skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Homeschooler / semi-unschooler, here.

The school system tried to shave down our square-peg for years before we re-arranged our lives so we could bring them home. It’s fair to say we have a highly critical view of the education system (in Canada, but I think it’s reasonably similar to the U.S.).

That said: To me, this article is raving. The author is taking real problems and attributing them to the machinations of their own personal hobgoblins.

Just because a historical figure had a sinister motive in education, that doesn’t mean that a front-line teacher in the classroom today is using that ideology when interacting with their children. The quality of the relationship between a child and their teacher, produces at least half of that child’s overall experience (with the other half coming from requirements of “the system”).

There can be bad things in a system that happen for reasons that aren’t sinister. By and large the “round pegging” of children is not harmful at all to kids who are roundish in shape to begin with. Most people who achieve some kind of prominence in their fields as adults came through the school system just fine, but that path is by no means the only one that leads to success.

The key is to note when a particular child doesn’t fit into the available system. Private schools can only provide a slightly more accommodating model, largely because of improved student/teacher ratios (improving that relationship) and less restrictive finances (improving resources). Beyond that it’s a question of how much support the child can be given (by parents, tutors, etc.) to help extract what they can from school, and fill in where it's lacking with other activities.

For a more rational look at the education system and the needs for its reform (towards a more individualized educational experience for each child), I’d recommend:

The End of Average - Todd Rose

Free To Learn - Peter Grey
Well, you will have a hard time de-gendering "umarell", as it is - before and besides - this particularly popular use, nothing but a diminutive form of "uomo", i.e. "man".

The first few lines of the Wikipedia article:

>Umarell (Italian pronunciation: [umaˈrɛl]; modern revisitation of the Bolognese dialect word umarèl [umaˈrɛːl]) is a term in the Italo-Romance variety of Bologna referring specifically to men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites, especially roadworks – stereotypically with hands clasped behind their back and offering unwanted advice.[1] Its literal meaning is "little man" (also umarèin).[2] The term is employed as lighthearted mockery or self-deprecation.

Maybe it is not fair, but it is definitely intended as "male only" and as such very gender-oriented.

For the record, (from the facebook of Danilo Masotti, the writer that popularized the term), female "umarells" are documented to exist, though tagged as "extremely rare":

https://www.facebook.com/umarells/posts/zdaure-e-cantierirar...
>windows server went extinct

Mmm No, not really, many small and medium businesses still have windows server + exchange + hyperV etc....
Live computer analysis of the Carlsen – Nepomniachtchi Chess Championship match
NPM Err Code Elifecycle
John Updike wrote a poem about the crassness of neutrinos:

http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~crawford/PSG/PSG21/204_97_L21....
Describing some code as "bug-ridden garbage" betrays a negatively judgmental frame of mind, which will be visible in other ways and will turn some people away. It can help your outlook on the world and your impact on others to make an effort to think less negatively.
I was told by my doctor I was, about a year before covid hit. Now I take vitamin D and C supplements and try to spend more time outside. My guess is that a lot of indoor computer workers are going to be deficient, but it's something your bloodwork can show you.
For the sake of argument if we decide that DC in the home makes sense then the logical follow-on question is: what voltage? While there are 24, 48, and other voltage DC devices is the expectation that we would replace 120VAC (in the US) with 12VDC? For the same power we would be pushing 10x the amps which means more copper in the wiring lines, more line loss as currents go up, etc. In the end I think we would still end up with dozens of voltage changers to step up or step down voltage for our devices.

(And then there's the question of what electrical interface we should use -- are we really going to go with USC-C for power delivery despite it's inability to lock into place?)
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1489/

The mouseover-text is the important bit: "Of these four forces, there's one we don't really understand." "Is it the weak force or the strong--" "It's gravity."

That's even though it's the one with the simplest equations.
How to Make a Netflix Style Documentary About Anything
Well deserved. I only recently learned about the origin of arxiv and the story surrounding Joanne Cohn. Highly recommended read

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.4.2021110...
That sound really bad.
Unfortunately, not for someone like me who would put it on the stove and go read HN, only to be reminded later about it by a smell of burning resin.
Immigrate to the USA.
I’ve been using Kagi for the last month. I’ve made a point of trying out every upstart search engine I can get access too and so far this one has been great. A good sign is that I think very little about it. It tends to hit canonical sources more often than scraper sites like gitmemory dot com or the stackoverflow scrapers you mentioned. I’m a little annoyed that I have to be logged in because my default search engine doesn’t work in private windows, other Firefox containers, etc.

