skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you propose we measure that efficiency? Attendance requirements? Standardized testing?
The majority (non-aristocratic, non-clergy) were illiterate for most of human history.
>One way or another, the retailer will not bear that cost of increased wages.

They will try to avoid it before the increase, and they will try harder after. That doesn't mean they can have a 100% unmanned mcdonalds if minimum wage somehow shot up to $30. And given that McDonald's main revenue isn't even on food, it's not even a good idea for that specific company to shut down locations over increased wages.*

That's clearly why they are investing more into those automated tellers. automation is the only way to reduce headcount but not affect throughput.

*Other chains might, though. I do wonder in this scenario if this would lead to small business rising up as large business find it untenable to hire entry level labor. I don't imagine so (they will pass the costs to the customer), but it's an interesting thought experiment.
Agreed. I could have phrased that better.
My battery with FF on a Macbook Pro with M2 still lasts less than the same device with Chrome. Hope this improves soon.

Ofc, Safari beats them both but I hate Safari's plugins system so I need a browser that doesn't need an AppleID to install plugins.
How workers remove toxic debris and ash after Hawaii wildfires
I've been thinking along the same lines. The token window IMO should be a conceptual inverted pyramid, where there most recent tokens are retained verbatim but previous iterations are compressed/pooled more and more as the context grows. I'm sure there's some effort/research in this direction. It seems pretty obvious.
Per the article, they only to pay a fraction of the employee's home internet cost
You could have said the same about every catastrophe that got out of control. Chances are they will eventually gain unauthorized access to something and we will either get lucky or we get the real life Terminator series (minus time travel so we are f**ed)
> LOL, it’s not just for “public acceptance”. Look up Chain of Thought. Asking it to get to the point typically reduces the accuracy.

Just trying to provide helpful feedback for you, this would have been a great comment, except for the "LOL" at the beginning that was unnecesary and demeaning.
I wonder if this was one of the inspirations for "A Wind in the Door", which mentions stars disappearing.
I'm noticing several comments to the effect that "teachers" have some particular qualification to teach that other people don't have. But, at least in the US, the qualifications required to become a teacher are intended to protect the teacher's union and they don't confer any special "teaching ability".

People have been teaching things to each other for hundreds of thousands of years, even before there were degree programs in education.

I will grant that some people are particularly good at explaining things well, but I don't associate that ability with "public school teacher" in any respect. In fact, it correlates with being bright, which is negatively correlated with being a public school teacher.
I've seen it both ways. A lambda monolith is much simpler to work with.
> there are a number of people out there who only want to teach their kids what's in the Bible

Not all homeschoolers are like this. There are plenty of other good reasons for parents not to want their kids to go to public schools.

> society at large has a vested interest in ensuring that children, broadly, are educated

Yes, but for whose definition of "educated"? In the US, at least, the government was not supposed to decide that. Individual families and communities were. And, as I have posted elsewhere in this thread, the people who set up the US system of widespread, compulsory public education were quite explicit about what they meant by "educated", and that included plenty of things that any reasonable person would consider to be indoctrination, not education--and that was on purpose.
> but many states guarantee children the right to education

They guarantee the right to /access/ education. This is not at all the same as guaranteeing that all children "must be educated at a state approved school."

> If nobody outside the home ever sees or talks to the kids, there's not much the state can do to even start an investigation.

I read an incredible number of police reports. There's a lot of abuse that gets detected outside of daycare and schools. Unless the children are literally locked into a basement, I doubt that the parents can continually exercise enough total control to keep whatever other abuse their committing hidden.

To the extent that if it is happening, it's an exceptionally rare case, and I doubt that simply forcing all parents to send their children to a third party for education is going to have any impact on these particularly pernicious cases.

I understand the instinct, but I think the solution is wrong, and it's an inappropriate case to use to defend schooling in general.
I don’t think most of the coders who end up in glue code positions are actually trainable.

Agree solidly on the gating aspect though.

The problem is that quality hires continue to be rare and at some level you are doing area-under-the-curve reasoning.
Show HN: ImgProof uses AI analyze image files for spelling and grammar mistakes
Hi, HN

I want to show off a tool I've been working on that aims to automate the proofreading process of image graphics, scanned documents, or any image file containing text by finding and correcting spelling and grammar mistakes.

