skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I’m not blaming the TV shows and movies for portraying the things they do rather than bleak reality, and I’m not blaming people for wanting to watch what they want to watch.

I’m just arguing (purely descriptively) that quite possibly the prominent depictions in US movies and TV shows have given many people an impression of the US that is more glorious than reality; and that this discrepancy is greater regarding the US than most other countries.
Wow it does look great. Going to try it out!
And yet, if they DO have a place to live, why are they still forced to leave the country and forced to travel during a pandemic?
I normally don't care about celebrity deaths but this one really has me sad. I know a lot younger people were influenced by him but he had a positive influence on me even thought I was already well into my career as an engineer. He embodied a true engineering spirit, and watching him on TV would make me reflect and kindle the engineering spirit of my own. Even if my job wasn't as sexy, was in a sea of cubicles and the biggest explosions were a small circuit fuse burning off.
Where's the wealth/income breakdown on the families and individuals? I don't see anything in either the article or the study at hand.

I feel like that's a more confounding factor than the unschooling bit, because having a certain level of income to be able to support unschooling is kind of a big deal. When you start to control for that, I feel like there would be a different trend to come out of this data. Which is to say, you'd see a large amount of selection bias from individuals whose wealth enabled a lot of what they attribute to unschooling.
Handy for when you need to ice some tear gas canisters on the DL
I wouldn't have considered myself for this group, but I suppose technically I fit into the 3rd group, having dropped out after 9th grade, gotten a GED and worked my way through community college then university.

I've gone on to have what I consider to be a very successful career and high life satisfaction. And pretty much all of my lifelong friends came from outside school settings.

I'm privileged to have gotten to take this path.

Just another self-reported data point.
I think ICE cars will find a new home with hobbyists who are interested primarily in driving on a track. Tons of people already throw non street-legal race cars on trailers and drive hundreds of miles every weekend. There are 30-50 cars racing at my small, local track every weekend. For a company like Porsche, with a name that car enthusiasts hold in high esteem, you have to imagine that they will continue to sell enthusiast-focused cars. Also, they made the Taycan, which many consider to be the sports car of the future (though that’s a matter of opinion).

I’m not a “business” person by any means, but I tend to doubt that every automaker in the world is making a poor decision (on a financial level) by continuing to improve their ICEs. There are incredibly smart teams of people making these decisions, and they’re doing it for a reason.
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At first glance what you say seems insensitive but after thinking about it it’s rather endearing. Dying doing what you love, like Steve Irwin.
I suspect there is a serious bias in that cohort, namely on parents being higher than average education and dedication.

I know I couldn't educate my kids to university enrollment standard other than in physics, maths and such. That would cross out half their possibilities in education at least.
Once you start digging deep enough into problems to make a difference there is not enough hours in the day to be more than a dilettante in a more than a limited set of topics.

One does need some general skills, some of those listed above, but you'll definitly need first aid skills like stopping bleeding before learning how to set a bone. School is about the only place that systematically teaches general skills to everyone, not just people with paretns with enough time, skills and energy to do so or hire someone to do that for them.
It seems to be a signal of genetic compatibility for humans, particularly for women identifying compatible men, related to immune system complementarity [0]

[0] https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/articles/200801/scents-an...
He was one of my heroes. Amazing person overall. RIP.
Had to do a double take on this one. He always seemed like a genuine and kind person, it's weird to see "Grant Imahara" and "Dies" in the same sentence.
I unschooled K-2, was in a traditional school 3-5, then did a mix of unschooling and traditional homeschooling until high school (depending on the subject and year). I dropped out of a criminology program in my third year, ran unsuccessfully for public office, and have since been following a successful career as a programmer for 10 years.

