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> so it made me wonder if there has been any kind of effort to open source homeschool.

Yes, many; see, e.g., https://openeducationsource.weebly.com/full-curricula.html

But you probably want both open source curriculum and open source supporting materials, which is harder to find, because while selecting high quality educational materials and assembling a curriculum is a lot of work to do without expectation for recompense, it's dwarfed by the work of actually creating the materials.

There’s some out there, of varying quality.
> What I don't know is: what challenges might there be to creating such a thing?
do you use backspace to delete things ?
Because those projects keep a lot of talented workers away from competitors.
> didn't prepare for it.

Correct, we didn't prepare for it. I would even say that politics stifled our response to a large degree. But, in my opinion, to say we didn't expect it, is incorrect. Sure, the average Joe may not have understood the potential risks, however epidemiologists were literally screaming the graveness of the situation at the public. The fact that people decided not to take heed was their ineptitude. The science and logic required to reduce the impact of the virus were all available, and the actions to be taken were fairly simple. The fact that people refused to take those actions in a timely manner, and that governments prioritised economy over public health are some of the reasons why we're in this mess. But we certainly were not caught by surprise - we had the time to react, and the knowledge to react well.
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What about the set of events that "someone somewhere spent millions of dollars on and defined it as a national security risk and set up federally managed groups and processes to guard against it"? Seems to be a slightly smaller set.
I’m confused a bit, why would allowing a double free of memory ever be a desirable behavior?
This looks very promising. Thank you!
I'm not trying to be funny, but I'm sure the author is wishing that he started his year of isolation... a year later. Like, in March 2020. That would have been great timing.
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23682619

Unsurprising.

"Free speech activists" inevitably show off their actual value system.

> Isn't deplatforming racist because it creates a segregated society.

Racism is a choice, race isn't. Racists segregate themselves from society by believing that some humans are subhuman. Can't exactly share a well with someone that believes you're an animal, can you? Certainly can't have them in a jury.

> Do you really want to separate society based on race?

Transparent strawman argument lobbed at me most times I engage an "all lives matter" type. Black lives matter = white lives don't matter, right?

> People will complain they when they get higher marks.

Why would racists get higher marks? As racists they disproportionately fail to correct for cognitive biases - they are therefore either stupid or have a mental disorder.

> You think you like the idea of social justice? What you are doing is social judgement.

The SJW bit was fairly obvious bait that you bit straight onto. Something wrong with shaming racists? Bullying the bully? And today I learned, asking a bully to leave, is apparently bullying.

> Many causes need attention.

Again, you fail to address why you are spending time commenting on this instead of solving world hunger. Why are you spending time virtue signalling at me? Don't you care about starving children?

> The next generation is going to call you fake.

No, because bigots are losing the culture war.
At several points along the way, scientific experts (not one or a handful, but many) have made recommendations that were ignored by world leaders because they were seen as financially or politically costly.

Most of the disasters you mention are definitely predictable and we can say with a reasonable degree of certainty that they will occur within the next x years. If x is anything more than 100, then people will ignore it, because our brains are biased to discount the odds of bad things happening to us.

We should at the least have a basic plan on what to do if those things happen, but it seems that many places didn't even accomplish that before this predictable pandemic occurred.
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At least for me, I find that unlikely. I'm paying a fee for sports channels I have no interest in (because you can't not pay it), I'm buying a bundle that I only want a couple channels in, and those are the channels most people want. I would guess that I fall into the majority that are subsidizing the minority.
Replying to save for later.
Glad to know there's a word for it. I'm aphantasic. I can't see things in my mind, and the vague imagery I do see literally cannot hold still for even a second -- any image I conjure up will twist and shift from one shape to another.

Somehow, I can draw quite well though. But not from mental imagery.

And, I can hear music clearly in my head, with a very long memory. I can easily play back a song as almost perfect audio, even if I haven't heard it in decades, with clear little details.

But I mostly can't make out the words of any music I remember, and in fact I struggle to remember lyrics in general, even of songs I've listened dozens of times. And my sequence-memory is crap.

Sigh... memory is fascinating.
They are certainly now, if they are were not before. Mobility like depends on opportunities you get, that starts from your parents social-economic status, the schools you attend, the connections your family has etc if you grew up in a city or a small town.

Caste strongly correlates with this, children of higher caste families tend to be richer or have rich relative, have extended family working in well connected places, have well educated parents and grand parents and have access to better schools.
I don’t agree that this spread due to denial and incompetence, they didn’t help, but fundamentally this spread because most people don’t get that sick. Since people mostly feel ok, they’re not getting medical treatment and aren’t on the radar of any kind of intervention. Also, it’s not true to say that if you can say with certainty that something will happen, you know exactly how it’s going to go down. I know with 100% certainty that there will be another stock market bubble in the next 20 years, it’s completely predictable, but I can’t tell you when or how, because that is a different kind of knowledge, it’s situational rather than systemic.
I have been living in the western hemisphere for the past decade or so, and it bothers me that other Indians to this day try to find my caste and try to argue that their caste is superior than mine. One of the reasons I avoid making Indian friends abroad. I have a feeling many of these Indians living in the west for a good amount of time have much narrower minds than most Indians living in India these days.
That's nonsense. Anything decentralised uses a certain set of rules how independent entities interact with each other. Such rules form a protocol. For example, XMPP is one such protocol. One can build reddit-like or Facebook-like service using xmpp, which will work across multiple independent servers. (In fact, that's what we are going to do, unless we run out of funds first)
If there is one company that deserves a bailout... Cirque du Soleil is a cultural treasure.
Why? Were they unsustainable in any way? When I went to their show, the tickets were sold out very fast. It was long ago anyway.
By the way, I'm well aware that there are pieces of GNU Emacs that are mazes of twisty passages, understood by very few people. That's to be expected of a decades-old program that has perhaps not experienced enough refactoring.
Taleb actually predicted it, even though he doesn't like it being called a prediction. In his own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb2pXXUSzmI
To be fair, Cirque du Soleil is closer to art than it’s to circus.
He did leave Twitter though, so not a complete fail on his part.
There are things that vim does better. There are things that VS Code does better. There are things that Visual Studio does better. You can memorize all sorts of things about your particular editor of choice and you will be more efficient and effective in that editor.

If I wanted to cherry pick examples of what vim does better, I could start all of them with, "first ssh into a random server."

What makes vim great is that it has a tremendous number of features and is available nearly everywhere. Can VS Code do that?
It depends on the economic and political climate. The efficiency aspect is undeniable -- the IKEA style driver is able to deliver more furniture in a work day.

As for who that efficiency accrues to, under properly competitive conditions, the customer should get most of it, and in fact, this type of furniture delivery is generally pretty cheap in the U.S.

What the driver gets depends largely on the aggregate supply/demand for low skilled labor, and labor's ability to bargain. Fifty years ago in the U.S., for example, low skilled labor, particularly in the trucking industry could do a lot better than today.
I'm sure they were doing fine until the pandemic.
The space bar doesn't even pause on our HTPC. No clue how to fix it. Works on normal YouTube, lol.
What makes people think this comment is in response to being riled up or being offended? I actually really liked the idea of the story being on one topic (as I said in my parent comment). I was appreciating the writer for that good job.
Yes. Isn't that obvious? In general, any person from a developing country X, working in the US legally, is likely to be among 1% (not necessarily in terms of wealth but definitely in terms of opportunities, and, barring a few exceptions opportunities are proportional to wealth.) in country X.
The content providers want Youtube TV to fail, and are doing it with forced bundling that increases the price. There's no other explanation.

In hindsight, it was stupid for Google to get into a business where they cannot control pricing.
[1] https://usafacts.org/articles/americans-causes-of-death-by-a...
Lol ? Who is going to see this right now. Travel is fundamental to a live show.
Did you not read the entire comment?
I can totally relate.

I think the only way would be a long web page with a massive list of examples to "solve problem X".

But the DSL is ...byzantine, to say the least.
Presumably black people who are great loan customers would be incorrectly refused by a system based on fashion or addresses alone, so your answer seems to be that yes, racist methods actually lose the bank money.

My tendency is to think that since it is optimized to maximize profit, the more features about a person we get in the data, the less "racist" the system becomes under this definition. Yes it's more possible to "hide" racism in a complex method using tons of features, but increasingly less likely it would happen. If we can use income and debt and whatever other things to make either a good classifier that ignores race, or an inferior one that sneakily identifies race and bases the decision on that, mathematical optimization of the model should result in the former. ML can be trusted more than humans in this situation, not less.

Of course there's still the issue of the data being biased, which is where it all started.
I don't know what it is, but anything more than moderately simple stuff gets super annoying for me with JQ.

After getting super frustrated with the documentation while trying to accomplish stuff that should have been straight forward, I created jsling so I could pipe output through node for JavaScript one-liners. Anything moderately complicated that doesn't need to be portable; I just use that.

EDIT: I should mention that by "moderately complicated" I mean stuff that starts to get into the realm of joins, correlated sub queries, and the like.
People don't turn down free stuff. It's just that they no longer value the content provided via TV channels at the price they are asking. The fundamental problem is content that used to be delivered via TV is no longer worth what it once was.
>No model is perfect

But some are definitely better than others.

It sounds like you're looking at things purely from the point of view of getting the correct average for a group. But whether or not you get the correct average doesn't tell you if you're using a good enough or the best available model completely apart from fairness or justice.

If you do some type of testing and you know 5% of the tests should come back positive, is there a difference between reporting 5% at random and actually doing the tests? Of course!
The parent comment lists a specific reason why they'd turn directly the 'free' stuff. It requires more effort to then access the content they want to get to when they have to navigate around the cruft.

Whether that factors much into your personal value assessment or not, that is a valid downside to having a bunch of extra channels you don't intend to watch.
Perl. Not my favourite language, but it was pretty much designed for this use case.
You mentioned Microsoft and Apple they have shells etc..on desktop OSes not phones.
I cannot agree more. I feel the folks living in cities in india are much more broad minded than indians who have migrated to US long time.
> What if I set up a tent on your lawn and take it down whenever you want to play frisbee? You lose nothing.

Much of northern europe has a "freedom to roam" making this explicitly legal and acceptable (within certain limits).

Nobody is saying that all law should be based in property. There are plenty of laws that aren't based in property and that is ok. E.g., we don't say murder is wrong because it deprives someone of property.

> There are dozens of examples of "borrowing" that just aren't done in polite society because the owner doesn't want them to be done.

And there are many examples of "borrowing" that are considered acceptable in polite society regardless of the "owner's" opinion. There are more factors in play then what the originator of the idea thinks of the matter.

> Piracy hurts the author's ability to sell books. Free copies just have that effect. Every normal human understands it

So? Society is not under a general responsibility to make people money. You can say the same thing about many acceptable activities: Negative critical reviews hurt the author's ability to sell books. Negative reviews just have that effect. Every normal human understands it.
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It's a wonder it isn't spreading through open source packages.

There is a de-drm tool that I used to use which packages some other open source. For whatever reason, I always assume people who package up software are careful about what they're packaging up, but no, as it turned out this project is not careful at all. It shouldn't have been surprising but it was.

(I ended up writing my own tool. I de-drm on principle; I don't mind buying stuff, I am deeply offended when that stuff vanishes out from under me because of deliberate obsolescence and/or shutdown. Buying DRM-free is not always an option.)
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your summary is not making a lot of sense either to be honest. well, at least the last part...

> I'm open to being convinced if she had made any effort to show/prove that "use of biased datasets in research" is correlated with "biased outcomes in real world production deployments".

what does that mean? is there anything that would auto-magically eliminate bias if it were introduced into research?
Isn’t “Africa” just as bad, if not worse? Not all black people are Africans or have African heritage. Far from it, in fact.

Also: darker? Darker than what? Are you taking “white” as your baseline?

I mean, if you’re going to throw stones about how “you don’t understand”, you could try having a rational point.
Imagine a ship beeing buildvdecentralized. A discussion would need to be able to specify the rough size, location and outline of the subprojekt it is currently part of. It also would need to be able to resolve dependancies and merge same, but not similar projects. This needs human level AI to kee coherent..

The result would look more like a wiki, with several linear conversations as source, rearranged by machine.
Cirque du Soleil certainly are different and work like a tightly knit family, they do have the advantage of not being a traveling show though.

Having been back-stage at a circus many times for work, it's a really tough and hard life to live in...

They eventually removed all of their animals from their show, not because of external pressure, but because they could no longer care for the animals as they used to.

For those that haven't seen their VR experience, try and see it, it's jaw-dropping good.
and pylance uses pyright to do so.
What needs to be done for other people who've checked out the repo on the master branch?
Just out of curiosity, do you see this as being different from open source curriculum and materials for teachers/schools/anyone?

I don't have a good recommendation there either, but I was wondering if it is necessary to restrict yourself to "homeschooling" curriculum in particular?
If those channels are free (and by that reasoning, not actually factored into the price of my package) then why am I unable to get individual channels or create my own bundle? Either I'm subsidizing stuff that I don't want to watch, or I'm not.

Is your point that I can't spend less because... they're going to get $50 out of me either way? Except that's impossible because there is no other way so there's literally no way of knowing a theoretical cost so it's safest to assume it's going to be $50 or more?
It's basically Chinese circus with better production values.
Little Snitch is becoming much, much less useful with in-app DNS-over-HTTPS resolvers. They really need to provide a local DNS/DoH-to-DoH proxy function so they can sniff the traffic without forcing the user to switch off DoH entitely.
YouTube also lets you subscribe to individual channels. Go to some of the popular ones and you'll see a price next to the subscribe button. Channels can choose to publish videos to subscribers only.
Readers who are not from Indian subcontinent may find this difficult to understand or beleive, let me throw some context.

Indian caste system is probably the longest running abuse,racism, human rights violation in the human history. Even,now in some parts of the country people from lowest caste are made to carry human waste on their head[0].

After independence,thanks to rights offered by constitution & reservation by governments to repent the sins; many from lower caste were able to get educated.

Inequality is often perpertraited by people at the top of the food chain and in the case of caste system its been Brahmins and those acknowledged by them. Brahmin patriarchy is the deep state in India, do a quick search about top CEOs in India, Majority of Company auditors are Brahmins so the company/tax laws are often dictated by them (I just stated one example of brahmin patriarchy w.r.t context of the article).

Ask the lower caste team members of any large IT company in India e.g. TCS, Infosys led by a Brahmin manager(who is not an atheist); you'll hear about discrimination they face.

At the same time, Ex.Brahmins (Brahmins who have denounced their affiliation to caste system) have been one of the top voices in support of human rights & equality this includes freedom fighters, newspaper publishers, several leading luminaries, economists, Nobel laureates and top scientists who have left India for good.

[0]https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/08/25/india-caste-forced-clean...
depriving those who have the means to buy that software of the exclusivity of their position

I'm gradually realizing that this probably plays a larger effect in society than we think. Like the ancient parable of the prodigal son, whose faithful brother was jealous that the rebel was celebrated in the end. Maybe it also plays out in lifelong CS devotees vs. CS-for- the-money people -- the nerds might feel that they have "earned" CS more, and the dayjob folks might not appreciate the depth of understanding that comes from the dedication of the lifelong devotees?
Or is race the proxy?
I'm sure you know this, but for the young'uns here:

It's even worse than that. The SD card spec provides for a "write protect notch" and corresponding physical switch. On the card itself.

But, it's optional and it's not implemented by the card. Instead it's up to the host software to honor it.

Morons!

USB thumb drives should also have a physical switch. But they don't.

I'm from the old school of "no ring, no write" on 9 track tape. Saved many people's asses back in the day. But that knowledge has been lost in time ... like tears in rain.
All the old winter-overs in McMurdo Station hated when the flights started coming in for the summer season, especially that early WinFly in September with all those “damn GERMS”. Kind of funny the population is so isolated that everyone is immune to the local viruses for a little bit.
I'll argue that the IDE is Unix, not vim, I recently started and endeavour to vanilla Vim and I was baffled by what is possible even without plugins, granted I mostly work with C and a bit of Python, but one thing to consider is that most people using Vim come from an IDE background, so horse for course I guess.

https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/series/unix-as-ide/

Edit: Link
> [...] but at least I don't need to learn a new programming language (if we can call jq that...)

jq has looping, branching, recursion (with tail recursion optimization), variable assignment, modules, I/O... Yeah, it's a programming language.
The great depression in live performances is truly a global tragedy. If you think restaurants and barbershops have it bad, imagine theaters. For most of them it's basically impossible to do social distancing and remain financially solvent. People may be itching to go out to eat and get a haircut, but it will be a long time before people are going to pack in to an opera house. Couple that with the fact that audiences for ballet, opera, and orchestras skews much older I'm any case, and I fear many of these art forms will face a catastrophic blow in some cities.
the end goal involves wearing a device that enables Facebook content in your field-of-view 12-15 hours a day
> Which is precisely why LeCun - like myself - agrees with 95% of what Gebru has said in the past.

Even now, it's not clear to me that this is the case. LeCun still hasn't actually acknowledged any of the broader ethical arguments Gebru made, either on twitter or on his followup posts on facebook.

In fact, he makes no references to her research anywhere (beyond the vaguest "I value the research you're doing" in his apology tweet). I found that rather suspicious, I still do.

Like, having read through the entire conversation, I have no confidence that Yann could explain any of Timnit's research if asked about it, even in broad strokes. That's really, really weird given everything that happened.
So, you are going back to the training data ;)
And the times when we find ourselves wanting to quantify and measure them in order to make decisions that impact people’s lives them are precisely when we need to be extremely careful, because they are subjective traits.
Why not? The founder sold most of his stake to 3 investment firms. One of which (at least) is big on Leveraged Buyouts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirque_du_Soleil#:~:text=On%20....
Ever seen the Falun Gong sponsored Shen Yun production?
oh this is genius!
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Not a mod but please don't do this as it'll litter a thread with mechanical, generated comments, like it did with "linkback" blog post comments in the 2000s and early 2010s.
Does it bother you that some of the people most in favor of increased police presence in crime ridden communities are themselves black. Is it more likely that they are racist too, or that their material concerns for their safety are more legitimate than your racism dog whistle detector?