skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you think of specialized needs students the 13k number looks ridiculous.

You’re comparing an average per student spend to a high needs minority. Average spend should be compared to the average student who does not have dyslexia etc. A larger than average portion will be spent on kids with special needs due to special facilities, smaller class sizes, and specialist teachers etc.
As a religious organization, Apple seems a lot more benign than say, Scientology. So far.
I’ve actually had good experience using AWS SES for marketing emails. I’ve worked with clients who use it to send hundreds of thousands of emails, and SES is probably by far the best deal you can get price-wise. You just have to make sure that your email list is legit and you don’t get too many bounces or complaints.

By the way: Sending marketing emails is one of the official use-cases for SES:
> You can configure Amazon SES quickly to support
> several email use cases, including transactional,
> marketing, or mass email communications.
> -(https://aws.amazon.com/ses/)

Shameless plug: I’m building an Open Source email marketing tool that allows you to use SES (or plain SMTP, Sendgrid, Mailgun, …) to send mass emails. You can find the repo on GitHub: https://github.com/pentacent/keila
There’s also a hosted version available … and if you’re interested, feel free to drop me a line :-)
Don't trust Hetzner. They will do the same.
While I realize this is more of a sabre rattle than reality, hopefully in reality youre using ublock origin. You won't see any ads on that pirate stream.
Article says Apple is adding ads, and they will benefit from data their competitors now do not have. What else is there to support?
This is what I was trying to get to with "inherently." The information ITSELF that is yielded by the process is 100% arbitrary and not valuable, i.e. relays no additional useful information about the world (e.g. the boiling point of some new liquid or something), like many would think of when we think of people doing math to solve things.
I think such a test must word step 1 explicitly as something like "Read through all steps carefully before taking any actions." Someone who executes each step as they read it is not necessarily not reading carefully.
I also believe googles Ad ecosystem should also be broken up to foster better competition
1) Has it really? I'm sure the potential exists for video lectures or whatever, but I think the teachers still ostensibly at least teach.

2) How little do you pay babysitters? At, say, $5 per kid per hour, a teacher of 20 would be doing pretty well, and that's on the low side of class sizes these days I think.
I think this is absolutely part of what causes the phenomenon. Broadly speaking boys need male mentorship.
Well you might give them a helmet to protect the injured area if serious, so bad example there I'd say.
Ironic that a site posting an article critical of the end of consumer convenience is sitting behind a paywall.
There are multiple lecture series on YouTube, technically recorded college classes. The MIT one is pretty good. I'd stay away from the ones with short video times from other channels.
I finally broke down and paid for YouTube Premium. There is literally no other option to watch YouTube on a TV nowadays. It is absolutely mindblowing the level of nonstop ads they shove down your throat in-between (and during) every single video now. Completely unwatchable otherwise. And it's impossible to buy a dumb TV in 2022, so you're stuck with the official Android/Roku YouTube apps that have no ad-blocking capability. Even pihole doesn't work anymore; they've obviously figured out how to get around the DNS issue. It just seems like every day things are getting worse.
This article is helpful for understanding OTel, but I still always get stuck at understanding the differences between collectors and exporters. I might wonder "why doesn't the SDK just send data directly to an exporter? Or "isn't the collectors job to export data to the exporter?"

I think a few simple examples that explain at high level the reason or need for the architecture would be really useful. Maybe something like "here is how OTel fits into a typical serverless application."
feels the need to charge at all

lol. Bill Gates' book on climate change is selling for $14 (Kindle version) https://www.amazon.com/How-Avoid-Climate-Disaster-Breakthrou...

I can understand charging for hard copy, but why does someone worth 100B feel the need to charge for digital version of his book on the most important topic of today, climate change? Even if 100,000 people buy it, that is what, 1.4M? Bill must make more than that in the time it takes for him to drink his morning coffee?

That said, it is his book, he can do whatever he wants with it. He was kind enough to make the PDF available for free for college kids, for a while... https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/How-to-Avoid-a-Climate-Dis...
> The belief that all problems can become objective provided enough data is measured is the problem.

Reality exists. There are objective answers to management problems. There may not be a unique right answer, and which answers are objectively correct depends on the people involved far more than any oversimplified metric, but that does not make them subjective. It's objectively true that in any long term problem with difficult to measure outcomes giving people agency, allowing them to own their work, respecting them, and communicating in whichever way is appropriate to the particular situation is more effective than trying to treat them like a pocket calculator and maximizing some kpi that isn't even related to the output you want.

