skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you from Finland to be so sure of your argument? I've been a "gifted" kid so I'm sure about your interlocutor's. My parents have been summoned, more than once, to have a discussion about a group of four problematic pupils spending ~75% of the time playing cards. Turns out that we were consistently finishing all of the assignments, including the stretch goals, at the beginning and spent the rest of the time waiting for the others to catch up. But somehow none of us got an idea to try to tutor a bully or something. The system also didn't have a response to this.
here are three to start: j.k. rowling, george lucas, and notch (maker of minecraft).

not all billionaire are good, and not all are bad.
I am curious about that. How many high achieving parents are just going to accept this rather than transfer their kids to private school, hack the scheduling system (take the useless courses you just need to graduate with online to free up more time for other things), mix and match courses externally with various providers, etc?
>shell scripts don’t have that issue unless you’re calling some external program that isn’t installed.

Good thing that bash has such an extensive amount of standard libraries and that you're almost never calling external programs? And unlike Python, which is seemingly almost exclusively calling third-party libraries from PyPI?
There's a case for some amount of equity with special ed so special needs kids can grow up to be contributing members of society, but equity at the top end will just stunt national achievement, putting a country at a competitive disadvantage compared to countries that are less concerned with "social equity" and more concerned with being the global semiconductor leader in 20 years.
True, but not for all events. For example, webinars or global events like SpaceX's launch or the Olympics games. If a game starts at 2pm Tokyo time, I have no direct clue what that could be in my local time. If the game starts at N:00, then I know in my mind what that is.
The evaluation is {solution, founder}.

Problem is, in some sense, irrelevant. You don't make money from the problem.

A good founder makes money from a solution.
https://archive.ph/wip/k9Gwc
> So, you had a teacher spend one-on-one time with you.

In Finnish, does “self-directed” imply more time with a teacher? In American English, it almost always means less… sometimes zero.

Source: Me. I was a self-directed learner through quite a few math subjects in junior high school and high school. Total teacher one-on-one time was typically 30 minutes or less per year.

I encourage you to try to be a slightly more sympathetic reader in this thread. You seem to be ignoring and/or twisting things many people have said.
Neither I nor anyone else in my gifted program expressed any angst about the label. It's just a recognition of a simple reality.

>whenever a kid is easily completing all of his work so it’s just busy work to him, he should get harder work. Otherwise you’re wasting their time.

Agreed. The most efficient way to do this is not to have every teacher running multiple teaching levels within each class. It is to take all those kids who are completing the work early and getting bored, and putting them all on one teacher who can run a single lesson that matches their ability.

You're just asking for a gifted program that's done individually instead of in batches - same thing but infeasibly expensive.
Mesoamerica had high population densities long before Spain was even a thing.

Indigenous Americans didn't carry over many of the serious diseases from the old world and the animals that were there mostly didn't contribute serious new ones. There are a few cases where we can see things like tuberculosis (from seals), but they're limited and evidence of them largely hasn't survived in extant populations. Likewise, Icelandic populations were isolated and relatively healthy. Those that survived the long trip to Greenland and the Americas would have been even more so.
I'm just impressed that Leif Erikson was leading expeditions while still in public school.
Hispanic is not a race, it is a combination of geographical and cultural denomination loosely defined by the USA perception of the lands south to their border.
side note: instead of t-SNE consider UMAP - provides better results (and it's much faster) https://github.com/lmcinnes/umap
I was in one of these programs and here's how it worked. We all went into the cafeteria around 3rd grade and took a test like the SAT. Then we were evaluated individually in areas of math and pattern recognition. Those who scored the highest got out of Reading every week and instead went to an enrichment class where we learned miscellaneous "enriching" things like Shakespeare, architecture, programming, history of art etc.

The problem with this model is twofold:

1. First it ostracizes the ones in that enrichment class, and demotivates children left behind. It also causes rifts and resentment among friend groups. Every day the other children see Sam and Sally leave class and go to a "special kid room", and this turns into jealousy and bullying. The kids in the enrichment class feel bad for being there, and the kids not in the enrichment class feel bad for not being there. We learned a whole lot, but I think this model could have been implemented such that we could still have learned those things without the associated social costs.

2. It's not a great selection mechanism. For example, they passed over some of my friends who, in my experience, are way smarter than me. Why? Well one had slight dyslexia, but he was a math genius. Another is a music and art genius, but she wasn't great at numbers. So we have people who would have benefitted from these programs, arguably both have a very high IQ, and yet this whole process left them feeling "less than". They had to sit in boring, sad reading class while us "enrichment" kids were putting on a production of Macbeth. If that's the kind of thing we were doing, why wasn't my artist friend invited? Because she couldn't do algebra in 3rd grade?

