skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a much bigger question/challenge than lack of hardware.

With all respect, the model this assumes for how kids work... is just not how kids work. It's not how attention works.

Think about it like a movie. Kids at different ages will sit through movies of different lengths and subjects. Those movies have production budgets- of minimum thousands of dollars per second even at the lowest end, and shooting and editing commitments that are tens to hundreds or more person hours per video second.

Expecting a live performer to engage not just 1 passive kid but n active kids with a new show every day over a screen- where every mistake or every blip doesn't get edited out in post but actually has to be dealt with in real time, while each kid has their own dynamics, their own family situations, their own issues PRESENT WITH THEM while all this is going on....

In terms of the quantity of human attention at production time to ensure consumer engagement- the ratio between a movie and a live person on the other side of the screen is, like, 1,000,000 to 1.

It is NOT POSSIBLE to solve the engagement problem in the way that remote school is expected to solve for it and there is no model, resource, technology, or anything that makes it work.

This is coming from a long time ed tech advocate, having built games and education platforms and worked in schools and having 3 kids of my own.

What we are doing with remote school is INSANITY.

Unfortunately, the alternatives are also insane.

There is no solving anything. There's no what if. There's no answer.

And more pointedly- it sounds like the poster here does not have kids.

Pro tip, no offense intended- if you don't have kids- don't weigh in on these issues. You don't know what you're talking about. And you don't have any idea how much you don't know what you're talking about. It isn't worth it for you or for anyone else to engage.

Have a nice day.
If eating a hamburger is better than starving, wouldn't eating 10 hamburgers be 10x better?
A Model 3 is smaller than the average car, it should be compared to something like a Honda Accord hybrid. Both have a similar cabin volume of ~100 ft^3. The fuel economy for a hybrid Accord is 48 mpg, or 760 Wh/mile.

The Accord is also $10k cheaper, presumably that is because the Model 3 requires more materials and more embodied energy.
Mine has always been this plus whiskey. Maybe an Irish thing. Certainly useful to help fall asleep.
And your arguments rest on the assumption that politicians and voters are rational, surely?

My bet is on individuals to act in their own best interest. Likewise, politicians have every incentive to act in ways that benefit themselves and their friends at the expense of everyone else. In both cases I acknowledge the capabilities of these humans to use their own brains to think, but only politicians have an incentive become corrupt.
Keep in mind that the current being on the safe side cautions have devastating effects on the vulnerable populations outside of the comfort of US and EU homes.
"6,000 children could die every day as a direct consequence of the pandemic, that’s one child every 15 seconds, if we don’t act now."
https://www.unicef.ie/stories/impact-covid-19-children/
First, I'm out of the return period.

If I were to take it back because it's defective, they would turn it on and it would work perfectly. How do you demonstrate a problem that happens after a week or so of switching between cable TV, PS4, Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, and MLB?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_MASINT
Something being difficult and worthwhile doesn’t mean it’s the most efficient use of your time. And it doesn’t mean we can’t or shouldn’t make those things easier. Building a computer is hard. It’s also worthwhile. I’ve built a few. But I’ve bought a lot more. It usually isn’t worth my time, effort, and energy.

And having conversations about the difficulties is how people, especially people on HN, will better understand the problem and come up with a solution that will (hopefully) leave everyone better off.
Why is the title of this "Germany begins..." when there's only 120 people in the trial? This would be an appropriate title if it were a trial with 120,000 people.
My son's school changed to full day this year (Los Gatos, CA area) - but I think all the other schools in the district were full day already. When he did Kindergarten few years ago, it was for half a day.
Why is a YC company, perhaps the kind of company with the most access to capital, on Kickstarter? I get that it's free capital but it's a terrible look. I will wait until you have something to ship, or if YC underwrites you and says that they will refund Kickstarters if you fail to deliver.
An early release of pbrt-v4 and some notes about pbrt-GPU
You may be able to find uranium ore with relative ease, but enrichment is a nation-state level project that is unlikely to escape the notice of the world's intelligence and energy agencies.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24210991
Wow (18 AUGUST 2020) and what else (18 AUGUST 2020) ? Kudos for fine craft done.
I wonder if they'll add an addendum to discuss Clinesmith's guilty plea (not yet entered, there's only a Criminal Information from last Friday), the info Steele sourced from Igor Danchenko, or Warner's contact with Oleg Deripaksa via Adam Waldman?

Update: The guilty plea got entered -

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ct/pr/fbi-attorney-admits-alter...
then the people who write the laws become the leaders, except with a layer of obfuscation. how do we make laws that treat everyone equally?
I use firefox on android and immediately switch to reader view. It works wonderfully. The content takes up the entire screen, text always stays where you want it, scrolling response is instant and my phone stays cool while reading it. Plus you have dark and light themes for browsing.

