skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a.k.a. a WinModem driver

It's funny that we used to all blame WinModem vendors for making WinModems instead of blaming open source for not being able to write DSP code. To be fair, it was a lot younger then.
I want to see jobs that can be done from any country as long as I am on the same time zone. Is it possible?
Well, these numbers certainly don't seem like teachers are being drastically underpaid like I commonly hear. Per wikipedia[1], 73% of individuals in America earn income less than the average teacher salary of $69k.

These numbers are just averages though - are long-time teachers dominating the pay scale and new teachers are getting paid a pittance?
>If that were so, any country making a nuclear threat (backed by capability) would get their wish granted.

Why? I said that capability is the metric. Followed by threats. Neither absolutely defines response.

The primary takeaway is to NOT believe capable countries who say that they are against using them (China).

When a capable nation makes the threat, only an irresponsible lunatic wouldn't take it seriously. However, a decision can be made from that starting point.

In this instance, the "Russia can't win" take on why they won't engage in such an option isn't good theory in my opinion.

As the invasion of Ukraine was a desperate counter-move. I believe that you are dead wrong in assuming that Russia didn't understand the probable response and outcome until now. I also think that you aren't considering the variable of even other options available to them and China.

But also, that no one can credibly predict a limit to the specific desperation of arguably the most capable nuclear power in the World. Especially in the midst of an active military campaign.
> as long as you get the job done your actual hours don’t matter

The number of hours goes both ways, it also protects you from having to work 100 hours every week.

I'll hire you to work to just get the job done, with no actual hours required in the contract, but you better believe you'll get 3 weeks worth of work to do in a week.
You don't need a god model to do that. You need a model that understands natural language really well and is good at identifying/extracting subtasks within a prompt, and then it needs to be able to dispatch those subproblems to the right place.
Imagining some parallel to the adage, "the only people who will remember how late you worked are your family". Something like, "the only people who will remember the products you cut are your customers"?
legit question: do you have good luck cold-applying for high end jobs in this market? I just posted a senior full-stack developer job at 130-150 CAD and we've gotten 100's of applicants. So much wheat is going to get discarded with the chaff
How else would it work? It’s incredibly convenient. The option to create a new email is presented on signup forms, or you can open Hide My Email settings and generate one. I have hundreds of emails this way
You've over-egged the pudding here: neither Gödel's incompleteness theorem, nor Rice's Theorem, guarantee that an algorithm in a certain complexity class will have exploitable defect. Rice's Theorem in particular suggests that it's unlikely one will be able to statically prove that such an algorithm has the properties it's designed to have. That should be enough to make anyone nervous.

I hope readers will be able to look past this one sentence in your post and take a good hard look at the rest of it, which is quite important.
> Brave was co-founded by a person that is against same-sex marriage

Is he throwing gays off of buildings, or does he hold a popular belief on marriage and procreation?
Field mice that I thought were moles have destroyed my yard. There’s so many tunnels that I can’t tell which are most active. A camera AI that can show which parts of the ground changed significantly would be nice.

At a hotel, we had a problem of luggage carts going missing. There’s a few ways to deal with that. A generic one that would support other, use cases would be to let the camera tell you the last room it went in. Likewise, outdoor cameras might tell you which vehicles had a customer walk in the hotel and which might be non-guests.
I always thought it was odd that Scully was always the one getting clobbered by some psychopath. Kidnapped, beat on many occasions, abducted and impregnated. If they want to be like Scully they are brave.
It's a huge problem that when the opposition comes into power, they immediately try to revert and undermine what the previous party did. Not because of merit, but just because of partisanship. So you end up with a lot of programs that get started and after a while get repealed or maintained badly. This costs the country a lot of money.

The ACA is a classical example. Instead of improving it or proposing a real replacement, they campaign for repealing it and some incantations of "free market" without explaining how patients won't get screwed over even more than now.
Based on the reporting I've seen, I don't believe that information was part of the leak.
Third person tested positive for bird flu in the US, CDC says
Crazy idea: provide a search box, and when the user hits "enter", POST the data to the backend, which queries the database, and then returns the relevant results.
According to everymac.com it has a serial port but macs had odd port shapes that need a special cable.
They actually don't state this directly - it's states with collective bargaining vs. no collective bargaining. You can be a unionized teacher in a state without bargaining rights.
> Teachers make on average 5% less than 10 years ago, and 9% less than the peak in 2009-10, adjusted for inflation.
Interesting. I have a static IP, and have kept that same IP through multiple moves around the state, but it knows my current zip code. I wonder if that is because my ISP shares the zip code, or through association with data collected from other sites.

And yet every site that uses IP geolocation for useful purposes thinks I'm in a completely different state that bounces around every few months, if I don't let the browser share my location.
They were accessing a system via internal endpoints not released to the public. They were also using stolen credentials a former employee of songbird brought over to ticketmaster, and accessed devices using stolen credentials. If that isn't "hacking" then the word has lost all meaning.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/ticketmaster-pays-10-mi...
I found adjustable too fiddly. Instead got a quality standing desk and tall chair. No fiddling… sit or stand, good for back.
I have had the IRS charge me tax and accuse me of lying to them over a UTMA withdrawal used to pay for tuition even though the fund running the account refused to send me the paperwork because the account is in my parent's name first instead of mine.

It is a massive organization filled with uncoordinated people doing their level best to produce Brownian motion.
As someone who grew up in China, we were forced to do this exercises everyday at school. And yet, China has the highest myopia rate.
Pegasus is Israeli, I'm not sure it is "western".

Israel is very lenient towards Russia.
Not sure what version I was on. But I did a project in it a few months ago. Everything went smoothly. No issues at all.
In all fairness, if the majority of the members of the HOA don't like them, surely they could vote to disband it?
I hear you there. Everything is async until there's a bunch of stuff that isn't and ... wait a minute.
Same. I actually took a course on Ulysses, taught by a guy who's been teaching it for 50 years. So that's about as ideal a reading experience as you can have.

Verdict: meh. Revolutionary for its time, maybe (100 years ago).
Ah, so you want a service that forces employers to tell the truth. I think that's called "Congress", but it looks like it's been abandoned for a few years now.
>> "Generic specialty"

Which is it?
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Right, but she didn't have enough evidence and she was at the mercy of the scifi writers.
I’d love to see more linkage between teacher pay and student success. Unfortunately there aren’t any public schools in my area that factor performance into pay, presumably because the unions are very strong here (CA). Instead, we have a mix of teachers, including some who throw things and yell at students, but can’t be fired.
The more certain the domain, the more that is possible. If you have a document database that you trust, great. For example a support desk's knowledge base. And especially if you have an escape valve: "Did this solve your problem? If not, let's escalate this to a human."

But if you are searching the Internet, you'll find multiple answers — probably contradictory — and the next step is to ask the model to judge among them. Now you want all the intelligence you can muster. Unless you really trust the search engine, in which case yeah a small model seems great.
Wants to be. He reads a lot of code and tries to understand it and write his own. She will probably never be one of you, like and expert. But she's interested, she works laterally in the field - she's done a lot of hours on the intranet at her job. So I think she can be a developer in the future, a good developer. Now she has a degree in the field and... Wait. But then... she is already a developer. I don't know, man. It's a philosophical question.
The ottomans also considered themselves Roman but doesn't mean they should be historically
The stanly was a much earlier tech, perhaps the best car of it's generation. But compare that to the doble, perhaps the high point of steam car technology before that personal motive power route was abandoned.

https://youtube.com/v/rUg_ukBwsyo?t=1012

Now admittedly the doble was a high end luxury item, But you can see how it could be possible to have a every mans steam car.
I agree. Use all three and Azure is the worst.
I need to give you access to my entire email account to understand how many points I have? That's a no from me.
Thanks. Maybe a simple fix is: don't use it for fiction. Since that's not its intent.
I believe average teacher turnover is < 5 years, which would mean that the field is not dominated by old timers.
"Scientists have predicted that by 2040, almost 50 percent of the world’s electric power will be used in computing. What’s more, this projection was made before the sudden explosion of generative AI. The amount of computing resources used to train the largest AI models has been doubling roughly every 6 months for more than the past decade. At this rate, by 2030 training a single artificial-intelligence model would take one hundred times as much computing resources as the combined annual resources of the current top ten supercomputers. Simply put, computing will require colossal amounts of power, soon exceeding what our planet can provide. "

So is Bitcoin still "evil"?
I agree 100%.

From a technical implementation pov 'A' & 'a' are well established as different characters (ascii, unicode, etc). Regardless of personal preference, I don't understand how can a developer/Sys admin be surprised and even frustrated that a file system is case sensitive.

The developer is still free to abstract this away for the end user when it makes sense such as search results
To be fair, that's also the kind of thing Intuit would love to catch since it will make them look good (as they bill people for the privilege of filing taxes, of course).
Which country did you go to school?
I’ve seen you use the word Nakba alot when describing events other then the Nakba. For example a counter-Nakba to describe the Jewish exodus from Middle Eastern and North African countries which followed Israel’s unilateral deceleration of independence.

I don’t think this is fair, nor helpful. It is kind of like saying that the ongoing Gaza Genocide is another Holocaust. The Nakba is a unique historic event, by calling other historic events the same name it kind of reduces the effectiveness of giving names to events, and what made them unique enough to be named in the first place.

