skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not just picking Finland however. I am picking Scandanavia as a region, which consists of 21 million, or a little over half of Canada's population. The sample size is large enough, in my opinion.

It passes the smell test as well: teaching children how to learn versus teaching children how to perform a task or pass a test Obviously the former is going to be better.

Not forcing children to sit in classrooms for the majority of the day is obviously going to be better.

Not being obsessed with standardize testing losing sight of the overall goal of preparing your children for life sounds obviously better.

Starting at 7 years old sounds obviously better - I can specifically attest to this as a parent, where Americans seem obsessed to have their glorified daycare service aka "preschool and kindergarten" so that they can work more of their already overworked life away)

Irrespective of the above points: I get it (the point about population size, different countries, economic systems, political systems, etc). This fact is brought up every time a desired attribute about a smaller country is mentioned. The things I am talking about are irrespective of population size. It requires a perspective change and getting rid of politicians that still somehow think the turn of the century, industrial-age, overtly standardized school system we have built here in America that more resembles a prison than a place of learning is working and just needs more: more money, more teachers, more books, more standardization (now we need to account for all different metrics and biases! more money to the test generators) etc, so we can keep on chugging along with this failed system when the elephant in the room is the system itself is what is a overall failure and needs a complete rebuild -- which is exactly what Finland did in the 60s when it had similar challenges from the Soviet-era education system.
> I am not yet convinced that less-structured approach will provide clear benefits for everybody

I'll go even further and say I'm convinced that a less-structured approach will clearly not provide benefits for everybody.

I had my boy in a Montessori environment, which is more unstructured and focused on the type of self-learning the author is describing. It worked really well for me growing up, so I wanted to provide that environment for my son. Well, it was a disaster. After a neuropsych evaluation for him, he's now in an exact opposite, highly structured learning environment. He's not only much happier, but back to progressing appropriately in his education.
Where are you located? I'm in the SF Bay Area and your experience is pretty common here, but I'm wondering if translates to other geographies.
Being terrible is part of the value of public school. Unless you happen to get yourself into the prison system, it is very likely that you will never encounter an environment as degrading, hostile, and illogical as a public school system. One is exposed to people of all different abilities and disabilities, in a way that one is almost never forced to cope with after the age of 18. Exposure to that full spectrum of humanity is valuable.
The existing subsidies are often specific to fossil fuels (heating oil and natural gas). You don't get them for installing electric heat pumps.

The better alternative would be to provide the subsidy in cash and let the poor decide what they need for themselves, instead of trying to choose for them between heating oil vs. investing in heat pumps vs. better insulation vs. turning down the thermostat and using the money for something else they need more.
but were all 30k jobs listed? I'm assuming the positions listed were nowhere near close to the positions they need to hire for. As in, they probably havent even listed for a lot of the roles.

That said, I really didn't read the article :o
Rivian is going to make 100k electric delivery vans for Amazon
The new iPhone camera looks pretty sweet but the part that I'm starting to disagree with is what they call, "semantic rendering." This is where the camera recognizes different things in the photo and treats them different like sharpening some areas, smoothing others, etc.

To me this this aspect feels like basically an Instagram filter. Are we going for accuracy or how pleasing the photos are? They're definitely more pleasing but not an accurate representation.
After spending a significant amount of time in the hospital I found a portable router, Android TV/Chromecast and a universal tv remote to be really useful

They are in my go bag now for when I have to go last minute and get checked in
Using this terminology is manipulative because the costs are arbitrarily defined. As a massive supporter of renewables, i d prefer if they listed the real-market distance between renewables and the rest
It's strange that the authors pick integer factorization as the problem to solve on their machine. Although their machine may provide a speedup for optimization problems, these speedups are not relevant for the problem of integer factorization, as shown in
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01448 (disclaimer: I am a co-author of that paper).

Skimming over the paper it seems their method of translating factorization to the optimization problem consists of simplifying equations without justification that this can be done efficiently. I suspect that their preprocessing step is already NP-hard.

The second and more important issue, is that the overall strategy---of translating a problem with a sub-exponential classical complexity (via the Number Field Sieve) to an optimization problem with exponential runtime---is not expected to succeed, as confirmed by careful measurements in our paper.
I was homeschooled for all but 2nd and 3rd grade. I have mixed feelings about my experience of it (for me it worked out sort of OK for various lucky reasons) but no mixed feelings about the concept of it, and I now believe it should be illegal. It's possible, even common, to have a terrible social experience AND a terrible education in homeschooling.

