skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is kind of the approach that Switzerland is taking (disclaimer; I'm Swiss), although I would not formulate it as drastically. It depends a bit on the region but school is required until 14-ish, after that there's a split for "gymnasium", which is continued full-time-school, around 20% of the students do this (again, varies by region). The remaining 80% start an "apprenticeship", where they work 40-60% on a job, and spend the rest of the time in school (where there's about a 50-50 split between general education and job-specific education). Whenever someone doing an apprenticeship figures out that he wants to go back towards higher education, there are plenty of routes to do so.

In my opinion it works quite nicely. The 80-20-split for gymnasium (which requires an entry-exam, but again, region-dependant) ensures a certain level for students in gymnasium, and the "job schools" for the apprenticeships allow for job-specific education. All in all, I consider it a pretty decent system.
Does that mean that the covid vaccines shouldn't be recommended as there's no randomized trials on their long-term effects? Just curious as I'm not well versed on this topic.
The issue I've seen with various studies who claim statistically insignificance when using Ivermectin is because they use too low of a dose and/or don't use it long enough (3 to 5 days instead of 14 days) and/or they don't start using it at first symptoms (in part I've read this can be because can take days for COVID positive tested person to enrol in a study hence giving the virus more time to replicate/take strong hold).
I don't know if it's huge, but I should have put more in crypto and perhaps should have joined a company pre-IPO. I think at the IPO price I would have netted a net worth of $1m+ from option exercise for just about 2 years of work. Of course, now they've halved in value post lockup so I don't feel too bad.
Religious belief. Exactly. And what are your religious beliefs ? Are you sure you have none ? Is there something or someone you would never doubt ?
As an occasional Python developer this is the thing I dislike most about it. I always end up spending an hour or two figuring out how to get things installed and working right.

To be fair Node also requires some work to be setup correctly but it seems easier.
I can’t quite understand if you agree with me or not, but there’s a way to avoid falling into the trap of endlessly delving into a philosophical discussion on the existence of an objective truth: test thousands of eyeballs. If lots of people find it hard to read, it’s garbage.

And this been done. There’s a minimum contrast that works for comfortable reading for most people. That’s not controversial, or at least, it shouldn’t be.
It's the way that emergency authorisation use works with FDA. They won't issue that if there are other safe viable treatments. These vaccines got that approval because these other options were suppressed.
A belief that as a JavaScript developer competence and a thorough understanding of the standards are a valued commodity. This is absolutely wrong. The name of the game is tools. Most people are scared to death of writing applications in JavaScript and absolutely hate the DOM and many other standard APIs, so… tools. If dicking around with tools and frameworks isn’t your thing look for somewhere incredibly niche to park your career.

I learned early to not be an architect unless you have the support of company leadership. If you do your job too well you are disruptive, people get sad, and then you are on your way out once the crying gets loud. If you aren’t doing that then you aren’t effective and the position should be eliminated. You can reasonably determine this during job interviews if you ask the right questions in the right ways.
> Meanwhile, here’s what it’s like in the teacher email threads. This is a verbatim, non-ironic quote:
“I didn’t really hear you at first, steeped as I am in a culture of assumed patriarchal white privilege, rank privilege, and inequitable hierarchy"

It's my perception that adults involved with schools, especially younger grades, have been penetrated so intensely by woke ideology[1], much more so than the broader subcultures (urban, educated, etc) they belong to that already skew woke. Is this just down to how skewed female this group is?

[1] I mean this neutrally, not as a particular criticism of wokeness or the manner in which it penetrates communities. When thinking about large groups of people, modeling ideologies as memetic viruses moving through a population is a lot more sensible than as emergent entities from the rational decisions of large numbers of intelligent, thoughtful people capable of critical thinking.
As someone who lives in Leander, I would say Westlake is the affluent area of Austin and Leander is the up and coming suburban middle to upper middle class area. Leander ISD has some great schools and some bad schools and historically wasn't great.
I think the bigger fear is

>it's in "all other unrelated expenses"; I'd just ignore it...
I peripherally know the author and that was my guess too
The Windows task bar has been movable since 95 I believe. I know because I moved it to the top in the old days. With Mate I keep the main panel on the left as well, however some widgets were not happy in vertical orientation until a few years ago.
Yes; that's exactly my point. Bond sales set interest rates for everybody, and tax revenues are nothing but bond purchases.
Just so you're aware, I believe the form validation on your beta signup sheet is messed up. I'm unable to submit the form under Safari and Chrome.
Well a lot of people with biochem background also have a lot of skepticism about it too.

Ivermectin works by interrupting nerve function of helminths(parasites). covid is a virus, not a multicellular organism with nerves.

