skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but is afraid to anger the union, so anything short of actual violence by a teacher against a student won’t have any consequences

Everyone should watch the fantastic documentary "Waiting for Superman" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1566648/) that highlighted just how problematic the teacher's unions have become and how much of an impediment to education they are.

Even in cases of gross negligence (showing up to school drunk, completely failing to teach, etc) bad teachers just get bounced to another school. Teachers who physically assault or sexually abuse a student might remain on the payroll for years while the bureaucracy slowly reviews their case.

The unions have also prevented any form of incentivizing teachers to perform well or rewarding good teachers. In fact, the union leaders prevented the teachers from even voting on changes (that the majority of teachers wanted) that would have allowed good teachers to be rewarded and bad teachers to be removed from the classroom.

There are a lot of problems with education in America, but the teachers unions have to be right at the very top of the list.
This sort of aligns with some other comments here. Parents want their kids to be around other kids that are better than the average. So like kids who behave well, aren’t violent, care about grades, have attentive parents, etc. I completely support that way of thinking given what school can be like when you don’t have that, which I did not like or benefit from in any way (even though some claim that mixing with other types of people is somehow positive).
This is an excellent article, and SaaS Pegasus is a great solution for people starting a project.

But some of the advice here is dated. The architectural patterns are still valid, but the specifics have changed:

* Vite instead of create-react-app (which is unmaintained now) / webpack / babel / Parcel / etc.

* Django-ninja as a lightweight API service.

I think these are important to call out because they really simplify the frontend compared to the previous options.
Well technically I am in high school
and Neither have you used ever instagram (okay maybe for that one time , I wanted to propose to my crush , (turns out she didn't have insta , so I had to talk to her friend asking her on my behalf where they said no [aww man])

and I live in India , so tiktok's banned. There are many indian alternatives to tiktok's that I have seen , But rednote being chinese just makes me wonder if its gonna survive.

Y'know things are just different yet so the same. The same fomo happened during the facebook time is now happening with red note.

“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes,” as Mark Twain is often reputed to have said. (I’ve found no compelling evidence that he ever uttered that nifty aphorism. No matter — the line is too good to resist.) (source https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/)
Yes. Please use and cite primary sources.
Depends how much AI you're doing. At some point cloud no longer makes economic sense. Additionally Finance needs to co-locate compute for latency reasons meaning there's a limit to what you can off-load to the cloud.
would love to see the data quality & diversity metrics. It's kind of hard for me to go through tens of thousands of examples to understand the quality of my data sometimes.
i think i’m pretty clearly referring to Xinjiang.

if the Rohingya genocide is a genocide, then I can see the case for Gaza (the UN definition of genocide is quite broad) - but still feel that there should be a word distinguishing the stuff that happened in the Holocaust or the Rwandan genocide from less systemic killings occurring in the background of conflict. A lot of the power of the word “genocide” comes from the implicit comparison to the Holocaust, but none of the events we are discussing really come all that close barring Rwanda.
>We've been trying to solve inflation for millenia. As frustrating as it sounds, we haven't found the solution.

America solved it in the 1800s with commodity money; the US dollar was worth as much at 1900 as it was at 1800, and there weren't any financial collapses in the 1800s comparable in magnitude to the Great Depression or Global Financial Crisis.
The best part is that there are people so gullible to fall for things like this.

These are the people clicking internet advertisements and funding the web.
As other commenters have mentioned, it is a bit of a bait and switch and not "truly" unlimited - but pretty much this is true for any XaaS that advertises "unlimited" anything. That said though, I still find cloudflare's free basic product incredibly good for the price. The proxy will handle a pretty good amount of load before you get any sales emails. I use some of their enterprise products and I'm extremely pleased, so it is a little hard to complain when I am getting great value out of it. I am however always wary of this not remaining the case forever. For what it is though, I can't really find many comparable products. It's sort of like datadog to me - yes, it's expensive, yes, their pricing can be a bit nebulous and feels bad at times, but the product is still extremely good for what I need it to do and until that changes I guess I'll just keep forking over dollars. That seems to be the way of things now.
Don't forget measles, which is back after being declared eliminated from the United States in 2000.

https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html
Bitcoin miners provide a valuable commodity - secure and unrestricted storage and transfer of value. AI provides ugly cat pictures, bad code and a lot of spam.
I actually agree with you that a vast majority of people are living sub-optimally in one way or another. I don't stress myself out over "most people's lives" because I have no stake in them. I do have a stake in my own life and my family's-- that's why it's to be "stressed out over."

