skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With all respect, I used to work in EdTech and had thoughts about Ed exactly like this- before I had 3 kids and got involved in the local public school, sat on the PTA, raised funds, won elected office on the school board and dealt with issues at the policy level.

There is some merit to pursuing these ideas at the paradigm level for various kinds of post-secondary level education, and of course it is already happening- though still poorly.

Before that level- basically before the age of 25- about 1% of what we call "education" consists of "teaching"- having a source of truth utter statements around the intellectual architecture of various "subjects" that we have constructed and partitioned over the long years of human civilization, with varying levels of inspiration and motivation.

That "paradigm" that ideas like these hope to transform- that really is at most only 1% of what education is for the under-25s.

What's the 99%? Mimic-ing, copying, replaying, performing, processing, engaging. School is an elaborate community improv performance, staffed at best with performers whose skills are measured in EQ, not IQ. I regularly witness school staff plan the model of their interactions with the kids down to the minute, down to the second- tho just the model. The actual performance is spontaneous. It is theater. Yes, there is a curriculum, and homework, and grades, and so forth. Those are all part of the act.

There are no "best" teachers. There are only an uncountable myriad of 1-1 relationships and engagements, each of which represents a full spectrum human interaction possibility (only a fraction of the potential of which of course is ever fulfilled). And though I love "work" and do a lot of it and have my kids do a lot of it- that also is just performative. The goal isn't to complete the assignments in an intellectual progression. No. It is in service of developing behavioral- awareness of self- and emotional- empathetic, sympathetic, awareness of others- tools to engage in the world.

Not to put too high a gloss on it, but in digital terms an orchestrated ChatRoulette is a closer approximation to what actually happens in an education context than the Yale lectures and homework helper.

And there is simply no substitute for the all too real, full spectrum chemistry that develops when people are in physical space together.

So changing the digital teaching paradigm is essentially meaningless. And "remote learning" is about the worst oxymoron.

The best thing we can do at a policy level is provide financial liquidity so that parents can afford to devote their full attention to their children, while
we are in this phase where that is required.
Yes.

They also will automatically enable a private network interface for you if you use their Floating IP feature. This caught me by surprise when I found out the hard way :)
That is correct. That’s how reputation works.

Trusting Glenn Beck to report news to me would be like trusting Disney press releases for all my info on copyright law.
How long does it take to get an inspection from the time it's requested?
It's surprising that partisan tabloids (Breitbart, Daily Beast, etc) provide clickable hyperlinks to the original reporting and source documents more often than major media outlets do.

Maybe it's due to their reblog origins, they're less afraid of losing traffic to competitors? Or because of their reputation they have more to prove? Regardless, it should be done by everyone.
So, as expected, no source. "Common knowledge"...really?
Who is Jay-Z ? Who cares ?
Turing completeness and undecidable parsing grammars are completely orthogonal concepts.
No -- the Turing completeness of templates that people refer to just talks about the fact that templates are powerful enough to compute anything. It's a different issue from parsing the template syntax in the first place, which is the problem they talk about here.
Not sure if it has helped anyone else, but it did me!
That's the exact opposite of what's happening:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fac...
I live in a left wing country and local museums will gladly make people pay a lot to get scans of drawings or photographs, 150 years old, of their ancestors. They have no right to gate keep peoples personal history.
It looks like each physical server in EC2 can have 750 IPs so if your VM is 1/Nth of the server you also get 1/Nth of the IPs.
How is it fundamentally dubious? If you don't trust Google to make a category of social or moral judgments, you're either trusting the market or you have another institution do the job.
The problem here is that C++'s metaprogramming facilities have leaked into the parser to the extent that it's undecidable whether to parse that final declaration as a variable declaration or a function declaration.

So: arguably the grammar is decidable, but to parse C++ you need more than the grammar, you need the full metaprogramming machinery. That is, C++ has ended up in the same state as a language that simply provides Turing-complete macros.
For readers after a more nuanced view with context:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/magazine/2017/03-...
Are you equally aggravated by news items from far left sources?

It's understandable to prefer one side over the other. But ignore your least favorite side at your intellectual peril.
IPFS is really just a mix of a torrent tracker with a torrent client, but once IPFS VMs start paying for themselves, people will sign-up in masses. I guess that's what Filecoin is about.

Edit: The way I see filecoin working is anyone can post a reward for a file and once the file is provided, the reward is paid. In other words, it's bit like a brokerage that connects downloaders with uploaders. The difficultly is that this brokerage needs to be distributed and resilient.
> Two doctors in a YouTube video with anecdotal evidence

The video was a news conference from Dr. Dan Erickson, who along with Dr. Artin Massihi, own the largest COVID testing site in Kern County, Accelerated Urgent Care, California. They have done more than half the testing there. It wasn't some random joe making claims.
From this source [0] it looks like excess deaths are at least 2x higher than those attributed to coronavirus. If you assume deaths would decrease with less people driving / going in public, that could be even more.

