skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except evidence shows that it’s harmful to society at large.

We’re losing bright minds to the churn of tenure and prestige.
Maybe if you've read the story it'd seem good but as someone who hasn't, I consider it a poor summary, especially the latter half.
From the article:

> "Prof Robert Dingwall, of Nottingham Trent University, a former government adviser during the pandemic, said...“We are beginning to see the deaths that result from delay and deferment of treatment for other conditions, like cancer and heart disease, and from those associated with poverty and deprivation."

Behind the statistics, here's one person's tragic story:

"A woman with fast-growing stage-four breast cancer says the NHS has let her down, with delays at every stage of her treatment."

'I've been let down - I shouldn't have stage-4 cancer'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-62483323
That’s a societal decision we have to make. Should all children have access to good education - i.e. should we invest in public schooling? Or should it be dependent on your parents ability to pay in which case lets go all in on private.
Just don't make knives. Period. The reasoning doesn't matter. The innocent tool that you use for cooking could be stolen, could be lost, could end up donated to a thrift store where anyone could buy or shoplift it, and the knife could end up in the hands of a serial killer.

Your intent doesn't make it right. And you have to make sure a criminal can never get their hands on one.

What's next, actual serial killers declare themselves chefs and thus can receive and share knives with other chefs "for cooking reasons"?

Please. Don't be so naive guys. Don't make knives. How the hell is that not common sense?

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That is how rediculous your suggestion about pictures sounds to other people.
Yeah, just delay seeking medical treatment (for your child) until this coronavirus thing blows over.

The context is critical. Context is always critical.

Also, I'm not sure why an "actual" paedophile couldn't be an acupuncture professional. I mean it's not really a thing to take your kids to before the GP. To be clear: I don't think that anyone should be able to just declare themself to be some sort of qualified practitioner and make or imply that they can provide a service or results that they cannot. But I'm really unsure why someone calling themselves an acupuncture professional (whether they are qualified to or not) would entitle them to freely trade in sexual abuse material.
Japan makes giant humanoid robot to help with construction tasks
Russian nazi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashism
Is it time to migrate from Lens to OpenLens to manage your Kubernetes clusters?
I mean, if you have a class of 20 students (which seems on the smaller end), that would be a "revenue" of over a quarter million per teacher, right? I feel like we should be able to do a pretty good job with that while paying a teacher a decent salary.
Ah I missed your comment when writing my sibling. Your comment is much more succinct while making the point at least as well if not better.
Anti-trust laws are enforced by the state, which is a legitimate concentration of power.

Unfortunately the state has dropped the ball about anti-trust, thanks to stupid economic theories from the Chicago School of Dumbfuckery. Those are the main culprits for the shit we're in.
However much they're paying teachers, it's clearly not enough, because not enough people are willing to do the job for that amount of money.

Assuming you had all the skills required to be an effective teacher, would YOU put up with everything they put up with for that salary? Because I sure as hell wouldn't.

(As an aside, it's different depending on where you are but in Australia, comparing teacher salary can be difficult because "they get 12 weeks of holiday a year" and "they only work 6 hours a day" but also they do 3+ hours of unpaid marking and lesson planning a day, they're expected to show up at the end of those 'holidays' prepared for whatever courses they've been assigned for the next term, etc. A close relative is a teacher and it's insane what they have to deal with.)
I am not arguing for forcing anyone to keep going against their will. I am arguing against the system that fails to provide care and treatment that people deserve while simultaneously nagging them towards euthanasia. Let’s consider the case when delaying or refusing some sort of surgery results in patient developing chronic pain. A few years later the patient is addicted to painkillers and suicidal. Now we perform euthanasia and forget about the original issue of failing healthcare system?
The names of the functions behind the operators use the '_' prefix which is reserved in the global namespace, so I don't really see a problem as long as the programmer stays in their lane (not using '__', '_' and libc prefixes).
Money will not overcome the "those who can't, teach" sentiment that runs quite strongly in the US. There is a very strong anti-intelligence (not merely anti-intellectual) sentiment in this country.

It will help, and we should certainly pay teachers more, but it isn't the whole solution.
Because the old way of teaching has been broken for decades now - by broken I mean not applicable to todays world.

One good thing about C19 is that it forced us to re-examine how we taught and what we taught.

And I think we clearly see that we are spending too many hours in classrooms with boring teachers.

Looking back many years at my schooling I can see that much of it was impractical and unnecessary.

Things like math were not tied into the real world so I was never really taken with it.

It Was very boring and when I became a teacher years later, I burned out after a year of following the curriculum.

I could not really grok chemistry and physics in high school because it was mostly just theory completely divorced from the normal word.

On the other hand our biology teacher gave me a lifelong start in that subject because she really tied it into our daily lives and we could relate.

