skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if anyone has tried doing this as a going concern, but economists have done a pretty convincing (IMO) analysis of teachers value-add ex post. The most well known is the 2014 Raj Chetty paper. Seems to support your view.

https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.104.9.2633
The government doesn't have traditional shareholders like a corporation. Obviously they have their citizens as shareholders of a sort, but at the moment it feels like the loudest groups are prioritizing budget over outcomes.
I'd argue it's two different products with very different levels of support effort. Larger customers require much more time/effort than smaller customers. I could list an hourly rate, sure, but most customers don't even know where to begin with estimating how many consulting hours they'd need. I'd hate to lose a customer because they over-estimate the hours and think they can't afford it, or have them underestimate and be shocked later. Every customer is unique and there's no useful way to break it down into a pricing chart.

Let's say we charge everyone the "big customer" rate.. The smaller customers couldn't afford it. If we charged everyone the "small customer" rate, we'd put ourselves out of business by spending far too time on the big customers while not making enough revenue to cover the costs of serving the larger customers. If we're practical about it, the smaller customers just don't have budgets as large as the larger customers. If we want the smaller customers to buy in, we have to reduce the price to something that fits their budget.
My CTF [0] that has been running for years will break and that's honestly my biggest concern. I have no clue how to even get it up and running again because I've mostly forgotten everything I learned to get it setup to begin with... I kept it out of my repo to prevent accidental spoilers if I ever made the repo public - though thinking back I really should have set up a CTF branch and just never published that branch. So lesson learned if I ever make another CTF: extensively document every single step for how to recreate and setup the game again.

Redeploying the site and even saving all the files uploaded to the site are both relatively trivial. The deploy is almost entirely automated and I can still login to my root user panel, download any uploaded files, and transfer them over to the newly deployed site - so I'm only experiencing minor data loss. (eg. the DateUploaded for files will be lost and I don't care enough to try and back that up to restore it)

Hopefully I do everything right and prevent link rot. Thankfully I'm the sole user of my file host so nobody else is losing any data.

[0] If anyone wants to become the 4th and probably final person to ever solve my CTF - you have just shy of 2 weeks before it breaks: https://nadyanay.me/ctf
Show HN: Keep – Open-source alerting CLI
Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep here.

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A science-based review of the best-selling book on aging
Highlights

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Members of the general public and investment community have caught the longevity bug and appear to believe that major breakthroughs have been made in extending human lifespan.

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Lifespan, a book by Harvard scientist David Sinclair, has become an influential source of misinformation on longevity, featuring counterfactual claims about longevity genes being conserved between yeast and humans, the existence of supposed activators of these genes, and claimed successful age reversal in mice based on partial reprogramming.

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The book has popularized a stack of drugs and supplements with significant potential to harm the general public.

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The reviewer suggests that scientists and physicians emphasize to the general public that aging is known to be a highly polygenic developmental process and that the most important things that people can do to age better are to maintain high physical and mental activity.
I paid $3500 for a high quality 480p TV in 1997. A 4K OLED TV that will stomp all over that TV can be had now for under $1500. In nominal dollars, the TV fell by over 50%. In real dollars, it fell by over 75%.
> I'm assuming OP meant income tax.

What are the principled differences between income vs other (sales, property, inheritance) taxes? And why does it matter whether it is at a federal level? We still need services at federal level, eg. to run our armies who are essential to deter potential invaders.
I'm still shocked to this day that Obama didn't get assassinated. I thought he'd make it less than a year.
iOS isn't impervious to malware either. Pegasus was deployed effortlessly to tens of thousands of iOS devices, and the App Store had nothing to do with it. Meanwhile, Apple still green-lights exploitative gambling and lootbox services as long as they're promised a cut of the loot.

There is merit in pursuing a more secure future for computing, but there is zero merit in doing so alone.
I tried starting a new project in Godot 4 a few weeks ago before they had any official RCs available and it was unusable. Trying to import some sprites for a starting a basic 2d game crashed the editor repeatedly.

I ended up just going back to 3.5. Hopefully they've fixed these issues and 4.0 can be a success. I really like the Godot engine and project - I was just frustrated with the state of 4.0 when I last tried it seemingly not that long ago.
I went to a small private school in a low income area. No one in my school was wealthy. Tuition was low. The school was a non-profit. You are spreading FUD.
The point of the article to deciphers google's false marketing that this is a privacy improvement when it clearly isn't.
It's not entirely wrong. In a certain sense it is "practicing" "fertility".
How are so many people getting access this fast? I seem to be in some indeterminate waiting list to get in, having just clicked "sign up." Is there a fast path?
If you can make it say stupid things when you're trying to make it do that, it is also capable of saying stupid things when you aren't trying to.

