skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For context, my introduction to elementary school and formal reading instruction began about 1970 in the U.S.

My recollection was that we were introduced to the alphabet and the phonetic sounds for each of the 26 letters with an image of a thing that began with that letter. As an example, I remember "m" was for "mice" ... and a picture of a pair of mice neatly represented the two humps of the letter "m".

Combined was a very simple reading curriculum of the "See Dick run" variety but concerning a frog family (one of the frogs name was "Tad").

Likely the above was Kindergarten.

By I believe 1st grade (and perhaps a grade or two following) we had something more akin to an independent reading curriculum that consisted of assignments from a kind of vertical-file-like organizer that used a color-coding to indicate difficulty and proficiency levels.

You would pull out the first (U.S. letter sized) card from the SRA Reading Labs organizer that was for the "Aqua" reading level. You would read a simple story and then answer a kind of quiz after — like, "Who did Sally meet in the park?"

There was an achievement-like appeal to me when I completed the "Aqua" level of stories and then moves up to the "Blue" level.

I have no idea the degree to which this system was effective. I'm just reporting on one way teaching reading was done during what I think in hind sight was kind of a progressive era of education in the U.S. (but still seemed to have one foot in a kind of old-school (ha, ha) tradition of education).
Better than ads, sites can make money by selling products and services. A website with information on gardening, that also sells the equipment and seeds you need. A website with travel information that also sells tours. A website with any programming and IT information that also sells software.

These kind of sites make much better money than ad and affiliate sites, but people haven't understood it yet.

The online ad industry – especially on social media – is a huge scam. Small and medium size businesses can't resist throwing in some bucks in the ad casino, and Facebook will tell them they had so many thousands of impressions, funny that it didn't turn into any sales? Online ads are also very comfortable and easy for some worthless manager who has a set advertising budget. Just throw away the money into social media ads instead of thinking through a campaign.
Does it matter? If I submit a link that doesn't interest HNers, it won't be voted for or commented on and will have basically no effect on anybody here.
If someone is firing rockets from within a hospital, how would you stop that?
15 minutes of research would probably get you the names of highly successful technical people who spectacularly flamed out in a senior management role and incredibly successful CEOs of technical companies who lacked pretty much any hands-on technical experience.
Not challenging you, just had an eye brow nearly leave my face... I've been coming to HN for years now and genuinely interested in where your angle comes from? I'm missing something and would like to know... thanks
Valuing learning is not the same, maybe inversely related to, valuing achievement. One can value academic achievement in a way that minimizes learning, and one can value learning in a way that minimizes achievement. The children from such families probably follow similar but distinct life trajectories.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37881456
Do similar tax breaks not exist outside the US? Seems like a sensible thing for the municipality to provide and for businesses to accept, in general.
The episodes are to short, why?
Cromulent is now officially a perfectly cromulent word
What other things did you change about oral health? I’ve been using probiotics and biofilm dissolvers to great success, but am always looking for more ways.
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper [candle] at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature.... Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. --Thomas Jefferson
Yeah, there’s nothing progressive about not teaching kids to read. The “just throw them in the pool and expect them to swim” approach is particularly harmful to kids with ADD type difficulties.

Replace conservative with evidence based. This sounds like one of those “sounds right to me” ideas pushed by someone with charisma who was positioned properly in the educational world to be listened to.

In any field there occasionally seem to be these ideas that emerge fully formed with a hallelujah chorus. These days it’s usually accompanied by a book, a book tour, podcast interviews, and a TED talk. Everyone who is anyone agrees that this idea is the smartest thing ever and probably right. The person behind it is very often from New York. When this happens, get skeptical.
That's what I was thinking. Jetbrain's autocompleting

widgets.foreach

to

for (const widget of widgets) {
}

Still remains a next level feature for me. No AI suggestions have been able to top that.
Mormons are still required by their religion to keep a year's supply of non-perishable food.
I don't think that's entirely fair. There's a product here. I think they're over selling it quite a bit, but it's a real tangible product. This at least has the possibility to be useful.
I often wonder if we could start a new sub-internet. Like a wide area mesh VPN. Perhaps something like tor but not so focused on anonymity so it doesn't immediately degrade into the cesspool that tor has become.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. It’s easy to forget what times were like before home computers.
Yes. We’d used one to do a backpacking adventure a twenty years ago but kinda forgotten about them. But recently went on a sun holiday and quickly got frustrated by the normal websites and travel blogs found online, and instead brought them the LP and also the Rough Guide. Both were soooo much better content and advice than the online blogs. (My pref was for LP).
And lower prices almost universally means lower profits for manufacturers. As prices fall, factories increase production and efficiency as they chase a diminishing profit margin. They are running flat out right until that margin disappears and everything suddenly stops. The frantic rate of tv/film production today, the insane production costs for a marginal return, fits that pattern.
Disagree with your uncharitable description of how taxes work, but agree that they seem to primarily be aiming at either rich kids going camping, or at governments who need to shelter a lot of people fast due to natural disasters.