The term you are searching for is solvable by an algorithm or measurable, which they are objectively not. I'm fond of Goodheart's law as a rule of thumb as well as keeping in mind the maxim that any measurement both has a cost and is an interaction with the system being measured and thus must change it.
5G wars: the US plot to make Britain ditch Huawei
> That many teacher’s pensions require one to give up social security benefits

Patently untrue unless maybe you work for the Dept of Defense or something. Teachers can collect SS like any other employee.
The graph should be in logarithmic scale to be readable, actually.
To be honest I'd be ok with private healthcare if they had to also obey the same constraints as public healthcare.

IE they had to provide care to everyone at a reasonable price.

I'm deeply suspicious of healthcare that gets to exclude people for cost reasons.

I too can provide great healthcare if everyone is mandated to pay me for my services and I get to exclude those I treat, that's a great business, the healthy pay and I exclude the sick, what wonderful pure profit business!

The insurance model bothers me for that reason, they really shouldn't be allowed to exclude anyone, if they're taking on the business of healthcare, then that's that, they are providing a utility service, which means they supply to everyone and they make money by spreading the cost between everyone.

There are nuances to that, but practically that's the goal they should aspire to, but unfortunately that model isn't the most profitable.

I mean take a look at the original US health insurance that existed:

> The first plan guaranteed teachers 21 days of hospital care for $6 a year, and was later extended to other employee groups in Dallas, and then nationally
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That insurance model worked, it just happened to get outcompeted by entities who were willing to undercut them by aiming to capture only the most healthy people, which is in effect a tragedy of the commons.

Which is a real problem in my book, I'd be fascinated to see what innovations a private company could come up with under that model. We might have missed out on a whole slew of interesting ideas if we kept going down that route, which would still have been a pretty profitable business and would have been a great success for those who do believe that the private space can do healthcare better.

As it stands I don't believe the current private model meets that criteria as it fails at the first hurdle of being a health care service, it doesn't care about health.

So it seems like the choices are bad private care, good public care and bad public care. So yea, I'm leaning to the good public care.

- [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Cross_Blue_Shield_Associa...
Why you should and Shouldn't Buy the Hyundai Ioniq 5
> teachers get enormous amounts of time off

Anyone who's actually been or known a teacher knows this is false.

During the school year, in the time they're not actively teaching, teachers are

- Coaching sports

- Overseeing other student extracurricular activities

- Making/updating lesson plans

- Presiding over detention

- Tutoring students who need more 1:1 time

- Serving on school committees (especially in larger districts)

During the summer, teachers generally spend a large percentage of their time laying out the curriculum for the coming year. This is especially true for those in smaller districts, where one teacher has to teach three or four different levels of the same subject (or even multiple completely different subjects!).
https://archive.ph/MPlBK
This should be really "react to" or "answer to", instead of "understand". These are not the same.

Edit: Anthropomorphizing algorithms and pattern stores doesn't really help understanding. Instead, it's apt to spread misunderstanding. Remember how long it took to purge the popular idea of "electronic brains" actually thinking, and to establish that these were restricted to executing what's actually in code? We don't need to start another level of this with "AI". (Understanding is closely related to self-awareness and consciousness, and this is dangerous ground of misunderstanding when it comes to AI. As we've seen, even staff of pioneering companies, like Google, is prone to fall for this.)
There is a feature to search along the route.
In fairness a lot of professors are terrible teachers and don't really care about teaching at all. My own course was full of them. I'm sure they didn't like to hear it though.
> Nah I think most people like "the idea" of being a lawyer (or a doctor). But to actually be one it's much harder, and that's when they get a reality check

Same with writing software. I get rather tired of running into people that obviously took it up for the money, then found they weren't particularly good at it. Being a good engineer (software, or otherwise) is hard.

In my experience, these folks tend to be quite concerned about the "culture," as opposed to the actual art of the field. They look and sound great, but don't rely on them to actually ship anything.

Delivering software is really difficult. I've been doing it for my entire adult life, so it's become pretty much habit. It's always shocking to encounter folks that aren't able to deliver software, yet have been in the field for a very long time.
Although I get where you're coming from, I think you're taking a big risk by assuming you know everything there's to know already. The fact is that you can't know what you don't know. You could be dunning-kruggering yourself on a daily basis and there's no way for you to know.

> These professors were academics. Google didn't exist yet. They, mostly, hadn't worked in any professional environment. They weren't pragmatic. They were slow perfectionists but also several years behind on the rest of the world.

Maybe you're blinded by your arrogance a bit, because there's an actual field of science dedicated to effective learning, teaching, practicing. Although it's great that you found something that worked for you, it doesn't mean that you've had the best or most optimal learning experience. Every teenager thinks they're smarter than their stupid dumb teachers, but they often aren't.

