skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was "homeschooled" instead of going to High School, but by reading this definition I was effectively unschooled.

I'll say it worked great for me who struggled with bullies and traditional school systems for whatever reasons. I later went on and got a GED (took all the tests in one day and did very well). Later went on I went to a community college and then state university finished with a BS in CS.

For me things tend to be much easier to understand if I need to understand it in order to solve a problem and then I could go as deep into a topic as necessary. For example if someone had told me that geometry and trigonometry were what I needed to know to be able to 2D game graphics and presented it in the context of game programming I would have been a million times more interested. I was definitely one of those kids who asked "why do I need to know this?" And typically the answer was not forthcoming, even though being older I understand this much more clearly.

Also, I'll add that I don't know that you have to necessarily cram a bunch of information into a kid just because they're a kid. If they learn how to learn and later on need it, you can still be quite well equipped to learn more. In fact it seems easier to me as you get older and have more context around all subjects.
The destruction of what.cd was similarly terrible.
I am pretty sure I pay more in Oregon when you include healthcare expenditures. State income tax plus federal plus fica plus monthly premiums for spouse and kiddo ads up to a huge chunk of my take home (over 35% of my gross earnings).
Mine updates more often than monthly but otherwise sounds like a good fit? www.corey.tech
Some are, some are not. They are all friends parents and some family, a few others are blue collar business owners or workers. One striking example is a friend who's Dad(in the construction business) owns multiple properties and his son(late 30's) rents. They are doing the exact same job and it shows how skewed things are based on 30-40 years ago(his Dad owned a house at his age).
But constantly rails against short traders.
What is the current sentiment on the pandemic like in California, given that they've been on lockdown for the longest? Are people getting antsy? Is there an "index" that measures sentiment across different states?
>But [a bunch of accusations against a hedge fund] show all the fancy nonsense about economic efficiency and capital market fluidity is just that
"Giving up" is not a good summary of what Illich proposes. In fact, it can be argued that what we are doing right now is giving up on education. Education != Schooling. Education is a life-long process. Everybody loves to learn and loves education. This is true even for the "dumbest" most anti-intellectual people you know, you are just looking at learning and education through a very narrow lens. You don't need to force people to learn.

Not everybody loves to be forced to be sitting in a school classroom for 7 hours a day, 5 days a week. And not everybody want to memorize state capitals.
> he's utterly missing the fact that things like AVX-512 sell chips, and that's what Intel's in the business of doing.

But wouldn't something more useful than AVX-512 sell more chips?

Massively parallel floating point workloads on the CPU are a modest niche compared to other ways Intel could have spent engineering effort and chip area, like not ruining the performance of just about everything else with security vulnerabilities.
The reason for case counts staying relatively low in those places has a lot less to do with "herd immunity" and a lot more to do with still being careful. Even though a huge number of people were infected, it was still a very small amount of the population overall, not anywhere near enough to affect the transmission rate with no restrictions.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/07/herd-immunity-questioned-aft...

In MA we're not even close to entirely reopened yet, but as we continue step by step the transmission rate is ticking back up unfortunately: https://rt.live/us/MA
Yes it would, but I am very, very nervous that the actions of the government and the capricious actions of retail investors would go against me, so I have no stomach to do it.

As an example, image that you shorted bitcoin half-way up its rise ... you would be broke! Possibly less than broke! On the other hand, you would have eventually been right, just the timing on a bubble stock (or possible meme stock, in this case) can make that sort of thing dangerous.
Claiming I'm hand-waving when I ask you to substantiate your hand-wave is a hell of a flex.

You made the claim. You want to support it, okay: support it. Or if you'd rather not, that's fine too, but it doesn't get to stand unchallenged either way.
I think we're talking about too many nuanced issues now. The last few messages have been entirely "I said, you said" and we even have seemed to hit a reply limit. I'll admit that I have probably not considered your arguments clearly because of my previous biases. But I am also going to claim that you may have done the same. (If you don't that's fine, I am absolutely not trying to gaslight here.)

I'll try to address some final points.

> Thats's a strawman. I never claimed it's necessary in all forms of discussion, and I don't believe it is.

I went of your statement "I'm not sure how you have a civil discussion about inhumane acts that are supported by an oppressive system" in your original post. To me it implied that you think an entirely civil discussion of any form about certain issues is not desirable.

> And yet you cited an article on divorce which had little to do with the topic. When I challenged that, you dug in harder and quoted much of the article.

I simply wanted to give context to why I quoted the article. I did not want to imply that you had not read or understood the article. Sorry, bad call.

> You are the one who made the original claim that it radicalizes people so the burden of proof is on you.

I would cite the concepts of "Personal grievance" and "Group grievance" with regard to radicalization.