So if there's so much social pressure, resentment, bullying, and the selection method isn't even that great anyway.... then what are these programs for? Can't we come up with a better model that enriches all kids? Instead of asking some magic sorting hat and trusting it's selecting the best students?

Anyway, that was my experience decades ago... maybe things are different now. Obviously I have no idea what's going on with 3rd grade social dynamics these days.
This is blaming the victim
For the record, IPFS also has ties to cryptocurrency with Filecoin. I have no intention of using Brave or IPFS for that reason, if I can avoid it.

I really think most people don't understand how destructive cryptocurrency is, in multiple ways.

If you don't care about the energy use causing greenhouse gas emissions, how about electronic waste? https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-electronic-waste-monitor/

How about the impact on any service that offers free CPU cycles, such as continuous integration systems used by open source projects? https://drewdevault.com/2021/04/26/Cryptocurrency-is-a-disas...

How about the impact on critical infrastructure such as hospitals due to ransomware? https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/ransomware.html

Cryptocurrency isn't just a disaster, it's several disasters bundled together. Anyone working with it in any way, anyone who has a stake in cryptocurrency, has been compromised, and can no longer be trusted, just as your neighbor who is trying to sell you on their multilevel marketing scheme can no longer be trusted. (Did they invite you to dinner? Oh, surprise, it's just to sell you on their MLM again.) They are ignoring multiple dire ethical problems as they sell their relationship with you for funny money.
> I agree. But 100k events per second is more than enough for a great number of tasks. There's a degree of simplicity to fork/join or pthread_create / pthread_joins. Especially if you avoid async-style code.

100%. There is certainly an additional complexity cost to be paid if you want (need) to go beyond 7 figure-per-second numbers. Redefining a problem to fit a ring buffer is a lot harder than throwing basic threading primitives at it.
Reminds me of the all time great line from the Simpson's House of Horrors episode where Kang and Kodos impersonate Bill Clinton and Bob Dole - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgBFiCmYedc
Great feedback. Noted and I'll work on fixing it.
But the two efficiency cores are less than half a main core thought right?
On the first day of showing up at a dream job (compared to what I had before, and after terminating my employment with the previous job), you sit for the whole first day going through new hire orientation. Along with a big stack of paperwork. And it isn't that you don't read the document, but there is a difference between reading and understanding the full implication of it, depending on how they word the one phrase out of a 10 page document that looks like it contains mostly common sense items that you are agreeing to.
Do you really expect anyone to engage with you in good faith when you state you'll only accept certain answers?
RAM is something where you either have enough or you don't. When you have enough, adding more doesn't really get you anything. When you don't have enough, performance tanks.

The integrated nature of the M1 Macs gives them a much better ability to predictively swap unused content to SSD and make the most of the available RAM when things get tight while multitasking, but if you have a single task that needs 17GB and you have 16GB it's going to suffer a lot compared to if you had 32GB.

I wish Apple (and everyone else) would give up on the ultra-thin crap and make a real Pro machine that returns to upgradability at the cost of a few extra millimeters, but for now since you're stuck with what you start with I'd recommend always going at least one level above what you think you might ever need during its expected useful life.
I know "gifted" is not a monolith and I suppose finding other terms using a thesaurus might be in order. Children can be gifted across many different kinds of intelligence or ability. I know it's more than just being good at math.
> Maybe just possibly capitalism isn't so bad?

Ironically, you know who else thought the exact same thing, lavishing praise on capitalism? Karl Marx. Maybe educate yourself and open your horizons to something outside your narrow views. I have no problem with people being ignorant (nobody knows everything), but it's grating when somebody is proud of it.

> Anything really is possible when you work for it.

Actually nevermind, such naivete is mind-boggling.
You've ignored your own advice and based your take on your own personal experience! (I'm just kidding, I think your personal experience is valuable in this context).

It really doesn't make much sense to me to fund schools based off local property taxes. At the very least, it seems like they should go into some state-wide fund that is evenly distributed to schools.
That's a weird thing to ask on a site full of software developers, even if most people here probably spend their time writing some angular or react site that's a thin layer over a mongodb database and has hardly any 'meat' to it.

If you haven't used something from calculus (or other branch of mathematics beyond grade school stuff) in this sector, you've either been avoiding it or had others do the work for you on stackoverflow or something.

You can't even have big O notation without calculus.
> the animals that were there mostly didn't contribute serious new ones

Aren't syphilis and Lyme disease of New World origin?
There is a great, and true, line from a very old Simpson's episode [1] about how early childhood "sorting" can have an outsized impact on someone's life. And there is plenty of other evidence (e.g. see Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers) that a lot of arbitrary differences are just magnified by this early childhood sorting.

