skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My mother is a teacher, and she often has to do work during the summer to prepare for the next year, even though her pay is based on her getting the summer off. Not to mention that she is required to do additional training during the summer, sometimes at her own expense.
Yet the teachers union is extremely powerful
Yeah except 1) discretionary spending (including defense is like 25% of total spending (with defense ~1/2 of that), so the 90b is a meaningful part of discretionary spending. 2) as others have pointed out, the vast majority of (80%-90%+?) is funded by state and local government.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57172
It sounds like you really want it to be vaccines even though not much seems to be pointing towards that conclusion, be careful to avoid a bias. The article mentions cancer and cardiovascular chronic diseases.
Steam was at the right place at the right time. Also it was more insidious in its behavior. Throughout the late 2000s and 2010s most AAA games were Steam releases only. Even boxed copies were not much more than a Steam code. This allowed them to build a powerful network effect. At some point gamers were demanding that any new big release was a Steam release ("no steam no buy").
Counterpoint: model plane controllers are a lot more like that Xbox controller than like either a keyboard + mouse or a full Thrustmaster setup.
i prefer love handles.
James Burke did enough space shuttle shots that there is no way he would have passed this story up on Connections if it were true.
Ransomware attack on UK water company clouded by confusion
If you're looking for another not-very-discoverable shortcut that's quite useful... press Command-Tab until you get to the application you want, then without releasing it press up (or down). You'll get the exposé view for the selected application's windows. While that's open you can arrow between them to select the one you want or type to select by window name.
Ask HN: Can you share your experience with sleep apnea?
Ever since I was a teenager I have always felt sleepy, tired and unable to concentrate. Later I was diagnosed with mild sleep apnea and upper airway resistance syndrome. Since then I have tried cpap, nasal surgery, mouth appliance etc but none of it helped. My quality of life is significantly lowered because of it.

Does anyone here also have sleep apnea or uars? How are you treating it? I would love to hear your story
It looks very nice.
how to jump to an arbitrary page?
I don't put much weight in the judgements college-age people make of others. They're still in the mindset of the high school status game they just left.
Granted on signed URLs - you'd need a vendor-specific extension to generate one I suppose. Not sure why throughput/latency should be worse with sftp.
And yes, I've done the abstraction thing in the past too - unfortunately the code base I'm currently working with doesn't, meaning you can't run it fully without an actual connected aws environment.
I'm not suggesting sftp is the right choice, just wondering how feasible it is to make use of existing open protocols to access cloud-based services.
Don’t have any suggestions but as an alternative to notifications, I wrote a script to check the HN API for keywords such as “outage” “downtime” “breached” and show the results on a TV screen in my office.

Has been quite useful for the ops side of what I work on!
By that logic, a pack of cigarettes taxed at 500% is "publicly funded" because it could have been taxed at 1000%.
"I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them." -- Jerry Falwell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Falwell
This is so completely off topic, but if the idea of an improv musical about Spiderman's dating life sounds up your alley, you should check out this episode of Off Book: The Improvised Musical. The premise is Spiderman + MJ in couples therapy, and it's phenomenal.

https://podcasts.apple.com/my/podcast/marvel-sing-ematic-uni...
> 1. The degree program was decent, although a certificate program would be better for prior professionals if the law allowed it (lower cost, too much wasted time in redundant classes).

There are certificate programs in Maryland. That's how I got my Maryland teacher's license. You typically have to be enrolled in an alternative certification program, like Teach For America, Baltimore City Teaching Residency, etc. But there are a bunch of them: https://www.marylandpublicschools.org/about/Documents/DEE/Pr...
Who’s your favorite public thinker?
Someone who’s ideas resonate with you deeply and who you would recommend everyone to at least know about
Congress actually made it more difficult to receive compensation for a COVID vaccine injury.

Despite thousands of reports of injuries, including death, I don’t think anybody has been compensated.

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10584
I don't think optimization really matters to most people for a tool that does automated cert requests.
I've always found the media coverage around this topic strange. You will hear almost nothing about it for months, then a huge wave of Unhappy Teachers articles, videos, news items, etc. will rise up, then it all evaporates away into nothing as quickly as it began.

And little ever gets done. I feel like very few politicians want to touch the education beast out of fear, perhaps because last time they did ('member Common Core?) it went nuclear-FUBAR.

I'm not sure if anyone has already linked it, but CNBC just released a new piece on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlnspY2wOVw
There's probably a list somewhere on the internet but I've never seen one. When I went monitor shopping six months ago, I used the Macrumors forum heavily. There are long threads on the forum for monitors which didn't work well because of edid or other factors. That's how I ended up with an Asus ProArt 4k instead of the Dell I initially wanted. Everyone complained about how MacOS handled the Dell but no one had a bad word for the Asus.

