skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were stories that at Uber events they had a big screen and shared that info publicly of various celebrities.
Restrictions are not the only form of punishment. Many infractions result in a simple fine. Others in mandatory education, etc.

My point was that comparing this to a crime that kills people by the tens of thousands every year seems very stretched.
Adjacent, but this video on the science of reading is fascinating. tl;dw:

1. We don't know for sure how humans happen to be able to read.
2. We know it didn't evolve; as recently as a few hundred years ago a large majority of humans didn't read.
3. We think edges and intersections and fundamental shapes are key to being able to recognize things in general.
4. We think writing/reading evolved (from pictograms) to fit what our brains are good at.
5. Our brains are ridiculously good at it.
6. At least once we're good at it, we don't sound out words, or even see words individually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt7rR0MCYsg
Remotely it takes more intentional effort. I think a hybrid model for juniors is best. If fully remote is the only option then you really need to be proactive about supporting the junior. I don't think a on site model for mentoring translates directly to a remote model. You really need to plan communication.
lol you really want to drive this point home? Hate teachers much?
What does friendship look like in America?
Children's early aptitudes for all these non-trivial skills vary enormously. There's also minimal later consequence. Basically the fact your five year old can multiply and mine can't count properly actually isn't strongly predictive for which of them is going to be a Fields Medal winner.

Kids who exhibit interest in acquiring written language skills should be encouraged, but so should kids who are interested in dancing, or playing a musical instrument, or a hundred other things. Unless your kid's main hobby is torturing flies or something they should be encouraged to do things they enjoy, especially before school makes them do some things that, inevitably, they don't enjoy, whether that's writing things down, climbing, or learning about stuff that happened a long time ago.
Don't worry, it's not going to be the warmest in 175 years record!
So then as every KitKat is produced, we are approaching the ideal KitKat?
I agree. In the 70s, I walked and rode my bicycle to school alone when I was 5. Our town was maybe 15,000 people with another 30k people in the area.

I feel very lucky to have grown up then.
stunning, incredible. well done. keep up the good work.
> Better than ads, sites can make money by selling products and services. A website with information on gardening, that also sells the equipment and seeds you need. A website with travel information that also sells tours. A website with any programming and IT information that also sells software.

That would compromise the neutrality of the site.

Also not everyone who want to publish information about stuff wants to run a freaking retail business to support the publishing/hosting.
It’s so annoying when I travel and I can’t access login to my Utility provider’s website to pay my bill.

I understand they don’t want get hacked but believe it or not, customers travel.
Do authors get paid for ad placement in novels?
I was reading the latest John Sandford novel and the number of times "YouTube" has been referenced by a character is becoming ridiculous. I've had this thought before when brands suddenly pop up in novels, but how could one prove it?

Has anyone else noticed this?
There's a bike path in my suburb, at least a mile from my house, requiring crossing two thoroughfares to reach it.

Since moving here I've effectively stopped riding because of the drivers.
Yeah, what's odd to me reading this article and then going and reading elsewhere about "balanced literacy" (which I hadn't heard of before) is that it sounds like this parent's teachers weren't using balanced literacy at all—what they describe is just the whole language method. Balanced literacy supposedly was meant to bridge the gap and use both whole language and phonics in the same program, and the author is pretty clear that phonics didn't feature in their instruction at all.

It sounds to me like either someone in the curriculum development process or the teachers themselves were anti-phonics and stripped them out of the "balanced" process, so this parent's experience may not be reflective of the typical results of a truly balanced method.
174 years, out of a 4 billion+ year history.
Exactly. And no one wonders why the countries with the highest rates of obesity are those in which a high calorie breakfast is the norm and actively recommended.

Breakfast is the least natural meal, you should not even be hungry when you wake up, it's unhealthy and should be skipped.
Just an observation from an educational outsider. In the 1970s I was a US peace corps volunteer in one of the more impoverished rural counties in South Korea. My job in a health center required learning and using the Korean language. The grammar (with complicated speech levels, etc.) is daunting, but the alphabet remarkably rational and easy to learn. Even in remote villages with a rudimentary standard of living, I never encountered an illiterate person and never heard of a student who could not read. The fabled Korean obsession with education is surely important, but I do believe the sheer ease and clarity of the Korean alphabet plays an important role in universal literacy there. A lesson for English speakers?
There are different valid ways to produce these queries, some of which might be less composable but simpler: https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/Ecto.Query.html
Can nature be evil? An evil earthquake or evil meteor that kills thousands or causes mass extinction? No. Results don't dictate if something is evil. Intention does. Results merely affect the scope.

