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code_runner··on Fresno High tracks student bathroom visits with app. Not everyone likes it
this really isn't justifying the poo tracking app. sorry but johnny may end up getting away with some bathroom breaks or an administrator is going to have to.... administer
code_runner··on Fresno High tracks student bathroom visits with app. Not everyone likes it
good point. lets get some bids on the "shit tracking app", pay for a seat for every student and then make sure we further stretch the teachers by giving them a special admin seat in said "shit tracking app" and making sure they punish over-shitters
code_runner··on Fresno High tracks student bathroom visits with app. Not everyone likes it
sounds like the teachers already know who the bad kids are. Maybe just punish them... tracking every student's bathroom habits is a wild over reaction to a kid skipping chemistry
code_runner··on Fresno High tracks student bathroom visits with app. Not everyone likes it
ummmmmmm I mean I guess you could at least try not caring how often a kid is relieving themselves.... you could absolutely make basic bodily functions into a "beat the clock" with a side of a consequences if you'd like though. I'd encourage you to run for your local school board if you feel passionately about this cause.
code_runner··on Fresno High tracks student bathroom visits with app. Not everyone likes it
absolutely my first though. in case it changes, the headline at the time of this comment ends with "Not everyone likes it".

It seems like "some people love it" would be the MUCH more interesting (if not disturbing) story.

code_runner··on Fresno High tracks student bathroom visits with app. Not everyone likes it
I think if I squint and turn my head a bit I can almost maybe see a semblance of a point to what you're trying to say.... but it doesn't really hold up for me at all.

Learning isn't fun doesn't really relate to the fact that bodily functions exist. If a kid is well but going to the restroom for 30 minutes every class period and on their phone etc just skipping.... I guess punish that as if it were skipping? You can't just assume negative intent across the entire student body when it comes to checks notes pooping in a toilet like a person?

code_runner··on What I wish I knew about ESPP and RSUs sooner
The thing being disputed isn’t timing etc. it’s the concept of being “pushed into” a tax bracket. In the US at the federal tax level your income is taxed in buckets.

If the brackets are 10,000 @5%; 100,000 @10%, if you make 100,000 your first 10,000 is taxed at 5% and the next 90,000 is taxed at 10%.

Outside of long/short term gains, all things being equal, the timing is not especially important

code_runner··on 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death
also everyone saying they wouldn’t avoid certain planes and there is so much redundancy that little simple non-aviation folks shouldn’t worry themselves.

We’ve got a fishy death, no documentation on the door plug, and more incidents.

code_runner··on Miles Davis and the recording of Kind of Blue
Make sure you’re listening to kind of blue. Not any of the extended deluxe this and that. Just the original tracks.

All the extra stuff is great, but the original is the perfect album.

What music do you typically like? There will definitely be a gateway to jazz in there somewhere.

code_runner··on Go Enums Suck
I think it depends on your definition of "clean code". I do personally like the more succinct version, but "never use a negative condition" makes people do.... stuff like this
code_runner··on Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
You can use open ai to solve your LLM needs (if you legitimately have LLM needs) but an in house solution may be a whole lot more future proof, even if it’s more expensive up front
code_runner··on OpenAI Deal Lets Employees Sell Shares at $86B Valuation
I know people don’t love OAI but good on these people for the well deserved pay day
code_runner··on VueJS turns 10 years old
I really enjoyed vue for a large project back in the day. I seemed to have loved everything that everyone else here disliked... which is sometimes par for the course on HN.

My project pre-dated the composition API and some other bells and whistles that I've never looked into since leaving FE projects... but IMO, a really good framework with a good community and lots of resources to learn.

code_runner··on Carl Weathers has died
I was talking to a guy years and years back and my dad said to ask him about when he played in the NFL. Older guy. He lights up and says: “now this was back before anyone got paid anything to play football. We weren’t making anything but it was fun and we were allowed to hit real hard. I had a friend on the team who said ‘man I’m getting out of here… I’m gonna be an actor.’ Well, we’re all just a bunch meatheads but he was the only good looking guy… couple of years later I’m watching some boxing movie and there he is as Apollo Creed in Rocky”
code_runner··on Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client
This is a label and industry problem not specific to any one streamer.
code_runner··on Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client
The lion’s share of Spotify subscription data goes straight to the labels. The labels are the ones not paying artists.

