skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s disconcerting that people who have no training on how to teach think they can do it well enough. Those same people generally seek out those with training to do things in other areas of their life. But when it comes to teaching they think they know better. Asimov’s famous quote on ignorance comes to mind.

EDIT: Do people generally use those without training to provide medical care, fix cars, cut hair, do electrical work, etc.? The answer is no. But when it comes to teaching science to k-12 students it’s ok to use someone with no training? It’s crazy.
I always kind of figured that for labor-based things, it would be relatively easy to launder it through non-sanctioned countries and then sell it in the US. Not every country on earth has sanctions against North Korea, and I suspect that the US doesn't have sanctions against all of those countries, and at that point it's relatively straightforward to pretend that the animation came from the "clean" country instead of the hermit kingdom.

It's really upsetting, because I find it pretty frustrating that, in the US, we fought a whole war about slavery, ended that war deciding that slavery was wrong, but then decided it's fine as long as it happens outside of the US. By "we", I mean both the corporations employing laundered slave labor, but also "we" as the consumers who will very often gravitate to the cheapest prices. It's frustrating.
The first thing gifted was life, and though that was not bestowed with consent, it's one thing I'd argue for retaining as long as possible. Everything else is fair game to discard in service of making that life a good one.
it's odd to me that you'd expect a large stock of English books in any regular Thai library

even in Japan, with perhaps the very strongest reading culture in the world, you're going to find a relatively limited selection of books in library outside of their own language

you'll likely have less success finding a varied stock of Thai books in Oregon, to the surprise of nobody
As a parent of a 7 year old, I would also say the same. Our kid goes to a public school and overall they spend way less time on core subjects but a lot more on things related to race and so on which really do not have relevance to their level. The math is so far back that we had to put him into an additional math tutoring outside of school. Pretty much all parents in our area send their kids to something like Russian School of Math or so. Within people I directly know a couple have put their kids into private school and I am strongly considering it moving forward though it will be a huge financial strain.

A more problematic thing I see with schools not challenging kids is that all kinds of behavior problems arise because they do not have anything to learn. Our kid was a lot better when I gave him math stuff from grade 4 or higher to learn. Kids need challenge. There is a limit to how much you can occupy them with coloring numbers and iPads. And at least here it is definitely not a funding issue. In fact his school has a cap on spending because if they spent more it would increase disparities with neighboring schools.
now there's a WSJ Pro that I have to pay even more money for a subscription?
I really like Phaser 3, but if you're more accustomed to a traditional polling-style engine loop (inputs, logic, physics, render), it does take a little getting used to.

It's very much a "batteries included" game framework with the exception of a built-in map editor though you can just use something like Tiled.
Is there a JavaScript polyfill today that can read the CSS properties in any of the proposed / implemented specifications that Just Works in Chrome?
For many people, #1 and #2 are the same thing. They don't perceive certain topics (e.g. slavery, evolution, gender) as parts of the core academic subjects, but instead as teachers or schools bringing politics into the classroom.
The Future of StreamingTV: More Pointless Mergers and Making It Harder to Cancel
That would be great, but good luck building that regulatory framework.
The Dota 2 hero Nyx Assassin (beetle-like creature) has a skill called Spiked Carapace.
The emissions of producing the vehicles should be tallied as well along with emissions for electric production.

For a company at scale as amazon, they are a major consumer of equipment and the sourcing of that equipment is also a corporate operation.
40% of US households have children, so this means people without a clue are just spouting off haha. I could care less but I find these things amusing.
They might be obvious ones in the context of this one person. But they are trivially not obvious next to someone who writes one like "|" and then seven is just "|" with any sort of hat. Your slant heuristic immediately fails.
It feels good to be desired when you want it!
Apple announces May 7th event for new iPads
Hmm... both parties agree that it's going in the wrong direction, but differ on why. (Probably because they differ on what the wrong direction is.)

It seems to me that "parents trying to tell teachers what to teach" and "teachers bring their personal views into the classroom" are both kind of saying "teach the core content" - don't wander off into what the teacher wants, and don't wander off into what the parents want. (Yeah, I know, you can't entirely, especially with reading. They have to read something, and that something carries some content. Who gets to decide what it is?)
> I think the biggest advantage TypeScript gives is discoverability when using a language server driven development environment.

+1: I'm much slower working in environments where I have to do this manually. This is why I've been infiltrating Python type annotations in our codebase.
Evolutionary Model Merging
That's not going to be responsive which is today a must have.
Can someone give a rough description of what is special, or novel, in the "New Foundations" set theory formulation, relative to other formulations? Or at least, link to a description readable by, say, a math undergrad student or an engineering professional?
Trying to get my children into an advanced program has been taking years of effort, even at a very good public school. They are bored out of their minds because they already know everything being taught. We are sabotaging our brightest minds from an early age.
> Second 3-month stint I got one in Rishikesh, 24h of pure hell.

