skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Literally the game that introduced me to programming. Building your own stunts was very similar to turtle scripting, only in 3D and far more engaging. When I started taking multimedia classes at RIT, working in Macromedia Director was a natural progression. Thanks Stunt Island, it's been a good career so far!
if they learn to solve real problems in the real world and it helps them, they are more educated than when they started, regardless of literacy rates.
New nasal vaccine shows promise in curbing whooping cough spread
It could help us reconsider the routing and design of highways, particularly in dense urban environments.
I think the point this report (from UNESCO) is trying to make is that this "proper education alone" is not available for everyone to begin with. That said, clicking further it has a chart that shows more than 80% of countries have "some form of basic education" at least, which is double that of what it was 100 years ago.

But in countries where it is, it's highlighting that there's a way to go yet. It doesn't give all the data (after all, it's a website selling data) but it's pretty telling that a lot of countries that we think of as having good education (like most of Europe) are not in the top five.
Could it also be that teenagers are taking standardized tests less seriously if the stakes aren't apparent
My spouse and I both work on different ends of AI work (spouse, content production, editing, and prompt-library building; me, feeding the things with data).

No, not really. They're useful but not revolutionary for actual productive work, and I'm being generous in dubbing some AI-based products themselves "productive" (I eagerly await the studies that I'm sure the companies building these things will not bother to do, proving that these are cost/benefit better than other approaches they're replacing—I definitely don't consider it certain that they are).

They shine when the fewest shits are given, which is mostly work that didn't need to be done in the first place, and... mass scams/astroturfing/spam. Hooray.

I don't really see this balance tipping much with the general approach the field's pursuing now.
They’re probably not distributed by whatever GDS API the app is using
It's frustrating.

Cody's autocomplete used to work really well for me. Then they switched to DeepSeek. Now I regularly get suggestions that are irrelevant, incomplete, and contain syntax errors.

I'm not sure what it's like these days but I had a similar experience with Copilot a while back.

I wonder if good autocomplete is just too expensive.
I would never use anything else in a kitchen or bathroom - it looks pretty good, feels nice on the feet, doesn't care about a few spills, and if you drop a plate you have a chance it won't break. However for other rooms give me real hardwood.
In addition to the portability issue, CoreGraphics does not compete directly with Skia or Direct2D for that matter (it’s mostly CPU based). If you combine it with CoreAnimation you get something of a quasi superset. Direct2D is +/-, but it also doesn’t have some higher level features like PDF and SVG backends, and it doesn’t have the software rendering capabilities of skia by design.

Of course there are 2D drawing libraries on the major platforms (and CoreGraphics and Direct2D are very different, there’s also GDI+), but it was a weird question to start: what’s the use of a portable library. But furthermore, skia is not just a portability wrapper.
I think you'll have to do that research for yourself, but I did a cursory googling for you and it seems fairly stable in the US since the 70's [0].

[0] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=38
UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in midtown Manhattan
> His site is up at https://mskv.in/ and if the folks here have feedback

Very impressive! I loved the hangman game, and the cool graphics. A cool addition for next version would be some kind of visual progress (or anti-progress) where the hangman gets angrier or something like that for every wrong letter entered.

The car game is completely random and non-interactive, right? Perhaps a text box for each car where those placing the bets can add their name/names? Perhaps also some kind of graphic element in the scorecard to the right, something to separate the cars that have finished from the cars still in the race. Also, the race could end after the third car finishes as there is no point really for the last one to keep racing – it already lost! Nevertheless – really liked the graphics and the cool idea, well executed.

The treasure hunt was also really fun, and nostalgic! Only improvement I can think of is to actually see some kind of gold coin or treasure chest in the end, to know how far off I was the times I lost, and as visual confirmation the times I won. But overall, awesome little game.
But it is dissolving.
+100 to this.
Psychopath? No. But it's also not insulting their intelligence by having that little catch up. You're asking someone for something that they don't have to do for you. Showing up in their inbox saying "Give me something" might seem to you like you're being concise and to the point, but to the person reading it, there's not much motivation for why they should give you that thing you need.

The catchup, as mundane and obvious as it is, at least signals to the person that you see some value in them and value your relationship, even if it's transactional in nature. Does it need to go on for paragraphs or multiple emails back and forth? Absolutely not, but having some lead in makes it less like you're only concerned about what you can get from the person.

