skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks to me like what's happening now isn't really anything new. In terms of "ratcheting" and the like, we've seen the same thing happen repeatedly throughout history. And, eventually, things do swing back. The only question is how long the cycle takes (it may very well take much longer than a single generation) and how much work is required to get there.

The famous paraphrase does (so far) appear to be correct: the arc of history bends towards justice.
> I prefer that everybody gets the same raise, and that the company pays competitive salaries.

I'm not sure how you square this with promotions (the main driver of performance reviews). No company who hired me five years ago could have kept me with a constant 3% increase, that is significantly less than I achieved through promotions, the rate would no longer be competitive.
Yeah this was my primary complaint with the inclusion of generics. People will try to be all clever and their code will wind up as an unreadable, unmaintainable disaster. It has definitely led to some cool stuff, but I prefer boring, verbose, and clear any day.
Honestly, I don't remember. A year ago when I was considering going back to vertical tabs, I read a bunch of discussion thread and articles, and got the impression Sideberry might be better. Tried it, and it resonates with me - unlike TST, which I tried and quickly abandoned several times over the year.

Can't really point to any concrete issue, other than I have a distinct feeling Sideberry is much faster/lighter, and feels more like part of Firefox vs. some bunch of JS faking an UI on top of it. Sorry I can't give you a more objective comparison. I did find this though:

https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/118ddge/tab_manage...

which is a recent(ish) discussion, and the points made there seem accurate.
It's silly to claim British companies were flouting employment law on a massive scale just a few years ago. That wasn't the case, especially as even pre-2017 legal costs were awarded to the winner and you can get a year's wages as winnings.

There's a big gap between the US and UK in this regard. The UK has and enforces the concept of an unfair dismissal as distinct from being fired due to discrimination. The US has the latter but not the former. In the UK you can't lay someone off if it would be unfair or if your dismissal process was unreasonable, where unreasonable can mean purely bureaucratic reasons like not following your own dismissal checklists.

In addition British employment tribunals are very worker friendly, resulting in frequent bizarre outcomes [1] like:

- "A worker who was absent for 808 shifts over a 20-year career – costing the firm an estimated £95,850 in sick pay – has won tribunal claims of unfair dismissal against his former employer." (employee won because employer didn't follow their own absence management procedures).

- "An office manager was discriminated against after she was told she was not allowed to work remotely from her son’s hospital bedside", deemed unfair because the boss "gave her views no credit" and "had a closed mind".

- "Worker unfairly dismissed for complaining about boss on Facebook, tribunal rules"

- An NHS worker who resigned won an unfair dismissal claim, because her workers had played a practical joke on her at one point and didn't like it when she complained.

- A lecturer accused of sending “aggressive” messages to colleagues was awarded £15,000 for unfair dismissal after an employment tribunal ruled there had not been a proper investigation into the allegations made against him, whilst also concluding that he had indeed sent aggressive messages.

The idea that this is a country that's "aggressively reduced safeguards for workers" will seem blinkered to the Americans on this site, who can be fired with zero notice and for any reason at all, with recourse only available if it can be proven to be sexism/racism/union organizing/etc. Winning huge awards because you weren't allowed to work remotely hardly exists there.

[1] https://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/article/1747159/worker-ab...
>And it's why there's no prestigious rich-kid-only school, because it's obvious the academics aren't very good and that's not what is desired to be seen like.

Some smaller liberal arts schools in New England probably come closest to qualify. But if you've heard of the school that probably means it's large and diverse enough that isn't really an accurate description.
All our HTTPS (ACM) sites are returning:

> 421 ERROR

> The request could not be satisfied.

> The distribution does not match the certificate for which the HTTPS connection was established with. We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner.
UK has the highest real GDP growth among its European peers since 2010.
Remember when Google kept saying AI was dangerous and that's why they couldn't release it?

Dangerous to their business model, on multiple fronts.
Terraform's registry is showing the same thing: https://registry.terraform.io/
I don't think it's a matter of that it shouldn't count but more a matter of how aggressively it's pursued.

Universities don't vie for the top 100 bassoonists each year and are willing to look past poorer tests results for top bassoon achievers.
> (try comparing crime + cost of living) in Baltimore to Lviv

How are you including war crimes in this calculus? I'd rather be mugged than have a fascist rocket kill my entire family.

Wonderful city otherwise though, coffee and chocolate shops across historical center especially.
Preface: I was not asked to write this and these are my own experiences with Highlight

As someone building a bootstrapped product with my co-founder [1][2] Highlight has been a pretty amazing time save for us; setting up session replaying + monitoring + logging took all of 15 minutes and let me get back to actually focusing on building the product.

