skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - allow schools to expel children

Certainly public schools need to be able to remove disruptive students from the mainline process.

> - mandate school and district administrators to have experience teaching

The overwhelming majority already do. It's a problem of misaligned incentives, though.

> - ban homework and introduce periods of time during school when work is expected

Homework should totally go away for elementary (I mean, other than a token project to ask someone questions once in awhile, etc) and be minimal for early middle school.

At some point, though, you do need to put in some additional unsupervised work.

> - remove all art and sports from school and reform them as independent free clubs to be participated in after or before school (unfortunately impossible in poorer districts)

Actually, in poorer/urban districts, you're more likely to have providers like YMCA or charity sports leagues, around. It's the rich districts who are spending a whole lot of resources on nice extracurriculars for their students that are going to have trouble with this.

> - increase teacher salary

Yup.

> - more separation of students by skill level (tons of research showing that kids learn better when they're placed in small groups at a similar skill level, also easily observed anecdotally.) This should also be accomplished by mixing ages.

There's limits to this. Tracking math, etc, is useful. You might be able to do it with writing. But it may not make so much sense with literature or history classes, in that there is an actual body of knowledge to convey (of course, you can have honors classes if your student population is big enough).

Also, I think you underestimate the amount of social power that comes with age. You can't throw together my 6th grader with 9th graders that are equivalently strong in math and expect a whole lot of useful educational strategies to still work.

> - ban grades, introduce final exams in specific subjects at the end of school that can be retaken indefinitely (perhaps once per year). If you want to go to college, perform on these tests

I think we need to de-emphasize grades, but grades are an important motivator and more immediate measure of performance.

A lot of my courses are "easy A's" in the sense that most students get an A even though I cover rather challenging material and expect a lot: I get most students over the humps. But-- I still rely upon to some extent:

- Being able to give assignment grades that are much lower so that students know they must improve

- Students being motivated to improve so that their summative grade will be good, even when they're feeling a bit down about the course or their recent performance.

> - industry must return to western countries to allow low- and medium-skilled people important labor jobs

Comparative advantage is important.
Rooftop solar has a lot of soft costs and won’t decline as rapidly in cost as utility scale, where you’re just slapping panels on racking on the ground.
i guess your comment really brings up what you should be buying on amazon. tcl roku tv for example, had one for 6 years no issues until i broke it moving. household goods ive always had good luck, as well as some basic decorations/furniture. whole foods delivery, yes please. i simply dont understand where the distaste comes from besides political feelings towards the company.
And despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth, they'll probably continue do fine, as they have since their population leveled out 30 years ago.

The doomsday predictions haven't just started now, and they weren't only about events in 2060. They started decades ago about population growth slowing, population leveling, population dropping. They've been pretty consistently wrong.
Meta kind of screwed everybody here. I am at one of the hyperscalers with some insight into SDE offers. Second half of 2021 things got extremely crazy with Meta offering ridiculous salaries even for junior positions. This caused a chain reaction. Other FAANG had to increase their offers outside the normal bands to fill positions, which caused experienced folks to leave where out of frustration that new hires one level down were making more money than them. Now it appears Meta overshot and are trying to clean up their own mess.
Google has more than 100k employee, at any given week I bet there are more than 100 people leaving. Letting go 50 people is barely layoff. Misleading title
you just need to keep this until Death coming.
Would you consider it a crash if S&P was just flat for a decade?
Since when does it have a menu bar?
That was the problem. Orkut was successful, but that doesn't stop Google from shutting down services. Trusting a Google service to be around long-term is folly unless it's Maps or Gmail.
The recent (since the 80s) history of financial ups and downs has been

- savings and loan

- junk bond

- dot com / financial engineering (Enron)

- mortgage backed securities

- VC

Basically, money chases outsized returns, some new thing emerges to satisfy the demand, it becomes effectively a ponzi / house of cards, it falls apart, we shift to the next thing. It's impossible to predict when and what will happen of course, it will be interesting to read retrospectively about what's happening with VC as we have with the rest:

Barbarians at the gate / Den of Thieves

Smartest Guys in the Room

The Big Short

(Bad Blood is partway there but Theranos wasnt a turning point like the others)
There's no community consensus on either of them, so not sure how you are trying to draw a contrast. There are people who thing both are wrong and those that think both are right and everything in between.
The International Space Station gets hit on a regular basis, and had to be built with bulky impact shielding and window shutters to avoid being damaged by small impacts. The windowpanes have chips and divots. There are holes in the solar panels. Most recently something blew a chunk of Whipple Shielding off of the Canadarm, which probably would have rendered the arm nonfunctional if the shielding had not been there. Other low earth orbit satellites are either built with shielding or run the risk of being disabled.

