skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Rhetorical question: were you a licensed CPP, CPA or an actuary when you were a temp in your secondary education unit? That's literally my point.

Well, in the real world it didn't matter at all.

The payroll sheets were then sent to the state's revenue service so that teachers would get paid. If there was an issue, the revenue service would spot it.

Occasionally there were a few slips, because this or that law regarding teacher compensation, insurance contributions etc changed 2-3 times a year. We'd just calculate the differences and issue correction invoices to compensate. At worst a teacher would get a month's salary when they shouldn't (e.g. they have stopped working, but the school didn't notify in time), and then have to give it back.

>Yes, these things can all be done by amateurs. By tinkerers. We all here know it. We've done it. You've done it. Simple devices with telemetry and some logic. Simple programs that do complex things in the aggregate. Take it to your back yard, and either one of us or a highschool student could make a traffic light cheaper than $250,000 - $500,000 per intersection (WA state estimate). But neither one of us could build, install and maintain a quarter million of them, and I think you'd be hard-pressed to mobilize an army of nerds to make it scalable.

The story is not for "a quarter million" of traffic lights, though (which would require tons of money, installations, construction work, big material orders, etc), but about an AC/heat controller for a school district.

Such things as the latter, a "tinkerer" can often do much better, faster, and more effectively than some "specialized" firm.

>But if one wasn't involved, I'm saying it took faith on behalf of the administration to assume responsibility for risk in backing this project, whether consciously considered or not. And there are risks with electrical projects beyond the computers, namely things catching on fire. What were the safeguards here? What if a logic error burned out a fan?

The student didn't install the AC/Heat units themselves.

And the school could always have a "licensed professional" come and check the student's program for correctness, for 1/10th or less of the cost of a 1.2 million dollar replacement, how about that?
Nothing about meditation dictates one can't get angry amazed at people acting stupid. It's not enlightenment, it's a method of refreshing and relaxing.
So it doesn't apply here. But the "unrelated positive anecdote" and "unrelated observation 'Minecraft hate' exists" (without any indication what they mean with that, your guess is as good as mine) both are in "response" to this article.
Eight digits, as you usually don’t count the cents :)
Ah, I understand the "scroll bar" now. Never put that name together until now.
If you know enough about the law to rely on the Earned Income Tax Credit to pay off you credit cards, why don't you just reduce your withholding. Now the 'refund' turns out to be a paperwork exercise and you have the money as soon as you earn it.

'Nothing Burger'. Maintaining the integrity of our tax code inconveniences some. But benefits all.
.Net Developer here and I've never been unable to find good paying jobs or expand my career in interesting directions.

JavaScript is a good goal... but not because there's a lack of C# viability.
In addition to what has already been said, the last time i used btrfs in this manner the protocol had issues with some extended attributes which happened to manifest in issues on binaries which lets them gain additional capabilities[0] for example. Most notably this made iputils ping[1] utility unusable after branching of a previously made snapshot for further usage. This appears not to be a too common thing in other distributions but in arch the ping utility uses CAP_NET_RAWIO capability in order to avoid the need to use setuid which appears to be more common elsewhere. None the less i think that is something one would want to know the consequences of as i am sure there are quite a few more binaries with extended capabilities set in the extended attributes of its file or use them in another manner like security labels for SELinux. I just rechecked if this is still the case and found this patch[2] but i am not sure this has already landed.

[0] https://linux.die.net/man/7/capabilities

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/8/ping

[2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10388011/
Owner who demolished famed San Francisco house must build replica
Actual chemistry between the folks on screen that produces results that seem like ... actual chemistry seems really undervalued / rare these days.

I love reading / watching sports.... sports shows that aren't the sports them-self are almost always so bad and wonky.

Inside the NBA is a noteworthy example of what it should be.
I feel like 99pi is becoming more like This American Life. They’re both great radio programs but 99pi used to produce content that shon a light on an interesting but lesser noticed aspect of our daily lives. Like this episode could have been a this American life episode. It was mostly just an anecdotal experience from a unique person. Maybe focusing a little on property developers. Maybe it’s true that Roman Mars is just too talented to stay in his niche, but I’d be pretty disappointed if he just became budget Ira Glass.
My experience has been that, in SF startup culture, respect for the humanities is pretty strongly expressed. But not in the "I have a degree in writing" sense but the overwhelming belief that one must be a sort of Renaissance Man and be an artist or creator of some sort.

