skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has been the strategy used by families around the world for thousands of years.

Have some kids, pick the one that seems like they'll be the most successful, put all of the family's limited resources into that one kid. If that kid goes on to become successful, they are expected to help lift up the rest of the family.

Another view is that I've paid back in taxes alone, many multiples of what my education cost the city.

> feeding a horse a huge amount of oats results in some of the feed passing through for lucky sparrows to eat

Yeah well the current strategy being employed is starve all the horses and leave the bodies in the field to rot.

The harsh truth is bell curves exist. Some people are just better are things than others.

Imagine a scenario with three classrooms:

One classroom is full of kids who can be taught 3 years of a subject in one year

A second classroom has kids who can be taught 1 year of a skills in a subject in 1 year.

The third classroom is kids who are remedial and if great effort is put in, they'll be taught one year of skills in two years.

The no-shit-sherlock strategy is to assign a teacher to each classroom.

What we are doing instead is one of two strategies:

1. Mix all the students together, and watch as the kids who would be advanced drop out of school due to boredom, and the kids who need remedial help drop out because they aren't learning anything.

2. Fund classroom 2 as normal, take resources that would've been spent on classroom 1, and give it to classroom 3, causing incremental improvements, and again failing the kids who would be in classroom 1.

Both strategies are downright stupid and inefficient.

Not only that, these strategies also cause funding problems. Now the parents of kids who would have been in classroom 1 pull their kids out of school, causing a reduction in funding for everyone. Next, parents who would have kids in classroom 1 don't even move to the city, causing a reduction in the overall economy for the city, so now there is even less money for social and academic programs to help disadvantaged students.

To be clear, I'm not naming the subject here because students should be independently evaluated on each subject. Someone may need remedial math help but be great at writing.
Resources on wild pig management usually recommend trapping or baiting rather than trying to shoot them. Shooting at them with a semi-auto while they are fleeing is a particularly cruel way to address the problem, as you're not making clean kills in this sort of situation.
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I don’t know what is up with the USA and its obsession that kids cannot have autonomy.
I think many of us grew up where our parents didn’t know our location at all times. My parents used to tell me to be home by a certain time, but I used to roam the neighborhood, go get candy at the gas station, explore the forest.

Maybe it is a sign of the eroding social trust in the USA where people do not believe that others in the community are decent people as well. It kind of makes sense if you never actually go out into the community and meet others. The USA lifestyle is you drive everywhere in your big SUV, all interactions are transactional, you don’t talk to your neighbours and instead watch netflix and binge social media where you are sold the idea that everything is horrible and the world is a bad place.
Unless you summoned that stranger with an app on your phone, then it's totally fine.
fwiw it took me a few months to see any gains myself. The key for me was consistency and showing up on a regular schedule. Twice a week for me, with a third day thrown in if I could manage it. But those two days I chose were absolutely non-optional and I held myself to it. Took about 60-90 days before I noticed any sort of improvement.
Experts Opinion on Using Phones on the Toilet
This is American policing, I've been pulled over or even detained for just walking several times. I think it's a combination of power tripping, nothing better to do with large police forces and many vehicles, and a fundamental distrust of any transport that isn't a car. And of course the legal and moral framework that allows for random abuses of rights and an overall acceptance of a papers-please force.
So do I then get a chronological timeline of the people I actually follow or will they still force their curated stream down my throat?

Basically the same as advertising IMO...
Its actually much scarier than that: the trend started reversing ~2017, COVID accelerated it, and it hasn't recovered post-COVID.

Naturally, changes to any sufficiently complex system take years to truly manifest their impact in broad statistics; sometimes decades. But, don't discount this single line from the original article:

> Then in 2018, the hospital bought a new program from Epic
ABS, "anti-lock brake system"

It's been standard in cars for a long time. It's a really pretty simple system that ensures that your wheels aren't just completely stopped while you're braking hard on slick services. When the wheel's are completely stopped there's less friction than when they're still rolling near the speed of the road. Also when your wheels are locked steering is nearly impossible, but you do have directional control while they're still rolling.

Some of the systems are more advanced than others, but the basic version just compares the speed of the wheels to each other.
Devices with preinstalled Linux exist.
This looks brilliant. Happy to say I’ve just received the shipping notification. Can’t wait to try it out!
Yeah, as a cs student, some professors allow use of LLM's because it is what will be a part of the job going forward. I get that, and I use them for learning, as opposed to internet searches, but I still manually write my code and fully understand it, cause I don't wanna miss out on those lessons. Otherwise I might not be able to verify an LLM's output.
In that case it's the optics with the customers that matter.