Unfortunately, Firefox for iOS is built on Webkit, so there are no plugins for it, so this approach doesn't work on my iPad.
It's ironic as IBM directly provided the census technology to help Nazis run their concentration camps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
> and no one understood the applications it would have to future technology until much later on

Huh? FHSS was a specific wartime effort with a wartime goal that, aside from that its modern application is mostly civilian, is not terribly distant from its intended use case.
Ask HN: Form letter for getting info as shareholder of a private company?
I have shares in a private California tech company that I used to work for. They have become very profitable and I want to make sure I'm not going to get screwed by holding onto the shares. They are offering to buy back the shares at the current 409a valuation, which has increased >10x since I exercised my options.

Does anybody have a form letter for requesting legally entitled information? I'm thinking cap table, bylaws, financials. Am I missing anything?
We went with the "Bopmen Computer Headset with Microphone" (wired, not wireless). So far so good.
yes agree. And the CDC reports there are 10X the cases of COVID than has been reported based on antibody studies. And there are many more deaths than have been reported https://realscience.community/2020/08/16/why-a-lot-more-peop.... All reasons that we are closer to herd immunity than is the common perception.
Germany hardly waged war against the US, toppled their governmnent, occupied it, bombed it, etc.

Japan did a few of those, though after much provocation to achieve exactly that and give an excuse to the US to sell the war to its public.

The US intervened in the European war (and not even decidely so, that's another myth), to ensure their improved role in the post-war environment, as the old European colonial powers were weakened by the war.
No the 'conflict' in that sentence is the argument they are having.
So these touch screens are not being introduced in countries with low or no minimum wage?
Yes, agreed, but parents are desperate. Kids need kids to play with, at least they see other kids on the screen. It's a really unfortunate situation for the development of small children.
Last time I asked this question here, I got downvoted without any answers. So here is my second try, this time specifically for Germany:

Show me the calculation of where the government will get the money for paying their entire adult population this amount. And let's assume everyone will keep working at their current job. (Which they won't since at a "Basic Income" pricepoint, lots of people would prefer spending more time with their family and so would opt-in working part-time etc).

So yeah, were is that realistic calculation of how to pay for full country UBI?
Not locking down in the US will not save the lives of children in Yemen
They only seem to agree with the weaker claim that immunity plays a role in the patterns we're seeing, not the stronger claim that general herd immunity has been achieved anywhere. And it's a very brief superficial article, not exactly comparable to peer-reviewed studies that tend to reflect a nearly opposite conclusion.
> I don't really think it's the responsibility of individuals to maximize GDP

Insofar we are in economic competition with other countries, I think being as productive as we can be is also a game of autonomy, survival and values. Ultimately it all drives from individuals carrying their weight (sorry for the pun) which is affected by being in their best shape or disabled.

> I'm wary of defining externalities so expansively that they justify any intervention.

I totally agree. I would say if it comes down to government interventions, there has already been a considerable delay in response. But markets are unable to implement corrective measures proactively, so NGOs and governmental support seems to be the best tools we have for designing a better society. After all, those externalities do exist and keep flowing, whether we take account of them or not.

> though justifying government intervention on that point also justifies forcing medication on people, does it not?

I get your point that these might be on a continuum, but forcing ingestion that defies bodily autonomy is not in the same class of interventions as collecting taxes that try to solve the problem through market based incentives. To add more, to the extent forced institutionalization is implemented, forced medication also does happen.
N95s are good for protecting the wearer, not so good for protecting others from the wearer. In areas with high infection rates (a lot of the US), the likelihood that someone wearing a mask is infected goes up, thereby making N95s more problematic. Many stores around where I live are requiring N95 wearers to cover up the valves while inside. N95s are better than no mask at all of course, but that's a low bar for comparison.
this is unnecessary fear mongering without any actual statistics/studies linked. i've seen those studies linked, and they're definitely concerning, but using words like "many" without any backing is just harmful and just creates more paranoia/panic.

highly recommend /r/COVID19 (stay away from /r/coronavirus) for well moderated discussions that aren't politicized/sensationalist and are based on research/science/numbers.
The solution involves large companies, not startups. You have an infrastructure and a pool of highly qualified applications that aren't going make or break their personal finances on these problems. These are classic coordination problems, and it requires people skilled at this aspect.

Large companies don't talk about their work in this area much for a while for a variety of reasons. Bell Labs was a thing once....

