skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure this is a fair characterization of GP. He wrote that his wife poured lots of energy into schooling the kids, but also that they learned things on their own when they wanted to learn them. Certainly we should assume that the energy poured into their schooling involved discipline for the kids involved. I didn't get the impression that the kids were frolicking through the Austrian Alps behind Maria von Trapp as their teacher.

> There is something to be said for forcing kids to learn things they hate. It is necessary preparation for the important stuff that comes later, stuff they cannot learn from their parents. That's what advanced education is, learning something because an expert tells you to. Whether you enjoy every moment of it or not is beside the point. You can judge things once you become an expert.

I'm not sure what to make of this. How is "forcing" kids to learn things they hate "necessary" preparation for what comes later? Is it the only way to instill discipline?

I'd rather force my kids to do the productive, boring things like chores (washing and folding laundry, cleaning dishes, cleaning their room, cleaning their bathroom and playroom, taking care of the pets) which will instill the same discipline and delayed gratification without potentially making them hate learning and schooling at a young age when they are least emotionally prepared to handle it. Plus, if they're being challenged in school they'll have that experience of leaping into the unknown, which can be quite scary and requires discipline. I find it much more likely that homeschooling induces that challenge and discipline over public schools, where above-average kids are often bored and subject to authoritarian threats.

> I have to go away for a two-week training course on monday. It is going to be hell. Twelve days of memorizing stupid powerpoints about stuff I will probably never use. There will be tests at the end. I will pass them. My training at school/university, learning stuff I often hated, allows me to power through such things. I can sit in that chair hour after hour without drifting. Not everyone can do that. They work very different jobs. Their employer doesn't spend tens of thousands of dollars sending them to such courses.

I'm not sure why romanticizing or glorifying suffering and waste is somehow the raison d'être for public schooling. I've worked in toxic environments before where some of the employees, fully resigned to how toxic the place is, would make statements like, "not a lot of people could succeed in this environment." I got the hell out of each of those situations as soon as I could. In my opinion, I'd rather suffer for people like my kids or my wife or God or even to defend my community for which I am duty bound, but not for my employer.

Best of luck with that horrible upcoming training course.
Yes, In the appendix thanks.
https://everything.curl.dev/bindings In many cases on this list the listed library is a popular option.
It could even turn out later that he sold another 1000 tokens of it earlier that were hidden until a timed smart contract revealed them.
Homeschool proponents always cherry pick the good parts. Some kids are naturally motivated to acquire skills, but most will play with toys or play outside when they're young, and then start doing more social media/gaming when they're older. There's no solution for this other than to prevent them from doing these things and actively force them to do "learning stuff". Homeschool is no different, no matter what anyone implies by selective storytelling.
May just be because Max Schrems filed a complaint for the french data protection authority against the tracking id.
Being Jewish has nothing to do with Israeli state policy. Is that so difficult to understand? Some German living in the US in early 40s was not responsible for Nazis. What is wrong with people?

Lately it's seems to me simple logic has no correlation with technical ability. You're not a general genius Bob, you're just good at computers.
> Yet she keeps doing it.

Like what, she should just quit the thing she's been dedicating basically her whole life to it and became the best of the best in her field? Why do you think it's just a question of "choose to quit if you don't like it"?

Of course she cares about what they think but it's completely out of her control, it's more of a sign of her being aware of her own power limitations and pushing through in other ways where she can have control rather than accepting whatever the committee decided.
I believe something like the following would create an uncheatable system, and therefore will obviously never be implemented:

Does a corporation want to sell their products and services in country X? Very well, they must agree to the following regulation. The country X reserves an option to, at any point in time, buy up any subsidiaries or parts of the corporation, for value based on generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). For example, if the accounting profit of Microsoft Germany is $0 over the past decade, the country has an option to purchase Microsoft Germany for its fair GAAP price - $0. After doing this, the country also has an option to reverse the trades the subsidiary has done. So, if Microsoft Germany sold its IP to Microsoft Ireland for the total value of $100, the country X can buy it back for $100. Repeat with Microsoft US, Microsoft UK, etc. The shareholders will be left with their extremely valuable (according to GAAP) Microsoft Ireland and Microsoft Singapore.

Any sufficiently large country with sufficiently motivated government can pull this off. No revolutionary overhaul of the existing tax system is necessary. The regulation is clear and fair. But again, it's never gonna happen.
Without the commuter rush, many places were much more pleasant. I'm in a suburban area and it used to be a solid hour of "line 'o cars" on the main street by my house. God forbid you want to go somewhere at 5pm or 8am.