It makes sense, actually. For many people in the culture, they're fairly comfortable (founders are few, employees many) and so they start looking up Maslow's pyramid.
I think the ads you get from Taboola put you through a really awful funnel to weed out one-eighth wits and anybody else smarter.

It's like the "grooming" that a pedophile does or the badly spelled message you get from some Nigerian prince or somebody who says you won some lottery that you've never entered or even heard of before.

If you click on Taboolah links and manage to sit through a 45 minute video of somebody droning on and using words they can't pronounce (e.g. "Bih Seph A Nol A" as opposed to "Bis Phenol a") you just might be dumb enough to punch in your credit card number and get an $80 a month supplement that you can never cancel.

If it wasn't so offputting to ordinary people more complaints might go to the FTC and they might have something to fear from the authorities. As it is, public servants are paid too much to spend hours just to find out what the scam is if somebody reports it.
You could have controls in the handgrips to change the shape and amplitude of the curve.

As far as bugs go, you could clamp the output in the good old fashioned analog way (i.e. via circuitry) so the worst case is you just fall/jump off which is already the case for the sprung ones.
Is there an open source project which has done a good job of bringing on Product Managers and establishing norms of how they interact with the community and how they manage the process by which broad consensus is built?
Good point, I was trying to make the snippet simpler, since this is not required for Stripe setups, but I agree that this should be more clear. Thanks for the feedback!
Whatever the intent, how it will be perceived is effectively out of your control. Its current name is a headwind, actively working against its potential for success. If the project is important to you, you must rename it.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vitriol
Yes, but there will always be some heat loss, and the magnetism is lost with heat. I’m just assuming the pogo stick will drastically fail when the magnets get hot enough.
It's in my dictionary, marked as chiefly British.
Could someone eli5 this? I assume it runs coffee in gpu so do you need to know since special programming language
Sheeples. They are the true problem. Without the flock this would be impossible. I was marched out by a guy with a machine gun from my last job.
Yeah well, and I vouched for your comment just to tell you that all you're saying with that is that you didn't like my comment, but have got nothing concrete to criticize, and didn't like the quotes in my bio either, but have nothing concrete there either. It's off-topic alright, but you're obviously offended, and obviously dreaming when you think you could offend me.
In my country we used to have a state mandated "automatic inflation adjustment compensation" (so, like a mandatory raise to match the inflation index).
You are either creating or consuming content at a given time. Yes I have long breaks (I haven't used facebook in 10 months or so) I realize the negative impact on how the algorithms are designed to keep away things that you "dislike" and makes you thing that "everyone" thinks like you (to keep you engaged right?), the internet bubble so to say. Don't let these things take away your time. Just remember, things like that will most probably be there for a long time (if not always) but your time, health, and learning capacity are fading away as the clock ticks
Your boss told you that?
Yes, life is bigger than commerce. But your comment makes me wonder, "then, whose art should we value?" It's not that the US doesn't value art— highbrow or low brow, we have some of the finest museums of visual arts and the biggest of big-hair country music. We (more than) adequately finance both. Our resources, time, attention, and interest are finite, so how do you propose we choose whom to pay for their art? By MFA degree? School ranking? Random lottery?

Honestly, I'm sympathetic to the author, not least because I think there's some irony in the piece. She recalls mournfully the time she revealed on social media that she was at the edge of homelessness if she could not raise money. If that was painful for her, the impetus behind this essay is not as self-indulgent as it appears. She did not relish publishing this, rather, she did it because Slate paid her for it, and she's still trying to make her ambitions work. She may or may not yet succeed, but there's something admirable—and, one fears, perhaps pitiable—in her dedication.
You are technically correct—I did mention these checks are allowed by the agreement.

But I guess what I meant by saying it "nullifies" Schengen is that it makes it redundant within its own bounds. i.e. pushing minor provisions of the agreement to the point that the motivation for creating Schengen is thwarted.
I don't like either. My decision about refactoring has to do with the mixing of different levels perspectives. So the different perspectives are "Conceptual, Specification, and Implementation". Most long functions are because those perspectives are getting jumbled together. I'd argue this approach to looking at your code is much more mentally clearer than the authors advice. With that in mind you can easily refactor things using any number of techniques to separate out each perspective fragment. The book "Working effectively with legacy code" has lot of techniques that are useful (some of which I contributed!). This article is like a highly abridged form of that book ( which is referenced at the end of the article).
Why people in rich countries are eating more vegan food
But you have more time to react on a plane and switch to manual override. It's not like people fly with just a few meters distance to other airplanes. There's also a good distance to the only other thing you can crash into, the ground, as opposed to driving between walls or with a cliff to one side.
I run uBlock Origin & uMatrix in my browser of choice.

