skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way schools are run, if even 5% of a district is absent at a single time things start to get tight. If it's 10% then you'll experience serious disruption.

Teachers in the US usually have 80% of their time spent spent teaching with 20% prep and duties (lunchroom or recess). Now you get a few people out with no subs available and you have teachers combining classes or covering others, leaving no prep time or unmanageable classroom sizes. Add to that a room of kids preoccupied with covid concerns and unable to concentrate.
> considering how many deaths of people the author's age have happened in Michigan (Where he lives).

They ignore COVID there - and are there more deaths as a result or not? Should be easy to find out.
> Sweden has kept its schooling open (although it has had covid outbreaks, but the numbers were similar to Finland where the schools were closed).

Sweden suffered 1,504 deaths per million, while Finland had 295. To call them "similar" is disinformative, at best.
Are there any implementations of good type systems on top of lisp (let's say approaching Haskell's in capability)?
The reason to use antivirus in the first place is to get rid of this kind of crap!
Scale. We are just a bit of noise in an impossible to understand large, complex system.

It is crazy to think about.
I read this post earlier today, and found it quite shocking. I really hope this is an exception rather than the normal.

I previously didn't think about it this way, and thought closing schools was the more sensible choice. But we're failing a whole generation like this.

It more and more feels like we live in a society that sarcrifices their young, just to keep old people on their life support machines a little longer.

Yeah, that's hyperbole. I don't know what's the right path, tbh.
Thank you. Now I understand why it’s "métrage” in French, and also why a “long métrage” means a long movie!
I think GP is saying “us millenials”, not “US millenials”. (I was confused for a moment myself)
Ask HN: Is Bugsnag Down?
Is anyone else experiencing Bugsnag issues? They haven't updated their status page, but I haven't been able to access any of my accounts for ~15 minutes now (tried different accounts, on different browsers, on both 4G and WiFi).
Hypothesis to which I have given 30 seconds' thought: the problem with social media, is that the person who announces a provisional conclusion (like this one, I suppose) has now announced it to a large group, in a print medium that is hard to back away from later. It takes more mental effort to change your opinion on a widely disseminated, print statement than it does to just not repeat that verbal opinion you said to a couple people.

So, if the problem is that "if an individual learner never changes their mind based on new evidence, their chosen option could spread throughout the social network", then discussing in small groups in a format which leaves no record afterwards (at least until later stages of the decision) might help to avoid this problem. Maybe?
and yet plenty of people still lose their homes every year over shit like this
You’re pulling my leg, right? The description could be improved, for starters, by forcing the author to not use the word “object.” That overuse alone makes me wonder if the description is satire.

I expect everyone here commenting is familiar with systemd. I doubt very much that anyone who was unfamiliar with systemd and read that description would then have any idea what it does or how it works.
As I'm sure you know, there's a few good strong typing libraries that you can use at any layer of code.

A bit like how python has type hinting + libraries to have static typing.

But there is something to be said about it not being standard. Library code and existing codebases generally (in my experience) don't do that.

It really is the incredibly weird problem of a language being more extendable and capable than anything else.

But because of that it's really hard to work on existing code as you have to enter with 0 assumptions if you want to avoid getting "tricked" while catching up.
The teachers might not want to move from the "Almost definitely not going to shit themselves" grades to the "Might still shit themselves" grades. The massive change in responsibilities between grades likely means that the schools can't just reallocate teachers without negotiation.
I enjoyed Starting Forth ( https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/ ) and its companion book Thinking Forth ( https://www.forth.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/thinking-fo... ).

They both still offer insights on program design and software development.
Actually LUVOIR will most likely have smaller 6 meter mirror to reduce cost and use lessons from JWST construction. It will be simpler design than JWST as it will use only 2 or 3 layer sunshield and no cryocooler (creating equipment that can work at 5 Kelvin was massive issue for JWST). Its main science goal will be examining atmospheres of exoplanets, plus general observations like Hubble.

