skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is correlated with poverty, not race, per se- it's all about the culture of the students. A relative of a friend is a teacher in rural Iowa, an almost all white school. She teaches young students who have no concept of respect for authority or value in learning- getting cussed out by a kindergartener (ages 4-5) is not exactly an unusual thing she has to deal with.

As kids get older, they fall into drugs and / or have kids of their own and / or are told they'll never get into higher education and / or they don't need higher education, they'll just get a low skill job like everyone else in town.

Education for the sake of education really isn't strongly valued by a lot of parents, who have their own struggles and can't really help with homework much past middle school.

Compare all of this with teaching in an area that is more middle or upper class- kids are usually more eager to learn, have fewer discipline problems, and as they get older many know they need to try so they can get into a community college or university.
The server has a snapshot of Wikipedia, sitting in memory. The server is blind to which article is requested because it computes a homomorphic dot product between an encrypted one-hot vector (encrypted under a key that only the client knows) and the total set of articles in plaintext. The encrypted query does not reveal anything about the requested index (ie it is semantically secure).

The 'magic' of homomorphic encryption is that the server is able to take an encrypted one-hot vector of bits, and a vector of plaintext articles, compute a homomorphic dot product, and produce a single ciphertext encoding the single desired plaintext article. This single output ciphertext is crucially also encrypted under the client's secret key, so it reveals nothing to the server.
The goalposts will be moved until the desired outcome is achieved.
you are saying school (1,2,3) get same funding per pupil.
but test score for 1 is worse than 3.

So why send you kid to school 4 instead of school 3 ?
Is the test score at school 4 significantly better?

I am a parent of a 4 years old, and we recently moved from Canada to USA.
Option (4) in Canada is almost non-existent so this is new to me!

I have been trying to compare test-score between private schools and public school
to decide if private school is worth it.

But found that most private school do not publish their test score and it's extremely hard to compare them side-by-side.

Any idea how they could be compared in a data-drive way?
No. You do that by not enabling support for all that stuff that's available in the kernel but you don't have any idea what it even is.
Yes for sure.

You know who can easily transport their kids 30 mins to another school? Rich, stay at home moms.

You know who can't transport their kids 30 mins to another school? A single mom working 2 jobs.
Localhost will always be free, and the cloud will always have a cost. For that reason alone, localhost isn't going anywhere.
$ cat com.txt | sed 's/^\(\S*\.com\)\.\s.*/\1/' | sort | uniq

A bit easier than a ruby script
> Phil Karlton famously said, “There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things.”

...and off-by-one errors.
Puberty cannot be understated in terms of its effects...
> Siri on HomePods are a disaster. You have to shout at it even for it to pickup what you are saying. Mostly when the volume is a little high.

I always speak in a normal (or slightly quieter) volume and never have an issue with Siri activating.

My biggest issue is that my HomePods need to get restarted or power cycled periodically (e.g. after a power outage or network update). I wish they were a little faster and had better self-healing but generally work pretty well as room speakers which is primarily what I got them for.
Google, a low friction company?

I moved to Google from Microsoft, and I was shocked with the amount of friction and chaos at Google. Everything takes longer to get done.
I'm not sure it even matters how difficult fraud is. Conspiracy theorists will see what they want to see, especially when primed by their candidate to assume fraud in the case of a loss.
No. This is the absolute wrong direction.

In effect, you're giving a third-party absolute control over your code and your ability to work on it. You're also disconnecting the developer's mental model of how all of this stuff works (arguably why there's so much bad code floating around). Eventually, that will devolve to people not knowing how any of this works and the industry will collapse.

It's an abstract line of argumentation related to this, but Jonathan Blow nailed it on this idea a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk
Nobody is saying "actively remove white children from gifted programs" they're saying, "when more people qualify for gifted programs than can fit in the program, consider including those who have fewer overall opportunities."

Those white kids will get other opportunities to be successful, and the non-white kids will get fewer of those opportunities, because society is racist as hell. Therefore, when you have a chance to give a non-white kid a shot at excellence, and they're qualified, give it to them.
The highest IQ in US history belonged to a man that spent his life as a plumber by choice.

According to several studies, the greatest predictor of early academic advancement is the financial status of the parents. While scientific hubris and narcissism tend to quickly dominate competitive environments in colleges, the irrational pretense of a meritocracy quickly degenerates when you enter the faculty area. Note that most academically successful students will do well regardless of the curriculum or instructor, and the funding they bring in later makes anyone popular with staff.

Perhaps you are asserting that “intellectual gifts” are justification for inflicting misery or undue burden on the general community?