Which can be more rewarding to satisfy than the optics of just management. But still needs to be managed appropriately.
Everyday Ghidra: Ghidra Data Types– When to Create Custom GDTs – Part 1
The FDA has to certify the devices for use as hearing aids in the U.S

Other countries have similar regulatory bodies the certify the use of a medical device.

Hearing aids (and things sold as it) are medical devices.
How will you keep your price so low?

I've been burned too many times on "simple, cheap, multi-user" shared inboxes. Most recently Groove HQ where it went from $20 for our team of 3 to $45/seat for our team of 5 over the course of a few years. It was still worth it, but when I left that company, I had to switch to a shared gmail account because I'm not dropping $135/mo for a software project that may or may not take off.
Bro, love what comes out of Good Enough. I'll share this with our customer support team
Sure, how many >300 million year old fossils have we found related to how many animals lived at that time, over that span of time? The problem is many methods might work -- literally you accidentally falling on a trip to Florida might work -- but the probability can be very low.
It's wild to me that the fact that he has his own phone isn't considered security enough. Surely by 10 or 11 years old, the kid knows how to call for help if he needs it.
Yeah, but wouldn't the sheriff making the comment be own goaling the situation. Wouldn't her scenarios imply that she's shite at her job so that crimes like these are prevalent?
What's the stack like? I love the frontend design, are you using SES to handle the inbound mail?
And farm rules.
Does it look like a duck? Does it quack like duck?

In-ear devices with speaker and mic that look like hearing aids that perform hearing aid function for those with hearing loss? Hearing aids.

Phones, that look nothing like glasses or contacts, and don't serve the same purpose? Obviously not.

Don't be silly. Judges aren't.
So what we see here are the very real ramifications of a media-driven crime hysteria. The deputy noted that the child could be "kidnapped". You will see claims like "800,000 children are kidnapped every year". The media loves to drum up fear. The vast majority of these cases are custody disputes. Actual cases of children being kidnapped by strangers? Fewer than 100 per year, probably a lot fewer [1].

This is a small rural town. That makes it less likely just because there are fewer strangers. Not that there aren't dangers from known people and family members but that's a risk regardless. It really has nothing to do with walking a mile down a road. This isn't a major road either. The article notes it has a 25mph speed limit.

Compre that to firearm-related deaths, which are in the thousands [2]

One side note for any non-American: you may expect there to be sidewalks on roads. For most roads in the US, this is not the case. There might be a shoulder. There might not. There often won't even be a curb. So you're walking on uneven ground. So you could get hit by a car but this isn't a high speed road.

Common sense should rule here. Like don't the police have better things to do? And the DA? Or DCFS?

[1]: https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/child-abductions-str...

[2]: https://www.kff.org/mental-health/issue-brief/the-impact-of-...
Nice thing is that block works there.
If you are working on something the people deciding on the size of your paycheck want to kill, time to find a new project or a new company. Why fight a battle you're sure to lose?
In Central European cities kids will walk unsupervised to school from age 5, even today in 2024. Parents are even actively discouraged from taking children to school. If what you suggest is true, then statistically we should see Swiss children dying at a higher rate than American children?
Frustrating? Yeah! but it works SO great! I especially like Playwright in this context, it can do pretty much anything and is a joy to use.
It's not equally distributed. In Boston, MA area kids have as much autonomy as their parents wish to give them AFAIK. It's not uncommon to see 10 year olds in my town nearby they are doing all sorts of biz around town on their own.
How you allocate your time for productivity?
I'm thinking hard, to evolve with technology and have a deeply understanding of you time and life balance is a game changer to create new useful things, but how you find purpose to distribute better this kind of resource?
At times it makes me wonder how they can even hold shareholder calls without the investors getting super concerned.

How can you deliever or invest in your own product if you can't even afford self created coffee. (~$0.10 a day)
The LinkedIn vs HiQ case makes it so that scraping data behind a login screen is not okay but publicly accessible pages are fair game.
Rationality says let the kid out. I was wandering around Chicago from age 10. Stuff happened, I survived. Kids can decide to wuss out on their own.
The emotional perception of the quality of you, the worker, in the eyes of the leadership who pays you. It is distinct from your true value and contributions. It is maximized by you optimizing the visibility of things that boost reputation and minimizing the visibility of embarrassing things.
The person could simply have asked the child if they were OK or they need help, if they maybe need a phone to call their parents. Their attitude was more like seeing a stray animal out in the wild and calling animal control. They are fucking insane, there's no excuse.
That is definitely trending downwards by the number of 20-somethings still living at home with parents (for any number of valid reasons).
I think a lot of it has to do with constant fear mongering on the news and its effect after 40+ years of it. Also the phenomenon of (I forgot what it's called) but where people are afraid of flying but not driving because they see constant news coverage of crashed planes.
There is no crime actually mentioned. What are the charges?
I saw a blog post a few years ago about a Canadian dude getting an exception to go to WGU. You might just email WGU and ask if you can get an exception.