It will observe in UV/visible/near-IR so its resolution will be higher than JWST's as shorter wavelengths are easier to focus (diffraction limit is a function of wavelength) but it will not be able to see objects at the very end of observable universe as it cannot image in mid-IR or longer wavelengths. There is still plenty of interesting stuff closer to us and it will be "true" successor to Hubble.
Blueray supports downmix metadata that I think lets you mix volumes with the full 6x2 matrix, and I don't remember if there's EQ but there may be. Also a 5.1 AV is like 500 bucks if you have the space. I don't think what other innovations you need. The technology to stream different audio streams and let the user choose is there.

Thing is most studios now do only one mix for theaters and also most streaming providers don't give many fucks about audio. It's not an innovation problem it's a product problem.
The center channel needs to be made louder in the mixdown to 2 channels
Another happy s6 user here, and pretty much for the same reasons. I like the clear supervision process tree it creates. I'm not sold on the execline syntax, but it's relatively clean and easy to work with and since I already use a configuration management system, generating custom startup files (from a single template) isn't that much of a challenge.

I'm currently exploring how to generate minimal service environments from Guix package manifests. Being able to spawn svscan as a child under the root supervision tree means I can create each environment with its own service directory, and never worry about cross-contamination from whatever else is on the host.
Show HN: Gnome extension to learn and restore window position/size
Running a server without having to go through fiddly administration tasks with weird jargon has eluded the software community for the past 50 years, or so. I don't know what web3 could do to fix this.
It was always standard to acquire at higher resolution than being delivered. Hell, they shot 35mm film for SD for decades, 16mm for non-extravagent budgets.

The first use of 4k wasn't for 4k delivery, but for single camera shoot of talking head reframing. Full frame for the wide, cropped in for the MED/CU shots. Larger image also allows for cleaner image stabilization. Allows for more detail on pulling keys in post, etc.

There are lots of benefits from larger image than delivery.
Ask on some of the "shadier" forums and you might get an answer. Knowing a foreign East European or Asian language helps.

(There are plenty of Chinese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, and Vietnamese forums discussing consumer electronics repair, but very few in English.)
Have a spare generic PC or make sure you didn't mess double boot. Heck, now I don't understand either how we fixed network issues when phones could only play midi or call a friend for support. Good handbooks were a rescue.
Dig a deep enough ditch around it to cut off the fuel. I'm sure Bob the Builder could do an excellent job for not alot!
Indeed. Edited for clarity.
folly [https://www.wordnik.com/words/folly]
fŏl′ē
noun
Lack of good sense, understanding, or foresight.
An act or instance of foolishness.
A costly undertaking having an absurd or ruinous outcome.

At the risk of starting a meta conversation (pun intended) I wonder why the team chose this name for a set of core library components. The GitHub page indicates it is a loose play on an acronym.

“acronymed loosely after Facebook Open Source Library”

Yet why accept a name with a negative connotation.. The name leads the product, so why not at least make it _neutral_?
That the methodology of lisp coding leads to less bugs.

I'm not going to say that's true, but that's one of the points of the comic.
There's an "easy" solution for Apple to stop being perceived as uncompetitive: create an Android app, with feature-parity.

If Apple was a small company, no issue; but they are a $3T company, and conscious decisions taken by such behemoths to increase lock-in should be treated differently. They also have >50% of the market, not a minuscule of it.

Of course they won't do it on a virtue, because they know it will lower the friction of switching. Every big company loves walled gardens that maximize the friction of changing; that's why maybe they should get some scrutiny from a regulator.

