skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - to change a diaper
> Ok? What if one never intends to have kids.

Then...one should still have that skill. I mean, I didn't have kids until my 40s and the only decade of my life where I didn't apply that skill was the first.

> -plan an invasion
> For goodness' sake, why is that important outside of the military?

It's not, but Heinlein—and while some of the list might be more Long-the-character than Heinlein though the broad outline is clearly Heinlein, including at least the outline of the military focus of not the particular examples—(hardly uniquely in US history, one might note—this was a common belief among the founders) viewed military service, including leadership, as something one should be prepared to assume at need (whether on behalf of or against one’s government, as dictated by the need) not a profession for a distinct and isolated caste whose skills the rest of society could afford to neglect, and viewed the contrary view as incompatible with liberty. (I imagine that, had our adulthooda overlapped, as they didn't quite, I'd have been pretty far from Heinlein politically. But on this point, we could agree.)

> The Great War should have cured him of this dream.

That someone should be prepared to die gallantly at need does not imply that the Great War (or war generally) is particularly the occasion where such death was most likely to be called for. Certainly while Heinlein clearly believed it was possible that that could occur, one could hardly read his body of work without recognizing that he saw that possibility outside of war and, likewise saw much, if not most, death in war as pointless and unnecessary.

> Anchored in the past and a different priority system.

It may have been written a half century ago by someone whose formative years were a century ago, but I don't see anything particularly dated about it. It may speak to a different set of ideals than you hold, but I don't know why it is surprising or irritating that disagreement on that level exists.
I would have been excluded from this survey if I knew of its existence since I attended (only) 12th grade and graduated. I was unschooled prior to this age, and I consider myself quite successful.

Several have pointed to a perception that one must be of financial means to unschool your children, and at least in my case the opposite is true. However, while my parents did not have the encumbrance of wealth, they were both highly educated and valued knowledge and family highly.

I consider my experience mostly positive, and credit the notion of facilitating learning when there is active interest as a basic cognitive tool useful in many areas of our society.
It's almost as if human beings have a built-in learning mechanism to recognize language, social norms, general background knowledge and social relationships that has been operative for thousands of years before school even existed. Woooooaah man, that's freaky!
I suspect other arms of the government that can put a man far underwater find things in the ocean and pass it on.

so if woods hole finds something, or a hacker finds something, who knows if they got a hint from elsewhere.
I agree. I’ve always liked being around older people, because I feel like I can learn a lot from them. That was true even when I was a teenager. I had the incredible fortune to be friends with Pem Farnsworth, Philo T Farnworth’s widow in my teens. She was 76 years older than me, but a true friend, and an incredibly interesting person to talk to.

My app is: https://aetherlog.com. I’m working on a site redesign (finally!) now.
The apparent breach at St. Louis, Mo. based Data Viper offers a cautionary and twisted tale of what can happen when security researchers seeking to gather intelligence about illegal activity online get too close to their prey or lose sight of their purported mission.

Yeah, the discussion of the data the company kept gives the impression that the only difference between Data Viper and a black hat data broker is that Data Viper sold to "vetted" law enforcement and security researchers.

Now, what potential for lawlessness does that give law enforcement?
Folks not on twitter have been getting second hand twitter for the past couple of years.
Maybe because it's not plant-based, but vegan. We all eat plants - the difference is some don't eat anything else.

There are certain supplements, which can help with it [0], specifically:

* Alpha-lipoic acid

* Calcium

* Folic Acid (actually, Folate), Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, and Betaine

* Magnesium

* Omega-3 Fatty Acids

* Potassium

* Vitamin C

* Vitamin E

* Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10)

* Selenium

* Bilberry

* Garlic

* Ginkgo

* Ginseng

* Turmeric

[0]: http://pennstatehershey.adam.com/content.aspx?productid=107&...
Grant Imahara, host of Mythbusters, dead at 49
If you like this stuff you should check out the work of the gifted and funny Bob Pease both in EDN for many years and at National. Here’s a lovely bio from autodeskmof all places: https://www.autodesk.com/products/eagle/blog/whats-all-this-...
This was a huge component of a 2020 DEFCON CTF qualifier challenge that only Samurai and PPP solved, where you had to get code execution or arbitrary file read out of as many setuid binaries as possible, after installing basically every cli Debian package and changing them to setuid.

