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I used the ellipse for emphasis rather than dishonesty. The full quote was above. (If HN supported formatting I'd perhaps have used bold instead of ellipse+elision.)

And yes. I read the full text of Circuit City including every footnote. I've also read multiple analysis of the opinion by different scholars. I've also read multiple articles by the original author of the text as well as transcripts of the Congressional debate at the time it passed.

The reasoning for specifically mentioning transportation workers is that there are separate statues for arbitration or worker-contract for those workers and Congress did not want to conflict.

Circuit City was an error.
What you actually have to "prove" is that you can pass/execute the laws required to "leave the fossil fuels in the ground".

All evidence thus far is that it's not happening, no one even votes for that under democracies.

So far, all evidence is that we can pass laws, create engineering, and cause behavior change that leads to reducing carbon emissions without hurting growth.

If you care about reducing carbon, the strategy of "destroy capitalism first" isn't going to happen at all, and especially not soon enough to have the impact you want.
Ok. I may just be unaware of the actual numbers. “The advertisers came back, and more liberal users were leaving, but businesses still found it valuable” was sort of my last understanding.
Electronic learning materials tend to be consumer oriented. Instead of reading a book you’re going to click through an interactive story book, etc.

But custom software and is very expensive, and doesn’t scale. Thousands of work hours to make 1 consumable hour. It’s like maintaining an MMO and adding new quests every week, but without the talented devs or interesting source material.

The real leverage offered by technology is creative tools that enable experiences which are impractical, like simulations, etc.

But it’s probably a tougher sell to administrations:

- no telemetry (surveillance)

- not an on rails experience you can drop a low performing kid in front of
That's not necessarily the reason. OP probably was letting faster kids jump ahead but that doesn't really do anything helpful for a class that's going through a topic together step by step.

Better would have been to let the faster person learn something else tangentially related to the course so that they stay engaged but they don't disengage because they're simply ahead of the rest of the class on the next topic - which is just frustrating for everybody.

Alternatives exist for self-directed study and the tutorial system but that's presumably not what they're building for.
>straight up threats because kids would learn things "they shouldn't be"

What do you think is behind the threats? Do the teachers fear being replaced or is it coming from a different set of people?
SPOILER ALERT:

It's 7 x 5.
SNL hasn't been funny for years.
Excellent historical resource. Also the ''Atlas Of World War II'' is quite good:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas_of_World_War_II

and there is this hard cover ''Atlas of World War II'':

https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-World-War-II-Cartography/dp/142...
I skipped out complete uni classes and followed an analogue online. Maurice Herlihy had its concurrency and multithreading classes online for a while. I passed my c&m course with it, we also used his book
> the problem I have seen is no one in education is willing to ACTUALLY let kids learn at their own level.

OK but we've known this since, when, the 60s? Look at all the academic research on the adoption (or lack thereof) of programmed instruction, programmed learning, etc.

If we didn't already know this before the "EdTech Revolution" then of course the industry would get a pass, but the fact that we already knew what would happen and why is what makes it a scam.
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Indeed, one of the more memorable set pieces in chapter 1:

"He traveled to a city, which was located, he would only say, somewhere in America. He walked into a building, just as though he belonged there, went down a hallway, and let himself quietly into a windowless room. The floor was torn up; a sort of trench filled with fat power cables traversed it. Along the far wall, at the end of the trench, stood a brand-new example of DEC’s VAX, enclosed in several large cabinets that vaguely resembled refrigerators. But to West’s surprise, one of the cabinets stood open and a man with tools was standing in front of it. A technician from DEC, still installing the machine, West figured.

Although West’s purposes were not illegal, they were sly, and he had no intention of embarrassing the friend who had given him permission to visit this room. If the technician had asked West to identify himself, West would not have lied, and he wouldn’t have answered the question either. But the moment went by. The technician didn’t inquire. West stood around and watched him work, and in a little while, the technician packed up his tools and left.

Then West closed the door, went back across the room to the computer, which was now all but fully assembled, and began to take it apart.

The cabinet he opened contained the VAX’s Central Processing Unit, known as the CPU—the heart of the physical machine. In the VAX, twenty-seven printed-circuit boards, arranged like books on a shelf, made up this thing of things. West spent most of the rest of the morning pulling out boards; he’d examine each one, then put it back.