As of right now, despite all appearances, my parents actually haven't "done good enough." Mistakenly thinking it was good enough if I was financially successful, they failed to properly socialize me. But they're on the same feel-good train as you and most of society, so they won't acknowledge it.
I dunno... what qualifies them to be a parent?
Anecdotally, I can confirm.

In general the algorithm seems flexible to me; on TikTok I find it easy to scroll away or flag unwanted content as "do not show again"; and in my experience the algorithm adjusts well to that.
Sure, I think that's fair - the tech is only one part of the whole equation. Just pointing out that power demands are really quite a small (and actually quite surmountable) part of the problem.
> TikTok has such a culture of authenticity and realness

I must live in another universe because it all feels fake.
Israel will violate it in short order
I care less about the quality of the dependencies than about the burden of protecting against supply chain attacks when there are a lot of dependencies.
Hey, the ADL president is a US citizen, and he said "we really have a TikTok problem."
>40,000 acre-ft/yr of water

... is "acre feet" a common measurement of volume in the USA?
We live in a democracy. If you get enough people to vote for this platform, then sure let's do it.

You can't compare a popular bipartisan law to a hypothetical thing you just made up.

Peoples' votes matter
You still need a backing data structure that holds the contents of your editor, and that's where you'd use a rope.
The thing is the human experience regarding tech is not very linear in this regard. Take my life, strip out the smartphone and it is the exact same experience as the 90s in regards to what I experience and my quality of life. Strip out the desktop and its the same as the 1950s perhaps. Car, home, grocery store, basically all the same and encompasses all of life right there.

So it seems to me, given that much of life outside that distracting cellphone in your pocket is the same in terms of amenities affordances and available goods as it was in the 1950s, that there ought to be some efficiency gains made along the 75 years since. Then again maybe those efficiency gains are swallowed by more people globally being elevated from that great depression sort of desperate life we saw in this country in the 1930s and elsewhere today globally, into the prototypical 1950s lifestyle where a job begets housing, transport in some form, and the modern experience of stocked grocery stores of all goods instead of having to homestead or contribute to a village system for limited goods.
The article is getting clicks because of "AI" in the title but this is a very generic scam. There's no part of it that wasn't done before AI a million times.
I mean, if you want to ignore the fact that the JB was Joe Biden and he was quite literally President of the United States when that was a trend, sure.

Same with MAGA after January 6th.
Lisp is fairly similar and easy to pick up
Contemporary mathematics is duck typed.
Free speech includes the right to receive/hear speech. TikTok contains lots of speech that US citizens have the right to hear.
I doubt it. Even the simplest physical system requires a truly insane number of basic operations. Practically everything is integrals-over-infinity. If there were implemented in a floating-point system, you'd need umpteen gazillion bits to avoid flagrant errors from happening all the time.

It's not impossible that the universe is somehow implemented in an "umpteen gazillion bits, but not more" system, but it strikes me as a lot more likely that it really is just a real-number calculation.
And the respective cloud providers will absorb the increased cost of this power usage forever?
US based companies (like china and europe based ones) are not allowed to talk about it, when state actors implementing their spying tools. It is just naive to think that cloudflare doesn't give access to state agencies. As others have said, it is more likely that cloudflare as a company is entirely built around the idea to provide a singe point of surveillance to US agencies.
Shopify for Social – Create your own TikTok/Instagram app
Solo/indie dev here.

Created ‘Shopify for Social Media’.

Create your own Tiktok/Instagram app, white-label, embedable. Your app, your brand, your domain, your icon, your rules…

For creators, communities and businesses.

https://app.copo.st
Https://virksocial.com

It is basically white-label Tiktok/Instagram native apps, but written all in web- including camera, native-like mobile feature/gestures/animations…

PWAs enable the same native full screen experience while bypassing appstore tax/rules.

For native apps, I have a React Native shell app that embeds a webview so I can create native Appstore/Googleplay binaries ready for publishing. With the new Expo CNG architecture, I can automatically create native apps binaries from console. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/copo-st/id6737266643?platform=...

You can embed apps/feeds/posts/profiles in web pages and native mobile apps(webview). So this creates a distributed social network on open web with various distribution/monetization/aggregation/commerce models.

Exploring to make this user-owned platform/apps.
I left Russia out not because they don't want an F-35 equivalent or wouldn't benefit from them. But because the Su-57 in particular is a bad airplane.

Sorry if I wasn't more specific on that.

But the point I argued with the comment above is that the situations for which the F-35 is deemed useful is incorrect. It misunderstands the aircraft's role and the missions for which it's buyers intend. It makes broad assertions about the nature of warfare that have been repeated ad nauseum lately. I hope to correct the record there.
Does this apply to caching R2 with the free tier CDN?

