skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently found out about Summit Public Schools. By the sounds of it, this model aims to provide students with more autonomy than they would in a normal school. There is an emphasis on self-directed learning and teachers act more as mentors than lecturers. If your metric to measure success is admission to unviersity, it works! They claim 98% of their students are accepted onto 4-year courses and have twice the graduation rate relative to the US average. [1] Even if that isn't your metric for success (there are good reasons why it shouldn't be) it at least demonstrates ability.

Perhaps this is a good bridge between school and homeschooling as we know it. I'm sure you can tell from reading this that I only have surface-level understanding, so I'd be interested to hear from anybody who knows more about these schools or other schools that do similar things. Or indeed anybody who wants to shake up education/has some good ideas!

You can read more here: https://summitps.org/

[1] https://summitps.org/the-summit-model/our-results/
'Greater Idaho' took one step closer to being a real thing
Yes, language evolves, a natural process which happens over an extended time period. What I am talking about is the online dictionary changing the definition of words a few hours from when someone used that word in a context where it does not fit, to make it fit that context. This has now happened a few times in the last year, did you miss that?

This is not language evolution but language revolution - or revolutionary language - and it is not a natural process.
This explains some of the crummy B+W scans of some old books on archive.org - they were scanned from microfilm.
This! Customer is served, except the customer is not the site visitor, it is the advertiser.
Thank you for your concern, Twitter–now fall in line
> This sort of comment is frustrating. How many times has XYZ site had broken search?

I can't even think of any? But also search isn't a core feature for the vast majority of sites. Something can be easy and still break if nobody cares very much.

Edit: Actually I can think of search breaking on one site that was notoriously badly run and had 0 to 1 part-time devs. That's not a flattering comparison.

Edit 2: So could the people that disagree name some notable sites with broken search? I feel like if I don't understand what "XYZ" stands for it's probably not something I should be blamed for...
Let's not abolish it, but let's provide some alternatives. If you can demonstrate some proficiency across the three Rs, then why does it matter if you go to high school or not?
> i would not laugh. think it’s impressive and must eat a lot of time

It does not.

I set up my latest/current email hosting in about 2011. Very minimal work on it since then. There's really nothing to do once it's working.

Only work I can think of I've spent on it since 2011 is: regular OS updates (which take basically no time), added SPF and later DKIM support, added Let's Encrypt cert. That's it in ten years.
Or it's the "measure everything" culture having become self-reinforcing regardless of results or collateral damage.
In 10 years or so, everybody will have to have a wearables story -- because of the market for them Apple created.
I recently bought P. K. Dick’s “Complete Short Stories” published by Folio Society as a big box set.

The stories are in chronological order, which is surprisingly interesting because you get to trace Dick’s evolution as a writer. The first published stories are not very good by any standard, but he keeps gradually honing in on the concepts and atmospheres that eventually mark his work.

As someone who has dabbled in SF writing, it feels like a consolation to see PKD’s humble beginnings laid bare. He never gave up on evolving his craft.
On which reasonably modern/performant phones can one install them? I did bought an iphone as my latest phone, because Google-riddled android is ridiculous (even though I like the ecosystem much better. Iphones can feel like some embedded software that only allows a few possibilities), but mainly because I could not find a phone on which installing some AOSP fork is safe, won’t delete important firmware (I believe quite a few mobiles will delete proprietary camera firmware)
who sets up the kickstarter ? :p
I'm very sorry for your loss.

Just over five years ago, I lost my wife of 10 years at the age of 36 to pancreatic cancer. She went from seemingly perfectly healthy, athletic even, to deathly ill and passing inside of six months.

It wasn't fair, and in fact was completely tragic because of the person that she was.

Mirroring some advice already here: don't be afraid to cry, to feel. You have to. You also have to reconcile now with any regrets, either to decide that you really don't have them, or to think about how to change your life going forward so as to not create new ones.

But the cold, hard fact is that this is reality, both the thing that happened but also that it happens and will continue to happen. I hope this doesn't sound cold. For me, it was more of a question of "ok, this is reality... now what?"

And I recognize that different people react differently, and circumstances of deaths are very different, too.

I also found myself blogging both for therapy as well as just to connect to all the friends and family out there who shared my tragedy. Maybe something there will be useful to you, too:

https://justinmiller.io/series/grief/

Be well.
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taking profits is always a purely speculative move, but a good one. Taking profits doesn't mean you liquidate entirely, it just reduces risk.

