skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to a private school in France, a small one in a smallish town, and I dont really understand why we have public schools.

The incentive to succeed starts at parents having to pay, ending with the students being quite aggressively challenged to actually deliver on exams.

It may not be fit for everyone, but now that I work in an investment bank in Hong Kong, I dont feel like I m being abused by deadlines, financial objectives, disappointement on failures, high reward on success, expectation that I do more than the minimum etc.

But in France, saying these is an anathema, people can get insane we encourage kids to excel, in silly things such as just being fluent in English, useful in Math, generally aware of physics, careful about historical precedents or able to follow a discussion on philosophy. And it's not even considering accessories like understanding Latin etymology or never making a spelling mistake in French.

We may see education like a sort or right, that happens given enough tax money thrown at schools, but it feels to me like a mindset and a duty: we must understand what's happening around us and we must make our children useful. Too bad if it's a little bit hard some days, but that's this or we whine all our lives the rich are eating OUR cake, when all we ever did was being born and claiming equality.
It seems the Harman/Kardon 730 was originally around $400, which in present-day dollars is around $2000. Do you happen to know if a $2000 receiver today might be closer in quality? I ask partially because I'm into this myself, and I'm not sure what things are like these days.
> How on earth do we de-escalate from here?

The SAT provides a hard deadline which prevents you from de-escalating high school.

College provides a soft deadline which prevents you from de-escalating as getting a degree before you run out of money is an employment filter.

You have to remove college as an employment filter in order to de-escalate the whole thing.
We will be moving to a house in the suburbs next year, and then we probably will get a cargo bike, as there we will have space to safely store it and the roads are better for cycling than the city centre.

Bikes also need a good amount of infrastructure, and most cities do not have that right now. Given its usually car drivers that pay taxes for roads (either a direct road tax or through fuel) it not really a suprise that they are designed for them.
Without deadlines most people won't accomplish anything.
It takes a surprizing amount of energy to reach the sun, because we are carrying so much momentum.
Well, before governments got into education, most people were happy living illiterate.
The article had people on cargo bikes doing the weekly groceries, and riding with four kids.
Steam also allows a user to view the raw information if they want. At least the last time I looked. The option could definitely be more obvious though. Giving the user the ability to see the like/dislike data over time gives them their own ability to decide whether likes/dislikes come from an external source to the page. This information should include a graph of the total views over time as well as likes and dislikes over time in parallel.

Not giving users this information and removing like dislike counts just makes it so that a small number of people at YouTube have even more ability to control what is pushed on that site. With this change users have even less ability to check the validity of a video; validity means different things to different users here. People who stay at YouTube will just have to deal with the fact that they will have videos pushed to their screen for reasons that are hidden to them, that they don't have the ability to check out anything other people think about the video, and can't even signal that there is something wrong to them about the video (sure, they could comment, but any comment can be deleted by the video author and there is the fear of losing your Google account, which can include their email contact to everyone and authentication information also, which can have huge consequences for their ordinary life).
/r/alienworldproblems
Glad to see school systems addressing the systemic inequities that have become visible due to the pandemic.

There are other ways to grade. The point system has always been lazy, about as effective at predicting competence and success as standardized testing. What really predicts success is how rich your parents are. Sure there are rich fuckups, but not having to take care of parents or younger siblings while living on the poverty line sure helps.

It's not an easy problem to solve, and this idea of "tough love, kick them in the ass" is basically perpetuating the idea of working yourself to death and hating yourself because that's what the smartest guy on hacker news says should happen. Hell 80% of the graduates are gonna be burger flippers, Walmart greeters, street cleaners, and all the jobs that aren't elite hacker positions.

*It's not like a straight A student is going to stop getting straight A's because we didn't punish the poor kids and underachievers hard enough.*

The hate directed at this article is endemic of fear. Absolute fear that someone will get more than you. Something they don't deserve, so punish them hard and punish them early. Which is disgusting, and is the narrative the far right has been pushing for the past four decades. From welfare queens to demonizing SNAP. It's all the same cycle of hate.
An ebike costs usually less to replace as a car catalytic converter which are stolen more. I wonder if there will be similar solutions. Around my part of the world, bikes are usually insured against theft, for one.
Navigate to the cdc's youtube channel and click through their recent videos, most of them have more dislikes than likes, especially if the video is related to the covid vaccines.

