skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife's district's budget includes "Instruction" as one opaque budget item which accounts for 47.9% of the 2020 budget (up from 46.3% in 2017). Admin accounts for 9.6% (up from 8.3%). There is also a vague "Non-Instructional Expenditures" category which accounts for 5.1% (up from 4.6%). Almost everything else is operation/maintenance, transportation, construction, and debt service.

Less than half of the district's budget goes to "instruction" and who knows how much of that budget item really ends up being spent usefully. The "instruction" budget item did increase as a portion of the budget, but budget items specifically labeled as "admin" increased disproportionately by nearly 5x as much. "Non-Instructional Expenditures" also increased disproportionately by nearly 3x as much.

Comparing to your district, yours spends much more on instruction and much less proportionally on construction and debt services. Your district's budget is also much more granular, splitting out categories like utilities, printing, safety, and IT, plus a breakdown of your instruction budget.

I'd link to my wife's district's budget but like I said, I don't think it's wise to name my wife's employer as I'm complaining about them publicly.
I think a lot of literature is normal people writing about their normal lives—except that they happen to be particularly good at writing. A Dutch example is the writer J.J. Voskuil who wrote 5000 pages about his live as an office employee—and quite a few people read it too! But there must be many more examples.
> but it's a bad fetish

Thanks for that -- I couldn't agree more.

I read comments talking about how awful it is that there are success biographies and I can't help but feel pity half the time. Like it or not, if you go into something expecting failure, you might as well skip it. For a lot of folks, the "failure fetish" serves only to reinforce an attitude that "the reason they're (insert desire here) and I'm not is luck. The vast majority fail, so I shouldn't bother.". My Dad's attitude, to us kids, was to finish that of with ", but they're not me." But he had many, many failures along the way, he just addressed each problem and landed on the right decisions enough that his company continued to grow/establish itself until the scariest of those problems started to vanish.

Inwardly, my Dad's attitude was less certain, but still landed somewhere at "It's just another problem, I've solved the last several successfully, I can solve this one", but ultimately, he knew the totality of the risk he was taking -- outright bankruptcy, losing a really, really nice house, not to mention the emotional effects such a catastrophic failure to provide for your family would be. He didn't focus on the "worst-case scenario" (partly because every one of his problems had the same worst-case scenario), because your options are rarely that binary -- while it might be "fail to pay the bill and they cut off service" it's often "if I call before the bill is due, I can get another month or a partial payment will cover us" -- another problem created, but an improvement to having the lights shut off. When the engine fails in-flight, the choice is one of many, many bad options, but "an emergency landing at a different, nearby, airport" beats "setting her down in the clearing just after those trees". As much has he flew, there are tens of stories that should have ended with the plane creating a burning crater, but even when the engine cut out over Lake Michigan in the "you're swimming" zone, he managed to problem solve his way to an airport.

It really feels sometimes there's a plague of jealousy-masquerading-as-concern (or worse, Nanny-ism) -- it hasn't gotten terrible here compared to other forums, but it's everywhere these days. It's almost shun-worthy to imply that someone achieved success through hard work[0]. As if saying so implies that people who are unsuccessful don't work hard, or that working hard, alone, will only guarantee you'll be tired, that knowing your market/product and being a really good problem solver are as important and that even then, you're going to put up with a lot of external BS for the privilege of choosing how you want to make money. And if you want the privilege of offering work to someone, there's a whole lot more you're going to enjoy. If you ever make the mistake of implying that the person who worked so hard for said money deserves the money they took such risks/worked so hard for, well, good luck with that (oops).

[0] I even feel the need to bullet-point-out that "obviously that's not the only factor, it's just the only one that's going to work for you since Mom/Dad aren't paying your paycheck".
Rock-solid reliability!
First Round’s newest partner is Stripe veteran and GTM expert Meka Asonye
Beeple isn't completely unknown, but even now he has only a few hundred thousand followers on twitter. If you look on Google trends you can see the search interest in Beeple, prior to the NFT thing, was substantially less than for relatively unpopular things like pogs or zip drives.

Given that pogs are 2-3 times as popular as Beeple, would you expect that if the inventor of pogs started selling an image of the first slammer as an NFT that it would sell for at least 70 million too?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2021-01-01%202...
The name "trunk" is also used by other version control systems, such as Fossil.

Fortunately, as far as I understand it, GitHub allows you to change the branch names; "main" is just the default setting.
Here would be a fun way to demonstrate what NFTs are really about: create a competing "NFT" standard such that these new tokens cannot be resold.

