skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In at least one major school district, the beginning the year shuffle for matching the unfilled classrooms with the unwanted staffing is called the "Dance of the Lemons". Those that don't get an assignment are still clocking in every day at HQ & assigned useless tasks like creating lesson plans (that nobody will ever use).

Wouldn't that be great if violent cops were assigned to create Public Safety materials all day that went straight into the bin? They can't be fired so their job is to do something completely worthless until they quit.
It's not just direct voting. There are plenty of other ways to influence culture to sway other voters.

And given the limited number of candidates and the frequency with which our elections come down to a few percent, they certainly wouldn't have to sway 48% of the population to influence how elected representatives treat them.
How to Shift Power in the Job Interview Process
Larry Brilliant on How Well We Are Fighting Covid-19
> And so, as someone who had been sitting in the core of this community--where everyone is wearing a grey hat, the vendors are the "bad guys", and "responsible disclosure" is being complicit in a dystopia--and dealing with these ethical challenges for a decade, my personal opinion is "please never ever drop a zero day on the world without it being a closed source obfuscated binary" unless you want to drop the barrier to entry so low that you have creepy software engineers quickly using the exploit against their ex-spouse as opposed to "merely" advanced attackers using the vulnerability for corporate or government espionage.

Obviously you have a better understanding of the iOS jailbreak scene than I ever will, but I still have to say I disagree with this ethical viewpoint. Personally, I'd rather run an open source exploit chain than obfuscated binaries from parties I do not know that are difficult to be sure are safe. Thankfully in the case of unc0ver that is not an issue anymore, but in the past it has been an issue for longer time periods. OTOH, if there is really a moral dilemma in releasing 0days as open source specifically because of the small time abusers and not nation state adversaries, I don't understand how this moral quandary doesn't mean you can never ethically release an iBoot/more generally any bootrom exploit, for example.

I'm genuinely curious how many abusive people are motivated enough to come up with a creepy use for a tethered jailbreak. I know it's possible, but short of rolling your own stalkerware, it really doesn't seem too straightforward?
2. Developers think for themselves and aren't always "double agents".

I don't think the situation is quite as binary as this suggests. Even assuming that developers are consistently doing what they believe is in the best interest of the project, their employers may benefit from being able to encourage them to consider the items which are the employer's priorities. Developers don't have unlimited time, and if they have to choose between two worthwhile projects and one of them is of interest to their employer, it's likely that's the one they'll spend time on.
Thank you. I was trying to find information on this, but all I found was this bugzilla post: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1551058
Energy emissions are responsible for just 40-50% of emissions for cement. The rest is due to co2 released from limestone.

So even with carbon free heat production cement industry would still generate a lot of co2 :/
Who should decide to have a border or the other option that you are proposing?
I guess if you want to be fair, you need to let the Native American nations to decide, and what if they decide to create multiple nations in the middle of the not-any-more-united States?
Current gen: the Dragon Age games and (more recent) the Divinity games are both very good series that (importantly) FEEL like oldschool turn-based RPGs, especially Divinity II.

Before that, games like Neverwinter Nights.

Before that, Baldur's Gate (available on ios!) is particularly good.

Before that, there were a LOT of decent turn-based games but none really come to mind as being truly exceptional to me. Planescape: Torment is extremely well regarded but I only played that much later in life and found the emulator and 640x480 resolution to get in the way of the experience.

You can also look into a variety of roguelikes like nethack and (older still) "text adventures" like Zork or even Adventure.
It seems we agree. But then I don't understand why you said in you previous comment that

> The street value is the only value they could possibly quote with some accuracy

and

> But I think if you discount by 50% or so you'll be pretty close

When simple sugar is already sold by the kg with a 400% markup.

> You're off by a factor of about 100.

Sounds like you know what you're talking about :) But in which direction?
Whenever I see something insightful that I want to share with someone, instead of linking to the article, I copy and paste just the meat into my pastebin-like website.
I'm out of the loop here, what are you referring to?
I have a friend with pet rabbits -- apparently this is common in most prey animals.

Individuals won't indicate that they are sick unless there's a statistical advantage to doing so. Non-social animals don't get help from their peers, and traveling birds can't help their weak peers fly even if they tried.
I regularly fat-finger the paste key on the touchbar (eg in Office apps, it sits just above the [3] key) when typing a key on the number row. Since you get no tactile feedback, it took me a few days to understand why random bits of text appeared spontaneously under my cursor!
Nope. Still can’t afford to take that risk.

Also, the circumstances are much different. AMD was valued at the time as a company circling the drain - there was a lot of upside potential given the low starting point.

Intel is still valued very highly currently even after it’s problems in the last few years.

