skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess we won't be making it to 25 o'clock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGF7o_I4mAw
Cutting a train track with an angle grinder isn’t the same as taking less than five seconds to put a traffic cone on a car.

It takes them 30 minutes in this video.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ISjDp5lL7_Q
It's not. It's Poe's law, in action.
He measured it in "stadia" and there was no consensus about exactly how long a stadion was. The definitions ranged widely, from ~150m to ~210m.

The low error assessment comes from magnanimously (but baselessly) choosing to use the definition of a stadion which assigns Eratosthenes the lowest error.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadion_(unit)
Railways are a little different - for the most part (except at level crossings) they are operating on dedicated rights-of-way, and someone has to go out of their way to interfere with them.

A car on a public street is mixing it up with everyone else, and the dividing line for what constitutes "messing with" them is not clear at all. What if I wear a shirt that confuses their algorithms? Shine a light that does it? Drive, bike, or walk in a pattern that does it?
> You get comfortable when you go from kindergarten to 12th grade with the same kids. You know them well, because you've been in classes with a lot of them for 6-7 hours / day, 5 days a week, 9 months a year.

Or you get to deeply hate these children ...
The defendant might have payed for her transportation and meals. Free vacation for some testimony sounds like a decent incentive.
Severance packages with claw back clauses that enforce the NDA. Break the NDA and risk paying back the severance plus legal costs. Isn't worth the risk.
The Commodore 64 doesn't come with a mere kernel, it comes with a mighty KERNAL

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

> The KERNAL was known as kernel[6] inside of Commodore since the PET days, but in 1980 Robert Russell misspelled the word as kernal in his notebooks. When Commodore technical writers Neil Harris and Andy Finkel collected Russell's notes and used them as the basis for the VIC-20 programmer's manual, the misspelling followed them along and stuck.[7]

> According to early Commodore myth, and reported by writer/programmer Jim Butterfield among others, the "word" KERNAL is an acronym (or, more likely, a backronym) standing for Keyboard Entry Read, Network, And Link, which in fact makes good sense considering its role. Berkeley Softworks later used it when naming the core routines of its GUI OS for 8-bit home computers: the GEOS KERNAL.
Out of all the things the government does, public education is a rare example of a positive externality.
See also: The Clock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clock_(2010_film)
"Top Ten Things That Make Bob Barker Angry" | Letterman, with Bob:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0b1In9RF7Y
Well if in 80% of enterprises engineers do not talk in open that good vs bad environment hardly matters.
My first thought here is: Damn, there is -so much- content out there. Not necessarily art or culture, just ... content.

Looking forward to, say, a TV show where every line of dialogue is the title of another TV show (you could actually produce this reasonably easily with AI, and it would be, I suppose, a neat publicity stunt; but I hope to God I haven't given anyone an idea).
The biggest problem with the setup you outlined is that the central government has no say in what is being taught to kids. So no matter how similar homeschooling will look to government-controlled schooling, people with power will never stop attacking it because of that crucial nuisance.
> If you want to give your kids money, just give them money.

Thanks to Medicaid clawback - I mean Look-Back - rules if you die too soon after giving your kids money, Medicaid will take it from them.
I was homeschooled and the anecdotal evidence is overwhelming.

Try finding adults who were homeschooled who speak fondly of the experience.
Bro really said 80s/90s NY. I'm aghast.

I mean there are people making it in Kabul, doesn't mean that anyone who complains about it is a pansy.
> Clearly, the rollout of human drivers isn't working and we should start blocking roads until the government bans them.

You have my full support for both this and cutting back on self-driving cars.
Problem: nobody wants what I'm selling.

Solution: do some market research and improve my stuff? Nah, just make all the alternatives illegal.

.

Also, um, "force people to be activists and help fix things" probably requires actually listening to those people. As opposed to doing things like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_School_Boards_Assoc...
Cloud flare dns maybe.
There is Hugo [1], what's the point?

[1] https://gohugo.io/
So simple! Just have a police car follow all the driverless cars around everywhere!
The twitter code (with whatever caveats) is publicly available. What's a concise summary of how their "algorithm" works?
Hmm. But why? Why do we need to have one system for everyone to make em into one acceptable mold. Why can't people pick on their own? Why is the idea that 'system is fucked so I might as well do what is best for my family' not an acceptable one?
It's far fetched but not impossible. Rio is already extremely dangerous compared to SF, with gangs committing mass robbery, home invasions, shootings, and kidnappings. More likely a much more benign gamification will ensue in the US: homeless people will learn they can extort money from passengers of self driving vehicles in exchange for not delaying them with cones, physically blocking them, or whatever. I'd look at it as karma or recompense from a society that doesn't meet the basic needs of all people.
> How dare these people, don't they know that real communism hasn't been tried?

