skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why are they being compared to typical workers?

Who do you want to compare them to?

>The question of if teachers are sufficiently paid is answered by asking if current classroom sizes are sufficiently small and staffed by sufficient quality teachers. Whatever price that makes that happen is the appropriate price, regardless of what people in other jobs are earning

Like I said before the solution is to cut the bullshit. Not pay more for people to tolerate it.
Unobtrusive ads have nothing to do with serving them locally, and are main reason why people have problems with them.

Give it some time. Ads become obtrusive because it works and it brings more revenue.
NHS funding increases constantly over time, often by massive amounts. The NHS is currently not merely suboptimal. You could have argued that before Team Expert came along in 2020 but not now. It's totally collapsed. There are now people routinely dying whilst waiting to be seen in A&E let alone the massive backlog for cancer. By any metric the NHS in 2022 has completely ceased to function properly.

There seem to be a lot of British people in denial of this fact. The NHS is dead. The only reason it still exists at all is because it isn't a company so the usual safety systems like bankruptcy can't force a reset.

Note that other countries which spend comparable amounts don't have this problem. I'm lucky enough to have left the UK a long time ago and lines in a party of Europe where the healthcare system is easy more privatised and less controlled by the government. Things here are normal, good even and I can get seen by a gp or specialist more or less immediately.
I am Esarhaddon, killer of bots, maimer of phishers, destroyer of scammers.

This article made me lol.
A chromecast, from my understanding, is just a web browser. Your device pushes a URL to the cast and the cast loads the web page.

It's not surprising you can't cast without ads - adblock would have to be installed on the chromecast not the device doing the "casting."
Many people did, actually.

The amount of work/responsibility definitely scales with the number of kids, and it's not exactly linear either: one will color quietly, two might play together--or fight, and three or more...yikes.

I mentioned the rate because it surprised me it was so close. I'd expect that it costs more to actually educate a kid, and of course, the parents provided the house (and often ice cream and HBO), whereas that rate includes everything.
I second the wireless mouse/ keyboard and will add that I bought a trackball mouse just for this, and it's a wonderful fit. No worrying about a proper surface for moving a mouse around.
With facts, research, leaked documents.
The tradition at 1 Hour Photos was to keep the prints of the naked adults for yourself.
"worse" in what sense?

Outcomes of serious diseases are probably better in 1955, because science hasn't stood still.
If someone lives in a small village where everything is 5 minutes walk away, that person might still decide to work at the better paid job 30 mins drive away, or shop at the bigger shop in the next town over. And in his free time, he may choose to fly to a beach rather than spend his holiday in his garden or local park.

People trade off travel time for other benefits.
Unless what you care about is open computers now and in the future. Then theyre benign like a growing brain tumour. It might not be cancer, but it's still going to kill you.
What’s anti-competitive about letting customers block third party tracking cookies?

Unless you’re saying Apple shouldn’t be in the Ad business at all. But then neither should Google, or Meta, and that’s their entire revenue stream.
In 2022 nobody actually clicks links in emails, right?
From my travels, my impression has been that America in particular treats child nudity as completely, unexceptionally obscene, beyond even adult nudity.

Compared to a beach in Europe, where nearly half of children under 2 run naked, there seems to be no grey area or minimum acceptability in the US.

It makes me wonder if our hypersexualized treatment of child nudity /actively contributes/ to the sexualization of children in our culture.
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Telemedicine has been thing well before 2020.

You shouldn't have to travel to a doctor's office to get privacy. There is nothing wrong with a parent or a doctor taking pictures of a medical condition (rashes, etc).
> which answers are objectively correct depends on the people involved

This is the almost the very definition of subjective.

However, I do take your point about problems that are objective but that are not measurable or solvable by metrics and algorithms. I would add that to my list of problems for which managers will use the metrics tool, even though it won't and can't work and causing frustration for everyone who is relying on them and/or have to collect the metrics data.
This. So. Much.

