skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in the G&T program as a child. (It was called AT for "Academically Talented" at the time.) As the program was run then (in California), I would spend one afternoon per week studying Greek mythology or similar useless subjects, but it was a welcome diversion. I ended up testing out of high school 2-1/2 years early due to boredom.
Both of my kids were also in the program, but it is even more useless today than it was in the past. What I observed is that the schools (in California) do not seem to like the "segregation", so they do not fund the program. They put a whole lot more money into the "mainstreaming" programs to bring academically disadvantaged people into the regular classrooms.

As a parent, I feel regret for not getting my kids into a private school so they could reach their potential. My older son also tested out of High School. My younger son simply dropped out. Both of them have a tainted view of higher education because of their experience in public schools.
It removes the incentive to stay in a home to keep the low tax rate. That’s a big deal.

And the deferred revenue can be significant. A friend bought a house where the owner was paying $600 per year when the rate for the same home should have been $11,000 per year.
Pretty sure you’re being sarcastic.
I’ve never been to Russia and don’t know the Russian attitude towards tech or voting. But I’m confident that if the US had a system like this and made a reasonably usable phone app to be the front end, almost no one under the age of 60 would bother to wait in line for a physical voting booth ever again.
his game studio has made a very good living for decades. he has outperformed 99% of the industry AND still gets to actually make games instead of run a company and herd cats. he is the guy who actually has it figured out by many measures.
> If I really wanted opioids I'd just grow [poppies] again.

Did you use your poppies to make laudanum? That seems the most straightforward. If you did, was it addictive at all? Side effects, problems? Did you develop tolerance?
Anyone can buy LTSC for a few hundred dollars.

I cobbled together a post last year on acquiring it:

https://tinyapps.org/blog/201811300700_windows_10_ltsc.html

However, it does require a willingness to enter into a VL agreement with Microsoft.
The greedy crook used Tesla shareholders' money to save his and his cousins' investment (in Solar City). He doesn't care about "Solar City" as such.
Yeah, but you can’t sell it at moments notice any more when the value crashes for some reason.
Fantastic! What's the Voltage of it?

Each new chemistry discovered is another opportunity to evolve to become the next battery technology base, or to service a specific market (consumer or otherwise).

Every battery tech when invented has multiple downsides (e.g. 150 cycles) that then require multiple new innovations to evolve to be competitive.
You’re putting the cart before the horse. The reason people care about the falsehood is because it results in a child which isn’t the father’s. The reason I decided to settle down with my wife was to have children. My children. I didn’t get married to her so I could raise someone else’s children. I am a biological being, whose existence is the result of 3 billion years of reproduction. I exist to perpetuate the genes which built me.
PewDiePie becomes the first YouTuber to hit 100M subscribers
It's a difference in programmers, at least. I do absolutely think of myself as a functor or closure, when I'm working at that level. (Dijkstra must be rolling in his grave.) Or a structure, moving through a queue, guarded by a serial dispatch queue ... I've realized a lot about data flow by being stuck in traffic.

My programs are apparently anthropomorphic, too: I start every new feature by adding "// TODO: i need ..." comments everywhere, and then go back and do what they say. Someone watching me once remarked that my program wrote itself.

Full disclosure: I learned Logo when I was young, and then Lisp as a teenager -- two of my first languages -- so perhaps I was infected from the start.

Now I'm kind of curious how else people think of programs. Do functions and objects not have a shape and position and rhythm? How do you model them? They're not literally just symbols, are they?
There is some interesting research on the effectiveness of race-blind vs quotas: Parag Pathak has written about this specifically (some are on NBER). Joshua Angrist also has a few good papers on education.

From what I have read, race-blind is less effective than quotas in terms of achieving stated aims of policy...but I am not sure what this actually means given that: the exact goals of policies are often not clear, it isn't clear why race-blind doesn't work as well (given that it is often focused on socioeconomic disadvantage), etc.

Definitely an interesting topic though as it is so amenable to research. My common-sense instinct, as a non-American with nothing at stake, is that this is playing with fire.
That seems like a great argument for abolishing property taxes.
The question is now, would it be possible for someone to make a port of Mario 64 that runs on the Pi, instead of trying to emulate it?

Usually after you get source releases to games, you get people that port them to different platforms. Like how we had Doom on iPods and Kodak digital cameras.
On Arduino, from my experience, it is easy to run into memory constraints, especially when using dynamically allocated memory like strings. And I'm taking about both the flash memory for code and the ram for data, stack, and heap.

I don't think C is always a win, but to say to never use for new projects seems overly biased. Why is your opinion about C so strong? I am curious.
If we had reasonable storage the price wouldn't be 0. Or negative. It would just be low, because the storers would be competing to buy near-0 energy.

