skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your figures are nice, but do not include what it costs per teacher to provide those benefits.

> Teacher pay and benefits are 100% public information

It's easy to find pay, but I haven't been able to find the cost of the benefits.

> I shouldn't even have claimed that they can retire comfortably.

I'd be interested if you can find any private pension plan that gives out anything at all starting at age 42 and going for the rest of their life (another 40 years). Even Social Security doesn't kick in until 62.

> most teachers already contribute to their health insurance

The figure of interest here is what does that cost the government to provide it?
True, but it was a supersonic airliner, 16 pieces were built and it did have 55 passenger-carrying flights (according to Wikipedia), so if you make a list without further qualifiers as in the article ("second ever"), it's a bit strange to gloss over it completely...
Sold off to whom?
I imagine Congress is going to pass a law the ensures that Tulsa is not on part of the reservation. ...because that would be ludicrous.

The Supreme Court is essentially forcing Congress to take a stance.
We really need to fix GCC so that the libraries and compiler can be built separately (like Clang).
Z80 has lots of registers; you POP from one stack, fill up as many registers as you can, then switch to the other stack and PUSH them all back. Use EXX etc to fill up the alternate registers too.
The pressure differential between the drive and the atmosphere isn't going to be that great, if any, so it's pretty unlikely that a leak will occur.

If the Helium were to leak out then the drive would probably fail much more quickly than it otherwise would have but there isn't nearly enough helium to affect any MEMS devices.

Also consider that these drives are going to be in a system with forced air cooling so any Helium that might escape will be quickly vented.

Additionally, MEMS devices don't fail but rather behave differently while under the influence of helium.
> Well then your personal feeling is really an untested assumption masquerading as a feeling.

I felt this 'tried it for a time and too, decided that it's not something good, and spreading the word' from your comment. Maybe it's not, but the content doesn't really suggest you've used the Touch Bar more than a few times.

> Within months of having my first MacBook Pro, I could turn the volume up and down and mute the audio without looking. Same with the screen brightness... I can't do that anymore. Not only that, but the interface for changing the volume— a core system function— changes depending on the current application's context, making me have to hunt for it. Maybe you don't run up against that, but it's inexcusably poor design.

I can, my friends that use the MBP can, and even friends that don't have an MBP but occasionally use mine also don't need to look to control the volumes or brightness. I can't buy that argument.

Also, in it's default state the buttons are always displayed in the same place - I can't understand about your argument about context-sensitive core system functions, as that's the reason why the control strip is there in the right.

(And usually apps that use the Touch Bar strikes the right balance on context sensitivity - you can expect the same functionality on the same place if you're using the same app, or doing the same action, like text editing.)

> In addition, the Touch Bar isn't big enough to be useful for any serious professional use in media editing apps, which seems to be what it was originally designed for.

> it's certainly not a PROfessional tool for my MacBook PRO.

It's big enough to provide shortcuts that allow professionals to be more productive in apps that the user thoroughly knows in-and-out. That's it's purpose, and media professionals as well as programmers can use it very usefully.

> it's totally useless for accessibility,

Why?

> it's easy to accidentally touch and do something unintended,

I've personally found that's not the case, but well I'm seeing others that also feel like this so...

> and makes simple tap-n-times motions into awkward tap, wait, drag motions.

I can't find any example where that's the case - I've never seen an Touch Bar action that need a tap-wait-drag. It's usually drag on the button or just a tap, or two successive taps if you're doing something relatively complex like setting the color of selected text or something.
But even your 20% pet projects are allowed to be done and open sourced as a point of retaining employees, which is viewed as a perk that presumably provides the company value.

If Google didn't think 20% projects provided value in terms of employee satisfaction and retention, or didn't find some value in the ability to potentially build on some of that random unplanned R&D if someone struck gold, Google wouldn't do it.

It's possible to have altruistic line employees, but corporations are always acting on cost/benefit. That benefit just doesn't always manifest directly into cash. Employee retention, good PR, etc. are all benefits that can be to some degree valued and measured.
I heard lack of effective management structure was a far worse consequence of Valve's unusual structure. Heard influence became based on connections and favors, not good results or ideas. Heard many good projects died, even ones that would make sense to a third grader (HL3 L4D3). Hearsay but its all over internet if you're curious
I know this is probably asking too much, but any death or serious injury under police control should immediately go to a grand jury. With a grand jury, they have power to subpoena any and all evidence, including the stuff that the police like to hold back. And they can also compel people to testify under oath, which encourages the cops involved to turn on wrongdoers where they would normally be content with sitting back and not saying anything. Also, since grand juries do not decide on guilt, there is no 5th amendment right to abstain from self incrimination. They must tell the truth or risk being held accountable with severe consequences if caught in a lie. In other words, take those weak internal affairs investigations that are staffed by brothers in blue, and put it into the hands of a jury and give them some powerful tools to get to the actual bottom of the matter.