What Apple did might have just been a well-intentioned engineering hack but it became insidious: giving the minimum compatibility, meaning you can have non-Apple people in the chats (our hands are clean! plus, disincentivizes groups to look for alternative tools), but everyone gets inferior experience (non-Apple folks get less features, Apple folks get the white-text-on-green-bg which is unpleasant to read), and "blaming the victim" starts.
See also the unit of speed for ships and aircraft, knots, after the knots tied in the line attached to the log.
> Bitcoin will continue to spend what is now Billions of dollars on energy to secure the blockchain for /at least/ the next 100 years.

Do you really believe that this will still be the case after the pain and suffering caused by climate change becomes too ever-present to ignore, and global sentiment turns against fossil fuels?

There will come a point in the future when there is energy abundance under a zero-carbon regime, but that probably won’t happen before global polities begin to demand that fossil fuels be banned—which bans may very well be enforced though dramatic means.

Can Bitcoin survive in an environment in which fossil fuels are banned, and in which people also demand that energy remain affordable to them, even in that context?

In an environment where governments must subsidize energy in order to meet both of these objectives, will they be willing to tolerate—and can they even afford—the continued operation of Bitcoin mining within their territories?
Just make it a bit louder, before summing it into the left and right channel
One thing they mentioned that kinda sends it home to me is that the telescope is aimed at the dark and away from the sun, and the other side is especially reflective[0]. In other words, one side is too dark to see, and the other is too bright to see.

[0]:https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1479161991252131841
> But this seems so incredibly reductive.

> “80% of teens have iPhones? Must be the blue bubbles. RESEARCH DONE.”

Who's being reductive?
This. 3D printing is a trendy fashion, 2D is boring.

I'm sure the community has enough intellectual ability to create, if not a full printer, at least replacement firmware for existing ones. There just doesn't seem to be much motivation to do so.
That's the most convoluted reason to call someone racist I've heard of in a long time.
It's too bad they don't screen their actual content with the same rigor as they do their technical side. I don't doubt their technical side is excellent.

Most of Netflix is utterly mindless garbage content for background consumption. I struggle to name even 5 of their originals over the years that you could call good "TV" or Cinema.

Black Mirror is the only one that really comes to mind.
Yep. It's because android supports rich messages, a kind of SMS 2.0, where as iPhones do not support it because it competes with iMessage.
But why can't that be done automatically from the 5.1 signal on the consumer's device?
Renting out cameras might give you influencers or youtubers as customers, but for producing a feature film or a TV show the rentals include everything from lights,lenses to generator trucks, with the camera only being the very tip of the ice berg. Production companies will continue to go to the rental companies where they can get everything at once.
For reference a look at the perhaps biggest rental company might give some perspective:
https://www.arrirental.com/en
Do we see anything up there yet?
Right... so why isn't that done already from the 5.1 signal?
Singulartitech
Sure. It's still BS. Jeff never had any doubt after the end of 1995.
The classic counterexample to the chain (where each link is a SPOF) is the braided cable or rope, in which each individual strand shares the load collectively, and loss of some fraction of the total strands won't itself cause failure.

That's not to say that cables or ropes cannot fail, but when they do so, failure of many individual components is required.

A recent example is the failure of support cables for the Arecibo radio observatory in Puerto Rico in 2020. This was the result of a progressive failure played out over months, though at an accelerating rate, until the final catastrophic failure and loss of the instrument as a whole. (This wasn't wholly unforseen and was precipitated by a long period of rather intentional neglect of maintenance.)

Even after the failure of two complete cables, the remaining cables supported the load of Arecibo's instrument platform. On 1 December 2020, strands of one of the remaining cables began breaking, at an accelerating rate, leading to the total failure of that cable, then a second and third, and with it loss of the instrument platform. The final moments were captured on video.

Sequence begins at about 55s here: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=b3AASKr_iHc
Blame Apple for this, not Google.
Android supports RCS, iMessage does not.
Apple is the last holdout.

There's no good reason to have it this way other than lock-in.
Could be, but apparently we are 98% mice:

"Just 2.5% of DNA turns mice into men"
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2352-just-2-5-of-dna-...
Kriegman was harassed in terms far harsher than he used, and unlike his post, the harassing replies were completely lacking in evidence and argument. Anyone want to bet how many of Kriegman's harassers were fired?
> Easy.

Nothing in space is easy.
Sparkline: Theory and Practice
I 100% agree. My high school in the US was a shit show. It was basically like the redditor described but there was no COVID. Going to school is still valuable.
The vitamin c thing I think is common knowledge at this point thanks to the work of Linus Pauling
> Giving their users a better experience when messaging their friends and family who are not using iPhones.

That's literally the opposite of what Apple wants.
> If a 13 year old can figure out port forwarding and DNS I’m fairly certain you can.

I think the truth is the reverse. To me, it feels much more likely that a curious 13-year-old with plenty of time on their hands can figure out port forwarding, than a middle-aged (or older) adult who has little technical skill and little desire to develop technical skill. And that probably encompasses most of the people on the planet.

> I’m aware there are drawbacks but a $5 VPS is not outside the realm of reason

$5/mo is absolutely too much for many, many people on Earth.

> Sysadmin skills are so easy these days

I feel like you are incredibly out of touch with the average internet user.
High Flying Bird was a Netflix movie shot on iPhones. Granted, that was Soderbergh, so he probably gets a lot more pull than most other filmmakers. It was a movie where they bought the distribution rights and didn't produce, so maybe that stuff is different. I'm pretty unclear on what really constitutes a "Netflix Original" — lots of stuff that gets label is really just distributed by them.

Pretty sure some of their other original stuff was shot on film too, which obviously wouldn't meet these requirements. At least, I know the non de-aged scenes for The Irishman were done on film. But again, maybe the big guys get more leeway here.
Never trust the encryption in proprietary software there's a reason criminals and those relying on privacy for life doesn't use iPhones. Further Apple has proved countless times they don't care about their customers privacy. If you don't care, fine you do you.
I remember fall 1995 rather well. A friend I've since long lost track of snuck me into his university's 24x7 student computer rooms at night. Introduced me to the internet. Quite fittingly, a slightly naughty irc chat session with someone ("a woman"? really?) in Canada was my first memory of the mighty internet. Good times.

Thank you Raf!

Still a happy irc user.
The best part of Land of Lisp is learning to use SLIME. Except that learning it (and REPL-driven development) makes all other language/editor integrations seem inadequate! (one exception I know is CIDER for Clojure, also excellent)
> social learners seem to be more interested in group harmony than in making an informed judgement.

> It is not the social learners who are the problem here: Individual learners reluctant to change their minds are.

Or maybe it is the social learners, who don't care about being informed before making a decision?

Later they just spin it around to say as much.

Wasn't there a story on HN today about how the false-dichotomy (binary choice) isn't constructive? Oh, they hit on that too. eyeroll Feels like a pointless exercise.
If students only come in every other day, schools will only receive 50% funding in the US. In Japan, schools are often privately funded, but a solution that cuts public funding of education by half in the US is a non-starter. It would likely take a constitutional amendment in California to change the school budget formula.

But we’re not going to have a third year of COVID anyway. Nearly everyone is going to catch the omicron in the next couple months, and by April we’ll have enough herd immunity to reopen everything.
What does low pass filter mean in the context of video (i understand in audio)?
There is! Coalton: https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton

> Coalton is an efficient, statically typed functional programming language that supercharges Common Lisp
> it maximizes user-friendliness

Unless the user wants to get their packages from F-Droid[0], or wants a chat client that doesn't come bundled with a crypto coin.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/fdroid/comments/q1jnbb/why_isnt_sig...
It’s almost entirely due to cultural barriers. Teachers don’t want to do remote and neither do students. A lot of students want to socialize in person and a lot of teachers are extroverts. Put both in a very anti-social environment (remote) and they tend to be quite upset.

The big reason for older teachers retiring early is due to their network exploding due to stock market gains, fear of Covid, and hatred of remote teaching.

