skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently not in a position to be able to look up this stuff (making dinner), but Duke has done a lot of research on this stuff under their TIP program that basically everyone in this thread might be interested in: it validates your experiences in numbers as the default for gifted children/adolescents/teenagers when not helped structurally, and provides a reasonable amount of information and resources to try and offset some of their suffering.

There's nothing to really help people who've already experienced it, but seeing the numbers somehow really helped to put it in perspective for me.

It's kind of an epidemic at this point.
And I've moved myself using a Suzuki Swift. Doesn't mean it was particularly efficient compared to hiring a proper moving van though :)
> I have a hard time understanding how a stablecoin could be backed by crypto.

If you had a coin backed by a basket of other cryptocurrencies, it would likely be relatively stable in that the distinct individual volatility of each of the backing coins would be mitigated. OTOH, the overall volatility of the cryptocurrency market (which often moves rapidly and in the same direction) would not, so it wouldn't be very stable.
Apple has been around for 30 years. It’s not like they appeared overnight with 20k employees looking for housing.

The city has had a literal generation to respond to housing pressure. How much housing has been built in Beijing, or even in New York, over that same time period?
That system is completely compatible with the parent commenter's proposal.
The only stats in the opposite perspective are "30%-50% of 90th percentile students regress" which seems like regression to the mean, and smaller gains for minorities and low income students at high achievement levels. That's not a super compelling counterpoint.
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The non-gifted kids (to use your terminology) weren't bullied or abused. They were friends. They played sports together. I played sports too, just not with them, because I wasn't invited to. I wasn't 'cool.' I 'tried too hard.' I 'cared too much about learning.'

Not sure what you're going for here?
Solaris used to be far ahead compared to Linux. It's not really the case anymore.

> coughbtrfscoughsystemtapcoughsystemdcoughepoll

Btrfs is not as mature but design wise it is competitive with ZFS. Pool resizing is actually a lot nicer in Btrfs.

SystemTap was not as good as Dtrace but Bpftrace is ihmo better than both.

Event ports remain better than epoll but as a user that's not particularly significant.

Systemd is ihmo better than SMF was.

The combination of Linux namespaces and cgroup allow you to do everything zones can but are more flexible.
The job was, the degree is in finance.
Most interviewers believe this.
>.... are we willing to sacrifice helping them do better to help the top achievers do their best? How much are we willing to sacrifice in either direction?

It is so strange reading this comment, as I know how Americans are primed to respond to it, and how precisely opposite my response is.
Their contribution to this problem doesn't necessarily have to be a negative thing. Saying they made a contribution isn't an accusation. No one is saying that they should stop doing business in California or that they should try and succeed less, whatever that might mean. However, they do contribute to the runaway social inequality in the state. Every high paying employer does, including mine.

This doesn't mean they necessarily have an obligation to do anything about it and again, it also doesn't mean it's a bad thing. It's an inevitable side effect of their success. They did business, made a ton of money, spread it around, and one of the myriad indirect consequences is social inequality which contributes to the housing problem. Again, it's not a bad thing per se, but it's a real thing. The fact that it wasn't a bad thing doesn't mean there is no moral responsibility attached.

It's nice to see a company trying to deal with the consequences of their actions without being forced to.
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Leo Gura of Actualized.org has a really great lecture on what intelligence is that sort of breaks the bounds of other previous explanations of intelligence I've heard.

It's available on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQSUu2CRRBE

I only post this because it's a direct answer to the question, What is intelligence, and I find it to be a rather deep explanation compared to many others.
Your experience is as the parent of a high achiever, it sounds like. This article is talking about the achievements of the entire class, which includes both high and low achievers.

It might be true that the higher achievers do better separated, but that the reduction in performance for the lower achievers more than offsets that. This makes sense, because the high achievers are probably going to do pretty well either way, and as you get to the higher test scores (on which performance is measured for these studies), there is less room to improve for the top students.

Of course, this is a complicated question. What is the relative importance of helping lower performing students verse maximizing the top performing students? This is not a question that can be answered with raw data alone, because it is a values question.
Which is worse, because you’ll have done all the work, but get none of the reward.
yeah no, i m not from the US and didn't study there so i don't perceive anyone as better or worse. But if the smartest, non-poor people can't keep their promises and are looking for shortcuts that would really make society worse. Painting what's normal (paying off debts) as "bloody" revenge is pure hyperbole
Socializing generally isn't productive for gifted children past a certain point; when they're too far ahead of their peers, there's not much value that comes from it.
Is there really no way to report posts/users for spam on here?
Keep in mind the original post is an opinion piece with a political agenda, it is not evidence based.

