skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We homeschool our kids in part because we encountered a homeschool community in Brooklyn that blew apart our preconceptions of homeschooling. What I had thought was mostly a tool for highly religious parents has become intellectually diverse and a lot of the people here do it to give their kids individualized attention and some of the freedom to explore they could only otherwise get in a private school. If you already have a parent at home full time (or full time between the two of you) — not uncommon due to the high cost of child care here — it’s a good way to arbitrage that into educational opportunity.

There are groups and storefronts here where you can send kids to get a chance to socialize and tinker, work with their hands, run around (play groups) etc. Shout out to Apple Academy Bklyn which started for homeschoolers to have a workshop type place but also all kinds of little places where kids can tinker with tech, board games etc for example along 7th Ave (I think a lot of these started as after school places but we’re adopted by homeschoolers).

Not saying it’s for everyone but it’s not the insular backwater I had subconsciously made it out to be in my head.
6% is in the noise for software planning. Is there ever a single project where you are confident that 20 people is what you need so you can submit a headcount request for 21 so that you'll have one to drop? I've never seen planning that was able to achieve this level of precision.
The word "can" is doing a lot in that sentence. The link does a breakdown of that number.

It includes $578.80 in new clothes (not shoes). That's not entirely unreasonable -- I have a waterproof running jacket that was north of $100, for example. I like my running shorts from Road Runner, which probably cost $50 apiece. And while I amortize those things over several years, it's not unreasonable to think a new running might count that cost for their first (and probably only) marathon.

There's $235.40 for four races -- 5ks and 10ks. That's kind of a pricey for races that short. At least at that price it should come with some nice technical tee shirts, so you don't need to buy them. (I originally trained in cotton, and yeah, the new shirts are better.)

They way they incorporate the $130.50 for the gym is reaching (she already had the membership). I have substantial doubts of the necessity for $210 for massages. The calculation of $95 for travel to those 5ks is bizarre, and $163.46 for post-race celebrations is ridiculous.

So yeah, you can spend $1,600. You can spend a lot more, especially if you travel to a race. You can also spend a lot less.

The article itself is a bit silly, though it's not entirely out of place to say, "Hey, there are things you don't take into account in the cheap sport of running". That's fine.

But it really, really doesn't support the Outside article's claim that endurance running is an expensive sport. In fact it's kinda the opposite: the NYT author lives with her parents and saved a bunch of costs that way.

Fortunately, it's not really important to the Outside article. It's a dumb thing to cite, but it's nonetheless true that a lot of people who do endurance sports have more money, and it has nothing to do with what those sports costs.

(Though hoo boy, you should see the money on display at an Ironman.)
I don't consider OEM bundles malware, a practice that goes all the way back the early days of home computing.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/games/james-bond-007-action-...

http://www.bambi-amiga.co.uk/amigahistory/bundles.html
I am surprised such loopholes still exist in UK. In Australia if you setup a company and 80% of the company's income is only from your own personal services from a single client then your company has to pay tax on personal income tax rates. These sort of loopholes were closed many moons back.
Regarding Unique owner: is this the same as with other crypto? That is, you are the owner when you know the crypto key. But if you unwittingly leak you keys (or use a proxy holder - an exchange) then the uniqueness becomes problematic?
How Pizza Took over Our Freezers
If your plumbing is leaking so badly that you can't get anything out of the upstairs faucet, you don't just crank up the water pressure.
Airbnb is great for search but sucks for picking. I built a Chrome extension
Airbnb has been annoying me for a while. This is not a business. Compairbnb is a protest.

It is great for finding lots of options but then you have like 50 tabs open. I have made a super simple chrome extension which sticks it all in a customisable table.

I did this manually previously and hated every minute. Airbnb please get better!

It is completely free forever and really the intent is just to make Airbnb do better a helping us pick the places, appose to spending hours searching for it.

Check it out on product hunt:
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/compairbnb

Check it out on the chrome extension store:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/compairbnb/ldbglee...
The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover Covid-19’s Origins
Why isn't this approach to calculus more common? Does it lead to more complex proofs or have any serious drawback?

I understand the ε,δ way of defining the limit is important because it extends to other context such as continuity in topological spaces etc; however, as a physicist, infinitesimal quantities reflect the way we really think about calculus intuitively, so it makes sense make them "first-class" numbers.
It's bullshit. Call it what it is. When people say that wages are fine they are being disingenuous or they are willfully ignorant.
This was my reaction as well. Maybe it relies on redefining "sharing" information with agencies as distinct from furnishing information in compliance with a subpoena. The optimist in me sees this as a way to push departments to prefer the methods of the legal system to obtain this info, but then why even make it available without a court order in the first place?
Right now the alternative seems to be "ignore the problem". :)
> At least that’s the impression I get from hearing stories.

