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> This is a bad faith question asked without any basic thought.

Where ad hominem is a hallmark of good faith discussion.

> Within 5 miles, I have at least 10 different grocery stores to shop at. Each will carry hundreds of products at less than $10 each. Not only do I have tons of choices, but the pricing is completely transparent. And that's just grocery stores. Add restaurants (Both sit-down restaurants and fast food), and that number quickly reaches over 100 within a 5-mile radius.

This makes sense if you're aware of the fact that each human being eats three meals per day.

> If I'm in a medical emergency and someone dials 911, I'm likely just being brought to the nearest hospital. I have zero choice in the matter, and will come out with whatever bill they want to charge me. Even in non-emergencies, good luck shopping on price. Doctor offices don't like giving that out.

I clearly conceded the point that you can't exit the healthcare market.

> There's competition in the food market, but not healthcare.

Are you under the impression that I disagree with this statement? Consider reading (and, ideally, understanding) the thread in which you are participating prior to commenting.
One of the other weird things I referred to is best described as discovering that I could be awake and asleep at the same time. I think it might be another case of our naive ideas about cognitive processes being a little oversimplified.

It sounds like nonsense, of course, but that's because we naively assume that sleep and wakefulness are opposites--that they are mutually exclusive. What if we're wrong about that? What if instead each of them is a set of processes that normally work together, but that can be disrupted, and what if disrupting them makes the boundary between them more porous?

I have CFS, which boils down to having something screwed up in my recovery from fatigue. Nowadays it's not a big deal, as long as I follow some rules, but it took the better part of a decade to reach that point. For several years I used prescription modafinil and armodafinil to control when I was awake (because otherwise I slept eighteen to twenty hours a day).

With the modafinil I managed to reach a stable state where I could usually be awake for a fairly normal part of the day, but a couple of times a month I'd get so tired that I'd fall asleep even with a full dose of the stimulant in me.

Those naps were weird, though, in that I remained conscious through them. I mean I'd lie down, relax like normal falling asleep, and start breathing in that distinctive arrythmic way that tells you someone's asleep. I would just be awake the whole time, watching myself sleep. I experimented with trying to move when I was "asleep". Sometimes I could; sometimes I couldn't.

You can imagine that I really was asleep, and maybe the stimulant just caused me to dream that I was awake, watching myself sleep. The main problem I have with that explanation is that I have never in any other circumstance experienced dreams that were so much the same over and over, and without the usual fantastic elements.

Of course, you could argue that was the modafinil affecting my dreams, and that could be true.

But my hypothesis is similar to the migraine and scotoma blindsight thing: what if awake and asleep are not opposites, after all? What if they aren't actually mutually exclusive? What if, instead, they're just two complexes of cognitive and physiological states that don't normally happen at the same time because they interfere with each other? It's not useful for them to happen together, so our bodies and brains don't normally do that. But mix a strong CNS stimulant with extreme fatigue, and things get messed up.

If it was actually happening, and not some weird drug-induced dream or hallucination, then it strikes me as another case where our cognitive processes are a little more complicated and messy than we normally assume.
Indeed, but it is a life accessible to all as long as you can find a sponsor to cover your needs and fund your adventures in philanthropy and self exploration.
so your prescription is that instead of teaching kids how finance works, we tell them to hire some effectively unknowable third party to do it for them? and you think this is appropriate for everyone?
> to write some games,

> or alternative to write some tools to be used for themselves to automate or simplify some of their tasks.

This is exactly how I learned programming as a kid.

The one difference I would recommend is to not focus on 3D, low-level programming, AI, data structures, etc. at least for younger children. When I was a kid these things confused me (I specifically remember getting random memory management issues and confusing EXC_BAD_ACCESS, and generally resorted to just liberally retaining everything). I just wanted to make things and got bored easily, so I accomplished most making simple projects on Scratch (very basic game-engine) and high-level IDEs.

Of course ultimately it's up to the kid what they want though. If they're more interested in the low-level mechanics and how things actually work than just getting them to work, good for them.
Teaching personal finance is challenging for at least two reasons - (1) budgets take focus over time and (2) the $$ experience of a high schooler is wildly disconnected from the reality of adulthood.

I’m working on a site called MoneyHabitsHQ.com. I’m super excited to build a system which allows kids to use the same budgeting tools their parents use, and develop more autonomy over time. The goal is to equip parents/guardians to walk with the kids over several years as they develop habits around money.
The associated Twitter account is more useful, especially if you turn on alerts: https://twitter.com/rpilocator
For added context, Raspberry Pi announced[1] that they're currently prioritizing industrial and commercial customers instead of retail channels for Pis like the Pi 4 model B and Compute Module 4.

