skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s right, but the schools themselves are not participating in the market feedback forces, their quality distribution is random (or worse).

This very observation is telling us that the entire system is outside the market (why, for example, people from other locations cannot choose this particular school if it is better than others?)
> has anyone here ever looked at a resume with an MSc in CS and said "Yep, I bet this person knows how to write code well"

A Masters in CS doesn't tell me the person knows how to code well, but it does tell me that they are _more likely_ to

- Have had experience with a wider variety of algorithms, data structures, and general coding concepts

- Have written code to perform more complex things

- Written code for someone "outside of a classroom"

Certainly the last two are more directly accomplished by actually being in the workforce. However, an educational environment is a far better source for the first one. Now, I'm not saying having a Masters is necessarily _better_ for a developer but

- Given two developers with no work experience, one with a Masters and one with a Bachelors; I would generally assume the one with the Masters is a better developer.

- Given two developers with a similar amount of work experience, one with a Masters and one with a Bachelors; I would generally assume the one with the Masters is a better developer.

- Given two developers, one with a Masters and no work experience, one with a Bachelors a couple years of work experience; I wouldn't make any assumptions about their skill (they're certainly different, but I wouldn't assume one is a better developer than the other).

The same logic holds true for me when people try to convince me that a degree in CSci offers no benefit at all, and that it's better to just self study and start working. There's nothing you can learn during a degree that _can't_ be learned by self study; but there's a lot of things that are much more likely to be learned in an academic environment.
Well this is not a story about a tech blogger.

This is a story about a Corporate Mega Machine with thousands of Corporate Robots all programmed with the same code. To optimize for growth. One robot opposes it. Ten robots will line up to slit its throat and take its place.
“Why didn't I end up in teaching? The licensing requirements in Minnesota are insane. Counselor's straight up told me I'd have to borrow ~$50k from the UMN for a MS in Curriculum and Instruction before I could teach.”

I received my teaching license in Wisconsin and transferred to Minnesota by doing little more than passing the licensure exam. I did not have an MS at that time or when I started teaching in the Minneapolis suburbs.

I believe you were somewhat misled.
> Because your customer, in so doing, is stealing from your other customers

That's always going to be the case, though. Imagine you built software that helped businesses find customers. Using it the intended way they can realize a small number of new customer each day distributed across your customer base. Now, someone finds a new way to use your software in a manner that you never envisioned and they're attracting all the customers, taking from those who used the software as expected.

But, really, who cares? You just pivot to the embrace the new way and carry on with life. That's your market now. It's fun and all to want to be the elevator operator of old, but at some point you have to realize that nobody cares about your nostalgia. Markets change.

> Plus, you're disheartened because this interaction is a waste of time

But it is not. The students are only there to abade social pressures and cheating their way through gives them what they want out of the deal. Very few students care about the academics.

> if money was all you cared about, you wouldn't be in education.

If you don't care about money, why are you marketing the social need so hard? This is like a car manufacturer marketing that their cars are great gateway vehicles when committing crimes and then lamenting that criminals are using their vehicles to get away...

Before the ridiculous, albeit successful, "If you don't go to college you will end up flipping burgers" marketing campaign, college only attracted a small number of students who were serious about learning and all was well with the world. Colleges still spend an inordinate amount of time justifying why the cost is worthwhile to keep up the social need illusion.

It's not hard to revert to the natural state. Fact of the matter is that you (not you personally, perhaps, but the group) don't want to.
Dropbox used Amazon until 2016, to only have their own datacentres in the last 5 years. Who's to say they decide that's not economical and move back to aws?

OneDrive IS Microsoft and iCloud IS Apple so they ARE BigTech, the same as Google? I don't see how that argues against the point?

Box is the only one in that seems to qualify? Kinda proves my point that it's not at all easy for a laymen.
Looks like in their view "fully distributed" == "write scalability", which is, of course, very limited view.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevermind#2021_lawsuit
most flying insects do pollinate, or even ants
I run a server at home and I’ve set up Nextcloud.

I don’t trust it to be more reliable than a paid service. The thing about self hosted solutions is you’re completely on your own if something goes wrong. You need to make sure you’re backing things up, that you can restore your Nextcloud configuration if your sql database takes a dump or you fat finger and delete some config files (I’ve done both). Or if you have a power outage or lose internet connection and can’t access vital files, or even something simple like a bad software update causing issues.

While a great option, one can’t simply spin up next cloud and then move everything over like you would a Saas solution as a typical layman.
Exactly. They want to replace public education with a for-profit system.
Once that transition is in place, the vouchers will become harder for certain people to get, then eventually vouchers will go away and people will be solely responsible for their children's education. This means, yet again, the poor and middle class get the shaft.
I could say a bit about well paid engineers who don't pay for the content they consume - it's something I've observed everywhere I go, and I don't think it's one of our more attractive qualities (I'm in there too). I also agree that advertising is an insidious force that corrupts nearly everything it touches.

