skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My kids go to what are considered “very good” schools.

I have an 11 year old and a 13 year old and it seems to me school is a) about becoming a standardised social human cog and b) the school passing off whatever is the current vague social fashion (resilience, leadership, whatever) as useful learning. Meanwhile the teachers spend a huge amount of effort to avoid teaching anything that might actually be useful. I don’t blame them - They suffered the same terrible education and are unqualified to teach anything except what they were taught so the cycle is self-reinforcing.

Any actual learning seems incidental or is left the kids to find out for themselves through online programs (eg for maths/spelling) or personal research.

I think school as we know it is becoming a dead end for genuinely useful learning, and for the masses it is essentially just something to keep young people busy so they don’t roam the streets and cause trouble.

Sadly the first step in solving a problem is recognising it exists in the first place, but the question of why we continue with such a broken educational model doesn’t seem to trouble anyone - if the other parents are anything to go by anyway. They seem to lap up the schools’ endless marketing push designed to ensure nobody questions anything.
>>The business was profitable enough to pay them a fair market salary, it's not like they were indentured servants. What stops them from building their own $12B exit?

That is the thing, we are seeing an extreme negative view of basic capitalism, people tend to believe founders and capital have no value believing in a socialist utopia where by all the workers get an equal share of the "means of production"
A year ago, Greensill was headed for a $30B+ IPO. Now, it's worth $0
I think there are many compelling arguments for veganism, but the idea that "animals aren't as dumb as we think they are" is not compelling. At least not to me.
Looks like substack.com is configured for sending from Google, Mailgun, and Zendesk.

I’d guess that’s for personal, product, and customer service emails respectively.
While the pancreas is of particular interest to me, its presence in the title is the worst sort of clickbait: it buried the lede.

The real invention is a batch-reproducible gel in which all sorts of tissue can be grown. That’s really exciting!
The more users who download the app, the higher their rankings are. The higher the rankings, the more users see and download your app. It's very obvious why they're doing this
Your license requirements are unenforceable. App developers can create apps that automate requests against your endpoints without having to agree to your ToS.

Even if you add an account and API key system, as long as it's free to sign up, apps can also automatically register accounts to get API keys.
I like how the mods are actively censoring vital information from the electorate.

Here's the link that was deleted again:

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/san-fernando-valley-residen...
It depends if you are right leaning because you want lower taxes and smaller government, or if you are right leaning because you are a homophobic, racist.
Is the Medium the Message?
So for the two sibling comments. This article is clearly about nightclubs and events.
"Plans to introduce vaccine passports for access into nightclubs and large events in England will not go ahead, the health secretary has said."

"Under the scheme, people would have been required to show proof - whether of double vaccination, a negative Covid test or finishing self-isolating after a positive PCR test - in order to gain entry to clubs and other crowded events."

"The Night Time Industries Association had said the plans could have crippled the industry and led to nightclubs facing discrimination cases."
And how do you propose people learn how to become better? One way is to read. This is such an accepted thing that your response is so far below intelligible I can’t even try to engage with you in good faith.
I've played around trading other currencies but Monero is the one I hold dear for the end times.

Plus it's fun to mine, you can do it on a CPU instead of needing a massive GPU swarm.
I think there’s a terminology gap that the article doesn’t do a great job with. Open source in 2021 does not require anything on the list. But to be a widely deployed open source project does generally require those kinds of things. As the parallel commenter noted, it doesn’t need to specifically be Discord or GitHub or Twitter or whatever, but to have mass adoption, the project needs to have directionality and momentum. Even if that’s “we feel we’re feature complete, if you find bugs, report them here”.

Without that, plenty of things are still “open source”, but users can’t really pick them up for their projects because they can’t rely on them. That’s fine: there’s plenty of really fascinating and meaningful projects out there that can’t be relied on for the long term. But for something like Jekyll, if I’m looking for a platform for my blog, I’d be remiss to pick something that’s stuck in the state it’s in.

That’s the issue that the author seems to be pushing at: he forked Jekyll because Jekyll is a widely adopted codebase that’s no longer able to support its niche, and he’s hoping that Bridgetown can fill that niche for users.
Here is the link to report voter fraud:

https://www.cagop.org/s/caelectionintegrity/incident-report

Harmeet Dhillon, a SF based attorney has mentioned she already has quite a lot of evidence.

