skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My school district in south WA is a representative example. Outcomes in math & English have been poor and continue declining. Attendance has dropped by > 30% despite mild population growth. Cost / student are among the highest, and due to the lacking attendance, deficits have led to staff cuts, leading to worsening outcomes. A death spiral.

To many, schools are perceived to be costly, unsafe indoctrination centers that push left-leaning agendas. Extended covid lockdowns were a huge betrayal.

You only have one chance to raise your kids, and the competition is getting tougher every year. Homeschooling in the area has tripled.

Some of the criticism is justified, some isn’t. But with failures on the academic outcomes, safety, and subjective failures on the ideology – the onus is on public schools to win back trust.

You can shame the homeschoolers , but that won’t bring them back. Time will tell if they succeed, but compared to public schools, the bar is so low that odds are in the homeschoolers favor. Especially if their parents care enough to do it.
The Myth of Perfect Test Coverage: When More Tests Can Slow You Down
Have you tried creating a demo project in an area you want to work in and blogging about it?

Then use that in your cv and point to it in your covering letter.
I don't think microwave is "closer to the speed of light" than.. light.
A family member who taught at a title 1 elementary schools encountered chair/desk throwing multiple times in the short time she was there. I think unfortunately YMMV greatly depending on the area where you live
The issue is it's why are you trying to be reproducible. The best use case is proving authenticity: that the source code became the binary code as written, but we're so far away from that that it's not realistic.

My dream system would be CI which gives me a gigantic object graph and can sign the source code from the ground up for every single thing including the compiler, so when a change happens you can drill down to what changed, and what the diffs were.
There's a reason this happen though. Whether you like it or not and regardless what the standards say, people want a technology that matches with the identifiers they want to use (eg email) and not whatever opaque value happens to be in the sub claim.

I don't like blaming users for wanting something sensible.
2024 CVEs in Review
Here's my analysis on the trends in Vulnerability Management and the related changes for CVEs published in 2024.
Stop the regex insanity!

"it's not your fault" - Robert Elder

Some deadpan humour from RE for your infotainment.
here's an alternative way to teach somebody to ride a bike, particularly an adult who is nervous about it. I invented it because I'm empathetic so I like to minimize anxiety and a superior thinker to most (proof: you haven't read this advice anywhere else except where I've posted it). if I've missed something, no problem, add it in, but every step of this is here for a reason. No pedal removal. Instead:

skill one: getting off the bike

you/teacher straddle the front wheel, hold the bike stable and still, and they climb on, hands on the handle bars, sitting on the seat, feet on the pedals, then have them put their weight on the pedals instead of the seat, pedal backward (coaster brake or not). with them standing on the pedals, show them how to brake, and with the brakes on, teach them to jump off the pedals, feet onto the ground. Get them to climb on and off with brakes on but without you holding the bike. repeat till they are comfortable.

skill 2: braking, and getting off the bike

on a very shallow incline, near the bottom of a hill, i.e. bunny slope that turns flat. hold the bike from behind the seat so it doesn't roll down the hill, have them get on (and get off to test that skill again) and explain you are going to let the bike roll down the hill (you can run along and keep your hand on the seat), and their job is to experience that for a second, but brake and get off the bike. repeat as many times as necessary for them to feel comfortable and capable.

next steps are flexible/obvious. now that they can stop and get off of a moving bicycle, start higher on the slight hill so they can pick up more speed, before braking and getting off. segue into pedaling, but always with a goal/option of "stop and get off the bike". When they are comfortable, they will stop stopping and ride.

(you don't need to teach "balance" because the physics of bicycles is self-balancing. It's hard/impossible to knock over a bicycle with its wheels spinning, there is nothing to teach. what you need to overcome is the beginning cyclist's fear and tendency to do things that don't make sense)
You might find Teeny (https://github.com/yakkomajuri/teeny) interesting for this.

Something I built to have my own site in static HTML and CSS.
Sega CD PCM Chip – An Overview
> This technique will have to allow for over-all slow connections

I don't think the technique can accommodate that. But I would love to be proven wrong.
ChatGPT scheduled tasks – tool instructions
There isn't one because it didn't happen.
The author's thesis is that the rise in home-schooling is driven by a desire to "opt out of being around average people," and he implies that he is not home-schooling his own children in part because he himself was home-schooled and believes that may have contributed to his own struggles with social stress.

However, given his self-description, it seems there is a decent chance he would have struggled with social stressors regardless of what education setting he was in, possibly even more so if he had been exposed to bullying or excessive social stressors in a more traditional public education setting.

Exposing oneself to just the right dose of poison in order to develop immunity is a delicate science.

