skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Parents/families need to make the decision to give up on the positive returns of gifted education in favor of potential learning outcomes for other students

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

We know a big part of education success is home environment. You can surround a kid with Einstein schoolmates but if he's getting beat daily and not getting fed, it doesn't matter. Add in unsafe living conditions and no access to books and you have a disaster nobody but the kids parents can solve.

Why then should we harm the gifted? Why should we allow them worse outcomes because someone's parents are garbage? You aren't going to make a shitty parent into a capable one when they fundamentally don't care to begin with, no matter how many high performing students you drag down in the process.

On an individual basis my duty is to do the best I can do for my kids, and that is all I can do.
Except that Russia never actually cut off Twitter? It was throttled for a few hours at most, but never fully blocked. And even if they did cut it off, do you think they'd cut off the troll farms and their propaganda outlets too? Unless you are saying that normal russians are calling trudeau hitler with no state backing?

Your comment is a bit funny since you are forectly contradicting yourself. When you (wrongfully) thought that russians couldn't access twitter anymore, the russian bots just seemed to have... disappeared for you. But in reality, nothing changed, so maybe they weren't there to begin with, and this is a weird example of a placebo effect, lol.
That's not the obvious conclusion, it seems like you might be projecting. Immigrants are a biased sample (they have enough money to leave the country of their birth, enough education to get a visa, etc)

Nigerian immigrants have higher educational attainment when compared to Nigerian-Americans that were born citizens. It doesn't mean Nigerians born in the US are lazy, only that they are operating under different circumstances. The idea that Asians are just inherently good at math or whatever is incredibly offensive, these things are a product of nurture not nature.
Key bit is first came out. I don't think in 1984 there was any dev tools for the Mac or very little (MS Basic I guess?). Think C was released sometime in 1986. Mac software production at the time was done on Lisas in a kinda similar fashion to iOS and the Mac today.
This is completely inconsistent with the U.N. Charter and Geneva Conventions, is a return to the Cold War at best and at worst demands we forget everything we learned from WW1 and 2, sweeping all of that history aside in an apparent attempt to repeat it.

Allowing nuclear countries to threaten the use of nukes in order to successfully commit atrocities with conventional weapons is not distinguishable from "might makes right". The U.N. charter and Geneva Conventions were created to avoid those very things. Setting them aside, in particular without a replacement, does everything possible to put us on the path to another world war. Everything starts to unravel.
Sure. But there are at least 20 things I'm more worried about than nuclear war. You've got to have a very lax definition of 'key concern' to include your 21st-ranked worry.
Ever since Yelp started excluding my (2 or 3) useful reviews of fraudulent businesses, I no longer trust them.

I asked them why they were filtering my reviews, and got the old "sorry, the algorithm has decided you're not to be trusted, nothing I can do" line.

So much for trying to warn people, I suppose. Though I've seen similar behavior with Google too.
Ask HN: Where can I find info about the 2nd round of negoations?
In particular, what both sides are currently demanding. I've read a few news articles that are only very brief and high level and don't go into detail on possible concessions (aside from the humanitarian highway) and current demands that were discussed today.
As someone who interacted mainly with adults growing up, I’d disagree. Being an adult isn’t a great filter of good character. As a kid I was exposed to some backwords ideologies and toxic attitudes from adults, exasterbated by the fact that since they were adults they came with a position of authority. This also made it difficult to make friends and socialize with peers when I got into my teens, I felt like I missed out on a lot by not smoothly integrating into teen culture.

Having a handful of solid adult role models is key, but a lot of social skills are learned by trial and error, and it’s way more helpful when you’re learning those alongside others who are also figuring it out, that’s also how new ideas and new cultural zeitgeists are created, by challenging old concepts and not having the baggage of the old way of doing things.

Obviously there’s pitfalls with taking all your social cues from hormone riddled peers, but it’s a trial I think everyone needs to go through to prepare them on how to socialize with the world at large.
Well, other than negative zero.
Thank you. The Globe and Mail did mention the trampling incident and Ottawa Citizen is definitely not an US source. I only know of Adam Vaughn from his stances on housing which have discredited him in my eyes.
This is a false premise or at least a false dichotomy.

Discovering that the car you ordered is a pizza is not something you just... abort and undo/ redo. It's: wtf did you do? My age is "pizza", your name is the function "not", your account balance is a database connection. It's ridiculous to say the least and using a tool that makes that > 0% probability is just awful.

There are so many different typing systems, conflating all of them into "static type checking" in order to have something to pit against "runtime checks" is just not serious.
I don't think it's entirely absurd that people will be more forgiving to a product that they actually like. Apple certainly has some stupid aspects to their cloud/account system, but for the most part, when I'm using my iPhone or Mac I don't feel like I'm being tracked with every single thing I do. They're not overhauling their settings menu every few years, they don't have 5 types of right-click menus that can pop up depending on where you are in the OS, they don't keep secretly installing Candy Crush on my machine and putting it front and center in the OS's top-level search menu. I could go on.