I've always wondered why so many huge companies don't have a huge company library with their gigantic profits.

As an employer, I'd want employees to always be excited about reading and learning new things. The usual PR mumbo jumbo they spew.

Doesn't a company book space support that? A bookspace has extremely high ROI imo. Better than the massive amount of money we pay for some goons to talk for an hour on Zoom to answer questions with some run of the mill generic answer.
On macOS/Windows/Linux a VPN client can configure the system firewall to block all non-VPN traffic, as insurance against leaks.

There's no such configurable firewall on iOS or Android so you just have to trust that the system VPN interface is watertight.
Teachers are rockstars that need to find agents that make sure they get paid well.
I found this project while looking for a way to renew my SSL certificate without having to use certbot which has a lot of dependencies including python. This program is really small and simple and does exactly what I need. It's perfect.
FS4 <3 I used to play this for hours as a kid! What a trip to see it again. Thank you for sharing! For 1989, it's pretty impressive...
It's true that it's not backed, and that's a pro (we'll get to that), but Bitcoin is better than Fiat for many reasons:

1) impossible to confiscate

2) fixed supply and issuance rate - can't just print it away when the fed wants

3) instant permissionless transfer so the government can't interject. If you think they can be trusted, might want to read about executive order 6102

4) not backed by another asset eg gold (say). This is great because gold is extremely hard to transfer physically and easy to confiscate. Read about how Nixon refused to allow dollar convertibility for gold for foreign nations which was the condition for Bretton woods agreement ie where all nations agreed to use dollar as a global reserve freely exchangeable for gold. Also read about how FDR outlawed private ownership of gold when the US had printed more money than their gold reserves and needed to fix their books.

Decentralized community decree is awesome. You don't have a central actor making rules that support themselves. Christine Lagarde has no way to get the euro out of the deficit hole. See this snippet from an interview: https://youtu.be/p-X-mIuDYFw. In a balanced system, the debt would be loaned from and owed to a market participant who cares about their money being returned, not this bizarre broken system where central banks print and then owe to themselves
Close enough to a monopoly.
Do you use the same email or 2FA for all of those? If so, you still have a potential single point of failure if that provider decides to ban your account.
The article seems to suggest the alternatives were Nokia and Ericsson. AFAIK these are EU firms.
> “ I can download any show or movie I want and have it playing in minutes without having to deal with multi platform bullshit.”

Is this as true as it once was? It seems most of the old trackers are offline or dead now. I’d guess because of the success of streaming services finally meeting the market demand. It’s also possible I’m just old and out of the loop now.
Thanks for asking this question, I actually have been looking for the same thing. I’m going to check out the recs in these sibling comments.
Try an ad-free (or substantially reduced) life for a month or two. Stop watching/reading any ad-based content. It can have a positive effect on your outlook.
That makes sense - we should find if there are any limits to the existing system after spending is increased to match Western European nations (~11% of GDP [0]). (my gut instinct says that we have hit those limits: if the NHS was a good model, you would expect another country to copy it)

If the healthcare outcomes don't resemble what other systems can provide with the same level of funding, there needs to be a serious discussion as to whether the NHS model is fit for purpose for today.

[0] https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/e26f669c-en/index.html?i...
That seems more fitting. Authoritarian seems also very fitting and fits the definition of limiting options for civilians in favour of the state/or it’s organisation.
Half the reason to be a teacher is because half the job is having fun. Most curricula is set in stone and requirements are nationally standardized (US and Asia). You more or less get summers off (there are conferences and summer school) and there are almost no jobs where you can take ~1.5 months off every year. Teaching is also one of the few steady jobs in rural America.

I feel like most people haven't been in an actual ~5th grade classroom in a long time -- literally half of it is playing games/trying to have fun.