The argument against the name "gifted and talented" isn't that some children have gifts that are different from others, it's that the sole arbiter of whether a child is "gifted", as if it were something anointed by Jesus, is not that they did well on some standardized test in kindergarten.

I definitely agree with the author, something like "accelerated learning" is a much better name

1. https://youtu.be/O2f_MlZtjuY?t=9
It's not an everyday thing for me, but I've made frequent use of series and differentiation in my career and worked with people who used it for a living.

It depends on what you do. One will absolutely run into calc doing any sort of scientific computing, simulations, signal processing, machine learning, or graphics programming. But you can absolutely make a good living in software knowing no calculus.
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> You seem to be ignoring and/or twisting things many people have said.

I honestly definitely can see how it comes off that way. And thank you for giving me a chance to see this doubly so.

However, my comments are thinking a bit beyond the system at hand, and a lot more __critically__ about the things we hold universally true, or important, or moral.

This is mainly why my comments are going to sound outrageous or outright "trolly" because it's breaking a LOT of basic assumptions people have about the way the world is setup.

Apologies for coming off this way.
> The word "gifted" carries a moral valence that is completely unnecessary.

I'm not sure why. A "gift" isn't something you've earned, it's something that was given to you. Seems accurate to me.
I will get one if it can run Windows and nothing comparable released by then.
Beyond the fact that this is an editorial written by a college student for a libertarian youth org, the arguments here are very unsubstantial. By my count, there is one actual argument: that parents who afford it will pull kids out of public school to go to a private one. But private schools themselves don't distinguish between gifted or not courses, typically, its one education experience you pay for. So either you can test into accelerated programs at public, or just go to a private school if you have the money. As they say in the article, "They will find ways to stay ahead." Got it.

Doesn't this argument in fact show us why maybe something like this is necessary?? If a single curriculum private school is the answer for these rich parents when the public school drops GT programs, then the system is already not "equitable." It paints this picture that GT is already a compromise "we will put more resources into kids... but only if they deserve it." Because presumably, that's all they can afford.

This shows at the end of the day its just about money, and we are already settled that we wont give public schools at large the money that they need, so we set up little challenges and give resources to those kids that show merit rather than on some kind of principled serious pedagogy (and that is not even getting into the fact, as the writer again notes, that this "merit" that is calculated is based off of standardized tests, which are incredibly fraught with problems and conflicts of interest in themselves, but more importantly are hugely profitable private companies with incredible lobbying power, and we should maybe ask why this part of the equation isn't really talked about in these conversations).

If the writer wants to respect, as they say, that everyone learns differently, it seems to me that the answer is to remove merit based GT programs and put money into education in general, for everyone. Also abolishing standardized testing.
You wish. This kind of stuff is all too often manually managed and copy-pasted between Word documents.
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What about your starting point, that appears to be "capitalism is a natural law as inescapable as gravity"? x)
It is that inherent human tendency and bias that limits one’s worldview, a concept I have grappled with and am still learning to manage every week that goes by.

We as humans are all victims to it and we (at least most of us here on HN) recognize the patterns and the innateness within our own selves.

Hopefully as a society we can begin moving forwards to a point in which we are taught from a very young age to recognize these biases and unintentional and/or subconscious behaviors of ours that may be counterproductive to our own individual goals and efforts.
> Ironically what google did with Android was the play that Microsoft should have done with windows phone - classic OEM play which they had done successfully for years before

Windows CE was certainly an interesting platform. The problem was it tried to be some sort of ... hybrid. On one side it tried to have some semblance of being Windows (not just in terms of UI but also in terms of APIs), on the other side it was different enough to not be Windows (weird CPU architectures such as Hitachi's SuperH, for one). Not to mention unlike Apple's Xcode and Android Studio, developing for Windows CE required paying through the nose for Visual Studio and addons (or pirating them).

And then, once the iPhone and Android hit the market, Microsoft just stopped development or even trying to catch up... and when they entered the field again, they messed it up completely.
Done! I've excluded I and O, and added Y and Z instead. Thanks again!
It's a simple recognition of an observable and predictive reality - that some people are much more intellectually capable than others. Do you disagree that this is a fact?

Recognizing reality and adapting to it is the opposite of dumb.

The label could change but it wouldn't make much difference except for politically.
> then there's really no further discussion to be had.

