skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's good defense of Bible but really there is only one problem with it (and with other holy books) - the nature of the term "holy book" prevents it from being made better. There are some good things in it (especially in New Testament), but this only means that it should be reedited and rewritten into something more modern and useful - but it can't because God apparently do not believe in second editions.
No kidding! I was on the interstate this last week and a sign showed more than twice that distance just to the next major city in the state. (along that highway, there were closer ones in other directions)
The company just started doing it after the pandemic hit. They mostly did it to support the mental health of engineering, but has now become a perk to try to entice talent.
I don't deny that there are teachers getting shafted all over the US; I'd just want people to know that the deal in many (most? all?) major urban school districts is surprisingly strong.
> People who on average don't have lots of motivation or other options go to teaching.

I'm not sure where you're from, but every single teacher I have known, both as a student, and as an adult, has been incredibly motivated to teach.
After few months if everyone's happy with your work, you can definitely ask for some days being remote and gradually increase it to fully remote, if you can manage yourself responsibly. 3 hours commutation is definitely not something you should endure for the rest of your life.
It’s an interesting question. I’m at a fairly senior level so aside from meetings I’d say my work is semi-continuous as I think about the problems I’m working on regardless of if I’m at my desk or not. So I don’t really think the “hours on the clock” paradigm applies in one sense.

It’s not unusual for me to knock out a couple casual meetings on Friday morning then just sign off and go for a hike. But again, there’s a good chance I’m thinking about work on that hike. Is that a 4 day week? Is it 4.5? Is it 7? I dunno!
I wonder if the reviewers have a reject quota?
I never understood why trains don’t use regenerative breaking like EVs.
Not that we have live recordings of.

But there is no doubt that he was a pioneer of music theory.

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

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24045969 (Pythagoras and the Origin of Music Theory)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.00998.pdf (Dynamical systems, celestial mechanics, and music:
Pythagoras revisited)
I just recently started a 32 hour a week salaried job. Here’s my story.

I was at a very good job. My ultimate goal is to just go to the beach and not work at all. I realized that’s too big of a leap, so I set a shorter term more realistic goal of working 4 days a week.

My employer at the time rejected the idea, so instead of ignoring recruiters like usual, I answered them. If a job wasn’t immoral, the interview process wasn’t arduous, and I felt I could do the job, I went through with interviews in good faith.

Every time I did this, I got to the offer phase. With nothing to lose, at that moment I asked to work four days a week. I didn’t demand it. I just asked for it. I think I even said the exact words “I know you’ll probably say no to this, but I want to work four days a week.”

One place made an offer that wasn’t better enough compared to my existing job. I didn’t accept and moved on.

Eventually a place made an offer I couldn’t refuse. I have been here almost two months. Have yet to work on a Friday. I’m actually working harder than ever on Monday through Thursday. I am motivated to make this last, because honestly it is just as fantastic as I imagined. My life is so good right now despite the world being terrible.

My new salary is higher as well.
The desired goal of high school math may not change much from year to year, but the best strategies for meeting that goal certainly do. I cannot imagine asking a student today to learn algebra the way I did 55+ years ago. Log-tables and slide rules? Probably not a good strategy.

Until one has taught something that is completely new to a student, it is difficult to imagine how challenging that can be, and how individual it is. What helps Johnny understand (or even care) is often completely different from what helps Mary. It is very difficult to teach effectively without figuring out what the student does not understand. And there are as many ways to misunderstand as there are students.

That is why teachers keep revising. They want to make the material more accessible to more of their students.
I would suggest talking to your manager.
But don't let on that you've already built the automation - they don't need to know that.
Instead, say you've observed something, that you think you'd have the skills to automate it, and if the business would be interested, and would they compensate you if you could indeed improve the process?

This presents no threat to anybody and allows you to gauge reactions.
Thank you for letting me know! I hadn't thought to look.
In fairness, I did in fact read more or less the whole thing. I walked away with a fairly low opinion of the article and the author, but I did read it :)
Bash isn’t on non-UNIX machines by default. I could run a C or Rust produced binary just fine, but I couldn’t run that shell script.
To be fair, one of the earlier comments said "I wouldn't build a summarisation startup on top of GPT3". But it seems like GPT3 is more than capable of producing summaries that are passable, and would be far cheaper than humans. It does seem feasible that one could build a startup based on that
The UK spends less per capita (PPP) than most other equivalent country's health system [1,2]? I never quite understand the "cost effective" arguments against the NHS. These costs include all of our private health care expenditure, which are surprisingly significant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
> If the state should be free to choose, it should be free to choose, not be limited by the constitutional text.