Similar, a person who goes into a diabetic fit while driving and crashes into a group of people is not the same as the person who chooses to plow into the same group of pedestrians because they don't like their political signs.
Three thoughts,

Is it really true that 1 in 4 schools stopped teaching kids to associate sounds with letters so they could sound out words? That sounds so insane it beggars belief. If that's true then no wonder people don't trust schools; trust isn't warranted. But the idea is so insane on the face of it that I have trouble believing it.

Secondly, if 1 in 4 schools did this and half of the students in these schools fail at reading because of it, then "and a large part of why more than half of our country’s fourth graders aren’t demonstrating proficiency on reading exams." seems a bit dubious. If school's adopted this program independent of school size and half of the students at those schools struggled to read for this reason alone, then I'd expect roughly 1/8th of all students nationally to be negatively effected, not one half.

Third, it would have been nice for this article to go more into the history of the idea. It pretty much lays all the blame on this Lucy Calkins and Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, but also blames this line of thinking for a 1973 SCOTUS decision. That was several years before the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project was founded, but the article doesn't go into this history.
That's great. Retro stuff is mostly why I check HN daily anyway. I'm glad you took the time to create this.
CBC - Complete Blood Count is a common, routine test that detects anemia.
https://www.healthline.com/health/anemia/anemia-blood-test#b...
The “add error handling” example is baffling. I’m not even sure if it’s valid JS to put an export statement in a try/catch block?

Edit: No, it's not valid javascript https://i.imgur.com/9g28y3l.png
WPA Posters from the Library of Congress
I wouldn't say that the teachers are necessarily bad or lazy, just as I wouldn't say devs are bad or lazy. However, I do agree with some of what the prior person was saying. If anyone is given the option to do something in an easier way, they're likely to do it. I think the teachers/schools would have selected the tablets/laptops because the education companies selling them marketed them as an improvement. In some ways they are. In other ways, I'm not so sure.

Look at devs. It's easy to create a Lambda on AWS, or to drop some files in S3. It's faster, cheaper, etc than setting up the infrastructure yourself (typically). Now these devs have no idea of how to set up servers, NAS, etc. Who cares about optimization because the details are handled for you. Now we'll wait and see how it plays out. Same thing for early laptop use as primary learning medium. Maybe handwriting and lack of spellchecker won't be a big deal in the real world.

Also, I'm touring local schools currently. The ones so far has said they do a hybrid of physical and laptop learning. So far every class I've walked past has the kids on the laptop except for an art class.
IMO copyright should be drastically shortened, and should possibly have a mechanism for varying the length based on the application - for instance, aerospace software can take literal decades just to be permitted for use, so if the copyright only lasts 10 years then aerospace software basically isn't covered.

In contrast, perhaps the average videogame might need only five years of copyright to sufficiently incentivize their production. Hypothetically. In such a scenario, there's no one-size-fits-all solution, so we need a different system than just a flat copyright duration.
Is the lesson that we should switch to Korean? English may not be ideally 'designed' but how would you change how English is written without causing havoc for the billions of people who already learned it?
Lonely Planet travel guides are fantastic value. If you are going to spend >$500 to visit a foreign country/culture, spending $20 to learn the basics is cheap. And the practical knowledge can easily cover the cost of the book. I recently picked up one of these for a trip to Bosnia, and it offered a wealth of information about the country. The writer had a deep understanding of the country, the culture, the language and what you should know and what you should see. Even the restaurant recommendations were solid. If you are going to spend 8 hours traveling you ought have enough time to learn the basics of the place you are going to visit and lonely planet does a great job providing a high quality summary.
There’s nothing wrong with calling out a company for putting out shoddy work during a contentious labor strike.

Disney can play with this stuff all they want, but society is going to start asking these big questions in louder and more forceful ways, and there’s nothing wrong with that either. You can’t take away an entire industry’s livelihood and expect them to accept it lying down.
> If you need to save things, use bookmarks

my losses:

- time spent copying the information, even more so to have the same subgroups/order

- losing that order when you regroup tabs during continuous work

- harder navigation as now I need an extra "bookmarks" UI instead of existing tab lista

What would the universal gains be that would justify this?

> If you don’t, don’t keep clutter around.

Did you notice the word 'sessions' in the title? That's for organizing

> Do you still keep all the files in the download folder since 2013?

Nope, I split them into folders, just like I split my tabs into sessions
First decide what you're looking for:

Some kind of Raspberri Pi style desktop replacement (or capable of that). GPU, GB's of RAM, plug in USB peripherals, fast external storage, ...

Microcontroller: on the lower extreme of CPU power, no graphics, small flash/RAM, grab soldering iron to hook up peripherals. There's ~$0.10 parts there.

Boards like the Milk-V Duo fall in between. uC like, faster cpu, larger embedded RAM, may produce video output, not suitable to run modern desktop OS.

