skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's an accurate description nor representation of every teacher. Most of the teachers I know are in the profession because they love to teach - so much so that it outweighs all the negatives you've presented here.

My experience is only at the college level and the environment is not much better (again, anecdotal experience, not representative of all universities). There's a huge amount of infighting and drama - primarily between professors/faculty and the administration. Mostly centered around power and control.

It's quite remarkable how folks can have such ego and hubris in any job let alone in places of education.
> Skype style realtime video streaming is much harder.

I agree but since some optimization is theoretically impossible, perhaps it can be said that optimizable area is much smaller than other services. YouTube (many many videos, high quality, many livestreams, and supports VR) seems to most difficult service to fully optimize.
> There are objective answers to management problems

That is something you believe to be true. And something I believe to not be true. Have you ever managed large teams of developers? I have. For many years. And I was very successful doing it.

However there was no “objective” way for me to manage the teams. Humans are complex. And the interaction of team members even more so. I have never seen an “objective” metric applied to a team that actually worked without unexpected negative consequences and/or without being gamed by smart team members. If you have an example of an objective metric that has actually worked in reality without negative side effects and without being gamed I would like to hear it.
> who isn't notable for any reason other than being a target of incredibly intense stalking,

This is demonstrably false. Chris Chan became the obsession of the internet because of his incredibly odd and anti-social behavior, such as plastering signs around campus looking for a "boyfriend free girl" and telling other men with boyfriends to go jump off a cliff (https://sonichu.com/cwcki/Attraction_Sign#The_Sign.2C_Mark_1). Calling him "not notable" is just not true.

Down the Rabbithole has a good video about him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IPtLvxO8hs
Sports have a huge amount of value for young people, your perspective on this is not dearly as reasonable as you make it seem.
WiFi isn’t short for “wireless fidelity” (2005)
This reminds me of Thumbtack. Their customers, local service providers, are incentivized to move transactions off-platform to avoid paying commission fees (and taxes in many cases). However, those customers are willing to pay to connect to relevant leads, which seems to have worked out well for Thumbtack.
Haven't had to do this with google (yet) but filing a complaint with the FCC usually gets you a very prompt response from the company the complaint is about, and I imagine this would be the best thing to do in this case
https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us
Ask HN: What is the best way to rent ebooks?
Kindle or not kindle?

I have accounts at two public library systems in the US, but they have hardly any of the books I want, are heavily skewed towards recent releases and anything they do have has a 6 week waiting list.
Should I be subscribing to as many public libraries as I can or are there paid subscriptions I can use?
The idea of a motor on each wheel independent has obviously been considered, but what is often ignored is the sprung vs unsprung weight.

You could develop a pretty amazing off-road vehicle with independent electric motors in each wheel, but it would be a relatively bumpy ride.
The OS is dead. No more security updates (now for the 3a; soon I think (if not already) for the 3axl).
The argument might be made, that this is a problem with many (most?) ticket management systems.

How difficult would it be to design a mechanism that facilitates humans being nice to each other, rather than making humans emulate emotionless robots?
I agree actually.

I'm primarily a Linux developer, but am now forced on to an M1 mac for work, and it's hot garbage. They force their own half-assed unsupported ways of doing things and break the standards that work on both Windows and Linux.

The state of gaming is actually worse than on Linux.
>IMO schools should have very basic facilities/luxuries, and awesome very well paid teachers (150-200k)

Parents and taxpayers want fancy new football fields, and they want teachers to be poorly paid because they want to look down on them.
In the Era of Large Language Models, What's Next for AI Chatbots?
That is the implication of this story. Probably flag by ai, review by hand, report. I doubt it is unique to hangouts, probably anything cloud.
>Options..?

Carry a battery pack. Have a backup set of cheap old-style tethered Bluetooth earbuds, if you don't have any others. And most importantly, charge your headphones in your pre-flight routine.

I'm a curmudgeonly type who has clung to all of those fading amenities: headphones jack, removable battery, micro SD. And I can say that the headphone jack has mattered the least by far.
> How do you reach this conclusion? Businesses working together to increase each of their profits is what every business relationship to strives to be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law

That's generally the threshold, and without saying as much (in fact, the author of the article seems to miss this), the article suggests that the talks in question came close to cresting that boundary.
Yup, and it breaks for certain applications like Chrome or Terminal when they are launched after it. The Alt-Tab just ignores that they exist.

Macs fucking suck.
Destroying one career is not the same as destroying a field. Mathematicians like to believe the likely apocryphal tale that Nobel didn't endow a prize for math because the likely first winner was sleeping with his wife. Nevertheless, the Fields medal distorts math far less than Nobel prizes distort the sciences.