The Palestinian exodus from Kuwait for example was nothing like the actual Nakba. To begin with the victims were already refugees, so they had a place that they could flee to. Second the exile orders were a limited time (I think a week), as opposed to permanent in the case of the actual Nakba. The exile orders were not enforced with terrorism and military occupation.

While the exodus from Kuwait was a terrible human rights violation, it is actually much more like ongoing refugee evacuations from Europe and North America than the actual Nakba. Calling it a Nakba is either denying the horrors of the the Nakba, or exaggerating the Palestinian exodus from Kuwait.
Worst Database Naming Conventions I've Seen in Real Life
Depends on the state. In New York, teachers are doing OK (and, frankly, some of my daughter's teachers are awesome).

In West Virginia things are more bleak.
KDE Apps Initiative
If they showed "total comp" as a single number the next (legit) HN complaint would be "why don't they show base salary? everything else is totally dependent on how and when you value it!"
No they don't. Rules for companies and individuals are different in this country, unless you possess some secret to getting away with potentially ruining the lives of 1.5 times the population of the United States with the financial equivalent of a slap on the wrist.
I would argue it continues to be elusive, because it's hidden from plain view. For example byzantine ruins are often not restored, and not in demand by tourists. They are often removed to get to the classical bones beneath, or restored to a pre-byzantine state because that's where the interest lies. Western European funds and institutions have played a large role in archaeological activities in the eastern Mediterranean, and the byzantine period has little resonance with the philhellenes.
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> The particulars of the case matter. Describing it as "hacking" is more than a bit misleading.

People have been prosecuted and convicted under the CFAA for significantly less.

The CFAA is a terribly abused law, but that is a fair use of the word "hacking".
Lesswrong is a AI Safety related forum. There have been previous funding posts on lesswrong. Can check them out.

https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/grants-and-fundraising-opportu...

Also, it would be better if you reach out to the other blogs since they might have some doubts regarding this program of yours.
>Teachers earn 26% more on average in states with collective bargaining
Wow! That was an exciting read. It was way too complex for my limited knowledge of computers.

Sometime around 1993-1994, based on my placements against other relative events, I had the opportunity to "fix" a non-booting IBM Laptop. It was thick, heavy, and large but with just a screen the size of a 3½ Floppy. I have never encountered such a laptop in pictures or elsewhere, so I will assume it was even older in those years.

If anyone have any idea what that might be, it would be nice to see a picture.

An eccentric, out-of-time, local-uncle/mentor gave me that to fix and I let it lie on my table for a few days just to show off to others. I think we did something stupid and simple to fix it - replace the AUTOEXEC.BAT and then load WordStar, which was the only thing they need. Not even Windows 3x but DOS.

The Laptop was likely given by the visiting Christian Missionaries who visit the local Churches in my hometown.

I've another computer-fixing story, but I need to remember and write down the details. Sleeping in an army barrack in the mountains, armed guards while we pee, and returning home while taking care of a pregnant woman in an ambulance. That "mission" was with my childhood/neighbor friend, but he died. That out-of-time uncle also died. Not related.
BBC just linked back to Hudson Rock's allegation FWIW, they don't have any independent confirmation
You can tell electrons are flowing in a superconductor by measuring the magnetic field induced around them.
This innovator actually works for a nonprofit and guess what -- people don't want to pay for news, and those who did at one time are giving much less.[1]

There are a few nonprofit models for social media, and they aren't making a dent in the big monsters. As far as I'm concerned, social media is where ads belong, but maybe that's because I despise it.

The nonprofit model for content, my wheelhouse, is struggling mightily with this issue, but it all comes down to getting donations, government funding, or getting people to work for free. Even this list of "non-reformist reforms"[2] comes down to getting money from the government or consolidating into media co-ops. Public radio stations get a small amount of government funding as you might know, but a journalistic enterprise beholden to its government is probably actually worse than being beholden to advertisers.

So, as a member of this community of innovators, what are your suggestions?

[1] https://logan-gentry.medium.com/giving-was-down-in-2023-but-...

[2] https://lpeproject.org/blog/taking-media-out-of-the-market/
True, and utterly deplorable of course.

But we have to keep in mind that none of those people would be forced to live in such inhospitable places were it not for the bold, decisive actions of that man who got an airport named after him.
I think it would be more useful to compare to other professions that require a degree, rather than all Americans.
I agree, and want to reiterate from slightly different angles.

It drives me crazy to hear people say, "Is that made in China? Because I won't buy cheap Chinese crap!" Are they happy to buy "crap" from elsewhere? The implied causation between Chinese and "crap" is just not there. There has historically been a correlation, but so many people have made the leap to causation in their heads.

