skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Following the IQ distribution by races.

I can scream whatever I want about people being equal and have equal capabilities.

But that is a lie.

Genetics is a huge factor in disease, skills and behavior.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...
The difficulty is set so that almost all students can succeed, so this doesn't contradict anything the parent post said.
do they still just call derriving(Show,Read) on their configuration types? the configs are just haskell adts right?
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People like to blame society or the system.

Some of it is but there is also parental responsibility and small/immediate culture which has greater effect.

If you have parents that come from poor backgrounds and despite that produce kids who overrepresent in achievement, people in some corners like to brush that under a rug and anyone who highlights that is guilty of falling for the "model minority". Problem is, that's a cop-out and veers on crab mentality. Some subpopulations simply push their kids to study more and play less than others. That's just how it is. The parents may have two jobs, but still manage to instill an education mindset into them --a minority of these kids will look back and say that their childhoods were not fun, and that is likely true, but I don't think they'd be have a better life trudging away as a HS dropout or similar. And surely some parents overburden their kids to study "respected" professions. But that's a different problem.

Within a particular ethnicity or "race" some subpopulations have dedicated parents and others don't.

If I were born in the south to "hillbillies" my odds for landing in talented and gifted would go way down, not because of race, or ethnicity but because the culture of the parents and the immediate culture.

But take South Koreans 1st gen and compare them to Philippine 1st gen or Pole and Romanian and that's a no-no.
Covid vaccine immunity is waning – how much does that matter?
My school system works around this my having four different testing methods:
1) iq/gma test
2) school standardized tests, same across state
3) school creativity tests, same across state
4) teacher recommendation

I think there are still racial and income disparities but these methods somewhat reduce the penalty suffered as measured on these tests.

I think the intent is to find truly smart kids and give them additional tools to develop their intelligence and potential.

If a kid is smart, but doesn’t know vocabulary because their parents both work and can’t afford tutors, then the gifted program is an opportunity to detect and help those kids.

This, of course, assumes that not all kids have equal ability. And I think there is some truth that intelligence is inherited.
>you don't have to be super-smart to succeed in K-12.

Yeah, you don't have to be super smart to succeed in a warehouse-mentality K-12 system. In fact, it helps not to be. Wait, I think you just proved the benefit of advanced classes in K-12.
How long would it have taken you or me to write Doom, or Quake? How long would it have taken Carmack, if it'd just been him?

I think you have a false dichotomy here. Carmack isn't 10x better a C or assembly than me. But in his domain he's easily 10x smarter and more productive than me.

And on top of that, he has a quarter century more experience in graphics programming than me. That shit accumulates.

Yes, actually. In graphics programming, from 2D and software rendered, to OpenGL and VR, you could give him and me (and presumably you) any task achievable in a few human decades, and he'd do it more than 10x faster.

"Graphics programming" is not a small niche, and yes in that space he's a 10x programmer.

I think you're thinking of this the wrong way. I agree that for something as simple as "build some websites", yeah, 10x is going to be very hard. You're then just turning specs into code, pretty much.

10x programmers are those that don't waste 9 months. The hard part is knowing which 9 months out of 10, which 9 ideas and components out of 10, is waste.

For "build a web forum" or something, yeah there are no 10x programmers. Though there are many many 0.1x programmers still.
It is like those refugees. They screwed up their own. Then decide to make it like their own in new country. That is what will happen to Texas. Purple state. Gonna turn into Dems run ghettos soon.
The email would be nicer, but what's the solution exactly? The admin of one project moved it somewhere else - how do you restrict that, if the admin has total control over a project?

Are there improvements that could be done to allow these bots to perform with less rights? That would be something maybe github could tackle but it's not the worst thing about this problem.
Depending on the opsec of the group that stood the site up, this may still be possible to run down.
This just means the gifted and talented programs are now only available to the children of gifted and talented parents. Great job everyone.

Get your kids out of the public schools in blue states.
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What an egregious choice of wording. I feel like the bystander in this PBF comic[1] when I see things like this.

[1]: https://pbfcomics.com/comics/deeply-held-beliefs/
It's important to realize that the program is segregated by intent and by design. The segregation is NOT accidental.

That's true of many of the gifted-and-talented programs in the US. That's not fundamental, and not true of many of the gifted-and-talented programs worldwide. Worldwide, such programs are meritocratic pathways to socioeconomic mobility. In the US, the story is much more complex.

Most such programs were explicitly structured to keep African Americans and immigrants out. This was structured in admissions exams (which were often designed, for example, around mastery of one dialect of English, even in contexts like math, where that's irrelevant), in geographies of such programs, and in many other elements.

That this intent is no longer present today is irrelevant. Those structures remain, perpetuate, and in many ways, become self-reinforcing.