Very different beasts for very different applications.
Focus on Screen sharing, huddle/discord (something that lets you talk but lets you off the "meeting mode") or actual days in office if possible
Think of the untold money that will be saved as the need for human involvement is increasingly liberated from the film production process. (Or should it now be called "generation process"?)

All that money can now go directly to the studios, thank God.
This was me, only pushed back by about two years. I entered first grade unable to read, and left it reading full novels. All credit to my first grade teacher for whatever she did do, but other kids in the class didn't undergo that same transformation.
There’s no conflict here. Laws don’t usually change until after the culture shift. They often lag the culture by years or decades.
That’s interesting. What makes you think that Telegram is a better platform than Instagram?
Also the supply chain doesn't vanish for multiple years every time a single vendor fab burns down.
Sorry, but those are not small personal projects. Just pay the 20/40/100$ to have it delivered by a professional vehicle or transport company that has economies of scale instead of buying a 3 ton capacity vehicle as your daily driver.

Just the time it takes to drive to the store, get that loaded and secured, delivered, offloaded etc. You're already at the 1-2 hour mark. Now the labour, cost of all those calories you burnt. Makes my brain hurt even thinking about the waste.
They will start where the next starting line is
Yeah, that's a good analysis. Almost as if a theatre of process was designed to condemn the idea to the dustbin of history, but made to look legitimate and unquestionable as the will of the people. Master plays by the puppet masters, indeed.

I hope it wasn't like that, but your analysis is compelling. You can almost hear the aphorism echoing down the halls of power: "Issue too big? Make a referendum out of it. Nothing will ever happen." ...

God, hope it's not like that. Sickening if so...but when you relate the play by play of what could have been, it sadly sounds sickeningly plausible...
Piracy is a socially acceptable term for theft. Theft isn't and shouldn't be socially acceptable.
It makes sense as if someone thinks that copyright is unethical, they wouldn’t want to make a living from it.

Would you also complain that someone doesn’t understand bombmaking because they aren’t using it for their livelihood?
This looks like it would be very useful for making technical illustrations, like neutral network architectures and similar.
UserScript - Disable YouTube Video Ads and anti-adblocker popup dialog
Aren't you sick of this tired old argument?

Humans have not existed on this planet for the 4 billion years. More like 4 million. Sure, an accurately recorded history of 174 is still a pretty small fraction of 4 million.

So if you're going to try to downplay the increasingly obvious Great Filter our idiotic species is hurtling towards at breakneck speed, at least be dignified about it and use the right numbers. Thanks!
From "Australian student invents affordable electric car conversion kit" (2023) https://www.dezeen.com/2023/10/09/alexander-burton-revr-elec... :

> Australian design student Alexander Burton has developed a prototype kit for cheaply converting petrol or diesel cars to hybrid electric, winning the country's national James Dyson Award in the process.

> Titled REVR (Rapid Electric Vehicle Retrofits), the kit is meant to provide a cheaper, easier alternative to current electric car conversion services, which Burton estimates cost AU$50,000 (£26,400) on average and so are often reserved for valuable, classic vehicles.

> [...] With REVR, those components are left untouched. Instead, a flat, compact, power-dense axial flux motor would be mounted between the car's rear wheels and disc brakes, and a battery and controller system placed in the spare wheel well or boot.

> Some additional off-the-shelf systems – brake and steering boosters, as well as e-heating and air conditioning – would also be added under the hood.

> By taking this approach, Burton believes he'll be able to offer the product for around AU$5,000 (£2,640) and make it compatible with virtually any car.

AU$5,000 is $3,146.90 USD.
Can't access the website, but you are likely aren't including depreciation. To me, it looks like you are trying to prove your point without actually making a fair comparison.

Also, a Civic is a much better car than a Bolt, it's a silly comparison to make. You should compare a Bolt with a car with similar features like space, how it feels to drive one etc.
These arguments have been rehashed for decades at this point, and I think it’s best that I just link to an overview [0].

The bottom line is it there is a lot of nuance here, and simple analogies that make one act appear to be the same as the other lead to some reductionist conclusions that have been repeatedly taken up by lawmakers who do not understand these nuances.

-[0] https://phys.org/news/2015-04-downloading-ethics-digital-pir...
Whenever big corp types bring up this topic, I stuff Brian Moynihan in their faces. If Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America, ran one of the biggest banks in the world remotely for a decade, I am sure some mids writing spaghetti code can manage.
Sure, if it's so valuable to have a training type role we'll keep it on those grounds (or find some alternative) instead of roundabout reasoning which requires us to be inefficient to hide the real reason it's valuable.

Anyone not expecting job roles, opportunities, or pathways to change in their career is going to have a very rough time, even more so than the hard time people from the last 50 years had.
And I discover another graph that starts going haywire around 1971.

