skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair question. My assumption is that the US schools offer students enough exposure and resources of advanced topics, to the point that top students will find their way. For instance, libraries, vast resources on the internet, community colleges, programs with local universities, and etc.

The assumption can be challenged, of course.

Case in point, this problem on Stackexchange was from a high-school homework. I think it's advanced enough for students: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/711174/calculati...
> I was asked during an interview how I thought my autism might impact my work

God that makes me angry. Of course I don't know what jurisdiction you're in, but the company should be sued for this. Of course I know it's easy to say this in theory but most people can't afford litigation. But really that should be extremely against the law. You should at least name and shame the company.

On the anonymous thing - yes I know what you mean. I really struggle with overcoming the fear of publishing any significant opinions as myself. But I also find maintaining any sort of anonymity to be a very daunting thought. I'm such an open person generally, and I like that about myself, it would be very strange for me to try to hide like that.
just dates or date and time?
> Even changing the outcome of a Presidential election doesn't require any kind of sweeping, nationwide fraud campaign. Just enough well-placed ones

Were that to have happened, analysis of the voting results would show a divergence in results in those “well placed” areas. For a presidential race, there are a lot of eyes on this comparing demographic data with vote totals.

For instance, in 2020 there were some allegations that cities were faking votes for a specific political party, but analysts found the same voting trends against the incumbent president occurred in suburbs and in states controlled by the other party that were not decisive to the outcome. For the fraud to not be obvious, it would have needed to be committed in every major city and state.
From the abstract of the paper you cited:

> Yet race remains related to funding disparities and schooling experiences in ways that raise concerns about the role of school finance in perpetuating racial opportunity gaps.

What you are pulling out seems to be narrowly-focused and highly-contextualized.

Consider [1]:

> Property taxation and school funding are closely linked in the United States. In 2018–2019, public education revenue totaled $771 billion. Nearly half (47 percent) came from state governments, slightly less than half (45 percent) from local government sources, and a modest share (8 percent) from the federal government. Of the local revenue, about 36 percent came from property taxes. The remaining 8.9 percent was generated from other taxes; fees and charges for things like school lunches and athletic events; and contributions from individuals, organizations, or businesses.

[1]: https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/articles/2022-04-pu...
To make a compelling case that funding matters to outcome you really need to detail how a lack of funding hurts the learning process.

Are the teachers bad teachers, and more pay will recruit better teachers? I'm not sure how many teachers enter the profession for the money to be honest. I'm sure they would like pay, but I'm not really of the mind that the curre nt crop of teachers are on average bad.

Do kids not have a suitable learning environment? Are they distracted by rodents, roaches, noisy equipment, uncomfortable temperatures, lack of seating or desks?

Do the kids not have educational material? Books, marker boards and markers for them, paper, etc?

If any of those things were lacking I would totally agree that learning could be impacted and change was needed. And I would be really curious how at current funding levels, which are not low compared to other countries, those deficits are occuring.
No, the surface was at one side of the map, and you kept tunneling through to the side
Wow as a white men that is completely against affirmative action I still 100% agree with everything in this article.

Basically if only 2% of student taking algebra 1 are black then the solution is :
1- not to Remove algebra 1 completely.
2- not to force a % of the algebra 1 student to be black by accepting student that are not ready for this level of Math
3- not too invent a new (non-racist) version of algebra 1 that is easier to understand .

The solution is simply to embrace asynchronous development!

If one student test score below average in English and Geography but above average in math. He should still be allowed to take Algebra 1.

Also algebra 1 should be offered as an option in all neighborhood (including poor one) even if only a single student in that neighborhood would like to take it.

I see being allowed to take the class if you qualify as a Right similar to the right to Vote. So the parent should not be forced to drive the student to another school because the local school prefer to not offer the class.
Unrelated, but you can actually use Firefox's own screenshot function which is far more robust than PrtScn, allowing you crop the image how you want (including snap to element), you can also save to clipboard or download it for further editing or storing. The key-shortcut is CTRL+LSHIFT+S.
It's entirely irrelevant that the founder of some project/company is some {INSERT_GROUP_HERE}.

Unless the founder makes it relevant, which is usually a sign that they're going to be a problem. This founder appears to have every intention of being a problem.

Quotes, from clicking the link at the beginning of the article to Twitter (https://twitter.com/__tux) to the first pinned tweet/conversation (https://twitter.com/__tux/status/1478468678563905543?cxt=HHw...):

"... we're literally replacing you - tradtech is bound to lose. If you're trans/gnc, quit your tradtech job and come thru."

"I don't desire equal playing ground in the tradtech world - I want to destitute the entire fucking thing. Queer means attack. ..."

