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Ask HN: Were you unschooled, or are you unschooling your children?
1. Anyone considering or currently practicing unschooling/self directed education [0]?

2. Were you home schooled/unschooled/practiced self directed education ?
What’s your story?

I am considering this approach for my children. Just finished reading free to learn [1] and Peter gray makes a compelling case for this approach. Also the documentary “schooling the world” covers some of the chilling effects of compulsory schooling. [2] it has made me seriously question our current education system. A system that seems designed to surpress all of the critical skills one needs for the future.

Would love to hear your story And thoughts?

My daughter starts grade one this year so decisions have to be made on the school. We currently have her enrolled in a Montessori.

I have been doing some research and not think the current education system is the best for the skills that would be needed in the future.

originally started as a comment but think it deserves a full Ask hn.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Free-Learn-Unleashing-Instinct-Self-Reliant/dp/0465025994

[2] https://schoolingtheworld.org

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XLSIgZWNR9M

Edit:
If you do not feel comfortable telling your story here mail me on username at ZyeLabs net.
Did you read the article you linked to? The sub title includes “Overall growth slowed”. And anyway it’s talking about the total immigrant population that’s built up over several decades, and even if that wasn’t an issue, it’s talking about absolute numbers rather than percentages of the population. As a percent of the population, immigration to the USA peaked in the early 20th century, which is when my 4 grandparents arrived. Immigration to the USA, nowadays, is just a small trickle, compared to what it used to be.
The main reason for me is HiDPI support. Scaling works extremely well in wayland, and I can set scaling per-display. HiDPI support on X is an afterthought at best.
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And every time I shoot a wadded up paper towel at a trash can I yell “Kobe”. Imitation and flattery...
> The search given at the start of the article, "porn kids", now returns that they have nothing matching. Unlike other two word searches, where if it doesn't find something matching both words, it looks for similar things, "porn kids" is a flat out statement that it has nothing, suggesting that they explicitly special cased it.

Doesn't really surprise me. I can just imagine the manager demanding that the child porn searches stop immediately and this makes the most sense for a rapid solution. The question is now though how well did they guard it. I'm not going to experiment though, those kinds of could probably land me in jail here.
What? Vermont is 37th in population density. Alaska is by far the lowest (or Wyoming if you're only counting the lower 48).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories...
That's right! Microsoft is FILTH!
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The sad reality is that its the poorest and most irresponsible that are having kids. Its the most educated that aren't.

I was recently in India and my driver was my age (under 30) with 3 kids already. He told me his kids' favorite thing is a bucket KFC which costs his entire day's wages.

This kind of reversal is happening everywhere. No surprise that while US, Japan, China and Europe having shrinking native populations, Africa is expected to go from 1 to 4 billion people this century.
Shoot, you're onto us.

Any time I was posting there included screenshots of 'ranger', various permutations of 'htop', and a 'Matrix' style scrolling character feed.
The flip can possibly happen in a lifetime, but it probably takes thousands of years. But we have never observed it so we don’t really know how, but we know that it happens.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal#Charact...
Title is a bit clickbaity... From the article:

> “most citations to the phantom reference occurred in fairly low-quality conference papers,” and were written by authors with poor English.
The world must be a wonderfully prosperous place if these are the remaining sorts of problems we have chosen to organize around.
Maybe it's not a binary thing - not all the responsibility, just some of it, which is particularly suitable for boys. I think culturally it happens often, it's not just a matter of old times vs. modern times.

Even when mother is the head of household, elder son gets more things around to, um, worry about.
I want to love Fish, or ZSH, or anything other than Bash. And I've spent some time learning how to be productive in Fish - but I keep coming back to one problem:

Bash is everywhere. Every Linux/nix server I SSH to, every friend's Mac or Linux machine I troubleshoot, and now even Windows. I spend my whole work day in a terminal, or at least it feels like it, but I'm often logged into remote stuff. I can't get myself to really commit 100% to using Fish when I know* I'm going to have to keep my Bash skills and knowledge fresh because I simply can't stop using it.

I know I can install Fish (Or ZSH, KSH, etc) on everything, but the fact that I can't assume it is there makes it cumbersome to write scripts/configuration/documentation that can be used across a range of devices, servers, OSes, etc.

Every time I fire up a Fish shell I really, really enjoy using it. I just can't figure out how to accept it as my "primary" shell. And I feel like until I can do that, I can't take full advantage of it.
One of the most frustrating things about this website is that it doesn't provide a reason for their "avoids." Why should I use KeePass over 1Password? Why should I use Mumble over FaceTime?

