skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have children, and I have a day job that would prevent me from overseeing significant home-schooling. But I often daydream about what the ideal home schooling curriculum would be. I have a lot of it planned out. If I had the money or the right flex WFH schedule, I would absolutely home-school my children. It would be something where they satisfy the standard curriculum, and do mostly self-directed learning into college subjects starting around middle school age.

I think homeschooling is probably the right thing for gifted children. As long as each subject can be attended to properly, and the kid is kept on a discipline of doing enough work.

For areas like SV / The Peninsula I think there need to be homeschooling Co-Ops. I don't mean Charter Schools, just parents collectively could come together to supervise self-directed homeschooling. I would want such a group to only perform: 1) sharing constructed curricula 2) Administrating standardized tests 3) Perhaps organizing socialization for the children. Anything more doesn't scale well IMO.

There are a lot of crappy private schools that do alternative learning. I looked into a lot of them when I was grade school. If I could afford 100% focus I would involve less groups and rely more on educating my kid solo / I'd frankly rather not involve any of the inevitable politics, misalignments, and mediocrity that would come from most groups.

I was a GATE kid for a little while in CA and a similar program in another state. Ultimately most learning was self-directed though. If the kid is smart, they just need to be set free (given the time) to study on their own, and guided by parents to do that instead of being distracted by all of the normal things which distract kids (and adults).

I also used to live in Menlo Park. Another city with lots of smart folks.
With the old paper tickets there wasn’t a time limit for how long it took to complete a journey, and with careful use of multiple tickets you could travel between sf and east bay and never pay more than the minimum fare. The excursion fare was the only thing stopping you riding for free, I wonder if the excursion fare was a last minute hack to close out a potential exploit.
It was superseded by MPV https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv.
indeed 'rule of 0' made many idioms go away. just use the standard containers along with smart-pointers for 99% use cases and your c++ life suddenly becomes 99% easier, those come with RAII for free.
I mean, the volume is absolutely an issue but it looks like they failed to configure DKIM/DMARC/SPF and this is a lazy policy end run around a gap in technical knowledge. I'm not surprised, but it is a bit amusing.
It's not a given that the water flows that are required to cool the reactors are going to be present in the fall/winter.
For those looking for a powerful task runners that feel like a makefile, please take a look at Run:

https://github.com/TekWizely/run

It's better a managing and invoking tasks and generates help text from comments.
Your point about plugins is valid, but I believe a good middleground is having the plugins in core, but disabling them by default. Having an interface to enable particular plugins or plugin groups would be useful in this scenario too.

I thought about contributing to asdf, but unfortunately many of my pain points are deeply integrated within the design and architecture of the code itself. For example, since there is a lot of code duplication within plugins, it would be good to create a "plugin API" (I think that has recently been proposed). But that would be very time consuming to implement not just because of the already-existing code, but also because essentially every plugin is its own separate repository, usually maintained by different people. So I'd think it's not too hard to imagine how difficult making broad improvements or changes will be.

There's also the fact that writing (decently) fast and cross-platform Bash codes necessitates an essentially orthogonal coding style, which would be at odds with asdf's coding style. Even though the `REPLY` and `$()` is probably 80% of it, I would also like to take advantage of my `bash-core` and `bash-term` Bash libraries, which really wouldn't be possible in asdf (implementation-wise, that would necessitate the use of my Bash package manager)
Learning to "proof" steel is something worth spending time on.

I was taught by a Chinese room-mate at college who showed me
how to prepare a wok.

- 1. Heat the thing up as HIGH as it will go, till parts of the base
glow red if you can. Gas is better than electric heat.

- 2. splash a little vegetable oil in and swill it around to cover
all the surface. It may ignite, ignore the short lived flames, but
brush it around with a paper towel so that the carbonised film covers
the surface with a black layer.

- 3. Add some fine salt. Use the paper towel to rub it around until a
shiny and slightly bluish and rainbow colour carbon later coats the
surface.

This will be as good as any teflon for a few cookings.
Ah, couldn't read the article because paywall, but that was my assumption. It's not the first time power plants, especially nuclear ones, have cooling water limitations during summer. Also, as should always be pounted out, gas is mainly used for heating and not electricity in Europe. So WSJ is now putting three, only indirectly linked or not at all related topics together to write an article about a speculative future that might or might not happen. That is some really top notch journalism right there.
Scripts in bin have no documentation, no easy way to enumerate them, etc. There is definitely a time and a place for bin scripts, especially as things grow in complexity. However the beauty of just is that there's one file (the justfile) that defines all of your project's actions. You don't have to go spelunking into bin to figure out how to tweak a compiler flag, etc. And since just will run anything there's no reason why your complex bin scripts can't just be called from a simple one liner task in a justfile.