And I was not the only one.

There are very very few teachers who teach like that - and so, most people just finish school and promptly forget everything they learned.

Can this be fixed?

Not now. We are more focused on culture wars that improving the way how we teach.

It would take a really serious event (not any politician) to make changes.

And that’s why as more parents wake up, home schooling has increased from about 50,000 to well over 500,000 as of last year in the USA.
> Or even a simpler one

That is not simple at all, and really far-fetched. Lockdown and inactivity won’t turn a fit human being into a diabetic obese and kill them in 2 years.

There are much more compelling explanations (again, mis-funding, burn-out, decay due to malice or incompetence, amongst others). The problems were plain to see before COVID. The pandemic just pushed the system closer to the edge.
I’m not sure about Ethereum PoW, but in Bitcoin you absolutely pick the chain with the most work not the longest chain that’s a consensus rule. This is how bitcoin/PoW avoids weak subjectivity, the problem described by the parent comment.
Not just mediocre pay, but nowadays unlivable pay with the current rent trends in suburban and city environments.
The problem with teaching is that the role has expanded way beyond what it used to be and teachers are expected to do FAR too much in the classroom and they get minimal support from admin who are more worried about their careers than supporting teachers.

I just had this conversation last week with a couple teachers. If this matters to you, I suggest you find some older teachers who have been around long enough to actually see how the job has changed and ask them what they think.

It has become an impossible job for any amount of money.
As long as we have tenure and the seniority system we aren’t going to see significantly higher pay.

Virtually everyone else has a boss that judges his or her performance. Sometimes those judgments are wrong or unfair. Almost every institution has determined that’s still better than nothing. But somehow not schools.
I don’t think it’s fair to assume the money is evenly split. Public schooling must also support students who need much more support, ranging from ESL to a variety of disabilities with a variety of severity.

If you think of specialized needs students the 13k number looks ridiculous. 13k is an alarmingly low amount of support for dyslexia, or autism, or diabetes.
That sounds like exactly the kind of thing you'd say, if you wanted to destroy a beloved public institution though.

Most people are worried about the UK moving to a US model, not to be more like Norway, Netherlands and Australia and administrative efficiency is something the NHS does well:

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2...

> Conclusion: Four features distinguish top performing countries from the United States: 1) they provide for universal coverage and remove cost barriers; 2) they invest in primary care systems to ensure that high-value services are equitably available in all communities to all people; 3) they reduce administrative burdens that divert time, efforts, and spending from health improvement efforts; and 4) they invest in social services, especially for children and working-age adults.
> They only used to most ineffective (thus safe) vaccine!

There are so many things wrong with this sentence:

- placebo is more ineffective, so to say the most ineffective has been used is an absurd statement

- ineffectiveness doesn't imply safety, cyanide is likely ineffective, yet not safe

- they didn't use one vaccine

etc.
Floyd until they went all experimental

When did they get more experimental then their debut album "the piper at the gates of dawn"?
The garbage is education system, not teachers. The art is not lost. But people who want to be Teachers get forced out of the system. Too much paperwork, too strict rules, too much content, too many students... No place left for performing the art of teaching.

Some private schools (many focus on making parents happy in short term..) and tutoring is the last refuge of the art of Teaching.
I'm probably going to go with Django but I still want to know what people think about FastAPI?
Doubles down as TP
Problem is two things: one, Americans strongly believe that every child should have access to an education. Two, not every family can afford 25k per child. Hell many cannot afford one child at that rate.

You’ve got a point - quality schooling does exist, if schools can pay well and offer sensible class loads. However to apply that to the current public school system requires significant dollars long term, and a lot of people don’t want to pay for that - think retired people whose children are out of school, or couples who have no children.

I don’t agree with that, but I’m simply stating some different positions from people whom I’ve talked to about this topic.
People keep saying crap wages, but put some real numbers up here. What do you consider crap wages?
> Parents would flat-out say that they can't respect her because of her salary. Along the lines of, if you're smart and can do stuff, why the hell are you working for such a low pay?

Damn, that is so gut wrenching to read. It's so short sighted that society does not value teachers more highly. The next generation is the ultimate investment.
I think it was a “let’s stop the hospitals from getting severely overloaded now and we will figure out the rest later.” episode.

It’s also worth mentioning that certain fatalities went down as a result of the response.
This bullshit does not resist the most superficial analysis. There were million deaths before vaccines were rolled out and death rates haven’t stopped declining since then. Also, there are plenty of countries to compare to, with similar vaccination rates as the UK.
This isn't a problem software can fix.
This is the real issue. Most states require a master’s or credit hour equivalent to retain your teaching credentials, but the pay is bad, laughably bad in some areas. So bad that someone who has been teaching 10 years will make more doing almost anything else at an entry level position elsewhere. A lot of teachers are being recruited to do sales because they can speak well extemporaneously.