The current politically popular fix? Throwing the baby out with the bathwater and nuking the programs from orbit. At that point, no one without wealth can get ahead.

We need something more nuanced, but we're not going to get that if we don't first acknowledge the issue.

Refs: You can look at documents like this one, from over two decades ago, citing references well before then, talking about how to reduce some of the intentionally segeregatory impacts of gifted-and-talented admissions testing: https://www2.ed.gov/offices/OCR/archives/pdf/TestingResource... (and it's worth noting how little has happened in the intervening decades)
> How else are we gonna detect the asshats if they don't tribalise themselves at Poly Prep?

Maybe we can just judge them by what they put out in to the world?
Such as naming their personal blog something really pretentious?

Or you know, like, having utterly pretentious quotes in their HN bio?

> churchofthought.org

> Hardy couldn't have been more wrong about the innocence of pure mathematics. But we live by his legacy. In the sands of time, where do you dine? It better be divine!

But sure, you could judge them on choices their parents made to maximise their childrens' potential instead?

Not US but judging by the continuous amount of violence happening in certain American public schools, I would 100% be sending the kids private or moving to suburb where the threat of violence is distant.
I wonder how well it fares on the VT100 torture test

curl -q http://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/art/torturet.vt
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>The Bell Curve

I see this book (un-)ironically mentioned on /lit/ from time to time. How boring is it for a 600-pages tome?
I haven't been on Facebook in months. The only purpose I have for getting the account is to prevent anyone else from impersonating me and to keep some contact with my family (my mom is literally glued to facebook). Once my parents pass away in the future (hopefully far future) then I'll delete the account because I have no use for it. If I want to shitpost, I got twitter and 4chan.
> They stop when the requirements are met, instead of when the user will be happy.

that's because they are doing software "for other humans" - aka, their manager and PM, who gave them the requirements.

So the problem is not the software engineer, but the person who creates those requirements to be fulfilled.
The truth is also that this is not a problem you or I created. We leave our lives fairly simply I'm sure, choosing not to harm others. When we make choices, these choices are provisioned for us by the governance structure and the corporations. The same entities that cause environmental damage (eg wrt fires - cutting down pristine forests rather than farming them, poor forest management in not undertaking controlled burns, etc). This is not our fault. To me, this is directly equivalent to the Christian idea that we are born in sin. We are not.

However, it is expedient that this is the message that we receive and so we are being blamed for 'climate change'. Those doing the blaming are those that caused the problem - corporations and governments.

Rather than take a positive action to address the problem, even if there is a hit to the bottom line (money), it is far easier and cheaper to 'socialise' the risk. So corporation use lobbyists etc to make government put the costs on the general population (carbon taxes, 'smart' cities, etc). And, as it happens, this provides the same corporations with the opportunity to make even more money, providing us with the governmental solutions that they lobbied to achieve!

Its a win/win for the corporations. Its lose/lose for the general public.
Serendipitous to read this comment. I was just this morning trying to find a farm share to buy into. If (when!) you make your organic farming dream come true, register and sell on a place like this site: https://www.harvie.farm

Makes it easy for people like me to buy your stuff. Anyways, good luck!
I use i3. Pretty easy to setup. Have your config saved. I probably use about 10 key combinations on a daily basis.

For the amount of convenience, this is a very small price to pay.
When you are caught in a job you don't much like, time flies, but you are time poor. But may have some money.

I have been out of work for a long while, and family uses up lots of time. But I have always suffered with balance, programming entirely consumes me, and I ebb and flow with it. I feel totally disconnected and disenchanted with it and have no money and lots of debt.

And have no job security or fallback. Given a good manager and the right position I could happily amble along and be a useful asset.

But I am very disillusioned with web work and the industry. And I think web programming is a tremendously wasteful brain drain.

However if I had money and time, my perspective would be totally different!
Ask HN: I accidentally found a serious data leak on a website, what next?
This company's website apparently indexed folders full of customers' private documents, they're all on Google.
I found them accidentally by googling something else.

What is the proper procedure here? Should I ask for a bounty?
I agree. I find it so strange when people talk about the frame rate. The is a product of filming and doesn't directly matter to the viewer. To the viewer I care what the slowdown is. Presumably it is 6000/30 which is 200x slower, but it doesn't actually say anywhere that I can find.

I guess bigger number is better click-bait?
> But teaching children with a large range of abilities in one classroom is difficult, meaning much of the success of the plan will depend on the city’s approach to training educators.

In other words, talented students will be ignored or told to "tutor other students" (with no actual support or structure to do so), and will waste most of their time in school. As they always have under such systems.

Honestly, I don't even care anymore. My expectations are so low. The best thing any teacher ever did for me was let me read, or work through an advanced math textbook supplied by my parents, in the back of the class, without interference.

