skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have plenty of evidence supporting the fewer kids per teacher the better the scores.

I also suspect the more a teacher cares the better the scores.

As mentioned, from the evidence, there’s already a solid correlation.

I think with the additional details the causation is likely also there (less students per teacher, highly motivated and engaged teacher). Anyone debating that point IMO is intentionally misleading. There is a clear causation between homeschooling and better outcomes. The only “question” I’ve seen in articles (none in reality) has to do with socioeconomic status. However, if you control for that, you’ll still see better outcomes (aka homeschooled kids in socioeconomic category Y will still out perform public school kids in socioeconomic category Y)
Astronauts are expensive government assets relative to random people with a sign.

Can you apply for political asylum aboard the International Space Station?
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunru Suzuki. I first encountered it when I was around 19, and came back to it at various points. At around age 55 I finally started a serious Zen practice which involves an hour a day of meditation, working on koans with a Zen teacher, and more. I've been doing that for around 10 years. It has truly been life-altering in the deepest possible way. I've read other Zen books but that one by Suzuki is the one that started everything and it still holds a unique and very valuable place.
> This movement began by targeting Russian artists and athletes who were told that they will be cancelled or blacklisted if they do not expressly denounce the Russian invasion of Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin.

Do people realize they are giving these artists and athletes a choice between cancellation and prison?

If that is what you indeed want to do, it would be more fair to simply cancel them, without pretending that you generously gave them a choice which they refused.

Alternatively, how about you make an anti-war statement before their performance? Then you deliver the message, without putting their lives in danger.
> There is no game with multiple difficulty options where hard mode is as well designed as in fromsoft games.

I don't believe this is true at all. Heck, you can look at the patches put into the various games to see places where FromSoft agreed that they botched something. I don't think anybody thinks that Bed of Chaos is the good kind of hard.

And Soulsbourne games do have multiple difficulty options. NG+ exists. SL1 exists.
Still no map for me.
Usually they're trying to profit by being the last holdouts, hoping they will be able to get more money this way. It may not be worth paying everyone 3X, but if everyone except one person agreed to X, then paying the last holdout 3X is not a huge expense and gets the project going. At least that's what they're hoping for.

There was a case in my city where they wanted to build a shopping mall and offered the people who owned homes on the plot a deal. Only 1 person refused and asked for much more money (in his words "Who accepts the first offer??"), and since this plot wasn't critical for the project, they never even contacted him after that and just built it without his plot: https://www.vecernji.hr/media/img/38/97/a9f29b9fca44602d5b41... (the lone house in the "corner"). He got mad, sued them, etc.

This was a private company; I'm not sure why the government would have this problem, since they can exercise eminent domain for stuff like infrastructure, it's literally why it exists.
Calling bullshit on someone isn’t rude, necessarily. Certainly it can be! But passing off bullshit as fact? That’s pretty damned rude.
In homogenous societies like japan, Sweden, and Denmark it usually leads to a lot of ethnic contradictions once the immigrant population passes a certain threshold.

Once has to wonder whether it’s healthy when more than 50% of your population feels alienated by the country and often has more loyalty and love for the homeland he or she fled.

The immigration system of most European countries is also very broken. More than 60% of immigrants to France don’t even have a high school education and gun crime in Sweden is now among the highest in Europe (despite being the lowest in the 90s) due to Somali gangs.

People are tribal and not every country was birthed as a “melting pot” like the US or Canada. These days the words integration and assimilation are considered racist when talking about immigrants so societies in these countries will simply further polarize.
And you are confusing welfare states with socialism.
The most boring people in the world? The authors of this paper
This looks great!

I applied to YC almost a decade ago with a company called LiveDocs. Didn't get in at the time (I applied again w/ a different name), but glad there's finally a LiveDocs in YC :)
GitHub is banned in India?
Why is internal search in giant companies so hard?

Meta's internal search, bunnylol, is also nearly useless and a big productivity hog.
Yep. When every person who wants kids has to make these economic decisions their aggregate choices are reflected in population dynamics. "Just choose not to have kids then" en mass results in socio-economic states present systems are not robust against. Incentive engineering is basic economics, and no amount of rhetoric around "just have more kids" is going to change the material realities would be parents face.
If you don't like it, don't apply, or ghost them. Who cares. If you want to work for Canonical so badly, there's ample room in the Linux ecosystem for an Ubuntu competitor: Fork Ubuntu and do it yourself. Show the world what a good hiring practice looks like. Run Canonical out of business by hiring the best engineers that won't jump through this Q&A email hoop. Don't just snarkily call it "from hell" and ragequit.
It's much the same in Germany. We get similar benefits (well, for the mother) and the other points are largely non-issues.

