skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely challenging to influence people's behavior especially when it comes to something so essential like time and the clock. However, I believe dealing with time zones when working with distributed teams is actually more challenging. I can't count the times people missed a meeting or a deadline by an hour because they miscalculated time zones, hence the work on hTime.
I thought the passages below were key. Instead of the constant "Tall Poppy Syndrome" that many education "reformers" engage in, would be better to improve these programs for a wider array of students:

> If advocates of equity are bothered by anything with “gifted and talented programs,” it should be their names. The program’s names might insinuate not every child has gifts; instead, they should be rebranded as “accelerated learning programs” or another name that avoids implying that only certain children are gifted. In addition, equity-minded education reformers could also identify problems within the gifted programs instead of canceling them altogether.

> For example, gifted programs notoriously have a problem identifying the students who are fit for their programs, usually resulting in racial disparities. Reformers could advocate for solutions that better identify which children who are advanced by changing current admittance approaches, considering that students are admitted mainly based on standardized testing performance.
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This MentalFloss article (via https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=heymijo ) is good: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/94569/clair-patterson-sc...
"Now I just want to know if the new keyboard has more key travel distance back to the like of MacBook Pro 2015." Assuming the keyboards in these new Macbook Pro's are similar to the keyboards in the M1 MacBook Air then they will feel very similar to the 2015 keyboards. Indeed I think I found the M1 MacBook Air keyboard easier and faster to type on vs. my 2015 MacBook Air. The 2015 MBA keyboard definitely is stiffer/heavier. And the keys wobble more - maybe wobble isn't the right word but it's not as precise. Could be it's age at this point and the M1 MBA was brand new; would take more than the 2 weeks I used the M1 MBA to suss out the real differences. I returned the M1 MBA because I needed more RAM; I have a 16" M1 Max on the way. Come November 3rd I'll be able to compare them directly :)
No. ECC memory isn't "hardened" in the technical sense intended here; it's simply error-detecting.

What this primarily refers to is hardware which has been fabricated on an exotic semiconductor process (like silicon-on-insulator substrates) to resist radiation-induced upsets or latchup. This hardware is almost exclusively used in military and space applications; it's basically nonexistent in the consumer space.
I could be wrong, but I could not find a single merit-based scholarship at Yale, Harvard, Stanford. Certainly, not for undergraduates. It does not seem the right message to send to the students.
It’s a pretty good test case. Similarly we found a number of bugs in a Django application and path handling, because I happend to be using Windows for six months, while the rest of the team was on Linux and Mac.
>IMO both are much slower and worse than vscode.dev

This just... doesn't make sense other than browser differences and the resources of the server actually running Code.

Is the free trial of GitPod slow because it's running in a resource-constrained environment. Sure. (edit: let me be clear, GitPod is an amazing end-to-end experience and they have a very generous free tier for OSS projects/users, but it IS free unless you pay).

Is self-hosted GitPod or code-server slower than VSCode? Not enough that I can notice when they're side-by-side looking identical, I can't tell which is which. In fact, I would challenge a single person to show me a side-by-side version-to-version comparison that shows VSCode.dev or VSCode native being significantly faster than code-serevr given that they're virtually the exact same thing running in Chromium instead of ... Chromium/Electron.

(On an unrelated note, when even CloudFlare can switch to HCaptcha, and HN can't... well, I guess it's in line with the amount of technical care this place gets all-around.)
Being able to run VS Code with only browser APIs and no Electron/Node.js is still a big win for PWA proponents even if it doesn't offer anything new.
Worse, eliminating gifted programs seems like its done mostly from spite. Like "i'm going to make these kids do worse to make it fair", not "i'm going to make these other kids do better to make it fair". What we want is to make the kids who do worse do better, not some abstract ideal of "fairness", because not everybody has the same aptitude so the only way you will get that is by reducing to lowest common denominator.
It's neat, but practically speaking it's an incremental improvement over what already exists. Dendrochronology is already capable of dating the felling year (which may be years or decades removed from the actual construction date). This allows you to date certain fellings to a particular season under ideal circumstances, and to start local dendrochronological records from a different fixed point.
They have some of your money, but they want more of it.

Mac owners are more likely to buy iPads and iPhones and become embedded in the Apple ecosystem. That draws people into the app stores, which Apple gets a cut of, and into Apple Music and Apple TV...

If they're very successful they get you to sign up for Apple Pay and the Apple Card and get a chunk of your spend for things entirely unrelated to Apple.