I'm not saying ivermectin is useless, but why it would work for covid doesn't make sense (yet at least). Maybe it has some other mechanism to slow down covid that isn't fully understood.
How do you know he wouldn't be dead if they hadn't been taking it?
> It seems like it’s impossible to tax the group of people who would have sent their kids to private school had it been possible.

Fortunately it is possible to do something very similar, though, which is to tax the group of people who have the level of income that would allow them to send their kids to private school had it been possible.

I suppose you're saying that some people currently are wealthy enough to send their kids to private school, but choose not to (or don't have kids at all). These people wouldn't have a choice about paying the extra taxes that enable these better-funded comprehensive schools. This isn't a new problem, though, as childless people already pay taxes that are spent on existing comprehensive schools.

As for "decisions outside the comprehensive school system", I think that needs to be considered in the context of the government's existing regulation of private schools and the trend of academisation:

https://www.bbc.com/news/education-13274090
The CDC disagrees with you: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...

> Although children can be infected with SARS-CoV-2, can get sick from COVID-19, and can spread the virus to others, less than 10% of COVID-19 cases in the United States have been among children and adolescents aged 5–17 years (COVID Data Tracker). Compared with adults, children and adolescents who have COVID-19 are more commonly asymptomatic (never develop symptoms) or have mild, non-specific symptoms.

> Some studies have found that it is possible for communities to reduce incidence of COVID-19 while keeping schools open for in-person instruction.

> Evidence suggests that staff-to-staff transmission is more common than transmission from students to staff, staff to student, or student to student.

> A study comparing county-level COVID-19 hospitalizations between counties with in-person learning and those without in-person learning found no effect of in-person school reopening on COVID-19 hospitalization rates when baseline hospitalization rates were low or moderate.

SF has some of the lowest infection rates in the country. So there is no scientific reason to keep schools closed when you see the harm it is causing disadvantaged families.
I can't count the number of time Americans (from all over the States) have explained to me how diverse America actually is. Ironically it's only Americans who've done this.
It used to be that way where I live. Zero fees to register and maintain registration. What happened was the register became a target for money laundering shell companies. Companies would be owned in complex layers by other shell companies (hundreds of layered companies to make investigating ownership too difficult).
The govt added registration fees and annual renewal to help resource the register to improve it's system and ensure that the database maintained its purpose.

Many argue for paying less taxes but we might want to look closely at where we live and consider whether our locality is truly well resourced in all walks of life. Has all infrastructure been built and maintained to perfection? If yes, then maybe it is worth arguing for reducing fees/taxes but I don't know that this utopia exists yet.
BBSes: Partying Online Like It’s 1989
Ask HN: How come we haven't got rid of clickbaits in 2021?
Seriously. I am not joking. I can't be the only one to cringe at clickbaits. I open chrome on my android device and the first I see are a bunch of, so called, "news" full of misleading titles begging for attention.

"Clickbaiting hurst your SEO ranking". No sir. How come we have let this happen? How come the WWW is worse now than it was 10 years ago?
Adding Custom Easing to the Web Animation API
They did the same with Prolog in 70" and... failed.
Nothing new.
Say what you want about EventBus but at least it's simple, non-intrusive and straightforward. You annotate your listener method, register your listener, post an event and boom done. In contrast I've heard war stories about RxJava, it's complex with a high learning curve, it's intrusive and spreads like cancer in the codebase, and overall much harder to debug. The downsides honestly cancel out any benefits it may have.
Do you use Mac laptop apps in fullscreen mode? That's what I do so the dock auto-hides. I do however keep the start menu on the right for Windows.
they have removed the "do no evil" comment from their charter, and assumingly no longer then following that idea.
> Exams we still about memorizing with no focus on understanding

This was the biggest part that got me. I thought university was a place to actually learn things.

It turned out that it's a place for you to rote learn all the required material without any understanding. I saw it firsthand with my friends, who only knew how to follow the steps they'd been taught to solve problems.
Is there a way to play a different song?
Roughly 90% of teenagers want pizza and ice-cream for dinner. SHOCKING!!!1
Right, but trials are all that matter - there's a huuuuuuge list of drugs where we "know the mechanism" and it turns out that they still don't actually work despite that.
That's not particularly descriptive, because the high school in my small town of 25,000 was in the middle of the LA metro area. It is most often referred to as a small town by LA locals but it's high school class alone is easily the size of a "small town" in rural areas, where you might need a car just to get to your nearest neighbor.
Pensions, administration, and buildings eat a lot of the budget. And they continue to grow.
The trick is to find the people who will because it’s as important to them as it is to you.
On my server, I have three 'root' partitions. One for general day-to-day use, one for a backup if something catastrophic happens to my main system, and one for experimentation. The extra disk space taken up for my having two extra
'root' partitions is a miserable 40-50 gig.

