skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's fair, these concerns have been around for probably five years plus and get a lot of media attention. As someone invested in this area it does get a bit old and counter productive being scared of the various boogie mens while missing all the enormous upside so far.

After all, tether is 3% of total market cap, I think it's fair to say the effect if they disappeared tomorrow would be a bit bigger than that in an emotional market, might see a 40% dip or so but after that greed would make a recovery pretty fast and then grind to all time highs like allways. my five cents.

edit: As the Dothraki slaves would say it, tether has pretty scummy people behind it, it is known. but that's ok.
We're sure that Sheila is the other party's real name?
Public schools in NYC rush to the lowest common denominator to address cries of racial inequity. This only takes away futures for children who would have had any future because they weren't among the general population of future convicts or minimum wage earners. No one is better for policies focused on racial parity when the bar is vastly lower because of it.
I know lots of parents who “chose not to go with it” when their kids aren’t selected for gifted and talented.

There are many flaws in gifted programs and they aren’t perfect. But they do have advantages like more child autonomy, more allowances for child-directed study, and more encouragement of curiosity.

Not all children have academic curiosity and so gifted isn’t a good fit for everyone.

But for parents who want their kids to achieve academically, I can’t imagine turning down gifted for “regular.”

And not saying this is you, but when I lived in Manhattan I would hear arguments about improving all classes instead of just gifted and the parents were sending their kids to private school.

Public school is rough, but taking away paths out for kids who want to be in school, but whose parents can’t afford private school seems like punishing those gifted students.
Wow everyone that’s posted has some very unique situation going on. Only a few are the normal grind.

Late 20s, about 90k NW. 7 years ago I had about $70 of my own. About 50k of that is my 401k. 5 figure salary in IT but great benefits +pension. However I think I’d kill myself staying here so I might not get to enjoy that.

I plan to retire in South America or Eastern Europe since their food and culture match what I like the most. The US is definitely not the place to retire for me.

I rent, I have a dog, a girlfriend in grad school and I race cars. I build everything myself so the most I’ve spent in one shot is 2K in a turbo and 600 on a welder. Overall I’d say I spent 10k on the car, so not bad (trying to justify myself lol).

I think I’m pretty frugal but I end up spending money on a lot of little things for racing and such. But I don’t have an 80in tv or the latest MacBook. I run Mac on a $300 Thinkpad X1. We cook every night and we buy at Costco or Aldi. We lowered our beef consumption and we drink Kirkland Malbec for $7 (but to me it’s on par with a $20 wine).

Anyway, that’s how I’ve been doing it, low risk, low return, no gifts, no inheritance, no company stock.
> The limit isn't how fast they type. Its how correct the code is

And how good your autocomplete tools are, or you repertoire of code based to copy from.
Github supports ICE, the US concentration camps.
> Equality, to the priviledged, looks like persecution.

So does persecution.
Amazon CEO, citing ‘rougher’ patch with Seattle, looks to ’burbs
Spending on schools in the US has dramatically increased in recent decades and that money isn’t going to for-profit schools but public schools. The US is investing in child R&D with more money. There is a good argument that the money is not well spent, but the reality is that spending is way up.
This is a hard fact that people ignore.

People are different and they have different skills.

but but "social economic" factors? Very little compared to genetics factors.
One of the studies with adopted twins ->

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...

I can train all I want . I will never be as good as Neymar on Soccer.
> inherent differences within the capabilities of students

citation needed. I agree students definition differ in abilities, but by and large you don't have to be super-smart to succeed in K-12.
Some people don't like institutions that will enlarge racial inequality gaps.
This has already happened in NY.

What the NYT article omits is that the elimination of advanced classes has been preceded by a couple of decades of highly restricted availability. 15 years ago (shit I’ve gotten old), when I lived in nyc_borough, there was precisely one elementary school honors class for the entire borough. 30 spots for the entire borough. I didn’t bother to wait and see if my kid managed to get a spot, we pulled her out and stuck her in private school.
The answer is probably "more gifted programs in low-income neighborhoods". This is of course racist against Asians (they are lumped in with white when it's convenient). They make up 43% of these schools, so whites, and POCs are underrepresented. Why are Asians doing better? Are they more intelligent, work harder, value education? Let's pretend there is no problem by just eliminating the schools. Of course, there are problems with gifted programs, but assuming that factory education will maximize all the students potential is obviously wrong. This is a pollical maneuver designed t placate a segment of voters. We need every smart mind being educated properly regardless of the circumstances of birth.
Take away every opportunity another child has that yours doesn't
When was the last case when a malicious website or script could capture content or keystrokes directed at another tab? Really curious, because it seems an obvious attack vector.
Directed here from your Twitter post. Great work here!
Are there other behavior tree C++ libraries too? I have mostly only seen this library being used.
the weekends are a pretty good picture of how we'd behave at retirement.