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/canadarm2-...
I have read, for example in the article on Italy in Drout's J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia (2006), that Tolkien's fiction has traditionally been associated with right-wing politics in Italy. I couldn't understand that at all, and while this article gives some background, it still sounds too surreal for a real explanation. Maybe I just don't appreciate Italian political culture.
Incorrect. The Boxabl uses all new building materials and manufacturing methods that allow for rapid production of housing. Think 1 house per minute. The new building materials also result in superior energy ratings, fire, structural and more. The shippability of the unit also makes it superior to a cramped shipping container house. The room can ship at the lowest cost without compromising on room dimensions. Also, the price is the price, they have SEC reporting that shows the price is correct.
Still? It started good and became bad, like most software. And, as is also the norm, there is no amount of money that can fix shitty software unless you Ship-of-Theseus it, which is fundamentally at odds with the ideologies of most project managers, whose rankings of how much they enjoy doing things are, from highest to lowest:

- Showing off optics bullshit like burndown charts

- Adding features

- Fixing extremely severe and well-documented bugs

- Committing some token time to pretending to fix tech debt

- Cleaning toilets with a toothbrush

- Actually fixing tech debt

- Fixing bugs

- Hammering nails through each of their own toes

- Making good software
The saying might just be an observation, but I'm not sure what else people should be saying about VC. VC matches people-with-ideas to money. Have they ever advertised being anything else (while sober)?
But is that 1% number higher now (e.g shows like Bridgerton or the Crown) because of Netflix and other OTT platforms?
AoPS leans a little too hard into silly contest math / trivia tricks, not into deep understanding of the underlying mathematics. Also, they have low production values, lacking the nice graphics used in professional school textbooks (before Eureka and the greedy cult of throwaway monochrome textbooks ruined everything) to help students visualize 2D/3D functions and geometry.

The AoPS books jassume that if you are smart enough to learn the tricks and hard problems, you are smart enough to learn deep math later.

Which is a strange premise, because the PhD geniuses who created AoPS, base their credibility on the fact that they aced all these contests when they were kids... But they did it without any of these materials!

They created a "teaching to the test" curriculum, which, while mathematically sound, created a rat race that makes the contests harder every year, requiring more memorization and silly speed training, as more people memorize all the strategize that the original contests expected student to try to creatively discover on their own.
Dive into a project like Firefox, build it on your platform, then focus on a component that you can visually test, start hacking, make silly changes and just go to town.
There needs to be a website hall of shame that serves particularly slow websites rendered into PNGs/WEBP/WEBMs (+JS code to make them interactive/clickable) if those would load faster and use less data volume than the real thing.
The backend tech for Teams is so bad that you receive notifications of something even before it appears on screen which is terrible UX wise, the UI tells you something is happening but it's actually happenning 2sec later.
While it does leave out server rendering time, that could not possibly account for several seconds of difference. TTFB could maybe be increased by 300-500ms… 1/10th of what gains are happening here
> Or we need to stop banning words because people we don't like start using them (correctly, I might add.)

Who is banning words? At least in the US you have every right to say 'deep state' all you want but it probably doesn't mean in other people's minds what you might want anymore. I mean, it's the way of language evolution that when a phrase picks up a much different and negative connotation from what it had previously people stop using it.
Store and retrieve your logs on R2
Because it's built according to how Microsoft is organized and how they work.
I guess I would say that a crash is when the market shifts to being illogical towards the negative side, where even seemingly good companies are struggling.

I wouldn't call it a crash if there is positive irrationality.
Project Cars 2 is gone from Steam forever
I did something similar (my ytdl is ytdlp too). You don't even have to grab just the audio, it'll take a webm: https://i.imgur.com/03UFGc8.gif

Amazing work.
I teach visual effects and digital art. I am used to the madly compLex interfaces (Maya, Blender, Nuke etc). I have no fear of such software. But I am completely defeated by Teams.

- Why two windows when you are in a meeting? The second window is sometimes hard to find intuitively.

- Why, when opening an attachment, is the user locked out of chat? Again, with many windows open, the preview can look and function like whatever app is native to the previewed file.

- is there a way to disable camera previews when sharing screen? The two together take up way too much interface. If there is a way, I should not have to search for it.

- Upload a file to chat and sending that file are two separate actions. Why? I can’t count the number of times I have to remind students to press the send button after upload.
Similar, from years ago - laser vs mosquito.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKm8FolQ7jw
I'd like to state this more succinctly.