If I understood you right, this was because you didn't sanitize your hands the second time?
Does this make it possible to use Ada and SDL2 on Linux?
They're the ones who are opposed to having an education system.
"The proposed nuclear destruction of the Moon has been rejected by astronomers on several grounds"

That made me laugh.

I wonder if this is where Neal Stephenson got the idea for Seveneves which has the opening line

"The moon blew up with no warning and with no apparent reason."
I absolutely want this. I have wanted this for years. This is a form of grid so it should be in CSS grid. Especially since it has tracks.
Browser makers, please just ship this.
Great, some people won't drink bud light and some people won't go to hobby lobby, thanks for updating us
I've been of the opinion for a while now that they should just go ahead and make all 26^2 two letter tlds available. Would be neat.
The problem with fog is that you can't see much past the person in front of you?
And now many of the apps hide people liking/swiping you unless you pay them! It's extremely predatory.
Const affects code generation when used on variables. If you have a `const int i` then the compiler can assume that i never changes.

But you're right that this does not hold true for const pointers or references.

> What actually may help is __attribute__((pure)) and __attribute__((const)), but I don't see them often in real code (unfortunately).

It's disppointing that these haven't been standardized. I'd prefer different semantics though, e.g. something that allows things like memoization or other forms of caching that are technically side effects but where you still are ok with allowing the compiler to remove / reorder / eliminate calls.
My personal experience says that the most commonly understood phonetic alphabet in the US among laypeople is the 1946 ARRL alphabet using American first and last names, for example A as in Adam, N as in Nancy. NATO phonetic alphabet confuses almost everyone I've tried it on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_alphabet
>Why is there so much focus on public education and aversion to private options like charter schools

Because public schools are infrastructure.

I pay for roads on the other side of town, even if I will never use them. I pay for kids that I will never meet to get a safe education, regardless of their behavior/economics/orientation/aptitude.

Private schools are allowed to discriminate on who they can take. That's directly against the mission of public schooling.

Charter schools are not offered consistently everywhere, so it steals money from already under-resourced rural public schools. Rural kids may not have any nearby, alternative offerings.

There has to be a baseline education with a consistent budget. A non-discriminatory offering where all kids are welcomed. A place where no one can be denied an education.

Any other alternative you're welcome to attend (if they'll take you), but you must fund it on your own.
Maintenance cost, calculated by completely ignoring repair costs where Tesla hass pretty bad track record??

https://www.consumerreports.org/media-room/press-releases/20...

Who wrote this? Elon Musk?
In a case where the monthly grid-connection fee is exorbitant... ideally someone can get their off-grid system permitted by the city (to verify that it meets minimum requirements).
> This is conspiracy level thinking. Nobody wealthy is sitting around scheming how to keep the proles dumb and subdued.

Of course not. They're scheming about how to monetize education, knowledge, and research.

> 1) Stop wasting my tax dollars on stuff I don't use or care about. Or 2) I bet there is an untapped commercial market that can be built, and people will love my solution more than public libraries.

(2) Gets a lot easier if you first advocate for (1) to make the public libraries worse.
> just for better writing

in my use cases, better writing makes a better answer
It's a good looking phone but... it has a fan on it! That seriously puts me off of it unless the fan can be permanently disabled in settings or firmware.
A lot of manufacturing started moving out of the US around 1970s due to how much higher salaries were for workers in the US at the time. Both Japan and Korea had surging economies for a while, with rapidly increasing salaries. But salaries are still far from US levels (if anything, the US have been pulling ahead).

Taiwan and China have been following a similar pattern, but even Taiwan has a long way to go to reach US productivity overall. What makes TSMC special, is that they don't have to compete for the top talent within the nation. They're kind of what Nokia used to be for Finland.

But the rest of Taiwan's companies are not doing as well. If more companies like TSMC emerge, the talent pool available will shrink. Also, most companies with little competition tend to experience entropic decay over time.

Now, it IS possible that Taiwan/China will eventually overtake the US eventually, even in terms of GDP/capita. But I would say it's equally possible that they will follow a path similar to Japan/Korea, where they reach a plateau.

And if there is something that holds these countries back, I suspect it's that the highly hierarchical social structure is not ideal for creativity in the long term, especially once people forget that their parents or grandparents were poor, and start to getting used to relative wealth.

