skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdata, but even here in Montgomery County truancy is rampant as well. My next door neighbor is a 7th grader who has attended his Zoom classes only 4 times since last March. Meaning, he was truant 99% of 2020. His mom is a single mom struggling with her own problems and can't forcibly homeschool him.
While I agree it's often bullshit, "legitimate interest" is not trying to argue it to be your interest, but the sites.
Out of curiosity, why is it "endblock content" everywhere but the base.html page (where it's just "endblock")?
Overlooking the ol' bezel trick,

High saturation text on a black background does not cancel out the overuse of high saturation colors. This looks like a flyer for Hempfest 2021.

(Why do pot smokers enjoy higher saturation than the rest of us? Has anyone studied this?)
You might be talking CO2 emissions where a car emits more than a bike.

Pollution is a different matter though. Even the big 4-stroke tourers have worse emission control than cars; the 2-stroke motorbikes are exponentially worse in SOx/NOx/CO/particulate emissions (which hurt your lungs rather than the climate).
Israel Allocates $60M to Build First Quantum Computer
Bunch of years ago, probably 2009, I looked up the domain fables.com. Did a whois for that and similar domains, ..and ... Not taken! Thought about registering it through my regular webhost but decided to spend the evening looking for a host with better server options before registering. Next day I decided to go through my regular webhost just to discover that the domain wasn't available any more. Got contacted a month later by a domain broker that asked for 5-10 000$. The asking price now is 156.000$.
I guess I remember a time when bookwarez.net was the go-to site for book piracy. Simpler times I suppose.
100% agree. Middle-class American schools are actually very good by international standards. The reason US test scores are low is because of a long left tail of failing schools in low income areas.
There are a ton of drawing courses on Udemy, many of which let you submit your work to be reviewed by the teacher. I recently started one [1] and it’s been nice so far. A bit tedious in the beginning, but it’s nice to start with some fundamentals.

[1] https://www.udemy.com/course/how-to-draw-from-beginner-to-ma...
Wow, the quality of discussion on that second link is really incredible. Surprising!
I loved the setting of Strike Commander! It had a far more complex game mechanic, especially for an 8 year-old: you had to budget to buy your missiles as a mercenary, outfit your craft and then go out on complex missions with waypoints and bombings.

Wing Commander was simpler: shoot to kill.
It's a threat comparable to fission reactors only if fusion reactor containment vessels are built out of uranium, which they aren't.

To put it another way: operating a nuclear reactor today is expensive due to regulatory constraints meant to prevent nuclear weapon proliferation. If the fuel for your reactor can't be mistaken for nuclear bomb parts, and the components of your reactor can't be mistaken for nuclear bomb parts, it's a lot cheaper to build and operate. And it's a lot safer for someone to sign off on "Yep that's a whole bunch of lithium for a fusion reactor" than looking at a bunch of uranium and being like... Well...
In the license:

> “Other NVDLA Rights” includes copyright, design right (whether registered or unregistered), semiconductor topography (mask work) rights, and database rights to the NVDLA Specification and any Derivative Work. For the avoidance of doubt, Other NVDLA Rights does not include patents or trademarks.

> Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, NVIDIA and each Contributor hereby grant to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable license under the Other NVDLA Rights to reproduce, prepare Derivative Works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute the NVDLA Specification and such Derivative Works, and to commercially exploit any mask works included in the NVDLA Specification or such Derivative Works

Why would they grant you permissions to "semiconductor topography" rights?
Interestingly, im-rs for Rust offers better than linear performance when inserting at either end: https://docs.rs/im/15.0.0/im/
>Hedge funds manipulate markets:

>https://www.cfainstitute.org/en/research/cfa-digest/2013/11/...

A quick skim of the article suggests that they're doing it to make their own funds look better, rather than as some sort of pump&dump scheme that you suggest.

>Hedge funds routinely refuse to disclose their abnormal holdings and sell to realize profits.

>https://www.jstor.org/stable/43303849?seq=1

the first paragraph of the introduction says why they're confidential in the first place: to avoid getting front-runned and to avoid free-riding. I don't see anything nefarious here, unless they're also simultaneously deceiving people into investing.

>Former manager Jim Cramer admits as much:

>https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/2918951-g-hudson/1026551-...

>First information is widely distributed to make investors wonder about the company and to put fear into those longs that hold the stock. Next, high volume shorting takes place to drive the company's share price down.

Again, there's nothing wrong with holding a position in a company and spreading news about it, as long as your holdings are disclosed. Short-sellers do this all the time when they publish short reports.
Why do we live with this delusion that it has anything to do with the schools?

They are the same facilities, programs, course materials and teachers as most other places.

The students, an extension of the community are the differentiating factor.