Cases are obviously under-reported. I'm making the claim that deaths are also under-reported, and at a rate that could be consistent with the existing known rate reported.

Even if there were 10x as many cases, that would be 10 million people and 100,000 deaths (based on the above 2x excess number). That's 5x less people sick and 2.5x more people dead than the flu.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/04/27/cov...
I really disagree with this. Sometimes the important thing to know is just that a debate is happening. Then the reader can view both sides and make up their own mind. More often than not, the supposed responsibility to "uncover the truth" results in journalists inserting their own bias.
Are we destined to spend the next 10 years endlessly rehashing the same stale arguments of the last 10 years?

First we'll debate if Bitcoin is a Ponzi scam.

Next it'll be whether there's any non-criminal use case.

Then how it's not "real money".

Please, won't some very intelligent dude please educate us all about Dutch tulips?
Storms wouldn't cause a problem. These planes travel through air at 800km/h, a storm with 100km/h winds is nothing.
Have you seen Trump’s press conferences? You’d have to censor half the stuff he says, or half the stuff the right wing pushes. The Heritage Foundation is literally on a media blitz right now on Youtube pushing the Wuhan Lab outbreak theory (which I entertain as something that needs inspection, but I’m rethinking the whole thing now that I know one of the lying think-tanks that propagated the Iraq War narrative is cooking up some new bullshit).

Censoring misinformation on YouTube is like censoring porn. Wait, I guess something as absurd as that actually exists in Japan.

Alright, never mind, humanity has no bounds, continue on in your paradoxical ways.

Censor the flat-earthers while you’re at it at, at least we know that’s bullshit for sure.
I was actually planning to go from Cairo to Tel Aviv, but for some reason that flight was not available and I wasn't in a hurry, so I figured I'd go via Gaza instead. I also happened to know somebody who could take me around Gaza and drive me out to Israel as well, since without this the logistics would have been very complicated.

This was 2000, shortly before the intifada broke out and travel like this became near-impossible.
> why should YouTube be any different?

Because it's almost a monopoly. It's not one of roughly equal dozens video hosting services. It's freaking youtube.
My guess would be that they don't want to have that email accidentally used, but they would have a check in the codepath anyway, because no-one wants to see its logs spammed with myriads DNS errors when this can be avoided. And in fact, if a DNS error shows up in the logs, devs would know that somehow their code path is not completely safe, so that change on the email is perhaps a way for them to ensure that the disabled account is indeed seen as disabled by their code in every situation.

A lot of people are complaining about NYT approach, but perhaps their only fault - if one consider that not deleting for good an account is not an issue, and it seems to be a common practice in the industry - is to not use a transaction when disabling user accounts (disable email -> disable account), which is perhaps difficult with NoSQL setups?
The Dave Brubeck comment was tongue in cheek, referencing recent quantum computing developments (not classified)
Can I use other glsl transition from shadertoy?
Check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_learning_loss
Target's delivery service is surprisingly usable, especially if you have their card (lowers the minimum for free shipping).
New York has >50x deaths per capita as SF, which sheltered-in-place a week earlier (and which had been steadily moving in that direction for two weeks prior).
I quit my software engineering job to make a game
So I'm back to my idea of monkeypatching the standard libraries to add logging to a file wherever it resorts to the default encoding or an implicit decode, and one by one fix them until the log file stops having stuff in it. After a couple of months of not seeing any you just assume you found them all, and you can safely bet that you'll find the last couple in a couple more months, but by then you have managed to move to Python3 a few months ago.
Animal Crossing QR code generator or it didn’t happen (joke)
I just came here to share the same video from Mick West. It does seem that there are very "boring" explanations for the all of this footage.
Absolutely. Yes, I am.

I don’t listen to people like Bill Maher, either, nor TV sensationalists like Jake Tapper.

I would prefer this country mostly get back to being centrist. I would prefer we not continually be pitched against each other in a left vs right battle that’s encouraged by the elite class (including middle-men profiteers like Glenn Beck that earn based on outrage).
I was home educated from the age of 11, until the age of 18. I knew about 50 - 150 home educated children, among those I knew of only a couple that couldn't read or write.

The one, couldn't read or write until the age of 8 or 9, when his mum found books under his pillow he had decided to learn because he liked the subject matter, she left him alone and provided help when he asked, and within 7 months he could read and write and was completely and utterly fluent, moreso than some adults I have met who have a complete schooling.

