skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You questioned my 45% assertion. I provided some data. You say it's not representative. I invited you to provide different data that contradicts my point. Again, I invite you to change my mind by showing me some more representative data.

> I checked another district in California (Morgan Hill). Looking at all 2021 employees whose job title includes the word 'teacher', the median additional compensation is 21% of base salary.

Oddly enough, this is where I live. Random chance or stalking? luls. This is still a relatively well-compensated district compared to most other states or many other parts of California.

And ... even so.. 45% is not the same as 21%.

I have not checked your numbers to see whether 21% is correct.

Also, if you're including pay for additional duty (e.g. working over summer) in that 21%... that's not so great, given that you've accounted for that separately in your calculation.

> so I don't know whether those numbers include the present value of unfunded pension liabilities.

From the site you chose to link: "Total benefits" consists of the employer-paid cost of health, dental and vision medical insurance and retirement contributions only. The cost of benefits do not reflect monetary payments received by the employee but, instead, reflect the cost incurred by taxpayers associated with employer-provided health and retirement benefits.

> If so, the actual number is higher.

??? The actual number is higher because what we're comparing against includes NPV of benefits?

> When we talk about some profession being underpaid or overpaid, we have to compare pay to other occupations that those currently employed could actually get.

Yes, but using the SAT scores or other measures of academic performance as a proxy to determine career options is a faulty methodology. And even if it were a powerful determinant of career options, it would still be faulty, because willingness of people to engage in the work for the pay matters (e.g. you have to pay garbagemen more).

> They compare teachers' salaries not to median salaries in the country, but to salaries for people with bachelors degrees, or masters degrees.

Which would seem to be a reasonable measure. You haven't demonstrated teachers have lower SAT scores (you made a faulty indirect argument about this, too), they still have completed those degrees. Comparing them to a cohort that includes workers at McJobs is not fair.
A little golfed, but TOTP in python, using only base/included modules, is not much code.

https://github.com/susam/mintotp/blob/main/mintotp.py
Hmm. I used an ostrich pillow to take lots of naps during college. It must be partly responsible for my good grades!
What is WebFinger, and why is it used (in Mastodon)?
Indeed, Microsoft didn't invent capitalism. They just have a strong position and understand the rules very well.
Interesting. In that case what a terribly misleading / borderline irresponsible article. The video from the study to go along with it was also garbage in explaining this, but I admit I probably got led astray by all the talk of the visual cortex and the skippy frames.

Thank you for this clarification / setting me straight.
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The video is a code walkthru. The code is here:

https://docs.modular.com/mojo/notebooks/
You are describing the tradeoff made by passkeys, yes. The idea is that it shouldn't be possible for someone to phish your passkey, because lives on a piece of hardware and signs challenges, but is not transmitted to the requesting party (or to anyone).

Luckily, passkey "syncing" and "backup" means issuing a new key that's signed by an old key, so you can in fact have the convenience of paper-based backups if you want (that's how the QR codes work for syncing between passkey managers).

I trust you can appreciate how this improves security in general, by trading some convenience.
IT modernization strategy – U.S. Department of Labor
Sure, for now. Until people are accustomed to this system and it's just a "small update to policy" they hope goes unnoticed in 12 months' time.

Quite literally the same company is trying to neuter adblocking with Manifest V3 right now and pitched it as "improvements to security."
> but it doesn't need to be for an interoperable ecosystem.

what you described above doesn't guarantee that the ecosystem is interoperable. With passwords, there is no way for the service provider to hide the cleartext password from you, this is inherent to the way passwords work. With passkey, a service provider could decide to hide the private keys from you, effectively locking you into their ecosystem, and there is nothing you could do to avoid this.
This isn't free speech. This is someone's website. They can have opinions. They can be different than yours. Right?
I like minitotp[0] which only uses the Python standard library available from Python 3.4 and above.

[0] https://github.com/susam/mintotp
Poetic, succinct, and it's all you need to understand this situation.

There's a reason Latin and its descendants are called the romantic languages.