There's still room for improvement having to do with fine-tuning and finding the right sensitivity preferences when it comes to the OCR, but would love to get early feedback.
>> By the way, I don't think there is anyone homeschooling with the "only textbook is the Bible"

> Here’s a curriculum company that’ll gladly give you the tools: https://answersingenesis.org/homeschool-edition/

Contrary to your claim, the linked page implies nothing about the Bible being the "only textbook". It simply offers a set of Bible lessons for homeschoolers ("This exciting curriculum contains homeschool lessons that cover the entire Bible chronologically in four years…").
My 2015 MBP could do two external monitors.
It sells a direct derivative of the data though, which is targeted ads.
Assumptions about homeschooling are just a socially acceptable form of stereotyping. I was homeschooled and I'm a computational evolutionary biologist with a Ph.D from a reasonably well known state university.

Yale flew me out to interview for a biology graduate program. I had the credentials and test scores to be considered, but was turned down, quite possibly because of those stereotypes (based on the questions I got in the interview process).
Sure. I just don’t think this argument that any child who is homeschooled is going to grow up and be a complete idiot and never contribute to society is a good one, especially since all of the comments in this thread making that argument are using anecdotes as evidence. I recently found out the band director at my high school was fucking kids. Can I use that to argue against all public schools? Of course not, so others should not be able to say “well I knew a kid who was homeschooled by a religious weirdo so all homeschooling is bad.”

It’s just odd that so many people here seem to be so in favor of the “sit down and shut up” style of schooling. Isn’t it pretty widely agreed upon that US public schools suck? Don’t you think there are some parents who are homeschooling their children explicitly because they feel their public school would not prepare them to be good members of society?
TL;DR: Recent macOS Sonoma and 13.6 Ventura have upgrade bugs that brick some macs and make recoveryOS unusable, causing a black screen that requires a DFU revive.

Issues on Sonoma appear most often on dual-booting macs: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208891

Ventura upgrades can also bite you if your display refresh rate is set to anything other than ProMotion, for unclear reasons.

The doc is on the Asahi Linux wiki because their developers discovered this issue, but it's not unique to Asahi. In fact, running the Asahi Linux installer can detect whether your mac will be affected by this issue, even if you ultimately choose not to install Asahi Linux. See the article for details.
Is there data showing that housing is the primary driver? I vaguely remember Sebastian Junger's book Tribe describing how people in low socio-economic community housing generally were happier than more well-off people in individual housing. I think his thesis was modern life, with suburban living, tends to disconnect us from community. From that perspective, it would seem like community is more of a primary driver than housing.
> Are you suggesting that all these folks are giving free speech a bad name by uttering the wrong kind of speech?

I'm not the GP commenter, but I am. There is actually a so-called "wrong speech" or whatever you want to call it. Repressive speech such as open racism - we don't need that shit. Ever. And without it, we may cultivate actual free speech.
If a company does all those things and the employees are happy to keep working there, how can anyone argue that they're under compensated?

Pay is part of compensation and compensation includes what going to work feels like.

If I'm at a reasonable level of pay I'll absolutely optimize for work that feels enjoyable vs. wringing out a few more dollars. And my definition of reasonable is quite low (intentionally because I live as cheaply as is possible in the US with a chronic illness).
If they can't be even accused of dumping Bud Light cases (you say even this was devised by the intelligentsia), what is then the most egregious thing the poor did?
Interestingly I ran into this exact problem with my work MacBook Pro M1 upgrading to Ventura 13.6 and assumed it was a totally isolated incident. I don't have a dual-boot setup either, just a single macOS install.

The computer was connected to a Thunderbolt Display during the update which I assume had the same effect of changing the refresh rate to something other-than-ProMotion that the linked article mentions. I had to do a DFU restore from another Mac and then run the macOS Sonoma installer from USB, which thankfully detected the existing install and did an in-place upgrade, preserving all of my data. Nothing else worked.

I also wasted far too much time trying to get the DFU restore to work before discovering that you cannot use a Thunderbolt cable — it has to be done using a plain USB-C cable, otherwise the Apple Configurator simply won't detect the other Mac.
"Closed, no staff" is quickly followed by "Retail space for rent". If you see that sign you can rest assured that the business is poorly managed.

Beyond the low pay it is quite likely that the manager is an asshole and the reason he can't find workers is because for what he's offering there are loads of opportunities for jobs at better managed stores in the area. This is a person who was spoiled when the job market was tight and now can't adjust to a new reality where people have options and if you suck they won't choose you. If the business isn't profitable without effectively slave labor then it was poorly structured.
The most intolerant wins:

https://nassimtaleb.org/2016/08/intolerant-wins-dictatorship...
How about a smaller battery, but put trolleybus power lines above the road? This is pretty much the only realistic way large vehicles will function as electric.
It's not really a wild take - that's the reality. It's not really distrust in this case either. The question was can we educate more efficiently.

This case is of a group of kids being taught by parents. The parents give up half a day a week to teach one of their homes. They don't need a staff, a building, etc. You really can't be more efficient than that model of using the existing resources.