Should I get paid less and get kicked, bit, and punched all day and then be told it is my fault for not properly simulating their angel child? Or should I just get a job where I can work from home and make more money?
This isn’t a “simpler explanation”, no. I’d elaborate but I’m getting the feeling you’re not interested in nuanced debate.
A neural network mapping spacetime coordinates to output values.
When you're actually from the US as a Millennial or Gen Z'er, it's not hard to see what happened. The previous two generations taught us nothing, but expected us to know everything they did, as though by virtue of being a living human this knowledge is just granted. Our parents never had the time to show us how to budget, care for a home, etc, so we had to learn from the Internet.

But why?

I posit that Boomers and Gen X had such an easy go of it, they assumed we would, too. Born to an economy that was thriving, they had to know relatively little themselves because there was always someone else who could do it. In short, that translates, over time, to less value placed on teaching the next generation to thrive and looking at things like school milages as "my tax dollars not benefiting me directly."

These previous generations also operate under the illusion that they somehow had it harder than we do now. This is perpetuated by the "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" attitude that most of them seem to have adopted while having to ask for help operating a smart fridge or iPhone. It's really a failure of self-awareness, if we remove all the fictional swagger they've built their lives around, and it has left us a nation that is crumbling under its own ignorance and stupidity.

Now people my age (late 30's - early 40's) are living paycheck to paycheck, trying to figure out how we can afford to fix the problem so our children can do better than us, and we are utterly failing to find a solution because we are operating in a system that was designed to cater only to the selfishness of our parents and grandparents.
The entire “living in the simulation” premise raises too many questions. Like, the simulation of what? Is there a “real world” that is being simulated? Who, then, simulates our world, and for what purpose?

The universe can well be a computation, but “simulation” is a whole another thing.
You can start by paying doctors/nurses a better wage for the shit they have to put up with for the last 2 years

Our Ontario government capped nurse pay to 1% per year which is effectively a 8% paycut/year given the current inflation
Life is too short for advice like this, it really is.

Then again I’ve rarely had the discipline to stay put and make a short term sacrifice for long term gain when it comes to my daily work.

It is critically important to me to be fulfilled daily in my work and explore my ideas and passions.

To me, even if I was never financially well off, but I got to pursue my passions and creativity, that would be a life well spent.

Remember, the journey is the reward, not the end.

Disclaimer: I am a college drop out, couldn’t even be patient long enough for that.
> Surveyed lawyers said they experienced burnout in their jobs 52% of the time

https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/surveyed-lawyers-rep...

If our goal is to shovel new people into the system as quickly as others are quitting, I suppose lawyers are a good aspirational example. But if we assume that the best teachers are ones who like their jobs and have been around for a while, we might want to try a different model.
> It's costing you more in energy to remove the carbon than you gain energetically by creating it in the first place.

Isn't this also true of mining gold and everything else? Doesn't it cost you more in energy to work for a living than it does to not work and live in poverty?

Atmospheric carbon is not gold, of course, but neither is intrinsically valuable. But assuming we could somehow identify the source of the carbon and foil carbon counterfeiters that try to pass coal off as atmospheric carbon, if all currency-issuing authorities and all world governments arbitrarily name atmospheric carbon valuable and exchangeable with currency such that the value of the currency trade is more than it costs to extract the carbon, even with thin margins, if the margins are arbitrarily made to exist, that's the ballgame: we have a rush on atmospheric carbon, and everyone and their brother is trying to get rich quick extracting carbon from the atmosphere.

Though it would be simpler all around to tax the living hell out of carbon producers... tax them into extinction. The market and society will adjust to not having concrete, glass, shipping, ice vehicles, etc. But this can't happen in the US until we rescue our country being held hostage by the conservative minority.
“Those who can’t teach” is a direct result of the low pay. A software developer might semi retire and start teaching, but it’s a hobby at that point not a viable alternative.

It’s more complicated than paying more money automatically means better workers, but higher pay does let an industry be more selective.
> Even people who have experienced appalling treatment feel the need to exonerate the NHS when complaining about their experience.

It really depends on the context. Many will defend nhs because the alternative pushed from time to time is a privatised system which would only make things worse. I'm definitely in the "be careful how you criticise the nhs" camp. It's not great, but let's make sure Tories don't hear that as an encouragement to take it apart.
So testing it on kids in the real world for the past few years is better because ...? No one was publishing the results?

If I'm hit while on the road, by a car whose driver was not controlling their car; I think my problem is with that driver, not the salesman who told them they didn't have to pay attention anymore.