When I was younger, I was also taught to believe that nurture always triumphs over nature, but as I got older and eventually had my own kids, I found out that nature was winning way more of those battles than I first realized.
Because the contaminants in that 0.01% can be byproducts of the refining process and not necessarily what was in the air originally.
Some people have come close to driving to the geographic north pole, such as when Top Gear drove to the 1996 magnetic north pole.[1] Unless the ice gets thinner as one gets closer to the pole, the main limitation would be logistics, not falling through the ice.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear:_Polar_Special
The same could be said of tobacco companies. You might want to rethink your argument.
That was just the excuse everyone used to have a go at eachother. Russia didn't want its pan-slavic ambitions to get embarrassed again (as they were with the Austro-Hungarian annexation of Bosnia), France wanted revenge, Austria-Hungary wanted to remind everyone that they were still around and relevant, Germany wanted to establish supremacy on the continent, the UK wanted to curtail German ambitions, and prevent the rise of a rival empire.

Everyone was itching for a fight, all for incredibly stupid, selfish reasons, and unleashed a war that butchered an entire generation of Europe's youth. Three of the five major belligerents had their governments overthrown, and that was two too few.
If you’re on a Mac, there’s Notenik. It’s FOSS.

> You can publish a Note as a draft to Medium by using the Publish to Medium command beneath the Note menu.

https://notenik.app/kb/publish-to-medium.html

Not quite immediate cross-posting. But it can get you close I suppose.

Kick around in the Knowledge Base to get a feel for it.

In practice you can put writing that’s separate from the mainline of posts (I.e., newsletter material) in a subdirectory of the main directory that Notenik operates in (all files are locally stored and can be written in various Markdown flavors; the in-house syntax is a dialect of Multimarkdown).

The developer wrote a guide on how to get starting publishing a static website: https://notenik.app/web-intro/

You can host the blog for about as much as you feel like spending; VPS, shared, personal equipment, sneakernet.

Granted, it takes some effort in writing templates and scripts to generate the site, but the guide covers that and it can become a write once and forget about it sort of thing is that’s what you want it to be.
Rednoteinfo.com
Im not expecting him to dive into the history, but a brief mention that isn't 'it used to mean something else' would suffice. Either way that isn't the greatest sin(lol) of the essay, just a nit at this point
Meehl's hypothesis is that some fraction of schizotypes, maybe 5-10% develop schizophrenia in early adulthood. I'm too old for that now.

It could be that I've compensated because my verbal intelligence is too high to measure. I got 800 verbal/760 math on the SAT and probably gave up 40 points to the line noise in my brain. I struggled to get more than 90% on math quizzes in high school because of that line noise but as my education progressed (physics PhD) I got better at not making mistakes on math. I've maxxed every verbal test and subscale I've taken.

I am worried that I won't be able to compensate so well when I am older; psychotic dementia would be a terrible burden on the people around me. I've seen people who aged well because they had good emotional habits, I can only hope I've got enough time to improve mine.
Could be that anything that puts more cycles on the battery means a replacement will come sooner.
Ask HN: Do you have experience in/knowledge of online pro-corporate propaganda?
Hi HN, we all know state propaganda is rife online in this day and age, and well documented both by institutions like Columbia uni and Oxford, and training/workplace videos of bot farms and office workers on youtube.

What I don't see often documented, but I think is equally prevalent, is corporate online disinformation/misinformation efforts. These companies often have much higher gdps than nation states, and their efforts seem more discreet, at least in the media.

Would greatly appreciate anything you have :)
In the US they generally add toxic chemicals back in for that kind of thing to prevent people doing that.
I was going to make my usual comment of FHE being nice in theory but too slow in practice, and then the article points out that there’s now SHE (somewhat homomorphic encryption). I wasn’t aware that the security guarantees of FHE could be relaxed without sacrificing them. That’s pretty cool.

Is there any concrete info about noise budgets? It seems like that’s the critical concern, and I’d like to understand at what point precisely the security breaks down if you have too little (or too much?) noise.
So they could fly you to some hypoxic region hill, do the thing, greenscreen the entire everest experience with dinosaurs and robo-taxis and you'd be totally convinced it happened..
No need for minimum wage laws then I suppose. Businesses will just keep expanding to keep those salaries high.
What do you think maintains those no-go lines? The threat of recklessly gambling mass death if those lines are crossed
The remarkable thing is that Americans don’t understand their own civilization. They don’t learn anything substantive about the founding U.S. cultures (big differences between Puritans and Jamestown settlers). They don’t study European history as a required course so they know almost nothing about how the modern world came to be (Westphalian nation states, etc). And they learn almost no world history beyond ancient civilizations (native Americans, ancient Egyptians, etc).