Though it was a little frustrating to me that I had to monitor shop in the first place. I bought an MBA to start some iOS projects. I wanted to use my still great 1080 IPS Dell screen that I had used for years with Windows and Linux. But MacOS looked absolutely horrid on it. I know MacOS prefers higher resolution screens, but I was surprised it couldn't manage to handle a ridiculously common resolution.
> Parents have claimed religious exceptions

Yes, and these are often allowed. However, there are guardrails. Hospitals have multidisciplinary teams of lawyers, ethicists, psychologists and religious counsellors to ensure that these are legitimate beliefs and that risks are within certain boundaries.

You can't exactly apply the same care to the internet at large.
We can discuss health issues without being rude, however.
On Reddit I frequently see the "next" page having the same posts as the previous page. Not all the same but many of the same. Like, maybe after is being respected but the sorting is different or something.
I see your point, and still I don’t think it’s a good idea. We don’t give power like that to expertise for the same reason the commander-in-chief of the armed forces is a civilian.
This isn't surprising at all.

Crony-capitalism is a zero-sum game. It literally rewards value extraction at the expense of value creation. Teaching creates value and it's terrible at capturing value because it offers very little negotiating power; teachers are fully reliant on big, powerful institutions for employment.

Why would the big corporations with market monopolies (which control our governments) want to educate the masses? The big corporations don't want their competitors to be educated and they certainly don't want more free thinkers in society who can learn about our dysfunctional monetary system.

Elite colleges churn out just enough graduates to keep the big corporate monopolies running. Graduates of all other schools and colleges are just fuel for the competition; they're a nuisance for big corporations; these individuals need to be kept incompetent so that they do not pose a threat to the existing order. Financially, it makes sense to dumb down the masses, pack them into tiny living spaces, feed them crickets, connect them to virtual reality and make sure that they don't have any children.

Our monetary system ensures that our economy always caters to capital and the sources of capital (reserve bank money printers), not to people. It doesn't even allow for parallel economies to form when people can't afford to participate in the mainstream economy. It keeps everyone hooked until death.
What am I gatekeeping, exactly?
Based on an archive.org snapshot[0] of an Apple support page[1], the move shortcut has been in place since at least 2015.

And yeah, the Mac way makes more sense to me too. It's a lot less likely for Command-Option-V to be fat-fingered than both Ctrl-X and Ctrl-V.

Shortcuts like this are all over the place in macOS, and have been for decades. They're usually discoverable by glancing through menus while holding down various modifier keys.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20151128115451/https://support.a...
[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236
> But the thing is, as the Catholics recognize, the Bible didn't come to us as an monolithic whole. Its composition has changed over the centuries as books have fallen in and out of favor.

Can you give examples of books added and removed from the Bible that Catholics would recognize, after it was formalized? This is a very strange claim to me.
Not directed at you, but the DNS thing I have to say something and will keep doing it. We got hoodwinked with HTTPS. We handed over to the tech giants, on a silver platter, a secure and soon to be unstoppable mechanism that allows them to go straight from their servers to our eyeballs. We gave up our ability to control and intercept the content flowing through our networks and PCs.

The DNS and other Pihole stuff is a last ditch effort and a poor hack when really we should be able to inspect and alter all packets going through our networks.

And you see it. Your pihole hack doesn't work anymore. Because that was always a loophole and they're closing it now again with DoH (DNS over HTTPS).

All under the guise of privacy. Because somewhere sometime a long time ago an ISP added ads to your web pages and redirected DNS.
Good data, but it's static. How has it changed over the last, say, 30 years?

I'm guessing "special ed" costs have increased the most. Why is that?
How about just torrent the shows worth watching?
lots of blame being heaped on the distributor here (hbo max/wbd) but this decision was likely driven by economics -the rebroadcast fees paid out to sesame workshop vs revenue created by said content. more focus should be on sesame workshop for demanding (presumably) overly expensive rebroadcast fees
Did you build the thing from the tweet? A marketplace for microstartup investment?
Speaking of "turning SQLite into things it wasn't really meant for", does anyone know of a compressing time-series layer for SQLite?
Spoiler: you can’t.
When it comes to standards, why would newer be better? POSIX isn't perfect, but longevity is a great selling point when selecting a standard. I don't think OS standards have much practical use, but I think you're way off base with new = better.
> I don't think it's cherry-picking to encourage parents to find the best school for their children, even if it isn't yours.

Why? Because "cherry-picking" is bad and the best things for children are good?

