skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Home schooling is a real burden on many parents who aren't professional teachers of course and are pulled in many directions.

One of the most exciting emerging trends in home schooling is to pool the resources of multiple home schooling parents.

It's simply not practical for parents to commit all the hours needed for full time home schooling 9 till 3:30PM every day. So home schooling parents can team up and share the load a little bit. This means the kids gather together at one parents house because many kids can learn from the person doing the teaching. "Grouped home schooling" also solves the usual criticism of home schooling which is the lack of social contact between kids.

Often as well it makes sense for the parents all to contribute a little money so that instead of the parents having to teach things that they are not expert in, the can pay as a group for someone with subject expertise to assist.

It can be problematic though gathering so many kids into one house for group home schooling, so another exciting development in modern home schooling is when a location is found somewhere in the community for it to happen. Often there's a room available at the church. Alternatively, if the parents pool an amount of money each then such a location can be leased long term and can be set up with desks and chairs for the kids to sit at.

When you combine all these forward looking advances in home schooling you can see that home schooling has come a long way since the 1970's when kids sat at the kitchen table with mum teaching the lessons.

Exciting times for home schooling!
Maybe, but the cost accounting is already a nightmare.
There's a lot of generalization from a single sample here:

> The world of single-child parenting, at least in my experience, was a doting dance. A universe where our child became the sole moon, and around him, our world orbited. ...when everything is handed over without a slight struggle or effort, it becomes the expected norm....[with multiple kids] Gone were the days of extravagant games and toys. In their place, the charm of simple play, conversations, and basic fun thrived.

A single child need not be a helicoptered princess/prince. That's a cultural or personal choice on the part of the parents. They can just as well grow up to be a happy, well adjusted adult experienced in both love and challenges.
Be waiting all day for 5:15
Doesn't AWS have its own infrastructure? Why would they run on top of other hosting providers?
Personally I go to Scotland, or sometimes Wales.

Though even within England, the population is highly concentrated in the South East, so the South West and North East have a lot of relatively sparsely populated areas.
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“The underlying concern is that we are walking towards a bloodbath in lab-grown diamonds,” said Richard Chetwode, managing director of RCC Diamond Consultants.
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That's.. quite a choice of words.
If that's ok then you really aren't much different and may be a good match.
well, one of the big benefits is that i don't have to set up all this in order to get the functionality, because fish provides it out of the box.
My brother and I were homeschooled after a point, but it had nothing to do with this. We followed the same curriculum and wrote the same exams at the end of grade 12. We scored well above average and had no trouble getting into university. I was on the Dean’s list at university and my brother scored in the 97th percentile on the SATs.
I would but I'm trying to cutdown on attention stealing devices.

It's ironic that you are trying to steal focus in order to tell others about how their focus has been stolen.
Horrors are written on the maps of Russia
Huh. You inspired me to finally get around to installing a local Midjourney-like[0], and, yeah, what do you know - the first result I got from those prompts _without_ the `-amputee` negative prompt was this horrifying (though SFW, despite what Imgur claims) monstrosity[1]

[0] https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui

[1] https://imgur.com/a/bMp5aAB
I pay far less for AWS than I ever did for the providers in this article. Clearly YMMV depending on your workload and also how well you optimise for a cloud providers strengths. Hence making broad statements is unhelpful. There's a place for AWS/GC/Azure, and also for the likes of Vultr/Do and also for rolling your own. It all depends on what you need to achieve. There's no one size fits all.
All future discoveries will be relative to the world’s knowledge of the time.

I’d imagine future civilizations will have access to enough knowledge to take the threat of nuclear waste seriously.

We take the Egyptian warnings as seriously as we take the Egyptian’s understanding of the workings of the world at the time.
I remember those days. Particularly, I remember how those 1970s and 1980s Fed choices gave us 19% home interest rates.
>This means the kids gather together in one location because many kids can learn from the person doing the teaching.

>Often as well it makes sense for the parents all to contribute a little money so that instead of the parents having to teach things that they are not expert in, the can pay as a group for someone with subject expertise to assist.

>It can be problematic though gathering so many kids into one house for group home schooling, so another exciting development in modern home schooling is when a location is found somewhere in the community for it to happen. Again, if the parents pool an amount of money each then such a location can be leased long term and can be set up with desks and chairs for the kids to sit at.

This is tongue in cheek I presume, as it's sounding just like a regular school.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Trigonometrical_Survey
Well, status.slack.com says they're currently having an outage, that has been ongoing for multiple days.
I probably tried most of these static sites generators, and so far the best feature-rich one is zola, and currently using it for my site and blog.

https://www.getzola.org/
Yes, but it’s fun :-)
When you don't pickup people stop expecting you to. Set your own expectations.
Reminder that Johann Hari has been guilty in the past of plagiarism, fabricating stories, and maliciously editing the Wikipedia pages of his critics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari

Stolen Focus, like his other works, has been criticized for failing to cite evidence for some of its claims and for misrepresenting scientific studies.