I speculate one could likely outrun a one-legged physicist or a one-legged golden retriever just as quickly… but not escape their own cognitive biases.
I agree. We actually chose Java due to support within the community. Our first choice was Rust :)

It would not be a huge project to convert to Go or Rust though.
It might finally be changing, though! We'll have to see how the following releases go
It's hard for me to tell how many of these "progressive" programs are motivated out of a sincere desire to make the world a better place, and how many are simply motivated by hate and spite, a "if I can't have it nobody can" kind of attitude. Certainly eliminating advanced classes seems to fall into the latter case.
Done. Thanks for the feedback about the screenshots. That makes sense! I'll update the text to include the demo :) Let me know if you have thoughts on the app itself!
You have to pay more to hire people to do harder jobs.
All sorts of past failed experiments:

- Private fire departments that used to show up at your house and demand payment in order to put the fire out, otherwise they'd just let your house burn to the ground. In Rome, they'd literally show up at your house, and buy it from you for pennies on the dollar before putting it out.

- Private prisons fail the people in the way I've described.

- Private healthcare fails Americans each and every day. 45,000 Americans die each year due to lack of access to care. One person dies every 12 minutes. Their goal is to deny you cover because each treatment they avoid paying for pads their bottom line and benefits their shareholders. It costs twice as much per capita as Canada, 60% as much as Norway - and yet fails to cover everyone and yields worse outcomes.

The generalization is simple: when your task is to provide services to the public, then profit must be secondary. In private enterprise, profit is primary. You fail the people when you provide core social services via private enterprise because you have fundamentally failed to align incentives.

Private social services are designed to fail the people.
Yeah, what we need is DFaaS, where the engine is converted into various API calls and anyone can make a front-end for it.
A question that was posed in the reddit version of this post...

Are there any arbitration agreements that were signed as a condition for employment? If so, what do they say about where any issues are resolved and who resolves them?

For context, while this is for factory workers I would be surprised if there isn't similar paperwork for engineers. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/24/tesla-loses-bid-to-sh...

> Alameda County Superior Court Judge Stephen Kaus ruled Monday that the female worker who filed the complaint can proceed with her case — even though she signed an arbitration agreement giving up her right to sue.

Brining this up will likely need to clear the first hurdle of "move this from arbitration to courts" and then win in the courts too.
I worked at a bank for 8 years, but I learned how to work around the red tape and get things done. I wasn't alone. We had a ridiculous project approval process for any work that would take more than X man hours. They'd shut you down because you didn't have have approval for the budget. Yes, even though they're paying you to sit at a desk, you have to get executive sponsorship for the budget to cover the wages that they're paying you anyway. But if you know your way around the incident / problem / change management processes and you know enough of the userbase, you can get 10 incident tickets created over a 1 week period, this gets picked up as a "major problem", you get pulled into the next problem review meeting and asked what can be done. You think about it, tell them you have a solution but it'll take a few weeks to build and test. And either you skip through change control because it's a production incident, or the problem management team do all the process for you.
While I am a Mac user, I've used Vim a lot, so I don't want to make it sound too much like I demand text editors be visually stunning works of art. :) Code initially looked just kind of clunky and toylike to me, in a way that Atom -- and Mac native editors like TextMate and BBEdit -- didn't. It's a little hard to explain. Code still isn't my favorite editor, but it's probably my favorite cross-platform editor.
All of the id Software code was release to open source essentially sunsett'ed. That was never a problem.
Amusing that the ward leader for the GOP in the very same ward was just kicked out of his own party last month over suspicions he was committing election fraud: https://www.newskudo.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/governmen...

Quite a rotten two square miles of Philadelphia there.
> my kids' books and chromebooks are always nice and new

There's plenty of evidence that parental attitudes are a big factor:

"Middle-class pupils do better because parents and schools put more effort into their education, according to a study [..] factors studied were the parents' interest in their children's education, measured by, for example, whether they read to their children or attended meetings with teachers"[0]

(Full disclosure: my wife and I read - and have read - to our kids almost every single night)

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2010/oct/29/middle-cla...
Why exactly is that a bad thing? It's repetitive but most people here are

- former children

- attended public education

- hated or loved aspects of that education

Of course they're going to discuss ideas.
Ok, I'll bite, how are IQ tests racist?
Quote:

> It’s worth reflecting that Atom has served as the foundation for the Electron framework, which paved the way for the creation of thousands of apps, including Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Slack, and our very own GitHub Desktop.

This is so true! Atom spearheaded a new generation of exciting apps and set them up for success. That is a huge achievement on its own - so thanks Atom team for everything you have done!
Boarding schools exist, as do affluent areas next to poor ones.