There is no shortage of bad opinion pieces with all sorts of terrible politically driven opinions out there. This is one of them.
I think it’s pretty clear from my post that I’m talking about combined state and federal taxes in California, especially given the comparison to the U.K. which has a single level of income tax. It makes no sense to just look at state taxes, because a lot of federal taxes go back to the state as grants (transit, highway, Medicaid, ACA subsidies, education), or go to pay for social services the state would otherwise have to pay for itself (Medicare, Social Security, food security, etc.)

As to the combined marginal rate, it’s 50.75% on labor income above $576,000 (12.3% state, 37% federal, 1.45% Medicare). Then there is a 1% surcharge on incomes over $1 million. I’m not sure why you’re talking about dedications because that won’t affect the top marginal rate.
Whenever teachers realize they're being evaluated based on some metric, they almost immediately begin gaming that metric and with that it ceases to be a good metric. I had teachers give a lot of "group tests", walk out of the classroom during tests, etc.

Standardized testing aims to correct this, but I think it's now considered by many teachers to be a joke. Even when exams are administered by independent proctors, teachers can still game the metric by "teaching the test" instead of imparting meaningful understanding of the material.

I think this is a subject that will continue to defy rigorous objective scientific analysis.
> Constantly saying that we are going to remove technology <x>, where <x> is what you are hired for. Company will still need <x> for the foreseeable future.

I've had a VPE who did this but much more subtly.

- VPE arrives & inherits a prototype written in <x> and a team heavily experienced and passionate about <x>

- VPE says that passion for technology <x> is a hiring red flag. "We want people to join due to passion for domain <y> not technology <x>". VPE is frequently the sole thumbs-down resulting in a rejection of many capable <x> engineers.

- <x> team is understaffed but has a near-term milestone defined (but not owned) by the VPE

- Simultaneously, VPE is hiring new members in another office with no experience in or interest in learning technology <x>

- Milestone is cut in scope multiple times because initial goal was never reasonable. However, the milestone is delivered and is ready to be iterated on with all the new engineers hired.

- VPE suggests moving away from technology <x> entirely and standardizing on alternative <z> because the engineers he hired are more interested in <z> and we are lacking in experts in <x>

- End result is a wholesale rewrite of the <x> project using <z>. A year of my time and years of others' gone to waste. Not to mention the project itself is in a high-profile and competitive space.

Clearly a bad actor but also adept at maintaining plausible deniability thanks to everyone's deference to the VPE's authority. Not to mention a variety of other shitty leadership behaviors employed.

Really goes to show that the Amazon leadership principle "Leaders are always right" can be perverted by way of authoritarian self-fulfilling prophecy.

Per this post, once this VPE forced out my direct manager who I actually liked (making VPE my new manager)...I peaced out :)
Compared to USA Germany is a relatively poor, so it doesn't work, you see.
I'm honestly not sure if you're agreeing with me or not. There's really too much sarcasm in that post. I think you and I agree that the local telco/cableco duopoly is not usually meaningfully competitive among themselves, but does effectively prevent new entrants in most markets.

Dark fiber is great, but it solves long distance access issues, not last mile residential access issues. Long distance networking is actually subject to pretty healthy competition, if you can get to your local internet exchange, you'll have a wide variety of carriers that can get you anywhere else.
I'm actually working on that. I've come up with a way to dynamically create dataflow graphs on banks of hardware interconnected by latching sort-nets and programmed by a simple, pure, functional, "concatinative" programming language called Joy.
There’s no need to quote mental. The idea that it’s “all in your mind” is exactly true, except that, arguably, mental health can at times be more important than physical health. A mentally unhealthy person may be more likely to make physically unhealthy decisions, intentional or not, whereas a physically unhealthy person is generally not affected at all as to their mental health.

Obviously bad physical health can frustrate and depress, but it only changes reality, and does not directly change our perception of it.
Not gonna happen. The first sale doctrine gives him the right to resale all he wants.
Yep, there are no additional fees. https://www.tum.de/en/studies/fees-and-financial-aid/ Compared to the U.S. situation, it's funny to see universities talking about financial aid for those that cannot afford the yearly fee of €258.80. Note that many other things are also vastly cheaper at German universities; for example textbook prices are reasonable, on-campus dining is dirt cheap, etc.
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There are tons of horrible managers (and horrible employees) out there, do your best to avoid them.
How do we help those kids that are in 'gen pop', though? Simply pulling the smarter kids out, helping them, and ignoring the rest doesn't seem like a good answer, either.