https://miguelrochefort.com/blog/cs-degree/
Practically I think this is the only way forward. The previous solutions of pushing people "up" only works for so long. People are hard limited by what they're capable of - for example, I couldn't be a surgeon even if I wanted to. I'm just not smart enough and driven enough.
Good thought but our coal is peat from 300-350 M year ago.
Much of it would have probably been "ready" 60 M years ago already.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous
I must be one of those tiny dots just floating in nothingness because my BSKY feed is a dead zone. I've posted, I've replied, I've liked and tried to be an active participant but nothing seems to stick. There's only so many posts I can publish "for myself" before I lose interest.

Contrast this with early Twitter where everyone was just super excited, and eager to follow new people. I don't get it, shouldn't a new social network be full of people looking to create new... social networks?
> If modern housing can't survive geological time, then dinosaur fossils also can't survive it.

That assumption does not hold.
What do you think is a fair price? (It seems quite reasonable to me.)
It can even vary a lot between different layoff events at the same company. Every layoff is its own animal.
The busybodies don't realize that they are themselves a threat to kids' wellbeing. Nine times out of ten kids are better off with bad parents than with no parents.
That particular bit of insanity is mostly restricted to the US. Other western countries still allow children to roam free for now
Presumably depends on the country and the laws. Keep in mind that Apple considers this a new interesting use case - not a killer feature for AirPods. They wouldn’t risk AirPod sales with a gray interpretation of the law.
The issue with color on X
> They say X/Twitter is full of people spreading hate speech.

I've recently created a brand new account on X for a project. Looking at what was being recommended to the brand-new account with no interactions or likes or anything, they are not wrong.
• The Guardian's Football Weekly

• Leo Laporte's TWiT

• CBC's Comedy Factory with Jane Testar
There's another narrative that I've heard about the recent flood of former-X users into Bluesky: a new Terms of Service document goes into effect in about 4 days, giving X ownership of your content with respect to its use in training LLMs.
"Bot rings show up clearly exposed, for one."

I like the sound of that. Surely there's usefulness in that observation.
If you're a team that currently uses google teams and gmail, is there a way you could start using it in parallel? I'm guessing any replies sent through Jelly would be invisible to someone looking at gmail.
I agree, but that doesn't stop us from missing someone when they're gone, like a friend who's moved far away. The difference is that death is so final. There's absolutely no chance to call them or visit them. They're just gone.

That's sad, and being sad is natural too.
Seems to talk about western toilets only. What about squat toilets? Can I watch a combined LOTR and Harry Potter marathon in one go using that?
Partly because Google is actively making it worse.
This is one big point I've subscribed to, I'd rather write the code and understand it that way, than read and try to understand code I did not write.

Also, I think it would be faster to write my own than try to fully understand others (LLM) code. I have developed my own ways of ensuring certain aspects of the code, like security, organization, and speed. Trying to knead out how those things are addressed in code I didn't write takes me longer.

Edit; spelling
Anysphere acquires Supermaven to beef up Cursor
In a town of 370 people, I'm surprised the driver didn't know the kid, his family for three or four generations, where he lived, and maybe even what he had for breakfast.
I was thinking it's the generation of people who have been normalized to "lockdowns" in school, who think the solution to everything is to make a new law, and expect the government to feed, teach, and care for their children. How can a stray child find its way alone, without a government chaperone?
The new set of keys I bought earlier this year are affected. Last time a vulnerability like this one was discovered, they sent me a new replacement key. It appears that's not gonna happen this time.

Really disappointed.
Forest and Desert
> Nonsense. Equity is not to blame. Finland has arguably the most equitable education system in the world and it's ahead of the US.

Finland has one of the most equitable societies in the world.

This means the amount of effort it takes to "raise up" a poor kid in Finland to have the same resources as a well to do kid is much less than it is in America.

> but investments to raise up the educational standards of low-income or underserved communities is not one of them.

School districts cannot solve structural issues within American society, but we expect them too.

If kids are starving, or being beaten, or otherwise abused, the teachers get judged if those students do poorly on standardized tests.

The problem is kids who don't get enough to eat, the problem is that there are kids who stay awake at night scared for their lives.