The vast majority of Apple's products have been made in China over the last couple of decades. It's easy to question some of Apple's design trade-offs (e.g., gluing batteries in to make things a fraction of a mm thinner), but those tradeoffs are part of the "designed in Cupertino" that is stamped on their products. The fit and finish is much harder to question, and that is done by Chinese hands. It's excellent because Apple, and Apple's customers, are willing to pay for that.

Chinese manufacturers have proven they are excellent at building to whatever price / quality tradeoff their customers demand. For goods sold in the US, it's US companies and/or US consumers setting the price / quality tradeoff.

To the extent there is a correlation, it comes from China being able to build to the cheaper, and therefore crappier, standards that consumers want. When China loses that edge (as Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan did before them), they will move further upmarket and others will step in to fill that market need (Vietnam? India? Various African countries?). This cycle keeps repeating... one of the funnest parts of watching "Back to the Future" today is that the line "all the best stuff is made in Japan" went from sounding so unlikely in the 1980s to prescient in the 21st century. And that line makes no sense to young people, whose experience is that the "best stuff" has always been made in Japan.
> Per wikipedia[1], 73% of individuals in America earn income less than the average teacher salary of $69k.

This is irrelevant to determining whether or not a given occupation is underpaid (or overpaid).

Supply and demand determine the appropriate price, and if you think there are insufficient teachers of insufficient quality, then the price is too low. Similarly, if you had a too many well qualified people clamoring to be teachers, then the price would be too high.

However, given what we know about what teachers have to deal with on a day in and day out basis, plus having to forego vacations during the school year and having an extremely rigid schedule, I would assume people with options (proxy for high quality) to forego teaching if the pay was only “average”.

And that “average” is for professions requiring similar levels of time/stress/injury risk/time off/flexibility/upward potential/etc, so a simple mean or median average of all US working adults’ pay is meaningless.
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It would be a perverse incentive to get struggling kids out of your class and off your record. Same flawed logic behind No Child Left Behind. Underfunding problem areas is not a recipe for success.
My favorite scene in the entire series is when she sits down with the female FBI biologist to discuss the "monkey pee" sample called Purity Control. I think the whole show pivots on that scene and it's fascinating. Your imagination is turned loose and you can't wait to watch the rest of the show.
Used to be lenient
this is pretty naive for anyone who's ever held any sort of job - they don't work like that.
I've been a Pluralsight subscriber for probably over a decade now. Their content is awesome for getting up to speed quickly or just learning about a technology without too much fluff.

I do see though how AI is a huge threat to them. Using Claude 3 for coding and being able to ask questions about my specific issues and getting tailored responses every time to my exact issue (vs watching a general video and applying that knowledge through trial and error) has made me much more productive and also greatly reduced my reliance on using sites like Pluralsight to get up to speed/debug/etc.
Corporations really are amazing. They are, simultaneously, in a superposition of getting away with crimes because they don't exist, and providing goods and services and benefitting shareholders because they do. Remarkable.
Pluralsight is a classic example of a small tutorial site forced to become a giant company. It just doesn't work. There was another: Treehouse, which had a similar fate. On the other hand Jeffrey Way's Laracasts is an astounding success and had a huge role to play in the second coming of PHP.
The article describes both. The 1,0,-1 networks are "1.58 bits" — that is, log2(3). But yeah it mostly focuses on 1-bit networks.
>The woman [from fake tech support] said she would clear the hackers out, but he had to give her access to his phone through an app she had him download.
That's great! Their motivation & updates seem very sensible.
Calculus Made Easy is a very nice compact book for university students who have started to forgot their high school training, and I will certainly point people in the direction of this project.
Yes, that sucks, but regardless with the numbers as presented, it is hard to say teachers are scandalously underpaid.
Mozilla at least really did pay straight cash bonuses so there was no equity valuation stuff to worry about.
I would respond to your request with "no" instead of ignoring it.

Saying no isn't rude. Ignoring that someone has spoken at all is, in most cases.
> We also normalize dots and other methods of reusing an email account.

Is that limited by domain? gmail's dot handling isn't at all standard; e.g. john.doe@outlook.com and johndoe@outlook.com are different accounts, as are john.doe@icloud.com and johndoe@icloud.com.
I’d rather have them not know than automatic taxes.
It sounds like the recruiter reached out to the team for feedback, and their response was along the lines of: arrogant and unteachable.

Given the choice between a technically superior but difficult candidate and a weaker but collaborative one, most teams will choose the latter or pass on both. In my experience, it's more productive to mentor a coachable candidate than hire someone who dissents at every turn. In a high-performing team, personality fit and other soft skills matter significantly more than many candidates realize.