do I want my taxes wasted on that type of boondoggle.
Reddit was a great community with its own character and norms prior to the great Digg exodus. It mostly managed to hold onto them, at least while it still made some kind of sense to think about reddit as one community vs. 10,000 subreddits.
The main reason for not using causal inference is not because data scientists don’t know about the different approaches or can’t imagine something equivalent (a lot of reinvention); forecasting is one of the most common tasks, after all.

The main reason is that they generally work for software companies where it’s easier and less susceptible to analyst influence to implement the suggested change and test it with a Random Control Trial. I remember running an analysis that found that gender was a significant explaining factor for behavior on our site; my boss asked (dismissively): What can we do with that information? If there is an assumption of how things work that doesn’t translate to a product change, that insight isn’t useful; if there is a product intuition, testing the product change itself is key, and there’s no reason to delay that.

There are cases where RCTs are hard to organize (for example, multi-sided platform businesses) of changes that can’t be tested in isolation (major brand changes). Those tend to benefit from the techniques described there——and they have dedicated teams. But this is a classic case of a complicated tool that doesn’t fit most use cases.
I understand. If you cross post, I will read such articles on hacker news.
Pity there’s no discussion of grid/flex by default, especially for someone that dislikes margins.

Put grid/flex on most block elements. Spacing between boxes and their children is always handled with padding, spacing between siblings is always handled with gap. Everything else becomes way easier.
This has been obvious since 2010 and even more so since Xi took over in 2012, anyone who says otherwise wasn't paying attention or was willfully blind. If there is a war, Silicon Valley will be need to be held to account for helping China develop technologically in the last decade to the point where it is such a potent threat to the US military. I mean it's been stunning and it would never have happened without Sequoia, Apple and Microsoft.
There's plenty odd brands for everything in the real world too. There's Ubuntu Cola, Migo phones, and AbiWord, to name a few examples.
I don't know if you count it as a game, but Flight Simulator? Sure there was a decade or so when nothing happened, but I think they more than made up for that.
People who think that way don't remain servers long. Managers absolutely do not tolerate it. Feel free to vent on the Internet but if you actually touch the food you get blackballed.

Shitty tippers get brought up to management. They can get banned from restaurants. It sucks to get stuffed on tips, and a lot of places pool tips to spread the impact so one person doesn't get screwed.

There are also shitty managers and servers have to deal with it when management doesn't protect them. But if you mess with the food you are done at every restaurant in the area. It gets restaurants shut down and charged large fines.

I'm sure whoever posted that meant it. But they are going to have a short and unhappy career.
Yes, Postgres is a toy database that can't do replication correctly. You are not wrong.
Nobody wants charging malls. Everyone wants to charge at home.

But that’s still not going to be enough to topple the issue that battery cars are $20,000 more expensive than their ICE counterparts, which is more than the whole budget most people have for a car as it is.
According to cppreference (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support/20), MSVC has everything implemented. GCC is close but its modules support remains lacking.
With the copyright, multiple creators could work on it with a signed deal saying they'd be paid, but the sole ownership would go to a single person. A profit sharing plan could be put in place if desired.
Rawhide 3.3 CLI file search using expressions and user-defined functions
They have bigger problems than that: they are prohibited by an ever increasing set of laws from making and selling the vehicles consumers would like to buy.

Being a government protected cartel was great for a while; but now they're all ossified into a mass that's going to sink. Jeepneys and tuktuks are gonna be the thing. I'd love to be in the small engine business about now, there's gonna be a big market for a 40HP to 150HP generic drop in "power unit" things.
Anecdota: SLS always causes mouth sores aka canker sores for me. My inner cheeks and gums were covered in them before I figured it out. It was a very painful existence. Other people online reporting that cutting it out helped them saved me. I'm sure there are people who can tolerate SLS just fine, but I am not one of them, and the evidence has been clear cut enough for me that an inconclusive NIH study will do nothing to move the needle.