Most of the reasoning for it was that public schools are evil and stupid and raise evil drone kids with evil drone values. This is a terrible perspective to inculcate into your children and it warped my view of everyone around me well into my twenties. Also the homeschooling community tends to self-select for a lot of the most narcissistic and BPD types of parents who actually do inflict major developmental and psychological damage and abuse on their children.

There was also a smattering of justifying it to the effect of "children learn better at home than they do in a classroom environment". This may be partly and technically true, but in practice it gets cancelled out by the fact that most parents are not actually able to educate children effectively past a 3rd grade level.

There are always exceptions. The broad exception, as usual, is when the family has plenty of money and the parents have LOTS of autonomy over their work schedules. The home-schooled children of doctors and lawyers that I knew had private tutors in some subjects and did all kinds of travel, participated in sports and robot building competitions, even worked for state legislators as part of their "high school".

Long story short, I am sending my children to Minneapolis public schools. As a parent, I hugely get the desire to keep your kids close and be their everything all the way through to adulthood. It was hard for us to watch our six year old get on the school bus and think about this first chapter of our lives together was in some sense ending. But I also know from experience and observation, the protectionist instinct to keep your kids that close for that long is really not healthy.
There is no bias towards chronic treatments, it's just the best that we have right now.

Your Sovaldi example shows that - a one-time cure can command a price that is bigger than a chronic treatment.

And the reason nobody invests in antibiotics (although there are several very profitable ones) is because any new drug is reserved for last line. Doctors don't want to bring out the big guns until all the others have failed.
Someone needs to make a DB with first class support for dense feature vectors (embeddings) and approximate nearest neighbor search.

These two features would allow you to do visual search, semantic text search, recommendations, learning to rank and etc.
Good to know that iPhone 11 Pro camera holds up to the expectations of a professional photographer. Now everyone else should aspire to be a professional photographer and buy iPhone 11 Pro according to Apple.
This is extremely high level. A nice view of how lucene internals work by core committer Adrien Grand:

https://www.slideshare.net/lucenerevolution/what-is-inalucen...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5RmMNDR5XI
What a tortured analogy. It’s just an externality. We have a word for a it already, no need to try to change another word.

The only reason the paper authors called it a subsidy is because people sadly don’t care about externalities nearly as much as subsidies.
>due to age

Many of the others make sense, but age seems like a hard one to work around. Generally these restrictions only apply to children, and legally (and to some extent socially) we treat even near adult children with the same attitude we treat toddlers. Yes, kids will pirate, but in this case giving them legal access may be a far worse choice as long as our society continues to view a child who is willing to pirate as being just a kid.
Wow okay, that's terrifying. Especially since it's so passive!
Global oil production is artificially constrained, it could be increased substantially if producers weren't afraid that prices would tank.
Resource as in URI. What’s wrong about that?
For a military, "identifying" a craft is less about saying what something is, and more about saying who something is. If you know that something is a jet, but you can't recognize the make of it well-enough to know whose embassy to complain to for it being in your airspace, then it's still "unidentified."

It's sort of like a criminal investigation. If you know that "a tall, Caucasian male" is responsible for the crime, that's not worth issuing a formal finding about, because you still haven't identified a suspect to pursue. You have some details, but not enough to "go on."

(Also, many things that aren't jets try to pretend to be jets in various ways, many jets try to pretend to not be jets in various ways, and many jets try to pretend to be other jets in various ways. If you just see "a jet", you can't be sure which of these cases is in play. Identification involves finding a non-repudiable signature—a tell that indicates a particular make of device, that cannot be faked by any other currently-known device. Sort of like a (well-made) virus signature.)
fakespot.com but for companies.
I'm sure Apple alone has more revenue than all wordpress sites combined.

And you can have a lot of revenue while losing money.
Canada is doing it the best way that I know how. Calculate the funding gap that is made up by general fund taxes, charge it directly via road use taxes or gas taxes, and then allocate the general fund savings to everybody in the form of a tax refund.

Then you have to sell it, and that's where Canada doesn't seem to be doing it right. For the vast majority of road users, this would be a net win. For those that drive a lot of miles, to the point where it would not be a financial win, it's still a quality of life win: most of the cost is offset, and some of it goes towards reducing traffic and having better roads to drive on. Those points need to be hammered home. Hell, I'm mostly a tax-hating libertarian, but I'm practically begging for this.
Contrast the good results of the overlap tests with the report (posted on HN awhile back) from the Tesla that rear-ended the corner of a firetruck at ~35mph that had substantial firewall deformation.