E.G. I believe in crypto, but when btc went from 20k - > 50k i took all my profit except my initial investment. It was purely speculative sure, but it drastically reduced my risk without reducing too much profit potential if i still believe in the long term.
Protonmail goal is to preserve privacy, while Google's goal is to collect your private data.
Which phone do you recommend going with it?
Thank you for this! Can't wait to try to start listening to these during workouts.
Interested to know if it can run on PyPy and what kind of difference that would make.
The internet has made formal education obsolete in the sense that a significant amount of material is now available for free and a little more available behind a paywall.

But a vast majority of highly paid technical fields are highly credentialed, getting hand son experience in certain fields requires access to labs and equipment beyond the means of the average individual, etc.
To the author’s point, formal education is not so much about learning the curriculum, as about socialization. That doesn’t have to happen through school but you’ve got to get a group of people together somehow, and in the US that is through school. And it’s not a healthy environment, which does impact learning for everyone. It’s a little bit lord of the flies, but I don’t think the solution is to put everything online. And I know quite personally that a lot of kids (and adults) just don’t learn that way.
I lost my mother in April to pancreatic cancer. We knew it was coming and the waiting game was not pleasant. The worst part is, nothing can prepare you for when it does finally happen.

I’m sorry for your loss.
Do you think people aren't cheating in school already? Cheating is primarily a symptom of mixed incentives. When the goal is to pass a test, cheating is the obvious, correct solution - you're an idiot if you don't cheat, frankly, if your goal is to get a good grade.

If your goal is to learn, and failure is considered safe and a necessary part of the process, you'll never cheat.

I strongly believe that human beings fundamentally want to learn. In fact, I'd generalize that to most intelligent life - learning provides a feeling of satisfaction.

It is only in this nonsensical system where we conflate learning with grades that we can, through decades of abuse, start to not want to learn.
Still only 1100 exist in the wild.

Their equilibrium population was over 100000!
No response to this post can mean many things:
1. Everyone else (just like me) is also drinking from the survival bias success stories firehose.
2. There might not be many authentic referral-worthy failure stories books (there might be individual stories, though)
3. This piece just fell through the HN cracks:)
Project Sanguine: a 6000 mile long antenna to communicate with submarines @ 76Hz
Were these reviewers only leaving reviews on spoofed extensions? Seems like it’d be trivial to mix in positive reviews of legit extensions, making the trail harder to follow.
"There, I fixed it."
"Dreaming in Code" by Scott Rosenberg
pretty terrible sentiment but i've been seeing it a bit lately. We have cars, microwaves, refrigerators, insulation and food stamps. If you brought someone from a pre-industrial society i'm pretty sure they'd call modern america a utopia.
The article explicitly states that by 'abolish' they mean provide alternatives.
Values are what you talk about.

Culture is what you do.
I had a little look around, and it seems this is true, or at least has been true in the past.

https://theconversation.com/the-freemasons-no-longer-have-si...

The relationship between police officers and Freemasons became a major issue in the 1960s, largely as a result of investigative journalism by the The Times and The Sunday Times. Revelations were made about corruption in the Metropolitan Police’s CID unit and surrounding the activities of the Obscene Publications Squad. Senior officers were receiving illegal payments on a regular basis in return for allowing London sex shops to trade unrestricted.

The fact that London detectives shared membership of the same Freemason lodges as active high-profile London criminals became public knowledge. Senior officers were seen spending time with convicted London criminals in Mediterranean holiday villas.

Ultimately, this led to major reforms of the Metropolitan Police. Criminal investigations resulted in custodial sentences for a number of senior CID officers and voluntary retirements for many more.

More recently:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/31/freemasons-b...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/25/decorated-underc...
No sure about your state but I’ve known people in Canada who avoided it by doing core subjects via correspondence programs. It freed up time for them to pursue other interests or work. It didn’t seem to be a barrier to them getting into any public universities, but I don’t know how that works in the US where elite education seems to matter a lot more.
I’ve got better things to do, and it’s widely known that finance academia is worthless. The inner workings of the investing world is opaque. That’s why you see people posting logically sounding nonsense
Dr. ELIZA.

Later versions of this "psychotherapist" pattern was extended upon in AIML as "A.L.I.C.E"
I didn't pay for the OS on my pinephone, but for some reason the vendors decide not to use that as an opportunity to create a mass surveilance campaign.
While some people can manage with a pinephone, it is not “production-ready” at all. I do own one, and I am very very thankful to all the people involved with it, but it is simply not comparable to even a low-end android phone, let alone a high-end one or an iphone.

