skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did 2 years in high school then did an GED program through my community college. I had 2 years of college done by the time my peers were graduating high school.
A writing tip I learned at community college: "get to the point".
I think it depends on the school. I've personally had a very positive high school experience in the U.S.
Yep, but it's a good start. Why I called it a "basic audit".
I don’t agree with everything in the article but I really liked the age segregation point. It’s incredible how much we drill into people’s heads that students need to be the same age. Why? We’ve all known 9th graders more mature, whether academically or personally, than 12th graders. And there’s so many students shunted off to college way before they’re ready out of fear of “falling behind”. I’ve taken two gap years at this point, one after high school and one this past year due to covid. So yes, I’ve “fallen behind” my classmates. I’ve also gotten work experience, significantly improved my mental health and traveled. And oh no, I’m so late for what? Joining the workforce? Who cares? I’m probably gonna be working for 40 years. Two years isn't going to make a difference.
But what about the Stonecutters?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXtQMz1RGNw
That must be the case then
They’re consumer friendly In a different spot than the competition. It’s pick your poison - privacy, or money.
Tool comparison and review sites are absolutely terrible spam traps and have completely taken over Google SERPs, so there is definitely a market for someone to do in-depth high quality reviews with actual rankings instead of the usual here-are-20-tools-we-are-going-to-briefly-describe-so-good-luck-comparing-them-yourself-sucker blog spam.
I always assumed US high schools were meant to make citizens hate tyranny via experiencing tyranny. On that basis they are actually 99% effective...
GrapheneOS supports Google Pixel 2 and later, but only Google Pixel 3 and later are currently supported by vendor security updates:

https://grapheneos.org/releases

All Google Pixel phones released to date receive vendor security updates for 3 years after the release date: https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705

A Pixel 4a ($349 new) would cover you until August 2023, and a Pixel 4a (5G) ($499 new) would cover you until November 2023 with better performance. The Pixel 5 is not a particularly good value for the price. Used Pixel 3, 3a, and 4 devices (along with their XL counterparts) are less expensive options with vendor support timeframes that expire sooner. The Pixel 3 and 4 (non-XL) models have poor battery life, so choose an XL model if you opt for either of those.
You may be right. Though not all his pre-1960 work was YA.
Yes. I know. I was attempting to make a rather lame joke.
It probably depends a lot on funding and student classification. I know that I had access to a lot of options as a student coded "gifted" but if I went public, then there would be a need for a special exemption (as the property taxes were registered to the Catholic board), but one of my cousins was stuck in a crappy school as there was nothing special about him.
Manly p Hall was a great man and a Mason. For this they have my respect.
>desktop browsers will often ignore it and start the video from the beginning.

Is there some data on this, or are you just making it up? It's long been a feature on one of the largest internet sites. I've never not had it work on the desktop, at least on Firefox, Brave, and Chromium on both Mac and Linux.
I had a choice of over 20 high schools in my area, some within 5 minutes from my home, some 45 minutes. This upper limit was imposed by my parents, who weren't comfortable having me travelling for longer at that age. I had a shortlist of four, and was able to pre-attend classes at three of them. I ended up choosing one at 35 minutes from my home. I think the classmate with the highest commute time had to travel a little over an hour.

Most years, I think our class had one or two additions that did their previous year (or the same year) at a different school, and I remember two or three classmates changing to another school. I'm not sure how universal your observation is, but then again, I've never lived in the US.
A few weeks ago I noticed that Reddit also started using Google Recaptcha for account creation.

Even though I only saw it on creation, and not on login, the possibility of associating a strong identifying fingerprint with a presumably anonymous throwaway user account was concerning.
you can literally flip every single one of your arguments with a few words.

>[big purchases] of any big country could change and trigger the [purchase] for a lot of [buyers] of a country.

>Especially given BTC is used by Iran to bypass petrol restrictions, used by ransomware and all sort of dealers, as well as Chinese who want to flee.

[Didn't actually have to change this one, seems like buying pressure to me]

>Currencies are in theory regalian = only emitted by the central bank; [New world currency outside of central banks is the whole vision for crypto, so i don't see how this conflicts.]

>Once any country gets upset with this, they could blame terrorism on BTC and ask owners to prove their origin of wealth, which would be a major hurdle if the law was strict.[ Don't actually understand this one, how could you make me prove ownership of coins in a cold-wallet?]
Some schools but definitely not all.