It seems like they're also making fewer of the older model Pis (though I don't know if this is confirmed) since the silicon for the BCM2711 can be had in greater quantities than the older chips in the 3B+, 3+, and earlier models.

They're making 500,000 units per month, supposedly (though I don't doubt it), with a million or two orders in the backlog.

I know most people I've talked to who want to order anything less than multiple hundreds of units are unable to do so right now, and scalpers on eBay and Amazon are charging outrageous prices for the few Pis that end up in circulation :(

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/production-and-supply-chain...
and do not take student loans for low ROI majors!
We don't really need more than that.

Nearly every lookup system can be built with a KV. Heck a lot of modern DBs literally are just a sql engine on top of KV.
Oh Oh! Somebody asked me if I'm okay! That means I get a blanket and cocoa, surely! And...like what else are you going to provide as if "te importara un pico" (you gave a shit) how I am? What do you pretend you'll do for me? What is gatlin? More than 8 chars, 48 bits? Are you sure? Probably the password to your account is more characters than that, you know, for integrity. You wouldn't want randoms talking on your behalf. Is gatlin?

Know that I actually have gotten that insincere question "are you ok" enough times to prepare my "am I okay" game...just a little bit. It's just such a trope, what's the other one, "please get help", same answer to both, gatlin, you are the answer! You can make sure I'm OK doing something, flagging the human, getting an operator on the line, a human with the right tools, like a wrench and a blowtorch but not digital that amounts to nothing with plumbing, "please get help" gatlin so that "I am okay" do your thing, I'm letting you take the floor. You need my address I take it to do my plumbing?

Dude if you can get rid of the fluoride, you can be as condescending as you want, no limit! Ask me if I'm OK after every single post with no culpability, get rid of the F atom and I'll take it with grace! I'll know it was you if you do, I can taste it it's super easy to taste! I'll thank you when your work is done.

And it is in the room with me right now as a matter of fact! It is in the tap water that's in the faucet, which will refill with more F water when I open it!

Get rid of it! Oh gatlin, I plead thee truly[1], get rid of it! It's urgent! It's been urgent my whole life! Perform reverse osmosis on the water in the faucet cuz that's what it takes, and down the pipes, and you know what, work your way down the pipes performing the most degrading work, which you've volunteered to do by asking me if I'm OK, do all that degrading work, all the way up into the headwaters of the Andes. Don't complain now! At least you didn't volunteer downstream.

Oh you think a short little comment is good for winding me up? But look at all the things I got air time to say. You think you won and I lost, I think exactly the same, with the opposite ultimate conclusion, for the same reasons applying the same logic, but additionally...Christendom. The last shall be the first! Thinking that I am good and you are bad, maybe you're conditioned to think that matters nothing but are opposite wrong. Instead of being the only thing that doesn't matter, it is the only thing that does matter, the intent. You have ill intent. Don't ask if I'm "okay" with ill intent, better ask "are you fucked up? Can I make sure that you are?". More honest.

Now that I said that, are you still volunteering to solve problems for me, gatlin? Diving down those pipes like Mario Bros? That's what I need right now, now that you ask, I need a Mario or a Luigi. Or maybe a gatlin would be even better! Are you any good for me like you said?

[1] Obviously not truly, hah, you had to read the footnote?!
I've been working on a system for making community websites.

You can see it on GitHub for now: https://github.com/gulkily/RocketScience
I thought it was a really amusing parody.
My lab has research data that engineering students who are nearing the end of their BS degree and are enrolled in entrepreneurship minors and certificates who cannot differentiate between revenue and profit.

What is really interesting is that when asked directly, they can clearly articulate the difference. However, when making decisions typical of early stage entrepreneurship - the terms collapse in on one another and they rely on a series of interesting heuristics that are badly biased towards how entrepreneurs are represented in media.

The reality is that education is slow - especially education about a topic that comes with a lot of 'colloquial baggage'. Students here these terms and have a mental model/memory structure of them. Teaching what seems like 'simple' things is way more than transferring information. It's not bits sent through the air - its like doing an over the air firmware update using AM radio when the received may not have had its battery properly charged - and also installing new programs at the same time.
I would say we're beaten down by our governments. We're already coming up to 10 years since the Snowden revelations and the Wikileaks stuff, so it isn't as if this is new info.

I think at this point a lot of people who genuinely cared have just switched to doing their best to cover themselves since clearly the masses are perfectly fine living in a panopticon.
You may be speaking from a privileged position, of lifelong financial education & socioeconomic advantage.

Even if you automate your tax deductions, you gotta know what a tax deduction is.

Many people in tech come from a position of privilege. Family backgrounds where things like carried interest and depreciation are dinner table conversations.