Would you rather a waiter just come up to your table and say "Order!?" or have a little bit of pleasantries before asking what you'd like to eat. There's no more transactional relationship than a diner and a waiter, but most people would prefer the latter.
That’s an extremely unfair characterization. It was an honest attempt to make a product; the product didn’t catch on; CNN acquihired the team.
> What the hell, are your lights welded/glued in place to the bike frame or what?

You have misunderstood. Obviously I can angle the light, but it still has a circular beam pattern like a torch. Dipped car headlights are not like that. They have a sharp cut-off at the horizon so you can light the road brightly without blinding oncoming traffic. Very few bike lights have a beam pattern like that.
Hey guys!

Really attracted by the company, and the position. Do you accept people outside US? (Europe)
Would this be of interest to you:

https://github.com/8bitbubsy/pt2-clone
Probably not even AI if there's a community helping to curate headlines. Sort of what the DeArrow browser extension does with that cesspool of sensational titles, amazed facial expressions and general bullshit that has become YouTube lately.
https://dearrow.ajay.app/
Disgruntled employee? Patient died or suffered lifelong disability due to denied claims and delay in care? Bankruptcy due to paying out of pocket medical expenses?

all potential suspects that can wrap the world, and more.

UNH CEO reaped what he sowed. To be honest, this is unlikely to do anything in the long term. In the short term, dip in UNH stonk, but recover over next quarter.

Next cookie cutter CEO to be installed will just continue the same shit. Will probably demand 24/7 security paid for by company. Costs subsequently passed down to the unfortunate people that have to pay for their dogshit insurance policies.
I don't know where the idea "everyone" will be able to achieve a certain minimum reading comprehension came from and it's trivial to show that wouldn't be true.

As I understand it, the topic is more about the differences between countries in the chart rather than somehow achieving 100%. E.g. how Ireland sits around 87% while Senegal sits at 2%. If Senegal were able to afford the same overall quality of education for their students as Ireland don't you think the would have significantly higher numbers?
They meant scare quotes.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare%20quotes

While they may be “quotes” of stuff from the original (which that technically was) the intent was clear.
I don't think this is based on standardized tests because they're not standardized internationally; this would be presented more as a questionnaire or poll than a test, made to assess roughly the same in every country it was given.
After the war against encryption by investigative agencies (because it makes their jobs harder), this is... different. Maybe we actually do need protection against people spying on us, when the people spying on us aren't them?
The only way you can get teenagers to really engage with any kind of instruction is to take some of the guardrails off and let them interact freely. This means they'll ask controversial questions, use slang, curse now and again, crack jokes, and go off into tangents that they've been thinking about. Adults are allowed to do all this at work, but teenagers aren't allowed to do it at school, and virtual education makes this even more boring.

One example: for online teaching, that may require a streaming model where there's a live, mostly uncensored chat where they can keep side conversations going and react to the material. I'm not sure if that model would be of use, but I do know that trying to get teenagers to engage requires the same thing it always has, which is taking them seriously as adults and not censoring them.
More likely they will just hijack some existing AR game and use its geocoding system to mark the drops.
There's not many cases in 2024 where people get denied hospital care because of insurance.

Get stuck with massive crippling bills? Sure. Can't afford insulin? Likely. But if you are at the hospital and your coverage is denied, legally that's the hospital's problem.
My kid is 14 going to secondary school in Ireland right now.

And I'm helping them with their English homework and I notice how much of it is reading stuff and trying to get them to question what they are reading etc.

Far more than when I was a kid their age, in my English class.
Telegram U-turns and joins child safety scheme
In my country the trend has been alarming, especially among boys. The politicians just shrug and say that the PISA tests are flawed.
> That's not immortality, not for me personally, not if I die.

What if: at the point of copying there are two of you, both of whom don't want to die?
Hi Chris

Many thanks for all the years of dedication to Phoenix and value you've given to developers around the world.

OT: any thought about updating the 9-year old perf benchmark blog post? And is bandit now recommended over cowboy?

https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/the-road-to-2-million-...
This isn't an answer to their question about whether there's been any change for the worse, it's speculation about the reason for the change, assuming any such change does exist.
I've written a NEAT implementation in Rust a few years back. It was able to train XOR and pole balancing.

https://sgolem.com/blog/neat-simple-neuroevolution-framework...
I'm a film colorist and have done the film print out method plenty of times.

You don't need to print to film to dither and reduce banding, it's trivial to add grain to achieve the same (either digitally or via film grain scans which are overlayed).

