skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why is the US not tracking all these humans?

I've come to believe our government is too small to do so. If I was stopped on the street by law enforcement, I wouldn't have any way of proving my citizenship; it's just not something we're typically socialized to in the US. And obviously documents would be pretty easily forged these days (and I believe often are by/on behalf of employers).

I think you would need a pretty strong, centralized database to include various biometrics of all citizens in order to do the thing right, and that's way beyond what I think the average citizen would accept (though I'd actually be willing to participate).

I feel like immigration is like most aspects of the US economy - we leave it up to the market to decide, and labor is a market as well.
This is not a true nor respectful comment. Saying religion is a mental illness is not only deeply offensive but factually incorrect when research shows the benefits of religion [1].

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2019/01/31/religions-re...
waiting for media to appear on your timeline

What do you mean by this?
Hydrogen will probably fill a niche for seasonal grid energy storage. In general pumped storage > batteries > hydrogen for cost/efficiency, but hydrogen has the advantage that it's cheap to store for weeks or months at a time while pumped storage/batteries are suited only to smoothing out daily or weekly variations in solar and wind output.

It's more useful for getting from 90%/95% to 100% green energy than from 0% - 90% though, and it's more expensive than natural gas performing the same function so we likely won't see it used in anger for a while.
I have a vague sense from talking with teachers that the school systems are soul crushing, for both teachers and students. The consensus seems to be that there are very little resources for anyone not in +/- a half std dev of the mean, academically speaking, so both those outlier groups suffer.
This is such messed up logic. You can apply it to basically anything.

Taken to the extreme, never get in a car because you can get in a car crash. Never go on a plane because it can crash. Don't send your kids to school because they might get shot.

Many people used the couch surfing website and did not get raped (the vast majority). Many people have been raped in ways completely unrelated to couch surfing.

Such "advice" really isn't helpful.
I'm watching kids fall through the cracks of the public school system here in Canada. There's quite a violence problem with even teachers and staff being seriously injured and powerless to deal with it. But there is also functional literacy issues since 1/3 in my province are not meeting basic competency requirements. In this environment, i can see why home schooling is a thing if you can't afford to send your kids to private school.

John Oliver is entertaining but he's also very strongly biased and misrepresents the situation. He talks fast and yells and mocks people to give the illusion of confidence and authority.
KDP, the part of amazon that lets you publish your own books, now has a beta program to create audio books using virtual voices.

https://www.kdpcommunity.com/s/article/Invite-Only-KDP-Beta-...
Two Paths for Paying Down Tech Debt
I have to disagree. With a VM, there is less shared code shared with the host to review and audit for vulnerabilities. The developers can go over those device drivers, system calls for VM management, etc. with a fined-tooth comb. With containers, you have essentially the entire kernel, much more surface area to potentially exploit.

Maybe I am wrong. We can wait for a security professional to comment.
The constant 15% that everyone forgets. And the U.K. is still importing French nuclear energy today.
Sounds like more evidence the police are an officially endorsed criminal gang. That seems like the source of the problem, and not solving that is just a bandaid.
Could at least have been $31337.
DMs rejoice
> It's unbelievable how much we've sent Ukraine while Americans are suffering at dire rates.

Indeed, it's unbelievable how little we actually sent via pallets (compared to past US wars) v. how much we sent in the form of gift cards for Ukraine to buy US surplus military hardware.

It's a very cost-effective program we should continue not just to defend our allies against a dictator but to keep our own economy cranking as money circulates among US employees and US companies throughout the military supply chain.
> Maybe you should talk to an old social worker or few, about the huge number of kids who are both abused, and attending public schools.

Social workers being aware of abused kids at schools seems exactly the thing we want. Most abusers are parents or relatives. Hiding the problem in home schooling and then saying it doesn't exist because social workers never hear about it seems the utterly wrong viewpoint.
> They can beat their kids or feed them candy all day, and nobody will know for a decade.

If they disappear into the forest, never to be seen by society again, sure. But for the families that have some community engagement, you soon find out. People notice, people talk.

Of course, knowing and doing something about it are very different things.
I've seen scraped up Teflon pans that seemed to have some sort of crap between the coating and the metal; I don't think it's just a mechanical bond.

Anyway, with how gentle you need to treat those pans I don't think they're worth it, even if safe. Stainless or cast iron aren't hard to clean and are essentially idiot proof, so that's what I like to use.
Great article. It reminds me of a beautifully illustrated children’s book called Hello Lighthouse[1], which tells the life story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife as they tend the lighthouse, get married, rescue the crew of a shipwreck, have a baby girl, and eventually move to shore after being replaced by a mechanism that turns the lamp automatically.