And then there's the fact that the brightest minds from all over the world tend to be quite mobile, and tend to go to the place where they're likely to get the greatest reward for their talent. Currently that's the US, and I think it's likely to stay that way until the US has some kind of cultural collapse or a civil war.
Rust-sel4: Rust support for seL4 userspace
Microsoft does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs
Don't forget the Venus-bound "Death Probe" that got loose on earth in the 6 Million Dollar Man. https://bionic.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Probe
Its off by a massive margin.

I was in architecture. My roommate was a bio-chem major. Besides a full day of classes, I spent several hours a day in studio doing projects and my roommate spent several hours toiling away in the school lab.

All told, I lived in a house with several soccer teammates and we were all logging tons of time outside our normal classes in labs, studios, and elsewhere that were considered part of our normal class time which effectively extended the time professors expected you to be working on their stuff. Our weeks were just crammed hour to hour with homework, practices and games and trying to fit in 25-30 hours of part-time work a week to boot.

College was a blast, but it's not for the feint of heart or slacker.
Engineering Managers do Triage work. Do we know this? (2023)
A YouTube comment claims, as installed, this is a fire code violation. A bunch of comments from the previous post mention this, and they weren't addressed at all by OP. If it burns the building down, I'm pretty sure your landlord is going to notice. I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of that lawsuit.
I think you're correct that experience will differ substantially by context. I think your particular generalizations might hold enough to show up in a regression but there's enough other stuff going on (and noise) that they won't be tremendously predictive in individual cases.

I was a STEM major, did well at a reasonable school, and the only time I felt like I had way the hell more homework than I could get through was at a community college when I signed up for a Literature course and a Political Science course the same summer.
Yeah, if you like sorting garbage. Which of the 1.5 million books published this year will you read? People routinely hide money in mattresses, so why not head to the landfill and start looking?

I sometimes read/watch/play something if a friend recommends it. But I've no time/interest in sorting through the random deluge of media in the hope of finding diamonds. I'll let someone else find the diamond and tell me about it.
$1600 version is just a remote control toy. If you want the ROS programmable version it's around 10k.
If "nuclear strikes" were advantageous to Russia, then they'd have already executed them. They don't want the response.

More than that, the idea that they can invade a country and the country's allies shouldn't enter the country to help defend because it would result in a "nuclear strike" ends where, exactly?

It's a completely irrational posture that Russia would love the world to assume. They could literally take all of Europe without firing a shot.
This reminds me a bit of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyRoads_(video_game)
200k TC for an intern is a nice cherry pick in SF or Silicon Valley maybe, but definitely at the extreme top end of the spectrum. Coastal money definitely doesn't speak for the rest of the US - there is a huge amount of space between California and NYC with developers making just enough to get by.

Interviews have always been tough for development positions in the US, whether it's a 60k out of college position in the Midwest or more senior position for a coastal company making the big bucks. It is possible to get lucky and not have to be whiteboarded, but much of the time an applicant is getting grilled.

Although it's obviously objective, I completely agree when comparing to a country like India. However, I'm not so sure it's as huge of a difference as what you are implying when comparing Western countries to non-coastal US developers. I've long since graduated, but if I were still in school and not too far into a CS degree I would probably drop out and be an electrician or plumber, freelancing application development on the side if I still had the energy.
The "BS in CS..." story also applies to Swiss apprenticeships when it comes to IT: I never had an apprentice that did not continue on to studying for a BS once they passed their few apprentice years.
The idea that not all adolescents are best put in front of books and teachers full time early on, but will make good student once they're older is kinda obvious in retrospect.
Haven't lived in Philly but I've been.

It's one of those somewhat rare livable working class cities, no? With a pretty big DIY scene.
The best example I had of the same (started with Amstrad CPC, then Amiga, PC ... software engineer for almost two decades).

I couldn't find "Find on page" on iOS/Safari, so I did a Google search on how to so it - result snippet on Google was cut and actual results page was full page of forum replies, and I was having trouble finding it by just scrolling.

Now years later (and only Android) I forgot, it was something rather non intuitive where they've hidden that option.
They don't. There's a large "not sure" component.
What’s interesting to note is that even if a strong system could prove its own consistency then it wouldn’t tell you anything. An inconsistent system can prove its own consistency. So if a system has a proof that it is itself consistent then you still wouldn’t know if it is consistent.
American schools are some of the best-funded per capita in the world. There are always budget "shortfalls" and demands for more money because you can always spend more money. That doesn't mean you're getting better results. Some of the best funded schools in the country are getting some of the worst outcomes (e.g., Baltimore.)