The funny part to me is that my parents do a fire safety puppet show for children and can keep them enraptured for half an hour with zero budget. For centuries, people have been entertained by Punch and Judy shows. It makes me think that maybe the $20M/episode stuff we do now is impressive, but perhaps a bit over-engineered.
Every human has built on the efforts and ideas of others. Nothing is truly novel

Has the "ai" actually learned anything? Is it running itself or only when prompted?
There are ad-free versions of YouTube for Android TV.
> Average travel speeds for people haven't done so well - people in London 100 years ago travelled at an average of 12 mph, mostly on trains and cars. Today, travel in London still averages 12 mph. People still spend 1-2 hours most days travelling.

Most people don't want to travel more than 30 minutes one-way on a day-to-day basis, and that has been true for most of history:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchetti%27s_constant

* PDF: http://www.cesaremarchetti.org/archive/electronic/basic_inst...

* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-08-29/the-commu...

People used to walk 30 minutes to work, then perhaps cycle or take the train or tram, and post-WW2 drive for 30 minutes one-way. This increased the distance because which each new technology you could (theoretically) go faster, but the time stay the same (on average).
Hi otoolep, thanks for the corrections! Actually I've just made a few changes to the wiki page before this comment :)

rqlite's readme seems to indicate that it uses Consul only for service discovery, and runs Raft internally?

I think the most important difference here is rqlite runs its "data plane" on a single consensus group/state machine while mvsqlite relies on FDB's distributed transaction system (well at the bottom there's a Paxos but it is only used for metadata coordination). Both approaches have advantages and disadvantages though.
My domain's SPF says "email from sendgrid is allowed", which allows anyone with a sendgrid account to spoof me.

I didn't set up DKIM because I don't particularly care about the security of that particular domain. But the point is that you can't know how secure the domain is just because it has some security feature present like SPF.
Interestingly Will MacAskill was interviewed on the last People I (Mostly) Admire podcast: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/a-million-year-view-on-mora...
Exactly. Why would it be cheaper or better to run healthcare as a for-profit business? If you have to take a profit, then by definition there's less funds available for the actual service.
Yup this was me in school as well, hope to have kids and not looking forward to this aspect!
Do you run into any difficulties with Lockdown Mode enabled regularly?
Exactly. Providing write-scalability is big deal, don't get me wrong, and this project looks interesting. The biggest misconception folks have about rqlite is that it increases SQLite write performance, when it's about providing fault-tolerance and reliability.

So projects like mvsqlite are solving a real need. I just disagree with some of its definitions.
It's the EU that arguably needs to come back to earth, by returning to a trading bloc, rather than a halfway house pan-european state.

The shared monetary system with no shared fiscal policy will come apart one day, as it nearly did with the Greek sovereign debt crisis.
Don’t forget BedrockDB (built on SQLite) that’s used in production at Expensify.

How it scales as well.

https://bedrockdb.com/

https://blog.expensify.com/2018/01/08/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-q...
What has your experience with them? Do you find the courses interesting/ high-quality?
Whether you could or couldn't self study to be a competent physics teacher is besides the point if you need a physics or very closely related STEM degree plus test of content competency as a condition of getting the job by the regulations if most US states. That limits the pool of applicants to people who can command better salaries elsewhere over their whole career arc for arguably a lot less stress. Thus an exceptional shortage within that specialty is more prone to happen. Lowering the standards of qualification is an option, but the author doesn't seem thrilled with that idea. So we are pretty much left with discussing a pay differential within the profession, which is a third rail topic among most teacher unions.
Being a teacher (as opposed to a trainer, like me) is really difficult, and a great many people who are excellent engineers and scientists, are horrendously bad teachers.

The best teachers that I ever had, were ones that were trained as teachers, and were not necessarily content matter experts.

The worst teachers that I ever had, were content matter experts. Almost universally, they had no patience for folks that had a hard time coming up to speed, or that weren't already at a level beyond the class they were teaching.

They would ridicule you for asking "stupid" questions (that's me -I ask questions that have the whole class in stitches, but by the end of the semester, I'm coaching my classmates). They would start from a baseline that actually assumed the student had already completed and passed the class they were taking.

I would sign up for a class, because of the bona fides of the teacher, but would end up regretting my decision.
Funny how their motto used to be "Don't be Evil."
Media embedded advertising has already been a thing for years, but companies hate leaving money on the table so they cannot resist the temptation of showing more ads.

I wonder why it is that Steam hasn't had any issues remaining such a successful video game platform, while other forms of media have struggled to keep up.

