skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a millenial, I'm more amazed that someone willingly uses a phone for non-mandatory and not-burningly-urgent phonecalls... why on earth would anyone do that is way beyond me.
Scientists Just Inched Closer to Lab-Made Human Eggs and Sperm
>> This is a new, agile, cloud-first company that grew very quickly and has faced significant turnover.

This is not really true of Snowflake, which is not some 2-person YOLO startup, and it's also pretty irrelevant as the weakest link is often a single employee regardless of the size or industry of the company. In my experience the support and security is way better than average - example: as a client of both Snowflake and Sisense, Snowflake reached out to me about the Sisense breach before Sisense did.
I look forward to this never happening again and not becoming a massive problem for the next 10 years.
I'd fail 90% of tech interviews on the spot if I had to fire up your IDE, instead of firing up a white board and an expo2
An important distinction for sure, though I had assumed the opposite, which is that the GP was in disbelief that adults can bring guns to U.S. schools (and that it's totally obvious that children cannot).

When you're discussing our gun laws with foreigners, I guess you're right that it's always necessary to spell out the fine details, like the fact that we have separate rules for gun-toting people who are over 18 and gun-toting people who are under 18, because from their perspective it's almost certainly just one big jumble of insanity.
> Ok, then it's aparently the intermediate representation (what the parser feeds to the evaluator), which makes sense. The evaluator doesn't care, whether it comes from the parser or from constructs-to-c generated code.

Precisely!
These are very insecure in a lot of states. Even the ones with stable teacher retirement systems are under constant threat of having those systems destabilized by the political winds.
Why don’t you have automated test coverage so you’re free to make maintenance or engineering improvements without fear of breaking things?

Because that's equivalent to solving the Halting Problem. Even if you could test your way to quality in a non-interactive context, it would never be possible in a system that includes asynchronous human input.
The algorithm was changes to show more right-wing posts and more Elon Musk posts. This is widely documented. Try opening up a new account to see how bad it is. Not sure why anyone uses it instead of Mastodon, Threads or Bluesky
Alternatively, what is it about managing others that causes one to make decisions that you wouldn't have previously made?

My answer: incentives. I suspect that if you started managing people, you'd start to see some of these issues differently too.
Was their intent to dox the employee while discussing this beach? They show the employee’s username, which is easily Googleable.
Indeed. I can already predict the outcome here, regardless of their own culpability level, will be a fine less than the profit they bring in during a single week (or probably in 10 minutes if it's the week a Taylor Swift concert goes on sale). And all executive bonuses will still be paid.
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I remember doing this with ASPv3 pages back in the day on a content site. It made it easy to dump what HTML has already been completed out before continuing to generate the heavier, but much less important, comments section below.
OTOH if you see a penny and pick it up, and that process takes (say) three seconds max, then you are making 12$/hour tax-free, which is probably acceptable.
And that’s why we don’t hire people that are like that. We need to hire people who are comfortable being uncomfortable, and can think on their own rather than just pull down answers from other places and massage them to fit whatever problem their solving.
> It's worth trying though, it's free.

The above claim strays far from the way of logic. Follow that pattern of thinking, and you'll never run out of things to try.
Wreck of WWII Submarine Found After 80 Years
I think once it's been in place for a year it will be very hard for them to take it away.
Check out postmarketOS. Can run on a Nokia you're specifying, but not only :)
That’s exactly what they do.
> To put it bluntly, a single credential resulted in the exfiltration of potentially hundreds of companies that stored their data using Snowflake, with the threat actor himself suggesting 400 companies are impacted

You only have to "fail" once, as they say.-
There was a Mexican company offering $800k - $1000k. It's still technically $100k+ but wrong currency lol
The tax system here (usa) is an absolute joke. I owed $5k this year and I literally did nothing different except receive a small 5% raise last year. I have the most basic taxes you can, single, no kids, no house. Literally just a salary paycheck every 2 weeks. Had no idea I would owe anything, much less that much money until I filed 2 weeks prior to our tax date in April and you're expected to pay everything you owe to them on that date.

I sold a house in 2019, I walked away with only about $15k profit after paying everyone. Bought the house for $335, sold for $370ish. I think my principal was around $310k at the sale. I got a letter in 2022 that I owed the IRS something like $150k or so, some shocking amount of money. Freaked me the hell out. I had to dig out all of my paperwork from the sale and send it to them. All of it but, I forget, maybe $100-1k was dropped. I have no idea what their deal with that was. I had a mortgage, paid the mortgage to my mortgage broker, and when I sold it paid the mortgage off to that mortgage broker. Don't they handle that? I don't know, it was my first house sale.

