skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Americans are the most privileged people on earth. They have the highest pay, they have the highest ability to climb the social ladder, they never have to be afraid to be conscripted and sent to war, they’ll never see a bomb go off on their home soil, they don’t have to fear Putin or China invading them. Are non-Americans supposed to feel bad for these privileged people?
I respectfully urge any commenters to consider that a good portion of us HN readers are in this 50%, despite living outside of the valley.
The schools are free to design their own pay packages right? The state isn't mandating that pay be tied to tests. This is mostly just an assumption that that would be the only metric used.
I’m curious, in what scenario was bandwidth for static resources an issue? It’s one of the most trivial things to serve cheaply.
Absolutely not.

Why anyone would consider such a thing reasonable is beyond me
Even in a non-capitalist society, you still need high quality teachers and ideally some way to measure them. And it's not like eliminating capitalism in any way would prove to end poverty.
if all you have is a hammer…
Does standardized test score outcomes measure this behavior or does it favor teachers who teach test taking and have less challenging demographics in their classroom?

Performance based pay in professions whose performance is difficult to measure directly leads to bizarre outcomes. I’m not disagreeing in general but I’ve seen this again and again in my career, and I spent a long time on Wall Street where bonuses -really- matter. That extreme brought out the extremes in how incentive pay distorts behaviors in unexpected and undesirable ways, which gets worse the further you get from a directly measurable outcome like PNL.

As a parallel example, hospitals who specialize in extremely difficult diseases with high fatality rates generally have abysmal patient outcome metrics over hospitals that punt anything complex to a specialty hospital. This plays out in policy spaces punishing the speciality hospitals despite the fact they are well known to be top of the industry in terms of performance and “extra effort.” Nominally though they should be shut down by all metrics.

This absolutely plays out in education. Not every classroom or school or district is equivalent in terms of the challenges they deal with. A teacher with a very challenged class who is a high performer and puts in extra efforts will be punished simply because their baseline was much lower than a teacher who punches the clock in a class of affluent students who have private tutors.
In the past people who were mostly disinterested in politics and news simply didn’t watch/read the news. Now the news finds them and they don’t have enough of an understanding of civics, economics, and history or the emotional coping mechanisms to know what to do with it.

It’s not that they were fully ignorant of the news in the past, but people used to get most of their “takes” and opinions from like, a weekly editorial column or Sunday paper or something that would sort of bubble up through various cultural filtering mechanisms. By the time it got to your typical 17 year old it has already gone through a “processing mechanism” where it’s been analyzed, contextualized, better understood. They’re not getting the messy information in raw form.

Now they get the raw information as it happens, and often bubbling up from agenda driven activists instead of disinterested analysts. Consequently, everything has a heavy emotional charge and is specifically geared to short circuit the rational mechanisms for understanding things and hit you in the lizard brain. The lizard brain is good for quick thinking and rapid reactions, but it’s not very good at emotional regulation, priority setting, or any of the other stuff that’s conducive to mental health.
It is simply a fact that wealth inequality is worse than it has ever been many times over. Those at the bottom know this first hand. They dont need media to tell them.
It’s just an internet comment, but thanks for the tip, Freud.
> Is that what I did? Maybe.

I don't know! The 2 part thing is necessary if you want the performance back. If you only care about it looking like older versions, and don't object to wasting a few hundred MB and a few % of CPU, you don't need to disable the service.

My guide on this is a blind friend of mine, and he is super extra fussy plus plus about system responsiveness and wants the maximum possible performance. :-)

> If that whole "Theming" thing arrived in XP or Vista

There are 2 different things.

XP introduced themes, but they are effectively 2D textures on the old GDI display server.

Vista replaced the GDI with Aero, a compositing window manager that uses a 3D card to render textures onto flat window objects -- a method taken from Apple's Quartz Extreme display server, and also now used in most Linuxes as well. That's how come Vista brought transparency effects in: it's the GPU compositor doing that.

Side-effect: console windows can no longer be toggled to/from full-screen with Alt+Enter. Which was very useful for cleaning up screen corruption, but is rarely needed any more.

> I must have been disabling that as just a one-click preliminary to going into the basic "Appearance" Control Panel item

[Nod]

> No idea what this means. Win7 never even got to SP2.

No, duh, you're right -- I must have gotten it mixed up with XP; that only really stabilised after SP3, didn't it?

[Wiggles head]

SP3 was a big one and the OS at least got a fair bit less insecure after it. That's when the Windows Firewall appeared, IIRC.

> So there was no such cut-off for 7; that was functionally fine from the start

Yeah, but it was just a point-release of Vista, really.

There isn't a lot of difference between Vista + SP1 and Win7. But it had its bad reputation before the SP and never lost it.

> got progressively worse in terms of UI backward compatibility

Oh, my, yes, agreed.

