skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The solution is this: Ban anyone without a minimum teaching experience of x years from participating on boards, bring all teacher salaries up to comfortable middle-class in every district and give them back their authority in the classroom.

"There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
I used to make some very bad music in Renoise on an old Thinkpad X61T. I had a great workflow going with the stylus and keyboard, and could lay down bad beats very quickly. Highly recommend Renoise for playing around. It's cheap, lightweight, and absolutely joyful to use.
Can this be made to happen in TestFlight or Xcode?
Right or like when new movie comes out and beats all time high box office sales, well duh we have larger population so this will happen even for shitty movies
OmniWeb, back in the early days of OS X, did that. They used the drawer concept.

I really loved that. All my tabs (with mini pictures of them) were on side, which made them easy to see and didn't take up vertical space.

(OmniWeb was a great browser in other ways).
We all hate it, but it pays the bills. It's ultimately better to be in this position as a thoughtful person aware of the consequences of your work, since they would just replace you with someone less conscionable otherwise.
Get a phone without a data plan and no ability to download and install anything and try and shut off all that sort of services but maybe only Phone Service and Text messages.

Some state's welfare/food-stamp offices are getting text message aggressive and that's got to be limited there as well with excessive unrelated texts not related to the specific services offered.
The assumption that accreditation and education must be done by the same organization is absurd, really. Public schools evidently have the exact same incentives. The answer is that third parties should be evaluating education, not administration making up numbers and giving themselves a pat on the back for doing so well.

Of course, teaching to the test isn't ideal. But it looks like the alternative isn't a well-rounded education, but not teaching at all.
Mayflower, the AI ship sent to sail from the UK to the US with no humans
Can the Māori Connection to Antarctica Help Safeguard the Continent’s Future?
I've read somewhere that the affluent don't send their kids to public school in SanFran or anywhere in the Bay Area, is that true? I assume there are a lot of locals browsing this.
Ιταλια vs. Ουαλια, προγνωστικα στοιχημα Euro 2020
Η Ουαλία θα προσπαθήσει να εξασφαλίσει τη θέση της στα στάδια των νοκ-άουτ του Euro 2020, με ένα βαθμό εναντίον της Ιταλικής εθνικής ομάδας στο Στάδιο Ολίμπικο την Κυριακή. Οι Δράκοι έχουν πάρει τέσσερις πόντους από τους δύο πρώτους αγώνες του πρώτου ομίλου, ενώ η Ιταλία έχει ένα τέλειο έξι από έξι βαθμών και έχει ήδη περάσει στον επόμενο γύρο της διοργάνωσης. Πάμε κατευθείαν στα σημερινά Ιταλια – Ουαλια προγνωστικα στοιχημα Euro 2020
The anti-vaxxers seem to do it all the time without much in the way of consequences
I haven't used Reaper, but from what I can tell it's a traditional DAW with a piano-roll interface (with the closest free/open-source alternative probably being Ardour).

Renoise, on the other hand, is a DAW with a tracker interface. It's a very different workflow.

I paid $75 for Renoise about 6 years ago and it's been great using it on Linux via Jack. It works flawlessly and is highly polished.. it's as good as any other commercial audio application that I've used, but it's very different from anything that's not a tracker. I use it in conjunction with a lot of VST plugins that I run through Wine and some native Linux plugins from u-he, which also work great.

My impression is that most people use Renoise for making electronic music (which is how I use it too), for which it's very well suited.

In my own experience, however, using the usual tracker workflow is not that great for manual exploration, however Renoise has lots of free third-party Lua scripts that can help with that, and it's also great for manipulating and sequencing samples.

Here's a video on doing some advanced reverb processing with it: [1]

Lots of ways to use it.

The other thing I've heard that at least in older versions of Renoise (not sure how it is in the newest versions) it wasn't great for recording really long samples. So if you want to do something like record a live band's jam session or something you'll probably want to use something else. Renoise is best for working with shorter samples (or with synths or other VSTs or generating its own music).

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZnfyJqvM6s
“ Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software” by Charles Petzold and “The Elements of Computing Systems” by Noam Nisan and Shimon Shocken are both a great introduction.
Why Road Barriers Stopped Killing Drivers
"If someone had not made any opinion yet - they won't have any trust connections on that matter, so if they're reading an anti-vaccine posting,..."

They see that it is vouched for by 1000 other people. They see that a countering article that is also vouched for by 1000 people, but those people are all so-called "experts" and they've read HN and know that "experts" are biased and have perverse incentives and such. Or they just flip a coin. Either way, they believe the anti-vax article.