Most of the money is just wasted. The biggest factor is home life. It totally dominates. The second-biggest is classroom size and teacher salaries. That's mostly ignored as we engage in increasing technological interventions (hand every kid in iPad) and cripple teacher independence and authority via administrative policy.
> I was one of those beach trash DJs in Goa 30 years ago

Are you a coder/tech person now? It sounds like you'd have quite a bunch of stories to tell. Can't imagine too many former Goan DJs on HN, let alone one who'd dj'ed so long back.
They really don't. Maybe half as much, if they are lucky.
There is a group of us currently building something different: a non profit dating app. We are soft launching this summer. www.freefallapp.com
Bringing Ada into the 21st century bit by bit.
Doing pretty good on Sway but it's obviously not for everyone. I keep thinking of trying to get into a more conventional desktop to have the experience & KDE has been very high on the list; seemed sensible straight, straightforward, and customizable, groovy.

There's a bunch of security issues that got raised in https://security.opensuse.org/2024/04/02/kde6-dbus-polkit.ht... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39968384, and thankfully it sounds like many of them will be getting fixed. But one takeaway that is seared into my soul is that KDE is more-or-less tunneling their own protocols over DBus. And that's just so radically uncool, so non-cooperative/non-participatory/non-FreeDesktop thing to do. The other small shocks I can get over/will be improved, but it's really wild to me that the normal means of controlling & talking to software just doesn't work like it should on KDE.

I'd assumed KDE had done the right thing at some point, after walking away from their pretty capable/interesting DCOP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_communication_protocol machine-interfaces. It seems like a really great project, really nice & direct UI, and was top of my list to try out. But after seeing the DBus spec roundly ignored & custom encoded data being sent around, I see KDE as an island unto itself that I have little desire to swim to. I can't imagine leaving the FreeDesktop archipelago.
> A far smaller share (16%) say it’s going in the right direction.
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For difficult coursework where you really need to learn the material inside and out in order to have any chance of success in the next course in the series, the lecture:study ratio needed is about 1:3.

If one is taking three such courses, perhaps ten hours in lecture per week, then around four hours a day, seven days a week will be needed for study. (It's true that some people grasp material quicker than others, but often that's because they've had some prior introduction to it.)

This is pretty demanding and it's why a lot of people switch their majors to something less time-consuming. However, this lecture:study/practice ratio is entirely normal for vocational programs, e.g. learning to weld, etc.

"If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further." - Confucius
They are the only printers the Just Fucking Work™.

Kinda sad, in a way.
That was my first thought, but the section on case sensitivity already discussed the impact of a reduced alphabet and pointed out adding more characters takes care of that quickly. So I assume the reason is something else.
Just you wait. Order your groceries in the morning. It will be arrived by night from a service called grocery fulfillment and distribution.
Non-proliferation is a very important principle which has so far been almost entirely upheld. If the US did that, who would China donate nukes to in response? Iran?
we've seen many, many cases of civilizations not making it. In the case of the Mayan Empire, it is looking like they killed off their civilization via climate change -- weather models show that the increased agriculture and removal of the surrounding jungle would have dropped annual rainfall, leading to the drop in water levels that we know happened in the cinotes (where they got all their water), leading to the collapse of the civilization (lost knowledge and culture). By the time Cortez arrived, nobody knew how to build nor maintain their megalithic structures.

Now, total extinction of a civilization meaning all of a civilized species, maybe we saw that with neanderthals and other early hominids.
Even though we focused on deep learning as examples and integrations initially (and where it is most used), you can register any data and metrics through the Python API and use the Dashboard. You don't have to run a NN training. We have users that use it without Pytorch or a NN, and just use it to browse data and do plots of statistics/metrics(and data edits). I agree that this should be much clearer and thanks for the feedback!
It could be interesting to explore how things fail. If it is supper easy to fix ill do it.
Best one-liner to describe Modal. I'd put that on the t-shirt.
LOL on a tenth the funding my non-US school created way better outcomes. US education funding is hopelessly inflated. It's the students who suck and no matter how much you spend on the teachers, the students won't stop sucking.
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I'm still mostly surrounded by large 2D panels of information (Xcode, Safari, terminal windows, etc.). I do fill the space with these panels. It's not uncommon for me to have 5-6 things around my Mac's virtual display.

I've been on a quest to maximize my flow state for over a decade, it's been a terrible beast to tame with my ADHD. I'm finding the Vision Pro helps because of the intuitive nature of the UI. My brain expects the thing I'm looking at to be the thing that receives input, and this is naturally the case in VisionOS.

I'm also having a ton of fun learning Swift and RealityKit, something I likely would never have picked up if it wasn't for this iPad strapped to my face.
A huge part is probably right wing personalities talking about "wokeness" in our schools. Personally, I do shake my head at some of the stuff my kid talks about. For instance, they were taught that the WW2 era American internment camps should be called American concentration camps.

That said I care very little about the social aspects of education unless they are taking away from math, science and making kids who are competent at independent thinking and problem solving.