It’s a hobby project as of yet (as even mentioned on the website). Hopefully once software matures there will come a pinephone 2 that will pack a more modern hardware and have full android app compatibility (there is no way around it, it is needed) that can be actually used as a daily driver.
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If you want to understand just how weird Apple II graphics were, a great introduction is Stephen Edwards's "Inside the Apple II" video: https://youtu.be/r1VlrJboDMw. It's just half an hour long but manages to explain the clever hacks that Woz employed to squeeze video and floppy-disk logic from inexpensive 1970s-era hardware. (It also explains the Apple II's switching power supply, which was novel at the time.)
Looks like they feel it's a necessary evil and only hits 1-2 percent of users
Ironically it's actually worth something now.

Having to deal with the pre-decimalisation £sd currency system would presumably slow any invasion into countries that used it.
Nonsense.

The same surveillance capitalism runs on a multi-thousand dollar OLED panel.
Sure, just so long as the pixies don’t interact electromagnetically, or strongly with each other by anything except gravity.
Article is paywalled, so I'm guessing very few of the commenters will have actually read it.
I did some research a short while ago but I’ve forgotten it all - but does too or any like it do persistence? I.e. I can close the window and reopen and see the same stuff that was just there?

My use case is starting long running processes - namely machine learning instances and having multiple people monitor through a browser and be able to close/reopen the window to check progress.

I do this currently using a jupyter notebook terminal but I’d like to not use jupyter notebooks at all if possible.

Screen / tmux etc is just too big a barrier for this unfortunately.
This is quite ingenious, really.
> So it sounds like you don’t agree

I am merely commenting on how it sounds like you want to use government coercion to force people to do or not do things with a phone that they own.

You can support government coercion if you want. But that is your position.

Don't go around pretending like you want to get the government out of stuff, when you want the government to come in, and prevent people from doing things with their own property.

> why we are regulation drunk in this country

It seems like you are the person who is pro regulation, as you want the government to come in, and require certain things about a phone that they own.

> I dont thing we can get anywhere

I just want you to stop pretending like you are some anti government regulation and anti coercion person. You support lots of coercion.

You support a pretty darn coercive thing, which is that you government force to be enacted on people, merely because of what they are doing with a phone that they own.

Whatever attack you are making against other people, regarding government coercion, on this issue, you are much worse than those other people, because you are the one who wants to come in, and force people to do things or not do things with their phones.

Whereas, other people, instead want the government to not stop people from doing things with their own phone.

On this specific issue, you are the pro government coercion person, and everyone else, who wants people to control their own phones, are the anti-coercion people.
Right, all you could do with the "player" objects was point them at a different byte every scanline, write the X value into the register, and it would paint the "1's" as "pixels" in that byte on that particular scanline with that X value. It was up to the programmer to multiplex them on a per scanline basis. No framebuffer whatsoever. Fun stuff!
It's fucked up because the people in power probably werent bullied. Teachers most likely werent bullied either. So nobody ever puts an end to the misery.

I've heard people saying they were bullied in school because somebody once said their football team sucked. And then went on to say they felt grateful because it made them a stronger person.

Its just a tornado of misinformation, and kids getting bullied to the point of suicide never get the help they need.
I have an argument that I want to see what other people think of.
Why is cheating bad? You say that they "claim more than they actually know" but that just doesn't hold up. If you try and get a job then you'll get fired, if you try and get into any sort of complex class without knowing anything you'll fail eventually. Cheating won't hold up in the long term. If it does then why does it matter? If you manage to score a CSC job (and hold it) without knowing a thing about it then you are qualified.

I'm sure someone can tell me why I'm wrong but I can't think of it myself
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The polygamy stuff is his books has always been a turn off for me. I don't really have anything against it, but it's that he goes to such lengths to explain and defend it, so many times (and always as some sort of "perfect system"), that it gets tiresome.

My theory is that every Sci Fi author has their own sort of pet belief they like to expose on their novels. So I get it, this is his. But every time it came up on his books I couldn't help and roll my eyes at what I knew would be a long, unnecessary, mostly off topic diatribe about the benefits of polygamy.
I don't think it's anything but myth that it be a any better outside the borders of America.
If a peer to peer system of interest caught on, I'm sure google would be glad to run 90% of the nodes (incognito) to have some view of what's happening therein.
For example, travel ban for certain countries based on their religion, the wall between the US and Mexico (which I know has its own advantages, but the whole concept is kinda humiliating if you think about it from the Mexicans' perspective), no H1B visa for international students after graduation, etc.
Good thing I don't think I'm right then, I know I'm right ;)
Even a constant and predictable load will cause some extra carbon dioxide output. How much depends on a variety of factors.

For example, during any period that the nuclear and hydro are running at capacity. If you reduced your constant power usage by 1kWh then during those peak periods, 1kWh less gas generation would be used by the network.

If your constant 1kWh of electricity would otherwise be exported to the US if you didn't use it, then it could be that 1kWh less coal generation would be used at some times.