And you're only partially right about local control of education. There are many federal and state regulations that dictate school policies in every facet. These would rule out many of the local "nut cases". Much of the funding is provided by the state and federal government too, depending on the state.
Ahh, most likely meant to say recalling then.
One example is not enough for performance conclusions
They are in use by the millions in schools. I have one and I really like, can run android apps, chrome web browser, and in the crostini linux system I can run any apps, dev tools, web browsers, emacs, and it is native. I like it better than raw linux because of the built in android support.

I gave chromeos laptops to my family because they aren't trustworthy. Now they have reliable laptops and don't get virus infections or os problems.
The Nazi's came to power partially by suppressing unpopular speech - initially that of the communists and Jews, and then the Socialists and Catholics, and ultimately the confessing church and mainstreams.

Tolerance was never a reason the Nazis rose to power or stayed in power. It was always rigorous control of others that enabled them.

Even when they were being opposed - by the violence of the communists, they met violence with violence. And escalated that violence. It was a "us or them" situation that they built - and german society eventually chose the Nazi's violence over the communist violence. This wasn't tolerance of the Nazis. They simply outlasted the communists.

Please please please stop spreading this falsehood.
Google started with a simple assumption and built routing software on that assumption. Then they found a special case. They talk to people and realize that, for many humans, directions rely on their relationship to landmarks and streets don't always have names. Adjust the mental model and your software accordingly.

This is an excellent case study in the importance of data modeling as part of the design process. Google started their mapping software with Western assumptions ("All streets have names, and directions rely on transitions between named streets"). If Google didn't adjust their approach, they would be irrelevant to billions of people who navigate primarily by landmarks.
Asked it to write a program that I've written before, to compare with gpt4.
Didn't really get what I was asking for, gpt4 understood it perfectly, and is ready to continue prompting toward completion.

https://www.phind.com/agent?cache=cloeowfla000dl1084ermly3c
vs
https://chat.openai.com/share/4147da33-3669-4657-88fa-3a9dfc...

Might not be representative of the whole thing, but it went on about random things I didn't ask about, and just basic information I already knew
Naive question. What's the practical impact for not having these? It seems that AMD and Intel are also guilty.
Some of which have fiber at the road in front of them, running it up to their rural home from the road would still cost tens of thousands out of pocket

I had to trench a quarter mile and it was about $2K it only goes up a little bit with more distance, biggest cost was getting the trencher here on the big rig. For what it's worth that trenching would have been free had I requested the service when the government grant was issued to the ISP as it also covered trenching. I waited too long and it snowed which pushed me outside of that window. That was entirely my fault.
It depends on how realistic one is being. In a perfect world? Maybe. In the actual world? I think a lot of people get to a point in their career where they want a solid, steady paycheck with minimal drama. There are also a lot of “deep tech” areas where it makes more sense to be in a larger firm than to be out on your own trying to do a startup or whatever.
Someone knows Qualcomm.
> able to dictate and direct our thoughts

All the test does is show that humans are bad at bookkeeping historical choices and make ones that don't follow patterns. We are wired to make and follow patterns. Machines are much better, but they certainly don't have more/any free will.
Socialization is broader than just between peers. It's how the individual develops a relationship to society as a whole. The public school system is the primary way the state socializes kids. You learn the difference between the public and private spheres (the school vs the family), how the two relate, and how they relate to the broader community. Some are better served by it than others but on the whole it's a very good thing.
> Society should care whether parents are providing a base level of education and opportunity to these kids.

And society should also care whether government-run public schools are doing this--not to mention whether they are indoctrinating children with values that many parents disagree with.
In general, salaries are “hygiene factors” for retention — you lose people by underpaying, but you don’t in most cases improve retention by overpaying. There’s an interesting wrinkle in Finland in that income tax payer data are considered public records, so if you wanted to benchmark your salary you could simply request applicable data from Verohallintm, so theoretically — a very big “theoretically” it must be said — that should work against companies paying below-industry comp.
Clearly written by an LLM

But it references (without attribution) this paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-023-00436-8
I think this really comes down to the specifics of the situation.
The data is never truly "anonymized" since companies can easily de-anonymize data in minutes if not seconds as proven time and time again.
Tell HN: Twitter/X Circles are no more
As it was announced around a month ago, today was the last day you could post into Twitter Circles. You can still view your old Circle posts, and people that were in your circle can read them too, but you can no longer post, add people, neither remove people!! anymore.

For context: Twitter Circles were a feature where you could make private posts only visible to those followers you add into your circles (Similar to Instagram's close friends). Personally I used this feature a lot, to share more personal matters with followers I know and trust, or just make opinions about politics without causing a flame war.

