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> There is no body of research based on randomized, controlled experiments indicating that such teaching leads to better problem solving.

I'm sorry but one don't exactly come across randomized controlled experiments in teaching very often... not to even mention ones that are well designed... so this isn't saying much.
If some site out there has it, it can tell you.

Just like Google should, but haven't done for a decade.
My favourite was Crunchbang, which was a rolling distro based on Debian Sid iirc, but it was retired a while ago. Current favourite is Arch or Endeavour depending on whether you count Endeavour as a separate OS.

Does Steam OS 3 count? They have a nice atomic update system, with an Arch base.
We have a bunch of examples of GUIs that run inside containers (with different backends, frameworks, without compositor etc): https://github.com/toradex/vscode-torizon-templates.
ChatGPT is free. Why would anyone pay for Javascript boilerplate in 2024?
I remember a few months of our child only saying "No". If you asked "Would you like ice-cream" the reply would be a smile and a head-nod. There was no spoken "Yes", but if the question could be answered with "No" then it was.

Weird. But kinda adorable too.
"producing words has become commoditized"

It absolutely has not
I think the focus on AGI is misguided, at least in the short run. There's profit to be made in specialized intelligence, especially dull, boring stuff like understanding legal contracts or compliance auditing. These AI models have plenty of utility that can be profitably rented out, even if their understanding of the world is far short of general intelligence.
Like most "improvements" to public education, this will be a good thing if it is well-implemented.

Note that "if".
You claim to be the author of Modal [0]. While Modal might not be your "solution" it is likely aligns with what you have in mind philosophically. Modal seems like some sorta pattern matching lisp. I dont think im alone in being skeptical that a "pattern matching lisp" is going to be the "solution" to the software complexity problem.

[0] https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/modal
Omfg, if that’s not the truest statement I’ve read on here… this has been a major issue at the last several places I’ve worked.
in this area in California, buying homes with money from China is common, and those home buyers are well known for cutting down trees on their property for whatever reasons, stated or otherwise. Something about the trees "costing money" is fairly common statement. It seems to be a tip of big, old and ingrained cultural and economic differences between social groups.
Presumably because there aren't very many fluent Dutch speakers in India/Phillipines/Carribean countries where the spam call centers are.

They target the US, and to some extent the UK, Gulf countries like UAE where English is the de facto language.
Show HN: Lizard Optimization (my new book)
Maybe you haven’t had reasons to come across such research before, but rest assured there’s plenty of it https://acrl.ala.org/IS/instruction-tools-resources-2/pedago...
Thank you - I could not understand that at all, wondering whether "sizing" was a technical term for some agricultural activity.
They are refunding for them. But in my opinion, you only get a couple of these un-launches before you get a reputation like Google has.

Amazon has cancelled lots of consumer stuff in the past (the Alexa buttons or whatever they were) but cancelling business-facing things is new. Businesses are much more cancellation averse than forgetful consumers have proven to be.
Great, now I'm hungry for lunch...
> If I need security, I buy anti-virus. But I can't opt out of Apples "security". I don't see that as a good thing. If apple wanted to offer that at checkout, I wouldn't mind at all.

I can't opt out of the police.

I can opt out of Apple's security by using literally any other brand of phone.

> Worst case scenario, I backup all my stuff.

No, the worse-case scenario is that malware knows everything you look at and everything you type (like bank details), everything you're listening to in real life, your location, your health data, etc.… and can also be used to spy on you through all the phones of the people around you in much the same way even if you don't download any malware yourself.

(And how many of those things would Facebook like to do in the name of "improved advertisement targeting"? If they had full access to photo libraries rather than just what's uploaded to their servers, I'd expect them to try to analyse all my friend's photos that happen to include me for this exact reason, and I'd expect that data to be mis-used by malicious parties just like other ad data has reportedly been).

There's a lot of reason someone should be enforcing rules on this; not so much that it should be Apple doing it.

