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Recess isn't a thing in high school. Most lunches are squeezed in 30-45 minute periods where they often are studying or doing homework. At my high school we got 25 minutes of lunch, including time to get to the cafeteria and back to class
Yeah, but you chose that.
Like I said the principle is focusing on building cognitive skills. Removing homework is a consequence of that.

As for the content in many cases it is becoming less relevant these days in the K12 segment. What remains later on in life are skills and not so much the content itself.
The eleVR people have some interesting demos in this regard, where you program from inside the VR system. That might be the best way to try things out and conduct the "foundational work"
Also iirc Amazon predates 1997. 1997 is its IPO date.
This is what killed Microsoft Surface the Table; the NUIs could never demonstrate their worth beyond whimsy. Metro seemed to actually be a reset with all the NUI stuff thrown out.
> and at least one music class every semester of every year throughout middle and high school

Seriously? I'm all for music in schools, did a fair bit myself, and went to a public school with a strong program... but 14+ semesters of required music seems like overkill for most people.
I’d argue it’s intended to make the platform more capabale. JS is clearly part of the platform.

Really though, the point is that wasm’s goals aren’t somehow eliminating JavaScript, but complimenting it.
China invests in Africa. This is both an economic (coltan, and trade) decision, and a political (influence, votes in the UN) decision.

Now, it looks like it might be a shrewd environmental decision, if you are a province in China with a huge pollution problem from plastics recycling. Voila! export the problem to Africa. .. (not saying this is good in any sense, but it would make sense as an operating model: its what we did to them, so they do it to the next emerging colonial empire)
As I am sure you are aware, there is quite a bit of solid policy discussion on the various nuclear engagement scenarios. For this particular question the idea that if you can respond after a pre-emptive first strike then your enemy will have killed themselves by killing you. Since self preservation is a common thing, the ability to respond post initial strike is essential.
Quick correction: he’s an eight-grader, not 8yo. An eight-grader is more like 13 or 14 years old.
Byzantine Paxos ;)
It does make me wonder how much failure do we design to tolerate. Many modern systems are designed for five nines availability - 99.999% of the time.
A partition like the one described here is rather unlikely and having more data on every message might pretty inefficient for the 99.999%+ of cases (not every failures will result in a partition like this)
What if you live in an economy with an NHS, and the direct and indirect costs of diabetes mediation are less? (not that it's good, but it becomes an argument in the application of indirect cost into pricing, which breaks the macdonalds burger index apart into shards of social policy costs)
In high school, I looked at the beginning of each class to see how much homework counted. If it was about 5-6% or less, I didn’t do it.

To this day, don’t regret it even a little. The big projects I did. The busy work I skipped.

In college I actually dropped the same English class 4 times after the first day because the teacher insisted we write a daily journal. Finally got one that didn’t do that.

If the work is pointless busywork, I’ve never gotten along well with it. Probably one really good reason I’m a programmer is because if I have to do the same thing more than once...I automate it.
For one thing, JS has no unstructured control-flow. So your compilation process involves breaking down ifs, loops and so on into branches, then… trying to messily reconstruct them.
I think the general notion on such lists is that you can think of numerous different ways to rate how highly taxed in nation is. You can therefore come up with many different lists that have different countries in the top few positions. Simply pulling out a well-chosen list allows one to make the claim that a country to be criticized is the highest taxed.

I'd also like to see such a list, but with several different measures of highly taxed, and some plausibly unbiased attempt to aggregate them together. I am curious how the overall taxation compares among countries.
Unless I'm mistaken, there is no military solution to the North Korean conflict. If we strike first, they'll destroy Seoul in seconds and cause the largest near-instantaneous loss of life the world has ever seen. They don't even need nuclear weapons to do that.

As terrible as the North Korean regime is from a humanitarian perspective, they do seem relatively rational as far as international politics are concerned. The US has demonstrated an appetite for regime change, international law be damned, for decades and decades. If you're a weaker opponent, taking a hostage (Seoul) and making credible threats is a very effective strategy for self preservation.

Also, the number of conventional and nuclear weapons we have pointed at their country, from a very close proximity, at all times, is not something we might spend very much time thinking about ourselves, but is top of mind for them. Given their large losses of civilian life in the Korean war at the hands of the US, I'd imagine they'd take that stuff very seriously.

Anyway, none of this excuses the clear oppressiveness of Kim Jong Un's government. But it's not like they're the only nation that abuses its military power in threatening ways, and a strong case could be made that they're reacting to us just as we are reacting to them. Just don't expect the American media to dwell too long on how our actions could be considered provocative.
The thing that leapt out at me here was not the amount of work, but the feeling of being harassed, ambushed, denied even a chance to take a breath before the next demand is made.