Because (reasons) I opened the article in Edge and was dropped into the reality that I ignore most of the time. I posted because I don't think it hurts sometimes to be reminded of reality.
Thanks, @runako! Thanks for your feedback regarding pricing, get tied to revenue could be a great pricing strategy.
We got featured on ProductHunt today, would be very nice to have your feedback there also.
Who do you think should sponsor the creation of arts and the publication of news?

I'd be okay with increasing taxes to cover it, or using a UK-style TV license (Internet Publishing License anyone?) and requiring people seek "Internet commissioners" like we have for Television[1], [2].

[1]: http://www.pbs.org/about/producing-pbs/proposal-process/

[2]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning

Another option is micropayments, but I worry bugs and fraud would then steal consumers' dollars instead of Advertisers'.
>Past performance is no guarantee of future outcomes.

No, but it's the best predictor of them.

>If a non-imperative paradigm enables the creation of a different architecture that consistently beats the von Neumann adaptions we can create, you can bet people will get out of their way to write everything on that paradigm, whatever mental gymnastics is required.

Well, if wishes were horses beggars would ride. Let's have someone build and showcase this "different architecture" before we drop the current one.
I can't see who this is for.
Do you seriously think the quality of life wouldn't deteriorate rapidly if this was the case? Or is that not your concern? Or would it not effect your area, so you don't care?

I think it's utopian to believe that this would lead to anything but slums and shanty towns. People with no wealth will all flock to areas with wealth, which won't have the infrastructure to support them. They'd camp out wherever they could with whatever they could - possibly right outside your house. Probably in your back yard actually - local law enforcement would be too overwhelmed to go around persecuting squatting or trespassing.

Travel to a large city in India to see what happens when free movement is coupled with massive inequality.
I was considering doing a startup addressing skin cancer and a number of Mohs surgeons were happy to have me come in and observe the entire process. To the patients they'd just say "he's observing today" and not even introduce me or ask the patient (or me) to sign anything.

I have a friend whose startup cared was doing a surgical product; after I told him my story he called up a bunch of plastic surgeons and went and observed a bunch of them.

Both of us were interested in workflow; the actual science we had done on animals of course, but our research was aimed at seeing if the product would be viable (could be medically wonderful but if the doctors don't care they won't use it on the patients, even if it improves outcome).

I don't think we could have done this at a hospital, but given that it was surgery (surgeons have a lot of freedom) perhaps we could have.
It would be great if loan payments couldn't exceed some percentage of income for example 10%. If it exceeds 10% of your current monthly income you pay just 10% and rest is written off. If you are unemployed, you pay nothing and have the capital you owe reduced by the full payment.

This would quickly defund useless education.
I tried LabView but didn't like at all the visual programming side. I'd suggest to make sure that it allows to write code and from the writing make it visual ;)
They hurt their reputation and they look like idiots, sure.

Above, people are suggesting that we need regulatory and/or criminal charges. There isn't any harm to customers and there isn't any evidence of fraud or criminal wrongdoing.

RH harmed themselves by looking stupid in front of the world. That's it. The rest is misguided hysteria.
At the K-12 level, over 80% of teachers/administrators are non-hispanic white, but just 50% of students: https://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/highered/racial-diversity/.... 58% of college students are non-hispanic white, but 82% of tenured/tenure-track professors, and 86% of administrators: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/03/02/racial-gap-am....
AI Still Has Trust Issues
The point is that the reason you feel the need to immediately block ads is because of how they have been abused and pushed to further and further absurdity over the years.
The Forbes link is indeed better.

Forbes links seem to have a poor rep on HN because they are mostly poor blog entires that could have been on medium. The one you posted was an exception.
Probably not true for everyone, but I would never implement this if it took a percentage of revenue. I made that mistake once. This is a very basic SaaS feature you can build out once and rarely think about again, or just grab a prebuilt starter SaaS setup like the ones I know of for Rails or Laravel and start with that. So I’d be on the fence about a monthly fee to begin with. But a percentage of revenue? Hell no!

