skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. There are a few big buckets in the US.

1. Religious Home Schoolers. They are primarily homeschooled because the parents are very religious and don't want them in public schools because of fears their kids will become too secular.

2. Wealthy Home Schoolers. These are very well off people who choose to home school their kids for any number of reasons (like their traditional schooling options being poor) but can afford to hire tutors or teachers or if they teach the kids themselves, there were previously teachers.

3. Group Home Schoolers. These are families that have grouped up to split the duties of homeschooling across multiple families. Sometimes for all classes or just a few. The kids are more likely to have more day-to-day connection with other kids/students other than their siblings.

All of these groups have tons of cross over. Religious group home schoolers is a big thing right now. But your opinion on homeschooling is likely heavily built on the type of homeschooling you have witnessed/been involved in.

At the end of the day, everyone has their own experience and biases built into schooling from their own lived experiences. For every, "I was homeschooled and grew up to be very social and successful” story, there is a, "I learned nothing and I don't know how to talk to people" story.
I used to work at a registrar and I completely agree with you. This is exactly my take as well (with a small exception for .eu, just don't use it)

For your online identity (ie email address) I'd even go as far as suggesting not using a ccTLD at all, no matter if you check all the boxes. No fancy gTLD either, just use a .com. I don't think any TLD is remotely as reliable as this one (maybe .net because they're both Verisign, but that's it)
I'm a former biglaw associate; it's very clear none of those guys have any clue about how to hire, how to train, or how to really work properly at all.

Stupidest job I ever had
This is wonderful!

One suggestion is to also include probability of cloud-cover at that time of the year.
Firefox got faster for real users in 2023
The data I have seen and that I have observed personally: remote work is not sustainable long term for high growth companies / startups. There is this natural organization which happens when all the people are in the same room which is incredible clunky with remote tools. Remote work made our teams less productive and lonely.
I'm actually kinda surprised that even a single-threaded implementation isn't bottlenecked by I/O speed limits.
"feel free to use it"

I feel free with my .co domain and I'm not a citizen of Colombia TYVM.
That's great. If banks work better for you, that's awesome. Recognize the privilege though. About half of the people on the planet are unable to even open a bank account, and banks have been becoming increasingly predatory in the past few decades, especially in developing nations. They also are lagging decades behind in their capabilities.

Other options exist now, and I think that's pretty great, even for people who prefer using banks. The competition forces banks to provide better services to their customers, which improves quality of life for everyone.
So you don't know, but you assume it's the same, so "ever-growing" is just a uninformed slam? If anything the reality is the opposite.
Not a fairy tale at all! I've exclusively managed global remote teams for the past 10 years an wouldn't have it any other way. We run circles around our competitors and we do it with much smaller teams.
This is one problem that throwing money at just isn't going to help in the long run. Many administrations have tried this, "oh hey we are helping bring broadband to rural areas with lots of $$$ and investment", but then it just leads to the same incumbent isps dragging their feet and doing the absolute minimum possible to meet the requirements. And then those who are now "within reach" of broadband have one provider as their option who have no incentives at all to play nice in terms of pricing, plans, and options.

The federal government needs to invalidate all ISP + Municipality exclusivity deals and invalidate all laws that prevent municipalities from creating their own ISPs and running their own networks.

Chattanooga is way ahead of the times.
Interference doesn't matter if all you're doing is copying what people do with their mouths. You might have more or less trouble performing the movement at the mechanical level (for example a lot of people have trouble doing the French R) or listening for the precise positions of the tongue etc., but just copying what you can hear is trivial.

>Feel free to post a voice recording, so we can check.

Nah. I have no interest in convincing you; honestly accepting to be tested at all is probably more than I should have done. I'm merely relaying a personal experience for your edification. If you can't accept it for what it is then continue as you were.
> It also gave me a glimpse on how secretive the magician community is.

My wife and I are performing magicians. The topic of "exposure" can get downright stupid.

Something you hinted at is intellectual property rights. Like you said, a lot of magicians market their inventions. And so if a "peer" of theirs were to explain the method to someone who didn't purchase it then it would be viewed as a dick move since it is affecting the livelihood of a fellow performer. For what it is worth, this is a position that I agree with. I don't market or publish my work but if I did I would be seriously pissed off from an intellectual property point of view if other people were giving it away for free and undercutting my ability to sell a "license" to perform my artistic creation.

Where it gets stupid is when it comes to stuff that anyone can find in a book on Amazon or in a kid's magic kit. This is a mentality that I just cannot wrap my head around. Knowing what a thumb tip is, or how it can be used, has not ruined magic for people ... if it did, no one would pay to see a show. You go see a show to be entertained and surprised.