I know many people in HN are not fond of Twitter, or use it in a more professional manner, so they might not care. But it does seem odd to me for a company to be so adamant in removing a feature that doesn't seem to have an apparent cost overall in the system, and was used by many people. Do you think there's a hidden motive for this?

I personally do not pay for Twitter Blue, but if there is ONE feature I would pay for, it would be having my Twitter Circles back, so it does seem weird from a business perspective as well. Maybe they want people creating private accounts so they seem like they have more active accounts?

And for anyone wondering yes, you can still have a private account, but it's not the same since you can't just add people there, you have to DM people so that they follow you in the new account, plus, answers are not private like in circles.
Clearly the goal of a first course in linear algebra is not mathematical maturity. If you don't set up the notation consistently from the start, once you start introducing change of bases formulae or proving row rank = column rank, etc., some students will get confused. See all the questions from confused students on Maths Stack Exchange about this point.
The way this particular author has handled the issue is perverse: first he writes vectors as row vectors, then he introduces a mapping M(v) which maps the vector v to its representation as a column vector. Also, as I tangentially noted, he misses out the brackets for a function writing T(0,1) instead of T((0,1)), which is just incompetent. The book should be titled "Algebra Done Shite" not "Algebra Done Right" ;)
Because that is myopic or selfish. You didn't or couldn't buy a house when it was smart, now you want to screw over people who bought homes recently because prices are unaffordable. That is either selfish because you don't care about their property values (when they probably much like you had to work hard for it), or myopic because you didn't even consider it.

What exactly are you even proposing? You want the government to mandate cheaper land, construction material, and builder wages? To lower taxes on all of the above? People who think there is some simple solution "duh just build more houses!" are extremely myopic. Again it's not my problem, I'm not against building more houses and I also get NIMBY because "affordable" or government subsidized housing has a direct correlation to crime rates, lowering property values, and lowering the quality of schools.
I still think a market is there for remote workers socialization. Currently trying the Immersed app, it has public and private spaces. It can be something like a virtual coffee shop, but better because you can hop around, mute the room, conference call, and use pass through for IRL interaction.

Instead of tying the purchase to a company, and having the company force it on employees... one can self select and socialize beyond the corporation boundaries
I don't know. It all sounds very good, but in my mind it fails to engage with the nuance of the issue and there are several "elephants in the room" that are not mentioned at all.

A lot of speech is censored or demonetized by abusing overly broad defamation and copyright laws (false DMCA strikes come to mind). At the same time, some of the censorship you see is "the free market" at work. Advertisers don't want to have their ads run next to certain kind of content. So should platforms be compelled to host such content regardless?

And where do you draw the line between merely an app or website and a digital "public square"? Certainly Facebook or Twitter seem like the latter by virtue of their size and reach, but what about Hacker News? Mastodon instances? The Something Awful forums?
>> All of this is such a distant problem, it seems way too soon to even speculate on. We're hundreds of years away from the logistics of transporting thousands of humans to Mars being a practical consideration. As such, the mere mention of Starship feels utterly anachronistic.

This is not hundreds of years away, it is the goal of SpaceX. They are not just building Starship, they are building a factory with a target production rate of one ship per day. The goal is not to send a few ships to Mars, but an armada. With so many ships around, and a window to Mars about every 2 years it makes sense to start building infrastructure like this with them while they're waiting.

Yes, Elon is a bit... ambitious. And I question whether he is actually serious about it all. But if he is, this is happening over the next 50 years.
You and me both brother. LSP integration seems the way forward.
'Louie Louie': The story behind the song everyone knows but no one understands
Meh, still worse than a 2020 M1 Mac Mini
Yep, people tend to have different (even contradictory and self-defeating) preferences over different time horizons. Many such cases.
I mean his reasoning is sound. The labor involved with dealing with coins negates the settlement.
I didn't like it, feels like the story lost the twin peaks charm
Show HN: ColorClue – A JSON API to determine a name for a color
> There is no such thing as "English pronunciation". English does not have a regulatory body like Spanish or German have.

Oh come on. The fact that there is no regulatory body doesn't mean we can't meaningfully talk about "English pronunciation" in a general way. And Spanish and German have different dialects , accents and pronunciations too.

> The English spelling is guided by meaning, not by sound

How is the spelling guided by meaning?
On the SGI Indy there was a game called Eye Catcher that did that IRL much earlier than the late 2000's, that was more like the mid 90's.
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-most-dangerous...

This article makes a case that the statistics of small sample sizes has bamboozled many different well-intentioned groups, including the small school movement.

The argument is that the fact that many of the best schools are small is an artifact of statistics (de Moivre's equation) rather than evidence small schools are superior.