..He examined the outside of the VAX’s chips—some had numbers on them that were like familiar names to him—and he counted the various types and the quantities of each. Later on, he looked at other pieces of the machine. He identified them generally too. He did more counting. And when he was all done, he added everything together and decided that it probably cost $22,500 to manufacture the essential hardware that comprised a VAX (which DEC was selling for somewhat more than $100,000). He left the machine exactly as he had found it."
Equity really isn't the ideology doing this, except in a few cases, it's something else. I'd speculate the dominant effect is that people tend to dislike and resist what they have a hard time imagining: there's a strong bias towards easily-administrated uniformity, and ppl tend to enforce what they know and what they were brought up in themselves
> Big companies are like government bureaucracies now

Large organizations are, by definition, bureaucracies regardless of being public or private. Big companies were bureaucracies 100 years, and they will be bureaucracies in 100 years. I never understand why people expect private enterprises to be free from the inefficiencies inherent to coordinating lots of people and things
This is why I hear stories every year at my kids school about home school kids enrolling, then being place in math classes 1-2 years ahead of the max possible for somebody who had been in the school system to start with.
What country is that? ISP?
The article is pretty supportive of the conclusion. Reductively, EdTech is putting screens in front of kids at school. Doing that leads to distraction and procrastination than using those screens for learning.
In the US, it's easy to imagine, or just see, politicians actively opposing expansion of the currently-poor education system. Some actively seek to further defund it (see school vouchers).

As for actively misinforming poor people, that is the day job (campaigning) for countless politicians, who usually spend less than half their time drafting or voting on legislation.
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Yeah - this is on OP if that is the case. No teacher wants that and it's annoying for the ahead kids and the behind kids. Better to give them something tangential to keep them engaged but still gate on moving ahead with the mainline curriculum.
I once tried to ship a product and nobody else was ready. Marketing assumed the product would be late and wasn't geared up to market it. The CEO couldn't point to a marketing campaign so didn't want to mention it at the conference. Support hadn't bothered to ramp up on it since marketing had told them it wasn't actually going to ship until next quarter.

It's not about "pleasing upper management" is about understanding that a product isn't "shipping" just because you can launch it the software. The entire company needs to be on board.
I thought this was about eating disorder tech for a minute
> If you have a user table with a non-nullable email column and a nullable username column, and a uniqueness constraint on something like (email, username), you'll be able to insert multiple identical emails with a null username into that table - because a null isn't equivalent to another null.

FWIW, since 15 postgres you can influence that behaviour with NULLS [NOT] DISTINCT for constraints and unique indexes.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/sql-createtable.html#S...

EDIT: Added link
“Well designed? is doing heavy lifting here. You can get very good at specific test formats in terms of time management, common tricks, etc.

Actual tests include things like: Multiple choice questions were providing answers aids answering the question. Short responses / fill in the blank generally mean people can just regurgitate answers they don’t understand. Essay responses sound great, except you can’t answer many questions and essays writing is a separate skill which heavily influences final scores.

More broadly tests are time limited so can’t test skills that take long periods of time to demonstrate a major issue for say programming.
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Or maybe it's because they're busy fighting a war and trying not to die so that they haven't had the time to provide records for the historians and analysts to ruminate over.
> It's what a lot people here have already said. Education is what is failing, EdTech didn't magically solve this.

To expand this more globally - anything that requires human interaction fails at scale. Healthcare, trade skills, education, housing, etc. is all "failing" to some degree no matter how much technology we throw at it. The costs continually go up and the value isn't paired to it.
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That sounds lovely and my guess is that order-of-magnitude estimation was the tested skill
What country do you live in where there is actual justice? I've never heard of such a one. From what I see, the powerful dominate the weak, abuse the Earth with no concern for future generations, and manipulate systems to ensure their own group's wealth and impunity.

So, Sir, I stand with Banksy, Bob Marley, MLK, RATM and other like-minded agents of change. But I understand that love is the only way to forge a better future for our Earth and ALL her peoples -- but a fierce, unyielding love, to be sure.
> Can you give examples? Are we talking evolution or addition?

Not GP but I can share a personal experience from high school: I was extremely advanced in English class. Like would literally finish a 45min exam in 10min and get an A.

This caused problems for the teacher. For one I was constantly bored and disruptive of others around me because I was bored and needed friends to chat with. But this made their grades suffer (it’s okay I did their exams too, lol).

Another big problem for her was that teaching me was a pain in the ass. I was clearly fluent in English but couldn’t be arsed to follow today’s lesson. My essays were a pain to grade because she could never tell if I was using a weird word I picked up from Tolkien or the internet, or just used the wrong word. She had to use a dictionary. During class sometimes I’d pull her on tangents discussing the nuanced meaning of a word she was teaching and none of the rest of the class could follow. Etc.

Basically I was a pain in the ass because the class was too easy and teenage boys aren’t known for their good classroom behavior.