I don't understand what this has to do with someone trying to escape China by jet ski. What does this add to the discussion?

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Actually I assumed AWS did it the same way as the others - I thought maybe they are in another building on a campus but I didn’t think that should be a factor in planning and that I should use regions for geographic redundancy anyway.
I'm not sure about even the synchrotron, most people have the very incorrect perception that a single electron is being circled around rather than a continuous beam. This is so far from reality where we're doing something like 600 million collisions / second that I question the value of the analogy entirely.

The concept of a single particle as a point charge that isn't really interacting with everything around it is similarly flawed. We learn from a very young age to conceptualize that as the building block of matter, and entanglement as something weird. Instead it's the other way around: a single particle with a pure (unentangled) wavefunction is pretty near statistically impossible.
Might help to replace

cat foo | $command

with

<foo $command

It's the same order, but I think $command can sniff what kind of file stdin is, and optimize.
Are you connecting over a VPN of some kind? Are you running some kind of anti-tracking fingerprint-resistant browser?
Leaves the question of how would they identify a person. I know that information in Apple is quite compartmentalized, but it's an outlier in the FAANG. Surely someone would be a fool to spill the beans just after they've left, but after a sufficiently long period...
It's close, but 3:33, 5:00, and 4:20 are the most popular. Every time is represented, but 6:31AM, 8:41AM, and 9:49AM have only one song.

Entire list: https://pudding.cool/projects/clocks/assets/songs.csv
I have 450 posts and about 300 more drafts with Jekyll.

In development it takes Jekyll 32 seconds[0] to do a full build and I've done my best to eliminate as many performance killing nested loops as possible. If I use --incremental it takes about 3 seconds, so my normal writing flow is to split my browser and code editor and I see real-time live reloaded feedback in 3 seconds.

It's pretty good, but some changes require a full build and waiting 30 seconds stinks. If I could snap my fingers and have a fully compatible Go solution that built it in 3 seconds all the time I'd switch without thinking.

Gojekyll isn't compatible with a few plugins I use and switching ~700 posts, a bunch of templates and a few custom plugins to Hugo isn't worth it for my use case.

On the other hand I'm locked into Jekyll 3.X because I can't get Jekyll-Assets to work with any other version so at some point I'll switch but I'm not looking forward to porting that many templates and posts. If it comes down to it I'd probably end up writing a custom tool to convert everything especially since I do custom'ish things with front matter like create a table of contents for each post. It'll require a bunch of string parsing.

[0]: This is on a 9 year old quad core i5 3.2ghz workstation with an SSD.
How are the scabbards so curvy? Is the blade simply very short?
K.

What I want is for kids to get the best education possible and to have as many opportunities as possible to further human knowledge.

You don't become a biologist if you think evolution is a hoax. Dinosaurs are simply cool as shit and I feel bad that kids are kept from them because of "Satan". And you'll have a hard time with geology or astrophysics if you are saddled with a belief in the young earth.

I certainly don't buy the "public education is indoctrinating our kids!!!" line. Do you really think teachers in red states like Idaho are trying to turn kids into communists?

What's telling is that's where you went in this discussion. All the sudden you think politics is involved because I thought illiterate children is a bad thing? Ok buddy.
I find Solid's model pretty damn close to "compiling down to nothing". I chose Solid for my project because I wanted to support plugins that used other UI frameworks. I recently got a Svelte plugin working with the SolidJS router. I could probably make it prettier... but it's literally a call to Solid's `createComponent` with the Router and an anchoring div to which the Svelte component is mounted. Ezpz.

https://github.com/AlexErrant/Pentive/blob/main/example-plug...
This is not wearing a shirt though. This is people deliberately causing disruptions by putting a traffic cone, universally recognized as a traffic warning, in front of the vehicles. A lot of regular people would think twice about what to do if they came back to their parked car with traffic cones around it.
Once you add more RAM to a Commodore 64, is it still a Commodore 64?
Instead of a D5 https://www.google.com/search?q=d5+dice&tbm=isch you can use a D10 or a D20 with repeated number in the faces.
I met a couple homeschooled people in college. And both of those were really well read, well spoken and creative people. But they were _not_ used to the way we all get kicked in the head all the time. they were pretty confused, hurt, and withdrawn.
You could disable a diverter in 5 seconds with a sledge hammer.

