skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty sure this comment is about the fact that if you can pay for tutoring your kid is likely to do better in the thing they were tutored on, which in turn will make them more likely to get into. GT program. Keep in mind that all of this about population-level stuff, nobody is saying that poor people can't get into these programs, merely that the hill is steeper.
> H1B workers are often paid less that citizens

At sweatshops. Not at FAANGs.
Good intent or not, the management execution of it was completely botched. They could have even come out on top by projecting that they care about older devices' usability, if they had announced the feature; it was a no brainier and PR/marketing person worth their salt would tell that.
Which makes me question the bit: "good intent on their part" :-|
In Portland OR, the longshoreman's union (ILWU) organized a slowdown at the port. Things ended with the only customer of the port pulling out because they were losing money on parked ships. The port shut down completely, but the operator of the port managed to successfully sue the union for over $90 million dollars in damages.

Here's the kicker, they were sued for unlawful labor practices.

The entire slowdown was organized over two jobs. That they wanted taken away from the electrician's union.

There are other such stories you can find about dealing with the ILWU. They regularly attack other workers and unions. They even pulled out of the AFL-CIO so they could be free to beef over turf with its' members.

Don't buy into any of their media BS - they are not a union, they are a racket.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-11-29/longshore-...
Sorry but I feel like I'm missing something here, how are IQs themselves systemically racist?
The battlefields and the CoDs of the world have proven the completely opposite point.

Valorant does not have a cheating problem. The Battlefields and the CoDs of the world do. The difference between them is not that Valorant has a vote kick feature (it doesn't.)

The difference between them is that Valorant anti-cheat is far more capable, because it is far more invasive.
I went to a very similar school, so I understand what you're saying. I also had similar feelings at the time. But having studied the problem and being removed from it now for many years has made me think more coolly about the topic.
Really cool. I remember when Sony really pushed the idea that the Cell arch would power so many different things, shame that never took off.

I wonder if that university still uses their PS3 based supercomputer cluster
Population density and totals, and their proximity to animals and their waste, matter. Extensive trade and empire building exposes people to new pathogens and allows new ones to develop, as well.
yes deutschland unions are very good for economy and workers
"“Billionaires should not exist” does not mean certain people should not exist. It means no person should have a billion dollars. The ascent of billionaires is a symptom & outcome of an immoral system that tells people affordable insulin is impossible but exploitation is fine." - https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1179237019043729410
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A useful enterprise requires at least three things: direction, organization, and labor. Disorganized labor without a direction isn't going to be able to produce anything useful for anyone, comrade. Simply seizing the means of production and chasing out the capitalists is only going to see the printers rust for lack of use.
the minecraft devs were not workers.

critically, they did so voluntarily and for the compensation of entertainment, passion, and helping themselves.

rowling and lucas didn’t harm workers nor did they violate labor laws. complying with IP laws was not in the criteria, nor should it be.
>It's not about being an asshole. This is the danger of thinking about your own personal experiences. _You_ viewed the experience as drivel and far below your capabilities. But how does this affect the aggregate experience of students? For that matter, how does this affect the experience of elite students?

You have to speak from your own personal experiences when it comes to education. You did so yourself in other places in the thread despite your own warning. Everyone that went through the public school system in america has a bias because they experienced it personally. To attempt to ignore that experience and bias for some theoretical broader good is a farce.

The curricula was definitely far below my capabilities in K-12. However, what I care about here is not so much the capabilities, as much as it is to try and foster an environment of students that at least try compared to the kids that show up and are complete jackasses.

If we're really talking about aggregates, how would removing gifted programs possibly benefit the aggregate? How would the kid that would never be in a gifted program possibly benefit from the removal of said programs? The existence of the programs benefits elite students because it segregates them from idiots that don't care, regardless of the joke curriculum.
Is that actually windows or just their crappy media player?
It’s the default system that will always arise. Even in the USSR, there was a black market.
Nobody watched Seinfeld because they were a fan of Key Grip #2, and Key Grip #2 was compensated accordingly. Why should they receive anywhere near the amount of compensation that Jerry Seinfeld receives when they are not anywhere near as important to the success of the show as he is?
Your argument doesn't follow.

Besides, Buterin and the other whales "own" Ethereum.

Does someone with no money own any stake in Ethereum? No. They don't.

Ethereum isn't a socialist paradise.
From the linked article

This increases competition of sex workers for johns, artificially drives prices down, gives johns greater bargaining power over sex workers, and doesn’t fix the problem of johns trying hard to remain anonymous and requiring situations where you’re less able to go to the police if you wanted. Sex workers hate this.
Thanks! What cities did you try? I'm happy to add them.
And cool idea about the aliases, if you could give me some, I'll add them too.
Advancing through life is about increasing social separation, and educational systems are embroiled in that.