But I know that I can swap operating systems over almost instantaneously and then back again just as quickly if I did something wrong.

Great peace of mind for practically no cost.

The second error I see in the article is to use software that we haven't used previously for something important. My first wife had the habit of trying new recipes when we had a dinner-party. I tried to tell her repeatedly to try the recipe on us first, then she would have it down pat when she wanted to impress.

The third error of course was the need to have restorable daily backups and the use of them to restore the system when need be, associated with modularity of the system.

I back up my whole system daily. but the most important part of that is not backing up the distro itself (we have re-installs for that) but backing up all the config files, all the databases, all the local binaries, and a current list of all of the installed distro packages. I can replace the whole operating system from a complete wipe-out in less than two hours.

I store these backups in a pseudo-exponential policy. I have more recent backups, fewer older backups. Currently I have 15 backups covering 9 years, with five of those covering just the last 3 weeks, and four covering the last five days. To augment this, I have a monthly snapshot backup also stashed away.

The other stuff, personal docs etc, is deliberately kept small. Total daily backup of base system and /home is approximately 12 gigs. That is easily transported on a USB stick.

I don't store music, photos, magazine .PDFs, old software, etc in my /home directory. That stuff all goes in an archive directory that's write-once, and store (practically) forever. That gets rsynced to two external USB drives daily. Most days, there's practically nothing that gets transferred out.

Having several times lost much valuable data, I suppose I am really paranoid, but I still think I haven't been paranoid enough.
Everyone reading that article knows it is heavily simplified.
Some info in this thread is obsolete. ZFS is under rapid development.

LZ4 has been replaced by a new, faster, cheaper, more efficient algorithm by default. Specifying LZ4 gets you worse performance and worse storage efficiency. If your data is not worth compressing ZFS detects this and skips the file(s). Generally it isn’t worthwhile to disable compression on a dataset.

Hot spares have downsides. You are taking up a drive bay in your box and gaining zero storage. Home gamers might be better off adding another mirrored VDEV and setting up drive failure notifications.
In usability heuristics, that's called an accelerator. We would normally call it a shortcut. Whatever you call it, the point is it's an alternative to doing it in a more accessible way, not THE way.
Whoa, that's pretty cool. Mind sharing the company or at least the industry?
I suspect per-teacher salaries haven’t tripled in that time however!
That depends what you mean by "well".
Remdisivir is a scam.
I'm not aware of any failure in Bury analyses, or even any significant misprediction.

The last two things I recall from Bury were his call last year that Tesla's stock price was ridiculously inflated, which he was proven right by the market once Tesla's price crashed from around $900 to around $600 at the moment, and his warning that passive investments were/are inflating stock prices in a similar pattern that he saw as a precursor to the subprime crisis.

Do you have any example of what you consider Burry's biggest failed prediction? Because otherwise your comment boils down to an empty ad hominem
Google's "key operations" are not solely in the United States. They have "key operations" all over the world.

They are in a very real sense a multi-national - and not just for tax purposes.
Reminds me of mandatory military service in Africa, most people hate having to do it because it's a waste of time for them (1 year) they complain about the tough work but I haven't heard any of my friends saying they were traumatized by it.
Which leads me to believe the "kidnapping" is probably the cause for these people's troubles, because for military service you'll know 3 months prior or something, or the culture difference might play a role into why different people take it differently.
It was never alive to begin with, it was all a con. Some people fell for it, some people didn't. Either way, it was never not obvious that it was a lie. If what you're signing are trade agreements, what you have is inherently not free trade, and there is no way to dance around that fact.

There has never been a time when the US or any other major nation wanted free trade, and that includes China today (which similarly lies every time it says the words "free trade" and pretends to be in favor of it; trade with China is anything but free of heavy restrictions). All major economies want carefully restricted trade, controlled trade, and there are no exceptions. There will never be exceptions.

If you hear the US say it wants free trade, understand that it's always a lie that you are hearing. The same with any nation that claims they want free trade (while negotiating trade restricting agreements). It is that simple. What is really being said is: we think we can get one up on you through a trade agreement that favors us more than it favors you, or at the very least we think we can craft the terms in such a way that we both gain something while some other external parties lose out (which is what eg NAFTA/USMCA accomplishes, external parties lose, the parties to the agreement gain by restricting trade in a manner favorable to the people inside the trade agreement). USMCA is an aggressive trade restriction agreement, not a free trade agreement (they like to throw around phrases like "free trade agreement" to continue the con).

