skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't "learning a lot from past experiences and past mistakes" a virtue? Something we encourage children to do? You're framing it like a bad thing.

As an outsider to American politics, the stark loyalty to political branding is remarkable. It amazes me that "make America great again" is considered by some to be a toxic slogan. There's nothing stopping the Dems using the exact same phrase, but with their different approach behind it. Everyone wants America "great", it's how you get there where differences emerge.

What hope does the "united" states have when they can't even unite behind a fundamental objective of making the country great? Maybe it's Hollywood's fault. Years of Good vs Evil stories has us viewing the world in Red Vs Blue. Is the fight necessary for existence?

Do you think there's even one person in America who likes both Harris & Trump, and wishes them both well? Or are those people considered unworthy of respect?
Seed stage AI startups in San Francisco
Banning IP Ranges from datacenters is pretty easy and common, surprising they could not combat that.
and more like probably the right thing to do over all

It’s only the right thing if you assume equity as a starting position though. We already know, rather robustly, that the weakest and most disruptive students can consume far more than their share of limited resources and produce correspondingly limited outcomes.

Another theory goes that we should provide more resources to the best and brightest students so that they go on to become great leaders and experts in their fields and then improve society for everyone. This may be called the “rising tide lifts all boats” theory. It was the predominant one in the US for much of the 20th century and earlier, and it arguably led to the US’s position as a global leader in science, technology, and industry.
"Bus" and "Truck" terminologies invite you to imagine your coworkers being crushed to death. This isn't great.

I've always preferred the term "lottery factor". If this employee won the lottery (almost certainly leaving their day job behind), would you be able to survive their sudden departure?
This is a great article. Reflects my experience both in big and small companies. Anyone can be the "Project leader", doesn't need to be a TPM, PM or ENG. It isn't an org chart role, it is a role you are fulfilling. I have seen many different org chart roles succeeding or failing at it.
Imagine how much better the branding would be if they had just called it:

> dot
> dot console apps
> dot web API
> dot desktop apps

Simple logo design.

CLI commands would be like:

> dot new console
> dot build
> dot run
> dot publish

(Yes, I know I can alias)

It's not too late, Microsoft!
This feels like crime.
Small claims lawsuit is the right response instead of just being upset over BOA/Stripe.

That person defrauded you, sue them.

If you evidence is what you say it is, you will most likely win. End of story.
> Maps cover the spatial side of war, but in addition it's difficult to follow the timeline.

I'd love for there to be an OpenStreetMap style history project with a slider to change the date, allowing users to fill in battle lines and unit positions throughout history. There must be enormous troves of information on units and battles in archives around the world that can be put online in the right form. One obvious problem would be overcoming conflicting accounts of unit positions, strengths and extents, but even basic information on positions of units over time would allow users to get an idea of what was happening in a theater by dragging the slider.
I see this in wikipedia:

"The attribution of the invention of the architecture to von Neumann is controversial, not least because Eckert and Mauchly had done a lot of the required design work and claim to have had the idea for stored programs long before discussing the ideas with von Neumann and Herman Goldstine[3]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture
can you give an example of someone being upset and what the thing they'd learned that they "shouldn't?"

as a parent I find it confusing that I'd consider getting upset if my kid was learning 6th grade history as a 3rd grader (or 2nd grade art as a 3rd grader). what actual examples are there?

the only examples of parents being upset about learning I'm aware of lately is, like, critical theory and marxism
> I’ve never thought of it being used maliciously, it’s for visibility. It would be a shitty manager that would use it that way and if they’re already shitty then this tool won’t change that.

I've had three jobs where Pluralsight Flow was introduced. At two of them, the managers immediately started using the metrics for feedback, performance reviews, employment decisions. At the third, the developers saw this coming a mile away and refused to engage with or evaluate the tool.

Unfortunately, the absurd pricing of these tools means that people who approve them have to get some sort of ROI. Since they don't have a good way to measure productivity/output/knowledge silos, they instead turn to "Well Jose had less PRs this week..."
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One unfortunate consequence is that underchallenged "top kids" can quickly turn into "bottom kids" themselves. (Especially, but not only, if they are bullied by their peers for appearing too engaged with their studies). This is a devastating loss.
It's not that he could have reasoned his way to not ejecting, it's that the standby instruments were still functioning, and are there for just this moment. He could have continued without ejecting based on that alone.

