skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I LOVE this.

Ironically having good tooling is the least important element in a successful incident response program (but it does help).

Motivated people and a good process far supersedes tooling. And yes so certainly see room for this. We are doing this already as part of our partnership model.

Part 1 is getting you setup and using Rootly. Part 2 is helping you successfully drive adoption now and 365 days onwards. We'll run workshops and AMAs with guest speakers on topics completely unrelated to Rootly when we are able to identify needs (we bare the cost). For example we did a session with a F500 organization on on-call compensation and another startup on communicating incidents to leadership.

The biggest mistake for a tool in this space is to think of this as only a PLG/SaaS based offering.
> or that one group has a more effective culture

> Generally, there is a lot of animosity within the black community toward ̶A̶s̶i̶a̶n̶ people who tend to believe any of the above

In my experience, there is much, much discourse within the black community regarding culture, and how it affects success.
That would work better if things were more continuous. Having gifted classes imposes several practical barriers:

- Resource constraints (e.g. can only afford to teach sixty students)

- "catching up"; entering an existing gifted class stream after missing the first few years

- You'd want to select early in the school year. Joining a gifted class in the last few weeks of the year is pointless

- Kids in gifted streams want or are pressured to remain there

Modifications of the current distribution outside of the source and those factors above can result in zero sum outcomes. It's rhetorically useful to wave this off but still a practical concern.
American Hustle is based on this operation FWIW.
This is a great point. I had thought a little about this but wasn't sure to what extent this code would have value with a different technical partner. Thank you!!

Agree on the lack of traction - I'm not convinced it's dead yet, but I recognize there will soon come a time when it is time to put this behind me, I'd just like to try a little harder before doing so.
> I'm not sure how many teachers enter the profession for the money to be honest

Few enter for money, but many leave because of it.
It is indeed the case that unions often fail their members. Democratic control does not guarantee success. But virtually zero employers actually care about employee interests.

I do not personally know why it appears to be so difficult to create small unions in the US.
This is what companies like Gitpod do, they are the devops team, and you just manage the dockerfile that determines what the dev environment looks like.
CircuitPython is a fork of MicroPython, and they periodically bring in commits from MicroPython to stay up to date.

One advantage of CircuitPython is that your board gets mounted as a volume like a USB drive, and you can just copy code.py onto it to install your program; it's just a more user-friendly experience. For comparison MicroPython only exposes a file system through a tool called rshell[1], that you need to use to copy code over. CircuitPython also seems to have a lot more libraries due to Adafruit's investment in this ecosystem, although I suspect that most of them could easily be adapted to work with both.

[1] https://github.com/dhylands/rshell
This is where I think things are kind to vary wildly between different regions and districts so we have to be specific make sure we are comparing apples to apples. A gift program like you describe “by name only” isn’t a gifted program at all, that doesn’t mean “real” ones don’t exist. It’s like saying the funding for baseballs is not producing any baseball players meanwhile they only use the baseballs for playing tennis.
It isn't just the flexibility that accounts for the differences in education. Time spent by parents, with children, on education helps account for test scores and grades. Lower income parents often have to work more hours to meet the basic needs and have a lower educational background to help their children with schoolwork.

A study showed that even having a home library would be beneficial to children in a myriad of ways, which isn't as feasible to a low income family who isn't rent stable.

https://www.jcfs.org/blog/importance-having-books-your-home#....
The study I linked (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23328584198724...) addresses this in table 1, page 8. Surprisingly, Black pupils get on average $10 less "infrastructure" expenditures, and $150 more "instructional" expenditures compared to White. The table breaks the spending down into 5 different categories, but in all of them, the differences are negligible. The $150 instructional expenditure difference is the largest.
Wedge politics. As old as time. Find an emotional issue to carve out a group of people. Then craft a statement that appeals to that group. It makes your campaign feel more personal to them. When you get elected, fail to implement anything you promised, and blame it on the other party.
> The overt denialists are easy villains, the monsters who look like monsters. But the rest of us, much of the time, wear pretty green masks over our self-interest and denial, and then go about our days. Then each morning we wake to a new headline like: “The planet is dying faster than we thought.”

Right in the gut
If you increase or decrease the pay of the teachers, I would expect to see an outcome on student educations over the long term.

For example, if District X pays better than neighboring district Z, District X will most likely have greater chance of hiring teachers in both districts, letting them choose the most qualified. Resulting in the school with higher salaries naturally getting more teacher candidates to choose from.

