MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chabes | 2025-04-01 15:46:27+00:00
> Education stuff is more of a political talking point than reality. In reality US education spending per student has continually increased and is always near the top of the world.

This is disingenuous, and itself a political talking point.

> In reality US education spending per student has continually increased and is always near the top of the world.

It is much more nuanced than “money in equals IQ out”.

Where does the money end up? Not in classrooms, unfortunately.

What is the average ratio of teachers to students? Is this number going up, up, up?

Now do counselors, nurses, etc.

How much are teachers spending out of pocket for classroom supplies? Has this number gone down, down, down?
by aequitas | 2025-04-01 15:46:39+00:00
I went into Rocksmith because of this promise and for me it worked out well. Though it did not greatly improve my guitar playing skills beyond some of the basics, I do enjoy that I can interact in some way with the music that I like. It's like whistling along with your favourite song but with your hands, so the experience is much more engaging and it's feels more rewarding than guitar hero as the sound that I'm making sound a lot more like music than that clicking of buttons.

Nowadays they have a subscription service, I don't know what the quality of that is. But I mostly still play on the "2014 remastered" edition with a "real tone cable" on macOS, but I think they updated that and you can play with any "audio interface" device you like. There is also the customsforge library for unofficial songs, but quality varies.

Between Rocksmith and Youtube tutorials, playing along with my favourite songs is the most fun I can get out off playing guitar that my skill level and time investment allows. I'll never play in a band or make a decent sounding song, but enjoying and getting enveloped by music is good enough.
by klabb3 | 2025-04-01 15:47:20+00:00
I find it refreshing to see a plausible aprils fools in a sea of overly obvious content marketing/PR-approved ”fools”. (And yes I was fooled by this one for a minute.)

> Spreading speculative or misleading information, even in jest, just muddies the waters further and makes it harder to find reliable news.

Meh, a drop in the ocean. Especially in AI where even CEOs are vagueposting unverifiable claims on a daily basis.
by mook | 2025-04-01 15:47:32+00:00
I suspect part of it is also that Nvidia actually does a lot of things in firmware that can be upgraded. The new Nvidia Linux drivers (the "open" ones) support Turing cards from 2018. That means chips that old already do much of the processing in firmware.

AMD keeps having issues because their drivers talk to the hardware directly so their drivers are massive bloated messes, famous for pages of auto-generated register definitions. Likely it's much more difficult to fix anything.
by vel0city | 2025-04-01 15:47:58+00:00
You only have a certain amount of traction budget to accelerate. You can spend that budget on trying to stop, you can spend that budget on turning. Spending it on both can end up with you losing grip and having less traction overall to achieve your goal. A modern car's computer will assist with trying to keep traction on the road so can be good to try to do both if you're not 100% sure what to do.

But also, turning often means you're going to enter another lane of traffic with potentially other cars/people/obstacles in there. So blindly swerving can sometimes end up with a much worse collision.

I'm not going to say you should always do X or you should always do Y or always do X + Y. There's a lot of situational conditions on that. But only kind of turning and only kind of stopping is probably not going to work.
by rdegges | 2025-04-01 15:48:24+00:00
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by naiquevin | 2025-04-01 15:48:39+00:00
I am going through the alphatex docs in more detail and looks like other stringed instruments and even piano are already supported.

Check this for bass guitar - https://alphatab.net/docs/alphatex/metadata#tuning

Check the example here for piano - https://alphatab.net/docs/alphatex/notes/#multiple-voices
by zyklu5 | 2025-04-01 15:48:58+00:00
On the contrary, what is presented by the OP is one of the many reasons that worship of science's heroes, unfashionable for decades, a whiggish pablum, is justified. If great results were birthed fully-formed -- a view I've frankly never heard anyone profess who has bothered to consider such things even briefly -- they would hardly be any heroes. Even little children who reflexively chomp on every superhero film aeroplaned towards their face understand this.
by bitcrusher | 2025-04-01 15:49:10+00:00
Totally get that; I'm on the older side, so personally I've been down this road quite a few times. We're ALWAYS on the verge of our profession being rugged somehow. RAD tools, Outsourcing, In-sourcing, No-Code, AI/LLM... I used to be curious about why there was overwhelming pressure to eliminate "us", but gave up and just focus on doing good work.
by eric_cc | 2025-04-01 15:49:10+00:00
> People are robbing themselves of the joy that can only come from putting yourself through hardship in pursuit of a goal.

