skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you enjoy your work then the next thing that's going to likely drive you from your job is a human factor and which human will you consistently have to interact with, your manager. And so it does in some way stand to reason.

Also as a middle manager I can relate to some of the struggles. You will have potentially competing points of view from what your team would like to do and what the company wants them to do.

But also as an additional point of view. As a manager you may have worked your way up the hierarchy learning your craft and honing your skills. Unfortunately very few of these may actually relate to management but at some point you reach that level of seniority and then the company says "here's a team, I'm sure you'll be fine" and leaves it at that very little training or coaching you just now have to learn on the job. Unfortunately unwinding mistakes at a managerial level is very difficult because it invariably had that human component and sometimes we struggle to forgive and forget.
It's in the source material, but crudely it looks like tether issuances were used to prop up the market as it faltered, timed as they were. Either there was a remarkably, improbably prescient actor there, or it looks fishy as f*ck.
In France there are two systems. Competitive and non competitive. Competitive is for med school and high end schools of engineering or economics / management. The entry tests are nation-wide and standardized.
The non-competitive may have an entry test but non standardized.
Both further tests are up to the discretion of the teachers.

There used to be public graduation rankings, but they are no more.
A few people are. Most people are not. I guess you could describe that as fair.
There's no reason that foreign companies that don't follow US law must be allowed to operate in US.
I put two sixty-pound buckets of gravel in the back corners of my pickup. That's a neglible difference in weight but a very noticeable difference in traction in cold wet weather.
U of Chicago doesn't have the prestigious rep that other schools who are charging less do. Is this a way of increasing their prestige?
The author is a professor at Stanford. If separating gifted children has no benefits, why doesn't Stanford admit students at random?
Counseling healthcare and secondary public education should be addressed somewhere else. University is the wrong place for that.
> worthwhile

Well, worthwhile for whom? Just because the student won't capture an extra $150k from his university education, doesn't mean he won't produce that or more to the rest of society.
That is very long, what is the TLDR?
Bogus headline.

"Separating gifted from non-gifted children hasn't led to better overall achievement of both groups combined."

It says nothing about whether the streamed gifted children do better than if they are not streamed it says much about those not deemed gifted doing worse.

(Just quietly, I'd suspect that given the choice of having your child streamed as gifted or not the best thing to do is to put them with the best teacher(s) - who will handle whatever psychological downsides there are of whatever that is).
> due to utterly braindead oppressive zoning regulations

It is not brandead for the people who live in a place to decide they want to keep it as when they bought it. It produces a lot of issues and problems, sure.
That's more or less the result of having already waited. There was a time, not very long ago in the grand scheme of things, when the computer you wanted would cost $5000 and be essentially obsoleted by the $5000 computer coming in 60-90 days. (Perspective: PC review magazines of the day would usually include the time for a Gaussian blur on a 1MP image as a meaningful test.) When you were talking about cutting minutes off of a large spreadsheet recalc, the immediate gain from upgrading today had to be measured carefully against the even greater gains possible next quarter.
I think only a distribution certificate requires a paid account.
That's known as "tracking" in the States and has a history of racial discrimination. There's little chance it will be implemented in the states.
Two main reasons.

Holding a US dollar is a bet on the US economy, the US government, and the US banking system. Those have their flaws, but there's a lot of built-in checks and balances that keep them reasonably accountable.

The other is that the Fed does all of its currency management very much in the public view. Whereas the USDT management has been somewhere between needlessly opaque and flat-out fraudulent.
Students are demanding MIT fire a professor who visited Epstein in prison
Right? Story time:

My wife went back to college in her early thirties. During one class, the grad student was trying to get the class to really question their moral certitude. "Would your loved one cheat on you a million dollars?"

My wife, however, was positive. When pressed, she said "Oh, he's done the math. I have nothing to worry about for less than 5 million. After that, sure, who knows, but until then...".

This was not the answer they expected. The students were horrified and the instructor was confused.

To rephrase your point (and the problem): Money can't buy happiness, but it can provide a lot of security against UNHAPPINESS. Depending on where I'm at, security-wise, different money amounts mean different things. Even if I'm very secure in all my personal needs, offer me a billion dollars and there's a lot of options at the top of Maslov's hierarchy. If I recall the math right, I could give a family $10,000/day, every day, for 216 years. Add in the effects of interest (and offset for inflation), and it's probably an infinite ability.