If they just sell you the hardware and you can easily run Linux on it, you might not run macOS and move further into their ecosystem.
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Well, you're extrapolating to the claim that since humans can be emulated by machines, which are in the domain of mathematics, every aspect of human thought is mathematics. I deny this extrapolation. Merely writing something down does not make it literature; merely encoding something into a Turing machine does not make it mathematics.
It would also mean smallpox would spread the other way. It’s interesting that the transfer of disease was so heavily one-sided.
This is a highly complex situation but I do take some issue with some of the counter points the article raises:

> Families that can afford to, will switch schools in order to ensure that their children are still challenged in the classroom.

Locally funded schools have spawned this issue but from what I've seen families are pretty reluctant to actually pick up and move frequently to keep up with shifting educational programs - they will happily exploit cross-county enrollment if it's available with though.
Lately, happyfamilymedstore has mysteriously always been in the top ~ten Google Images results for super niche bicycle parts searches I do. They seem to have ripped an insane amount if images that gets reposted on their domain.
This is the part I don't get. These guys were awesome sailors. It didn't occur to them to sail down the coast until they got to the Florida Keys and set up a little surf shop?
That link is blatant propaganda.

>number of inclusion topics, including the ability to fail without fear, the ability to report harassment, and the flexibility to work from home.

Deliberately conflating "diversity and inclusion" with problems that have nothing to actually do with with gender/race.

>Analysts found that companies where many employees felt engaged were more likely to demonstrate higher profit growth. Closing the gap by 50%, or making employees feel more included, pointed to a 33% increase in global profit growth for businesses.

And then pulling numbers out of their asses based on a correlation between "employee engagement" and profit growth.

This is what happens when politics suppress open discussion; research becomes one-sided and our policies myopically tread down a narrow path to dysfunction.

The idea that skin color, gender, and/or sexuality have any bearing on the performance of a team is, ironically blatantly racist/sexist. I don't understand how people don't collapse under the weight of such a cognitive dissonance.
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Thanks for the feedback (working on the tables, hot fix soon).

I'm actually implementing some local and "free" cloud storage using (icloud sync or google drive cloud backup). That way users have more control of their data and you can even export to markdown/pdf.

Stretch goals: I'll throw in a desktop version as well (mac first).
I don’t think you can separate the COVID IP from their other IP as all of their IP is based on manufacturing lipid nanoparticle delivery vessels. If you took this IP, this rest wouldn’t be worth very much.
RPO was obviously written by Cline's inner geek: https://youtu.be/CknjDqOeRnU

The concept of a "metaverse" comes from Snow Crash, which was a more realistic and cooler depiction of large-scale networked VR environments -- cooler because it reflected the early 90s internet, full of freaks and weirdos.

If we're going to have a real metaverse, can it be the one from Croquet? I've always liked saying Alan Kay was building the metaverse, but only as a stepping stone to his true goal of building the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer from The Diamond Age...
I attended a school for gifted children (e.g. most of your school has at least IQ 130), it was the best experience - not being bullied for being curious - it's such a simple thing and helped me a lot.

Even today, I am occasionally bullied for being engaged in a topic, and even as an adult I hate it - but I learned to live with.

I think there is a hard tendency towards trying to shrink whatever you are not able to understand - and correspondingly shrink your vis-a-vis, if they appear smarter than you.
China’s Military Modernisation: Constrained by One-Child Policy [pdf]
Things for Facebook to consider before becoming more Metaverse-y
Harrison Bergeron looks at all of this and wryly smiles.
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Also - even if they only wanted your hardware money, if you run Linux on Apple hardware, there's less chance your next purchase will be Apple hardware. Linux is portable, macOS isn't (legally, easily -- Hackintoshes notwithstanding, but even those are going to go away when Apple ditches Intel hardware for good).
People with kids in these programs that are being destroyed, what are you doing? I would be interested to hear some anecdotes.
I know people who are true prodigies who have gotten deals worked out with one of those schools, but they are not advertised to most people and it is very very rare, when I say prodigy I mean it.

I went to a "tier 2" school for exactly this reason and got a great merit scholarship deal, ivies didn't offer me shit because all their money is in "need-based" or diversity aid. Perversely, I qualify for "diversity" based scholarships that are restricted to some groups but I didnt think to apply, then my younger sister did and she got almost as much money as I did even though she wouldnt have qualified for the merit scholarships. Part of me is glad for her, but part of me is mad af about it.
My point is just there is no way to determine if you are right.

That is a fair, so I guess that is the point where trust in experience kicks in, like the sibling comment mentions already.

But nobody ever does such a test since it would be prohibitively expensive.*

And also rather hard to do. You cannot reliably use the same developers to do it because both tests would influence each other. Using different developers would raise questions about whether both are at the same level. Etc.