For anyone reading this suffering the same fate, benzocaine, which is commonly sold near the toothpastes, is an absolute lifesaver when you have a canker sore. It's sold under the name "Kanka" but any store brand alternatives should work just as well.
> emphasizing hybrids as most realistic route for most consumers. He was slammed for it.

Interesting to get slammed for a Hybrid...

https://www.thedrive.com/car-reviews/2024-chevrolet-corvette...
C++ file extensions aren’t standardized unlike other languages. Hence the need for keywords to enable functionality.

So you can’t really rely on extensions to be sufficient.

Many build systems and compilers do assume specific extensions imply a file type by default, but those can often be configured to arbitrary extensions as well.
I'm not sure what your expectations growing up were but I remember always hearing "making friends as adults is hard". This might be somewhat alleviated by having kids as a forcing function (becoming friends with your kid's friend's parents because of the amount of time they spend together) but it's pretty much been proven true. Making friends is a huge time investment, especially as an adult when you have more responsibilities that take up that time.
It's comforting to me that this has been a challenge for many generations, the only difference is now the distractions are digital.

From Zhuangzi, Warring States period in China (born around 369 BC):

But to wear out your brain trying to make things into one without realizing that they are all the same - this is called "three in the morning". What do I mean by "three in the morning"? When the monkey trainer was handing out acorns, he said, "You get three in the morning and four at night". This made all the monkeys furious. "Well, then", he said, "you get four in the morning and three at night". The monkeys all were delighted. There was no change in the reality behind the words, and yet the monkeys responded with joy and anger. Let them, if they want to. So the sage harmonizes with both right and wrong and rests in Heaven the Equalizer. This is called walking two roads.

(note: Burton Watson translation)

I interpret this to mean first that what the monkeys care about is petty and trivial (like the petty distractions we all encounter daily), and more importantly at the end of the day there's no real change in the situation one way or another (the sum either way is seven acorns). The monkeys, caring about these trivial things, are happy they won the argument and got their way, even though it amounts to no significant difference at the end of the day.

So let it be.
What does Microsoft make? You download bits over a wire and store them on your personal SSD. They don’t make SSDs so it should be trivial for other companies to quickly catch up.

For the sake of argument, let’s reduce Nvidia (my employer but I don’t speak for them) to just a silicon vendor.

You’re not only ignoring the work of thousands who design the stuff that goes on that silicon, the billions of $ in R&D, you’re also dismissing the decisions about what to put in that design, way before other people do it. Some of those decisions were made years before the actual implementation started. It happens to be something a few people at Nvidia are very good at.
https://www.cameronsworld.net/
Im not disputing anything other than when directly compared flossing does not prevent gingivitis, plaque or cavities better than a combined brushing and mouth rinse with regular professional cleanings. Flossing is generally associated with better oral health overall because if you take the time to floss you probably do a better job brushing as well.

The burden is on the flossers to prove the efficacy beyond a secondary link and prove flossing is better in a controlled study. reality doesnt always match what they “feel” it should be.
Not sure about intern, but I've onboarded a lot of new people and I love it. I just take 1-3 hours a day and have them share their screen and work on their task.

Once they're comfortable, the sessions turn from a pairing session to a planning session that doesn't last as long, and with a few 10 minute checkins.

Eventually the person ramps up. You just need management to carve out time for this so you aren't overloaded, and you need to make it clear that the person isn't interrupting you, it is part of your job to help them, even being proactive and asking people if they want an extra pair of eyes for those who don't feel comfortable asking for help when they need it
High school student working with Fermilab scientist publishes research
This. Dang (Daniel) is a cyborg, meant in the best possible way. He moderates this place better than anywhere else on the internet that I know of.
> Why would modules make it harder to interface with c++ from python ? Is it because the header files are a direct interface to the functions?

Well, they're simpler, they're text, and the tooling already exists (I use swig all the time to automatically make C functions and symbols available to Java and Python. Some Lisps as well).

The reason the tooling exists, is because they are simple, and they are text. Looking at the C++ module definition, it's unclear to me[1] that similar tooling for C++ modules will ever be possible.