Go read the "you know what would be awesome" part again, but instead of a parent saying it to a child imagine you're on the receiving end and it's your child or your spouse or your boss saying "wouldn't it be awesome" to you. No, it's not awesome. What would be awesome would be a shred of empathy, but none of that is evident.

Would you handle that situation with grace or equanimity? Could you have when you were 13? Doubtful. I know I didn't, and don't. Maybe some children are being worn out by the actual workload we give them, but AFAICT the article's real point is that they're also worn out by the emotional labor of being a repository for all of their parents' expectations and insecurities and frustrations. Parents should be responsible for their kids' mental health, not the other way around.
The work is mostly done in the classroom.

There is also a bit of homework, but much less compared to public education or older methodologies. Everyone (students, parents, teachers) is surprised how well this works.
I usually have a rest between sets cause I'm tired :o
This is not new news. Suprised its getting up votes.

I would say most marketers are well aware of this. We try and measure down funnel. You learn who are the successful networks and who are not. Sure a percentage will be fraud but you should know your channel ROIs and be maximising that.

This article may as well be written that workers only work productly for 5 hours of thw day. Or 25% of food goes to waste.

There is always wadte. A good marketer will reduce this. And thwir claim about marketers not look at domains seems like hogwash to me. I and markwters around me have looked at this in ever company I've been at. Maybe Ive had a rare experience but I doubt this.
It gets dumber, yes.
This is actually the way the Outer Space Treaty is written - a state party to it retains jurisdiction over any object it launches, but is required to keep it open to "representatives" of other state parties.

For a more complete look at the legal issues involved, seehttp://www.thespacereview.com/article/3286/1
The opposite of my experience. I have many more years of experience and am far more familiar with in the target language than Clojure. But for the really difficult computational problems, say, for example, particular performance analysis of a sensor network for a given time series, I reach for Clojure.
In Australian public high schools (finished 1999) at least in NSW (ie. Sydney) the drafting part was called Technical Drawing, a design theory (materials, etc.) part was called Design and Technology, and then there were separate classes for Woodwork and Metalwork. I used to really enjoy all of them, and aced Technical Drawing and Woodwork. Years later, after a 15 year career spanning various types of software all around the world, I find myself in China doing a hardware startup, and all of that Technical Drawing theory and machining experience has really come back to help! I can't thank Australia enough for a good public secondary education.
VR has a huge input problem, you can't touch any of the 3D stuff, you are basically left waving hands in the air. Bret Victor's lab is going in the other direction of tangible objects with digital projections.
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And also, the classes are so short - the amount of homework the teachers assign sort of makes sense, in that they only see the kids for maybe 45 minutes a day. Which means the kids are being jolted from one intellectual pursuit to another every 45 minutes. How do you teach anything in 45 minutes? How do you learn 7 or 8 different topics in 45 minute chunks, one after the other?
I was careful not to. Would you please stop this now?
I can confirm the behavior - rejecting the notifications permission closed the tab out. I do have uBlock, so I wonder if a "no" takes you to some sort of advertising vendor's "why you should allow this permission" doc.
If you replaced open bidding with blind, internet only, would you get a sustaining model or would the emotional, in-the-room aspect of things be neccessary to make the bloated profit work? I recall that when the UK government taxed seller and buyer, it went directly onto price as sellers walked from owning any cost of doing bid'ness.. and the auction houses did not lose.
Even at ~atmospheric pressure, it depends on where you put it.
> ... keep a secret from family/loved ones to protect them.

Keeping secrets from people to protect them hides reality from them, which hinders their ability to understand and make correct decisions.

Anyone who does that to a person in real life isn't their friend / doesn't have their best interests at heart.
WebAssembly can hit better perf
Depends on density if we are talking about local livability, Mongolia would have a lesser problem if everyone didn't live in its capital. CO2, on the other hand, is a global problem, so per capita is more relevant, but has all sorts of tragedy of the commons and prisoner dilemma implications.
> Is there an official definition chart for terms like junior, mid, senior?

No. Every company has different definitions and different positions have different meanings. Then there is lead manager, product manager, team lead, etc.

Not only that, I've noticed the position titles are different depending on the company. A junior developer in one HR department might be Programmer Analyst in another HR department.

But generally for me, anyone with 1-4 years is junior, 5-9 is mid and 10+ is senior. But that's just my arbitrary definition.
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None whatsoever. This is the worst thing about Smalltalk (with the exception of the open-source ones) - there is almost no useful documentation freely available.

I was forced to buy "Mastering ENVY/Developer" by Pelrine, Knight and Cho. It is well worth the money though.
Yeah, worth watching the video. The music accompaniment was terrible and louder than it should be, but the concept is nice.

