skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This situation, where it is true at all, is a vanishingly small minority when accounting for these across-the-board downward shifts in national data. Oppose it locally if you wish but extrapolating your local situation to a national level doesn't hold up.

Whereas at least 75% of elementary students nationwide are learning cueing, so starting there makes more sense.
Phonics certainly doesn't _feel_ like the best way to teach English, but hopefully we now have enough data to show that it is at least acceptable. A big factor too is "can it be taught at scale". You don't only have to teach the students, you have to teach the teachers how to teach the new methods. Much like NCLB, these changes are well-meaning but we really need to stop rolling things out nationally only to find out they harm outcomes.
> Wikipedia is simply not trustworthy on anything remotely political due to the extreme ideological slant of its editors.

This reminds me of when the BBC reported that they get "complaints from people who feel that [their] reporting of the conflict has been biased against Israel, and complaints from those who feel it has been biased against the Palestinians" [1]. In my experience with the French Wikipedia, it’s the same there, with people from both sides complaining the encyclopedia is biased in favor of the other side.

[1]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaint/israel-gazacoverage
I got burned so bad by config languages at Google (specifically gcl) that we're generating Kubernetes yamls using the Kubernetes python client now.

My unpopular opinion is that config languages with logic are bad because they're usually very hard to debug. The best config language I've used is Bazel's starlark, which is just python with some additional restrictions.
Google's work on Alphafold produced a Nobel prize.
Polling indicates that his support didn't move the vote totals that much.

Wouldn't the major Harris donors have bought the election if you are correct though?
If you rule the dystopia, then it's not a dystopia to you. He can see it but is hoping to gain power instead of be ground into dirt or Luigi'd
I will start by saying that monetizing writing is in a difficult place right now. I appreciate that making this work is hard, and there is no silver bullet.

I assume I am in their target market, I am an SWE that likes consuming industry news. When I land on their webpage though, I struggle seeing information worth staying for.

The current top story is about Googles quantum chip that was on the front of HN all day yesterday. Their article is a summary of the release yesterday with what seems to be a summary of some arguments about multiverses, and a brief description of qubits vs bits.

It feels stale, I read about this yesterday from the primary source.

The article itself feels very surface level with some sensational dressing that feels like it is for clicks. It makes me wonder who this is written for? It seems too detailed for non-technical people (qubits vs bits), but doesn't go deep enough for technical readers (multiverses are deff real, trust me!).

That is just a single article, but when I look around, it doesn't feel like an outlier to me.

The value of actually visiting their website feels low. I think part of the problem is I don't read the content as "authentic". By that, I think their delivery leans too far to the click baity side. I recognize everyone is playing that game, I just don't think they are striking the right balance.

After I finish reading an article, it's nice to read thoughtful discussion about it. Its what makes HN so good. Slapping a comment section on it, isn't really enough though. Comments that are just emotive at the subject, or simply non-sequiters are no fun to read and having to wade through that lowers the value of the experience. The verge has a website with comments that _can_ be worth reading because some people will actually talk about the content.
We can work backwards from correct predictions and develop an understanding that way.

But most people just need to know if it’s going to be storming, hot or, going to rain on a given day and that is where this shines.
Thanks, I didn't know I could just do that.
In America I will go outside with my beard, and if you ask they'll look straight at my face and say "it's red."

It's roughly the color of the HN title bar.
> The US has significantly more immigrants than other countries in the world

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_...

If that table is to believed, the US is kind of middle of the pack if you sort by percentages, at 15%. It might even be middle of the pack for developed countries, too
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Again, the numbers don't add up tho?

Maybe I'm reading the data wrong, but it seems to say that Pacific Islanders are the lowest performers, blacks the second lowest, and Hispanics the third lowest? Again, if I'm incorrect, please do correct me.

So I add up, say, Pacific Islander and Black population percentages, and it's maybe 16.5%. I mean, the weights... well put it this way, again, I could be wrong, but when I remove them from the data, I can see only one group that meets the target mark for being ready to learn more advanced concepts.

ETA:

- Misread charts initially and mistakenly said that two groups met the mark. Nope. Only one group met the mark. Point being, even if we drop Pacific Islanders and blacks from the numbers, the US wouldn't even make the top ten. We should be, at least in the top five in my opinion, but that's not happening right now. And that problem is occurring very much across the board. Again, someone correct me if I'm wrong.