Most people find it difficult to think about how their marginal increase in usage very often will cause extra CO2. Even writing this comment down has made me think about how CO2 production also depends on the future predictions of generators. It is complicated, but worth spending time to think about.
Things are so much worse...

A friend of mine runs a Equestrian Academy. A couple of weeks ago-- this person who rents a place on the premises invited her "son" to squat on the property.

The thing about horses is this-- they're pack animals. You have to be calm around them because, if you excite one horse. all the horses will see that excited guy, assume there's danger, and start running. This is a life or death thing. A spooked horse will trample people, buck, etc.

Every "horse person" knows this. It's the first thing you learn about horses.

So this individual-- makes a habit of driving his car fast up and down the entrance of the ranch. This spooked a horse and nearly got a little girl killed (who was riding it).

The second time this happened-- someone happened to be driving down that entrance and was doing the right thing-- going under 10mph. This person parks his car and then assaults the driver and another person who tried to break up the fight.

Police were called, and, "Nothing can be done." Despite 4 witnesses. The dude is back squatting on the property after a couple of days.

--

In my county-- A guy drove a stolen car into a Porsche-- stole the keys for the cars-- stole a Porsche-- and was released on 10k bail. Literally, a DUI is 50k bail.

Societal order itself is at issue.
> Usually the activation criteria will be "Contact this server and see what it tells me to do".

Right, but it could be set up to only do that starting six months after installation or something.
Hmm. Massage as a noun makes more sense as "massahzh" than "muhssahzh".
The charlatans were pretty miffed.
We are homeschooling my son and he’s be a senior this next term. It’s gone very well for us, academically and socially and the like, but now we have to make him a transcript for college applications and he followed a job-standard curriculum. We were counting on the SAT scores being an important part of his transcript, we’ll see how changes in that vein work out.

Every year we ask him if he’d like to return to conventional schooling, he’s not tempted at all. His not-school devotions are numerous, so it’s also been rewarding from a family perspective.
Won’t it be interesting when our model of physics is updated to explain these cosmological phenomena? Who knows what new technology will be discovered as a result!
This is going to sound ridiculous, but thinking about time as a 4th dimension helped me. The past never disappears from our universe, it's just the previous page of the book we're reading, and always there just a short distance away along the axis.

This helped me reframe the loss from "they're gone forever" to "they're alive, in the past".

It's now an inaccessible location to you, but the past exists in no less of a real way than the present moment.

And while that's not the page we're on anymore, that ink never fades. You shared those pages with them.

And if it occurs to you to think this way before they're gone, then I hope it also encourages you to fill those pages with the happiest times together that you still can.
Not questioning this dang, but would be useful to add something about trollish usernames in the guidelines, and perhaps clarify what qualifies as trollish.
https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-disappea...

Sociology: 3% R, 26% L, 72% D

Literature: 6% R, 21% L, 74% D

History: 8% R, 29% L, 63% D

Philosophy: 10% R, 30% L, 60% D,

Political Science: 16% R, 36% L, 48% D

Only economics has an under-representation of D with 33% R/33% L /33% D - as far as I know the general population is not 33% L.

When looking for "conservative" professors the division is even more bleak with 8% in Sociology, 3% in Literature, 7% in History, 4% in Philosophy, 2% (!) in Political Science and, again, 27% in Economics.

Don't believe that source? Here's The Harvard Crimson with the same message:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/4/9/disappearance-co...

Your reasoning for calling my argument not good faith is as biased as you ascribe my intentions to be. Again, please, show some proof of your statements. I can only assume that you do not have any proof - which would be difficult given the actual facts - and therefore take to the method of trying to discredit my intentions. This is a well-worn but ineffectual tactic when there is actual proof of the facts.
What's wrong with exposing SSH? It has got to be one of the most well tested pieces of network software out there.

Re. fail2ban - nearly all ssh scanning attempts in the wild seem to be from unsophicated attackers using some pieces of obsolete software. I disabled all but a couple of modern ciphers/mac/kex algorithms and hardly ever see any password bruteforce attempts in my logs (not that they have any chance of working - I disable password authentication as well). Mostly a bunch of "no matching key exchange method found" which I regard a minor nuisance.
> custom engines for every language

Isn't a language server an engine custom built for a particular language?

> at least for now, IDEA and its siblings are a step ahead.

For the languages they supported back then, they have been [almost] as good 10 years ago as they are today. The step seem really huge if there still is nothing nearly catching up.
See here for some pics https://nypost.com/2021/04/29/worlds-first-floating-sky-pool...
You're doing Gods work then my friend =)

Is it possible to sync python up enough to get it to write frames accurately without a significant amount of lag? I'd certainly be interested in how to get it to do that.
Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained