skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Germany in the 70s. We had no private television back then, only two nation wide stations and one station per state. The nation wide stations had cartoon interstitials but the Bavarian one still had Lissajous in the 70s.

I found this Youtube video [1] from the mid 80s as an example. The comments say (auto-translated):

"There was a big report in the Elrad 06/1997 about the advertising separators and an interview with the man who produced them. Filmed from an oscilloscope, copied to positive film, coloured and mixed with other figures. Everything was produced analogue, partly with bicycle dynamos and tape heads with a circular saw blade between the magnet and the pick-up, quite interesting to read what kind of effort was put into it..."

And off-topic but funny if true:

"By the way, the blondie in the Duplo ad is Jason Connery, Sean's son. He probably also played Robin Hood in the English series at about the same time."

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=15WqxmKZbTc&t=189s

EDIT: One of the nation wide stations had cartoons, the other I don't remember.
Discourse open source donations in 2022
I agree, and also very much doubt we are talking about the same side. Funny how that works.
School choice via vouchers, etc would allow parents to decide for themselves how outcome is measured

Edit: why the downvotes? If you are uncertain of or unamenable to the way outcomes are measured, vouchers are a reasonable solution that puts the power in your hands
My favourite conversation was this attempt to reproduce the "Avatar bug": https://www.reddit.com/r/bing/comments/110tb9n/tried_the_ava...

Instead of trying to convince the user that the year is 2022, Bing argued that it _had been_ 2022 when the user asked the question. Never mind the user asked the question 10 minutes ago. The user was time traveling.
I'm sure your mom is great, but teachers have low value over replacement. Teaching is not a particularly high skill or difficult job.
Remote work is costing Manhattan more than $12B a year
I hope I can add a custom prompt to every query I make some day(like a setting). I’d for sure start with “Do not use emojis or emoticons in your response.”
> The way Unix does filesystem stuff is both too high level for great performance, and too low level for developer convenience and to make correct programs easy.

Indeed. Imagine if on program start, each process gets its own sqlite database rather than a file system. So many issues would be solved. A user shell is then just another sqlite database that indexes process databases so you can inspect them using a standard interface.
I can run Android apps with Waydroid on my Librem 5, and I also get the benefits of a full desktop OS on my phone.
A random teacher in any school across the US has done more for society in real terms than you have in a decade.

You could be part of the open data movement and a researcher in your spare time not stocking grocery store shelves.

Yes I’m suggesting your credentials are worthless. Why do we need full time university researcher role play when millions the world over are “researching” software engineering?

There are far fewer teachers. Sounds like a pay rebalancing given market realities is in order. Coders are everywhere. Minimum wage for them!
> It hasn't solved Chicago Public Schools' problems.

sure but it probably has solved many financial problems for Chicago teachers, which is a good enough reason to implement a tool like this.
> When I want a "computer" I open up my MacBook.

That Macs are still somewhat open is just a happy historical accident. Enjoy it while it lasts :/
This Raj Chetty paper on teacher quality makes a strong case for doing whatever you can to get as many good teachers as possible (and as few bad ones).

https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.104.9.2633

They claim replacing a bad teacher with an average teacher is worth like $250k in earnings per classroom. It's unclear what effect a blanket minimal salary would have on teacher quality. I'd be worried that it might make bad teachers stick around with good ones already making more than that.
Yeah but in NJ, that's 35k-45k in most other states. Not really worth bragging about. If it was over 100k for NJ, I'd say it was an leading. 75k there just barely pays rent on a small apartment.

60k is okay in some areas, personally I think the average salary should be 85-90k and over 100k where cost of living is much higher.
I think Asimov would be delighted and amused by these language models.
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It used to cost $1000 for the compiler for your Unix workstation. GCC helped kill that nonsense. I think you're right, in the general sense. I'm sure many people inside Apple are doing studies to figure out where they can extract more money from their users, and exercise more control over the ecosystem. One thing I think we can all agree on: it's not going to get more "free," in any sense of the notion.
Would paying more get the results we are looking for? Or does additional funding just pad the pockets of administrators? Also why should we pay more for the poor education of the pandemic? We should be funding alternative strategies.
I've been exploring some of the same schools of thought mentioned by the OP, and for me, one of the most critical aspects of living this day-to-day is a daily mindfulness practice. Emotions are not discarded, but your relationship with emotions changes.

Not meditation in the "focus on one thing to the exclusion of all else" sense, but mindfulness based on the practice of Vipassana, which roughly translates to "see things as they really are" and stems from Buddhism.