Because the feedback loop is very open, they see no consequences for their choice. So they also vouch for the anti-vax article.
I'm intrigued by radium and I tried it once, didn't get too far. The feature set looks amazing, but doesn't seem exactly easy to use. I think this screen shot from the front page says it all.
https://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/pictures/radium_6_0...
It seems kind of dumb, of course the role can be replaced. Its not like a father today is doing anything super specific to child survival. Just feed, change and play with the kid, obviously anyone of any sex can do these things.
It's a very good DAW if you like using tracker interfaces. It supports sample-based tracking (the old Amiga style) and VSTis. It supports the usual sample effects, has it's own effects and can pretty comfortably use VST effects as well.

I haven't dug super deep into it, but it has a lot of automation options, and some clever ideas, but it's a very complex tool. I'm not entirely sure it's worth all that over a piano roll style DAW, but it's probably the current pinnacle of tracker-style tech.

It's very reasonably priced for what it is IMHO.
I don't know what they were thinking either. It's a horrid change. Can't see the tabs any more, the URL is no style hidden now, and the URL bar is now jumping around like crazy.
"unless a load of Wi-Fi pranksters suddenly pop up in the wild with open Wi-Fi networks using the poisoned name"

Heh. I do appreciate the subtlety here.
Not starting with a big name tech corp or a high-growth VC-funded company. Big brand on CV makes big difference when recruiters are doing initial screening. A CS/MBA degree from top university helps. Do whatever you can to work with a big tech brand early in career, otherwise later you will regret.
They still have good APIs, but everyone use D3D because it's has larger market share and not because it's superior. Decade ago many developers still used whole DirectX package: input handling, sound, network. Now it's mostly just D3D. It's was possible for Microsoft to grow DirectX mindshare by adding more components: physics engine, particles and effects, advanced networking or server management pathfindding and AI, VoIP, matchmaking, etc...

Instead they were focusing on Xbox and let their PC ecosystem rot. Now Nvidia, Valve, Epic and other middleware vendors consumed this market. They tried with GFWL, but it was a dumpster fire.

They now try again with Game Pass for PC, but again they just want to push Xbox ecosystem instead of Windows gaming as whole.
Not in Canada.

Teachers are well paid in Canada, and in many Canadian mid sized cities a teacher with 10 years experience will make more than a software developer with similar years experience. Additionally they have a strong pension, and incredible job stability.

e.g. A teacher in Saskatoon would make about $92K with 10 years experience with a defined benefit pension, and 2 months off in the summer.

It is tougher for teachers in high COL cities like Toronto and Vancouver as they make roughly the same as they do in the rest of the country. (But similarly a Vancouver software developer doesn't get a USA west coast salary)

Source: My wife teaches, and I write software!
Recognizing a third party does little with the spoiler effect. Not sure if you are referring to this in your final sentence, but the voting system has to change first to some sort of runoff model so people can express their primary choice without fear of the spoiler.
In the military, there are civilians at the top. Right below them, it's career military. Having these standards set by involving parents at a local level is ripe for disaster. As is having local sheriffs, without proper training, elected but I digress. Curriculums should be as standardized as possible. That makes everything comparable.

It would be enough to have have the top brass of education elected. You can even make the curriculum part of election campaigns.
> We can’t even have a nuanced conversation about anything in politics that doesn’t devolve into an ideological/tribal argument. I think the US is already dominated by idiots in every state.

Gotta appreciate the irony of this statement. The Idiot Tribe are victims of The System, not driving it. They are not my enemy.
Check out the online course Nand2Tetris. I took it my senior year of college as a business major (but had a SWE internship/full-time offer). It was an interesting course and definitely filled the gaps in my knowledge OP describes, but didn’t really make a difference for me as a SWE.
Anecdotally, I don't have kids of my own, but none of my friends with kids send theirs to public schools in SF or Oakland. I also live on the same block as two private schools in Oakland and apparently the wait lists to get in are years long.
Pretty much.

As a far less formal analogy, it's similar to how people complain that digital audio in general has lower quality than analogue, just from a discrete vs continuous standpoint. When in fact there's no limit to the quality of a digital representation (if we liked, we could store a gigabyte per sample, or a petabyte, or whatever). Yet we can always draw the line somewhere, beyond which there are no meaningful distinctions.
Any reason why you stayed for years?
To a certain extent. If you show too much content at the expense of navigation you simply make your app harder to use. There’s a sweet spot in the UX bell curve and I feel like the new Safari missed the mark. Although, the iOS version looks like an upgrade for one handed use.
I had one amazing high school math teacher who graduated from MIT at 18, and was teaching all the way up to diff eq in public schools. He’d made his money and then decided to teach because he was annoyed that his sons’ math teachers sucked. There’s absolutely no way teacher salary+pension was competitive with what he was making in industry. And we should want a lot more people who are like him teaching, without the needing them to be lucky enough to not need to care about money.
The idea that "the rich are aliens" is creepy. It mainly serves to make their murder morally permissible.

