skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Perhaps instead of doing something didn't work, we just split the kids into 2 groups, Monday-Wednesday, and then Tuesday-Saturday. Then we'd only have 10 - 15 kids per class. Give them more self directed study and homework. Have some pre-recorded video classes they can do on other days and have a proctor to help handle a larger # of kids.

A district I have good insight into did a split-week schedule similar to that, with online portions for the "off" days, plus a completely separate online program for parents who wanted their kids 100% remote. Unlike some other districts around here that outsourced the online program to one or another terrible companies when offering both options, this district ran their own fully-remote program.

The results were that both groups did terribly but the in person group did worse, despite high levels of near-zero engagement at the online school (i.e. a double-digit percentage of kids basically didn't do school at all). The actual effect of that half-on-half-off schedule in practice was that ~half as much material was covered right off the bat—few of the kids took the online component for the "off" days seriously, and teachers had a hell of a time trying to arrange things so that even could work in the first place, and mostly failed at it or gave up—but then, it gets worse: in-person means people will get COVID, and will expose others, even with fewer kids around at a time reducing the rates, it still happens. So now you've got some weeks with whole classes at home, pretty much not doing school, lots of teachers out and calling for subs, and sub shortages leading to baby-sitting rooms, basically, with too many kids in them to realistically teach—incidentally, this is still happening all over in our city, as the sub shortage remains very bad.

> It's amazing that private schools were somehow able to operate.

Our kids are now in a private school for this school year (the above was not our district last year, incidentally, but another nearby one) that stayed open all of last year and had minimal issues with "quarantining" or viral spread. How? 1) Cut extracurriculars, especially sports—public school parents would never allow this, sports kept running through all of last year and were only barely interrupted the year before, shutting them down was not an option unless school board members all wanted to lose their next election and probably get some death threats and experience some vandalism, 2) powerful air purifiers in every room, 3) everyone masked & distanced and took it seriously—again, compliance issues at public schools are less of a problem at some private schools, 4) no-one constantly pushing to relax measures the second the local infection rates trended slightly down—they had much better and more consistent planning. This year? Vaccine mandates for staff, and high levels of (voluntary) vaccination among eligible kids.

As with other cases where (some) private schools do better than most public schools, dealing with COVID better mostly had to do with those schools getting to select who they have to deal with.
I'm guessing they mean internet services. The list of blocked services in China is large. Most of the companies you associate with using the internet in the US are blocked in China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...
These days, JS has moved on while JSON has remained stuck in the past. There are some fairly important ones it'd be great to get a standard format for in JSON. e.g.

JSON.stringify({z: 1n})

Also, round tripping ArrayBuffers, Maps, Sets, Symbols and Dates would be really useful. Sadly JSON5 doesn't address those.

I'd quite like a next gen JSON not to get upset on circular references too, although that would most likely require some sort of link or reference data type.
How would a windy season lead to more demand for fossil fuels? You'd think all the wind turbines going full swing would mean less electricity has to be generated with non-renewable means, thereby reducing demand for fossil fuels.
Ask HN: How to Learn About Philosophy
Hey HN,
What's the best way to learn philosophy out of college? One big caveat is that I learn better through being taught the concepts, rather than through just reading a bunch of books. What are resources I could use to help grow my knowledge of philosophy?
What is the computational argument?
I would gladly trade all of our junk mail and ugly flyers for handwritten notes on nice stationary... We could at least comprehend the resource use as being social and not merely an exercise in fetching mail and shredding it.
Thanks, I was curious about updates here as well. To that end, I don't know if ours does any such updates directly, or if that would come in the form of an app update.
Magnificent news for the investors in Bytedance since those monthly 1B users on TikTok are providing great shareholder value for them and when Bytedance IPOs it will give a massive return on investment for them.

As for the users, who cares? they are working for the algorithm like before and its business as usual.
Agreed, but most of the essays I read are precisely made of this kind of contents, so I would have hoped some updated books.

Just like most of the best-seller essays use this type of contents, just read any book from the regretted Stephen Hawking...

But if you have any reference textbook that is less "experimental" (in the Debian package meaning), I'm also happy to hear you!!
Well, I think being promiscuous with "NA", "N/A", nan, etc. is a separate issue from a blank cell. A blank cell is literally missing. That should be filled with NA.
Put it in a place where there's no life, seismic stability and no ground water. Which is what we're doing. Nuclear waste is remarkably dense and containable, far more than any other kind of power-generation byproduct.
"Don’t make each letter a different color."

That's weird.

- Written on an IBM ThinkPad with the iconic red, green, blue IBM ThinkPad badge.
Trump almost banned TikTok.

Then he lost elections.