Could your write a bash script that does stuff like enumerate all the bin scripts, pull out documentation comments, etc.? Absolutely, and people have followed that pattern for a while (see https://github.com/qrush/sub) but it's a bunch of boilerplate to copy between projects. Just pulls out that logic into a simpler config file.
On the one hand, the visceral reaction is "no, that sucks". On the other hand, that's 2 hours less work I need to worry about every week, which is better than nothing. So it entirely depends on how much work there is, and how much they're actually doing, since it's almost never actually zero. Someone doing 2 hours of work a week is not a drain, they are literally making other people have less work. A drain would create more work (which is certainly possible, but that's a different scenario).

My morale is determined by how much work I have to do, how supported I am by my bosses, and how much input I have on the work I'm doing. That's... really it. Unless someone else is causing me to have more work by being here, or making my job harder, or blocking my input, then I don't really care whether they're doing "as much work as me" or how much they're getting paid. And in that regard, firing them -- which would leave me with more work, as I'd have to pick up the work they were doing -- would lower my morale, not improve it.
> The complexity you are required to manage in order to push the limits of C++ makes doing so not worth it.

Sometimes the point is just having it possible. Sometimes I need to get that last bit of performance out of some code.

> (in particular, Lisp and Scheme-like languages

If your performance requirements are more in the scripted range then C++ will seem like overkill. I often use python for quick and dirty tools, however every other time I end up rewriting things in C++ because something that should finish almost instantly takes half an hour.
No, it makes you an accessory because you are mixing your traffic with criminals’ to help hide all of your activity. Everyone trying to hide criminal activity needs to use a mixer but only a small percentage of other users are going to pay for an optional service so the odds are worse that you’re more likely to attract attention to your transactions, too, just like you would if you were known to take home large quantities of cash from a mob-owned casino, too. Maybe you’re just a really good poker player but it’s more likely to make law enforcement curious than if you don’t.
1password. If you have business version employees also get free family plan.
You can still physically do it even if you’re not allowed to, yes.

(There’s at least one other situation where you might be authorized to use the emergency gates sans emergency: a few of the stations have the elevators to the platform outside the paid area for some bizarre reason, so when transiting the station by elevator you have to go through the fare gates and then immediately leave via the emergency exit to get to the train!)
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Seems like a lot of good advice, with one notable exception being induction kitchen appliances.
I've heard people advocate for _not_ rinsing toothpaste out of your mouth after brushing and while the premise seems sound (gives flouride more time to work) it just sounds nasty.
I think as categories, popular education material and more scholarly work are equally important (just look at Bret's citations...).

I think it is fair to say that the marginal value of one extra ACOUP sized blogpost of high quality popular education material is probably higher than one extra book, but that comes down to the relatively lack of high quality popular education material.
What could "features to facilitate crime" be in this particular case? Tornado is a simple contract with a singular purpose, to provide financial privacy for its users. It simply doesn't have any features that facilitate a more specific use case, be it money laundering, personal safety, or anything else.
Maybe they corrected it, but for me it says the opposite.

> Notably, VLC Media Player is not backed by a Chinese company. It is developed by VideoLAN, a Paris-based firm.
Interesting pitch: To conduct this kind of search & retrieve project for an object out in space would cost $1B+, so we'll look here on earth at this obvious outlier which government agencies have already stated they are confident has come from outside our solar system.

I mean it makes a certain type of probabilistic sense, and in multiple ways. If you fund this there's a better-than-lottery chance that you'll at least be part of something big, whether alien tech is in there or not...

BTW I'm planning to check out his podcast appearances, so here's a link for others who are interested. https://www.listennotes.com/top-podcasts/avi-loeb/
It's possible that it's an iron alloy. Which can be stronger than iron, and also magnetic.

But in regards to feasibility of such a project, I feel that 10km range is a major understatement. Think of the effort it took to find fragments of Malaysia Flight 370, even with a pretty narrow path. And that search was the most expensive search operation in history at $155MM [1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370#:....
I'm kind of missing all information in the article beyond the headline. The whole article is just padding the headline and only says there will be shortfalls in winter, but the current problem is the water not being enough for the reactors. What has that got to do with the situation in a couple weeks when there might have been rain, let alone two seasons from now?
Getting around Rust’s syntax is pretty much the whole battle.
So the only thing that has been confirmed is that it is a meteorite from outside of the solar system. Jumping to the conclusion that it is "possible alien tech" seems a liiiittle bit of a stretch.
They could check that you leave the station within 5 min
>I can't understand why you are upset at this man for keeping up the case for so long and not at Indian Railways for the same?

None of my criticism has been directed solely at the man, but at all three parties that let this happen. The Railways should have accepted their mistake at the time, the courts should have immediately thrown out or ruled on a case over a quarter, and the man should have accepted that sometimes small mistakes happen.