The R2 overview page explicitly lists "Storage for podcast episodes", but a podcast host under the free tier would serve a disproportionate percentage of audio files.
How would they decrypt the answer from the database?
You have no idea.

I think we're at five or six levels of yaks by now.

(xi -> xilem -> masonry -> vello -> peniko -> color)
We are homeschooling our two teenagers. We live in Ireland which has a pretty decent education system and has a high percentage of students going on to third level education.

The problem is that it is really bad at handling children who are neurodivergent. My daughter is autistic and my son has ADHD and they just stuggled to fit in at school. They were filled with anxiety and the supports for them just weren't there. Spending on special needs supports is pitifully low despite Ireland being so cash rich right now.

So now we homeschool them and they are doing grand learning at their own pace.

But it's not just that that makes me favour home schooling. For me one of the biggest issues with state education pretty much everywhere the world over is the idea that at a certain age a child should have reached a certain academic standard and if they haven't then that is seen as a failure or at the very least a problem. This is complete and utter nonsense. We all learn at different speeds, some pick up knowledge early, some pick it up later. What matters is that by the time they leave school they are in possession of most of the life skills they need.

I also have issue with what is taught and how it is taught. Most subjects are taught with a focus on rote. Children are told to learn things, but aren't really told WHY they should learn things. That why bit is so important to help a childs mind develop.

For me there is also a bit of a morality issue. If you go an look at a school curriculum there will nearly always be something that you as a parent do not agree with. For me its the idea of teaching children that there only option in life after education is to get a job, be a good worker and keep going until retirement. I don't subscribe to that idea, I believe there are alternative life pathways. The problem is that if I send my children to a state school they will be forced to learn and accept things I fundamentally disagree with and that to me is morally dubious.
I doubt that it's a single action that sustained four+ decades of impacts. More likely this is the concerted effort of capital to continually reign in threats.
What's more, even without this embargo the era of cheap energy was largely over by the mid 60s, as oil's Energy Return on Investment fell to a fraction of what it used to be:

https://www.mdpi.com/sustainability/sustainability-03-01866/...
Doesn't matter, US citizens have the right to receive the speech on TikTok
You withhold the shares until after a waiting period. You stay a year and don't screw up royally, you get invited to the employee participation program. Imagine that? Give the poor something to look forward to? Preposterous, right?
The job market for php devs is also weird. Very few talented people. Because php jobs on average pay the worst, people who are motivated and smart often learn another language and abandon php. There are some very practical oriented and clever people willing to do php but you have to look very hard.
I'm not familiar with cryptography enough to know whether these arguments make sense, but if they do, this is really damning. That's a series of intentional, unnecessary changes that each massively weaken the protocol's security...
Only legit reason would've been trade. China won't "import" our products, so we do the same. But that seems like not the reason.
In that case, the body would theoretically adjust to down regulate the production of norepinephrine, since there’s already reuptake has been reduced.

But… I’m not sure it really works that simply in a real brain.
And I still own my Core 2 Quad q9650 which will soon move from Windows 10 to some Linux distro to continue support side activities like children access to internet for homeworks, or alternative testbed machine.
I think if we need the big bad lever, it should at least require congressional approval.
Well there's a cost to that abstraction, e.g. you'd have to pass the context into the component, so every time you need to modify the component's schema/props you'd need to change it twice, both in the parent and the component.

You must have seen some huge React components with 20 different props or even more, and you'd need to think about memoizing those props to prevent a re-render, etc etc.

I've also been a web dev for over 20 years, and 10 years with React. I'd say that going back to native HTML APIs for handling stateful things like forms and form validation is a breeze, rather than writing components and endless abstractions. It's enough for the vast majority of the time.
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If you live in word/excel, it's far from perfect. If you sometimes need to work in it, it's perfectly fine. It's just a little bit more buggy.
IME, poor quality of education at a shocking number of schools, even in "good areas".

Granted, I grew up in a rural place, and from a social perspective my school years were pretty good (high school was great, it was literally like movies that were popular at the time in the 2000s). I have many friends that I still talk to very often that I've known for the better part of 20-30 years.

Seems like this experience isn't the norm here. I suspect my experience is both a function of time and place.

Those positives aside, the "education" I received through high-school was incredibly poor.

I'm absolutely blown away when I see kids today taking programming classes in high school or calculus or "AP Stats" or any of this stuff.

I'd not even heard of "Mechanical Engineering" until some friends picked that as a college major my senior year, to say nothing of programming as a vocation.