Reading between the lines, he flinched, and while that was in line with the manual, the manual wasn't good enough, and as someone below said: the position from which he was dismissed was one where they evaluate, criticize and extend the manual. Ejecting too soon wasn't a failure of due diligence, but it disqualified him from a position where "in line with the manual" isn't good enough.
Don't forget some cities have changed a lot during the war. For example Rotterdam was almost completely levelled so what is there now is nothing in relation to how it was then.
> "The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA), S. 2140, would dismantle vital safeguards that prohibit software patents on overly broad concepts"

I'm submitting a patent for showing colors on the internet
Show HN: PlayNote – NotebookLM but with custom voices and API
I work in education and you're probably right that it's not THE thing, but it does enter the conversation. Teachers are supposed to provide what's called differential instruction but the quality and fidelity really depends on the teacher.
tin foil hat, that's the only way :)
I think recent events have shown clearly that, regrettably, offensive communication works wonders in convincing people.
here is the direct api end point - https://docs.play.ai/playnote-api-reference/endpoints/v1/pla...
This is basically entirely false ... They would only move into settle AFTER the government clears the land of most natives and signed "treaties" with others. Along with mass relocation and government programs to incentivize the settlers like encouraging the military to kill all Buffalo on site or actively salt spring water sources in favour of European deep wells.etc.etc.
It was the Clinton administration, back in the early nineties, that was all for pushing mandatory key escrow and the use of the Clipper Chip:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

So yes, you're right, it's nothing new for Trump, but it was old news under Obama too.
as a counter-point,

not a teacher nor related to but i heard around 400 hours of pedagogy podcasts, be it the science of it, small-talk about teaching & sometimes edtech software that seriously, most of the time just sounded as apps coming from the next guy trying to be the next silicon money maker by offering what Google Docs offers but in a fancy app or in the most complex cases, what Matrix/Discord offers for free or what Emacs org-mode could accomplish without diving far from the basics it provides.
there was good apps & often these were backed/based by novel & evidence based ways of teaching
Indeed, I'm not in US - I was just pointing out that it's not __that__ hard to fairly solve, in fact it has been solved decently well in other places.
Facilitating Thought Progression to Reduce Depressive Symptoms
Show HN: I built a music recommender app using YOUTUBE API
I’m a software engineer with a 9-5 grind. But in my spare time, I’m always diving into tech projects. One day, after scrolling through endless playlists, I thought, why not make something that matches music with your mood or genre? And boom , I created MoodSongs.

It’s a music recommender that lets you pick your mood (or genre) and instantly find the perfect tracks. No more endless searching, just press play and vibe out. It's been a fun side project and I'd love to hear what you all think!

Shivam
Indeed, OP hasn't actually stopped to consider, what if BoA is right?

What if it really was a fraudulent transaction as claimed?

The merchant should consider what they can do to protect themselves in such cases, if they are not protected, such as being able to cancel the tickets.
I wrote many Go articles praising Go: https://go101.org/

I am neither a no-brainer Go hater nor a no-brainer Go lover.
Good is good, bad is bad. All my articles/posts are based on facts.
> I have seen is no one in education is willing to ACTUALLY let kids learn at their own level... and the number of complaints and straight up threats because kids would learn things "they shouldn't be"

A charitable way to read what you are saying is, "kids are not sufficiently challenged in school." But you are railing against an antagonist that is kind of vague. What, specifically, are you talking about?
"let's use our very scarce resources helping the bottom kids... They're doing what they can with the resources they have."

I'm not convinced that resources are actually that scarce (the US has the second-highest amount spent per pupil among OECD countries). I think your teacher friends are doing the best with what they are being given by school boards, which is different. In many cities, the school board is considered a key stepping stone into bigger and better offices (city council, boards of supervisors, mayor, etc), which means it often attracts folks who are trying to leverage their positions to take stances on issues that have nothing to do with education. I think attacking gifted programs / tracking is one example of this, which are cast as perpetuating inequality, despite evidence that they help students across the board.
Can you name any examples of gifted programs being shut down, citing any reason other than equity?

The examples I've seen, in New York, Seattle, and LA, all cited equity as the reason.

Edit: I'm responding here to the comment "It's easier to keep the top kids down than it is to lift the bottom kids up."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_(Animal_Farm)

"I will work harder!"
So much this. I studied and got a degree in civil engineering and only call myself studied as an engineer because I never apprenticed or took the professional engineer exam. Despite doing a ton of software now I still feel it would be an insult to my friends who are P.E.'s to call myself an engineer.
It kind of is. I’m a firm believer in that knowledge comes from doing. Even the trades use exams. If you want to become a welder, you have to weld five particular welds, then get graded. There’s no better way to gauge someone’s proficiency at something while also letting that person find out what their weaknesses are.
Man the last one where the mother is at the house (3/2017) is just tough.
Just when I was about to finish my profile destruction on reddit I find another reason to dig a little deeper into the stew. I wish I had found your stuff on /r/fanedits a long time ago. The work you've done is excellent and is right up my alley, putting things into historical context using reliable sources.