I'm making a distinction between the state and the government. The state also includes people who write and interpret the constitution.

> You'll have to explain how gay people being allowed to visit their loved ones on their death beds as a culture war against "the population" though.

I'm not sure why would you think I'd be against that.

> not some subset that you happen to like

It's not just some subset, it's the overwhelming majority.
That helps when you want to sort by key, but not when you want to keep the order of object keys as in the input file.
Back when I'd sometimes be on group trips rooming with other people, the nails on blackboard thing for me was when the first thing someone would do in a hotel room was turn on the TV. Admittedly, my brother does it at his house as well.
money is so important
a) Apple does not give you a choice about whether to send your location data to Apple. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24585353

b) Most of the apps I use aren't purchased. Why should Apple know which apps they are? Apple's privacy-respecting (in actuality instead of in marketing) competitors don't require this.
(some) Electric trains do (since they can solve the energy storage problem by dumping power back into the grid)
> That’s the problem. You are unwilling to discuss the wages. This predatory capture also existed to ensure a decent wage.

So a few got a highly inflated "decent" wage and the people that desperately needed this work are just out of luck because they can't afford a medallion?
Unless it's invertible.
When joining my current company I said in the negotiation phase that I'd like to do a 4 day week in exchange for 80% of the offered salary. They agreed.
I mean, there are.

The thing about classroom control is that it is easier to notice early signs and stop the situation from escalating into behaviors that need to go through a whole punishment process (possible student trauma, paperwork for the teacher and administration), and so teaching how to correct things early and keep things controlled is a win-win for the student, teacher, and administration, and also the rest of the class.
"Guess what, there is an actual human on the other side that is reviewing your app (with support of automation tools obviously). That person will make mistakes…"

Those mistakes work both ways. Sometimes apps are approved that shouldn't have received approval.
Mis/dis-information is not only located to the fringe/tail-end. See for example:

1. The reporting of the Hillsborough disaster by The Sun, The Times, The Spectator, and others [1].

2. How Martin Bashir secured an interview with Princess Diana for the BBC by making up information. [2]

3. How the BBC included climate skeptic when debating climate change. [3]

Then there is reporting of technical or scientific discoveries that are slanted by only taking a single source for information, not to mention the consistency of reporting on subjects where a company or other organization has made a PR statement.

There is little investigative journalism and fact checking by major news outlets, just reporting from a single source. This is in part because news can move quickly given 24 hour news, the internet, and social media. It is also in part that paying people to take time to do research for little gain as advertisement and engagement drives profits for news outlets. It is also in part people's inherent biases slanting articles or news reports.

Taking time to read each article (instead of just the headlines), and to follow up on sources (which are lacking in most/all media publications -- unless it is someone saying something on Twitter), so it is difficult to verify everything that is being reported on.

Some discussions are also complicated. Take for example the Y2K problem. A lot of people put in a lot of effort to make sure that it didn't happen (specifically, they were able to minimize the issues to a small number of incidents). The UK government were briefed, who then briefed the press. The press (including the BBC) hyped it up by including people who thought the world would end, and people who were preparing for the worst. When not a lot of issues occurred, people have been decrying that Y2K was fake, in part because of the way the media overhyped the issues and failed to properly convey the potential problems to readers/viewers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster#Media_po...

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-57163815

[3] https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2014/04/02/false-balance-in...
That's... a stretch. China has "reeducation" camps for dissidents and a Great Firewall; Singapore has opposition MPs and overzealous use of libel laws against critics. The two are not particularly alike.
It sounds like there are a great many people who want to teach.

The real headline should be, "Nobody wants to teach in public schools anymore."

And do you blame them? The people (politicians, mostly, in dialogue with union leaders) who make the big decisions about public schools are so many levels removed from the students or the teachers that the best-case scenario for these decisions is to be woefully out of touch.

At this point, it seems like the entire world recognizes the American public school system is messed up beyond repair. So why are we spending so much time, energy, and effort trying to save it instead of trying to reimagine the whole thing?

Who's successfully teaching these days? As in, who are the examples of people who are actually being successful at putting ideas into other people's heads?

If what you want is to teach, learn from them.