You're much more likely to go to day care or kindergarten with someone who will end up behind bars for robbery, compared to the likelihood of being in a Master's Degree program with someone who will end up behind bars for robbery.

Identifying gifted kids is just an early boost in this separation, which they need in order to have the best environment.

I think you fill find that if someone is opposed to gifted programs, what underlies it is that what they cannot stomach the separation.

Education is linked to economics; the social separation is related to the economic divide.

It boils down to: "Thou shalt not propel little people toward the prosperous side of the economic divide".

Because they regard it as a zero sum game. If some kid is put into a gifted program which improves their economic future, someone will surely end up losing because of that, and so it is a sin against Social Justice (regardless of whether that kid is rich or poor today).
The first thing in install with oh-my-fish is bang-bang, which fixes this issue for me.

https://github.com/oh-my-fish/plugin-bang-bang
Those people are one in a million. The vast majority of "gifted" programs will never encounter a single child like that in the history of their school.
That's exactly the point. Epidemic disease alone is an insufficient explanation for the demographic collapse of indigenous Americans.
Also, recently, FBI "hacked" in to Exchange servers that were vulnerable (with court authorization) to patch them [1], so it does happen. But I agree with your sentiment that it doesn't happen as often as it should.

The public perception seems to be that the US doesn't spend enough resources to harden its and its people's defenses than it does to surveil people.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/13/fbi-launches-operation-to-...
European unions and American unions are both called "unions", but they are not the same thing.

One huge difference is the employee picks the union, it's not a single union per employer.
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>The founding fathers weighed their costs vs benefits and found that the benefits outweighed the costs to such a degree that they deserved a entire amendment.

Right. They weighed the costs and benefits of giving every citizen the right to own a muzzle loading flintlock musket. Such a gun was a tool used to harvest game and defend the homestead.

I doubt they would make the same call today when it comes to semi auto weapons with detachable mags. They are designed to kill as many people in as short of a time as possible.
It is worse than that - guess who isn't affected by that? The priveledged prep school set. It is the same old shit of declaring themselves righteous while fucking things up for everyone else.
> But it is meaningless since they did not write about it not they stablished commerce

Depends on what you find meaningful! There was almost certainly exchange of goods between Polynesians and South Americans. The presence of early sweet potato agriculture in Polynesia and genetic admixture in both regions points to non-trivial contact. There are even parallels in terms of folk-tales [0]! (Though these are likely older events, more to do with ancient dispersal).

There are also possibly earlier relationships across the Pacific, but these would have been ancient and interesting largely from historical curiousity [1].

[0]https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-39445-9_...

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aav2621
> > gifted programs notoriously have a problem identifying the students who are fit for their programs

> Does anyone have a solution for this?

I hardly remember my gifted program at all, but I thought it was just taking the students with the best grades. Isn't that basically the point of grades?

Maybe my school just implemented it poorly.
Daily Papers
The distribution of IQ and race outside the school have 0 to do with the gifted programs acceptance. This is not systematic racism. The children are experiencing systemic racism elsewhere which is presenting itself here.

What you just stated was actual racism, that other populations are unable to achieve what the Asian students have accomplished, so the program gives them an unfair advantage
https://voxodyssey.com/atari-2600-adventure

From what I understand, this was the first game with an Easter egg that actually changed the gameplay. Sometimes there were walls that you could walk through (intentionally) that let you skip parts of the game.
We launched tipping with Bitcoin, but had to pivot when network fees and congestion were unbearable (our users would buy $5 at a time, pay nearly as much in fees, and wait for what seemed like an eternity to receive their funds). BAT (ERC-20) offered immediate relief.

Brave has never added affiliate links into pages.
Brave has never served its own ads on top of others'.
So if you're a big enough company that you can basically assume that a lease will be available whenever you want (which makes sense for a large number of leases, turnover must exist), you just bid enough to justify it once something looks worth the risk.

And until it's worth the risk, leasing it is just a donation since no one would be trying to extract things from it anyway.

It does start to sound like a corporate giveaway where only big companies ever really win. On a per-parcel basis it seems like it is beneficial (i.e. a local group maybe can keep a particular area protected), but on aggregate it doesn't seem likely to do much. The companies that want to extract resources have many options and lots of time to wait.
I'm sure they had something. However, I never heard from any other geek from the socialist bloc mention any show that had the cult following of Sonda among us, Poles.
Rogan says whatever it takes to keep his core audience on board, when he isn't just parroting the opinion of the last person he spoke to.

His core audience are conspiracy theorists from his early days, which has a very big overlap with full on anti-vaxers.

It wouldn't surprise me if he still believed the moon landings were faked, he just realises you don't get million plus listens and a Spotify deal making that sort of thing public.
Pierre Omidyar, the tech billionaire aiding the Facebook whistleblower
There are two ways to interpret your comment. Either 1) "The current system is good, actually", or 2) "This is just how the current system is".

