skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gifted programs track students, accidental or not, based on prerequisites. If the circumstances required to allow a student to excel at study are not met, it doesn't matter what they look like or what their economic status is.

Among the prerequisites for excelling at study are a stable home life and parents (or guardians) that value education. If the kids don't have that, they aren't going to do well.

Historically, at least in the United States, one of the means of selecting for "parents who value education" was those parents scraping everything they had to move to a school district that provided a better education.

In other countries, this was sometimes achieved by scoring students into tiered schools. The higher your score, the better the school you got to go to. High-achieving students landed in a peer group of like-minded students that were fellow high-achievers and school was difficult.

Granted, that last solution was more typical of Asian education than Western education, and in some parts of Asia (China, for example) they have slipped into the location-based schooling to worse results.

Aiming for equity with the assumption that we just need to teach harder is foolish. Aiming for equity in the form of outcomes is equally foolish, because again, various outcomes have various hard prerequisites that, if missing, no amount of effort can overcome.

Solving for the prerequisites, not by attempting to ignore them, but by finding ways to help supply them can be far more productive in the long run. But it really starts with the values of the parents.
I thought that they were simultaneously suggesting that funding be increased in a concrete and not easily reverse way. But I do see your point
I'm wondering how viable a for-profit electron replacement (with native support) would be? Like Unity (similar business model), but exclusively thought for apps.
“Microscope” – A Lost Poem by Louis Ginsberg (2013) [pdf]
Related: itcan be challenging to strike the right balance between efficiency at one pole and flexibility (/agility/resilience) at the other.
Astrobe, PTC, Aicas and microEJ disagree on that front.

https://www.astrobe.com/

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/perc

https://www.aicas.com/wp/products-services/jamaicavm/

https://www.microej.com/

Also I should note that many embedded computers in 2022 are supercomputers when compared to the 1961 IBM mainframes running Lisp.
That's because aesthetic value is intertwined with the value coming from "it's valuable". If aesthetic value dominated, fake gold would be much closer in price than it actually is.

The value of gold being embedded in society is similar to the value a dollar bill derives from being embedded in society. It's valued because it's valuable, which really means it's a reflection of values coming from other sources, and not something on its own.
Just merge with Typescript already and reduce the complexity of the ecosystem. If someone does not want types they can just ‘any’ everything.
This is a fair point!

The exact same argument applies to normal exceptions and errors. It might be the case that out of quadrillions of queries a day, just none of them hit the error path, and hence we won't observe any issues.

I can see that in this case, if it matters or not becomes somewhat subjective. It's a good point though!
Ok, but you're adding a bunch of rules and some people are just out looking for ways to use their willingness to break rules as a competitive advantage.
> Your friends may be for election integrity, but the people they're voting for most certainly are not.

I mean they have a name for these people: RINOs. I think I read an article that showed that most conservatives distrust their own politicians more than liberals distrust theirs. The feeling I get is that they have a clear idea of a politician they want, but no one who believes that runs, and they feel there is a mass conspiracy to prevent people like them from running -- namely funding. That sort of thing doesn't bode well for a country's stability.
> Yet so many supposedly intelligent managers use such approaches...

Yet so many supposedly intelligent engineers work for such managers...
Why an Australian with clear tourist travel plans would attempt to fly into the US through a legitimate port of entry with the intention to illegally immigrate is beyond me.

Wages are lower, healthcare is stupidly expensive, far fewer workers protections, Australia has significantly decreasing rates of religiosity whilst the US seems to be in your face with the Jesus, school shootings, and the list goes on and on.

This kid had family and work back home.

Rules are rules though.
> In a simulation of a brain, from what substrate could consciousness emerge?

Exactly the same substrate as our brains are derived from: physical particles and their interactions, perfectly replicated inside the simulation. If the simulation is accurate enough, the real particles and the simulated particles behave exactly the same, hence they produce the same results.

> Do you think consciousness could emerge automatically from the state of the right subset of locations in RAM

Hard question to answer since consciousness is hard to analyse. But we can turn it around into a question whose answer is the same, with a bit of rephrasing:

Do you think consciousness could emerge automatically from the state of the right subset of particles in our physical world, or is it whenever a relevant particle state are changed due to particles interacting according to the laws of physics, etc etc

> Consider also that physical reality runs in full parallel,

We don't really know this to be the case. It looks like that to us, but that could easily be an illusion created by mechanisms we can't observe. Just as characters in a video game can't observe how their world is simulated - everything is perfectly consistent whether it was calculated in one CPU thread or several.
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What if the API she wants to call doesn't have a form based version?