> Which is why I prefer some unspecified "early" iteration of it.

Fair.

> So far, fortunately, I've managed to avoid W11, except for a couple of months at the job I had in the end of 2022. But, sigh, I suppose it can't be avoided forever... :-(

Nope. But I think a community will try to keep 10 alive as long as it can.

W11 feels to me like "Windows for people who don't really know how to use Windows", but then, Office 2007 and all successive versions felt the same: Office for people who don't know how to use Office.

I do know Office. Especially Word, to a less extent Excel. 2007 broke it and it's never got any better.

So I stopped using Office, except for old versions of Word, because LibreOffice doesn't have an outliner.
It’s just false (for cognitive work).

E.g. https://www.bostonfed.org/-/media/Documents/Workingpapers/PD...
First you have to define teacher quality. What should a good teacher provide to their students? Knowledge, ability, curiosity, safety, integrity, self-worth, honor, respect, kindness? Can these be quantified and compared against each other?
I tend to prefer using test harnesses[0], but I also use unit tests -a lot.

I think having a fundamental Quality mindset is what we actually need, and there's really no way to automate that.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/testing-harness-vs-u...
Xargs is the inverse function of echo
-18°F here (-28°C) here this winter. The heat pump (Mitsubishi) definitely worked hard and burned through our net-metering credit, but it did what we needed it to do. -15°C is just not even remotely a problem.
> you can plan Tel Aviv to Antwerp, while selling Tel Aviv to Amsterdam

I think I'm missing something – what if somebody actually wants to get off in Amsterdam? Does the ticket come with a little asterisk saying "you're likely to end up in Antwerp"? Or are you talking about chartered or private flights?
Yes, of course they created a consumer product that outperforms the main product of the third largest company in the world just as a measure to cheat investors out of a couple of hundred thousand. That's why I won't buy Apple products either, because I'm sure all these iPhones and Macbooks are just a tricky plan to build up investor confidence so that they can cheat them out of money in the future.

Useless snark aside, if the Kagi team wanted more "money directly into their own pockets" they could just raise their salaries. If their product is comparable to Google their salaries could be as well.
Why even engage this sort of thing? It's just going to turn into a flame thread.
I don't think France is so messy. It looks like it because the French really enjoy criticizing everything.
There's a very interesting chapter in the _Freakonomics_ book about catching cheating teachers. The authors use it as an example of incentives gone wrong: to hit their bonuses for high test scores, teachers have cheated in all manners of ways, from helping their students during standardized tests or literally changing their answers after students hand in the papers.
Where I live schools are commonly for profit, so shareholders and bosses exert pressure to get higher grades.

It works, without the students learning more. Our universities are complaining that students arrive that can hardly read even though their grades say they are able to.

And yeah, we have standardised tests administered centrally so we can actually to some degree measure 'grade inflation' too, and know very well that employment/pay based on grading undermines whatever slim value grading would have otherwise.

Edit: Oh, and parents also exert such pressure.
There is no test under GDPR for personal data that can identify an individual to have to identify a single unique individual to be in scope of the legislation, just that the personal data can be used to identify _an_ individual. Two people living at the same address with the same name sharing the same telephone doesn't suddenly make all that personal data fall out of scope.

Whilst the response from OP is so obviously wrong and confusing that it's likely to be a troll and not worth engaging with, it's worth clarifying to anyone reading this thread that email addresses most certainly do qualify as personal data under GDPR. GDPR very clearly states what personal data is (see https://gdpr.eu/eu-gdpr-personal-data/ and https://gdpr-info.eu/issues/personal-data/) and that storing or processing of this data necessitates the need to comply with the requirements of the GDPR (particularly the rights detailed under https://gdpr-info.eu/chapter-3/).

For the purposes of this conversation, an email address is personal data, operating in the EU (and additionally, by way of carried-over legislation, the UK) means complying with the GDPR, and therefore Kagi need to provide mechanisms by which people covered by the legislation can enforce the rights afforded them within it.

(GDPR also doesn't use the term "PII", merely just "personal data" and goes on to detail what this means in terms of identification, which might add to the confusion in OPs original message).
Using reader view would discard all CSS anyway though right?
Does Boeing make jet engines? Why would a thrust reverser on a CFM56 installed on a 737 be Boeing's responsibility any more than one installed on an A319?
A real estate agent or a hiring manager can still walk away from a really bad property, candidate, etc. A teacher can't walk away from a really bad kid (or really bad parents!) without leaving the profession entirely.
when a metric becomes the target, it ceases to be a good metric
Personally if I'm going to rely on someone to host it, I check if my hosting provider does it for me already. I believe Microsoft pre-hosts some JS packages. Google hosts fonts and such as well.

I also miss being able to host random CSS and assets on Tumblr.