- Also, not sure if it is well known or not, but the target TIMSS mark is 550 for being able to process next concepts.
Show HN: Lissajous Curve Interactive Demo
I recently found out about Lissajous Curves and they are pretty fun to play with.

The link is an open source demo with a few knobs to experiment with different parameters of their sine waves:

x = Asin(at + delta)

y = Bsin(bt)
Physical access is one of the things that a trusted execution environment is supposed to protect against. It's one of the major reasons to use a TEE instead of just normal VM isolation.
Might be using something like https://github.com/charmbracelet/wish
Which is another way of saying that there's nothing being done about inequality, the problem is worsening. Hard to teach poor kids, hard for kids to get out of poverty when the government literally removes anti-poverty measures because it wants an underclass of workers to do shitty jobs for shit pay or alternatively populations it considers reserve labor (to keep wages down for employed people) or expendable.
I don't think any Swede wanted conditions in Syria to get so bad that mass numbers of people felt they needed to leave their homes, friends, and livelihood in order to survive, so no, I don't think Swedes wanted this mass immigration.

But it happened. So what next, kill them all? Starve them in concentration camps? Isolate them on islands with no hope at all of integration or work?

If only there were some way to unite the nations to set up a better system that could prevent decades of internal war and conflict, or set up a treaty for how to handle refugees.

Perhaps even just some sort of union of all the European countries to jointly and equally share the load when refugees come.
Isn’t English fun?

I think “possible” has a less precise connotation than “probable” which suggests some statistics.
We don’t need to invent a mechanism for banks to share bad customer data between each other. There is a whole ecosystem like credit bureaus for bank accounts.

But sars being secret has nothing to do with that.
Break down language barriers with auto dubbing on YouTube
A nitpick about one part of their methodology: they give the cheapest (by a really wide margin) operator, Flixtrain, zero points for reduced ticket prices, their direct competitor, DB, do get points because there are multiple ways to obtain cheaper tickets. That sounds "legal but morally wrong"; it's like you have one seller who offers apples for 10€ a bag but offers 5€ a bag for people with kids. That's nice and all but what about their small competitor who is present on fewer markets and offers apples for under 3€ a bag? Do you point your finger at that guy and complain how he's not acting with a social conscience, because no reductions for people with kids? I do not think so.

Also I'm not sure how much they factored in the ease of purchase and the reach of reduced fares. With DB you can buy a yearly 25% reduction card; when you do so, you do get cheaper prices, but you have to be sure what journeys you will do in the next 12 months, you have to pay upfront, you're implicitly on a subscription plan that requires you to cancel, and also now Deutsche Bahn knows where your picture, your name, your street address, your birth date is on their network.

You can also save money by buying a ticket weeks or months in advance and buying a ticket for a specific train. Both conditions are inconveniences.

People who travel with public transport are made to jump through hoops and are encouraged to constantly look for new ways to get a cheaper ticket. Deutsche Bahn management probably likes that because "engagement".
I wish I had this when I was learning. This is amazing - great work on all the interactive demos!
> If you work in an environment where personal production and job security are orthogonal you might find yourself getting rug pulled where effort/contribution are fully decoupled from reward.

This is a great point.

When you find yourself in a workplace where job security is based more on vibes than production it creates a false sense of security. You think your personal productivity doesn't matter and that you can vibe your way into the good graces of people making decisions.

When jobs security is decoupled from productivity, the winds of the company can and do change frequently. Other people are going to be better at playing the vibes game than you are. Vibes-based companies are overly vulnerable to politics.

It's good to work at companies where productivity is tied to personal performance, even if measuring productivty is far from perfect.
yeah, but weather patterns data isn't different now than 10 years ago, right? right? ...
That's a very cryptic response. I very much don't know what you mean by it. Maybe you could spell out what you want for the future?
Do you think all comments need to be articles in length? My original comment contains an idea, and a justification. It really is almost platonic in how simple it is actually, schoolbook example.

You might feel that the justification is inadequate, but instead you began talking about how my comment doesn't "prove" anything, and now that it doesn't contain justification at all.

