skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without passing judgement on the merits of this one way or the other, I think anything that has a 10+ year deadline is virtually meaningless. It's not in the power of the government that passed this to see it through.
Sure but the issues faced here in New York are not unique, just particularly visible due to the size. The systemically racist systems exist everywhere and I would be willing to bet money that in the majority of districts and regions where gifted programs exist will have absurdly low percentages of brown and black students. And again, that is not because brown and black students aren't as smart. The systems of this country deals them a bad hand before they even know they're playing the game in the first place.
Does 3D motion blur look better? The standard of realistic motion blur is probably real cameras, no? Real cameras don't need to guess the motion it's just an afterimage in a particular frame while the shutter is open.
> It felt scummy how MS had swooped in and tried to hijack this new category of editor that GitHub had invented

Wasn't brackets and atom released pretty much at the same time, both built on CEF?
Years ago I remember a Freakonomics podcast episode that delved into the hostility public and private policy makers had to running experiments. It mainly comes down to not wanting to bear the downside risk of an experiment having unfavorable or economically useless results. While if they just don’t know and no else does there is no consequence for doing the status quo even if the results are poor.
Hmm, not entirely sure if those terms fit exactly. It's easier to point out you can go from one to the other by setting to hamiltonian to the negative logarithm of the probability density (or use the Boltzmann distribution to go the other way).
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I cannot watch any sort of cop show or Law & Order for this exact reason. It's a bunch of glorification of the government infringing on people's rights and normalizing it as some sort of reality of how the justice system should work. I wish there would be a version of law and order where no one ever talks to them without a lawyer present and they constantly get frustrated with their lack of progress despite their best efforts to circumvent the legal process.
Probably both ways. Some kids backslide with academics at that age, others seem to gain traction. I didn't mention it but have considered that part of the reason that things became easier for me in the 8th grade is that I was starting to get the mental maturity to think more abstractly and deliberately.
There are plenty of students (more than some) in non-gifted classes who genuinely want to learn and work hard.

But there are two issues that make those classes terrible:

1) Teachers dedicate 80% of their instructional time to the 20% worst performers, and every incentive pushes them in that direction.

2) More than that, it only takes one or two kids with behavioral issues to reduce teachers' instructional time from near 100% to near 0%, and there's no way to move them out of regular classrooms to classrooms focused on their needs. So if you're a regular student in a cohort with a couple students with behavioral issues, you're pretty much screwed.
I expected this with the Microsoft takeover. Most "extraneous" non-profitable activities and projects will be killed off. Also MS produces VS which is a successor in a sense to Atom.
Metro 2033 author put on Russian 'wanted' list for condemning Ukraine Invasion
Simulated annealing comes to mind.
This is the problem - those who can code usually end up learning DF "well enough" and many of those who complain about the UI wouldn't even play it with another UI. I personally never really found the UI that big of a hindrance; it's like learning Lotus 1-2-3 shortcuts.

This "sell it on steam with a GUI" is actually brilliant, because lots of people will buy it and some will play - but it gives those who like the idea but don't actually want to play an excuse to give Tarn money.
"the evangelical churches were particularly involved"

In absolute numbers for sure, because traditionally (since the 30 year war), the east of germany is mainly protestantic. In my home town there are around 10 evangelical churches and only 1 katholic. But they were quite active, as far as I can tell.
And I have not read much about it, but got the stories firsthand.
Top Microsoft exec resigns after being accused of fondling women at work
I was told that Vonnegut wrote "Harrison Bergeron" as a satire of the fears that the right had of equality, not as a satire of the left's possible execution of it. And yet here we are, firmly in "1984 was not supposed to be a how-to manual, people!" territory.

Of course, the shell game has continued. Recall how often you used to hear about equality and not equity, and yet somehow those goalposts have shifted in the last five years. Equity has somehow come to mean that you'll get "your share" of the pie even if you haven't contributed, or despite being completely untalented.

We should sort (not segregate, never that) students by race (self-reported, of course), and then grade such that only a certain percentage in each bucket get As, a few more get Bs, and so on. This ensures a perfect equity balance. If we do this for each grade and each subject within a grade, well, we ought to have very equitable outcomes. Diana Moon Glampers will shotgun down the grades of the Asian "Schroedinger's Minority" group to be in line with everyone else's.