Interesting, thanks for the insight. I've also heard that, your teenage hobbies are another source of where you might find your passion in retirement. What did you do for fun as a teenager, and how does that compare to what you do during your breaks?
> 1. I still don’t know very much

> “How can you not know what BGP is?”

I learned a while ago that answering someone who asks you "What is X?" and replying with a phrase similar to the above is probably one of the worst ways to broach the subject. It comes off as questioning the person's intelligence/knowledge.

Instead try to see it as a teachable moment. If it is something you think is cool and/or you are passionate about, you should be excited that you can show your friend/coworker something really cool. ie: "I've never seen Rick and Morty", "You are absolutely going to love that show. I know what you will be binge watching this weekend!"

Anyhow, to put it bluntly, don't be a dick about it.
A relevant and a fascinating read is this recent paper by Barry M. O’Reilly titled The Machine in the Ghost: Autonomy, Hyperconnectivity, and Residual Causality [1].

> This article will examine the unnamed and potentially devastating constraining effect of software on human autonomy. I call this concept residual causality, where software design decisions made long ago in different circumstances for different reasons constrain human action in an unknown future. The less aware the designers of software systems are of complexity in social systems, the more likely they are to introduce residual causality."

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/6/4/81/htm
Build a service that offers webhooks on incoming payments for blockchains. Sending address and receiving address is unique enough to use as payment identifier.

Perhaps there is a service like this already?
You can bundle 2 day deliveries to increase efficiency. You don't need a delivery person with just one or two items do the trip between warehouse and your mailbox.
Not completely retired, but work remotely and only a few hours a week at this point. Stepping back from the rat race at 30 was the greatest thing to ever happen to my life. I'd spent my entire 20s singularly focused on my career and building my skills. When I hit 30 and looked up around me, I realized I'd achieved everything I set out to do but was still miserable and alone in life. Everyone I knew was getting married, having kids, building relationships, and I had completely neglected that aspect of myself for the last 10 years.

Stepping away allowed me to completely reprioritize what mattered to me and what I wanted out of life. I rekindled old friendships and love interests and eventually met my wife. I realized I'd never actually been truly happy before on a consistent basis, and learned what life is actually all about. That money and career success are simply means to an end of living well and loving others.

I feel for people that are always trapped in survival mode because you get stuck in these ruts that become completely impossible to see out of. You end up so shortsighted and focusing on something that doesn't really matter in the end. But life is just a game that's meant to be played for the enjoyment of it. There's no prize at the end, and your score doesn't matter.
'A common threshold' - this is false. There's no such 'common threshold'.

There's far far too much ambiguity and selection issues in IQ for us to use it reliably for that much in the real world.

Kids from poorer area have much less good parenting, their vocabulary is as small as 1/3 of those of richer kids entering Kindergarten.

From K-10 at least, it's probably a good idea to just teach kids, at the later high school grades, offer accelerated learning classes to whoever wants to enrol.
Epic Fail. But predictable from people who wrongly believe Bell curves don't exist and that everyone is the same and capable of achieving ANYTHING.
Or this is the inevitable end of leftist thinking every single time. Sounds good on paper, fairness and all that, but totally ignores reality and ends up requiring large amounts of violence to enforce its idea of equal outcomes for all, where that equal outcome is always poverty and starvation.
>There is no "10X" touch-typist

Ironically enough your example is flawed: there are documented 10x touch-typists.

The realities of the court system place high demands on the typists; the minimum required typing speed is already quite high: trained court reporter or closed captioner must write speeds of approximately 180, 200, and 225 words per minute (wpm) at very high accuracy in the categories of literary, jury charge, and testimony, respectively[1] - and some exceed the minimum and go for 300 wpm. Even better, the official record for American English [is] 375 wpm [2].

Compare that to the average typing speeds around 30 - 40 wpm [3] Granted, the court reporters use specialized input devices (stenotypes) - but hey, the same can be said about highly productive programmers, who use specialized development environments - and sometimes also specialized input devices.

--

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenotype

[2] ibid.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_typing#Speed
For me, Morrissons via Amazon is same day most of the time now. Asda has just announced that they launching 1h delivery.

They can do that because, like Tesco, they have supermarkets nearby so it's 'just' a question of getting someone to pick your stuff from the aisles and someone else to drive to you (funnily most Morrissons/Amazon delivery people drive very fancy cars in my area, I have had big Mercedes and BMNWs, maybe private hire taxis filling time).