(If you have a hundred other goals, like providing childcare and increasing character through athletic competition and whatever else you want to do, those are fine things too, but quit trying to lump it all together and do it at once. Find the people who are succeeding at those goals and learn from them as well.)
Lucky for many to consider $7k a pittance. Probably a pittance to most HN participants, but certainly not for everyone.
> not everyone has the software installed to unpack them

People downloading 2 TB of compressed books in plain text format are not exactly the definition of "everyone".

> Yes, there's a lot better compression available these days

Tell me more!
Company wouldn't budge on salary (~20% lower than I was aiming for), but manager really wanted me so I proposed 4-day work week. Fair compromise imho.
Earlier this summer, my employer switched the entire company from a 5x8 to a 4x10 schedule. We're still working 40 hours per week, but the three-day weekends and the avoided commute definitely outweigh the earlier mornings.
As a developer who occasionally gets pulled in to help with urgent support issues, I dread bare hello messages. It gives me too much time to imagine a down site or some other critical event. Asking the question up front spares me a lot of stress.
Ukrainian far-right was marginal, and now doesn’t really exist. Meanwhile in Russia it’s the state ideology.
I clicked because I thought it was Fortean Times. Oh well.
That doesn’t seem to be the case[1].

[1] https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/finding-omega-3-fats-in-...
Same salary then or also 20% less?
I know some people “who can” who cared a lot about teaching and decided to be a teacher. I also know some people in industry who were on the edge of being a teacher but decided it didn’t pay enough. More pay absolutely would draw in the people on the edge.
Per google search ".. etymology"
demos: the people; -cratia: power, rule; Greek.
res: entity, concern; publicus: of the people, public; Latin

"Rule of the People" and "Concern of the People" sound SIMILAR, sure!

Just because a mechanic is concerned for your car, does not mean he owns it...
I think it's lazy of you to call this dichotomy "propoganda" without offering any definitions or etymology.
Ask HN: Where CRUD application stops being CRUD?
I wonder where is the line for CRUD app - because of course CRUD became derogatory term for writing simple apps but HN or Twitter are basically CRUD applications. Heck Facebook is one big CRUD app.

Where Google search is not a CRUD app.

Serving music or videos online should be even easier apps because - well these are mostly Read so there is not much create or update.

Is it that derogatory term should be "simple crud app"? Because even CRUD app after integrating with some 3rd parties, getting bunch of features starts to become quite complex.
What's funny about LGBTQ friendly Western countries is that the risk of assault is higher than places that aren't LGBTQ friendly in Singapore or Japan.

So you can have on the surface level, diversity but offer no safeguards or protection against assault or even murder in the case of transwoman in the West.

Thailand? No open LGBTQ legislation or politics like you have in the West but it remains the most trans friendly country in the world.
Or not? Perhap it's the placebo effect?

Note: Not knocking it. I exercise. I take vitamins. Etc. But the more I read, the more I wonder about the mind's role in physical and mental health.

Belief is a power we're not even close to understanding.
Yet again, that's irrelevant. I think the point we are debating here is universality of heterosexuality/heteronormativity.
pretty subjective
GPS solves the sync issue to the order of nanoseconds. You can also have local TOA determine angles that get passed up to triangulate. The US Army deployed some of these techniques in antisniper work in Iraq.
Singapore has benefits for married couples with the intention of boosting fertility rate, such as better access to HDB's. It's inappropriate to apply this to pairs of men.

Also, note that it has two kinds of marriages already, with different rules -- civil marriage, and Muslim marriage.
Losing sleep in adolescence makes mice less outgoing as adults
Ha! That's just about my perfect schedule as well, though for practicality I try to make sure I'm winding down by 3:00 am so I can get up before noon. In college I'd regularly go get breakfast before heading to bed and marvel at the morning people around me.

My sleep shifts about an hour later every week, so that last week or so before it flips back is pretty tough, especially during the winter. Waking up at like 4 or 5 pm is definitely not good. I still need light!
>> eternal life

Define that, and with details please, because in my mind it "does not compute".

Short sentences as this have clear meaning for You only because You spent hundreds of hours (probably in Your youth) listening to people (probably in black dresses) explaining them to You.
If You would somehow lost this context it would be as unclear for You as "Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare" is for me (I never bothered to learn the context for what it actually means).
> In public health, the protocol is to maximize trust in the people you are serving. For example, if a female doctor is turned away by a sick misogynist, the correct reaction is to say, "Ok, let me find you a male doctor." The incorrect reaction is to become offended and attempt to use public health as a political chess piece to "make them more inclusive."