Otherwise, it should be on my own CDN. Especially for enterprise sites.
I'm pretty convinced that test-first is best seen as a negotiating technique to get the time to write the tests in the first place.

"Okay, the code is done, time to write the tests" results in pressure to shorten testing, since if the golden path works then surely everything else works, right?

Your management and your sales people then say "You're a great developer, it looks like it works, and we need to deploy that code now because customers are demanding it and the competition is breathing down our necks."

It's hard to resist that pressure.

While saying that it's best practices to do TDD means you don't need to deal with that sort of negotiation.
> The most common sacrifice was taking no or fewer vacations. More than one-third of homeowners and renters (34.5%) who struggle to afford housing indicated that they skipped vacations in the past year in order to afford their monthly costs.

Vacations, at least the kind where you travel somewhere, are the definition of luxuries. It's jarring to hear about skipping them adjacent to a paragraph about skipping meals. I went on only a handful of vacations growing up, all of them staycations or domestic road trips with some other reason for going there or with someone else paying.
Yeah, things are better than ever in most metrics, but this is also the issue with metrics. Those same metrics do not cover two current wars that involve nuclear powers and the risk of these two wars becoming global conflicts. Those metrics do not cover increasing atomization of human societies and the impact of increased atomization on the human social animal. Those metrics do not cover human exposure to sunlight, clean air, clean water, and other health factors. Likewise, humans have a tendency to focus on risks and negatives rather than celebrating wins as a product of evolutionary pressure.
We already have export restrictions on cryptography. Of course there will be AI regulations.
Hire mature and experienced people as teachers. It is easy to assess someone mature based on their life achievements. No need to attract greedy ones as greed isn't the most desired competence for people who will work with children.
> There are people who argue that just the name of a person is PII and they are wrong.

> ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, [...]

https://gdpr.eu/article-4-definitions/

A name is PII, as stated by the definitions in the GDPR.
We have one loop with cast iron radiators, but the other two loops are modern baseboard. When we installed a condensing boiler in 2015 I needed to adjust the outdoor reset curve up so the loop that serves the first floor wouldn't leave it under temp on cold days.

Even our cast iron radiators are smaller than you might expect for the age of the house, because they were designed for water above its normal boiling point (using mercury pressure: https://www.jefftk.com/p/mercury-spill).
> But IIUC it's a somewhat common practice.

I don’t have any data but I really don’t think it actually is that common. I definitely heard it used a lot more in the 2000s jQuery era but not really today. Browsers even have isolated storage these days so the benefits really are infinitesimal.
The author conflates unit testing with integration testing, although it seems the terminology is a huge source of confusion for articles like this. Anything with mocks is an integration. Units are pure functions only. Generally a mixture of unit and e2e is the best way to go. Mocked out integrations tend to be a nightmare to maintain and provide little value.
>The world probably has never been as peaceful as in the last 50 years or so.

Peaceful? As in Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, Iran? Brazil is at great risk also.

I don't think so.
The US was, and remained, stable through those events. Were the US to become unstable, it is true that it would likely take the rest of the economic world with it, but eventually countries with some stability would start to recover. Whereas, whatever conditions made the US unstable would likely only be exacerbated in the mess – economic downturns are not a good time to find stability! – making recovery improbable.
Kids spend too much time thinking about social issues that they are not ready to deal with because they are used as pawns in the culture wars or manipulated to feel like they need to consume more. Society has a responsibility to stop manipulating our children and giving them problems they have control over and can deal with. In plain english: stop telling kids to fix global warming and that they need plastic surgery and start telling them to clean their room and prepare healthy meals for themselves. Help them feel like they have control over their own lives and their environment and they will stop killings themselves.
If a teacher knows or suspects what questions will be on the test, they can drill their students to memorize the answers the week before the test. That's cheating and it doesn't matter who proctors the test.
Foolishness of Intelligent Bees vs. Genius of Dumb Flies
Anecdote: in 2001 I paddled the Yukon from Whitehorse (Canada) to Emmonak and Alakanuk (Alaska). When crossing into Alaska at Eagle I had a chat with the local Sheriff who, upon hearing I just came from Canada told me in no uncertain terms and with a comic book drawl that 'Canada is a communist country'. I thought 'yeah, sure buddy' and went upon my merry way in the certainty that Canada might be more of a cross between European social democracy and American liberalism but not a 'communist country', never that.

For some years I had planned to move to Canada and was gearing up to sell my house in the Netherlands when I met a Swedish woman at a party in the UK which sort of changed my plans - I moved to the north of Europe instead of the north of the Americas.