One hopes you can muster this ardent sympathy for the millions of people killed in wars that the rich started and by healthcare deficiencies that the rich have arranged over the last several decades.
I very much doubt the federal courts are going to agree that free speech applies to expert testimony.

And if you attempt to provide expert testimony in your own defense, the court will likely laugh at you. You will have to hire an outside expert to provide expert testimony.
It depends on who is your target customer, but unless they are especially both tech-savvy and open-minded, this is probably a bad idea.

Most people will assume you mean something.xxx.com, or that it's a dev url and you haven't launched yet.

If they are brave enough or native enough to Google your name, whether or not your site ranks, they will be presented with pornography one way or the other.

Your url may or may not get automatically turned into a hyperlink in their email and chat clients.

As you said, your emails will not make it through corporate filters, your site will be blocked, etc.

You might be able to work around technical issues with secondary domains, but from a business perspective you will vastly limit the pool of clients willing to give you a shot.
I had something similar happen to me

in retrospect it was a valuable lesson
Eh, I know a teacher in my state that is paid more than I am as a software dev, and that's not too unusual (I know other states might be different as we are in the top 10 for teacher salary). We also spend $14k per student per year at my district. The education is ok.

I feel that the main issue is that the wrong things are being taught. How about things like personal finance, basic mechanical and electrical skills (like for DIY repairs), and logic or philosophy of argument classes? It would also be good to teach the basics of civics since a substantial portion of the population can't pass the citizenship test.
"Excellent" is a relative term. The average school is going to be average by definition. If you focus on excellence, you are focusing on the best-performing schools and ignoring the rest. If you are interested in the quality of the education the majority of kids are receiving, you should pay more attention to the average unexceptional schools, where most kids meet the expectations but do not excel in anything. If the expectations are too low, there is probably something wrong with the administration or the level of funding, or with the status of teaching as a profession.
Conversation and interviewing are managerial skills best learned through practice.

I will say this though, this point of learning has applied equally to my corporate technology career as well as my military management career. Sell your executive a vision of success without any bullshit and deliver what you sell.
Yup I've used Safari since OmniWeb was canceled. This was the first time I thought about switching - that's how bad I find the UI.

I'm thinking of going with Vivaldi if I do, and Firefox secondarily.
That’s why you simulate the process.
my sax teacher says that if you swing Bach you get jazz.
As if sober people live forever...
Woah, that looks really interesting. I've long thought that the old fashioned hexadecimal columner way of entering effects on tracks is a mess. It looks like this lets you see envelopes, effects and more visually?

I might want to give it a spin to see if it's as intuitive as I think it might be?

Here's a very classic track in it https://youtu.be/ZGtlJKmGLNY
Trying to work for someone else.

It turns out that I just can't work on software that other people built. I have too strong of opinions, which could also be considered a mistake.

I'm still early in my career, so I haven't made many.
Why do you consider this to be a mistake? I've thought about this in the past, but can't really articulate my motivations, and in the end I haven't followed through. Some of my previous colleagues have fit into the gap between co-worker and friend. I would never spend time with them outside of work and since we no longer work together I'm not sure what I'm really missing, so I'm curious to hear your thoughts.
The school still exists, it's just that it's being forced to change how students are selected for entry. The same debate is happening in NYC with Stuyvesant. No one is talking about getting rid of the high-prestige schools. Only who is in them.
The 50% rule is just changing the meaning of the numbers, no? 50% is the new 0%.

Though I do agree that we should focus on the chance of turning it around. Students who score poorly early on and then score well later should be extra rewarded, not held down by their past performance.
Is it okay for me to buy a Google Adsense account?
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It seems education in most first world countries is heading the same way, teacher authority being undermined by weak administration. It should be the case that education standards are protected by strong administration, bothnto hold teachers accountable, and to let them do the job without pandering to helicopter parents.
Not asking for help, generally.
It's worth mentioning that it's been criticized by many archaeologists for showing problematic artifact handling and very rushed excavation procedures that aren't reflective of modern best practices. They also hyped up the dramatic narrative angle, which was admittedly necessary to make the thing watchable. It's still one of the better docs out there, but still not to be taken as "this is how archaeology is supposed to be done".
Ok, so this is being somewhat misunderstood here, I think. A few observations:

- The sentence pg quoted ("Roughly one-third of students are also in favor of banning controversial books from their university library.") is verbatim from the study.

- However, this study must be seen in context. It was deliberately and openly designed to detect anti-free-speech sentiment by looking at a specifically chosen probable "worst case", namely social science students at a traditionally left leaning university in Germany (which houses the "Institut für Sozialforschung" that gave rise to the "Frankfurter Schule" (Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse) of critical theory, a predecessor of (among other things) CRT). That this is the case is revealed right in the title of the study: "Is Free Speech in Danger on University Campus? Some Preliminary Evidence from a Most Likely Case", and further emphasised in the text: "We are certainly not under the impression that our sample is representative of university students in general (or the wider public, for that matter). On the contrary, we purposefully consider the social science studentship at Frankfurt as a most likely case." (my emphasis).