The best advice that teacher gave me before the matura exam (like SATs) was this: Ok Swiz I know you think you’re a wiseass, but the matura commission won’t pull out a dictionary, they’ll just mark your answer wrong. Tone it down.

And if you think “Wow that teacher failed to control a problem student”, I think she did the right thing. It’s very easy to crush someone’s spirit if you don’t let them explore and pursue a thing they’re clearly talented in.
It’s not about Eastern versus western. It’s more that most Chi Fi is just bad. There isn’t a real differentiator to most products so they just make a marketing splash when released and then are forgotten. Maybe Hifiman is the exception. And there are some occasional good IEMs if you like their signature. I also see more experimentation with new driver types like bone conduction in Chi Fi. But if you want reasonably accurate sound reproduction (with your preferred signature on top of that) and high build quality with consistency unit to unit, you probably need to look at brands that seem “old” like Shure, which often can just be made to sound the way you want with equalizer settings. On the IEM side there are also some great brands in the Pacific Northwest of the US like Campfire Audio, 64 Audio, and Fir Audio.
Is it?

- 3d secure would have made it hard to claim "wasn't me"

- banks here cancel cards involved in fraud, and request a police report (not really a very strong deterrent, but at least makes it risky/harder to repeatedly claim fraud, when it isn't)
> Of course, in 2024, that saying is looking a bit ragged

"If my grandma had wheels, she would be a bike"
Also tangential, but do you feel like you’ve gotten your money’s worth out of the WGU program? I have also been employed as degree-less an engineer for a long time (I have a BA in an unrelated subject), and I’ve occasionally thought about going back to get a BS or a masters in comp sci. Partially for the signaling aspect, and partially to fill in any knowledge gaps that I’m unaware of. WGU’s pacing and pricing sound great. I’ve also heard that it can sometimes be a questionable resume signal. Any thoughts?
Stripe notifies you of an issuer dispute raised through the respective scheme. They have no control except being a messenger back and forth between you and then customers issuing bank and the scheme. So not on Stripe this one. And this is coming from someone who absolutely despises Stripe. Especially you, Alan from Stripe.
The concern isn't about surveillance, as much as it is about what's being done with the data being collected.
I doubt they were talking about any kind of "adult" content. The situation they're referring to is more like "your second grader should be focused on multiplication, not long division."
WGU BSCS grad here as well. Regular brick & mortar schools never worked for me, but WGU clicked and let me finally get my degree. Now I’m working on my MSCS with CU Boulder, which although being managed via Coursera has the same feel overall as WGU. In some ways I can see how some think EdTech failed… but I do think there are players in the space that are doing good things
Why did all the civics classes go after the Vietnam protests?
> The company’s free fruit program, for example, remains discontinued

Is this real life? This reads like an article on The Onion
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An outside firm might use this to help a company conduct layoffs. Manager could be amazing
> The promise of EdTech was that kids could learn where they are.

This is only truly possible if we trust educators enough to allow them to use a different approach with a child. The system we have has leaned heavily toward “trust nothing”. Parents and teachers all want the best for their students but at the same time we demand that everyone stick to the prescribed curriculum lest something unapproved should enter a classroom. This is how you get “McDonalds” results: Consistent and maybe somewhat average overall.
> That's highly debatable.

Is it? You seem to stand pretty firm on your position (which is a fair one, for what it is worth).
In a language where functions are in the same namespace as variables (like the majority of languages), I would expect A, in a lisp-2 I would expect B.

But I don't see how's that relevant, this is not about the scope of bindings, but about the lifetime of objects.

As Steve explained in a sibling comment, _ is in fact not a variable name, and doesn't extend the lifetime of the object. The semantic is perfectly reasonable and I'm sure it has a good reason to be that way, but the difference between two similarly looking syntaxes is surprising and violates the principle of least astonishment.

FWIW, C++ temporary lifetime extensions are also surprising in many cases.

[Note: I don't know if rust is defined in term of temporary lifetime extensions, it is just a way to understand it for a c++ programmer like me]
1. Why would you ever login to youtube in the first place?

2. There's strength in numbers. Between adblockers, foss clients, and youtube-dl/yt-dlp, there are probably tens to hundreds of millions of people watching youtube this way. If YT banhammers everyone for that they would end up banning a sizable fraction of the earth's population all in one day. Even Google isn't stupid enough to do that.
we use Screen Time on iPad and iPhone with some limited time for YouTube, while google.com has different time limits for school...the end game went like this:

a) you can search anything at google, go to Videos and watch youtube with no limits, the url is still google.com

b) he did come up with an idea to screen record everything and then re-watch everything using Photos app. After that was blocked, apparently you can access same photos thru Camera.app :)
> actively thinking about this and dedicating part of their work to misinforming the poor intentionally.