Can't imagine that this won't work out.
It's not easy, but victims of identity theft can request a new SSN.

https://faq.ssa.gov/en-us/Topic/article/KA-02220

As a practical matter, the best approach for most consumers is to freeze all of your credit reports. That way if an identity thief gets your SSN, at least they can't apply for loans in your name.
And, as is often the case, there's a very loose relationship in Massachusetts between per-student spend and educational outcomes as measured by tests. It's common for urban districts in particular to have high spend and generally poor outcomes.
But study results are only published if the study is done, and the study is often only done if it gets institutional approval for the proposal.
Yes, I did. I used to have 3 monitors: the laptop on the left, 27" horizontal in the center, and 27" vertical on the right side.

I switched to a single 4K 43" monitor (Dell U4320Q). I consider it the best thing I've ever bought. Paired with a window organizer (Moon) and virtual desktops, it is a very flexible setup, and also simple (no more dragging windows across monitors, no more dealing with window reshuffling when unplugging the laptop).
Consider yourself lucky.

Even worse, imagine being a child growing up in that environment. Actual fistfights were happening every few hours in school where I grew up.
I thought a system like m-TAGS would be a nice way forward, as to seperate the audio file and ID3 tag into two files. http://www.m-tags.org/

It'd mean that the tagging standard could change but the audio file would remain the same as long as you don't modify it for whatever reason.
See that's the thing, I don't see how it can ever be safer than all but the least competent human drivers.

I have yet to see an autonomous vehicle that could cope with anything other than a completely unobstructed road with everyone behaving themselves, and I can't see a way for autonomous vehicles to progress beyond that.

If you don't think taxis are available 24/7, you haven't met anyone that drives a taxi. Someone is always up and about.
Probably not the norm...but there are plenty of examples of people willing to cheat the system...

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/06/0...
The dirty secret of education is that no school outperform nor underperform much other schools when adjusting for differences in student populations :

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/why-selection-bias-is-t...
There are a few good reasons it's useful to reference things:

1) To keep yourself separate from ideas. If they are yours, they are harder to change. Paul Graham spoke about a similar idea in an essay about keeping your identity small.

2) It helps remember them, and create a system you can iterate through. Like, "are there any ideas from economics which are helpful here?" and so on. This is an idea from Charlie Munger.

3) It lets you avoid sounding like a fraud. If I say "I have this idea that you need to practice for 10,000 hours to get good at things", or "I came up with a theory that the force applied divided by the mass will give me the acceleration", I sound like a fraud. To function in society you need people to not think you are a fraud.
A single school in a rich district may have more funding than five or six entire districts in other parts of the city.
I work for a big US corporation.
Every job or project is slow to get approved and staffed, and often of little importance.
They pay me well and as far as I understand, the company does not fire people and is unlikely to lay people/departments off without at least a few months' notice.

The first 18 months were tough. I came from one of the best tech companies in the world, one of those included in the famous acronym and starts with A and is based in Seattle, and I got quickly frustrated in my new job with the slowness, the incompetence, the politics. And people didn't listen to any of my ideas, how rude!

They would tell me, "yes, good idea," "of course we'll do it," only to realize that no one thought it was a good idea, if they even listened to what I was saying, and no one was working to get anything done.

Then I understood the situation and calmed down. This is the way things work here, I told myself, and nothing I do is going to change anything in such a large company.

Now, some, maybe many among the HN crowd would tell me to move to another job, to find a place in which my ideas, assuming they make sense, are respected, properly valued, where promotions don't happen mysteriously but they reflect the value that the individual is bringing and will bring to the organization.

But why?

Why should I give up on a life that allows me to work little, take plenty of official and unofficial vacations, explore avenues of creativity like writing, painting, and cooking, build up my body by working out at the gym and tan properly by laying in the sun?

Why would I want to work again for a demanding machine in which I am a cog like 95 percent of my stressed, overworked and largely unhappy colleagues?

Why would I want to spend the time I can now devote to reading fiction in the summer sun, listening to great classical music while cooking, preparing instead for interviews that would put me in front of people who, at my advanced age, want to find a reason not to hire me because I am not as smart as they think, wildly overestimating their quality, that they are?

A reasonable question is: well, when this idyllic situation will change, because nothing convenient is forever, what are you gonna do?
I guess, if I need, I will start working "seriously" again. But not today, today I am reading a collection of short stories written by one of my favorite Japanese authors.
I guess it's a matter of weighing the potential upside of selling you on more Apple products versus the downside of making Macs and iPhones less functional (w.r.t. interoperability with other devices).
I'm not sure if I agree with the premise that the gifted students keep all the resources to themselves. If anything they should require less mentoring, less discipling and their parents should be more likely to be involved financially and in PTA.
With Vim at least, and I think Emacs as well (although I don't use it), it seems like they have greater focus on providing the embedded scripting language, than deciding what to expose to the user via an API. In Vim's case at least, this seems to have resulted in multiple third party API-like projects (for things like installing plugins, linters, etc). It isn't clear to me the extent to which this is an artifact of the way the editor is structured, or to what extent it is just a result of having had time for these types of third party projects to grow.