You know what's missing, though? Any sort of toilet facility. The pretty picture of emergency relief in an urban center doesn't show any hygiene facilities at all.
The trolley problem has more information and stats than someone is likely to ever encounter but it’s hardly an inconceivable level of information for a thought experiment
This doesn't respond to the main point of your comment (the livability of a $6k a year for a family of four), but I think it's interesting anyway.

> feeding a family of 4 should cost around $20k

This sounded absolutely crazy to me, so I did a little bit of digging. $20k is $416 per person, per month. For reference, we (a family of two adults) spend less than that total per month on groceries - not including eating out, which we do a couple times a month. That's been relatively constant, it was ~20% more or so when we lived in a much more expensive city (typical rent more than double our current).

I would be really interested in hearing concrete stories from other middle class or poor people (or seeing links), but the relevant points of difference seem to be these:

* The cost estimates are based on a 2400 calorie diet per person. Both of us eat less than that as adults, and 2 children can certainly be expected to do so.

* The food estimates they're using [1] seem outlandish. It includes no processed foods, has you eating apples, bananas, oranges, and tomatoes every day, and the weights given are strange as well - 300 g of apples is probably two apples, so we're talking a lot of fruit in this meal plan. It also estimates eating 2.4 eggs per day??!

* It's not clear how the average values for the whole U.S. are derived. If only large cities are considered, the cost will probably be artificially inflated relative to the true average.

* We're both vegetarian, and a considerable fraction of our food is made fresh. Even with the US government heavily subsidizing meat purchases, it's probably significant cost savings for us to live like this.

* In the other direction, I don't think grocery cost is likely to account for anything close to 100% of the true cost of "feeding a family of four", because it doesn't account for eating out, drive-through coffee purchases, etc. Americans spend more on food away from home than they do food at home. [2]

In terms of food cost estimates that are not based on the grocery cost of an arbitrary (and odd) subset of the food that people eat, I found the following estimates:

* USDA: the middle quintile household spends $9k a year on food (with the lowest quintile around $5k). [3] $20k a year would be more than spent by the average household in the highest quintile. (Note: this is for a typical household, not a family of four. On the other hand, this includes realistic not-at-home food expenses.)

* The USDA offers food plans that are intended to be healthy (so likely more expensive than typical American food choices). On a "thrifty" budget (the lowest level), their costs for a reference family of four are $975 a month, or $11.7k a year. [4] Even on the most liberal plan provided [5], the cost for the reference family of four is $19k.

[1] https://www.numbeo.com/food-prices/country_result.jsp?countr...

[2] https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistic...

[3] https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery...

[4] https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-f...

[5] https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-f...
They individualize search results: they give different results to different people.

They don't personalize search results: they don't give people results which are optimal for the searcher, but rather those which attempt to be optimal for the advertisers without discouraging the searcher enough to swap search engines.
S3 egress and inter-AZ traffic. The way they advertise multi-AZ should honestly be illegal, or at least include warnings about charges.

Like when you set up an RDS instance, the “prod” template defaults to multi-AZ (a good idea tbf), but completely elides the fact that if your app is in a different AZ, you’re going to start racking up $0.02/GB.

Same with NLBs and cross-AZ routing. Sure, it can be helpful, but yeesh.

Or EKS, since Topology Aware Routing is in no way a default.
In terms of story and dialogue, Peppa Pig is quite ok, as is Ben and Hollys little kingdom. Both British, of course :)
Risk and accountability are why this is wrong. Local jurisdiction will be the limit to this in many instances. Adherence to local law will be politically controlled. "They took our jobs" as South Park once mocked.
I want to do that too but it’s a hellish nightmare because sugar is in nearly everything sold at grocery stores, and living in a big city there are also endless temptations. I did manage to kick the habit of putting sugar in tea and coffee though, which is good because I drink those nearly everyday.
Do you know if WhatsApp will become capable of these types of mini apps soon?
Great for the $28k-for-shelter and $20k-for-off-grid-land crowd, not so great for their hypothesized emergency relief scenario.
> but I guess fragmentation is almost inevitable until the profit margin is driven down to near zero

Precisely. You can't just take stuff people made at cost, that's violating copyright! You need to instead be a megacorporation that competes so brutally on intermediating yourself in the pipe that profit is driven towards zero, so you can't afford to pay any artists!