I don't think Ocado has a dense enough network of local warehouses.
I did too. Though they still had the shitstorm of bullies and race gangs (leader of the black gang threw a padlock at my head at lunch ) (leader of russian gang wanted to have me jumped because they thought I was stealing their lunch money due to my computer hacking skills) I still feel like it was a step above the schools near me where pretty much everyone was a jock. I used to have to take the bus and train to and from the city, and along the way, the bus would pickup the students from James Madison High School. They always threw stuff at me and bullied me although toward my senior years I got large enough where I wasn't as much of a target. Pretty much everyone from that local school was a moronic jock or trophy wife wannabe. I can't imagine having to be surrounded by people like that for 4 years. The type of kids we are talking about would use those motorola walky talky phones on full blast. They'd have headphones, but shitty ones, so loud that everyone could hear their music. Or they'd just be blasting some garbage pop on a portable speaker. Oafs are bad and I can't imagine any of these kids grew up into people who aren't assholes.

Don't get me wrong, assholes still existed at the G&T schools but in far less numbers. The word was that bunch of the assholes actually got in due to affirmative action (like the gang leader who threw a lock at my head.)

Taking away meritocracy is a huge mistake. But that is the essence of the BLM and woke movement. Intelligence measures don't discriminate against anyone except those that aren't intelligent. And yes, it's unfortunate that the conscussions from street brawls or malnutrition might cause a kid from a poor ghetto to be less intelligent. But letting that child into a G&T school, or simply abolishing the schools altogether, it doesn't solve that child's problems. It just makes us all less educated. And if we are all less able, how the hell are we supposed to help that kid?
Violence, racism against whites, drugs, low aspirations
Pfizer vaccine immunity diminishes, can reach as low as 20% after 4 months
Education research is more heavily plagued by poor methodology than even psychology - the only reason it lacks a replication crisis is because it doesn’t have the academic integrity to bother trying to replicate anything.

It is the epitome of shitty studies cherry picked to support the idealology/politics of the day.
I get a 1-hour window on the delivery day. It's much better than "some time tomorrow".
I really get a bad feeling from having Google making these blanket policies considering how they've bungled up lesser moderation attempts in the past. Maybe this is a sign for Google to break up the YouTube video service into a federation of platforms rather than just a one-size fits all approach. I know that sounds impossible and maybe it is from a brand recognition point of view but I think forcing all their content streams into one platform has been causing them more problems than it solves. They can still use the same advertising network and associated API but they really don't need to push everything through one website.
It's possible that the average school provides insufficient challenge & motivation for the average student, so that rising expectations results in a rise of performance. It's also likely that an "advanced" programme was less tolerant to disruptions and required students to focus more.

But regardless, that doesn't change the fact that there are difference between people, and they're shown very early in development. It's things like, a kid not understanding whether a train is alive (it moves!) or not. Later, it's things like a person being able to understand basic math or not (I was the smartest kid in class, and had to tutor one of the worst... it was painful - he simply couldn't understand math! I tried all different ways of explaining, ended up having to teach him a mechanistic formula "write parenthesis this way, then keep trying numbers until the sums match").
Pretty much all of it
Yeah that all sounds nice until you start to budget it. No way I could keep myself busy with the money I have. I guess this question really depends on if you have the financial means to retire _and keep yourself entertained for the rest of your life_. I don't.

> you have Stockholm syndrome, snap out of it

Very rude.
A bipedal walking robot that can fly, slackline, and skateboard
I quit before I could finish 6 years as an employee. I enjoyed working on complex projects and I'm proud of several contributions that I often reminiscence even after 7 years of leaving. There were several reasons why I left, for example - losing interest in the field (VLSI), burn out and dislike of corporate work environment.

I didn't have anything planned, which was a huge mistake on my part. Long story [0] short, I was surviving on my earnings from the job for more than 4 years before writing ebooks got me back on track.

I'd say it has been tough going. But even now I can't imagine going back to work.

[0] https://learnbyexample.github.io/my-book-writing-experience/
I also think at kindergarten age, you are actually just separating by age. A kid with an early birthday could have lived 11 months longer than a kid with a late birthday, and when you are only 4 or 5, that's a good chunk of your life. See Malcolm Gladwell.
Uber felt like it was robbing VCs and exploiting the working class to give the middle class cheaper and nicer taxi rides (my crystal ball predicts someone downthread moaning about how a taxi driver scammed them...).
Mixed feelings about moves like this. Am a product of a related system in another city some decades ago. The pressure to "de-stream" students in education in general has been an ongoing controversy for decades.

What bothers me about gifted programs is that they isolate the smartest kids from everyone else, and one can't help but think it's more to protect the system and everyone else from bored intelligent kids than to enrich their individual educations. IQ isn't a great proxy for much, but two or three standard deviations from the mean in populations of millions, you are likely dealing with different kinds of thinkers.

