skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holy crap, something I actually know about.

Low-income students are historically underrepresented in gifted programs. "our estimates suggest that a student in the top SES quintile is about twice as likely to receive gifted services as a student in the lowest SES quintile in the same school who is achieving at similar levels in math and reading." [https://www.nagc.org/blog/low-income-students-are-profoundly...]

Further, "[The] Second [factor to being identified as gifted] is attending a wealthier school: Children who attend Title I schools are identified at only 58% the rate of those who attend Non-Title I schools." [https://www.education.purdue.edu/geri/new-publications/gifte...]

Anyone connected to TAG programs believes we need to do better at identifying the students from low-income backgrounds (and minority backgrounds, but I don't have those links saved on my computer).

The problem is, that would take massive resource re-allocation from wealthy to poor districts. That is something that no one is willing to talk about, let alone follow through on.

Therefore, it's easier to say we need to eliminate them, because it's not fair that someone has access to them and others don't.

It's smoke and mirrors to avoid the real problem.

And about this article in particular.

>Look at the success of special needs education.

What success? They cite nothing to back up that sentence. Are SpEd students more successful than they were before IEP's?

>Public schools are more than capable of providing different educational experiences for different children.

There is a broad and vast difference than being able to provide something in theory, and not actually being able to do it because of funding. My experience in public education is that many things are tracked into a 'warehouse' style because it's cheaper and the budget won't support the number of teachers and aides required for true in-class differentiation.

And finally, this is an old argument presented as if it is brand new. I believe it's done for attention. Not really sure why this would be 'policy' now. Is there a big, new push to eliminate TAG programs that I don't know about?
How does one define fair?

Is it fair to give each person the same level of material and expectations?

Is it fair to help each person where they are at do the best they can at what they want to or are most capable of going after?

These are mutually exclusive. What is fair, who gets to decide, and why?

We need to have conversations about this in depth.
I went to a "magnet" high school in a poor community. It may not come as a surprise that the stuff in the dual-enrollment college maths (DiffEq etc) were disproportionately from higher-income communities further out. But not all of them!

In fact the only MIT admit from our class was a girl from the local neighborhood. She was about as privileged as a polar bear in India. But her talent showed through nonetheless.

As the child of an engineer and a dentist, I would have been fine without that program. What about her?
If I had millions of dollars I'd stop going to work 5 days a week for a company I don't own, yes. This seems like it'd be true of most people.
Equality of outcome is easier to enforce by punishing the top percentile, rather than bringing the bottom percentiles up to par. By definition, there's less in the upper percentile, so less work is needed. From my understanding of education in America, the path of least resistance is the one taken.
You can also buy a branded tee shirt if you are poor as a up-status signal.
I wonder how many people could have used it and just didn't realise it was the tool they needed.
Well the 2019 16 inch i9 MacBook Pro scores are 1088 and 6821 so you can see the massive uplift over just two years.
Was having a label similar to “try hards” intentional?

As it reads like you want to mock and shame kids who do well in school (which I hope wasn’t your intent).
The same reason you would sell any other social account. You build a profile that seems real, sell it, then the buyer uses that profile to upvote and post comments on their new product release which blows up on HN and generates much more interest and potential revenue than it would otherwise.

I don't have proof that it is happening but it happens on every other social site so it would be shocking if it isnt happening here.
Evaluating Physical-Layer BLE Location Tracking Attacks on Mobile Devices [pdf]
Alternatively, Finland has seen great success from banning private schools and school districts.

If rich people knew the only way to get good schooling for their kids is to make schooling better entirely, then we'd have better schools.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-am...
I think IQ testing is prohibited at least in California for African American's? Is this true? Does this extend to things like admissions exams for gifted programs?
The "I can't have it so nobody should" is a powerful and pervasive mindset that has infiltrated many different aspects of life. It has found a home in many angry people and often masquerades effectively as the noble idea of fairness.

"Billionaires shouldn't exist" is one manifestation.
The best part is that those who believe that extraction leases are rife with 'corporation giveaways' don't see that carbon offsets will be just as fraudulent.
Errr... my claim is not that most guns are involved in violent crime.
Yes, gunsmoke does contain lead and it's not something you want to breathe in. Surgical masks will do very little, N99 or respirators will do better. However it's best practice to always wash your hands and preferably shower after shooting.

This also applies to handling or reloading ammo. Primers are lead-based compounds (generally lead styphnate) and most bullets are either soft lead or jacketed lead. If you are handling ammo, bullets, or spent casings, wash your hands after.