Mathematicians pursue math in defiance of the far greater rewards of other paths. I know at least nine Fields medalists and many near misses. Unlike the Nobel prize, neither the quest nor the realization of the Fields medal turned anyone into an ashpile.
Personally I find almost all new phones to be lackluster.

They are all almost the same, I'm not interested in finicky foldable that will break, because I have seen how finicky thr Zflip is, and the Fold is stupidly expensive, and I dont use my Phone for anything productive anyway, that's what a computer is for.

After switching to a Pixel 4 XL, I can't literally switch back, because I use CalyxOS, and may switch to GrapheneOS.

However other than the OS choice, the Camera still takes better photos than new Samsung phones, the OS is so much better than anything Samsung or all the Chinese iOS clones will design in the next 100 years.

The updates are fast, the battery life is good, and the design is good too, what is annoying though is absolutely the crappy screen, the green shade on lower brightness is annoying, but other than that, no reason to upgrade.

I will probably upgrade around the time security updates stop, oh did I mention how good Pixel software support is?
well yes but when you sort your imports, 3rd party imports are always in a separate stanza entirely. there's no "weird blend of absolute and relative imports, depending on what was shorter or looked nicer to the author at the time.", nothing is blended and also Black should be used for formatting. That way nobody is making any "this looks nicer" kinds of decisions nor does anyone have to waste their time on that.
All Macbook Pros have headphone jacks[1].

> full sized USB

What do you mean by this?

[1] https://www.apple.com/au/macbook-pro-13/specs/ (search for audio. Older ones have them too)
Every rinky dink town has their own school system, superintendent, administrative overhead…
I'd guess that most people have written some bad query that only worked for small limits, so they started superstitiously making their limits very low.
I use JD as my baseline organization technique, works a treat.
You see systematic discrimination as spending roughly the same amount on each child. I see systematic discrimination as spending disproportionately much more public money on some children at the cost of others. We both find systematic discrimination of public education funds as unethical, but draw different conclusions on who is being discriminated against. I don't see our difference of opinion as an ethical deficiency in either of our persons.
This is the first level.

On the next level, many good ideas fail because they arrive too early. Apple Newton in 1992, a flop, embodies many of the ideas that made iPhone in 2007 a colossal success. Examples are many.

Sometimes it's worth revisiting a failed but promising idea, and check if the factors that made it fail are still extant.
It's kind of amazing that you're clever enough to generate a complete decision tree for all the problems and solutions, and yet still have a blind spot for what the problem is, despite six people trying to explain it.
Unify everything by fragmenting further?
yes or their papers
I had a pixel 4 and the heat issues killed the phone. I run a lot, and on 90 degree days listening to music and having a running tracker open made the phone get quite hot. The poor thing died after less than 3 years. Too bad, because it was a great phone otherwise.
overemployed, financial independence retire early

in other words, take multiple jobs, work only as long as it takes to do the work for each, and save in order to retire young
> Linux, well, is Linux. I get it, you have it setup perfectly, for you. And it is super stable, for you. And it has come a long way in usability, for you. It just isn’t a suitable alternative for your average user.

Funny, I feel the same way about both Windows and MacOS. Although both have made massive steps backwards lately.
Or use a USB-C headphone adapter that allows charging too. There are lots available.
That can be cultural. In some places that phrase was typically only asked, if a truthful and lengthier response was desired.

If that wasn’t desired, the greeting would be more like “Good day” or “Hello”.
I dont understand the rant about US phone market, there are dozens of unlocked phones you can buy and lots of cell phone plans for $10-$30/mo. You dont need a AT&T subsidized phone.
> There a lot of hate because the people here know how easily biased and misleading these models are...simulation with no ability to do it in real life or prove it and then claiming it as evidence for anything is probably very silly...

... unless it's climate science, then you gotta believe it.
Seems like a rosy distraction away from the key driver of increased overdoses: the opioid epidemic.
Our modded Xbox was done by my dad's friend at his work. Somehow I stumbled upon a halo modding forum and learned what I needed to do the most basic mods: ftp to pull the halo2 map files off of the box, using the signing tools to allow for modded maps to be played, and using a hex editor and modding tools to make the smg shoot tank rounds!
4 x 10 hours or 4 x 8?
https://youtu.be/OL6-x0modwY

That is the scientific method. And it is presented by one of our best ever thinkers.

Simulation fits right up front in the, "First we guess it" part of the method.