Let's see what a signed one-of-a-kind limited edition beeple goes for if you can't resell the piece.
And if its development requires the sacrifice of as many mice as it saves then it only breaks even. Ethically, that case hasn't been made. And what comes out shouldn't suffer.
Over that long period of time, isn’t there the effect of star movement at least a tiny bit visible?
Thinkpad P series has ECC
Who is the author of that quote?
When you control both client and server it seems like hot restart is just a complicated stunt you don’t need. Isn’t it fine to just stop accepting connections, tell all your clients to reconnect, and do a normal restart? The frontend load balancer that stands between you and Gmail doesn’t know how to restart hot but you probably never noticed.
Would drinking whisky stop transmission?
> after continuously being excluded from economic progress for a few hundred years? Actually really curious -- one of the "innovations" of US slavery was the slavery of the descendants of slaves -- was that the case in northern Africa? I think not; if you have some evidence otherwise happy to think about it.

No, if you read the article eitland posted (no judgment, I don't know) then you'd see that it was Muslims that was behind this slave trade.

One of their habits (or "innovations" in your terminology) that we don't often talk about was that of literally emasculating (in the literal sense) male captives.

This explains a whole lot of why there isn't a white population like the black in US.

Another explanation is that some where bought out from slavery by relatives in Europe.

You should read up on this.

You'll find that compared to the Arabic slave traders (that the Western slave traders sourced from), Western slave traders were kind of nice (edit: or smart, or less sadistic or something).

Oh, and their slave trade didn't end until much later, if ever. (Ever heard about how facilities for a certain sports event in Qatar were built?)

Why don't we talk about this? Sources are after all plentiful.

Edit: Let me add my guess: it doesn't fit the narrative that white, Christian men are worse than everyone else.
Even with a good backup strategy you're still prone to the link going down, something you can't fix since you don't own the domain. That's pretty non-ideal IMO
I have looked into SO for Teams in the past, but was not able to convince myself that it was worth the effort to push for its adoption (from the bottom up). I would be curious to hear more about what the journey to success looked like for organizations that were able to do it successfully.

It seemed to me that it required a lot of process/habit changing that needs to be fully supported from management levels. Likely including a "ban" on project-based channels on things like Slack/Teams/etc. I imagined you would need to try to move all of the relevant project-based Q/A and chat onto this product so the necessary information is available. Then you need people to actively moderate and vote to help the SO search functionality bubble up the relevant topics. Basically, this isn't just a new tool, but a new way of interacting with teammates - if you want to get the utility from it. What else am I missing?

I should mention, I really like the concept, but not sure how to get over the adoption hurdle.
This sounds like exactly the right formula for startup success:

1) People with experience in a given industry

2) People who have seen the problem over & over again

3) Large businesses with lots of money but lacking in skill/will to automate the solution themselves

4) Outsider comes and says "hey we can automate that really boring problem for you save you money"

Please remember this comment when you get acquired for tons in a few years.
Off the top of my head:

- File names are not case sensitive (renaming can be a pain)

- Sometimes file changes don't trigger inotify and break hot reloading

- It's a pain to get custom /etc/hosts to resolve in your browser
Thinking that everybody understand life as a pass or fail exercice is neurotic mindset projection. We have no idea about how Otlet experienced his existence. COVID put brakes on a lot of life projects... are these humans all failures?

There is intelectual life outside the Boomer-Brains their Corporate-Pax-Americana-Safety-Bubble. Here is a list of loosers to ponder about ;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Maurice_de_Talleyrand-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton

Obviously I am all in studying the past in order to not repeat the same mistakes. But please, do it without the self whipping of clasifying humans as 'exceptionals' and 'failures'. Getting a few bruises along the way might help to open your mind and help you becoming yourself.
TikTok will no longer let people opt out of personalized ads
If you're switching branches frequently, or doing a lot of merging you might
Imho meaningful change: (blacklist, whitelist) -> (excludelist/denylist, allowlist)

Imho meaningless lip service: master branch -> main branch

Also imho the most insulting towards PoC and everyone else for that matter is to patronisingly assume people can't comprehend context, as OP's article points it out.
> What policies are being passed that are helping materially black people?

Mostly nothing. Corporations can largely only avoid harming various groups, and engaging in fair business practices. They're not set up, by their incentive structure, to do work that reforms society at large.

Even non-profits need to focus on a specific mission, and they're usually most successful by putting people in touch with each other.

Because, especially if you look at it through the lens of "material" help, the further an action is from the control of the individual being helped, the amount of good that can be done per unit effort drops off dramatically.

We normally view individualism as a normative claim, that "the rugged individual" ought to help himself. But you can cast it as an observation: most help in your life is only effective (again, in terms of return for the effort involved) if it comes from you personally or someone quite close to you.
Because Google engineers think that they are the smartest people in the world which means they don't actually engineer for minimization of a blast radius.