(I know that's backward and romance comes from Roman... there is a reason still!)
Thank you so much for sharing. I'd never heard of Derek or Pen Machine but needed to read exactly this.
Bundles have a colossal disadvantages. Change one thing and boom your user is re-downloading a pretty big bundle. Fine grained file resolution means apps can grow & evolve with very little user cost.

People harp on and on about the benefits of bundles for compression, but man, it's so shortsighted & stupid. It favors only the first-load situation. If your user actually comes back to your app, these advantages all go away, disappear. Personally I'd rather help people that use my app regularly.

Second, the days of bundles being better at compression are numbered. Work has been ongoing to figure out how to send compression dictionaries separately. With this, 98% of the compression advantage disappears out the window. https://github.com/WICG/compression-dictionary-transport

Neither of your approaches sounds like what I'd do. Personally I would build an http server that takes raw uncompressed source. When asked for a file the first time, it compresses & builds the dependency maps in parallel, & saves both of these out, maybe a .gz with some xattr on it. Or store that data in memory, whatever. The first user gets a couple extra ms hit, but the server transparently still does the thing. Developer mode is just a tool to watch the file system & clear those caches, nothing more, & can potentially be completely separate.

Bundles are just so awful. They complicate what used to be an elegant understandable clear world of computing. We can & should try to get back to resources, if it makes sense. And the cards are lining up to make this horrible un-web un-resourceful kludge potentially obsolete. I'm excited we might make the web make sense again for end-users. They deserve to be out of the bad times.
Previous discussion when it came out here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11938876

I thought it was interesting comparing the thoughts then to the discussions people are having now.
I think they're presenting a more accurate description of how the world actually works, which is useful. When people make a claim that X happens because of Y, that is a claim of causality which can be true or false or missing important factors.
A Wild Sheep Chase was the first present I bought my wife when we were dating. Great book.
I built notes database applications a while back in may career. It’s kinda a no sql data store with clunky front end (cross platform as mentioned elsewhere) and lotus script.

After working in it for a while I’d start to notice the Notes email and calendar are just specialized notes applications. It’s not the best..
It may not be a “real” problem, but reporting on the excessive comp of public company executives is valuable and sourced from employees, no less. The ratio of CEO to employee salary is at a major imbalance.
I compared the two in a store and color was not good. IMO if you want color just get a real tablet. Color e ink is the worst of LCD and e ink. It’s slow and ugly and eats battery life and hurts your eyes in the dark.
> svg's primitives are shapes and you program it with js and dom

Maybe you do and that's fine. I program SVG by dynamically generating it on the server in Lisp. No js required unless I need to change an element at runtime. SVG is much more centered on "paint a picture with vectors and then send it to the browser" than "call a function to draw this vector RIGHT NOW" which is why people here are saying it's not really an API the way Vulkan and WebGL and WebGPU are.

For SVG to be considered an API, HTML would have to be one too. For SVG to be relevant to TFA, it would also need to express 3D geometries, and SVG is focused on 2D.
> The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In any case, most actual fighting will be done by small robots, and as you go forth today remember your duty is clear: to build and maintain those robots.

https://youtu.be/oazwTDeqF54
The alternative would be to ask for explicit permission per website, similar to notifications or webcam access. Sounds like overkill to me.
OK - so to what extent was this actually AI-generated?
just because there are APIs that a FOSS client can call, that doesn't guarantee interoperabiltiy.
I think the last word you used was canceled in 2018 for being racist.
Listen to the podcast The Past Times (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxZpxxEwKUI). Newspapers were fucking insane, ridiculous, just bizarrely biased and terribly organized. But they did record how, like, judges and lawyers would regularly get shitfaced in a pub and decide cases until 3 in the morning. So maybe it's more useful than we think.
the problem with this assertion is that for this to work....there would need to be something to "withhold"

twitter seems to have shown -so far- that the emperor has no clothes...
I'm pretty passionate about extremely fast deep learning tools. I like the idea, but as it goes with developers who've been burned before, I'm pretty skeptical and will probably wait and see if this ends up surviving the initial phase of testing and trying things out. I know the xkcd standards comic isn't blindly applicable to everything but still, it's not a bad prior.