1 is obviously a value judgement. 2 contributes nothing to the discussion.
>> ...not that great for a GPU...

* almost equals the highest laptop GPU available
Nice feedback! Well UTC date + time is the same here. It's then date + hTime ;) The need to add date is there anyway.
hard to tell given that m1's address and page memory completely differently from how x86 does it. My 8GB M1 MacBook Air performs extremely well even when memory pressure is high...and it never seems to hit swap space.

Anecdotal example: I could have several Firefox tabs with active workers in the background (WhatsApp, Slack, etc.), a Zoom meeting with video conferencing on, with audio and video being routed via OBS (native), a Screen Sharing session over SSH going, and a Kubernetes cluster in Docker running, and that won't even make the MacBook hot. Nothing slows down. I could get maybe five hours out of the battery this way. Usually six.

Doing that on a maxed out Intel MacBook Pro will make it sound like a jet engine and reduce my battery life to two or three hours. It will also slow to a crawl.

I'm guessing buying a machine with 32GB of RAM is an investment into the future where workloads on m1 machines are high enough to actually give the memory a run for its money.
What could explain the huge difference in racial demographics when it comes to the NBA ? Will we start preventing black kids from playing basketball at an early age so whites can catch up? I mean if there is no such thing as differences between peoples, surely the NBA is racist for not accepting barely any Whites huh?
I like everyone appreciate the opportunity to both dump on and defend gifted and talented programs. But if I may engage in some Ad Hominem for a moment: America's Future is conservative advocacy organization with secret donor lists and strong ties to the Koch Brothers.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/America%27s_Future_Fou...

Surely we can find an article from an organization with less dirty money involved.
Not a single union prospectus has anything remotely related to work-ethics, efficiency, how to handle mistakes and bad performance, etc.

I have never supported unions and will never in the future. I can understand the point of Unions in a brutal regime, USA has one of the most vibrant economies in the world with a rich job market.

California is digging a hole for itself it doesn’t do something drastic.
> I don't mean to come off as a jerk, but I guess I'm just going to say it; in the 25 years you've been a developer, have you not tried to make a game?

Yes! But there are lots of kinds of games, and none of my attempts were in 3d or involved physics. Also I've learned that without real users beating down my door for a feature I will not ever finish a project, so I've given up on "fun" coding entirely and haven't written any kind of game whatsoever in probably 15+ years. It's a waste of time for me, as I will not finish it. I need a guaranteed smiling face at the end of the process, or there's no chance I'll get far. If I decided I really wanted to make a game these days, unless unusual physics were vital to it, I'd probably let an existing engine take care of all that for me—why would I code it from scratch, when the point is to have a finished game, not manually write as much of it as possible at the expense of making it take longer?

> Some machine learning?

Never had a reason. I'll learn it if I ever have one. My usual approach to anything a whole bunch of people are doing, but I'm not, is to assume that some of them must be idiots, and they're doing OK, so, since I'm an idiot, I'll pick it up just fine, too—if I ever need to. This approach has yet to fail me. I've yet to try to do something new that lots of other people are doing and found that no, in fact I'm too dumb to pick it up pretty fast.

See above about needing someone who wants the output of my work, before I can reliably finish projects. There's no way I'm going to complete a "learning project" in machine learning, for its own sake, unless I'm just very interested in whatever's being learned—and I just don't really care that much about machine learning. I get the gist, so it's not some big mystery to me how it works, OK, that's neat. I'll dig deeper if I ever have even the slightest reason to. Just haven't yet.

> Data science?

Not done anything interesting, or "real" data science. Fixing up data, yes. Doing very simple math on it, sure. If I ever knew what any of these: "ANOVA, Chi Squared, Student T Tests" are I've long since forgotten. Certainly never used any.
Source on the 300k salary? Or you just parroting someone's opinion?
Don't invest in them. They have terrible customer service. I highly doubt its going to get better.
Thanks to you too; both Egan and Banks are at the top of my to-read list (sci-fi section); I'll get to them once I'm done with Asimov (currently going through full Foundation series).
Sounds like my summer vacation in Newfoundland in July 2021.

Not much has changed! Kidding.

Unless they were fishing for cod (usually offshore), they weren't doing so well on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland. And the trees in that area of Newfoundland are skinny, short, and useless for most construction.

I think they just landed on the part of Newfoundland that has the least to offer. It's still that way 1000 years later.

Had they landed in one of the bays on the East Coast of Newfoundland, they might have enjoyed better weather, better shelter, better fishing, and more contact with the local aboriginal population.
Nobody should be a billionaire. They're a symptom of a broken system. https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1179237019043729410
I'm just not sure why we have to get so bent-out-of-shape about the naming of things. Whether someone is an "accelerated learning student" or "gifted" is a difference of the utmost minute semantics. Just because a gifted program doesn't perfectly identify students doesn't mean it's not a gifted program.