There's a reason why things are taught in a certain manner, and why there isn't that much change in that. It's because these methods have been tried and tested, and there's no need to chase each new framework, method or technology, because it's all built upon the old stuff anyway.

These courses are meant to give you a broad understanding of everything there is to know about computer science. Specifics change, but generics don't. If you know the generic things it doesn't matter what the specifics are.
You can get that today with a high-end VR headset and a full motion rig. The human eye (or rather, brain) will never be completely fooled by a 2D image placed a few feet away. But when you’re have a 3D image that fills your entire FOV, your brain will put up with much more and even help by filling in details where there’s none.
There is a certain group of people who want to dismantle public education and replace it with a for-profit system.

All of this going on right now is to support that goal.
> The licensing requirements in Minnesota are insane.

No they're not. We just want qualified people teaching our children. There's a reason why Minnesota has some great schools.
Holy cow - that’s faster than most modern websites load!

And playable on an iPhone as well !

Thanks for sharing.
.NET by definition, as PowerShell is .NET based, then by making use of .NET interop capabilities into native libraries and COM.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/sample...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/learn-how-to-use-ne...
What has "what has 'urban'" to do with it?
The modern version of Byte Magazine is called the World Wide Web.
Well, after selling 2 billion iPhones, it makes sense that Apple needs to start making money in other ways, such as user services in Apple+ (which I think is a good deal, especially for the family plan).

Just my opinion but I don't much mind some advertisements if I feel like they are not impacting my devices' security or my privacy.

I am a huge fan of Apple's new Lockdown Mode - I have it enabled 99% of the time.
People forget their passwords. If you do more than sell stuff one time and the user really need to get their account back, you need a way to send them a reset link or code. No way around it.
I never formed good habits and I really wish my parent prioritized that (Ritalin) over growing big and tall for a minuscule chance of making it in pro sports.
We have a direct primary care doctor for our children and would never send a photo with genitalia in it. Either she comes for a house call or we come to her. This article confirms my fear.
This highlights the enormous risk depending on Google, and similar service providers, for email, messaging and other important services is. It isn't so much the policies, but the fact that Google will never do anything to help you when they get it wrong.

You are always only one algorithmic fuck-up away from losing access and having to spend days and weeks dealing with the consequences.

I think the only way to deal with this is through regulation. Make it as inconvenient for Google to ignore customers as it is inconvenient for customers to be ignored by their service provider when something goes wrong.

Systemic mistreatment of customers ought to have consequences of existential proportions to a company. There is no societal benefit to companies like Google getting away with behaving this poorly.
As far as I can tell, ublock origin still works without a hitch, so just hook up a laptop/ tower to the TV and run YT in a browser?
The trade-off can be that you're not as free in designing the architecture of your model, and you have to train it in a special way. This is actually a huge obstacle to making neural networks more efficient. You could design HW that would run networks 10x-100x more efficiently, but the networks would have to be specially trained for the HW, and the SW investment to create the SW infrastructure to go with your HW is 10x the effort of designing the HW. Nvidia knows this in the area of GPUs, and they have 10x as many SW engineers than HW engineers. Neural network HW startups have yet to learn it.
Is this talking about Cell Phones only ? To me it seems to.

No surprise with IOS, and I am rather sure the same can be said for Android. Cell Phones are closed systems, so the manufacturers can get around anything and probably do a good job of hiding this too.

If you want to hide yourself, never use any Cell Phone.
To a degree. There's some sampling bias as well because the kind of parent that would choose a non-default education option probably cares more to begin with.
None of the downsides listed. Wonder if that is intentional or out of ignorance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyP0uxxB6V8
UK keeps one of the best public records of deaths. That said, I also provided a link to the US (has similar excess deaths to the UK).

Taiwan also keeps very good records in is seeing a spike in death rates (and dramatic drop in birth rates) - https://www.economy.com/taiwan-china/death-rate

Different vaccines / drugs / lockdowns / treatments rolled out in different regions. I’m not claiming they’re exactly causing anything, but there are / is a correlation; based on multiple public records
This quite the insane realization, and it needs to be shouted from the rooftops every time the encryption "debate" comes up. Authoritarians browbeat us by overstating the diffuse possibility of harm, while whitewashing the effects of their own actions. Meanwhile their actions create centralized, institutionalized, inescapable harm - specifically here, creating a ripe target for pedophiles to remotely creep on everyday families just trying to go about their lives.
I think the bigger point in this story is not that there will be times in life where you're confronted by authority to stop you from going over the speed limit, but that for every one of those cases there are countless other scenarios where you are the authority yet still think there is a speed limit.
When you get an email without DKIM or SPF, how do you explain to them that they need to change to a supported email provider even though yes you did receive the requested sign-up email?
That collapse certainly wasn't peaceful within the nations of the former Soviet Union. There was no military uprising but thre was utter chaos among the civilian population.
This is misprescription - it's the LACK of administrative staff to do that specific paperwork that has caused this. Political microwaving of the whole system to "reduce costs" but keep "front line staff" has meant everyone is doing jobs they arent qualified to do and suck at.