Windows has been worsening and worsening on the privacy and UX fronts, and all for an OS that nobody actually likes to use, but we continue to for some platform-locked games or killer app. We're hostages of Microsoft and they continue to use their position to abuse its "customers"
I'm confused on exactly what the swift ban is. In the video, it seems swift is just the "protocol" between banks and the central bank of the country you're in.

At the end, he says international cross-currency transfers are done through "intermediate" banks like jpmorgan that has an account from a bank in the country you want to send to.

So I'm unclear what the "swift ban" did and exactly how it affected russia? Do the international transfers still use the swift protocol?
There is a company called Lynk Global (was Ubiquitilink) that has 5 satellites in LEO that allow SMS text messages to be sent to and received from unmodified cellphones on the ground. Also capable of LTE voice and data, but less common.

Lockheed Martin has a similar capability.
For me at least, WYSIWYG word processing was the killer app on the original Mac. The 8-bit machines and current DOS machines at the time just couldn’t compare, although windows PCs caught up pretty quickly.
Honestly, for me this realization made dealing with my job frustrations easier. As an IC in a tech role, I'm paid decently despite not working for FAANG. I don't have to aspire to become a manager just so I can afford my mortgage, family expenses, etc. When all the "extra" and "volunteer" stuff starts getting pushed on me, I don't feel the need to do it so I can "demonstrate performing above my current level" or whatever BS they want to call it.

At one point I worked in a matrixed org that heavily interacted with business analysts, HR people etc. Some of those folks who were desperately trying to climb to a manager role so they could get paid a decent salary. A lot of them hated their jobs, but moving to manager position was their only choice.

Imagine feeling forced to climb to a job that you don't even really want. It's no surprise that people just resort to political maneuvering to get that coveted manager spot.
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Why would you feel it's a bad idea and or satire?
Thank you for giving an actual answer as to what our obligations are here. It’s the first time I’ve heard anyone make mention of that.
A lot of people don't realize that Wi-Fi pretty much always operates in an extremely degraded mode (on the verge of not working at all - which is why a person walking past can be enough to break it) and it only seems to work for certain applications due to the magic of protocols such as TCP which can recover and essentially conceal packet loss. Jumping onto a call or some other real-time application (where retransmissions don't help and actually make the problem worse) will break the illusion and show you the reality of things.

There's also this misconception that speed is the only thing that matters, so "higher speed = better connection" and the vast majority of consumer-grade tools only ever test for this. This is where it will mislead you, as an unstable connection with short bursts of high speed will appear "better" (despite being fragile and completely unusable for anything real-time) than a slower but more reliable connection. In-browser speed tests are extremely bad for this because all the buffering & various layers could even fool the test code itself, making it believe it's getting a steady stream while in reality it's getting merely short bursts of data (in between tons of underlying TCP retransmissions). Iperf & ping are the tools of choice if you actually want to look into it - they are closer to the metal and will give you faster feedback (you will be able to actually see the dropouts due to packet loss).
You can even link rust to rust dynamically, though it's very unsafe and will break if you use different compiler versions
How would one go about ensuring these nodes are not malicious?
Ooohhh! This will be interesting from a reverse engineering perspective. Also, does that mean I can get iMessage on PC?
DC current most definitely does create magnetic fields.
I've known a bunch of homeschooled folks, and I know this is definitely coming from a place of confirmation bias, but...all of them were especially bad at code-switching. I think there's plenty of ways one could have wider socialization as a kid among adults, but it's much easier to imagine it coming to fruition in play with peers. I don't think exact age-matching is really necessary, but being around people that are at a similar life-stage certainly can't hurt in establishing "peering" where it matters.
I'm about a decade younger than you - and I have the exact opposite memories of the Oregon Trail.

It was a break from school where we got to play video games.
> ssn was close enough to someone on the govt watch list that I was effectively on the list

This is exceedingly dumb if true. Numerical adjacency of SSNs is completely meaningless.
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What do you base this legal advice on? Such a paper-thin diversion does not seem to me like it would hold up in any reasonable court.
> What exactly do you feel is the "which color should the shed be" point of this discussion?

I thought it was extremely clear from my comment. "Will requiring IEEE 754 make Python less appealing?"
Wow what a surprise ending, I thought the CPAP was going to solve your low energy and malaise problem but it was Prozac?