(again this link was censored/deleted by the liberal mods)
> I did not learn anything in highschool (or college)

That's on the student; in college, where you can pick your classes and course of study, it's on the student completely. But regardless, I was told: 'Don't blame the professor or the class or the book or the weather; it's your job to learn.' Good preparation for professional life too.
There's a bunch of open source successors (e.g. they started as Total Annihilation clones) made on the springrts engine that you may be interested in. I believe both Zero-K and Beyond All Reason are still being actively maintained.
My salary alone was better than Mailchimp comp. SF wages in Atlanta. Plus, we were already unicorn status and growing rapidly.

It would have been a solid choice.
One company, which likely has a retention problem, is writing all of the code for your system and setting things up so that you can’t easily use anything else.

Do you think this is a recipe for secure computing?
I think it is like what you said, most of his work seems to fundamentally revolve around how incomprehensibly complex systems in society have become, and the consequences of attempts to control many of those systems (either by necessity or arrogance). Most of this stories are just myths, strings interwoven in the much larger fabric of interlinking events meant to show how many of these discrete simplifications of reality interact and often clash with each other.
Is Google presently restrained from helping users to organise alternative legislation and general protest?
Hit close to home! At age 15 I was literally being paid 3x minimum wage by my friend’s dad to build an e-commerce site for his photography business. But my slavemaster (school, of course) took priority and I never had time to finish the project. Ended up failing out of college (undiagnosed ADHD as well) and enlisted in the navy as an escape hatch. The “real” experience of military life straightened out all my dysfunctional behavior, and makes me wonder how things might have been if I hadn’t been so depressed and hopeless and bored for so many years of my adolescence.
Zoom and Horizon Workrooms for Oculus Quest 2 (Expected 2022)
I wouldnt call this egregious, its the cost of owning a stupid BMW(/1). It would take you those 10h or longer to DIY. Efficient mechanic will put car on the lift, drop engine on hydraulic lift engine table and be done in 2h moving to the next job.

/1 stupid because it was engineered for numbers and not real life use. Service intervals set by marketing - 15K miles engine oil changes, ZF transmission "lifetime fluid" LOL, all to appease fleet buyers with 3 year leases.
One huge flaw with the way vegetarianism/veganism is often presented it that it's all or nothing. But that's a fallacy. Eat one less meat meal every week if you want. Have vegan Sundays. Cut out only cows.
I think veganism is awesome. Sadly, I like meat more than I like veganism.
How would this realistically be enforced though without there being a paper trail at all?

Kudos to those honorable people that do declare tips on their tax return though.
Get started early, hire people away from your competitors, make friends with people who work at your suppliers. It's not impossible to talk to Visa and start a payment processor from there today, but regulations and competition make that an uphill battle, even though the technical aspects are doable. Better have a sizable war chest with a long runway.
Echoing what a lot have already said. I worked for a large email marketing provider that was acquired by Salesforce about a decade ago.

The number one thing you are selling is deliverability. The second thing you are selling is the tracking (opens, bounces, unsubscribes, etc.). Next, you are selling segmentation for subscriber lists (i.e being able to send the right message to the right consumer at the right time). You have to be diligent about your customers too, because if you are letting bad actors use your system... there goes your reputation and there goes your business.

But deliverability is the key. We had relationships with ISPs so we could fix $MAJOR_CORP's million email pre-holiday sales campaign while it was sending and we staffed the teams to do that, 24/7. This had nothing to do with programming and everything to do with company mission, reputation, contacts at Google, MSN, Yahoo, ..., and the history of having done it. We were "lucky" enough to have started as the industry matured.

* I say "lucky" because the founder's really caught this vision at the right time (2000/2001) and made it happen.
If it has a mock service behind it, how is that an integration test?
Yes, that is exactly what is happening here! When the Rustacean Principles were created, Niko said in his blog post[1] that the idea of creating principles was inspired by AWS. Not that the principles themselves were taken from AWS.

Writing tenets is a tool, like making a checklist is a tool. You can use the idea of making a checklist without using the checklist items.

[1] https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2021/09/08/rus...
Singapore proposes law to take down of ‘hostile’ information on web
Many people can't even figure out easily what to fill into the boxes, even with software.
Warning to those who might be new to jwz's site - copy and paste that link into your browser, because if the Referer header is HN he serves an NSFW picture instead.
Having skipped a year of school at 15, yes skipping several years of school could help.
(I was then stuck for another year twiddling my thumbs as I couldn't skip 2 years in the UK but had already mastered the material)

Imo, there is way too much no child left behind. But that's referring to the UK education system where you can't proceed without ticking all the boxes at each step.
(To be clear I don't blame the teachers, most of that nonsense comes from council level interventions and management)

The national system does a very good job of completely failing those at the top and bottom of the grading system the worst.
It isn't that simple, this has been tried many times at restaurants in my city. Raising prices 20% and eliminating tipping reduces employee income even though it is nominally revenue neutral because it changes customer spending behavior. Employees don't get paid a 20% service charge for money customers don't spend. The assumption that the customer is not influenced by the structure of the transaction if the final bill would be the same does not hold up empirically. This is not an intuitive outcome, I don't think either restauranteurs or employees expected it when it was first tried, but the result was replicated many times.