I feel like HN is not the best place for this sort of discussion, since everyone is coming at the problem from the perspective of the high achiever. The low achievers deserve help, too.
If they really cared about this issue, they would start with their own backyard.

Apple is currently supporting the plans of a developer in Cupertino who wants to build 3M sq ft of office space for them and then not build enough housing to offset that space.

If Apple really cared, they would tell the developer that they won't rent any of that office space unless the development is more housing than office, and use their leverage and clout to make that happen.
I'm impressed they can set off so many explosions without killing people. That's good, I suppose.
But AMD maybe? I think they're big enough that if they started doing it, NVidia might consider doing at least a branch of products that had open drivers.
Better is just use GPS. You can passively listen without being tracked and you get the time and location. GPS is getting cheap enough ($10/1000 qty) to be a good option for this sort of thing.
I switched to Windows after uh, I don't know how many years, but a lot. The last version of Windows I used on my personal machine was 3.11 for Workgroups, I think, and since then I used various Linux distributions and OpenBSD, then ultimately MacOS because everyone else did and I lost my taste for swimming up that particular stream. I still use a company-issued Mac laptop at work.

Like DHH, I was "seduced" by the hardware; the Surface Pro just made sense to me as a personal machine and I was also "seduced" by the apparent ease of WSL+Ubuntu. I started down the path DHH did and was frustrated by some of the same issues.

At some point I realized that (just like with every other technology I've used) when you fight your tools, you're just giving yourself heartache. At this point I decided to start trying to do things the "Windows" way, or at least, the geeky Windows way. It's just not Unix.

I discovered Chocolatey and started to familiarize myself with the environment and--here's the major one--started making an actual effort to appreciate powershell. Once I started grokking that, I realized I needed to switch, so I switched from bash to powershell on all my machines (including the MacOS machine I use for work).

I'm going to geek out about different things than another user, but I haven't had a hard time starting with choco's ruby packages for ruby development. I'm an emacs and shell kind of person, and they both work great for me. I have had trouble building some native gems but these tend to be due to unnecessary problems in the gems, like finding libraries via shell commands.

As for fonts and the other things people are complaining about--well, it looks fine to me. I'll grant that this isn't something I'm deep into. Neither is VS Code, which I've played with a tiny bit and still don't really get.

There have been pleasant surprises like how nicely accessible the detailed system performance data is.

One thing I'll say is that a lot of why someone thinks things "just work" in MacOS (or there other platform of choice) is due to familiarity and luck. I've run into my share of things that don't, on every platform.
> And for nitrogen fixers, it's not at all clear that the nitrogen they fix is available to the plants around them. It might not become available until they die back and rot.

Do you mean it’s a question of if they provide more nitrogen then they use themselves? I literally just read from a children’s book in the nitrogen cycle about how bacteria that live on the roots of some plants are the only way plants can access it.
That's really fascinating...what the class focused on SQL language and syntax and working with data? Or did you get into database theory as well?
>Based on the success of bootcamps etc.... I do wonder if software engineering would be better as a trade skill rather than university

There's plenty of data plumbers (myself included) who are writing a check a month to pay for skills they don't use but a lot of them don't have degrees in the first place. That blurry line between corporate IT and software development is where people would probably benefit most from trade programs.

Edit: Apparently a lot of people took offense at this comment and I'm not sure why. Please explain.
No one deserves to be bullied. And I'd be pretty okay with permanently removing bullies from the general population.

That said, in my experience, the gifted/nerdy/aspy kids got the lion's share of the bullying. I still carry it with me decades later, and at least one of my comrades in misery killed herself because of it.
Care to share what your response is? I am not sure I know what the traditional American response is?
Yes, I'm aware. But it's a bit weird to say the developer experience on Linux is first-class. For things that don't have a GUI, sure. But that's not what the discussion was about.
> The .gov backs student loans. And, they are non-dischargeable. So, it is zero risk for the lender to give loan to the 2.7 GPA moron getting a worthless basket weaving degree from the local private lib arts school for $100k. So, they give as many loans as possible, since they can't lose (taxpayer on the hook).

