skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are you finding public speaking training? I’m asking because that’s a skill I would myself like to develop.
> . How did you already learn the material outside of class? Better education at home.

You are basically saying if someone is more educated, that they will do better in education.

Yes, that's the point. The more time and effort someone spends in their education, the better they will do in education.
Perhaps it's time to reassess this tradition.
And thank god for the two party system that never gets anything done. A slow government is a good government.
UCD 2009 CS&E alum.

This is as dumb as when California threw away phonics or when it forced longer-distance busing of white and Asian kids to inner-city schools.

I took the SAT-I (1600) without studying and got a 780 on the math section. How is math racist?

If some schools suck, fix the schools.

If some kids aren't getting enough to eat, feed them.

If some kids aren't in an environment where they have everything they need, put them in quality foster care.

It's not a feel-good, quick fix to lower the bar because it leads to a sense of entitlement, lower confidence, lower competence, and ruins an educational system that the world may decide its not worth sending their students to. If this is normalized, then academia becomes a center of victimhood codependency rather than a center of knowledge, accomplishment, and excellence.
Higher Ed Number cruncher here (who also read the report, which apparently was a big deal to the author since they cited the page count - and many of their arguments hinge on you taking their word for it and not reading at least the exec summary yourself - which is only 8 pages):

So, fun thing about the actual study that the author references... the committee actually __DIDN'T__ tell UC regents to not get rid of the test; they recommended against making it test optional due to variability in assessment requirements between institutions - and the exec summary doesn't include any recommendation for or against fully excising standardized testing from their eval process.

Further, the committee found that while the tests over HSGPA (high test score, low GPA) weighting was used in a subset of cases it was more likely that a student was admitted with just the opposite (low test score, high GPA); and overall it looks like the strongest recommendation was to disincentivize the HSGPA due to it losing almost 25% predictive effectiveness over the tested time period.

This article reads fine until it gets to the last couple of paragraphs, covering "affirmative action" and over-representation of AAPI students; and this is where a glaring issue comes through with their analysis. Like any higher ed institution there is a monetary incentive to get international students; as there isn't usually an out for lower tuition like WUE/WGE (which coincidentally the UC system no longer participates in), interstate compact agreements, and the like for tuition reduction; and the home country in many cases subsidizes the student so the higher ed institution gets full out-of-state tuition rates on a nearly guaranteed basis. So, by using AAPI students as a proxy argument for their weird screed at the end while leaving off factors like what percentage of that UG population is in-state v. out-of-state v. international does a disservice to that over/under-represented claim; while also leaving them off of the earlier analysis pieces moves the slant of the article in a weird way.

For further reference; AAPI students are __NOT__ included in Underrepresented Minority (URM) calculations - even though in many cases a layperson __WOULD__ include them; so by not mentioning them until you reach the point you're calling out the discrepancy they end up begging the question around the "model minority" bs; when it really may be explained more concretely through international and out of state student draw.
The equilibrium state in this scenario would be all public schools approaching equivalence, which would be a positive outcome.
Im kinda curious what exact "character-forging aspects of life as a poor teenager" lead to not just better school outcomes but better life outcomes in general?

The only thing that comes to mind is possibly empathy towards the less fortunate, but unfortunately that doesn't seem to result in better life outcomes for a person in our modern society. But let me stress "possibly" because there seems to be plenty of examples of people who dont have any kind of empathy towards others who grew up as poor teenagers.
I worked this out for the version of the problem on the linked pages but I must have misread the one posted here.
Marijuana farmers blamed for water theft as drought grips American west
Why does she keep smacking you? You may want to seek help.
CGuard: Efficient Spatial Safety for C
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.10533.pdf

"...Spatial safety violations are the root cause of many security attacks and unexpected behavior of applications. Existing techniques to enforce spatial safety work broadly at either object or pointer granularity. Object-based approaches tend to incur high CPU overheads, whereas pointer-based approaches incur both high CPU and memory overheads. SGXBounds, an object-based approach, is so far the most efficient technique that provides complete out-of-bounds protection for objects. However, a major drawback of this approach is that it restricts the application address space to 4GB. ... In this paper, we present CGuard, a tool that provides object-bounds protection for C applications with comparable overheads to SGXBounds without restricting the application address space...."
Interesting. You say he "rooting out queer people from NASA", but that is not what is found in the article. The question is not about James Webb time in the NASA, but rather during his time in the State Department as an undersecretary. He became an undersecretary in 1949, and started to work in NASA in 1961. The Lavender scare occurred between 1947 and "ended" around 1973. In particular it was the 1953 law signed by Eisenhower which barred homosexuals from working in the federal government.