It's sort of a solvedish problem if you imagine that you are not bound by "silicon valley 2-person startup" rules.
I remember reading a conspiracy that the iPhone 4 was left at that bar, because Samsung was about to announce the latest Galaxy phone. Apple did this to take the wind out of their sails.
There's a lot of very understandable confusion in this thread about the directionality of the unemployment-inflation tradeoff. It's not that increased employment causes inflation, but rather the idea is that inflation will increase if central banks try to get there by printing money. So the frequently used statement of "increased employment will cause inflation" should only be considered in the context of monetary policy. But the phrasing is unfortunate because it implies the wrong causality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_employment#The_NAIRU
"seem perfectly capable at getting at least that across" yeah, that's part of the problem. They already know that 1+1=2, or so you'd think. But you would be hard pressed to find a teacher who can actually explain WHY 1+1=2 (which is based in how our number system was created and using proof by induction). Anyway, that is besides the point, since you won't teach children math with college approaches, but the important thing is that most teachers don't understand what they teach, they just "say what they remember".

And that doesn't pair well with children's insatiable "why" requests, even if they don't utter them. Teaching children is actually harder than teaching adults, because most adults largely gave up on the "why" and just settle on "I gotta remember that, if I want to pass the next exam" (school did a good job with them I guess).

So why 1+1=2? There is a lot of depth in that that is left unanswered and children are forced to memorize the answer. From then on, a sharp decline of cognitive ability follows as they "graduate" through our excellent school systems...
Well either the greeters became more expensive or their utility dropped, if we're taking a simplistic market-based approach. So which is it?
This is a side project of mine where I ported the great chessboard.js library to be a standard custom element.

By being a custom element <chess-board> is easier to use and load, works with declarative HTML templates like JSX or lit-html, and it removes the jQuery dependency.

You can use it in static HTML and markdown too, just like:

<chess-board
draggable-pieces
position="8/R7/8/8/k1K5/8/8/8">
</chess-board>

I hope this make the work on chessboard.js more accessible to framework users and non-programmers alike. If you're into chess on the web, please try it out and give any feedback!
The CIA/MI5 coup is fascinating not only because it overthrow a democratically elected government of a Middle Eastern country in 1953 (!) but also because of its consequences. There is not a single democratic government in the ME sans Israel. No, tiny Tunisia does not count, it is in the Maghreb (N. Africa).

What would the middle east look like if the Mosaddegh government had continued? No revolution, No Ayatollah, no Iran-Iraq war, no Hezbollah? Instead we got the Shah who forced his people to modernize, secret police pulling veils off women was common and generally unleashed a reign that was anathema to most of the conservative population outside Tehran. Most of the anger you see is towards the US is from that reign rather than the coup.

The Iranians who are Persians, and not Arabs, have a civilizational history going back 1000s of years. Expat Persians have achieved great success in the US and UK. Going further back, the Zoroastrians, who fled the Islamic conquest and arrived in India more than a millennia ago are the richest, most educated and economically successful minority group by an order of magnitude, or two.

The Shah's reign lasted 25 years. A generation that grew up under the Shah's tyranny led the revolution in 1979. The Islamic revolution is now 40 years old. There have been almost two generations
that grew up under the Islamic govt's misrule and grandiose projects of power projection. Hopefully they can take charge and lead Iran back to civilizational greatness. Iran, the middle east and the world needs it.

And I would really like to visit the gardens of Shiraz or the markets of Isfahan which have been around for 1000s of years ;)

Edit: As pointed out in the comments, instead of Arab world, I should have used Arab speaking. There are Arab speakers who are Arab and there are Arab speakers who are not Arab.
Other recent attempts in "America's backyard"

- Venezuela 2019

- Ecuador 2010

- Honduras 2009
Airbnb announces confidential submission of draft Registration Statement
I guess the surprising bit is that they would find evidence that Honey may be more effective than conventional antibiotics. Why would germs not evolve resistance to honey? I'm not stunned, as you say nature is full of wonders, I just find it interesting.
Honey doesn’t go bad for the same reason that a bag of sugar or bag of salt doesn’t — it’s an environment that’s unsuitable for life. Sugar is hygroscopic, so it sucks all the water out of cells so they die. If you diluted honey in water, it would go bad just as quickly as any other sugary drink.

Honey is not some magical potion, it was just engineered by bees to have specific properties.
> Wait a moment, you're equating a change of administration ... with a change of governance

In the context of a monarchy, that's the appropriate way to consider it. When Reza Shah Pahlavi took power from the Qajars, the deals with the British remained. There is a level of continuity of governance that exists in the developed West but doesn't exist in the Third World. Ecuador for example was until recently an OPEC nation, but it has had twenty constitutions. However, it is in the nation's best interests, economically speaking, to ensure a peaceful transition of operation across those political perturbations. (I am reminded of software revisions that do not alter the API, so that the software can be treated like a black box and mated to applications without a rewrite of API calls every time revisions are made.)