Just tell every teacher to do that with their kids who they don't want to deal with because they already know everything being taught. That's the closest this country will get to "socially acceptable" G&T education.
I’ve been into it about 25 years. Here’s a few of mine.

1. This industry is very faddish, and many fads are designed to make money for the people driving them or lock you into someone’s ecosystem. Avoiding those is a superpower. A ton of today’s cloud native trends fit into this category. They are gateways to a paradigm where you buy a lot of things as a service at a massive markup that are relatively easy to do locally or obtain at much lower rates.

2. Simplicity is harder than complexity. Managing complexity is merely clever while eliminating it is intelligent. Eliminating it without sacrificing coverage of the problem domain is genius. There is some very interesting academic literature on the idea that intelligence is or at least heavily involves data compression (and that this is what "learning" is), so this has some basis beyond the field.

3. Unfortunately re: #2 more complex less elegant solutions often win. Many argue that this is because they capture more of the problem domain, but I often disagree. I think it's a mixture of sophomore developers being impressed by complexity (having not yet learned #2) and the fact that complexity creates industries where money can be made on adjacent software, services, and consulting. As a result of the latter complex clunky solutions can be better at building an ecosystem full of self-interested evangelists. Recent example: Kubernetes vs. the Hashicorp stack.

4. If you make something work, you are only maybe a quarter of the way to making it a product. UI/UX is the rest of the journey. UI/UX tends to not be fun, so people have to be paid to do it. This is why open source and open systems almost always fail to achieve wide adoption beyond developers and IT people. They have no economic model, so they can't hire people to make the product usable for people other than nerds.

5. Infosec people are usually afraid of the wrong things. Most breaches involve social engineering or a passive mode of entry. Infosec people like to obsess about things that are sexy like cryptography but will happily type "npm install" as root on production and pay far too little attention to security against social engineering vectors.

6. There are 10X (ish) developers just like there are 10X athletes, 10X mathematicians, 10X writers, 10X salespeople, 10X musicians, and so on. The reason many people don't believe in 10X developers is that it's so hard to objectively measure developer productivity, especially at scale.
This comment doesn't make any sense. A gifted and talented program is not the same as the existence of "advanced classes" and isn't what article is referring to.
The timing is huge. There was a period time from the late 80s to I'd say Win98 when computers became affordable, they were useable by laypeople, but they still weren't easy yet. You still had to learn about some of the underlying ideas to do anything useful. By 2001 user-focused OSes had gotten figured out to the point where they mostly worked and people needed to know less and less about the underlying technology.

The key really was that brief time period where hardware had finally become widely available but software was still catching up with the new mass market.
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30 years programming and got sick of it. Started to travel around the world 2 years before Covid.

Was kind of semi retired but still CTO and directed the team on projects and issues.

Then Covid hit.

Now went back to work full time rebuilding systems but looking forward to jump into semi-retirement next year again.

The most important thing I learned?

Time.

I’ll do anything to preserve time freedom. Housekeeper, transportation, people to do stuff for me. I’ll do it all to save this precious resource.

And these are not things that cost a lot, but because I do them, I have more time to spend on myself.

Having the freedom of time is completely underrated and misunderstood and I reckon that most people do not know what to do with the extra time once they step back from the daily grind.
Segregated doesn't mean "by design." What definition are you using? Segregation can exist as a manifestation of some process. It doesn't have to be some person manually dividing people.

Your entire comment rests on a false premise.
Why can't we acknowledge the simple fact: some kids are smarter, they learn faster, they remember better?

I went to gifted and talented programs, and even there I felt like the pace was slow and easy for the top kids. If you put those kids into classes with even less academically apt, less focused children, those top kids are going to be bored out of their mind and wasting their time.

Do we truly want to waste the time of our most bright young minds? Do we want to squander their potential when they pick up 1+1=2 in 10 seconds, but it takes other kids 10 minutes? Do we have to force our teachers to make 4-5 different lesson plans, 1 for the lowest, 1 for the highest, and a couple others for the mid-tiers? We're already asking too much of teachers, give them smaller classes with less of a range of aptitude.
> But yes if cars would disappear this would have an impact on more people simply because there are more people involved in the manufacturing process.

I was thinking more about the impact on users, not just producers. There are millions of people living in low-density housing where they have limited alternatives to go to work, shop, etc. – maybe e-bikes could be an option for some but in most cases you’d be talking redesign of entire cities. Many, many businesses would be disrupted - some fatally.

That’s what it looks like for people outside of an industry to depend on a technology. This can be seen especially in the case of the web: 30 years ago, a company in San Francisco making a mistake would not have meant that people in cities around the world would have trouble communicating or taking orders from customers. People find WhatsApp so useful that they based their daily life on it. Repeat for online ordering, advertising, support, etc.