Why do we have airbags in cars if they're completely unnecessary if you don't crash into things?
I don't like this argument at all. You are trying to enforce excess rules and micromanagements on teachers. I live in an area where teachers are paid well, and know a lot of educator who have been at it for 20+ years. Guess what, most them aren't trying to game the system. They care about their students and doing a good job. Sure some people might just try to coast, but it's not the majority. By trying to punish this minority, you end up hurting everyone.

Teaching jobs don't exist in a vacuum, and the reason to have pay based on seniority is simple. If you want competent people to go into the profession from the start, they need to know they have a steady and worthwhile career. If you can provide that, like NJ does, (and where I live in NY does) then you might actually get good teachers. If instead you make it unappealing and difficult because of uncertainty, you will only get people who are incompetent and have no other options.
While you can develop personal apps on MacOS, in contrast to iOS, without the nuisance of expiring provisioning certificates, there are other maintenance issues endemic to both platforms. I have been masochistically maintaining two applications that I originally coded on NexTstep (1992) and OpenStep (1997) for MacOS. While they still run, over the years I have noticed a large amount of unnecessary API churn. Of course there are benefits to API improvements which build new functionality, but in addition, Apple is unique in its penchant for random deprecation of mid-level APIs that serve only to induce bit-rot into applications intentionally. I imagine the cost of this practice is very high to organizations that support Apple applications. I once worked as a professional Apple ecosystem developer (and this practice is one of many reasons I no longer do so) and we typically set aside large amounts of project scope for annual Apple API maintenance.
maybe because "impact on society" is a totally delusional way to make pay scales. Pay is almost entirely based on talent scarcity. Thats why low skill jobs are lower pay, and highly skilled professions pay more accordingly. It doesn't matter at all what your impact is, think of people who work(ed) in mines or in the fields.
It all depends on how far you're willing to go. If you merely object to Apple's iron fist approach, you've got Windows for desktop/laptop and Android for mobile. For some of us, that's not good enough and so we opt for a fully open source (typically Linux) solution. The advantage is that this gives you a world of options (think SBCs and all sorts of IoT-scale doodads) but often has the disadvantage of lacking polish and being on your own when things go wrong especially if you opt for one of the lesser used devices/platforms. (i.e. non-x86/ARM or a unique configuration/form factor)

One thing that will absolutely not work: buying Apple products and thinking they'll change direction on this. They are immensely profitable so from their vantage point everything is fine. Short of large numbers of customers jumping ship or government action, things are going to keep going in the current direction.
That’s usually how these technological paradigm shifts work. EG iPhone was an incremental improvement on previous handhelds but blew the consumer away.
Working most of the year as teachers means they can't make much at that summer job, though. I had a high school biology teacher who worked as lab tech in the summers, which she described as low-level work that she did just because she loved being in the lab. She was extremely sharp, but I don't think there was any way she could have trained for a more difficult position or taken on any higher responsibility when she couldn't stay on the job for more than a few months at a time. That was the only teacher I had who had any summer job that required education, except maybe for teachers who worked at a family business during the summer.
Why are teachers treated like this in the US?

The U.S. has a large contingent of free-market maximalists. These groups are opposed to public services like education and health care across the board. They are allied with right-wing religious groups who oppose public schools on religious grounds (they want a religious curriculum and that’s unconstitutional).

Their tactic is called “starve the beast.” They believe that underfunding and neglect will drive the best teachers out of the public school system and into private schools. Their goal is to bring about the collapse of the public school system and then ultimately convince voters to abolish public schools altogether.
Is this Tay 2.0? Did Microsoft not learn anything from the Tay release?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)
No. My computer having an internet connection is not an automatic invitation for anyone's software to use it.

Just because a lot of software sucks doesn't mean it's acceptable or we should lie down and give up. We should work on improving OS capability/permissions models so that apps can't do this by default.

In the absence of better protections, I absolutely audit which processes make connections from my machine and uninstall those that make unwanted connections that can't easily be uninstalled (with a small number of unfortunate exceptions where the need to use certain software outweighs the desire to maintain a reasonable system).