While some expenditures might not have a direct impact on student educations, they still have some effect. Another one would be - a school investing in a new Air conditioning and filtration system, students are probably going to have an easier time learning when they don't have to worry about being too hot or too cold in their classrooms.
This is closer to the core of the problem and honestly it goes even deeper. We very frequently look at poor outcomes when it comes to things like education and employment and then scream at schools or companies for not supporting equity. And not to let them all completely off the hook because they have absolutely been part of the problem, but the roots of this stuff go way deeper. Trying to find diverse candidates for knowledge jobs is made harder when there are fewer diverse candidates graduating from good colleges because fewer diverse students are getting into gifted programs because diverse children are raised in neighborhoods with fewer resources and on and on.

We still have so much culturally ingrained bias that we can't update policy to set the stage for even the next few generations to close these gaps. And it's compounded by the current generation being asked to pay an unreasonable price (ie disappearing gifted classes) to put a band-aid on this gunshot wound of a problem which breeds resentment which sets progress back even further.
Comrade I see you have formed some misinformations, please allow me to reeducate you. The pupil-with-non-intrinsically-greater-test-performance does not need increased schooling, as she already has too much. To increase equity and goodwill in our society, it is best for the student to receive less education.
That's basically what my high school did. Students had a lot of flexibility to choose the classes they wanted to take, and had a lot of leeway if they wanted to choose the advanced or standard version of a class. Combine this with a lot of optional classes, and students at my high school could tailor their class schedule to their own needs and wants.

I recognize that my experience was no means the norm. My high school was large, well funded, and had a lot of resources at its disposal. And even then, there were absolutely students that weren't served well by the school. But its overall a system that seems to work pretty well, and I think its a model that more schools look at.
Best of luck with Zed, Nathan! I've always been impressed with your brilliance, vision, hope, and positivity. Hope we can catch up again soon, until then keep changing the world for the better!
Education funding has very little to do with outcomes. Your peers and culture of their family matters most, which will also correlate with wealth/income levels.

But it's correlation, not causation.

There was a complete test case of this in NJ a few years ago where a poorly funded school got a huge amount of extra funding as a result of a lawsuit, and it made 0 statistical difference to outcomes years down the line. They did a study on it.
https://edlawcenter.org/litigation/abbott-v-burke/abbott-his...

If you're surrounded by people who care and aim to excel, you'll probably care. And vice versa.

In that sense, forced integration is an unethical but probably effective way of homogenizing educational results. I think Singapore actually forces some cultural integration like this with demographic requirements per neighborhood block/district.

New York somewhat achieves this incidentally via their "affordable housing" being attached to expensive unit buildings, but most wealthy new yorkers send to private, so doesn't fix the cultural balance in public system.
Thank you both...I can't explain how much I've learned in this time, completely agree, even with it seemingly going to 0, I am far ahead of where I would have been had I not chose to take this risk.
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Many of the higher end schools in the area here (Bay Area) require volunteer fundraising, bake sales, volunteer time contribution, etc. precisely because property taxes aren’t enough and they get less than the other schools.

And the parents do it because they can (they have the ability to get the time off), and because they know it’s important in many ways.
Are you using 32-core / 100GB RAM monster machine? I do everything on my rather powerful laptop, but Jetbrains IDEs are just too much. I can't have more than one project open at time, which is limiting. I didn't try CLion, only IntelliJ for Scala and Rider for C#/F#, all on smallish projects and it will still take 3-6GB of memory :|

I'd be interested in even lighter than VSCode IDE ;)
I'd do it if said platform was FOSS and self-hosted, but until then, I'm staying in fort localhost
I don't have time to do it now. But it would be great to incorporate this info into the related wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_funding_in_the_U...
This "private alpha", any hints on how we might jump aboard!? ;)

EDIT
Nvm, I see this is our best option for now:
https://zed.dev/waitlist
> inflicting misery

Is that what you suppose gifted programs do?
> Check out Numberblocks from the BBC

Heh, our daughter (who doesn't start school until September) knows all the Numberblocks and Alphablocks episodes...
The contradiction at the heart of the problem with cryptographically verifiable elections is that, if you make it possible for a voter to prove to others how they voted, you make it possible for their vote to be bought or coerced.

There are zero-knowledge cryptographic constructions that may theoretically allow you to prove things to a voter without allowing them to prove it to others. But doing this in practice with voters who aren’t cryptographers, and whose personal devices get hacked and stolen, has proved to be a difficult problem.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-philadelphia-judge-ele... linked from the article.
I only have one macbook built in display and I three-finger-swipe between desktops... Others in the office think that more displays = better worker for some reason
I think I read the focus this year is also live action tools / production tools, so lots of things coming that fit a professional environment.
They are probably polling the feed.
In our present economy? Yes.
philly school district schools are 14% white. the school district i went to in the philly burbs is 79% white.

philly school district is in a bad place financially. https://www.inquirer.com/news/pa-school-funding-trial-philad.... A district with more money will have more resources for gifted programs.