My high school was really toned-down and chill. Everyone sort of got along (or at least it seemed like it to me, I could've been blind to some of it), we weren't all friends but there wasn't any fighting / violence. There was drama, sports, relationships, there were the jocks / nerds / weird kids, but nothing like the movies. This was in the early 2010s, and my town was suburban not rich and not poor.
you think of the problem you are solving as "avoid flamewars including through automation to make the task easier on a no-profit forum"

I think there needs to be more room for "(perhaps heated) discussion of actual science in the face of an ongoing existential threat to vast swathes of western civilization and the third world"

I think there needs to be more room for discussion of a seemingly real, Orwellian-Huxleyan ideological takeover of important cultural institutions like wikipedia, the NY Times, Google, Apple, Facebook, etc., a left wing doppelganger to the Red Scare of the 50's.

full disclosure: I'm a former leftie, I know the propaganda I used to spew in the name of the earnest conviction of what morally superior people we lefties were compared to those awful troglodytes, and I remember how easily the centrists would be convinced to go along by nice words. I mean, black lives DO matter, right? but BLM Inc(tm) is a Marxist led radical coalition that sees further violence as helping the cause by proving their case.

Cheers, I appreciate the work you do. :)
I'll just throw out there that I've been interested in Masonry lately, during the pandemic I realized how lacking connections are in my life and the idea of a fraternity of men that have joined together to be better is something that I would want to be a part of.

I've been going to some of their open meetings lately and enjoyed them, but what I've found of masonry I've liked so far. It isn't some big secret it is more like an institution that helps builds connections amongst people.
The official "home" of uBlock Origin is the GitHub repo[1], you will find all the correct information there.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
I just switched back to Fastmail after a year of testing alternatives (mailbox.org, Private Email [a Namecheap company], Runbox, and Zoho Mail) and I'm quite happy with it.
I've wondered about how well something like this would work:

1. Schools open early and accept students as early as they do now, but classes start around noon and extend to 4-6 PM. Students are not required to arrive early; the school opens early to provide a safe place and schedule flexibility for parents and buses.

2. Breakfast and lunch are offered to ensure food security.

3. Every student has 5+ hours of 1:1 or small group tutoring weekly. This is where the bulk of educator funding would likely end up.

4. Open format "study hall" periods with staff available to assist.

5. No homework; personal exercises are handled in study hall.

6. For any lecture format material, provide high quality centrally produced media. On premise educators focus most of their time on interaction and adapting to where the students are.

7. Much less age stratification; progress through class content would be heavily individualized by the 1:1 and small group interaction.

8. Unprison the experience- you can go to the bathroom or eat a snack, or even leave.

This reuses of all existing infrastructure, reorganizes educator hours into what is (as far as I know) a more effective structure, reduces required student time, and seems like this should fit in the current budgets (which are around the $12000/year/pupil averaged over the US).

And, critically, this doesn't force teenagers with delayed circadian rhythms to wake up at 5:45 AM to catch the bus. I'm pretty sure if you changed nothing else and just had high school run from noon to 4PM, you'd have a transformative improvement in outcomes even though the total number of hours would be significantly reduced.
From the nypost link cited:

> The structure, said to be the “largest single piece of load bearing acrylic in the world,” has been in the works for several years and was built in a Colorado factory.
Can't you change schools?

In slovenia, you first go to elementary/grade school (used to be 1+8, now 9 years) until you're ~15yo, then you apply for high schools, and depending on your grades and other stuff, you get accepted to your chosen school (either "gymansium" - basically 'everything', or some kind of specific/trades school (mechanics, electricians, construction,...)).

Usually if you're good in school, you get to a good high school and also have good classmates (atleast on your level)... but even in shitty, no-limit school (eg. 3year construction school), discipline is not really a major issue, and really shitty students either fail or get expelled very soon.
>I've read the ritual in an exposé; what is all this strange stuff?

>Remember that Masons solemnly pledge to keep the ritual secret. An "exposé" is the product of someone who has broken a promise to his friends and neighbors and to God. Can you really trust that such a person is telling you the truth?

By this reasoning you should never trust whistleblowers.
I think it's the other way around. Comment reads like an idealistic middle aged person idea to me. I don't know anyone under 30 who wouldn't immediately mock it.
yeah, middle school sucks way more. It wasn't that bad for me, but looking back some people were just treated awfully by everyone.

Bullying can really mess with your head at that age, people with self-esteem issues are really badly affected by it, and I've seen those effects last well into high school too.
I don't know why people are voting you down. Most places just use Chrome & don't test against anything else.
After searching about I stumbled on this interesting history of vacuum devices.