Prioritisation can be whatever you want, scrum does not say what 'priority' means. That can be as silly, or as complex as you want. There are many inputs to priority. In practice there seems to be an over-emphasis (near-obsession) over 'cost' rather than value provided. A good example of this are items that have deadlines to them. At some point, the "cost" of implementation is not the biggest factor, yet it often gets the most attention and time allocated (vs say, dollar cost of not implementing per day)

My point with velocity is that it is inaccurate and using it will be just wild guessing. It's like saying, it's 65 degrees out - "cool, I'll wear a t-shirt". But, it's 65 degrees out plus or minus 30 degrees. As an engineer/scientist, we should already know that any number should always have error bars reported, otherwise it is meaningless. Similar to the temperature, you can look outside and infer the temperature through other means. It is likely then that "velocity" is noise compared to the true means we use to know if we have enough in the near backlog or not. Worse yet, velocity is often used as a cudgel to force overtime and declare a sprint "failed," even though velocity is so uncertain (yet is not treated as an uncertain value).
I dont mind teams for calls, i despise it for text chat
Interesting that they will still accept fully computer generated images, most of them created with a massive amount of help from AI-assisted algorithms in Photoshop and the like.
Have you tried reviewing a regular highschool geometry / algebra 2 /precalculus textbook?
it says running VM for Android is heavy
Because the people making enterprise deals are doing it face-to-face (probably at a nice dinner sponsored by MS.) They don't use tools like this and they're more interested in "checking the box" than analyzing what would improve people's work life (missing that it would probably improve efficiency.) If you're still having your administrative assistant print out all your emails - and dictating your responses back to them - then it's time to retire and let a digital native fix things in ways you can't even imagine!
> One person will have crashes and problems all the time, and the other person, smooth sailing. Nobody knows why.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Q/quantum-bogodynamics.html

In all seriousness, it probably has to do in large part with gestures broadly global state. Registry, configuration, what else is running on the system, how up to date it is. There are so many possible different settings, parameters, processes doing weird api calls, that it's a combinatoric explosion.
IMO, all arguments that illegal downloading is immoral are invalidated once legally buying a copy is no longer possible.
You can make an image and have it be AI generated (say using Photoshop's content aware fill), and it will be allowed. They are drawing a pretty arbitrary line.
The GPL is as strong as a commercial license in the sense that the conditions it does specify are exactly as legally binding as those of a commercial license.
Well, Nix was mentioned a few posts up... But in general, Guix is directly based off of Nix and is seen by many as "Nix + Guile + GNU". Is it odd to see people talking about a different BSD in a {Free,Open,Net,*}BSD thread?
Hope icyfox can try running this with a fix.
Also if we really value life, we should probably optimize for total lives lived. The universe will not last forever and entire galaxies are being lost to both the cosmic horizon and blackholes at an alarming rate.

For some reason Earth seems to be the only planet with life, so every second we spend without making life interplanetary we are snuffing out an unfathomable number of future human and animal lives.
Why do you think the server can render it any faster than your computer? Server CPUs aren't all that much more powerful than desktops these days.
I've posted many historical cases of inflation being the result of runaway spending.

For example, the inflation in the US gold currency during the California and Yukon gold rushes.

"Because precious metals were at the base of the monetary system, rushes increased the money supply which resulted in inflation. Soaring gold output from the California and Australia gold rushes is linked with a thirty percent increase in wholesale prices between 1850 and 1855."

https://eh.net/encyclopedia/california-gold-rush/

How about the inflation in Spain due to the influx of gold from the New World:

"These immediate consequences include the price inflation caused by more gold and silver"

https://theclassicjournal.uga.edu/index.php/2020/05/07/spain...

None of this stuff is hard to find. There's no difference in inflation from a flood of gold entering circulation from a flood of fiat money helicoptered into the economy.
I remember when teams dropped - I was so excited for a Slack alternative.

Slack is still the best thing for work and man I hate that fact. I'm so ready to jump ship - someone please!

[Follow up] At the end of the day I want something as snappy and reliable as Whatsapp for work. I have my gripes about it, but it absolutely excels at one thing - getting my message to the other end.
I tried it out and it's way too slow on my machine that is no slouch (Ryzen 9 5950/GTX 3080).

It's doing seconds of translation per minute for me at least.
I can only throw out a series of ideas:

1) It's built on top of Sharepoint ... somehow.

2) It is a "Me, too" product without any kind of compelling vision, which usually leads to a mentality of "survey existing competitors in that 'space' and nab their features."