It's, of course, exactly cherry-picking to find the children with the most interested and motivated parents, then filter them down to the ones that you like best. Fuck the kids with bad or no parents.
Education is one of the most important things for human and economic development, yet teachers are severely underpaid. Quality and availability of education would improve dramatically if salaries were higher.
Can't he just use rowversion?

No need for row value syntax and it works with MS SQL Server
You say that like we’re overspending on spending ed. I don’t understand that position. Of course they require more resources than the average student - they’re special cases, literally! To take that away would be devastating for society’s most vulnerable, as most parents aren’t equipped with the skills or resources to be able to do any different with their children. Some cases are extreme. Should we just let them either fail regular classes many years over or become extremely disruptive? How is that good for anyone?

It’s easy to say X is expensive or Y takes up Z part of the budget. We saw a lot of that with the whole defund the police movement. But no one asks what should X cost? Maybe it’s already at the required level, or even less, despite it being such a large percentage of the budget?
I don’t want vote information to be publicly available. Hiding those numbers was good for the site. Users have ways to get their own data. That’s enough.
Man, and I thought mechanistic arguments were bad. This is a whole new level.
SD Blu Rays would knock that down to "possible but impractical" - they could easily hold about 25 episodes per disk.
>"30 MiB ought to be enough for anyone"

Sometimes you have eg a history book which has a lot of high quality photos, and then it can be quite large.
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As a former high school teacher, it is also no mystery to me why people are leaving the profession. It's by far the hardest job I've ever done. I journaled my experience here, for anyone who cares to read: https://acjay.com/a-former-teachers-story/
That's one way to put it. Another way is to say that you had a good enough execution to stand out from the crowd of all the other failed startups and the people criticizing your idea didn't have the same vision as you. The reality is probably somewhere in the middle.
I don't understand it at all myself. Assuming you wanted the car to drive 10 hrs a day on average (because of low overnight demand, random charging, maintenance, etc.) a FSD Tesla vs. a new Hyundai Ioniq with a human driver would have the same total costs after 2-3 years (when the hourly salary of the human driver finally makes the Ioniq more expensive). That's what Tesla is talking about competing with in the robo-taxi market.
What? It’s like the only thing in your entire list that has gone down in price over time (computers & mobile phones probably count as “up” since not everyone needed them 30 years ago when they were expensive as hell).

It used to cost like $3 1999 dollars to rent one VHS for 3 days, now it’s $14.99 for a month of watching as many of hundreds of movies / shows as you have time for.

The prices are going to get weird soon though! Amazon Prime is weird because it’s “free” with Prime shipping, HBO is free with AT&T’s main mobile phone plans, Disney+ (and some others, $20/mo max) are free with AMEX Platinum card.
> I doubt I'm gonna be upgrading that M1 from whatever OS it comes with until the latest version of Illustrator stops working on it, or Apple stops doing bugfix releases

Unfortunately security updates are more important than ever and patching old OS versions is not a high priority for any OS vendor. Even Ubuntu LTS only gets critical updates for something like 5 years.

The tragic reality is too many thousands of people's jobs at Apple depend on delivering new features for it ever to go into maintenance mode.
If you want to issue a certificate in an environment where you only have a shell, it's the only language you can use.

Sometimes you write in shell because it's the lowest common denominator.
> As someone who's read the Bible in its entirety, it's so full of contradictions and unclear complexities that you can make a good case for any number of incompatible interpretations.

As a Christian, I too have been recently thinking about the issue of multiple interpretations. Having said that, there are as many, if not more, verses that are clear enough and leaves little room for multiple contradicting interpretations. For example, these two popular (and probably the most important!) verses have very clear meanings:

> For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. — John 3:16 (NIV)

> “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” — Matthew 22:36–40 (NIV)
“Isn’t it obvious that good teachers want to teach children with parents that want them to learn? And punish their children when they are disruptive? And the school can kick out bad kids?”

Perhaps, but that kind of school is doing a different “job” than one tasked with ensuring a base level of education for all young people.
As a post-secondary teacher, I spend more mental energy on babysitting than on teaching. It's definitely the harder part for me. I hesitate to imagine how bad it must be in primary or secondary education.

Though, it's not really that clear-cut a division. When I worry about how to manipulate students into doing the minimum readings (say an hour a week) for a class that they voluntarily signed up for and paid for, is that babysitting or teaching?
I'm the founding CTO of a small startup, and I've been trying to find the business equivalent of your side project. Have you come across any modern tools for financial forecasting?
I have experienced this many, many, many times, so I'm really grateful for what you wrote.

Even if I don't think I'm absorbing other people's doubts about whether it would work, or even internalizing their certainty that it won't work, I can be doing that exact thing outside of my awareness.

It reminds me of the quote attributed to Muhammad Ali: "I said I'm the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was."