Yet I do think some aspects might be easier to prove than other. Has perhaps been done already but say you take a bit of code with formatting completely off and inconsistent, and the same piece where it looks uniform. Have people read it a couple of times, then ask questions about it. Or something like that, I'm not into that research but you get the point: should be doable to objectively measure which one has the least cognitive overhead and gets understood the fastest. Assuming it's the uniform one, that would then open the door to saying it's worth spending time now to apply project-wide formatting vs continuing with a mix of styles as-is.
Or just click dislike, it's not very hard to explain a couple of thousand dislikes from 74 million disgruntled Trump voters
But if you run x86 images, it will use qemu’s software emulation inside the Linux VM (which is quite slow).
At least Facebook also tracks logged-out users and non-users.
My second question is why they so naively assume that if a tree is chopped down in 1021 and the same wood appears in a hut, this means that the hut is made in 1021.

You can cut a tree, make a ship, travel with it for several decades to the other coin of the planet, end in a wreckage and build a hut with the same material much later. There are buildings made of wood that survived for 900 years. If one is burnt down today and demolished and I pick some and made a hut in Australia with the salvaged wood, this would mean to historians that I was in the area 900 years before?

So if we have and event and people refusing to discuss or see the obvious explanation standing in the middle of the room... Is not a good sign.
Your data collection was insightful[1] thank you for that.

All your caveats upfront on the quality of sampling is more than I have seen in many academic papers.

I don't have experience either as service provider or client to give a professionally informed comment here.

However having said that, sex work in general (even only in the United States) starts at lot less than 200-300$/hour in the lower end of the your study[2]. It is a great study and amazing subject testimony but it does only cover mid to high end of the spectrum.

As a basis for policy making covering the lower end of the spectrum and cover specifc policy issues and also cover other stakeholders like healthcare, law enforcement, welfare etc would be important.

I am sure there are lot more qualified people than me you are already in touch/working with, however I am happy to offer my help with statistics or code or lit review and publish formally /research proposal if you wish to go down that route.

[1] Your content, there are some parallels with how startups publish quality industry reports as a brand recognition strategy that I found very interesting.

[2] you have indicated the limitations in many places quite clearly am not finding faulting with your study .
On every HN thread I count the minutes until it turns into a personal rant against some big company, and it never disappoints.
I've always wondered why this wasn't a two-way street. Wouldn't native people also have diseases to share?

I know the imperialists weaponized their diseases and intentionally tried to spread it and that may be the difference.

Usually the smallpox theory is presented in a way that removes agency and culpability from the conquerers. It's always struck me as remarkably convenient and quite unbelievable; they were an idyllic people in some wondrous land without their own disease. Oh really now ... we're talking the Caribbeans here.

Even the Wikipedia page on the matter (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influx_of_disease_in_the_Car...), does it cite epidemiological sources with someone looking at like bone sample DNA? No. It's economic and social science. Excuse me for questioning the qualification of economists for being able to authoritatively make confident statements about historical virology.

It may be true but I'd like more evidence than convenient stories by the descendent of a conquerer about how by sheer coincidence his/her ancestors were actually not guilty of genocide and as of by miracle, North America became a land without people; it just happens to follow Frederick Jackson Turners Frontier Thesis a little too closely to be called a coincidence.
One thing I've never understood is why Blue teams don't get as much funding. Cyber defense is much harder than cyber offense. I know there is a lot you can do by tracking citizens and a lot of information you can get, but if you're not blue teaming your country then an adversarial country can use exactly all those same tools you're excited about using on your adversaries. I feel the red teams get all the money and the blue teams get pushed off to the side. I do want to keep red teams, but I want to see NSA also doing bug bounties, increasing security in Android and iOS, strengthening the internet, etc. Why is this not happening? Why are we also not outraged about this?
Before discussion starts in gusto, I'd urge everyone to _not_ think about their own personal circumstances. The problem I've seen in most discussions about education in tech spaces is that they're uniquely centered around their own personal experiences as a student or their child's experiences.

The thing is, education, especially public education, has to work for _everyone_. That means gifted and motivated STEM students, like most in this forum, on top of kids who would probably do better working the trades. Given the small pool of money in the US for public education, tradeoffs must be made to benefit the greatest number of students.
You mean the windows part right? /s
You honestly have a silly definition of choice.