TechCrunch writing a headline that says nothing about the project while emphasizing things that aren't supposed to matter says everything we need to know about their editorial standards/integrity, too; if someone not in some "special" identity group wrote similarly to the founder it'd be fire and brimstone. In short this is a political piece and not really fit for HN.
everyone involved is on salary
There is no mention of electronic voting machines. Nothing described in this press release would even require electronic voting machines. They cast actual (fraudulent) votes and then falsified the records in the polling books to match.
You can conclude from this that the schools are not better because of funding differences. You can try to come up with other reasons why this might be so, but don't point to funding.
Rings true. I wasn't around for a founding of a company and I wish I was. It gets significantly less fun as the company develops.
Years ago it was just a case of beer.
This was on HN a few weeks ago and may be of interest to you:

https://github.com/floodfx/liveviewjs
Can't wait to hear all the mangled pronunciations of this.
I urge you to please watch the hearings. What has been learned in the intervening months since the coup attempt is that it was premeditated, and the insurrection at the capitol was only one facet in a multifaceted plan to end democracy in America. The narratives that have been established by pro-insurrectionists -- that it was peaceful, that is wasn't a big deal, that it was spontaneous, that it wasn't planned, that the White House wasn't involved, that there were no guns, that it couldn't have ended democracy even in the worst case -- have all been shown by the committee to be false.

How in the world was it close? You answered the question yourself: all that was missing was key buy-in from several necessary parties. Namely: Pence, several low-level elections clerks, and several secretaries of state. Republicans have been working to replace these individuals with insurrectionist since 2020, and to also change laws where they were thwarted before (see the Georgia GOP's new ability to completely take over and throw out independent county elections where they don't like the results.)

The plan would have most certainly worked if Pence had left the Capitol on Jan 6. Grassley would have taken over Pence's duties, and he would have refused to certify the election. At that point, the vote would have eventually ended up at the House, with one vote allocated per state delegation. With Republicans in the majority of delegations, they would have installed Trump as president against the will of the people, thereby ending 200+ years of American democracy.

The plan was very complex, it was thought of by very smart and powerful people, it was executed with the explicit intention of ending democracy in America by people at the highest level of government, and thankfully it ultimately failed. Yet, it almost succeeded and we must take note that they only had 2 months to prepare. Next time they will have had 4 years. So please, for the love of country, watch every second of the 1/6 committee hearings. Please.
No that's about right. People hate math here largely because it's unbearably repetitive.
> Governments

This would be a major constitutional change, by which I mean that it introduces new limits on government. Politicians would have some understandable inclination to oppose it. Not saying it isn't needed, it obviously is.

In this context "be a minimalist" is a thought stopper in all its grace.
Accurate Voting seems like the most viable use case for triple entry accounting, you know that thing that got created in 2009 by that mysterious Satoshi guy and everyone hates it now and thinks it’s a Ponzi scheme- totally legitimate use case here with voting and the only real world scenario I know of where the solution hasn’t located the problem yet.
What would you say are planned to be the primary selling points over VSCode?
As someone pointed out in the other comment, it's not that it doesn't exist, but my impression is, it's more conservative. Still, Germany is a large country, so what is true in one part, does not have to be true in another. E.g. Munich is West as much as idk Hamburg, but I doubt the culture is very similar.

There was a movie on TV some time ago with this as a theme https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barfu%C3%9F_bis_zum_Hals .
Losing is fun!

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Losing
Link fast: Improve build and launch times [video]
> Conservatives, except the far-right nut-cases and wackos are more likely to support equality of opportunity

I have yet to hear any conservative advocate for more balanced education funding between school districts, more unified national standards for education, lowering tuition costs for public colleges or any other policy that suggests an "equality of opportunity" with regard to education.

Instead, I tend to hear policies that advocate inequality of opportunity, such as favoring parents who want to and can afford the time to homeschool.

Maybe I'm missing some, so please correct me.

> consider outcomes largely depend on the individual, their motivation, and luck.

Thanks for acknowledging "luck". Too many people refuse to.
You brought race into the discussion, not me.

There's nothing in the SAFE act that can be considered partisan, unless you assume that one of the parties is against allowing people to vote. The Republicans in the senate blocked it for two reasons:

- It is impossible to print legible ballots on recycled paper. (The recycled paper requirement in the bill could have been removed in reconciliation, even if this argument is nonsense.)

- Establishing federal standards for election machines and paper ballots would discourage states from establishing redundant standards. (Note that the opponents of the bill didn't make the stronger claim that it would prevent states from establishing stronger standards.)

The bill would provide funding for standardizing best practices around paper ballot counting. That would speed up the count and reduce election fraud.