Not much to complain about.
Vast.ai – marketplace for renting out your GPU, or renting someone else's GPU
Its important that the Webb got this right because proposed 2030s successors to visible light Hubble or infrared Webb are considering as many as a hundred one meter mirrors due to the limited size of launch vehicles.
Thanks. I've confirmed it's back but then somehow Cloudflare started served an old deploy again for some time and now it's back working again. I didn't change anything. Ugh.

https://5fee8b00.backofyourhand.pages.dev/ may be more reliable but who knows.

As for the original issue, Cloudflare has a 100k function invocation limit and I can't even pay to increase it.
Completely agree. I bought land in 2019 with the hope of building. Not only is the government painfully slow, no builder will take on the project unless the budget is north of $5m. That’s what I was told. $5m and they’ll sign a contract to start in 2025. Anything less than $5m and they aren’t interested. This is the case for around 6 builders I’ve talked to. I’m probably going to just end up selling the land.
This website does something weird with scrolling and is impossible to use
Maybe not for long - tolerance builds up rapidly (and maybe permanently?) to the sleep-inducing effects of benzos.

That's why they're not recommended as a long-term sleep aid.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=benz...
Cosmonauts are wearing almost entirely yellow uniforms and the media is twisting that as support for ukraine? If that doesn't show you that media is all propaganda and how desperate they are to latch onto anything, nothing will. Maybe yellow is zelensky's favorite color and they did it to honor zelensky. Left out of the article was any mention of the cosmonauts building an altar to zelensky on the space station. Maybe that'll be in tomorrow's news.

The propaganda during the iraq, afghanistan, libya, syria, etc wars was ridiculous. But the over the top absurd ukraine propaganda takes the cake. Everything from using video game footage as war footage to this. Unbelievable. And so many people just blindly accepting it.
Book's description:

When the brand new is unthinkable, we fight over the old. That’s where we are today with governments, with politics, and with much of the physical world. But perhaps we can change that.

This book introduces the concept of the network state: a country you can start from your computer, a state that recruits like a startup, a nation built from the internet rather than disrupted by it.

The fundamental concept behind the network state is to assemble a digital community and organize it to crowdfund physical territory. But that territory is not in one place — it’s spread around the world, fully decentralized, hooked together by the internet for a common cause, much like Google’s offices or Bitcoin’s miners. And because every citizen has opted in, it’s a model for 100% democracy rather than the minimum threshold of consent modeled by 51% democracies.

Of course, there are countless questions that need to be answered to build something of this scope. How does a network state work socially, technically, logistically, legally, physically, financially? How could such a thing even be viable?

That’s why you should read this book.
That depends on how you're defining "small number of people". If a big fraction of the people in the way of a segment object, then that's probably not small. If a couple family farms object, then that's not very important.
I'm of mixed minds...my PC is useful for certain things. But my Apple laptops w/ iGPU's did not require as much hardware debugging, sketchy firmware downloads/updates, less fans to clean, large PSUs that blew and had to be replaced etc...
> Criticizing the US war machine doesn't make one a traitor.

Criticizing the US war machine on behalf of a foreign government might.

Gabbard has a very sketchy track record, she traveled to Syria to meet with Assad as a part of a SSNP delegation.

What is SSNP you might wonder? It’s sort of a Syrian Nazi party (no, really. Their logo is a Swastika!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Social_Nationalist_Part...
> I don't see why

I think the parent answers this question fairly well: many white people in the US don't want black people to be the majority, because they fear that black people will then have the power to retaliate for centuries of oppression.

And beyond that, they fear that a "new majority" will change culture and values (and as a result, law) in ways that make them uncomfortable.

This doesn't only apply to the white/black dynamic. And it's all bullshit, of course, but the people in power (who are mostly older white people) have been using effective fear-mongering tactics for decades.
irda patents must've expired.
Not even close.

Welcome to the 70s and 80s where there was no such thing as savegames for the most part and you got 3 deaths before starting over. This is no different. A boss is just a level of sorts. You learn the mechanics and then you beat the boss and move on. Do it enough times and you can do it in your sleep. People have been playing ridiculously forgiving and easy games where there's no cost of failure so long that they don't even know what a merely challenging game is.
Yeah. My son is 3, I'm very glad to know him. But looking at the world? Probably, I've just created suffering.

