skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have several teacher friends who started their careers when the hot topic was all about replacing old methods line rote memorization with new methods like creative engagement. They would be measured on things like how much their lessons fostered engagement and they were encouraged to let the kids lead the learning direction. At the time, they presented it like the obvious better solution and looked down on the old ways of lecturing and homework.

It’s interesting to see how pessimistic they’ve become about the push for engagement and downplaying of lecturing. I sense a growing backlash and a sense that maybe the old ways weren’t as bad as everyone assumed at the time. A common topic at gatherings is how they’re frustrated that some times rote learning and challenging homework are the only way to really get into subjects, but their school district is making it hard to do that without risk of impacting their evaluations. Then at the end of the school year they’re confused about how teachers are nailing their marks and following the best practices but students aren’t doing well.

For what it’s worth, this isn’t an isolated viewpoint. Browse /r/teachers on Reddit and you’ll find no shortage of similar complaints and teachers who are tired of administrators pushing unrealistic idealistic ideas like Bloom’s hierarchy on teachers who are being asked to get students to learn a lot of material without being pushed to, well, learn it.
On the contrary, I've found teenagers are the people who do the most worthwhile stuff in their free time. They have enough spontaneity to enjoy themselves, and can be incredibly dedicated and creative when they find something that interests them. At the very least they're likely to hang out socially and make friends, whereas most post-college adults seem to just watch TV or scroll social media.
Or you can get it from WinWorldPC
Android and mobile platform make it hard to distribute as fully compiled source.
I thought this interesting article would be about consultants.

The hard part of consulting (not management consulting like McKinsey or KPMG, I mean legitimate technical consulting) is figuring out what the customer actually wants and then finding a way to describe what you plan to do that satisfies what they claim is their need in a way they will understand and be glad for.
We should remember stories like this when we consider the future of AI. Midgley could only see the benefits to be gained. He did not have the foresight to see that seemingly inconsequential scientific and industrial decisions can have immeasurable outcomes.
I mean, it is, but having to schedule an appointment, drop off the vehicle at the service center, pick it it up later, vs it gets magically fixed over the air while the vehicle is sitting in your driveway, is a huge difference of logistics. So there needs to be new language.
This is not the best essay, this is just a tribute.
Honestly, nothing makes me want to write essays like reading Paul Graham. Someone needs to argue with him, since it's clear he's not going to do it.
searching for conflicts probably (I don't know you so I might be getting wrong impression from this thread, sorry if that's the case) takes up more of your time than whatever time you save by not doing whatever you deem "inefficient time usage".
> the executive can retaliate, including through the WTO

Trump tried this. It was blocked by the courts [1]. Retaliatory tariffs aren't something the executive can magic up.

> China did not ban Google and Facebook. They both had the opportunity to comply with extremely restrictive local laws

Restrictive and immoral. Even withint this framework, this bill's response is incredibly forgiving. Because, again, the point is not to ban TikTok. It's to rehome it.

> in a way that banning TikTok just isn't

If anything, banning TikTok (which, again, this bill doesn't aim to do) is deeply internationally precedented [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok_v._Trump

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_TikTok
It’s essentially the same situation as a company that “wants” you to work overlong.

If they can’t educate you in the time alotted, that’s their problem to solve.

If the company’s work can’t get done with humane conditions for the resources available, that’s their problem to solve.

We keep tolerating this because we are, collectively, idiots. We buy into it and argue in favor of it for the same reason.

It’s a real shame.
The premise here is that education's primary purpose is expanding knowledge. I think it's so naive of a take it could be on purpose ?

> One mother told me it permanently damaged her relationship with her son because it forced her to be an enforcer rather than a mom.

This is by design, or at least an accepted byproduct. Having parents rolled in and being on the same page as the school is part of the process. This might not be explicited, the school might not even be thinking about it a lot, but it's a no downside proposition for the school, and parents will be more willing to pay, volunteer their tine, not make waves etc. if they're acting as an extension of school at home.

When your kids doesn't do homework it's you, the parent that gets summoned.

The basic purpose of schooling is to preprare a kid for society, and what society wants is not just bright kids, but citizen pushing themselves and following the common line. When they'll be adults they'll have deadline and meaningless overtime instead of homeworks. As pointed in the article, behaviors can reinforced, and that's what homeworks do.
The problem was not the eventual consistency model, was the speed of the object list.