That's a lot of soul-soothing.

I too have made choices, at far less than the $1billion (or 1 million) level. And....

I'm still torn. I'm glad my current job isn't one I'm ashamed of, but those past jobs provided a lot of security for my wife and I. We have physical and mental health specialists able to attend to our needs.

I will disagree with anyone that says money/security is all that matters, but I can't say the choice is easy or clear.
In Belgium, there are only entrance exams for the highest level engineering program, and some medical degrees. No entrance exams at all for anything else.
From the article, it sounds like the measure of 'better achievement' is baseline scores across all students.

I was always of the opinion that separating based on ability level was not about improving the baseline, but about allowing those able to learn greater depth to do so.

Not every student is going to earn a Fields Medal or develop new medical procedures, and frankly, that's ok.

But we do need some who will push the boundaries.

The only issue I have is that the selection process itself has not been entirely merit-based, frequently showing preference for students from certain backgrounds at the expense of gifted children of color or from less wealthy backgrounds (and at the expense of society as a whole, who has lost out on the benefits those children could have provided, given the opportunity).
I know a person who worked on voyager. He is a very smart person who has contributed to a wide range of technologies over a long period of time. I have talked to him and the reality is that by the time that project was being done, the people who ran it had a lot of experience, and they applied the hell out of it to the project.

I've spent a lot of time since then looking into how to build reliable systems that operate for decades and... there are no easy answers. You have to have an amazing amount of knowledge about the engineering context (what's it like to run a computer in space), the scientific mission (IE, given this payload mass, what instruments can we fit), judicious software engineering skills (just updating the firmware on a machine that's millions of miles away is a challenging problem, worse yet if updating the firmware bricks your control plane), project management skills (to ensure you make your launch date), and the dedication to keep things going long after most people got bored of them.

After a long time playing with complicated systems I went back and played with 8-bit microcontrollers and they were actually really fun because it forces you to build systems that are reliable without a terminal and resource constrained (you'd have a hard time fitting a program as large as this comment into an arduino...)
Once they get growth the same kind of people crop up trying to stop it. Look at other areas getting new growth you see the same stuff as the bay area its just not 40 years old.
It was very sudden -- it seems like it was just a few weeks from "Kurt has cancer" to "Kurt is in a hospice" to "Kurt died". :-/
Ok, cool. It is not up to you though. It is up to the people who voted no, they do not want this.
> donating most of it will probably leave a greater positive impact than using your skills directly

This is true only insofar as the vocational marketplace promotes skillsets that are highly valuable in-context, but over-all contribute to some very negative externalities.

According to the calculations I've done, my collusion in an environment-destroying military-industrial complex is far from well-enough-compensated to, well, compensate for the damage we've wrought.

Even in a simple dollar-scale, if I earn 1/10th what produce for the company, there's an outsized swath of profit spent against my philanthropic endeavors

We, as individuals, cannot outspend the corporations from whose pockets we're fed. Working for a corp it's two steps back for every one step of charitable spending.
I 'll flag this SPOILERS SPOILERS people!
> EDIT: I don't understand the downvotes. Isn't this just fact?

Nobody's questioning that fact (barring well-deserved pedantry about radio signals), but GP's claim was light days so the downvotes are probably about the nonsequitur.
They're powered by Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
According to Matt Levine, some of their reserves are literally accounts receivable from other shell companies they have started.
Well, without having seen the episode, it's possible that the Ravnica piece was this product, which muddies the waters a bit https://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/rpg-products...
It only filters images already there - child porn isn't already among the chaff only thing it can find by definition would be false positives. Which could be an interesting vetting exercise in itself - feed in tons of cat pictures until it dings on one as inappropriate.

Technically you can always try cycling through image combinations match the hash/looks like child pornography and nothing could technically prevent it except that it would take a very, very, long time.

Even given adversarial networks I would be very surprised to get anything more than vague figures and I don't even expect the result to look human. In which case it is really generating instead of finding.
As a former brand designer, it's either simple word associations or post-hoc rationalisation.
Also missing from this tutorial - one really needs to execute a sfence.vma instruction after writing satp to sync CPU pipelines to new memory management state (otherwise code that happily runs on a simulator will fail on a real-world deeply pipelined CPU)
Forgive me if I'm not understanding correctly, but in your description here it sounds like the problem is in how your organization functions around this, not in Apple's policies.