I mean, beyond the suffering of being a parent to a 3 year old ;)
There are a few edge cases in geospatial computational geometry that require greater than quad precision to correctly compute a double precision result. This fact is sometimes used as a litmus test for implementation correctness. Many implementations don't have a conditional escape for these edge cases that switches to arbitrary precision algorithms in their double precision algorithms, which is easy to verify.
Ask HN: Is Google Down for You?
Can't get to google.com, and trouble with their 8.8.8.8 DNS server too.

Looks like others are seeing it too: https://downdetector.com/status/google/
I wasn’t asking “TFA”. This is a discussion, isn’t it?
"Just grind" is, in my opinion, the argument that proves all of this gatekeeping is garbage. Grinding achieves the same thing as an easy mode except it takes hours of mindless low-engagement gameplay to complete. Grinding has widely been considered bad gameplay for more than two decades at this point.

If the game didn't have RPG mechanics and there was no mechanism to just make the enemies deal a smaller percentage of your health pool or to make your attacks deal more damage then I'd be much more amenable to the "the game is flawlessly tuned according to the developer's vision and that should not be touched" but it obviously isn't since every single player will arrive at each encounter with different character and weapon stats.
Yeah LA isn’t “bad” compared to most places. Try to build a house in Boulder Colorado hahah
What American digital nomads can learn from people who live in RVs
> patterns of bits have human rights too!

I think the main concern of the OP was with _human_ collateral damage that can result from the deleted bits. Having worked for years in EMRs, I can definitely say that sustained IT outages in modern hospital systems can and often do lead to increased deaths.
They accidentally a word.
Same area. There's a hundred or more tiny subdivision roads for every major road. It would be better to omit roads under a certain length entirely since it's not reasonable for someone to know all the roads in a subdivision they never have a reason to visit.
I found this service interesting. This is how it pitches itself:

"Rent out your GPU to make your hobby pay for itself. Transform your mining farm into a GPU training center and earn ~2x to ~4x more per gpu-hour than mining cryptocurrency. We connect you with customers and provide simple tools to streamline hosting. You set your own prices and schedules. Get started today."

The biggest obstacle of course is security.

The founders described it as "kinda like airbnb for compute" here: https://www.reddit.com/r/gpumining/comments/8xu04h/vastai_be...
The book is tragic in a different way - it’s our inevitable extinction being portrayed.

In real life we may see some of the nasty sociopolitical consequences of that, but they aren’t irreversible. We can repopulate the depopulated regions, we can restart farming there (now with more automation and better quality of life). We don’t necessarily share the fate of the humanity of the book.
I guess I don't see either of those points as very compelling or self contained. Surely any country would continue preparing for failure of peace talks until they are successful. Likewise, if Putin's philosophical position is what is being accurately articulated in negotiations, I don't see how that is bad faith. It would be bad faith to send someone who didn't represent Putin's views.

Having unattractive and uncompromising conditions or demands is entirely different than dishonesty.

>They shouldn't be let to have demands over another country.

This is beside the point of if they are negotiating in good faith.
Dogs are good models for human psychiatric disorders, study argues
I think it's wrong to think they encoded data like a stylesheet, I think they encoded information through arborescence and fractal charts. Big difference if you're thinking of understanding their data structure. First idea that popped into my mind was that these are perfect to keep track of genealogy across generations and multiple families.
This could be useful for languages like Go where simple repetition and loops are preferred over clever language features like object or array destructuring that can add cognitive or performance overhead.
Very nice customer service :D
Although not a blog/newsletter, System Design Interview - An Insider's Guide By Alex Xu is often recommended. Volume 2 will be available soon also.
Bessel Van Der Kolk's _The Body Keeps The Score_.

I had an extremely abusive childhood environment and mostly blocked it out through my adult years but had many obvious self-descructive, anti-social, self-sabotaging and socially untenable behaviour patterns that I couldn't understand or shake.

That book gave me the understanding of my own development and, furthermore, an idea of the tools that I could use to finally stand tall as a member of the human race.
Again, that’s begging the question. You are assuming certain axioms, and the question is “why did we assume these axioms?” Using the word “definition” rather than “axiom” is just a way of rephrasing the argument. If your answer to “why are negative numbers defined to work this way” is “because that’s the way negative numbers are defined,” I’m gonna keep responding by saying that you’re begging the question.

Rephrasing the argument only helps if I misunderstand your argument, and I don’t.
Life is a cancer on this planet. Life is extractive of the natural resources. Name a single life form that leaves the planet “better” than if it had not been there?

Is your preference that Earth be devoid of life? Looks like Mars or Venus? And nothing of consequence exists there?

That’s obviously not what you meant, but it’s the natural extension of your argument.