For a million reasons surely, but don't blame the teachers.

It's completely bizarre all this talk about 'education' when students are not showing up, don't care a single bit about outcomes.

That school could be a top prep school and outcomes would be similar.
I think most likely they just end up ignoring the law.
What scam are you talking about, exactly?
It's not bad to have a few good stories at the end. But the article is bullshit for the Instagram crowd. Sometimes you gotta work your ass off just to get the thing done, story be damned.
> Those double sided CF2 disks were a better disk than either the 5.25" or the 3.5" IMHO.

Not sure how they were better than 3.5" disks at that time (they might have been better than the poor quality once sold towards the end of the Floppy era), but for sure they were much more expensive. I don't miss them one bit.
> 4-Year Graduation Rate (Class of 2019) - 48%

48% graduate from this school.

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/fast-facts-augusta-fells...
> Public education in the US is a failed system

Public education failed? Or these kids' parents' failed? Doesn't seem fair to force schools to pick up the slack of failing parents and families and then chalk it up to school failures when the kids still aren't attending. You could have a gold-plated diamond-studded high school staffed by nobel prize winners, and it wouldn't amount to any value for the kids if they don't go...
Just give a private right of action. If the $500 fine is payable to the complainant (or split between the city and the complainant) then the problem will go away in short order.
I only learned about NVDLA recently, from reading the specs of the BeagleV board that another poster has linked to.
That seems reasonable. I implied it was a bad thing to be like a teenager but maybe that can be good too at times.
Are there any startups working on the material science side of making these magnets? It seems like a very tight engineering team might do well here.
From your link, emphasis added:

"Today, some scholars of racism prefer to use the concept in the plural racisms, in order to emphasize its many different forms that do not easily fall under a single definition. They also argue that different forms of racism have characterized different historical periods and geographical areas.[24] Garner (2009: p. 11) summarizes different existing definitions of racism and identifies three common elements contained in those definitions of racism. First, a historical, hierarchical power relationship between groups; second, a set of ideas (an ideology) about racial differences; and, third, discriminatory actions (practices).[13]"

This is exactly what the OP is talking about -- they are pointing out that some forms of racism are worse than others, and one thing that makes one form of racism worse than other forms is when there's a power imbalance that historically has resulted in the oppression of one group. Two individuals in a marginalized group getting into a scuff over an issue of race is one kind of racism, yes, but the damage is localized between themselves. One group of people, from a position of power an authority, subjugating and oppressing another group of people over an issue of race is a completely different matter.
Just saying... an optical illusion as the person wrote above would not be captured by a camera. An optical illusion is created by how our brain processes incoming light, not a phenomena in the real world. Optical illusions happen in our brains, not in the real world. This phenomenon with the ship resulting in temperature inversion and bending of light is an actual physical affect that would be seen by humans and any other device like a camera. Not to make an issue of it, but just that the other poster was correct on that one point.
Hedge Funds publicly disclose their position
Then these people eventually graduate, and some might even get hired as teachers, perpetuating the cycle of decline.
Controlled fusion seems one of the few awesome future things that's unambiguously good.
There's a lot of 'you can't tell me what to do!' types on HN.
Two Quotes That Began My Pursuit for Truth
But they passed him. I can't say whether his mother is telling the truth or not, but if she is, they passed him without even notifying her that he was absent so often. In either case, he at least should not have been moved from English and Algebra I to the level 2s of those classes. Of course he was going to fail the other ones. So something crazy is happening that a student who is that absent can still get promoted.
Getting a Wikipedia dump in said language and counting word occurrences and then learning the most common 5000 (or however many) words. There will be duplicates (e.g. different forms of a single words) but who cares.
Banned Books Awareness: Dr. Seuss (2011)
Yeah, we need to believe autoimmune / long COVID sufferers first.

There's a parallel here with default assumptions of sexual assault / harassment being against the victim because of the existence of some claims that were clearly manufactured.

(And not entirely surprisingly the victims of autoimmune diseases tend to be disproportionately women, so there's more than just a superficial similarity here)
So, just up front: these are my personal opinions. I do not speak on behalf of AMD as a company. I'm just a software developer who works on ROCm. I joined AMD specifically because I wanted to help ROCm succeed.

If the problems you encountered are related to a particular ROCm software library, I would encourage you to open an issue on the library's GitHub page. You will get the best results if you can get your problem directly in front of the people responsible for fixing it. Radeon VII is one of the core supported platforms and bugs encountered with it should be taken seriously. In fact, if you want to point me at the bug reports, I will personally follow up on them.