In the end of the video, they show it where the trackpad would be, which makes me think there might be a size issue. They also show it with a regular keyboard and I'm not sure everyone would require one. I do know that people like tactile keyboards but some folks have managed to function without one. So, a model where the touchpad is also the keyboard might be cool.

I touch-type, but maybe the trackpad could also be some sort of secondary display? I could see that coming in handy, perhaps even to display the above mentioned keyboard for this who can't touch-type.

Off-topic: HN is one of the few sites where I regularly click on links in the comments. On most sites, that's not a very productive activity. On HN, it is often interesting and educational.
Russia has been through the wringer.

They had an insane monarchy that delayed industrialization, missed out on the middle class development and went through a scorched earth total war and communist regime.

It’s a nation of contrast and paradox. Russia is a lot like the US in many ways.
It wasn't for x86 only. It ran on almost anything: ARM, SPARC, PowerPC, you name it.

In its more mature form, as Intent/Elate, it is _the_ single most radical OS there's ever been, pretty much. It makes Inferno look conservative & staid, Plan 9 no more than a tweaked Linux distro, and Minix 3 a tweak of NetBSD.

It's also been on HN before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9802379

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15470338

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15527936
Check how much unmarried singles have to pay.

http://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?DataSetCode=TABLE_I6

Germany 39%

USA 26%

The early time in life when you build the foundation for your financial freedom. In Germany you won’t get the chance. You will be conditioned to pay into all the nice, costly systems that mathematically will fail due to shrinking population and longer life spans (medical/care costs) long time before you will be able to get „something back“
Fair to whom? Depends on your point of view. Do you think employers make a fraction back on their investment of developers, or a multiple?
I have trouble context shifting between three tasks a day. Sucks to think kids have to do this 5-8 times a day
honest question : What is the mindset in the state ?

I have just moved to San Francisco from Paris and I have got to say that the large proportion of severely obese people is a little more than weird to me.

In case it is relevant I am 1.90m/6.2ft and weigh 72kgs/160 lb. I slowly gained weight until hitting 84 kgs/185 lb) and decided to lose it all. It took roughly one year (without any real effort other than reducing my rations and avoid junk food) but at my thinnest I was at 69kgs (152 lb). If anything, I should build some more mass.

It is very anecdotical, I am only mentioning this because it obviously colors my vision of weight.
Yeah Elon Musk said it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/76e79c/i_am_elon_mus...
Years ago one of the brothers on Car Talk said that at his school when he was a kid, the remedial students who mostly shop work were called “Sloyds” and he never knew why. Now after years, and after his death sadly, I have the answer.
Missiles do that job just fine.
No profit 'unless govt protects NBN from competition'
Surprisingly, this web site doesn’t need occlusion culling to be fast.
True, but "nones" (those with no religious affiliation) are on the rise, now accounting for a fifth of the U.S. population, and the overwhelming reason for that is a backlash against the religious right.

Sources: Gallup, https://www.sociologicalscience.com/articles-vol1-24-423/
no duh. Why do people tolerate google? Nobody is so dumb to not realize what they're doing, everyone has seen or read 1984.

Something doesn't add up.
> I'm just going by the definition of democracy that you can find in a dictionary.

No, you're not, unless dictionaries have started specifying what percentage of the population should have the right to vote in order to qualify as a "democracy." Though if you use the right dictionary you can look at the etymology and note that the word "democracy" existed well before the concept you are talking about, universal suffrage, existed.

> The modern usage of the word has little to do with

Government, and other human institutions, evolve. It's important to know their history, if for no other reason so you can avoid having boring conversations like this one.

Also, note how ridiculous your use of the term "modern usage" is here. The United States has had women's suffrage less than a hundred years. Narrowing your definition of democracy to the extent that you do in the name of "modern usage" requires us to regard 1919 as not modern... so that's another word that you will have to redefine.

> Athenian system of government (which also excluded large swathes of the population).

Or as people often call it, Athenian democracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy
That minimal bridge is anywhere from 10x to 100x slower than pure JS right now.

https://github.com/rust-webplatform/rust-webplatform/issues/...
And Rundfunkbeitrag, Krankenversicherung, Pflegeversicherung, Kapitalertragssteuer, Kirchensteuer, Gewerbesteuer (if you have a LLC (UG, GmbH)...
There are comments by Chris (vygr) in the 2015 discussion rwmj already linked to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607.

A big thread about his current project happened last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15466124.
that's okay because they're going to pass those costs onto the community.
When’s the last time your son hiked into the woods by himself, jumped into a lake from a 15 foot cliff, set something on fire, had a knife throwing contest, mixed some explosive chemicals together, snuck into an event without a ticket, or built a tree fort? Or more generally, when’s the last time you left him unsupervised for 5 or 6 hours outdoors with other kids but no adults?