It's worth remembering that modern cars are very highly optimized for the tests they have to pass. I'm not saying the M3 or any specific car is good or bad, just take the results with a grain of salt because these metrics are very much targets.
>a chief factor seems to be the household one is born into, and the culture of reading that parents create within it.

Aye, my mother regularly took us to the biggest public library within driving distance. Every few weeks. And we didn't just grab and go, we would spend some time browsing the stacks.

As her mother did before her. It was inexpensive entertainment for those that weren't well off.

I developed very wide interests in everything imaginable, just from stumbling upon really good books.

Mind you though, I didn't develop an appreciation for fiction for a long time. To some, "readers" are those who are always reading fiction.
Maybe he found it in a bar?
Do you still have your first selfie?
Historically the term Advanced Persistent Threat has been used to refer to groups that appear to be a part of some kind of well funded/organized entity. It doesn't have much to do with the actual sophistication of the attack. However, an unusual level of sophistication could potentially be a piece of evidence that indicates a significant amount of resources one would only expect to see in a large company or government operation.

Also, in this particular claim Symantec said the attacker used proprietary malware. Does't guarantee that it's advanced but that is something most small groups or individuals don't bother with.

There are, of course, exceptions to everything. That's why it should ideally take a good amount of evidence gathered over a significant period of time to determine whether any given group is likely to be an APT.

Another thing to consider is that even an advanced attacker gains nothing by using their most sophisticated techniques when drive-by downloads and malicious email links/attachments still work so well in 2019 that they account for the overwhelming majority of major data breaches.
Which demonstrates nicely how absurdly broken our dependence on fossil fuels is.
I had a similar itch and built a similar app, except snippets are captured as searchable text and organised by books [1]. It was only ever my second app and app building for me is as much about the journey as the destination so it took me a lot longer than 1h/24h.

I agree with the premise of the article ie build small, monetize, learn.

Other lessons I've learned:
Promotion is harder than building. It's pretty hard to get more than a few downloads per day.
Free or not, once it's out there your users will make demands. I got emails from all over the world requesting all sorts of new features.
Simple is better. Almost all feedback I got was that the app did one thing well (actually good enough).
Try different monetisation strategies.

[1] Key Passages https://apps.apple.com/us/app/key-passages-study-assistant/i...
While your at it, please update "Pragmatic Project Automation".
In a rollover the glass might encounter a sharp point (ala “ninja rocks”) which exerts impact on a very small area causing failure, no? Or is their glass capable of absorbing these impacts?
Having spent plenty of time in both, I think it's actually a depressingly good microcosm. You have a status hierarchy. Those at the top can be arbitrarily cruel to those at the bottom with minimal consequences so long as they don't cross the delinated brightlines. Everyone is obsessed with status and its markers, because it determines everything about your life - who you can talk to, who you can date, who you can work with, etc.

The people who are supposed to be overseeing this and averting this mess generally have other concerns, limiting their ability and willingness to intercede.

Really, the only changes are the time-horizon and how the social groups are sorted.
Now, I don't know all of the story behind this situation - so pardon me if I come off as ignorant.

Why would anybody give a single damn about where the money is coming from if it's helping achieve a goal that could benefit scientific advancement? There's too much income inequality, funding problems, etc. etc. causing problems all over the US to simply ignore the amount of money that could potentially benefit people around the world depending on the discoveries that could be made.

Now, I'm not saying that the things Epstein did weren't absolutely morally and ethically bankrupt. Why can't the people/companies receiving the money simply make a public statement "we are taking this money for the greater good because we know it will help us achieve 'X', we do not, cannot, and will never support Epstein in any way other than accepting donations".
And now if he doesn't write a glorious review then he won't be ever contacted by Apple again in the future. Really hard to trust objectivity of his review in these circumstances.
It's not even meant to be subtle. Everybody knows how it works. You receive some gadget form a manufacturer, you present it in a positive way, you can keep it and expect more to come. If you break the rules, you won't receive the next one. There is no incentive to break the rules on either side.
"They are, however, both well-known breeding grounds for radicalism and extremism." First of all, they are hot beds for the 1st amendment. If you believe in the 1st amendment, then you believe that places where people can voice their opinions, no matter how misled, should exist.