People trying to demand that they be provided doctors who fit their political views would be the ones turning it into a chess piece IMO; you can't simultaneously demand that the public health system accommodate your non-public health related concerns while complaining that the public health system is now dealing with areas outside their purview.
> Right, the startling thing about Python's previous dict was that it was so terrible that the ordered dict was actually significantly faster.

I've never heard that before and it would be really surprising, given that Python's builtin dict is used for everything from local symbol to object field lookup. Do you have more information?
"expensive" but everything has a limit. Even losing a limb or an eye has a dollar cost associated with it, if you look in the right tables. Pretending that there is no limit, or that the choice is a binary "no limit" vs. "don't give a shit" is just not responsible.
Interesting. Every public city school system that I’ve attended and participated in gave the teachers the choice of 10 months of pay or 12. Seemed like every tenured teacher took the 12 month while the younger teachers took the 10 month. This might be because of age and financial security. The tired teachers don’t want to pick up a summer job. While the younger bunch picks up jobs as bartenders and servers and probably clear more in 2 months than the whole year as a teacher.

One Friday evening I went out with some friends and ended up running into my son’s 6 grade teacher pouring body shots on themselves for the patrons to enjoy.

Maybe that’s the way it works in a “resort” town.
We've just gone the deterministic code formatter route on everything. Right off the top of my head:

- C/C++: `clang-format` is great
- Rust: `rustfmt` is very good
- Python: `yapf` is very good
- Java: `google-java-formatter` is pretty good
- Haskell: `fourmolu` is OK, and if you apply it first and then `stylish-haskell` it's good enough
- Starlark - `buildifier` is great
- Shell: `shfmt` is pretty good
- Nix: `nixfmt` is pretty good

I haven't done any JS or TypeScript or golang in awhile, but I'm sure there are great options there too.

By having all the auto-formatters, we can have one golden config that's fully deterministic for upstream, but everyone can have their own if they want and it just gets blasted into the "golden" format before code review.

Finally, a world without brace wars! Everyone tabs and spaces and whatever to their hear's content. Everyone's happy!

* you do eat the blame getting fucked up the one time. it's worth it.
I think many compelling companies come from rigorously testing lots of possible solutions for a problem that the founders understand deeply.

You might experiment and fail with 10 different ways to solve that problem, before one of them sticks. But the important thing for building the right solution is understanding the context, situation, nature of the pain-point, implications of it, and why the world would be better served if it was solved. The benefit of solving your own painpoint is that you often understand these things instinctively, but it's helpful to talk to other people to understand how it is different for them. From there, the first solutions should be to validate this -- maybe the first version is a Google form or a manual inbox (i.e. "What can we test in 1 week vs. 1 year?").

For an example from me, I previously had a start-up where we provided version control for PowerPoint documents. Our first iteration was way too complicated and we went in solution-first. We built all kinds of shit people didn't need, like slide-by-slide version control, git integration, etc. On your current site, I could ask people if they want a plugin into PowerPoint which gives slide-by-slide version control using git, and get a bunch of feedback on that specific solution. Instead, it would be more helpful to step back and try and validate that sharing PowerPoint documents over email leads to versioning problems. From there, maybe I could dig deeper into specific use-cases, verticals, and understand a wider problem space, before talking about how people need the problem to be solved. I think the learnings would be 100x more useful than getting some specific feedback on my myopic solution.

Similarly, I have found that users often love talking about their problems more than they love giving feedback on individual solutions.
One difference with religion is it requires some level of suspension of critical thinking and you have to take many things on "faith". This seems like a great way to dodge accountability and hand wave away things without being questioned too much.
> The real headline should be, "Nobody wants to teach in public schools anymore."

What part of TFA makes you think this is specific to public schools?

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/the-worst-i-ve-seen-it-j...
On the other hand, I was hired at a startup a few years ago that had never raised money, had been profitable for a decade, and was just minting money hand over fist. It was a tech company, though, so it qualified as a "startup". (It was EasyBib.com)
Maybe it’s because I don’t live in California let alone a big city… but it seems completely insane to me that the government would be involved in this at all.
Yes but it’s incredibly concerning that greater scrutiny isn’t being paid to apps at the top of the charts. What are their priorities if they’re going after cases like the OP?
I went down from 5 days to 2 days and then up to 3 days all in the same FAANG role thanks to a doctor’s note for a chronic illness