It's not really fair to expect Apple to resolve or work around your own organizational problems.
In the US simply pronouncing that word would get you into some schools.
Yes and no.

If it is reported by a recipient using the report button most email providers have then your email host gets a black mark in various databases. With repeat reports over time, more and more of thier legitimate customers stuff gets filtered.

That means your email host is incentivised to find and shut down spam accounts, ideally before they start sending mail. Register a bunch of accounts from one computer or from a proxy? Closed.

You could get around this with your own smtp server buuut... If you send a lot of reported emails your home isp will chuck you. They don't want thier ip block blacklisted. Your cloud smtp spam server will be pulled by amazon and they won't let someone who seems to be you create a new account.

So yes, you can send a few manually written emails and send them to a couple people at a time, but anything with wider reach will be shut down rapidly at various levels.

Meanwhile, you can script create thousands of twitter bot accounts with obvious bot names and... If they are looking for them, they aren't looking harder than they are being made to.

I guess this is a strong argument for federated Internet infrastructure. Everyone is incentivised to play nice because thier partners can cut them off.
This kind of bla bla is getting boring.

> By refusing to stay out of politics, the company is building the case for its own breakup.

What does NYtimes think will change if FB and instagram separate?
Fear should not blind us to the promise of AI
Best buy's connected lightbulb will stop working after 2019-11-06
Cto.ai has funding to build a portable app runtime
Ask HN: How much do you charge to speak on stage?
I'm an early stage speaker. I've spoken on stage a number of times (https://onstage.ai/speakers/br). I like to qualify decisions I make in life using data, and I'm struggling to find case studies and data points to work out what the normalised transition is from not charging to speak at conferences and events, to charging a speaker fee any time on stage.

What do you charge to speak on stage? How did you make that transition to charging a speaker fee for speaking onstage?

Disclosure: I'm the Founder of https://onstage.ai - I built it last year because, short of building your own website, free/low-cost professional looking solutions for non-professional speakers were largely missing from the market. It's still pretty early stage - any/all feedback is welcomed :)
The future: Amazon launches it's own maps service where phone app users earn credit by allowing drones to hitch a ride on your car, cutting their flight times and increasing their reach.
What about traditional media lying all the time? By citing "sources" journalists can say whatever they want without any kind of accountability.
This is just old media crying for losing to new media platforms.
Here's the opposite perspective: https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/bs-xpm-2012-02-06-bs-ed...

> But as the facts now show, smart kids don't always stay smart, and when they are bored or bullied or ridiculed or neglected, some turn off and some drop out. Thirty-plus years of experience and research into how these students learn has taught us that the academically able can and must be challenged and engaged, inspired and encouraged in order to cultivate their creativity, spirit of innovation, and passion for learning.

Here's IMHO a better perspective on how to "close the excellence gap" in NYC schools, in particular, by changing the way talent is identified and by using local norms. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-11-what-can-we...

Finally, here's a twist: Eliminating gifted programs disproportionally hurts poor parents since rich parents will just pay for any available opportunity to get their kid ahead.
Your figures are about right, but 70 years is a long time to assume nothing else changes.

As to "it's not even bitcoin" you're flat wrong. Holding a valid Bitcoin transaction is definitely Bitcoin, and with Lightning you always do. This is why it can't be done without bitcoin.

And from a FOSS development perspective, bitcoin is the only project in the *cryptos" space I consider serious. I wouldn't base a project of mine on any of the other chains, and I think I've earned my graybeard enough in FOSS to make that judgement.

[Disclaimer, I work on Lightning standards and one implementation, since 2015]
This is an op-ed by a law professor at Columbia, not the Times' editorial opinion.
I've left jobs for two reasons:
1. I got a much better offer, unsolicited
2. The company had no future, which maybe is due to management but not a particular manager.
> need all of these features.

Humans need very few things. We don't need spices on our food, dye in our textiles, or windows on our houses. Almost no purchase is ever made based on pure utility and few humans ever make decisions with zero emotional component. Which is entirely rational, because ultimately emotions are what drives us. There's nothing logical about getting out of bed in the morning. You do it because you feel like it.
I tried PeeWee, but it does not have support for SQLServer, which I need to work with on a daily basis.
New is everything old.