ROCm has improved tremendously over the past 6 months, and I expect it to continue to improve. There have been growing pains, but I believe in the long-term success of this project.
> The US's problem is that school funding is local

Maybe that's the answer then? Abolish school districts, all public schools should be controlled by the state government? Then local taxes won't pay for schools, only state and federal taxes will. That's the system we have here in Australia, and it seems to work okay.
So are tongues for that matter. Just look at the damage they have caused historically from lynchings after false rape allegations to wars.

Saying they need to be controlled applies equally to tongues logically - it being inborn changes nothing about the negative uses.
Any Win 10 fluent examples? Perhaps WinUI integation?
>The US's problem is that school funding is local

If your problem statement were true, I'd expect that I'd see a strong correlation at the state level between per student spend at the city/town level and test scores. I won't say there's no correlation but it's a fairly weak one. For example, many urban school districts have both bottom of the barrel results with some of the greatest spend.

Added: You also see disparities between states. Mississippi outspends Utah per student. Which one do you think has better outcomes. And New York dwarfs everyone else in spend even though most NYC public schools are notoriously bad.
Ask HN: Virtual Desktop or Physical Desktop?
I can't recall the last time I made a noise opening a web page.

This one sounded somewhere between a hiccup and vomiting. Kind of a 'Hulp!'
> That's what they used to say about cars, too. Innovation

Yet I can still drive 500 miles hauling 2500lb (8000lb gross weight), or haul 40,0000lb (80,000lb gross) over 2,000 miles without refueling / recharging.

No electric vehicle can do that, still today.

Let me know when an electric vehicle will be able to haul 100,000lb of grain all day long by -20C, then we'll talk.
These are quite large though, why wouldn’t it work with say a long needle instead? I was imagining these robots to be small as cells!
Is this surprising?

We all know there is a demographics/ethnics factor in people's political affiliation.
https://github.com/openmiko/openmiko

Software to completely replace the core functionality of cameras like WyzeCam while allowing it to be used in a purely local (ie. cloud free) setup wihtout phoning home to anywhere.
>a disproportionately vocal minority comprising <1% customers but >50% of bug requests

I doubt that this is generally true based off the discussions I've seen in the Steam forums for various games.
It says on a similar test - it's a reference to a different study with a different data set.
Because I also only considered the immediate deaths from the Tsunami. And actually, the 1 death is a follow-up casualty, it wasn't immediate. So if we really only count immediate deaths, that number is 0. Zero.

--> OMG FUKUSHIMA!!! <--

What the long-term death rate is going to be is very unclear.

Now to the evacuation.

"Many deaths are attributed to the evacuation and subsequent long-term displacement caused by mass evacuation that was not necessary for the most part"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...

The same happens to be true for Chernobyl, where the health-effects due to the evacuation far exceed the health-effects due to radiation. Whereas for example the wildlife in both exclusion zones is doing just swimmingly.

So:

Fear of nuclear is killing more people than nuclear.

This is generally true, because the use of nuclear energy has saved over a million people from premature death and will (or would) save millions more:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunctio...

But somewhat surprisingly, it is also true when nuclear goes wrong, when there are accidents. Check out the decennial Chernobyl reports by the WHO, they are absolutely fascinating. Spoiler alert: with each report, so every ten years, they massively reduced their estimate of how many people would die as a result, usually by an order of magnitude.

Now that doesn't mean that there should not have been any evacuation, but it in both cases it was both to widespread and way too long.
So in the world you describe, if a parent wants better education for their child (than what the government provides uniformly across the country) - is the only recourse private schools?

So I come from India where the above model is in place - very few government funded schools are considered top ranking. Parents live closer to good private schools and fund the same when possible. But usually this means hours of transit for the child.

At least from my perspective, the US model seemed better. Here you can choose to live in a nice neighborhood if you can and get a lot more benefits than just good schools. These things seem to go together (safety / general wealth of the neighborhood / public services / good schools / accessibility to job locations and so on). I am curious to see why someone would not want this.

If the overall push is that the whole country should grow only at a uniform rate and we should penalize folks who work hard to get these benefits in lieu of folks who can't (or won't), that doesn't sound very American, at least not the American dream I was sold when I moved :).
UK Cold War Communications
Yeah, this last year amounted to an enormous wealth transfer. I know a lot of small business owners and am a business owner myself. I've done just fine through the pandemic mostly due to the industry I'm in (coffins - ha, kidding), but there are some observed lessons - keep your business records very up to date and handy, keep a savings account for unexpected expenses, treat business continuity planning (BC) with some respect.

When first round PPP money was available, the businesses that got it were those that could pull all their info together on a moments notice and jam out an application with supporting material quickly (like literally within hours of finding a bank taking apps) - P&L statements, tax returns, payroll reports, other vital records. I saw business owners who didn't have their stuff together miss out on first round funding because they just weren't able to pull that off quickly enough. It was a land grab and for some it was an early make-or-break moment.