The thing is - I think they’d need to turn the company around entirely just to justify their current price, let alone any future returns.
And yet, we still can't afford 5 full days per week of school. 60% of all districts in our state only have funding for 4 days per week. Many of the remainder are on 4.5 days/week.

> Third, comparing spending across states is deeply misleading.

This is why you cannot use averages to talk about school funding relative to the rest of the OECD. That's my point. You asked for statistics in my state. I gave them, in my most recent two states of residence.
Maybe because HN is full of people that work for similar privacy-destroying tech companies. I find that people on this board get a bit touchy when you talk about FAANG companies doing immoral things. (I know this isn't a FAANG company but its affect is in the same vein).
If Congress cannot, who can?

I think treaties must be able to be reneged. And since Congress is signing the treaties, they should also have the power to renege.

Now there might be consequences for those actions (the counterparty might attack you, your allies may no longer trust you, etc) and those consequences are what keeps treaties stable.

The issue here is that the other party (Native Americans) has no power to enforce the treaty... But IMO, that is a public outrage issue and not a Constitutional issue.
What a great time to get into the small confined shared space industry!
I'd imagine that had more to do with the tone of the comment. Would be more helpful to readers if it said "actually, the first supersonic aircraft for commercial use was the tu144 made by tupolev from the Soviet union"
Open crime data should be mandatory for every police force, let citizens do the auditing.
> not putting your engineering due diligence into delivering a product to the customer.

Yes. This is exactly what this person should do. Stop worrying about arbitrary rules and just deliver the damn product already. A hacky, shitty, unfinished product in your customer's hands that can be iterated on beats one that never got shipped at all every day of the week.
> We will use the information you provide to process and to maintain a record of your request.

What a paradox...In order to delete your records, they create records on you
This is not a sample in the statistical sense. This is a self-selected subset. Any bias in the groups in question towards answering or not answering this question is not assessed by the study, and the assumption that the sample is representative of the population is entirely unfounded.
It makes me appreciate how much expertise these doctors have. Generalizing it to all doctors is going one step too far.
I see react used for internal apps or SaaS offerings. I imagine most uses of react and other FE tech are not caught in any URL list. So it seems that we will have a hard time making measurements of the usage of all of these no matter the technique used.
Same. It looks like most of the heavy lifting comes from this library. There's a lot of commands available. https://github.com/reitermarkus/DDC.swift/blob/master/DDC/DD...
On the passport thing, I was curious about how true it was. Turns out there has been fluctuating amounts of freedom of movement over the course of human history. Equivalents to passports have existed for a long time, so Zweigs nostalgic comments here only really generalise to a short period of European history. In fact, there are plenty of stories about the exploits of Scientific adventurers trying to get visas for international travel during the French revolution and Napoleonic wars period. English naturalist Joseph Banks was well known for his granting of passports to scientists in continental europe so they could travel through international waters and advance science.

r/Askhistorians is a great place to look for more information. Here is a pretty good threat related to the topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/dq9940/why_d...
The fact that you need a browser add-on is very telling about the quality of the website.
I just wish they left the F keys alone and added the touchbar right above. It might be cool but i find it somewhat gimmicky and redundant for a software developer. I guess apple always pushed the limits. Lets see how this fares in the next 10 years and whether it is adopted outside of apple
I would not be satisfied if my tax dollars paid the salary of police officers that killed and beat people, rubber room or otherwise.
The number's contribution to the emotional impact of the story, far from distorting reality, is next to negligible compared to the part about torture.
Thank you for the link. I agree that this is a very politicized issue and that can make finding objective info tricky.

I checked out the first case study and it looks like you are correct that the brick and mortar charter schools significantly outperform the online ones. However, at least in that study, the brick and mortar charters slightly outperformed public schools in reading but underperformed in math. However, I don't believe these differences were statistically significant. While there probably are some states where charter schools outperform they seem to only perform the same as public schools in South Carolina. To me this doesn't add much weight to the argument that unions lead to worse teaching outcomes. I will also say that I'm not an expert, my cursory reading of one report doesn't change that fact, and I'm definitely open to changing my opinion on this in the future but I don't have the time or interest to read all of the reports in the link.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-04-25/japans-evaporated-peo...

Here's an article of a book I found on it.
Blake said last year to Forbes that development would take about 6 billion dollars.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2019/01/04/boom-...

So yeah it’s gonna take a lot more money. I hope they get it!
The app is a cool idea, however, I’m curious how you guys plan on managing the standardization across menu items. Replicating a single restaurant menu is an incredibly complicated problem given the amount of customization, but you also need to account for the variability of the same menu across multiple services.
If I knew how to pick the good companies from the zombies, I'd already be retired.
Tangentially, people who catch typos tend to be good employees.
> is allowing one of those two plaintiffs to be screwed.