I'm 40, I've never had the IRS annoy the hell out of me until the last 5 years and now I get a letter from them and my heart stops.. Like, what is it now, masters of my w2? Where I have erred today? It feels like they're practically targeting me at this point. I get letters from them and wonder if they're even legitimate so I call in to verify. When I go to the irs.gov site that tells you what you owe, it doesn't even match what any of my letters say. Right now it says I owe money from I think 2016 that was sent to collections and I've never received a letter for that. Collections! For my taxes? That you pull out of my paycheck?? I don't have ANYTHING about that on my credit report. I also have no way to pay it because it's "In collections."

Seeing all of the rich assholes skate by with tax evasion and all of the loop hole work they do, then knowing they're on my ass when I'm just a dude getting a salary just pisses me off so much.
Seems like this information came from Quora: https://www.quora.com/Is-1-844-457-1420-really-Facebook-supp.... Screenshot: https://postimg.cc/gallery/2nFq5Cm.

I suspect the helpful SEO guy who posted this answer was trying to get more visibility on Quora so answered many questions automatically or semi-automatically without verifying anything.

This is the beginning of the post:

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Yes, 1-844-457-1420 is a valid Facebook support phone number. It is a toll-free number that is available 24/7. You can call this number to get help with a variety of Facebook issues, such as:

Resetting your password
Logging in to your account
Recovering a hacked account
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something doesn't add up, because I don't see how this extrapolates from stealing privileged Snowflake employee credentials. How does that become a keylogger on a client's computer?
I never stated such a thing, nor mentioned magic. The discussion is around statistics and averages and I was writing generally. It's disingenuous to assume the same thing applies in absolute terms.
Seeing shadows on opposing sides of similar buildings in the same area as me.
"Not very, absolutely everyone hates doing their taxes and the whole shady process behind it all"

That's the Grover Norquist (and Republican) argument for not having IRS Direct File to begin with: if filing taxes becomes easy, people might not hate the IRS and hate taxes.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax...
Can I ask how you filter candidates?

I have applied to numerous companies and get what look like mostly automatic rejections despite many years of experience, shipping products, research, etc. I also have experienced friends who say hiring is very slow and cold right now, it's not just me. Do you use any sort of automation?
I'd wager people would have said the exact same thing about remote work a decade or so ago.

"You want a job, you go to an office. That's how it works"
No, the answers aren't just "plausible", they are correct the vast majority of the time. You can try this for yourself or look at any benchmark, leaderboard or even just listen to the millions of people using them every day. I fact check constantly when I use any LLM, and I can attest to you that I don't just believe that the answers I'm getting are correct, but that they actually are just that.

But they apparently actually don't get better even though every metric tells us they do, because they can't? How about making an actual argument? Why is correctness "not a property of LLMs"? Do you have a point here that I'm missing? Whether or not Kahneman thinks that there are two different systems of thinking in the human mind has absolutely no relevance here. Factualness isn't some magical circuit in the brain.

> No such thing can exist.

In the same way there can exist no piece of clothing, piece of tech, piece of furniture, book, toothpick or paperclip that is environmentally friendly; yes. In any common usage, "environmentally friendly" simply means reduced impact, which is absolutely possible with LLMs, as is demonstrated by bigger models being distilled into smaller more efficient ones.

Discussing the environmental impact of LLMs has always been silly, given that we regularly blow more CO2 into the atmosphere to produce and render the newest Avengers movie or to spend one week in some marginally more comfortable climate.
No worries! Glad that trallnag asked so we could clear it up.

Wishing your wife the best of luck with her career! (and to you too!)
It's only free if you don't value your own time.
If you want the opposite of that: University students that come into college with strong calculus fundamentals, then I suggest "Calculus" by Michael Spivak.

I haven't used calculus in a decade, but I use things I learned from working through that book pretty much every day I write code.
How do you feel about it?
>They only reason I can think of that Google doesn’t go after OpenAI for scraping YouTube is then they’d put themselves in the same crosshairs, and may set a precedent they’d also be bound by.

It's like killing Caesar. As long as we all stab him, everyone is guilty and no one can prosecute us.

While you might call it absurd, I feel like these glass houses are why we've seen so much rapid progress with AI recently.
Ah, good to know. I suspect that might be the case for Canadian or Quebec resident.
Wow. Did you just crack the mystery?!
It works just fine for fiction. Ulysses is a very special edge case in the pantheon of all literature, so it's no surprise it doesn't work well for this one case.
Mastodon will continue to suck as long as their default client refuses to support noscript access.

> Google won't send anyone to forums or blogs/personal sites anyways, so this isn't really advice at all

They had that capability in the past, and may again in the future, to say nothing of possible competitors focusing on forum or blog search specifically.