You're getting the wrong impression. The vast majority of people have a high school experience which is wholly unremarkable in the telling which you don't hear about. Those with horrific experiences -- they've got a story to tell.
1. Install security updates (`apt-get upgrade`, or equivalent).

2. Only scan for security problems that _have updates available_. If there are no updates ... there's nothing you can do. Many security problems will never get updates, because it's an obscure problem that e.g. only happens if you install a NFS server in your container (which I assume you're not), or the upstream maintainer has closed it as WONTFIX. Some scanners (e.g. Trivy) have this as a command-line option, or a switch you can toggle in the UI.

Long version of the latter: https://pythonspeed.com/articles/docker-security-scanner/
But, it's at best an source of alternative truth, to the one that's recognised by the courts.
Mostly it comes from having made poor decisions in the past.

There is always a choice. Ten more miles equals one extra bedroom and so on.
The far more maintainable way to do this rather than every dev team at a company doing ad-hoc patching is to have your ops team maintain your base images that they're responsible patching and then every team derives from that.

This gives you the ability to move the pieces independently from one another so when you release it's actually (sw_version, platform_version) and lets you track down bugs caused by platform updates easier.
See my other comment in this thread. Regretted attrition rates will indeed penalize managers, and weed out the lousiest managers. The article is only describing unregretted attrition rates.
Constructor championships in F1 are a big deal and keep the midfield interesting.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Formula_One_World_Co...

I would argue F1 is as much about engineering as the driver. Hamilton on a different team likely excells, but probably doesn't win nearly as much.
private schools too! And not just in US.

I am from Brazil, and I don't intend to put my kids in school if I can (here it is illegal to homeschool, prison time for parents and all, I am hoping to get out of the country if the needed laws don't pass when I have kids).

And a good reason for it, is the amount of bullshit fed to me and my friends by the shovelfulls, when I was a teenager I believed all adults I knew except schoolteachers were evil, because they didn't like Mao, Stalin and Che Guevara, I was taught that Pol Pot was a hero, literally, only after I was out of the school system that I could finally learn what these people actaully did.

Then over the years I picked more and more on what sort of stuff school taught me wrong, there were a few things in harder sciences, but when it is social stuff, school was a disaster, lie after a lie, sadly some of theses lies remain pervasive in society (for example many people in my country believe the monarchy was pro-slavery, despite documents that exist that show that the monarchs themselves wanted slavery abolished, and that when they DID abolish slavery, the coup that ended monarchy was sponsored by the biggest former slaveowners).
Are you not paying more to live near the office?
I doubt it, that’s not the kind of feature that Teams customers want.

Most businesses have a need for discovery and audit, and Teams is a phone application with lawful interception needs, so you’re always going to have an interception capability.

End of the day, it’s a way to sell the full Microsoft stack… the only way to have an E2E encrypted meeting is to not allow dial-in, which is a way to encourage adoption of Teams as a unified communication solution. (Which is the strategy Zoom is attempting as well)
The Irish part is there to allow it to funnel EU profits, and ireland allows for countries to be registered there, but not tax-resident.

Interestingly enough though, almost all of the zero tax places are British Crown dependencies, so presumably the UK government could exert pressure on them, if it really wanted to.
I think this thread is a perfect demonstration of idealism vs realism. Some people are idealistic and believe what they wish were true, even with little to no supporting evidence and mountains of evidence to the contrary. Other people look at reality first and base their beliefs on that.

> I would not believe anyone if they told me they did not rank possible partners in life on a variety of metrics such as health, wealth, tribal affiliations (family/other network), intelligence, humor, etc.

I certainly do, and this is commonplace to the point of cliche. Think of Indian or Chinese arranged marriages where the parents openly and blatantly choose and approve of partners based on what you said: health, wealth, family, etc. It's a documented fact and I've seen it personally that some Chinese parents even disqualify women over 30 or so as partners for their children (to the point there's a word for it: "leftover women"). In the West some people are squeamish about consciously evaluating and ranking people, but everyone still does it, even if it's subconscious, unless you literally throw a dart at at list and pair with whoever you hit. We just talk about it indirectly: having a "type", being "compatible", having similar interests, getting along, having things in common, avoiding "red flags".

I at least certainly have based my relationship evaluations based on conscious ranking and metrics, and it's led to the incredibly happy, successful relationship I'm in now.
Sure then maybe this won’t produce doctors or lawyers, but there are plenty of professions where mere intellect can suffice.

Ivy League schools for example are really good at producing the kind of people who can pass McKinseys first year deathmarch, but most of us don’t work there and don’t want deathmarches in general.
The problem is, they are calling it a mistake but they were very well informed of the consequences of doing that they did. Everybody said "just fix integer division and print, finish the migration then start adding new features", and they went ahead and totally ignored that.
> Large dogs shouldn't be left alone for more than a few hours.