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com
Do remember that Adobe, say, does not give away their product to students out of the goodness of their heart: they want you to use their product when they start working and ask your employers to shell out the full amount.
There’s plenty non mainstream life out there. We’ve just gotten too old and too uncool to be invited.

And when we do get invited it’s like “Ugh Wednesday is no good for me, how does Thursday 3 weeks from now work?”
The implicit logic is to have a web for people who actually have something to say, not something to sell. If we end up with a small web by and for nerds, I'm okay with that too. Better to have that than this endless flood of negative value ad-funded SEO spam websites we have today.
Like all things in life, there is a trade-off when we choose remote work over on-site work, or the other way around. I’ll share my personal experience below.

I’ll reframe the argument to “can a company be 100% remote (where possible) without affecting profitability and productivity?” Anecdotally, I think the answer is yes.

Culture does take a hit. Can be harder for more inexperienced team members to quickly integrate. It also takes longer to develop bonds with colleagues and “enjoy” work in the same way as being in-office. In other words, working remotely takes all the fun out of office work. But in return, you gain an unthinkable level of flexibility. This is a big deal for anyone who likes to travel/live outside the city/has a family.

So to leaders who say remote work isn’t the same quality, etc. - that’s pure BS. What they really want is to get 8+ hrs from you. They belong to the school of thought “if we can keep our employees in the campus longer, more work gets done”.

That might be true to a degree. Remote work removes most serendipitous moments from work. You won’t accidentally bump into a colleague from a previous team, brainstorm crazy ideas together in your lunch break and create something magical. Which means innovation needs to be more intentional. The culture has to evolve and promote some free learning time and non-roadmap/exploratory work (such as a hackathon).

Anyway, this has been my personal experience working in both styles on both sides (engineer + leader). I don’t believe everyone will agree with me, and that’s fine. However it is safe to generalize that a significant % of people have been very successful at remote work, and aren’t buying the pseudo reasons against it.
France mobilises 7k troops after school stabbings
It works over HTTP (no S) so it's also usable on retro devices. Nice.
So you're implying that since records only go back 174 years that they can't be indicative of anything? Let's try to put a bit more effort into our debates on HN :)
Honestly it also a cause of decline in parental mental health too.
This was posted the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37370900

One of the dashboards from there: https://climatechangetracker.org/global-warming

My 2¢, though, is that the public is sick of climate data and visualizations and have banner blindness about all of it by now. "Oh, yeah, the climate is getting worse still, and it's all hopeless". It doesn't really matter how you dress up that data, even very simple messages like "350" (ppm of CO2) come and go in hype cycles and then are forgotten because nothing ever really changes. Fundamentally the climate situation isn't a matter of data or science lacking, but not having the political and popular will to make sufficient changes. I don't think counters are going to change that =/
The tech for this is already better. "Massive" software has been doing CGI characters with AI behaviors for 20 years, including in famous films like Lord of the Rings. The clip in the tweet looks like some NPCs from a PS2 game.
"Keep your code private

With privacy mode, we store none of your code in our servers or logs." But they then say they still use other peoples servers though. This copy text needs sorting out!
I guess we ought to put that sulphur back in the grill of transoceanic vessels...
> arguably an invention

A blind person would definitely disagree, having “invented” things he keeps bumping into, one after another… See, knowledge is never invented, it’s based on discovery; and mathematics is a form of knowledge.

> anything about three

Well, the discussion wasn’t about any particular number or concept, but if you want to define 3, you should look no further than the special property of a three-legged stool, the smallest polygon, or, if you look close enough, the proton. The general notion of the number, then, may come from a comparison (trying to see if there is a one-to-one correspondence) between the legs of a stool that is safe to sit on and one you risk breaking your neck if you try. If that’s full of “nuance,” I don’t know what isn’t.
I had been running https://dockeri.co with https://arc.codes/ for pennies a month.

Then, one month, I got a ~$500 bill out of no where.

Docker had changed an api causing my service to return 5xx errors all month. Each error was individually logged to CloudWatch - which racked up a ~$500 bill.

I moved to Cloudflare Workers that day and haven’t moved back.
> Perhaps similarly, people convicted of internet piracy could be required to operate with their torrent ports blocked, or with some sort of nanny state spyware installed on their devices.

So we need a pirate registry? And if you're convicted of 'internet piracy' (a term that is an excellent example of propaganda) then you forfeit any rights you have protecting your privacy and shielding you from warrantless government searches. Doesn't sound like an appropriate punishment for the offense to me.
What ever happened to directory sites, with lists of links to other sites? I think this would be a good way to keep the web alive. I miss finding good web directories…
Native english speaker here -- while I understand it's easy to come up with lists that show off the worst inconsistencies, I honestly think of those as the exception rather than the rule. Can you list out some of the most common, worst issues you see with english? I'm really curious.