Since the market for good employees is competitive, restaurants that replace tipping with a 20% service charge have more difficulty finding and retaining employees. Most of the restaurants that tried this here eventually abandoned it because employees were quite reasonably unhappy about the reduced income.

It is a fascinating example of the structural complexity of even relatively simple economic transactions.
TBH I'm against strong anonymity when it comes to money. Seems like it can amplify harm more than other areas like speech or association.
It's pretty infuriating that this is a thing. Even if you think you might be able to get your users to notice if you went against this grain, you are still asking the product leaders to give up a significant chunk of revenue for a probably very long time. It would take major commitment from the top to pull this off and would not work as some quarterly site improvement project by a rank and file engineer or product manager.
That cash staying in NM is not at Fords expenses. It comes from the local buyers.
“no one study is ever the last word”
tl;dr don't do it because we said.

I don't know how effective ivermectin is at treating covid, probably not as effective as people were hoping a couple of months ago if at all. But it has been used in humans for decades and is shown to be very safe when used in proper doses. So what's the problem? False sense of security maybe? I'd rather have a false sense of security than a heart condition.

The vaccines appear to be effective. They appear to be generally safe, in an emergency situation. The side effect rate of these vaccines though would never be approved if this weren't an emergency situation, there is a real danger to them. So if people want to choose which risk they take I don't see a problem.
Ask HN: Hacker News-Like Forum for Chemistry?
Limit per IP address?
It would seem better to do as many hard, high investment (i.e. time and energy), high risk of failure but high reward things as young as possible while still having a societal protection blanket of "that's impressive for a high schooler". No one expects much from a high schooler so if your "exploration" (startup, project, etc.) hits a bump - you can recover quite easily and just re-join the mainstream. "Explorations" after graduation can look like unemployment to potential employer.

Also with today's plethora of online education available there's unlimited amount of options for exploration. In fact going deep application domain wise before college can be a great way to motivate deeper study of theory once in college. Imagine being a high schooler today mucking around with tensor flow apis. Once you get to college all those black magic random functions (i.e. predict(), fit()) you were calling in the Google tutorials will all of sudden make sense.
I wouldn't hold my breath too much. Immigrant communities have a lot of resentment for the French government.
Could you define the set of beliefs that comprise "right-leaning"? That should help here.
+1 to this, there are a large number of low cost opportunities for 16-22 year olds that become orders of magnitude more difficult and expensive later in life.

Notable examples include taking a year off to hike the AT or PCT. Volunteering in peace corps or americorps. Working in a different country, or working in a resort/tourism community.

Later in life taking such actions will put a major dent in your career ambitions and finances, but early in life it’a much easier to avoid the question “what were you doing between X and Y”
You do. You can ask for it to be removed. You just have to deal with the staff judging you, and a mandatory interrogation from a manager about why.
His vacation at the spa has been reserved.

France's ex health minister was just arrested:

https://leakedreality.com/video/21544/france-s-ex-health-min...
> and it hasn't been as full of cultists as some of the other coins I've seen.

Didn't they have a Church of Monero a few years back? That was kind of... weird? It was probably started as a joke or something, I can't remember.
This just shows that economists are poor historians. It doesn't change how money enables more efficient and sophisticated forms of commerce than than barter or a credit social credit system.
Arguing over which part of late stage capitalism is morally questionable is a bit like arguing over the correct length of curl in your powdered wig.

If they had gone public instead, Intuit could just as easily have bought up all the shares and reached the same end goal.
smart kids should go to high school and take AP classes and participate in high school activities like Academic Decathlon with like minded peers
Electrified garage and Gruber don't exist? Tesla will even sell access to service manuals and most parts afaict.

High voltage parts are a little different, but I expect that even that will change as demand grows and training becomes more readily available. Right now there are some real safety concerns there.
Hmmm. That got me thinking a bit.

So there's (for want of a more precisely nuanced way to put it) the default/knee-jerk outrage response to this, aka "how dare there be people above me in society that get the final word on what I can/cannot do without lawful recourse" etc etc.