[1] https://www.sophieblackall.com/books/hello-lighthouse
> military surplus.

curious what happens to this if there are no proxy wars to sponser?
>blobstreaming.org

Mostly posted by OP: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=blobstreaming.org (16 out of 22 posts "by safaa1993")
See also this resource if you’re interested in these models:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38719675
> "Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

> In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."

– Michael Crichton (1942-2008)
Problems with both education systems can exist at the same time. As a society, we can try to address the issues with both home schooling and the public education system, not just one or the other.
> * August 7th - The issue was triaged

> * October 5th - Google paid $1337 for the issue

Is it just me or does it seem a bit odd that payout after triage took almost two full months? Initially I was positively surprised that they came up with a triage verdict within 2-3 days but what's the deal with the payout coming so late?
You are very naive if you think any of that money would go into helping the people in need. Those huge sums were approved and spent for the benefit of the military complex who traditionally sponsor political campaigns and outright bribe the government and the Congress so that the war machine never stops.
But not from users of multiple editors. They were all users of TECO who had written their own macros to add similar features.
I genuinely thought this link was about escaping a standardized steel shipping container, something I recently had to seriously consider. In that regard a disappointing click.

I also wrote my own docker-like containerization code for educational purposes a while ago, so container has both these meanings for me. Yet, me brain was expecting a physical escape story. Brains are funny!
yes but with a installation base of 60 million, the chance that a game was made and became rare is rare.

And if you look at the documentary about the auction scam, you will see what the problem is: there are too many prestine nes cartridges available. Only if you don't know the market it makes sense to invest
Thanks!

Yeah, I've looked at warp.dev. Funny story: I heard about them from Daniel Martí, aka mvdan, the author of the shell library I'm using.

It looks really neat, though I confess I haven't explored it much; dogfooding, don't'cha know. :) I felt a little threatened by them but also weirdly encouraged, since they got $50M in funding. It made me think that hey, somebody thinks a new experimental shell/terminal is a viable commercial product; why not mine? Also, Warp is pretty expensive by comparison (for teams of 6 or more, anyway; granted it's free for 5 or less).

Yeah, getting people to switch will be difficult, especially since most terminals are pretty rock-solid as far as their actual ncurses emulation, and mine still has some rough edges. I'm hoping that I can at least get a few happy users and go from there.

Thanks again for the kind words!
I don't understand your point, yes they took risks does not change the fact that some of them got raped. No reason to "dismissed" their report ...
Also related: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/15/south-park-lawsuit-paramount...
> that sends his children to very expensive schools

Always look at where people talking about education send their own kids: https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-teachers-union...
First of all, that's not what the headlines says.

Second of all, reality isn't that the US spends 1.5 times the money. The reality is that the US government spends 1.5 times the amount that these other governments spend.

But somehow in the US people still need to buy private insurance. Even though all people in the other countries get universal healthcare for less public money than the US already spends on healthcare.

It's meant to illustrate how cost inefficient the healthcare systems in the US is.
>Man, you just did.

I just did what. Be clear with Your sentences.

>If your job is C++ development, yes, I absolutely expect you to be familiar with the full C++ documentation and master the parts relevant for your specific usage of it.

So you were unclear. You want someone to master only parts of of the stack but read the full spec. This is completely inconsistent with what you said earlier. You are moving the goal posts. Still it doesn't Make sense to read 1800 pages of the C++20 spec.

Do you read the English dictionary because you use English?

>And the easiest way to get that familiarity is reading the damn documenents. If you cannot be bothered with that, well, let me say I am happy I don't have to work with you.

Then you would be happy to not have to work with the overwhelming majority of programmers on the face of the earth. You being in the minority would make you the problem. Not others. Programmers in general read the spec and docs relevant to the task at hand. They do not generally read the full formal specifications and documentation of what they need.
I am not very familiar with the e-sign space. But can't you just create a signature certificate with any name you want [1] to sign [2] only verifying PDF integrity ? Which mean that if you want a custom trust chain (you choose who to issue certs for), for verified signers, you have to roll your own certificate solutions? which these kind of product wrap nicely.

[1] https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/digital-ids.html

[2] https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/certificate-based-sign...
That's the strangest name for "cough drop" I've ever heard.
Great take. We all know that America has no interests abroad, and it's always better to let the international order unravel. That way, we'll be sending our troops instead in a few years.
The blatant egotism/authoritarianism in this thread of believing that the government somehow has a right or duty to raise one's children is stunning.