I credit unschooling with some of the things I like most about myself, but also some of the things I like least. It's my good fortune/dumb luck that one area I fixated on turned out to be in demand and high-paying, because I am constitutionally incapable of giving any focus to subjects that don't interest me. I have a particular depth and breadth of knowledge, albeit one that doesn't always coincide with things that "everyone knows". I certainly am self-reliant and able to teach myself (particularly valuable as a programmer), but I feel none of the motivation that many respondents mentioned. I have mild diagnosed ADHD; whether it's caused by unschooling I can't say. It was also intensely lonely for me, though I'm not sure I fully understood it at the time.

My feeling is that I am a better person for the experience, and I wouldn't change it if I could. But I do have a sense that I rolled the dice and won. I'm not certain that I would make the same choice for my children.
> The reason for this correlation is something this survey can’t answer. “Maybe unschooling promotes creativity, or maybe dispositionally creative people or families are more likely to choose unschooling,” Gray says. “It’s probably a little bit of both.”

Successful "unschooling" is a pretty privileged experience... they have to have at least one parent who is dedicated to their education and have parents who have the skills to guide their education.

There is also a huge selection bias in the survey; they don't call kids who have a bad experience with this "unschoolers"... they call them drop outs.
Journalist seem to over estimate how many users Twitter have, I think. It’s even worse outside the US where Twitter is even less popular. It sometimes seems like Twitter is a platform for journalists.
I believe I would have benefited greatly from some sort of alternative schooling environment. I despised school because it was so boring and structured, and also I was (and still am) a night owl that routinely stays up late on weeknights (often until 3am or so). Waking up at 630am to get my ass to school by 730 first bell was atrocious. My senior year of high school I somehow legitimately missed 35 days of school! That’s almost 2 full months!

I also had all manner of tricks to come in late and leave early (cut the last class) without formal repercussions. For example, I realized that if I carried my trumpet case I could basically have my run of the school because no school officer suspected a band geek of cutting class. So I would get my trumpet, exit a side door, walk to my car, wait 5 minutes to make sure I wasn’t caught, then drive home! I did this countless times.

What I did like was working and partying. I started working in 8th grade reffing soccer, then I worked retail, and since I’ve been 13 years old I’ve never been unemployed for more than a month. When I graduated college I received my diploma on a Friday and started working on Monday. I’ve never had extended time off of work in decades!

On the partying side, I discovered alcohol in 9th grade and marijuana in 10th, and also did my fair share of cocaine and research chemicals during my latter high school and college years. I had a blast!

And how did I turn out? Fine! Better than fine! I followed my passion into computers and all of the people who told me I would amount to nothing were very much incorrect.

In summation, a one-size-fits-all approach to education is completely absurd. The fact that schools have not materially changed in over a century, where everyone sits in a chair and listens to some hack’s opinions, is ridiculous! I can remember a few amazing teachers from my pre-college days and the other 95% of them were totally forgettable.

Teachers, their unions, and administrators who refuse to allow any change whatsoever are living in the past. Change happens gradually then all at once. I praise unschooling and any movement that tries to change the horrible, stale, boring education system that makes the majority of students hate learning and associate it with authority, chastisement, and being told they are failures.
Further below in the article they mention that Gatling guns were mounted on camels, too. This is even more interesting, given the recoil and trying to keep an aim.
What the flying fuck, 2020. This was unexpected.

Everybody knows that the only ones capable of getting shit done in Mythbusters were Jamie and Imahara, with Savage a distant third.
I've fired people for having less wherewithal than to ask a question like this. His performance, output, or attitude are irrelevant. He knowingly used company property to violate federal law... IP law at that. Guy should be lucky he didn't get sued for gross negligence.
Definitely had this happen to me when I was new on IRC.
Beyond Weisfeiler-Lehman: approximate isomorphisms and metric embeddings
Which ATM requires you to show your face?
Charting the Scale of the Digital Cloud
Thats an Interesting story, Source please?
Like others I had a negative experience in a "normal" school. Not because of the other pupils but because of the system and (some of) the teachers. Kids will be kids regardless (aside from problematic settings such as coming from abusive and/or broken homes).