Part of the reason why this justifies the idea that a consensus actually has been reached, is that the left used to extol in length the benefits of immigration, and how Swedes are terrible people that need diversity to get anywhere. It turned out that was wrong, and now the country is heading away from reasonably being called a developed country any more. The focus of the leftists in control is instead to feverishly moderate the discussion so no one begins talking about __mass remigration__, what Sweden actually needs, and they do this by talking about limiting migration, even deporting some criminals. (the consensus, ding ding)
"Folk ask themselves, why contribute to this thing (MIT/GPL licenses) if there some for-profit entity involved?"

You put MIT or GPL in the same bucket here, but really shouldn't because the difference is all that matters.

There is no "rug-pull" as you call it. What happened with Redis is what the BSD license allows and what people should expect to happen.

The combination of GPL (or AGPL) with a large enough and diverse set of contributors who keep their rights in their contributions is a proven way to prevent what happened with Redis.

It is our decision as publishers of open-source projects which way we want to go. It is our decision as contributors which open-source projects we support.

Both ways are fine, but blaming others that you regret your decision is not.
Sounds lovely!

Just fyi I tried clicking the link, and my work laptop flagged it as "malware". I'm not sure why, but thought I would let you know
I'm in the opposite camp and now that I can't use gcl I miss it. The whole yaml string templating and copypasta approach is the worst one possible.

Is gcl great? No. Cue and dhal have better semantics. Do some people abuse it? Sure, but still much better than helm templating.
I've always wondered why the Japanese didn't do the same thing in reverse. There's gotta be some tiny languages from small ethnic groups on the islands. At the time, it's not like we could have gone and looked up the words in a dictionary somehow. Even without it being encoded, it would have worked pretty well. And yet they didn't even think about it, as far as I know.
If you find it truncating output, enter the word "continue".
For what it's worth, I've recently started writing a small open-source tool to avoid consuming too much in the way of videos and social networks.

https://github.com/Yoric/keep-it-focused/

We'll see whether that works.
AI company trolls San Francisco with billboards saying "stop hiring humans"
When I first learned to code, google had yet to be founded and we had no internet. I had to go to the library and buy books that were much too hard for me and bang my head against the crt monitor until I got things to work.

Now I have access to YouTube tutorials, hacker news, reddit forums, personalized instruction via AI... and I still feel like sitting down with a book, a pen and a notebook or a disconnected computer with a compiler is the way I learn best.

Problem is, it doesn't feel efficient. At my age I have too many pressures to learn as efficiently as possible but not necessarily as deeply as possible. And doing both might well be impossible.
Well no, East and South Asian immigrants to the United States do tend to outperform the median in their country of origin. Acutely, in the case of South Asians.

So that's half of the statement, the other half is that those two groups are not a large fraction of the total immigrant population. As such, they affect the conclusion, in the sense that removing them from consideration would make the difference in question starker, but they do not change it, because it's a statement about a whole of which they are but a part.
>Is there an obvious, far superior system? Also, no.

Yes there is.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Life_exp...
He's not the only person being compensated at United Healthcare though.

I've asked this in a different thread, but I'll repeat it here: how much of the remaining "operational expenses" actually add meaningful value to the patients' healthcare?
A Turing Machine operates serially one instruction at a time. But you could obviously multiply its output by multiplying the machines.

The question is then how could we efficiently multiply Turing machines? One way could be by using rays of light to do the computations. Rays of light operate in parallel. Light-based computers don't need to be based on quantum mechanics, just plain old laser-optics. They multiply their performance by using multiple rays of light, if I understand it correctly.

SEE: https://thequantuminsider.com/2024/03/19/lightsolver-laser-c...

So using multiple rays of light is a way to multiply Turing Machines economically, in practice, I would think.

I assume quantum computers similarly just multiply Turing Machines -like computations, performing many computations in parallel, similarly to light-based computers. That does not mean that such computations must happen "somewhere else", than where the quantum processes occur. And that does not require multiple universes, just good old quantum mechanics, from Copenhagen.
There is no secret: learning a language is hard. It takes time and effort.

If the question is "by doing one Duolingo exercise every day for 600 days, can I get fluent?", the answer is "definitely no". But it's better than doing nothing for 600 days. And it's pretty damn convenient: you can do it while waiting for the bus or whenever you have a few minutes to kill (instead of swiping TikTok).

