skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally speaking, what research I've seen mostly says that homeschooled children are more successful on various outcomes than average. However, homeschooling is hardly random and presumably means more parental involvement than average, among other differences that are probably fairly difficult to tease apart.
Elon is a good critical thinker and saw from the very beginning that the response to COVID-19 was way out of proportion. Lots of other scientists and doctors saw from the very beginning that COVID-19 was not worse than the flu, most of whom have been censored again and again. There's even a paper published about it early in March showing the new corona virus is not worse than the ones before [1]. So Elon is being proven correct again and this is not the first time this happens.

[1] Roussel et al., “SARS-CoV-2: fear versus data.”, Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2020 Mar 19:105947, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32201354

“Under these conditions, there does not seem to be a significant difference between the mortality rate of SARS-CoV-2 in OECD countries and that of common coronaviruses (χ2 test, P=0.11). Of course, the major flaw in this study is that the percentage of deaths attributable to the virus is not determined, but this is the case for all studies reporting respiratory virus infections, including SARS-CoV-2.”

“Under these conditions, and all other things being equal, SARS-CoV-2 infection cannot be described as being statistically more severe than infection with other coronaviruses in common circulation.”

“Finally, in OECD countries, SARS-CoV-2 does not seem to be deadlier than other circulating viruses.”
Yes, I find that even more bizarre. The “just the flu” crowd clearly put down their stakes with death predictions for a no-mitigation scenario that were greatly exceeded by the actual high-mitigation scenario we experienced over the last 1.5 months.

For instance, here is Elon claiming on march 18 that by the end of April, the USA would have followed the same pattern as China and cases would have dropped to near zero. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240483296347181057?s=20
(Never mind that china achieved this by a massive shutdown and quarantine regime stricter than any US state has done). His prediction was way off but he doesn’t seem to have learned.
> We can repeat this process for an infinite amount of time and still not have an infinite number of nines.

Isn't this somewhat ill-defined? You may have a finite number of 9s at any one point when adding more 9s, but there is no point "at infinity" where you can stop and look at how many 9s you've added because by definition there are still more 9s to add.

It's like trying to prove infinity is impossible:

> Assume that we have a finite number. Add 1 to that number. The result is not infinite. Add another 1. The result is still not infinite. We can repeat this process for an infinite amount of time and the number is still not infinity.

Sure, individual numbers "on the way" to infinity are not infinite, but that doesn't necessarily disprove the existence of infinity.
"just increase taxes" does not work in the real world (especially here it would be close to doubling taxes) and still does not answer why you would want to hand money to everyone across the board.

It also sounds a little circular: Increase people's taxes so that you can use the income to give money back to them.
WireGuard proponents would probably tell you to run BGP or some routing protocol over the VPN, maybe GRE too?

I agree with you, WireGuard makes this significantly harder than it needs to be. Other protocols do better in this respect.
The same way they do now to consume luxury goods and services and avoid papparazo and working folk. Blacked out SUVs and back entrances. You think Kylie Jenner has set foot on an LA sidewalk?
Hope you get it right on the first try!

You don’t really get a second chance to bake it. The particles just start flying off the tape and leave a nice coating on the heads.
In this alternate number system you can think of it as a tuple: (.9̅, 4). Which is larger than (.9̅, 3) and smaller than (.9̅, 5).
It is unethical for end-user software to be closed source, and this project is wrong for enabling this.
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Good to know, thanks! I'll add a note mentioning the need for an account.
>1. Parents are now the primary enforcement mechanism for doing schoolwork, which is not a role they have necessarily been trained to do

Parents were always the primary enforcement mechanism for doing homework, what would the school do if a kid was getting all Fs because they didn't care? The most a school can do is force kids to be quiet, and even then if the kids refuse to be quiet the school can't punish them - a child that does not voluntarily submit to punishments like sitting and not talking can only be sent home.
> An answer of yes, does not show me YOU did any Java at your job. The answer Yes we use the current version, and libraries xyzzy and plugh, we use the abc development environment and .... Shows you are very engaged.

This seems to be more of a mind reading test than anything else. I think you would probably get more consistent results if you ask candidates questions directly rather than play a game where the candidates need to guess the question you are really asking.
It's also absolutely wasting 50% of mobile screen so completely unusable without reader mode.
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I wonder if there's anything I can do with my children to prevent them from being bound by this mental limitation?

I would try to explain to them that numbers are a framework for us to understand both the observable universe and abstract ideas, depending on what we're using them for.

Like you said, it's hard for people to understand that numbers have multiple representations and to grasp the implications of those representations. I think that if you can communicate that different representations can have the same meaning, accepting those representations when they come across them may be easier.