"...Finding objects based on other attributes, however, requires doing a linear search using the LIST operation. Because each listing can return at most 1000 keys, it may require many requests before finding the object. Because of these additional requests, implementing attribute-based queries in S3 alone can be challenging..."
Homework is practice, practice works. You can tell me how you've found a thousand published articles that practice doesn't work and all it would do is confirm my prior that the vast majority of research is not well done or fabricated
We heard your feedback! Backward compatibility was just implemented! Version 0.9 is actually fully readable by 0.10. With version 1.0 coming in a few months, this will be readable for several years' worth of version updates.
Kate image withdrawn by three news agencies amid 'manipulation' concerns
You've probably already read this, but for those who haven't, it's a fun read: https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
I can't imagine progressing through math or science with no homework. Those problems form some of the core "ah-ha" moments for me
Better title (from <title> tag): The problem with blaming climate change for extreme weather damage.
> No benefits. No insurance, no gym, etc. But you earn a lot more so its not a huge deal, except for the pension contribution.

This really doesn't hold for many cases, and especially for the rates mentioned in this article.

Are there any somewhat reliable sites that show median and other percentile contract rates? Something like levels.fyi but for contracting rates?
Naw, Quake was heavily optimized by some of the best x86+pixel gurus ever, like Michael Abrash. It look a lot of work to get there. But there have been cycle-optimized pixel graphics since the very first video game. Quake was also lower res and far simpler lighting and lower quality than modern games. Rendering pixels on the CPU without a metric ton of optimization effort was always slow, and exponentially slower the further back you go. GPUs are the primary thing making pixel rendering fast now, and it’s because of hardware and a parallel programming model, not because of software.

I might be biased because I do perf work and everyone I know does perf work, but I feel like there’s more people doing optimization now than there were total programmers 20 or 30 years ago. You’re not wrong, and there are plenty of people who write software and don’t feel the need to worry about perf because there aren’t any people that it slows down. Michael Abrash might agree with that being reasonable, since he defined optimization to mean perceptible wait time:

“Before we can create high-performance code, we must understand what high performance is. The objective (not always attained) in creating high-performance software is to make the software able to carry out its appointed tasks so rapidly that it responds instantaneously, as far as the user is concerned. In other words, high-performance code should ideally run so fast that any further improvement in the code would be pointless.

“Notice that the above definition most emphatically does not say anything about making the software as fast as possible. It also does not say anything about using assembly language, or an optimizing compiler or, for that matter, a compiler at all. It also doesn’t say anything about how the code was designed and written. What it does say is that high-performance code shouldn’t get in the user’s way — and that’s all.”

http://twimgs.com/ddj/abrashblackbook/gpbb1.pdf
> If they can’t educate you in the time alotted, that’s their problem to solve.

Is it really "their" (who is they?) problem when the child gets to 3rd grade and they can't read? It's really the child's problem, they just don't know it yet.
How annoying is building a good website navigation?
I've been working with a rather large company, helping them build a better search bar. They mentioned that customer support from people asking about things that are already on their website costs them millions because the navigation is complicated.

I've built what i think is a perfect solution, and I'm now considering the widespread implications. Anyone here run a medium to large website and struggle with navigating web visitors?
"The average lead-linked loss in cognitive ability was 2.6 IQ points per person as of 2015."
Jet fuel isn't leaded. It’s piston engine general aviation aircraft that use leaded gas.
I think what anecdotes like this miss is that you were
not the average student.

Strategies optimized for the students who would be motivated enough to pursue top 1% engineering jobs are not useful for the average student. In fact, they’d probably be harmful.

It’s a similar story on the other end of the spectrum: Learning strategies optimized for the lowest common denominator students aren’t good for the average student, and certainly aren’t good for highly motivated learners.

It’s a difficult problem and I don’t have any answers. However, given that your career trajectory is firmly in outlier territory, I don’t think it’s reasonable to project your grade school academic experience on to the general student population.
This is the actual paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2118631119 and surprisingly the MSM article about it pretty much just repeats the abstract and uses the same headline. I think that the headline refers to the fact that 1/2 the current US population were children before leaded gasoline was phased out.
> Please demonstrate, then

It starts and ends with whether you trust the CCP. We cannot control the CCP. (We legally can control American social media companies.)

If you think the CCP is innocuous, this bill won't make sense. If you think they're an adversary, this bill is obvious.
I can assure you that you are not hiring the best and brightest. The best and brightest left this bullshit system years ago and are doing their own thing
> Simply handing out money, as most UBI proposals suggest, is flawed, for many reasons.

Your argument is flawed, for many reasons.

You see? If "for many reasons" works for you why shouldn't it work for me too?
I highly suggest people give Techno Tims walkthrough of this software. It explains use case and demonstrates it across all major platforms. https://youtu.be/2ITezMkbAqE?si=-YVJq8iqwFYQ9gMr
>And to clarify, those were bans. This is not. TikTok just needs to be sold to a non-foreign adversary country.