But if you want to actually learn the language, it's not enough. You can keep using Duolingo, you just need to do a lot of other stuff on the side.
One killer feature I miss from SQLite is table compression. Especially important on various embedded devices where you collect data from sensors or logs.
It looks like the consumer advice for all this is to be careful about what apps you instal on your phone and what permissions they might have.

It's not the only way for people to attack your privacy, but it's definitely the low-hanging fruit and it seems to be what happened here. And
How does that make any sense? Would having public healthcare per state suddenly work? What prevents scaling the healthcare to more people?
I wouldn't call a private implementation of spatial sound "solving the problem". If tech were that simple we'd have solve a lot of non-trivial problems.
But remember that Polish beet soup has often milk or cream added on it. If is pink it has milk. If is purple not necessarily.
"This is exactly why Trump won"

See the part of my comment you are replying to where I specifically stated that the motivation for all of this is that "Jethro doesn't vote the way I want him to". You've proven my point.

The censorious attitudes on HN were non-existent before Trump won in 2016. I know this for a fact. I've had my account on here since 2012, after 2 years of being just a reader.

Meanwhile, you overestimate how immune to misinformation and lies the average HN techy is. Just a few years ago, the majority of people on here believed, with utter conviction, that the bat-borne coronavirus lab in Wuhan had absolutely no connection with the bat-borne coronavirus epidemic that started in Wuhan and that only bigots and ignoramuses could draw such a conclusion. I experienced this whenever I brought up the blatantly obvious, common sense connection in these same comment threads in late 2020 or into mid 2021. The absolutely absurd denial of common sense by otherwise intelligent people was reminiscent of trying to talk to a religious fundamentalist about evolution while pointing at dinosaur fossils and having them continue to deny what was staring them in the face.
> Look, if there’s no reasonable way to transfer in bitcoin and transfer out USD there’s no point to any of it.

In reality, there are billions of Dollars, Euros, Pounds, AUD, and other currencies moving in and out of crypto daily via on/off-ramps. Bitcoin and Ether ETFs exist and are well capitalized and widely used. You claim "Binance is closed" yet I'm quite sure I used it this week. I also use Kraken quite happily to send money to my bank account. Coinbase of course is thriving.

If you transact in size, simply hold USDC[^1] and open an account with Circle[^2].

> Stripe stopped accepting

Your information is outdated: https://docs.stripe.com/crypto/onramp

> Mtgox is closed

Have you used or looked into crypto since MtGox? It's been quite some time since that affair. You'd probably be surprised to find how much utility there is if that was the last time you actually investigated crypto. There are also P2P options like Paxful, Telegram, or Binance P2P if you prefer.

Anyway, if you're fixated with the old guard of finance then any advancement in technology will necessarily have to meet incumbent institutions requirements, with all the problems I listed earlier in the thread. With a bit of effort, you could instead imagine an entirely digital internet economy with so-called crypto points. Even that alone would be step forward and a mere generation of users away from your landlord, a crypto user, accepting them as payment.

Reality, however is such that right now you can fund a debit card with crypto and buy coffee with no problems. [^0]

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[^0]: https://gnosispay.com/, https://www.coinbase.com/card

[^1]: https://www.usdc.com/providers

[^2]: https://www.circle.com/usdc
Excel world champion solves 'Warcraft' spreadsheet to win crown
All the usuals: drugs, cost of living, unemployment, inequality, radicalization, etc. Immigration is one of many.
How many guns do you own to protect your territory and vitamin empire, and ensure the riches gained aren't taken by anyone? Do you have vitamin groupies? Do you recruit vitamin runners to distribute the small quantities and take most of the risk? Do you move vitamins by the kilo?
I think the plan is mass deportations from day one…not the other way around.
Great even fewer tech jobs!
I agree. Integrations can be incredibly cumbersome if you have to learn each API from scratch.

There are also more flexible solutions like https://www.nango.dev

It handles the API-specific complexities (auth, retries, webhooks, per-customer config, pre-built templates) but allows you to implement the exact use case + data model you need.

It's open source/source available.

(disclaimer: I am a founder)