You should just see how Google builds the prefix lists that it allows customers to advertise to Google via PNIs. You would think they are building it off some registry lists because why else would Google insists that the routes are registered? Oh no, that's for small people. At Google they just bring up a session to you, let you advertise and take whatever you advertised to them during the setup as the allow list because everything is done via custom automated software!
Wow the ISS is crowded right now. 3 Soyuz modules plus a Dragon and Cygnus.
Honestly not even that- I have blokada so no ads for me.

But I do wonder if the problem doesn't lie in the fact that there are 5000000 apps and yours is just 5000001 that nobody is going to use. App market seems saturated.
You don't chase down most little critters, you bait and trap. That does require being less of a dummy.
Show HN: Video Game in a Font
IRS pushes tax deadline to May 15th
Not so many ways to _recover_ from failure and go on, though.
WhatsApp relative to everything else at the time
Fairness and Biases in Credit Card Fraud Detection Algorithms
Henry Petroski has written several excellent essays and books about engineering failures, why it is inherent in engineering pursuits that there will be failures, why it is important to learn the right lessons from these failures, and why each new generation will forget past lessons.

Start with: "To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design" (1985)
Presuming that people who don't block third-party scripts to add social media widgets to click "share" without copying and pasting are automatically posting "misinformation"?
While usernames are easy to figure out, I think email divulgation should be taken more seriously.

Even a registration form should not inform you that the email is already used. This information could be given ... by sending a mail.

While disclosure of the existence of an account with your email have minimal impact on Stripe or GitHub, what about a dating site ? What about a politic website ? How about some sensible professional tool ?
> If you follow the advice from this website you will end up being the problem.

If you meet an asshole in the morning, you met an asshole. If you meet assholes all day long, you’re the asshole.
No, it was SolarWinds that blamed the intern for their security issues.

In all seriousness... if a single employee can accidentally single-handedly screw things up you've got a process problem. There should be checks and balances to make sure that what you're trying to do make sense. These might be in the form of a code-review, automated validation, a staging environments, etc. Yes, these might be things that don't exist at a scrappy startup and that is fine as they'll get there eventually but for any large company not having good processes is reckless.
Telling the most poor people that are already threatened by malnutrition to give up their cow isn't a very good idea.
A Remedy for the Spread of False News?
What does BA stand for? Thanks.
What does this have to do with https://gpu.land/ ? I've been very impressed with NN-512 in your past postings but I'm failing to see the direct salience w.r.t the top level post.

Perhaps readers would benefit from an apples-to-apples comparison of V100 to some CPU in a training per dollar metric? Preferably using something like MLPerf. You do mention inference but I think most people looking at https://gpu.land/ will be far more interested in training rather than inference.

I think the most direct competitor to this ShowHN would be https://vast.ai/
I've always wondered, have there been variations on these tests that control for camera exposure levels and lighting conditions, or try to separate color from luminosity from morphology? In reaction-delay-based tests, is the delay because of bias or because of something else about what's being presented (e.g. strange wording or visual layout) requiring additional mental processing?

Teasing out those differences could help e.g. layout information and design cameras and image pipelines to reduce the effects of bias.
No, because Oberon wasn't only programming language, rather a full workstation OS, with a developer experience inspired on Mesa/Cedar.

"Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4

"Oberon (Native Oberon 2.3.7)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJGnpmnXR5w
I would have likely upvoted you without the request for downvotes, but sure I guess I'll oblige. Even if it won't convince you to change, maybe I can warn other people you're using such an annoying rhetorical device.
>"living wage" is the bar now

Heaven forbid we demand an economic system built upon the notion that everyone who works should have the ability to live a decent life with secure food and housing.

It's telling that many see spending and regulating toward this goal as "printing money" unscrupulously, yet when similar orders of magnitude spends are casually allocated toward the Department of Defense on an annual basis not a word is uttered about their utility.
And "writing" is still a good skill to have, even if you are not a professional essayist or author.
Well, all while and for loops are ripoffs of Algol.

It is kind of notably how the JingPad looks like an iPad, but doesn't look like a Surface or Galaxy Tab or Lenovo Tab or Amazon Fire HD.
If the dev team reports to a non-technical PM, your organization has bigger issues than just a rogue PM.
I’m sure google can afford some colo space (probably would be cheaper too)
Spend money on nothing. Let's see how much crypto people would spend
Many years ago there was a webpage called Million Dollar Homepage. These days the photo of an egg had more than 10 million followers on Instagram.
People like to pay and they like nonsense ideas. So let's make this the world record of money spent on NOTHING (that's not entirely true.)
Seems like the status page was on separate infra (I could access it while the GCP services were down), but Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8) was also down.