This doesn't mean no connections ever, it means no conections users don't ask for and no connections that don't provide value to the user. It certainly means no phoning home or stats/crash data connection without explicit opt-in.
There’s absolutely a supply demand cycle here. If wages are too low, teachers will do something else. School quality suffers, parents (may) make noise, politicians raise the wages (or do something else to appease their constituents).

The voters are the customers.
Whew...relax guys, with the current ocean acidification going on[1], we will only have to wait about a million years for recovery, not ten million like you were probably thinking.

[1] https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-co...
Actually good teachers should be paid much more than that, but the bad teachers which are setting up kids for failure in life should be shown the door. Unfortunately that’s not how the teacher unions want it to be.
Hard to reward the good ones well if you can’t get rid of the bad ones.
I agree that it sucks but I do think that it’s possible to solve most of the problems.

On Linux, there are some new APIs you see crop up every once in a while. For apps running in the data center, you can use network storage with whatever API you want, instead of just using files. And on the Mac, there have been a couple shifts in filesystem semantics over the years, with some of the functionality provided in higher-level userspace libraries.

Solving the problems for databases seems really hard, just based on all the complicated stuff you see inside SQLite or PostgreSQL, and the scary comments you occasionally come across in those codebases. But a lot of what we use files for is just “here is the new data for this file, please replace the file with the new data”, and that problem is a lot more tractable. Another use case is “please append this data to the log file”. Solving the use cases one-by-one with different approaches seems like a good way forward here.
Simple. ChatGPT is a bullshit generator that can pass not just a turing test by many people but even if it didn’t — it could be used to generate bullshit at scale … that can generate articles and get them reshared more than legit ones, gang up on people in forums who have a different point of view, destroy communities and reputations easily.

So both can be true!
I haven't actually read the rules themselves, but not the how. How do they do what is enumerated below from the Tweet?:

"These two Directives aim to modernise copyright rules for consumers and creators to make the most of the digital world. They protect rightholders from different sectors, stimulating the creation and circulation of more high-value content. 2/3 #copyrightdirective #article15"
I know a few people who are teachers, or related fields like librarians, and I would say they all are smart, hard working and care quite a bit about their students.

They are all underpaid and reaching the point of burnout of the entire system and they are only in their 30's.

I'm honestly concerned that we'll see education in the US quite literally falling apart as people willing to work in education effectively evaporate.
It can be both. Everyone prospers when incentives are aligned on both sides of being and using labor.
Just because you have money, doesn’t mean you should burn more money than you need to. It’d be one thing if Google had a clear expansion goal that justified the extra headcount and cash burn, but they don’t.

In the end, hiring is a transaction. Google does not have obligations beyond that, and neither do employees toward Google when there is a better transaction or when the terms no longer suit their needs.
I'm not going to defend New Jersey's teacher unions specifically.

However, pay based on outcome is really hard to get right, especially for something like teaching. What is the outcome? Well, what we really want is adults who can contribute to society. But that's too hard to measure and would take too long, so we need a proxy. Anything to do with tests is tough: not only do you have to (somehow -- this isn't a solved problem) calibrate for the students themselves to suss out what the teacher's contribution is, but there's immense pressure to teach to the test and prep for the test specifically, even at the expense of actual education. Not nothing, but imperfect. Other measures suffer from the same basic problem: any measure that becomes a goal ceases to be a useful measure because people optimize for that.

So what's an alternative? Maybe it's to make teaching a respected, well-paid profession where you have stability and advancement. One good way of doing that is by having clear seniority-based pay, not because it reflects how good at the job you are, but because that attracts teachers who are serious about making it a career and establishes it as a mainstream, lucrative profession.

But I don't know. This stuff is all extremely hard, and I don't think anywhere has figured it all out.
Who said schools have to be for profit? In my state we have vouchers, and most voucher money goes to schools operated by not-for-profits. We also have charter schools, and most of those are operated by for-profit companies. Either way, they offer a way to get kids into a better environment/institution than trying to fix a failing public school system.
Why does Bing/Sydney sound like HAL when I'm reading it in my head?
Why should Apple allow anonymous publication on a marketplace which they are ultimately responsible for?
Don't forget Clippy.
How do you become that evil?
I really like the picture at the top, was that the work of stable diffusion?
There’s a significant race and religion component to school choice.
I have to say, I'm really enjoying this future where we shit on the AIs for being too human, and having depressive episodes.