I think at this point - people are starting to learn that education wasn’t the primary goal of school. It was to be a daycare with the guise of learnings being done. Go with remote - no one wins.
There's a lot of rental but the real scarcity is in certain lenses, which don't really become obsolete in the same way.

Arri puts out a new Alexa and you can maybe get one if you have a hundred grand in your pocket, but there are some master primes or legacy sets that are simply not for sale.
Didn't realize that gitlab.com doesn't allow you to view things if you're not logged in. Here it is on github: https://github.com/michaelnew/monty_hall/blob/main/monty_hal...

By "the host chooses randomly", I mean the host picks from the remaining two doors without any knowledge of whether or not the contestant chose the prize door, or which of the two remaining doors contains a prize. The host flips a coin and if it's heads, they choose the remaining door to the left. Tails and they choose the one to the right. Which means that in 1 of 3 games the host will accidentally reveal the prize.

Whether or not the host is acting with knowledge to filter out incorrect choices or they are just randomly revealing doors is what makes the difference between a 50/50 probability between the two remaining door, or a 1/3 vs 2/3 probability.
I just recently moved from Android to an iPhone, and pretty much every teenager I've texted since has immediately texted back something along the lines of, "Wow, you got an iPhone. Cool. Welcome." My son had to explain to me how they knew I'd switched, as I had no prior clue about the green/blue message colors. A couple of crusty old middle aged folks like myself have commented as well, but not nearly universally like the teens.

So clearly the teens in my social circle at least are paying attention enough to notice and comment.
It all depends on your level of risk tolerance. Would you want to play safe where you do not want to loose money at all? Invest in inflation protected Treasury bonds. Currently I-bond is paying 7% return.

Would you want to play risky where you do not mind loosing a chunk of the size? Invest in a few obscured cryptos after doing some due diligence where there is a chance of 10-100x return.

Want to play safe where moderate risk is tolerable? Invest in real-estate but it also depends on market and country.
People think buying a franchise will make them an entrepreneur but remember franchise is nothing but a job disguised under thin veil of entrepreneurship. In Franchise business, someone else has a major control over your business and you have to play by their playbook rule. In addition, there is a very little room to scale.

However, if you are person with some developer or marketeer skill then this is the best route to go. If you have few ideas then you can test those by developing a prototype and putting in hand of customers and getting feedback. But be aware that for each prototype you should not spend more than 5-10k. If you have sufficient time in your hand then other non conventional investments can be buying farm lands and trying organic farming, providing micro-loans to entrepreneurs etc.
But now you're attacking a straw man version of TFA, which is saying "sure, hardly anyone wants to run their own servers, but enough people do, and that's all you need for a suitably distributed infrastructure".
A short e, as in: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bevy

The birds in the logo tie into the name! But I don't know about its origin beyond that.
this comment section is one of many reminders that i (a 29-year old millennial who uses all messaging apps but primarily iMessage) am now an old person
I put my NAS in a quiet PC case (it’s still too loud because I don’t have any closets to keep it in) and when I filed a FreeNAS bug a graybeard literally yelled at me for not using a 1U server.
Spoken like someone who's never had experience with a public healthcare system anywhere else in the world.
The same incentives that would make a programmer chose "worst practices" in language X would also cause them to chose language X over language Y in the first place.

Saying "you should pick language Y because you won't have discipline in the future" is presupposing that i have discipline right now.
> It's all very rough around the edges right now

It's rough around the edges for someone who is technically skilled and has some experience in system administration.

For others (the vast majority of internet users), it's a nigh impossible task.

I feel like everything in this space is perpetually "rough around the edges", and has been that way for decades. I don't have confidence that it'll be any different this time.
In the context used, it’s fluff.
Just updated now:

"Investigating - We are currently seeing multiple issues with the stability of our services and are investigating."

https://status.bugsnag.com/