My point is not that kids should or shouldn’t do any particular activities, or that adult supervision is inherently bad, but kids (especially 8–14 year olds, after which kids sometimes started to get part-time jobs, do more academic work, etc.) used to have dramatically more time spent on free play actively entertaining themselves, and dramatically more time spent away from adult direction or control. In my parents’ era, homework load was much lower, and kids did few structured activities at all, and spent little time looking at screens. Most kids were raised in 2-parent households where one parent was pretty much always home, and both parents were under less work stress, but families had 3–8 children and it was impossible to be always watching the kids. Nowadays neighbors call the cops if they see a 10 year old walking to school.

I don’t claim that the change is inherently good or bad, and every person is different, but it tends to result in the kids feeling like they lack autonomy and like they are constantly performing for the sake of adults. Some handle it fine and excel at (and enjoy) schoolwork. For some it causes intense anxiety, or reduces general motivation. Others end up acting out in more extreme or antisocial ways in response.
For anyone interested in running data analysis I have probably the biggest and most comprehensive dataset in the world, bigger that what this team had available.
Fuzzy: go package that provides string matching in the style of Sublime Text
IoT devices [are] hard to prototype

Here in Shenzhen, I would say no. They are cheap as chips. I have multiple friends doing consumer IoT devices (lots of BLE) with single-dimensional backgrounds (often software) who have been able to iterate through multiple prototypes and produce concepts within months. The chief problems for IoT products IMHO are marketing and replicability (low security for initial investment).

The fact that hardware is expensive to tackle in SV just means SV is badly positioned in this sector, not that it's inherently difficult or expensive. BTW, we just had the Hacker Trip to China (by Noisebridge founder Mitch Altman) roll through town here.
"'putting Nuclear Bombers on 24-hour alert' is also just posturing."

It also raises the risk of unintentional nuclear exchange.

The world has come close to nuclear war multiple times as a result of miscommunication, equipment failure, or accident.

The more nukes world leaders are waving about, the greater the risks.
When teachers are so poor those piddling bonuses overrule putting childrens' needs first--and when bonuses encourage things other than putting childrens' needs first--there are far greater problems.
> This is also what Objective-C / Apple does.

Inspired by Smalltalk-80.

See "A short history of Objective-C"

https://medium.com/chmcore/a-short-history-of-objective-c-af...
Note that this only applies to low earth orbit. Geosynchronous spacecraft don't re-enter; they instead are retired to the “graveyard”, a supersynch orbit about 500 to 1000 km above GEO.
Exactly, advertisers are the customer, you are the product
True. They try to fish startup founders by running corporate incubators but they will make sure that you won‘t get a high exit. If the idea works you‘ll get a job offer. If you decline, they will drop support like a hot potato. And because they know all insights, no other competitor is interested in you anymore. It‘s kind of a faux startup culture just to sell some „coolness“ to attract people to big corps.
Survival of the fittest, then.
Probably about 40-60% of the problem right there
I think it's also a legit question.
I remember TAOS having some buzz in the RISC OS community in the early 90s. ARM must have been one of its original targets.
Well, ouch, a transpiler writer has to code up a bit of boilerplate, most of it just once early on in the project's life-time.. "too bad"! IMHO reconstructing stuff may be a somewhat tricky challenge, but there's no intrinsic need for it to be "messy" regardless of the target language? I must be missing something here still.. =)

I'm doing transpilation to Go right now, so often I think "much of this would have been much simpler to get done if I transpiled instead to an anything-goes scripting language". (Reason of course being I want to emit idiomatic human-written-like code, and working with mostly-incomplete type information coming in, still reconstruct types rather than pass-and-return-typeless-boxed-values-around messily.) A lot of this is pretty "messy" right now, but I place all of the blame for that on me (guess I prefer rodeo-ing into it rather than "sitting down and writing a formal paper on it first"), neither the target or source language.
Your appeals to physicalism as a limiting factor might do well in a university debate class but they aren't philosophically sound so much as they are hand-waving.

Nice straw-man of my position though, that was masterful.
I want to say that most online ads people don't get that "you can be losing 30% of your ad spending, but things can be dramatically worse and you will not know it no matter how hard you try"
Sorry I just saw this - it's what I said in my original comment that you replied to, I think a better and more probable explanation is that people "have a lot of respect for the difficulty of building the business side of an organization and for the folks who can do it well, [but that they] think that it is unwise to build a business based mostly on sales and marketing without focusing enough on the quality of the product itself".
You can't expect children to plan assignments!

Heck, you don't expect adults to plan anything either, until they hit management. For specialists and even team leaders, they do what's on their plate and everything which isn't, they don't.

It is madness to expect from undergrads to not do everything at the last minute, but for school students it's laughable.

I can plan one thing. I can't plan five assignments that just fell on me, with due date far in the future. If my work would be structured like that I'd fail it either.