> whose relationship should end after the device ships to my address

So, not a fan of security patches? :P

> But I like the ease of mind knowing I can take my ball and go home if Google goes rogue (and I can argue thst it has already done so, years ago).

Given that Google has (arguably) already gone rogue, can you actually take your ball and go home? There's a whole subreddit for that, yet every time I've heard other people try, it turns out much harder than anticipated.

> That's the power of open source. The best possible insurance when I go in loops under "official channels".

I have no more reason to trust open source than closed source: underhanded-C contest; at least one example of a Linux distro doing exactly what I'd expect if they were under a secret government order; Reflections on Trusting Trust; the foot-gun nature of C++ combined with its popularity; the number of times someone else has told me to fix something in a PR or QA report where I never spotted the issue while writing the code myself; and the obvious motivations of intelligence agencies worldwide to insert backdoors.
What it is saying is that we need to stop acting as if, or believing that, this knowledge is solid.
Great GitHub Actions for techdocs sites
I’m glad to be proven wrong. I’m English btw. We learnt nothing about America but we learnt everything about King Henry VIII
First thing I noticed iced in Hawaii. The hotdogs and roller items were replaced with spam+rice or other spam meals at the local 7-11.

Also that McDonald's had spam-based menu options too.
Even if colleges are more censorious these days (which I’m skeptical of), I struggle to think of any institution in American life more open minded than colleges.

Mainstream media acts as a hive mind. Businesses do not host speakers critical of their operations. Silicon Valley VCs are among the most fragile minds out there.
TCL itself is very similar to PS in being a command based language, but it's a little weirder in some ways. It's nice and lightweight, but doesn't work with Windows as natively as PS, although I bet there are some COM or other libraries that can get you close.

The TK GUI is indeed lightweight, but a bit antiquated. I was thinking of something closer to Rebol, but maybe with a GUI builder as building a GUI with just Rebol syntax (although crazy powerful - Tetris is less than a page of code in Rebol) is a little challenging.

The main thing though is neither TCL or PS or Rebol covers everything I think is needed in a modern business analyst programming language. You need a simple dynamic language, ease of sharing programs, reasonable performance, really good OS interop, ease of building GUI, and a very large ecosystem of tools. Python is by far the closest here and is the programming language of choice for those in this segment for a good reason.
The Problem Space
I’m from working class England and that’s absolutely not the culture for us. Education is considered superfluous unless it makes you money
But that's not what you suggested first, and what dmurray objected to:

> An easy counter-measure would be blocking consecutive TOTP logins of the same or similar codes.

Which was in response to this attack:

> therefore try an attack where they attempt to log into all of the accounts in parallel with the TOTP ‘000000’

That class of attack is a legitimate threat. Your proposed mitigation (quoted above, not some other mitigation) cannot work. That's because the attacker does not actually need to try consecutive or similar codes, it'll work exaclty as well with random codes.

That you later changed to talking about a totally different attack (of trying a lot of codes on a single account) and a different mitigation (rate limiting of attempts on a single account) is irrelevant to that discussion.
Stopping production on db B isn't really a requirement, just makes it easier.
Don’t forget about the Kivy framework. It’s a python framework that renders openGL accelerated UIs, also headlessly on the raspberry pi if needed.
https://kivy.org
GLP-1 Drugs Like Wegovy, Ozempic Potentially Linked to Blinding Disease
The condition, known as non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION), causes sudden blindness due to a lack of blood flow to the optic nerve.
Hey HN,

A preview version of my new book Lizard Optimization is now live on LeanPub. It's about 90% done - the final text is there, but some illustrations are still drafts.

A product I worked on grew explosively from November 2021 to November 2022. The key user metric, tracking when people are getting value from the product, increased by more than 500 times in those 12 months (times, not percent). This happened after a period of unremarkable growth and a slow decline. Looking back, the key factor in reversing the decline and unlocking exponential growth was a counter-intuitive approach to engaging users.