How often do I start to doubt my dreams because I'm talking with someone who doesn't share the same dreams? I've wanted to build an online platform to train people to be world leaders, almost like a martial art created by MLK. I can vividly remember when I said this to one guy, a stranger (!), who laughed and said, "I don't think you'll be the person to do that." That has stuck with me for years, a creeping doubt deep within.

That's all to say: thank you very much for what you wrote. I think I needed to read it today.
I’d be happy if…

1 - All streaming providers had a public API for show/movie listings. Apple manages to aggregate most content across providers, but I think Netflix refuses to play ball, making search harder than it need be.

2 - there isn’t really a 2. I rotate services regularly as shows go in and out of availability. If shows get yanked quickly, I just won’t subscribe to that service.

Streaming has done wonders for my consumption. It’s a fraction of what it was back in the cable TV days. I can’t tolerate ads any more, so don’t get cable and refuse to subscribe to services that inject ads into their content (even after a subscription). If they all are ok with losing me as a consumer forever, at this point in ok with that. I’ll just rent the odd movie or show and be fine.
Yup, as an American this is a pretty accurate assessment for the most part. It's also worth noting that several states actually have different systems to close the gap for people who don't fit into the medicare-medicaid-chips safety nets. In California we have medical, which adds an extra tax, but does help a lot of people who would be uninsured get health insurance. Different states will have massively different levels of care and expertise available.

For what it's worth if you have the money you can get some pretty world class care here. My dad had cancer and due to my mom's really good (publicly provided mind you, she worked for the school system) insurance got my dad great care and he's still out an about to this day
A few years ago someone reviewing a public page I was serving over HTTP came and asked "It is breaking the page on my browser, producing a weird console error, and I don't like the look of some of the things the JavaScript code does."

This person's review affected whether we'd use my work or not. I found the criticism puzzling, because I couldn't explain the condone error, and did nothing bad in JavaScript.

It took several days before I asked them to show me the page in their browser, and then to show me which bit of JavaScript was bothering them.

I didn't recognise the code, and wondered what I had screwed up with my build scripts. But when I looked at the page with my browser we found the source of errors:

The ISP used by the institution we worked at was injecting its own code into every HTML front page for tracking or some other unclear purposes.

It had been doing this for all devices connected to the network and nobody knew.

That was our motivation to switch all our static pages to HTTPS asap, and towards an HTTP client relay VPN at the router, because other sites accessd by users inside the institution should not be subjected to ISP code injection either.
If the general population were numerate enough, and there was enough transparency, there were would be riots in the streets over the NPV of retirement packages for public sector employees, these people are getting packages that are worth $2m,$5m,$10m at retirement (which could be 50ish!)
There were a lot of protocols at the beginning. Google worked hard to kill some of them: nntp, ftp (archie), http.
Discovery+ pulled The Repair Shop without notice. Related?
The current standard for Scheme is referred to as R6RS

R7RS small has been out since 2013. But yeah... "it's complicated".

We did an experiment a few months ago with compiling Gambit to JS and then serving it as an Office extension, using our JS FFI to interface with the Office JS library. Worked out of the box, but definitely some performance cost. Curious about performance on .NET.

BTW if Bob reads this, happy to hear you talk about this at the upcoming Scheme Workshop :) I guess this isn't available on Excel on the web?

https://icfp22.sigplan.org/home/scheme-2022 for those interested.
We do give this power very narrowly and very successfully to many individuals in their official capacity, in different contexts. Judges, professors, administrative committees, employers in certain situations, heck, at the moment, any company with a platform can apply this power essentially arbitrarily and at will (which I'd argue is not great).
I walked into an Apple Store and asked, “What monitor/TV should I buy such that my AppleTV remote can control the volume and be the only remote I need?” The geniuses shrugged. I asked, “What brand are these displays in the store that are connected to the demonstration AppleTVs?” They shrugged. We turned them around so I could see the backs of the monitors and I wrote down the model numbers.

It is far from obvious to me.
> Hollywood should have had an archive.org sort of organization since way back.

In 2022 this is obvious, where we can economically store vast amounts of digital data. In the 20th century, the cost to store all that media would have been far greater, and they had no way to know the internet would come along and radically change the means and cost of distribution. From that perspective, I think the decision to not invest as much in archival is not surprising.
Do you actually have FSD? My understanding is most people who paid for it haven't been allowed to actually install the software yet.
Map may prove ‘Welsh Atlantis’ rooted in fact, say academics
Your comment made me think of the scene in the first Star Trek movie where all the little Spock children are in an emotionless hole being programmed with math and philosophy.

Not saying you are wrong or right, but for many kids having an adult who simply cares is worth infinitely more than any amount of efficiencies or base material.