skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the sequel to playful error messages (https://alexwlchan.net/2022/no-cute/), this past decade my hate for malfunctioning software has started transcending the machine and reaching far away to the people who mock me for it.
If the goal was to get rid of mostly older (40+) year old employees who had families and didn't want to move, sure. Since the pandemic they have allowed most people to work remote, some are on a hybrid 1-3 days in the office schedule and they are supposedly planning on trying to tell everyone to start coming to the office full time in April. They lost a lot of elderly employees at the end of 2022 due to retirement plan changes that encouraged many to retire early and they're probably about to do another big layoff in March. They still haven't returned to a geo-centralized skill strategy. AT&T has been unloading real-estate since before the pandemic, they are consolidating into 6 data centers down the dozens they currently have. If they get a bunch of stealth layoffs out of the deal, they're quite happy with that.
This is the engine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivchenko_AI-20
Then they get a summer job. I remember an elementary school teacher from when I was a kid who was a park ranger in the summer.
Not the first time MS releases an AI into the wild with little guardrails. This is not even the most questionable AI from them.
Well, that has been a thing since eliza https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
This is a great idea, but I think the execution isn’t great. It would be good to focus less on interests and more on aptitudes.

For example, my old landlord was a salesperson for a company that sold industrial pumps. He was good at it because he had crazy charisma, could remember specs for entire catalogs of equipment, was good looking, was funny, and was a great listener. I think with his skills and presence, he could sell anything and he will never be out of work. At this point in his career, I bet he actually is interested in sales and how deals are made but when he was starting out it was just a job that happened to suit his skills.
Even better, "we're like Google" except they give you a blank stare where you ask about the 20% time, free food, compensation or where they hire from. Turns out it's all bootcamp/local wages no stock, no 20% time. But hey, they have beanbag chairs!
Ask HN: Open-source work from free to getting paid
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34780859 (Core-JS)

Always admire anyone who contributed to the open source community.

There have been tons of discussion on FOSS and pay on the works that's bee done on HN.

Without FOSS, the development of software, startups and big techs won't be imaginable.

How to make free and high-quality open source work sustainable?

If some firms benefit from open source project and need a more specific sets of features, they can pay the contributors under some agreement.

How many organizations are just doing that?
I used Newsboat as a feed reader for some time, but I wanted to be able to access my feeds on my phone and other devices. I created Rag with Supabase, React and Go, using go-readability to bypass paywalls you'd otherwise encounter opening articles from your feed, and instead allowing you to read the article in-app.

You can find the repo here: https://github.com/knightspore/rag

Welcoming any suggestions, contributions, or reviews!
> It’s $99 for your entire organization for a year.

This seems reasonable when you look from the point of view of a corporation. But hobbyists are single individuals, not corporations. So this basically makes development a privilege for corporations or for people in the first world for whom $99 is nothing.
Not American, so a couple of questions:

1. Is it normal for teachers to have alternative income for the days they don't work?

2. Sounds like the term "six figures" has a special meaning other than just being in the range 100.000 - 999.999? It appears like there is a connotation that it is a special things to achieve in your life.

3. Taking inflation into account, shouldn't it soon be normal to earn that amount (when including pensions and benefits like health, which I know is expensive).
Teachers do more work outside of their standard hours than most other professions. I dated a teacher for a long time and she worked much harder for her public school salary (waking up at 6am, prepping, lesson planning, grading, chasing up kids who aren't making it to school, dealing with social workers, etc.), than I do for my cushy six-figure tech job salary.

Besides, why shouldn't teachers make six-figures? Why are teachers treated like this in the US?
Integrity is as important as it has always been. While you can certainly have a successful career or business that is lacking it, how much integrity you are perceived as having has an enormous influence on it.

If you are viewed as lacking, you will largely be restricted to doing business with people and companies who are also lacking because others won't give you the time of day.
> Just because a company's gouging and gatekeeping has a side effects of keeping the great unwashed masses away, doesn't mean it's the right thing.

And yet, in a world filled with actors with malicious intent - cybercriminals, spammers, secret services, dark spyware vendors, scammers cashing in on "popular" brands or sometimes outright cloning applications - it is the only way to enforce some honesty.

I don't like it either, but I do not see an alternative.
I think all of this is just a symptom of the fundamental problem - Google employees have been told they're special and coddled so much they believe it. They genuinely think they are inherently superior to the rest of us - either customers or even just other practitioners at other companies.

I saw a talk about an upstream change to submodule initialization in Git being made by a Google engineer and she was asked about the specifics of how submodules ordering would work for the default use case. Her response boiled down to "I don't know, how we do it is we <XYZ> and we're more interested in our use case".
Scaledn: Promote EDN as a far better alternative to JSON in Scala
I've developed a little app (mostly for myself). After one week, I encountered the same and was a bit annoyed.