Search "covid vaccine" and have a look through those as well. Plenty of them have many more dislikes than likes, especially if the video is about mandates and or from MSM.
I don't think this is comparable. People driving a two ton vehicle have to be licensed, which means they have a general understanding of the rules they're supposed to follow and a general mentality that they should follow them. More experienced cyclists are similar (not in the license, but mentality). A lot of amateur cyclists don't have this mentality on the bike when they start out.
I was remembering an article like the one below [1] on profitability. Looked through Q3 '21 results and it seems they're at ~29% margin, excluding tax credits now

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/23/teslas-sale-of-environmental...
Because many forms of human social norms include a “private but not strongly so” register with neither the friction and psychological barriers of ‘true’ secrecy nor the overt exposure of publicity, and in fact a huge amount of communication takes place in that register, such as most conversation among groups socializing in public spaces.

In the digital world, this hits a wall of “the security mechanisms don't integrate with the nuances of human social understanding directly” and gets split off into “posts that are technically public but not really addressed to the public” and “invite-only areas which would probably be okay being somewhat more open but lack a good way of moderating this without leaving things open all the way”.
Well, they won’t use Samba (which has a very well featured domain controller implementation), because of the GPL. The only other one going around is the one I wrote, but Novell bought that, not Apple. (Apple wasn’t so interested in the enterprise space circa 2006.)

But anyway, AD will become much less relevant in the future as everything moves to the cloud, a la Azure AD.
You are right I mixed up silica and silicon my mistake. I found the wired article thats now paywalled and I mixed those two up. https://web.archive.org/web/20180808115837/https://www.wired...

>It would be interesting to know if the industry is still using natural quartz crucibles - the latest wafer size is now 450 mm - nearly 18 inches. Maybe someone else here can comment whether the traditional pulling process will be used at 450 mm.

Is that why they're round even though chips are square? Are the round parts thrown away or do they use them somehow? Reminds me of chicago style thin crust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago-style_pizza#Thin-crust...
All-in-one tool to optimize performance and monitor errors and logs
There's almost nothing that can be learned from someone like Noam Chomsky that is applicable to the median student.
Think about the worst of the worst ideologies.

Previously if you were linked their videos it might have 1000 upvotes and 100,000 downvotes, and it would be obviously terrible. Now you just see 1000 upvotes and it would look like it has substantial support.

Google can and does remove videos they simply dislike by using nebulous policies against 'hate' or 'meanness' or similar. Removing dislike then, by and large, helps push those unpopular views that Google themselves approve of.

Does removing likes let them accomplish that? They can still remove videos that trigger them, but without a like count they can't push their ideology with the appearance of support.

I believe this is the actual reason why they will show upvotes but not downvotes, and as prediction I expect them to remove total views since that allows for estimating the viewer sentiment based on likes per view (or make it useless for estimation, for example replacing a count with big buckets like "thousands" or "millions").
Tesla is not quite part of the premium segment
Investment orthodoxy recommends having ~50% stocks if you are retiring at 65, and are planning on living past 80. Cash/bonds lose value too fast.

As for punting the problem back, no, that does not follow as a required consequence of QE.
Probably for the best because he'd destroy it
There's another side to this too - downvote the authoritarian state propaganda. When I see a 99% disliked video and click a "Dislike", I feel that I am not alone. When all forms of political participation are verboten, you use what you have. Now we have even less.
> over about 70 years

You included the most liberalized (less hard core communist) years of the Soviet Union.

> This intuitively makes sense to me since the Nazis actively sought to exterminate people, whereas most (not ALL) deaths in the USSR were accidental because communism is useless.

The Holodomor was caused by explicit policies. The purges were intentional. People who pointed out problems were considered anti-revolutionaries. Skilled laborers were purged or fled.
But I loved Jamaican music...
I often see completely factual comments get downvoted once (to 0), and since it then gets a little greyed out, people turn off their brain and blindly ram the downvote button on it. It just leads to bandwagoning.
dealing with stress and anxiety while your brain is still developing doesn't always go as you would want and the public school system surely isn't going to help them cope if they do react poorly.
Oh yeah I don't have any data at all, and I don't doubt that statistic about accidents for a second.

> E-bikes make the first case safer because, as described in the article, the faster you go the more time the driver has to notice you and slow down before crushing or swiping you

I think this is true in some degree, but has a corresponding elongation in the time required to pass the cyclist (which increases the chance that drivers gun it to do so) and reduction in the time to respond when you're going to be cut off. I would suspect it's mostly a wash.
You must watch very simple, popular content, in which case, yes, you're part of the majority. Congrats.