There is obviously a continuum of exposure and different routes of exposure here. Lead on your hands isn't ideal but if you don't touch your face or eat with dirty hands, kinda whatever. With smoke, you breathe it in simply by being there. You definitely want to look at the airflow on an indoor range, there should be a considerable amount of "whoosh" and palpable airflow, and even then it's probably still a low or moderate amount of exposure. Outdoors ranges will have even less exposure, but probably still not zero, you're still right near the breech.

And yeah generally kids are more susceptible to lead exposure than adults. Not that it's great for adults but it will truly mess up your development to get significant exposure as a child.

"orange lava soap" with the pumice in it is also better than just regular hand soap, as it's more abrasive and will do a better job scraping the lead off.
I always wondered if you could exploit the niche and largely-uncensored nature of Pornhub to share "whatever you want", particularly if you don't care if your work is monetized. I tend to have a fairly dark sense of humor, and while I don't think I would say anything that would get me banned from YouTube, it would also be interesting to completely avoid any kind of worrying about violating a TOS.
"On second thought, let's not stay in America. It is a silly place."
If only I could downvote you harder. :(
> Same with Docker Desktop on Windows (I don't know if this has changed with WSL).

Not really. On Windows you can choose if you want to run Linux binaries in a VM or native Windows containers.
"Tall people are taller than short people, which make short people uncomfortable. Therefore there's not such thing as being tall."

This kind of thinking, which is getting more common every day, make us smile when it's done by children. When it's adults however, it's absolutely terrifying to me.
The ecosystem is a bit broken, but the owners want to use the latest stuff. The outcome is obvious.
+1 I'm curious how it would be implemented. Would we have to send ssh credentials into some proxy service to get MITM'd? Browsers can't communicate ssh directly? WebRTC hack? As some others have mentioned: linuxserver/code-server on docker would scratch this itch a little bit.
The article concedes the name might not be appropriate, but eliminating the program is wrong. There are also movements to eliminate AP classes and advanced mathematics for under grade 12 in a few places (mostly CA iirc, hopefully it hasnt spread).

The simple truth is that some topics will require more time and effort to acquire skills and knowledge in for some people. Math, science and reading were stupid easy for me, but some of my friends struggled with those while blowing my somatic and creative skills (painting, singing, acting, shop classes) out of the water.

Neither of us should be held back from accelerated learning and practice in the topics we excelled at.
WSL1 doesn't support cgroups and other pieces needed to run containers, but Docker Desktop can use WSL2, which uses a lightweight VM in the background, so you are correct.
These are two very different things. vscode.dev runs fully locally. It accesses files from your local disk, and doesn't need a network connection (after initial setup/asset caching).

code-server requires the backing server to be available at all times, and all editor features are pulled from the server via a websocket connection. You can pause and resume whatever you were doing from a different device.
Not really relevant, but using Go to fetch the data, and then Ruby to process the data is the best. I used this exact set up for a project and it was amazing. Really the sweet spot of use cases for both languages.
> Equality of outcome is easier to enforce by punishing the top percentile

More so the top percentile have the ability, and in my opinion, the moral responsibility to push the entire standard of education up for everyone, rather than their own kin.
Valorant's anti-cheat system requires TPM 2.0 and secure boot on Windows 11
Perhaps they were referencing the highest 8C chip. Certainly, a 5950X is faster, but it also has double the number of cores (counting only performance on the M1; I don't know if the 2 efficiency cores do anything on the multi-core benchmark). Not to mention the power consumption differences - one is in a laptop and the other is a desktop CPU.

Looking at a 1783/12693 on an 8-core CPU shows about a 10% scaling penalty from 1 to 8 cores - suppose a 32-core M1 came out for the Mac Pro that could scale only at 50% per core, that would still score over 28000, compared to the real-world top scorer, the 64-core 3990X scoring 25271.
I guess that's what happens when Apple's process is a generation ahead of Intel's.
Mm, over the years, I've known some people who were legitimately kinda dumb. One learned, at the tender age of 27, that flamingos weren't mythical a la dragons. On the other hand, I've known some people who were absolutely brilliant.

You might as well argue everyone can run the same speed for the same amount of time. If you haven't observed this yourself, I would think you've probably just travelled through life in very homogeneous social circles.
In bash, I can type ctrl+r then type a few characters, and the last command that contains that string will get pulled up and I can hit [enter] to run it.

Not sure if fish has this or not, but I use reverse search in bash exhaustively.
Which is still not that much higher. Of the "consumer" CPUs only 5900X and 5950X score higher. And their stress power draw is about 2X of speculated M1 Max's.
No, it's not. That doesn't follow ANY definition of surveillance. Just because you replied to my comment and gave me your username doesn't mean I'm performing surveillance against you. That's silly and that is exactly how ur definition would work.
Many fail to see one simple fact: Black students do have their gifted programs, that is athletic programs.