The only lender who is allowed to issue government-backed student loans for many years is the federal government, and their policy on what loans they’ll issue and on what terms are set in law, not a response to market incentives.
Actual URL:

https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/11/04/deep-sleep-can-rewire-t...
The problem with this article is that the author keeps talking about aggregate "achievement". Is it better to slightly improve the aggregate number of children who can limp across the arbitrary "achievement" thresholds supposedly measured by ever-changing tests, or make sure that the resources exist for every child to exist in an environment that allows them to learn at their own speed? Classrooms forced to teach at a pace that accommodates the slowest learners necessarily hold back the education and growth of every student capable and eager to learn at a higher rate (as well as inducing boredom and apathy). I'd argue that we should be increasing resources to the slowest students who have the hardest problem closing the achievement gap rather than trying to eliminate that gap by pretending that all students learn at the same rate and holding back our best and brightest.
My lobbying would be going up against Apple's multimillion dollar annual lobbying budget plus their massive propaganda reach. For example, I was opposed to letting Apple "repatriate" their international cash hoard but Apple was able to get that legislation passed after a multi-year lobbying and propaganda campaign. My email to my senator did not matter at all but theirs mattered a lot.
But they have to live in oppressive heat and humidity. There is a reason California is popular -- the temperate weather. You can't really find similar weather anywhere else in the US.
You have to go past a lot of non-GAAP accounting to see that they actually lost $1.1B last quarter, almost all from operations. There is a nice chart showing all the things they are taking out to get their adjusted EBITDA of -0.5B.

It seems like they are always taking out a bunch of one time charges to claim that there core business would be profitable. But every quarter they have those charges. I don't understand how people say their ride sharing business is profitable. I mean maybe it is and I just don't understand how people think that. I would love it if someone would walk me through that.
Earlier in the article it addressed some achievement metrics for the same district:

>For instance, after San Francisco Unified de-tracked math, the proportion of students failing algebra fell from 40 percent to 8 percent and the proportion of students taking advanced classes rose to a third, the highest percentage in district history. Until 10th grade, students take the same mathematics classes. From 11th grade on, students can choose different pathways.

The author is indeed trying to connect feelings about ability and achievement. I'm not sure how this is postmodern.
Your argument wasn't on choice, but on practicality: you weren't choosing something different because of the abstract value of choice.

The person replying to you had an argument based around choice: the practicality of the solution was ignored in favor of an abstract concept of choice, rather than practical benefit.

(I'm saying the person arguing with you was arguing against something you weren't arguing for.)
> I use GPS for time transfer. Works great everywhere in the world.

Except on basements. Or on buildings with no view of the sky.
With today's L1/L2 caches, it's been a long time since I've seen -Osize not hurt performance.
I'd love to hear some smart people opinions on this idea:

"Uber doesn't need to be profitable, they just need to survive until their autonomous cars are deployed"
For the non-wealthy, the university education is in fact about job training. The non-wealthy can't afford to pay that kind of money for something that doesn't pay them back.

The wealthy can pay for a degree that doesn't pay them back. That's fine. They can study whatever they want with no regard for practicality.
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Beyond that, they should lobby to up-zone the suburbs surrounding the Apple Park.
This is the wisdom from the old days, and it's still true in many cases.

But I believe compiler developers are trying to keep -O3/-Os working as advertised by their literal meaning, especially when it's combined with -march and -mtune, the cases of performance degradation should be fewer by now. For example, by using the knowledge of the subarchitecture, compilers can optimizing the code for Intel's MicroFusion rather than performing useless loop unrolling that actually degrades performance.

In all benchmarks on Phoronix since GCC 4.9, they showed -Os is almost always slower than -O2 and -O3.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gcc_49_o...

Linux kernel used to prefer -Os at everywhere, but now it has -O2 and -O3 as well. I think there is a measurable performance improvement in benchmarks in some cases.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/15f5db60a13748f44e5a1...
So is the life advice to go massively in debt (and jack up your income) before your kids apply to colleges? How far in advance do you have to go massively in debt?

EDIT: Looking at Princeton's financial needs calculator, assuming a constant income, to maximize your financial aid you should:
- Reduce your assets: Buy a really expensive house, have nothing in savings/investments/other equity
- Reduce your income: Pay a ton for private school tuition, medical expenses, or child support.

EDIT 2: Looking around some more, apparently FAFSA doesn't consider:
Your primary residence
Your car
A boat you may own or furniture in your home
Untaxed Social Security as income

Here comes my big house / Bugatti / yacht!
Lithium iron phosphate batteries don't use cobalt, and the chemistries that do use cobalt are using less and less.

Lithium ion manufacturing has been migrating from 6-2-2 (iirc that's 60% nickel, 20% magnesium, 20% cobalt) to 8-1-1, to 9-0.5-0.5, and so on.
> omit frame pointer which destroys debugability.

IIRC frame pointers were necessary for a Linux flame graph tool I used on the JVM.
That's the need-based financial aid program specifically. Are the numbers quoted by the grandparent post for that program specifically?