skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This person is actually a repeat offender with a history of abusing his office.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/ozzie-myers-convicted-abscam-p...
In our globalized world, it is absolutely possible to interact with a set of a billion different individuals via social media, commerce, et cetera. Of course there are no physical gatherings of a billion people; that is a strawman.

But for sake of argument, let's move N down to 10,000 (a small city or large crowd). How do you manage that without hierarchical organization and government?
I think your point comes down to whether or not you believe we’re all blank slates. If yes, then what you says makes sense. If no, then we would expect ability to somewhat dictate socioeconomic status.
Accurate descriptions in my experience. Luckily in my very first role ever(a long time ago now) I worked with the second type. Unfortunately he's retired now, but he matched me with a lot of very good jobs. But also he matched those companies with me. It was exactly the process of cultivating relationships (let's go get dinner/lunch, let's just shoot the shit, etc.) And he didn't waste anyone's time. That made people take him seriously and either reach out to him from the hiring side or instantly take his calls on the "searching side."

I think what's worrisome to me is that the first type you described. I fully expect it from job board scouring 3rd party "recruiting" agencies and my spam box does too. What I don't expect is for the first type to increasingly be representatives directly from the company themselves. And this isn't exactly some no-name company looking to add you to their cubicle farm. (Or maybe they have a name and ALSO a cubicle farm). My personal feelings aside, I get that they need "volume" but I don't think these types of tactics are the way to go about it. And no I don't have a solution for it, it is indeed a hard problem :)

Interestingly from some of my academic days there might be something to draw some inspiration from for a solution. Social scientists trying to sample either hard to reach populations (due to social stigma) or hard to find populations (small overall number of members) use Chain Referral sampling. It's an interesting topic. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/004912418101000205 For hard to reach research papers.. there's at least a solid solution for that!
And conservatives are flat-out wrong, as usual, because they're arguing against strawmen they've invented. No one is talking about individuals. The discussion is about group statistics. Individuals are irrelevant to the discussion.

If there is a statistical difference in outcomes, why? Is one group inherently inferior? Or is there maybe not the equality of opportunity that they claim?
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How long do you intend to retain this data?
It has held up in basically every economic situation in the US since the 1920's.
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Extensions infrastructure looks better
I am not sure what the rules are around this, but I never claimed you could own a tank with an operational gun. Please reread what I wrote.

Regardless of the rules, I think this proves my point. You can own a tank without the weapon of war part. You can own a rifle without the weapon of war part. A rifle without the weapon of war part can be an AR15.

You can run over a huge number of people with a car. You can put a bomb in a car and blow it up and potentially take down a 10 story building.
> However if you don't, it's obvious they will drag you out of your car and beat you, take your keys, maybe plant some drugs or a gun because you got all uppity, and lie about it all later

Here we go again with that troubling word at HN: “obvious.” Best to strike that from your vocabulary; things you might think as obvious both rarely are so, and often much more complicated than you think.

What you’re describing is a situation that does sometimes happen in the worst cases, but by no means is it normal or frequent relative to the number of ordinary police encounters every day. These episodes make the news because they are out of the ordinary (“newsworthy”). If they happened at every stop, they wouldn’t be reported in the news.

Do these things happen? Sure, and they are awful. But they are by no means standard procedure and they are unlikely to happen to you. And if it does, lawyer up right away.
>This is an oft repeated myth. In addition to property taxes, school funding is supplemented by state and federal budgets, in inverse proportion to property taxes, so that racial differences in per-pupil funding are negligible:

>on average, both Black and Latinx total per pupil expenditures exceed White total per pupil expenditures by $229.53 and $126.15, respectively - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23328584198724...

Difference in expenditure per is a particularly shit way to measure this.
At risk of dating myself, I am still rocking with sublime text and vim.
That was the idea behind ONNX, which has been somewhat successful.

But if you’ve ever had to deploy these models, you’ll know it’s never as simple as promised. Different libraries use different ops, have weird export requirements or even noticeable performance issues.
> Misleading at best as the "tests" they are talking about are not gifted assessment tests, but rather standardized testing which I don't think is that great of an indicator.