That is what happened here. Now don't get me wrong. It is a good guess, but that is all it is.

Next step is to compute the consequences.

Simulation applies here too. We can arrive at something we could compare to nature, the authority.

That has not happened. Until it does, words like "evidence" are well out of reasonable bounds.

Simulation as an input to the time tested, production proven scientific method is hardly controversial.

Saying that any kind of science has happened yet is and should be controversial!

No science has been done, yet we see words like "evidence" and "shows"

I do not know what "scientific process" means. Feels a bit more like a P.T. Barnum style upsell for potential money getting than it does science when the sim work is framed this way.

If you ask me, the people doing that are jumping the gun. The upsell is unnecessary.

Simulation suggests water may seperate into two different liquids when in these conditions...

The differences are small, but really important. Stuff line this tends to add right up and suddenly we will have a generation of people who are not well trained skeptics able to do solid science.

Given the rapid pace of change, and how compelling this stuff can be, I feel it is important to hold the line on solid science.
You'd prefer a car that can't be repaired I suppose.
In the current ecosystem, if you're in the market for an android and are fine with Samsung's software, I'm not sure there is much reason for not buying a Samsung phone.

They are hard to beat on the hardware front, and will have a model at almost every size and price point. The only market they don't seem to be covering is hardcore gaming phones.

I'd choose a Pixel phone to have the software fully managed by Google (the camera being tuned to be neutral is part of the package), but I definitely don't see them (or any other maker) as a "good deal"
Ask HN: Recommendations on trying to write a efficient text editor
For a while now, I've been writing a small text editor. The idea is that I have a basic mvp that I can add to here and there. Currently I'm writing it in c++ using SDL2 to render and using a doubly linked list of gap buffers to store the text. At the moment it's not as performant as I'd like it to be and I've been wondering if there's more efficient ways to store text and render it. Maybe my question sounds stupid, but is there lightweight libraries out there to render text and get keyboard input FAST? In the same vein, is there better more efficient ways of storing text other than using a linked list of gap buffers?
Small businesses make a lot of financial mistakes: commingling business and personal funds, not reporting taxes, not paying taxes, breaking a variety of labor-related rules, etc. Sometimes this is accidental, and sometimes it is intentional.

When your clients are small businesses, you will find they have a wide range of business and financial and legal acumen, and some will lack basic professionalism in most areas. That's especially common in the case of small family businesses.

I used to work at a company that targeted both small businesses and enterprise companies with different versions of the same product. Dealing with enterprises was predictable: they know about corporate governance, they have legal and accounting teams, etc. Every small business was a wild card.

If your clients have not been paying taxes so far, they might be afraid of owing back taxes or fines if they start engaging with the tax system and their past behavior is discovered. Also, some of them are probably avoiding taxes on purpose, maybe because they are crooks, or maybe because they simply cannot afford to pay. You probably aren't going to convince them to start paying taxes just to use your product unless it is incredibly compelling for them.
> yet without giving away the slightest hint at the expected temperature and pressure ranges at which these forms are expected to actually occur.

If it makes you feel better, this information isn't even clearly presented in the paper :)

For computational studies like this, one should generally assume that any explicit 'Temperature' or 'Pressure' is a fiction. The important things are the shape of the trends in behavior with T and P. But as this behavior is dependent on a number of other semi-arbitrary parameters, the actual values of T and P themselves with the simulation probably do not map particuarly well to real life.

Also, physicists like to use reduced unitless parameters (e.g. this paper uses T* = kT/e_BB, where e_BB is an energy parameter used in the colloidal model). This is convenient for math, and also keeps pesky reality separate from elegant models.
On ATT they won't let you use an unlocked phone with VoLTE, and so with the 3g shutdown, that means no calling.
-Tim Dillon
-Thomas Sowell
-Jordan Peterson
-John McWhorter
-Lex Friedman
-Joe Rogan

Also this thread is an ideological doxxing but it’s hilarious
I mean, there is a use case. You have access to WiFi at home/work, and expensive or slow mobile data. So you can transfer the music when using a better connection and just check licensing in realtime.