Why does the size of the dog matter for that?

Serious question, I never had a dog.
There doesn't seem to be any good one.

GP described what's a clear systemic failure inherent in the current implementation of the system. This doesn't mean we have to throw the system away - figuring out how to mitigate this problem would work too.

On this, I don't have any solid ideas. In a way, it's a marketing problem: maybe there's a way to make people more receptive to reality than to feel-good but ultimately meaningless actions?

I sometimes wonder if governments shouldn't have an official propaganda department, with an official website, explaining in layman's terms the reasoning behind various laws being introduced. You'd go to a page for plastic straws ban, and see the government's official word on why it was drafted, what problem it's meant to solve, how it attempts that, and how they track the results.

Of course, everyone would have a field day debunking every single article from a million different angles, but at least it would serve to anchor the discussion. And it would be a place for a smarter politicians/parties to explain why increasing efficiency of some industry by 0.01% is a huge win by the current administration - hopefully leading to more such actions in the future.

There's a thin line between giving clear explanations and patronizing the citizens, but I think governments need to start walking it - as it is, politics is way too complicated for regular people to follow in any meaningful sense, other than repeating soundbites.
The thread is specifically about income taxes. Everyone always wants to act like $0.75 of every dollar they make goes to The Man but it's just not true. Most of the money you make, you keep, to spend on your needs and wants.

People making a quarter million a year whinging about income taxes is offensive by its own right, but it becomes even more so when they arbitrarily double the amount actually paid to try to prove from technolibertarian talking point nonsense.
>> If the US is inefficient that people are still very far behind

The US education system is not there to accelerate students, to lift them up. It is model the population to suit the needs of the country. That's why nearly every aspect of a child's life revolves around school, from how and when they eat to who they socialize with. The system is there to reinforce national ideas. Some of that is noble ("try hard and get ahead") and some of it is not ("money counts"). When viewed from that perspective it works very well: little ever seems to change from one generation to the next. Freedom through social stability.
> The attempt to infuse sociology with biological facts (e.g. genes matter, evolution still impacts humans, etc.) has been controversial (even today the term "sociobiology" is radioactive to some).

My immediate reaction to your post was that maybe we could learn something about what causes societies to collapse, and learn something?
So you live in in an area that have massive urban sprawl and no bounding area driving up the costs (like say San Francisco or Toronto or London). Good for you and your urban sprawl McMansion existence (nothing wrong with it). But just because you can buy a mansion where you live for 800k doesn't mean that for millions of us 1 million dollars will get us a shitty house in a shitty area.
It will trickle down one day. You just have to wait for it.
It's much less likely that content is going to include ASCII 28 to 31 than that it will include a comma or a tab. But you're right, certainly not impossible.

I think the human-editability you mention may be a major reason why comma-separated has been such a practical winner?

Since ASCII 28 to 31 are invisible or indistinguishable in most editors, I suspect a format relying on them would be subject to routine corruption.

(I have some experience working with a "legacy" "binary" format which DOES use those ASCII separator values... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARC_standards)
The crypto market is cooling down from its peak, but data about the NFT market shows that it's still doing very well. For Ethereum based NFTs there's been ~13M in sales in the past 7 days. Sources:

- https://nonfungible.com/market/history

- http://cryptoslam.io/

Similar story to Bitcoin, transactions were the first use-case. Later came smart contracts which expanded the number of various applications that can be developed with blockchain.

Collecting art was the first big use-case. More individuals and companies are focused on providing long-term value through utility. One example is NFTs that can unlock access such as someones time, places real or virtual, and communities in a similar way to Discords for patreon members. The art aspect is also evolving into more gamedev themes like artist designed NFTs for digi-physical fashion, avatars, pets, skins, etc.

More virtual worlds will compose these blockchain artifacts together, adding more context to them such as: Audio NFTs becoming background music, text NFTs becoming stories and scripts, 3D NFTs can become props, set environments, avatar NFTs become characters and NPCs, and wearable NFTs getting distributed through achievements.

All that said, I'm excited for some pullback because it reminds builders to tune out the noise and stay focused on building.
You buy $10K of DOGE at $0.0001 in 12-1-2020 and it goes to $0.10 on 12-31. You now have $10MM in wealth, and will, owe $500K to the government. DOGE goes back down to $0.0001 on 1-1. Now you owe $500K of taxes and have $10K of assets. "But you should just sell 5% on 12-31 and you will have enough to pay taxes" you say. Yeah, you and everyone else who needs to pay wealth tax. Know what it looks like when everybody sells at the same time? 2008 or 1929. Wealth tax is dumb.
Your kids do! Likely lots to do with you! Cherish this.
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I downvoted him because it sounds totalitarian and anti-parental-choice. A power grab by a failing education system, "If only we had more money we'd do things right!"