You're competing with piracy, but you throw ads in my face. I can download any show or movie I want and have it playing in minutes without having to deal with multi platform bullshit. That's real convenience. Oh, and the show or movie never gets taken away because some execs decided to be greedy.

Although at this point I'm so fed up with most modern media that I've lost any interest to watch it, even if it's free and in a convenient format. Most stuff doesn't even seem interesting enough to pirate.

The age of mindless consumption is nearing an end. I'm hopeful that the future will be a mix of locally crafted consumption balanced with a healthy mix of content creation.
Sounds like they're copying google with their desire to get rid of cookies / FLOC etc.

Strong privacy stance on privacy for others (and in media)...but very quiet on 1st party inhouse ability to connect the dots.

I have a hard time seeing how this doesn't end in anti-trust tears for both of them
At the same time everyone wants to teach and sell courses, no one want to actually do things they're supposedly a guru at.
When casting to the TV you get ads, even though you don't in the browser! I just tried it, since I had the same idea.
I was just checking my PDFs over 30M because of this post and was surprised to see the DALL-E 2 paper is 41.9M for 27 pages. Lots of images, of course, it was just surprising to see it clock in around a group of full textbooks.
lol at the fake shape buttons on the chairs.
For me it was when it was still Sub Logic, and on an Apple ][. Nonetheless, blew my teenage mind.

https://youtu.be/uvvfJ60gIf0
in our case we included both a link and the code and saw an increase in confirmation rates. If I recall we reached over 90% conversion rates. For a B2C niche service, I think that’s pretty high. I somehow doubt removing the link will improve things further, but it might be interesting to test in future.
America’s First Black Physician (2021)
My mom once gave me a sign that reads "How can I think outside the box when I work in a cubicle"
Interesting! I had not thought about access controls when all of the pages are mixed together, but that makes sense.

Have you thought about encryption? Is it possible to do client-side symmetric encryption?
> If the current trajectory continues, the number of non-Covid excess deaths will soon outstrip deaths from the virus this year – and be even more deadly than the omicron wave.

I have friends in the UK and the USA who all during the pandemic were asking, what about the unintended consequences? Where are the models for the impact of these decisions? What are the numbers of collateral damage?

There were no answers. Anywhere. That simply doesn't make rational sense.
Anecdote time: In June, I left my position teaching high school English after about ten years. Within weeks, I have increased my TC from ~50k to ~80k. Admittedly, I will have fewer vacation days, but I will work fewer hours with no additional labor or responsibilities in the evening/weekends.
Honestly there’s useful and interesting stuff in an MBA course, but it has very little to do with practical management of a business at any level. Pretty useful if your job is doing financial projections of projects with relatively predictable costs and payoffs.

Imagine if we put in charge of a tech firm the dude with the best understanding of category theory.
So the GPU shortage is no longer a thing?
Just take the Raspberry you are using for the PiHole, slap on Firefox+uBlock on there and you are good to go.
The comments are open. Any translator willing to help would be more than welcome.
> Counterpoint: teachers' pay is great, it's just backloaded in pension plans.

Yet another counter counterpoint - there are still companies and government jobs with defined pension plans that pay far more than teachers. Even without those, there are still many, many jobs requiring a comparative amount of education, far fewer hours worked, and pay more even once you subtract maximizing 401k contributions yearly (let alone considering the added costs of buying school supplies).
Same, to be completely honest. Generally, if the parents care about education and are involved the kids will do fine. This is complicated when mom wants her kids to do well but has to work two jobs and older brother watches younger sister after school, but in general it's an easily predicted trend.
The moment they try something like this I'm popping out my 5yo Android phone with no Google sevices and adiòs. I already use a pretty much stock iOS system and only because the apps are just so convenient and ad-free, but if push comes to shove I'll have to retreat to AOSP default options.
Oops, sorry! I must have completely misread your OP. I thought you were reading the book, although I now see that is definitely not what you were looking for.
At least Android can't stop you from installing ad blockers.
WhatsApp images are supposed to be E2E-encrypted, aren't they? Not sure about the whole Google Drive backup, though.
> Counterpoint: teachers' pay is great, it's just backloaded in pension plans.

25% of teachers in Minnesota leave the profession within three years [1] so they see no pension. This sort of weed out is common in a lot of professions and it's probably for the best, but weed out careers often combine high starting pay to attract a large pool of candidates. Public sector jobs exchange low pay for a pension and stability. Teaching doesn't offer the latter.

1. https://www.educationworld.com/a_news/state-report-reveals-o...
> I am capable of storing passwords, so no need to send me password recovery emails.

Maybe you are, maybe you aren't. As the website's operator, I don't want to manually have to go back-and-forth with everyone who forgets their password to try and verify their identity through their past activity etc.

