skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My fourth grader has had a hard time during the pandemic, with a lot of depression and anger. Once he could go back to school, his mood switched completely to his original self.

I had a similar experience with my kids. It's been a hard year for everyone. Your post focuses on the kids, but I don't think it's been any easier for teachers or parents.

> I don't feel like public schools were truly weighing the risks to children's mental health when they kept schools closed.

At least where I live, schools were never closed, we just switched to remote learning. And of course, that hand was initially forced and was constantly re-evaluated until in-person learning reached a level of acceptable risk again.
I wanted to teach, I went to school to teach art. I wanted to change how the system worked. I saw so many things wrong with my experience, which was demonstrably well above average. In the end I found out I'm horrible at classroom management and great at programming and design. So I became a programmer and not a teacher. I have huge respect for the professional educators that can manage a classroom and raise the bar for the entire room every day. Now as a parent my wife and I decided, given my decent salary, that we would forego her income to focus on other aspects of our quality of life. Part of that is homeschooling our children.

One way I frame homeschooling is a simple question. From your experience weigh the value of even a single day sitting under a tree reading a great book vs the value of a week in in an english classroom. Personally this captures the difference they are fundamental, qualitative differences.

Homeschooling is an unfair advantage in a lot of ways. Not everyone can afford to do it. Society needs to provide universal education and when almost every family needs dual incomes schooling provides a secondary
(arguably primary) service of child care. That however does not represent the only or best option for your kids. When I'm in a more negative mood I call schooling, of any sort, is a kind of institutionalization. That does not make it all bad, there are great social outcomes for submitting to that institutionalization. However there are other paths to just as good or better outcomes just not in a societally blanketing kind of way.
Are you talking about the mobile app? You should always update. There have been fixes for (pretty bad) security issues in the past [1].

[1] https://www.whatsapp.com/security/advisories/archive/
That's by design.

Glibc is a huge PITA but it's very carefully engineered for best performance.
"They're both extremely well rounded adults now"

What do they do? Did they get any schooling after the GED's?
If you made a hundred atom-exact replicas of the Mona Lisa, it wouldn't dent the value of the "real" Mona Lisa very much, if at all, outside of the difficulty in telling them apart - and the nature of NFT's mean that it's absolutely clear which one is the "real" one.

Technically, of course someone could clone it. No value there though, since the clones would lack scarcity, and wouldn't be "authentic".

Legally, no one else can clone this particular NFT, since that would be directly copying someone else's copyrighted work. The family, the owners of the copyright could, but the odds of clones selling for anything would be minimal.
Fwiw I don’t think it’s purely good, I both judge and applaud the article, hence the “zen” language. I think it’s good to criticize the hypocrisy. But also much better that the article exists than not. You’d see basically no journalism if journalists were constrained by the behavior of their owners to never be such hypocrites by association.
Gross. What a fucking horrible place to live.
Interesting, thank you! I still don't use containers (working on very small teams), and as I've tried to get into it, this is one of the questions I had where I was sure I was missing something and couldn't figure out what everyone else did... this is making me feel a lot more competent! (Although questioning the reasonableness of our industry!).
Given its support of functional language, built-in fault-tolerance, asynchronous message passing, and scalability, one would assume that it should ride the current wave of distributed computing. Any reason why it is relegated to a niche technology?
It's hard finding counter-examples since no two companies are in the same business and situation, but consider Microsoft: stack-ranking coincided with their lost decade where they stagnated, ceded control of mobile & web to Apple & Google, etc.

A new CEO changed many things so it's hard to say whether stack-ranking was more a cause or symptom of Ballmer's bad management but from the outside it certainly seems like a healthier company now that it's gone.

That's also important to think about from the other perspective: stack-ranking seems like a frictional cost — Microsoft would have been profitable no matter what since anything short of discontinuing Windows/Office would have left a massive cash flow, but it's harder to see where pushing people out cost you until after the fact. Amazon has enjoyed a massive first mover advantage from the cloud and they're certainly executing well now but I would not be surprised if, say, strong competition lead to a point in a few years where they might wish that they hadn't lost staff due to their checkered reputation for being an enjoyable place to work.
I would've been 100% ok during being at home the past year+ except for our middle schooler - he's doing ok, generally, but he's gained a lot of weight and is less happy than he was. I despise how our society handled education. Sure, we kept our kid isolated, but the majority of the country didn't, and so keeping kids out of schools didn't help, all we got out of it is a major mental health issue in our children that will last for years.

Ventilation and masks, plus shutting down school for a couple of weeks if there is a significant outbreak, and we would've managed this crisis so much better.