The four astronomers leading the renaming petition say that when Webb worked for the state department in the high-ranking position of undersecretary from 1949 to 1952, he passed a set of memos discussing what was described as “the problem of homosexuals and sex perverts” to a senator who was leading the persecution.
This blog post is pretty disappointing. While true that AWS's egress can be costly, it is interesting that this article makes no mention of the fact that "non-partnership egress" on GCP is actually more expensive than AWS and that Azure is roughly on par. This article misses the opportunity to talk about cloud providers in a broad context and instead attempts to publicly shame AWS for not cutting a partner discount with them on egress for customers. Don't get me wrong, I'd love an egress discount, but this is "partner channel propaganda" masked as an AWS call-out.
I think it would incentivize making sure your lower ranked peers stay in school to pad out the ranking more than sabotage. IDK how you would even sabotage effectively, but I can think of a lot of ways to help your peers stay in school.
The left doesn't like a black man with right-wing ideas so he doesn't appear in mainstream avenues which are typically moderated by the left.
University Presidents and Trustees have this bizarre fixation on rankings. I have no clue why, especially considering the fact that that composition of the top 100 is fairly stable. Rarely does a university experience a big swing, up or down. Most universities are never going to dethrone the top 20, no matter how hard they try. And it's not like they are in desperate need for enrollment either.
Agreed, but that argument is more relevant to argue along the lines of how many in-state vs. out-of-state/international students you can educate. (Even then it's murky -- I can argue the international students both bring additional funding and add diversity which improves the learning experiences of in-state students).

Regardless, the argument here is simply which people they select. Assuming they hold 90% of spots for Texans (required by law), it's just a question of how they select people. The university wants to select the strongest students holistically (which some additional diversification criteria) - the state wants it to select the top 7% of students from every high school. Even if you argue the people are owed a state education, either criterion is a valid way to select the students that attend.
I highly recommend the story "Unauthorized Bread" by Cory Doctorow, for a look at a world where toasters are "smart" IoT devices.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41085118-unauthorized-br...
Private schools could but in my experience as a private HS grad, they DO NOT. There are other factors that prevent that.
>What I am against is the notion that it's not mine.

Did you attend school at any point? Do you use any civil infrastructure? Does the public fund or buy your work? Do you use any tools made by others?

The Jeffersonian idea of the yeoman worker who creates value solely through individual effort is a harmful one, because it ignores the importance of society in shaping the individual and it ignores all of the invisible inputs into the work of every individual. Nobody's salary is entirely "theirs" because nobody creates value without the involvement of others.
What they mean is the person lost all credibility in their eyes and they can't take anything they say seriously.
Sign up only with google or twitter account, really ?
Can't essays be gamed? And if one is better at writing essays, it doesn't necessarily mean he is better at other stuff. MS admissions in particular have people applying from different countries, countries where English is not the primary language.
Yes, the thing that is wrong with the process is that they didn't check to see if the person was able to write code.
In Feynman's day, people climbing down a manhole ladder were still mostly elliptical in cross-section. It's only nowadays that most people are mostly circular.
Smashing the machine?
Some bird by me always sings the first note of the Ed Edd and Eddy theme, making me start playing it in my head. Maybe I can figure out what bird it is.
There's an insidious element present even at the optical hardware level: the limited arms-length distance necessitates wide-angle lenses, which exaggerates the foreground elements and caused an uptick of people thinking their noses were bigger than they "actually" are (at typical viewing distances with our own organic eyeballs) [1]. Perhaps the aggressive smoothing is an attempt to rectify this, and I wouldn't be surprised if there's some automatic computational photography pincushion warping to compensate for the larger-than-reality nose effect.

I sometimes ponder over the alternate timeline where front-facing cameras selfie cams were never invented.

[1] https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/3/1/17059566/pla...
see above thread for info on Merlin with offline sound ID capabilities...
California does that too:

https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requi...
Use taxes pay for less than half of road funding. Make it so that use taxes pay for ALL of road funding for a start.
Possibly disagree. The cost of living index in San Francisco is somewhat above 250. Let’s round down to 200, so 2x as expensive as the national average.

That brings $17k down to $8.5k. The average spend per student in K-12 schools nationally is more than $12k.

San Francisco may be significantly underfunded in a nontrivial number of its schools.
> Income taxes, though, are actually progressive.

For some states it is a flat rate, I know of one.

But to me is the largest issue is funding for public schools and quality. At one time you would leave high-school with an education that was similar to what you get now in a 4 year college.

These days all we are doing is running a kind-of day care until the public school student leaves to work at McDonalds in the afternoon once the School Day ends.

I also remember some Profs saying in many cases, the first year of collage is a re-education of what the student should already know.
Apple testing new external display with A13 chip
I agree that no one in the public cares about CBDC.