If you think about it, the planet doesn’t give a shit if we live or die. It is not sentient. Neither does the Sun, nor the Milky Way, or the other galaxies. Whether we live or die, blow the planet up or not, is irrelevant to it all.

Somehow, humanity was given a gift. By God or the universe, but you have to admit that it’s pretty miraculous. And the fact that you and I are debating each other about the merits of humanity’s continued existence over the Internet is pretty wild too. But again, it is insignificant to the overall timeline of the universe.

Given that it’s all meaningless, why not spend your time here giving it meaning? If you believe we are a cancer, why not spend your time ensuring that you are not that cancer?

Furthermore, children are a fantastic way to continue contributing to society’s search for meaning. If you don’t want to have children, to me that indicates that you don’t feel you provide value.

I’m here to tell you that you do. And that you’d probably be a good parent, that would produce a child that also provides value.

Or not. Your decision. :-)
No one has authority over the children beyond their parents and who their parents trust at church or mosque or synagogue or temple after many decades of trusting them in public and in the community and in interactions with each other. Trying to subvert this process by leveraging state-sponsored compulsory separation at 3 years old between babe and mother is nonsense. The more this small handful of wealthy sophists think they deserve authority over a child or have authority over a child's education, insofar as the parents are not guilty of deprivation or harm per reasonable & already universal controls that exist for these things, the more there will be significant backlash against these types of ideas.

Communities don't share the burden except to the extent that the parents need it and want it and share access to their household with members of their chosen communities and faiths. That is how it works in the entire massive United States and other Western Democracies, barring these irresponsible western European countries that seem to be possessed by increasingly idiotic ideas on how much control they want over our kids but how little responsibility they will show on serious urgent matters like nuclear reactor construction and adequate defense spending. The French should be absolutely ashamed and should repent.

When a state tries a state-sponsored approach to compulsively being responsible for teaching children with a monopoly on violence, especially contrary to what the parents may want to teach their child, that becomes a cause for jihad.
You know full well that's not what people are upset about CRT for.

We're told from every direction (pastors, educators, advertisments, people like you) that White people are the worst thing to happen to the earth and they're the reason for most of the problems in the US. It's insane, it's unacceptable, and it has to stop.
Ultra orthodox women in Israel have the highest life expectancy and a negligible child mortality rate but they’re having more kids than any African country.

Oman is a fairly developed country and they have twice as many kids per woman compared to poor Ukraine and almost-starving North Korea.

Cultural background is a huge influence in fertility. African immigrants in Europe have more children the poorer they are, the opposite of locals.
> None of the bosses in Souls games take half an hour to fight unless you do something exotic like SL1 runs, if you're not done with a boss in a couple of minutes chances are something's wrong with your build, because otherwise your skills are good, else you wouldn't survive for 2 minutes with a Souls boss.

I spent several days on O&S. Two hours would have been fun and I would have felt a sense of accomplishment. In the end, I cheesed it by pinning Smough to the broken pillars.
> In Sweden it’s not that uncommon to have three kids, even among the crowd you referred to.

This graph tells a different story. What is your interpretation?

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SWE/sweden/birth-rate#....
> The USPS will always exist due to being a federally funded service, so there isn't a massive incentive to compete with FedEx, UPS, etc.

USPS is not federally funded. The federal government mandates the USPS to serve every single address in the US, even if it causes them to lose money, but does not give USPS any money. So they have to subsidize that with their other pricing, but FedEx/UPS do not.
A very interesting read that is somewhat bogged down by the author’s apparent acceptance of the most alarmist of climate alarmist views.
> Go doesn't interact with anything written in a different language?

That's not what I said. I said Go doesn't interact with the OS using the OS's C library. But, as others have pointed out, that's only true on Linux.
Let's run the experiment then :)
Definitely sounds like a good place to start if you’re any to simply reduce the number of people.

But is that really the problem, or just the most expedient solution to a subset of minds?
I would love to see this playing out: Cosmonaut applying for asylum. Obviously Russia can't arrest him in space, but where do they land?
There is material for a nice movie in there.
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archive.is uses an unsupported protocol.
ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH

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CONNECTED(00000003)
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Verification: OK
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Is it still going on? Sounds like a good offer
I love fish. It helped me get into linux terminal. It really accelerates the learning curve and turbocharges explorability. I wish more TUI types of apps took hints from fish’s UX
Simulation hypothesis: God did the first simulation with a computer, everything else is a simulation of a simulation.
Provided the municipality treats their water correctly the lead should not dissolve into the water. Did you actually have the lead levels tested in the water?

If you're concerned get a blood test for lead levels. No level is good for you but adult exposure is magnitudes less damaging than early childhood (while brain is still developing).