Now it's more congested, but traffic still moves pretty quick. I'm not looking forward to all the commuters going back to the office.
> Sure, we kept our kid isolated, but the majority of the country didn't

You didn't have to keep your child isolated - did you expect nothing bad to happen if you took this course of action?

Sorry to suggest this, but it really seems like you are the cause of your kid's difficulties.

> sending kids to school no matter what

Why is this not the default in your household? What is more important than your child's growth and mental development? They would have handled getting sick just fine, like kids always do every time there's a bad seasonal respiratory virus out there.
Concorde engines were actually some of the most efficient ones while cruising above Mach 1.7 (because afterburners were only used to take off and to go transonic until M1.7).
So it was efficient but only when flying fast.

Wiki says:
The overall thermal efficiency of the engine in supersonic cruising flight (supercruise) was about 43%, which at the time was the highest figure recorded for any normal thermodynamic machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce/Snecma_Olympus_593
That's horrid. I have some old code where adjacency matrices are unordered maps of unordered maps. Yikes.
Not sure why you're surprised. Ever seen displays with dead pixels? Same thing.

Usually CPUs are speed-binned and tested for how many cores work, then given different part numbers (and prices.)

Increasing temperature or stressing them will reveal more problems.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercruise

The Concorde only needed afterburners to get to speed and altitude. They did not use afterburners for supersonic flight at altitude.

According to someone on the talk page, the Concord's engines acted as ramjets at high altitude.
Here is a classic case of someone conflating the state of Israel and Jewish people and lumping it all together.

Plenty of Jewish people that live both inside and outside of Israel are critical of the state.

People can be critical of the state of Israel, but they should not be antisemitic. His comments are offensive for this reason.
ah yes, that five year alt-right timeline to return to normalcy is gonna work out great

big thumbs up
Oh yea certainly, but Figma vs JIRA for instance. One, as a professional design suite dealing with image manipulation and simplified component emulation I sort of expect to take up some memory.

On the other hand, JIRA displays lists of tickets. It should be a bit snappier probably. There’s gotta be a way to display 200 tickets without it slowing my computer down. It’s certainly not the text that’s the issue, HN displays that many comments fairly easily and without hiccup.
Kudos to you, that's very interesting!

Could you share any resources you used to understand, navigate, and extend the OpenBSD kernel?

There doesn't seem to be much in the way of resources available on that -- nothing like the NetBSD Internals guide, not to mention the wealth of information on the Linux kernel.

A blog post on that would probably be widely appreciated as well, if you have the time :)
I think so. I buy bulk (15-50lb bags) organic grains, legumes, flour, seeds. Makes it more work to calculate per meal but it's pretty cheap. I get a lot of verity but you do have to be creative and it helps if you are fast at cooking.
Lots of marketing and gullible fanboys of course.
That's the point. Sitting at the start and saying "We're not at the finish" isn't a useful way to get anywhere
I hate google blog nowdays

Its like they try to make the awesome data you came to see hard to get to or even find if it really exists. There are 20+ links in that release with ZERO direction as to what one is the headline data I came to see.

5 links deep before you even get to anything headline relevant.
Is it that crazy? It's the reason Google not only developed Android, but Chrome, ChromeOS, Fuchsia, the Google speaker thing and all that, and Samsung has Tizen, which is sort of their plan B, of plan F or whatever, and Amazon developed the Fire line, Alexa, AWS, the speaker thing, etc.
They know they can't trust each other. Even Apple had to develop their own maps!

It's really a surprise Facebook was so blindsided by this, they should've known better.
Thanks, the argument are well put
Same. I lost a small but nonzero amount when a fraudulent crypto exchange went bust. There's a reason FDIC protection exists. This is going to be unpopular, but the value proposition for cryptos isn't there yet IMO. It's either "get rich quick" or "buy drugs online". It really isn't "convenient way to transfer money" yet. I'd rather invest in companies that are actually doing something useful. The value of those seems generally less likely to evaporate overnight. Why would I want to own dogecoins when I can own shares of companies that are changing the world?
anyone noticed that ycombinator is a white supremacist network?
You can use psycopg2-binary package. Not sure about dynamic dependencies though.
You can align with her over anti-racism.

Government should not be in the business of religious marriage, LGBT or otherwise.

Leave religious marriage to religious tribes, however they wish to define a religious marriage.

Similarly, Government marriages / civil partnerships / unions whatever should not be interfered with by religious groups.

I used to be a fundamentalist atheist / progressive, as you appear to be.

I then realised I was turning in to the control freak that I used to despise the religious Right for being in the 2000s.
I will definitely be taking a look at that. Thank for the tip!
Show HN: Drop in syntax highlighting extension to ActionText in Rails
I want for nothing.