Contrast with Bitcoin: statistically, almost nobody uses it for business or personal transactions and the few who do almost always have alternatives — usually cheaper and faster, if ideologically unsatisfying. If it disappeared tomorrow, there would be no lines at stores, no accountants wondering how to pay suppliers, nobody waiting for their paycheck or unable to get a mortgage.
> I have no idea what term USAians would use for spirits distilled from apple liquor, e.g. Calvados; or fortified cider, such as apfelkorn. I would be interested to learn.

Where I'm from (southeast USA) it's just referred to as apple brandy if the ABV is ~40%. If you've got something like a very sweet and low alcohol liqueur (15 to 30% abv) then it'll generally be called Apple schnapps.

Generally - I take Apple brandy to mean "Apple was fermented to make this liquor" and Apple Schnapps to mean "This is some fermented sugar with apple flavoring added"
Having come out of the gifted and talented programs in question in NYC:

The privileged go to private school. Our programs are dominated by first generation immigrants, mostly SE Asian. Even the white component tends to be poor immigrant families.

If hard-working and intelligent poor people clawing their way upwards is a stain on equality, something has gone deeply deeply wrong with our conception of equality.

It’s always been a problem for NY liberals that these programs were so massively underrepresenting the black population. The fact that they were highly diverse had to be ignored. The fact that they were rife with poor first generation immigrants had to be ignored (it undercut the “rich people buy exam prep to get their kids in, which is why so few black kids get in” narrative). (The few black kids that did get in were almost /all/ first generation immigrants, too).

The only thing that mattered was the optics: not enough black kids, kill the program.
I'm vaccinated, and I even volunteered to participate in phase 1 booster vaccine trials. Articles like this are flamebait. The title is likely wrong, for starters.

At a baseline, naturally generated antibodies/t-cell response almost always targets more than just the spike protein (ie nucleoprotein regions, etc). These often make them effective against a lot more variants, as those regions are much more preserved than the spike protein.
Duplicating this response is the whole goal of the 2nd generation vaccine programs NIAID and others are running - to generate the same kind of response as a backstop against variants (it has a secondary goal of needing less dosage to vaccinate people). We are trying to better mimic the response the human body gives naturally.

Natural response also lasts a long time (in effectiveness), too:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2550-z

"Next, we showed that patients (n = 23) who recovered from SARS (the disease associated with SARS-CoV infection) possess long-lasting memory T cells that are reactive to the N protein of SARS-CoV 17 years after the outbreak of SARS in 2003".

17 years.

(Additionally, to the earlier point, lots of people infected with earlier SARS-COV variants appear to have an effective immune response to SARS-COV-2, because the natural generated response targeted preserved-between-viruses regions)

Now, this doesn't mean that you shouldn't get vaccinated if you were infected - in fact, the strongest immunity that is seen from people who were infected and then
vaccinated. This appears to generate a very strong, very effective response.

But this "hunting with a shotgun instead of a sniper rifle" stuff is just stupid. So is citing 2 studies that say different things and saying "therefore i've proven natural immunity is unreliable"

Any real discussion about vaccination vs natural immunity would have to go into CD4/CD8 response, what regions are targeted/preserved in mutations, etc.

IMHO These kinds of articles do a lot more harm than good, because the misinfo in them is easy to discover, and that convinces people even further of conspiracies. They take an area where science is actually trying to figure out the answers (we aren't all that good at understanding the immune response), and pretends we know.
That isn't going to help get people vaccinated.
Likewise! Ideally I'd work my job 4 days a week, but if I had to choose between 40 hours or 0 hours, I would choose 40
How many of those leadership exercises would realistically carry over into IRL benefit after the students graduate? For that matter, how many G&T students would check out because they're focused on leadership rather than abstract problem solving?
I would be wary with different meditation practices. I don't think it's a one-size-fits all.

Zen Buddhism and other traditions have very long history and experience with meditation. Now the West unfortunately sometimes imports ideas superficially, and meditation might be one of them. 'Mindfulness meditation' seems to have specific suggestions that probably haven't stood the test of time (or scientific evidence as mentioned).

However, sitting a few minutes quietly (without worrying about specific technique) shouldn't do any harm, is probably good for you.

Also very emphasized in those traditions is controlled breathing. It can be very helpful when stressed as well.

If it makes you feel unwell, stop doing it! Also maybe consult with someone with experience.
I tend to disagree. The fact, that a browser engine and JS is involved raises the bar significantly during security audits. It brings additional third-party players into the chain you have to trust. Meanwhile I suggest to read https://xtermjs.org/docs/guides/security/.