The reason we don't "reveal" is purely artistic. When you go a see a movie, you go in willingly suspending your disbelief. But magic is more of an intellectual challenge. The entire point is to cause a jaw-dropping "that can't be possible" moment. To achieve that you go in kind of wanting to have your disbelief suspended for you. A revelation in the moment destroys that[1]. But life is way too short for the average person to give the slightest crap about how something works when they go home and have to worry about getting up in the morning to go to work or getting their kids from the babysitter.

And the genuinely curious are often the future generation of magicians.

So yeah, the magic community can be utterly illogical when it comes to this.

[1] - Unless it doesn't. To bring this back to Penn & Teller, something Penn once said is (paraphrasing) "A trick that has a method that is more interesting than the effect is not a good trick." P&T do more than one routine where they show the effect and then the method. They do this because, artistically, these are cases where knowing the method makes it even more spectacular and amazing because the method itself is genuinely interesting. Their cups & balls routine is probably the most famous example.
LGR reviewed one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bODiZ5bP84
Recently I made C compiler for such old CPUs.

GH: https://github.com/Mati365/ts-c-compiler
> your employer is going to respond by reducing headcount

If they have enough slack to reduce headcount they're going to do it anyway. Companies strive to hire enough people to get the job done and no more. They may not always get it right, but minor changes to expenses aren't going to affect headcount unless the company was already overstaffed and looking for an excuse to cut employees.

This is the same mistaken thinking you see from people who oppose minimum wage increases. The McDonalds down the street isn't going to cut staff because the wages went up, they need those staff to serve customers. In face the opposite can occur. The increase in money at the bottom is a huge stimulus to demand which increases traffic and requires even more staff.
The fuck it isn't.

Nobody asked you to "put in a lot of hard work" into making an office into a goddamned romper room for adults. My office requirements are very basic: I want it to be quiet, I want minimal distractions, and I don't want to have to put in a lot of effort just to show up to work.

My home office has two beautiful monitors and a very comfortable and expensive chair where I don't have to hear anybody's gossip or singing or their raging. I also don't have to sit through bullshit corporate "team-building" events which are just giant distractions which end up eating half my day. Give the sales team another award? I have nothing to do with sales and I couldn't fucking care less, so why am I being distracted from my work? Oh, and I don't have to wear headphones if I want to listen to music or be in a virtual meeting.

Painting the walls in company colors complete with all them logos sure as fuck makes me proud that I only got a 1% raise this year despite being a top employee in the company.

No, sorry, the office thing is and always has been an ego trip for managers and bosses. It is a waste of time for people who have to commute and frankly it makes our days even longer. You don't get to tell me where I'm more productive and it's insulting that you would even attempt to.
A GPU is also not a monolith. As you say, there are some functions that scale with the number of compute units, but others don't need to (e.g. display scan-out controllers); it would accordingly make sense to make the video coding functions part of the latter.

And video decoding/encoding is definitely at least GPU-adjacent, since it usually also involves scaling, color space transformations etc.
You're saying humans can break copyright but machines can't?

You realized machines didn't break copyright right? Machines can't do this yet so it's a non issue at this point.

Humans were sued in this lawsuit because humans are the ones who did this action.

The lawsuit is about this: I can copy stuff into my brain but not into my cybernetic assistive brain.
> Although the law regarding these expenses is not yet decided, remote California workers may also be entitled to reimbursement for:

> the cost of dedicated home office space

If that actually happens, expect lots of RTO. That extra bedroom for the home office is priced similarly to 100 sqft of office space.
Compared to their previous hardware flop the Virtual Boy, which had a lackluster line-up of games, the Wii U should have absolutely succeeded. It had a great line up of games, whose ports propelled the Switch in its early life. Breath of the Wild should have came out a year or two before with excellent Game Pad integration. The Switch should have come out in 2019 with better specs, followed closely by Tears of the Kingdom running at a rock solid 60 fps.
De nos jours, avoir un site web est indispensable pour toute entreprise ou activité souhaitant se développer et acquérir une visibilité sur internet. Quelles que soient la taille et l’activité de votre société, la création d’un site web présente de nombreux avantages. Mais comment s'y prendre concrètement pour concevoir un site web au Maroc ?
An AI smoothie shop opened in San Francisco; why is it closed?
You just said "hostages will die" in your first comment. Saving human life is a pretty desperate.
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That's right. OSGi predated the Java Module system, and in many cases, informed its design. I think it's unfortunate that when they were including the Module system into Java, they didn't just import OSGi whole.