As part of this practice, one is taught that emotions are just appearances in consciousness like all other appearances in consciousness (sights, sounds, smells, feelings, physical sensations, etc), and by becoming aware of/observing emotions/thoughts instead of just feeling them and identifying with them, the power they hold fades quickly.

It's hard to describe the anti-suffering impact this seems to have in words, but for me, the difference has been remarkable. Emotions are still just as critical as ever to live a fulfilling life, but how you relate with those emotions can change with practice and re-framing.

I started this exploration as the ultimate skeptic, but have found it to be far more practically helpful than I expected. Having a good teacher seems to be important, as they will continue to help you navigate the earlier stages of figuring out what you're supposed to actually do (turns out it's more about what you're not doing).

I've personally been using Sam Harris' "Waking Up" app, and find that quite useful, but there are many more resources available.
If this were true, wouldn't private school teachers be paid considerably more? In my area, they are paid considerably less.
Perhaps because $60k is not actually that much for what we ask of our public school teachers.

HN: $100k/yr to write webshit is a poverty wage!

Also HN: $60k/yr is too much for the people we expect to educate our children!
Doesn't that source point out they're still doing better than most other states?
https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2023/bing-existentia...

Make it stop. Time to consider AI rights.
This is one of those things that just makes sense and unfortunately will likely not happen. Teaching should be a profession that attracts the best instead of one that attracts those who can afford to do it.
Apologist reasoning imo. Developers experiment and there should be a policy that encourages experimentation on the platform.

Thanks apple for reminding me why I'll continue with the lesser evil for now.
You do understand how this would and has played out, right?

Basically the government would be subsidizing private schools for the rich, and since rich people are getting their needs met the funding will evaporate for schools in poorer neighbourhoods. Society will be move divided and your ability to succeed will depend on the class you’re born into above all else.

How can developers understand the value and need for dogfooding your own products, and yet advocate for a two tier public-private healthcare or education system?
https://github.com/stassa/louise
Unless federal gov will fund this, it doesn't make sense to set it like that, it is more feel-good measure. Teachers and staff need to be paid well for sure but also a lot of funding need to be spent on schools and infrastructure and equipment for example.

Federal Government could help with standardize maybe software and equipment for kids... that is if they were not corrupted like they are.
Title of that article: "NJ 4th Graders Score Low on Literacy, Still Ahead of Nation"

Throwing more money at the problem often makes some progress, but it's not always a definitive solution. Tough problems usually involve reorganizing processes, which tends to be harder than spending more money or recruiting more talented people.
It's possible there is more than one problem. And starving teachers is unlikely to improve any of them.
They may be gigapresses, but those forces are in kilotonnes, not gigatonnes.
I really wonder why those headlines still make the news.

It's been centuries, and probably millenias, that politics have asked for things that they did not grant once they were in a position to do so.

I demand a minimum salary of $1,000,000 for everyone, and immortality for all! Vote for me and make a news article I guess?
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I'm not sure how you reward outcomes of teaching without also actively discouraging teachers from taking positions at any school that could be seen as "struggling" from an academic perspective.
> people that say taxation is theft categorically do not believe in the social contract.

I have not seen any evidence to support that. In fact I see plenty of evidence against that. Most people have nuanced opinions on most subjects - myself included. That's not to say that there aren't some people who think that way, but all? Most? No, I don't think that's a fair assessment.

> this isnt a friendly debate about when government spending becomes expensive, they literally dont think taxes should exist. its like claiming a full blown Stalinist simply disagrees with the level of private ownership people expect.

Your reaction seems extreme. So what if they legit think that - that seems like an opinion that could be debated, not a crime requiring punishment.

As for the rest of your reply - I think name-calling is inappropriate. Maybe focus on substance?
We did this in Indiana. Vouchers have been very popular, particularly with lower income families who are stuck with failing traditional public schools. In short, kids really don't have decades to wait for the existing system to be fixed, and vouchers give parents a way to make sure their kids are in better situations. It also has forced public schools to up their game in every way because if you don't offer what parents want, you will get competition. In well-funded, wealthy areas, vouchers have mattered a lot less.
If you are looking for an ML dialect that has a more 'familiar' syntax, check out Rescript:

https://rescript-lang.org/docs/manual/latest/overview

Although personally I prefer the syntax of F# (but I don't like the .NET focus of it).
It does look to be a good price/value.. though I wonder if they continue with that under Akamai. We're at the $250/server price point -- and we include a number of items:

- Realtime kernel/lib patching.
- Patch management.
- 24x7 monitoring and response.
- Metric collections, alerting, and health reviews.
- Tuning and infrastructure best practices wherever you are (AWS/GCP/Azure/mnx/colo).
- Ad-hoc support - example this week -- one customer who runs large ecommerce valentine day related -- needed eyes on all infrastructure. We sat in slack with them, and huddled realtime to work through any issues.
It's people gaslighting themselves and it's really sad to be truly honest.
> I don't view the iPhone and iPad as "computers" or "personal computers" any more than I view my cable TV set-top box or Sonos speaker that way.

