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I have two kids who take classes from an online school. All the classes are taught in a virtual classroom and have been for years. It is an incredibly rich academic experience. Most teachers have their PhD in their fields and there is pretty much zero class behavior issues.

I've of course heard horror stories of schools that have no idea what they are doing trying to use zoom, but there are places that are really good at it and give the kids an incredible academic experience.
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Maybe that was a bad example. What if instead of something religious, there was a class teaching some kooky conspiracy theory as fact, like a physics elective saying that perpetual motion is possible, but that the patents to make it work well enough to overcome friction have all been bought up by Big Oil and suppressed?
For a different perspective: this hasn't ever worked for me. I have a reasonably trafficked blog and github and only twice in 7 years has someone asked me if I'd be up for contracting and both those times it was for a thing I wasn't qualified for.

In contrast I've found contracts and been emailed by employers looking for contractors numerous times after I posted on HN's Who wants to be hired post.

But it could be that although my blog is reasonably trafficked and technical, my posts just aren't particularly practical. :)
The irony in this comment is absolutely wild. Facebook and Google have done more to capture ad revenue from media companies than just about anyone else through FB news and Google AMP. I'm sorry, but this a terribly misinformed opinion.
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An alternative to hanging up your own shingle is to join a platform; if you're into ML/Data stuff I recommend tribe.ai which is a bit more focused on that, you've got Braintrust on the more general side with an interesting approach, Gigster I'm not sure what's happening anymore but they were good some years ago, Expertlead is solid for Europe, and you've got Toptal and Upwork but they crush you on rates.
This opinion seems rather extreme.
>There’s no such thing as a social network that people pay for that has no advertising or surveillance.

Forums are commonly considered to be a form of social media/a social network, and there are still many that don't track users, don't have ads, and rely on a modest annual fee (WATMM's membership price is only $3/yr, for example) from users.
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You didn't 'need' to be, you were just unlucky. Some people get the short straw. There is always some number of short straws, and some people have to get them.
Well in the example given, Stephen Douglass was free to speak to a small group, but not to a (for the times) large one. Your criterion is exactly the one that would legitimize censoring Stephen Douglass.
Absolutely what I thought, I haven't seen anyone across this saga being called a cunt!
That's what I want to experience in my life.
Hahaha. Name one person in the mainstream media who even pretends to care about privacy and the surveillance state.
And then you might decide to pay some one to help you in your vegetable garden part time, and before you know it...
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I enjoyed school quite a lot, though admittedly the environments of my high school and college were quite special.

It was basically an undergraduate experience in terms of intellectual rigor, and the group of classmates I had around me genuinely cared for and looked after each other. A majority of our teachers were wonderful mentors who treated us with high expectations but respect and support.

Then college (at a tech school) was basically grad school level in terms of expecting students to participate in research and make original intellectual contributions.

I think my experience shouldn’t be so rare and special as many young people would enjoy and benefit from it as well. Undoubtedly there are other awesome options that don’t involve as much formal schooling. There should be options available as one size doesn’t fit all.
"Cultural Health" is a meaningless term. Replace it with "what I think is good" and you have the author's true meaning.

This isn't a "think piece" - it's a paid political opinion piece complaining that current events will not produce the outcome the author desires.

Why is this on HN at all?
I read it as somebody who knows they're sufficiently bad at bash to not be safe with it admitting that and doing something more sensible for their specific context.

NB: When I say "sufficiently bad at bash" I think of myself first. Just because I know about 'set -e' and friends doesn't mean I trust myself to get it right nor do I believe anybody else should trust me to either.
Commodification of dating prospects makes it harder to invest in one person when you know that a replacement who might be cuter or more fun to talk to just 5 minutes of swiping away.

Dating markets are a two-sided market (but in reality, they are sets of multiple intersecting two-sided markets as there's a wide diversity of preferences and identities related to gender, sexuality, race, political tribe etc), two-sided markets are hard to make work because if you want to improve the UX of one side of the market, it's often at the cost of the UX of the other side of the market. It's really hard to build features or improvements that improve the experience for everyone. EG: make height filter a free feature and you've improved the straight woman's experience but hurt men's experience. Increase a man's access to inbox of a higher tier attractiveness woman and you've improved his experience but you've hurt hers.

If you build a dating app that tries to enforce people making fewer matches but spending more time messaging or getting to know or going out on a date with them, even if your 'quality > quantity' model would lead to better social outcomes for society writ large, as long as there's an alternative dating app that lets someone sit there and swipe for 30 mins straight and chat with 5-10 new matches each time (or uses gamification and cheap tricks or re-enforces hookups/ghosting/etc), your artificial constraints or protections you put in place to try to de-commodify humans are just overwritten by your user opening up that competing dating app. Most dating app users use 2+ apps. It's not enough to build a good app, it has to fit into the broader context of the market of services.

Photos and text are not a good way to become attracted to someone. Real life is a better form of "rich media" than online and we are often attracted to a wider range of people in person than we'd be if we just saw a few photos of them in a profile, but it doesn't facilitate the efficiency of online, its more socially risky and embarrassing or requires more courage. Leading to people making tons of matches in online dating, but most or all of the conversations becoming stale or fizzling out, or first dates leading one or both people to discover they lack physical or romantic chemistry. The future of dating likely involves combining the best aspects of real life dating and online dating.

Monetization and engagement is often at odds with the success criteria of the user.

It's incredibly hard to start a new service or app because its value is correlated to the size of the network, meaning its not very useful in the beginning. So the hardest part is the start.

Interestingly, governments may eventually start to subsidize this industry as birth rates continue to plummit. Or to make their own nationalized attempts. It's a smart investment for them economically. Japan already is doing this.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/japan-ai-singles-dates

https://businessinsider.com/japanese-government-dating-servi...
Well, they were clearly upset at losing the contract.

But mostly they were trying to say, "Okay, you probably have a guy who can do that. But it will be a buggy mess and it will go better if you don't give that dev permission to be a hero."
Actually, almost all TV stations are consolidated under a handful of corporations.
Good to know the threshold to stay under. Thanks for the heads up.
I mean if a business’s value is its future cash flows and the recent news was that they had decreasing users and engagement plus decreasing revenue per user due to Apple’s privacy changes I would say that the market reaction is pretty reasonable.

Also beyond Facebook, I was listening to a podcast from Saxo Bank where they talked about how this could show more broadly a trend for declining engagement and growth for social media companies as we come out of covid and people begin spending less time on their devices than they did during the height of covid.
The incentives for the companies (Match Group) behind almost all dating apps are not alligned with the incentives of their users. They are actually opposite.

Success for the user = not having to use the app anymore.

Success for the company = user retention.

I think everything follows from that. The things you mentioned could be solved, but there's really not a good incentive. That + a lack of real compitition to Match Group.
FB news and Google AMP are not why media ad revenue has cratered over the past 20 years. Do some research and try again.

Here, I'll even get you started: https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/newspapers...
54, not vaccinated, my gf got it and I tested positive shortly afterwards. It felt like a moderately bad cold: Sneezing and runny nose early on, then a persistent cough and wheezy lungs. No sore throat, no fever, no loss of taste, no headache to speak of.

If I hadn't heard of Covid, I wouldn't even have taken time off work.
You are right that my comment as written did not do a good job of explaining what it is about these studies that seems fishy to me. So I thank you for responding to it and making me examine my opinion in more detail.

Someone else already responded to you and provided a much better explanation.

There is always something that rubs me the wrong way about these studies that set out to prove that artificial sweeteners are bad. It's intuitively appealing: it seems too easy that we can just replace sugar with these harmless chemicals and then it tastes mostly the same but without the calories or bad metabolic effects of sugar. But artificial sweeteners have been studied for decades, especially Aspartame, and as far as I know they appear to be harmless, outside of the Gwyneth Paltrow universe. So it seems to me that some people still have an axe to grind with these artificial sweeteners, and try to bend science to their will.
Just to clarify, I said common enemy, not conflict (which to me implies kinetic or hybrid warfare). My greatest preference would be for our common enemy not to be a country but rather a shared goal that benefits humanity; I had high hopes that climate change or the pandemic would be that... now my last hope is aliens uniting the human race together (although I hope it ends up more like Star Trek)
Yeah, but a P/E ratio of 16 makes little sense despite that.
I think ice extrusion is better understood, but I could be wrong about that. Tin whiskers approach alchemical levels of weirdness, and are not well understood at all. The ones that look like little plants are so strange:
https://aimsolder.com/technical-articles/tin-whiskers-revela...
I agree. World has moved on sadly. fwiw I do recognize many usernames its just not as many as an old school forum.
> is important for most anything we produce graphically that’s user-facing.

I can see the need for cross-domain (e.g. UX or graphics) specialists to have high-accuracy monitors but for most devs I don't it as necessary, as generally speaking you have an IDE with a bunch of code (text) and probably another monitor with your terminals, web browser with documentation, instant messaging app, etc. pretty much all of which is text-based.

>refresh rate... viewing angle and even colour accuracy can be important for developer accessibility

With regards to viewing angle, I have a nice dual-arm monitor mount system that allows it to be easily repositioned (limited 6DOF) as I change sitting posture throughout the day. Maybe something like this would help you?

I will say I usually score badly on colour perception tests (not colourblind, rather the tests where you have to order a number of very similar hues) so I could be missing a whole bunch of subtle colour errors that would irritate regular users :)
> 99. hn_throwaway_99

Whoa, I have to wonder if they adjust their score all the time to remain in 99th place? Or, more plausibly: coincidences are coincidency
I have noticed that I type slower when my hands are cold, but never considered the impact of cold forearms. Will have to give this a try!
For men overall: 20% of the guys get 80% of the matches. If you are below the median you get basically zero. That's very good for the top 20% but below some cutoff it is not worth participating. If you call that 'victimization' than it is.

So far as 'me' I can say in person there is a good chance I can give somebody I meet (e.g. regardless of sex, gender, sexual orientation, whether or not I am interested in them sexually...) a memorable experience. I can't do that through Tinder, not at all.
Reading this article I can't help but feel its for the better.

If we get to the point where one of the largest tech companies or groups of tech companies blames their downfall in revenue because of simply decisions made by their users. Then they're not doing what is beneficial to us and the technology is working against its users not for us. It's like banks putting out predatory loans and customers saying "hmm no thank you, that is not a smart financial decision" then the banks blaming their reduced revenue postings on customers not taking predatory loans.

I can appreciate the fact that these technology giants cannot function without revenue and that this revenue comes from advertisement over user subscriptions. After all Instagram, Facebook, snapchat and YouTube are all engineering marvels and they are free and they have always been free (of course there are premium options), way before we really cared about advertisements and user privacy.

I might be naïve, but I cannot see how these organisations could function any other way. If their main source of revenue is advertisement, which requires engagement, then of course they're going to optimize the way these services work in order to draw out maximum revenue. But if it comes at the detriment to its users and reduces the trust your customers have with your product due to privacy concerns. How do you change your model?

All of these services would continue to be fantastic if they removed their ability to advertise. We want to be able to share videos online, we want to be able to socialize with our friends and family online, but we don't want to be stuck doing it and we don't want to be targeted while we do it.
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Precisely why it needs to change.
I can barely fathom that I'm reading this on HN.

School is probably the best thing possible for a 'bright' child who would likely wallow aimlessly without having developed their talents, social skills, broad knowledge and especially ability to focus consistently on things which may not pique their specific curiosity.

I'm sure 'feral children' would engender the rare Mozart but at the imminent cost of massive loss in civility across all fields.

With respect to the study, in 1918 literacy rates were low, Highschool graduation was probably not even 60%, and less than 5% went to College.

Kids ability to work in factories or the family farm may not have been hampered.

Kids not in school during that time, may have been very likely working in the family business or farm, learning relevant skills.
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While I echo some of these sentiments, I don't think they apply in the slightest to the author of the blog post this thread discusses.

Certainly a "real scientist" in every sense.
It is very obviously conservative in language and origin; you only have to read French's bio or about where The Dispatch's come sfrom. Their tag line is, "Fact-based reporting and commentary on politics, policy and culture -- informed by conservative principles".

5 years ago this would have no question passed for a conservative piece. What has shifted here is the rapid Republican/Trumpist slide toward authoritarianism. So I read this as a conservative who is shocked by the monster he helped unleash.

I also don't think it's particularly well thought through, in that it tries to both-sides the problem with a false equivalency between "cancel culture" (that is, people using their free speech and free association) and right-wing attempts to use the power of the state to win a culture war (which clearly violates free speech). And the fundamental premise in the title is nonsensical. It's like saying, "Having bouncers can't make a bar popular." Yes, duh, and nobody thinks otherwise.
Is Summers known for making good decisions or did he hold a position where he was supposed to make good decisions?
Many people think Nintendo references are the same thing as jokes.
You're discussing a different law. You can, and many people do (with or without realizing it), sign contracts that allow a judge to issue an injunction if the company even suspects you will violate the NDA. You then can go to jail if you violate the injunction.

You could write a similar contract allowing an injunction to prevent anything else.
It's a good thing that life is more than producing hyper focussed individuals who only want to 'program and chat on discord'.
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I love DEVONthink. Need to check how to set up using the same folder and files for Obsidian and Devonthink. Then Noteplan and/or Keep It as well. Keep It is also a bucket sort of app.