One thing I would like to mention concerns the last map at the end of your post where you show a map based on information from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. The caption above the map says "Can't name a concentration camp or ghetto" and the lower states "Many Americans can't name a concentration camp or ghetto". I find it unusual that New York has such a high percentage of the population that is so clueless about history that is this recent. They are, according to your map, #2 behind Mississippi which I would've expected to be #1 or tied for it with some other southern state where white supremacists have long had a foothold or stranglehold on education.

I see that most of the poorly educated states are in the south with Illinois (neo-Nazi foothold in some places) and Oregon (originally intended to be a whites-only state) being exceptions.

And also, that map projection used makes it appear that a (large) hidden hand has torqued the eastern seaboard to the south from Maine to the (limp dick) state of Florida. You can see the distortion along the state lines east of the Mississippi River.

Anyway, great work! I enjoyed reading your post.
I mean, I’d argue the chalkboard method often can’t visualize things as well as modern educational stuff like 3blue1brown, which is the kind of thing I often supplement for my relatively dry university material. For tons of things, well-produced videos are more effective, especially when compared to a class with maybe a hundred fifty people in it where questions are discouraged during lecture.
You know that the vast majority of NATO countries spend according to the 2% norm this year?

https://www.politico.eu/article/defense-spending-target-nato...
Patents should only be for things, not software or methods.
My impression is that both a teacher's power to do much anything about such behavior, and the rights of the non-problematic students to a viable classroom environment, are either gone, or "going, going", in most parts of America.
> That's what the left is telling our society.

Except they're not.

They're saying "These things happen, and it's important to KNOW that." Nobody is telling people that they should feel bad for it, but if it doesn't feel fair to those that were harmed by it, that's cuz it's not. Feeling like hey the world isn't fair, and maybe we should do something about it, is a good thing actually.

The right meanwhile IS actively trying to repress information and education about these subjects.

The problem is there is a segment of people who when you tell them something like "Hey you did a bad thing and it hurt me. Could you apologize and then we could move on with our relationship?" respond with "OH So I'm the WORST PERSON IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD am I? Noone has ever hurt you as much as I have, have I? You just want me to keep apologizing for the rest of my life do you? When is enough going to be enough?"

When you haven't yet received even a single acknowledgement of their error.

We call such people narcissists and they dominate the modern right wing.

You can see it here in how you describe your scenarios. Of course I've seen people criticize societal-scale meat production's carbon footprint. And suggesting that we all eat less steak. Some people say we should stop eating meat entirely. But "You ate a steak? There's starving children in africa, you GREEDY BASTARD" is not even a real life single tweeter. That's just a person you made up.

There has to be a middle ground between what I'm advocating for (education, but with optimism, agency, and hope) and what you are (denial, rejection, anger, gaslighting).
I was feeling optimistic about software patents after the cloudflare ruling. That was a mistake
I wouldn't say this around your grandpa ;-)
Reading between the lines, sounds like the seller is reselling the tickets, so it's more of a graymarket transaction, practically, legally and morally.
How can a dozen eggs go from $2 one week to $4 the next? I don't remember egg prices being this volatile growing up. It's only in the past decade where prices jump wildly. It's third world shenanigans.
Ah, ok, well then I was misunderstanding what you were saying, sorry about that.
That's fair, I say the word "engineer" because that was the job title at the companies.

Generally when people have asked what I am, I just say something kind of hand-wavey like "Eccentric" or something.
I'm not sure why the commenter is being downvoted. I too can make a drama, literally capitalizing one of the worst words ever invented, "actually," about a vague antagonist, and rile people up, letting their imaginations fill in whatever boogieman they feel wronged them in school. What specifically is the situation? I don't want to speculate.
Hey,

This is Shivam. I think thats a great idea. I always jump around playlist
It's a self defeating aspect of the specific rightist-style framing of libertarianism that many people end up buying into, including the drafters of the Bill of Rights. IMO this was Gödel's loophole he referenced but never elaborated upon, as it's right in line with his work in logical contradictions.

Defining freedoms as a bunch of basic primitives that merely "the government" is prevented from infringing, and narrowly defining coercion as something that only the government is capable of (legally) doing is a broken framing. Layered complexity will make it so that other entities apart from the bona fide "government" are able to exercise significant actual coercion, and then infringe upon individual freedoms. And then using the broken definitions you will be told you are not actually being coerced, but rather choosing to "voluntarily" interact, and so your rights aren't actually be infringed.