Back in 2015 a little burger shop sues a little known company for ferrying burgers across the Stanford campus.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/11/12/in-n-out-burger-sues-...
Philanthropists give money to causes that do not result in the systemic changes necessary to reduce their wealth to a small multiplier of the average person's.

It's the old saying: "give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, teach him to fish..."

Philanthropy will never solve the fundamental problems with our economy.
After years of remote work and guilt over doing stuff like this, I've come around to the idea that -- for some types of tasks -- there's no more efficient way of plowing through it than laying around on the couch with something pausable on the TV, or occasionally even a video game. I always end up spending much more time on pause than not, and it actually gets done. It has to be a pretty specific type of thing, but I no longer feel guilty about it.
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Ask HN: Collective performance increase after an individual breakthrough
Why do we typically see a collective performance increase after a single individual makes a breakthrough? For example, after Roger Bannister ran the first 4 minute mile, the flood gates opened and many people could achieve this feat.
Shadowrun is fantasy cyberpunk, not steam punk.
I believe it was imported so that it could be used by code-verification bits in the boot loader and exec calls. I'm pretty sure those aren't turned on by default yet, but my understanding is that Juniper uses them.
Also some jobs makes it very costly to quit.

Like if you have tenure at a University or are in public union.

Seems to me those jobs also often have really bad personal chemistry.
> (b) can't be done in a pickup anyway

I've moved myself and a number of friends using just my mid-sized pick-up.
Managerial abuse is endemic to industry. It's simply in the businesses medium-term favor to 1) punish employees for exercising freedoms, 2) instill fear, and 3) reify management's power fantasies.

It's like any abusive relationship[1], only compounded by the profit motive.

> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

― Upton Sinclair

1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/224552.Why_Does_He_Do_Th...
Project Silica
That is the nature of their business.
There is no evidence in there, only claims with a healthy peppering of qualification or misleadingly speculative terms like "alleged", "according to", "supports the idea", "believed to be", Russian-"linked", etc.

If you look carefully, you might even notice there's not even an attempt to provide any evidence. Like any other article on this topic, it just presents the claims as if evidence has been provided. But there is none, only allegations, and "believed to be" based on easily spoofable attributes.

I'm not denying all of this was the Russians, I'm just pointing out that I've never seen any actual evidence, or encountered anyone who was able to provide me anything that is more than narrative based allegations, completely devoid of evidence.

I in no way expect to change your mind, I am simply stating my understanding of what is actually known (and published) versus what is speculation.

I likely won't be able to reply again due to going against the grain, but if you can post any actual evidence I promise to read it and adjust my beliefs accordingly. If posting a link to a multi-hundred page document, please include some hint as to what page some actual evidence exists on as 100% of the people I've encountered online who have taken this approach have all for some reason decided to not reveal where these shocking proofs that they've certainly personally read can be found in the document, for some strange reason.
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It depends on many factors. How many requests you predict? What type of application you are building? What size of hot data you will be dealing with? Your workflow is cachable? Dynamic languages are rather unefficient at scale, but allow you to prototype and most of performance comes from proper data structures or algorithms.
Sure, an existing pipeline. It was originally built to move oil east decades ago. Then it was reversed because oil coming from the other direction was more economical. Then they reversed it back recently.

My overall point is that almost every Albertan I've spoken to doesn't even know about Line 9, and politicians and media there keep repeating points about Quebec and Saudi Oil and Saudi tankers, and being denied access to markets. This doesn't accord with reality: oil from Alberta is already distributing across the country. Oil from Saudi Arabia is only a minor part of the mix in Quebec and almost none in Ontario.

Also worth pointing out that as a % of GDP and as % of exports manufacturing still tops oil and gas and mining. So the claims that "Alberta is holding up the economy of the country" sound pretty unsound and shrill.

In fact, when Alberta is doing really well because of high oil prices, the manufacturing centres suffer due to a high dollar.
WeWork-owned Meetup confirms restructuring, layoffs
Schools in the US didn't always cost so much. Tuition costs keep going up year after year at higher than inflation rates though. That is at schools that are subsidized by State or local governments.
Exchange it for Bitcoin. What else would you do with it?

People here seem to misunderstand what USDT is used for. It's not to invest in.

It's used to trade against BTC at exchanges which do not have access to USD markets. The gambl^Wtraders there probably couldn't care less about how collaterized it is. The threat model is and has always been that Binance or Poloniex or whatever they're called disappears with your money, tethered or otherwise.