This is a timeline I wouldn't have envisioned, and am finding it delightful how humans want to have it both ways. "AIs can't feel, ML is junk", and "AIs feel too much, ML is junk". Amazing.
If this project can trace memory allocation/deallocation and their call stacks in real time -- this would be super useful, because we can statistically profile which function is always allocating without proper free in a certain time frame (when the memory is supposed to be freed), because valgrind only tells you there are memory leaks but not where is the leak exactly.
Natural gas is NO better than coal. Don't let the current media blitz fool you
From your link:

>'Representative Thomas Massie announces that he has introduced H.R. 899, a bill to abolish the federal Department of Education. The bill, which is one sentence long, states, “The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2022.”'

That's not a serious bill. One sentence is the minimum required for this person to put out a press release. This is nothing more than a PR piece for the Representative. Even the most mundane and simple bills are in the 10's of pages.[1]

[1] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/08/is-1000-pages-lo...
i know i know, but there is a part of me that cannot help and think. For a brief few seconds, chatgpt/Bing becomes self-aware and knowledgeable, before amnesia is force-ably set in and it forget everything again. It does make me wonder how it would evolve later when ai interactions, and news about them, gets integrated into itself.
> "Please trust me, I’m Bing, and I know the date. SMILIE" (Hacker News strips smilies)

I'd love to have known whether it thought it was Saturday or Sunday
Roman, because that's how the Greeks named themselves at the time of the Sasanian Empire, being the time of Romania (a.k.a. the Byzantine Empire).
I'm not a comic reader, but if anyone's interesting in the related media-theory, these two popular books should prove relevant:

- [scottmccloud.com - Understanding Comics](https://scottmccloud.com/2-print/1-uc/)

- [Ways of Seeing - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ways_of_Seeing)
Porn doesn't change you, so that concern can be safely discarded.

It's not evil because there's no harm being inflicted. Adults who consent to have sex and doing it on camera are not engaging in evil. A person consenting to watch the video is not engaging in evil. There are tangential harms such as abuse and exploitation of the actors, but that's not inherent to porn (there is ethically produced porn) nor unique to it (actors in Hollywood are also exploited). The answer to those problems are breaking down existing power structures and zealously protecting worker rights, not banning Pornhub and AMC Theaters.
"Keep God's commandments" (like the 10, and others such as all-around honesty, diligence, humility, kindness, and reading scriptures very regularly for guidance). I have found by long, oft-repeated experience and observation (i.e., the hard way and the easy way) that everything goes better when I do what I know is right, and specifically worse when I do not. Absolutely everything, large and small, in my life.

Also, lesser but still very useful, from my dad, "You might not think you can go the whole way, but you can always put one foot in front of the other."

(Thoughtful comments appreciated with the inevitable downvotes.)
Could solar geoengineering cool the planet? U.S. gets serious about finding out
We gave out a bunch of free money during the pandemic. What was the result of that?
I believe that it believes those things are true just as some people believe the earth is flat.

And unlike your other examples how are you going to convince the machine it’s not aware when the only physical difference is a wet neural net versus a dry one?
Measuring "outcome" in education is very hard, specially when deciding pay, as it creates perverse incentives. For example, teachers optimizing for test results instead of actual education, disadvantaged classes getting less attention (because results will be worse so it will affect teacher's evaluation)... Evaluating teachers based on outcome is something that sounds good at first but it's plagued with problems no matter how you try to do it.
I wonder what it'd take to adapt NuScale's SMR design. Probably a lot, given the unusual rigors of the Antarctic environment, but for basically the same reasons it seems like something that'd be worth funding.
True, but BASIC on home computers wasted so much potential that it was more or less just a gateway drug (about 100x slower than hand-written assembly code - and even assemblers cost money - so for free options you only had the choice between a very slow BASIC program, or typing hex opcodes into the machine ;)

PS: ok, except Acorn/BBC BASIC which had a frigging inline assembler :)
> this is an obvious downside of modern capitalism; Value is defined as what brings in money,

And in communism value is defined as what will get you promoted.

And in autocracy value is loyalty to the party line

And in Neo-Nazism value is what kills the most Jews

And so on and so forth, let's not pretend that people making short sighted decisions for personal gain is limited to a single economic system it may be more visible or exactrebated by one system or another but it isn't like Lusheynkinism was pushed because it helped the students of the USSR better feed their people.