Suddenly she needs to change stuff on both backend and frontend, and she might only be allowed to touch one of those ends.
300k rows but who knows how many columns.
This is the part I find fascinating:

> On Tuesday, the district announced all final exams for high schools students were canceled in light of the ransomware attack. There are no plans to reschedule them.

> Corliss said the decision was made “primarily because we didn’t think it was fair to the students.”

> Students cannot access Google Classroom, Genesis, email or similar services.

While I don't know for sure, I suspect this decision has more to do with maintaining closer to a normal workload for faculty, staff, and administration than being fair to students (save for any promises of an open-book exam where the "book" is now unavailable). There ought to be some kind of offline backup plan that teachers can readily execute without excessive burden though, like photocopying some old exams out of a filing cabinet or something.
> The sunsetting of IE11 and the rise of evergreen browsers that implement the latest JavaScript standard means that developers can once again run standard JavaScript code without transpilation.

This is a wrong assumption. There are lot of smartphones that do not get updates and have browsers that can be several years old.

Therefore transpiling and polyfills are not going away anywhere soon.

Of course, supporting different browsers can insignificantly increase development costs. It might be impractical to try to support Internet Explorer 7. A safe and reasonable choice would be to make sure that site looks and works perfectly in any browser released 5 years ago and is usable in a 10-year old browsers.

Obviously there are cases when this rule can be amended, for example, if you are making a game requiring a fast GPU and a mouse, then you can ignore smartphones and old browsers. But for a general website, like a corporate website, an online store, a social network, this seems like a sane default choice. You can extend support to 12-15 years old browsers if you feel confident in your skills.
Why is there no geek or nerd subculture represented?
im guessing a very loyal employee to an enterprise company outside of tech - probably logistics
>For example in '2000 Mules' they propose that democratically aligned charities like homeless shelters and elder care homes would gather ballots from their vulnerable populations, fill them out for their preferred candidates, and then have mules distribute those ballots to publicly accessible ballot boxes 3 to 5 at a time.

In order for this to actually work, the nefarious operatives would need to forge people's signatures on those mail ballots. Otherwise, they'll fail the signature match at the elections returns center and the ballot will get tossed. Here's a good rundown of how that works, at least in California [1]. Do you have reason to believe that the signature check doesn't work?

Stepping back, rigging elections by stuffing mail ballots makes zero sense from a cost/benefit perspective. It requires massive amounts of effort to coordinate all those people so the plan proceeds undetected. A rational attacker would be better off taking an opposite approach: throwing away opponents' mail ballots. That requires far less effort. I'm skeptical of these mail ballot stuffing claims because it's an overly complex Rube-Goldberg-machine of a plot.

Other than throwing away opponents' mail ballots, is there a viable attack that could actually work?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YJyQbckMDw
> almost certainly occurred

Citation, please.
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One of the benefits is that the checking is handled by CUE, so every program does not have to do validation checks like regexp matching, int bounds, required keys, default values, transforms...

Also, imports and dependency management for config will be big
Thanks for expanding that, it reads like it's some Airflow competitor. Would be curious how it handles all the authentication management for the various pipeline elements.
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You should expect some number of dead people to have voted in every election, totally aboveboard. There's always going to be someone who dies in a car accident on the way back from the polling place. Add early or by-mail voting and the attendant micromorts from a bigger gap between votes being cast and being counted, and you'll see more dead people having cast votes.

Older people are much more likely to vote and much more likely to die.

I'm aware that votes cast in the name of the long-deceased has been used for fraud in the past. But some of number of votes cast by dead people should be expected! Just way below the number needed to influence elections.
Excel doesn't provide tools for unit testing and such. Most of the people who use Excel have no idea that methodologies like that exist.
Less parking improves density which can improve many other things, as well.

It doesn't even have to be much less, just no longer require it and it starts to solve itself.
Mutual aid.

Consensus decision making.

Love.

Hacky sack

Music.

Good sex.

Really?
Yeah; knowing about the HTML form tag apparently qualifies you as a senior web dev.
What are you quoting? I can't find the phrase "AAMR" in the article at all. Nor "Black Americans."
Because that's the point of collecting. You do not purchase the material, but the history of the item. I say this as a book collector of first edition (among other stuff): I understand second printing may be identical to the first printing (or even better in some quality aspects), but the thrill of buying something that has history is what makes interesting.
Your ideology allows you to lie and cheat because you know that outcome is what's best
Calling it now, there will be a flame war over type systems
I vote but I don’t vote in every single election that I can due to other obligations.