Or, if they're experienced enough with math, I think going through Euler's identity in addition to the link could help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_identity
The whole numerical representation scheme really is just a man made system. If you dig deep enough the veneer disappears. This is especially noticeable when you start to see things like numbers that are finite in decimal but have infinite repeating patterns binary.
I highly doubt that's the same mechanism though, this has to do with the carrier of the tape getting stuck, something harddrives do not have a problem with. Typically with old harddrives that haven't run for years it is enough to put a drop of oil on the spindle bearing and then to spin it up manually before engaging the motor (which may otherwise burn out trying to unstick the bearing).
Huh. I’ve only heard of the opposite approach - throwing a dead drive in the freezer before a last ditch attempt at data recovery.
I'm a little surprised that Go gets the same score for thread safety as Rust, since safe Rust guarantees a lack of data races, and as far as I know, they can only be caught at runtime in Go. Is there some reason that data races aren't a concern for this project?
> because being able to write down types is really quite important to me.

The issue arises only with generic heavily templated functions. Nothing in D forbids you to write your programs with all types explicitly written down. That's btw how I mostly write my code.
yeah for sure, and that's clearly what's going on in this case. thankfully my hobby naturally facilitates/induces a flow state, so it's a great way to train getting into the zone. also very meditative
A couple of those are a bit strange; C++ has less performance than Rust and C? Swift has less memory safety than Rust?
> They have to know that 0.999... means you never stop writing nines.

How do they know that that's a real number?
Old hard drives with stuck spindle motors can be temporarily resurrected, with some risk and low degree of success, by freezing them for 12 hours and then plugging them quickly into a test bench computer to attempt data extraction.
>You might be surprised, but the vast majority of law enforcement officers and soldiers are not, at all, racist.

Both have substantial ties to white nationalism, and neither have a reputation for helping people move past such racist views. Everyone involved doesn't need to be racist, somebody that already has connections to the KKK would find plenty of like minds.
Link to collection: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection
0, if we're talking natural numbers or integers. There isn't one if we're talking real numbers. Simple proof:

Assume x is the largest number smaller than 1.

(x + 1)/2 is a number larger than x but smaller than 1. Our assumption that x is the largest number smaller than 1 must be wrong. QED.
I guess you couldn't buy tobacco or alcohol either?
I feel like economic outcomes would be more aligned to socioeconomic factors than anything. The economic success of your parents determine your future more than your schooling for the most part. More telling would be measuring social skills.
Related reading:

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=vulture+capital
Who do you like on CNN? Any specific shows you like over there? I named Don Lemon, but I also really dislike a lot of what Anderson Cooper talks about. Shep was awful. What alternate news sources do you like to go to for unbiased news?

What forms of disinformation have you found? And I'd like to classify disinformation as a situation you feel they are being purposeful about misinformation. I believe we're both going from the same definition but it's always good to be clear upfront.
ESO had plans for Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL) but they did not get enough funding so they had to settle for ELT.
There may be some substrate of psychology at work on the US Navy aircraft carriers. Those are amongst the biggest and baddest machines of death ever -- floating cities of death, powerful enough to act like kings of the world if invulnerable. There is reason to fear that carriers cannot successfully defend themselves against a large swarm of drones, and it is entirely possible that several other countries are doing serious R&D to thereby end the reign of the carriers as masters of the seas.
Would you consider a company that controls 1/3rd of the market share a monopoly? Because that's how much of the cloud market AWS controls.

https://www.statista.com/chart/18819/worldwide-market-share-...
Your quoted paper is 5 weeks old, as shown by the excerpt “ compared with less than 4000 deaths for SARS-CoV-2 at the time of writing.”

Now, today, we are at 50,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths just in the USA, and an analysis of excess mortality data already shows that a significant % of COVID-19-related deaths are not included in that count.

This is with a massive mitigation campaign and nationwide social distancing. The only place where the virus seems to have established itself is in NYC (20% of people infected according to a recent study) where we have seen incredible death tolls and overwhelmed morgues. (Edit, needless to say, none of the 4 common cold coronaviruses do this, ever.)
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The context of that quote is talking about the trust of merchants which sell products on Amazon, not the trust of consumers (which is what your link is). Consumers of course don't care if Amazon rips off merchants.
Shockingly, here is the source of this recipe:

"International Cooking with Coca-Cola", a give-away pamphlet from
The Coca-Cola Company, 1981
You're missing the point. This would be an analogy fit for talking with someone who's looking for an integer between 1 and 2.
I learned last year, possibly here, that the reason you can make withdrawals from your credit union at virtually any other credit union’s ATM isn’t because of some cabal of credit unions so much as the fact they nearly all use the same vendor.

I don’t know if there’s a lesson here for grocers, or maybe Organic Valley (a farmer cooperative) is a closer model.