The best part of the idea is that cops would be forced to justify the reasonableness of their supposed reasonable use of force, and they would be held to the standard of "reasonable" that the public decides, not themselves. And it is not a trial, it is merely a screening for a trial to see if it passes the bar for criminal action.
The problem with this argument is that it's the setup for en-masse dragnet surveillance. After all you have no rights on what you give to third parties, and you also have no expectation of privacy, so surely there's nothing wrong with the government scooping it up without even needing a warrant.

In the 21st century, our "papers and effects" are digital, online, and stored by third parties, and the law hasn't kept up with that.
I have been looking into this type of system with a colleague for a few years now. We have been working on a concept of an attention based email network which is essentially a way to map our natural limited attention to the digital world.

This type of system requires a mindset that involves multiple parties, not just the receiver, so it becomes a non-trival exercise when considering the attention of multiple parties using multiple email systems.

In a practical sense, we looked at adding a multi party reputation system to the email standard which would involve adding meta data to emails to indicate the "trust" level between the recipients. There are clearly quite a number of technical challenges for this type of system. Fastmail seems to be doing some interesting work in this space.

https://fastmail.blog/2015/12/17/the-endless-battle-against-...
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-2.1.1
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disclaimer: I work for tijorifinance

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Agreed. I learnt a lot doing this in the 2000s.
Technically nepotism means giving favors to your own family, not granting membership to your exclusive school to people of the same family. Your real issue is that this private school is still seen as exclusive despite doing this, and that the legacy admits gain unearned reputation due to their admission. But this is not Harvard's doing, they do not control what others think of their students. This is the rest of society being ignorant.

A better example of nepotism in college admissions has occurred in the past where Governors or other politicians had the ability to give scholarships at major universities in their state, and they customarily gave these to their own children or those of friends. For that matter many school overtly give benefits to their faculty and staff such as free tuition for immediate family members. Perhaps even an easier chance at admission for some.
I'm looking for more data, less Jim Cramer types.
By the time they were post guy in Scotland, those guys would have been Gauls or Brittons, with a general who had maybe been to Italy once. You may enjoy SPQR by Mary Beard if this is your sort of thing.
You say like it is a bad thing but I'll take 12 hours in a nice stable train over 7 hours spent in going in and out of airports and sitting on economy airliner seats.

I would actually pay a premium. This actually is reality today. Acela on the Northeast corridor is more expensive than comparable air fares and it's not even that good.
Airplanes, yes, UFOs, no, you want people to post grainy pictures of those :)
Koyfin looks cool, thanks for sharing!
I’ve not found a way yet, other than being around when they handle some kind of crisis, seen that a few times while working in a hospital. Wandering though on my way to/from lunch break was very occasionally surprising. It’s quite a surprise the first time you see a hospital bed roll past as a doctor on top is doing cpr compressions then literally hops off, while a second doctor hops, mid-run, to resume the compressions... like trick horse riding or something. Only ever saw it once but damn it was something.
My setup is an Asus monitor connected to a usb hub using HDMI, and it works wonderfully. I wonder what's causing issues in your chain.
No, most Marines aircraft are not stealthy.

No, actually the latest stealth completely absorbs radar waves.

Get your facts straight.
Speed of any car currently travelling on US public roads is public information, it is publicly observable, people have no expectation of privacy on this. Now imagine some technology made it possible to observe and mine this data en masse, and to issue speeding tickets all at once based on it, as often as speeding occurs. This would be so massively disruptive that the speed limits and/or the law itself would have to change to make things work back again.

This is not to have a blanket claim that law enforcement should always have less data. The point is that innovation in law enforcement tech has to be balanced with accountability, experience and changes in the actual law. Especially in a climate in which rightful use of authority is in question, the last thing we would want is to empower further asymmetry.
GB quality and selection of nice baseball caps is shot. I never bought the other styles but the last two times I’ve dropped in it has felt like being in Lids / ToW.
On top of that, none of the things mentioned were big problems during the 80s when the concord was in its peak. Security just started ramping up after the wave of 1970s hijackings that necessitated security at airports
I’ve seen many videos of the same types of behaviors. My suspicion is things like this are intentional. Police are incredibly aware of how things are framed in media reports and they’re very aware of how little the media questions their actions–though I suspect, from their own actions repeatedly caught in video, this benefit of the doubt they've been afforded may be slipping away.
Amazon plans at least $100M to keep Zoox talent after $1.3B deal
Great little tool for tweet copies!
I'm struck by our possible near-term loss of aviation and a possible post-melange loss of space travel.