As long as the most popular languages (Python, Java, etc) rely on a C header file for inter-call interoperability, header files aren't going away. No one wants to manually write the interface into a C++ library by hand.

[1] I'm no C++ expert though - the problems I see with modules includes things like lack of a standard to grab the interface from the compiled module, complexity of C++ to determine the interface from the actual source code, etc.
Might it be made difficult to replace them, even if they're cheaper, because of the political influence of the goal/gas lobby groups in America?
If coal is un-economic, why in your view are the Chinese building out more coal burning plants? See https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-...

Why wouldn't they only focus on battery and renewables as you put it?
Yeah, but homeowners are a majority of the electorate. Our suffering is their free money. A feature, not a bug.
I'm thinking about a corollary to Net Neutrality (which is allegedly coming back thanks to the new Biden-appointed FCC commissioner) which states that public web sites need to be accessible by the public. I've ranted about this a few times on HN. This isn't about working around bugs and quirks in umpteen different versions of umpteen different browsers, but making sure we don't start actively coding hard stops again: "Your browser is too old" messages, endless Captchas, purposely giving one browser a clearly worse or even unusable experience. Incompetence would be embarrassing but not illegal. Whenever I find the time, I really want to send the FCC a registered mail packet with my proposal and lots of examples of why this is already necessary.

And yes, the web sites will need to suck it up. You can't choose your visitors...which may occassionally be a bot or screen scraper.
Yeah, well, you need to cut through layer upon layer of social conditioning telling you people rely on you to be strong. Not vulnerable, but more like a rock. If you’re going to be sad or some such, we prefer you to show anger instead. Because that shows strength. Overall society is doing its best to keep passing that along to the next generation as a gift that keeps on giving.
I didn't know that Apple had their own TLD.

Apparently they got it in year 2015.
Usually there's some little footnote on the menu or sign on the door stating the fee, so it would be impossible for a prosecutor to prove fraud. But this kind of bullshit is one of the reasons that I don't visit SF as much as I used to.
Everything is opinionated, including resets.

Give me that warm 2014 feelings again
Found visidata last week. I was blown away by how much it can do.
It may be a bit challenging for a 7 year old, but get them to read “How to lie with maps” (https://www.markmonmonier.com/how_to_lie_with_maps__3rd_ed_1...), discuss it with them and set up something that allows them (possibly with some help from a grown up; I think tooling for this is still a bit nerdy) to make their own maps based on OpenStreetMap. They might want to prominently show all houses of relatives, all public playgrounds, zoos, McDonald’s, or whatever or de-emphasize or even hide roads not accessibly by bicycle, for example.
If you have black triangles from gum recession, then I highly recommend TePe interdental brushes (or some other brand).

Neither a toothbrush nor floss is going to clear those areas effectively, and I noticed an immediate improvement in my gum inflammation levels when I started using them.
In the US, if you're below the poverty line you are receiving food stamps which equates to like $290/person/mo right now I think, according to my friends, all of whom are on them.

I can't get them myself due to my immigration status, but I spend perhaps $3/wk on food since there are food pantries which give you all sorts of random stuff that is expiring.
SelfControl - with complete block

This is something that's also known in addiction circles, and has several different formulations: abstinence is often easier than moderation.
Well…they do… https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/eu/value-added-tax-2023-v...
At least in my major US metro, only the electric utility can toggle their service on/off remotely. Water and gas services have a digital meter but still need a physical action by a human service worker to turn them on/off.
Doesn't help when Noah is fantasizing about an age of austerity that will make it a lot harder to scale up factories
I didn't realize ShopTalk Show was still going on. I was an avid listener waaay back in the day.
Oh, thanks, my bad, I got it wrong.
I also checked using two devices that it doesn't actually sync anything via Firefox Accounts.

By the way, Tab Session Manager [1] (another contender) can sync via Google Drive across different browsers (Firefox/Chrome).

[1] https://github.com/sienori/Tab-Session-Manager
My impression, albeit from someone who was only vaguely aware of this issue until Emily Hanford's influential podcast Sold a Story, is that "balanced literacy" is a reasonable-sounding concept that has been so widely used as to become almost meaningless, and, in particular, that there was not much balance in Calkin's method.