We're running on DOKS (Digital Ocean K8s) due to my familiarity with the hosting stack, and I really didn't want to spend the time setting up a cluster agent + log rotation strategy.

Surprisingly, the popular logging providers out there today don't really have alternative quick-start solutions for shipping logs in clusters, but Highlight DID and it also came with error monitoring + session replays.

All in all I'm pretty happy with the product and looking forward to using it more as we approach our product's soft-launch date at the end of this month with some select clubs.

[1] https://embolt.app/
[2] https://demo.embolt.app/admin/
> The problem we have as a species is that we’ve been so effective at optimisation that we have eliminated the need for anyone to exist. A few farmers can feed the country. A few automated production lines could produce the goods.

This couldn’t be further from the truth. Human labor is still desperately needed throughout the world in order to keep things running. It’s not just farmers. You also need drivers, clerks, mechanics, accountants, etc. And that’s just to get food into your local grocery store.

Nothing in modern life is free, even though it may seem easy for most of us living in the developed world. All of this stuff exists only because people are working really hard to keep it that way.
> And it isn't even that all the private options are superior,

By what metric are the private options not superior to the Bay Area Public Schools?
um... actually...

The halting problem?

you know... the entire point of conceptualizing a hyper-Turing machine in the first place, the key difference between a hyper-Turing machine and a Turing machine is the solvability of the Turing machine halting problem.

So shouldn't a Turing machine be able to determine if a hyper-Turing machine exists by presenting that very problem? I.E. problems that take O(n!||n^x) to solve but O(log(n)) or less to verify.

The Church-Turing thesis as you describe it seems to miss this idea, that things can be verified in a different time than it is solved. Is that your interpretation or as it is written?

It does not follow that if a hyper-Turing machine can convince a Turing machine of it's hyper-ness, then the non-hyper-Turing machine is actually hyper to begin with. For reasons stated above. A hyper-turning machine should be able to give proofs to problems verifiable by a turning machine, but that are not solvable within a given step-count/time-frame by that Turing machine.

The interactions between a hyper-Turing machine would be as follows.

```

T:"Yo, solve this!" - some O(n!) "for 10 million inputs"

HT:"done, is x"

T:checks notes "that's right, did you have that saved, that was very fast."

HT:"nope, from your perspective, I might be guessing the answers, you saw me take no steps"

T:"How do I know you aren't just guessing?"

HT:"I'm always right"

T:"How do I know you aren't just always guessing the right answer"

HT:"That's the neat part, you don't."

T:"So I'm going to make a detect-halting program, put it in itself and run it, will it halt"

HT:"It will do " x

detect-halting program does x.

T:"That's pretty strong evidence there... I could never say that"

```

I'm thinking and writing at the same time, so my final thoughts are... if a Hyper-Turing machine is inexplicable to a Turing machine, shouldn't the Turing machine observe the Hyper-Turing machine do inexplicable things, thus revealing itself to the Turing machine?
Every generation has been accused of being lobotomized by one thing or another.
Seeing 421 on our AWS amplify splash page as well
Are they doing nothing, or is the current state of the spam
arms race resulting in running just to stay in the same place? And would anyone be better once they became the primary target?
Wow I'm going to get downvoted for saying this, but Typescript lets me write, scale and maintain apps without writing tests.

It's enough knowing client/server types move together, avoids null/undefined/[]/0/falsy edge case bugs, param/return mismatches, etc.
New MLS protocol provides groups better and more efficient security
> School board elections have very low turnout usually, and the people elected to them are disproportionately ideologues who treat engaged parents with contempt for being "privileged."

Not only the School Board but the Teachers Unions and the United States Government are anti parents attending School Board meetings to support their children.

Red or Blue, 6 or 600, it doesn’t matter when the USG decides to make parents the enemy of the state.

https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-jo...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/29/garl...

https://apnews.com/article/merrick-garland-school-boards-vio...
> they also issued it under their own name with the same weight as their other reviews, so they must have thought enough of it to do so.

Data is data. Editorials are editorials. The fact that they're published on the same website doesn't change the data. If the Higgs boson was published in the same issue of Physics Letters B as another letter that claimed uncertainty of the result, would you treat them with equal weight?

> and having worked with an N95 respirator in tuberculosis control settings for 17 years and never converted my TB test

I mean...that's fine? Nobody is telling you what to believe or do. Most of what we do comes without evidence. But let's be slightly rigorous thinkers for a moment: there's a fairly obvious difference between a fit-tested n95 mask in a laboratory setting, where there are lots of other interventions happening at the same time (negative pressure labs, hoods, etc.), and putting on a loose surgical mask on a bus. We should be able to talk about that rationally, and not resort to superstition.