Edit: plus, since you’re not driving new revenue, and replacing you is a one-time-fee (maintenance for this feature is minimal), all you’re doing with pricing based on percentage of revenue is pushing your largest and most valuable customers to get rid of you as fast as possible.
My brother was looking at the database, and he saw that people were playing, so if you have any questions, feel free to ask!
I don't think GitLab's issues are that different from GitHub's that it would solve these issues. Perhaps something like Loomio might, which is made for use cases like this.
> Most people don't change their OS ever

Or the default search engine, which is Google. So most Apple users are still using Google, and Google pays a ton for Apple users data. $12B is not a trivial chunk of change. That's more than most companies make, and that's only from search! http://fortune.com/2018/09/29/google-apple-safari-search-eng...
Sorry, now I’m more confused. Why isn’t it required for Stripe? The docs say it’s required for everyone.
True. Also overclocking and watercooling are common.
Tangential. Streaming TV has given us many benefits. More choice, watch at any time, pause, save for later ('record'), etc.

But I am wondering how much that has increased energy consumption for watching TV and having the internet as its backbone?
What makes a joke funny?
You're on the right side of this argument but that doesn't mean you shouldn't answer the question.
Your prerequisite doesn't follow through to your (apparent?) conclusion; there's no logical connection I can see.

Let's say opening borders does have to to be accompanied by economic development: fine. How does that then not work when migration occurs from areas with different economic situations?

You seem to be proposing that migrants from economically areas necessarily depress a developed economy?
Shipping the runtime as a compressed file is only a few hundred kilobytes right now, which is smaller than many JS payloads. That's before any optimizations which are far easier to do in statically compiled languages and binary files like WASM. I expect the overall payload size to be far lower than an equivalent app in React.

The current JS frontend frameworks are great but they all require a tremendous amount of work to get going for any complex application. The tooling, build chains, libraries, boilerplate code and general verbosity of JS really needs a cleanup and Blazor is incredibly attractive in that regard.
It is/was mindboggling complicated but also keep in mind the events that produced it (the partition of India) also resulted in millions of deaths and 14 million people being displaced. It’s an incredibly sad story.
737 Looks like cables, air, and hydraulics to me.
The expertise that you have with the tools that you use. design, workflow patterns, coding style.
Congo – A River Journey
Oh, of course. But it’s many times the average spinning-rust laptop hard drive lifespan (for your average user).
Forgive them, for they know not what they do.

The people running this site though. The whole thing is designed to make life very difficult for anyone who steps out of line. And yes, it does seem to get worse and worse from here.
Sorry it was a joke :)
I love the line "This is a normal practice". Perhaps what is being called into question here is the acceptance of these normal practices...?
I love that people were (at least in Steve Jobs's vision) biking around the Stanford campus with macs in the 80's. Nothing ever really changes about that place...
Do these companies not realize that this is just in violation of GDPR? Might as well entirely ignore it if you are just going to blatantly violate it anyway.

The GDPR is pretty clear that fully opting out should be as easy as opting in. "Going to a third party site and manage your choices with 200 organizations" will not hold up in court.
NSF offers extra access to academic supercomputers – GCN
This was such a lovely story it made me tear up. Barkley does come across as a really nice guy on television and his friendship with Shaq is legendary, so it's great to hear confirmation that that is really the case. And Charles words at the funeral were brief but genuine and warm. Great afternoon read.
It’s not just celebrity, but two guys from completely different and far separated social spheres, managing to strike up and more importantly, keep a friendship going despite the distance.

I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect famous people — or anyone, for that matter — to stay in touch with literally anyone who wants to befriend them. Our attention and time is a finite resource, we have to make hard choices and commitments about who we give to and withdraw from. This is a story that wouldn’t happen without celebrity. Not just because Mr. Wang would not have otherwise recognized and talked to Barkley in their chance encounter, but seeing Barkley on TV continually helped keep the familiarity going, even if it was a mostly one-way street.

I bet Barkley gets many solicitations for his attention, and on the surface Wang doesn’t seem any different than other fans. But I think Wang showed his the genuineness of his friendship by showing up for the funeral service for Barkley’s mom. Anyone, fan or friend, could have seen the news and booked a flight to be there. That Wang dropped whatever work he was doing to be there for someone who he wasn’t close to (socially/geospatially) was a strong sign of how much he cared about Barkley.
I'm well aware of the fact that this is an ethical dilemma and that simply by winning the birth lottery one isn't morally entitled to living at a certain place any more than everybody else is.

However, an argument can be made for the self-determination of groups as well, particularly their freedom of association (or lack thereof).

Then there are more pragmatic matters. You can't simply let people starve if they can't provide for themselves. Providing for everyone who chooses to stay at a place but can't actually afford to do so might just not be economically feasible.

Sure, over time these differentials will be evened out because people won't come to a place if it doesn't make economic sense to do so but simply opening all borders without taking possible consequences into account could lead to quite harsh outcomes.