Instead you have half the country saying "fuck it" and sending kids to school no matter what, and the other half refusing to open schools at all but then letting kids playing with other kids in "pods" (when the also let kids be in multiple pods).
An hour from Toronto houses are close to a million dollars. I am 30 km from the financial district. I live in a modest house in a modest neighbourhood. My house would list for around 900k and there would be a bidding war.

I paid $340k for this house 13 years ago. I thought that was far too expensive but I didn't have a choice.
How exactly is it net zero emissions?
Hey, I sent a mail with the subject following subject, and mentioned your post in this thread.

>Web Application Developer: Supun "Buddy" Budhajeewa
You are conflating multiple theories to maximize outrage. The article is clear that the origin theory described as ‘fringe’ is that the virus was a manufactured bio weapon and intentionally released. It even mentions that Cotton had to ‘walk back’ his support for this theory.
Postgres added pluggable storage a couple years ago, but it takes time to develop new storage engines: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19578562
The ugly truth behind your fancy rewards credit card
Manipulating by hand is easily solved with alt sequences and adding support to distinctly display those characters to text editors. It's easier than figuring out the corner cases of YAML.
Just use nix, it solves this problem with minimal disruption for the end-user.
"though results seem to vary by OEM"

Right, that's true. This happened to me a while back with a Huawei Honor phone when I bought the phone and put it aside pending having the bootloader unlocked. Unfortunately, in the interim Huawei withdrew locking privileges so I was left with the option of either paying for a bootloader crack or disabling the Google stuff and I took the latter option (this was a secondary phone and only used for web browsing so it didn't matter much anyway).

In fact, this turned out OK, even though I couldn't disable Google Play Services I turned off all its permissions and I could disable every other Google service including Chrome (several other browsers substituted). Moreover, the phone had no SIM—so no account—as it connected to the net via WiFi to a pocket wireless modem. In essence, there was nothing to leak so Google PS had nothing to report anyway.
Problems with supersonic (?):

- Noise means you can't do US domestic

- Concorde didn't have the range for Pacific

- Costs didn't work for Atlantic routes

- And airlines want lots of identical planes, not one special one for one route

Which ones has Boom solved?

https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1400425028022308874
> It sounds like you've delegated if statements to configurable SQL queries, does that mean you need to take the context/variables/code and put it into a temporary SQL db whenever you evaluate them.

This is precisely what we do. The schema of the target database is known at startup time, so we can build a template copy of the database in memory and use this as a starting point to fill in current copies of domain state.

Performance is very good for our requirements. We don't need indexes because the actual amount of data in each database is incredibly small. I have benchmarked 30k SELECT statements per second against this approach, which should be more than enough if you consider that all of this is on a per-user-session basis. We could have hundreds of these in-flight simultaneously without any contention.
Recent video that talks a bit about Boom:

> Supersonic Planes are Coming Back (And This Time, They Might Work)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p0fRlCHYyg
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Totally. A light UI with some tuned edge caching and you will be golden.

There are quite a few competitors popping up, the main issue is that they all seem to be bootstrapped and don't have the funding to make a disruptive marketing splash.
> In my occasional interactions on Reddit it seems a very large proportion of users are on the "new" Reddit, the mobile site, or an app.

Same. And many of them message me directly via chat when they have a question about a subreddit I moderate. Chat which I check about every two months, which is for some reason fully distinct from both the regular messaging functionality (which to be fair, is very well hidden) and the two methods of contacting the moderators.
What you're saying seems like a very liberal idea though, right?
Yeah but all these sucessful policies driven by strong unions happen in the aftermath of winning a major war, do you think this is a coincidence?
I haven't tried it with a full team but clubhouse is nice. I've used it for personal things and it mostly works as I'd expect it to.
IMO developing countries are hurt by IP mostly. China has shown a way to use market to trade for IPs, which I think countries like India can do, but small developing countries will not be able to follow this example.

In order for developing countries to develop, they have to jump out this loop. With the exponential development of technology, the absolute gap between developing world and developed world will be so huge that they will never have a chance of reaching the same level.
My (US) experience is pretty much the same as yours, though my main valuable topic was math (and math teachers as well, plus one teacher who only taught electives about life after school - resumes/job interviews and stuff like that). It seems to be highly variable and depend on the individual schools.
And these are the facts:

1. The new version of the application no longer verifies the 0th subkey.
2. The new version of the application now verifies the 1st subkey.
3. The 1st subkey is located at indices 10 and 11: 0000-0000-00XX-0000-0000.
4. We possess the parameters to generate a valid 1st subkey: 10, 0, 56.

See a pattern?