I was a curious child and school did nothing to encourage that, if anything at best it failed to discourage me from learning. It seemed to have little intent beyond keeping kids busy so parents can work & sort them from most to least competent.
Bingo. Pistons have about as much work in them as a piece of jewelry. by the time your 3d printer cranks out a part, a five stage hot press and a normalizing furnace have already shot out enough raw forged parts to make your printer an expensive paperweight. depending on the metal you can still heat-treat it, but thats a big "depending."

metals for pistons and gears are an incredible trade secret. sometimes gas furnace hardening happens after shave or milling steps or even inbetween them. 3d printed parts are right up there in terms of durability with prototype parts, but miles away in terms of cost. these arent your average sintered metal molds.
Reading your comment and the original post really made me thankful for what I have. It goes to show that you have very little control of things in life. There are countless headwinds that influence the decisions you make. Some are invisible.
With $10 billion investment you can claim Delhi throne; Just saying...
Well, this may be one of the more interesting and useful threads I've seen here in a while: Systems that are insanely robust; Well engineered; And have withstood the test of time among an ocean of hype. You don't see that very often. +1 for everyones stories
"And these services are much needed, as our use of data and the internet continues to scale up. By 2025, an average internet user will have around 4,909 data interactions per day, an increase from 1,426 in the year 2020. At the same time, the scale of global datasphere is expected to be five times bigger in 2025 than it was in 2018, growing from 33 zettabytes to 175 zettabytes. Each zettabyte, by the way, is equal to 1 trillion gigabytes."
> No one yet knows whether the antibodies detected in seropositive tests actually confer protection against getting sick from this virus.

We do know when we do detailed antibody assays on people who are seropositive, that most have developed neutralizing antibodies
This has long been a pet peeve of mine.
I suspect they're based in Russia, and are not worried about legal action from US-based entities.
If he's lying, it's an extremely elaborate set up

https://www.bugben.com/

...check out his resume.
Arch is fine, I use it currently on one of my computers, but it can also be a lot of upkeep. Arch's wiki is great, but also different then BSD's documentation. Arch is more choose your adventure, where BSD is more cohesive. I wouldn't choose Arch for a server, in the same way I probably wouldn't choose BSD for a desktop. They both have their place though. I would argue in the past BSD's strong point would have been networking. If you dig far enough though, both Linux and BSD, have positive and negative points in regards to networking. Also even though BSD has jails, Kubernets has supplanted some of what you might of used jails for in the past. Jails are still very useful of course though.
You have a point, but it’s like with tech. The stuff that just grinds away in the corner, doing it’s job doesn’t get reportede on. Same with journalists, only the exceptional, be it good or bad, gets discused. And the journalist who done poor or even wrong reporting far exceed those who are exceptional. The largest group, the boring middle who just grinds away, doing their job, they aren’t interesting enough to be debated.
Steve Jobs made a similar comment about artists uploading anything. This story is from the founder of CD Baby:

The Day Steve Jobs Dissed Me In A Keynote
https://sivers.org/itunes
Well thats a bummer to hear. I finally pulled the trigger and upgraded to the Pro after a pretty happy/successful run with the originals (1G).

Actually my revelation that the Pros are inferior came on the first day before I even popped them in my ear. You can tell just by holding the 1Gs and the Pros in your hand: note the clearance between the lid and body on the 1G is almost non-existent compared to the Pro - a sign of better build quality. When you pop open the lid on the Pros, you note they dont fit snugly in the case. You can easily wiggle them around making me wonder if the charging contact will be a problem later on.
Universities could pander and make the class on the US Constitution (a relatively short document) where the in-person component is an easy oral exam, given to each student individually so they do not have to gather in a classroom.

Other options which may be a good idea to do anyway is a public speaking class or a discussion class (almost exclusively on zoom) where students are asked to reflect on their goals and future plans.
Vascular diseases like aneurism are reduced significantly on a plant based diet.