Making it optional for the people who won't forget is fine, there's no way to know who that will be though. And if your password manager fail you'll be here on HN pointing out how I made a website with not a single fallback mechanism to get back in your account. Why would anyone do that?
So it turns out the ban on Huawei was not (just) because American companies lost competition on equal terms; it was Huawei’s unwillingness to “cooperate”, ie install backdoors for US agencies.
They spend all day herding children, so they are at least qualified to be Project Managers.
This sounds really bad! Where are you from?
I’m using SmartTube app on the FireTV. Works pretty well, no ads you can also pair your phone and cast. Just make sure app is always up-to-date, youtube keeps changing things and breaks app from time to time.
That is another vector on the spectrum of decisions for why quality teachers choose to work at private schools. No one takes a job purely on salary - a decision like that is based on many things.

Isn’t it obvious that good teachers want to teach children with parents that want them to learn? And punish their children when they are disruptive? And the school can kick out bad kids?

The current vogue of reducing everything in education to the lowest common denominator - eliminating gifted programs, enabling disruptive kids to ruin classes, removing suspensions and expulsions - is exactly why private schools are growing. I don’t want education to optimize for the worst kids who won’t go to college and into intellectual pursuits anyway. I want to optimize education for the kids who will actually get value out of it.
Correct. What I meant by the reference to Consul is that rqlite uses the Raft implementation at its center and repurposes for use by rqlite.

I can make that clearer.
I’m interested in how FoundationDB can make anything consistent.

For example: you’re using Postgres. You send the request to FDB, it will ensure all Postgres transactions are consistent or tell Postgres to abort transactions.
On 4:
I disagree that more resources cannot help with this problem.

Some disruptive children have undiagnosed learning disabilities. Having more money for screening and special education can help get them the support they need.

Class sizes are also going to matter. Many disruptive children are just seeking attention. With smaller classes teachers can spend more time with each student, which will help with behavior management.

I don’t know what the right level of investment here is, but from speaking with friends who are teachers it sure seems like classes are too big and special Ed is stretched incredibly thin.
Thanks that looks really good. I don't use .Net platform, so I am not a potential user, but for Lispers using the .Net platform, this would be nice.

I use Common Lisp a lot in my work and my own research programming, and language interop is always a nuisance. With IronScheme, it looks like interop with all .Net languages is easy.
So they spend slightly more than double what they did in 1955, when the cost of providing healthcare has gone up nearly 4x due to the Beaumol effect. That doesn't seem good? You'd expect the service to gradually get worse in that case, wouldn't you?

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/wh...
The back of my office is a small workout space. I bought 12 gym mats and it's enough space for me and my partner to workout, spar, or boogie together.

It also inspires me to do mini workouts throughout the day or just throw on a funky tune and dance when I need a quick break. I've been working on my handstand push-ups over the past month and I'm seeing real progress which feels great.

It helps me remember that while I'm spending all day doing mentally intense work, my mind is attached to a body that needs daily care and attention too, which is becoming more and more clear as I get older. I'm 37 now but I'm lucky to be friends with two men who are physically fit and active in their 70s. They help to remind me that I'll be there one day too and like them I'll wanna still be able to join in a dance class or go hiking with friends. The only way that'll happen is if I put in the effort to stay fit now and for the rest of my life.

It's like saving for retirement. Except more fun because I also get the immediate benefits of exercise.
Right. I think the argument being made here is that if the job of the GP is just to route you to the appropriate specialist, well, they can do that virtually.
Dropbox used to be hosted on AWS.

How is a laymen supposed to tell the difference between Backblaze - running their own servers, and a Dropbox-like - which is really just uploading your files to amazon's servers?

That's the point I was trying to make.
During the Covid time, the Labour party handed the Conservatives a blank check to do whatever they wanted with.

Accordingly, the Conservatives gave lucrative contracts to all their friends.

The current Labour party are useless holding them to account.
djvu is really quite a marvellous format, but I'm only able to read them on Evince (the default pdf reader that comes with Debian, Fedora, and probably a bunch of other distros). For my macbook I need to download a Djvu reader, and for my ipad, I didn't even bother trying because the experience would likely be much worse than Preview / Ibooks.
I cannot at all relate to your experience specially since you're providing details sparingly. You're saying x exists without any evidence and then saying avoid x at all costs. Can you give more details about what happened to you that you needed two years of therapy? How frequent was your therapy once a week or multiple? Did you do therapy with a run of the mill therapist, one specialized in a particular area or a full on doctor, a psychiatrist? I just want to do a cost/benefit analysis. Did you consider age a factor if you worked there for 10 years, presumably you had other jobs prior?
You underestimate the number of people who are bad and technically incompetent.

Such basic things can stop a lot of idiots.

I guess you still lock your house even if proffessioanal thieves can pick your locks. 99% of thieves are not proffessional.
Definitively this does not happen on MS Windows.