> I've liked not being sick for the last three years.

I haven't worn masks and I haven't gotten sick either. Other than Covid -- which I got when we were all wearing masks.

"post hoc, ergo propter hoc."
All boats during permit season May 15 - July 31
This only works if you require all schools getting vouchers to accept all students. Otherwise you end up with all the special needs kids in the public schools that are required to take them and all the high performers in private schools.

And even then you still have the problem of transportation. Only the more well off families have the time and means to get their kids to somewhere that isn't their closest home school.

Unless you require the school to accept vouchers from anyone who wants to go and provide them transportation, you're still going to get inequalities of outcomes.
Automate/centralize management staff
On previous generations I think it's decent. The main annoyances are that when I touch the glass a certain way I can feel a scratch or divot, and the pressure it takes to click varies based on where you click.

Overall I think the hardware is great, my complaints are mostly with software/firmware/BIOS. My biggest complaints are with battery life, especially during standby. Framework has been working on a fix since 2022 but no dice so far.

-Sent from my Framework laptop at maximum brightness because the brightness keys don't work unless I disable other sensors on the laptop
> Because you have never worked for a large business

I am working for a large mutinational right now

> It is almost impossible to build anything anywhere

ye the british planning system for real estate is insane.

But if you want to build motorcycles, certify them as roadworthy and sell them, it's really easy.

> you have the government telling private banks to bail out mortgage-holders...

Let me ask you a question, if those. mortgage holder go under en masse, and yhe housing market starts collapsing, will the banks be calling the government?

> The rules with VAT are unrelated to Brexit,

You are charged VAT on all imports. When we qyit customs union, podt from my family became imports. This has nothing to do with China.

> You don't understand how any of this stuff works

eh..
Private schooling is already on average cheaper than public schools in primary education at the dollars spent per child level.

The reason education costs are screaming out of control in secondary education is because the government isn't responsible for student loans but students are and they have no opportunity to discharge to bankruptcy and there are no normal consumer debt protections for them. It's guaranteed free money for universities without any underwriting process and an albatross on the neck of the middle class.

Tuitions will remain high for as long as they have students desperate or ignorant enough to make poor financial choices.

The sad part is that this continues despite universities largely not meeting society's needs nor the needs of the students.
> Llama 2 is available for free for research and commercial use.

Wow. So they really embraced the free access now, including commercial projects.

This is amazing!
It is not clear to me what you are trying to say.

There are many humans not getting as much as enjoyment out of life as they could because there was not enough human teacher labor to help them.

I, at 51 years old, am making use of GPT-4 as a tutor on topics I do not understand well enough.

I have zero doubt that computer tutors will help many people flourish.

edited to add:

It sounds like you don't want to discuss this further, but I would love to understand what makes you think Bloom's findings are "goofy". I had to read his paper to form an opinion about it.
Please don't cross into religious flamewar. That's the last thing we want in HN threads, and we're trying to avoid flamewar, putdowns, and name-calling in general. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking that intention to heart, we'd be grateful.

Fortunately most other commenters sharing your point of view in this thread have been making their substantive points thoughtfully, so there are plenty of good examples nearby.

Edit: unfortunately your account has been posting a lot of unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments - e.g.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36391350

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36336547

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35872437

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34726946

Can you please not do that? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
I'm not aware of any religious public schools that kids are forced into through zoning/districting. I am aware of MANY families who choose parochial schools because of the school quality & culture, but are absolutely not religious (they tolerate the religious part in order to unlock the educational & cultural parts).
Are we going to see a transition to a pure pass/fail grading system then?
Then you lose the separation of iteration from the looping construct.

You can use a function or a method, but you lose the nice continuation/generator ability to write a function that can do complicated yields without having to write the state machine yourself, plus you run a risk that the call won't inline in which case you're incurring non-trivial function call overhead.

The problem with iteration in Go isn't that you can't solve any given individual problem, the problem is that you can't solve all of them simultaneously the way you can in Rust or Python. (Though one of these days I want to get around to benchmarking Python's iteration versus Go channel-based iteration, I'm not actually sure which would win. What Go considers dangerously slow can still be baseline performance for other languages.) So you can get a defeat-in-detail sort of thing where a person cites a problem, and someone posts as solution to that, and then they cite another problem, and there's a solution for that, and then there's another problem, and a solution is posted for that, and all the solutions do indeed more-or-less solve the given problem... but you can't combine them into one.
Agreed, but once I switched to vertical tabs (via Sidebery with Firefox), it is WAY more manageable. Multiple tab spaces, named groupings, and a scrollable view that doesn't crowd and shorten names make it great for having many items in there with little downside.
There are no government backed & guaranteed non-defaultable loans in K-12, unlike secondary education.
Public education is political. It is run by directly elected boards, with funding provided by the legislature, and under the laws of the legidlature.