- So, the study succeeded in detecting some moderately illiberal attitudes in a quarter or so of students at one deliberately chosen "worst case" faculty in Germany.

- All the hubbub here about the statistical limitations is overblown, n=501 is not bad for social science and gives a error margin of around 5%, which means the results stand unless there was massive sampling bias.
If Bitcoin goes to zero then a lot of people will get margin calls that they can’t meet and this will cause all sorts cascading failures
This is a strange attitude; if you change jobs every three years, then how much are you going to get done, really? If everyone took this approach, then would any large project ever get finished?
- ivermectin works

- ivermectin might work

- we should censor people suggesting ivermectin might work

Three different claims. Notice people talking about them all as if they were the same claim.
WHOA that is amazing! That would solve so many of this issues.
Not necessarily. People who are really smart and great in industry are not necessarily great teachers. Frankly, if you are talking about making the salary competitive with one that allows FIRE will have the opposite effect that you want (ideology vs money).
Yeah, Sunvox is great, and Alexander Zolotov (its developer) has also made a lot of other innovative and interesting audio apps.
It’s almost as if genetic similarity is a predictor of social stability.
right but that analysis isn't useful. If I used the same logic to determine a solution for hauling a large load by vehicle and looked at how most cubic meters of things are hauled, I'd probably be forced to conclude that a sedan trunk is the best option. However that's only due to the preponderance of sedans.

It's a very careful way to state the question to make it look like the numbers back what's clearly a wrong answer.

It puts the framing of "well I guess I'm using a sedan" and resituates the problem to solve all its shortcomings. It's a classic implicit framing propaganda technique.
> doesn't put a NUL byte in case of truncation

which was an explicit design goal for the author of the article.
"People look at this institution which can't balance a budget, is typically controlled by lunatics between 30-60% of the time and which apparently nobody really trusts."
While that's true, the management of att and Comcast are worse. The gov is incompetent but they are actively malicious. There are no good guys in this fight. And at least you can in theory vote about how the government handles it.
You’re still flushing about* the same amount of water out of the pipes though. It just takes longer with a water efficient shower head. And as the parent poster points out this is solved by using smaller pipes.

* some of the hot water may cool while you wait so there may be a marginal amount of extra wastage at the outset.
Not signing up for ESPP. Doh!
Italian expat (who still visits Italy regularly and has some interest in Japanese culture) here: you are right in writing Japanese in quotes: most Japanese restaurants in Italy are actually owned/operated by Chinese families.
The average Italian does not distinguish the two languages and therefore anyone of Eastern ethnicity can usually "pretend" to be Chinese, Korean,Japanese or Vietnamese without fear of being "unmasked" by general public.
Regarding the first quote, it’s not the opposite of what you’d expect if teaching was a low-status profession that could only attract weaker, lower paid labourers.

Teaching doesn’t attract highly paid workers because in addition to a big pay cut those workers would be considering likely worse working conditions as well.

If teaching is low-status it is no wonder that education standards are low and thus educational achievement is low, as they note in the article. The alternative is failing most students and having a labour supply problem. In my country, Australia, you occasionally see news articles describing some shockingly bad final year high school scores (ATAR scores) being accepted into teaching degrees. Unfortunately, the fact that this happens further entrenches teaching as low status and puts downward pressure on the minimum bar for ATAR scores.

Remarkable, but unsurprising, that the Heritage foundation then suggests _lowering_ wages even further. You’ll get even worse candidates heading for teaching and they may even be able to next time show the same 9% positive bump.
I didn’t look too closely, since I just wanted to make sure it was off, but iirc they said they only upload the footage around the time of a crash to see how effective the safety systems were, and to get a sense of what to improve”. Basically one of those “please waive your privacy in the name of science” types of deals. Didn’t dig through any privacy policies, though, I’m sure Googling will yield a better answer.
"it's a very complex tool"

It's definitely not simple, but I wouldn't say it's any more complex than, say, Ableton.

It's just a different workflow that more traditional DAW users aren't used to, so they'll have to learn. Fortunately there are a million great tutorials on it on youtube.
It's very likely. 2 years seems to be standard, and I'm moving jobs after 1.5 next week. 20% raise for very similar work, there's no reason not to move.
The problem with civilian control of schools is that it leads to asinine arguments over things like whether to teach sex ed at all or whether creationism belongs in the science classroom. Even in less extreme examples, it will lead to parents pushing for counterproductive and unnecessary reforms that make sense to the layman.