The bill doesn't touch voter disenfranchisement, except that it includes a small amount of research funding to allow people with disabilities to vote on paper ballots without trusting a computer or divulging their vote to another person (this is currently an open problem).

It was repeatedly proposed by Democrats + fillibustered by Senate Republicans.

I don't see how any honest conversation about voting counting issues in the US can't point out that there are low-tech solutions to the exact issues you're complaining about, that the bill has been written, and that exactly one party has been blocking / fillibustering it for 3+ years (without publicly providing any legitimate complaints about the contents of the bill).
Something about the project is very interesting indeed. It grows at a regular pace for non trivial ideas. And it seems all joyful and light.
.. groups might differ in how they set goals and what they consider valuable
Do these per-pupil funding numbers have any meaning when your home and community are broken and one or both of your parents is an addict or incarcerated?

No, school budgets only help the schools, they don't solve any other problems.

it seems to me we’ve been acting with intent as a society to keep the families, homes, and communities of everyone not white and already wealthy a complete and utter shambles.

Maybe I'm older, but it seems to me the exact opposite is happening. Over the last 40 years there has been an increasing number of minority families that have moved to wealthier, historically white neighborhoods. I think this is because of education, affirmative action, and a general shift of society to be less racist.

How can we expect decent, equitable outcomes given that the home life of significant percentages of students is essentially a path right to prison?

nobody has ever expected that.

There is still a lot of work to be done, but things have been moving in the right direction for a while now. It took a few hundred years to get here, don't expect it to be fixed in just over half a century.
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> Do these per-pupil funding numbers have any meaning when your home and community are broken and one or both of your parents is an addict or incarcerated?

It's a vicious cycle, which can only be broken by building strong communities in those places. And we've mostly forgotten how to do this, because "lifestyle anarchism" has been way more popular than a genuine community orientation among intellectuals and influencers, since the 1960s or so. School funding is a band-aid.
> For some reason progressives are against voter ID laws.

It’s a barrier preventing citizens from exercising constitutional rights. The need isn’t clearly demonstrated to justify the restriction.

Voter ID laws have different outcomes based on economic status. It’s especially difficult for poor people to exercise their rights.

> People have stopped thinking for themselves.

Or maybe someone else thought of something you haven’t. None of us can discover everything individually. Almost everything you know is someone else thinking for you.
Ever had a 3rd grader threaten to stab you, and look like they really mean it? A second grader call you the c-word? That kind of thing happening basically every day, often multiple times a day?

Credible threats of gang violence on a regular basis. School-wide lockdowns with some regularity due to threats of violence, or violence that has actually occurred. Admin with extremely limited options to deal with any of this, and having to triage their discipline pretty hard, plus having little to no support from home to back any of it up (this is why the stuff in the first paragraph happens constantly—no time or community/parental willpower to deal with it, given the rest of what's going on). Watching the kids suffering from the same shit day after day, plus all the usually-awful stuff they have going on at home, and not being able to do much about it. Seeing kids die or end up in the hospital with alarming regularity. Distressingly young kids plainly high or drunk in class.

Not many people can do that without burning out or giving up and half-assing everything, very quickly.
Wordle is a pretty good example of how much success you can have with an unremarkable and unmemorable domain name.
From what I’ve heard one of the biggest reason is students and parents who don’t care about education at all, who would actively disrupt others from learning and the teacher from teaching.
Is it proprietary? According to their blog, Pyston was open sourced with version 2.2 [0], and the LICENSE file in the repo [1] appears to be the same as upstream CPython.

Not a rhetorical question BTW. A pluggable JIT for Python could be a boon for some projects at my dayjob, but if it's proprietary that would put a bit of a damper on things.

[0]: https://blog.pyston.org/2021/05/05/pyston-v2-2-faster-and-op...

[1]: https://github.com/pyston/pyston/blob/pyston_main/LICENSE
I don't see that this particular incident is proof of incidents elsewhere either.

However, pretending that this person is the only person to figure out how to do this is extremely naive. Especially with how long it took to catch him. I don't see why there's anything special about Philadelphia that would make this behavior restricted to that location.
> The one thing I'm noticing is that it's miserable to work here because EVERYTHING has friction and takes days to get done

I worked at a large media corporation with an office in times square NYC and it was the most unprofessional and demoralizing experience. The level of CYA behavior was mind blowing, it was like interacting with an alien race wearing people suits.

There are people that get off on this kind of environment and thrive in it. They don't care how corrosive it is to the people forced to tolerate it for survival.