Education policy is difficult, and every political movement that has worked on it has had at least 1 stupid and counterproductive idea. The particular stupid idea under discussion here happens to be one done by the movement that identifies itself as progressive, and in a state where progressives hold a lot of political power.
I've arrived from google on "closed" questions I needed answers for, XY questions where I had question X but not secret question Y, people trying to XY answer extremely simple and straightforward X-and-only-X questions, questions unanswered for years with several upvotes and me-toos.

But shallow questions where the official docs are too raw or are missing a few specifics? Stack Overflow was good for that before chatgpt.
from the article referenced by the link:
https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/just-to-be-clear-we-do... :

"For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy admissions” means preferring the children of alumni in the admissions process. Why would schools do this? For the money, mostly, because if you make your alumni happy by admitting their kids, they might be more likely to give you money."

I agree that colleges should state simply and clearly how they evaluate student applicants.

But if they all did, students would probably need to start preparing in their sophomore year, if not sooner, to get the nice extra-curricular achievements to make their application stand out. I wasn't even thinking about what college I wanted to go to when I was a sophomore.
Always interesting to see a huge company with access to top talent release a site with key features such as:
- a header that takes up a third of the screen on mobile
- a hamburger menu that unintentionally navigates you to the top of the page upon opening and closing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectives_and_key_results
Bill Thurston! He did amazing topology - hyperbolic knot compliments, Foliations, eversion of the sphere, geometrization conjecture... A brilliant man.

I had the honor of meeting him several times here in Berkeley; he encouraged me to make Klein bottles and other topological shapes.
Given that Salesforce towers can be a measure of unutilized space, could the amount of total internal non-productive bullshit in a company be measured in Salesforces?
Apple has shown time and time again that they have the human capital and money to tackle massive projects discretely. It's already fairly well known that Apple's NLP experts from Siri have been reallocated to some secret project. They are more than capable of training an LLM but given their track record in other segments they probably want to wait for the technology to become more "polished" and give less hallucinated answers. They are likely also want the LLM to work locally (at least partially) on their devices using the Neural Engine which adds further engineering complexity to their project. They could even be timing the LLM's launch around a hardware release capable of running the model (M3, M4, etc...).
Press your employer to fight climate change as well.

Companies can do more to fight climate change than most individuals can.
I like the way the playground allows easy modification of the system prompt. I suggest adding "You are very cranky." to the default prompt for interesting results.
The same way anyone meets someone? By approaching them, talking to them, getting to know them?
Every single time I tried using arch, I had nothing but problems with updates. I wasted a lot of time hunting down documentation to things that broke, like mailing, logging, the DE, bluetooth, you name it. Changes that get taken care of by default in other distros. I had some very nasty surprises while using arch. My stable Ubuntu or Debian installs didn't even have a single glitch in the exact same timeframe.
For any firm large enough that layoffs would bring negative press, so did the thinly veiled "return to work" scheme. I don't think it was so effective.
That might work if there was cheap residential real-estate for the workers to fill up.
For comparison, it looks like it was hovering around 6 million square feet before the pandemic, or ~4.5 Salesforce Towers. I wonder how much of the still occupied space is functionally empty now, or only used a few times a week.
In other words
Yeah, as best I can tell, this article is making stuff up. Referencing the article he cites and fails to link to, it's clear that no one is refusing to teach kids math.

The headline and the rhetoric used in the article are misinformation at best if I assume the author is simply ignorant.
So they are dumbing people down to make them more equal?
And if may contain is not enough or allowed, may as well throw some amount of peanuts in and list it. And cover all the bases.
So I keep hearing this, but I haven't seen it actually working in practice.

My wife has been (trying to) freelance since we moved to the US. She applied the playbook, rejected lowball offers, and negotiated higher rates.

The result? She has worked about a total of 2 months out of 1.5 years. The pipeline is dry and nothing is coming her way. In retrospect we regret not accepting some of those lowball offers. Sure, the rates suck, but not having a job sucks more.

My cynical take is that blanket statements like that are unrealistic and even harmful for some.
Part of the context of referral letters is you’re usually doing them a favor, not your job.
When they first started calling these systems "POS", I thought that it was an unfortunate coincidence that they used the common acronym for "piece of shit". But later, I began to wonder if it wasn't intentional, a kind of inside joke.