But as a society we've chosen to ignore all of that and worry about test scores instead.
Teaches the kids what the cops are about.
Musk very clearly actively sticks his fingers in the pie to steer narratives. Easy example, one of his children came out as trans (to Elon's apparent dismay), and now "cisgender" is flagged as a slur/hate-speech. There is other, anecdotal evidence that certain posters (ridiculously, Musk included) have their posts elevated above baseline visibility, but I don't have any statistics to back that up. Other flavorful unsolicited changes to the platform, such as changing blocking to allow blocked people to still see your posts, seem again like self-serving dictates from the top. Perhaps generally not censorship, but heavily biased moderation very clearly steered by the agenda of a single man.
The problem is if you deliver something and the people it's meant to serve don't know about it, or can't use it, or it doesn't actually solve their real problem, you didn't "ship" in the sense the article is talking about.

I suppose it's possible to pass all those thresholds and management still doesn't like it. But it's important to ask yourself if that's really the case or if you did something wrong and failed to ship something fit for purpose.
For one important example, the battle of Midway was a close thing even with the intelligence they had. Execution matters.
I agree the situation is nutty.
Who is actually the author of the present article in that exact magazine's website.
Less than a mile means no ride needed.
The thing is extent and execution are intrinsically linked. Meaning, unregulated markets mean the extent will be limited because people will just choose not to get educated. Which makes sense, if they themselves are uneducated they don't have perfect reasoning skills or future outlook.

A market relies on the participants having visibility and ability. They need to see the alternatives, understand them deeply, and have access to them. Turns out you can't do that in a bunch of markets, education being one of them. So, it can never be a true free market.
Was this the main reasoning for moving everything behind login more than data hoarding of the viewers?
For an unlimited amount of users $29 is not all that insane.
Threads is the highest ranked "social" app on the Play Store right now, so a lot of real people must be using it despite appearances. Next down the list is TikTok, then Instagram, Bluesky, Facebook, X (below Bluesky!), and
finally Reddit.
That's been my experience as well, in every sense. A sudden explosion of incoming people, many new options of interesting and salient people to follow, and the overall experience rapidly getting more engaging.
I really wasn't trying to be silly. I feel like other medical things in the US are regulated differently based purely on how they're marketed. How about an Apple Vision Pro with optical zoom on the exterior cameras?
Japanese language Twitter is indeed a very different beast. It's pretty much the social network over there, and most of Musk's changes that targeted or angered users were primarily targeted at English-language users, mostly in the US. So the Japanese users just kinda trucked on like nothing was happening.
At Boeing, ‘happy (wealthy) leaders’ diverged from ‘alive customers’.
> I don’t know what is up with the USA and its obsession that kids cannot have autonomy.

This is a news story and a controversy because it's a weird thing that happened.

The US is a big place. Societal norms and law enforcement practices vary widely from location to location. This appears to be one sheriff pushing a personal agenda.
Did you try Mastodon? Many have a better experience there.
All Traffic Operations Are Temporarily Suspended at Toussaint Louverture Airport
Agreed, and the astroturfing of that one extremely dumb talking point a few years was very suspect. Those with Eyes To See will recognize the all of The System's usual symbology in 3GPP: https://standards-tracker.5g-ppp.eu/sites/default/files/3GPP...

(G as 2D spiral view of 3D coil, 3 sides of a cube being the most you can see at one time, coil of Humanity goes inside the cube, tilted axis of the second P compared to the first, arcs of Ascension traced in the signal lines)
There are a few components to this that I can see being frustrating.
One is that many people here likely had a more free roam childhood and this kind of behaviour from law enforcement and society in general is quite peculiar and off-putting. Being socially outcast because I let my child walk to the store is one thing. Being actually arrested and threatening to remove the parent of a child in the name of their safety is another.

Another part is the data / justification for this behaviour. From 1999 to 2010 at least, it seems that motor vehicle accidents are the number one cause of teenagers dying. Then it's homicide and suicide. Homicides are mostly committed by people the person knows. I don't have a full complete data set here but ~85% of homicides against youth are committed by family members or people that know the family. Not strangers. It's not to say you should't protect your kids from strangers, just that... walking to the store isn't that.
Careful. I've seen "indispensable" people get laid off. It's a reminder that everybody is dispensable.
"This app isn't available on Google Play in your region"
Why should anyone blame the government when it's obvious that Apple cared about those regulations and filed the paperwork in some countries but not in others?

OP is still right here. The argument stands.
People sure are reading a lot into my comment that I feel "more vulnerable" on the sidewalk than in a Waymo. That doesn't mean I think walking is dangerous. (It can definitely be unpleasant in some locations though, for a variety of reasons.)
I only just read the article linked below, before checking HN. The contrast between the two is just jarring. O' what money can buy, freedom in the land of the free, for those with the resources to purchase it.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-13/donald-trump-moves-to...