Of course I've actually been in that situation once already: "He's somebody's nephew, it doesn't matter that he had no insurance, and the accident was his fault; no lawyer will help you and no court in this state will hear a case against him."
More convenient, short term, to do nothing? Then the leaders can avoid having a conflict with that angry person.

And long term, when this affects the company negatively -- maybe they don't care? What if they're in it for the money and status (they had nice sounding job titles?).

Seems like possibly rational "leadership" to me :-(
Good Interviewer/Bad Interviewer
The problem/solution is YouTube. There is prestige in being a YouTube super-teacher like 3B1B, teaching millions of people. There is no prestige in teaching kids at a local high school who don't even want to learn.

The smart people who once might have found their vocation in teaching, now prefer to set up YouTube channels.

The role of teacher is splitting into content makers and babysitters.
I wonder what google would do if they realized there’s millions of people who live as nudists.
Never say never, but I think it's probably impossible to solve specific business problems and still have some hypothetical PoW crypto be decentralized, trustless, secure, etc.

Is that necessarily a problem? To me, it isn't.

IMO, everything here comes down to a question of competing values.

> If you generally trust the government and our institutions to manage money, you'll probably view PoW crypto as unacceptably polluting almost no matter what.

> If you generally distrust the government and the ruin they can do to the currency, there's almost no amount of pollution you won't accept to save yourself from the misery of hyperinflation and the horrors that can come from that.

There's no reconciling these two worldviews.
My wife is a doctor and received a few of these kind of images in whatsapp from her patients from time to time. Should she be concerned?
The vast majority of myocarditis symptoms in young men resolve in 14 days. There are always other mRNA vaccines too.
Advanced tools for smartphone-based experiments: phyphox (2018)
What a great article. I have been trying to compile some examples here https://github.com/blasrodri/atomic-story
Will try to extend it a bit more based on what I've learned from this text
I’m sorry to hear that, but to counter-anecdote: Four of my family members are teachers at various levels. They all have strong frustrations but money (either in terms of perception or paying the bills) has never been one.
Especially the teacher-pupil relationship, which has been transformed into a teacher-parent relationship where the teacher is seen as a service-worker and the parent sees him/herself as a client/customer. I've heard this first-hand from a close friend of hours who works in the education system for French expats' kids.
Here in NJ we invest a lot in education. Most school districts spend 20-30k per student. Senior teachers earn over 100k. The results are good, low income students have far higher grades that most of the country. It is expensive though, both our income taxes and property taxes are famously high. Lots of people leave the state because of this.
As I'm deep in the Apple Ecosystem, I installed a few apps that I also have on my iPad and my Macs (Things, iA Writer, Bear, …) if I need to jot things down on the go. It also has my non-fiction e-books if I ever need to read something when I'm out (rarely, as my kindle is usually with me). I only have notifications for things I like to be reminded about (Calendar, Streak, Things) and I disable them for anything else. It also has my Language Learning courses' audio files.
Some of the ones that doesn’t work - it logs you in on your phone but not the computer you were trying to login on
Apple is building an ad empire as its iPhone privacy crackdown weakens rivals
2021 and 2020 were inflated by the pandemic.

1997 to 2019 is an increase of about 3.5x

CPI over this period was about 80% but large % of NHS costs are salaries so would be expected to run ahead of CPI by at least 1%.

Net of all this funding has gone up by say 50%-100%

But over this period the UK has had a very large increase in the elderly population who are disproportionate users of the NHS (over 85s up by about 80% roughly I think).

Having had quite a bit of contact with the NHS over the last few years I’ve seen much less form filling than I’d probably have expected.

And of course that form filling for the nurse is also known as data collection / management information which in any other context would be deemed essential for proper management of the service.
I'm late to the party but I think we cannot let the client know the secret token
Reddit, Instagram and Twitter all require emails, and they're some of the most spamful services I have seen. HN requires nothing but a unique name and associated password, and if there's a lot of bots here then I guess they're running really sophisticated NLP.

Now of course, HN is more domain specific and niche than other socials so I know it's a bit unfair to compare spam because of course spammers would be more interested in the more populous and general purpose social media, and it's possible that spam and bots on those other services would be even higher if not for email registration, but there's simply no data to support that : email registration is cargo-culted by any remotely user-oriented service without thinking if it fits.

And there is a very good reason to think that email registration is just a dumb lazy hack to delegate problems instead of solving them : come to think of it, email fights spam! How do they do it, by delegating to another email service? Email registration all the way down? Of course not, they just run a bunch of really simple stats on the text to reject the obvious 99% trash. Are reddit and twitter too poor to pay for markov chains running on every text submitted?
Also Telenet when I was a kid.
choice means a religious indoctrination school normally