skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I believe there's a shortage, they can't hire more math or science teachers here in western MA.

This is probably a symptom of, amongst other things, unsatisfactory salaries over generational time-periods; people might simply don't grow up wishing to be a teacher. I think this cultural phenomenon struck me when I watched Breaking Bad, where Walter being a high-school teacher is often presented as proof that he "failed", something undesirable and to be ashamed of.

I'm from outside the USA and over here being a teacher is considered a pretty good gig— if you're in a private school because you can earn good money. If you're in a public school because you get access to state benefits; better free health-care, retirement benefits, etc, with the largest (albeit a pretty controversial one too) union in Latin America [1] standing by you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindicato_Nacional_de_Trabajad...
- "The organ is immense: 117 ranks, including three full-length 32' voices..."

Hmm, how tall is this ceiling right here... umm... maybe I can bend them just a little idk

edit: Oh, I know: I can just stick them out the window and out past the neighbors' windows above. There is no flaw in this plan
Later became a Mormon. He was all about special clothing.
Fuck her too. Incredible that the entire court has backed Roberts' campaign to refuse any code of ethics.
I'm convinced leadership everywhere reads Blind. Wouldn't catch me posting there ever. A private company having posts tied to your work email...
I do find pets amusing. If you have a dog, all of the concerns most people voice about shoes applies to the dog. And they often seem to seek out poop to step in. We've been forced to bath our dog because he found coyote scat and thought that was good to wear.
You're very dismissive of taxes and employment law, but when you step wrong, things going bad very quickly.

Import/export laws and data compliance laws are another huge factor. In the EU, it means having significantly higher burden. I other areas, lack of laws make enforcement of certain things extremely difficult.
The basic idea would be a simple voice conferencing bridge that you connect to via WebTransport. There are a number of more interesting things that we would be interested in if we could get this sort of basic scenario working.
As a Tesla owner I agree they've accomplished a lot, but they've also promised us the world, by yesterday.

Until something is delivered, and bug-free, I don't really believe anything they say. They've done a lot, but their word is next to worthless.
Wars do what the parent post, u r replying to, suggests.
Crashed: $800M Festival Fail
What RFK Jr. Gets Right–and What He Gets Wrong
Targeting "fast casual" will work really well for lots of students, but I question how many of them needed college for anything other than the piece of paper.

It may be that ASU provides good value for the dollar; it is not realistic that they provide to 76k students the experience that a smaller university can offer to 5k students or even 15k students.

Most jobs and careers do not require a 4-year university education. Even most "tech" jobs don't, because for every job that needs a mathematician there are 10 that need a narrow-skilled technician, either trained by a boot camp (coding) or an apprenticeship (sysadmin/ netadmin).
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pandemic-learning-slide-continu...

Looks like a lot of it can be attributed to covid.
It shouldn't be considered "woke" to treat people with dignity regardless of who they are or how they present themselves, and I think most people do that. There are people on the fringes of many of these social issues, we can refer to them as "woke" and "anti-woke" who either think that these are settled topics and there can be no reasonable discussion besides agreement, or that they have a license to be horrible to people they disagree with. Control of the conversation by either fringe is perceived to have the power to push this middle ground in their preferred direction, or at least make it seem like the fringe narrative is more popular than it is, and I think the loss of some measure of this power is why some other commenters in this thread have referred to this as "war" *(including myself referring to "culture war")

Really, it was a mistake on my part to use the word "woke" because it is such a lightning rod, or at least I should have balanced it with my negative opinions about "anti-woke" as well.
There is no real culture left after just 2 generations.

We already live in a modern world. I have seen probably more culture from a lot more countries than anyone before us all.

It really takes time and energy to get culture. Culture is not just a few family traditions or a little bit of food.

Besides, i do think culture became much more generic the last 30 years due to how we are now connected. Everyone has coca cola (which is ridiculous), everyone ewars colorful tshirts from adidas and all the other brands we know. We took culture and mangeld it in sending cheap old cloth to other countries, exporting everything and stop embracing local things.

And even if you do, sometimes you see how those local people cook (in which conditions) and than you are happy about the generic imported coca cola because they never heard of hygene.

There was a Youtube Video were someone interviewed people in germany / munich and asked them how living here changed them. And thats very interesting culture wise: They said things which were very german like 'no longer talking to anyone on the street just for fun' or being more on time etc. I bet this cultural trades took much more than just a few weeks to get ingrained.
"In Big Tech's wasteland of planned obsolescence, praise for the defiant joy of flippers and steel", By Rae Hodge, Staff Reporter, Salon.