And Youtube, good god has the educational content on Youtube evolved in the last decade.
In getting rid of third party cookies it's Google copying Apple. This is something that Apple brought mainstream with ITP in 2017.
> I have a hard time seeing how this doesn't end in anti-trust tears for both of them

In Apple’s case, I hope antitrust action comes before they stray too far and whilst their interests are still aligned with mine. I don’t want them to make any money from advertising, because then they have a conflict of interest and their pro-privacy arguments fall flat.

(Google is too far down that path for me to trust them in the future. Anti-privacy is also their core business, whereas Apple primarily makes money from selling devices).
I'm sure they can increase revenue but I'm not sure how Apple can build an ad empire by adding more ads to its own apps.

Apple canned their mobile ad platform and compared with Alphabet and Meta who's ads are peppered all over the web/search/facebook/instagram - the amount of impressions would be miniscule.
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Let the human decide?
If you're religious, God created everything - enjoy it all, or not...as you wish!
Just don't force your ideas on others.
I taught computing for 13 years at a public charter high-school. It doesn't charge tuition (it's a public school), but does have a dress code, and a commitment to a curriculum based on E. D. Hirsch's core knowledge program in grade school and on classical, liberal arts great books in high school.

Admission is by lottery if there are more applicants than places, not by cherry-picking applicants. They hire teachers with subject-matter degrees and experience: they have some PhDs and a couple ABDs (all but dissertation). Half-jokingly they said they didn't look to hire people with teaching certificates, but wouldn't hold that against them. I had a master's degree in computer science and worked summers to get another master's.

The school was smaller (maybe 700 total students K-12; the class of 2022 graduated 26), which right there, I think, made for fewer behavior problems. There was a well-thought-out discipline policy which was enforced by the administration and backed up by the board and most parents. After all, parents had made a choice to not go to the regular district schools but enroll in this school instead.

I agree that the odds are much better for school success with smaller sizes, a focused curriculum (whether it's International Baccalaureate, Core Knowledge, STEM, arts, or whatever), highly qualified teachers, and supportive parents.
It is funny how some consider the internet synonymous with Google and the other big players. You don't need to use Google and the others at all these days. So many alternatives abound. The problem seems to be awareness of them. Ask me anything.
A flight sim using an xbox controller... is not a flight sim. You dont play minesweeper with a joystick.
I suspect for Gates it might have been a condition of getting the publisher to promote the hard copy version. If the pdf is free then hard copy sales would be much smaller. Still he could have paid for the promotion etc.

I guess that Sinofsky thinks he has a very niche audience who can well afford $300 so they he might as well get them to pay.
I was thinking of something similar. It really depends on the ad. Something like this is or ads with search results don't really bother me as much, if it's relevant to what I'm searching for. However the relevant question is, how secure is our data. The privacy issue didn't actually catch on to the mainstream until people realized just how leaky Facebook is, with 3rd parties gaining access to your entire life.
Google and bing filter out the results you want. Other search engines work fine.
I am able to use Firefox Focus to block ads in Safari on iOS. I’ve not had an Android for a while. What additional ad blocking features would I have on Android these days?
And good luck with your project, welcome to the distributed SQLite space. :-)
iOS natively supports content blockers and Safari extensions.
Huh, this distribution is not the power law I would have expected. Maybe because it's limited to one media type (books)?
I think this is pretty close to the common understanding of it. See Definitions in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longtermism
Jets need to be cheap and convenient enough that you decide to fly to another city to meet a friend for a coffee and fly back home. Sure, the flight might be only 30 mins, but the 'other stuff' makes it impractical.

That will never happen though. The aircraft world is ossified with regulations, and isn't the sort of industry a VC backed startup can swoop in and disrupt Uber style.
Some fair points, but I have a couple of counter points...

One, We really need to know the base rates and false positive rates to reason well here.