High prices mean "we need more", low prices mean "carry on", $0 means "don't produce this stuff, please". Negative prices mean "We're begging you, turn it off, it is hurting".
Maybe he's saying that adding good art won't make his games sell better. In that case it would just be cost without gain.
Most of the GPU workloads these days are not graphics related. They are general compute vector machines. The RISC-V vector extension is based on Cray's ISA and meant to compete in this space.
Good news

https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surpris...
A lot of intuition in math is from geometry. High school plane geometry is a good start, but high school solid geometry, where get good tools and intuition for seeing things in 3D instead of just the 2D of plane geometry, is quite a bit better.

Another part of intuition is from Max Zorn (from Zorn's lemma statement of the axiom of choice):

"Be wise, generalize."

E.g., for the set of real numbers R and a positive integer n, a lot that goes on in the n-dimensional vector space R^n is a generalization of what can see in 3D, e.g., from solid geometry.

E.g., in both cases, a biggie is a perpendicular (orthogonal) projection and, again, the Pythagorean theorem. E.g., regression in statistics is a perpendicular projection.

Perpendicular (orthogonality) is a biggie and is a major part of, say, Fourier series. I.e., each of the sine/cosine waves used is an orthogonal axis, and to find the corresponding Fourier series coefficient just project onto that axis. The projection is an integral of a product, and that is commonly an inner product which close to just a cosine of an angle as in plane and solid geometry and a perpendicular projection and close to correlation in statistics, etc.

E.g., a huge fraction of applied math is from analysis in pure math, and from G. F. Simmons the two pillars of analysis are "continuity and linearity". Linearity generalizes enormously: The quantum mechanics super position is essentially linearity. Under meager assumptions, differentiation and integration in calculus are linear operators. In probability theory, expectation is a linear operator. The wave equation is a linear partial differential equation. Linear programming works on linear equations. Of course, in linear algebra, matrix multiplication is a linear operator. When something is not linear, it may be locally linear which can be enough to get useful results.

For more, a good lesson is to approximate: Commonly we can't get just what we want in just one step but can iterate and approximate as closely as we please. So, can use simple things, sine waves, polynomials, continuous functions, and more, as means of approximation. Such approximation gets us close to more in continuity and, in particular, completeness -- the real numbers are complete and the rational numbers are not but via iteration can approximate the reals as closely as we please. Then this generalizes: The big point about Hilbert space (as mathematicians but not always physicists define it) is completeness. A joke, partly correct, is that "calculus is the elementary consequences of the completeness property of the real number system". E.g., the integral in calculus (and its better version in measure theory) is defined in terms of an iterative approximation. So, if you are good with sine waves, polynomials, continuous functions, wavelets, and more, then you can iterate and approximate a lot, in many cases, everything there is in that case.
every industry on earth would be tangentially or directly related to building a mars colony. this is a nonsensical argument.
IIRC the 40% renewables in California only work because we can page from British Columbia's hydro reserves when we have a shortfall and then sell it back for cheap to let them recover.

I'm not sure you can go much higher right now without building more dams or retrofitting more of them for pumped storage and there's been enough opposition to recent hydro expansions to make it seem nonviable for the path to 100.
There are 3.5 million truck drivers in the US [0]. They are paid at least minimum wage. Alphabet has 148.299B revenue per year [1]. A conservative estimate of the revenue waymo could earn just by replacing truck drivers is 7.25 (minimum US minimum wage) * 40 (working hours per weeks) * 50 (working weeks per year) * 3.5 million = $50 billion a year.

I think once you expand past the US, and past trucks, this is definitely "Next Google sized".

[0] https://www.trucking.org/News_and_Information_Reports_Indust...

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/reve...
Received a physical titanium card. It looks very solid. Unfortunately many stores do not accept it, even though it uses MasterCard payment network. Some folks are saying that it is because that Apple is hiding a card number expiry date cvv.
There are also quite a lot of people these days on an unholy quest to condemn the “sjws” they think are out to ruin ‘murica.

My (white) kids are in GT and it is a godsend for them. So I pretty much hate everything about this article and am glad I don’t live in NYC.

At the same time, I would love more diversity in their school. My high school was 95+% white. We are a seriously segregated country, and it’s a real problem.
I got started with Linux in that year. I think I did red hat 5.1 and then Debian 2.0. A few years later I tried openbsd 2.6.

The distros were too big for dialup, and Red Hat was charging a lot (or seemed like it for free software) for CDs in a fancy retail box. But there was a website "cheap bytes" that would burn CDs of distros for about $2.

I remember my apt-get dist-upgrade to Debian 2.1 because it took forever on dialup.
But that's only like 2%. Why still keep around people who are clearly taking advantage of higher rates of cash back like 5% and not paying anything in interest though? What's the benefit of keeping them as customers?
> Something without an management engine would certainly possible, but would be limited to niche products like the librem.