It’s plainly obvious that Blacks and Asians have physical and culture differences.

Many people just can’t get over with Asian students’ academic success, at the same time totally forget Black students are dominating in athletics. It’s totally fine for them to see no Asians in major sports, but immediately unacceptable when there are “too many” Asians in science and engineering. If this is not racism, I don’t know what is.
This is running on your machine though. The browser downloads vscode as a SPA-style thing, and runs the editor in the browser sandbox, and can edit local files/directories.
Because Apple intends to sell UX, not just some hardware.
What you call unhinged another might call passion. Let's not pretend that all founders are perfectly hinged.
Do they do a bad job?

I think you could get a sufficiently gifted class just from splitting kids who gave a crap about school and those who have parents who viewed it as daycare and kids who viewed it as a place to be unruly.
I think even more important than home is peer groups. Research I read about in The Nurture Assumption [0] convinced me that much more important than home life (home life being called "shared environment" I believe because in a twin study it's the thing most shared by two non-biologically related siblings) is peer environment. If your friends all think that learning isn't cool and tend to do drugs or whatever, children will follow in that path, and parenting affects that very little despite our intuitions.

How to solve the peer group problem? As far as I know it's extremely difficult, even more than reforming home life. You can split up peer groups and distribute their members into peer groups with different mindsets and they will generally conform, but the ratio has to be quite steep towards the peer group you're integrating into. I don't know what the number but I would guess something like 15 to 1. There's definitely not enough middle and upper class classrooms to go around to house all kids from more troubled areas under my stated assumptions. But perhaps the process could be incremental?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nurture_Assumption
> is ECC memory now a controlled item?

What you meant to ask is, "Is telecommunications equipment using ECC memory controlled under 5A001?", and the answer is no, a.2 refers to rad-hard components.

The key words are "specifically hardened to ..." instead of something like "using any technology that might help with ...". Generally the CCLs never use vague wording like this.
Helping kids who are falling behind is a hell of a lot more difficult than just putting a glass ceiling over gifted kids by eliminating talent programs.

It's a lot easier to destroy than it is to create.

This is just people taking the easy way out, without thinking about second order effects.
> "Billionaires shouldn't exist" is one manifestation.

Probably because it's impossible for a person to make a billion dollar in value without stealing from others.

Name me a single example that has made it up there without

- labor violations

- stealing profits from workers

- causing damage to the people who have worked for them
> Given the small pool of money in the US for public education

Is this true? My understanding is that the US spends large amounts on public education when compared to other industrialized nations.

I have only a surface level understanding, but this seems to suggest they spend the fourth largest amount:
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd
I'm not exactly proficient with GeekBenchery, but what I see here is that the M1 Max per core barely outperforms the M1?

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/10496766?baseli...
Feels like the mentality of the people wanting to end these programs is best expressed by Syndrome:

"And when everyone's super, no one will be."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmSO2cz2ozQ
https://youtu.be/exM1uajp--A?t=1644
and
https://youtu.be/exM1uajp--A?t=1701
> Wouldn't native people also have diseases to share?

Not all diseases are equally harmful, right? Perhaps the indigenous populations of the Americas simply lacked a disease as deadly as those brought by the Europeans.
Are you saying you agree? It seems bordering on absurd to me. Why can't it be true that not every child has gifts? Isn't the point of being exceptional having qualities that set you apart from most people? Are there no exceptional children? Adults?

In regards to identifying, I fail to see how IQ tests are racially biased, even if the results are not perfectly representative of racial diversity. Do you?
> And the diseases were only a small factor in the outcome of the colonization. Guns being a much larger factor, for example.

I don't know how you get there. I'm pretty sure diseases went ahead of the colonists in many cases and wiped out entire civilizations before the colonists ever made contact. Even if it didn't wipe out literally everyone, it would have significantly destabilized or collapsed all significant political or economic systems.

Relatively speaking, any advantages of guns versus bows and arrows seem small. If I were inclined to make arguments about military technology, I'd speculate that plate armor and horses were more significant advantages than guns, but all of these pale in comparison to contagion.
Genocide might be pushing it, but DuckDuckGo [1] first result is a Wikipedia article:

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

Some entries in the table of contents sound a bit embarrassing, like "Banana massacre" and "Aiding and abetting a terrorist organization". Description of a coup is to be found if someone reads the entry about Guatemela.

Various other top DDG results are about the same three things, dictionary entries and Pablo Neruda's poem.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffcm&q=United+Fruit+Company&ia=web
And always assume when a customer tells you something like that that YOU are the one that doesn't get it.