Something I noticed with Brave (my last experiment) was that it was awesome at first and then started to slide. It feels like restaurants that are great when their first open and become meh after a year or so. I wonder if popularity hurts search quality so I’m almost reluctant to share Kagi. I hope they can continue to delivery this quality.
Ooh, thanks for this pointer - it could free me from the slavery of Nespresso... TBH it looks like it cannot entirely match the simplicity of Nespresso (I can drop a capsule and push a button in the morning when I don't even know my name, and there is nothing to clean), but it looks much cheaper, definitely easier on the environment, and a great bootstrap story coming from a "difficult" part of Italy.
Edit: Revealing dirty political ploys and get downvoted... I have no idea what HN readers are upholding now...
This does not reveal anything more than what Lewinsky revealed about the US voting politics.

There are always political conflicts in any political system. The fight could be played openly, like the debates in voting politics.

The fight could be played covertly, like the hidden political campaign carried out by the huge donation-fueled political industry in voting politics.

In one-party system, the fight is hidden with more layers of covering. Like what happened in CCP's history, there are a lot of fights. At the beginning it's mostly ideology driven. Now it's more corruption driven.

> When a tennis star accuses a grandee of assault, China has no answer

This is an old and repeated accusation. It's not wrong. It's just obvious. Most things in CCP system has no answer. CCP can only improve and make sure such things can be managed better next time. That not means CCP can eliminate the root cause of such things, as human sexuality is such a fundamental instinct that, CCP's ideology is not going to remove such cases at all...

> It is hard to see a good ending to the story of Peng Shuai, a Chinese tennis champion who on November 2nd accused a former Communist Party grandee more than twice her age of subjecting her to a coercive sexual relationship.

The ending of course will be good.

US and western get the chance of accusing China, and possibly follow up over winter olympic.

Xi get a card over the old competitors in the CCP high power.

Peng Shuai becomes a national star. Everyone knows her now. She also will become a special person in the CCP high power.

Gaoli had a romantic relationship with a very charming person. Peng Shuai is not pretty in the current PS & facial surgery standard, but her energetic and strength as a pro athlete no doubt make her a desirable partner in any relationship. Gaoli had such a high taste is a revealing fact of their humanity.

And media is getting another sensational piece that can be played and repeated for a long time to come.

> In theory, the party deplores all immorality in office.

Gaoli had already retired. And standing committee in politburo seldom get touched, especially if the wrongdoings are not political driving. Mr. Zhou Yongkang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Yongkang got what he had because he tried to alter the political arrangement.

> Ms Peng, who is 35, was doomed from the moment she posted her late-night essay.

Doomed?...

Song Zuying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_Zuying was known to everyone to be Jiang Zemin's mistress... She enjoyed a great career and international appearance.

Liu Xiaoqing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaoqing was rumorred to have connection with Deng Xiaoping. She had a good fortunae, until Deng passed away. Although that might be done by Deng's family.

Mark my word, Peng Shuai are getting some thing in return from this affair...
Yeah, the models in this program are definitely the ones you want to use for figuring out things in this situation.

Ordinary Differential Equation model, Partial Differential Equation model, Finite Difference model, etc.
He is making an A is a necessary condition for B claim, not an A is a sufficient condition for B claim.
Genuine question, what would be the idiomatic way of doing an impure operation multiple times in J/APL ? (e.g. if writing an interpreter loop)

I was wondering if it's doable without the while. and other constructs (which honestly feel like plugged artificially in J, even syntax wise)
Get a heritage turkey. They are free range, harvested at an older age, and they are hung for several day like pheasants after being killed as opposed to factory-style turkeys from the supermarkets. They way they are preserved it what contributes to salmonella.

Because they are hung to age after being harvested, heritage turkeys only need about 90 minutes in the oven.
Ignoring the danger and sheer volume of oil required, this is the best turkey I've ever had, and we've been doing it this way for the last few years.
I experienced the same thing. Without the extension but with these flags enabled, there's no way to bind certain hostnames to certain containers.

This is sort of documented in https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers#w_what-you-c... #5. That page covers it but doesn't clearly spell out that the itemized features are only possible with the extension. As far as I can tell, the extension is called "Multi-Account Containers" while the feature is called "containers" and readers are expected to know the difference when reading that doc. (Suggestion to Firefox docs maintainers: if that's correct, change all occurrences of "Multi-Account Containers" to "Multi-Account Containers Extension")
Dear HN,
I've read guidelines a little bit later that submit a link, sorry.
So, let's speak about it.

What does a startup do?

Wannadocs can help you build an internal knowledge base for your team and hosted product docs for your customers, all within the same awesome UI.

What is the problem we're trying to solve?

Creating a good public documentation or knowledge base often requires too much energy. We saw that pain inside a few companies and we know how it works – Business wants it right now: fast, and cheap solution. Developers haven't enough capacity for such low-priority tasks. Support Team wants a convenient editor and simple UI and asking for old-but-gold WordPress. The Security Team doesn't want to maintain WordPress.