Discord is a black box and that data will be lost forever. That's different from publishing on the public web.
Why would any of us care? It's not our money. $1B+ valuation changes happen all the time.
School districts spend most of their money on humans.

There is a LOT of infrastructure. The schools have to be built, they have to be staffed(there is a fair bit of support staff, to keep the teachers in classrooms teaching).

From cafeteria workers and janitors to IT people and payroll, back office and grant people. High Schools might have a few thousand students that congregate there every single day, that's a small town. Our local high school's have a dedicated full-time HVAC person for instance, just to keep the insane temperatures outside from getting into the classrooms.
Did you get Doom on it the same way?
Not all degrees are created equal. My understanding is that education degrees are particularly easy to get.
Does anyone here run a Discord to IRC bridge? I'd be interested to hear what you're using and your experiences.
> What he didn't know at the time is there is no phone number for Facebook customer support.

Part of the problem here is that Facebook (though in fairness, they are not unique here) has left this traditional path of escalation void, leaving only fake numbers. They don't even have a real number to play a recorded message affirming that there is no ability to call.

ETA: For instance, I notice Facebook appears to own the typo squat `facrbook.com`. I feel like it's the same principle, though I assume toll free numbers are more expensive.
So, "please starve so I can get paid more"?
Your company fucked up by not taking withholding from the bonus.
Similar story here. I had quit my job to return to college full time, but I worked for a few months that year. Turns out that qualified me for the Earned Income Tax Credit.

This credit is supposed to encourage poor people to work instead of living off government assistance. I would have never thought to claim the credit because I didn't think of myself as low income. On a monthly basis, I wasn't. But because of working for part of the year, on an annual basis, for that tax year, I was.

One day I got a letter from the IRS saying essentially, "Hey dummy, why didn't you claim this credit on your return? We fixed it for you. Here's a check."
> signed a non-binding letter of intent

Does this mean anything at all? Sounds like the equivalent of "cool story, bro" from the signing party.

Without committed financial skin in the game, isn't this just a dog and pony show?
so how much do you just stare at grass and yell at the sky
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Anti-tax people like Grover Norquist and Republicans who have made his pledge have long been concerned that if paying taxes were easy, then the American people might not despise taxes anymore. So making paying taxes painful is part of the plan.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax...
Amen to this. And give them a mobile cell plan with 1GB of data per month.

I've seen some web sites with 250MB payloads on the home page due to ads and pre-loading videos.

I work with parolees who get free government cell phones and then burn through the 3GB/mo of data within three days. Then they can't apply for jobs, get bus times, rent a bike, top up their subway card, get directions.
The screenshot shows the post in English. The website domain is Indian. The seller contact xmpp.cn in China. But no, we'll keep blaming Russia for everything.
factoring performance into pay will simply create perverse incentives that will damage students in other ways. it's obvious that paying teachers better will result in greater student success because of supply and demand in the labour market.
I was able to find a breakdown from a few years ago per student:

https://www.nycenet.edu/offices/d_chanc_oper/budget/dbor/sbe...
I mean I can't speak to ICE cars, but electric cars ranges seem to scale pretty dramatically with how new they are.
Given that the Nature research (above) shows that eye exercises don't seem to work, we should focus [1] on what does. Research shows more outdoor time can help with myopia. See https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/aos.13403

[1] See [1] what I did there?
"Bricking" should be a crime.-
One problem is that developers have the best hardware and Internet because "it's their job", so they are completely biased. A bit like rich people tend to not understand what it means to be poor.

The other problem is that nobody in the software industry gives a damn. Everyone wants to make shiny apps with the last shiny tech. Try to mention optimizing for slow hardware/Internet and look at the face of your colleagues, behind their brand new M3.

I worked in a company with some remote colleagues in Africa. There were projects that they could literally not build, because it would require downloading tens of GB of docker crap multiple times a week for no apparent reason. The solution was to not have those colleagues work on those projects. Nobody even considered that maybe there was something to fix somewhere.
Being a teacher also requires a degree in many places, some require a masters for full license.

Average bachelor's degree is ~$30k for in-state public universities, not accounting for interest. Master's in education will be ~$40k.

Starting salary with a Master's in most states is ~$45k
qtcreator actually supports a workflow quite similar to Visual Basic 6 in terms of making guis/adding functionality to buttons, etc
> 73% of individuals in America earn less than the average teacher's salary of $69k.

And around 95% of degree holding individuals do less work than the average teacher, and almost all of that 73% are less qualified and probably in less debt from degree courses.

My son is currently choosing what he's going to move on to after he finishes school, and I'm honestly recommending military service over teaching.

It's a hard job, with working hours that are beyond ridiculous, and you end up spending some of your salary on school supplies for your classroom and for your kids. Not to mention keeping your desk drawer stocked with snacks for the kids that don't have food.