There are pros and cons of course -- these weird shims can be troubling from a performance point of view, but on the other hand a plugin environment can grow, reach popularity, and then fall apart, and not take Vim down with them.
Keep in mind, this was a year ago, before the average plumber charged $500 / hour
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It might fit your style to combine pinned tabs with a tab group extension. The groups are named and you can switch to them with a shortcut and pinned tabs are obviously visible everywhere.

EDIT: I am using the Simple Tab Groups extension on Firefox.
Coincidentally, the first thing ever bought with Bitcoin was also a pizza.

https://www.yahoo.com/video/bitcoin-pizza-day-sees-first-112...
You can have electronic voting machines print a paper record which can be counted in case of issues.
My experience suggests that "when more people qualify for gifted programs than can fit in the program, consider slightly raising the qualification level, so you get exactly the class size you're targeting and no one who qualifies was excluded" is the likely path to be chosen.
Ask HN: Looking for Contributors?
Like the Who's Hiring thread, is anyone looking for open source contributors to their project?

Someone to take over as maintainer?

Small project looking to take off?
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How do you define "harm"? If you shoot me in the head that's pretty clearly harmful. But what if you cut ahead of me in a queue, or let your dog poop on my lawn, or drive an unmuffled car when I'm trying to sleep, or dump just a tiny amount of lead into my drinking water?
It's confusing that Excel supports relational database operations at all. If you want to query the data in Excel it should seamlessly push you into Access rather than partially recreating the same functions.
The general issue with merit-based systems is the definition of merit. In practice there are strong cultural aspects to it, favoring characteristics the dominant group likes. So merit-based programs end up conferring the most advantages to those best conforming to the ideals of the dominant culture, strengthening the dominant culture.

It's debatable (at least) whether that's a good thing... if you consider the dominant culture racist (or bad in some other way) then it's natural to consider the merit-based programs that support that culture a form a systemic racism.
> are the teachers bad teachers, and more pay will recruit better teachers?

Quality of the teachers aside, there are insufficient teachers. The number of teachers required to effectively teach K-12 would benefit from increasing between 50-75% of current levels before reaching diminishing returns according to test studies. So more pay will recruit more teachers, which, makes them better.

Since you wanted to compare us to other countries, the US has the worst average classroom size in the western world. A decade ago we were closer to the middle of the pack. And it was the US classroom size that primarily changed, not a sudden drive in other countries.

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

Beyond that, you should concern yourself with things like asbestos in the walls.

Certainly, a lot of US schools use trailers. Those are noisier and have less comfortable temperatures, require going outside to change classes, etc. Half of the classrooms in some areas are trailers. Moving those to a real building seems obviously better.

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

What about chem labs, frogs to dissect, computers to program, etc? Not everyone is a kindergartner. But a surprising number of schoolchildren have trouble with internet access, which I would argue is a basic requirement for education.

Further, the number of teachers required to spend their meager salaries on classroom supplies and the number of different nonprofits that popup if you search for "donate school supplies" indicates that even at a base level they lack educational material.
> I cannot take an argument that switches are harder to use than checkboxes, for example, in good faith.

In good faith, what does that even mean?

As explained in the article, using switches rather than checkboxes is actually against Apple's own Human Interface Guidelines: "Avoid using a switch to control a single detail or a minor setting." "In general, don't replace a checkbox with a switch." "Use a checkbox instead of a switch if you need to present a hierarchy of settings."

In general, the switch control is unintuitive. With a physical switch, you would need to move the knob horizontally. But the GUI switch behaves like a checkbox, in that one click/touch will toggle it. You can "grab" the graphical knob and move it horizontally, but that's slower than a single click, and I've found sliding on those controls to be somewhat unreliable on touch screens (if done rapidly in a swiping motion). So the appearance of the switch gives you the opposite impression of how it is most efficiently used.

You have to "know the trick" that the switch behaves like a checkbox to think that the switch offers a bigger click target. However, this thinking is incorrect, because the trick to a checkbox, if you know it, is that you can also click the checkbox text, so that's a larger click target than the switch. I wouldn't expect non-pro users to know this, but I also wouldn't expect non-pro users to know that you don't have to slide a switch horizontally.
Adrian Newey is the chief technical officer for Red Bull Racing. His achievements are truly mindboggling, he has designed 10 championship winning cars!