If I want to order from a webshop that relies on googleapis.com or uses recaptcha, how much choice do I realistically have? How aware of webbugs (Facebook and Twitter logo's, for example) do you think the average Internet user is?
Yes although I don't think it's particularly important for the natural numbers. While countability is not absolute, being countable is upwards absolute, so if you expand your universe enough you eventually get the natural numbers and never lose them so to speak.

The more interesting theorem here is Tennenbaum's Theorem, which gives strong philosophical ammunition to realists that there is only one true set of natural numbers (and is a good argument why my hypothetical arithmetical statement might never exist). It's also another good reason why PA is so special (e.g. Robinson arithmetic is enough for Godel's incompleteness theorems but it fails Tennenbaum's Theorem).
> By cutting gifted programs, the top students from low-income backgrounds will lose out

Agreed.

> gifted programs notoriously have a problem identifying the students who are fit for their programs

Does anyone have a solution for this?
Examples of the hidden wastes of software development (2019)
Its especially ironic how none of the CEOs seem to recognize the entire story of Ready Player One being about an evil corporation desiring complete control of the "metaverse" in order to push advertisements, while enslaving people in virtual to pay their debts.
I took that line to mean private school, not moving to a place with better public schools.
Just curious, how many people here have been taught calculus and never used it? Upvote if you put your hand up.
Reminder that the "lab leak" was conspiracy theory last year but not this year (regardless of being proven or not, it is now plausible and not fully censored).

I'd like to see more factoring in past mistakes and wrong-doings of both social media and big media outlets. It seems they easily get away with saying one thing one year, and then something different the next, and somehow it's not a big deal when it can tell us something about what could possibly be going on right now.
Looking over their marketing materials, the Airpods seem to have much more power than that onboard. They use their own custom silicon chip onboard and it seems to be pretty capable. I wonder if (doubt?) medical device manufacturers are designing custom processors for their hearing aids.

"...the new AirPods feature Adaptive EQ that tunes sound in real time based on how AirPods fit in the user’s ear. An inward-facing microphone monitors for sound, and then Adaptive EQ, powered by computational audio, tunes the low and mid frequencies to account for what may be lost due to variances in fit. "

"To help with sound clarity, beamforming microphones block out ambient noise and focus on the user’s voice, while users can also enjoy a hands-free experience by simply saying 'Hey Siri' for requests."

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/10/introducing-the-next-...
Hi Walter.

I was curious about your opinions on some of the mathey functional languages out there, like Haskell or OCaml or F# or even something more elaborate like Idris or Agda. Do you feel like they should have a place in industry, or just high-level self-indulgence?
Yep, giving the middle class one less opportunity to play the same game as the rich.
If I'm remembering Guns, Germs, and Steel correctly, a popular/pluasible theory is that even without the disease conquistador swords and armor were so much better than the natives, they'd eventually win regardless. Something about more advanced metallurgy.

Having horses may also have helped. There were no beasts of burden (iirc) in North America until the Spanish arrived.
> By cutting gifted programs, the top students from low-income backgrounds will lose out.

Complete no-brainer.

Fair should be taken to refer to economics, not IQ.

It's unfair that some dunces don't get to go into a gifted program, but economic inequality would only come into pay if they could pay their way in anyway; and their presence there then would be definitely unfair.

In any case, everyone should be clear about what they mean by fair, otherwise you engage in unproductive talking past one another or even equivocation.
Nothing was never on the table. This was all financed with government money. So the only option is "a little bit", which in this context is still a fortune.
After reading some of these comments I still wonder what the concrete use cases are. What are these websites that allow users to paste in HTML, and why? Is that even a good idea? I can understand when it's developer tools like jsFiddle and the like, but when should a normal consumer website be hosting untrusted code in the frontend?
>such a large company would run into such a basic issue

Every large company is just a conglomeration of smaller departments. Each department had individual contributors. Some individual contributor in that department wrote the code and if nobody else is their department caught it, nobody else at the large company would have caught it since they have their own work to consider and don't have time to look at other people's stuff.
Done! Thanks for the feedback!
This makes sense, I've received this feedback several times today.
Would you like to give hTime a go and test it for some days? I'd love to hear some more feedback.
This is a strange one for me. I have a lot of friends who went to good private schools, and a lot of friends who went to the gifted program (I didn't). They all did really well.

If you take away the gifted program, does anything change? Maybe. Maybe the gifted kids don't do as well. Maybe they do. Education is a tricky thing. Does leaving the gifted program in hurt anyone? Yeah, it probably hurts the same people that are hurt by the private school system. So where do we stand?
China and Taiwan are in Asia. Between the two of them there is at least as much if not more tech know-how (soft & hard) in many areas (e.g. face recognition, semiconductors) compared to all others continents combined.