It wouldn't be that hard to provide a sentence-long justification for their avoids in addition to their recommendations.
A great book, imho, on this very subject is: How to Raise an Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims. I can't believe the level of material and amount of work for my poor 4th grader. She's doing hours and hours of homework every night and she's 10. Talk about diminishing returns!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168823-how-to-raise-an...
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Include your resume and your favorite Chuck Norris fact.
This is for the dev kit. I don't think there are any plans to put an HDMI connector on the final product...
The U.S. arms industry is huge, and so is defense spending. If the DoD wants better talent, then budget accordingly and pay high salaries and fix up their recruitment messages and surely some smart CS grads will go to them. Why should our military be dependent upon SV civilian companies that have workers who don’t want to work on military applications? Then just hire the ones who do, fund new military-oriented startups. This is a free market and the Pentagon needs to pay to play.
I mean, 99.9% of SSH users are going to be using an SSH client written by someone else....
good you know your stuff :) adde unnum !
It would seem like from a public health perspective, this is the more important thing to research.
It doesn't do anything useful with them:

$ echo 北亰 | iconv -t ASCII//TRANSLIT
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> Am I wrong in assuming that if U.S. doesn't develop this tech some other country will?

You are not wrong. Alibaba, Baidu, etc. work heavily with the Chinese government in this area.
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Azure also has a similar feature (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/features/cloud-shell/) with built in VS code based IDE.
Coverity isn't useless. It finds these kinds of buffer overflow errors easily. It's shameful that a prominent keystone FOSS project is using such outdated coding practices in the first place. Not using the free tooling available for such projects is doubly so.
Frankly, I wish my college kid is at least a bit worried for his future... to me him and his friends are all spoiled, wanting for nothing, happy go lucky, with no clear idea what the real life looks like...
Shaving razors aren't just different in that - the angle of the blade relative to the handle is different, because it's more comfortable/easier to control for different regions of the body.

The price difference isn't particularly justified, but presumably "face razor" and "leg razor" doesn't sell as well.
Careful with the terminology there. "Stealing" is only really meaningful in the context of a legal framework, which happened to change in most places in Europe around the turn of the 20th century.

I'm more inclined to frame it in terms of an outdated, inegalitarian social order being overturned, resulting in massive upheaval and atrocities due to the power vacuum being rapidly filled again by the most ruthless actors.
In fairness, that's easy for a guy sitting on Fortnite to say.

That said, I do agree with his point. Unity should consider making these new TOS provisions apply from today forward instead of making them apply to everything. (That probably won't happen, because it would kneecap their upcoming cloud offerings, but I think ideally that's how it should work.)
This is one of the most amazing things about humans to me. I marvel at how it's possible to get so much information about our universe by observing so little. Astronomy is another field that I'm really impressed with. It's possible to infer things about galaxies, stars, planets, etc. just buy observing some light coming from them to our little blue planet. Absolutely crazy.

How many such techniques we haven't even discovered or technology is not there to observe such things?

I really enjoyed reading Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark that explores such things.
Thanks! We've updated the submission from https://www.newsweek.com/earth-magnetic-field-baffle-scienti..., which points to this.
>Anything less will be seen as failure to their friends or family.

Why?
you seem to want to move to a genderless language similar to the example you gave ("classless society"). i'm skeptical that that will work either, since there is really no precedent for that kind of postmodern language existing alongside successful emancipatory politics. also, as a side note, the soviets didn't actually believe that they had achieved a classless society, they thought of themselves as a placeholder or an accelerant, unless you're thinking of something else.

also, what you're saying reminds me of the novel "the dispossessed" by ursula k le guin where there's a civilization that has erased all concepts of hierarchy from its language and culture. it's seems rather dystopian, but maybe you disagree.
Compared with Sweden's left to right political spectrum the US has two firmly right-wing parties to choose from. I think that matters a lot more than a population number.
Yea, they filter their e-mail platforms for sure, but part of it might be the justice department binding their hands.

People in companies that track this stuff down get special hash lists from certain law enforcement agencies and the evidence itself is pretty much a controlled substance; so they need special authorization to safely handle and report it with a chain of custody. Two Microsoft employees got PTSD because of the large amount of data they had to check:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/12/two-former-micro...

I knew a lawyer who had to defend someone in this type of case. He was allowed to view the evidence (he chose not to), but only him. No paralegals, no one else in his office that wasn't directly sitting on the defense table.

If you're not granted specific authorization, even looking at this content is illegal, so Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Google, etc have a very limited staff of people who are even authorized to handle this stuff.