One of the dangers in early experimentation was the church, because of course.

https://cds.cern.ch/record/455984/files/p281.pdf
Well the article does mention hunting and road-kill as some of the causes in the decline, of which both activities would be less prominent with lock-downs in many area's.
Yeah - I had alot of friends that lost faith in Elon over alot of his crypto hype/ Sold alot of Tesla stock. He seemed to busy to actually research anything, flip-flopped alot on his rhetoric but had outsized influence on something he really didn't understand just because he's rich.
Don't do that. Don't tell people too much that you love them.

Have you seen all those commercials in which they tell you how important you are for them? Then you call when you have a problem and they make you wait one hour in the phone and they don't even help you at all.

You are just idealizing what should have happened, that never happened. You are like a virgin that idealizes what a relationship is, because she never experienced one. Or an American that idealizes socialism/communism because she have never experienced anything remotely similar in reality.

When you don't know about something, you idealize it, you make it perfect, but reality is infinitely complex, and different from your ideal.

I have no problem telling people around me I love them, but that is so easy to do. It is easy to love someone on good times. There are times in which loving someone is extremely hard, like a person becoming an addict or getting in love with an addict or becoming a criminal that decides to steal or be part of a gang.

We had a family member that got in love with a heroine addict. The pain for the entire family was incredible. As this person died from overdoses we had to support the children ourselves and the problems the children had without a parent, like having sex being 13 years old and aborting.

I have been a voluntary in Africa and helped refugees. I helped drug addicts. I have seen lots of situations in which loving someone is extremely painful and they do, they don't tell, they do.

I believe in God, that it probably what makes the biggest difference in the refugees that I have interviewed in all those years.

I am Spaniard, Italy is a lovely place to live. You don't have to do any effort to see the family or friends. It is not North America or the North of Europe in which most people live much more isolated.
You vastly underestimate how much money it would take to do (3) alone, let alone anything else on here. Your assumption around the usage of educator hours is incorrect. I suppose it's worth seeing how you believe educator hours are currently used?
I hated school too, and I sympathise with your quest to "save" your kids from it.

At the risk of presumption, I'd advise to be wary of overprojecting though. Different people have very different experiences, and your kids' may not be the same as your experience. Observe and react.
> Any student who doesn't want to go to high school can already do so by opting into home schooling if their parents agree and support that (and can provide resources).

The whole point of public school is to not depend on "if their parents agree and support that (and can provide resources)." because it didn't work.

> The article handwaves how exactly you would replace all of the non academic portions of high school by vaguely mentioning anecdotes.

Which non academic portions of high school? And what they're mentioning is not anecdots, it's how extra curricular activites works in other countries. You don't go to them through high school, they're independant associations focused on a sport, an instrument or something. Where you can also get your social interactions.

> Interestingly many people who have poor social skills wish to avoid people, but in reality that just delays the inevitable poor encounters you will have with others.

You can have good social skills and not enjoy the company of other high schoolers. In that case forcing you to spend time with other high schoolers makes no sense at all. You're also free to walk away from most bad encounters later in your life, while you can't really walk away from bullying.

I also don't see how high school does anything to teach social skills to people that don't have them. There's no courses for it, you can experiment with your classmates but failure can mean humiliation and bullying for the next 4 years. I don't think that's a good environment to develop a skill.
I did a dual-enrollment program that was a normal ish 9th grade, and took college courses for 10-12th grade. Could see if there are similar programs in your area.
More generally, magnet or charter programs kinda select for people who are interested in the program (and in some cases people forced in by their parents), which could provide a better environment
Most landlords own a single rental, but most rental properties are owned by large companies (notably REITs like MAA that has over 100.000 properties)...

So what you're saying is both true (in that it saves average-earning citizens) and false (most of the money went to large corporations like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-America_Apartment_Communit... ).
He had a rough life, and it's not hard to see that impact in his work. I read many of his novels, back to back, in the Library of America collections, and by Ubik (my favorite of the bunch) I had the sense that he was barely holding together something moving downhill very quickly.

That energy suits his work in a lot of ways, though not universally, and can be monotonous sometimes.
A submission not so long ago made it sound pretty straightforward:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26653788
> The server has some brute force protection whereby failed logins will cause the device to stop this server for an increasing amount of time. The device has to be left switched on for the anti-brute force timer to expire because the failure counter is stored persistently in the flash.

Excellent! This is the way security should be done if you have to use a password like here.

Too many devices either don't have brute force detection, or don't persist their intervals meaning a reboot gives you new attempts.
Have you considered how you would distinguish this from ghosts simply not existing?

It seems like what you're describing is merely a means by which a non-existent phenomenon may seem plausible.
Chatbot ELIZA source code rediscovered after 50 years
Because they had new surveillance technology (the telephone) and they needed a plausible explanation for what the source of all their secret information was. You can turn a specially modified telephone into a listening device. All important people had phones in their offices sitting right on their desks.