This book is a summary of what I learned from that crazy growth phase, synthesized into a simple process that you can apply to improve your products, unlock growth, reduce churn and increase revenue.

This book is primarily for software product managers, product data scientists, senior engineers and anyone else involved in product management and guidance.
Laws and their enforcement will always have some nonzero amount of selectivity by the localized nature of the universe but good legislation confronts these challenges proactively and tries to make prosecutorial discretion closer to the question: What should the Punishment be? Rather than: Is this behavior Punishable?

>> an implicit status quo that could be changed any time

> So is a history of enforcement!

Are you really saying that history can be changed at any time?

While there will always be jurisprudence that attempts to advance precedent, a history of consistent enforcement cannot, in fact, be changed. People will always have vulnerability to novel interpretations and surprising re-interpretations of the law, but laws which sit on the books IGNORED can easily lead to essentially undefined behavior which I have no doubt you can understand the potential pernicious nature of...
At a glance it seems fair to say that this is both a cryptocurrency library and a cryptography library.

The only truly general purpose thing here is SHA256. Every protocol on its supported list starts with either "ethereum" or "evm", and to the best of my knowledge the other primitives have seen very little use besides cryptocurrency.
No, it just makes you feel good that you’re not the one contributing to the “waste stream.” But spoiler alert, you still are!
The work you love and the work you don't
I’ve not used VSCode that much, but I’ve used other editors and IDEs (currently emacs) and the most important thing (pretty obvious) is to minimize leaving the editor. That means bring out as much tooling as you can to it. Learn how to create extensions, and then try to create some to fit your current workflows.

A few features I usually want are:

- A terminal if it’s not a TUI editor
- File search (constrained to the project workspace), fuzzy or substring based.
- Code Formatter
- Spellcheck for comments
- VCS integration. For the current file and for the project as a whole
- Launch System (compile, packaging, testing, servers,…)

I can drop some of this requirement if I can get a tiling window manager and a few terminals. What IDEs offers in extra is better understanding of the code and project’s framework (spring, android, .Net,… with their long names).
> They're not making any more vintage computers

Ah because they’re in such high demand and so useful that they stopped making them.
> a potential tender offer is material non-public information.

Matt Levine discusses this sort of thing quite often in his Money Stuff newsletter. Under US law, the problem of insider trading isn't market manipulation, it's theft. Material non-public information obtained with a duty of confidentiality is considered the property of the company, and thus trading on it is misappropriation/theft of the company's secrets.

If you overheard news of a merger because two executives were chatting loudly in a cafe, then you'd have no duty of confidentiality and could trade freely. Likewise, in this particular case one central issue at trial was that the defendant placed trades in violation of his company's policies against trading competitors' stocks. It's unclear whether he could have been prosecuted if the company's policies had no such restriction.

European law, however, can take a more rigid stance against insider trading, more closely matching the intuition that trading on the material nonpublic information itself is bad.
Thanks for your comments!

I'm afraid I'm not in the city where my copy of the Le Guin version is on my bookshelf, but the printed version has per-chapter authors notes at the end for many chapters where she often discusses her word choices -- I'm not sure if the notes included in this online version capture those or not? If I remember right, there were a few footnotes (which i'm thinking may be what's captured in OP), but then separately additional notes at the end which I'm not sure are captured here.

I'm curious if she says anything additional in foreward or notes about her choice of "real". Obviously she was aware it was not a choice other translators typically made. When I'm back home, I'll look!

Googling, the scholar who approved of Le Guin's work and worked with her somewhat on it (in some places I see him credited as a contributor to the Tao Te Ching rendition), is J. P. "Sandy" Seaton, who on his own seems to have produced plenty of other well-regarded translations of classical chinese poetry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_P._Seaton
This is what you get on iPhone with the "Silence Unknown Callers" setting.
What will drive computer performance after Moore's Law?
Kivy – a cross platform Python UI framework
"No wonder academia is nowadays the exact opposite of free speech and the scientific method."