If you are not clear on what your secret sauce is, or what your competitors think theirs is, it’s hard to be open about commodifying things that aren’t critical to you but are to your customers. Shared logistics systems? Probably trade secrets there. Other things? Maybe not so much.
i believe that the main audience of this campaign are hardcore fb users, it's easier to target them there.
but any suggestions are welcome, how to reach people nowadays?
As with all things in life, you get out of it what you put into it. Dedicated homeschoolers will often partner with other like-minded families for social experience and group work. Some do it to give their kids a heavily religious focused education, but not always.

One major benefit to homeschooling is the (potential for) constant focus- kids arent going to get lost in a room of 30 other kids with no personal attention or assistance; they aren't going to be sneaking out behind the shop to hang out with the rough crowd for a quick smoke, or bring vodka mixed with orange juice in a juice bottle in their backpack.

That isnt to say that they cant find ways to get into trouble, but with less pressure to fit in, they may find less reason to act out.

Of course, homeschooling is goung to have a hard time replicating the large groups with social pressures that schools have, so transitioning to, say, a large university or even the final years of high school may be difficult without preparation.

I have seen varying degrees of success along all of these spectrums, and would be reluctant to make any sort of blanket statement about "better" or "worse" without having a lot of insight into what local public schools are like to compare against.

Edit: for example, the public school where i grew up was great. Some public schools near where I live now are fundamentally rotten; black highschool students have a 30-something percent proficiency in either reading or maths, while white students fared marginally better in the low 60's or upper 50's... And these numbers are going down, not up, since earlier in the decade, in spite of it being a very left-leaning city with lots of talk over the years about improving education.
> are being made available for anyone to use for free under a Creative Commons 4.0 license.

I wonder why are they not public domain? IIRC if the image itself is public domain, a non-artistic picture of it is public domain as well because the act of making the picture isn't an act of art any more but an act of craftmanship.
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Noting from the other side, my sister is a teacher with 175 students. She’s required to assign work, grade, and give personal feedback to all of her students. She was able to do this in a straightforward manner when school was on-site. Now it’s a lot of overhead to chase things down when all the students and parents have their own schedules and communication preferences.
Problem is that most patients will recover from Covid 19, so unlike a more deadly disease, need a high bar for treatments.
NYC certainly got hit bad, but I wouldn't say it's the only badly hit city. Here is deaths/total pop for some other cities >1mil population which I would also call "hit hard".

NYC: 1.07‰

New Orleans: 0.65‰

Detroit: 0.60‰

Boston: 0.44‰

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/03/upshot/corona...
Either two numbers are equal, or they're not equal. (Unless we're calling into question the law of excluded middle, but must we?)
I think it absolutely gets confused.

Infinity, the number, is routinely confused with creating an onto function mapping digits of pi to a set with a cardinality of the natural numbers. But sadly most people don't have the mathematical maturity to understand the difference when they encounter their first irrational number (normally pi).
samsung does it, and they are smaller than google (money wise)

i still don't understand how google cannot just improve their hardware branch.
I agree that this would be a safer, softer approach, but at the end of the day, fostering dependence is itself just another form of a power-grab.
>Sellers are more profitable and less risky overall

Amazon has all the data anyone would ever need to determine which products the above is true or false for. They would be negligent if they weren't putting that information to use.
For one thing, it is a lot easier to get the wall socket voltage and current down than it is to get the signal generator up to wall socket level.
Cancellation is definitely something that is trickier with thunks. We recently added a new `createAsyncThunk` API [0] to our Redux Toolkit package, which has built-in support for signaling some kind of cancellation using an AbortController [1], but how that gets used in relation to your actual async call and how your reducer processes the responses is up to you.

Cancellation, debouncing, and other "thread-like" behaviors are where sagas are truly useful. But, in most cases folks are just trying to do simple AJAX requests for data fetching, and trying to learn how to configure and use sagas just for that is way too much overhead.

[0] https://redux-toolkit.js.org/api/createAsyncThunk

[1] https://redux-toolkit.js.org/api/createAsyncThunk#cancellati...
they can be physical isolated at school...not that id know anything about it...changing subject...
Stop using chrome?
In Germany there are a lot of price comparison sites, geizhals and idealo being just two examples. If I am looking for electronics the filtering capabilities of geizhals are way better than Amazon and it is often the case that I can get a better price in one of the many other web shops.
Release a small fraction of the fund, let's say 30%, maybe limited to transactions deemed older/safer. It's trivial and it's enough cash flow for the vendor to continue operating until the next release.

Amazon has two days delivery for most orders. They can quickly get customer feedback (product review, refund, shipping issue). They could even directly question customers "have you received product? Yes/No".