> People who are oppressed are already victims. And you are blaming them for not being polite enough about their outrage. That the victims are the ones who are creating more racism by being outraged. It's their fault that they are radicalizing people. I'm not sure how you can blame a victim for making the problem worse and then say it's not victim blaming.

Point taken. Again I do not want to put blame on these victims. I just want to point out that their behavior might have unintended consequences and an environment that allows them to express their grievances without possibly making things worse for themselves would be better. I realize that achieving such an environment might be an impossibly hard task - I accept that when done badly it could make things worse even for them - but I refuse to accept that trying to do so is to be dismissed as victim blaming.

EDIT: It seems the reply limit isn't actually a thing. It must have been a visual bug at my end.
"Perhaps California could have attempted a middle ground strategy. Let the virus spread just a slight amount more than occurred during the initial lockdown in order to gradually spread immunity."

It's not even clear yet whether exposure to this virus confers immunity, nor how long such immunity would last if it does exist.

From the newest episode of This Week in Virology[1]:

Daniel Griffin: The tough thing, right, is that if you look at the "common" coronaviruses, they don't give us long-lasting immunity. Traditionally you could be reinfected multiple times in the same year. ... We've known this for the other coronaviruses, that if you get OC43 or 229e or any of the other, you don't get lifelong immunity, you can get sick again, and it's not clear that that second infection is milder than the first. My word of caution is to be careful about, you know, when we hear that 5 or 10 percent of the population is seropositive, I don't know what that means yet.

[1] - starting at about 14'34" in to episode 638: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-638/
And the GPUs are usually the bigger component.
Who says businesses are trying to leave Wordpress? Anyone got any data backing the claim?

I just don’t see it. Ghost already tried and gave up. There’s tons of Wordpress competitors out there. I could be wrong but where’s the data?
I hate publishers as much as the next guy, but playing the twitter high-school popularity game is the last thing I want to do with my time, and IMO it's leading to the click-baitification of research in AI. This year there was even an instance of literal ASTs being hailed by deep learning hoards as some amazing new idea.

If science gets attention according to its level of twitter amplification, then scientific publishing is going to start looking a lot like journalism. That's already happening. Ask journalists how their search for truth is going.
Definitely, getting into any kind of dialogue usually devolves into a word-count contest.
> I expect housing to get a lot cheaper when the boomers actually need to wring some liquidity out of the real estate they've been holding (hoarding) to pay for elder care.

Boomers are between 56 and 74, a lot of them already have either liquidated real estate holdings by downsizing even if not explicitly for care, or passed it on, whether inter vivos or by inheritance (because quite a lot of them have died, and you can't take it with you.)
Usually the rotgut canadian whiskies like Rich & Rare are sold in plastic gallon bottles here.
Try a 20minute nap, or at the very least try out increasing or decreasing the length by 5 minutes at a time.

You may be accidentally waking up each day at the lowest valley of a sleep cycle
Scaling Log-Structured Key/Value Stores
From my limited experience, prolog is perfect for describing the shape of the valid state space for almost any domain. But its default execution strategy -- just depth-first search -- doesn't enable you to efficiently navigate that state space from diverse perspectives.
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Though it has not been conclusively proven, literally all signs point to meanginful immunity and virtually no signs point to the opposite. Dozens of vaccines are being developed on this assumption, and there have been zero confirmed instances of reinfection of a fully recovered individual.
It's actually terrifying to think about. I don't want to denigrate people or be mean, but when you realize that your own standard of literacy is something many people truly struggle to obtain, it helps make a lot of things make sense.

For example, I saw a thread on Reddit the other day where someone mentioned "taking the 30 seconds to read something"; the discussion went on a tangent where someone called themselves a slow reader because it took them a whole minute, and then others chimed in that it was taking them longer still. So, I timed myself and it took me 14 seconds to read it.

What that made abundantly clear to me was that my own experience in the world - seeing _words_ as first class entities everywhere, immediately tagged and understood as whole components, instantly, without ever "reading" them... is not everyone else's experience. Some adults who nominally believe themselves to be literate must actually have to sit there and spend some effort to recognize each letter and sound out a word, the way my children did when they were ~4 (and some children get even younger). What is the world like for these people? I can often speed-read a paragraph and come away with an understanding within seconds, skimming over it for key words and familiar grammatical constructs; my assumption is that most people posting here can do the same. Maybe that's not the case?