If TikTok were a Canadian, British, French, German, Korean, Japanese, or Taiwanese company, the US government wouldn't feel the need to intervene in the first place.
Well, "Ice Age Queens" is the perfect name for an alt rock band...
> the company seems to be rotting from the head down

A strange metaphor that is more fiction than fact (as most cliches are). I couldn't find an academic paper on the topic but did find an article that said "putrefactive processes occur in the intestines, that is, in the section of the fish carcass inhabited by bacteria and microbes that enter the body with food." which sounds likely.

A more thoughtful response: https://thoughtmanagement.org/2011/11/21/does-the-fish-rot-f...

Personally I think many people have a deep belief in hierarchy and they pick models that fit that belief (or conspiracies!).

I try to look at things more systematically and I tend to look for emergent causes from our society rather than blame individuals ostensibly in charge!

But a great saying. Terrible SEO spam article but contains a little history: https://vogueindustry.com/17250557-the-fish-rots-from-the-he...
It's pretty straightforward to host an application for 1 user, the session is just forced to run only the application

But then if you want to have multiple, anonymous, users accessing the application at the same time, without sharing data, it gets tricky
This comment won't make sense to any onlookers, but I didn't forget about you, and I hope you're doing okay.
Some good points. I always saw homework as practicing what was taught. The maths teaxher explains how to do fraction addition say and the hour of the class is taken up with explaining and some examples. Then homework is just using the fact that solving problems in silence seems like a waste of being in a classroom with a teacher

If it’s just busywork then sure, it has no point besides drilling in some sense of “you will have to organise your time and do this or else”
So you are convinced of your views and uninterested in evidence to the contrary? Then why should anyone care what you think?
Neither of those are true though? Not sure if this is sarcastic or not, if so make it more clear in the future
No one is stopping you doing homework, forced homework is a different matter.

> I am for assigning more homework to teenagers generally, since they do not do worthwhile things in their free time

Do you mean like socializing, hobbies, sports and just being a kid?

It's great that you enjoy homework, but why do you feel the need to inflict your preference on everyone else?
> If TikTok were a Canadian, British, French, German, Korean, Japanese, or Taiwanese company, the US government wouldn't feel the need to intervene in the first place

This bill makes that explicit. TikTok doesn't have to be sold to an American. It could be sold to any of the above, and it would comply with the proposed law.
Jet fuel has no lead, it's basically kerosene. Avgas for reciprocating engines (basically only small general aviation planes/helicopters) currently contains lead but is moving to be lead free in the US.
POSIWID: The inherent goal of public school isn't to maximize the intellectual development of children. It is to condition them for industrial work. They must be taught to expect and endure endless tasks that are trivial, unproductive, and unfulfilling. They should not question what benefit a task has to their own interest. They should not question what benefit a task has to the interest of society at large. They should simply stop questioning the way of things, and complete their homework on time, or else!
Why start your comment by saying "I know probably 95% of HN will see it as a downside but"?

And this is irrespective of whether that 95% is right or not.

Google "father son and donkey story".

And re: that 95%:

See normal distribution aka bell curve.

And echo chamber and hive mind.

All of the above imply the same main point, just in different ways.
I don't follow the logic? Surely long and difficult makes for a more trying test of diligence than short and easy.
Interesting idea!

As an example, if the template was "<span>{name}</span>" then if I follow you correctly, it would generate some `Model` struct/interface/whatever that would have a `name: String` field.

I think a problem comes about when it's instead:

"<span>{itemCount}</span>"

Obviously it can't know that this intends to be an integer. Would it generate an `itemCount` field that is something generic like "impl Display"? Or still String? Either way, you may have other logic that needs this `itemCount` as an integer, for arithmetic or something. Perhaps two models, both auto-generated for all String fields but one you don't touch and the other you can change fields as long as they're convertable to String.

I think the main problem is going from a more structured to less structured (model to template) is possible but going the reverse way (template to model) can't always infer the structure.
My Frustration with Tech
I wonder what the community does to setup the workflow as mentioned by the author. KDE Connect comes to mind, although I've never used it before for multi device syncing
The net increase in the foreign born population of the untied states between 2005 and 2022 was 10.5 million [0].

The number of births in the US in 2021 alone was 3.6 million [1].

Wonder why you aren’t on here advocating for more birth control.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2023/09/14/1199417599/immigrant-populati...

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/births.htm
> Still others believe—incorrectly—that more time spent on a task produces better results, or that because practice is required to be a good athlete or musician, it’s also at the heart of intellectual growth. It isn’t. You can’t “reinforce” understanding the way you can reinforce a behavior.

Really? The claim here is that if I do not fully understand a passage or a lecture on first pass, a second or third exposure to the same ideas do NOT contribute to any better understanding whatsoever?