You seem to hold this as some hero fighting the good fight over corruption, and I don't see that position at all. Yes corruption is an issue, in India and elsewhere. This waste of time had nothing to do with it.
Some reports suggest that VLC Media Player has been blocked in the country because the platform was China-backed hacking group Cicada was using it for cyber attacks. Just a few months ago, security experts discovered that Cicada was using VLC Media Player to deploy a malicious malware loader as part of a long-running cyber attack campaign.
This is Avi's second questionable alien obsession/quest. Not sure if it is something mental, grift, or perfectly rational impulse to check out incredibly unlikely but incredibly amazing possibilities.
As these types of post often come around to make's sub-optimal use as general runner, I'd like to point out my project, Run:

https://github.com/TekWizely/run

It feels like a makefile but is optimized managing and invoking small tasks and wrappers, and auto-generates help text from comments.
I open PRs to facilitate discussion and get feedback.
The bias is strong in this one.
Whether or not the developers acted with criminal intent is of great importance, if not philosophically at least legally
WHAT!?! Mind blown!
National Ignition Facility record fusion yield shot
Disgusting? Get a grip.
that’s too bad he crashed
Scientists Dethrone Google’s Quantum Advantage Claim with Conventional Computer
3) People add so many people to the meetings that it's never ever possible to find the same free block and so a certain percentage of people get scheduled over.
Grandparent's comment mentions enameled cast iron ("ceramic/cast iron pans") which are nothing but colourful.

If I have to season it anyway I might as well not have an unknown oil that might 'usually' be grapeseed.
Fasting triggers autophagy, which can remove toxins and other harmful debris.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autophagy
Try to set your self some limits. Run your projects as real projects: with defined scope and limited resources (time).
Takeaways

Article: "It already has happened in 1862, and it probably has happened about five times per millennium before that. On human time scales, 100 or 200 years sounds like a long time. But these are fairly regular occurrences."

Wikipedia on 1862 flood: "The event dumped an equivalent of 10 feet (3.0 m) of rainfall in California, in the form of rain and snow, over a period of 43 days."

I'm surprised I haven't heard of it before.
It will probably bubble up for a while and crash again. Remember cryptocurrencies have no practical purpose. They are only worth something because of the expectation that a greater fool will show up later willing to buy at a higher price. But we also know that there's a limited supply of fools, so sooner or later the bubble has to pop. And this will go on and on until governments intervene. This is my prediction.
I like C a _lot_, just wish it has more well-established data structure and algorithm collection like c++'s STL library to speed up coding, also wish it had a better way to do RAII-like resource management. Someone please invent c+ that can reuse all existing c code and even some c++ code, but more capable than c, much simpler than c++.
Two possibly better links:
https://weatherwest.com/archives/16626
https://www.usgs.gov/programs/science-application-for-risk-r...

From a previous discussion on here, there were major floods in the Central valley in 1950. There is a USGS report here including some impressive pictures of the flooding despite the poor image quality. https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/wsp1137F

The flood was caused by a series of wet, warm storms without enough time for the watersheds to absorb the rain like the scenario described in the original link.
What other kind of alien material was found in meteorites?
There is expansion of the ban every time they add new types of "felons." The government has focused the past ~60 years years on greatly expanding who is a felon, and then enshrining that they do not have the same civil rights as others after serving their sentence.
To not bury the lead: His team studied data the government made available from military missile tracking systems, which conveniently also false-positives on asteroids. There was one in 2014 which slammed into the Pacific Ocean at a speed at least twice that of the speed stars around us move relative to the sun, which makes it likely to be extra-solar. Based on that speed & how much burned upon entry, they concluded its material must be tougher than iron. They're planning an expedition to the oceanic area around Papa New Guinea, mostly funded through private donations, to recover the object.
Being from Scandinavia myself I’ve also visited Southern Europe several times during winter, thinking I’ll get a boost of sunshine, and it’ll be like spring. But the 10 C inside gets me every damn time, because as soon as you stop moving and sit down, you start freezing over.

My own apartment is so heavily insulated that even in the winter, it’s almost to make the indoor temperature drop below 20!
My daughter invented amn't when she was 3 based on the rules that she understood.
Interesting, I'll have to look into that.
Anyone can, but realistically, it has probably been used almost exclusively for either laundering money or concealing the source of money used to purchase illegal goods. I can think of pretty much no cases where you would _need_ to convert your money to cryptocurrency, then conceal where it came from using a mixer, and then use it for something legal.