There are some very interesting ways to load shared objects or read files with environment variables, and we even found ways to leverage common libraries like readline and gconv to pop apps that used them.
Anyone notice that the facial recognition points north of SF are errors? They contain information about programs in Nebraska and Florida. I wonder what led to the error and if there are more.
Instabuy if it can iron too! :)
The reasons .NET never really competed with C# for the longest time were a handful:

- First-party support for .NET only existed on Windows systems until 2015ish with the release of Rosetta

- Third party support across platforms via Mono never really picked up steam for a number of reasons

- Early on, .NET code, much like JVM code, wasn't in the same league as C++ in terms of performance

- I'd like to be proven wrong on this one, but .NET remains a poor framework to do systems programming in. GC is IMO still a factor because even though modern M&S GCs are impressively performant they still add a degree of unpredictability to your runtime, and sometimes that's not acceptable — so reference counting or something even more basic is preferred, if only for the consistency.
Even an extremely easy to get warrant takes both time and effort, by multiple people, to get. It's incomparable to an automatic feed to all the Ring cameras in a neighbourhood.

It's the difference between surveillance and mass surveillance. The latter is the bigger problem and warrants will solve it.
A Fireside Chat with Grant Imahara (2015) [video]
Yuk...

I’ve dealt with a lot of developers who basically collect certifications but sadly can’t even code a print statement. Compare this to people who I’ve worked with without a university degree and just studied on their own from books and tutorials who are superstars.

My money is on Google Certificates being gamed just like all other cert programs.
Wow this sounds incredible. Part of me would love to try something like this. The Wikipedia article has more information on their struggles and is a fascinating read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
I had this same problem. One of them rattled so loudly I couldn’t hear anything else while walking. Had it replaced and then noticed the other one is doing it, but much quieter...for now.
I'd like to buy one and try to have it build a robot like itself. Would I be able to sell them? Maybe now but not the version in 2040.
Runge Cars
I have the exact same problem, and its becoming an issue. If I laugh, I get rattle.
>Why not? And why would you have to?

Well if you put it that way, of course hiring a private tutor on every subject is in now way worse than school.
...and just this evening Santa Clara county (most of the valley) announced they're shutting down gyms and salons on Wednesday, because they expect the state will shut us down anyway. Craziness.

I'm glad our state is doing something, it's just so unpredictable.
This article, though not exactly thorough, does have some interesting anecdotes. I think an important take-away here is to realize that there are many non-conventional paths through the educational system, for better or for worse. I took a non-conventional path, and it worked out for me.

From the article:
"Most of those who went on to college did so without either a high school diploma or general education diploma (GED), and without taking the SAT or ACT. Several credited interviews and portfolios for their acceptance to college, but by far the most common route to a four-year college was to start at a community college (typically begun at age 16, but sometimes even younger).

None of the respondents found college academically difficult, but some found the rules and conventions strange and sometimes off-putting. Young people who were used to having to find things out on their own were taken aback, and even in some cases felt insulted, “when professors assumed they had to tell them what they were supposed to learn[...]"

This mirrors my experience closely (though I would say I definitely found the structure of university difficult/oppressing). Being a 14 year-old enrolling in community college was initially daunting, but it was one of the most important formative experiences of my life. Looking back at the experience, being surrounded by people from all walks of life was invaluable to me. I personally feel that community college, and numerous other 'real-life' experiences made possible through unschooling, prepared me for adulthood way better than university ever did. One of the largest failings of the conventional school system, IMO, is the lack of socialization between different age groups. YMMV; there is not a single 'magic bullet' for education, and everyone's experiences will be different.

A recent post[0] here also generated a lot of discussion about unschooling/homeschooling. As a former 'unschooler', I'd like to plug my comments from that post[1].

I would love to hear from some other unschoolers on HN! I'm forever curious to hear how it worked out for others (email in profile).

Side note: When I was quite young, I actually tried out the Sudbury Valley School mentioned in the article. I hated it. I know several people who went there. Some loved it, some hated it. Most are doing well, some much better than others, some not so much. Just like with unschooling, homeschooling, and conventional schooling.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23010079

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23014490
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The IP leaks through the name of the page on the URL preview. https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com redirects to https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/ which includes the IP of the sender. The name of the page includes the IP address of the sender. "Torrent downloads and distributions for IP 0.0.0.0". If you paste the URL in a sentence with a period at the end this preview may not be generated.
I think the comment was less about your code but rather about your v0.0.3 version number. I guess a v0.99 would imply more stability.

That's why lots of companies have switched to date based versioning, similar to Ubuntu and others.
Hell, some guy I cut off while driving told me to go kill myself today! It's unfortunate that comments that most everyone would disregard as meaning very much take on some weight online. It's pure cancer and is destroying the world.

It's trivially easy to affect real change on Twitter through bots, so it should come as no surprise that that's exactly what's happening.

Twitter isn't disgusting because of what people say on it, it's disgusting because of how it makes people feel.
he's trolling
Streaming services are still less convenient, though they are moee accesible now, and it shows, piracy is less and less popular every year.
wow.... horrible news :(
Note: The studies currently being run here are regular Phase 3 trials, not challenge trials, so you don't have to be young or perfectly healthy to sign up.
I’m not sure this even qualifies as science. Doesn’t even compare to a group of schooled children. There may indeed be positive outcomes associated with unschooling but this gives us little useful information for assessing this.
> School for 20 years straight in a small town? What country is that? In the US there is usually just K-12 in a single school system.