To create a high-quality knowledge base, you need to focus on creating content, and we make a lot of efforts to save you from technical details and give you access to the best solutions in supporting your customers.

Who are the founders?

Andrey Blinov, Co-founder, https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrey-blinov-93607b40/
Vasilii Borisov, Co-founder, https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuhenobi/

What is your backstory?

We've met in Cyprus and spoke a lot about the possibility of existing badly structured and presented documentation in many products. We saw that our skills in programming and product management can help – we have the knowledge and energy to make the Internet a better place.

How does it work?

Wannadocs consists of two applications – Portal and Website.
The Portal is a knowledge management system for content producers. It's the heart of the Wannadocs that is available only for knowledge base owners and editors. Here you will create and edit articles, see Analytics, manage Project settings and Team.
The Website is a knowledge base that is available for content consumers. It's a result of your content creation. Fast and robust, mobile-friendly, and SEO-optimized application. Here your customers or colleagues will get your Knowledge Base.

What do we do differently?

Our main point is to focus on one thing but do it great instead of becoming an all-in-one solution. We know what pain we would like to reduce or even heal.
We make really good UI for writers and editors, and deliver that content to its consumers with a fast, secure, and SEO-optimized website. We provide SSL certificate out of the box for free, Schema.org microformats, robots.txt, and sitemap.xml, and allow you to share that content with OpenGraph tags.

What is our business model?

Wannadocs can be used as SaaS with monthly or annual payments. We got three plans:
* If you have only one editor – "Starter" plan just for $10/month
* For SMB – "Team" plan for $30/month
* And the "Enterprise" plan with a custom pricing for big companies

By the way, enterprise customers are also available a self-hosted service option.
No it wasn't dry:

- I used 3-4 sticks of butter inside the cavity, under the skin, on the skin

- I stuffed the cavity was apples, onions, anything with moisture

- I basted every 30-45 minutes

- I tented the turkey after the skin was crisp enough

- I cooked low and slow at 350 F over a long period of time

- I avoided overcooking, using a meat thermometer took it out ASAP around 160-165
It has rapidly displaced all other variants in South Africa. It's only rare from a global perspective. It will be commonplace soon.
Start a family. Have kids. Maintain relationships with family members.
This wasn't disseminated widely and it's not part of any formal preventative recommendation for doctors to implement.
> the biggest piece of worrying evidence is that it's growing as a proportion of cases in south africa at such an intensely fast rate that it's outcompeting the delta variant as though it isn't even there, which means it's far more transmissible than any other variant.

Can anyone ELI5 how this is working?

If the Covid #s SA is reporting are accurate, the entire country is only at around ~2.5k cases per day.

Since Delta has an R0 between 6-7, for this to be outcompeting it so substantially, it would need to have an R0 of 8-9 (if not higher) -- at which point it would be almost as contagious as Measles. For it to be this contagious, wouldn't there already HAVE to be ~10k+ cases per day in SA?

The original Covid had an incubation period of 5.4 days. Delta dropped to 4.

If this has been around for weeks, with an incubation period of 4 days, shouldn't this have already infected close to ~100k people? And shouldn't there be 10s of thousands of infections per day?

To be fair, the growth rate South Africa IS reporting is 10x in 4 days. If that trend continues for even three weeks, then it would infect the entire country...

Does anyone know how reliable South Africa's #s are?
Food safety is about temperature and time. Not just temperature. When you see a temperature like 165 it means that the moment the meat hits that temperature it is safe. You can lower the max temperature as long as you increase the time the meat is held there. Chicken at 136 degrees for 70 minutes is just as safe as momentarily reaching 165 degrees.

A nice overview: https://blog.thermoworks.com/chicken/thermal-tips-simple-roa...
If the turkey is terrible, it’s probably not because it was frozen. “Never frozen” is a marketing gimmick and actually produces a worse result than a frozen one. Freezing makes the thing extremely hard and very resilient to rough handling (like what’s needed for shipping). Bruising and other damage is greatly reduced when frozen. And if frozen correctly (slowly), the cells in the meat are not badly damaged.

In contrast, a “never frozen” turkey can only be shipped in an extremely narrow range of temperatures, and rough handling can cause deep damage to both the meat and bones.
For renewable power: the voltage coming off of a solar or small-scale hydro system varies so it ends up being the most practical to convert that power to AC then back to the EXACT voltage DC needed for charging a battery bank (or just skipping the "back to DC" step and adding that power to a house's power source.
A LinkedIn ad the other day urged me to apply for the position of CEO of Boeing.

I was just released from jail.

Coincidence?
Isn't this just saying yesterday's fads have been replaced by today's fads and you should use today's fads instead.
Betting on the New Gumroad
I don't find it complicated to use. Like any other stove top item, you can't leave it on to burn. I can see how this might be difficult for some in a morning rush.