Only if the SC would have ruled differently from the lower court, of which there is no guarantee for any particular case.
Please ignore him whole hearty.

Some people want to write profitable apps in the shortest amount of time possible, while others want to advance the state of the art in technology.

IMO we always need more people in the second group. And sometimes, you can hit the jackpot and do both things at the same time!
You got a lotta Reservoir Dogs fans replying to you lol. Didn’t realize how cheap so many of the tech bros on here were.
Surprised they can't smell the difference.
A popular opinion among the beneficiaries of historic injustices.
Don't buy a duck, Debug with Duck
I'm guessing that they're referring to Mitch McConnell
A vast majority of studies in the US on race use self-reported data.
I would say there are at least a few clear moral lines the CCP have crossed which Western democracies have not... cough strip mining organs from prisoners cough
Can you get your certificate without using a browser? The description in the "how it works" sections here [1] describes it launching a browser for that step.

If it has to use a browser, can it be a non-GUI browser like Lynx or Links?

[1] https://gravitational.com/teleport/how-it-works/certificate-...
Let's not be so foolish as to think that CEOs actually spend all their money. Even the average silicon valley engineer is dumping a large portion of their pay into investments.

Bill Gates has so much money, he can afford to eradicate diseases off the face of the planet. I don't care how much he spent on his silk tie, you're not even talking about the same ballpark. Expenses mean nothing at that level.
I’ve heard that many external drives can’t be shucked any longer, as they don’t include proper sata connectors. Have you encountered that?
Several lawyers picked up on that on Twitter. It's definitely not a correct statement about every kind of "law." But it's right about statutes, sometimes called "positive law."

English history gave us a very confusing legal structure, where there are statutes, (common) law, and equity -- all variously called "the law."
It doesn't mean doctors will catch on or accept outside theories.
DayZ was more a survival game than a battle royale, at least earlier in its lifecycle because it lacked the forcing mechanic that caused players to have to constantly get closer and closer.

Also, I feel that Fortnite's popularity is not just price - a HUGE reason why the game is so popular is that they deliberately went after a broader audience. For example, equal prominence was placed on the female characters (which were deliberately not overly sexualized) and the violence was very much toned down - no blood and guts, no bullet-ridden corpses. These were deliberate design (and marketing) decisions to procure a broader player base and avoid some of the toxicity of the Call of Duty-style games.
It's in the studies, but the gist is that they try to compare 'matched students'. So, they try to remove the selection effects by comparing comaprable pupils in each school type. I'm sure it's possible to quibble with exactly how they do this, of course.
If the supreme court can learn new tricks, I'm confident HN can finally learn the difference between a police officer on his beat and a fully-automated data firehose mined in realtime or other perversions of technology. Witness United States v. Jones, the opinion delivered by Scalia:

The Government contends that the Harlan standard
shows that no search occurred here, since Jones had no
“reasonable expectation of privacy” in the area of the Jeep
accessed by Government agents (its underbody) and in the
locations of the Jeep on the public roads, which were
visible to all. But we need not address the Government’s
contentions, because Jones’s Fourth Amendment rights
do not rise or fall with the Katz formulation. At bottom,
we must “assur[e] preservation of that degree of privacy
against government that existed when the Fourth
Amendment was adopted.”
Seeing Java examples after this does not surprise me. Testing is hard in Java and it forces you to change your design. Maybe better put - testing stateful objects is hard

I do a lot of dev in Ruby and testing there is super easy and powerful. Say what you will about monkey patching, open classes, and reflection, but it does make it very easy to write great testing libraries. I'd argue that testing libraries in Ruby lead to better design (e.g. using more methods, making things single purpose, thinking about the interface first can lead to better naming etc)

That said, I don't test as much as I used to. Unit testing is really good for testing algorithms (e.g. transform this complex JSON; rebalance load). Outside of that, some light end-to-end testing will catch most other things, and you can use staging and gradual rollouts to derisk bigger changes
Years ago, the police wronged me, and i raised a successful complaint. I got an apologetic phone call from an officer who, i got the impression, had the job of sitting in a police station making apologetic phone calls. He spent about forty seconds apologising, then went on an umprompted several-minute rant about how the police knew who all the criminals were, and if the government would just give them guns (this was in the UK), they could end crime tomorrow. I think it's simply connecting the dots to assume he was stuck on phone duty because he was a colossal liability to have walking around in public.
It's purpose is to presume innocence, a tenet which seems to be rapidly fading from society.
Why can’t they be fired? AFAIK, tenure generally does not protect teachers who do grossly illegal acts, such as assaulting a student.
Great idea. I've just signed up and made my first deposit. I must say, though, that "Show my name to everyone" and "Show my name to friends" being default-on (and not obviously so) already erodes quite a bit of my trust, and I'm considering withdrawing my money as a result. My savings, for me, are an entirely private matter.
Isn't one of the main drawbacks of supersonic flight the noise?
It really irks me that these things are called "laws". A law is something we expect to hold true forever, by means of the hypothetico-deductive scientific method.