How did the CPAP affect your energy levels though? Did you try it that before jumping on an antidepressant? I wish you tried CPAP and see how you felt before letting a doctor feed you pills that may or may not have been needed do to a positive Narcolepsy diagnosis, which effects quality of sleep and life and arguably sleep deprivation would lead to depressive episodes and would subside once you get all your REM cycles every night for days and weeks and months.
Sure, but also note that those peers may be a few years above or below their biological age.
When reading the “masters of doom” people were selling custom maps on cds and they were just salty they didn’t think of it.

Then they put out final and ultimate doom which is basically that. If they didn’t care in the 90s they don’t care now.
dude just stop. Idiots on the left. Idiots on the right. Stop being a tool.. because honestly, only a brainwashed tool would truly believe the problem only exists with The OTHER group.
I recently came across another useful utility for debugging unexpected packet drops - PWRU[0] (Packet, Where Are You) by Cilium.

It uses eBPF to try to trace the path of the packet through the kernel. Haven't needed to use it yet, but it could have saved me a lot of trouble in the past.

[0]: https://github.com/cilium/pwru
Highly recommend the Model Thinking course on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/model-thinking
> Effective sanctions won't happen against big powerful countries

The US is applying sanctions to China. The US doesn't see any limits to the target of their sanctions, as you seem to believe.
I find the negative reviews the most useful, not individually, but in aggregate. If several people complain about the same thing, it might actually be an issue. A well written and thoughtful negative review can also contain useful information. If the negative reviews all seem to be random bitching, however, I know the place/product/service is probably fine.
Russia could join NATO, too. Putin is the guy who decided it was him against the world.
I heard that SageMaker wasn't great and was not prioritized by Amazon anymore. Definitely could be wrong.
If it's usiong kernel TCP, switch to a TCP congestion control that uses tail loss probes.
If you have enough control and the network you control supports it, consider L4S TCP technology or at least normal (old-style) ECN-based congestion control.
Before the Internet (at least, Internet available to people outside a few institutions), caller-id was either not available at all or an extra-cost service you had to pay for.

So the normal case for a ringing phone was that you had no idea who was calling or any way to get the number. Those capabilities came later.

You'd look up someones phone number in the white pages and anonymously called them. Which of course was a source of much entertainment for us kids of the 70s and 80s.

Now, of course, the phone company knew both numbers, so there wasn't any privacy in that sense.
"A Modest Proposal" is the name of famous satirical essay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
It involved selling children for cannibalism.

As Wikipedia notes:

> In English writing, the phrase "a modest proposal" is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.

Opening with that title, complete with correct capitalization, reads like an allusion. It's enough to make me think exceptionally skeptically about a proposal to turn gifted students into what is sometimes euphemistically termed peer educators.
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That would seem excessively distasteful. Real human beings are dying right now on both sides and even if Russia is the obvious aggressor here, it's a tragedy that so many young men have to die for that country's leader's whims.
This is actually exactly what Putin said - that NATO is much stronger, but if there is a nuclear war, it's going to be bad for everybody.
Starlink uplink transmissions become beacons for airstrikes
That makes sense for manual labor where a soldier can stand over you and make you work, but rebuilding Ukraine will need technology - diggers, cranes, steel, concrete, cables, pipes, electronics, fuel… a soldier can’t just shoot those things into existence.
I'm pretty confident, what it's described here, is a symptom of the so called "Halo Effect".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
> Children are resources to be processed by the state via their factory-like schools into products to be consumed by corporations, government, etc.

When the word "resource" gets thrown around at companies and they obviously mean a human being, it peeves me. I will never use that word when referring to a person. When I'm involved in a conversation where someone uses it, I always ask for clarity that they mean a person, employee, contractor, candidate, etc.

I know it's just a word, but calling people resources makes it seem like they are nothing more than something to be expended and used. And maybe that is the case, but I don't think it should be encouraged and perpetuated.
When he was fired from ID he was able to use the quake engine (and any future engine which he wound up using quake 2 for daikatana).
Evidence supporting a natural zoonotic origin for SARS-CoV-2 vs. a lab leak
The whole article is basically about different interpretations of probabilities -- probabilities as reflecting the degree of belief, vs pure frequentist ones. Both make sense, they just need to be used in different situations and need to be interpreted differently.
From an fantasy perspective for modeling incentives?

An equally powerful/cost effective weapon that left no radiation damage and no burning city afterwards even if there is still only a crater left.

That way you can have mutual destruction without destroying the rest of the world as collateral. It will be a technology replacement.

You will not loose any strategic capability, meaning you can make progress without the "timed-collective-action-threshold-conditional-commitment" thing that is never going to happen with the incentive structure as its now.

There is no incentive for weapons that can destroy the entire world if the entire world is not aligned, only for weapons that can destroy nations.

That said, this line of thinking makes me sick, while at the same time it seems impossible to me without something similar, you have to make them obsolete.
Here is what I would tell you.

