skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We simply talk to the teachers and administrators, and you would not believe the results.

It would depend on what you're asking for. It depends on the school district/state, but anything that gets close to the curriculum isn't easy or simple to change.

For example, one of my kids who went to public school had to use this program (I forget the name) for algebra that the school paid for. You used a weird toolbar to input your equations that appeared to be some monstrous Javascript nightmare. It more or less worked, but it wasn't great. To my mind it would have been simpler to teach them LaTeX or something, but whatever.

As a parent, you can't go in and say "why don't you just let them write the answers on paper like everybody else did until 9 minutes ago?" The teachers loved this program, because it did all the teacher work for them. The school administration already paid for it, plus paying for the computers for the kids to use, plus the IT overhead to keep the computers running.

That's a fundamental structural problem that no parent can surmount. "What do you mean use a screwdriver? We paid for all these hammers!"

The incentives that drive public education are often orthogonal to actually teaching the public. It's not a mystery, any trough where money collects will get snouts rooting for some of it. The parents don't have much say in how all this money must be spent because they don't have any say about the money at all, other than moving to a different district or writing off what they pay in property taxes and paying again to do something else.
Israeli's are (not that they think it was worth it), Gazan's are not. This war severely weakened Iran, Iran's proxies (Lebanon/Hezbollah, and Syria) and also interestingly Russia.

Gazan's now have a ruined country with exactly nothing to show for it.

Depending on how you interpret it, this war was actually a good thing for Lebanon (they have a government for the first time in years), and Syria who finally overthrew their sadistic monster.
It gets even better (quoting from ceejayoz down-thread):

>UHC is the largest single employer of doctors in the US.

https://www.statnews.com/2024/07/25/united-health-group-medi...

> It’s no secret that UnitedHealth is a colossus: It’s the country’s largest health insurer and the fourth-largest company of any type by revenue, just behind Apple. And thanks to a series of stealthy deals, almost 1 in 10 U.S. doctors — some 90,000 clinicians — now either work for UnitedHealth or are under its influence, more than any major clinic chain or hospital system.

>They purchase physician groups... and then pay themselves higher rates.

https://www.statnews.com/2024/11/25/unitedhealth-higher-paym...

> UnitedHealth Group is paying many of its own physician practices significantly more than it pays other doctor groups in the same markets for similar services, undermining competition and driving up costs for consumers and businesses, a STAT investigation reveals.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42717812
> Negotiations on implementing the second phase of the deal will begin by the 16th day of phase one, and this stage was expected to include the release of all remaining hostages, a permanent ceasefire and the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.

Am I missing something or did they really only agree to _just_ a ceasefire?
Nihilism is a cancer on the western psyche.
We have UnitedHealth, and my wife died of cancer. They denied a lot of things, but ultimately, they covered a lot when we rapidly soared past our deductible. We kept a running list of EVERY bill paid. It's a shame they put so much onus onto the family dealing with tragedy.

So while it was a pain to fight them on every bill, they did shell out for us.

Some of the biggest battles were with the hospital bill collectors.
I just looked this up, sounds like a fantastic read. I'll add it to my backlog.
Literally every organized group has people who go on social media. Only when Palestinians or Arabs or Muslims do the same thing as Israel do you consider it biased and wrong. Please reflect on why you think that.

Meanwhile, Israel and the US have literally been caught manipulating Reddit and TikTok. And you’re literally replying to evidence of Israeli hasbara and US willingness to ban sites in support of that hasbara.
Seems like it does. This is where the FTC needs to act.
Recent and related:

Elwood Edwards, voice of AOL's 'you've got mail' alert, has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42087087 - Nov 2024 (41 comments)

with additional comments by jgrahamc, starting here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42087330
>Why doesn’t Japan have this problem?

Japan has some of these problems. For example: they do not care about homeless people. In Japan, I saw a homeless person sleeping between two car lanes, amongst some bushes. Literally 50cm of space separating cars, and he was lying there with his possessions.
I would rather go other direction. When introducing new chemical or additive it has to be proven that is not harmful to humans before using it
Iceland
New Zealand
Australia
Sweden
Norway
Switzerland
Finland (winter war might count)
When Elizabeth Warren was promoting Medicare for All, she kept being asked the "how will you pay for it?" question over and over and over again. Debates, reporters, critics...

People hear "X increase in tax, 3*X decrease in costs" as "X increase in tax!"
> What would it look like to make real change to address the objects, rather than the subjects of frustration?