The film outs are just a different method of getting a film tone, curve, and grain - though honestly I've done some where people were unable to identify which was the digital master and which was the post film out version. Much of the time it's just an ego boost for the director and dp and a competent colorist can easily recreate it. That said, it's fun to do and means less work on my end so I don't discourage it.
Thanks for sharing these resources! We’ll definitely take a look.
How would / do you assess your own reading comprehension level? I mean I'll freely admit I struggle with higher levels / legalese, and frequently struggle to express myself in words, both in my native languages and English.

(I'm aware this is a subtle flex / humblebrag, lol)
'These numbers include all children of middle school age, not just those who attend school.'

I think the low scores are telling you more about the pressure on children in poorer countries to work to support their families, rather than the quality of teaching when they are able to attend school.
It's a social problem, not a technical one. Facilitate a hierarchy of trust among users who more-or-less volunteer to moderate at the lower trust levels and engage on unjustly-banned users' behalf with YouTube staff at higher trust levels.

Better yet, pay them. It is, after all, work.
Damn... I wish I could say this wasn't true. Been trying to lie and say it hasn't but it absolutely has made programming less enjoyable by far... I been trying to convince myself other wise but I am just lying to myself.
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I don't really see it as a choice between water and air as we're utterly dependant on both for the survival of humans.

I think we're behaving like a room full of monkeys that are just throwing shit around and hoping that not too much ends up on ourselves. We can't continue to do that forever.
OCaml's ecosystem is significantly smaller and less well developed than Haskell, and since you've given up on tight and clear control of allocation strategies by choosing OCaml, Rust looks like a very good alternative, which has an absolutely massive ecosystem in comparison to OCaml.

Again, the main issue with OCaml is that it really doesn't have an axis it's even in the top 5 of, except maybe compile times.

I understand people who like OCaml. There's a lot that's good about it, but it just doesn't have any edge. There's almost no way to pick OCaml and objectively have made a good choice.
Interesting to note that C.S. Lewis and Tolkien met Arthur C. Clarke and a BIS colleague in a different bar - must have regarded it as neutral territory:

'Needless to say, neither side converted the other, and we refused to abandon our diabolical schemes of interplanetary conquest. But a fine time was had by all, and when, some hours later, we emerged a little unsteadily from the Eastgate, Dr. Lewis' parting words were "I'm sure you're very wicked people - but how dull it would be if everyone was good"'
All of the screaming text on the site trying to explain to you why no one online trusts them but you definitely should is an enormous red flag that makes me very much not trust them one bit.
> But a knock on effect is there will be a market for farming fake accounts for later sale to said manipulators.

We'll lift millions in the "global south" out of poverty by providing the tools to criminals and foreign adversaries that drive demand for cheaply-staffed high-rep social media account farms.

What a time to be alive. What frontiers we are exploring.
Oh the ST... :-)

Back in school in 1994 I was into DOS. But my friend insisted the ST was superior in every way.
We wrote assembly games to impress eachother.

One day he told me he was working for a company making games.

I didn't really believe him back then.

Turns out the company in question was UDS (Unique Development Systems) and he was in fact making games for the ST.

We were 14 years old.
There must be a point in which they can be fired, unless there some nepotism going on.

If so, then it's already pretty messed up.
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It'll be sad but the brain rot from pervasive social media is getting severe, especially in older generations. If this pushes more people to touch grass, it's a net positive.
I feel like it's a festival of emulators these days. Or maybe that thing is happening where some new thing clicks into sharper focus for you, and then suddenly you see it everywhere. What was the name of that phenomenen, I feel I saw it on here at some stage...
It is easy: Allocate the resources needed - hire more customer reps.

This would cut into margins, but maybe it is not possible to run hyper scale companies only managed by a couple of engineers.

And maybe we should not accept that profit seeking people want to do that anyways.
What are their arguments for why it’s supposedly flawed?
Comprehension is a higher bar than "literacy". Global adult literacy rates have been drastically improving since the 1950s (https://ourworldindata.org/literacy). Today, global adult literacy rate is estimated at ~87%.

I -think- this is the appropiate interactive plot: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-children-reachin...

The controls are annoying, but world level data only goes back to 2000:

* 2000: 38%

* 2005: 41%

* 2010: 45%

* 2015: 47%

* 2019: 48.5% (this is the closest point)
I this why TikTok is so popular?
Ranking recent presidents by how disgraceful their pardons were:

1. Trump,
2. Clinton,
3. GHWB,
4. GWB,
5. Biden.

Trump's you all know.