I'm waiting now for the new EU regulation that should open the apps store. I hope this also includes side-loading self-compiled apps.

One remark in favor of Apple: They provide a pretty good dev. environment. So a fee for distributing something could be acceptable.
Tesla knows that if they don’t take it voluntarily, the govt (well, big auto lobbyists) will switch from carrot to stick. That’s just how it works when someone writes a law and you know they have you in mind specifically.
My philosophy is that Apple can do whatever they want (as long as legal and ethical).

They made a thing, and you bought it.

Why would anyone with a bent on free computing walk into what they know to be a closed ecosystem. Just buy an Android phone. It’s like flying to a foreign country and expecting everyone to English to you imo…
Dang, I try to behave, I really do. That little quip so clearly suggested itself it would have been physically uncomfortable not to make it. I will re-read the guidelines today and redouble my efforts.
Everyone keeps quoting Rick & Morty, but this is basically a rehash of Marvin the Paranoid Android from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams.

Dan Harmon is well-read.
Ron has such a weird mix of being the only guy willing to state the obvious and being completely unhinged. Like he's willing to state that curved screens and camera notches and no headphone jack are stupid, but he also consistently says whatever Pixel is newest is the best android phone ever despite usually not being more than 72 hours away from Ars Technica posting a story about whatever batshit insane hardware fault the Pixel is currently suffering from.
Good?

If you want maths taught by actual maths grads, then you will need six figure salaries to attract them.
The citation is his own experience (and mine) and "doing the right thing" from whose perspective? All that matters is Apple's.
Amusingly, I don't think the Latin Kings are active in Des Moines - but there is a restaurant coincidentally named The Latin King.
> There is a major difference between "this thing we have to do in order to hit our target 2% inflation rate may unfortunately increase unemployment" and "the fed wants layoffs"

I don't think that is a major difference to someone who is laid off because of intentional decisions that the fed makes to effect an outcome, knowing that layoffs will be a consequence.
Instead, allow for a voucher system where parents can apply the equivalent amount of money the public school spends and apply it towards private schools. Make it easy for teachers to start their own school or coop to compete for vouchers. Definitely a pipe dream but it might work.
If BMW started the heated seat subscription over 15 years ago, would people still be complaining today?
I just tried GrapheneOS yesterday. Installation on my new phone was a breeze, but once I was in, there was... Nothing. The "Apps" app, which I assumed was an alternative to the Google Play store, had literally nothing except a link to install Google Play services.

So I installed that and the Play store, which, due to GrapheneOS's sandboxing, was probably better than the stock Android. But it didn't even work well. Plenty of apps I tried to install wouldn't. After about 3hrs of playing with it, I said "fuck it," and flashed the stock Android back onto the phone.

I really want to switch, but that was far too much work.
A client of mine has used Linode for several years, increasing from 2 low end VMs when I first started with them, to the current 8 machines (well technically it's 13 right now but the 5 extras are because of their network migration breaking stuff and us needing to setup new VMs)

Not completely because of, but definitely somewhat because of the buyout, my client has agreed they should diversify and we're going to adapt it from a fault-tolerant single location (i.e. right now there are no SPOFs for them except the DC itself going dark), to three independent locations, with less fault tolerance per DC, but greater overall resilience.

One location will probably stay with Linode, but the other two definitely won't be Linode (they'll almost certainly each be a different vendor).

The benefit for us is that adopting multiple (individually) lower-resilience locations means we can be less picky about the host for a given location, because we're not using as many "advanced" features at each location, due to the vastly reduced complexity at the individual DCs.

Vultr and Digital Ocean *seem* like the obvious "Linode type services but not Linode" vendors, but neither seem to have a fantastic reputation from what I've seen.

OVH and Hetzner seem like two alternatives that may be worth checking out more, but they both seem to have an almost-intentionally complex service offering list, and it's hard to tell if some fairly basic things are available with plain VPS services (e.g. private IP addresses).
For a pixel I would highly recommend GrapheneOS
They have pretty well given up on eliminating the DoE. Instead, they're just gutting education and getting the money through "school choice" like vouchers and public funding for religious/private schools.

Why kill the beast when you can milk it?
Yeah not really it basically just says "somebody sent you a protected message, click here to read the message"
I am not american, but both my parents were teachers, and they absolutely worked all year round, and longer than 8hr days. There are such a things as lesson plans, and marking homework, and being asked to do extra work such as editing the school paper, or coaching basketball, or whatever.

This idea that teachers work the same hours they are physically inside school and nothing else is laughable.

Though regardless, entry level software developers in the united states get six figures out of the gate, so it seems remarkably reasonable.
Teachers do create massive amounts of value for the society at large, so that would likely be very appropriate
“The two parties are the same, it doesn’t matter who you vote for”
It would increase the privacy of Google products if they blocked third-party tracking on their devices. It would be more private still if Google didn't do their own tracking but that is still a separate point.
Two things I appreciate about this:

- He is considering the conflicting needs of different people rather than just hyping his personal vision.