Only build things that only take 1 month to build. If it takes longer, you're doing it wrong. An MVP should only take 1 month to build, if it's longer, it's not an MVP, but a convoluted, unrefined idea of what you had in mind.

For example, if you have been building something very complex for 2 years on your own, you've done something very wrong. No successful entrepreneur builds something for 2 years alone, they have a team and even those that have a team launch it after a couple of months. It's very rare that an experienced entrepreneur builds something for years before they launch.

It's also not expensive. Any software engineer in the Western world can pay a competent team of 3 overseas developers, but for some they want to prove themselves that they are successful on their own. That's the wrong way to go about it.
Speeding up Go's built-in JSON encoder for large arrays of objects
Russia is as morally entitled to invade Ukraine as the US was to invade Afghanistan. It's really that simple. You can say moan about Saddam being bad but where from where does the US derive the moral authority to impose its will onto sovereign nations?

Your framework allows for invasions over fake WMDs and fake Nazis alike. Russia didn't sanction the US over Iraq, in the spirit of peace and cooperation between nuclear states the US could afford them the same courtesy.

If you can justify Iraq you can justify Ukraine. Personally I don't agree with invasions anywhere for any reason not do I believe in the concept of "world police". That's just forcing one people's will upon another and denying them the right to destroy their own tyrants and seize their own destiny.
Here's a simple PowerShell wrapper for your lovely tool:

function rip {
param (
[Parameter(Mandatory, ValueFromRemainingArguments)]
[String]
$Query
)
$RequestParameters = @{
URI = "https://dontbeevil.rip/search?q=$Query"
Headers = @{ Accept = "text/plain" }
}
$Request = Invoke-RestMethod @RequestParameters
return $Request
}

Usage:

> rip heartbleed bug

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software library....
I would prefer being wiped out of a giant meteorite than all nukes going off because at least I know it wasn't humanity that did us in.
That sums up pretty well how I acted right out of school. Immature, controlling, impatient and off putting. It took a lot of humble reflection to see that I was being a pain in the ass, and to take the steps to be a better team mate.

In my case it didn't help that our Dev manager was insufferable himself, but that's no excuse.

Now people complain that I'm not assertive enough, go figure :)
Government made software… I imagine yearly or bi-yearly updates, horrendous UI/UX, count me out.
Steve Jobs personally approved the text users would see when sideloading an app
There was no international support for the invasion of Iraq. The US came up with a meager "coalition" of their usual partner states only to appear they were not going alone.
And web apps are the “future”.
I'm fairly sure it is not. Climate change is actually a good example, it has been blown out of all proportions by both politicians as well as media which has led a large number of children and young adults to start worrying whether they will have a future at all before they will die from starvation/drowning/heat shock/fill-in-the-blanks. Slightly older young adults state they do not want to get children "since they will not have a future on a dying planet", all being egged on by "Extinction Rebellion"-like prophets of doom in the media.

They are your children so it is your responsibility to make sure they learn to separate panic porn and propaganda from believable prognoses on things like war, natural phenomena, changing climate and its ramifications and more. Get some books on the subject - Michael Shellenberger's "Apocalypse Never", Bjørn Lomborg's "False Alarm", Steven Koonin's "Unsettled" and read up on the facts and fictional narratives around the subject of the changing climate. If you are not in panic-mode they are far less likely to be pulled into the fable of a climate-induced eschaton. Teach them critical thinking skills - that is true critical thinking, not "critical theory" thinking which is actually the opposite of what I'm getting at. Help them on their way of navigating through the rapids of their formative years and they'll be stronger and more self-reliant on the other side.
SIGIL is absolutely awesome, especially with the buckethead soundtrack.. :}
It isn't auto aim so much that the game is fundamentally two-dimensional. Height differences are only a visual effect in Doom.
> Putin does not roll a dice every morning and launches a nuclear missile if a six shows up

Very true. Using, essentially, the infinite typing monkeys idea to say that a nuclear war is bound to happen eventually is just a pseudo-scientific rationalization of war. Put this way, almost anything becomes certain if you completely ignore the fact that you don’t know P(nukes|war) since we have no further data to base this on. Even a coin flipped once or twice might not be heads and tails. The idea of P(heads) = 0.5 is that eventually, as the flips extend to infinity, it equals 0.5.

This would be similar to someone living in the Black Plague saying “since 10% of Europe is dying per year, in 10 years we will most certainly be extinct.” I don’t know the technical or formal name for this fallacy or line of thinking, so I’ll just call this gross oversimplification.
Why would you go with "gut feeling" instead of IPCC AR6?
I think you need a valid iPhone serial number to activate iMessage?
sure, nobody says all Western news are lies, same goes for RT, but only one side is being censored here for me as third party getting information from all sources and making my own mind