It never gets better, get out now before they start inventing KPIs to shame you into submission
> The voting machines at each polling station, including in the 39th Ward, 36th Division, generate records in the form of a printed receipt documenting the use of each voting machine...Demuro would add fraudulent votes on the voting machine

Sure there is
It wasn't even that pointed. I don't remember the exact wording but the comment was basically someone telling me I had no right to criticize a language's choices until I'd written a compiler myself.

It's is clearly nonsense, the same kind of logic as people who hate movie critics, but it's gotten a rent-free place in my head for years now.

Something just about the tone of the comment made it stick in my brain.
I almost prefer it, I think! It felt much more like a proper story game with a challenge rather than the modern result of "The Sims, but dwarves". A single Z-level may be too austere today, so perhaps a modern iteration could use the same layout but with three or four Z-levels. I wonder if there's a way to replicate that today with some map editing...

The real trouble I had with the old versions was the inability to build walls. As I recall, once you dug something out it was dug forever.
Bah! Lipstick!

The pig is the game.
You thought wrong. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/11/29/true-tale-...
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I drive a lot of rentals. The infotainment provided by every major car manufacturer is hot garbage. A car without CarPlay won’t be considered by me at all when making a purchase.
> They didn’t bother wasting their time because the DA had made it clear in prior worse cases (with witnesses, including security camera footage) that they wouldn’t prosecute that class of crime.

So instead of doing their job, they tried to do the DA's job instead. If they had still made the effort, but warned you it was likely to go nowhere, that would be entirely reasonable. They had justification to arrest the individual and try to get them connected with mental health services even if the DA declined to prosecute.

Instead, the police showed up and blamed someone else for why they wouldn't do their jobs.

None of this is to defend the choices the DA made about prosecution, but those choices don't absolve the police of the responsibility to do their jobs.
The author makes a mistake here.

It's fine to think of entropy as messiness; that's the Boltzmann picture of statistical mechanics. The mistake is thinking that lowering entropy, or getting rid of the mess, is a satisfactory strategy.

Think of it as a negative feedback system, like a thermostat. Keeping entropy low means continually correcting errors. This is a successful strategy only if the world always stays the same, but it notoriously does not. Some degree of messiness is needed to remain flexible, strange as it may sound. There must be room to make the good kind of mistakes and happy little accidents (as Bob Ross would put it).

Because the author chose an analogy rooted in statistical mechanics, here's another: supercooled water. Take a bottle of purified water and put it in the cooler. It gets chilled below freezing temperature without freezing. If you give it a shake, it instantly freezes. The analogy may sound a bit vapid, but noise is the crucial ingredient for the system to "find" its lowest-energy state. The system crystallizes from some nucleation site.

It's the same with evolution. Mutations are a must. Keeping our genetic entropy low isn't a viable option, because that means we'll get stuck and die out. There must be opportunity for randomness, chance, chaos, noise; all that jazz.

This is how China became an economic powerhouse under Deng Xioping, for instance. They experimented with various policies and if something accidentally turned out to work great, it became something of a "nucleation site". The policy that worked in, say, Shaowu, would spread all across China. But it would never have worked if they stuck with a rigid, Confucian strategy of keeping "entropy" low at all times.

Entropy isn't necessarily fatal. Entropy can be used as a strategy for adaptation.
No. It is not unacceptable when white children have opportunities. It is unacceptable when black children do not.
> Are Ivy League colleges famously demanding?

Yes, absolutely. They demand a lot of hard work, much more than your typical public university. As you go through life however, you start to realize that accomplishment comes from working hard on the right things - a subtle but important distinction from plain old hard work.

Imagine that you are running and come to a wall. You are big, strong, and have lots of resources at your disposal. You almost certainly can bust through the wall and keep going. Do you do it? Or do you check to see if there is an unlocked door around the corner? The reward for you is exactly the same (a grade of A in the class; a promotion at work) and you aren't the person that has to clean up the mess you leave behind. What do you do?

The Ivy League schools have plenty of people that would choose one option and plenty that would choose the other. The other schools don't have very many people for which busting through the wall is even an option, which is definitely not the same thing as "working harder"
I doubt we have a different view, as I haven't stated one on 'what constitutes development and improvement of life a society'.

Freedom is the ability to swim in any direction you want, so go ahead. Do whatever you want. The map of your possible options already exists and the institutions are just one or many worthwhile places to visit. When people do whatever they want it quite often ends up on a place on the map where there is a lot of hedonism and not much in the way of higher meaning or valuable aims.

As a dispassionate observer it is my inclination to suggest that people will take the argument for more free time off work in the favour of church and family as an easier argument to make, given it's connection to a higher meaning and relatable values. A boss will likely see anything connected to 'wants' as room for more work.