I rarely watch videos, but when I do, it's complex technical material relating to a niche subject. A high dislike-to-like ratio is a clear indication that the content is inaccurate. Not offensive or boring or too long, just inaccurate. And because the content is complex, I can't just skim it and identify inaccuracies.
It’s scary, but I’m taking some of these myself. I had food poisoning and was diagnosed with IBS-C a few years ago and my life has been pretty deranged since then. Couldn’t sleep more than a few hours a night, couldn’t think, went from a BMI of 22 to 18. No help from doctors, or years of different drug therapies; I’ve tried everything that medicine has to offer. Also could not get my blood pressure down to save my life even on multiple meds. Fecal matter transplants helped quite a bit but still couldn’t get BP down, get good sleep, etc. Only when I started using some peptide suggested on Reddit was I able to normalize my BP and see improvements in other areas. It’s scary and I don’t recommend it (my doc certainly doesn’t, but he doesn’t endorse any of the therapies that have improved my wellbeing); I don’t want to be a guinea pig for a peptide that has a limited amount of human data to back it up; but the alternative of not using it is just so unlivable and having it solve my BP problem alone is a gift in itself. I hope I’m not shooting my future self in the foot by using these but I don’t see any alternative option currently. It sucks to be sick when medicine still hasn’t figured things out.
I feel literally like Abe Simpson "I used to be with 'it', but then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn’t 'it' anymore and what's 'it' seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!"

We used to buy things that had physical value, now we just buy memes.
It's a relatively low-stakes environment (in the long term, even though it doesn't feel like it at the time) where you have to deal with it. That's valuable.
Pretty much, yeah.

It also forces the phone to not allow various offline use (like erasing it and setting up a new user)
Meanwhile, per the thread above, in Hoboken Nj 8% show math proficiency, yet 95% graduate.

There are two cultures in the US.
which company would you invest in?
> Their total liabilities are on the order of $300 billion

~300 billion is the size of their debt (485 at the end of H1 2021). Their assets are at +2 trillion, +1 trillion in real estate alone.

Their problem is that with their current cash flow they can't pay their debt, ever, and now, they can't even keep up with the interest. But they're still in a position where selling off part of their inventory can offset the debt, and to my knowledge, that's what they've been trying to do.

That is, if their financial statements area real. That's the quid here, their position isn't particularly anomalous, but the market cap sits at 33 billion, very far from their declared assets, meaning the market doesn't believe those statements. Thats 60 to 1, where most REIT sit at around 2 to 1.

Their main problem is the large amount of unfinished homes (read: not producing any income) and you need money to fix that. My guess is that the government will step in to fix that point in particular.
Why would paying more for teachers fix the issue? The best teachers will still prefer private school because kids are more displined. You end up paying more for the same or worse now you attract a new group who are in it for the money.

Education starts at home and without a learning culture with displine these children are setup to fail.
Isn't that just market economics? Supply and demand? Isn't the greatness of the USA supposed to be predicated on the market being king, and the freedom of people to do what they like?

Until there's a shortage of something you want, which in turn drives up the price - then it's a scam?
From the Wikipedia page:

"US president Barack Obama canceled construction of the agreement-supporting US MOX fuel fabrication facility in 2016, citing cost overruns and for financial reasons proposing instead that for the US share of plutonium, it be diluted with non-radioactive material and disposed in the underground WIPP facility.[9][10] However, the dilution could be reversed, and the material reconverted into weapons-grade plutonium.[9]

On October 3, 2016, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered the agreement to be suspended because the US did not meet its obligations.[11]"

Great! <sarcastic>

OK, well, maybe we do what Elon Musk proposed and send all of our nukes to Mars, blow them up and start an atmosphere?

The fact that the world "leaders" can't come-up with a way to de-nuke the planet is further evidence that politicians --world-wide-- are not the best and the brightest among us.

Don't get me started on that tangent.
The narrative they don't want to push is curiosity though. They don't want you learning/viewing anything they didn't push for you to learn.

>So is horrible vulgarity

Nope. Not even remotely. Even things that aren't vulgar to 99% and only vulgar to the 1% are considered vulgar and are outlawed.
Most markets don’t put you through that garbage, no.

And it’s not fair to advertise one price and add on a market adjustment when someone asks to buy it.
Even if they sell it for what they pay OP they can make money off financing
Our startup routinely orders the synthesis of hundreds of peptides for technology validation and drug discovery research (not suitable for human consumption). Costs for a small quantity through a contract research organizion can be $200-$2000 USD per peptide depending on desired purity, length, and chemical complexity. For some applications peptide arrays are suitable, and can drive the costs down to $10 USD per peptide or lower. In both cases, the turnaround time is 4-6 weeks, even though a peptide chemist could do the job in about half the time for a rush order.
>> homework
> This is one issue that I'm passionate about. Research increasingly implies that homework is probably harmful in elementary; of dubious value in early middle school; and only valuable in high school and beyond.

Isn't the article about removing homework in high school?

Mr. Moreno, the Alhambra High School English teacher, specifically said he no longer gives homework. Doesn't this mean the research indicates he is removing something valuable?