That doesn't mean he doesn't have valid points about the attention economy, but I think we should have a healthy skepticism.
You have to pulverize the macro into syntax atoms and then reassemble it piece by piece into an AST that the compiler needs. All the processing to do all of that should be a part of the compiler--not a smattering of 50 crates (syn being the most oppressive one) and a weak compiler API.

Serde has to enumerate the universe even for types that wind up not used. Those types then need to be discarded--which is problematic if it takes a non-trivial amount of time to enumerate or construct them (say: by using proc macros). Part of this is the specification that must be done because Rust can't do compile-time reflection/introspection part of which is blocked because of the way Rust resolves types--different versions of crates wind up with different types even if the structures are structurally identical because Rust can't do compile time reflection and relies on things like the Orphan rule.

I am not saying that any of these things are easy. They are in fact hard. However, without solving them, Rust compilation times will always be garbage.

I'm beginning to think that the folks who claimed that compiler speed is the single most important design criterion were right. It seems like you can't go back and retrofit "faster compiler time" afterward.
Shoulda just put the symbol of ligma
Homeschooling is, to a first approximation, the most individualistic approach to a child's education possible.

If your goal is to instill values of mutual cooperation, a sense of obligation, etc. in a pluralistic society, I'd think that you'd want to send them to a public school in a large city. That's what the last ~200 years of American immigrants and children of immigrants have more or less done.
That sounds pretty accurate for most of the country which isn't in an ultra high COL area.[0] One doesn't "just" take public transit to a city center from most of America.

[0] Which can be fairly accurately described as regions within an acceptable commute of the aforementioned centers. (Or non city job centers a la silicon valley).
> Atlanta Public Schools (my local district) spends $22k per student

If you homeschool, do you get that money back to spend on education?
> The way to solve this is societal change, not tweaking around the edges with your behaviour.

A single person can't change a society, but a single person can talk to 1-2 dozen people and maybe get 1-2 more people to talk to 1-2 dozen more.
Caching needs to be brought to the ecosystem rather than point non-solutions. While sccache is a partial solution available now from the outside, the toolchain needs adjustment internally to deduplicate work.
What is an IDE? As someone who worked on IDEs approx between 2003 and 2014 (I did not like the market afterwards, commercial IDEs I basically impossible now unless you are legacy, like JetBrains).

What is an IDE? Personally, I consider IDE an integrated suite of source editor, visual debugger, build system. E.g. I put a breakpoint, push a button, it builds, runs and hits a breakpoint. Other tools (SCM integration, profiler integration, design tools) are an add-on.

So, is Bash an IDE? I think pretty much every modern editor allows setting up macros so it is possible to trigger build/run GDB from within the editor. Does author have an issue with Vim, Emacs and Sublime? What is the difference between Sublime and VSCode?

I started working after the collapse of RAD (rapid application development, think Delphi/VB) and model-driven tools (where you do UML and generate code from model). I am very strongly against those tools, don't think they can be done well. But those are category separate from IDE :) E.g. Rational Rose - could generate code from UML and parse the code to UML, but no code writing inside.

Another thing I take huge offence is people dumping on Eclipse. It was a revolutionary product that disrupted the space. It was blazingly fast compared to Java IDEs of the time (JBuilder, Visual Cafe and such) and had refactoring support comparable to IntelliJ (that was a paid product). It got destuffed at a critical junction (complete rearchitecture from Eclipse3 to E4) and saw crappy plugins (and Java really lost popularity since). But it was an amazing product 24 years ago.
> The nations of today where this process of state centralization did not occur, or occurred under coercion from colonial powers are much worse off.

You're dropping these opinions as if they are facts.
Office on macOS still has a menubar. I think some of the options are only in the ribbon, but it's there.
Thanks! I did that and all is good now
Hotels are a limited option. They are perfect for a single couple, or with one or two kids.

For a single person they tend to be a bit expensive since you usually pay the price for two, and hostels, which can accommodate single travelers are not common in the US. But there are plenty of shared AirBnBs.

If, on the opposite you are traveling in a larger group (4+ adults), hotel options are again limited. You often need to split the group into distinct rooms, which is not the most friendly.

For business travel, hotels all the way, but for vacation, AirBnB often had the best options for my situation (single, traveling alone or with a group of friends) in several countries including the US.
And, to be clear, I'm not saying there aren't legitimate reasons to home-school nor that it can't be done well.

Heck, I'd even say that after essential skills like reading are mastered, homeschooling can lead to great results.