3) Because it is free, they feel the need to push it everywhere, even if isn't appropriate for most people. Go to your File Explorer and stare at that "3D Objects" Folder, marvel at the concept that so many people would have 3D printers that of COURSE you are going to need a 3D objects folder, the same way you have one for Music. Wait...
Now open Developer Tools and go to www.reddit.com.
> hyperscalers

What is this?
More generous unemployment was blamed heavily for the worker shortage, but that has been pretty thoroughly debunked by the data. Those benefits have long expired and worker shortages remain. Not to mention, states that ended unemployment extensions early saw very little improvement. Something like just a 3-4% reduction. (not 3-4 percentage points reduction, a reduction of 3-4% compared to states that kept extended unemployment benefits.
Yes, definitely, if they're really close together. But "loosening up" isn't a problem with SMT; as long as the legs are adhered to the pads with the proper amount of solder, it's correct. The risk is moving adjacent chips around so they're no longer properly centered on their footprints, so using the hot air gun does require some finesse: use enough heat and air velocity, combined with the distance of the tool to the board, to remove the chip you aim for, without affecting the adjacent chips.
I don't think I understand how they were going full out and so few died.
Isn't $35m about the revenue generated by a single trader for a year?
I remember messenger being mediocre at best and Skype not much better by the time MS got a hold of it. Teams doesn’t strike me as being significantly better or worse.

After a few decades the pattern doesn’t seem any different than before: some products get worse, sometimes they do something interesting, some products that got worse are then improved, over and over.

Any appearance of a recent declining trend, much less due to sociocultural issues like DEI, are simply due to looking at too-short a time period or only subsets of their ecosystem.
When your business sees an existential threat on the horizon you have two options – be at the forefront of the change and get ahead of your competitors and any new entrants by adopting the change yourself, or stall/threaten/litigate/raise prices/lower prices and otherwise hold on to your business model at all costs. Those in the latter group don't survive very long.
There are no resource limits, only limits to the creativity of people to create explanations that allow us to transform raw materials from one state to another.

See The Beginning of Infinity by Deutsch and More From Less by McAfee.
Having been responsible for reddit personally, I already know what a mess I left behind for them to clean up. :)
I can't help but wonder if large families also beget religion just as religion begets large families.

Now I personally think every religion I've encountered is ridiculous fiction (no offence, just my opinion), but I will admit that there can be some pretty significant advantages in a community. Raising a ton of kids is probably just easier in a close community of similar minded families (a.k.a. the local church/temple/mosque). It's almost like it's intentionally engineered to be this way.
Always weird to see these lists of other people's success stories being turned into its own success story.
Polish your resume, the guillotine is coming and there's nothing I can do to save you.

I tried for you, remember me when your next job is hiring managers.
Money is just a different word for credit. Credit comes from credibility, or trust.

If a bank trusts a company that they can repay a loan, they'll extend the loan. But if there's a credibility problem, they won't. At the margin, when interest rates go up some companies will cease to be profitable. Banks know intimately how profitable their borrowers are. Even if they have doubts, the income statements will show. So, when the times comes to refinance the loan, the rate may be increased, or the credit line decreased, or new covenants may be put in place, or some collateral required, or various combinations of these.

Corporations (and especially those rated "high yield", or non-investment grade) will see a double-whammy: not only interest rates will have gone up significantly (by 4% early next year), but also their credit spread will go up (see [1], on average it has gone from 3% at the beginning of 2022 to 5% now, and it will keep going up).

That creates the start of a feedback loop: with the increased burden of servicing debt, companies will become less profitable, some will start cutting headcount (just look at the HN posts lately and see how often layoffs are mentioned).

Of course, there's the other feedback loop: higher interest rates means higher discounting of future corporate dividends, dividends which will be smaller anyway, so that means lower stock prices. People will see their savings taking a hit.

And then, a combination of lower savings and higher job uncertainty will lead to lower consumer spending. Or demand destruction.

Which is what the Fed wants.

Make no mistake: the Fed is still the most powerful actor in the financial markets. By far. It has all the tools needed to fight the inflation, and then some.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BAMLH0A0HYM2
It's a micromachines ad from the '80s. He talked like that in all of them!

As for speed, to a computer we don't talk very fast, not even that guy.

I wonder if it could handle Rap God by Eminem....Let's find out!
I disagree that overfitting is a better strategy. Because if you recognize why things are happening are unrelated to profit/work at the moment you can accept that you're going to have losses regardless, and try and plan past that in the long term. Which should lead to better profits when you're not entirely dependent on the federal reserve.

In particular, hiring benefits don't take effect immediately, it's going to be a while before productivity is realized from the new hires. So it is very short-sighted to freeze that before an economic downturn, when you want new forms of revenue and innovation to allow you to outlast the competition and grow a business into something that will become the "next big thing".

Also, as a commentary, it makes it more clear that your stock is actually stable, because the only thing that's really changed is inflation and catch up to reality from the fed turning off the money hose.
For a good example of this, read ANY of trumps speaches transcribed.
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