(Then again: 140 characters not flying cars.)
“more deaths no benefit”
The article says that the court found in favor of the state and the man had to vacate the land. That sounds like adverse possession wasn't enough to fight off the state when they wanted the land back.
>I'm not sure what the actual story is here. The important bit seems to be:

the mismatch between reality and aspirations when it comes to these ventures, and I guess a broader point about private entities engaging or even substituting proper developmental policy and how often the results are straight up bad.

Given the heavy PR that these firms are engaged in it's obviously important to get an accurate view of what reality looks like. It reminds me of Yang's venture for America with a similar mission (albeit in the US rather than outside of it), which ended with barely any job creation and even a suicide at one of his incubators, but still it was used extensively to promote this new class of 'social' entrepreneur activity.
If you didn't have a fairly strong federal government, the US would become like the EU, basically unable to enact change in any even slightly controversial topic.
I hope we don’t lose the blazer and sport coat, at least. They’re great. Like a purse for men, but even better than that because you wear them. Unlike winter coats or hoodies they’re not shlubby-looking and you can wear (appropriate cloth & weight) ones in almost any weather.

I’m OK with the suit going but damn, without those there’s not much left for guys to wear that’s not athletic wear of some kind or another (and hell, sport coats kinda are anyway)
If you want to argue that the law should be changed then that is fine. But it doesn’t change the current reality.
I make €8000 euros per month after tax, working 3 hours a day - it has considerably good effect on my life and I've more time to explore new problems where I can make more money. If I was trapped in a job, I could never look for new opportunities
I would love to add more hats to my wardrobe. But I can't shake the thought that a man in a hat that's not a baseball cap just looks like he's trying too hard.
Writing a book is not just adding pages, it’s also revisiting and revising what you’ve already written.

So it’s entirely possible that at some point the author ends up capturing what they wanted to capture and the total number of pages then is lower than they are today even.
We're discussing this on a story about an untethered jailbreak --- a kernel RCE.
I'm saddened by reading most of the HN comments in this thread, the "war against the media" line seems to have actually inspired people to do that, instead of doing the right thing and calling it out as the exact kind of tribalistic nonsense that SSC is all about preventing.
Nissan Pioneer Touts Resin Battery That’s 90% Cheaper to Make
do you want to ban alcohol ?
Full text from the netzpolitik article:

> Provider sollen Internetverkehr umleiten, damit Geheimdienste hacken können

> Geheimdienste wollen Hardware bei Internet-Providern installieren, um Staatstrojaner in Datenverkehr einzuschleusen. Das steht in einem Gesetzentwurf zum Verfassungsschutzrecht, den die Bundesregierung nächste Woche beschließen will. Die Provider wollen keine Hilfssheriffs sein.

> [...]

> Konkret müssen Anbieter die Installation des Staatstrojaners „durch Unterstützung bei der Umleitung von Telekommunikation … ermöglichen“.

So it translates to "would have to, if the law goes into effect unchanged".
Why not start with the tome of "Covid is a Lie" written beautifully by the late A.W.All.

You could also try the excellent "1984" written by the since canceled George Orwell.
Wait, so congress can throw away promises at its whims that was supposed to last until perpetuity? And SC will be fine with that as long as promise was thrown away explicitly?
Political speech on Twitter is not constitutionally protected. Twitter is a private platform that can legally block any speech with or without government interference so long as that interference is not present in the capacity of a government agent.

The first amendment is limited to protections against government interference.
Privacy? Google and Ubuntu Partner
None of the other conservatives on the court agreed with the decision, so it's reasonable to be surprised. Alito is probably the current judge closest to Scalia and he dissented, so it's reasonable to be surprised. Why would you assume political bias?
The government can’t chill your right to tweet because you don’t have a right to tweet. Your tweets are public and you don’t own them, not even your own.

There is no law restricting the governments right to collect public data.
That seems to be a different problem from legalizing personal use of all drugs. Assisted suicide is a thing in countries with much stricter drug policies than "anything goes".
> Stanford Audio Processing for Music Applications

In no universe could my little offering compete with Julius Smith. He is the man.
I find Paint.NET excellent for both basic scenarios and advanced ones too (it supports layers, effects etc). Strongly recommended. https://getpaint.net

It's free but it's also available in Microsoft Store as a paid product, which gets automatic updates as a small extra and mostly works as a donation towards the developer.
Interesting, what is it that you do? Are you a consultant or do you run your own business or something else?
Just curious!
Haha! My thoughts exactly
So a blood boy would actually work? Gavin was on to something ...
I upvoted you’re comments since they are accurate to my mother’s experience as a 33+ year elementary school teacher in CA. Her health care is similar to what my job provides, and then she gets a pension that highly incentives 35+ year career of continuous work in the same district. Any long term medical leave pauses pension credit, and moving to a different district within the same state can also mess with the pension terms.