That's the legal way to screw over creators.
Trying out C++20's modules with Clang and Make
Yeah, well sadly there are publishers that have an incentive to sell. As I look back on my education I see more and more clearly a corporation was lurking in the back of the classroom looking for profits.

I suppose it need not be destructive so long as the product being sold actually does do well in aiding teachers to educate students.
At least I can afford a house with heating outside of London, lol.
People who don't drive still buy things that were moved across the country (and world) using oil.
Xylitol does selectively inhibit some bad strains, and some oral probiotics (K2 BLIS, L. Sakei, B. Subtilis) are quite aggressive in killing off other species.

Might also be worth looking into all the substrates required for bone and connective tissue building, apart from the obvious (calcium, magnesium), e.g. silica, iron and copper.
A bit late. A decade ago this was indeed a bit of a thing. These days it's not. Just keep your phone configured to charge only.
Oh, absolutely, but what really interests me as a person is whether my neighbor is going to stab me one day, or not.
When the fruits of your labor are something that can be endlessly reproduced for nearly zero cost, I don’t think you have a very strong right to be paid.

There is no scarcity in digital media. Supply and demand will inevitably drive down the price to near zero.
Why do you think copyright should be abolished?
TP and clean water - both to drink, and wash with.
I'm torn because the joke was technically spreading FUD but I also found it very funny. ...upvoted
The linked github page has a link to a paper.
Not a big fan. Consider that:

if( a )
{
if( b )
{
if( c )
breakelse;
}
else
{
// E2
}
}
else
{
// E1
}

You wrote it, tested it and are happy.

Then a year later other person is reworking the code due to changed requirements,
deletes the E2 else block, and breakelse suddenly starts to jump into E1 else block.

Especially bad if there's a page of code between breakelse and E2 block, and another page between E2 and E1.
The proposed feature becomes a spooky action at a distance.
A Confederacy of Models: A Comprehensive Evaluation of LLMs on Creative Writing
If you want kids to read, you need to give them a reason to want to read. For myself, I was given a trunk of about 200 superhero comic books around age 5. Nobody had time to read them to me, so I had to learn how to read them myself. And I still remember the day I realized Peter Parker had books on his shelves I'd seen with my mother's books - so I tried to read Herman Hesse about age 8 because it was a book Peter Parker had on his shelf.
Unless you are programming in Python, it should be possible in one line.
If I don't think a product in the shop is reasonably priced, I don't have the right just to take it. The shop can decide to reduce the price in response to the market - they may make less profit than before and make up for it in volume. However, that is entirely their perogative.

There is zero difference between a digital and physical item if you are the producer. A digital good has the cost of production front loaded, it just has next to zero marginal cost. That may be the cost of education and experience, for example. If you make something of value, you absolutely have the right to choose how you are rewarded - if the buyer decides that choice isn't right for them, you can either change the offer or you look for your next customer. You may choose to give it away, if your reward is the satisfaction of someone using it, but that is your choice, not the consumer's.
>X11 is one of the few APIs that had a really long run and that everybody in the community agrees upon

Outside of a very small niche of obscure window manager developers, this isn't true. GNOME and KDE have been trying to get rid of it for decades. The glaring flaws in the API have been known for that long.

>38 years of backwards compatibility and still being able to deliver performance

No, the Xorg server actually lacks backward compatibility with lots of non-standard X11 extensions that for whatever reason were either removed or were never merged upstream. At the time some of those may have been the best way to deliver performance on specific hardware but, like anything, they didn't hold up and were thrown away. It wasn't because an IBM/Redhat or Collabora employee said so. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System_protocols_and_...
Yeah, at first I was comparing it with Netflix where you’re paying for content and it seemed like an awful deal because you already get the content without paying. The thing that made me decide it was worth it is when I compared it to Spotify instead. A service I use multiple times daily where I can get the content for free anyway, but paying to get rid of the ads just removes all of the friction from the experience.
Why can’t you continue your degree program or transfer the existing credits if this is a bottleneck?
being early is not the same as being wrong though.
I teach for a living. I'm currently at a community college, but I spent most of the last decade teaching high school. I even did a little 4th grade. (Yes, it is unusual for any teacher to teach that range of grades.)

Educational administrators are idiots. They can not do basic tasks. Give them a list of industry certifications like the one I will link below, and ask them to figure out which classes currently offered in their school or school district might be appropriate to prepare the kids for those certifications, and they can not do it. They yell at the teachers to figure it out instead of providing clear instructions to the teachers.

A big chunk of their funding depends on getting their students certified, and they can not make a plan to achieve that.