I find this to be frustrating. How many times have we heard from people defending the existing systems that standardized testing is an appropriate method of stratifying people. When universities decide to minimize the relevance of the SATs we see howls of complaints. Now suddenly these tests are of minimal utility if they demonstrate that qualified black and hispanic students are being turned away?
So lets take your argument to the extreme and fund a 1000 person school with 1 dollar. Would adding some more dollars to the budget help? Yes, because at some point you can afford to turn on the lights, and if you keep adding money you can afford to hire a teacher. More realistically, more money can do things like fund free meals for needy kids so they don't have to go to class hungry. It can reduce class sizes, replace textbooks, put more books in the library, and add gifted/special ed programs. There are certainly useful things the money can be spent on.

At the other extreme, if we gave schools unlimited funding, you could afford to hire a teacher for every student in the school. Would that help learning outcomes? Probably. There is a huge space in the middle where admins eat up cash, sports teams eat up cash, for sure. But to say that "more money doesn't get better results" doesn't make any sense.
The veneer is quite thin.

There are even more radical proposals [0] they are trying to introduce in High School classes.

It's hard not to see the real agenda past the shallow arguments against gifted programs [1]. This was an enlightening read to say the least.

[0] https://criticallyconsciouscomputing.org/

[1] https://unherd.com/2022/02/anti-racism-betrays-asian-student...
He said "ambitious" not 'established'. :}
Futurists extend trends, but innovation defies trends. So this article is about futurism, not innovation. I would believe the blurring of cloud, edge, and localhost more than this. I think it’s reasonable to believe network splits (physical or political or economic) will always be with us and thus the need to support disconnected computing will continue...Serverless/FunctionsAsAService could work this way. So? Maybe provisioning to an edge is a reasonable thing.

The article mentions edge workers; the edge worker can be at localhost. The provisioning system can incorporate localhost. But yeah, localhost becomes livestock instead of pets...local computing power will still be a thing. Anything that needs ultra-low-latency or disconnection tolerance will be reified to task, like smartphones or smart munitions, or developer tools, or spaceship computers...not really too different from what we have now.
Didn't realize they'd added it back to the Quest series. It was a mistake in the first place on the Rift S, good that they reversed course.

I honestly haven't paid super close attention to their hardware since the Rift S was such a disappointment and the Quest had the lowered screen refresh rates.
That is what Texas does. Not 100 percent, but a majority of tax dollars for schools are paid to the state and redistributed to the districts based on attendance/enrollment. Rich areas might be able to use extra funds/donations for capital expenditures like fancier buildings or stadiums, but the tax money at largely redistributed.
I think this works well for college, but at the highschool level you have the complicating factor of parents being involved in the decision making. How would you account for the parents who think their little monster is a perfect angel and place their kid in the best classrooms, despite his desire and intention to misbehave?
People have suggested glitch and neocities, which are probably the closest to what you’re describing, but I’d like to add a few more that are close to but not quite what you’re asking about:

Carrd is ubiquitous among a certain kind of zoomer, and while it’s more of a no code tool, I think it’s likely to be a gateway into web design for many, and probably the closest analogy to Tumblr customization Gen Z has.

And this is a bit farther afield but if you look at the popular stuff on Scratch you get the sense that a lot of young children are using it creatively, and that it will be a huge gateway into the industry in the future.
I suspect the data science folks are more likely to be interested in what you've done than dba's, at the stage you're at.

They're more likely to be working with desktop tools, with their own copies of unstructured or semi-structured data and they're far more likely to be doing as-hoc or exploritory queries and manipulations, and they'll care far less about concurrent access.. which is absolutely critical to just about any environment who still think it's worthwhile to hire dba's.

Faster queries for a single user on a desktop solves no problems I have - as nifty as some of the techniques you're starting to talk about are.
Absolutely. Until you have had to deal with this kind of problem first-hand, you have no idea how much of a relief it is that it exists.

Sometimes, finding and using the right library can completely turn around a f'd project.
Probably more like black teachers with black students are more likely to exist in poor areas where identifying "giftedness" is lower on the list of priorities.
> There are plenty of ways to get a great education but only one Harvard

We had only one Harvard when the country's population was quite a bit smaller. Perhaps, instead of the zero-sum struggle for Harvard attendance, we should be working to create new Harvards. We have the oversupply of academics.
Upvote for Bergeron reference.
> Anarchism (and any fully decentralized protocol) "works" for small N because the average node can keep all the other nodes of the society in memory. If you need something, you know exactly whom to ask. And if you do something wrong, everyone will remember and hold you accountable. This plainly doesn't work with millions of nodes.