However yeah for photos especially, Apple or Google Pgotos is best. However neither have been very good with OCR of text. I’ve tried both with text in photos I knew for sure were around. They weren’t found.

There’s a $12 iPhone and Mac app that does good text search in images.
Catfishing existed via blind dates. People would only talk about the other person's "good points" but conspicuously neglect to mention they were ugly, or an asshole, etc.
Depends on age. Younger men and older women are at a disadvantage.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and also how it makes you feel. In Jan 2021 I had become “intellectually lonely”. That was my feeling when I realized there’s almost no one left to have a productive conversation about COVID with. Also I realized how lazy most people are in just putting in even 1 hour of research that could change their situation dramatically (e.g. around supplementing vitamin D).

At the same time I started listening to many interviews with Daniel Schmachtenberger. Mindblowing, but also quite abstract. Rebel Wisdom does some work on the meta-level, i.e. how we can become better at sensemaking. Whether it’s around COVID or the next thing. And that for me is really the main takeaway from this pandemic. We suck at collectively making sense of complex threats and enacting good policies. Even simpler issues like statistical deaths due to air pollution most people don’t quite take for what they are.

I’d be happy to get in contact, I’m trying to figure out what ways there are to connect people and create a community that does high efficiency-collective sensemaking. Something that gives a good and balanced picture of status quo truth quickly. But also something that allows to progressively dig deeper into details.
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Oh, and I totally agree about the message board presentation making a big difference. I posted a crucial comment providing the context to the JRE thing yesterday and it didn’t get any attention. But even on Twitter most people missed the context, so it’s no wonder our sensemaking is so inefficient. Imagine talking for an hour only to later realize the point of contention became 90% mute in the presence of a bit of new information. That’s how I saw this, but multiplied by thousands of people. What a waste of smart people’s time.
Are you able to summarize? From the intro on that page it sounds like education is pretty useful in building and identifying valuable workers.
> I would love to see where this has happened, as I haven't seen it before. I don't find it hard to believe, but want to see it happening in practice before jumping to any conclusions.

By "exclusively for women" he means "excludes trans women".
First of all, aren't harnesses only safer if you go all the way with roll cages, helmets, etc., and more dangerous if you don't?

And more importantly, this misses the point of the original article, in which the author didn't understand how seat belts work at all.
I used to care about karma points on HN only till I crossed 500 and went above that (for a buffer) so that I could get downvote privileges. Then I found that I rarely downvote or upvote, or even login. But I do browse without logging in a lot more (thanks to those who upvote or flag and make my lazy experience better).

I do like the fact that points or karma aren’t highlighted well. What I would actually like after I login is to see some indicator on anyone replying to my comments instead of the total karma score next to my username. That would be of more use to me than a points system where there’s pretty much nothing after sometime.
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There are many problems that can't be "solved" with tech. People problems, specifically. Recruiting, interviewing/hiring, dating - all of these things that people desperately want solved with an app, but each person is infinitely complex, and then add the interactions and dynamics among multiple people and it's mind boggling complex. It's actually amazing that things work as well as they do in the current iteration, and for hookups it seems (can't confirm myself) like these dating apps work pretty well, but for something like romantic lifelong partnerships... I don't think that's solvable.
This is why I cancelled Spotify. I don't use it for podcasts, I prefer to curate them myself. However since they started offering them, I now have thing that I can only describe as "ads" turning up every time I open Spotify.

I started paying for Spotify years ago to remove ads, and now I appear to be paying _and_ getting ads.
You want a common enemy? How about ignorance? Or poverty? Or if they're too hard, how about tackling obesity, or the prescription drug epidemic, or tackling under-employment and job security, or routing out political corruption, or mitigating the corrupting behaviour of the profit motive on the criminal justice system? Still too hard? How about uniting against crumbling infrastructure? Or tackling pollution?

I don't think America lacks for common enemies. What it lacks is the will to develop agreed strategies for those common enemies. The political structures in the US all but guarantee that that lack of unification on strategy will continue indefinitely.
Ah interesting, I was actually thinking less about the cost for the maintenance but rather the cost for land acquisition. Even with imminent domain you're going to be fighting lawsuits for years, if there's any real infrastructure built in the new area you need that's going to be quite expensive to acquire and tear down, etc. but maybe they're already zoned out from building that close to the tracks
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