After we know what certifications go with what classes, I suggest they pay the certification fees to get their teachers certified. They yell back that they do not get paid to have the teachers certified. I know that, but do they really expect teachers to prepare students for certifications the teachers do not have?

They say it is the teacher's responsibility to keep their certifications up to date. That only applies to their state occupational license to teach, not to industry certifications. School administrators do not understand the difference.

I already had the industry certifications because I subscribe to the TEA newsletters, and anticipate next year's goals.

I ask for funding for my kids to take the certification exams. The administratoras yell back that either the students need to pay for it or I need to pay for it. School administrators do not care that the extra funding they would get from getting students certified would more than pay for the vouchers. I finally get an administrator with a brain to fund the vouchers.

I get about half my students certified. The administrators say that is worthless. They threaten to fire me because if one single student does not get certified, my whole school year is a failure. I am literally the only teacher in the school who got kids certified (that I know of.)

The list of certifications is a PDF linked to from this web page: https://tea.texas.gov/academics/college-career-and-military-...

Here is a direct link to the PDF: https://tea.texas.gov/academics/college-career-and-military-...
I didn't mean recipes specifically, but this type of question where I'm looking for a very specific short answer. For example, I don't know if some software has some specific feature, or I ask, write me a short python script fragment that does this or that. Or how do I reverse a git commit that was pushed etc. Or what is the thermal conductivity of kingpin extreme paste. All are very specific things years ago I would use Google to search for, but today Google is almost useless on this.

It does hallucinate sometimes, it writes programs using non existent apis etc, but I've found asking it "is what you said correct" or "is it true?" or "how did you came up with this answer" tend to produce replies like : I'm sorry, this is wrong, this is good instead. On rare occasion it also produces a bad answer and when you ask it will alternate betetwo bad answers, but most of the time it does pretty well.

Here I tried asking it for a recipe for chocolate brownies. I also tried to find out if it gave correct answers. Based on my past use I'd say it's pretty likely the recipe is OK. What do you think? https://chat.openai.com/share/2b36e42c-b6f2-42f3-b67e-f4a5a7...
And the most important word of all: “Substack”.
Fighting Undead Documentation
I think most people who want to spend a year off-grid are the sort who already have some expertise in this, and would prefer to do their own shopping & research, and would not trust a one-size-fits-all solution.

The exception is the people who want to do that, and don't know anything about it, and would pay $10k for such a thing, set it up in the woods, and get eaten by a bear, fall down a ravine, or eat some poisonous flora on their third night.
The Tyranny of Nits – How open source work sputters and dies
I thought this was going to be about the look-say method, another dubious reading education fad.

My own kids have just gone through Kindergarten and first grade and the impression I get is that they were given some mix of a phonics and look-say approach. They seem to be doing okay.
He was wrong about the proof, not the result.
> For example, if I just click "Refried beans" on the homepage, then click the recipe for "Refried beans" from the ingredients list on that page... it takes pressing Back on the browser FIVE times before I'm finally back at the homepage.

I must be getting old. There's no hijacking going on here, the page uses URL params, and probably JS to decode them.
Can the suspects lie? Is the rating at the end based on minimum numbed of clues required, or just on total number of clues used? Is the rating impacted by number of available choices when i guessed?

There were a lot of time slots, and the clues did not intersect very much. I went through 17 clues before i guessed, and there were still logical options. Can we have wordle-bot analyze our play at the end and tell us how we did?
If you want to see good children cartoons, try old Soviet ones. For instance "Grandmother's umbrella":
https://youtu.be/pxgSvZoZoso
Or "Ant's journey":
https://youtu.be/l132u2nIpkI
Other ex-communist countries cartoons are also good:
https://youtu.be/vgIHGmwHEsA
Do you want to compete with people who are just as smart or smarter than you, probably speak multiple languages, and are willing to work for 5-10% of what you get paid?

pretty sure that is what the OP is trying to say.

Some will thrive, many will not.
I'd vote against that. You end up with two people going back and forth which usually isn't great for everybody else. I really like the HN model. It encourages you to say what you are going to say and get out of the thread.

If you do need or want to see the responses, you can do that easily enough by looking at your own comments. A little friction here is a good thing IMHO.

It seems like a lot of the suggestions here would turn it into something more like Reddit. That already exists. No point in recreating it.
The most effective route to get a job (sending the right application to the right position with a good cover letter) works better for both desperate and comfortable people.

Many smart people choose the right path even when they are broke and hopeless, it makes no sense to shift responsibility and call it privilege.
The word piracy was obviously chosen to create exactly this sort of confusion, but piracy on the internet is fundamentally different than stealing which is not buying someone's stuff and also depriving them of the ability to sell it to someone else.