Hogwash. The industrial model of education can't be solved by throwing more money at it, and I'm suspicious of anyone who pretends there hasn't been enough money thrown already.
No amount of money will ever cure the problem because the stated goal of the system is almost the exact opposite of its actual intent.

I highly recommend Dumbing Us Down, by John Taylor Gatto, a 3-time New York State teacher of the year, which presents a detailed analysis of this.
I dropped out of school and I almost immediately got tired of low-effort activities. Games and TV are great as a respite from doing other things, but if you're a young person with an active mind you will quickly get bored doing that stuff all day.

My biggest problem was the sudden lack of a social sphere. High school was terrible, but I dramatically underestimated how important the social environment was.

The thing I wish most was that there were people to teach me challenging subjects. Left to my own devices I naturally gravitated to things I was already good at.
Yeah, no white space at all, in dark mode..
> Ignoring the tasteless act of trying to use the slack at the end of an allocation for your side projects

It’s not for side-projects though? And it seems like a good idea to avoid reallocations if you can still grow in-place.
Every time I'm taken to an NPR article, I'm offered a choice to accept or reject their non-essential cookies. When I click reject, I'm given a text-only version of the article. It's glorious.
Speaking for myself (not a kid), I only start to gravitate toward those sorts of activities when I'm low grade burnt out. Especially if I'm burnt out from having to do something that feels difficult and pointless, but is also on a deadline and subject to performance assessment. Nothing wears your ability to concentrate down faster than having to to actually force yourself to concentrate for hours at a time.

I see the same thing in both my kids. They're both mentally engaged, skilled, perseverant problem solvers. . . except in the evenings after school. Then, they simply can't emotionally handle much beyond games/tv/youtube.

What worries me right now is that this situation may be setting up a bad psychological pattern that may stick with them for life: anything that takes work is, in some Pavlovian sense, associated with frustration and exhaustion, while pleasure is associated with brain candy. I don't think that that's their natural experience of life; it's something they're being taught by a regime that's dominated by report cards and standardized tests.

I'm personally not too keen on homeschooling. I did it for some time as a child, and I honestly think that the reduced social contact with my peers had consequences that also need to be considered. But I'd love to see schools become less bureaucratic. Teachers, in my experience, usually want to keep things fluid and engaging, and they know how to do it. What seems to get in their way are policies that the suits in office buildings develop, most of which are primarily designed to placate the anxieties of parents who are worried about their kids "falling behind" or whatever and want to see hard numbers proving that the school is doing a good job of producing kids that are all STEM and no roots, leaves or flowers.
IronPython, based on CLR and .NET, was faster than Python and didn't have a GIL.
But when I make a second NFT based on the same image, it has those same properties. It still can be traced back to the same image. If NFTs are meant to establish ownership over some asset, there is nothing that connects the NFT to the asset itself.
> Maintaining Python 2 indefinitely is an option actively being taken away from people

Where do you see this happening? All I see are people and organizations deciding that they don't want to do the work of maintaining Python 2.
21st century phrenology.
Huge. Looking forward to SFO -> NRT 6h flights ;)
protip: the horizon organic (or possibly other ultra-pasteurized) milks last a very long time in the fridge. I only use milk for my daily coffee and I haven't had a single carton go sour on me yet. it's a bit more expensive, but easily worth for people who don't consume milk very fast.
> it does not make a difference to your career/reputation etc. if you publish good or bad data

Yes, but good data could help people trying to monetize your research and give you nothing immensely.
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Some sites are bad but I use them so little that they don't matter. For instance, USAA shipped my 529 to another company and their site is trash. It's heavy and broken. I login once a month though, so it doesn't matter much.

Slack and GMail I have open all the time. Slack is by far the worst of the two but they both consume a ton of resources. I'd probably be more annoyed by GMail if the UX was as bad as Slack though.

Then there's any atlassian product. Slow, confusing, constantly changing for the worse. There was a time in my life when I used both daily and they weren't that bad. Now I use a slack bot to interact with jira and and make one edit in confluence a day (for a standup and it takes about three minutes to edit, update and save).

And reddit... If I had to rely on that daily I'd probably rage quit the internet. I still use the old interface for most things. It's ugly but it's not a dumpster fire of slow loading API calls to render bloat.
It is, but it's also more politically explosive. The upshot is that CGT loopholes are extremely prevalent.

Both succeed/fail in the same way, marking to market. Apple Inc, the publicly traded entity, is able to deny its income for tax purposes (they say they paid this money to an irish subsidiary), while claiming it on behalf of their shareholders. The CGT version of this is unrealised gains.