Their fraud used the voter information of real people who they expect to simply not come to the polling station. It’s hard to catch. If you notice double voting from when the person actually votes then they simply throw out both votes (legitimate and illegitimate).

This seems like a tactic that would work well in a place like the USA which has low voter turn out.
Definitely. That's where the conversation needs to shift. Those are the kinds of questions we should be debating on a case by case or inductive basis, not these asinine and useless popularity contests.
Apple is turning your iPhone into fintech service
DoD?
Apparently they plan to release on steam in August.
That's because of the two political parties, one is by far more prone to ratfucking. The authors are saying "get the ratfucking out of health care".
How about a poor white kid? My family certainly could not afford rackets so we never had an interest in the game.
> Interesting - a similar California law was recently struck down

Notably, it was struck down by a California court as violating the California constitution.

> under what authority does the EU meddle in business like this?

According to https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_... the policy represents an agreement among the European Commission, European Council, and European Parliament, with the latter two still requiring a formal vote. And the EU mandate will actually be on member countries to pass enacting legislation within their jurisdiction.

Prudent policy or not, I don't think there's any way to spin this as an EU end-run around the democratic process or member state sovereignty.

And I don't think this policy applies to foreign corporations, only to companies incorporated in a member jurisdiction. (But I haven't read anything specifically mentioning the scope.)
The content on the cassettes is random recording noise and not a playable game.

The content on the disks are cracked copies that contain missing or modified data and are not the original game.
So. Many. Words.
So is this just it? Do we get another year of this great sounding but soon to be disproven/softened and then downplayed hype every year for the rest of time?

That's almost worse to me than the e-waste.
Regular expressions were invented to model neurons (predating gradient descent) by Kleene of the Kleene star.

C.f. "Representation of Events in Nerve Nets and Finite Automata"

Before backpropagation was a glimmer in LeCun's eyes.
Well, if we were talking about century old paintings or art pieces I might understand, but 20-30 year old video games.......

It's just not the same.
You should see the rest of the country, there’s even fewer bikes in most places.

But downtown doesn’t need bikes. There’s amble public transit and everything is close by. Most people I know who bike use it for longer distances, eg the base of Bernal Heights to downtown via mission+market. Or going from Caltrain to sunset.
no, they closed the gifted programs in the urban school system I attended, at that time, right after Music Education. The emphasis went to "no child left behind" whatever that is, sports programs, armed guards (yes), and at high school, loans and grants for college admission. Advanced placement ? most gifted kids and almost every single girl from my neighborhood, disappeared in a blink at grade 8.
That's because you most likely work in tech and not local government where the salaries are much lower
"Hop initially (late 2019) started as a fork of the Kettle (Pentaho Data Integration)."
I will try to rephrase the argument.

A tulip might not make it to next year per se. I meant a "tulip" as in a value token with little value other than scarcity and speculation.

The USD's purchasing power is bound to go down; there was an 8% increase in M2 supply in the past year, and velocity is constant.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V

As such, if a token has relatively constant supply and demand, its price should go up with the money supply.

The problem is, I agree, that the demand is far from constant. But if you hold them so that their price is not correlated among each other, it might get smoother.

Ray Dalio uses gold and a commodities index in his All-Weather portfolio, in case of inflation.

http://www.lazyportfolioetf.com/allocation/ray-dalio-all-wea...
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> It seems pretty clear to me that in the video games industry (and pretty much any 'art' industry for that matter) great results are driven by singular, great people.

I can assure you from working inside said industry that this is not often the case, if ever.

Edit to add: great results are driven by great teams.
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I tried to use VS Code but just couldn't stand it. I don't want to say it's sluggish but it definitely isn't snappy, not even with a M1 laptop. It's fine, but it isn't good.

I ended up purchasing the upgrade to Sublime 4, definitely worth the price.
> Lightning cables don't last.

This has absolutely zero to do with the plug design of Lightning. There are crap cables for USB-A, USB-C, USB Micro, 3.5" audio, and any other standard you want to find that don't last.

> And that's not even considering how a little bit of dust can prevent your device from charging at all, and lightning ports are a complete dust magnet.

By what magic do you believe that lightning ports collect pocket lint that USB-C is immune to?

> But the best argument against "what about lightning?" is the fact that Apple themselves don't use it on their higher powered devices like macs, and use USB-C instead.