I don't share this forecast. I think many private customers would view a machine without the ME and it's capabilities as a plus for a product when the marketing is done right. Especially since most don't care for the capabilities.
It isn't pedantry. Expressing a wish that something "could" be done is ambiguous. "Could" is both used as you originally intended and as an expression of ability. It's not pedantry to misunderstand, and it's not pedantry for GP to explain why the misunderstanding occurred.

A misunderstanding occurred. The misunderstanding was clarified, acknowledged, and explained. I'm not sure it contributes anything to make accusations of pedantry.
Reposting my comment from the duplicate thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20804401:

In the previous thread, someone made a good point - his newer games, with more resources spent on them, look worse than the old ones. Someone else applied pixelization/palletization to the screenshot of his new game, and the degraded quality made it look better: https://i.imgur.com/oPH7paD.jpg

Of course neither point is addressed, and he keeps pretending that the only way to improve is to expend more resources.

As also pointed out in the previous discussion, that's because he simply doesn't have an eye for art. He compares his game to the consistent-and-pleasant-to-look-at Baba Is You, because he can't see the difference, and so he doesn't even see there's a problem to be solved. We might as well try to explain the difference between blue and red to a blind person. That's why he can show a picture of dwarf fortress without realizing it looks better than his game. Going for a Caves of Qud look would also probably save him money - but he simply can't see that it looks better.
I've heard very similar tales. A local lad who works at a very large meat processing factory, McDonalds buy the cheapest meat possible. Other chains buy middle of the range meat.
Cyclist here. In my experience, the majority of the time a driver stops or parks in the bike lane in an urban area in the US (e.g., I live in Austin), there's a legal parking/stopping spot within a reasonable walking distance, often within 50 to 100 feet. (If this isn't true where you live, consider the difference in the location. There are probably exceptions too. I'm told that legal parking isn't typically close in SF.)

Then again, my idea of "reasonable walking distance" seems longer than most people's. Having spoken to many drivers who have parked in the bike lane, I'm amazed by how negatively some have reacted to me recommending that they park as little as 50 feet away. In some cases the non-bike-lane spot is closer but the convenience of pulling to the side of the road rather than doing a more complicated maneuver seems irresistible.

If Waymo follows the law, good for them. Makes me more likely to be a customer of theirs in the future.
Well, there's a ceiling of 100% safety, so it's diminishing returns after a certain point.
I don't have a guide that documents everything I did, but the process is described in pretty good detail here: https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi/qemu-user-static

You can skip the first part about creating the image, since presumably you already have one. So the process for me is something like:

apt-get install qemu qemu-user-static binfmt-support
cp /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static ~/rpi_mnt/usr/bin
systemd-nspawn -D ~/rpi_mnt bin/bash

(Some additional steps needed if you want to use regular chroot instead of nspawn.)

Sometimes qemu shows an error saying some operation isn't supported, but this hasn't broken anything yet for me, even after I did a whole Raspbian Stretch -> Buster upgrade this way.
> Isn't the premise of every one of his books "scientists fuck it up, leading to exciting circumstances"?

Some of his books have the premise that some scientists are short sighted and myopic, while others aren't. We can briefly talk about Jurassic Park the book, which I assume you have read. The movie shares only the most broad story arcs with the book.

....and I started typing a synopsis... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(novel)#Plot_sum... is pretty good.

To your point: yes, there's a group of scientists that fucked up, and there's another group of scientists that are trying to honestly work things out.

I'd say the biggest antagonists in Jurassic Park are big corporate interests.

Upon reflection, aside from his first couple of books, that seems to be a common theme.
It's a special New York State law that allows for mayoral control of the schools. It has only been in place since 2002. In the local context it makes sense because the mayor is the only municipal position that is prominent enough to sometimes escape control by the still powerful political machines.
I am sympathetic to your argument, but most people are not going to be willing to take you at your word unfortunately. do you have any sources you could link?
My big problem is not merely keeping their own land under-developed, but that there is a huge overlap between these squatters and NIMBYism to prevent me from using the land to its potential, even if I manage to buy property from one of their neighbors.
I think that's pretty much par for the course if you look at human history. Given that our culture is being locked up and thrown away with infinite IP extension and the game industry has successfully stolen PC games for the last 20 years and we now have windows "as a service" in windows 10. Evil looks pretty much like our MO as a species.
That's probably true. Good art style/aesthetics is a foot in the door for a lot of gamers, unfortunately. A game needs to stand on a foundation of good game mechanics (and possibly good writing), but the mainstream players' choice to try your game is gated by the production value and direction/style of the art.
It's closer to 3%, and I don't think there's a way to beat that on the cash back except on a per category basis.

Also, a lot of folks end up carrying a balance in spite of their best intentions.