Now, 22 years later I see that Sheriff's words in a different light. No, Canada is still not a 'communist country' but it has proven to be a country which is easily taken over by (what I consider to be) the 'looney left'. The People's Republic of Trudeaunia is not the Canada I envisioned when I planned to move there and I am - for more than only this reason - glad things worked out the way they did for me so I did not end up living there. Sweden might have its own set of problems but when compared to Canada we're a beacon of sanity. This became even more clear during the SARS2 unpleasantness when the contrast between oppressive Canada and free Sweden became even more obvious.

What went wrong in Canada? Why has it gone from being a 'more civilised version of the USA' to the caricature of a 'liberal utopia' (in the American sense of the term 'liberal') it has become and what will it take to put the country back on track towards sanity?
> but there's nothing "suboptimal non-default options" about it

If "bypassing the official driver to invoke the underlying hardware feature directly through source code modification (and incompatibilities must be carefully worked around by turning off IOMMU and large BAR, since the feature was never officially supported)" does not count as "suboptimal non-default options", then I don't know what counts as "suboptimal non-default options".
Uhmm...I see a problem for countries where you have wall to wall connected urban environments...If all 60 connected houses on a street, install external heat pumps, it will add up.
> Does anyone know of a way to contact someone directly?

They will always just refer you back to support. If they refuse to give your money back then simply move your domains and chargeback.
I'm speaking from the experience of being married to a teacher at a very large highschool in a medium sized city here in the US. In all the years of her talking to me about her work I don't think she's ever mentioned her union. Maybe she's just not at the admin level and dealing with it but given the number of vacancies at her school (which is considered one of the best in our city) - I don't even think the union is coming into play. They need staff.
I'd be surprised if there was any rich person (say, $10M+ in liquid assets) in the US who wasn't planning an exit strategy. Like...open your eyes and look around you. If you'd spend money preparing for an earthquake why not the fall of democracy? What are you going to do if you or your spouse/daughter needs emergency medical care and the procedure is outlawed nationwide? What will you do if an authoritarian government and the mob that powers it turns its eyes towards your political views, race, religion, sexual orientation, place of residence, economic class, hobbies? By the time it starts happening it'll be too late to act.

The US economic engine will keep chugging, and people in that position can still take advantage of it while enjoying the political stability and social freedoms elsewhere.
It takes a certain level of hacker newsiness to see increasing suicide rates and come to the conclusion thing things aren't that bad people are just overreacting to bad data.
Assessing teacher quality sounds a lot less destructive. You know, fewer people getting summarily executed for "crimes" such as owning property, being disliked by their neighbors, etc. That kind of bloodshed is what makes commies so red.
Use a Focused Ion Beam instrument.
The school district I worked in had impoverished students but high per pupil funding, which is pretty common. What reinforced the inequality in that district was that teachers who were able to, self-selected to have the best behaved students, who were most likely to see improvements in test scores. The teachers who ended up with 90% of their students starting the year multiple grade levels behind and with severe behavioral problems would rarely stay in the classroom more than 2 years.
What a shame... people using their powers for good, and then these guys just shitting on everyone.

You have to look very carefully at contributions after this.
With all the tech layoffs, IT is actually loosing jobs. Do they really need H-1B till the IT job market stabilizes?
You were downvoted, but I think you're correct.

When I worked for the DoD, most of us were focused on doing the right thing for the country, and we worked diligently towards that.

The pay was mediocre, and potential performance bonuses were minimal.

But the job stability let us focus on the big picture, and we did.

I haven't worked anywhere else that had the same dynamic, even much better paying jobs in the private sector.
normal people aren't on twitter
I was on the verge of buying pre-Covid era. I was going to end up paying mortgage for 20/25 years. My plan was a small 2-bedroom bungalow, I was still considering then, that I was going to pay quite a lot for what I wanted... Covid happened, prices went to the roof and beyond... I'm not buying squat right now, no way... Prices remain just the same, it's funny when they go up they go all the way up as high as they can push it, when then come down you can't even feel they did.

I'm scratching 40s and I think my new plan is to go somewhere else... save for the next decade and move to Northern Africa, which I love and have ties to... Retire there and work remotely, or teach or a combo of those... I hope it works, even if it doesn't beats the crap out of grinding my whole life for a small pod in the west.
Add Bernie Madoff, who, of course, was also stealing from other rich people. The capitalist state makes more sense when you see it as the Central Committee of the bourgeoisie. They may take action against individual capitalists, but only in the interest of the capital class as a whole.
The utter inanity of it all just hit me: news pieces are not for disseminating info, but for manipulating public perception.

Suicide rates are up by around ~2.6%. In 2021, 48,183 people were recorded to die from suicide. While in 2022 it was 49,449.

Meanwhile, ~650,000 people die each year in the U.S from heart disease. This is all considering that the U.S has 330 million people.

The rate of people that die from suicide each year is barely a single basis point in relation to the total population.

And now you have HN, where everyone mainlines these propaganda pieces everyday, for years on end. The amount of time I've wasted.