A lot of that depends on the motivation (or lack thereof) of the parents.
If you’re willing to share, I’m curious to hear what changed your mind about homeschooling and what made you choose to homeschool your kids.
I get captchas in a loop from archive.ph, what’s the deal?
Knowing this makes me perplexed whenever someone treats geocentrists as idiots. Sometimes science really can get only as far as our "eyes" can see.
The study used 1mg/kg, a dose if used in humans is 10-100x higher than typical supplement dosage. NIH studies found high melatonin supplementation increases cognitive problems (and probably make you groggy throughout the day). Caution warranted.
Sounds like a private school.
I have no idea why biologists lie about the telomeres so much, it's the cause for natural death.
I'm not complaining that it's not curated, specifically because it's exclusively a source code package directory. Auditing source code for safety is hard, doing so with a binary is much harder.
That’s not entirely fair. That’s run time cost but not the same cost to information ratio and the cost of drawing from that pool.

Given a laptop is at 30W how much can a laptop do disconnected from the internet? Now how much can it do with the internet? Now how much information does the internet cost in terms of wattage? Now what’s the ratio?
There's something that never sits right with me with the constant status-anxiety go above and beyond, nothing is ever enough hustle/schmooze culture. Part of me thinks "hmm well that's how the most successful/high status people in society do it/favor so it must be the way things ought to be", but who knows. To me, it seems to maximize for the appearance of competence and relative importance, and thus favors political/aggressively social types over anyone with a reasonable desire for work life balance, and not just because they have the audacity to demand time to themselves, but giving your body/mind time to rest improves the quality of your work.
I think my brain inserted “carp” in place of “catfish”. I too have put in some hours with Breath of the Wild
Screaming Architecture (2011)
We homeschool our four children, are religious, most of our friends homeschool, and this is nonsense.

We love the schedule flexibility of homeschooling, the ability to let our kids explore their own interests more, and most of all - we just love being with our kids and they get to have their siblings and parents all day.

> That's because teaching kids is super hard and real easy to mess up.

Forgive me, but this is just absurd.
It's almost SepTandy... good way to kick the month off.
Apples and oranges. Go doesn't care about release or dev builds. Nothing about it applies here.

Rust needs specific toolchain improvements to cache partial compilations for reuse. sccache can cache some results, but it's not a comprehensive solution.

What specific proposal would replace serde? I'd like to know.
Can’t wait for 12:51 (The Strokes)
Where do you buy SK Hynix from?
if there weren't
Unless the sun was VERY close, the actual distance doesn't matter. What matters is that the sun (or a star, or whatever you use as a reference) is so far away that there is no practical difference between "far away" and "even further".

For practical purposes, we treat the sun as being an infinite distance away, and the error caused by it being ONLY 93,000,000 miles away is much smaller than Eratosthenes could measure :)

It's similar to drawing perspectives, you draw perspective lines to join at the distant horizon. You don't care how far to the distance horizon.

(Those ancient Greeks had amazing understanding of geometry. Much better than most of us.)
Ask HN: With FAANG turnover-why don't we know about actual recommendation algos?
Recommendation algorithms of Facebook, Google, YouTube are still a black box to us. We don't know what exact features are the input, how much are they weighted and so on.

But the turnover of software engineers is quite substantial, they come and go from these companies. How is it even possible to keep this stuff secret, then?

For most folks outside of the above companies I can understand why know-how would be kept secret after people are gone from the employer: it's quite boring and of little interest to anyone, really. No benefit or thrill if you divulge anything.
The problem is not that you are wrong. You are, in fact, correct. The problem is that there are only two possible solutions:

1. The human race adapts to disinformation. This probably takes a generation or two.

2. We hand over the greatest instrument for tyranny to either the government or large corporations.

The first solution isn’t fun. But it is the only reasonable choice.
How do you describe a story without a beginning or end?
Maybe there's loopholes in curses.

Like you just send your unwitting child in. Or a slave or prisoner.

I don't know, I never read one myself.
I think it also depends on the kids. After about grade 4 my parents were mostly hands off with our schooling. We followed the program and phoned or emailed the teacher when we had questions. Our parents just made sure we were working. My mom helped us with our grammar and spelling. Some years we had trouble with that and got behind and had to work through the summer holidays.

Buy some kids just won’t work if you’re not right behind them every day making sure they work. Others would struggle with direction in that kind of environment.

My brother tried to homeschool his kids, but it didn’t work out.
It feels that there are fundamental political and cultural issues with English speaking countries (common law?).
I know a guy that contracts with NASA via CSIRO here in Australia. I imagine there's probably similar things going on with European research orgs
sdl2 for the graphic. Interesting.
But I'm certain having the foxes guarding the hen house is a terrible idea.
It's funny because these are running just fine in other cities.

And for all they've driven, there's been what? One fatality from someone who literally walked in front of a car.