I'm not advocating for the developer to be prosecuted, I'm just saying in the eyes of the law, they probably won't see it in the way you are describing.
Imagine for a moment that you wanted to buy an NFT with legally purchased Ethereum from an exchange like Kraken or Coinbase, but you don’t want your friends to know you spent $2,000 on a jpeg. So instead of buying the NFT with your Coinbase wallet that is linked to your [ENS] name, you create a brand new, single-use wallet and use it to buy the jpeg. And instead of funding the single-use wallet from your recognizable wallet, you obfuscate the source with a mixing service.
Everyone is tacking on the word "inflation" these days to get clicks.
I'm not so sure it's ridiculous.

What is ridiculous is that users have no way of restricting what packages can run on a fine-grained level, at both build time and runtime.

We should fix that problem. If we do, then we could make computing a lot safer.

Disclaimer: I'm working on that problem.
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If only there was a way to express gigawatt-hours per hour in a simpler way.
At first blush, this reminds me of the phenomena where, every time some problem with evolution comes up (a missing piece in the fossil record, say), the creationists pop up with "See! Darwin was wrong!"

arxiv would be completely right to refuse those "take that, Darwin!" articles.

On the other hand, maybe there are serious problems with standard cosmology, and other models besides the Big Bang are worth considering. Are there?

On a different topic: I would hope that a paper questioning the existence of dark matter would be admissible, since there are pretty clearly some real problems with that.
This is only a good deal if you already subscribe to each component of the plan. Otherwise, you are better off buying the services piecemeal.
The problem is it doesn't make sense to treat protocols like companies. And it definitely doesn't make sense to treat protocol devs as if they were the executives of those companies.

If the state can arrest people and cause activity to stop, it makes sense in the way states think.

The approach of bitcoin and crypto process in general hasn't been to ask permission but aim for a protocol that states can't stop. Neither governments nor "society" "signed off" on crypto. People just started doing it with the principle "this is too distributed to stop". Well, if states can stop it, that approach failed, right?

Analogously when joint-stock corporations first entered the scene it required the development of whole new branches of Western law.

Limited-liability enterprises still aren't very popular. But these were legitimized by courts and legislation based on them provide (alleged) benefits. Crypto generally hasn't been legitimized by society, crypto advocates often act like they don't need such legitimization and by that token, the state has no obligation not to treat crypto activities as being within it's existing categories - especially it this work: they don't like money laundering and fraud through crypto and hey, a lot of people going to jail.
Except the law isn’t talking about the private key or the encryption or the math, it is talking about what they are using those things for.

You are focusing on the numbers themselves and the math, but that isn’t the important part. This would be like someone getting arrested for check fraud and then trying to argue, “they are just a bunch of lines on a paper in a certain format, how can that be a crime!”

The crime isn’t that arrangement of ink on the paper, the crime is using those lines on the paper to commit fraud. Same thing here, it isn’t the numbers or math that are criminal, it is using those numbers and math to commit crime.
Camouflage by Joe Haldeman is the sci fi book that springs to mind.
That argument is a bit of a straw-man though. Nobody is realistically claiming the Jews, or East Germans, or Soviet citizens, or Syrian citizens, could defeat their government with personal weapons.

The more reasonable version of the argument is that the unofficial purges, before the evil becomes fully embraced by the government (the Nazis), or where hidden and unofficial (the KGB), can be deterred by armed civilians. If you know the Stasi are coming to take you away in the night to certain death you'll be willing to fight, and if armed you have a real chance at inflicting casualties. And if every raid leads to dead troops and PR disasters the state is less likely going to get to the point where the terrorists adopt the mantle of government (Nazi Germany) and can then bring the sum total of state forces to bear.

tl;dr the argument is more about resisting unsanctioned or non-governmental terrorism so it doesn't become governmental.
Which why they rightly did not say "if and only if".
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I think I've seen this movie before; just don't let anybody touch the strange Sphere thing and you should be alright.

Seriously though, this doesn't make much sense to me. Finding shipwrecks even when you know they exist and what general area they should be in is hard enough. This sort of search is a huge money sink, the ships, towed sonars, etc all cost a ton of money to operate.
I probably should have specified that it was a novel usage within the startup space, not that that was where the term originated.
Smalltalk images were fine for one-person development of single programs. Not really very manageable for teams, and modular development though. Not that these things couldn't be done - we certainly did it at IBM, when SmallTalk was the "thing" there for a while - but it never was very satisfactory.

A lot of developers significantly younger than me seem to think that source code control was developed in the the last couple of decades, but in fact we did source code control, modular development, and build pipelines way back in the 70s - mostly with home built tools, but the capabilities began to be built out as soon as source code left card decks for permanent residence and in place modification on rotating storage. And SmallTalk was at best hostile to all those techniques.
Stable Diffusion: A Model to Rival DALL·E 2 with Fewer Restrictions