This is stated as a universal and scientific fact.

All my life experience says otherwise. Can't take this article seriously past this.

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> In my experience, people with the least sophisticated understanding of how children learn, or the least amount of concern about children’s attitudes toward learning, tend to be the most enthusiastic supporters of homework.

There has to be some term to describe this style of writing.

"If you don't agree with what I am saying, you are too ignorant of the subject and your opinion is not worth much."
This is awesome. If you want help from other contributors, you'll probably find it easier to collaborate if you move memchess into its own repo (vs storing it in the grondilu.github.io repo). Each repo can have a dedicated GH Pages.

Really cool!
> So you’re literally making it impossible to salvage your comment when you go off on rants about censorship.

Fair, but this has become such a sore touch point for all of the internet.

This has become one of my passion issues, and I've written about it on HN extensively [1, 2, 3, ...].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39530172

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38902385

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36702678
I haven't really used any of this stuff. I don't even know why. So I wouldn't really know how people actually use it to make most of it, but I tried just now listudy (a couple of studies) and that memchess clone. Seems pretty much the same thing, but listudy is a bit more structured, with notes and stuff.

So I guess my question (to the OP, probably) would be, why memchess (clone)? Is there a reason why I would want to use it instead of/in addition to listudy, or is it just "because why not"?
I’m not really sure what your point is. Is it not remarkable that valuable things can be done in 150 lines?
There’s a shocking lack of introspection in the AI hype bubble — we are continually promised world-changing advances, but no one is very clear about which direction these advances are pushing us in. Even ‘AGI’ is nebulous and undefined at best.

Where is the focus on the foundational principles of growth? The author writes that endless growth is impossible, but that is only true in the absence of novel breakthroughs. We need creations and inventions which bring us the future we once imagined: limitless energy and abundance.

How have we completely lost focus on new physics or foundational sciences and devoted the smartest minds of our time to transformers and data scraping? There is some critical human component which is completely absent here.

Where is the renaissance, and how do we make it happen?
Jet fuel does not use lead. I'm also pretty sure jet fuel never used lead; it has no reason to (jet engines are not particularly picky about what they burn-- jet fuel is basically kerosene).

Aviation gasoline does use lead-- it's used there to prevent predetonation (engine knock), which is bad for a car engine but really bad in something that's supposed to be keeping you in the air. Replacing it is an ongoing effort, but it's taking a while-- largely because of certification requirements, because it's pretty important to make sure that your new gasoline formulation isn't going to, again, make that thing that's keeping you in the air fail. And there are a lot of older GA airplanes out there that would need recertification for a new fuel.
> So you are convinced of your views and uninterested in evidence to the contrary

Yes I am convinced in my views. Am I uninterested in evidence to the contrary? It depends, what's the evidence?

If research comes up with a conclusion that significantly diverges from common sense I don't pay much attention to it unless it's been replicated and the experiments are well designed.

edit: removed my inflammatory comments
Yes, im sure OpenAI, and Google are paying incredibly high salaries to experts who dont know how LLM's work. I'm far from a computer scientist, or mathematician, but how the hell does this narrative keep being spouted by folks with a straight face? Oh, I know...no one can think critically...
You misunderstand this documentation. It is available on other platforms besides Synology; it's just also available on Synology which is a good thing.
I am estranged from my mother. I’ll answer if she calls, but she doesn’t. I’ll never call her.

She is deeply mentally ill, and I cannot separate her from her illness. I suffered the conspiracies and delusions of grandeur for fifteen years, and I’m done now.

I consider this healthy mental self-defense, though I don’t judge my sister for enduring a quarterly visit to her. Everyone must decide their own limits.
I see homework and practice as two different activities. Practice needs intentionality and dedication, and you need a short feedback loop to decide if you're doing it well or not, with repetition until you get it right.

I rarely see homework going along these line.

Interestingly, there's practice books for exams, which can help a lot if you do them under your own control.
You can, but anything in java that needs to step down into c/c++ ends up being a major pain in the ass so it's usually implemented half baked at best. Platform ergonomics are hard and you usually find that what works great in some languages / paradigms just don't flourish in others. It'd be nice to see some good language bindings that feel right for java.
It was both actually, but more for the listing issue. Netflix built a lot of tooling around this.

But yeah: things like filtering on tags or created at dates requires another approach.
Benefits of Rucking
This is fallacious reasoning:

* A is in S

* For many B in S, P(B) is true

* Therefore P(A) is true

Step three in this chain doesn't logically follow from step two, so preemptively rejecting evidence against P(A) is irrational.
> Well, today I'm a Machine Learning Engineer at a FAANG company

I'm an SRE for a high ML product you've heard of and this explains so much.