Why not? Is Capitalism the universal truth or something that we can't touch or change?
They are scanning files on your device. The rest is just implementation details
I get that it's not about producing elites otherwise the curriculum, even in the gifted programs, wouldn't be a joke. I'm only forming my opinion of this from my own experiences, because that's all I can really say, but I went to one of the worst schools in the state. It was full of kids that didn't try at all and didn't give a shit, fights were a daily occurrence, bullying was out of control. If that school didn't have a gifted program that separated me from the sea of crap that was my school, who knows who I would be right now.

Punishing the top by forcing them to deal with all the problems of the bottom is the absolute dumbest way to try and improve the system. It's just going to make the talented people suffer for no benefit of the lower percentages.
I've had this experience as well. My zsh config was a monster. fish was extremely easy -- starship and ready to go.
A short story by Kurt Vonnegut: Harrison Bergeron about a society where everyone is brought down to the lowest level to make everyone equal. The protagonist has massive weights on his body to make his strength more equal to others'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
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I find that the argument embedded in that question isn't very insightful.

The developments of personal computing since subscription applications became prevalent and app stores were integrated into operating systems has made things quite different from the era that preceded this one.

Apple used to sell OS upgrades. Today you can basically run Windows 10 for free. The revenue streams are different these days and they have plenty of incentives to turn your OS into a mall.
I recently wrote a React app without using the “create-react-app” tool… just by writing JavaScript code, later TypeScript, and bundling it with Rollup.js.

Doing things this way shows you that the tooling doesn’t have to be complicated. I assume that there are very good reasons why the tooling is complicated—stuff like code splitting, modular CSS, etc. If you’re writing pure JS React and putting the CSS elsewhere, you can squeak by with fairly simple tools.
I think you are absolutely right. The warts only exacerbated the process you describe, because when potential new users checked out Perl and saw the warts, it seemed a lot easier to wait for the new version that was supposed to address many of them. So new users as well as existing users put off investing in Perl until the next version. In the early 2000s, it didn't make sense to learn Perl 5 unless you had an pressing need, because Perl 6 would be out soon and would have a much easier learning curve.

Perl 6 has to be one of the most destructive failures ever committed by the stewards of a popular programming language.
Great chat Andre!
There is a Norse description in the Saga of Icelanders of what the indigenous skraelings looked like, as the norse called them, as well as accounts of repelling assaults from the native populations.

> They were short in height with threatening features and tangled hair on their heads. Their eyes were large and their cheeks broad.

> despite everything the land had to offer there, they would be under constant threat of attack from its prior inhabitants.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skr%C3%A6ling
Can you please explain why they are the best languages for these jobs?
It is a walled garden since its inception. There is no package manager for building an open package ecosystem, as exists on other OSes.
> They are still responsible for paying sales tax even when the business isn't collecting them (e.g. when I go to Portland and buy a MacBook Pro from the Apple store, I am supposed to myself pay sales tax to Washington state).

That isn’t how sales tax works at all.

Good luck going to apple and trying to buy a MacBook and telling them not to charge sales tax because you are going to pay it yourself.

Paying sales tax as an individual to a state isn’t a real concept, businesses collect it because they have to by law the business is liable for the sales tax based on their receipts plus penalties, states don’t go after consumers. If businesses weren’t liable, then none of them would charge it/collect it/account for it/pay it to the state, because it’s extra work. They do it because they are liable for it.

But please I’d love for you to share your proof/receipts that you have successfully bought a MacBook without apple charging you sales tax and your proof that you paid it directly to state.
That’s a strangely shaped laptop, what is the battery like on it?
Don’t really understand this argument - Apple has had 13 years to optimise Mac OS for Intel and only a couple of years for M1 / can’t see how a video encoding accelerator affects responsiveness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
"social justice" ? Explain
> If you think it's the second one, are taxes going to gifted schools actually...helping society?

Of course those taxes are helping society. There are gifted students living in poor school districts who wouldn't be getting the resources that let them excel if it weren't for the tax dollars funding those resources for them.
They consider every accepted person meritorious and give out generous financial aid to everyone if they need it.
Do you think Tesla made anything near $113 billion last year?... not even close ... Paper billionaire means they are only a billionaire because of stock they own. Tesla stock value is detached from the reality of the company and its assets. Who did Elon exploit to make "chad the mega Elon tech bro" buy Tesla stock as a meme and in turn make the stock value go up?
> In a review of 351 container ports around the globe, Los Angeles was ranked 328, behind Tanzania's Dar es Salaam and Alaska's Dutch Harbor. The adjacent port of Long Beach came in even lower, at 333, behind Turkey's Nemrut Bay and Kenya's Mombasa

What's the point of naming those other ports? Like "oh we're so bad we're worse than freaking Kenya!". It's ironic.