There's also a lot of talk on the Internet in the last year or two about inner monologue, with the growing realization that it is likely that a large part of the population simply does not experience the ability to talk to themselves within their own head. This makes me wonder if they can read silently without having to mouth the words; perhaps this is the tip of the iceberg for a differentiation in intelligence that hasn't really been extensively studied yet (unsurprisingly, since psychometrics are not in vogue right now).
The word "founder" just means "person who started a thing." The use as a synonym for entrepreneur is something I basically haven't seen anywhere outside of very business-focused contexts.
One other note on Tesla in particular, that I think the other comments here have largely missed:

Tesla is--and has been for a while now--the largest market cap company that is not included in the S&P 500. To be considered for inclusion in the S&P, companies must show at least 4 consecutive quarters of profitability.

Tesla's next earnings release (which is in roughly two weeks) has the possibility of being that fourth consecutive quarter. S&P isn't then required to include them, but it seems likely they would. Once they did so, index funds and ETFs that benchmark to the S&P (which is the biggest single benchmark of such funds, by a lot) would then be forced to buy the stock (at whatever price it traded at the time) in proportion to its ranking in the index. At one point today, Tesla was top-10.

Clearly this is a bit of a conspiracy theory, but this type of behavior (bidding up shares in front of index inclusion) isn't that unusual. What is unusual is that Tesla has gotten so large prior to inclusion: stocks normally join in the 500s - 300s or so, and grow from there.
I dunno, they're pretty useful for buying drugs and VPNs...
Yes, but that is true of any advancement. In the long run, it just means we should have stopped devoting jobs to low level manufacturing and changed to higher level ones (e.g. software).
Its not like all people understand the monetary system. If something works over some period people will build trust and use it
Twenty years or so ago, I recall procuring very large quantities of extremely-mediocre table wine (in France) that came in large, rigid plastic cubes. I don't remember how much these stored, but it was "many litres" and they were dirt cheap.
I’ve made profitable investments in bankrupt public companies before, but it took a brutal amount of research. Not just public filings but monitoring PACER for new legal filings to not be surprised by new developments.
> “Each Math.random function created for distinct realms must produce a distinct sequence of values from successive calls.”

If this were not true, it would have security implications.

Thought experiment:
If there was a single state then a web page could pull a bunch of numbers, use that data to derive the seed AND the next number that will be pulled without pulling it.

Then the predictor page can STOP pulling numbers when they know the next number is an auspicious one. The predictor page has now successfully "rigged" the dice roll for another page that shares the same state.
The Top 1% alone is making more than enough in earnings. The fact that billionaires exist at all is proof enough that far more money exists that could be spent on living wages at the bottom end than currently ever is. Whether or not the rest of the Top 10% contributes nearly as much to labor costs disparity as the Top 1% is mostly academic at that point, especially if all it does is serve to prop up the Top 1%, which is more than fitting for a terse reply in the pattern of the poster before me.

> Nothing will make up for the low wages in China.

China's wages aren't even that low anymore. Maybe you are thinking of Bangladesh or somewhere that China is now themselves outsourcing "cheap labor" to?

> America could push up minimum wage some, but it won't change the dynamics of export/import.

Correct, it's not a labor cost issue at the end of the day. As I said, companies are more than capable of finding margins that work and still pay labor what it owes them. There's too many externalities companies are willing to, and legally allowed to, ignore that keep them from feeling any pressure or need to actually do so. The point I tried to make is that is not "low wages exist in China" keeping jobs outside of the US. That's a solvable problem with honest dealing with the labor market. Companies just have no interest to solve it.

(The labor market isn't a fair market, for what that is worth, and has almost no liquidity. Corporate structures impact the labor market a lot more than the labor market affects corporate structures, whether or not you agree that the modern American "gentry" are playing too selfish a game with the American labor market and getting away with it.)
I would enjoy a "slideshow" or auto-advanced feature that automatically moves to the next window when the video finishes or after some fixed period of time.
> What's Bitcoin's excuse?

Bitcoin has already worked as a Store of Value. It can survive on this narrative without other use cases. I think of Bitcoin is a piece in the future money puzzle. We need to find the other missing pieces. One of the missing pieces is inflation. I wrote an article on this:

https://bitflate.org/post/2019/08/26/bitcoin-missing-link-to...
If the hypothetical crisis divides up the Internet so, for example, U.S. users only can connect to U.S. nodes, and connect to U.S. miners -- and the same is true for Iceland and China and South Africa etc., it would become extremely perilous to trade value for the currency anywhere in the world, right? Because the geographically-separate chains cannot synchronize in any reasonable way.

A breakdown of the Internet by geography is definitely a crisis that should be on radar screens, and it wouldn't require anything like a total societal breakdown.

Then HAM TOR and whatever else would become essential to keep the network stable.
If the bitcoin network were ever reduced to that, there would be significant risk of a dedicated miner coming online being able to do a 50% attack.
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If not for the issues with paying and incentives ISP interchange style balancing upon the net incoming vs outgoing reviews would be a tempting way to get some focus upon it with "networked" universities. That would of course encourage low quality spammed peer reviews to up the volume.
i would be concerned about what sort of exploits may be facilitated by we use cookies popups
The only question now is, which state will win the race to be the first to reinstitute stay-at-home orders?
Yes. The textbook examples really don't do practical applications justice though, e.g.:

shape

...

circle extends shape

I find it very useful to extend classes in an existing framework or system with a new functionality specific for my particular problem.