I spend $33,000 a year on my daughter’s education and she was telling me about some supposed connection between the Constitution and some Indian tribe—but she has no idea what the Magna Carta is, or what the political structure was of the UK that we declared independence from, who Plato is, etc. My mom was more educated as a girl in a desperately poor Muslim country in the 1950s than my daughter in an affluent DC region private school.
Good stuff! Fortunate enough to have met both cofounders and they are bright and hard working! They are not playing around!
This is exactly why I dislike the push to erode parental rights or attack homeschooling, which is happening in many blue states. Parents know best, not a civil worker (teachers) or bureaucrat or the “state”.
Haha, no. You couldn't be more wrong! This is my impression from in person conversations with people I know, mostly in Seattle where I've lived since 2014. There's a bar I'm a regular at, plus a couple hobby groups where I've met most of my local friends. Almost all are left wing, some very left wing, one was even heavily involved in CHAZ/CHOP. I don't engage much in internet commentary, or at all with rage bait outlets.

The rest of your comment proves my point quite nicely though!
I enjoy the occasional true crime documentary. It's been amazing to watch YouTube demonetization just drive censorship to an absurd degree.

No blood, no violence, no bad words. And the words YouTube deems bad are somehow much stricter than what I grew up with. Many words related to violence (abuse, assault, etc) words related to death (killed, executed, etc) words related to drugs (took me a while to figure out what a suspect was even saying when their speech was censored to "they drank and used s**d" I finally figured out it was speed aka meth)

It's amazing to see how sanitized things have become, almost to the point of absurdity. Does making it so that people can't say the word "abuse" somehow eliminate abuse from the world?
A few years back, some of us were concerned about the Filipino boiler rooms maintaining hundreds and thousands of fake profiles, to be sold to whoever wanted a supply of "users" to push content. We firesaw that state actors could use these for extra advantage.

Now, bots that sow BS contwbt are everywhere anyway, and Meta is selling that capability to everyone. Just without the finesse that went into the impersonations. What are they smoking over there? I really don't want to believe they're correct. I really hope it's the cover story for something much more interesting.
I think that Native American history, the Civil War, and Geology are all reasonable subjects to cover in school.
Easy keyboard access is also a baked in assumption.

I found my way to Nix because I wanted to try SteamOS on nicer hardware than the Steam Deck. Bazzite is the recommendation in that space now, but at the time, there were a lot of equally unknown options. There's a community called Jovian that has replicated the SteamOS setup atop NixOS, using Valve's own sources. Using official sources and taking the chance to learn a new functional programming language seemed like as good a place to start as any.

When it works, it's great; however, +1 to all the gripes.

_Everything_ in Nix is set by writing to a text file and calling a CLI to rebuild. If you don't have ready access to a keyboard, you might not be able to so much as change the timezone. You can end up on obsolete versions of evergreen software like Chrome too, because Nix wants to own everything, and nothing changes until you rebuild.
Mostly religious fanaticism.

It sucks, my sons went to catholic schools, and now an independent Catholic high school. The new breed of “evangelical style” Catholics are starting to appear. They are more political and reactionary in terms of religious politics/practice.

Where infrastructure doesn’t exist, homeschools and stuff like “classical education” are gaining traction.
This is exactly how I teach people to drive stick, and they’ll learn within 30 minutes.
Put them on an empty road with a downward slope. The car will roll on its own, without them having to use the gas pedal. Then they can just practice switching into first without the risk of stalling.
After a few times integrate using the gas pedal.
Huh? It's already extracted. Burning it causes a precisely proportional increase in the amount of fossil carbon that ends up in the atmosphere. It is exactly the same environmentally as burning gasoline, except even dirtier.

Better to bury it. Put it back in the ground, where it came from.
Judging by the name and picture, I'm pretty sure Forrest Brazeal is a he.
That's a very good concern to have. Grounding[0] helps a lot with this and will continue to improve. I'll also add that I've had human teachers who were confidently wrong about things.

[0] https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/facts-grounding-a-new-...
Good points. Your last paragraph suggests we really need a drastic rethink of how education works and where funding goes. Right now a one size fits all solution with no competition is what gets funded.
that's exactly what the connect implied. as with apple having done that at least twice in the open.
You’ll get a kick out of this if you haven’t already seen it - a collection of random slice of life videos uploaded during the time when iPhones had a built in “send to YouTube” button. So many fascinating moments that would otherwise be lost to time.
https://walzr.com/IMG_0001
> Everyone who is not drunk on Propaganda

> people like you are unable of critical thinking.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A slightly simpler version of same is:

for PAGE in *.page
do
cat header.html "$PAGE" footer.html > "$PAGE.html"
done

As noted in a peer comment, the cat[0] command supports concatenating multiple files to stdout in one invocation.

HTH

EDIT: if you don't want the output file to be named "a.page.html" and instead it to be "a.html", replace the above cat invocation with:

cat header.html "$PAGE" footer.html > "${PAGE%.page}.html"

This syntax assumes use of a POSIX/bash/zsh shell.