This is such an old man “I used to walk uphill both ways” take.

Not everybody has the TIME COST to pursue being an expert in art or code or whatever. But if they have an amazing idea and can now use AI to produce the idea then that is a beautiful thing!

For example: Having an idea for a cartoon used to be a dead end. It would die in your head because most people cannot stop their life and dedicate a substantial amount of time, effort, and sacrifice to produce the single cartoon idea.
by SoftTalker | 2025-04-01 15:49:27+00:00
Yeah it was sort of cool. There were entire software products built on top of Notes and its forms and workflow.

I never had to program any of that, so can't speak to that side of it, but where I worked we used Notes to quickly build a lot of internal forms and workflows, and had some internal discussion forums and documentation in it, it all worked pretty well as I recall.

The one weird thing was we had to run it on OS/2. The only OS/2 machine in the server room.

We didn't use it for email though.
by rustyparts | 2025-04-01 15:49:46+00:00
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by BeetleB | 2025-04-01 15:49:50+00:00
Oh, BTW, the whole "Friction is directly proportional to the normal force": My Ass!

I could never reproduce it well in the lab, because it's really not true. Take a heavy cube the shape of a book. Orient it so that the spine is on the floor. It's a lot more friction to move it in one direction than in the transverse direction. Yet the normal force is the same. Any kid knows this, and I feel dumb it never occurred to me till someone pointed it out to me.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-04-01 15:50:01+00:00
I live in Vienna and frequently kayak (not canoe) the Donau. It’s a very fun and adventurous river, and there are lots of little side channels and island (Au) regions that can be explored. In Spring/Summer, it can be a delightful escape from the city, with many lovely little spots to escape to and forget that civilization even exists.

I’ve considered taking it on a longer paddle, for a few days (must of mine are day trips), so this is really a great resource.
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by Sreenington | 2025-04-01 15:50:08+00:00
I made a Neovim-style homepage that can be fully controlled through keybinds.

My favourite part of this is the theme system - Catpuccin Mocha - Claude Code

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by skyriser | 2025-04-01 15:51:03+00:00
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by zoezoezoezoe | 2025-04-01 15:51:06+00:00
> Try doing the same with a Linux binary that's just a year old. There's no guarantee that it will be able to run based off some update that has happened.

What?? I've used Linux for quite a while, and I've had a very good experience with software. I struggle to follow what they're talking about, Linux works just fine. Using Windows software is also pretty easy and like many people have already mentioned wine-binfmt is basically what this article is describing.
by reverseblade2 | 2025-04-01 15:51:08+00:00
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by nitin_j11 | 2025-04-01 15:51:11+00:00
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by bluefirebrand | 2025-04-01 15:51:30+00:00
My company (located in Canada) has experimented with 4 day weeks, and adopted a "4-day weeks for summers" perk

Personally I noticed the same things. I am less stressed, but more or less just as productive. It seems counter intuitive, I suppose but the extra time to rest does mean I'm more fresh and alert for the time I work

I'm glad to see countries taking this research seriously and I hope more companies move towards this
by JohnyTex | 2025-04-01 15:51:34+00:00
FWIW I think writing F# is a really cohesive experience in day-to-day work. While there are usually at least two ways to do things, due to .NET interoperability requirements, it’s usually pretty clear which way is the “right” way to do something.

F# feels kind of similar to Python in this regard, where there might be more than one way to do it, but there is community and ecosystem consensus on what is the right way.

I think a lot of credit should go to Don Syme for this; he seems to have a very clear vision of what F# should and should not be, and the combination of features ends up being very tasteful and well composed.
by Redeker_15_Beep | 2025-04-01 15:52:35+00:00
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by mrWiz | 2025-04-01 15:52:38+00:00
To continue this metaphor, a while back my girlfriend and I went to Machu Picchu. We were taking a bus to the summit, but there was a landslide near the bottom of the mountain so everybody had to climb most of the way up. This led to it being eerily empty until people started trickling in, which certainly made it a better experience than the normal tourist swarm would have been.