The only way libertarianism makes sense is to define rights in terms of ability to exercise individual freedoms with respect to coercion by anyone else. This looks messier, but only because it puts the inevitable conflict front and center to be immediately resolved by equitable judgement about the amounts of coercion. The broken framework just pushes this logical conflict into the background, leaving it to continue growing as societal complexity does.
Cost is a reason, but also there's social concerns. In the standardized system, all classmates share the same material, at the same speed. This shared experience disappears when every student is going at their own place, looking at a computer. This leads to the students being a bit more alienated from each other, and comparisons that go way past just a grade.

When a classmate at the same age is covering material that someone else did three years ago, you will get the tension from both sides, in the same way that it's not all that great socially to be on a traditional school and take classes 3 years ahead.

This issue disappears with all adult students, but around puberty, we are short tools whenever we don't have large enough cadres that we can just put all the kids fast at a given class all together.
Oh I agree 100%. Recorded lectures are a miracle for the 2x speed and buffering.
The problem with edtech is they make the key mistake of taking the curriculum intended for pen / paper / chalkboard and they just put it on a tablet and expect it to work.

Seymour Papert wrote "Mindstorms" about this very topic in the 80s when PCs were being put in classrooms. Back then, teachers took the multiplication tables they had been doing with pen and paper and just made kids do them on the computer. Teachers make the same mistake with iPads and iPhones. Papert's book talks about the right way to do it -- reformulate the entire concept of learning to include these new tools. Unfortunately, everything gets measured against the old standards, and when the new tools don't work as well to teach the old standards as the tools with which the old standards were designed to be taught, obviously the results are going to look bad.
And that's 5 billions just for salaries if the average salary is 40k (which maybe is not so far off), and then 100 million is "just 2%" of the salaries.
> We had this. It worked well, in my opinion at least, and the number of complaints and straight up threats because kids would learn things "they shouldn't be" was just… insanely frustrating.

are you US based?

so of the Nordic countries have implementing thins similar to what you describe as their normal form of education
Map of over a Billion NYC Subway Rides Reveals Hidden Connections
A previous employer thought that sql databases didn’t understand graphs. So they made their own system for serializing/deserializing graphs of objects into Postgres

. They never used queries and instead had their own in-memory operators for traversing the graph, had to solve problems like deleting an entry and removing all references, partial graph updates.

And I still don’t think it works.
I have a dell laptop that makes a high pitched whine whenever I'm scrolling. really strange. GeForce RTX 2060.
Nope, not an ad, I promise. I have negative things to say about WGU too, if that would help (mostly in their class selection for the CS degree).

Feel free to email me if you have any specific questions, I think you and I might be pretty similar in this regard.
No, it's saying that if you use the same device to entertain yourself and to do homework, and you use it for entertainment 10x as often as you use it for homework, you'll get distracted then you're doing homework.

> It's like arguing that a student who likes reading Harry Potter, or Comic Books 2 hours a night is forming habits against the idea of using books for learning.

Books are separate objects, they are not a platform. It's saying that if you put a child's homework as a two page insert into a great comic book, the rest of the comic book will distract from the annoying, difficult insert.

The opposing theory is that the proximity of homework to comics will somehow make the homework fun. Homework is going to be hard and annoying no matter what you do, if it's not hard you're not learning anything from it.
Sex education? Not in the sense of the kids watching porn, but learning about contraception and STIs and that kind of thing.
Ed tech, like most tech, is primarily focused on making money for the ed tech companies and their shareholders. Not at all surprised that it doesn't actually lift education standards.

As the parent of two kids in elementary and middle school, the one thing we learned from Covid is that children need live teachers. Yes, there are exceptional children who can self-teach with good materials (I have one such child) but most don't. And for those who do, you don't need fancy tech. I supplement my (advanced) child's education and primarily use books and pencils, and live coaching, as I've found those work better than any "adaptive" EdTech I've encountered. Finding it too easy? Just skip pages to the next chapter? Too hard? Find some extra review problems on the topic.
At least wait till the new administration is in place before passing this damaging crap.
Record stores are thriving pretty much everywhere across the US. The ones that have been closing are the ones that only hold old stock and don't curate their inventories

If you walk into a shop and all you see are old, worn out Barry Manilow and Bob Seger albums at $30+ a pop, the store isn't meant to last. Thankfully, the problem has been solving itself
as long as you start with hooloovoo the rest will fall right in place

The super-intelligent shade of blue, or more properly, Hooloovoo, is exactly what it says on the tin. Whether the creature is intelligent in general or just compared to other, lesser shades of blue is left ambiguous.

It can:

Refract in a prism (for special occasions).
Turn purple when disgruntled about something.
Meaningfully observe and interact with its surroundings, or it wouldn't be part of greater galactic society.
So we're looking at some kind of energy creature that behaves like light, and has to be blue for some reason. Though there isn't much literal anatomy to speak of, I would like to know if you could possibly build a creature out of material that can pass through glass, and have it be both intelligent and equipped with senses.