It’s crazy to expect all the music in the world on demand for $12 a month or whatever. Spotify can probably do better in some ways but I don’t see how any of this justifies not giving the artists the pennies your mentioning.

code_runner··on My AI costs went from $100 to less than $1/day: Fine-tuning Mixtral with GPT4
I’ve worked at plenty of places where we did a ton of labeling by hand.

People concerned with data quality from LLMs should really see the inconsistencies we came up with!

code_runner··on 6174
I don't understand the significance of this at all other than its the coolest thing I've seen on HN in a while.

I couldn't be farther from a math nerd.... I avoided it as much as I could throughout school.... but things like that are just so interesting and weird. How on earth (and for what reason) did they find this out? The properties of this number are interesting enough but the process to discover it is just so crazy.

code_runner··on Comics I Loved in 2023
Propagandizing isn’t the word I’d use. I feel like we’re really watering down with propaganda actually is. If someone wants to write about a particular issue they can. You can prefer they don’t, which means you should buy it.
code_runner··on Breakdown of faults by car brand: Tesla has replaced Dacia at the bottom
They dropped the price of a new model a few times recently which meant used cars dropped that much more. I think that’s what is being referenced here.

Otherwise, the (mostly) static nature of Tesla models kept the used Tesla market in decent shape

code_runner··on How many software developers work in non-tech companies?
I think the point is about if they are a tech company… and they are very literally a software and hardware company. It’s not a question of what the average engineers day to day is.
code_runner··on Google Searches can, and will, be held against you
I guess don’t try to overthrow the government.
code_runner··on Nearly 40% of U.S. homes are mortgage-free, census shows
this is an interesting distinction but I don't know enough to totally wrap my head around it. Can you expand a bit on how a home would have no mortgage but that same homeowner would?
code_runner··on Spotify CFO cashes in £7.2M in shares after value surges on news of job cuts
the only time this really makes sense (in my head at least) is selling prior to something that KNOW will tank you stock and make your shares worthless. If you just hold... sure you're making a decision to not sell, but other than looking VERY VERY bad to employees on the timing of things... the stock went up, he sold....

now if he sold a boatload of stock before a horrific earnings report... thats another story

code_runner··on Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
Spotify is actively moving away from originals (or at least changing how they do it). Inseted ads gives them better tracking and with better reporting… $$$$
code_runner··on Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
even though I primarily use spotify for podcasts, the radio functionality is something I've used for like.... 8 years
code_runner··on Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
sounds like you must only log in to HN about twice a week in that case..... a lot of lazy/bad takes on here that equate to "large company bad". Definitely gets a reddit vibe especially if its an announcement like this.
code_runner··on GPT-4 Can Almost Perfectly Handle Unnatural Scrambled Text
Whats more impressive is when GPT3.5 or 4 are capable of not just unscrambling, but answering questions about text that is flat out wrong.

If you feed something like a bad transcript or some other very lossy (but not strictly scrambled) input.... it really can roll with it and just spit out correct information. Bad tokens in don't necessarily mean bad tokens out....

I'm sure there is a limit to how many tokens can be flat out bad before the "next token" in the response is thrown off, but after seeing what it can do with some of these inputs, the fact it can unscramble is not at all surprising/interesting.

code_runner··on GPT-4 Can Almost Perfectly Handle Unnatural Scrambled Text
maybe its just that peoples hands are all such different shapes, proportions, in odd positions, not fully visible.... but something like "this muscle runs between the elbow and wrist" is just easier for the model to pick up on... it has "anchor points".

Facial features and fingers just.... are hanging off the body in extremely non-uniform ways w/ no real set proportions. It isn't totally intuitive to me why its so bad at it, but faces especially are so unique and the musculature of the face is so fine.... learning a representation must just be really really difficult.

code_runner··on 500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)
I think the fact that the best we can do is allege that the data is user reported, and further assume that users report this data accurately tells you everything you need to know.
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