Hope you get to read this before it gets downvoted to oblivion.
Normally I ignore the "rich and famous" obits, however Grant's passing is really quite upsetting. MythBusters meant a great deal to me during my college years, right as I was trying to figure out where I wanted to go in life. The build team was always the best.

With the loss of Jessie in 2019, it's been a hard year for Mythbusters.
Despite the attempts at monetisation very nice content, containing both theoretical and engineering exposition.
Also has descriptions of dead ends on the way to the final working design.

(how much revenue can a niche subject like this generate anyway? a dinner per month?[1] at least now the ad-trackers have all incremented the geek bucket for my profile. hope they use saturating addition; I'd hate to see what ads I'll get if my geek score ever wraps around.)

[1] this is a serious question.

Edit: based on "web site value" sites (as if those are trustworthy), I was way too optimistic with that estimate; it's more like the NPV of the whole domain is a dinner.
> But let's face it; CLOS has problems. One obvious one is that length isn't a polymorphic function. It's one of the first speed bumps you encounter.

Ah that ... here is my worse-is-(not-necessarily)-better object system with single dispatch, and broken type redefining:

This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 240.
Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on empty line. Ctrl-X ? for cheatsheet.
1> (defstruct foo ()
(:method length (me) 42))
#<struct-type foo>
2> (new foo)
#S(foo)
3> (len *2)
42

4> (defstruct bar ()
a d
(:method car (me) me.a)
(:method cdr (me) me.d))
#<struct-type bar>
5> (new bar a 1 d 2)
#S(bar a 1 d 2)
6> [mapcar list #S(bar a 1 d #S(bar a 2 d #S(bar a 3)))]
((1) (2) (3))
7> (sum #S(bar a 1 d #S(bar a 2 d #S(bar a 3))))
6
8> (length #S(bar a 1 d #S(bar a 2 d #S(bar a 3))))
3

9> (defstruct xyzzy ()
(h (hash))
(:method lambda (me key) [me.h key])
(:method lambda-set (me key val) (set [me.h key] val)))
#<struct-type xyzzy>
10> (new xyzzy)
#S(xyzzy h #H(()))
11> [*10 'x]
nil
12> (set [*10 'x] 1)
1
13> (set [*10 'y] 2)
2
14> (set [*10 'z] 3)
3
15> *10
#S(xyzzy h #H(() (z 3) (x 1) (y 2)))
16> (len *10)
** length: #S(xyzzy h #H(() (z 3) (x 1) (y 2))) has no length or car method
** during evaluation at expr-16:1 of form (len *10)
** run with --backtrace to enable backtraces
17> (defmeth xyzzy length (me) (len me.h))
(meth xyzzy length)
18> (len *10)
3
Right airpod has rattling issues from time to time, via voice calls.
New Clues to ALS and Alzheimer's Disease from Physics
Thanks! The tests were run on a single thread since the source kernels & test programs were single threaded. It was important for us to find the largest possible instruction graphs to revectorize at a time so that the whole kernel or most of the kernel runs with the target instruction set. If our search terminated early due to e.g. a pair of low-width instructions that the pass didn't know how to merge, there's a performance loss, so we spent quite a bit of time to synthesize comprehensive lookup tables and implement shuffle merging and reductions. My impression is that kernels running exclusively AVX512 rather than interleaved scalar/low width code generally perform better than the low width code even with downclocking, but please let me know if that's not the case.

We originally ran experiments on a multisocket lab server which should have a faster clock, but I don't have a record of the specs. That server did fine for SSE to AVX2 conversion, but didn't support AVX512 so we ultimately used Google Cloud VMs.
Isn't a 2 year warranty mandatory in the Netherlands/EU?
It provides a mass propaganda network for people who already was miscontent and unable to filter their own biases.
Higher quality, but all seniors with salary expectations to match. Using a senior developer to maintain a couple of services is both a misuse of his salary and a good way to bore him to death.
Exactly. Not every child requires a formal education. Every child needs access to it. Most kids can't feasibly be homeschooled.
I don't have this problem, but a lot of times my right airpod pro does not connect, so i have to put it back to the case, wait a few seconds ant try again.
Are Western and Japanese RPGs So Different?
Grant was a hero to a generation of future makers, engineers, artists, and creators.
Self assessment is going to be difficult, doubly so when there is no basis of reference.