Edit: I just want you be clear here. I think the tax rate is way too high even at 25% effective tax rate. The system is overburdening poor people no doubt about it but I also think we should not fudge the numbers by claiming we pay the top tax band rates as effective rate because it invalidates whatever else we say after that. It’s dishonest. IMO effective tax rate should be <5% and actually 0% for most of us.
> I can't think of many negative outcomes to society from CCTV systems.

Uyghurs being arrested and sent to concentration camps after (western) facial recognition software singled them out from CCTV camera footage.
But isn’t Boom selling a vision for affordable supersonic flights?

What you’re suggesting about “super-premium” flights doesn’t map to what’s being publicly said about Boom or the fundamental principles of commercial flying.
As a matter of fact, the Concorde ultimately failed for those very same niche-economy reasons.

What’s your source for saying that business trips flying coach will diminish?
Compute Canada are developing a federated system
Fixes this issue basically:
https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/issues/6512#:~:te....

Tried all of the proposed solutions and this error still pops up on certain sites and certain configuration settings. Felt totally random when it started happening.
I think a hybrid approach is good inasmuch as it gives HR less to complain about. WFH has so far proven to work and the whole theory that people must be visibly managed to keep working or just be productive and profitable has been proven false. It's time to let go of the dogmatic approach to how work is done (whether it's wholly WFH or on-site).
I think I don't even have words anymore to describe the sense of repulsion and disgust that only reading the name of that company originates in me, I think it is a very good indicator of the shallowness and ignorance of our society the fact that it keeps growing, no matter how much taxes they dodge despite using the publicly paid for infrastructures (at least here in EU), not matter how they treat their employees and customers, we don't care "they offer a good service and low prices"

We deserve the extinction and amazon was built to make humanity understand how much it's not worth existing
Same with Air France, Concorde got profitable with all the special flights (supersonic loops, world tours and all these).
Hopefully, the negative effects of extreme sound pollution on humans and animals will be considered in the trade-offs to save a few hours of flying time for the wealthy.

https://www.nonoise.org/library/animals/litsyn.htm
Learning Shakespeare has nothing to do with Shakespeare. It is taught is because doing so forces students to understand language. To read Shakespeare they must learn to examine language for nuance. By doing so they become better speakers regardless of whether they ever revisit the material.
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As an American and a parent, there are two thoughts: To me it's obvious that the first thought should be for my child. I'm personally responsible for them, and I'm going to do what it takes to get them a quality education.

The second thought, to write to my representatives and improve education for everyone, is still there. I volunteer at a makerspace downtown that provides computing resources to inner-city kids that don't have anywhere near the same resources as my outlying, high-performing suburban district with our labs and awesome teachers. I have no delusion that a single letter to my representative would fix the underlying systemic issues like racist redlined housing districts, the inequality of property taxes for school funding, and the penalizing of 'underperforming' school districts, and give my child a good education.

Can I improve it? Sure! Fix it? Not for everyone, no, so I'll do what I can for my own child.
Boom strikes me as a poor name for a plane.

I think NotBoom might be better.
Maybe Half as Interesting (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuCkxoKLYO_EQ2GeFtbM_bw) ?
oh no we got "hacked" only happens if you leave your crypto on an exchange. It's not yours until it's under your control
https://www.youtube.com/c/halfasinteresting/featured
This is timely for me - I was just sharing this 2014 article with my team.

http://thomasburette.com/blog/2014/05/25/so-you-want-to-writ...

It made an impact on my approach to CSV handling, and helped me understand, "just because I can, doesn't mean I should".
Hi HN! Time-of-use and "demand charge" power pricing systems [1] mean that utilities in the US are starting to price their electricity dynamically though the day. It gets expensive at 4-9p when everyone wants to run their AC in summer, but is cheap in the early mornings.

Problem: The times and prices change by weekday, season, and utility.

Solution: A Chrome extension that shows you the current status, and whether to use / not to use. Starting with two utilities in California - PG&E [2] and SCE [3].

[1] https://news.energysage.com/understanding-time-of-use-rates

[2] PGE: https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/rate-plans/rate-plan-o...