Also your linked video is splitting along the length of the rail instead of cutting directly across it which would take minutes if not seconds.
> That shouldn’t come as a surprise, since obesity isn’t a monolith and the factors that contribute to extra pounds are different for different people.

Um. While there are outliers of disorder-based exceptions, the rule for everyone else is exactly the same: take in more calories than you burn and you will add weight.
While I agree there's always going to be micro spikes and keeping some headroom is smart, 33% may be too much of a headroom for all but the most latency sensitive RPC services. Personally I aim for only 20% headroom.
The Art of Controlled Evolution: How Migration Tools Shape Database Schemas
This isn’t a gotcha. I’ll absolutely drink it.
People generally value their financial wellbeing and trustworthiness more than Internet points. It is also likely that no one person knows the algo, and fully describing the algo would likely require theft of IP.
Going back far enough in parts of the world, even the wealthy were illiterate, which is why they employed scribes.
Nice try, Internal HR Counsel.
I'd be a lot more worried about the lack of sex education. That's often when a child first realizes they are being sexually abused.
I suppose we might make it to 25 or 6 to 4, though (which, venerable online articles once informed me, refers to 3:34-3:35 am).
They don't own a business...they own a job.
There's a much better article on this here [1] and 7 year old HN discussion on a now deleted but similar article here [2].

This is where the "this is not a place of honor …" meme comes from if you've heard that before [4]

99 Percent Invisible also has a good podcast / article on this [3].

[1] https://www.damninteresting.com/this-place-is-not-a-place-of...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11851871

[3] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/

[4] The panel decided the message the structure or markings should attempt to communicate should be:

This place is a message… and part of a system of messages… pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

This place is not a place of honor… no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here.

What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

The danger is in a particular location… it increases toward a center… the center of danger is here… of a particular size and shape, and below us.

The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

The danger is to the body, and it can kill.

The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.

The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
I absolutely have the means to afford a car, but I don't, because I much prefer the experience of public transit.

I don't like waiting at lights when I could be moving, with a metro that's not an issue.

I am quite tall and find all cars uncomfortable. Seats on metros and trams are fine for me.

I enjoy people watching.

I like to be able to stretch my legs and walk around on long trips without having to interrupt my journey.

Finding parking, worrying about the vehicle being damaged, knowing that I'm still paying for it even when I'm not using it, those things all annoy me.

At this point in my life I am barely ever in a car, and on the rare occasions when it happens (three times this year so far) it seems worse than ever.
That depends on the state[0]. West Virginia appears to be the strictest, requiring homeschooled students to score above the median public school standardized assessment score.

0: https://responsiblehomeschooling.org/research/current-policy...
This is anecdotal fallacy if the intent is to suggest homeschooling is suspect because such cases do occur. You can find equally strange cases in public schools.
> ...the dividing line for what constitutes "messing with" them is not clear at all.

Putting cones out for no other purpose beyond stopping them moving seems to me unambiguously "messing with" them (though I don't think we need additional laws to address it.)
At this point I expect many of the algorithms have been trained not designed and thus nobody knows for sure what they are doing. And even before that it's a really complex topic that probably can't be easily summarized.
I think there's an argument that not knowing anything about, say, dinosaurs, is probably fine. But "knowing" very wrong things about the age of the earth or evolution being real can lead to people making decisions that are terrible for everyone. Think antibiotic resistant bacteria as a simple example. And there's a real cost to society if there's some fraction of society that don't believe climate change could possible be real.
Yes, if you use an REU, which is a correctly contemporary memory upgrade for the C64.
The 6502 is a notoriously poor target for C compilation, especially C that hasn't been written with the 6502's limitations in mind. I'll bet if you wrote a RISC-V emulator in native 6502 you could get Linux booting on a real machine in a day instead of a week. Think about how many lives that'd save!

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Saving_Lives.txt
I'm not convinced. The historical argument made by homeschooling advocates is the exact opposite of the one that you're making now: that public schools excessively emphasize conformity (and the interests of the public rather than familial sphere) at the cost of each child's individuality.

> 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, 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.

This is a pundit's warped idea of what a public school looks like. I was in a public high school not too long ago (one that was and is 60% first-generation Americans), and never at any point did I get the sense (or to this day feel) like my education was intended to make me feel asymmetrically entitled.

And again: there's a sense in which this is far more true for private and home schooling, where the entire point is to eliminate the mutual network of obligations that exist between students, their parents, and the public's interest in favor of private, religious, or sectarian interests.
> Also your linked video is splitting along the length of the rail instead of cutting directly across it which would take minutes if not seconds.

Watch how long it takes to cut the top of that rail. You must not have ever used an angle grinder before if you think you’re cutting train tracks in seconds.