0 - https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cat&apropos=0&sekt...
One of the best things I've learned is that you can go into your watch history and remove something and that seems to work pretty well to fixing the algorithm after clicking on something and realizing it's garbage.
Security through transparency: RP2350 Hacking Challenge results are in
Honestly a school shooting drill was probably near the bottom of the causes of psychological problems when I was in school.
Oh man, cattiness use of cat!
You may have never encountered a small kid who rides a balance bike at speed, with enormous little kid enthusiasm, up and down hills. :)
Show HN: Laravel AI Code Analysis – Automated AST Parsing and OpenAI-Driven Docs
Excellent point. Comment updated for accuracy.
I’ve used an llm to help my niece, who is a performer, and has a flair for story, but no rpg experience dm as a human - llm team up. It was very successful
The virulent anti-nationalists are, themselves, often a very pro-war faction.
We have an iMessages WiFi AP that only allows iMessage and FaceTime.

Very easy to set up and you can then turn off general purpose internet without ostracizing them from their friends.
> Not an issue, and wasn't for like last 10 years. I honestly don't remember when I had cash on me.

I'm not talking about normal day-to-day life. I'm thinking of massive hacker / DDOS attack, radio interference, EMP attack or some equivalent natural disaster (extremely strong solar flares). Switching to hotspot won't help, since that obviously won't work either.
Analogies are never perfect, they are a tool to explain an idea by way of drawing similarities. They are not meant to overlap perfectly, that would be a tautology.

It’s not realistic to think one’s family could simply sue an insurance company or of existence. It’s pretty obvious to anyone engaging in good faith that the example is making a point for humans, not attempting to be taken literally by obtuse robots.
You pay per-term, not per class, and you can take as many classes as you'd like per term. You take one class at a time, and many classes can be finished after taking a test and/or completing a project.

I say it feels tailor-made for ADHD because it feels almost "gamified". It's addictive to see how many classes you can knock out in a week, and you can work at whatever pace you'd like.

Part of the reason I always did poorly in school is that I didn't like how slow everything went, but with WGU I can go whatever pace I want, and the faster I go, the more money I save. Since I'm an extremely impatient person, the fact that I was able to quickly go through the material while only having to focus on one course at a time was kind of game-changing to me.

I already had a decade of software engineering experience when I did WGU, so when I did the Computer Science degree on there I finished the entirety of it (having to start from scratch) in six months, for a grand total cost of around ~$4600.

WGU is hardly the fanciest school, but it's good enough, inexpensive, and most importantly it is fully accredited. If you always struggled with traditional universities, I recommend giving it a look.
NASA has used sqlite on a number of systems, so the reach is certainly beyond just the planet.
civilization is the industrialization of society
Ok guys, this climate change stuff is temporarily off the menu until we win the great power AI war with China. Same goes for nuclear power. Send the memo out that we love nuclear power now after 40 years of hating it.[1]

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/96aa8d1a-bbf1-4b35-8680-d1fef36ef...
The google maps link in turn leads to a walk through the "Carnarvon Space and Technology Museum" in the buildings next to the Carnarvon dish.

https://www.google.com/maps/@-24.8687566,113.7039752,3a,75y,...
That we know about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yfXgu37iyI
Teachers are mostly very uneducated and ineffective at teaching itself and the subjects they teach. I don’t think spending time to get an education degree or certification means much. Parents care for their children more than any random teacher, especially ones that resist performance measurements to judge their effectiveness. I would expect the average parent to be FAR more effective just based on that care.
> price allies pay

They will not pay, we Americans will pay. The US cannot tax foreign countries and no company is going to take the loss, they will pass on the cost to consumers. It has always been this way every time it has been tried. This is before we even consider the reciprocal tariffs that come more often than not. Last time Trump tried this, we ended up having to spend $25B to bail out farmers

Bullies do as bullies do I guess...
Im not an expert on this, but my understanding is "noise" is less a security breakdown and more the entire system breaksdown. That is where the "somewhat" comes in, unlike "full" where the system can do (expensive) things to get rid of noise, in somewhat the noise just accumulates until the system stops working. (Definitely talking out of my hat here)
> not spending more time writing Terraform.

Also, there's another bit of nuance to that, as well as your overarching point about "automation isn't free," in that writing Terraform/Tofu isn't usually the long pole in that tent: debugging the raging PoS most certainly is (along with its associated https://xkcd.com/303/ of waiting for the "plan, attempt apply, puke, goto 1" loop)

And, in almost the exact same vein: writing any automation carries with it two downstream bits of work: monitoring the automation and having enough context to debug it when (WHEN) it falls over
I'd add at least a 3rd group: Parents of kids with sensory (e.g. autism) or behavioral issues that are incompatible with learning at a school.
The NEA is the largest union in the United States.