[3] SCE: https://www.sce.com/residential/rates/Time-Of-Use-Residentia...
From what I remember they've found a way to reduce or eliminate the sonic boom issue.
Here's the KiCad 6 roadmap & feature set, if anyone is curious about new KiCad features: https://techexplorations.com/blog/kicad/kicad-6-review-new-a...
The actual requirement for measure theory is overblown. As long as you've taken single and multivariable calculus, you can study continuous probability without any problems and without even knowing what measure theory is.
They way the gymnastics federation has treated Simone Biles makes me wonder how many other extraordinary athletes they’ve erased from history and record books.
Isn't FB developing an OS for the Oculus Quest?
Documentary was made last year
http://paradise.docastaway.com/six-tongan-castaways-ata-isla...
I agree, and it is a memorable name for this reason, which has probably helped them so far. Still doesn't seem like a good idea to me, though.
how long before facebook announces their own browser a la chrome browser and their own phone os a la android ?
Off topic, but it would be nice if one of those smaller jets comes in black.
I feel like the big marketing splash that will push a hot new competitor over the edge will be an acquisition by a big company. "BigCo acquires issue tracking startup X" will be the headline for a week, and they will gain a ton of credibility and momentum, and they will eat Atlassian's lunch. Eventually the big company will ruin them, and we'll end up with another slow and buggy version of Jira, but maybe we'll get a good 5-10 years of the default, ubiquitous issue tracking software being clean and snappy. I'd like to experience that before I retire.
Nobody would know or ever care to know if these so called justice warrior weren't always mentioning it and linking the whole naked picture every time there is a chance to do so. "Look at it! How _disgustingly_ immoral!"

It's a beautiful portrait, and a standard in image compression comparison. Deal with it.

I strongly dislike that prudish and puritan zealots now exploit the ideals of feminism and social justice to push forward the idea that we should be afraid of sex and our bodies. They're not "doing it for the women in tech", but because of their own issues with sexuality.
Is Microsoft somehow on board for this? In my experience there are CSV files and there are CSV files that excel understands and as long as you don't get your file format into excel that will seriously hinder adoption.
When my parents were alive, in their retirement, they'd hire 'Merry Maids' to come and clean for them. As near as I could tell, they were very nice about it, and I remember being over there and the amusing interplay as the maids tried very hard to not impose on the family visiting going on, while the kids tried just as hard to arrange where they were at to not get in the way of the maids :) it was a very Alphonse and Gaston, 'oh no, after you!' sort of thing.

I feel like the real litmus test here is: given that the maid is cleaning your toilet, would you freak out if the maid took a dump in your toilet AND then cleaned it? That cuts to the heart of whether they're a fellow human doing exchange-value with you as a true equal, or whether they're a class that should not be using the employer's private toilet.

I would bet you maid services like that are very strict about not blurring that line, knowing that some people are paying to set up a class dynamic they expect to be honored.
> Nick Cannon apologized Wednesday night for comments he called "hurtful and divisive" after the television host and producer was dropped by ViacomCBS for remarks the company called anti-Semitic.

First sentence from your link, seems like maybe you are just trying to be controversial.
why would they use an engineer for such a role anyways. Should have gotten someone with a degree in gender studies
Also available for Firefox here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/time-of-use-r...
I just want to be able to deploy a flask app that responds to a lot of CPU-intensive requests (making inference from ML models) that takes advantage of modern CPUs that have a stupid number of cores, without having to pay the memory overhead of duplicating the entire process' memory space N-times. Native threads would totally fix this inefficiency but the GIL breaks it. Java and .Net would be more appropriate in this production environment but they don't have the same eco-system of packages and we also don't want to pay the development cost of re-writing people's notebooks into another language and all the problems that entails. So instead, our server VMs consume a ton of unnecessary memory. /rant
A Perfect Solar Superstorm: The 1859 Carrington Event
The Federalist Society ideals involve "checking federal power, protecting individual liberty and interpreting the Constitution according to its original meaning". If they truly cared about protecting individual liberty, they wouldn't have complained about one person's satire. They making a big fuss about it is quite antithetical to their organization's ideals.
Fault tolerance seems to be the fundamental issue looming in the background of both traditional and quantum computing at the moment. Silicon is already at the point where there are only a dozen or so dopant atoms per gate, so a fluctuation of one or two atoms can be enough to impact behavior. It's amazing to me that with billions of transistors things work as well as they do. At some point it might be good to try to re-approach computation from some kind of error-prone analogue of the turing machine.
Boom's aircraft don't make as loud a sonic boom as Concorde. Both NASA and Boom will conduct tests of this design in the mid 2020s to measure the sound at ground level in various conditions.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/features/how-nasa-wil...
I assume that he meant "Half as Interesting". Which is Wendover Productions second channel with a different focus.
https://boomsupersonic.com/flyby/post/will-boom-supersonics-...
How about the fact that executives are regular people, who (1) have their human emotions, including possibly a natural desire to have in-person interaction with the people they work with, and (2) listen to other employees, some of which are in the pro-office camp (as seen in this HN thread)?

Executives ain't some mystical species. They are regular people in a position of power.
The association of frustration and exhaustion with "productivity" is absolutely one of the most destructive forces for freedom and creativity.
Lot of the people who work at Apple are drinking the Apple kool aid and will put up with any requirement.