From the article:

"The physicality of pinball, like that of all arcade games, is the tech's blessing on shared social spaces. Its glorious heft unapologetically loud and bright, a cabinet demands due accommodation for spacious human joy and creativity."
I am a man who is susceptible to limerence, and so parasocial interactions are a moral hazard for me. All it takes is for me to spot a nice singer in a cool video and then I get hooked, and I get into her life and study her bio, and follow her on all social media, and dream about her and create a verifiably artificial relationship in which she has no idea I exist, but we're close to getting married next month.

And if she's a distant celebrity on social media, at least it's safe. Sometimes I develop limerence for someone in real life, and it's even worse.

And I've had this all my life. I remember as a small child, I had McDonald's bed sheets (please don't laugh). And there were two child characters on the sheet, a boy and a girl who were friendly. And I would stay up at night kissing the girl and razzing the boy. So I had this parasocial romance with a 2D cartoon.

I watched a lot of TV and I had one crush after another. Elizabeth Montgomery on "Bewitched". Christina Applegate. Melissa Joan Hart. I collected magazine clippings, video shorts and edits, bios, I sought autographs, you know, all sorts of things before the Internet even happened. Once I was online I started fan-club mailing lists, I searched and read/edited Wikipedia articles, everything.

In fact I got wind that Melissa Joan Hart would be in Beverly Hills for a public appearance in 2011, so I purchased a ticket and rented a car. I visited her candy shoppe where she was not present, but I put on a show for the workers there, that's for sure. I went to the event and it was obvious that I desperately wanted to meet/touch/speak to her, and she wasn't having any of it.

Yeah, so parasocial interaction is a crazy thing, and I'd say that these days, I'm better equipped to discern the line between my fantasy and the reality of a relationship. But it's not easy when so many celebrities (especially obscure ones) are so accessible, just a DM away! Imagine the thrill you get when your favorite influencer "likes" your comment or replies! People are sure to shell out for a Patreon subscription when that happens.
Yes, I was using speech to text and did not proof read closely enough.
I had a friend who needed to upgrade his math in order to qualify for a particular college program and asked me to tutor him. Ultimately didn't take very long because he showed me a sheet of problems he was working on and I noticed right away that he was writing our all of his equations horizontally (ex. 1 + x = y = x = y - 1) like one would write a sentence. All I had to do to significantly increase his grade was show him how to work through equations vertically. When I asked why none of his teachers berated him for this he said he just did it like he was taught. Afterwards I phoned my mother and told her she was definitely correct in her assessment that the Catholic school I was sent to provided a much higher quality education than the public schools in the area.
The implication was that everything as a file _had_ to be abandoned to make way for performance "improvements." Which ended up just being a new class of CPU bugs. So.. was the trade worth it?
Starvation was much more common before the rise of capitalism
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> It's like looking at your shadow at sunset and thinking, "Wow, I never realized I was 20 feet tall."

Quite the opposite, no? It's like spending your whole life looking at only your evening shadow (Hello, Plato) and then seeing yourself in a good mirror and realising your actual height relative to the world around you for the first time.
A rough timeline of my list of "what will end humanity" candidates:

1990 -- nanotechnology
2005 -- rogue AI
2015 -- bio-weapons
2022 -- fake news/truth-indeterminability
There are also some potential legal issues. In some states, having an employee in that state effectively establishes you as having an office in the state. That may mean your subject to certain rules and requirements of that state.
For anyone who wants to try out something like this there is a free iPhone app you can download and speak to. It is very convincing. https://callannie.ai/
I don't dislike your sentiment and don't see Rocky Linux as dirtbags, but I think it is important for GPL that you have to[1] provide source only if you provide binaries (IANAL, lawyers correct me). So you should be able to have a business where you sell software and the people who buy receive the GPL'd source code (that they can then modify and share). You don't have to develop in public, or use version control programs: participate in the whole "GitHub culture".

GPL tries to guarantee an environment for user freedom (not developer convenience, like permissive licenses). It has builtin protection against someone closing the source. It doesn't protect against some company pulling an Internet Explorer on you (i.e. providing a free equivalent) with your own code, because this doesn't directly concern user freedoms. You don't have to be actively helping them though.

I think ultimately free-of-charge mirrors should exist, but I see good potentials in companies discovering business merits of GPL, and hopefully AGPL. We need more vigor for those, after getting lucky once with Linux. We cannot rely on good will of corporations (only enforced law works on them), so any sign of luring them into copyleft somehow is a good thing. This would be a long road, but who knows what could happen in the current "AI" chaos and regulation scares.

[1] Of course only have to assuming that you are not the original author and you're building on someone else's code received under GPL.
Going a step further, I am the oft-ridiculed "foot shoe guy". Other than how hard they are to clean, they're probably the best purchase I've made in years. Goodbye planar fasciitis
Yes, I didn't mean to imply they have different information about the trains, rather that how they present the information in the UI was (is) markedly different.
> that page failing to load for me (Firefox)

Weird; testing on a Mac with Firefox it loads fine.