Anyway, there are several ways to compare systems, some private schools operate in whole or in part on a lottery system so you can track students who do or don’t get in. But the most common method is to model parent education and income as a predictor of performance and then compare outcomes.

As you suggest poor students are underrepresented in private schools, but some do get in. The important thing to remember is a student who received a scholarship isn’t representative of the general population.
> people should be hammering parents to be more involved and actively, daily, participate in their child’s education.

And people shouldn't complain about the cost of gas, they should just buy EVs. The fact is, what you're asking for is really expensive. I imagine that the number of parents who would love to be reading to their kids or helping with homework but instead are working to feed and shelter them are quite high. In the US, I'd guess it's the millions or even tens of millions.
Every group claims the same targeting. "Everyone not white" is just being divisive. Go to a poor white area and you'll see the same drug addiction, broken home, incarceration problems. Is this your job to fix? Do you think the government has the inclination or the possibility of success in addressing these issues?

All that shows is the natural tendency toward persecution complexes and blaming failure on factors out of your control. Finding ways to make society promote personal responsibility, atomic families, etc would actually help. But that is the opposite of current culture of hedonism and "smashing traditional family structure" that gets complete entertainment and political backing.
Not who you were replying to, but my grandmother was a teacher and specifically wanted to work in one of these schools to try to help the students in bad situations. She stopped teaching a while ago, but much of this likely still applies.

Basically, the students frequently don't do their homework, students would just not show up to class or outright just drop out, students misbehave more frequently (including violent behavior), parents care less (or at least act like it). The schools also tend to be in more dangerous areas. They had to lock the teachers' cars in a special lot to prevent vandalism and theft.

Basically it was demoralizing and dangerous.
The bigger issue I see is the arbitrary separation of students into grades. Just because everybody is the same age does not mean they're at the same level in a subject. You should be able to take 8th grade math as a 7th grader. In fact it shouldn't be 8th grade math, it should just be Pre-Algebra. Montessori schools put three grades in one class which solves the problem somewhat, although talented students in the top grade quickly get bored.

This stratified structure also impacts how students view social interaction. Each grade is separate and therefore a different social entity. Sure, there are interactions across grades but it's still quite funny to see a sophomore make fun of a freshman when they're 15 and 14 years old respectively. To this day I know people who find it weird that I'm friends with someone who's 18 when I'm 23. I don't see why. We have the same interests and similar personalities. A few years difference doesn't matter.
You didn't even get to the covid restrictions, and parents calling teachers anti-American and traitors and Nazis for supporting mask and vaccine mandates. Teachers were getting death threats after being told they were "essential workers" for a year. Meanwhile they have to use their own funds to buy their own body armor, because they have to buy that along with pencils and paper now.
Alright, I don't imagine this will be a common take here but here goes. I am a product of the New York City public school system. I have spent the majority of my life as a student in it. The New York city public school system is both the largest public school system in the country and the most segregated. The argument about removing gifted programs are built on the faulty assumptions that the students in those programs are "more gifted" than everyone else and that the work is truly more advanced. Neither of those are the case.

Gifted programs are used to advance and maintain the status-quo of segregation in our schools. The correlation between medium household (of which Black americans are at a disadvantage) and acceptance into the gifted program is much stronger than the correlation between merit and acceptance. I've spent my life in this system and I can tell you with one hundred percent confidence that the reason many if not most of my black peers don't get into these programs is not due to any lack of merit or intelligence.

Now lets look at the second assumption, that the gifted programs provide a higher level of education. This is not true. What happens is that gifted programs get significantly higher funding than other schools and so the gifted programs can afford to give a good well rounded education, which is a good thing! The problem is that so many of our schools, especially in Brown and Black neighborhoods) are completely underfunded, without enough teachers or resources. This of course perpetuates the systemic inequities that begun this cycle in the first place thus repeating the whole cycle.

When we are calling for an end to "gifted" programs in New York, it is not because we "hate smart kids" but because we want resources to be evenly divided so that everyone can get a well funded well rounded education, not just the rich kids in gifted classes. This is not a single issue but is a larger component of an attempt to dismantle segregation in public schools. It drives me crazy to no end to see smart people fall into the ideological trap of believing gifted programs are something they aren't.
> Here we go again with that troubling word at HN: “obvious.” Best to strike that from your vocabulary.

My fault for sloppy wording. I was supposing for the sake of the hypothetical that the police made it obvious to you personally that they would attack you if you fail to comply.