The purpose of allowing China into the WTO was for the big globalist corporations to go in and feast on what was believed to be an epic consumer & manufacturing opportunity, that was the sole purpose of it. And it's the sole reason Bill Clinton was tasked with making it happen by his moneyed masters, the people that de facto control him and everyone else like him in politics. It almost entirely blew up in their faces, rather hilariously. McDonald's? They don't even own their own restaurants in China today. Disney? It doesn't even own the majority of its own park in China today. The globalist parasites are getting what they deserve re China. It's one of the few times where I'll applaud China - they made something of their nation and have built up extraordinary household wealth - rather than allowing themselves to be forever fleeced by parasites and allowing the gains to all be expropriated back to some other shore. If China had allowed things to go any other way, the parasites would have abandoned China when convenient politically (eg today), and would have left China for dead economically, without a care in the world for the fleecing that went on or the wasteland left behind. Instead, China made itself self-sustainable by heavily restricting what the parasites could do, it kept plenty of the profits onshore and they used that capital to build up their nation.
Cyan “Recall Chesa Boudin” Bannister is a very bored billionaire housewife.
Poltergeist attack could leave autonomous vehicles blind to obstacles
Two thoughts here:

1. Tim Cook is full of shit, they know if they allow sideloading then cash cows like Fortnite and other apps that make a significant amount from iAP purchases will bounce.

2. On the other hand I think what apple wants to prevent is apps like Facebook Research. Not sure how many of your remember the story but Facebook was giving out gift cards in exchange for giving access to all of your user data. This was bypassing the App Store by using an enterprise cert instead [1].

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In a way Apple already gives you the ability to sideload apps, it's called the Apple Enterprise Certificate. But unlike actual sideloading, it carries some major gotchas.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/facebook-and-google-...
> It’s my understanding that private schools play a minor role in other countries.

Huh my understanding is the opposite!

Almost everyone in the US seems to go to public school. Nobody seems to talk about where they went to school - they just went to where was by their home. For example this list of privileged people at Beverly Hills High School is extraordinary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills_High_School#Nota...

The US public school system seems to be doing extraordinarily well here - in almost every other country these rich people would have been in a private school wouldn't they? The US system seems unusually egalitarian.
It's not just your imagination Drivers in the pandemic have gotten more reckless
No. It threatens their revenue stream, so they choose to once again misdirect attention.

The definition of privacy involves having control of your data and device. A corporation controlling, preventing, and spreading against your ability to do things on your device is the opposite of privacy.
Show HN: A minimalistic versioned, log structured relational DB in Common Lisp
To be a PE, you have to do a handful of things. From memory:

Take a test

Study under an actual PE for a period of time

Take another test

Pay some money

Do some work

I studied Engineering in school, but I didn't get a PE because taking the test was too much effort and I wasn't going to work with any PEs, so I assume that actual PEs know stuff that I don't know.
How’s that new income tax hike in AZ treating you?
It doesn’t even matter whether either hcq/zinc and ivermectin 100% effective or even work at all. We still have no options for early treatment, and therefore both/either should have been used heavily
I still think this is disgusting, but... you make a really good point.
Thanks for the explanation. Is the defeq undecidability a bug of Lean that should be fixed in the future? Or is it an intentional design decision for it to function properly for other types of proofs?
Yes and the UK discovered its benefit. The US has done nothing to investigate whether generic drugs will treat COVID19. The research is being conducted in the UK and EU where the financial incentives are different.
question : is your premise based around the fact that the coroner's report cited chronic alcohol related injury, or the testimony of his friends or family?

My mother's autopsy and subsequent coroner's testimony stated that she had alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver, indications of alcohol-enabled pancreatitis, and cardiovascular evidence of alcohol abuse..

thing is -- I had lived with her and taken care of her for 20+ years. She hadn't touched alcohol during that time. She stated that before that time that she had been an occasional light social drinker -- and her social community backed her up on that conclusion; there was no real evidence of alcohol abuse in her life.

She had other vices; she smoked until death. She didn't drink.

She died at 65.

So, I ask because I no longer trust coroner's reports wholeheartedly. I think they intend well, and I think they're probably roughly accurate about the state of the body at death -- but I think they probably miss a lot of nuance and probably come up with a lot of shoddy predictions regarding 'lived lifestyle'.

P.S. if you ended up curious as to why she had all that internal injury -- she had a terrible fight with necrotizing fasciitis on one of her legs after an injury during gardening from a rose thorn and subsequent infection earlier in her life -- her ICU stay was extremely long and filled with experimental drugs/antibiotics that came with all sorts of precautions and side effects.

Her GP at the time believed the liver damage to be caused by one of the (many) antibiotics.
I agree with you but we need to re-think education. The current education system is not working in general. Class rooms are over crowded and not enough teachers.

A pre-recorded video you can pause and rewind would be more beneficial than being corralled into an overcrowded stale box and expected to learn.
Government Cheese.
Most people never retain much of anything past that anyway, in my experience. I’d guesstimate that fewer than 20% of undergraduate school graduates are actually well educated in any meaningful sense of the term.