They're phenomena. They're patterns we observe, and that's it. The pattern may change anytime, and that's something that should be expected. The causes may be known or unknown, but to call it a law may even make it hold true for longer, for "psychological" reasons. The law of gravity isn't influenced by what SpaceX investors think about it.
Touch Bar is great for sliding, but terrible for button presses as it often rejects very quick button presses and of course you can't use it by feel.

90% of what I want out of the Touch Bar is the ability to slide up/down brightness or volume. For some reason they don't implement it that way - its either a double action of tapping to open sliders then sliding, or buttons that take several taps to adjust how I like.

Maybe my use cases are crazy... I just don't get it though. Glad to see someone trying to use it for what it offers.
Sometimes I just wonder why does apple don't provide such a basic features/necessities.
Can you give me an example, other than voting, of how democracy is collective bargaining?

You're not considering wedge issues? What if the candidate that would improve your working conditions also has a stance on an issue that you are strongly opposed to? For example, do you vote for the candidate who will give you a small raise but also disagrees with you on abortion? What if all of the candidates feel like siding with you would alienate more people than your voting bloc would bring?
This is interesting :-)

Is there any reasonably accessible literature on this topic, in particular the latter idea of not being able to estimate an agent’s utility function?
> It does not matter if Germany is not ruled by an autocratic regime at the moment

I totally get the appeal of that argument, but it completely breaks down once I ask myself how much that autocratic bogeyman regime, once it got into power, would feel bound by privacy protections put in place by their predecessors.
this is like commenting code - who is the code meant to be written for? other programmers, or the compiler?
You only need a browser if you are using SSO. If you are using local accounts it's all done in the CLI.
Surely immigrants chose to come to the US. People in Tulsa didn't chose to be in a Native reservation. They chose to be in Tulsa, Oklahoma, US.
Does that just mean "cheat" or is google translate wrong?
So, it's certainly not the case that charters are uniformly better in every case. There's quite a bit of variation. The basic idea behind charter schools is that they eliminate the union (that's almost literally their entire purpose). But what that does is it allows them the freedom to experiment with new styles of education, without filtering it through the bureaucracy of the union. In effect, that means there's going to be a lot more variation in outcomes amongst charters, particularly at first. Over time, as people figure out what works and what doesn't, I would expect to see them continue to widen the gap between themselves and traditional public schools.

On the surface it's not obvious that this is attributable to the union. But if you dig in a little bit to what actually differentiates charter schools, the main thing is the absence of the teacher's union. At least, to my understanding, from operating in the space a little bit, and from people I know that operate more deeply in it than I did.
yes, i'd heard it talked about in relation to environmental economics, and about externalities in general, e.g., "how do you price in externalities like pollution in relation to our emotional enjoyment of nature?"

utility is neat in theory, but seems to be messy in practice. it's one thing to spell out the relationship, but another to calculate an analytic solution (from my limited mathematical experience, navier-stokes comes to mind in this regard).
,,The timeline for the planned entry into airline service has now also slipped from the previously envisaged 2023-24 to between 2025 and 2027.''

I think COVID-19 won't be a problem in 2025 anymore.
Alternatively, you could use kernel module to expose it as standard backlight control: https://milek7.pl/ddcbacklight/ddcci_bl.c

insmod ddcci_bl.ko
modprobe i2c-dev
echo ddcci_bl 0x37 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-2/new_device (replace i2c-2 with bus number for your monitor)
Consider stepping away from reading resumes, or developing a rubric to help you process them more dispassionately, or a workflow to edit them before passing them to a review team. It's natural to get tired of seeing the same thing, but it's unfair to candidates to use your overfamiliarity with the resume format against them.

Additionally consider there is no good way on a resume to distinguish between considering but declining to use a technology, and never evaluating technology in the first place. Additionally, consider that many people pick up expertise with overlapping tools due to circumstances they cannot control (legacy codebases, client insistence, freelance.)

I say this as a fellow resume reader who experienced some of what you describe. It feels like gaining wisdom but it's not quite.
Just a question, is HN a available for regular chinese citizens beyond the great firewall? I mean regular people who don’t have a special clearance
Or you could just buy an android and not worry about it.

Not even to fan boy, but half of those are things that android did from the go and the rest have been added or are generally easy to do.
Dictatorships can work great, but all it takes is one bad dictator and you are hosed. E.g. the complete ceasation of progress in China once emporers decided to cut off access to the outside world and outlaw logic.