The amount of people who think they understand the NHS is interesting, and clearly newspaper driven.
There could be so many reasons. I will just name a few:

- Corona

- Specialist far away

- Quick Checkup

- Doctor is on vacation
For my case, it was very school specific. Basically, our counselors were lazy and didn't want to deal with the scheduling headache of adding accelerated classes for science. We also had a good attached vocational school, which did wonders for a lot of kids; I had some graduate as fully certified welders and go make more money than me right out of high school. But there were still the issues in their other classes, sadly.

But, to answer the question more broadly, it's the 'equality' bit I think. I'm all for giving everyone equal opportunity, and the ability to move into accelerated pathways if you can prove you have the requisite knowledge to do so. But if you stick students with learning disabilities with accelerated students nobody is going to have a good time. It doesn't help either group and just harms them.

And, again, I say this as someone who didn't think California's math updates were all that terrible. Pushing kids to do stats as opposed to just the whole "everyone needs to aim towards calculus" attitude is a great thing and I stand behind that. But if we can differentiate classes, we can serve all groups of kids better and provide better outcomes for all. But the whole class needs to be differentiated; differentiation within a set of 30 kids is nigh impossible, especially when there's such a gap between abilities. For a personal story, the smartest kid I ever taught was in my last year teaching. He worked hard, if there was something he didn't understand he asked for more help and practice problems. The lowest kid I ever taught was in the same class. The kid was a freshman in high school and couldn't add single digit numbers without a calculator. There's no way that should ever be happening.
It is by far the cheapest and fastest option to send money internationally, fees from using SWIFT are ridiculous and the banks always use terrible exchange rates, I used to lose about ~4% of the money I sent to my family in another country
You are probably better off, but if you are using an Apple browser, who knows. I am sure the same applies to M/S Windows.
More money can certainly solve those problems.

I work at a school that improved during my time. We've enjoyed some changes that brought the school significantly more funding, and it has allowed us to attract better applicants, and hire additional staff members that help take some of that load off the teachers.

Also, simply having more adults per student makes a big difference, provided they are the right adults for the job.

Your friend was forced into the wrong category because of a funding problem.
What's the incentive for Google to EVER give the accounts back?

Ethical, moral responsibility? Being a nice entity. And it takes zero effort to do so, especially once he is cleared by the cops?

You know, stuff like Don't be evil? Oh wait...
How else are they supposed to report on this if Apple is not even disclosing the revenue they get from advertising? Expert analysis and anonymous sources seem like the most journalistically diligent path they have.

Do we just not report on Apple's ads because they choose not to provide us with first hand information?
Why this methods was popular is because it's hard for user to input their own (and correct!) email address. Mailto link is far easier way to tell the valid email address to a service. Perhaps now is OAuth/OIDC era.
>For comparison - we currently pay more per year to keep our 1 year old child in daycare (roughly ~15,000/yr) and for daycare we literally only expect them to keep him alive & clean

You cannot compare the per child costs of taking care of a kid who cannot go to the toilet themselves or eat by themself with a kid who is much more self sufficient.

The person taking care of a baby (or 4 babies) might need to be much less qualified than an AP physics teacher in high school, but the labor (and liability) costs do not necessarily scale exactly with the minimum qualifications needed to be an AP physics teacher versus a daycare teacher.
> 2. It seems that education degrees are seen as easier to achieve than others.

Here is the problem. Teachers in America compare themselves to professionals, but their test scores are below the average for college educated people generally: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2017/.... Now 40% of college graduates don’t even get a job that requires a college degree. Disproportionately, those are people with lower aptitude scores. Teachers as a group are right on the borderline above those folks.

Teacher salaries are not low compared to jobs typically held by people with similar test scores—especially when you account for degree-required jobs that pay a premium for mathematical aptitude (accounting, engineering), or dealing with blood and body parts (nursing).
Super interesting!!!
As a former penetration tester, I had several opportunities to move to the other side of the law. The money offered to me was extremely high, and I believe I could be really good at these ops. With that said, I decided to live “boring” life. This story is interesting just because it makes me wonder how my life would’ve looked like if I chose the other side.
The specs are in the description. It's a pretty standard high end gaming machine, paired with some oversized monitors. You could easily pull it all together for under $5,000, and even make a few cost saving compromises to lower the price.