Real change will come when those who actually put work into it. Nobody will do it for you. Not China, not Trump, not the DNC. When the NAACP noticed that even the Senators who supported Civil Rights were too apathetic to put together a coalition to pass the Civil Rights Act, they created that coalition themselves. This is level political organizing that actually gets things done, and likely how Meta and Alphabet got this TikTok ban through as well.
Yes, the profit flows into the pharmacy, which happens to have substantially the same owner.
Can you concretely suggest what each side should have done at some point in time, to avoid being where we are now? I feel like you're making a rhetorical statement that's hard to map to specific actions.
Israel has a bunch of land that is politically and practically simpler to annex, than before. Israel is more secure by far, knowing that the US will continue to fund them even in the face of being convicted of humanitarian crimes.
Same.

> Code reviews have a bad rap: they are antagonistic in nature and, sometimes, pure red tape.

I wonder if folks know that this is a job? What are you gonna do, not do it? Cry at night because you forgot for the hundreth time to add token strings to translation files and not be hard-coded? Come on.
My complaint with Django is/was that it's fantastic for building brand new apps starting from scratch, but less pleasure to integrate with existing databases. The last time I tried to add Django models to a DB we were already using, there was an impedance mismatch which made it hard to fully model, and I gave up trying to get the admin to work well with it. The ORM and admin are 2 of Django's biggest draws, perhaps the biggest. Without them, it's not so pleasant.

That's when I first came to love Flask. SQLAlchemy will let you model just about anything that looks vaguely database-like, and Flask doesn't really care what ORM (if any) you use.

TL;DR Django's opinionated. If those opinions match what you're trying to do and you can stay on the golden path, it's freaking great! Once you get off in the weeds, it quickly becomes your enemy.
Now imagine giving this "agent" a task like booking a table at a restaurant or similar.

"Yeah sure I got you a table at a nice restaurant. Don’t worry."
This comment was responding to the original link
I'm an avid reader. But about maybe 15 years ago, I stopped buying printed books because I felt guilty - they took up too much space, and it was running scarce. And surely ebooks were superior - no space wasted, I could take an entire library with me, etc. It was just a matter of getting used to them, and abandoning the impractical romanticism of fetishizing the printed page.

At that time, I pretty much stopped reading. Now it's obvious why that happened, but at that point I didn't really connect the dots. I thought that I ran into a bad streak of books that just didn't hook me much, and then I was very busy, I always seemed to have something else to do rather than continue reading. So for those hypothetical reasons I went from reading several books per month to one per year, or even less.

At some point, I read a printed book and it hooked me like in the old times. And then, it dawned on me that the books being bad, or me being busy, were just excuses. The real reason is that I didn't like electronic reading. I wasn't proud of this. It wasn't a rational attitude. Electronic reading was clearly superior (less space, more flexibility and so on), and the content was exactly the same. I was actually quite ashamed of myself: was I such a shallow person that I didn't appreciate the contents of the literature enough to abstract away from purely materialistic concerns? What kind of person can't appreciate culture or art just because they don't like the medium used to transmit it? But be that as it may, the plain truth was that ebooks didn't hook me, and physical books did, so I admitted it and started buying printed books again. And once again, I'm an avid reader.

In the last few years, papers and studies have started to appear saying that with paper reading we retain more, we concentrate more, we learn more, etc... so I have started to reconcile with myself. Maybe I'm not a shallow materialistic asshole after all, and it's just human nature.
If neither side has really changed what's to prevent them from going to war again?

It happened for a reason and unless that reason has changed then one should expect the same outcome.
Seen another way, perhaps Sam would be much worse in this regard without his meditation practice (but Vipassana can definitely make you more anxious).

I'm in agreement though, his podcast pre-2016 was pretty foundational for giving me things to think deeply about. But Trump broke him -- all the hours of airtime on that same soapbox, ad nauseam...

That being said, I still think he's pretty respectable. I started listening to his podcast again more recently, and realized my main dislike is his incessant nature to never let a poorly argued point go un-argued, until he wins. He's so tiring and brutal about that. But hyperbolic antics aside, there are very few times I've found myself fundamentally disagreeing with his assessment or argument (just his approach). And there are very few out there who are a match for his eloquence, when he can channel it and avoid stepping on a Trump rake.

Ironically, I think he could benefit from practicing more acceptance.
Qualcomm vs. Arm: QC's RISC pays off and Arm's dogs don't bite
> [1] "100 KILOpascals? KILO? I thought you said milli, you blithering nixflorp!"

The numbers were given in Universal Standard Units, but the manufacturer assumed Galactic Imperial Units
There are exceptions to the rules, like US election results or the end of major wars
Everyone is tired of this shit. Bibi will be on meathooks if he unilaterally backs out. Hamas will have no friends at all if they renege.
> That result is terrifyingly boring in its implications though, which is why we try to avoid it.