Nobody is making this point. They're saying the sheer existence of the Lightning plug lit a fire under the USB-IF to finish and greenlight USB-C. If Apple hadn't started producing Lightning devices, it's entirely possible we'd still be dealing with USB Micro.

That said, I'll happily die on the hill that the Lightning plug design is almost unilaterally superior to the USB-C plug design.
Ah okay then I can understand. If the product is intentionally broken then it's fraud.
Similar experience in terms of timeline on similar AMD-powered products.

Though here’s the interesting tidbit I can provide: Before placing either of my orders, I actually called (on ye olde
telephone) business sales, knowing that the ship dates were impossible.

Business sales agrees. They’re very upfront about it when asked. They set expectations with me of more realistic ship dates they actually were correct on (though yes, they were quite far out). Additionally I actually was able to successfully request if any additional discounts available, and they found meaningful ones for me (7% and 11%).

———————

So props to the salespeople reachable by telephone based in the US, but I 110% agree with the article. The HP.com and email experience is terrible at best and sets nothing but false expectations.

Shame, because I agree that they make the best x86 1L form factors in the business, hands down. Utterly fantastic, powerful, power-sipping mini-servers if you need x86 hardware.
Gold is even used in medicine since ancient times. Look up Swarna Bhasma, used in Ayurveda for several ailments. A more general article on bhasma: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3960793/
The minimum parking space requirement is what existing residents, who rely upon on-street parking, ask so they are not negatively impacted by dense housing proposals. This is especially true in areas where it's still near impossible to operate without a car. There is a mitigating factor of these larger housing units: mixed zoning with commercial space on the ground floor helps reduce the need for a cars in the first place.

Some guidelines assume two working adults per unit, each with their own car. However, we're finding less spots are needed. With local commercial development, one car per unit is turning out to be more the norm for some areas and even less with greater density, since public transit is often better. Having satellite parking /w shuttle might also be a solution for those who only "need" a car for weekend travel.
> With that invitation, or passport or ID

Well you see, having to show ID to vote is considered racist in the US. It’s OK if you didn’t know that, lots of people from other countries are dumbfounded to learn that all you have to do in the US is show up and give the poll workers the name of a registered voter in order to vote.*

* Well, in some states you have to show ID. But one political party in particular fights very hard against this requirement.
how is it not as simple as the turnable wheel at the front of the direction of travel counteracts tipping, stabilizing the upright-ish position?
Adding (even a simplified version of) the Typescript typesystem to the Javascript spec is probably a bad idea. It's all the weird little complexities of Typescript that make it flexible enough to add types to most JS code.

Javascript as an untyped build target is fine. I'm opposed to adding (ignored) type hints to Javascript because they'd just end up rebuilding Typescript, but done poorly.
That's a pretty accusatory comment for someone preaching listening!
I fondly remember being introduced to this library as part of the first project I worked on at my first development job. I was lucky there it was the right challenge at the right time.
Hills aren't the problem. Urban sprawl is, and so are irregular road grids with uniform density everywhere.

SF is compact, and has a few main drags where it makes sense to have trollies / bus lines. It also has a well-defined city center, so a hub and spoke transit system mostly works there.

In contrast, public transit doesn't even really make sense in South Bay. It was (mostly) laid out when public transit was common, but now there are multiple mini-downtown areas without train service, and many of the tracks have been ripped out.
I think the author's got a kernel of an idea and does an absolutely horrible job outlining it, considering few here seem to be catching on.

Localhost will likely never die for certain sectors of programming. There's a significant chunk of stuff that doesn't need to be custom localhost setups, though - and ultimately it can smooth out the differences between dev/production in teams where this is a stumbling block.

You don't need localhost to be some server somewhere that kills your ability to work with an outage - stuff like StackBlitz (https://stackblitz.com) effectively uses WebAssembly to run e.g Node directly in the browser sandbox. This model is the first one that makes me think it's possible. You no longer have that dangling issue of "which of my NPM packages is going to try and steal from me" since it's walled off in a sandboxed environment that spins up faster than you can blink.

The caveat to all of this is that we should fundamentally never let localhost die, as ceding total control to services to build on is a pretty bleak future. There's a good middle ground to find here though.

A final aside: an article telling me I'm wrong for wanting to code while flying is a junk take.
I really wonder how many of these one can make and sell and is it really worth all the effort to go thorough the whole thing? At least from time and resources spend.

Probably, still seems like quite a bit of work to get even this level.