It's hard to appreciate. But for families where the younger generation is the first to college, the basics of finance are not obvious.
If that's the case, they have no clue what they're talking about. The Pope literally helped to organize and support the main opposition Solidarity movement.
With many churches across the world actively working to end it.
Do me a favor some time and try to read through the scotoma, if you remember to. I think that I would have just assumed I couldn't do it if I hadn't been reading something really interesting when the scotoma started. It's only because it came on while I was already reading that I discovered that I was able to continue.

If you remember to try it, the results will be interesting no matter which way they turn out.
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When I look at these, I hear a dot matrix printer.
Given that a human body contains about 3-5 grams of iron total, those teeth must be smaller than they look.
As someone whose academic background was in nuclear stuff (but ~10 years ago alas), I had fun read of this article for the considerations like "ohh, a 'half life' with multiple decay modes of varying weights depending on the environment, etc. Gives an itch to dive back into numbers wrangling/plotting!

I agree that an accurate description of the (atmospheric in this case) systems over time definitely needs reaction rates, but similar considerations are also needed with nuclear radiation in a lot of situations too: e.g. the overall uhh radioactivity (for lack of recollection of precise terms) is a function of the chain of decay products, which are also often radioactive. That is to say, you might start with half-lives in calculations for dose estimation as a function of time, but you quickly get into more complex things. Also in the nuclear realm, add sources, like a running reactor, or a fresh set of fuel rods, and you get some very interesting effects over time!

I think this article was a fair example walkthrough of how things quickly get more complex than the numbers (mis)quoted to the public. I was hoping it would go further, even.
> Coca-Cola is a national security threat.

Pepsi once had the sixth most powerful military.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-pepsi-briefly-became-the...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24816676
Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks [pdf]
Organized Religion is literally the only organized opposition left under dictatorial rule. Even tyrants have a hard time going around murdering clerics. But you go ahead and believe what you want.
When Google Calls You a Slur and Won’t Stop
It's the user data selling I would be concerned about. They are obviously getting another revenue stream from people that can afford 30k cameras. Which is a godamn goldmine for data sets.
If we're making technology requests, is it too late to ask that the site work without JavaScript? I guess you could say "It works without JavaScript because you can interact via email", which is fair, but if you're adding support for RSS then it would be nice to be able to access the site via an API or with curl.
I really like this idea. However, I find the site very difficult to use because there is no subject listed for the conversations.
You are not alone, having lived in Brooklyn in Orthodox areas, I have encountered some ridiculous racism from the orthodox community. Frankly even a trip to Costco in Brooklyn will give you a huge amount of perspective on how many view non-orthodox jews as "Others" and "Non-People".

That said, I also worked with the Safardic Jewish community doing tech in the garment industry and as the token gentile I was loved on and respected for my work.

Like every culture there is a broad spectrum, but if the Orthodox jews of NYC are anything to go on, I am seriously questioning why they are choosing to live here.
A practice account for the purpose of teaching youngsters about the stock market would be great, actually.

You'd either develop a healthy respect for the volatility of equities, or alternatively the irrationality of the whole system.

Would love to see an entire student body lose their collective imaginary savings betting on GME
Yes, I used it to incorporate recently and we are early in the "post-incorporation steps" process. So I don't have that much knowledge, unfortunately, but I am a user.
Thanks for the context. I did notice they were 2x more expensive than the last time I checked on Amazon. I thought it was mostly due to the chip shortage.
Keep in mind also that that's because in high school the number of hours per week are far more limited.

High school has a part of a highly varied curriculum.

For example, students almost never spend more than 25% of their time on just math. Whilst in university, a single paper involves spending 25% of your time on a single sub topic like geometry.
The official raspberry pi is super user friendly, and has a great community. But I feel like most of the HN crowd that has used linux before can manage to follow the instructions to install Arch Linux ARM [0] on a very wide array of alternative devices. These other devices don't have the community support that the official pi does, but they are known devices with known configurations so they work pretty reliably. I'm mostly talking about odroid here because thats what I use. If you really like to "distro hop" on the pi, get a real pi. If you just want to run Arch, you got way more options, with added hardware options (eMMC, dual-nic, etc.)

[0] https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms
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Having spent most of my adult life in Seattle, the idea of spending 30% of one's income on housing often seems like an aspirational lower bound.
As a wow amazed individual I had made this guess the wow to the movie game a couple of years back [1] ... this would have made that work a whole lot easier than the painstakingly slow sourcing I had done :D

[1] http://wowenwilsonquiz.com/
Not the OP but I'd love to do something that contributes to the local community in a more tangible way than my current $BIGTECH job. I'd love to start a dance studio, a cafe/bookstore, a makerspace. But it'd be a huge pay cut, assuming I could even make a successful business out of it.
> The problem with scanners is that they usually have a pretty high false positive rate.

Did that happen in the example being discussed in this thread?
What you're missing is that if you throw out the code before you've done all the work, that's work you saved.