What result?
A result that the entire Universe is deterministic and already determined, like a movie already recorded to tape that we are somehow watching play from inside?
I think this is what Guy Steele called a "monoid-cached tree":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftcIcn8AmSY
Can we get pornhub/eporner support too? :)
If the parents cared and were well educated then those numbers would be much better, simply by them helping kids with homework etc. But schools shouldn't require that.
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I've noticed this with my Kobo ereader (which I love). If I want to go back a few pages, and then return to where I am now, it's a whole ordeal. The UX is there, but I have to learn it and remember it, and it's different for every device (not that I use many different devices). All physical books, miraculously, have the same UX.

The parent post to yours makes me think that a large e-ink display would be useful in a school setting. Rather than carry around a backpack of enormous overpriced textbooks that we might use 30% of in a semester, just have one large ereader that you can use from 1st grade through your PhD.

It's like a book, but lighter! And no internet, no games, no social media, no animations. No private enterprise capturing public education to sell schools a bunch of stupid shit. Just an improvement on a stack of textbooks, which schools or parents have always paid for. Might be nice.
Life pro tip: macOS migration can run over thunderbolt
Don't worry, he also asked his own reviewee, who said the reviews were helpful and in no way obnoxious.
Well they made the fiirst step. They have the fab, other parts of industry may emerge with time
I use codeberg :)

It has CI, pull requests, issues and whatnot. It also doesn't force you to use 2fa if you don't want :D

If you do corporate open source though, you're stuck on github because snyk, openssf, pypi and whatnot only interface with github.

For actual libre software codeberg is very good.

Keep in mind that debian salsa is open to everyone as well. The only annoyance is that non debian developers have a "-guest" suffix. But it's ok to use for projects that aren't debian specific.
As I explained in my initial comment, the problem is average parents are not equipped to be good teachers and homeschooled kids are being denied the variety of experiences that kids going to an actual school are getting. That's why I said all homeschooled kids are being abused by definition. Not the same type of abuse you got at school or I got at home. But they are being denied a proper education. They are being denied the opportunity to learn to make friends and socialize with different people. When it's time for them to finally go out into the world they will be poorly equipped to do so.

If I thought home schooling was a sure fire way to avoid violent abuse for any kids, maybe it would be worth the trade off. But we both know if anything abusive parents are also going to abuse their kids via home schooling.

I honestly think on the whole homeschooling is doing more damage to the kids being put through it and should be illegal. Obviously before actually doing that we should do scientific studies and surveys of adults who went through it and make a decision based on that rather than just my opinion. But right now we let parents do it just because extremist parents insist on it. And I think we are failing those kids.
Probably not, right? Especially if it's rentier income, they definitely did not work at all for that.

Like nowhere near as hard as a dishwasher or a waiter or a nurse or a bin man.

It's the entire point of a wealth tax, to stop over accumulation of capital by a small minority of individuals. Who generally do sod all but have wealth.

Let's be realistic too, virtually no-one posting on this thread would be affected.

But they're all so brainwashed by rentiers who have bought all the popular media channels that they're anti-wealth tax and defending a position which actively harms them all.
Find me one where it debunks saturated fat does not contribute, and has not been funded by the relevant industry. No study in history is free of confounding factors, because we are talking about people.
Good.

Tactile thinking remains quite useful and having the basic motor skills translates into manufacturing, the arts, and more of life than many may realize.

Early in my life, I began to "calibrate" my perception. I call it the "eyecrometer"

Today, I can call out sizes, distances, speeds, feeds and more to fairly high accuracy a majority of the time. It has paid off in manufacturing and prototyping more times than I can count.

This all starts with the basics:

Read it, hear it, see it, feel it, do it, say it.

A younger coworker has began a similar journey. And they just started a robotics group on it too.

Be digital. It helps. It has power, but don't trade your potential for the love of trees.

Augment said potential instead.
Willingness to fake it until you make it. Elon Musk/Trump are about to demolish what few consumer/investor protections exist.
>I'm a sucker for paper but I'm resistant to the idea that all of these things are irreplaceable

This, I'm really comfortable with technology, but I feel like a boomer when I watch kids that have grown up with it their entire lives. Some people don't need the ability to cross reference things much, but folks who do develop the skills the need without having to revert to printed material.
Tech CEOs are just postponing their Trump 2.0 reckoning
So no drive assist features, no voice assistants, no maps, no music streaming. These are pretty normal features for a modern car.

In the meantime, your phone has all that tech and much more, is with you in the car at all times, and is also made in China…
He's both a "no dyes in food" activist and a "vaccines bad" activist. Both are goals of his.

I'd rather have vaccines and dyes than no vaccines and no dyes.
> Japan is infamous for a certain kind of work culture that demands being in the office even when it's lot necessarily productive to do so; so onerous that it harms domestic life, among others.

I think that's the opposite. They care too much. That collective school cleanup example above has a similar extreme. If you literally live to work, you'll forget about caring for yourself and collapse.

Tokyo Government just introduced a 4 day work week for its workers. You'd be surprised how much friction there has been to this, by the workers.
In very limited situations, in general (there are 50 states, I don't know the nuances of each).