I was interested by what I was reading until I came across this sentence which really put me off. I doubt that academia is the opposite of free speech and the scientific method.
I am sure there is good criticism to be said about academia in your country but such broad statements serve no purpose and only signal ideology.
You seem to have linked a collection of general research on teaching and learning, which I am aware of exists. I'm talking about randomized controlled trials, where you assign a group of students to receive the intervention and another group to not receive it, and if it's single- or double-blinded, without them and/or the researchers being aware of which group they are in. Even writing this brings up logistical questions about how you might get a reliable research result doing this for teaching (instead of, say, medicine, where it's easy to fool a patient into thinking a placebo is the drug).
Hiding ideas has never worked. It's crack to disestablishmentarians who view it as "they're hiding the truth!"

Knowing something is bullshit doesn't translate into being able to effectively refute the thing because telling someone that the thing is bullshit is unconvincing.

I will prove it now in situ. Your take is bullshit. See, failed to change your mind.
NixOS - rolling is really nice when you can roll-back from the boot menu if something breaks. You can be bleeding edge without downsides of breakage!
That is not the TLDR I intended. If you store your OTP secrets in the same password store that also stores your regular passwords, you've just completely undermined the second factor of security.
I’m not on about fixing tech debt. That’s a completely different problem to picking boring technologies that don’t need constant ongoing maintenance just to keep running.

Tech debt is going to happen regardless of the technologies you pick. But some technologies require more effort to keep up-to-date than others.

I’d also argue that keeping technologies up-to-date isn’t “tech debt”. It’s operational overhead. Tech dept is something else entirely.
Excellent icons and documentation. Would highly recommend even just checking out the website to see how they demo the flexibility of icon styling.
The financial markets are more than the SEC but the SEC is part of the financial markets. Evidence of the SEC's imperfect lawlessness implies the greater financial markets are also, in part, lawless.

But my point wasn't even to say whether a given industry as broad as finance is 'lawless' or not, that's your sweeping strawman. I was just saying that in Finance of ALL industries, the line between lawful and illegal has been, and continues to be literally, morally and philosophically blurry...
I wrote a python script that checks a folder on my Dropbox for m4a files, then calls whisperapi to transcribe them, then reformats exactly how I need them reformatted, and finally moves them to a syncthing folder.

I took maybe two python classes about 20 years ago. I don’t know that language.

I also wrote two python scripts that use imagemagick to automate two different resizing/reformatting jobs for large groups of images for my work. Saved hours of manual labor.

And it’s not just the finished code. It’s also learning how code works in general. I’d have stupid questions/concerns all the time that I could just straight up ask AI and they’ll show me how I was thinking about it all wrong.
This election definitively showed the need for electoral reform.

Reform have got more votes nationally than the Lib Dems bit get 5 MPs vs 71 for the Lib Dems. Only 34% voted Labour who now have an overwhelming majority. Whatever one might think of this party or that party the outcome of the election is clearly not representative of public opinion.

On the other hand people are every attached to having their MP in their constituency so a level of distortion will remain no matter what but it could be much reduced, indeed.
The article sentence mentions that this is in the British Library, and I assume it’s in the Treasures Gallery?

If you’re ever in London, you owe it to yourself to stop there. It’s a room on the first floor of the library, free to enter without any kind of ticket 7 days a week.

In this one room is the most incredible display of printed works you’ll ever find. Everything from a copy of the Magna Carta to Florence Nightingale‘s notebooks to Anne Boleyn’s Tyndale bible to Beatles lyrics on a napkin.

There’s no collection like it anywhere in the world and it’s all in one medium-sized room.
The basic premise of Capital is that use value and exchange value are different things. Class struggle is the conclusion. A conclusion is something at the end of a book. You're clearly arguing about something you know nothing about.
What problem domain are you interested in?