You don't get to threaten TikTok and win.
It's going to get old quick is what it is.
Meanwhile FB, Instagram and twitter are full of bots and fake profile.

Something that definitely can be done in TikTok also but the nature of the content (video) make it more complicated.

FB is full of people with double profile also, I've friends that have been having two profiles for ages. I think is a common issue
Can confirm, these are legit. Make sure you're aware of any outlets on the outside of your building though, as these could be plugged into with malicious intent.
While I didn't work on indian regulations, I've worked directly on 2FA/OTP with recurring charges. For this regulation, the recurring charge must be initiated with an OTP code, but subsequent charges may happen automatically. There should also be an exception process to allow preexisting standing instructions to continue.

This article has details of the actual regulation:
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-why-au...
That's not what the prior poster was referring to, and if we're being honest we both know that, but you and I can have that conversation, sure. Given the general benefits to public health and how frankly effortless wearing a mask has been every day since March before last, my S1 response is 99% vaccination coverage, which at least where I live is in line with the vaccination coverage of most other major vaccines, and two cases a day in whatever reasonably sized area (metro, county, whatever)--what's yours?
Not GP, but I generally find it troublesome to categorize some commits: if I implement a feature by refactor, and document the new feature, which of the topics should I use? Or should I artificially break the commits up, even if they make more sense as one atomic change?
Very interesting, do you have any examples of how FB manages long term (2+ years out) project that involves 100+ Engineers? Are those 100+ engineers all "individuals working on their own project"?
I don't have that option with either, so I must go with lesser evil.
You can’t predict if that hole will be there for the trillions of years it’s toxic.
Metrics are not bad. Story points and velocity are usually bad metrics though.

It's not a coincidence the consultancy sector uses scrum. They get paid for their output, usually by the hour, and scrum measures output.

If a consultant implements a load of useless features that make a product worse, but do so very quickly, then that's a great success for them. It's not fundamentally different from rewarding developers for the number of lines of code they write.
Absolutely, yes, and if you're in an organisation that's mature enough to handle ranges responsibly and not treat the lower number as a prediction, that's absolutely the best way to do it.
The tetraquark now presents theorists with a solid target against which to test their mathematical machinery for approximating the strong force. Honing their approximations represents physicists’ main hope for understanding how quarks behave inside and outside atoms — and for teasing apart the effects of quarks from subtle signs of new fundamental particles that physicists are pursuing.
I don't install apps like that due to security concerns. Does that mean I shouldn't go to Disneyland? It sure sounds like it!
I don't disagree with you, but this is not a situation where you are going to find a solution in the problem cause.

Many parents will keep raising theirs kids with undiscriminate access to smartphones. Just because you have it under control in your household, doesn't mean everyone does.

You're basically saying: "Not my kids, not my problem".... and that's the position many will take.

I'm not convinced IG for Kids is the right solution, but it is at least an intentional move towards fixing the foundation of the problem. It will take more than that, though. It's probably a problem that needs to be fixed by forcing big tech companies to cooperate, something that it's unlikely to happen in an era where those companies enjoy antagonizing each other.
Like it make any difference?
EU membership conferred privileges which were seen as entitlements, so when inevitably withdrawn it seems like punishment.

It has to be said though, that the EU did go to great lengths to try to find some kind of common ground that would leave much of the entitlements in place (as a matter of self-interest of course, as these amounted to business for various EU states) - to which the HMG responded with V-signs and blowing loud Benny-Hill raspberries.

To trade across international borders you have to have agreements, and you can't have an agreement with somebody who openly flouts the rules at every given opportunity.

I wouldn't be relying on your neighbours' nativist agendas to drive some sort of "free trade" angle either cause nativism typically favours tariffs.
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This is why I like backticks. ` should almost never show up in normal English text.
I love art and music. I'm pretty skilled in a variety of those fields. The reason I don't do them is because programming pays extraordinarily better and can let me have a more relaxed and enjoyable lifestyle as opposed to living in garbage tier slums.
If you're going to the trouble of using something not backwards compatible with json, use something that isn't crap.
To be fair that's a very hard problem.

I have no formal teaching experience, but I taught several competitive mathematics seminars for elite high school students. Transposing the classroom model is unsatisfactory, working remotely strongly encourages you to pursue asynchronous models. But on the other hand a lesson is more than just a youtube video, you definitely want some degree of interactivity.

It sounds really silly, but I wonder if internet-first models like Twitch streams with rich interactive chats are actually closer to the solution.
It was popular to study fermentation, because nobody knew how it worked. Anton van Leeuwenhoek (the "inventor" of the microscope [0] around 1670) was the first person who saw yeast cells, but nobody knew what it was. In 1880s people realized what yeast is and that it was behind fermentation. Around 1900 breweries began using (their) specific yeast string. Yeast was the first eukaryote which genome was completly sequenced, in 1996. So, yes, research in yeast is relativly modern.