But it does still suck. I'd imagine the main reason Spotify choose to limit it like that is some requirement put on them by the music labels.
32 hours so 4x8
Nice! How big in size of FTEs is this company and what industry is it in?
I do have a problem with Android security updates. I have a 6 year old Oneplus which works great except software isn't supported. My employer says the only phones that are acceptable patch policy is iPhone and Google Pixel, even Samsung/Sony/Motorola aren't good enough. Ouch.
Or carry a dongle, or carry... that's the problem. So now your "we made it thinner" phone makes you carry and keep track of several more items to solve a problem that shouldn't exist. Instead of having to carry an entire tech portfolio everywhere, how about the ability to plug in a set of headphones most airlines / gas stations charge $5 for?
Another good article on differing communication styles is the ask vs guess post.

https://ask.metafilter.com/55153/Whats-the-middle-ground-bet...
I lived in Singapore for a few years, I moved there from a western country. I found that even given the laws at that stage that the homosexual community was fairly open, and accepted. The majority of my wife's friends are gay, and open about it.

Singapore is a nice and safe countries but there are definitely trade offs.
If you want to help teach computer science to high schoolers for two hours a week (before your day job), look into TEALS [1]. It's a rewarding way to teach the next generation of technologists/citizens/people. I've been a TEALS volunteer for five years while working at Google in NYC. The students are fantastic - curious, hilarious, and wonderful to be around. It's the best part of my day. You assist students with their projects and lecture if you wish. You work with the teacher to improve assignments/projects and help them be better teachers; so you're teaching them to fish. Going in to school stabilizes my schedule and gets me into the office earlier than I would on my own. Absolutely recommend it. They also have remote teaching opportunities.

[1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/teals
It’s a “coproduct”, the value of which is roughly inverse to the price of lumber and other finished manufactured end products.
It goes into things pulp and paper, pellet stove fuel, cogen plants and if useless for anything else, the “hog” in the basement of the mill.
Fun fact: any contamination of chips with plastic or metal makes the value of a load as large as a rail car worth zero, so QC are super anal about keeping it out
Bypass paywalls clean is a very good extension to get rid of these subscription annoyances, although, i guess it is a form of piracy.
These days there are so many pc gaming venues around you wouldn’t bother lugging around desktops, just all visit the same gaming bar/cafe.
Wow, thanks, that post is brilliant, funny, and useful. Bookmarked.
I have the male to male cable; though I keep one in my wife's car, too. As for pairing with the bluetooth

1. In the cases I'm talking about, I want to use headphones + a USB-C charger.

2. I don't like bluetooth for sound; it's inferior in every single case I've tried.

3. I have yet to be able to configure things so bluetooth is used for media/music, but not for phone calls. And I don't want to use the car/speakerphone for phone calls when I'm in someone else's car.

Look, I get it.. with _enough_ adapters and random other things, I can jump through a dozen different hoops in order to get music out of phone. But life would be a lot simpler and easier if I just had a headphone jack. Only they removed it, and now I'm stuck with an objectively [1] worse experience.

[1] Yes, objectively; because prior to that I had both bluetooth AND a headphone jack. So there's no positive aspect of removing the jack. It is objectively worse to not have it.
This is the correct answer.

And also the main thermal infrastructure or entropic gradient of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain
> So it takes great photos and has great software, but misses what users really want, which is taking photos and using the software?

I think the charitable interpretation of that part of the author's statement is "Users only need a camera that is decent enough, since there are more important things. Google focuses too much on the camera".
I think this is common knowledge and can be found in a lot of music history books. He was essentially the culmination of a contrapuntal tradition, after which people started writing more homophonic music.

Some supporting evidence might be:

1) He was basically forgotten after his death until being rediscovered by Mendelssohn (https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200156436/). Googling this "fact," I also found this somewhat dissenting post: https://notanothermusichistorycliche.blogspot.com/2016/06/ho....

2) I recall remarks from his sons somewhere about their father being old-fashioned, though I can't find them right now.

Re: GEB, I can't speak to hofstadter's psychology, sorry.
OK use one of the other 100 carriers which will let you.
Il est... "aware"!
> There a lot of hate because the people here know how easily biased and misleading these models are

If only they had thought to ask HN whether it was useful.

People doing this are EXCEPTIONALLY aware of the drawbacks and limitations of what they're doing. Nobody in the scientific world is under the impression that a simulation on a large approximation of molecules could be used to say "hey so water actually does behave exactly this way". If you go read the actually paper and not the press release the abstract pretty much says "This phase transition is observed in a few distinct models of water, so it's probably useful to try and understand this further"

The self aggrandising press release and statements from the scientists are pretty silly, sure, but the actual publication is not making claims about demonstrating that water does anything. And if you look at statements quoted in the press release, most statements are talking about how the work might provide direction on where to look later:

It's just like the string theory or dark energy threads where all the software engineers who've read a pop science book pontificate about how all the physicists are just so obviously wrong and you need to do it in so-and-so way, bonus points if you get some sort of "maybe lambda calculus is the true representation of the universe"