It might all be semantics though.

I assume the "opportunities to improve essays and classwork" is done outside of normal class hours. Perhaps, the work is done at home. And that they addressed your point A by allowing students to resubmit work, and your point B by removing deadlines. I can definitely see how it could be an improvement.
Sometimes our fearful mind is the only prison strong enough to hold us trapped.
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Showing that they've accepted a few hundred thousand is far short of showing they've accepted millions. For the facts presented all we know was there were only three years these companies made any donations to the EFF.

If I gave someone $1 today, $10 the next day, and $100 the day after, would you then assume at the end of the year I gave the person hundreds of millions of dollars? Clearly I'm increasing this by 10x every day, so obviously this should continue in perpituity, right? Or maybe these were three one-off things, and it would take further analysis to determine I only actually made these three contributions?

I don't know the EFF took millions from Facebook and Google. They might have! But the data given doesn't prove it, and extrapolating it is only a little less crazy than the extrapolation above. There's guesses, and there's facts.
I wonder on which datasets did Apple train its "illegal image detection" algorithm.
That's a good point about stops. Starting off on an ebike is so much easier haha.

> I tend to be very law abiding.

Same. I've always tried quite hard to follow the letter of the law on my bike; it seems every counter example is otherwise held against cyclists as a whole. I'm hesitant to criticize ebikes as I do think they're a net good. More people biking is better for everyone.
Bertrand Meyer's Object-Oriented Software Construction. A classic, written in an engaging style that makes the book very readable and conveys important ideas about programming and software engineering (and object-oriented thinking too!). The first edition was perfect. The second edition exploded in size and I never read the full book; I dipped in and read several sections and they were pure Bertrand Meyer, so I have no doubt the second edition is as good as the first, just longer. The book was published c. 1990, but it's a classic for good reason and would be just as useful now as it was then.

Also, as jes noted in another comment, SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) is a must-have and must-read.
I was really hoping this is a decent article about what some teacher or school did about the problem. It starts like that but then it goes kablookie...

So, a certain Joshua Moreno is fed up with the system and did something about that, 2 paragraphs. GREAT. Then the rest of the entire article is about institutionalized racism and how the current system fails us. At no point do we get a good example about what mr Moreno did, only what he moved away from. This is horrible confusing writing.

I'm sorry but this is absolute click bait garbage. I AGREE with the fact that there is institutionalized racism and I aplaud work to reduce that. But this article is misleading, and confusing, and poorly written. There's no concrete idea in it that we could debate here on HN. If there is, someone would have to rewrite and state it clearly.
You are better off paying someone to fix this.

But if you are adamant about DIY... This [1] is the study about indoor air quality that everyone cites but nobody reads.

If you actually look through the paper, you'll see how they design the houseplant system. It is not just dirt in a pot with a plant. The paper suggests that it should work to reduce radon in homes.

[1] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19930073077

I am curious though - how are you measuring such that you have frequent radon levels? Have you purchased equipment?

I am definitely not an expert, but all the systems I've seen when house shopping involve (in addition to the ventilation fan) a piece of plexiglass over the sump pump/ejection pit/etc with some silicone sealant. I think the idea is that it should be really easy to pull up to do maintenance or repairs and then to put it back down and re-seal.
Yes, it has no licensing fees, and its being used in pinepen, some small electronics like calculators, and do you mean dev kits like this? They are arduino like devices with low power edge AI/neural capabilities. https://www.seeedstudio.com/sipeed

On linux, they are making one with an allwinner chip called the D1. https://www.hackster.io/news/sipeed-teases-linux-capable-64-...

RISC-V is not inherently better or more secure, its a different instruction set with no fees, so anyone can make one, its possible to be less secure.
> I learned the hard way that skipping the homework means bombing the test.

This is true in later education, but it seems to not be so helpful in earlier education. You're far better off with supervised practice than unsupervised, at-home practice in younger students.
Google should be paying a competitive wage to support these projects. They can afford to! They don't get to get cheap publicity and goodwill by putting their name on this thing while paying developers who work on these projects like crap.
And 5. The “bad” hashes are secret, so it’s not possible to create a false positive that would trigger Apple’s human review.
Good grief!!

We've moved into a definite era of attempting control through technology, and what defines the "era" is the level of aggression and overt strong arming of responsibility onto companies.

The very highly undesirable part is this will all likely end up working a lot like banking rules do. The companies set policy and enforce it technically, nicely circumventing many limits associated with government and law.

Lessig: CODE

Here it comes! CODE and tech as law.

I do not see this ending well at all, and it's not going to be pleasant.

Edit: Also, "drunk driving" is the "save the children" type blanket cover argument for many other reasons behind this initiative.