Oddly, this gave me goosebumps. Very well written. I was happy to see Ed25519.
Technically, or originally perhaps, capital gains are paid based on gains. There are a lot of clauses and loopholes that allow for tax on gains to be deferred until they are realised.
In the US as a contractor making $100,000. You would pay $15,000 in social taxes. Around 25% in income tax depending on which state you lived in and still need to pay for health insurance. So taking home 50% of your pay after taxes and insurance is about what you would expect.
Deleted a comment above where I posted exactly what WorldMaker said. Agree 100%!

IMHO, the key is change control.

Programmatic change control (and CI/CD when more evolved) should be an organizational tool, not an IT tool.

"We found a user doing wrong" should be an opportunity to ask "What would this user need to do it right?" rather than simply telling them no. Because oftentimes they literally can't do things "IT-correct" (because of permissions, job title, org location, etc).

It seems maladaptive to blame users for not using tools & processes they haven't been allowed to have.
Things like "We are Tito's and Tito is ours", or "Little pioneers we are a real army" or "The
People, the Party, the Youth, the Army." Oh wait, wrong country :)
I think the problem with that analysis of the problem is that education spending in the US is highly unequal. Some school districts spend much more than necessary, while some don't have the funding to afford textbooks or safe school buildings. The main cause of this is that schools are funded by local property taxes, which depend on local house values and local incomes. Poor areas can't afford good schools, which makes it harder for kids raised in those areas to escape from poverty. Consider the Corridor of Shame: http://projects.aljazeera.com/2014/south-carolina-schools/

It may well be the case that US aggregate education spending is plenty high – but unless it were centrally collected and equitably distributed (taking into account differences in cost of living, cost of real-estate, etc.) to produce equivalent average outcomes, that's not really relevant.
I really struggled with the primary language class, Norwegian in my case. Especially the historical parts were a motivational black hole.

I get that one should learn some basics, like that we had some famous writers like Ibsen, but I feel it should be sufficient for most people to know roughly which century he lived, not the exact years of his birth and death. If you want to become a historian you'll have plenty of time to memorize those details later.

I also realized later that we spent very little time at practical writing. I mean sure we wrote stories and such, but very little of it were practically oriented. Yet that's what most people end up needing. Like, writing a report, or heck a letter/email regarding a specific topic.

We also didn't spend much time on understanding and interpreting text. We had some poems we had to interpret, but I think we should have had more of it. And not just poems and such but also more technical texts. Again a very useful skill compared to knowing that Camilla Collett was the sister of Henrik Wergeland, and when exactly they lived.

This became clear when I had to write reports, participated in discussions in newsgroups and emails etc, and later assignments at uni.

Anyway, rant over.
My last place had these obnoxious stalls where the bottom is cut off, as someone with bathroom anxiety those things were a nightmare. Funnily enough the HQ building 5 minutes away had proper room-like stalls, I actually used to go there just to use the toilet sometimes.
sure in percents. But US per capita makes more money, so the actual dollars to dollars are similar.

EU GDP per capita is 46,888 US 68,309

68000/100*27 = 18360
47000/100*40 = 18800

Edit i took GDP from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PP... 2021 estimates

I was kind of surprised by this, when I ran the numbers.
CSV<->JSON is fundamentally an unsolvable problem because of mismatch in data hierarchies among them.

Plus you have the type looseness for both and lack of standards for CSV.

A trivial 2-D case is handled well by Python library such as Pandas. Here OP could be an alternative.

When I say trivial I mean flat 2 dimensional data, such as you would get from Mockaroo or similar source.

However in real life - data is messy.

As you get into 3,4 and deeper hierarchies on JSON you can't really translate that into nice flat 2d CSV.

Then you have missing keys, mixed up types and you end up rolling you own hand written converters.
They just need to create some incentive to opt in. It could be get some discount or your devices get a fallback if you allow other users to get a fallback in the event of internet loss. That would be the right way to do this.
one of the most inspiring startups to come out of YC.

i used to despair at YC just churning out more and more b2b software bc that is understandably the problem they know well (i think a YC partner famously said "you can get to series B just selling to YC alums").

But to actually do this in the world of atoms and get market validation... bravo. lets hope they keep a pristine safety record, of course.
From your source: "The total government and private expenditures on education" It's not just public school. And the data includes preschool, which is notoriously expensive.
“The sector is hot hot hot — many more people want to invest and there really is no product to offer real free investing in Europe just yet. (While we acknowledge that there will be a few choices), I believe the key is to be more European here to win, that means offering sustainable investing choices (vs incentivising people with too much leverage, etc).”

-- Taavet Hinrikus
I'd love for Ireland to withdraw from the EU - that would make it much, much likelier that the rest of us could get a consensus on anti-profit-shifting tax reform with the biggest tax haven out of the union.
You're forgetting the key bit: It was during a pandemic, and so especially during the first 6-12 months, people didn't feel safe being around others. They also often legally didn't have any space outside they could enjoy. Suburbs bring personal space and the legal right to be in your back yard.