In a single school system, sure. The same small town is also likely to have preschool of 2-3 years, and maybe a public or private community or junior college or vocational school, which gets you 2-3 + 13 + 2 = 17-18 years, not far off of 20.
Damn...how
I believe Mr. Duruk is essentially complaining about false advertising from an entity that's commonly been known as trustworthy. I'd say there's enough evidence to entertain that complaint.
primo.af just shows tnc/privacy policy/and a login button

primo.press shows about/features/login/signup/pricing/cookie policy
This is going to disappear quick, but what you are suggesting is literally what President Trump was asking the experts live on air before the context-less clips came out about him "telling people to inject bleach"

I accept my shadow ban, dang.
"Sorry, this content is not available in your region."
For people who can not view the article, here's an outline link https://outline.com/uGmACW
Be easy enough to hook a speaker system to the acceleration
Brain Anyeurism
Never heard of this Unschool term, but I was certainly Unschooled for my entire life until 18 when I went to community college and spent 4 years learning how to be a person around other people. I ended up getting a MA in the humanities, but my education led me to believe that my Unschooling as we're calling it now, was neglect. I suffered a great deal, and have tried to discourage homeschooling to any of my friends now that I'm in my 30s.
Australian dollars are worth way less than the American dollars we're talking about.
A hollywood reporter article [1] says that he passed of a brain aneurysm. Tragic way to go and so early. He entertained the heck out of me as a kid.

[1] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/grant-imahara-dead-my...
That's the small scale developer edition.

I don't know anything about home robots, but to me this seems to be the first design that is practical to bring to consumers. Not 2 human arms (or even legs) and some expensive face, but instead just a Roomba-ish base, telescope arm with grabber that moves up and down, camera on top.
At $1.8k it would be amazing, at $18k it's a big stretch. I would buy it at $1.8k.
Downvoting a simple question, really?

Shows the magnitude of emotional response people who are insecure about the science of their food choices elicit when threatened.
Inheritance can be clean and expressive when used diligently. If you wish to express a tight cohesion between classes with default functionality (especially when it pertains to instance variables), an abstract parent class can keep the shared logic in a single place. I run into this often when dealing with Android UI code which tends to involve many "variations on a theme" classes.
Apple has been dropping lots of balls in this way.

They should support open source in an official way. They should support other languages besides swift. They should support virtualization/containers. They should embrace techies, scientists and engineers. But it seems they're closing down these areas of their ecosystem.
RIP. Thank you for all the great times I had watching MythBusters a kid! I remember I had to run from school to my house as a kid in order to catch the start of the show. It was awesome!
Google is becoming IBM
That "privilege" was fought for at some point in time. Democracy isn't complicity or passive.
Yes.

You learn many thing you do not know are important.

Also (about US): making kids to borrow from banks is INSAN*E !!! Make universities free, like in Europe.
This is their only real chance to keep Devs from migrating to Windows 10 with WSL2 or baremetal Linux. I couldn't believe they didn't announce any thing for Big Sur, I could have sworn they would if they really cared about non-macOS/ipadOS/iOS devs. Especially that they're also dropping Perl/Python/Ruby frameworks.

If anything, they could have just low-key embrace brew and take it from there. They didn't, and I think that sends a message: they've given up.
I might be misreading the comment above, but it sounds to me like it's asking, "Were there any signs of him being untrustworthy?" (and not "He shouldn't have been fired.")

It is precisely because of the magnitude of his error that it would have been nicer to fire him before he made it.
https://archive.ph/qp51G
Thanks, it's censored in Europe.

Edit: Weird, now it doesn't show the GDPR censorship page anymore.
I don’t see an inherent issue:

- Teslas are going to be built in such a way that every part runs for 1,000,000 miles

- “Refuelling” in the pit could be as quick as quick-releasing the battery sled, and popping in a charged one in it’s place
LXD – next generation system container manager release 4.3
The orthodoxy is that the two most common forms of time stamps are:

(1) Unambiguous: a time in the past that is represented by the number of seconds since the epoch, Jan 1 1970. When coupled with a location/jurisdiction, they can be converted into a wall-clock time like “1:23pm 04 May 2006 Europe/Paris.”

(2) Ambiguous (but semantically meaningful): a time in the future that would be shown on a clock at the location of the event.

The logging of IP addresses would use the former.