This opinion is undoubtedly influenced by my skepticism over the reasons offered for substituting exercises like guessing the word for those involving "sounding out' a word. While practiced readers do use context clues a lot (probably too much, IMHO, to the detriment of critical analysis), it does not follow that guessing games will lead to basic competence. As for children stumbling over "spelling out" exercises, that is to be expected. They do the same with arithmetic, so should we be teaching them to guess the answer, and hope that, through doing so, they will infer how to get correct answers? And, as others have pointed out here, the premise that literacy comes as naturally as language itself seems to be empirically false and even self-contradictory (so why, then, do we need to be teaching it in schools?)
Who is seriously claiming catastrophic collapse on the 2-3 degrees increase trajectories?
If you do t mind, what area? What brands? In Southern California every dealer I called had at least a couple of each model to check out.
Ok, but that’s your feeling and that isn’t linked to any long term health of the mouth in controlled studies. If you brush and rinse, statistically it has a better effect than just brushing and flossing.
Using AMD's Anti-Lag Feature Might Get You Banned on Counter-Strike 2
This is surely true and can be a danger in many cases. Still, Wikipedia is curated by humans and in most cases I would argue that articles improve over time, errors get corrected etc.

I'm not arguing that Wikipedia is a good primary source, I still think it is very suitable as a point of entry if you want to cross-check information from other sources.

A user-editable encyclopedia is not perfect, but it is not comparable to automatically generated text that has no regard for correctness, that only tries to fit its training data and prompt.

For example, I wouldn't trust GPT when asking for the height of some building in my city. I would consider it likely though that it confidently gives ke a wrong number.

Without all the RLHF training to refuse "best guess" answers, situation would be even more bleak.
I'm curious where you have ever seen a national advertisement for a hotel room that includes a price; it is not something I've observed but perhaps my chauvinism has blinded me. That said, do you think that a hotel company is able to calculate the price of a room when I go onto their online portal and request a price for a particular location and date?
For me the article link returns a JSON response. Tested in two browsers. Other articles on that site work normally.
I'm not sure what you are talking about re "experts" - I'm very much basing my statements on the conclusion drawn by experts.

I don't think that there's any expert out there that will deny that 3°C warming will lead to massive population movements.[0] Experts also conclude that there's already significant damage to ecosystems that will only increase with that kind of global warming[1].

But that's a little besides the point.

In the Paris climate agreement of 2015 we agreed to limit global warming to 1.5°C. Barely 8 years later we've blown through that limit and there is no credible effort to reduce or even stop the warming.

Models parametrized so that they predict a 2-3°C increase until the end of the century have already been invalidated since all of them expected 1.5°C to be breached by 2030 earliest - we're seven years ahead of schedule.

Right now we're on a track that even our modern neutered climate models predict will lead to a +5°C before the end of the century.

[0] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-g...

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2189-9
If an imaginary bored teenage version of yourself ran across what you wrote, at 6 PM on a Thursday night, would they read it with interest or at least amusement? That's my personal limit.
What’s the typical range difference? Is it strict like 100-130k or more wider like 100-190k?
There was such a fear and fetish back then relating to computing. If you got some sort of computer you needed stacks of third party books and training classes. Lots of memes (often spread on paper!) about how hard it is.

I talked to the CTO of Palo Alto back around 2000 about why they bought exchange (including a huge computer to run it) rather than Netscape’s system, a local product that wouldn’t have needed the huge computer. “The icons look different so the training program would have cost more than the whole exchange buy”.
I blew out a shoulder strap in a Patagonia bag because I loaded it down with _way_ too much gear. A store of theirs sent it in to repair, and the repair person told me to pick a size of the new model because they couldn't repair the damage I caused. All shipping was covered by Patagonia.

Patagonia is drastically more expensive than REI gear, but included in the higher quality is a better return/repair policy and ethical manufacturing standards. REI is competing on price, not those standards.