Perhaps alexdumitru was using 8.8.8.8?
The major injustices and crimes of history were profitable because a targeted group was dehumanised for the gain of others. The economic victimisation of black people in the US continues to be profitable.

> it trivializes the movement

As a developer, I am comfortable with the change in terminology. As a human... My phenotypes are different from yours and OP's, but I am certain that if we do not bring the critique to bear against systemic enslavement of people (regardless of "targeted" phenotypes), we have all missed the point and really changed nothing. Who is blacker or whiter or truer to the tribe... these are serviceable distractions.

Slavery is abhorrent to any enlightened human. But slavery existed and continues to exist because those who profit like it that way.
French glue-trapping of birds not allowed, says EU court
It appears the old Reduced Redundancy storage class is on the deprecation path: https://mysteriouscode.io/blog/aws-s3-storage-classes-pricin...

Seems to be largely replaced by One Zone - Infrequent Access https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/announcin...
If the game servers do let you transfer ownership, then why do you need the NFT? If they don't, then why do you need the NFT?

If I sell the NFT of my game sword but my character still has it, what's the NFT doing? If I trade my sword in game and don't bother with the NFT what purpose would the NFT have?
The irony of this comment on this thread is incredible. The washington post is now "Fox/Newsmax/OAN" cinematic universe? Like...what?
I tried out Dendron a few months ago for personal note-taking, technical docs, and organizing tasks. I was excited at first, but overall the cons outweighed the pros for me.

Pros/exciting things:

1) There's a simplicity in using VS Code for writing notes and docs if (and probably only if) you already spend your day in VS Code, like I do.

2) The Markdown Preview Enhanced VS Code extension (which is a dependency of Dendron) is super cool for having so many "batteries" included. For example, check out all the diagram types it supports: https://shd101wyy.github.io/markdown-preview-enhanced/#/diag... . I still use it, separately from Dendron.

3) Storing my data as plain text on disk (backed up by GitHub or Dropbox) has nice properties compared to how SaaS apps do it (e.g. if you use Notion, say, your data materializes out of "the cloud" when you launch the app, and otherwise has no tangible existence). When my data is plain text on my local disk, I own it; I know I can export it, I can run whatever editor or program on it; I can access past versions (via git or Dropbox); I don't have to worry about it being corrupted, or accidentally deleting some of it, or not being able to access it because of server issues, or not being able to export it, or being offline, and so on.

4) The Dendron docs ("wiki") site is created using Dendron. It's a cool thought that I could create a nice website of documentation or notes without leaving VS Code.

Cons:

1) Can't access my notes from mobile.

2) Major warts in navigating between notes. Each note has a tab for editing it and a tab for viewing/previewing it. Opening a note behaves differently depending on which tab is focused. Clicking links to go from one note to another doesn't work very well.

3) Poor full-text search (just VS Code's code search).

4) You can't specify an order for notes, only unordered hierarchy, and you can't easily view multiple notes at once, which means keeping lots of short notes, or using different notes for different sections of a document, doesn't really work. There's a tension in any note-taking tool between short notes and long notes. Should notes be as short as possible? Or stretch into long documents? The ideal tool IMO would blur the difference between an ordered hierarchy of sections within a document and an ordered hierarchy of notes within some grouping. Dendron makes it seem like it is for keeping thousands of small notes, but the ways in which you can view, organize, and navigate between notes (lack of good "browse," search, links, lists, seeing multiple notes, next/previous note, and so on) are so limited that it makes more sense to write long documents. In which case, all you really need is Markdown Preview Enhanced and the file system.
Yep, I have "Unlimited" cell data but it throttles to 128Kbps after 4GB. If I were to blow through the entire 4 instantly at the beginning of the month I'd only be able to reach 48GB by continuously maxing out my bandwidth until the end of the month. I know people who regularly go over that with "real" unlimited plans.
I wrote a an article going into the technical details here:
https://github.com/mmulet/code-relay/tree/main/markdown/HowI...

I also released the code for the game engine. Available here: https://github.com/mmulet/code-relay/tree/main/markdown/Tuto...
Would someone more knowledgeable than me sketch out the relationship between Phrack and 2600? I think someone here knows it off the top of their head.
What purpose should such a repo serve? The most common ones are museums. Yes, they are not perfect, and it is easy to oversimplify and misinterpret what is presented there.

If you want to preserve it for survivors of civilisational collapse, then it has to be codified and simplified first. Well done, a civilization could jump tech levels much quicker than if they had had to bootstrap everything first.
Common Lisp itself has Roswell, which I am disappointed to see is not even mentioned in the article.

https://github.com/roswell/roswell
real data + fun + no pressure often leads to improvement it seems