The other, was not much of a reader, and was barely fluent, picked up reading and writing at around 9. He read lord of the rings at around the same age (10 or 11) and ripped through the series in a handful of months.

A lot of people treat learning as something you have to sit the child down to do, but that cannot be further from the truth were they removed from the exposure of school.

Personally for you I would look up Autonomous Home Education, and Unschooling. Children are extremely gifted at learning -- I mean, they're built to learn -- and if left to mostly their own devices (which is extremely terrifying at first), and occasional passive action (like say, buying interesting books, not communicating it, and leaving it on the shelf to be discovered -- brains are good at picking up when the environment changes C: ), they will find interest in learning and discovering subjects of their own accord.

(Do note, however, that many parents find that you have to give them a rest from learning and allow them to recover from the stress of school and discover their own rhythms! the average is 6 months, in my case because of a mathematics teacher that got me so stressed out I was unable to perform the act of adding up numbers in my head, it was 2 years!)

And even if they don't, a lot of people treat childhood as the absolute holy grail of learning -- if you don't understand it as a child you are doomed! However think about how much adults could learn if they decided they wanted to make a concrete effort, muted the distractions, and sat down for 2 hours total a week? They cannot because they find learning to be a chore! Ultimately your job as a parent is to make sure the adult that forms is capable and able to continue to learn. At best, schools fail disastrously at this, at worst, they actually hinder and set the resulting adult against learning forever more.
That's why they looked at the data comparison of Sweden vs Norway. Sweden didn't do lockdown while Norway did. The difference is insignificant.
The fitness industry is in a crisis. Some say Instagram workouts aren’t helping
I tried jitsi meet earlier, and the screen share quality was completely illegible, is there a setting to make this better? Zoom, Nextiva, bluejeans, slack... they all work perfectly fine...
To those who support YouTube removing these vids:

Without remarking on the quality of the video in this specific instance I will note that Dr. John Campbell's videos were contradicting WHO advice while WHO was asleep at the wheel.

By the current standards, would they have been removed?
I don't think they need to hold ~4 months of average sales to cover that risk when ship times are a handful of days. AMZN seems to have been holding funds on sales that were not only already shipped, but delivered.
Perhaps you are right, but I don't think it is as cut and dry as you are presenting. I'm not sure what the correct answer is.
Can someone address the claim that death certificates coerce doctors to list COVID as the cause of death even if it hasn't been shown definitively to be the case? Is this a thing?
Time to deal with covid and stop being a customer.
I doubt that. Unless you consider the far left sources to be moderate.
Yes, people deserve second chances. No, they can't become C.E.O.'s because C.E.O.'s are effectively unelected government officials of the United States and the same criterion that says it's a bad idea to let him run for president means it's a bad idea to have him continue being C.E.O.. It's not like "bad man become good and pays back debt to society as a small-time business owner" because of the power differential. Interesting story though.

But if you deny people second-chances, then said criminals have no incentive to make amends. If they cannot make amends due to it being absurd, then society should be prepared to reduce them to menial slavery... because that's the only other way to prevent them from continuing the bad behavior (given that society made it impossible for him to move on from the past).

I have discovered that there are exactly three objectively unforgivable offenses:

1. Inducing another human to despair thereby depriving him of a right to a future.

2. Accusation with the intent of marring another human's soul with eternal guilt.

3. The deliberate and intentional reduction of another human being to slavery.

Notice that being a murderer isn't one of them.
So what fraction of operational airplanes are in flight at any given (pre-Covid-19) time? Are they normally "stored" in the air?
This is the point I was going to make. For a parody fair-use defence to be valid, you need to be parodying the thing you are infringing on, and as much as people always say "oh this is parody so it's clear fair use" by the accounts I've seen (such as Penny Arcade's Strawberry Shortcake comic) that can be a difficult defence to actually mount.
Huh. I thought that this was common knowledge.

> The Taliban began assassinating polio workers the year after the CIA used a vaccination campaign for hepatitis B, not polio, to identify Osama bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150303-polio...

> There has been opposition to such immunisation drives from some powerful clerics while a fake CIA vaccination campaign, which helped to locate Osama Bin Laden in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, is thought to have had a detrimental effect as well.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18868267
Could it possibly be to inspire young minds, get easily influenced people hyped to a part of the military and perhaps see things no else gets to see?
So even large accounts don't have an account rep they can call ? They still have to plead for help on the user forums ? Having no account reps seems petty and reckless. It's like Amazon is begging to be regulated.
Blaze media is an overtly ideological outlet. In my experience when any such outlet (regardless of the particular persuasion) makes a headline out of a 'viral' video or social media post, it's as part of a structured social media campaign: put the media up, drive some traffic to it, run a story about how it's 'going viral' leveraging people's preference for social proof, and so on.