Peeps who know me know that I really have skin in the game too when it comes to neural network training speed and simplicity, it's something I'm quite passionate about. So something like this, if it actually works like it says it does on the tin and is usable, would be something that would be extremely useful. There's one or two kernels I'd really like to write to bump down speed records even further, and doing so directly in the language feels pretty promising to me. I really like the idea of that. And the promise of mmap-like operations too. We have pointers already in torch, they're just ad-hoc as index values, and still somehow unprotected because you have to reset your entire runtime when CUDA borks out on an out of bounds error (that only triggers the next time you try to access data.... :'( ).

It would be nice if this was the real deal. I think time will tell. I hope it is.
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SF may have to pay stores to have presence.
It's far more complicated than that, and pro-CEO, as ultimately even a very bad CEO is going to get paid outrageously. See good old Steve Ballmer, who was basically running Microsoft into the ground. He was still very well paid, even though the minute he announced he was leaving, without naming the replacement, Microsoft stock shot up: The expected value of a random, unknown replacement for shareholders was enormous.

So this isn't really about expected value, supply and demand. It's not as if a 10% cut would make Pichai quit, or that you'd not be able to find a comparable replacement at that price: I suspect that, not unlike Ballmer was, Pichai is worse than a random viable candidate. But there really is minimal pressure in saving money with top executives like this. CEO is not a random position, and it's basically never filled by a person the board doesn't have personal connections to. So ultimately CEOs get either raises, or get fired.

When a CEO gets a cut in compensation, it's often because their own pay sends a message to investors and employees. Here, what we are seeing is that Pichai sees no need whatsoever to send any message, because he doesn't care in the slightest about this. It's modeling behavior for executives and other employees. And I don't think it's a good example we'd like them to follow.
I have only found one piece of research that studies teacher SAT scores, and it seems to refute your core assertion that teachers have lower SAT scores than average graduates--- at least for New York state, where we have the data:

https://cepa.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/Who%20Enters%2...

Especially for high status districts (like SFUSD), it looks like teachers are disproportionately drawn from the upper third of scorers.
Fair point, and that helps with the ol' conscience. I appreciate it.

But "such conflicts" . . I feel like every year the industry gives me another shock to the testicles. There's entire floors filled with nothing but former Procurement Officers (CPOs). I realized it's the only trick BD even has: find the CPO, blow a couple grand on "dinner", invent a new VP role, then Avada Contracta, get the thirty year deal. BD lost the ability to sell anything except for the prospect of double dipping officer pay and a salary - the lazy uncreative man's path towards being a millionaire.

And everyone brags about it. That's the kick in the nuts. It's totally normal. You go to a conference, everyone in uniform is chatting up how much they're dishing out for Miracle Product X and how pretty Product X secretaries are. HAR HAR HAR HAR. All hands meetings, CEOs brag about it, to their own minions. People dialed in. "Welcome our new VP of Pointless Wankery, Captain Hoser from the C-17 Product X program, who just signed a thirty year . ." Even FCPA's a frickin joke now, given the sheer quantity of "Saudi Nephew NPOs" everyone keeps on the rolodex. I thought, circa 2020, that at least - at least - FCPA was solid, and now, shit. The nonprofit scene made a complete mockery of that.

Sorry, thanks for listening to me vent.

Pah, I say. Double Pah!
i think you underestimate how many users want to just be signed in to their account, and don't really give a damn about security in any way. they see a password as an inconvenient impediment, and if they could get rid of it tbat would be fine.

keeping your data secure is google's job, not the user's. if google stops asking for a password, that's going to make people happy and they're not going to ask a lot of questions about why.
In 30 years these will have weapons on the battlefield.
He's been CEO for what, close to a decade now? Why should he get a raise for a situation that he put the company in? Or is the logic that anything a CEO does deserves to be justified by paying them more?
Very optimistic that you think they will hold off 30 years
Hmm. I checked it out and didn't really like it. Autoit feels dated, like something out of the early 2000s. By contrast AHK feels modern, fresh, and slick.