If you are interested in this topic, I can recommend the book "Proof: The Science of Booze" [1] which has a chapter on yeast and a following one on fermenation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonie_van_Leeuwenhoek

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18222694-proof
Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale
Genuinely "Zorland" with a Z which preceded Zortech. It was one of Walter Bright's early compilers. We're talking 1985'ish here :)
In practice, my problem with these is reliability. They can have noticeable issues with maintaining an uninterrupted, low latency connection suitable for real time use, in my experience; and this was with a fairly high end powerline adapter. This is unfortunate, because it would be very convenient if you didn’t have to deal with making ethernet cable runs all over the place…
Second actor, preceded by Barry Nelson: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310853/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_14
Social media has immediate, physical (dopamine levels while presenting a mental phenomenon are also a physical reality) consequences immediately upon consumption. There are no great comparisons to social media because of its novelty, but social media cannot be shielded from comparisons to all vices.
Behind the scenes of Twitter's move to open its image-cropping algo to public
Blast, I am sorry. It looks like I can't edit the title anymore. Otherwise I would make the change.
It's super popular. My son started using it and it roped in me and my wife. Of my son's peer group, everyone uses it. Like virtually every kid. I completely believe those numbers.
Brexit may be a (small) part of it, but it certainly isn't the whole picture. Btw much of Europe faces a shortage of drivers as well.

Yes, though Europe is a larger "network." I think it's a bit like Metcalfe's law. Even if the EU has similar shortages of labor or goods, the larger number of citizens and companies allows things to flow to and from wherever they're needed more easily. The UK is now a separate far smaller system no longer plugged into that larger network.
This kernel is actually pretty new! This is a good sign for us, since embedded devices have a habit of running reasonably old kernels with limited features. The downside is that there is generally very limited support for ONIE devices running arm, and after a large amount of searching, there are no compatible ONIE images for this device at all, other than the already installed Dell OS.
Very impressive, but if I spent my days googling the random hex usernames of every person I replied to on hacker news I'd be obsolete even faster :)
and escargot
Of course it is! The equivalence between art and comedy is the importance of context to its meaning and value
I mean if I'm a business I will just give free stuff to someone with more clout and then they'll give me all sorts of praise. Exactly the same as social media influencers.

On the surface your idea seems good but it'll easily get corrupted.
Assuming dang doesn't get to it sooner, you could email hn@ycombinator.com to ask for the link to be updated.
Try the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy at <https://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html>.
> But this is India and we like to do things one day before any deadline expires. That explains the panic.

This made me laugh. But rest assured, things aren't any better in the US when some regulation comes with plenty notice. (Thinking most recently about the Cures Act where healthcare info must be accessible to patient without putting up blocks; many healthcare providers only started thinking about it at the last minute)
If it had been 2 million dead in the same period, it would still have been a fairly tame global pandemic, by the standards of deadly global pandemics.

It was pretty clear after the first few weeks that Covid was not the horrible killer that leaves people literally dropping dead in the streets, yet the response continued as if it were. Given the incredible disruption our response to it has caused, that I predict will continue for years and decades, the fact that we can't even say (and probably never will be able to) whether it was worth it, is damning enough.

Most kids lose a grandparent at a young age (I did). I really disagree that it was worse than losing a year of school, and being shut in the house for a considerable period of that. If anything, we have forgotten the lessons that death teaches us, and have lost touch with the cycle of life and death. The incredible aversion to a relatively harmless (for most) disease shows this is the case.
Can someone summarise these in a more digestible format than a Youtube video?
I think any developing or non-western country really should be wary of WTO. In general it doesn't seem to have best interest of them at heart. Instead playing for established players...
> Take their phones. Put them in a box. Sit on the box and guard it. Maybe buy a Faraday bag or something.

A family member tried this. The kid's bicycle was stolen (no it wasn't, the kid traded it for a "secret" phone he used during no-phone hours).

This reinforces the "Give up now" point. You won't control access for your kids, but you can try to give them better emotional tools to cope with the world they live in.
For the number of children in America, those numbers are tiny. Really. And do we have the data on the comorbidities those children had?
> Not accepting results in the US is bad for democracy.

What's bad for democracy is when elections are not auditable. That's why in many countries people do it the old fashion way, with paper balots, ID, and in person, with citizens watching the counting process. Anything else is just prone to be manipulated sooner or later.
But they did try to help! They spent years trying to negotiate some kind of trade deal, as many European economies stood to lose out ... but it's clear that the unilateral no deal approach was the plan from the outset.
I think this is a generic statement that can be applied to any social media nowadays. I wonder what's the solution?
I believe it started that way but now everyone has just stopped recurring. I have already got email notifications from AWS (India), my phone provider, etc. that we have to pay manually from next month.
dang, software planning is harder than herding hundreds of entertainment people? Not what I would have expected! I always assumed the 'unknown unknowns' were much larger in real life enterprises than in software ones, and that'd make planning harder. A lot of advantages come from software being made out of formal systems.
At my work, when one of us gets too into the details of pointing, estimation, or process we usually realize, stop, and say "sorry--I was being a Scrumbag"
There are a wide variety of homeschool types. But in general, homeschool parents make conscious efforts to ensure the kids get social activities.

In standard school, there are very rigid age-based hierarchies. Sixth graders rule over fifth graders, who rule over fourth graders. And the adults rule over all of them. And then you have the cliques, etc.

You'll find that such hierarchies do not exist in the homeschool world, and the kids are better for it. If the homeschool environment is religion-based, you'll probably find that the children do not know how to interact well with people in other religions, but you still have excellent interactions between age groups.
The compassionate part I was talking about was the acknowledgement that kids today don't have the equal opportunities in schools that many claim they do. Environmental context (rich family or not) matters.

"quiet is a luxury good" + "seriously, poverty is so loud"

Having said that, I do agree with your point about the need for quiet spaces.
Services handling recurring payments need to compulsorily have a cancel button.

Here's my story with nytimes today. There's no cancellation button in the app or the website. There's a "chat with agent"option, but it doesn't work. So they ask you to call an agent, on the phone.

After ten minutes of being "next in line", I get to speak to someone. He doesn't let me cancel, but takes down my details and transfers to "Management".

I was seventh in line. But after 10 mins, I was eighth in line. After 12 mins, I was ninth in line. I was finally able to get hold of someone and cancel it, after holding for 25 minutes.

This should be illegal.
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Americans can read about those bombings anywhere. Where do the Chinese go to read about what their government does?
There is a wide range of socialization that happens in homeschool. Some kids are practically hermits, only meeting other kids during church. Other kids have a full schedule of extracurricular activities that rival HS and college kids.
The Dell N1100 is a nice switch, but a relatively new product (<3 years old). Also, the article mentions how noisy the cooling fans can be in "enterprise" grade switches, but they are quite loud in the N series too (at least in the case of the N3048).
Early this year, I got contacted by DellEMC via a voicemail message, which I initially thought was spam or phishing because they should have used the email associated with my DellEMC support account. It turned out that the voicemail was legit, and the message was that I needed to update the firmware in all of our switches (including N1100) before 7/27/2021, or they would all stop working(!)
It turns out that the feature license management system had a root certificate that was due to expire, and all licensed features would cease to function if the switches were not upgraded.
I spent about a day on the phone with them upgrading our switches, and (almost) everything turned out okay in the end.

Below is my survey response to their support feedback request:

1) The products should not have a built-in time-bomb that causes them to stop working after only a few years.

2) Dell should have informed us of this issue by email. Instead they left a very "phishing" like voicemail on a manager's phone. (Not the phone of the registered point-of-contract for the cluster.) Perhaps this was done to avoid leaving evidence of #1 above?

3) I spent over an hour on hold when I returned the call, and was then disconnected. After trying again (to an extension other than the one given in the message), I reached somebody who confirmed the issue. I spent another four hours on the phone resolving it.

4) Shortly after all of the above, I discovered a new issue that severely impacted the cluster. The n3048 switch would no longer auto-negotiate a 100Mbps Ethernet link. Our network watchdog device (iBoot) was continuously cycling the power on our Internet Ingress (ONT+ASA).

5) I spent even more time troubleshooting and resolving this issue (by locking the iBoot port to 100Mbps instead of leaving it on Auto).

6) I did not waste any more of my time by reporting this issue. The technician I worked with to upgrade these switches assured me that the firmware releases we used were "stable".
I haven't rounded to the nearest dollar in over 10 years, using credit cards. The only time I cared about rounding was when I paid in cash.

I always fill to the brim, as I value my time more than the incremental value that half a tank of gas will do for me. Obviously it's not the same for everyone.
It's true. I doubt this spec will pick up even a little traction either since it's not backwards compatible.

You trade slightly more concrete data structures for hard incompatibility.

Maybe an internal api could leverage this in some way?

But it really isn't that hard to wrap hex, floating points, etc. in quotes and parse that server side.

Any application that's not a pet project should be using json schemas anyways, which is the layer you could put your custom datatypes into.