'Happiness' is not always the measure we are looking for, as school does sometimes put us in awkward positions we can learn quite a lot from. High School is a big place with a lot going on.
Let me preface this by saying that I use OAS because it is the most widely-supported HTTP API spec. I don't love it, but as of version 3, it handles all of my use cases and has good tooling support. This prevents me from having to edit the spec as raw text -- I can typically get by using a GUI (recently been happy with Apicurio Studio).

That said, I do wish there were a better format for it than YAML/JSON, and I think some of their design decisions were strange.

Note that a lot of OAS's strengths and weaknesses were inherited from its parent project, JSON Schema, which is also widely supported.

> I wanted it to be a terse specification, such that just glancing over the definition file gives you a sense of what the API consists of.

OAS specs in YAML (as opposed to JSON) are pretty terse and easy to scan, especially if the spec is kept fairly DRY by defining/refusing object schemas.

> I wanted a solution that handled websockets/server push as a first-class citizen, and not as a secondary add-on

OAS fails this one.[1]

> I wanted to provide library-level validation of request / response shape.

This is something all the major formats (JSON Schema/OAS, RAML, Blueprint, etc.) do. It's probably the first thing people want to do with an API spec. OAS has great support for validation in most languages, although implementation of the spec can be spottier with less-popular stacks like PHP.

> I wanted to extend it beyond typescript, notably into python (and hopefully beyond)

One of my projects uses Spot[1] to define its API. Spot has CLI tools that translate it into a plain OAS file (.yaml format), and then there are more CLI tools that generate code (models, validators, controllers, and even servers) from that spec file.

If you don't mind a polyglot toolchain -- and I think most of us have one at this point -- then the Spot => OAS => Python process works fine and is easy to set up. You don't even need to start with Spot, of course.

> I like the idea of generic structs and oneofs (which I'm going to implement in some future version). I think if we had an easy way to define generics in cross-language APIs, we'd probably use it a fair amount.

I agree that this is super important. OAS supports it, although it can be hard to read a lot of branches inheritance trees in that particular format.

You can split your definitions into separate files to make it easier (in both Spot and in plain OAS itself).

> I like the idea of having an extensible language, e.g. be able to provide a JSONLogic type. Imagine a field `priceCalculation: JsonLogic<string, number>`. That'd be pretty cool!

This makes sense, but at the end of the day, "JsonLogic<string, number>" is just a text format. With OAS, you can define a regex to validate inputs and outputs, which has been "good enough" in my experience, but definitely falls short of what you want.

What about GraphQL? That seems to have some of the features you're interested in, although the GraphQL paradigm is so different from HTTP (and has some tradeoffs) that I'd understand not even considering it.

1. https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/issues/523
Mint MATE.

Mint because I'm lazy. It uses a Ubuntu LTS kernel. It also has provision for including practically all of the necessary proprietary codecs and peripheral drivers without me having to install them all separately.

MATE because it is spartan GUI and doesn't add too much cruft.
Easter Egg in Apple's Paper Emoji
I noticed the same thing and wrote essentially the same comment before I noticed yours. There's also a bit of a peak in Javascript during winter break, which is when some schools do "externships."
Easy because I grew up in the Valley during the 1960's and 70's. If you believed the muttering of military and aerospace engineers and the occasional ex-soviet engineer, or the girl material science engineer I knew that spent a year studying in the Soviet Union. Well you knew the war was over and the Soviets lost. Or you could believe the usual propaganda.

I am amazed how many people still choose to believe the propaganda.