I imagine this has it's roots in the demographic and population shift the city has seen starting in the 50s. Philly's population in 1990 was 75% of what it was in the 50s. I'm not an expert in this area, but I'm sure there was overhead in maintaining infrastructure, paying pensions, etc as the population shrunk.

At this point, maybe the federal government should just bail out city school districts in this situation. Why should an underfunded school district be paying a chunk of its budget on debts?
I don't think I agree. 3 + 5 = 8 isn't something you need to literally memorize, but if you don't memorize such facts of basic arithmetic you're at a disadvantage when it comes to doing homework and tests. It's easier and less error-prone to memorize 8*7 than it is to work it out manually every time you see it until it sticks.

For what it's worth, I struggled with math in elementary school and especially high school -- I failed algebra I, then passed it with a D; then I failed algebra II before passing it* with a D. It wasn't until I was forced to take a business calculus class in my 20s that it started clicking, and I assure you the quality of instruction wasn't any better at the college level than it was in high school. (I did eventually graduate with honors with a math degree.)
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Getting out of doing the "boring busywork" is part of the advantage of being in the gifted class too though. Just doing both sets of work isn't a solution.
Really really knocking down these straw men one by one eh? Anyway, people do complain about Photoshopping, e.g. the psychological effects of digitally-generated beauty standards. No, photography isn't broken, but yes there is less trust in what a photograph is saying. No, this won't "break" video, whatever that means, but yes of course it will mean people will be less trusting of video.

No one said it'll destroy civilization, don't worry.
Yeah people don’t elect politicians, votes do.
none of these seem consistent with how the original article uses "entropy". The original article specifically mentions thermodynamic entropy in its strained analogy.
OP, I’m also a twenty something that moved from a fast paced start-up to a Behemoth.

It’s been 7 months so far and throughout the first 6 months, I have fought and resisted how BigCo operates—it left me tired and even more miserable. Within the last month however, I have stumbled across the same advice as has been given by the wise members above. This advice is invaluable, accept that within these organisations a lot is outside of your control. Rather, focus on projects, learning and hobbies outside of your work that bring you joy.

If your feelings remain unchanged within a couple of months to a year then consider making a change to another Co. Good or bad, these experiences are invaluable in helping us to decide on how we wish to pursue our careers.
Yes, a couple of times. Circa 1995, I had a B/W monitor and a color monitor on Sun SPARC IPC. Moving windows from one monitor to another didn't work. CRT monitors were too deep and used up all of my desk.

Had a 2 monitor set up around 2009 on Linux, didn't offer any benefits right then. My budget was limited so 2nd monitor was 2nd hand and small.

After writing this, I'm surprised that ability to move windows between monitors is important, as are desk scale ergonomics. Overall monitor volume seems important.
My point is that I don't see how constructive dismissal would ever come up in this scenario.

Either they will either quit voluntarily (stupid) or they will be terminated.

They haven't been terminated because they are still working until August at least. It sounds like they were given until Friday to sign a revised employment contract without remote work or the company will take action.

Constructive dismissal usually comes up for hourly workers that stop being scheduled but aren't fired. For a salary employee it is usually cut and dry, either the employer is sending you a check or they aren't.
I think minimal standards are a pretty good idea, for both mental and physical education. The attitude that all children should be able to reach these standards, and if they don't that's the fault of the educational system, also makes a lot of sense. What those standards should be is a matter for debate, but if we look around the world (China ahem) we might get some ideas about what the competitive level is currently.

To enforce this, you need to do two things: fire underperforming teachers, and their administrative overseers if the problem is pervasive, and pay teachers competitive salaries to attract the best talent to the job. Teaching is a skill, and highly skilled people should be well-compensated for their work. This is just labor market 101. If you don't value education, you pay low salaries to educators and you scrape the bottom of the talent barrel. If you do value education, then you make the job competitive by offering high salaries and eliminating underperformers.

Of course, maybe the politicians and bureaucrats and corporate executives don't actually want a highly educated competent population? Perhaps they'd prefer dumb sheep who believe whatever propaganda they're fed and whose consumption habits can be easily directed by skilled advertisers and marketers. Herds of compliant consumers who do as they're told, that's perhaps what elite leadership is after. Might be a conspiracy theory but there's some truth to it I think.