The skills the programs emphasized are focused on abstraction and complex problem solving - and not leadership where they could scale to benefit everyone. This turns kids into talent who will ultimately work for and be managed by more average peers, which makes it a remedial program for socializing exceptional kids into functioning cogs. It's like inventing fusion reactor to plow fields, or an F1 car to sit in traffic. I get that enrichment in education is something they might not be able to get at home and the schools are providing it, but they're providing what the average of the education bureaucracy can be persuaded is right for smart people to do based on cliches about scientists and professions.

There are good reasons to change how gifted programs operate, even putting phasing them out on the table, though the reasons in the article are ideological, which is practically the definition of what you have when you don't have experience - just the logic of an idea. NYC may do the right thing for the wrong reasons, and the benefits will be an unintentional side effect.
This is a modern scapegoat ritual.
I have a quote that I put in my office in a prominent place. It says "Work done in the spirit of service is the highest form of worship." I really believe that and try to make my work a force of good. I feel too much work is a bad thing, but too little unfulfilling work is also not good.

Some people feel that if they were sufficiently rich, they will never work. I think one source of this view are the health effects of the sedentary lifestyle associated with tech, and I respect people who say that. It's all to common for people to be overworked in tech, so I understand people who want to exit for that reason too.

Still others, don't really enjoy work at all and would exit the workforce if given the opportunity. I respect that view too but it's not for me.

Because even if I had unlimited financial; resources I NEED to still work. I believe work, especially the kind that you feel is helping people and results in deep concentration called flow is beneficial for my mental health.

If I stopped working and entered a perma-vacation, I would go out of my mind. There are only so many golf courses, and so many days you can wake up late, before I would be bored out of my mind. When I go on vacation, I enjoy it and need it. But after about a week, I start to get bored and to miss work. I need a challenge.

There is a nice documentary called Born Rich by Jamie Johnson (one of the heirs to the Johnson & Johnson empire's wealth) in which he films the sons and daughters of billionaires (it's on YouTube). What I found fascinating is the happiest ones seemed to be those that applied themselves by working or in one case applying themselves in academia all the way to a PhD.

Even if I stopped my current start-up, I think I would find myself spending a few months catching up on technologies I didn't have the chance to catch up on, and imagine I would just start a new start-up after that.
Also, I would add one important thing that's being omitted, namely, that science is concerned with principles (at least instrumentally useful ones if not truly accurate ones). So there may be general principles that underpin good organizations, but these principles are general and on their own are insufficient for practical action. You need to be able to combine those principles with the contingent facts to produce action and that requires the capacity for prudential judgement.
Our oldest just started kindergarten and he is bored out of his mind. He can already read a little, he does basic addition, he even has a really good handle on some basic science facts (ask him about earthquakes and volcanoes some time) and they are spending time on learning shapes. His homework last night was "count to 20". Seriously, his preschool was more rigorous than this, yet somehow they also played a lot more. It's had a huge impact on his mood and energy levels, for no other reason than he doesn't have anything to look forward to when he gets there.

He doesn't need a gifted program to "maximize his potential". What he needs is an adaptable program that can meet him on his level to "minimize learning to hate school".
A job being your identity is a health challenge to be worked through with a therapist. Enjoy your job, for sure, but you make it your identity is to create expectations that cannot be met when unavoidable life transitions occur. A job is what you do, not who you are.

https://hbr.org/2019/12/what-happens-when-your-career-become...

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/wealth/earn/why-your-id...

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/10/05/career-job-work-i...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/style/work-life-balance-t...

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/09/self-obje...
What I really want is to play these games on my phone, and get a notification when it's my turn. Kind of like words with friends, but with board games and games like advanced wars/fire emblem/civilization. Almost everything on Android is complete anti-user garbage or requires everyone playing to commit the same hour to waiting around on each other's turns.
Why not just tell ALL the students they’re advanced?
While I do believe that explanatory writing has its place in the world, I think it's too easy for people to make the mental jump that the better they are at explaining something, the more it will resonate with the audience they're speaking to.

At the end of the day, humans are emotional beings first and thinking beings second. Explanatory writing speaks to the latter. Meanwhile stories connect with our basest programming, thanks to the ability to evoke emotion (when written well, of course).

If writing to persuade: yes, the writing needs to be clear and succinctly relay information. But most importantly, it needs to speak to our deepest emotions and desires. When an audience is made to feel differently, they think differently too.
This is kind of the dream for me. Retire and live in a farm.
1 day vs 1 week: wouldn't that make them a 5X engineer? That's half of the advertised 10X...
bitpay?
CERN IT recommends standardizing on CentOS 8 Stream [pdf]