The upcoming trial date for illegal torrenting would use the latter.
Grant was part of a group of people who showed us how engineering could be more than cubicles and paperwork, and inspired my childhood dreams which turned into fulfilling careers in both tech and entertainment. To this day Grant and his coworkers are my 'what do i want to be when i grow up' answer.
Wow. When I was a kid Mythbusters was one of the only TV shows I watched, and Grant was my favorite on the B team. It was one of the few shows really encouraging kids to do science.

What a tragedy.
This is why you should learn to code
At 9:15 he talks about using a BASIC Stamp [0] to make the Energizer Bunny and R2D2. A huge inspiration and creative builder. Very sad to hear about his passing today, I wanted to share this talk I attended.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_Stamp
Just to clarify this is 200GB per customer.
So that's a symptom of an underlying cause: the insanity of for profit college prices in the US. Other countries don't have this problem. There's also the obvious solution of giving them loans with 0% interest. Perhaps another option is to pay their tuition in exchange for working at the lender for a fixed number of years afterward.
On the other side of the Tasman they're pretty common due to summer storms. In Queensland having candles ready when we sat down for dinner was an almost daily occurrence some months, the PC and just about everything else would be turned off and unplugged by then. The best nights were when the power went early and we had an emergency Barbecue.

Over the years it got more reliable but I'm not sure if that was universal or just my specific area getting a lot more built up.
Feels like it would overbalance given how lightweight and tall it is - any time it tried to pick anything up that was even slightly heavy it would just fall over.
You guess, keep hearing, seems pretty clear.

Thanks doctor.

Maybe next you can educate us on why the data you linked literally contradicts everything you said. The trend in deaths is increasing.
> I know I couldn't educate my kids to university enrollment standard

Other than the elite schools, I suspect you overestimate the standards and requirements.*

If you have a successful white collar career, you are at least a mediocre writer. That may be enough to pass on to your kids and get them into many schools. If you acknowledge your gaps - sounds like you have - even better, now you can fill them with anything from online courses (anywhere from free to expensive), tutoring (expensive), local community college (depends), or even trading favors with other parents with opposite skills gaps (bartering ftw).

* I have a homeschooled kid looking at colleges now and the standards are lower than I expected. He passed the minimum requirements years ago.
I don't think it's a valid argument to brush raised issues aside as excuses.

Media companies are aggressively litigious bullies and the way they conduct their business is at odds with the interests of the public at large. Not speaking for the others but I have no tears for cry for losses incurred by actors like that, especially not "losses" of digital media licensing opportunities.
Seems very slow, guess robotics really is hard.
I never comment here, but this one really hit me. I have so many great memories watching MythBusters and seeing now this headline makes me really sad.
The bank is using your money to feed off the needy, the bank takes most of it, and gives you a small percentage of the money they made by exploiting them.
I think there is a bias because giving a kid unschooling/home schooling means that the parent's are reasonably interested in educating their kids.

Article has a mild opinionated view of success, which values job satisfaction. High portion of cohort has selected self-contained jobs like those which are readily convertible to a free lancer job(i.e. software developer, carpenter, entreprenuer etc). If you measure the success in social dominance and being closer to apex of hierarchy (becoming a policitian, CEO), I think schoolers would have much better performance on this because school also teaches how to take advantage in social relationships, winning a conflict or making allies.
Yeah, GraphQL certainly has many of the features that I was looking at here too, and I figure that it's the rough direction in which webdev seems to be going.

I just... like RPCs.

There's also a vague sense of "buttery should work well for multiple services in a way that other methods might struggle to do so." The fact that RPCs are grouped into services means that a load balancer can shift RPCs to different backends based on which buttery service they're talking to. I'm not sure how that actually compares against common solutions, but it IS interesting :)

Thanks for taking the time to think about all these things! It's very helpful for me.
This is probably the most coherent, well thought out post I've read about Bitcoin in a long time.

When I was in high school, to make an icon or a sprite, I had to make what was called a shape table on the Apple II [1].

You had to use graph paper, then translate it to hex and then either use a series of POKE statements to stick it in memory or go into the 6502 monitor, sorta like the command line for entering assembler op codes [2].

Eventually, we got programs that did all of this grunt work for us.

Bitcoin is just leaving the Apple II entering hex op codes by hand phase. Certainly some of the Lightning Network client are quite slick and a lot closer to mainstream fintech apps like Venmo and PayPal. Just for buying and selling Bitcoin, Cash App is great.

There will be a point when all of the bells and whistles Bitcoin offers—n of m multisig, pre-signed transactions, the ability to use mixing services, etc. will be accessible to regular people.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_table

[2]: http://www.easy68k.com/paulrsm/6502/MONREF.HTM
I did something like this once. My University had an full screen kiosk browser that was locked down. Well it turns out that you could "customize" Firefox, add in a missing button, get to the print screen and change the executable from "lpr" to $TERM which would immediately pop a shell.

Good times.
Just when you think 2020 can’t get worse. What a tragedy. RIP Grant!