It took me at least a minute to cut through a single leaf spring for a truck if not longer.
I'm not defending anyone in that interaction.

The fact you think I am is why I don't want you hitting people for being "fascist" when you don't know what the Hell that is.
The solution:

"Caution - Some eagles in this area are drones that shoot back."
But if you make all those stops while my food gets cold, I’m definitely going to call support and reduce the tip!
Nono, I do not advocate for a national association for schooling, similar to what we have today. I only advocate to force all people regardless of income, and living area, to have no choice in what school their child is sent to. That could mean distance, that could mean a lot of things. But basically we need to prevent rich kids from going to rich kids schools, and poor kids from going to poor kids schools. EVERYTHING ELSE will correct itself quickly, because when the rich want shit done, it gets done.
Artificial means "made by humans" in addition to meaning "sham"
The point was something with spellcheck, much like an IDE would have with code mistakes, would have caught that error easily. Which takes away from his argument that you don't need IDEs.

Kind of like if someone was selling you a super reliable lawn mower, but it took 4 or 5 extra rip cord pulls to start, would have me less inclined to believe his pitch.
I just have a problem with parents closing doors for their kids. A lot of early education is about kids finding their interests and passions. It's also about making for a well rounded society.

I don't care so much of a kid is like "I hate this dinosaur garbage" or whatever, but I feel awful for the kid that could have been a great paleontologist or biologist only to have that opportunity snuffed.

Sort of the same reason I'd hate for the kids to never be able to read. Sure, maybe there are jobs and people that live full lives never really needing to read anything. However, so much of the world is completely closed off to an illiterate person.

It's not that I'm trying to be a missionary per say, but rather that I believe that sparking knowledge in people is pretty much always a good thing.
Shameless to insert my app here, also open source and provides quick access from menu bar.

https://chie.app/posts/minimalist-approach-to-using-chatgpt/
I think it's safe to say that pictures of human skulls would still convey danger, unless our post-collapse descendants got really mutated.
Is this maybe the problem to address, then?

Reading this from outeide the US, it's bizarre to me that people don't want a professional, trained teacher who can do a better job than they could.
You can get to the absolute dimensions of the pyramid from the crackpot equations though:

https://pasteboard.co/cIMzn8KktEZy.png

https://tobeornottobe.org/the-great-pyramid-intro/math-const...

https://pastebin.com/TsUtcWAa

I just found a great recap on this topic that also fits nicely with the points your link brings up, shedding a better light on the number 43,200 in other cultures (the scaling factor between the pyramid and the earth dimensions for those who TL;DR).

https://fossana.medium.com/the-pyramids-of-giza-have-propert...

It also addresses the fact the speed of light in m/s is encoded three times in the pyramid, twice in the dimensions, in cubits and meters, and another times via the GPS coordinates (yes 3 fucking times !). But how would they know about the duration of a second ? I don't know ! What I know is that 43,200 * 2 = 84,600, the number of seconds in a day.

The thing goes deeper with this man and his investigations of the first edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xOGeZt71sg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIS-hNrr0-c
https://twitter.com/rauchg/media

> you're a liar and useful idiot / useless eater :)

Your wit knows no end
We were told that Uber would mean fewer cars on the road, and in fact it's led to exactly the opposite - an explosion of additional VMTs, with all the accompanying pollution, resource waste, congestion, and crash deaths.

If AV taxis are cheap then people are going to use them for all sorts of things they previously could not afford to use a taxi for.

And if they're expensive then they will cannibalize public transport for the benefit of the upper economic classes and the significant detriment of people of lesser means.

There is no way this turns into a net good.
Many, many workplaces keep a close eye on when you use the restroom, for how long, and who else is at the same time.

It's disturbingly common.
https://web.archive.org/web/20141231040717/https://www.msri....
'Union-Busting Just Got a Lot Harder'
As a homeschooled kid:

Be warned that I heard “homeschooling has changed since we were in school” in the early 2000s, from multiple parents who are now estranged from their adult children.

It hasn’t really changed that much - it’s just something parents like to tell themselves to avoid thinking about the experiences their children are missing.
It’s not intelligent if it always halts: A critical perspective on AI approaches
This describes next to no women I've ever known. If a man wants to pass off his genes, then waiting for a "smart" woman is a gamble. Even if he finds one, the parents in law will cast shame for him not getting her a real diamond. That's how deep the marketing goes.
Is this different from Lunix?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUnix
A traffic cone on the hood is not "malicious vandalism"; it doesn't cause any damage to the vehicle.