I have a relative (11 yo) is was an absolute gem of a human. I had noticed over the last 4-5 years she was becoming more reclusive, quiet, and sad in demeanor. She left public school and began homeschooling last year, and it has absolutely turned her life completely around. She is once again becoming more vibrant, enthused for life, and is thriving with new friends from her various weekly activities. I asked her if she liked her new coop school she attends (once per week) and of it she says 'there is way less drama'.

Why does anyone think the potential for abuse by the education system itself and peers therein is less likely than abuse by the family? In fact, my children are now legally allowed to become sterilized in the state of California during school time and that's allowed to be kept secret for me. That is legalized abuse.

For all the problems homeschooling might have, I believe the risks of 'unchecked child welfare' via family/community education FAR outweight the risks of the government run daycare centers on any day. Look at the outcomes: homeschoolers consistently score higher on standardized tests.
People eat off of enameled glass? Enamel chips and wears off and are often made with toxic metals. I don't know how it sticks in the first place, but it doesn't follow that if enamels are safe teflon must be as well.
Because homeschooling reinforces the societal stereotype that men work outside and that women work in the home. But there's nothing wrong with this social structure and it is still the way a majority of families operate across the world. But there's hostility toward women who do not have careers in western culture. Women who run families and teach at home play an important role that does not get recognized in economic output.
So the analogy become: Capabilities/functionality is "assets", code is "liability"? (or maybe "perfect" code is closer to equity)

Just as "real" assets depreciate, capabilities/functionality can as well. Require both maintenance and has a operation cost (also beyond hardware cost).
It's been almost checkmate from the beginning.
As a pure store of value, a few diamonds or a thin stack of 1000 swiss francs banknotes are more efficient. Expensive watches lose value if worn (with the exception, if it is still valid nowadays, of Rolexes), and customs officers can ask to check them (at least to catch fakes).
Dropping our Cold War era bomb stockpiles on the NIMBYs would probably work, but that’s a tad excessive, don’t you think?
They are the same thing. This is how it works in the US as well.
That article is based on ridiculous assumptions of future energy consumption growth, and was probably created as a joke. Which backfired since it got seriously quoted in so many places.
> The United States has more homeless people than ever since the country began measuring the size of the homeless population annually in 2007.

Pretty important seeming, and a little surprising.

So based on this wording the homeless population is higher than its ever been since we started recording it?
Here's my 2c. It's unlikely that many users, here or elsewhere, would be comfortable downloading and executing this Hacksh binary from your Dropbox, regardless of its benefits.
> Given the billion of dollars at stake and thousands of human-years of R&D needed, none of these companies are "winging it"

You'd be surprised. My personal knowledge of one major fab is that they have policies such as
regular rotation of employees which make it difficult to maintain institutional knowledge. I have heard complaints from multiple people of their teammates and managers "winging it" to think it's isolated incidents.
Yes, my point was vials is not all they use. There are many layers of protection: biosuits, negative air pressure, decontamination procedures at the exits, etc.
"653,000 people in the USA were homeless at the beginning of 2023"

I'm always impressed with these statistics of world richest country.
Those kids can snitch to much more competent people who are well trained and respond more quickly than schools which are notorious for suspending children who stand up to their bullies or call the police on kids just because they got into a little fight.

It’s called calling 911 and calling CPS, or going to your nearest healthcare place.

There are tons of ways, to checkup on kids, even just a annual mandatory children checkup is enough, or neighbours keeping an eye out and reporting issues.

School neglect is often the very thing that lead children to failures, abuse from their peers, suicidal thoughts, gun violence, you name it.

Not sure if modern schools are the messiah.

I’m anti homeschool tho, i think parents are mostly incompetent at raising kids well, and if their children do not pass certain academic exams at grade 2,5 and 7 then they should be banned from homeschooling, an entire nation’s future depends on it.

Schools should also be less politicised, all this lgbtq , critical race theory, math is racist, etc should be removed from schools, I understand it’s meaningful in some ways and well intentioned, that children learn their history, that kids learn to be more tolerant of others, but these are all values that their parents should teach them, not schools.

Gutting out of advanced classes from school because too many white and asian kids got into it, instead of trying to improve outcomes for black and hispanic children, they just destroyed the advanced classes in major schools, and worsened the outcomes for EVERYBODY (I meant kids of masses, rich folks and politicians kids will still get top tier education at private school)

Schools != Parents
Too many schools tried to become the parent

Now parents are starting to remove schools altogether. This will be bad for everyone in this country, but it was schools and government who started this mess in the first place.