What it really looks like is one set of schools for the aristocrats, and another set of schools for the serfs, and it's more about maintaining a certain class structure, just as in late 19th / early 20th century British schooling systems.
I grew up as a dirt poor immigrant. The only reason I got into MIT, and am successful today, was because of the gifted programs that allowed me to stand out from the other mediocre students at the schools.

Were most of my gifted classmates wealthy? Yes. But being among them did more for my social mobility than anything else the school ever did.
Fair point. The way I see it - if you think about beauty, you must already have accomplished everything else. Otherwise yes, beauty for the sake of it is useless.

Say I have a knife - of course I want it first and foremost to be a "good" knife (again, "good" between quotes, because that is also subjective). But for a good knife that I'll have around for many years I want it to be also beautiful. I would not want a good knife with an ugly plastic handle. But of course, like you say, I would also not want a beautifully carved knife that is unusable.

This Umbrel thing we are discussing here - I happen to love it, and I've been using it constantly for more than half a year. I looked at the competition as well, and guess what - the alternatives with ugly UIs have a terrible architecture behind the scenes. Take RaspiBlitz for example, the most beloved competitor of Umbrel - I went through the source code trying to understand how it works and I was horrified. All just files full of magic commands placed in magic locations. Good luck trying to deploy an app you create on RaspiBlitz! Sure you can, but it's not "nice". Umbrel on the other hand has a clean architecture and a short tutorial on how to make any app run on it - dockerize it, create a yaml to describe it, BAM!

Never tried the Start9 Embassy, but I think it's at least equally good, and maybe a little bit less beautiful. I'll try it anyway. But I don't see myself trying the outright ugly alternatives.

I guess somebody that tries to make something beautiful also tends to find beautiful solutions to otherwise mundane problems.
Is it caled Zed because it is inspired by the old Zed text editor? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/spe.43801001...
American infrastructure uses SSNs as a form of authentication for sensitive things like bank accounts, medical records, loan applications, housing applications, etc. With a SSN, it is much easier to steal someone's identity.
Ah makes sense then. I remember seeing stuff like 3x+2=11 around the 4th grade, but definitely no quadratics or graphing functions until much later. Maybe the order the information is presented is just different and it doesn’t make sense to compare.
Just a funny observation. If you want to get 100 replies to something on HN, just start your post in good faith with: "I don't understand".
> a tax break (even if it is only a few cents per resident) is a better use than some programs

Very likely so, but which programs exactly? (Are you uniquely well-qualified to make that determination? If not, who is, and how can we know that?)
> if you call the police and tell them someone broke into your house and is holding you at gunpoint, the police will come and deal with the situation.

Very likely, the cops would declare that a "hostage situation" and wait outside instead of coming in to save you.
I've been thinking a lot about running this using no-code and/or simple Google tools...thanks for mentioning that, and the avoidance of the co-founder conflict is probably the most echoed advice in this chain, so I will keep that in mind as I handle this.
AA took it upon themselves to identify the guy and made a false accusation against him. They also have deep pockets. They're likely both the easy and big-paying target. If I was suing everyone, I'd get the big payout first and then sue everyone else using that payout to fund the lawyers.
Please state requirements before elements of a solution.

The secret ballot, also known as the Australian ballot, is a voting method in which a voter's identity in an election or a referendum is anonymous. This forestalls attempts to influence the voter by intimidation, blackmailing, and potential vote buying. This system is one means of achieving the goal of political privacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_ballot
It doesn't seem well enough written to be a plant. It reads like a middle school term paper or an AI assembled clickbait article.
>Even changing the outcome of a Presidential election doesn't require any kind of sweeping, nationwide fraud campaign. Just enough well-placed ones where the vote will be close enough that the fraud doesn't have to be too large.

This only looks true when viewed retroactively. It would have taken roughly 80k votes to switch the 2016 election from Trump to Clinton. However people had no idea of that beforehand. That 80k vote number accomplishes the goal only if one knows exactly where to place them. Someone would need to add hundreds of thousands if not millions of votes across numerous battleground states in order to be convinced that their changes would have the desired impact. That certainly sounds like a "sweeping, nationwide fraud campaign".
That's an odd headline because in California it's really Democrats sending a message on crime. Boudin in theory had some good ideas, in practice he was a joke.
This so much. I'm not fan of electron apps, but it's 1000x better to accept the chromium memory usage than a Windows VM memory usage. And I think that sharing the code between web and desktop also gives us very usable web apps (at least in case of Slack).
Because SSN are the main way that banks and credit agencies use to identify people (which is not at all what they were intended for originally).

If you know somebody else's SSN plus a couple of semi public details (name, date of birth, address), you can go to a bank and borrow money under their name.