Anything interesting in the console?
Huge mystery. Will never be solved.
I find it strange that you find it strange that I don't find it strange.

Wearing my shoes inside is very normal to me. In my current place I have to take my shoes off, so I can adapt, but it still isn't normal to me.
wouldn't a regular sock be a toe sock then..? :)
> Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if IBM put some content in the RHEL repo that is under restrictive licenses that couldn't be redistributed just to complicate things, but all the important parts will remain open source, due to close ties to CentOS Stream and Fedora.

I'm not so sure. They're obligated to release the GPL'd code, which of course covers Linux itself, but they're under no such obligation for the non-GPL'd software they include.

They could license their RHEL-specific backport patches for non-GPL'd software such that they could not be redistributed, and if that code gets merged into CentOS Stream it could just be dual licensed from that port forward (so Stream could stay open but RHEL would be locked down).
Any company that makes money needs sales. But the main thing reddit sells is ad space. You have to spend a lot of time convincing big advertisers to buy on your platform.

Disney isn't going to just pull up a self service portal to buy ads. :)
:In any case, I don't see any information you presented that leads to your conclusions

Its in the second link and i summarised it. Acres burned has actually reduced. If you read that second link it gives 1950s data. Acres burned reduced in 1950s and then increased, but is still lower than pre goldrush. Looks like the author cherrypicked the 1950s.
He doesn't often do anything. He died in 1996. I've read a few of his books and I don't get this impression at all.
The lease for my current rental asks us not to wear shoes indoors. This is due to the wood flooring and how small rocks can get stuck to the underside of one's shoe and scratch up the floor
What human brain is good at: chains of causation with clearly defined relationships. I.e. stories.

What human brain is bad at: fuzzy mess of thousands or billions of interrelated events that all influence each other slightly.

This is the reason we have to use machine learning to find a program that seems to solve OCR or natural language or image recognition instead of just writing these programs ourselves. We cannot comprehend the complexity, we can only recognize if it works roughly how we want it to.
Would also apply to eating establishments. Libraries. Basically any environment where you aren't wearing shoes for safety.
all you need to ask a vegan is if they would eat human tissue grown flesh
> Orders of magnitude larger, but roughly same land area.

You should compare the populated area, not the entire landmass. That there exist vast unpopulated frozen tundras nominally within Canadian borders does not hinder public transport any more than Siberia hindered building the Moscow metro.
I immediately thought the same thing. I have been wearing regular socks my entire life and have never had a single one of the problems they mention.
I remember when cloud seeding was a conspiracy theory until the Chinese admitted doing it for the Olympics..
It's not about truth, it's just a reflection on packaging and presentation of ideas. You're taking it too literally.

The argument boils down to anything you can't explain doesn't exist, which is shortsighted and pseudointellectual. It's an Agile project manager's understanding of Story. A top comment mentions physics, and I would suggest the concept of mental illness and "hurt feelings" also qualifies.

We don't understand a fucking thing about psychology (the field is rife with fraud and psychiatrists are no more effective than shamans), though there are clearly problems that exist within people's brains. Schizophrenia is very real to the afflicted, yet they can't coherently explain their experience. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Whether it's True or Real or not isn't really the point.
The mercury news link i gave does give 1950s data. Sorry i didnt clarify. See my other comment.
Isn't the magnet mostly a necessity? How else would you dredge up somewhat interesting materials from the bottom of the ocean?
> My feet would be in a swampy sweat broth.

People who always wear shoes all day every day think tend to think that feet are gross. And that's because their feet are disgusting, and they project that onto everybody else.
This is such a baffling failure to understand how social networks function (see the 1% rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule).

They are alienating the most engaged users who provide the content and pissing off the moderators who provide free service to keep the communities running. Replacing passionate moderators working for free with disinterested paid staff will reduce quality and significantly increase costs.
Or the SledgeHammer Opteron, which had a number of (x86) innovations like 64 bit and integrated memory controller. With Intel betting on the dead-ends of Netburst and Itanium, it's possible to envision a very different computing landscape if AMD hadn't gone down that route.
Calling it awfully low is bit of stretch. I would have expected the top 10% to be higher but median not that different. I suppose HN attracts Crème de la Crème of German devs who might be earning higher because these numbers look quite alright to me. I get lot of XING jobs notification with salary ranges mentioned on it and majority of them have like 60K-80K salary ranges.
We could never prove it but the quote is interesting: "With accountants, lawyers, board members, and investors involved, the news was bound to leak, and it did. Though I did not leak the information, and to this day I still do not know who did, I think Facebook and Google still believe I leaked the news."

There are 3 statements in this

* "A leak was inevitable"

* "I did not leak it"

* "I do not know who did"

Here is a scenario under which they could all be true:

Noam, his exec team, OR some board members, OR some investors (which are likely to be friends or family members for a private company) are out for late night drinks.