We need to wake up. If we want our children to be babysat, then keep things as they are. If we want our children to be educated, then we need to attract the best to the profession. "If you can't do, teach" needs to be reversed.
The timing coinciding with the founder exiting is interesting.

I've heard multiple horror stories from founders who sold to Vista. They don't exactly have the best reputation.

I wouldn't be surprised if this move stripped value away from other stakeholders in some slightly questionable manner.
Some people have been working on using LLM's for scam baiting. I've also seen LLM's used to interact with the chat support windows. It's just a matter of time now.
I've met people who thought that the IRS makes money from collecting taxes - like that employees there get a cut.
In my state the "teacher's union" is basically liability insurance for stuff that happens in the classroom, they have no real collective bargaining power.
So you're arguing those are all good things, I don't understand tbh
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When I first saw the headline my thoughts revolved around how the heck can a long past CEO of Apple still be relevant?
Ugh...
Why was this flagged? @dang

things get suppressed here so easily
Looks like some jobs are scraped from other sites? Because some referral links are still in the 'Apply' button, for ex: https://rubyonremote.com in the Reddit job.
Please consider a slight delay at typing stage to avoid this round trip after each character is being typed, it becomes very sluggish, even on top of the line connections.

I don't have opinions in terms of the product itself since I am not the target market, looks good in terms of design, I like that!

Best of luck!
You can tell there's a magnetic field, certainly. My argument is essentially one of nomenclature; I don't feel a constant electron-field should count as 'flowing'.

Of course it isn't actually constant -- there are multiple electrons, and you can tell that the electron field is quantized. But the degree to which that is visible, is the exact degree to which the superconductor nevertheless doesn't superconduct!
Not to mention that Justinian largely bankrupted the state's coffers that Anastasius had so carefully built up in his misguided attempt to reconquer the western part of the empire then proceeded to blame everything on his general Belisarius.
I agree, the company should go to jail.
ISTR reading that lack of time outdoors is one of the culprits.

This study wasn't conclusive: https://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2360831
That’s if they were following procedure. But on these internal systems, there are often hacks around the procedure that folks with the right mindset can easily find.
I think that's simply hard to do. What is student success? Test scores? Teachers will teach to the test or even help students cheat on standardized tests if their pay is at stake.

If the evaluation is known ahead of time, we'll just see Goodhart's Law in action ("When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law).

Not only that, but a huge part of "student success" isn't based on the teacher's performance. For example, if you give me a class of wealthy students whose parents have graduate degrees, it'll be a lot easier to teach them than a classroom of low-income students without access to resources who aren't set up for success.

In fact, school administrators could tip the scales toward teachers they like and retaliate against those they don't like even with "objective" measures. Let's say that we have a perfect test of student advancement - a perfect measure, can't be taught to, and can't be cheated on. I dislike you as a teacher and load up your class with all the known disruptive students. You spend your time on classroom management (controlling student outbursts, keeping students in their seats, etc) rather than teaching. This perfect, objective measure comes around and it turns out you're a terrible teacher! Your students aren't doing better than before your class. Except the fault of that is mine - I manufactured a classroom that was doomed from the start.

That's not to say these things don't happen in industry as well. I've seen managers give people they didn't like projects they knew would fail or gave them a team of under-performers to drag them down. However, it's kinda worse when kid's futures are in the balance.

Yes, there are certainly better and worse teachers, but it can be hard to determine who is doing well.
Virginia had a dead simple and free e-File system for years. It cost the state almost nothing to maintain and worked wonderfully. The tax companies were able to bribe a few members of the legislature to have it killed with relatively little fuss, and now Virginians pay some of the highest rates for e-filing at the state level.
that doesn't solve the stated problem
Perhaps people should stop treating the president like a king, and you know, actually pass laws the way our government was designed to work...
How many hours a day are you working and what kind of commute do you have? Just curious how that math works.

Me personally I get up at 6:30, start work at 8 (from home), work until 4:30 usually and go to bed at 11:30-12.
1) buildings, air conditioning, buses and bus drivers, lunches, “resource officers”, the second(!) assistant superintendent’s second(!) secretary (true story, not a big district either) et c.

2) Some kids with certain needs require one entire staff member with them at all times. There may be a few of these in a given school.

3) Somewhat more require something like 1/5-1/10 of one or (more often) two staff members’ time (think “special ed” rooms)

4) These figures may include serious outliers. Selective public schools often have very high per-pupil spending, and schools attached to correctional institutions sometimes register six figures of spending per student, to pick a couple examples.

TL;DR if we could suss out what’s actually spent on a “normal” student at a “normal” school, it would be way lower.