Two, I think you'd also need to consider the number of people and number of photos. So like, a photo can be considered a trial, OR flagging a person can. I would imagine a given pedophile has a large number of CSAM photos, but there are few pedophiles. There are however lots of normal parents with fewer photos that might trigger a false positive, but because of that base-rate issue, even if the probability that a given photo is falsely identified as CSAM is quite low, the probability that a given person is falsely flagged/reported may NOT be low.
My friend is a professor and admits she has no interest in teaching. She is a scientist and counts herself fortunate to have enough research funding that she is rarely expected to lecture.
Can you recommend you provider? I've been wanting to do the same thing for a while.
> I could say a bit about well paid engineers who don't pay for the content they consume

That may cover many people, but GP's post seems different. They went out of their way to "digitize their [presumably bought] collection" just to be able to avoid ads.

This doesn't sound at all like "not paying for the content", they're actually paying above the content: I don't think the NAS comes from the pirate bay.

We've actually seen this in practice: when Netflix was the only game in town and carried everything ad-free, piracy cratered. Now that all the paid providers are beginning to show ads, and you have to have 50 different subscriptions to watch what you want, piracy looks better again.

I don't watch many movies / series / videos, so I'm happy with what I get with my Prime subscription, which I'd have either way.

But now that more and more of my Spotify tracks are "not available in my region" anymore, I'm seriously starting to investigate alternatives. Spoiler: it's not another streaming provider. Rather, looking to buy a bunch of hard drives and dusting off my old cd player, so I can rip whatever CDs I can get my hands on at second-hand stores around me.
Thanks.

The website is fast because most of the code is written in plain C and compiled to WebAssembly. No libs or frameworks are involved, not even libc. The memory allocation code is three lines in total. The emulator runs also outside of the browser with libSDL.
This was 8 years ago, so I just remember us being in some sort of merge pickle, my colleague going, "Ah, git is easy if you just understand it as..." and then jumping in to fix it. Which he'd done a few times before successfully, as he really did understand it well. But this time he did something wrong and data was lost.

He was very apologetic about it, and it wasn't more than a day or two of work, so I was ok with it. But it was one of many experiences that have left me permanently suspicious of doing anything fancy with git. Which is fine, because for a lot of reasons mostly not to do with any particular VCS, I work to keep branching to an absolute minimum.
I misspoke. All I mean is it allows for the artist to sell certified digital signatures associated with specific artworks.

Doing that previously required an art gallery to certify the signature. That’s easier in NFTs.
Over the years, I have felt that those who are often the most "busy" tend to get the least done.

There are outliers of those exceptional people who are constantly busy and get a ton done, but I'd wager a good 80% of people who are "busy" by this definition are not aware that they are getting little to nothing done nor are they in control of their lives.

I believe "not being busy" is a superpower. Serendipity gives you unique and fortunate opportunities that you'd never get from constantly being busy. There's a beautiful power of wandering. Most of what we think we have to do, we don’t have to do at all. It’s a choice, and often it’s a poor one.
I posted this in the main thread but in case you don't see it, the quickest way to try it out is via Xbox Cloud. You need an Xbox controller to play it, but then it just streams to your Mac/PC/iPad and IME worked really quite well
Why is it ironic?

One reason all these services are introducing ads is consumers’ learned unwillingness to bear the full costs of the services they enjoy.

I might argue that the true irony is grumbling about a news provider very reasonably limiting their product to those who have paid them.
That does fit Googles profile in various matters.
"easy to read labeling to foods with a semaphore: red, yellow, green"

Easy to read, OK, but would it actually be reliable?

It is way too easy to label avocado red because of high fat content while labeling a candy bar orange because sugar isn't officially considered that dangerous ... and unlike avocado farmers, highly processed food producers have a good lobby.
This is exactly what the engineers behind FoundationDB (FDB) wanted when they open sourced. For those who don't know, FDB provides a transactional (and distributed) ordered key-value store with a somewhat simple but very powerful API.