For a general example, sub-typing exceptions is useful.
I tend to read back a little further than that, and I will not deny that they are aggressive in your time-frame or mine.
If I remember correctly, those kind of cards are used in the process of identity theft / building fake identities.
You wrote "in the Russian controlled portion of the country" and "corrupt Russian guards", while the cited paper does not even contain word "Russia" in it and instead it rightfully mentions a "civil war". And as far as gossips go, when you pass between LNR/DNR controlled territory and Ukrainian controlled one shakedown can easily happen on both sides (and it was especially true in chaotic 2014).

And it looks a bit strange for this "anonymous software engineer" to keep all his savings in USD cache. Usually you get paid via bank transfers and don't bother with retrieving cache from ATMs, so his funds would be automatically accessible on Ukraninan side. And even if he does not trust his domestic banking system (which arguably a good decision), then it's fairly easy to open an account in an EU bank (e.g. in Estonia). Also he would have to find those willing to trade cache USD for Bitcoins in the midst of a developing military conflict (which is in itself a very risky transaction).
"Peer review status Pre-print published April 7, 2017 (This article is not yet peer reviewed)"
sigh

Apparently date math is hard. You're 100% right.
If you look at the numbers throughout the Northeast, you see a remarkable consistency. New cases are at a trickle, despite lots of reopening (more in some places than others) and weeks of mass protests throughout the larger cities.

I am in NYC and mask compliance here is... OK. But people are generally going out a lot, eating out a lot, shopping, etc, with very little concern. Weeks keep passing without even a tiny uptick in the rate of new cases. Clearly, there is something suppressing the transmission rate in this region. The exact same holds true for Europe.
"Lockdown" is perhaps a misleading description. The restrictions on private gatherings are entirely unenforced, and everyone I know has long since started having whatever gatherings they personally feel they need.
It might be helpful to look at Google mobility trends; I know that there was 'shutdown fatigue' almost everywhere (according to GMT).
"11. The Never-Ending Now: The structure of our social media feeds blinds us to history, as it causes us to live in an endless cycle of ephemeral content consumption. The structure of the Internet pulls people away from age-old wisdom. "

I frequently find myself in this mode. Whether it's the latest youtube video or tweet. There's something to be said about looking back at past events and investigating what you might have failed to learn or appreciate.
> I would hope that for consistency, Illich on principle refused to take treatment

If memory serves Illich tolerated (and perhaps died from?) a prominent tumor on his face which he refused to have treated.

(That I would remember him as an exception in part makes your point.)

Apparent confirmation: "His charisma, brilliance and spirituality were clear to anyone who encountered him; these qualities sustained him in a heroic level of activity over the last 10 years in the context of terrible suffering caused by a disfiguring cancer." From the Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/dec/09/guardianobituar...
I put this at the bottom as it seems the least likely in my opinion and makes the least sense. I've heard this with robinhood traders on many financial sites as explanations for stocks jumping as people are spending their stimulus checks day trading.

source - https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/21/many-americans-used-part-of-...
Sure, but that's the standard for just about anything infosec related on the internet. Blog posts tend to reveal what techniques are in use as it's usually in the best interest of defenders.

Furthermore, red teams being kept up to date is also useful, which might be more surprising to those surprised by this post. Knowing obfuscation techniques in particular is plenty useful to developers and cybercriminals alike.
Essentially, deaths in NYC are way down because the people there who mingle unsafely have already achieved herd immunity. Evidently 25% of the NYC population infected was enough.

Suppose NYC population for COVID statistics is 8.5 million. NYC reports 22795 COVID deaths. With 25% of 8.5 million having COVID antibodies, that means 2.1 million infected. The case fatality rate in NYC thus computes to 1%.

Projecting to current hotspots, this analysis suggests that with triple the NYC population, Florida will need 60 thousand or so total COVID deaths to achieve herd immunity to the extent of the analogy between NYC and Florida.
> California shut down very hard and fast. When they reopened, nearly 100% of the population was still susceptible to the virus

LAX and SFO had daily flights from Wuhan and Shanghai, so it's likely that corona has been here since Dec. The test results say 3% positive, but it's likely much higher.
Yes! We've contributed loads to each of them. Here's a summary I wrote at the end of last year https://bkardell.com/blog/2019-Wrap.html - #2 contributor to Chromium, #2 contributor to WebKit, top 10 to Firefox last year.