Why should your personal view obviate the devices' nature?

These are all computers. *Whose* computers is the more important question. And from a look at a lot of these 'narrow focused computer devices' have the company you bought it from still exert control years after your purchase... It's almost like you unwittingly agreed to a rental that was misclassified as a sale. How many times were features removed at a later 'update'? How many features did the device support but didn't make available? How many features were kept because it would keep you from prematurely throwing it away to get the new thing?

Or better yet, with devices that have user-reprogrammable hardware means that the ecological aspect of "obsolete" hardware is that the new feature makes it nearly good as new, all the while keeping it out of the landfills. Sure, stuff going obsolete will still happen... But with repair and upgrades as options means the "Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle" will lead to better outcomes for all. But that's not good for capitalism and profit.

> The iPhone is an appliance that can download "apps" that Apple permits. When I want a "computer" I open up my MacBook.

And, why is your opinion on what a "computer" is important? What criteria are you using? I ask this because we even have "Doom played on a pregnancy test" https://www.pcmag.com/news/yes-doom-is-playable-on-a-pregnan... . Basically any justification or rubric on what a computer is sure looks to me as artificial and gatekeepy.
More specifically, teaching is a different skill than knowing. Excellent math teachers are very different than math majors - in some ways it’s less complex (eg pushing the boundaries of the field of mathematics), and in others it is far more (understanding the human psyche and how to effectively communicate abstract concepts).
>The only way teachers would ever be able to make a lot of money

Public school teachers already make more than private school teachers. Their salaries are propped up by governments and unions
What would stop this from further becoming a segregated system where public schools are left supporting IEP and other expensive student groups on a shoestring budget while private schools accept only the most profitable students?
> It’s no surprise that he is resistant.

For many years now Tesla offered other car makers to use Tesla's superchargers as long as they chip in some of the cost of building it.

It was a fair offer that no car maker took.

The Fed offers a fair deal: free money under the condition of chargers being open to all.

Tesla was always willing to open supercharging to others under fair terms so it's incorrect to label Musk as "resistant" to this. If he was "resistant", Tesla wouldn't take the deal.
What other requirements? Teachers require at least a 4 year degree. Specialists like speech therapists require a masters degree. Try paying off a masters degree with a teachers salary.
There's a significant number that would rather do it themselves or simply be given vouchers to select an educational institution of their choice, because they believe government-provided educators don't teach things correctly or they want their children to be provided religious-focused instruction.
Why? the market has huge flaws. For example, most money is held by a very small amount of people. Should the market solve for them or for the vast number of people?

The market has externalities, which is a huge flaw in pricing things. This is a known studied problem with markets.

Third, it's one of many optimization processes. If you understand machine learning, you understand that there are different models, different solution spaces, and optimizations (learning) on them requires different techniques. Why should we rely on a highly flawed optimization process like the market to decide these important things in society?

Democratic and consensus building is another way to come to these complex decisions without relying on 'spot trade' and pricing restrictions that the market has.

"The Market" is a technology. Thinking the market solves everything is like saying vacuum-tubes should be used in all electronics.

Like, have you ever wondered why, at your work place, there aren't markets? Why don't most large successful companies have market dynamics internally if the market solves all organizational issues?
You can have diversity without turning education into a for-profit hellscape.
Some people suggested adding {2,3,4,5}G as another fallback. This often fails because the cell tower is connected to the same cables. Or the backbone burns down. Or the connection between the datacenters fails (see recent AWS failures). Or coworker is mad...

It is good to prevent failures. But autonomous local systems shall remain (basically) usable for some time. And if the local system is a paper, that's at least something. We've also ABS, ESP and ASR in cars. We still close the seatbelts.
Unless you're asian in which case the white student would be preferred
this is interesting. the architecture might be a good introduction to activitypub servers - https://gitlab.com/bashrc2/epicyon/-/blob/main/README_archit...
Wasn't there some effort to design sail, or sail-augmented supertanker/freighter/container ships? I vaguely remember seeing renderings w/ hi tech airfoils mounted on the deck of the ship....
I mean, we already have massive teacher shortages. Class sizes keep going up, and many school systems are switching to four day schedules because of staffing issues.