Sidenote: what is it with Windows developers and releasing freware that allows for commercial use but still holding on to not being open-source or at least source-available? The fact that this is still happening in 2023 is flabbergasting.
Even if memegen is only used by 5% of the company (it's probably much more?) it's an important enough part of the company culture that some developers were allowed to maintain/expand it on company time. It was always very active during all-hands meetings and individual posts would get hundreds or thousands of interactions from what I saw.

The question is basically 'are these memes representative of feelings within a larger subset of the company' and these sorts of takes don't really address that question at all. Memegen is not twitter.
>The flyer, according to the lawyer, named a police officer who lives in the area where the activists were arrested and alleged he was connected to the killing in January of forest defender Manuel “Tortuguita” Terán during a multi-agency raid on the Atlanta Forest protest encampment.

>[...] According to public records, one of the officers named lives in the area where the activists posted flyers. [...]

Sounds like they weren't just trying to raise awareness about the killing, they're trying to out the specific officers involved, in the very neighborhood that the officer lived. In other words, they're basically trying to dox them. IANAL but that plausible could be considered "intimidation".
Certainly possible, but Memegen isn't mentioned anywhere in the article.
Did you mean to link to some index? You linked to the stock of Nasdaq the stock exchange. I'm not sure what the point of comparing the stock price of a stock exchange with Google is, why not Tesla or Walmart or GE?
In Texas there is an excellent local news outlet that has a paper for each major suburb/city of each metro area. They focus on detailing business openings, events, and upcoming industry and infrastructure developments.

https://communityimpact.com/

They’re doing very well and are popular.
I have used (and loved) the Alaska Bear Silk mask for years, but it does come off occasionally. I’m absolutely going to try the double strap one now, thanks for sharing!
Hi Jeremy, thanks for sharing this, hope it works out well. Also, thanks for doing the past work on Dawnbench&etc that y'all did. Really helped push an era of speedy deep learning to the forefront and helped stoke the flames of my passion for this particular subfield of research. FastAI really put out a ton of good work that inspired and helped me a lot. I'm generally stuck on the linear version of OneCycle, but I've referred a lot to y'all and the community over the years when building out my toolbox.

In any case, you have more years under your belt than me in the software field, so I'm sure you have some of the standard skepticisms too, hopefully it works out really well. Will be keeping an eye on this software, it seems promising. Esp as I tend towards the more esoteric methods that tend to break the existing deep learning tooling out there.
People have already succeeded in generating adversarial images that confuse neural networks.

Until networks reach the point where those techniques don't work any more, it's probably a better option - it allows you to automatically perturb the image for a targeted deception, as opposed to specifically defining a large number of parameters without understanding what the impact will be.
Purposefully posting things about yourself isn't doxxing, nor is linking to a post of somebody posting personal information about themselves. They publicly posted it, they're fine with it being public.
how about an encrypted SSD or HDD?
I'm surprised there isn't someone, somewhere with the OG source code for Lotus 1-2-3 or WordPerfect or TurboPascal. So much lost knowledge in those old apps.
It's because both competitors are making the same calculation where a loss in market share is worth less than the per unit profit increase.

This isn't really a matter of competition, it's that people's willingness to pay (in nominal value) is much higher.

If people's willingness to pay were less, then increasing prices would loose a greater portion of the market.
The placebo effect is strong, especially for things like alertness. There’s been studies purposefully showing that participants who think they’ve been given a mental stimulant perform better in cognitive tasks in a statistically significant way, for instance.
Saying it goes to "recreation.gov" misses the point.

It goes to Booz Allen Hamilton.

Booz are effectively stealing insane amounts of taxpayer dollars to run an extremely simple CRUD website. And no, it's not "actually complex and just looks like CRUD". It's really just CRUD built on AWS services.

IMO? If the grift cannot be killed then Access Fund should team up with the open beta guy and submit an insanely competitive bid when the contract comes up.
to anyone doubting: kagi really is that good. it has completely replaced my google usage - i haven't used google.com to search for anything in months. feels so good!!
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