I'm reminded of the quote

> “No one involved in an extralegal activity thinks of themselves as nefarious. I'm a businessman, okay?" - Quark, DS9 S6E25

I don't believe anyone nefariously sits there and says "lets make sure people aren't educated" but I genuinely believe there are people who say "I did this thing and people keep voting me in to keep doing that thing or keep paying me to do that thing, so I'm going to continue doing it that way"
The more I philosophize on the subject. The reason Western boomers had it so very good is due to them being born mere moments after a cataclysmic, violent human struggle that killed nearly 80 million people ended.
One could argue there's still value in building connections in apps that can't easily ban you or silence you on mention of a protest.
US Senate to Revive Software Patents with PERA Bill Vote on Thursday
It would probably be better to link directly to where the chapters are published instead: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/book.html
It depends on so many things, but in a climate where someones income depends on the performance it is easy to understand they behave defensive.

As a counter example I worked for a small company where the owner is a very good software engineer. I knew that he knew that I know what I'm doing.

So we could freely talk about problems without the toxicity that often comes with it.
I dropped out and became an engineer at almost the exact same time. I've thought about going back for a degree but I was always so horribly bad at school that it's scared me off. I was bad at it mainly for undiagnosed ADHD reasons that I'm now getting successfully treated, but I'm still worried that if I went back the same things would just happen again. I'd join a class, I'd already kind of know what they're teaching (or think I did), I'd get bored and be unable to pay attention, I'd suddenly find myself MASSIVELY behind.

I really hope this isn't just an ad or something because I'd really love if there was a decent way for me to get a degree without having to go back to a college campus at 35
That’s why they have reviews of these items. Ultimately, a fighter pilot is piloting a very expensive and very dangerous aircraft, if they can’t use good judgement - then they can’t be trusted to operate the aircraft. As an example, a us navy pilot mistook a training exercise for a live fire mission and shot down a us Air Force jet. Mistakes were made in the mission setup, but critically - the pilot should have used judgement to change the mission parameters rather than execute what he believed to be the order.

https://www.twz.com/the-bizarre-story-of-how-a-navy-f-14-sho...
Something I wish I saw more often are monospace fonts designed for readability (codingability?) that have narrower character width.

Iosevka is one of them, but to me the negative spaces between characters in it are too little for good readability, in other words it feels too "square"-ish. Other fonts close to it in style have other issues. I've been using M+ fonts for coding for more than a decade I think, and tried to switch but always returned to them. If you're somebody like me, check them out: https://mplusfonts.github.io

In terminals I'm using Source Code Pro or IBM Plex Pro and they work really well for me.

Also turns out IBM Plex Sans can be a solid font for designing dashboards, tables and generally more "technical" UIs, so whoever worked on that font familiy did a really good job imo.

And if you like iA Writer, they based their fonts off IBM Plex and you can get them for yourself too: https://github.com/iaolo/iA-Fonts
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I'm a map guy. I love maps and I regularly use online translations to help me understand what the map-maker or poster is trying to convey.

With your post and all the opportunities open to you I feel like you advertised a grilled sausage event but when I showed up I discovered you were vegan and only serving salad.

Where's the links?
I think test prep allowing people to increase SAT scores is actually a useful feature not a bug.

If you’re the kind of person who’s going to put extra effort to add a few points to your results, you are also the kind of person more likely to do well in collage classes.
Standards and Evaluation pilots are almost like test pilots.. They are expected to stick with their aircraft perhaps a little longer than normal. However, if a pilot has no outside reference to the horizon (the rain storm he was in), and his sensors/instruments are deemed unreliable, I would have done the same thing. Its one thing to lose a jet, which can be replaced - its another to lose a pilot where countless hours of training have been invested ... Sucks for him, but at least he is still flying and gets the pick of the littler for his next assignment. I would assume he will do another tour and then retire. People will be "funny" around him going forward and he will not enjoy the camaraderie that he has grown used to in the Corps.
https://www.amazon.com/900-Days-Siege-Leningrad/dp/030681298...

The 900 Days is an eye-opening and compelling book about the siege of Leningrad. Highly recommended.
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Prior thread (with comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27046272
This is why I'm a big fan of MVPs and quick iterations after ward.

Launching a significantly complex product is HARD, even if it is an MVP.

Nobody understands how hard, even if they've done it before. It works in staging, must be ready! Then users start trying to signup and actually use the product and the wheels come off.

I've usually been the person that understands it all and launch week is always hell. Or depressingly boring because you have no users.
> The population have spoken. They don't care.

What are the options? Protesting?

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20207348
Robot that watched surgery videos performs with skill of human doctor: report