Why have we become so terrified of assigning adjectives to people? Why can't a person be "smart" or "dumb" or "beautiful" or "ugly" or "strong" or "weak" or "disabled" or "retarded"? Just because some of these things are subjective doesn't mean that they are useless. Why have we started to pay such close attention to the feelings of some people assigned to categories they don't care for? "gifted" is just a word to denote such a category. If people don't like being "not gifted" they will learn to dislike "non-accelerated learning student" just as well.
That reminds me of some earlier definitions of rape where the victim is required to have fought against the rapist. Otherwise, they had “chosen” to yield to the perpetrator.
> The web badly needs a video site on the scale of Youtube that isn't beholden to the nonsense puritanical values of big tech.

Are you objecting to YouTube's content being restricted by any value system whatsoever, or just Puritanical values in particular?

I'm just trying to understand your point. Definitely an interesting topic either way.
Nearly 1,900 Washington state employees quit, fired over vaccine mandate
> SpaceX founder Elon Musk shared on April 15 that SpaceX Starlink service will go “fully mobile later this year.” “…So you can move it anywhere or use it on an RV or truck in motion,” he said via Twitter. “
My general contractor doesn't need to know organic chemistry, but my doctor does[0]. A public school system that is incapable of creating doctor's, the intellectual 'elite', is not in society's interest.

[0]Why they 'need' to know it is another question.
If we know how to do better then let the parents decide, let the schools compete and see what happens.
I don't get it, what exactly is being verified by secure boot & TPM 2.0 that helps anti-cheat? That doesn't restrict the user from screwing with the game in userland, and doesn't restrict from loading signed kernel drivers. Sounds like the same.
maybe they should have taught you brevity as well
"In the name of jobs" seems pretty darn critical to the purpose of unions. What would be the point of a union that didn't protect the jobs of their workers?

It's pretty clear why Amazon and WalMart dislike unions. Unions make things more expensive (and less efficient) for the owners. The converse is that unions can make things better for the employees. There are a lot more people who work at Amazon and WalMart than there are who meaningfully own those companies.

I think there's an ideal balance and unions can be a part of that. On one end, inefficiency kills the company and costs everyone jobs and money. On the other companies are brutally efficient, like Amazon, and most workers live and work in poor conditions. We should try to find something in the middle rather than optimize for efficiency.
There might be some other reasonably fair salary that exists between minimum wage and $300k/year.
Execrable — extremely bad or unpleasant

I looked it up so you don’t have it
I just use nodenv via anyenv. All the ${X}vm utilities have massive startup lag for some reason.
It doesn't matter what you call it, people will know what it means. Look at how special ed turned special into a euphemism for disabled.
with an average number of escort per client at 26, and at least some of them being repeat customers (but possibly some of them being robbed multiple times), it doesn't look that much... Well below 1% per act.
An NFT can represent any digital asset. Digital assets are a key part of any "metaverse".

If NFTs become the standard then you could theoretically take your assets off Facebook into another Metaverse without losing your items. NFTs help avoid lock-in and put pressure on Facebook to play nicely with others.
"Are there any unions that advocate for good working conditions, without also opposing efficiency gains in the name of jobs?"

It's the job of the union to advocate for workers, not for management. Workers want more pay, job security, benefits, safety, and so on. What employers want is entirely different and often directly opposed to what the workers want. And there is already a strong advocate for the employers interests - the employer. In most employment situation there is no advocate for the workers to begin with.

What you are suggesting is that in the rare cases that workers do have an advocate, that advocate should also be acting for the benefit of the employer. I don't think that adds up.
I went for 64GB. I have one game where 32GB is on the ragged edge - so for the difference it just wasn't worth haggling over. Plus it doubled the memory bandwidth - nice bonus.

And unused RAM isn't wasted - the system will use it for caching. Frankly I see memory as one of the cheapest performance variables you can tweak in any system.
Its probably because they don't have great customer service. So they keep losing customers. And as we know, its much more expensive to get a new customer than keep a current customer - even more so with Backblaze where the initial startup charge is large due to them uploading everything.
In my estimation, this is an asymmetric battle that China would not be able to win.

How many satellites can china intercept per launch?

How many satellites can SpaceX (currently) put up per launch?
I feel like Fowler typically communicates the "it depends on context, and you need to think on your own" part well.

If you haven't read it: I think you'd like the book A Philosophy of Software Design by Ousterhout. It has a very strong notion of what you said and discusses this in a down to earth kind of manner. Very few terms were invented in that book, but it showcases a collection of sensible heuristics and actionable advice.