It's a difficult problem.
10 million is nothing in the scope of the "billions of dollars of use" GP mentioned and is almost a rounding error compared to how much business depends on Linux these days.
I assume it's because they want to mine the data they collect. Amazon can watch everyone who comes to your front door. They can easily learn things like how many people live in your home, if you are single, when you are dating, if you have children, how often you have food delivered, what types of clothing people in your area are wearing, what they talk about as they pass by etc. Tons of valuable data to collect if you can convince people to install a camera for you and hand over access to the feed.
I was also a son raised by a single mom.

My take: I certainly didn't have authority over my mom, but I definitely felt like I had a lot of responsibility. Households are typically run by (at least) two people, and for good reason. I stepped up where I could--helping manage the dog, helping make food, staying out of trouble when she couldn't watch me, in general trying to keep stress off of my mom--not because I felt like I was in a position of authority, but because there wasn't another adult to help shoulder the load, so some of the load fell to me.
Sure, but it is defensible that a greater balance of power might be a net good for the world. (Also the devil is in defining net good). And it is also quite defensible to restrict hard power to ethical channels. There's a reason we don't use chemical weapons even though they would definitely give us an edge: The moral harm outweighs the tactical benefit. (Until it doesn't, as we saw in Syria.)
Don't let the perfect stand in the way of the good. If the treaties help prevent 90% of the usage, they seem worth having.
> (Hm. What if you wrote a back end which, instead of needing multiple "cloud" machines, ran on a single huge Amazon AWS instance, like the one with 128 CPUs. That's an easier problem than coordinating it over the network. You might not be able to support a planet sized world, but you could support large islands you have to teleport between.)

You can get really big systems these days; scaling up before scaling out really helps with coordination problems. But scaling up your servers also makes redundancy and data retention harder. And, when you end up running single (or paired) systems that are the biggest you can get, economics are often lined up against you -- motherboards and processors for 4-socket systems cost way more than for 2-socket systems, and they're updated at a slower pace. If you can make a system to allow seamlessly transitioning region boundaries across server nodes, that should work fine with a single node server, but also enable you to use less expensive nodes; and in cloudy situations, could enable ramping capacity to match usage in real time.
It is not necessary that he had authority over mom. But, he was likely responsible a lot for younger kid - maybe when she was not around or too tired or just in general. He might be babysitting too much basically and have to solve siblings issues parent would normally solve.

It has name in child psychology, through I can't recall the name now. But in general, altrough it makes older kid more responsible, it does harm him overall.

Note: it is different isue then chores and some help around the house. Kid won't be harmed by helping and working then, it is responsibility beyond kids age and having to grow.l too soon.
My 5 year old kid is really good at the iPad. I don't see that as a negative at all. All of these runner games. Better than me at them.
I'm not aware that this has caused much consternation. I disagree that DSLs are a defining feature of Rails. There are other ways to implement DSLs besides `method_missing`, and rubocop and other style guides warn against using this method.
Hi ragingnarwal,

You have my most profound and humble apologies if anything I said offended you -- offending you was not my goal.

You posted a message to HN asking for help; I gave you my viewpoints having experienced much of the same thing which you have experienced. I was only trying to help.

I wasn't trying to insinuate anything with my Einstein quote (which is also a Dr. Phil quote by the way, "If you keep doing what you're doing, you'll keep getting what you're getting"). It just seems that that makes logical sense, that's all.

Finally, with respect to Thomas Szasz, I suggest him only because see, you can buy and read tens of thousands of books that will tell you (by esteemed professionals with Ph.D.'s no less) that there's a thing called "Mental Illness" (maybe it's true, maybe it isn't), just as there are thousands of books (by esteemed professionals with Ph.D.'s no less) that will tell you there's a thing called the Catholic Religion, the Buddhist Religion, the Jewish Relgion, the Islamic Religion, or any other religion, that God exists, and what will happen when you die (maybe it's true, maybe it isn't).

Well Thomas Szasz is the Richard Dawkins to all of those. He's the minority report. He's the fly in the ointment. He's the gadfly that Socrates was to the Athenian State. He's Dr. Stockmann in Ibsen's "An Enemy Of The People". He's what Martin Luther was to the Catholic Church in 1517.

You see, he stands mostly alone, opposed by huge numbers of academics (not to mention people) who oppose his viewpoint.

That doesn't make him right or wrong, but you see, there is a saying that "one should leave no stone unturned in the quest for truth". That's why I offer you that stone.

So, to recap, I apologize again, profusely.