That said, it doesn't mean that it's not interesting or impactful. It may be just federated IBAN/SWIFT/SEPA in theory. In practice, such systems matter.

The guts of the financial system are an evolved mess, with all sorts of shadowy institutions, clearing houses and mess in the middle. These end up having impact.
You should also consider it a hook for people who do not consider these addictive facets of social media but would listen to what another astrology fanatic would say. Meaning the article is not specifically for you. That doesn’t make it any less informational. Consider this is NPR a widely read source for the layman and they’re playing to their audience.
> Worst case I may add their APT repo but I'm not eager.

What’s wrong with adding a first party apt repo for syncthing (or other software)?
It's not a direct increase, but you can see in your chart that the lignite and hard coal stayed stable (and lignite actually increased) before 2015 for hard coal and 2019 for lignite. Meanwhile nuclear has decreased. I'm glad Germany is getting better at renewable after all these years, but all that coal burning had and still has a human cost.

> What is not well known in the Anglosphere is that the German nuclear phase-out was actually legislated around 2000, and not in 2011 after Fukushima.

I'm not in the Angloshpere, I live in France. I'm probably biased for nuclear power, considering our country depends on it a lot. On the other hand, like with the Chernobyl radioactive cloud, our frontiers sadly don't block pollution rejected by the Germans coal plants.
Why not? He was into computing. His lectures on computation (transcribed from his course in California Institute of Technology) are published:

https://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Lectures-Computation-Frontier...
This is super true, yet sadly much of the Japanese mobile gaming industry is paying through the nose for cloud hosting. There just is not a culture of optimizing the cost structure.
Hey, haha yh good spot! We picked appollo because we help people launch (apollo bit) apps (app bit).
It exists in many, many states in some form or another: New Jersey (where every dollar collected from the progressive income tax is funneled redistributionarily to municipalities), Connecticut, and Vermont to name a couple.

For one eye-popping counterexample to the notion that redistributionary school funding policies are effective, it might be worth understanding what happened in Newark[0], where 75% of the school is paid for the state already.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/19/schooled
The Wikipedia article makes it sound like it was thrown out. That is very much not the case. It is still in effect today. What happened in 2005 was that local jurisdictions were given more leeway to set their tax rates in lieu of state minimum requirements. Local residents in richer districts got more power to decide whether they should be taxed more to give more funding to their own school. And in reality it works the same after 2005 as before.

The spirit of the law remains in effect today. People like me who currently own a home in the Austin, TX area pay a lot of money via property taxes. School taxes very often make up over half of the property tax burden here, which is already quite high since there is no state income tax and the state has to make money somehow. Almost all of that money is effectively swept up and redistributed to the rest of the state due to the recapture laws.

Here's an article that discusses its current impacts in more detail: https://www.texastribune.org/2019/01/31/texas-robin-hood-rec...
Data makes it official: The San Francisco exodus is over
Bird Spotting
Not a lawyer, but… generally in the US you need “standing” to file a suit. That is, you have to show that somehow you have a material interest in the issue to be decided.

I couldn’t force a suit saying the FCC was required to do an environmental study, and they didn’t study the light reflected from SpaceX satellites so the approval for the satellites is invalid. I just don’t have any standing there. The US legal system being what it is “It is hurting my business, I am losing dollars.” is pretty good at providing “standing”.
ultrawide here. i'm stealing this idea; very smart.
But Clojurescript is a JS compiler too...?

Regarding the in-browser experience, does Figwheel do something that browser extensions for React/Vue don't do? These tools allow you to inspect component state, replay events, etc. Not exactly sure how much IDE we're talking about here (for example, GitHub Codespaces comes to mind).

I guess I'm just confused at exactly who the audience is that you have in mind. What you're describing here sounds like the opposite of a minimal, native-friendly framework.
To be fair, this lawsuit is actually competition at work. Viasat is complaining about the allowed _altitude_ of the SpaceX satellites, they didn't literally say to the judge "We don't want any competition, please reject their license".

Their complaint, while obviously futile and pretty pathetic given the alternatives, actually had a positive outcome. From the article:

> The FCC did require SpaceX to explain how it will prevent orbital debris, collisions in space, and casualties upon satellite reentry. The FCC also imposed conditions on the license.

This is more of a situation of 'hey, why do _these_ guys get special treatment??'
he said EU:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_European_U...

Finland 16.3
Sweden 22.2
Estonia 29.1
Latvia 30.2

Not all of europe :). Just off by two. I think the point still greatly stands as the EU average is 105.3.
What are you even doing in the gym for 3 hours?
OK, yeah, but those are tweets. He uses social media like most people do, which, like most conversational speech, is not meant to be taken literally. His real business isn't done over Twitter.
Why is this even a surprise? Didn't thinks like Conway's Game of Life demonstrate this decades ago?
CA does equalize funding at the state level and has since the 1970s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serrano_v._Priest).