In any case the ACLU-type advice of "stay silent and don't consent to anything" assumes some strange middle ground, where the cops in front of you are hostile enough to be actively fishing for something to arrest you for, but not hostile enough to just beat you, plant stuff and lie. And, further, that I, a random person who rarely deals with the cops, will be able to correctly sense what sort of encounter I'm having, against police who do this dozens of times a day, who are very scary, and who might be specifically trying to trick me.

Or just to rephrase what you said, the ACLU-type advice is great if you're the sort of person for whom awful police encounters are unlikely and who can lawyer up right away if things go wrong.
Sorry, but there is nothing "stateless" about being a proxy force for the most powerful military state on Earth.

The day that CENTCOM leaves Syria is the day that the mythical anarchist paradise of Rojava ceases to exist.
I had a similar issue where a HomePod mini in our living room always responded when in the kitchen, so I just disabled the microphone on the living room HomePod minis.
I have a very simple solution for LatinX group and it's also about equity. Like ALL other immigrants groups LatinX group should have to go through proper immigration process. Then we will see equity in immigration and equity in education.
US seeks $4.3bn for uranium to wean off Russia supply
Wikipedia page[1] has good info too.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Myers_(Pennsylvania_po...
Agreed, don't quit.

It sounds like you have an actual employment agreement saying your position is remote. If that's the case, and your agreement has suddenly been "voided", then technically you were just laid off, and Tesla owes you severance (if that was part of your agreement).

The point of Elon Musk demanding that everyone work from the office is to try to make it the employee's decision to leave the company, rather than the company laying them off. Because if the employee leaves, the employee is not entitled to unemployment (or severance, if that is part of their employment agreement).

However, terminations by the employer are covered by state and federal labor laws, and generally Tesla would owe unemployment for all terminated employees, and severance if that is part of their employment agreement. (And mass terminations such as this one are additionally governed by the WARN Act.)
What about differences in teacher salary? All of my kids' teachers have been superb. I agree with you that the outcomes of wealthy areas would be better due to many reasons outside of schools.
Having done a similar analysis myself, here is what I found. Schools in wealthier areas have better results primarily because the support system at home is much stronger. I.e. A wealthy family's kids do better in school no matter where they go. Another factor, mostly in elementary school, is that wealthier areas get noticeably more volunteer activity from parents.

State & local funding is less important, by far.
As an election judge, I'm not sure how different Baltimore is from Philly, but we are not permitted to physically leave the polls if the count (voters_entered - votes_cast = 0) is off by one at the end of the day. There is not slop in the daily counts. A chief election judge could just close out the tallies and lie up the chain, but if there was an audit, they would get caught. (ps - they got caught)

The other scheme was advising voters inside the polling place (illegal) and signing in non-present voters and casting votes on their behalf (also illegal), so the counts would all look legit. They got caught for that too, it sounds like.
> It’s a barrier for poor people to exercise their rights.

This is delusional. ID is required for so many daily activities and the price of an ID (if they charge for it) is less than $10.
I'm not talking about inventing a new method for encryption. I'm talking about something along the lines of:

* Every registered voter gets an encryption key

* When you vote, your vote is encrypted with the key

* A list of everyone who voted, along with their encrypted vote, is semi-publicly available (like current voter registration lists [1])

* Anyone can check who they're registered as having voted for (but the encryption keeps it private)

* Anyone who wants to verify the election results can request the voter registration list, and ask some randomly sampled subset to verify their vote

[1] https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/access...
> A runtime type system for JavaScript, powered by TypeScript types.

why would I choose this over Deno?
I left BigCo that was not in the bay or tech and am at small_co (<500 people). I think its just a matter of the size of company and make-up of engineering org.

If work is broken out to specialized teams (SSL certs, scans, security stuff - team A, VM's and storage - team B, networking/firewalls - team C, etc.) there will be friction, doesn't matter if its some cool company or some boring Fortune 500 company making farm equip.

You should be able to figure out the scale of friction with interview questions like "say a new project spins up to build a web+mobile app/CRUD/SQL and needs servers - walk me through how many teams+time it takes to get servers up and running where a dev can deploy code"
You can't just transfer a process/technology that works in Estonia to a country like the U.S. which has 300x the population and decades of processes that are dependent on SSNs, many of which aren't controlled by the government.

Want to open a bank account? Need an SSN.
Healthcare: SSN
Employment: SSN

Want a STATE driver's license? Need some form of government ID, depending on the state. An SSN card is often an option.

My point is, to adopt a system like you suggest would require reforming ALL of these systems across public (federal, state and local) and private sectors.

It's not just bureaucracy. Doing this at scale across public/private domains is hard.