With anything where there's significant political, economic, or social capital riding on the outcome, astroturfing is a sad reality that must be considered. One way to mitigate its effects is to look for reports from some disinterested source and see if you can find the same facts presented with less urgency and the determination of significance being left to the reader.
It's not a case of right or left leaning bias here - Glenn Beck pushes conspiracy theories and things that just aren't true. There's a difference between political leanings and full on crackpot journalism.
Calling COVID-19 "just the flu" is certainly wrong, but it's still fair to draw comparisons between the two. The latest projected death estimate for the US is 60-80k, down from an original estimate of 100-240k. We're about a week past the peak death rate and the total death count is approaching 60k, so the revised estimate was likely too optimistic probably closer to 100k is more realistic. By comparison 80k people died of the flu last winter in the US (last winter was higher than the average flu season, average is apparently closer to 40-60k). 600k die annually of cancer, on average, as another point of comparison.

Even if the current estimate is undercounting by half, COVID-19 will still have killed 2x as many people as last flu season. It's inherently speculative to compare against the death toll of what would have happened without a total economic shutdown. Figures ranging from 1-2 million have been tossed around here on HN. NPR ran a story with a claim of 1.3 million. However the experiences of countries that did not adopt distancing restrictions or adopted much less drastic ones, including denser and more populated ones like Japan, are not seeing anything close to these death rates. We'll be able to glean better information once testing becomes more widespread and comparisons can be made more reliably, but the 10-20x increase in deaths without social distancing that was initially claimed doesn't seem to be happening.

It's not "just the flu", its "just 3-4x deadlier than the flu, and spreads twice as fast". How scared are people of the flu? How scared are people of COVID-19? The latter is way more than 3 to 4 times larger than the former. If you asked people in 2019 "If we sacrifice 25% of the economy and make 25 million people unemployed, then we can stop a virus that will probably kill ~4x as many people as the last flu season[1]. Should we do it?" How many people would say yes? Probably not very many.

Phrase the same question differently: "If we sacrifice 25% of the economy and make 25 million people unemployed, then we can halve cancer deaths for this year. Should we do it?" Again, people would balk at this.

This is why the coronavirus panic is dumb in a lot of people's views. People are experiencing fear that is orders of magnitude off from the actual threat. Much in the same vein that people fear shark attacks when they are incredibly rare.

1. This is assuming a death toll of a quarter million, all of which are prevented in this scenario by economic shutdown. In reality, we'd only be saving the delta between the deaths with the shutdown and without.
I don't understand what's wrong with the data they presented. That article doesn't explain it, it just says it's wrong. There applications of data make perfect sense to me, that's how I'd use the data they presented.

That article makes inaccurate statements like, "basically hyped a bunch of data and weren’t transparent about their methods" which is not true. There were 100% transparent about where there information was from and how they were presenting it.
Oh yeah, believe some outdated policy than the CEO's recent interview. That's some quality fact checking right there! Congrets on your bleeding edge method of fact checking.
From article:

>Somewhere around this point, people began spewing mindless drivel about how browsers would somehow magically replace operating systems eventually, and how in the future all applications would be "web based".

From you:

>a desktop environment made with Electron today.

A browser DE would be great. ;w; A crossplatform shell with the same tray and file manager and everything? Wherein I can open a browser and play crossplatform browser games[0]?

When pls

0: https://wasm.continuation-labs.com/d3demo/
I don't care about performance, exactly, it's just that with (say) a C implementation if you're even halfway popular you'll end up with modules in a dozen languages (wrapping your C lib) and an apache module and a storage backend for a few databases, maybe a Linux kernel module, and so on, in no time, and they'll all be pretty much in sync with what's
Life sure would be easier if "cloud native" meant IPv6-only (except the load balancer) with non-overlapping unique addresses everywhere. 10/8 doesn't go far if you give each VM a /24 and each k8s cluster a /16.
Before WHO was saying there's no human to human transmission and masks don't help. So anyone who created a video opposing that would get their video taken down.

Later, WHO started claiming the exact opposite. Now anyone who created a video previously will also get taken down.

How exactly do you propose deciding what's misinformation and what's not?
The Great Depression began with the crash of the American stock market in September of '29[0]. Your stats sure make it look like that was a major tipping point for support for the Nazis.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression
Homeschooling today is very different than 20 years ago. Since it has become more mainstream, there are so many more activities and support groups. My kids have a better social lives with a more diverse set of people than any of our friends that send their kids to school. When their kids come home from school AND finish their homework, that is when they get a little bit of time to play with my kids.