Their vision was to build the hardest parts of building a database, such as transactions, fault-tolerance, high-availability, elastic scaling, etc. This would free users to build higher-level (Layers) APIs [1] / libraries [2] on top.

The beauty of these layers is that you can basically remove doubt about the correctness of data once it leaves the layer. FoundationDB is one of the most (if not the) most tested [3] databases out there. I used it for over 4 years in high write / read production environments and never once did we second guess our decision.

I could see this project renamed to simply "fdb-sqlite-layer"

[1] https://github.com/FoundationDB/fdb-document-layer

[2] https://github.com/FoundationDB/fdb-record-layer

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJb8A6h9jQQ
"that computers have not yet been nearly as transformative as far older tools for thought, such as language and writing"

Language and writing are the platform upon which our symbolic computing systems are based, so I'm not surprised.
> Disruptive children are caused by parents who frankly just don’t give a shit.

I was disruptive. I had ADHD. Parents did a fantastic job being present and caring but strict. My brothers and I were in multiple sports leagues.
> And this is hopefully killing Apple

Seeing as how Apple managed to avoid dying in 1998 when it’s revenue was $7B and was operating in the red, I am pretty sure an excursion into digital advertising on 1.6B installed devices when they have revenues nearing $400B/yr, with $160B in profit isn’t going to be the death knell.
autocorrect, perhaps.
I played the original Sublogic Flight Simulator on my TRS-80 Model I, dogfighting three enemy flying aces, each represented as a single block "pixel". I haven't played it since Microsoft acquired it, though. Has it changed much?
It seems Musk is trying to have 10^58 children from a similar number of women.
It's not Google's place to say what is or isn't problematic.
Star Trek perfectly answers what the transporter does: it destroys the original, creates an exact copy simultaneously, and this is fine because in Star Trek's lore consciousness is an observable process from matter and as such there's no problem.

It's you who has the problem with that conclusion, not Star Trek.

They even ably do some episodes where people do get duplicated, and the answer is that both have equal claim to rights and life and go on with their lives.

The bigger problem return the transporter is logistical: it's a superweapon. Mining - obsolete, use the transporter. Ship repair? Just beam new parts directly into place. Surgery? Beam organs in and out. TNGs transporter has more problems in this regard due to just how powerful it's shown to be.

What the transporter should be able to do is near endless and makes a lot of other things in the setting obsolete or quaint (but that's Star Trek - being inconsistent due to episodic events is just what goes with the setting).
The recently launched site Markups.org is crowdsourcing dealer markups daily and can help buyers decide which dealership is right.
New RTS with 200,418,611,014 star systems and procedural spaceship generator
I saw a book on antenna design on libgen that originally included a CD with software, and that disk image had been uploaded to the site.
The reference to $7k isn’t to prosecute a CP case, it was to sue google to reinstate his account so he could get his digital life back.
This is true and also why I think NFTs worked so well - they solved a digital asset problem, not a physical asset problem. I suspect that’s the kind of problem blockchain will solve more. The “physical things on blockchain” movement is sort of not working out imo.
Storage space is not a problem, especially not on the order of terabytes. If you want to download all of libgen on a cheap drive, perhaps limit yourself to epub files only. No one needs all of libgen anyway except archivists and data hoarders.
The funny thing is, I've seen southern 'react' kids (Andy and Alex) listen to Born On The Bayou for the first time.

If you know the song you know what's gonna happen and you can't wait, but even then it's a delight: you know from the first downbeat it's got you, but seeing these kids light up and lose their minds over how good it is, that's something special.

It so doesn't matter that John Fogerty was singing a fantasy: real Southern kids connected to the reality of what Fogerty was doing, what he and the band were making. There's nothing inauthentic about 'Born On The Bayou'. It's made out of love and it's real and sincere. Maybe if you actually got born on the bayou you'd take it for granted and would never be able to express so deep a love, and you'd be singing about coding in silicon valley?
Compliance to do what?

It's not like he was stopped from leaving Russia.