Now they just wanna blame parents.
> John Oliver discusses homeschooling, its surprising lack of regulation in many states, and, crucially, Darth Vader’s parenting skills.

This is a comedy bit. I've watched the first 7 minutes of this 24 minute video and the only research seems to be more conjecture.
There's zero reason why the US can't both support Ukraine and help solve homelessness. Homelessness is a product of a restrictive construction policies (namely, many US cities forbid or highly restrict construction of high-density low-cost housing), not a lack of funds.
I stopped reading after "white male privilege". Political submission, highly controversial
Why should I care?

Dealing with homelessness is a massive money suck with no real return (in the quarter).

Homeless people arent making any money that goes into taxes... or businesses.

Homeless people aren't stimulating the economy.

Laws that apply equally to everyone (like not living on the streets) can be used to make them go elsewhere.

I don't see why they matter at all. We all know "The Economy" is rich peoples' assets, and these people don't matter one bit. And, "The Economy" is doing GREAT!

/I wish this was only sarcasm...
Walgreens's Ambitions Lean on Its Technology. It Has to Build Up Its IT Dept
> not solving that is just a bandaid

I think the framing is silly, but in the spirit of argument, let’s accept it. What is the solution? (To me, it implies disbanding the police, which is not something most people want for obvious reasons.)
Isn't this possibility to strip users of the freedoms in derived works exactly what is touted as the "permissiveness" of these licenses?
One of the most damaging things for productivity is not being able to run the stack locally. This generally happens due to laziness and corner cutting.

If developers have to commit and wait for a build + test + deploy pipeline to see if their code works, that should be priority #1 to fix.
And this is probably exactly because of Scottish independence concerns in the past...
Don't buy the disinformation;not much of that money was actually sent to Ukraine, most of the money stays in the US. [0]

The US not funding school lunch programs, affordable housing, homeless programs is not a problem of lacking resources. It's an ideological decision. The help sent to Ukraine is actually negligible.[1]

There's more than enough money to go around; just look at the US's regular defense budget. This money being pushed to the MIC instead of to citizens in need is a conscious decision.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/29/ukraine-m...

[1] https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-s...
I've only ever had Xylometazoline spray for the nose and pseudoephedrine tablets work and both can only be really taken for a short period of time. Overuse of Xylometazoline will have the opposite effect.
People in Europe also have the option to go to private facilities if they're willing to pay thousands of Euros out of pocket.
Yeah it seems like this guy explicitly doesn't understand the licenses but will go tell people things they cannot do under the licenses anyway. Weird.
A documented education, however, does show that one can exhibit consistency with regards to a curriculum. Regardless of how you feel about expertise (judging from your comment history, I'd say you probably don't value expert opinions highly), the ability to adhere to a particular regimen is a virtue in education.
How would I go about lifting the damper on a piano key?
Given family health issues our kids get to enjoy virtual school - still a public school just structured to function mostly through computer.

But! We do get inundated by homeschool catalogues and materials.

Wow the Young Earth Creation crowd and the alternative history / alternative science crowds are well represented.

Based on the materials presented I'd guess 1/3 crazies to 2/3 people with unfortunate constraints or nonstandard schooling needs.
IANAL, but you might want to specify the type of technology, or even the geographical region.
It’d be wrong to think the average parent is more competent than the average teacher though…
Borrowing money to pay for things that don’t provide value to the average American is Broken Windows at its best.

Every $ we send to Ukraine is borrowed from future generations. You don’t borrow money to spend it on things that don’t give you an ROI.
I think you should show the JS example first. The bash examples don't tell how it is different from make, just, etc.
My anecdote is that for me I've known phenylephrine worthless for decades and seek out pseudoephedrine when I need actual relief. Now we have two data points.
Seen from the outside the US has an extremely harsh opinions on the homeless. I have often read of homeless people use of public libraries, as an argument against having public libraries at all. With a small social safety net, its weird to think that one can be without large amounts of homelessness.
The “cult” thing might make sense if there were any history at all of GM, or really even any auto maker, making a better infotainment system than CarPlay. But it’s never happened.

Imagine GM were a home builder who suddenly said they will no longer sell any homes they build, only rent them out. You are free to sell your house with your 3% mortgage, and go back to renting, to see if you prefer it. But those who choose to continue owning are not in a “cult,” and they’d think you were making a pretty bad decision. And they’d almost certainly be right.
Librarians do it.