Granted this was 20-odd years ago, but considering the low quality, any parent that wants their kids to aspire to "more" in an equivalent position today would have to either:
- pay loads for a private school
- spend substantial time giving their kids supplementary education outside of school (barring the naturally curious and ambitious). Given time and energy constraints, such a proposal doesn't even seem feasible)

It's pretty obvious to me why you'd want to homeschool today, given experiences like this and the boundless high-quality material instantly available online and elsewhere.

Socialization is the other concern.
The question is whether it's a ruinous empathy thing. It's much too early for me to be confident that the current ceasefire is actually going to work better than the last one. But if it does, it's a pretty strong data point for the idea that credibly taking either side is better for the Palestinian people than flailing around trying to support both.
they aren't banning it. They gave tiktok an out -- sell to an American company or non adversarial country, if ByteDance doesn't bite on that, then that's on them.
Frankly we don't even need currency to begin with.
Super interesting!
This will save my time
I agree with what you wrote but your opening statement could use some nuance.

What portion of taxpayers don't pay tax because they make too little compared to those using tax avoidance schemes not to pay tax?

Of the top 50%, what does the tax vs income chart look like?

As income rises, where does spending money come from? Wages, CC, selling stocks/bonds, loans backed by assets (stocks, bonds, etc)

This info could help refine where taxes should go. I have come to accept that a wealth tax would be a good tax to have. I came to this by playing around with the simplistic model at the end of the pudding article linked to below. It approximates the impact of a wealth tax.

https://pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/28/extreme...
To be honest, sales people are sales people. Their job is to sell you on packages, and they will generally do anything to get you to upgrade.

It's not like they threatened to remove you from their service. They asked you and gave you a "canned" reason.

If you don't mind me asking you had a $200 a month plan, and changed to another provider. Did the plan price go up or down?
A stunt like that is precisely why I was clear about the CONTEXT. Note that I'm not encouraging you to actually do it, far from it, but lets not pretend that you're bravely proving a point here.
I agree.

Fundamentally, I believe in a direct, decentralised democracy with Switzerland as a good example. I believe this system of governance gives prosperity and opportunity for as many as possible, while a centralised system like the EU(or USA) gives advantage to the already powerful and well connected, with the masses only an afterthought if beneficial to the ruling elite.

I think this is obvious to any thinking, rational individual.
Well bad example, but as someone else said, replace with any other large non video service. I'm not making this up, I had calls with sales. And like I said, I don't think this is surprising, it's like "infinite bandwidth" deals from ISPs and phone data plans, etc. It's a reasonable expectation that you'd have to pay at some threshold.
I don't think Alpine.js and HTMX qualify as "Modern JavaScript". There is an approach that is rarely talked about: render templates in Django and hydrate using your favorite JavaScript framework.

For example the Django template renders a <template id="abc"><button disabled>open modal!</button></template>. Then your JavaScript bundle can "hydrate". For example ReactDOM.render(<OpenModalButton />, '#abc'').

You just have to be diligent to make sure that the template and your front-end have somewhat similar markup to not have layout shift. It's really not that hard and works for a lot of use-cases.

Not saying this is a golden bullet, but you should be able to figure out which parts are static and just render them using Django templates. The dynamic parts you can render/hydrate using whatever front-end framework.

I built a Django app with very little JavaScript and only using HTMX and it was... alright. It works. I can say "no fancy build step!" but I totally miss the testability of modern frontend. Creating an image upload component was a pain. I don't think I would use HTMX again and instead go for the hybrid approach I described earlier.
Because you may get something else out of stiffness besides this explanation? Usually that's how a level deeper explanation works.
If the model is not open turn up the temperature a bit (if the API allows that) and ask the above question multiple times. The less sure the model is the more the answer will vary.
The divorce of wages and productivity is real. You can pick any year in the last 40 and the trend will be very evident.

I'm actually curious if this continues through he 2020s. It could have gotten worse or better or been the yardstick by which people were fired or hired.
>> Apparently the issue in this case is that the world locations database is too large to be stored locally.

What kind of capacity can ROM chips have these days? And at what cost?
We'll use anything but metric lol. It's about 1,233 cubic meters of water.
I wrote this a while ago about xTTSv2 mixed with Nvidia's Nemo. Maybe it kicks off your journey.

https://jdsemrau.substack.com/p/teaching-your-agent-to-speak...
Please re-watch the video, but THIS TIME PAY ATTENTION. I do talk about the motion parameters, even show the code on the screen briefly. I even show the effects of changing the parameters.