When I need a break from the computer, I find the ritual relaxing.

Can't see myself buying a Nestle contraption.
If you do supplement vitamin D, D3 is the preferable variety, and be sure to take Vitamin K with it — & be sure to get a K that contains both K1 & K2. K is needed so that calcium does not get deposited willy-nilly through the body (think arteries). There's also evidence that appropriate magnesium levels are also needed for D to properly function.
Highly recommend “In their 20s” - YouTube channel / podcast by Landon Campbell who interviews successful people to ask what they were doing in their 20s https://www.intheir20s.com/
They’d probably be more interesting to eat.
The absolute hysteria is astounding. Isolate for 3 months? Unless you are in at risk group you really should get on with your life.
I think you can find a more reputable source than Bill Gates? He's got some cred issues these days.
Mobile is the future - Mobile code, the interface it runs on will be local, not served via the strings and tin cans that is http(s). Code written by someone else, in whatever language, using whatever methodology, no matter how unsafe, needs to be run in a secure manner, given only the capabilities required to do the job. The OS needs to default to NO access, and stop malicious code, and confused deputies, from breaking things.

If your OS can't run a chunk of code that uses GUI gadgets directly, you don't get to play. The desktop is back, but not really the way you think. The metaphor of directly manipulating UI bits with code is what we get to keep. Direct access to the file system is right out.

Linux won't get to play, because it can't run mobile code without giving away the store. Neither can Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android, etc.

This is why we have an interest in Microkernels.
Ask HN: Account Hijacking Risk of Email Accounts and Other Digital Identities
Many online services (relative to the past) have reasonably secure login systems with two factor authentication using codes, hardware tokens, and so forth. However one aspect that doesn't get as much attention is how things are handled in cases of failures. Some services err on the paranoid side and strongly incentivize you to have backup methods of recovery (Such as backup tokens) or have things become very tricky which could be considered good from a defense (Google APP)

In contrast, there have been other incidents such as the incident of the owner of the Twitter handle @N having one of his domains hijacked by social engineering of GoDaddy support to pivot to control of his Twitter account[1] Since then. GoDaddy has fallen victim to other incidents of this nature[2]. Not advocating the use of GoDaddy, but was just illustrating these as case studies.

GoDaddy isn't alone with this, there have been other attempts at stealing domains with scans of falsified identity documents and similar fraud, as if verifying remote scans of passports from foreign countries is a trivial task[3]

What are some best practices from an OPSEC perspective to mitigate the above risks for higher risk individuals?

Note: Ignoring the issues of client-side cryptography in JavaScript, the fact that their SMTP gateway could be compromised logging plaintext, etcetera, would a hypothetical ProtonMail free account with 2FA enabled and password reset disabled fare well enough against some of the above mentioned attacks? As for the relevance email is used to "bootstrap" digital identities and unless services take further precautions to distrust unauthenticated email there is a fair amount of things that could be done by an attacker who can send and receive email at your address.

[1] https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-...

[2] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/11/godaddy-employees-used-i...

[3] https://fastmail.blog/historical/when-two-factor-authenticat...
There's a famous Pieter Bruegel painting from 1562 called "The Triumph of Death" that someone contrasted with a "typical scene in a US department store on Black Friday" here[1].

It might take a few seconds to tell apart the painting from the Black Friday store. ;-)

• • •

The original painting[2] has a gem[3] in the corner of it (that's not visible in[1]): where death is wreaking havoc, and a pair of lovers, oblivious to it, are playing guitar and singing. In that frame, you'll see death also playing guitar right behind them, in a neat visual rhyme, implying that their fate is sealed too.

[1] https://www.devblog.no/sites/devblog.no/files/styles/800px_w...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Triumph_of_Death

[3] You have to zoom into the lower right corner to see it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Triumph_of_Death#/media/Fi...
> Submissions that do not contain original or substantive research

Most, if not all master's thesis contain original research, and that is definitely my case as well.

> undergraduate research, course projects, and research proposals, news, or information about political causes

My thesis can't be classified under any of these categories, either.

It does sound like I would be able to publish it there, but I'm going to have to reach out to my supervisors for an endorsement in arXiv, thanks for the tip.

I believe they weren't inclined towards publishing it because I did not quite manage to fulfill their expectations with respect to the scope of the thesis. I came across quite a few bumps along the way which hindered my progress. It was still graded well enough, it has a good amount of original content, and I am relatively satisfied with its quality, though, so it's not like it was a complete disaster.
For those tiny tiny programs 1/10th of a second JVM startup —-

“Wtf kind of benchmark counts the jvm startup time?”

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Denmark was able to offer vacines to everybody because Rumania didn't want them.