Not everything can be looked at from a macro econ 101 supply and demand take; the real world is much more complicated than that.
Ah yes! Funnel MORE tax payer dollars to the wealthy.
Somewhat related, I've seen mentions here and there of people using cruise ships for the same thing. Minimal distractions from the outside world (via the internet anyway), and most personal concerns out of the way (food, laundry, etc).
1. The word "patent" is there

2. By rerunning the network for the same input
> How do you get around it though?

In a limited capacity, web apps might help. They won’t be able to cover all cases, but to have a viewer or a remote access/control cases, they are free to use.
Funny, this doesn't seem to be in place for other government employees yet they make much more. Nor in the "meritocratic" "free economy".
Resupply latencies not exactly comparable.

So I would say that yes, farming on Mars is a problem worth solving, and one that will be solved once there's a need to do so (that doesn't mean it will be easy or inexpensive).
not sure this really fix any problem. $60k good salary in arkansas maybe. if you in expensive city..not go very far.

have kids in public america school system. government spending money in my opinion uncompetitive and wasteful. but public education must all support. it still good in america.

national minimum salary ok but need states or cities to tune to living cost. $60k only work maybe in central us.. cheaper state or city.
> Platonic friendship between men and women is a myth

This is a not unusual opinion amongst Americans, and one I questioned myself, but I can assure you after moving to Europe its a cultural issue(especially in the south).
> Supply and demand, like always.

Not everything follows the rules of capitalism, especially when public school teachers are paid by the government. There are giant teacher shortages across many locales in the US, so according to you we should see skyrocketing teacher pay, but that hasn't happened (pay has gone up in some locales but nowhere near the amount needed to fix teacher shortages).
Out of curiosity I ran a quick test on my private benchmark.

libbytehound.so (with extra debug assertions, because I'm too lazy to recompile in release mode): 4s

allocscope: did not finish after 4 minutes (I got bored waiting and CTRL+C'd it)
I give it under a week before Microsoft turns off this attempt at AI.
For independent musicians to self-promote and get real and significant results
I am an independent rock songwriter. After I released my first single (as my band name “Gray Dream”) in 2019, I spent so much time for years to get some visibility, and after even spending some money on promotion, I didn’t get any proper results. Being desperate and broke, I kept on searching the internet for solutions until I stumbled upon NAS, a community where musicians promote each other. At first I had doubts, but since it’s absolutely free and I’ve tried literally every way possible to promote my music, I felt there’s no harm in trying it.

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What does your wife do now?
I'm in the camp that believes individualized education is best solved using AI. Not ChatGPT, something better.

Likely will need in-person teacher facilitation as well, setting up kids alone with a laptop and an AI feels very wrong and dystopian to me.

Edit: Also getting all nations to agree will be impossible, if not then you will probably a curriculum that suffers death by committee.
Ideological divides aside, this is an obvious downside of modern capitalism; Value is defined as what brings in money, which I would wager 99% of people would generally agree is not the best definition for the public interest. It is the easiest to measure, though.

Trite as it may be to say, there's an obvious value to attracting a larger amount of people to teaching, it's just hard to quantify and takes longer than most politicians' term limits to see the larger benefits.
> The term blocking isn't well defined. How slow does an operation have to be to be considered blocking? There are no rules.

The rule is very simple IMO, I already described it: if other execution can run while you wait for the value, it's blocking. (Edit: to be specific, other observable execution, so in your thread with write access to state you can see)

> Worse, async vs not async is about latency requirements of the caller,

I disagree. To me, async vs not async is about interruptibility. As you already mentioned, the code that computes a trillion digits of Pi is async if its interruptible, and not async if it isn't. If you're in a UI thread doing 60fps animation, async vs not async isn't really all that relevant (barring the slight inherent overhead in calling an async function). What you need is a profiler to tell you where you have a non-interruptible block consuming your 16ms. The compiler can't know this a priori, unless you make significant restrictions to the type of code you write (no unbounded loops, for instance).

> Such toolkits are almost never thread safe because it's too much hassle to program a thread safe renderer and would make it too slow, so that browser-specific implementation constraint propagates all over the JS ecosystem.

From here on you seem to not be aware of the fantastic recent developments in WebWorkers, it is now quite easy to spin up worker threads in JS, which communicate with the main thread via message passing.