A current example would be Argentina, where the return of Cristina Kirchner to the country's executive branch has spooked foreign investors (including miners and petroleum companies) because she froze the dollar during her presidency about a decade ago. Ultimately this has a very damaging effect on the country's economy and its people's ability to eat.

In present-day Argentina, we see economic investment chilled by a new administration that operates under the same constitution but endangers foreign investors. In early-20th-century Iran, we saw economic activity boosted by continuity of international agreements across several different monarchical administrations within two separate dynasties.

Please choose the correct lens when you are evaluating a third-world country's economy. What we all learned in social studies class about the differences between regimes, governments, etc.....well it is not necessarily applicable to developing nations where change of administration is frequently carried out by coup or the establishment of a new constitution that is as ephemeral as the previous one.

I tried to communicate this succinctly in my earlier post, quoted here:

> Are you suggesting that all governmental responsibilities ought to be thrown out the window every time power changes hands? This is not a realistic perspective in most of the third world, where power changes hands frequently and change of government is often established via change of regime.
You could only use it to help fund UBI, unless UBI is significantly less than minimum wage. If the price of buying the robot and running it plus automation tax exceeds what you would spend on employing people at minimum wage, businesses would just keep employing people.
> Try analyzing a TB of logs per day when all you really want is aggregated statistics.

You’re making a completely unfair comparison here. Client-side analytics is performing aggregation as it goes; server-side analytics can do just the same, and serious packages in that space do do that. As an example that readily springs to mind, you can feed server logs into Matomo and use it just as effectively as when you feed client logs into it via matomo.js.

On click paths, they’re largely just an artefact of aggregation, so long as you can track individual users (which you admittedly won’t get out of the box in server logs, and perhaps that’s what you were referring to, but you can definitely make it happen). Multiple tabs thwarts doing the “navigated from page A to page B” form of path tracking correctly purely server side, but that’s not a realistic form anyway and isn’t what you’re likely to use; rather you use “page A was loaded, then page B was loaded” and just guess paths to be adjacent loads, which is perfectly compatible with server side analysis.

How much time, yeah, that’s one that you can’t do any sort of good judgement of server-side. Not that client-side tracking is particularly excellent at it. All up though I suspect that so long as your bounce rate isn’t too high you’ll get decent enough figures from reckoning the time until the next page load and eliminating statistical outliers. If bounces are too high the figures could be misleading because bounces are likely to behave differently. But people often put far too much effort into trying to track everything, where it’s commonly quite sufficient to take a smaller sample and extrapolate to the whole.
Again, something I could probably agree to, but it is interesting that we seem to have to move the frame from the individual up to (the individual's share of) society in order to provide a meaningful answer.

Despite others' somewhat antagonistic answers I really just wanted to explore the reasoning behind the original statement, which I think many people instinctively agree with whilst not being able to convincingly explain why (without referencing other ideas).
As a US person I appreciate the clear view that US foreign policy has been evil even under popular administrations, and every one of them were complicit in that evil.

But tread lightly when comparing this administration to any other in the history of western democracy. It's a horror show up close.
Via "no one is entitled to anything", the parent explicitly said that capital is not entitled to a return. No need to read between the lines here. We can all agree that no one is entitled to anything in a free market and move on to the next question, which is probably something like "to what extent does a perfectly free market deliver on our collective objectives"? I.e., "Can we balance market freedom with some amount of regulation to deliver a system that is both prosperous and stable/sustainable/equitable/etc?".
Arizona does not fund full day kindergarten
> The labor market is not a free market

If it is as you say the employer has all the power, then nobody would have a job at more than minimum wage.
How much RPM were you getting at your scooter, and what was the vehicle mass?

You say 5% at most... The difference in between, say, 5% and 10%, a bad and good regen is huge.
Most of the "interdisciplinary" research I see is just one lab sending a dataset they generated from experiments to some ML collaborator, who just run some fairly low hanging Logistic Regression and RF on the data. I don't see a lot of places where people with deep statistical/computational understanding tackle the problems with gathering data, and working on understanding underlying processes. A lot of this comes down to how short PhD programs actually are, learning both neurology, GPU programming (not just plug and chug torch) and statistics would probably take 8-10 years; and most people/schools won't bare that commitment
Yes because we don’t know yet. Doesn’t mean it’s fearmongering. SARS patients had side effects for 5-10 years.
that increases the consumption of resources while reducing the incentive to create more.
> Cloth and non-medical disposable masks are not considered protective

> anti-maskers threw enough of a fit about fairly comfortable ones

How's this for a solution? Make masks with inhalation valves. You can find masks for dusty work with exhalation valves. It wouldn't be too big a change to reverse those valves. The lost protection against inbound particles isn't much, and the gain would be near elimination of the inherent discomfort of re-breathing CO2. I'm not an anti-masker, but I notice I'm a lot more comfortable with my mask off.