- He is discussing the changes ahead of time, explaining what is changing and why, rather than just silently dropping the new version on everyone and telling us to deal with it.

If only more orgs would do these things.
Do you realize how dystopian that is?
Answering #2, six figures refers to the number of digits in your paycheck, so 100k+

Lmao the downvotes are hilarious. I literally am explaining something the parent comment wanted to know. They didn't even have the bit about "100.000-999.999" when this comment was posted, as evidenced by another person quoting the original comment and the commenter saying they clarified the question.
What company are you at now, if you don't mind me asking?
I am by no means an expert. The way I think about it, gradient descent is a shotgun learning approach, whereas comparatively speaking a parent/guardian/teacher/peer is able to pinpoint with precise accuracy how you are doing something wrong, why it is wrong, how to change, and how much to change. The evolutionary learning argument doesn't pass the smell test for me, but when you consider that society and human to human interaction itself has evolved combined with our ability to communicate an idea, you get faster learning. I think ChatGPT etc. has proper idea representation, but not segmentation or communication. In other words, it is not capable of proper idea retrieval, or of restructuring its architecture of ideas. I think we are stuck on this idea of a mono-training loop when even humans subscribe to at least two training loops (dreaming). I think the reason we haven't gotten results in that area yet is that we are way too focused on iterative optimization schemes (gradient descent). Like I said though, I am not an expert, I might just be hallucinating the state of ML research.
Which is crazy because a lot of the stuff I built out initially on DigitalOcean was due to reading the excellent tutorials. I appreciate your efforts.
Yes, I think that might be a good idea.

It would normalize sex and make the idea of being ashamed of how we look naked outdated.

At a minimum this seems like something that would result in some interesting science papers.
Exactly, the real reason that people don't want to realize is that the $99 is not to keep garbage out of the store, it is to take the $99 per year from each developer in the world.
It doesn't, but that's not the point. Apple shares that viewpoint and they set the rules. If you want a tablet you can run Linux on, then the iPad isn't the tablet for you.
1. Yes a lot of teacher have different summer jobs.
2. Means at least 100,000
3. Yes, it should be normal.
Great! They deserve it.
I think the key is the Volt was designed to be a great plug in hybrid from the start. The C-Max had an ICE only, standard hybrid, and plug-in hybrid version. Our plug-in literally had two separate high voltage batteries. Half the cargo bay was just a carpeted box full of batteries.

It was also terribly engineered. Plugging the car into the wall didn't top off the 12V battery and whatever mechanism it used to do so was inadequate so you'd go out in the morning to a stone dead car quite often. The number of recalls was insane, though we got a lot of free oil changes out of that as the dealer usually threw them in free during recall services.

First and last Ford I'll ever buy.
So many people run around thinking that they are the exception.
Aw, so young and it already knows the golden rule.

Good job, impressive non-sentient simulation of a human conversation partner.
Asjusted to inflation, 100k today are worth about as much as 60k two years ago.
About 30% of the energy that goes to power my car comes from renewable sources such as wind and solar. Another 10% comes from nuclear. A little over 40% comes from mostly combined cycle natural gas plants. Slightly less than 20% comes from coal.

On top of that, because of the efficiency of my car and the plants running, I get the equivalent energy usage of about 100MPG for an ICE.

The break even emissions on my car including manufacturing given this kind of mix is within a few years. If I drive the car for 5+ years (most likely), it'll be way lower emissions than my ICE driving for 5+ years. Meanwhile in the next 5+ years, chances are the mix of renewables will increase. Maybe even nuclear. Chances are the coal plants will close soon though.
Seek people that you consider smarter than yourself and spend time with them.

Everyone is stupid in their own way, including me, including you, once you realize that you won't be bothered anymore.
Why shouldn't teachers make six figures? I mean after all, half the people here just put buttons on websites and get paid six figures.
It creates the potential for unexpected support consequences and brand destruction.

For example, say I run a sketchy reseller operation that buys old or refurbished Apple equipment and load an iOS-ish/macOS-ish custom unix (and then falsely market it as an "Apple product"). For all intents and purposes, it may look exactly like an official Apple OS, but it isn't.

The untrained eye is oblivious to the differences and now, assuming the "sell" was that that person got an Apple device for cheap from some random seller, Apple now has the potential burden of supporting that. Considering their potential market is in the millions who might be duped by this, by allowing this one little change, they just introduced a support burden that nukes their profit.
It might work in doing what exactly?
I'm in NJ where we value public education, for the most part. According to National Center for Education Statistics our average teacher pay was $77,489 in 2022. This is excluding benefits/pension.