Usually only in pre-sentencing stays such as the drunk tank, pre-arraignment holding, etc. If you're sentenced, you aren't charged for that time. Additionally, it's usually waived during sentencing (if it goes that far) as a part of your Credit-Time-Served conversion.
There's a program where prisoners are used as adhoc firefighters in CA.
Here's the way I learened to ride a bike when I got to Amsterdam:

Someone gave me their old second-hand bike as a gift. But - I needed to get that bike back to where I was staying; and you can't bring bikes up onto the tram. So I could either walk for maybe an hour, or ride the bike home. One might still be tempted to walk, but here, another feature of Amsterdam came into play: It was raining, and looking like the rain would get heavier.

I fell off of that bike a dozen times if I did once. But - I just got up and tried again, right away, since there was really no other option, not even getting tired and taking a break. But once I got the hang of falling off of the bike a little more gracefully, I could actually apply trial-and-error to the riding part without worrying about the fall. Within... 15 minutes I was riding the thing.
No, we don't agree. I think there are different values implicated in our system, in a system like the UK NHS, and a system like Australia's (for the record: I'd take Australia's over ours).

The UK does a good job of hiding economic concerns from its users, at a cost in availability of services, especially high-end and experimental interventions. The UK makes these rationing decisions knowing that some people are going to be denied life-saving care, but in exchange for that everybody else in the system will get predictable access to their care.

The American system does a good job of getting services delivered to customers; it does a better job of that than the NHS does, if you measure in interventions performed; it does such a better job at that that it's a real problem in our system: we overprescribe and overdeliver interventions that drive costs and decrease certainty as payers work out which things to cover and which not. The flip side of that is that everyone in that system can tell themselves that the system is doing what it can to gate delivery on whether care is truly needed and will be effective, and that it's not categorically denying care because of top-down mandates.

Neither set of values is totally benign. You can prefer one or the other.

I can go all 12 rounds on this topic, but if I keep writing about this I'm not going to write the work thing I'm supposed to write, so I'll leave it there.
Even things that are supposed to be sweet are way too sweet, like say ice cream.
Hamas has been considerably weakened. Their arsenal of rockets and weapons is depleted. At the beginning of the war thousands of rockets were being shot into Israel and now there are very few and the ones that are are quite crude.
Hezbollah entered the war immediately and said the only way they would exit is if Hamas exists. Israel retaliated, killed their leader, decimated their forces, and negotiated a ceasefire that got Hezbollah to back off on their original terms. Lebanon just elected an anti-Hezbollah President.

During all of this, Assad was deposed. Israel's main adversary is Iran. They are the ones who fund and supply Hamas and Hezbollah, and were the key ally of Assad. They attacked Israel multiple times during the war and Israel responded in kind, the assesments seem to be that Israel's responses were quite strong.

So prior to October 7, Iran had strong proxies and allies all over the region. They are now either in shambles or deposed.

The goal of the war for Israel is to prevent another October 7th style attack from occuring. I'd say they have made significant steps towards accomplishing that from a military perspective.
It is news because several newspapers credit the achievement to Trump and his envoy Witkoff. Ha'aretz has more on this, but it's paywalled so here is another one:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/with-epic-deal-...

This is not just Trump bragging and taking credit, search other sources.
Hey I just want to let you know that I think this is a really odd thing to be serious about.
This is true in theory. In practice, most managers either do not understand what "performing well" for an engineer means, or willfully go against what they know to be true due to internal incentive structures. For example, favoring those whose contributions are more visible in the short-term, even if net negative over time. Through such a lens, someone who is competent at executing a longer term vision, or refuses to do only those tasks that are visible, is a low performer.

I don't say this to bash your statement, I agree with you in principle. Just useful to keep in mind that the context matters. Sometimes, the people complaining about having to compensate for the low performer, are the actual low performers.
Why provide personal assurances on the internet? That seems like a "trust me bro" approach.

So tell me, what is the relative cost efficiency of the U.S. Healthcare System vs France/GB/etc..?

People like to use the term government bureaucrat as a thought stopping term, when combined with trust me bro "assurances" it seems extremely hollow.

Give me a data/financial analysis instead of something that sounds like the advice two old dudes sitting in front of a five and dime pre-internet.
>With a PDF reader, well, goto that other section, scroll down to the piece I wanted, now goto the first section again and scroll down again and wait what was that back thing again goto and scroll and scroll and goto and descent into insanity.

I pretty much just use screenshots in snagit for that stuff.
Slightly off topic, but also curious why Cloudflare doesn't put more effort into policing content of Pages, which are frequently used by bad actors.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloudflares-d...

Examples:
https://pending-revew.pages.dev/
https://r2-cmq.pages.dev/
https://ampgoat-ligaciputra.pages.dev/