I found his autobiography "How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Formula 1 Designer" to be very enjoyable, describing his career in motor racing and the challenges he faced. It feels a bit similar to iWoz in that it very frankly chronicles the experience of an engineering genius. I can highly recommend it:
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/35657708-how-to-build...
Well why do you think those rich people are sending their kids to private schools?

Getting rid of gifted programs obviously makes the public school worse. Do people think that the wealthy are simply going to throw their hands up and say "Welp, guess my kid is getting a shitty education!"?

Make the public schools good again.
Indeed, they moved from occasional donations to steam in an effort to get a reliable income stream and be able to afford health insurance.
Indeed, I've only owned compact cars but never owned a car that weighted less than 1.5 short tonnes.

The base-model manual-transmission 2022 Civic comes in at 2877lbs, so is actually under 1.5 short tons.
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> I don’t understand your friend’s rationale to abandon the whole project he already started and didn’t want to find the truth and prove his theory (maybe it’s a different field thing).

He has lots of ideas he wants to try, and he ranks them. The incentives for following this particular idea were reduced by the actions of the other lab, so it dropped in the rankings and he pursued one of the more highly ranked ones.
Vladimir Putin can hang himself at a gas station if he is outraged by what he saw when he went on the free and open Internet.

Владимир Путин может повеситься на заправке, если он будет возмущен тем, что увидел, когда вышел в свободный и открытый интернет.
A quick google search says that in Amsterdam there are 850k bikes and an (estimated) 50-80k bike thefts. Seems like a lot to me.

I could just be biased though, I've had my bike stolen while in Amsterdam.
Am I correct in assuming that Google Analytics (Enterprise) still stores all the collected data on google's servers, or does the enterprise designation mean it's locally hosted?
Exemptions for farm equipment, motor vehicles, medical devices, and household appliances with "a digital electronic product embedded within it". So... Basically laptops and phones are covered by this?

Is a TV an appliance? My washing machine and dryer don't have digital electronics within them (they're like 20 years old) but all my other home appliances do.
In order to determine how school funding affects student outcomes, you probably want to consider the funding per pupil at equivalent CPI. $5k goes a lot further in Elko, Nevada than it does in San Francisco.
Personally I don’t care about the graphics they are cool but the one feature I wish DF would have instead is being multi threaded to take advantage of modern processors with multiple cores.

There comes a point where you just can’t play anymore because everything is way too fucking slow.
Except most of the money gets taken by robinhood.
This is backwards! Religion should not adapt itself to the people. It is not a democracy. How can an organization claim to represent the will of god when they are shaped by the market process you describe into an average of human desires?
My parents (and one step-parent) were also public school teachers, and after the first round of parent-teacher conferences, they could usually easily tell which students would sail through and excel, which ones would try but struggle, and which ones were going to actively harm the classroom environment--simply by meeting the parents (or for the latter group, observe that the parents never even showed up). This heuristic had nothing to do with school funding or the race of the student or parent.
You can't decrease local entropy without increasing it overall. We can only live by moving towards higher entropy, it's how we tell the past from the future.
LOL this is why you just use vim/emacs/bash and move on with your life.
> This person did this with 2 separate judges. Why is it so easy?

Apparently this demonstrates the power of the invisible hand of the marketplace.
The US has a perpetually low rate of voter turnout. Seems like that would give a pretty big margin to play around in.
Pick your battles. No way this would have passed if they had also included e.g. farm equipment.
I've seen plenty of problems involving scoring in various sports. I've seen stats taught using baseball batting averages and tons of problems involving football scoring.

Oh and poker hands.

I can easily imagine an IQ test 50 years ago involving scoring in bridge games.
Absolutely there is but the way that those outside the group make it seem is that we're 100% responsible for how the culture that exists got to where it is. The mainstream culture has problems but a lot of those problems are the result of historical inequities. It needs to be fixed but all of American society needs to see it as something they are also responsible for fixing and not fixing by simply pushing people to adopt the cultural norms of another group of people.
> Motion blur is quite often added to stylized animation in an equally stylized sort of arcing cloud, which requires the renderer to also have knowledge of the literal 3d model that's being animated.

You mean smears? That's the animation technique that literally deforms geometry, it's a kind of motion blur, and it's based on the 3d model of course. But I don't see how a gas simulation benefits from smears.
Indeed!

From fiction and movies, one would think that selling the country's secrets to foreign governments would lead to wealth enough to set you up for life on a private island. Yet when the accounts of the treachery emerge at trial, it's always troves of highly classified documents for a few thousand dollars here or there, maybe a few $100k over decades of espionage.

It still just stuns me every time I read how in reality, while honest people would die before selling out their country, some people will sell out everyone so cheaply.