Otherwise, you might be the one that gets fired, probably like this guy.
Good news for humans -- bad news for pigs!
Academy of Problem Solving provides a good alternative to schools in Math and Language Arts areas [1]. They keep branching out and recently started offering classes in Mechanics. I would love to learn if there are any Computer Science classes for young kids?

[1] https://aopsacademy.org
> when the science is not clear about the cost:benefit

It is clear

> emergency experimental COVID-19 vaccines

They're not "experimental" and the emergency approval process is still extensive.

https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/emerge...

> What is the process that manufacturers are following to potentially make a COVID-19 vaccine available by EUA?

> Vaccine manufacturers are undertaking a development process that includes tens of thousands of study participants to generate non-clinical, clinical, and manufacturing information needed by FDA for the agency to determine whether the known and potential benefits outweigh the known and potential risks of a vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19.

> When the phase 3 portion of the human clinical trial reaches a predetermined point that informs how well a vaccine prevents COVID-19, as discussed and agreed to in advance with FDA, an independent group (called a data safety monitoring board) will review the data and inform the manufacturer of the results. Based on the data and the interpretation of the data by this group, manufacturers decide whether and when to submit an EUA request to FDA, taking into consideration input from FDA.

> After FDA receives an EUA request, our career scientists and physicians will evaluate all of the information included in the manufacturer’s submission.

> While FDA’s evaluation is ongoing, we will also schedule a public meeting of our Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, which is made up of external scientific and public health experts from throughout the country. During the meeting, these experts, who are carefully screened for any potential conflicts of interest, will discuss the safety and effectiveness data so that the public and scientific community will have a clear understanding of the data and information that FDA is evaluating to make a decision whether to authorize a COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use.
> Following the advisory committee meeting, FDA’s career professional staff will consider the input of the advisory committee members and continue their evaluation of the submission to determine whether the available safety and effectiveness and manufacturing data support an emergency use authorization of the specific COVID-19 vaccine in the United States.

Hmmmm, who to trust...a so-so actor from a 90's sitcom, or hundreds of scientists
Depends how you use it.

If you just want to execute it then it is a footgun - using only the !command syntax.

If you use the !command:p syntax then you are just printing what command has been executed instead of invoking it.

Example.

% uname
FreeBSD

% !uname
uname
FreeBSD

% !uname:p
uname

%
An enormously useful list, I’ve used it several times, and it can often dig up some real nastiness if you haven’t been super careful.

This entry, by the way, is a fantastic little easter egg in the list: https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/blo...
Swift UL94 has been to market for 3 years with very low uptake.
From what I understand PornHub actually has more strict user verification than YouTube for uploads, so no, that would be a really bad place for it. Now, a place like motherless, with only a marginal amount of moderation to filter out the illegal stuff....maybe.
IIRC that certain aspects of how livestock were raised in Europe contributed to a long history of more virulent illnesses so that when the European population eventually met the North American it was the North American that suffered.
Visual Studio Code in Browser
A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2021/09/25/a-monk-in-14th-century-italy-wrote-about-the-americas

There was an interesting recent Economist story about that. There is a 14th century Italian monk that did write about Newfoundland based on the oral testimony of “sailors who frequent the seas of Denmark and Norway”. It is possible Columbus was aware of this.
>However, I'm not sure who this is for. Downloading and installing an application is not a particularly big ask for the type of people who use VSCode.

True, but IMO doing anything we possibly can to get from individuals who want to code -> actually coding faster and easier with minimal setup is a huge win. I remember starting out using codeblocks for C++. My biggest hurdle was figuring out how to get a compiler integrated with the IDE. https://repl.it is doing first class work in this space. I highly recommend you check them out as well.
It's possible that syphilis was brought back to Europe from the New World by the Spanish. That hasn't been proven though.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_syphilis :

The first recorded outbreak of syphilis in Europe occurred in 1494/1495 in Naples, Italy, during a French invasion ...
Are they really adults? Or just kinda big?
I'd find it more interesting if they did more an "expand brand". Playboy Magazine back in the day had both porn and substantial reporting. "Sure and I bet you Playboy for the interviews" was a standard wisecrack. Porn is incredibly profitable and they probably couldn't get more money featuring non-porn content. But they could gain credibility if they became a safe harbor for worthwhile content unfairly harassed by youtube.
Seems to me like a play for patents -- the more they move forward in this direction, and file patents that are crucial for doing so, the more shareholders can profit off of the inevitability that something like a Ready Player One dystopia is indeed in America's near future. The embarrassment is the society that can't take ourselves off that track. Which I guess is just another way of saying 'don't hate the player, hate the game.'
It's more important to watch the median standard of living explode upwards over the last 200 years than to blame the peak for being a little higher.

It's not the top percentile who have the ability. We have to all do it for each other.