But obviously, to the gullible public, they were getting it directly from “the dead”.
Isn't that a pretty serious crime? I hope you reported it.
Because it’s a slow news day? It’s the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend in the US. Bank Holiday weekend in the UK too.
Probably because they think testing in Chrome only is a bad practice
Open source doesn't solve it completely.. What you have in repo and what is published doesn't have to be the same thing. Unless people are doing the extra effort to compare them, which is extremely rare unless its quite popular. I've seen this happen a few times.
Heh yeah, I spent a silly amount of time writing my own bitblts for the thing as a kid. I think the //e version of one of the books mentioned in the video (Understanding the Apple ][) is where I first learned of vertical retrace/blank.
It’s easier for every user to have to change their behavior/preferences/principles than it is for developers to test in a few browsers?
Then it would cost multi-thousand dollars + extra without the ads in order for the manufactures to maintain their thin margins.
I see what you did there and I disapprove. But seriously, I find Oxford commas so useful that I catch myself trying to use them in three other languages that don't have them.
Data oracles? DeFI? liquidity providing? Banking the unbanked? Store of Value?

Any of these mean anything to ya?
Hah, I love the name. Very clever.
Apple just charges a lot more upfront for their products.
So what replaced this stuff in modern applications? Better couplers? Special epoxy?
> 8. Unprison the experience- you can go to the bathroom or eat a snack, or even leave.

You'll have a hard time finding staff without the promise that you can humiliate younger people /s
Why / Who is DDOS'ing protonmail? Is it just a consequence of having a sass a certain size that you become a target?
Related: is anyone here part of any sort of secret societies in Silicon Valley that they want to write about? I've heard rumors about these sorts of things, but never read anything specific on the web.
My high school was super chill. There were standard groups such as jocks/nerds/etc. but lots of people would also move from one group to the other. There were even semi regular out-of-school events that involved people from all groups.

I'm sure there was some bullying going on, but based upon my observations it didn't seem widespread. Of course I was a teenager and probably not the most observant person and may have had a skewed view of the average person's experience there.
> The whole point of public school is to not depend on "if their parents agree and support that (and can provide resources)." because it didn't work.

By what criteria does it not work?

> Which non academic portions of high school? And what they're mentioning is not anecdots, it's how extra curricular activites works in other countries. You don't go to them through high school, they're independant associations focused on a sport, an instrument or something. Where you can also get your social interactions.

Other countries are setup differently than the USA. They have infrastructure for transporting children for example, infrastructure we do not necessarily have.

> You can have good social skills and not enjoy the company of other high schoolers. In that case forcing you to spend time with other high schoolers makes no sense at all. You're also free to walk away from most bad encounters later in your life, while you can't really walk away from bullying.

This is not true. You can be bullied at work. You could argue that you can switch jobs, but you can also switch schools. You can argue you can tell your manager, but you can also tell your teacher. In the end it's the same thing.
they are not at all... mine was great (Halifax County High, VA). It is rated 5.5/10, so average school I guess and it was diverse.

I attended it as an exchange student, (From Albania), from my senior year.
I took mostly AP classes, and they were pretty good, as the average student was very/well motivated. They were smart and most went to good colleges after it. I got the chance to advance many of my skills, computer wise, and even took programming, which was great as it cemented my desire to pursue CS. (Pascal was the language being taught in 99).
Things like AP physics and biology/chemistry were way behind my Albanian education. I can't image what Gen Ed physics would look like. (probably comparable to middle school level in former commie Europe). AP Calc, was challenging and on par with former communist country education (but very few people take those classes).

Gen. Ed classes, (the ones where average people take) were a mixed bag, as they had plenty of students that clearly didn't want to be there, and just wanted a pass grade and move on.

I also got to join the soccer team and I loved it. Made lots of friends, never got into a fight (perhaps because I was the only foreign student, and people were super friendly), went to the prom, and all that. Became friends with the popular/'in' group of girls, had a gf., etc... It was something like out of the movies.

For me it was a great experience, and it really really depends on how you use it. If you take mostly AP classes, or participate in sports, it is a great thing. If you take the gen. ed classes, you will end up in classes that are designed more to just teach the bare minimum, as most students there don't have any interest in being there to begin with.

The trend of reducing AP classes in the name of 'equity' is very troubling, as it remove the chances of smart students to have a stimulating environment, and let them learn at their faster pace.
I think the Lidl tools brands are the best value for money you can buy, in a lower price segment. There are other brands that are best vale for money in higher price segments, but for tools you only use occasionally, I think Lidl is on top.