They could easily determine that a vendor is legit if they wanted to, they do not need to hold funds for months.
It is nuts. Many people on the Amazon forum not only take Amazon's side, but try to shame you and blame you for your situation.
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That is true for the reals
What's your point? I see you've posted this to anyone commenting on CNN/MSNBC.
I'm always suspicious of these pieces. Their own comments say they do 1m a month is sales. But a 15 days hold has them at 4.2m? So their business went up by a factor of 8 overnight? Sounds like good reason to have a hold in place to be honest. Even top sellers under coronavirus have only gone up 6.5x haven't they?

Plus who are they paying? Most businesses have 28day payment terms don't they? So 15 days in is a little early to panic.

Plus everyone is dealing with coronavirus, so not getting a call back from Amazon for 2 weeks doesn't sound like the world ending...
I didn’t say I could do it cheaper. I’m not an expert, I’m sure that BAMTech could.

Also, “the others” that pointed out TCO - was me.
Depends a lot on the parents, can be very good or not. Let's say homeschooling is high variance outcomes, public education seeks homogenized outcomes.
Hotmail arbitrarily suspended my main email account around 2006-2007.

It was a nice coincidence that someone gave me a Gmail invitation around that date.

However, I had been burned once, and now I have my own domain for the important emails, and that Gmail account is used for things that can be spam.

Lesson: Any huge provider can suspend accounts at will and there's nothing you can do about it.
If you're not motivated by altruism, I can't teach it to you.
There’s plenty of reason for end user software to be closed source. The biggest one is so that it can exist. Plenty of software would not be written if someone was not paid to do it. And plenty of those would not be paid if the source was available.

If you disagree, vote with your wallet.
The secret ballot has been a prominent element of democracy since it was invented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_ballot
Are the parks actually closed? I only saw them closed for Easter weekend.
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Amazon is known to be two things

1- data driven
2- revenue maximizing

They’re constantly tweaking the website in order to even marginally increase revenues. Halting the transfer of funds hurts Amazon’s bottom line because those companies would just be using that money to replenish sold inventories. It’s unfortunately not a direct measurement, but if halting the transfer of funds resulted in the business going out of stock on Amazon, or leading to more delayed fulfillments, canceled orders, less satisfied customers, more refunds, etc then Amazon lost future commissions due to this. If Amazon can update their statistical models to prevent such potential loss of sales in the future without risking more false positives, then their in-house quants have strong incentive to do so.
I was just thinking about this trick recently. I remember the old 200ways.pdf file that outlined 200 ways to revive a head hard drive.
I predict Democrat run cities will have the highest rate.
Or guitars they hope to play regularly :-)
They were the Amazon of 1905
Museums really try to hold on to the 'copyright' on their reproduction, for example by claiming that the act of reproduction can be seen as creative, and not purely technical. See for example this response by the Van Gogh museum [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21671790
Also, according to the 2020 Tech survey via Vox Media, who is highly critical of tech:

91% have a favorable view of Amazon

73% trust Amazon with their information

70% say Amazon has a positive effect on society

81% would be disappointed if Amazon disappeared

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/2/21144680/verge-tech-survey...
I know this gets repeated to the point of being a meme, but I think it's worth being precise about this; Rust guarantees that there are no data races (i.e. accessing memory in one thread while it's being written to in another), but there can still be other types of race conditions (e.g. non-determinism based on which of two threads finishes a given task first).
The integration with your app just requires you to call our API when you want to send a notification. Is that what you are referring to?
Ask HN: Where to buy legit AMD EPYC WOF-boxed processors?
Ingram-Micro doesn't appear to ship boxed ones, they or their drop-shippers substitute tray/OEM parts.

NewEgg limits to qty 1 of the multiprocessor variant (when SP variants ending in "P" exist) and has zero customer service. I've been trying for a week to get ahold of anyone there. Their whole operation seems based on enabling fraud.

Of the merchants listed at

https://www.amd.com/en/where-to-buy/epyc-processors

Are there any honest wholesalers or honest resellers who will sell a couple of boxed processors to the public?
That's a generally inaccurate assumption.

I was home schooled (never attended any standard school of any kind until I started college at age 14), have completed a very successful 20+ year military career, have a BSCS (MCL), MS (w/Honors) and another MS in progress, currently working as a senior engineer at a DOD contractor.

I know many others who have done the same or even far more. The school systems are not designed to reward or stimulate excellence.
Random people find access to unsecured networked security cameras all the time, of course NSA could find them if they wanted.
Why compare a commercially available top of the line function generator with a hobby project?

At this level you can add a couple of simple components and get 95% of the functionality and accuracy of the commercial one for a couple of bucks. Go higher than that and you might as well shell out the money for an army surplus one, but that does not get you what he wanted: an opportunity to tinker and learn.
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