This can work for large N because people fill roles. If you travel today to some other place and want to buy bread, you don't need to know the name of a bread seller in that place. You look for a store that looks like it sells food and ask if they have bread. If they don't, they will probably be able to direct you to a store that does.

If you do something wrong, this can either be tracked by something you're required to keep on your person such as an ID or a tattoo, or by some commonly accessible records.

Since this is a tech site, you can think of it like interactions between objects in object-oriented programming. A billion objects can interact with each other in all sorts of ways without requiring some central manager.
The most important thing money can buy is more teachers. I went to chicago public schools. In my elementary school each class had 32+ students and 1 teacher. I was accepted to a gifted high school which had very successful fundraising campaigns. That allowed the school to hire extra teachers, lowering the class sizes to ~25. Meanwhile private schools have class sizes < 20. It makes a huge difference. When there are 32 kids in a class there is 0 individual attention.
are you assuming I'm talking about D:I? I'm talking about PoE. To the average "gamers", they're not getting addicted to the campaign because it's so god damned hard for the uninitiated. If you get past the campaign and you still want more, obviously you gotta pay for the game, like any other serious game. There's a hard cap on how spending money influences your gameplay (iirc around $40-50), so it's not fair to compare this practice to what D:I (and countless other mobile games) do
In my personal experience agitating for change in this space, it is precisely the same people who resist change in admissions criteria and who resist change in grants for equitable early development resources.

And in the example I listed for early GT admissions, there was no need for developing "underdeveloped" students. They were already developed. They just had systems that didn't enable them to get through the gate to the GT program.
Where I grew up in Texas, this was called the Robinhood Plan where rich districts sent money to poor ones:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood_plan
The property tax leading to funding differences is part of the puzzle, but not all of the puzzle. In my random neck of the world we have roughly 4 school districts.

1) Public school 1. Covers most of the black and brown students of the area.

2) Public school 2. Covers most of the lower to middle class white students of the area.

3) Public school 3. Covers most of the higher class white students, especially families of a local high ranking private college.

4) Various private schools.

Options 1-2-3 have pretty much open enrollment, you can send your kid to any of them even if they are out of district, it just means you need to drive them (they won't qualify for bussing service).

If you look at public school 1, 2, and 3 - they have near identical spending per pupil. yes property taxes differ a little, but at the end of the day they are spending the same $ per pupil. However the test scores are vastly different. Test scores highly corelate with the % of students receiving free lunch, a fairly accurate proxy for poverty. The more kids in poverty, the worse test scores.

But because of this, many high achieving students that have money, are sent to option 4. Since this is the best education, if you can choose anything - you do this.

The next bucket of high achieving but wanting to save money send their kids to public school 3. It's reguarded as a "very good" free education. But this means the best kids are pulled out of the disticts for schools 1 and 2.

Schools 1 and 2 mostly just the people who are "left" in the district, without the inclination or money to go to choise 3 or 4.
Ability does affect socioeconomic status, I’m not disputing that.

The question in a school context, though, is whether socioeconomic status for children determines ability.

As I stated in my original list, what I observed was that gifted classes were filled with children from high social status backgrounds. They certainly didn’t create the conditions for their socioeconomic status, their inherited it.
It's always so interesting to see people who have no concept of your stack/problem-space speak so confidently about what you must be doing wrong.

I don't know if you've just chosen to assume the worst or don't care enough to think about it for more than a second but I've been very clear in all my comments that these are developer-specific machines we are deploying to. It's literally no different from running VMs on your local machine. There is full visibility and feedback, we aren't deploying to Prod or even QA, this is development where each developer has 2 or more boxes owned by them and only them. We also are working with specific custom hardware that our code runs on which is one reason we can't easily do this locally.

To jump in and call that "worst practice" is just lazy and condescending. On top of that, it's completely wrong.
We can treat them the same: hold someone accountable when their project over-spends and under-delivers. Maybe even fire them. It would happen naturally in successful companies, but (at least in the US) there's often no accountability in government for setting money on fire.

https://pedestrianobservations.com/2021/08/07/why-its-import...
Not necessarily a universal recipe for avoiding this problem but public education standards, curricula, funding, etc tends to be more centralized at a national level in many countries. It's much more decentralized in the US with many more points of friction for competing interests.
How would ID laws stopped this?
This seems like a huge flaw, the idea that cities and law enforcement agencies are reporting their own crime statistics. There's an obvious conflict of interest, it seems like this should be done by a 3rd party. I know it's not that simple, but at least getting some neutral indication of the level of crime in a city would go a long ways.