Going with my 2048 example, how about "add a fun meta mechanic to the 2048 difficulty progression." Or maybe, "make a multi-player version of 2048." Or, "add a physics gameplay interaction to the 2048 controls."

I mean, just imagine doing anything potentially cool or interesting and that's your difficult problem that current AI can't help with.
99% of math can be outsourced to either a machine, or to the rare and precious jewel of a human that enjoys it.

But at this point it's basically vestigial knowledge – like balancing a checking account by hand. Good to understand the underlying principles of personal finance – but almost nobody keeps a checkbook anymore.
I think the easiest way to get the gist of what he (and I) are arguing is a thought experiment. Take an LLM back to the dawn of mankind, and train it on all of the collective knowledge of man. This would actually be impossible, because language hadn't yet been invented, so let's just imagine it could somehow read the collective mind of humanity. So cutting edge technology is poke 'em with the pointy side, science is nonexistent, and knowledge isn't that far behind.

Now run this system through our LLM for as long as you want with as much power as you want. Where is it going to take you? Nowhere really, it's still just going to be constrained to its pool of data, recombining things in primitive ways and be essentially permanently stuck in the present, until somebody gives it some new data to train on it and mix and match. Yet somehow humanity, starting from that exact same basis, would soon (relatively speaking) put a man on the Moon, unlock the secrets of the atom, discover quantum mechanics, invent/discover mathematics, and much more.

This is what is fundamentally meant by LLMs cannot create "new" knowledge. They absolutely can mix and match their pool of training statements in ways that can generate new statements. But if it's not an extremely simple 'remix' and we're in a domain where there are right and wrong answers, there's good chance it's just a nonsensical hallucination.
> How did the west stop the invasion of Kuwait?

By defending the sovereignty of Kuwait, a country from the UN.

> And how did Ukraine supposedly decided to join EU and NATO?

Because they're a sovereign country and chose to join after Russia invaded them.

> Saddam did get tried and executed. But comparing the scale and lasting impact of a war began by lies of Bush and Blair, it seems like a drop in the ocean.

Saddam got tried and executed after Bush and Blair went in - truth be told, they shouldn't have waited until the 9/11 event, but their National Security policy changed that day.

You're trying to compare the Iraq war, when Russia in just 2 years has caused +1.000.000 casualties, and ongoing genocide.

> I like that you have mentioned the Genocide in Europe, might as well say just Genocide, because if it happened elsewhere, and is happening in Palestine, the west would give a damn about it. Of course thoughts and prayers would come from there.

I said Genocide in Europe because it's a reference to all the Genocides that Russia took part - let's not forget they were allies of Nazi Germany, let's not forget Holodomor, let's not forget the Genocide in Chechnya.

So before you try to find semblances of "what could arguably be considered genocide", to mauling millions upon millions of human beings for decades all for one single man.

Ukraine is a country of 40 million people which Putin denied its existence and is seeking to make it disappear from the map, not only its borders, but its culture, and its people, all because they exist - that's what genocide is. An UNPROVOKED war of genocide.

It's disgusting your attempt to dilute what Putin and Russia are doing in Ukraine.
Counting to seven, then the impulse to interrupt goes away
Sure! There are several, but let's take a trivial one - setTimeout. This is an example of something that is inherently imperative, and therefore requires some awkward logic to get it working correctly in React. Here's an article explaining how to do it:

https://codedamn.com/news/reactjs/how-to-use-settimeout-in-r...

In contrast, here's how you would do it in matry:

let someValue = 0;

setTimeout(() => {
someValue++;
setContent(<p id="some-element">value is {someValue}</p>)
}, 1000)

There's no special concept you need to understand, and what's more is that it will not perform any rendering logic on #some-element's siblings or descendants. React may do that depending on how you structured your component.
that is available to scam system participants again. If you put your labor into their system they protect some but they steal the real value :)