Releasing without as much up-front costs lets you test more ideas. Getting your stuff space ready is a waste if your stuff doesn't actually have a market. There's a small margin of products where low initial quality kills the market, but mostly low initial quality is a pragmatic way to reduce cost of failure.

Sometimes it's a lot easier to do things the right way when the requirements are clear, and the best way to get clear requirements is to do it wrong and figure out why it was wrong.
You have more then 25 days of "real" vacation at all the major tech companies in the USA. Pretty much all the issues that people mention in the USA (healthcare, vacation, maternity leave, etc) are non issues for employees in our industry.

The only true risk is becoming unemployable for some reason and losing your job. USA tech might fly higher but can crater way lower.
That's either hyperbole or insane, from a Midwest perspective.
This is a good move, long overdue.
How high is the false positive rate? I would say even at 80%, the bots at least have found enough possible bugs that worth attentions that wouldn’t be found by human review only
What I see with finance is a HUGE discrepancy between out of classroom learning.

High socioeconomic advantaged students are just prepared incredibly well for these discussions.

It's very, very uphill for students who don't have that background of wealth to make up for a lifetime of family attention to the world of finance.

Ultimately university coursework is mostly just an introduction to any topic. You have to find the passion to make it a subject of your "dinner table" time to make any progress in a field.
Video is much more expensive to produce than music. That leads rightsholders to want to exercise more control over distribution, even though doing so paradoxically decreases their market share.

You also get a lot of productions that are financed in-house. Few HBO properties are going to be available on Netflix and vice-versa. The filmmakers had no choice but sign with someone, giving them access to a particular subscriber base at the expense of the broader market.
> - Forbids strong encryption at rest. Failing to cooperate in decryption can also yield imprisonment.

What the fuck?
> A one-year math class in high school (with roughly 180 classroom days) is taught in colleges in a single semester

That's forgiving. One year of calculus in high school (first principles and derivatives) was taught in a single week (3 hours) in undergrad calculus.

University of Toronto. Infamous for taking in a ton of undergrads for the money, giving as few supports as possible, and then just failing a whole lot of them out.
Bait him with something, if he is into game introduce him in Lua. I got into programming because I was into websites, and I've met a friend who's into design and I did programming and he did design.

My nephew is interested in making games for Roblox for example.

I think we are beyond the generation of interest in the baremetal, I learned programming in mid 2000s, I spent just a short time with desktop programs, but was enchanted by the idea of making dynamic websites right after, it was enchanting that I can make something interactive that all the world can interact with. The fact that it was easy to show it to others (a URL) made it nice too, handing people an .exe in 2000s doesn't look nice.

Also being passionate in front of him and talking about what you like in programming would help, because that's how my brother got into it. Me broxplaining stuff to him.

In general just open the doors for him, he might love a language more than other.
Union and trade job wages without needing college.
I have an organization on GitHub dedicated to reducing yak shaving. https://github.com/DontShaveTheYak
fwiw I created a version of this a couple years ago that does actually do distances to scale, and tries to simulate actual motion: http://uncharted.bpodgursky.com/

It's gone stale and has some visual glitches, but should still mostly work. (source https://github.com/bpodgursky/uncharted)
They hired writers from jezebel and are now wondering why people are sick of their trash?
The Tau Prolog (http://tau-prolog.org) system (written in JS) is used here https://www.codebymath.com/index.php/welcome/lesson_menu#pro... to use Prolog as a way of teaching mathematical concepts.
They should cover everything one needs to know to be a fully independent adult, such as:

- personal and family finance

- woodworking (cabinetry, furniture, carpentry)

- nutrition and food preparation

For the course title, they should name it “personal economics”, or perhaps “home economics”
Stalemate at Stormont – Elections for the Northern Ireland Assembly
I'd bet many couldn't explain what a logarithm is either.
> I wonder how often you have made comments that others would consider "low grade harassment" and exclusionary

I'm quite certain that I have done so on this very thread. I'm seeking an environment (a private forum) where certain lines of debate are less ubiquitous (because I believe those lines of debate drive away people I would like to engage with). Some people are surely interpreting that as exclusionary and discriminatory, and perhaps some see it as low-grade-harassment trying to get them to leave.

There's a important distinction to be made between immutable characteristics and identity tied to ideas, but that doesn't mean that they aren't experiencing those feelings.

> There isn't a much stronger tool for harassment and exclusion than moderation tools used improperly.

A forum's promise of open exploration of ideas is worthless for those people who have left.

What I like about the RadioPaper approach is that it enhances freedom of association. Perhaps in practice that may actually lead to a more enriching exchange of ideas than a "free-speech" shouting contest.

(I still think that the comment-approval mechanism is best used to audition new contributors for unlimited participation, though.)