Well worth it.
Perhaps it's not within the capabilities provided by the OS or the driver, because they're "well behaved", but the position of the switch is in essence a boolean sent to the host device and not a barrier to electrical signals that would write data.
Thiel's artificial ocean island nation needs to be supplied, right?
Oh, this is so me. When I'm looking for a new position, the main thing I'm looking for is a position where I'll have to be learning new skills.

The pay rate ranks third or fourth on my list of important considerations.
There was a somewhat recent change that "on-device testing" only requires a regular Apple Id account (and you even get the privilege to report bugs for free to Apple! /s).

Only works for up to 8 apps per device installed at the same time (which sucks for my case because I have dozens of small demos to test).

But yeah, those "on device testing apps" expire pretty fast if I remember correctly (I mostly just debug on the simulator these days).

Also see (search for "Benefits and resources": https://developer.apple.com/support/compare-memberships/
So.... Bing is more like AI Dungeon, instead of boring ChatGPT. That certainly makes me want to use Bing more to be honest.
Let's say you are from Egypt (~$1400 median income) or South Africa (~1600). You have already saved for a long time to get a used iPhone for $100. It might be possible with enough effort but you can't say it's not a big barrier.
Apple can absolutely do whatever they want, until regulators block them off from the market for anticompetitive or anticonsumer practices. Then their profit motivation kicks in again, and they have to lick boots until they're on the government's good side again.

If you want an adversarial narrative between Apple and the people, you'll find no greater supporter than me. Europe seems to disagree with Apple's philosophy though, so maybe it's time they reassess their opinions.
Also, Aswath Damodaran has (among loads of other teaching material) a crash course into accounting just enough to get by when reading financial statements:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbp3-AU9v_g&list=PLUkh9m2Bor...
That's a tiring argument that's reiterated every time teacher pay is involved. Most teachers also don't get the luxury of working 9-5, they have to do additional planning and grading outside of hours. Also, if you want to compare with the private sector, there are teachers in the private sector who make more.
Is it more important to have perfectly tracked projects or projects which
ship 20% faster?

It's far more important to have perfectly tracked projects. A perfectly tracked project which is guaranteed to deliver on a particular day is gold. It makes planning for the rest of the organization much easier.

To use a programming analogy, it's like the difference between latency and jitter for real-time systems. Many real-time systems will happily sacrifice considerable amounts of average latency, in order to minimize jitter. It's far better to have a process that completes in 200 ms every single time than it is to have a process that completes in 2ms most of the time, but, occasionally takes 2000ms.

Similarly, from a managerial perspective, it's far better to have a team that gives you good visibility, allowing you to plan for a completion date (even if that date is farther into the future than you'd like) than it is to have a team that mostly finishes projects quickly, but occasionally bogs down and takes a year to finish a project that was initially estimated at two months.

The problem is that far too many organizations have neither. They don't have visibility, and they finish projects late. For these organizations, your dichotomy is a false one — better tracking is how they will ship faster.
What a world would we live in if Bernie Sanders won those 2016 elections...
It's incremental between gpt2 and gpt3 and chatgpt. For people in the know, it's clearly incremental. For people out of the know it's completely revolutionary.
Its even worse, its not replacing current tracking!

> On Android, the Privacy Sandbox tracking is in addition to all the usual individual tracking methods; it's not being pitched as an alternative to anything. The Privacy Sandbox on Android is toothless, and Google has no plans to reduce tracking on Android.
Fastly is great.
What a dystopian education system that would be.
No one needs a math grad to teach 3rd grade math. That would be a huge waste of money and expertise.
> 2. Sounds like the term "six figures" has a special meaning?

Six figures simply refers to a salary with six digits (i.e. in excess of $100,000). This is nearly double the median income so "six figures" is often just used to mean "a lot of money."
> That time has has already been spent, because you hired React developers. They will be fastest by pulling in React.

I'm not entirely convinced that this is true, either. At least not in some general, a priori, way.

Doing stuff "the right way" with React or any other framework probably still involves a fair amount of ceremony, boilerplate, and testing. Would your hypothetical React dev be faster with React than some other framework? Probably--if that other framework is similar in scope and complexity. But, otherwise, I just wouldn't assume that an expert in FrameworkX will always do better using FrameworkX without regard to the specifics of the project.
People working year round is dystopian?
That's the problem, they don't want kids to actually learn. They view teachers as glorified babysitters.
Photos of girls enjoying in an EDM festival that never happened
Dwarf planet Quaoar has a ring, and scientists are confused by it
> Besides, why shouldn't teachers make six-figures?

Exactly. Compared to what I do, educating 15-20 future citizens and adults seems on par.

And to your broader point, indeed, the average US teacher at this point is 1/5 lesson planning, 3/5 instruction, 1/10 social worker, and 1/10 data entry/report filing.
Good teachers are worth six figures easily.