OSGi has an in-VM service registry which allows late binding of "services" by interface. This means you can do a lot of sophisticated mixing and matching of capabilities with OSGi, including the ability to load and use incompatible versions of the same library (if need be) in different parts of your code.

More than a decade ago, I built an app server system that used an OSGi base for server-side products and agent systems. I even had a flavor of JBoss running on OSGi (with dramatically faster start up times) before JBoss went OSGi on its own.

But now my teams do their work in Node. Isolation is by process, hopefully, maybe, and we're right smack back in version hell.
I call this the "subjective experience of free will": that is, it does seem to be a thing that people perceive, and it's such a convincing effect that we often turn it from a subjective experience to an objective belief (that free will exists).
I suppose you are talking about the US school system of late, right? Because even there it used to be better, and there's also an entire world outside with many different systems (possibly with their own rackets, just like homeschooling).
It's sad that this is framed as a zero-sum game. At my current role, the expectation is three days a week in the office, but no one freaks out if you end up working remotely for a week.
Ask HN: What features from old programming languages are worth studying today?
All I am saying is, we have enough profits that we can invest in people. We are not trying to increase profits to make a better office. That is such a silly statement.
I did something similar (without their reveal) to my mom back in the 90's. Using the parrot program that shipped with my Sound Blaster Pro sound card, I rubber-banded a microphone to the earpiece of a telephone. I asked my mom to come in and talk to the computer, and my friend on the telephone would respond, and the parrot program would repeat what he said out of the computer speakers.

It wasn't 100% perfect but for a few moments my mom was amazed at what our computer could do.

A few years later I also pulled a similar prank on my uncle, who bought a new CD player. He asked me and my cousin to set it up and we found a remote in the box. We told him it was voice activated and we used the remote while he asked it to play/pause/skip. Again for a few moments he thought it was the coolest thing ever until our disappointing reveal.

I think this goes to show that people have always wanted to talk to computers, and 30 years later we're still trying to get it right.
Of course, Pakistan is "socialist" but the Chinese Communist Party and its "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" are "capitalist".
Yes thank you, definitely should have mentioned that. My point is that there were a wide variety of pandemic-driven reasons that parents decided to homeschool. Even if all these reasons disappeared when the pandemic culturally ended, we wouldn't expect homeschooling rates to suddenly drop back down to the pre-pandemic level. Switching to homeschooling is a huge change, and so is switching back. I would expect the rates to gradually decline as fewer new students enter homeschool, existing students age out of it, and some students switch back to public or private school, and that's exactly what the data looks like.
It's probably fairer to say "Apple builds products focused on things I don't care about."

Obviously, other people care.
I just wanted to say thank you for all of these write-ups, and for the restoration and reverse engineering work that you do for the retrocomputing community.

Here's a question: how has this implementation changed in modern nano-scale ethernet implementations? Modern ethernet cards are asked to do much more offloading and processing, potentially including application protocols like TLS and DMA not just from memory but directly from NVMe devices as well. Given that we can now spam out transistors by the billions, are things like 10-bit counters still implemented via clever dynamic logic in hardware, or is there a more brute-force approach in use today?
I actually enjoy working with my team in the office.

My only issue is the 2-3 hours of commuting each day. If I only had to go in twice a week, that would be fine.
DC doesn't go after these "security consulting firms located in non-signatory states" just precisely because they want to be able to use them if the need arises.
Show HN: I made a free GPT-4 study guide generator
Hey HN,

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gnow.io was born out of a personal need for a more effective, accessible, and engaging way to learn new programming topics.

As someone who has navigated the maze of online courses, tutorials, and textbooks, I found that the existing educational landscape often lacks a personalized approach that is now capable with AI.

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Happy Halloween! Happy to answer any questions
Doesn't the Media Capabilities API [1] provide a way to determine if a codec is "power efficient" (presumably meaning hardware supported)? So then you can switch to another codec if AV1 isn't hardware-supported.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Media_Capab...
This is a great question. I would love to see more documentation on what this means for transactional emails.

Adding systems in place to handle unsubscribing from transactional emails will mean quite a bit of engineering time/effort for many companies.
Show HN: JS Local-only AI Apps starter kit: cost $0 to run and test locally
Hi HN! Here's a local-only stack I built over the weekend - hope it can be useful for you!

I have been building a lot of AI apps - https://github.com/a16z-infra/ai-town
https://github.com/a16z-infra/companion-app
...