Secondly, this journalist has no idea what the darkweb is and should be put on leave until they actually do their research.

Lastly, and this is a biggie: If you ban people who talk about terrible things, all you've done is succeed in moving them where they are harder to monitor.
I have never seen either of those languages and Cypher is much easier to understand.
The US government lets oil companies get away with drastically underpaying royalties for oil extracted from federal land. That's pretty close to a direct cash subsidy.

The government could deal with its deficit problems and have a de facto carbon tax just by auditing the oil companies and making them pay the royalties they agreed to pay.
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Guess he must hate Acquia is well? Not sure why DHH always has to be such a... downer.
Objective-C shares calling conventions and struct layout with C, so theoretically you could directly call the system frameworks from Rust via extern "C" functions.
My wife and I home school. All three of our kids have plenty of friends, play dates at a park or science museum, sleep overs etc. There is nothing isolating about home schooling unless you choose to isolate your children.
Go read the parent to my comment again. I was responding to that parent, not to this detailed question of yours.

To answer your question... it doesn't. It isn't a catch-all explanation for every single policy detail. That does not invalidate the generalization, however.
and how many model 3s does it take to shatter a metal roof? im not discounting that the claim is impressive, but from a purely safety point of view, wouldnt you expect even more significant forces on this thing in a crash?
They can be both.
Well, that might work for you, but there's a lot of people that won't work for. I only watch about 3-5 movies a year. I also like popcorn with my movies, so I'm either watching at home, or paying up the wazoo.
I don't know if it's that or something else, but scrolling is also altered/inhibited with Firefox on iOS. Luckily, reader mode "fixes" it.
Is he in the valley?
To further this point, each board on a chan is like a subreddit on reddit. They each have their own community, with their own memes, rules, and "culture" for lack of a better term.
I'm sorry to hear about this; that sounds like a really difficult situation for everyone involved.

If I can presume to mount my own soapbox in response, though: This strikes me as a symptom of the rather extreme age segregation that goes on in typical schools. I went to quite a few, and my favorite for the social environment had middle school and high school all together in one building, with a total student body of a bit over 100. And one of the neat things that happened there is that, while kids were generally age-segregated in their actual classes, we were all together for lunchtime, school plays, etc. The group of people I typically sat with at lunch time during my junior year of high school included seniors and also one 6th grader.

In retrospect, I imagine that made for a better environment for everyone's social and emotional development.
It might be worth it to learn it though, even if just for fun.
Many peoples' photos can be improved by 1) trying to be more still while the HDR photos are being captured, 2) resist the urge to zoom, 3) tap on the area of the photo you want to be in focus before shooting, and 4) generally stick with landscape mode.

This is especially true when taking a picture of someone in front of a mountain (or something similar). Don't zoom! Take a picture of the mountains with the people in view, not a close up picture of the people with a sliver of mountain in the background.
What I have learned in the past earlier months of a startup
Twitter Suspends 2nd Amendment Foundation Acct on Eve of Gun Rights Policy Conf
Antivirus software is basically a scam.
> Well managed accessible state can be greatly simplifying.

Absolutely--and functional programming is one way to achieve that. From the perspective a given function, all "state" is captured in its inputs and outputs. You know exactly what existing state can be used by the function (inputs) and exactly what state can be generated by the function (outputs) simply from looking at the signature.
Wooooaaaaw, I wasn't aware of this "Lunar Gateway" stuff. That's a great idea for Kerbal Space Program, I'm going to do that right now !

A Kerbal living there permanently, being able to regularly go up and down the Mun. A huge fuel tank, to refuel the lander and ships en-route to the deep solar system. Resupply and refueling missions from Kerbin. Long-running swap-able science modules. The whole deal. Gonna be great.
The world is not black and white. It is possible for a bad guy to do some good things and a good guy to do some bad things.

If money from a bad dude gets used for a good cause like science, I don't really have a problem with that.
I would love for that percentage to go up, and we are hiring! High velocity and high scale backend work, tons of React with Calypso and Gutenberg, the most leveraged systems group I've ever seen, a really lovely-to-work-in native apps team, and of course everything coming in with Tumblr.
>To say battery storage doesn't exist and isn't cheaper than oil/coal grid power is simply false.

If that were true, nobody would be using either fossil source.

Of course it’s not cheaper. Battery technology costs so much it’s the whole reason we have the base load discussion all of the time.