Compared to how many fatalities there are from human drivers, that seems a lot lower.
Is there a way to see what songs it has for a specific time?
No different than this guardian article stealing focus to do the same with a book launch!
Yeah, SMIs are exactly the kind of very slow NMI I had in mind.
Which excellent ideas does it have that other languages can't replicate?
> Homeschooling is, to a first approximation, the most individualistic approach to a child's education possible.

In a superficial way, sure. The dominant American culture is intensely individualist. So if you don’t want your kids to grow up that way, you need to buck conformity in that narrow sense.

> If your goal is to instill values of mutual cooperation, a sense of obligation, etc. in a pluralistic society, I'd think that you'd want to send them to a public school in a large city.

The prevailing culture in large city public schools turns those ideas on their head. The focus is on individual self-actualization, and questioning authority, hierarchy, elders, and norms. It’s about what society owes individuals (“rights”) instead of what individuals owe society. There’s a veneer of cooperation and obligation, but it’s framed in terms of what “privileged” (whites, the rich) owe everyone else, not what each individual owes society.
Then make a simulation on a computer of a single cell dividing and assembling into a form.
Good luck.

Hand-wavey comments such as yours evidence a profound lack of appreciation for what such videos signify.
Vehicle load will also affect charge loss on flat ground. The entire graph would need to be updated for a different vehicle or load setup.

I was simply stating that it is possible to update a graph with negative edges into one with only positive edges in O(E) preprocessing time for this usecase.
Might be worth exploring linear ASTs with relative pointers which size could be truncated along with N-byte alignments
Maybe not essential but it'll come in handy: a laser printer. The world isn't quite as paperless yet as some young folks think.
I'm not sure how anything you said refutes what I said.

Can you clarify?
That would be a really cool addition. GPT seems less good at writing BASIC code, than other modern languages though. I think since GPT mostly crawls online sources there was less training material put online overall. :)
Well, duh? And nobody out of the thousands engineers would be tempted to break it, if they could get away with it?

That's my point, really. FAANG employs a ridiculous number of SW folks for outliers to be quite expected. As a reminder, we had Snowden in NSA who at that time was estimated to have a headcount of 20k or so.
> My main issue with homeschooling is mostly around the fact that it's generally done so parents can control and limit children's access to well accepted facts (such as evolution, age of the earth, or dinosaurs).

What is the problem with that? I am not aware of anything in the daily life that is dependent on the existence of macroevolution, the age of earth, or the history of dinosaurs.

So, I really deeply from my heart have a stance of "live and let live" concerning these topics. I might love science, but I am not a missionary or even an inquisitor for the "scientific truth".
The theory of "revolt" isn't about workers for whom remote work is an option per se, it's about jobs/roles that could be remote but employers are dictating otherwise. Covid exposed that flexibility is possible but employers are now insisting otherwise. The friction from that disconnect certain has the potential to trigger pushback.
This computer only physically has 48k. That’s after upgrading. The base model has 16k as far as I understand how it came from RadioShack.
I can't recall a single instance that this would not be applicable to growing up home schooled. Sample size of dozens of families. Seemed to be roughly the case to teenage me at the regional "events" as well. Could of course be my personal bubble.

Very few would admit such in public, but social and moral reasons were the overwhelming cause for most to home school. Education was an extreme secondary priority to the point of being not one at all in some families. Some kept the kids out of school to literally put them to work.

The sequestering from society is usually the point - for better or worse. This attracts the exact type of people you would expect it to.

Perhaps the situation is different 20 years later but based on my continued exposure to the "scene" I doubt it. I'd be amazed if the majority of folks are not engaging in home schooling for what amounts to religious reasons - however we want to define religion these days.
That’s how it looks on the books but it has to be part of compensation - it’s booked that way in the GL with the company paying for the shares as incentive out of earnings. Employees in these kinds of business just aren’t going to be buying stock in the company they work for.
We like to rebrand things in 2023. Trailers and campers are now tiny homes. Pressure cookers are instant pots. Convection ovens are air fryers.

NIH syndrome?
The Starbucks lids are awesome, we should use them everywhere
There are a whole lot more human driven vehicles on the streets than autonomous.

For how small these autonomous fleets are we shouldn't be hearing about any such events if they were actually superior to human drivers. This tech clearly isn't ready, and the cities they're operating in are being used as training grounds while putting everyone there at risk.
One of the most used platforms nowadays is Java.

Java libraries are distributed as binary bytecode blobs. They can also include native libraries, which usually are extracted to /tmp and dynamically loaded into the process. The security of this approach is questionable, if you ask me, however that's the way things were for the long time and that's the way things will be for the long time.

I think that striving for better security is a noble goal, but if that prevents usability, security should step aside, when the world around is not as secure anyway.
>I'm wondering why there are no such buses where you live?

Because the residents of his city overwhemlingly prefer cars.