Someone says the words "Ugh, these Facebook guys are idiots, and we don't seem to get along with them. I wish we could get acquired by Google instead. If somehow they got word of the acquisition, I bet they'd reach out with an unsolicited offer. Sure would be a shame if SOMEONE LEAKED IT."

No conspiracy necessary. No orders.

Some party at the table hears, agrees, and contacts their old IDF buddy at Haaretz. Done.
Interesting, I don’t think I’ve ever visited a “shoes on” household in my whole life in Czechia. Some households offer slippers to guests (in houses with cold floors), but you obviously don’t wear those anywhere else.
foot binding is alive and well in the rock climbing community. i am 'recovering' from fit issues from the last 7 years. since covid i gave up on rock shoe fitting style (which bled into my regular shoe fitting as well) and my feet are much happier now, though still not great.
Pointers are already handles if you are using virtual memory
I noticed eye contact in the cw so I googled it and found this https://sunbeam.city/@RotundCat/100913413054007496

Interesting. I'd never heard of that
Somehow I'm reminded of these "How Big Africa[/Texas] Really Is" memes https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2365729-relative-map-sizes-h...
Reminds me of the "Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" from Neal Stephenson's "Diamond Age", too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age
> Especially when archive.org has been caught deleting stuff from family members of the board.

I didn't find that on a quick web search -- do you have a link?
Bob Lazar lied about going to MIT, and Avi Loeb is the head of the astrophysics department at Harvard. I suspect there are more than a few differences between them.
I really don't get what the hype around this guy is.

I am not a betting man, but I would bet good money he never gets close to the Democratic party nomination, let alone any further.

I guess it is because of his name, hardly no one else on the D side is announced yet, and he is easy to trash...
> You're taking water from clouds that would normally have dropped it elsewhere, which just shifts the problem by depriving some other region of the water it relies on

That's an interesting idea. Countries have gone to war over water rights. One country builds a dam to hog all the water, and the neighboring country gets angry enough to blow up this dam. Would seeding clouds take away rain that could have dropped on another country that equally needs the rain?
Altra and Topo make "footshaped" shoes. Not all Altra are, but you can get most models with a wider toebox.

Another brand to checkout is Lems are other brands to checkout. They do have some running type shoes, but I'm only familiar with their casual shoes. I reallly recommend getting some Lems for daily use.
Dymaxion map: one island, one ocean.
Does anyone have any insight into why reinforcement learning is (maybe) required/historically favoured? There was an interesting paper recently suggesting that you can use a preference learning objective directly and get a similar/better result without the RL machinery - but I lack the right intuition to know whether RLHF offers some additional magic! Here’s the “ Direct Preference Optimization ” paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18290
The curly braces came in for some attention here on HN a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35925637

I don't hate them, but in languages where curly braces significantly outnumber parentheses and square brackets, it takes some getting used to. I kind of wonder what would have happened if they'd left curly braces more conventional and changed parentheses and square brackets to distinguish them? I suspect it's better to have one pair of glyphs that stands out rather than making two other unconventional.

ETA: also caret left/right.
It's more of an open question. While we cannot use the scientific method to evaluate truth and even less so prove it in the mathematical sense with pure abstract reasoning without any wolrdly evidence, there could still be truths (in a weak sense of the word), at least for humans. Because as humans our morals are primarily based on our feelings/instincts/neurochemsitry/etc and those are highly similar (and of course there are exceptions and deviations such as psychopaths) across the world. Depending on our terminal goal as a civilization or society if humans really wanted to we could try and build some "axioms" of morals and build up other political and cultural truths from there.
I think federalist society is the closest thing this country has to a deep state cabal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yt2xUJfdyw
The only thing beyond the pail is the mop.
Well, if you define up and down as the axis perpendicular to the ecliptic, there is an up and down in the solar system.
That seems to be an American thing. In Canada everyone takes their shoes off inside houses.
> This is why I am hugely in support of increased immigration into Canada

I suspect the US has a few states that are willing to help.
> No warranty is given for faults caused by alternate operating systems.

Sure, but the burden is on the manufacturer to prove the alternate OS caused the fault. They can't just void your warranty for installing another OS.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warran...
Yeah. I sometimes wonder if that was ever a possibility for them. Reddit as a PBC or even a non profit would be unstoppable. I think the VC money and push for growth has driven the product to a weird place.
> Get a non-Mercator projection map and put it in your dinner room, and then see how many of your guests will comment about "so.. why is this map weird? It doesn't look right?" then tell them "every flat map projection distorts [...]"

This is actually a pretty cool conversation topic during dinner. I would take the opportunity to show off. It doesn't have to be a downside. "Hey, did you know that [interesting stuff]...?".

If your guests are the kind of people who get irritated instead of awed by cool explanations about the world, I admit then you have a problem.