I suspect this happens relatively often even for folks with a long history of not doing so - e.g. maybe you get fired for the first time and start running up a balance, not long before you've run up some significant interest charges.
From what I understand, the trend in gifted education nationally has, for some years, been away from segregated schools and programs in favor of modified curriculum in mainstream classrooms, which often involves applying the individual curriculum adaptations often used in gifted classrooms to the whole student population.

If this is what eliminating New Yorker existing segregated gifted programs means, that may not be a bad thing.
That 90th percentile doesn't guarantee a slot in a G&T program. It's kind of an elaborate system, but depending on what district your child is in or what school you're considering, the effective cutoff can be much higher. For example, my son's program only admitted children with either a 98 or 99 when he got into it 4 years ago. In a district like ours (District 3, which is basically the Upper West Side), a score of 90 won't get you a spot anywhere, unless...

...you have a child with a 90 with a sibling already in a program. If one child tests into a program, then later siblings are given preference over children without a sibling in the school, as long as they have a score over 90.
See this page

https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/

and in particular, this graph

https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/graph_data/Global_...
The trailing semicolon on that for loop is quite load-bearing. I would have some code review feedback.
Well yeah, if you hate real sausage, then maybe a fake one will taste better for you. Most people do like the real thing, though.
Extreme Democratic and Republican partisans display greater mental rigidi (cont)
The privacy.com business promise is privacy, but their privacy policy (as of several years ago) did not actually promise much. I emailed them about it and they said they were surprised by the oversight. I wonder if they changed it
The goal is admirable, but the means de Blasio has chosen is unfortunate. I went to a gifted talented school in Virginia. On one hand, it was odd to miss out on being with “normal” kids. On the other hand, it was nice to not be with the “normal” kids. My friends and I did a robotic float for homecoming our junior year and an art/drama geek was elected homecoming queen. Getting into MIT or Caltech got you far more attention and profile than being on the football team. It was a completely unique experience that was really fantastic for a lot of people.
pip-compile (part of https://pypi.org/project/pip-tools/ ) provides a significantly better way to maintain a requirements.txt file: create a requirements.in that specifies only the things you care about, and pip-compile it into a requirements.txt with pinned versions. Then you can use pip-compile --upgrade to upgrade just some of the versions, unlike pipenv which wants you to upgrade everything, whether you're ready to or not.
Can I buy from someone who went to all the hassle already? Or are those organizations not allowed to distribute keys?
Is it really a response, though? It feels like a repeat of the same article -- down to many of the same filler images.
Processor Design: An Introduction (1998)
>there is something to be said for integrating transport and energy services in one great package.

I don't know about that. Do you know why Boeing and Airbus don't make their own engines? Or how about why (practically) no car manufacturer makes their own tires? Because sometimes it makes no sense (or is downright detrimental) holding the entire vertical.

Tesla is in the electric car game and the Li-ion battery game - not the solar panel game. Solar is and has been a total disaster for Tesla. The Powerwall is right up their alley (and if not, it's easy enough to exit), but they should have left solar roofs and installation to partners. Let them fight it out with low-cost Chinese alternatives.
You can probabilistically predict those events with machines much better than humans can. You don't really know someone will decide to run a stop sign, but you do know when the vehicle is past the point it was supposed to start slowing down. That's relatively "easy", we have been predicting physical object motions with analog computers, even. As the parent says, accurate data from sensors is a much bigger problem. But once you have the data, you can model these objects with dumb algorithms.

Computers can also have a much faster reaction time, so a human may need to predict one second ahead, but computers may be able to get away with less.
There is no easy way to check for IP infringement here. When the key idea of a design may be 100% lifted illicitly, the schematics may be somehow different, and the mask layout, incomprehensibly different.
Maybe I am missing something but this sounds like a way to reduce inequality by pulling down the people who are doing well?

Any policy that feeds on jealously and resentment - powerful and volatile human emotions - is unlikely to produce actual results imo (which is the point presumably).
His github profile picture is the swastika counter-clockwise. It's very clear from that his intention is to include things that appear like the Nazi swastika but are technically not. That's bad intention in my book.
If you’ve ever made the trip to Auschwitz, you’ll be able to find many parallels to modern dairy farms and factory farms.
> Mainstream media says "Republicans bad,"

You mean apart from the highest-rated cable channel, the largest TV station operator[2], and the second-largest daily newspaper, in the US?[3][4]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News#Ratings_and_reception

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group#2018_...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_Unit...

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal#Politi...
10 percentage points, 25% relative improvement (40% non-5 stars to 30%), seems quite good to me.

Although I wonder if seasonality is important here - obviously Phoenix isn't Minnesota but could driving conditions have been worse in Q1 compared to this summer, from the perspective of a self-driving car?