And there were definitely times I spent way too much $$ before deploying the app to production. So I was looking for a "local only" stack and found a few tools that worked well together. I used the following set of tools but may add more options later:

- Inference: Ollama

- VectorDB: Supabase pg-vector

- LLM orchestration: langchain

- Framework: nextjs

My learning from building ai-town was also that many people don't have the luxury of swiping a credit card to test an app with a lot of AI workloads -- not surprisingly, many models on Ollama are already very good - I used llama2-7b for majority of my dev work.

Hope this can lower the barrier to entry for building AI apps. :)
fffddd win. That was strangely easy. I guess I have free will, a soul, God is real, and life has meaning.
Luck is definitely something you can increase to a point.

Luck is basically seemingly random events going your way in a positive way. If you do more things, you’ll have more interactions and more chances those go well.

Luck is just probability. You have to keep playing the board for it to work. Too many people think luck is just sitting and doing nothing and hoping it turns out well.
for some reason they couldn't focus on the profile?

anyway the edge is round, as in semicircle

picking one up feels like using windows xp after 98
The Asus Eee PC and the netbook revolution
That is true, but you can't discount a lack of speculation, a shrinking population, a culture of structure depreciation, and low wages.
Isn't the alternative just not repairing cars or doing maintenance? In the long run, that's equivalent to not doing business in Sweden anyway isn't it?
Hah I've tried to find some of the videos featured on the homepage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=C-JrfjVjHAY

It has crazy stats: 18 years old and only 3.7K views!

I wonder were the compression artifacts this bad when the video was uploaded or has it been recompressed a bit too many times? Still groovy tho
It reminded me of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy's third-of-five book Life, the Universe and Everything

> Krikkiters

> This race of quiet, polite, charming and rather whimsical humanoids caused the most devastating war in the history of the Galaxy (with over two "grillion" casualties). Their homeworld, Krikkit, is surrounded by a black cloud, so they had no knowledge of the universe outside their world. When a spaceship crashed on the surface of Krikkit, the inhabitants quickly stripped it of its secrets and used them to create their own "flimsy piece of near-junk" craft, Krikkit One. Upon reaching the outer edge of the dust cloud and seeing the galaxy for the first time, the people of Krikkit marveled at its beauty before being gripped with fear of it and casually deciding to destroy it, famously remarking "It'll have to go." The Earth game of cricket is a racial memory of the events of the Krikkit Wars.

via https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_races_and_specie...
I sat in a cafe overlooking a busy street, and pressed f when a man walked by and d when a woman walked by, and got 51%.
knowing vs understanding.
Again this mentality. Not everyone is making ads clickable. I do not know from where this idea comes. I do not want to go deep into the industries we operate in but we are helping people take care of each other and inspire each other. Nothing to do with ads. People enjoy working there. I do not fire people, retrain them, take care of them. Why is it so hard to believe?
The thing is for this discussion, analysis of the ego and the role of "the mind" or however you want to call it, I simply don't think it matters for the question of free will. It's one of causality at the beginning of the universe for me. The mechanism through which humans would drive their thought process or behavior is besides the point if the cause is the initial state of the universe and how all the particles and forces interact from that point onwards. A rock on the ground's "life" (path through universe) would be as predetermined as ours, it wouldn't change it if the rock had thoughts or an ego.

The discussion about the ego and "the mind" and the "who you are" in that sense are then still useful for the human to feel comfortable in feeling like they have agency, and I am aware of Buddhist philosophy in finding peace through detaching from our inner voice and gaining wisdom from not letting ourselves being driven purely by what we think we are or "what the ego says we are", but I think it's besides the point in this context (but very useful to include in a balanced "diet of thoughts").

Maybe the ego is an evolutionary defence against nihilistic traits so we all don't kill ourselves by realising none of what we do is any agency and it's all predetermined by the start of the universe. But anyway this part of the discussion enters into a rabbithole detached from the core discussion of there being free will or not, at least to me, because I cannot accept that a core property of the system "universe" and the definition of it's causality or not could depend on the thought process that goes through minds of humans in some remote part of that very universe. A detail about the higher level thought process of some "blobs of particles" in the universe don't define the way the universe itself works. Our relationship to the self doesn't have anything to do with physical reality of if-this-then-that. In other words the causality doesn't care what we think of it, it's either all pre-determined or not, our opinion doesn't matter.

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/06/07
And in those cases, there will likely be a relative willing to do the illegal step to save their relative.

The only way to actually have a "hostages will die" policy is to ensure you destroy whoever took them, despite the deaths of hostages.
I'm okay with these business models failing.