Businesses that were set up from the beginning to treat their offices as "disposable" from a BC/DR perspective were a-okay switching to remote work. As in - if you were planning to be able to continue work if an asteroid hit your building, you were fine with the WFH shift. Mostly this meant very asset-light approach to infrastructure, cloud services, laptops, etc.

Restaurants that could drop ready cash (savings) on outdoor accommodations (tents, heaters, etc) were more likely to maintain a revenue stream, assuming they had land or city-granted street space to set that up.

That last point though - I've seen some businesses leverage political connections to get special permitting, wealthier business owners of course were better positioned innately. The lockdowns disproportionately impacted businesses - like the established and wealthy (read large chains, primarily) were in a far better spot, while the ones already struggling to survive (locally owned) were not.

One aspect of the devastation that may not be fully appreciated is that locally owned small businesses don't necessarily just "come back". Many business owners are of an age where they are hanging up their spurs rather than going through another round of creation and growth. It takes a special kind of person (e.g. highly risk tolerant) to step out of the corporate employment world and have a go on your own, and I think the market lost a sizable quantity of those people over the last year, along with the jobs they provided, who just aren't anxious to have another go at it again.

I see a lot of people talking about inflation concerns. I don't feel I know enough about that to predict one way or another. I do see the job market starting to bounce back a bit where I live, dining rooms starting to fill up again.

To some degree I'm going to miss the society the pandemic created - people walking their neighborhoods more, meeting their neighbors, generally being more patient with each other, empty middle seats on airlines, people less likely to sneeze on the vegetables at the grocery store, more attention to sanitation, less traffic. Ah well.
There is certainly shared responsibility from the student(s), and from the parents, but this also highlights a systemic breakdown in so many areas. A person should not need three jobs to support their family. Schools should have the necessary resources to help failing students. I could go on, but this whole thing just stinks.
And before 9/11 responders there was gulf-war syndrome (which never was PTSD since that group of soldiers reported much lower incidence of PTSD compared to others that fought in wars).
It feels like the left-wing version of the satanic panic
You should give Hades a try. It's built from the ground up to be replayed - in fact that's woven into the story in a very compelling way.
Two things need to be blown up and it's ashes scattered to the winds.

1. "No child left behind".

2. Common core. Which is inherently very racist and damaging to high performing kids.
Curious to hear what everyone thinks about moving your desktop to the cloud vs. continuing with the traditional route...
A data point suggesting bias is more accurate than a coin flip...
I'll have to cast doubt on you living in a country occupied by the Nazis. Where and when are you talking about?
Closest one to me according to pure-gas.org is about an hour away, a couple of counties over. There are literally none in the county. I don't know if that's local law or market forces in action.
It's interesting to square:

> and was late or absent 272 days

And the mother's statement:

> He didn't fail, the school failed him. The school failed at their job. They failed. They failed, that's the problem here. They failed. They failed. He didn't deserve that.

There's got to be far more than just the school failing here.
Yep, sounds like Illinois. There is currently a shift in power in Illinois after Michael Madigan's resignation [1]. We will see if "The Machine" is going to fall apart now or get injected with fresh blood.

[1]: https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-prem-mike-madigan...
> I still don't understand why people want fusion.

> That said, I want fusion for crazy rocket concepts.

There you go, you answered it yourself. Fusion rockets would open up the Solar System the way the steam engine opened up the oceans.

Also on Earth, fusion would be cool. It's less dirty than fission, and the fuel is FAR more plentiful.
> core set of platform agnostic native widgets

This is confusing for me. I think such a framework is either 'platform agnostic' OR 'native'. Maybe the API is platform agnostic and the rendering is done natively?
A huge number of comments from earlier today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26355480
The problem, in my view, is mostly regulatory capture and this incessant drive to let markets do their thing.

As it stands, fossil fuels should be taxed so high that building, maintaining, and running nuclear power plants is cheap in comparison. Yet we have continued investment into fossil fuels even though we're now fully aware of the damage they're doing. And people say "oh, well we don't have nuclear, because it's so expensive." You know what else is expensive? Entire cities being under 6ft of ocean and having to relocate hundreds of millions of people.

In other words, the known externalities are not imbued in the price, because yay capitalism. I think a little market tampering is warranted when planetary survival is at stake. And obviously, the ramp-up should be gradual, ie, we should have been starting this 20 years ago, when it was also painfully obvious that digging up huge amounts of carbon and burning it is a bad idea. Oops.
The first rule of governance is only make laws which can be enforced without bias. If you can't enforce the law without bias, it shouldn't be a law. Put another way, the government shouldn't pick winners and losers.