A city is an entirely different experience when its residents are allowed to use parks and can enjoy dining out, walking to a market, strolling to the cinema, etc...
This is one of the reasons I still use RSS. I get the info I want in a simpler form and I can quickly bypass things I'm not interested in.
Oh interesting it includes a specification for comments. That is likely going to be the most controversial part.

Does any implementation support/generate comments that way? The most I've seen so far is an oversized multiline header.
Considering they're already being skewered on SNL, I have to imagine a rebranding is in the cards.
https://youtu.be/3c6MqOB4n9o?t=14
Do most Americans have to do their own taxes?

It boggles my mind that this is the case.
I'll give Bezos credit, I've had good insight into 50+ companies from 5 person to 300k and I've never seen this level of accountability at anything over 10 people. The natural tendency for the average employee is to devolve into a "how do I not get fired" mindset, rather than "how do I and my coworkers keep our productivity very high".

Tesla also has had some success with productive teams, but Musk can only scale so far. If he isn't showing up regularly and drilling down into teams and firing the people who are not productive, there becomes more incentive to make friends and play politics than to be productive at the expense of pissing someone off.
I'm guessing google search doesn't care about SEO
Mainframes do this. They'll also disable the failing CPUs and place a service call to IBM to get someone to swap out the part.
If your organization isn't in control of the software you are running, you are a service provider and you have to treat them as potentially hostile external entities. Your responsibility is for the infrastructure, and you must explicitly disclaim responsibility for the functionality and security of anything inside the containers.

This is, incidentally, the antithesis of "devops".
Remember that Microsoft also benefit from more other businesses becoming software businesses, and it seems like more people in the workforce knowing at least the basics of computers would help with that.
Well then, will you not share what kind of game you've worked on? That's too good of a post to leave us hanging, hehe.
Python 2 removed from homebrew.

Python 2.7 is not getting any security/crypto updates backported. Eventually PyPI's SSL configuration will change to a point where Python 2.7 won't handle it and then that's it. Game over, no more pip for you, even if you froze on < 21.0.

There are Linux distros out there in LTS until late into this decade that shipped with Python 2.7. Ubuntu 18 comes to mind, which EOLs in 2028. They've got a real hard problem to solve.
What HIPAA Isn’t
Public education (I suppose all education really) can only ever be as good as a home environment for all but the most exceptional kids. You can throw all the money you want at an education but, ultimately, if that kid goes home to significant struggles with nourishment, housing, parent availability, parent interest, etc. it's going to be extremely difficult for them to succeed. I'd like to see more investment in the home and let it propagate through the rest of life. Access to good housing, healthcare, food and the like would go a huge way in stabilizing the home and providing a better foundation for parents to fill the gaps in public education.
When we said it was a bioweapons lab leak facebook and twitter et.al banned us. Fauci and Gates et al ran the operation. This was an act of war on planetary freedom.
The biggest issue I have with Teams, Zoom, Hangouts is that I have to use all three in the course of the day and I can never find anything (mute, share, etc.) because they all have different design patterns (which change seemingly with every other release) so I end up hanging up on calls when I want to unmute myself.
I know there's a difference in what you're saying, but I think this is basically the idea of charter schools.
I switched to Protonmail as my main email & have been very happy.

Every time I go back to check my old Gmail (I use it for signing up to products I know will spam me) I get very irritated at everything.
The abstraction leaks because the performance characteristics are inherently impossible to mask from the higher layers.

There are other places where the abstraction leaks as well (try to add a file with a Unicode name to a Compressed Folder).

It's true that you could add more and more code to try to make the abstraction leak less.
Corporate speak is always double speak and I think it's OK that the news report what is said, and then people discuss what it means.
Although the original statement about “infinitesimals being functions that vanish at 0” was stated with confidence, it is wrong.

The usual construction of the hyperreals replaces real numbers with sequences of real numbers, and also introduces a nontrivial equivalence relation on the sequences, making two sequences equivalent if they agree on a “large” set of terms. The real numbers get represented by the constant sequences, infinitesimals get represented by sequences that approach 0, and infinite numbers are represented by sequences that grow without bound.

The magic is in how “large set of terms” is defined. You need a “large set” relation with the property that finite sets are not large, and for any set either the set or its complement is large. Then we can resolve your question: say you had two not-always-zero sequences that multiply to give the all-zero sequence. Then the set of zero positions is large for one of those two sequences. And that means one of your sequences is equivalent to the zero sequence. The field axioms are saved!
Most people when they say they are terrible at video games mean they are bad at reflex games. I recommend you don’t discount entire sub genres of non-real-time video games you might enjoy. Depending on your taste that can be anything from tactical/turn-based RPG’s to sports management games.