But then... "more equal than others", taken in strict isolation, kind of goes off on an interesting tangent about how certain personality types are intrinsically socially compatible with each other; less jarring/grating, and more... resonant.

Stream-of-consciousness question: at a fundamental level, is there an exact point that this resonance, which is arguably benign at face value, can end up enabling social ${in}equality?

Not quite talking about individual scenarios of powerful person A taking an effectively entropically arbitrary liking to random person B and elevating them, ideally without [requirement for] compromise.

I mean more in the generalized sense, looking more from the perspective of network/emergent effects.
True. The issue I have is that anonymity exists, it's just expensive, so only rich people have it. This makes the choice from "financial privacy or no financial privacy" to "financial privacy for the rich or for everyone".
If only we could get tiberian sun.
I think college and high school should be better optimized for each other. In high school, it's perfectly fine if you don't have a specialization. You don't even really have to decide your major until the 2nd year of college.

This creates a lot of wasted time for people who do know what they want to do. The first year of my CS education was learning stuff I already knew from High School. I was sitting next to people who had never taken CS before, and this was their first introduction. I think it actually should be required to enter with a major in mind, and have completed coursework done towards it in high school. Not every high school could teach specialized courses, but there is a lot of low-hanging fruit that would be pretty easy. Ex. Physics for engineering, Linear Algebra for CS majors, Bio & Chemistry, etc. High schools can teach these things pretty consistently, we shouldn't need to take such basic classes in college.

High school should cover more advanced material, and college should cover less breadth-wise and start off more advanced. I shouldn't be taking calculus or basic writing in college as a CS major.
We had to migrate from Mailchimp when they started bumping up their plans. We did our research and Mailerlite[1] was our choice, and we've been a customer for a couple of years now.

1: https://www.mailerlite.com/
Ha, I just checked out those montages. Works of art.
The USA Fact-Check Algorithm by the Science Ministry is the official arbiter of truth.
Generally you use devtools to find out what endpoints the javascript is requesting data from, then you make an identically-styled request.
Surely Substack uses Amazon SES or another transactional email service to actually send the emails to their user's subscribers, right?
Cryptosat: Launching Crypto into Space
FYI: Second Street, PostUp, and Adestra are all owned by one company (Upland Software [UPLD]).
Ahh, that's where I've heard of them: QuickBooks.
Digital Beauty, Asset Flipping, and a Bad Case of the Shakes
Indeed it is a trade-off. And leaks revealing the dirty tricks of the rich and powerful make me wonder how effective KYC and similar controls are in practice. Yet it's that very visibility that motives people to act.

So perhaps the ideal is a sliding scale. The more powerful you are then the less anonymity/privacy you should be allowed, at least in financial or political matters.
Lab-grown woolly mammoths could walk the Earth in six years
I'm not really happy promoting a cryptocurrency these days, given that most of them are get-rich-quick schemes,

They're get-rich-quick schemes plus money laundering/capital-flight mechanisms. And if you think capital flight is more ethical than a get-rich-quick scheme, I'd like to introduce you to X oligarch on Y continent committing Z poorly publicized genocide.

Edit: that said, the way that they facilitate dubious money transfer is pretty what makes them likely to stick around and so one can say with more certainty their value will be maintained. Hope that makes you feel better.
Sure but who is laughing?

Feels like the whole joke is at our expense.
Change of baton at Nigeria LNG as Attah bows out, Mshelbila takes over as CEO
I am not saying I disagree, personally I think they tax code should be extremely simplified so the need for software is not needed. One should not need an accounting degree or depend on the IRS to figure out what you owe in the first place

The tax code should be simplified to where a person with a High School education can understand it, and process what they should owe the IRS.

however that is not the argument. the argument was "Well the EU does it so American should too" I find that argument to be very lacking
Vote Newsom family for gas chamber!
These may have strings attached that vested stock would not.
Pretty poor advice.

Better advice would be: think critically about what you are getting from high school. Use it as a tool to get what you need or skip it if you think you have better use of your time and money.

Good reason to not skip high school are further developing social skills and especially if you have no better use of your time.
I'd be curious to hear from Monero fans why one might select it over Zcash? Zcash seems to have stronger security guarantees when shielded transactions are used.
I really am surprised that with of all models of Android phones in the world, no one is making one with a keyboard. Even if it was a niche product, you'd think there would be an audience...
Many artists including myself struggle with never ending exploration and producing large body of work ending "in the drawer". While exploitation step is obvious when to initiate and how long to sustain it is less so.
Ask HN: Do the people around you care about privacy?
Overcoming Web3 Bias