I meant you no harm/injury/wrong in my response to your comment; you asked for comments from the HN community; I gave you mine, and again I apologize if they were offensive, irrelevant, misleading, or whatever have you.
They were one man's opinion. No more no less.
You have been downvoted.
How does this compare to word2vec or fasttext?
Indeed, the idea of 200 points in 16 days is more or less absurd, at least beyond beginner levels. In fact, looking at the author's Lichess profile I see no evidence of any improvement at all, to be blunt.

Improvement takes really a lot of work, far more than I think the author appreciates. Going from 1800 to 2000 in a year would be an excellent outcome and would require hundreds of hours of work on chess.

The author dismisses the one method that is arguably most recommended by strong players: studying GM games. Chess is about playing good moves, and studying the games of the world champions helps you learn what good moves look like. Studying GM games is hard work with little tangible reward (no dopamine rush from finishing a puzzle or playing a quick game) but it seems highly effective.

Another thing that stuck out to me: the author dismissed tactics puzzles based on what looks like 30 puzzles done on Lichess. That's nothing. I've done 7500 tactics on Chesstempo standard mode alone and it did a lot for my chess. It was basically the only thing I did to go from 1300 to 1600 or 1700 or so (over the board). Tactics aren't a panacea for chess improvement, but neither is anything else.

I have some smaller comments (for example: re: "If I want to get difficult puzzles correct, I don’t rely on any pattern recognition. I just spend a lot of time and mental energy explicitly calculating out every combination of moves. I’m really not learning much, most people can get the same puzzle correct if they just thought as hard as I." -- pattern recognition is the basis for calculation skill so it doesn't make sense to say you don't rely on it when calculating) but the main point is that chess is hard and improving takes a lot of hard work, far more than the author makes it seem.
Yea, most sites advertise people specifically who are 18 ~ 20 in that genre.
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2013 MacBook Air - It went down first with the SW and then the HW. The common ground is easy to see.
The theory is good. :)

Weirdly though, getting a CVE assigned can be a real PITA (and unsuccessful). The people who do the CVE assignment are generally overloaded, so lower impact/priority stuff often seems to get missed or not bothered with.
Genuinely curious - what makes chess such an intellectually engaging game

I don't know, but it is very addictive. It's a 'fight to the death', but in a realm of ideas. There's a neverending amount to learn, so many different types of situation can arise in a game, so many varieties of strategy and tactics, unlimited, it seems.

I'm not sure what you mean 'these have all the same Dynamics plus some. They are so dynamic'. There is a fairly common chess variant, Chess960/Fischer Random, where the pieces are shuffled before starting, and you will rarely see the same opening move. But it hasn't taken over from normal chess, which seems the better game to most people. The opening move won't be new, but after a few moves you're in uncharted territory.
thanks. What do you think is broken with the current model?

Added an Ask Hn for the question.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18878153
>On a Debian stable (9.5), our proof of concept wins this race and gains eip control after a dozen tries (systemd automatically restarts journald after each crash):

Seems like a good example of why automatically restarting things that crash is a bad idea.
I love the syntax, but I'm hating the debugging. Feel like a big chunk of my time is wasted chasing after errors that a compiler could catch for me.

Would love to have optional some kind of optional typing. Has anyone tried any of these?
https://github.com/soutaro/steep
https://github.com/plum-umd/rdl

Any other suggestions?
And the workarounds for multiple clipboards are SO painful. Disabling the extraneous ones is impossible and syncing them works until it DEFINITELY doesn't.

I've had better luck over on Wayland, thankfully
I've done a reasonable amount of ARM, x86 and amd64 programming with the go assembler.

It's quirks are annoying to start with, but if you use more than one assembly language you begin to see the advantages of a more consistent syntax between them.

I suspect the advantages for the go maintainers of a uniformish assembler syntax are the real reason for it.
I think the media has a lot to do with that.

They run stories about how the military bombs some civilians while fighting jihadists, but not about how those same jihadists routinely round up and torture children, kill scores of locals, etc.

Outside of Iraq, which fuck Bush, can you name something about the "War on Terror" you think we'd be better off not doing?

I think it's a really shallow view to say it's better to not bomb a few civilians... then leave them to be preyed on by violent locals instead.

I'm a millennial, and didn't enlist at 18 because I didn't want to go to Iraq (and still don't support starting that war), but I'd have gone to Afghanistan, and as I get older, I find myself much more willing to support the military.

I suspect I'm not alone in that, either.
No it's different. It's closer to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-cooperation_movement

It has an effect, you just need to have a large mass of people to make it work.