Switching jobs 15 years in feels like an all or nothing situation since they haven’t been paying into social security.

I don’t know any teacher friends of hers that have retired before 30 years on the job. It’s stable, but it’s not an early retirement career.

Finally, I want to acknowledge that funding in CA for teachers is difficult to adjust and complex, but it’s all inherently public. https://ed100.org/lessons/whopays
> quicker and easier than applying sunscreen to my face.

Yup. It's not greasy, don't have to worry about missing a spot, don't have to wait the 20 minutes before it becomes effective, don't have to reapply it after a few hours, it doesn't expire, it doesn't smell like rotten coconuts, and it's very, very effective.
I spend a lot of time in unfamiliar environments as I travel, and now and then, this results in banging my head against something, followed by, "I can't believe I did that again, I've got to be more careful."

Recently, when it was cold, while I was wearing a couple of hats and a couple of hoods, I happened to bang my head into an object above me, something which happens to me infrequently, but regularly.

Because of all the padding, I felt the impact, but it did not hurt me nearly as much as it normally would have.

Since then, I've been wearing one or two thick hats most of the time, and this habit has already saved me from that very unpleasant experience of hitting my head on a sharp corner.

People ask me if I'm warm, but I barely notice it. I think that, as also with sleeping in a thick blanket, my body adjusts and just produces less heat.
>sweep it under the carpet

As a European (Scot) who lived in Canada with my partner (Ojibwe) it became obvious how ignorant I was of the past wrt all Native American tribes and the indoctrination they were subjected to.

I'd mentioned to her that during this BLM movement that the African-American story is seemingly world-known but the Native American story less so. I believe their time will come when there is a greater understanding. Not an expert but my time living on the reserve but it seemed apparent that their society was still experiencing culture shock.
If it was corruption because employees lied, violated their employment contracts, etc. in return for bribes, then the system is not "rigged". Important distinction, because in one case the system actually is striving to be better, even if humans break rules now and then.
If they’re anything like you, they’re just as worthless trash.
Yes and no. To expand on the firearm example:

When on federal or state land, I only have to comply with the state's laws. (Basically just don't shoot or threaten anyone.) When on reservation land, I'm protected under the FOPA[0] which is considerably more restrictive. Some of its provisions can be hard to meet. Especially in a two seater pickup truck.

Add checkerboarding[1] to this and it can be very easy to make a mistake because you're constantly changing jurisdictions. Usually with no fence or signage.

I don't want to get into it here but there are a number of reasons one might want a readily accessible firearm when the nearest civilization is ~100 miles away.[2] Hence why one might not always be compliant with FOPA.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act#...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkerboarding_(land)

[2] A benign example would be hitting a cow.
People talk a lot of shit about Valve without having a clue, a consequence of their secrecy and their position as a premier game developer. I wouldn't trust anything that is said about Valve that didn't come from someone who has worked there.

Tyler McVicker/Valve "News" Network is a major component of this. His interviews with Valve are great. His speculation is trash.
who are not suspected of committing a crime.

How about people suspected of planning a crime?

It would be really hard for cops to prevent crimes if they had to wait until after it was committed in order to surveil.
But think about this: if you're a startup founder, you can get co-founders for so much cheaper and more easily. If your buddy and you both know you have UBI, you can start a business without risking that much. The next hires can be lured with equity - this is a great thing because people have emotional and professional ownership in startups, but the one to three founders generally have all the equity. What if UBI forced those founders to both distribute equity and alongside that, the responsibility for the company? I think it would benefit all parties. Talking to founders, those first months and years are stressful as heck - I would wish that on nobody for any price. We can do better.

Think about startups before financing. Loans with interest used to be considered immoral - it's prohibited in the Bible. If you wanted to start a business, you had to save or find a lender that would let you take money and then just wait for you to give it back. And if you didn't pay it back, the lender could put you in prison. No wonder people didn't do that very often. Even with these new ways to fund a startup, you could lose your job and with it your income and healthcare coverage. What if that risk just went away? Of course some people would waste it, but think of all those folks that would turn their lives into hackathons until they struck gold.
Its not a ton of work, most works out of the box and requires just a command line argument
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