Crime is visibly exploding, the police are only recording the most heinous/obvious incidents, and then we're told that crime is down.
Only if you have a budget for the blog or don't mind displaying random ads to your audience.
Well, take something like Google: considering its size and amount of money it invests into R&D, you'd expect it to generate more product and technological innovation than it has. It's a version of the resource curse: when you have so much money you don't know what to do with it all, there are no real competitive pressures and corporate politics and bureaucracy take over.

Schools need more funding, but less on faddish well-paid DEI officers who focus their time on axing algebra because it's too hard, and more on providing healthy school lunches, well ventilated and comfortable environments to work in, and a variety of classes tailored to students' individual needs.
FULLZ (a text file containing this information) sell for about $.99 per file/person on darknet markets, mostly to build up the seller's reputation.

There are 20,000,000 from just this one source and sellers seemingly randomly chose them. Thats just a lot of people. The buyer can use the same social security number for a different purpose than the last buyer.

Like, maybe the prior buyer wanted to try something easy like opening a credit card. The compromised person has a low but improving chance of noticing and locking their credit report, making their social security number useless(-ish) for credit card applications. The next buyer though may have never considered that and might just open a bank account with an online bank. You wouldn't know if a bank account has been opened in your name. And the account itself doesn't have to be used for anything flag worthy or that could frame you (I wanted to say "anything criminal" but obviously some laws are being violated even if the funds are clean).

On darknet markets, many people chose to skip laundering money, and just open bank and brokerage accounts in any developed nation under anyone's name. They just trade stocks and accumulate dollars. Eventually, whenever they want, they will laundering to cash out completely. But people can fly under the radar for a very long time, staying liquid, and not really doing any kind of consumptive spending from those accounts.

So the same social security numbers can be used many times, and there are also too many social security numbers for the level of interest in this, for now.
We started a company[0] to make it easy for developers to integrate ML models in their existing applications.

[0] https://ramanlabs.in
On the other hand, with a Raspberry Pi Pico board selling for $4 and the chip going for <$1 in bulk, I'm guessing that for small-scale manufacturing, going cheaper isn't worth the hassle? It depends what the market is.
Fans can certainly do the inverse with a mild evil and exaggerating it into a great good, I just don't think it is the case with Cuban's option for low price drugs. It is hard to follow the mental gymnastics that twist people getting a cheaper option to buy drugs into evil, even if it isn't perfect. The worst possible outcome is the drugs aren't cheap and people don't buy them. No harm, no foul.

Regarding Musk's loop and Boring company, I would also consider those a mild good. Hyped to high hell, but I don't see how that ever becomes bad.

What is awful about cheaper all electric tunneling rigs? If if meets some of the claims, then cool, if it doesn't, then it is neutral.

I am honestly curious why you think it is pretty awful?
It sounds like you're advocating for something like the SAFE Act:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2722

So, the Democrats are the racist right-wingers, and Mitch McConnell is the progressive in this story?

Note that, on their own, paper ballots don't actually address the attack described in the article, though the bill provides funding for mechanisms that would.
The problem, as always, is people.

You can't self-select to be evaluated. Your parents can advocate, but they ultimately don't decide either. Although I think they can turn down the evaluation, I'm unclear on that though.

The first hurdle is getting the teacher to not only recognize that the child may be gifted, but to make the recommendation to administration. Then it is administration who ultimately makes the call on whether or not to evaluate the kid.

And teachers are more likely to recommend white students than black students.

And this may not even be something they're consciously aware of doing. Because a lot of this is based on the teachers' perceptions of students. If you have a good rapport with a student, you're more likely to recommend them to be evaluated. If you are constantly butting heads with a kid, or if the kid is just quietly doing their work, you're not going to be inclined to recommend them. Regardless of how well they are doing in class.

I was not evaluated until partway through my freshman year of high school and the only reason I was was because the teacher who ran the Quiz Bowl team got everyone who made it on the team who wasn't already in the gifted program evaluated.

Otherwise, I probably would not have been evaluated at all.