Clinton pardoned his half brother plus family friends, supporters and donors. Including Marc Rich who was hiding in Switzerland. Rich owed $48 million in taxes and was charged with 51 counts for tax fraud, was pardoned of tax evasion. Denise Eisenberg Rich, his former wife, was a big donor to the Clinton library and to Hillary Clinton's senate campaign. President Jimmy Carter called Rich pardon discraceful.

GHWB pardoned large number of people in convicted in Iran-Contra Affair.

GWB pardoned Scooter Libby, a former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.
And do they have a shaped beam pattern like a dipped car headlight? I doubt it.
Well I clicked one too many times. Came across a funeral procession with 0 views. Couldn't see any faces or identifying information, thankfully. But sad nonetheless.
ProductHunt Featuring and the Shadow Community
https://archive.is/C4k5a
You start by not banning people for nothing.
True, but numbers are surprisingly bad in the US, Sweden, and in England (lived all three so still follow the local news and seen stories about this in the last two weeks).
Very likely. It was very likely planned in advance due today being “investor day”. A person with nothing to lose at this point.

“ UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) will host its annual Investor Conference for analysts and institutional investors in New York City on Wednesday, December 4, 2024, beginning at 8:00 a.m. EST.”
[1]

[1] https://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/newsroom/2024/2024-11-26-u...
Also in the US before Obamacare many people couldn't afford to see a specialist at all. Trade-offs.
Hi HN! You may be interested in some related work:

"Millions of children learn only very little. How can the world provide a better education to the next generation?" https://ourworldindata.org/better-learning

Our topic page on Global Education: https://ourworldindata.org/global-education

Our wider catalog of education data: https://ourworldindata.org/data?topics=Global+Education
It's techspeak for 'a request'.
Ah yes, "I like things that are more entertaining" has provided so much value.
A great option for Go projects where you aren't exploring your queries as changing and regenerating is cumbersome.

Also, SQLC doesn't allow for dynamic query building so think about an input search struct from which you may add where clauses — or not.

Also doesn't support multiple inserts with N rows being inserted.

Otherwise for standard queries, it's great.
This is my take too. This is more like finding an unsecured s3 bucket and delving through it.

It might have been "published" to YouTube, but was it really done so with informed consent?

This is unlikely to be a popular opinion here, but mass downloading of IMG_0001 videos is essentially trawling for private data by looking for an identifier of accidentally unsecured private data, akin to searching for "{ apiKey: " in github.
May a Public University Fire Its Chancellor for Making Porn on His Own Time?
CEO of UnitedHealthcare Fatally Shot in New York City
Senegal only 5%? I thought it was a well educated country. Maybe something wrong with the data?
Clicking 'Sign In to Continue" generates this error:

Uncaught ReferenceError: signIn is not defined
at onSignIn (page-82acf703a59480db.js:1:17232)

Also, I don't see any pricing anywhere on the page.
For everything except Micro-B, an average connector lasts far more than those minimum rates (not possible in Micro-B, as Micro-B has the socket as the wear item rather than the plug).
Legal advice typically falls into the you-get-what-you-pay-for category of goods. caveat emptor.
They won’t be overt about it, for obvious reasons. I can tell you with certainty though that they’ll do things like discharge you early, try to send you to another facility, etc even if that’s not the medically sound thing to do.
The article is from 2023. The original title is:

> May A Public University Fire Its Chancellor For Appearing In Porn Videos On His Own Time?
That's a great point! I find that it's easy (for myself, at least) to gloss over the simplest and straight forward path for communication! It's always easier to be direct. I appreciate the advice!
For me it's like: Oh, that solution is really smart. A few minutes later: Something doesn't work. 15 minutes of bug fixing only to find out the AI solution is nearly impossible to fix. Delete it and code it from scratch.
Splash pads are fountains of fecal material; CDC reports 10K illnesses
Many many people still play violin, piano, trumpet, guitar even though recordings (in various forms) have been around for more than 100 years.
Those “read a novel” and write about it every chapter really helps. I wonder if that type of exercise would work now kids know about AI, my guess is that parents shouldn’t tell their kids about LLMs too early as they can depend on it and mess them up
UnitedHealth's CEO Shot Dead
Really can't recommend this show enough. As soon as they brought out the dining philosophers problem I was hooked.