I can imagine AI art having a similar effect (creating a glut of images/logos/whatever that devalues ones made with care) but am hopeful that we'll get better at filtering the cream of the crop. In 5 years tons of things will have AI logos that would have been made by a graphic designer (or simply not made) in the past. That sucks for graphic designers who are out of a job, is good for people who get cheaper logos, and TBD for overall society who now has lots more "custom" logos etc to wade through.
by raphinou | 2025-04-01 15:52:56+00:00
I should have mentioned in the message, but I was looking for a strongly typed language. I was an avid-user of dynamically-typed languages, but that particular Ruby on Rails app became unmaintainable, and part of the culprit was due to the dynamic typing. I hoped that using a statically typed language would make it easier to maintain a complex app in the long term. And I must say that it totally materialised, to the point that I don't want to develop in dynamically typed languages anymore.

Here's an example: as I said in my original message, I was a complete stranger to the dotnet ecosystem, and I learned the F# language at the same time. And I decided to develop the app as a library project to be used by the web app. I completely missed the prevalence of the async approach in the dotnet, and all my code was synchronous. One day, about half-way in the project, I realised I needed to switch to async code. Had this happened in a dynamically typed project, it would have been hell for me. Maybe it's me that can't grasp a project well enough, but I need the type-guardrails to find my way in large refactorings. And with the strong types, large refactorings can be done confidently. They don't replace tests, but make the refactoring process much more smooth.

The app is open source and its code is at: https://gitlab.com/myowndb/myowndb It doesn't have a lot of users, not the least due to lack of marketing and polishing the user experience. But I am satisfied of what I learned developing it!
by don-code | 2025-04-01 15:53:37+00:00
This is, more or less, exactly what happened when I took Electronics I in college.

The course was structured in such a way that you could not move on to the next lab assignment until you completed the one before it. You could complete the lab assignments at your own pace. If you failed the lab, you failed the class, regardless of your grade.

The second or third lab had us characterize the response of a transistor in a DIP-8 package, which was provided to us. If you blew it up, you got a slap on the wrist. That DIP-8 was otherwise yours for the class.

I could _never_ get anything resembling linear output out of my transistor. The lab tech was unhelpful, insisting that it must be something with how I had it wired, encouraging me to re-draw my schematic, check my wires, and so on. It could _never_ be the equipment's fault.

Eight (!) weeks into that ten week class, I found the problem: the DIP was not, in fact, just a transistor. It was a 555 timer that had somehow been mixed in with the transistors.

I went and showed the lab technician. He gave me another one. At this point, I had two weeks to complete eight weeks of lab work, which was borderline impossible. So I made an appointment to see the professor, and his suggestion to me was to drop the class and take it again. Which, of course, would've affected my graduation date.

I chose to take a horrible but passing grade in the lab, finished the class with a C- (which was unusual for me), and went on to pretend that the whole thing never happened.
by ChrisLTD | 2025-04-01 15:53:54+00:00
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by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-01 15:54:40+00:00
I think there are two components to this, from a systems perspective. The first is sentiment. Lots of people in positions of authority and power have their identity tied up in their work. They would work 7 days a week if they could. This is the culture they want to push down (think Jamie Dimon [worth ~$2.4B] demanding 5 days a week in office in typical Boomer fashion). Sentiment takes time to change (Overton Window [1]). The second component is worker rights and power to demand reduced hours since we're already so productive in the aggregate [2] [3]; this is inevitable due to structural demographics [4] [5].

(4 day week proponent, almost all 4 day week trial results are very favorable, work to live, don't live to work)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

[2] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/a-visual-breakdown-of-who-o...

[3] http://oxfam.org/en/research/multilaterialism-era-global-oli...

[4] https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2020/09/18/the-great-...

[5] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-42657-6
by gambiting | 2025-04-01 15:54:42+00:00
Parents everywhere in (almost?) every country of the world are allowed to give tax-free gifts to their children without limit. That's generally not objected to in any way, but suddenly people think it's fair when the exact same money or houses get taxed at inheritance time.

Also - at the end of the day, someone is still getting something that they "didn't earn" - why allow it at all? Tax everything at 100% on death - why give people who didn't "earn it" something?

Obviously I'm being fascicious about this now, but if the argument that it's "unfair" for people who "didn't earn it" to get something, why allow this at all?

And also, personally - I think the argument is flipped on its head. It's not about people getting the inheritance - it's about people "giving" it - I paid taxes on my money throughout my entire life, why should the state take any more just because I'm leaving it to my children?