There's only a small number of wealthy areas (1% of the population perhaps) that have excess funding. Generally, the funding policies ensure worst schools get more funding. Here's how LA County looks: http://www.laalmanac.com/education/ed04m.php. -- poor performing LAUSD is easily in the top 10th percentile by funding, strong Arcadia and Pasadena are well below average.
Because we put MBA’s in leadership positions of universities so they do what they’ve been trained to do - run a business. And part of that is finding metrics to measure their success by.
I learned the common search algorithms in school. I haven't had to touch them since, if you asked me to write psuedo-code for them on the spot I'd almost definitely fail to implement them properly. There's a huge difference between struggling to understand something and not being able to do it from memory on a whiteboard.

Imo conversational questions are much better indicators in an interview of whether someone will be a good hire, the candidate knowing why you would use a binary tree over another data structure offers much more insight than asking them to write one. The more conversational approach also allows the interviewee to demonstrate their knowledge and gives you a better idea of how they approach a problem or whether they'd be a good fit on your team.
> but Philly has a lot more going for it

You mean Jobs? Philly definitely has more. But I found Balto to have more going for it, despite being tiny in comparison. Culture-wise, Baltimore has loads of everything (except the "we're pretending we're NYC-lite" that DC and Philly push). There's loads of green spaces, festivals, multicultural cuisines/neighborhoods, industries. Baltimore even exceeded Philly in things like hackerspaces/makerspaces/tool libraries. And Balt has [some] free public transit! And though the history isn't pushed much, there's a ton of it all around. I'd also argue the Inner Harbor exceeds any Philly tourist district in terms of interesting ways to waste a saturday for a wide range of people. Then you've got the stadiums right near the harbor, the light rail to whisk you up into the lush suburbs, and more quirkiness and charm than practically any city in the US.

But I might be biased.
Background on japanese zoning which backs up these statements: http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
Can you explain why USD was not up to the task? Why could they not move real dollars between themselves or their accounts held at regulated banks?
When I was a kid in the 90s it was common for people to say "that's gay" instead of "that sucks". I don't think you realize how much things have changed.
California already has state level funding of schools. Since 2013, the funding formula channels proportionally more money per student to districts with poor students and English learners.

Moreover, some kind of equalization had existed since the 1980s as a consequence of both Prop 13 and Serrano vs. Priest.

It hasn’t fixed the problem.
Speaking of pointless arguments to make…

My one comment on the insipidness of clinging to labels we give to machines set you right off on one.

Some of us are able to put things in appropriate context.

The root idea of this thread is the name of a satellite. What does that possibly have to do with how I treat those closest to me?

You sure inferred a whole lot more than you needed to about a complete stranger. Brilliant work, Mr or Ms 1 in 7 billion. Why are you worth listening to, really? This comment sure isn’t providing much reason to…
q reads like prose compared to J.
It started around two decades ago, but I would say the "use strict if at all possible or you're doing it wrong" consensus was reached at least as long ago as 2005, being conservative. Because backwards compatibility was always seen as paramount, it never became default, but if you opted into new version features by version number[1], those advanced to enabled both new features and to turn off or warn on use of what were considered problematic features in the code. For example, a "use v5.10;" pragma would warn indirect method syntax with the assumption you never wanted that (so any new Foo("arg"); would error, so people would use Foo->new("arg"); as the sane agreed upon way it should be done), and would disable bareword filehandles (so you would need to assign them to a scalar like $FH instead of FH).

use v5.12 and later also automatically enabled strict. Perl 5.10 was released in late 2007, and 5.12 in 2010, so there was enough consensus over a decade ago to add it as the default for anyone opting into the bundle of all newer Perl features.

1: https://perldoc.perl.org/feature#FEATURE-BUNDLES
Ah. So when the article says that by percentage, white students are underrepresented, that’s because the denominator for the student body population includes all students (thus also international and out of state students), rather than just in-state California students?

Tricky article!
"Object-Relational Impedance Mismatch"[1] is been around for decades. Martin Fowler[2] and others who are deeply technical (think Sr. architects, CTOs) use this all the time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%E2%80%93relational_impe...
[2] https://youtu.be/qI_g07C_Q5I?t=98
> But this article does not contain the word "bless", and I wonder why it was left out.

Most people use Moose (or its variants) so they don't have to bless things anymore.
Scientists Have a New Way to Predict the Most Damaging Solar Storms
Learn to enjoy doing nothing. There’s no rule that you have to constantly be doing something or need to be constantly optimizing your time. That’s just societal anxiety talking.