skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went from GoLand (their go thing) back to vscode.

With gopls, vscode is MUCH faster than goland, especially on big repos, and I don’t need to watch the dreaded “Indexing…” all the time.

It misses some features, but honestly it’s so much snappier, so that wins for me.
I mean a lot of US companies are like this. Some grifter VC firm buys the face of your favorite thing then starts pumping out garbage and gaslights you for noticing. The people who worked on Diablo 2 or even the original World of Warcraft are long since gone.

I’ve even noticed it with Cocomelon, the YouTube toddler show, funny enough. Then I looked it up and realized it had been bought by a kids show corporation. I could just tell! The episodes are just different and weird somehow. Like the lessons they’re teaching seem off. Before it was just an enterprising mom and dad running a YouTube channel teaching wholesome values.

It also explains all the new toys and marketing around it.
Qualitatively yes, but not quantitatively.
The checking system is so much worse. The only parameters needed to make an ACH payment are a name, a routing number, and the account number -- all of which are printed on every check. There is very little fraud protection, and it is difficult for an account holder to dispute an incorrect or fraudulent transfer.
Yes, and using C++ based systems like Arduino and PlatformIO seems similar. Those of us who use them are hoping not to have to write our own device drivers, though it's certainly possible when needed.

These software platforms are sort of like little operating systems - from a practical standpoint a lot of the value comes from the hardware support. How useful it is depends on whether there is support for the boards and devices you want to use.
Not able to read the full paper at the moment, and confused about something:

If the server needs to go pull the article from Wikipedia, how is it blind to which one is being requested?

If you've pre-seeded the server with an encrypted 30% of Wikipedia, how can I trust you haven't retained information that would enable you to derive what I requested?

The only way I understand this works is if the client itself seeded the encrypted data in the first place (or at least an encrypted index if all the server pushes back is article numbers).

Maybe I'm ignorant of something; if so thanks for ELI5.
“Math is racist” is not what is being claimed in link #2. It’s math instruction that they claim to be racist. I have no idea if this is true but it’s at least plausible.
This is terrible. While I like VSCode, I exclusively use Atom for programming in Python because of Hydrogen [0], an extension which makes .py scripts feel and behave as though they were Jupyter Notebooks. I hope the nteract/Hydrogen devs are able to save their work and move it over to Zed/VSCode.

[0] https://github.com/nteract/hydrogen
More than that, they also lump "Pacific Islanders" into the same category as "Asian", as if the Pacific Islands aren't on an entirely different continent.
It's so funny to me that people treat businesses and government so differently.

Want results from your start up? Find someone to invest in it.

Want results from a government program? Well, we need to cut out all the wasteful spending.
That's a huge bias to bring in an interview.

Sometimes you work on some cool project for a while, then it becomes boring, etc. Or sometimes you're stuck with that job because of lack of other local opportunities. Or whatever other reason.
They aren't saying that. They are recognizing that many forms of power in society are zero sum. There are plenty of ways to get a great education but only one Harvard and a limited amount of power to be distributed via an institution like Harvard. You and many like you believe that access to these institutions should be gatekeeped via a meritocracy. The supporters of this form of affirmative action recognize that in a system where black/latino/indigenous students have structural disadvantages (poverty, prejudice, health, etc) that any pure meritocracy leads to a system where their racial group possesses disproportionately less power vs their population.

The reason you see that as "racial tribes" is that you fundamentally are underestimating how much marginalized communities distrust communities outside of their own. Black people do not trust that if Asian students go to Harvard and gain positions of power that those adults will protect their interests. They want their own in those positions.
I think it’s a feature of most extreme ideologies - an above commenter points out the endless fragmentation of the extreme right between religious and racial ideologies
Based on the OP it seems like one founder had shares and the other 'founder' had options still waiting to vest.

That's a pretty clear cut power dynamic no matter what the VCs recommend.
I agree but I also think that lot of cops are good folk and doing dirty work of keeping streets safe. Talk to them sometime outside of the media messaging. Absolute statements painting the entire police force one way or the other is wrong and disingenious.
But is it typical? Sure, if Bill Gates or Elon Musk founded a company today, they'd hire people to write the code. But for people who haven't made it big, I'd assume that having at least one technical founder is extremely common. Just in the examples you gave, Apple had Steve Wozniack. Sean Rad built the prototype for Tinder at a Hackathon. Seems like Box had a technical cofounder as well based on Wikipedia article.
Why do I have to focus in one small piece - the only piece you are interested in? Is it not possible that other pieces are more interesting to other people? Perhaps I'm already well aware of police looking the other way on sexual misconduct, including legally raping those in their custody. To me its old news and throughly explored, and thus, uninteresting to me. (Unless we're talking new ways to change that)

I brought up the "police looking the other way" in the grander context - that they can do this for things other than just sexual assault. This is relevant.

Sorry that you think everyone needs to think nd feel exactly like you, and that other people's opinions and views aren't as important as your's.
I was in one of these programs in middle and high school (1985-1990). My experience was that only a very small subset were selected to be tested. Most of the "gifted" students were born to parents who knew how to advocate for them and get them tested. (Mostly white, mostly upper middle class, many children of teachers.)

I am certain that if every student had been tested, the composition of the gifted classes would have been very different. Many students who fell through the cracks would have been put in the higher level classes and many at the lower end of the gifted program would not have made the cut (given fixed class sizes for the gifted program).

We should test every student.
The answer would be to improve the development of those students who are underdeveloped -- not change criteria for the identification of potential.

This is, of course, far more complicated, and involves difficult problems. Far easier to sweep it all under the rug by calling attention to qualifications "unacceptable".
IMO the killer thing is performance, VSCode starts fast and is smooth to write with. It blew away the older set of Electron-based editors. They work tirelessly on performance every release and it shows imo. Allowing extensions without destroying perf isn't easy either.
At SmallCo, scales are small enough that most of the information systems exist in wetware. The boss knows each employee personally and where they fit, more or less. You or the VM guy knows that the VM resources will not be abused. Relatively little is defined in software-backed protocol.

At BigCo, there is a lot more protocol, because there has to be. The boss is physically incapable of knowing every employee personally. You are physically incapable of knowing every possible point where VMs might get used or abused. There needs to be a protocol to authorize these requests and keep a record of it.

This is just the way it is, and you should understand and accept it if you want to keep working in these environments.

If there are BigCo's that seem to work better, it's because they spend more resources on improving their protocols and processes, not that they magically bypassed the inherent complexity of running an organization of 10,000 people.
In Arizona, all school funding is from the state. Then local school districts can pass school overrides via voting which then can be additional property tax in their district. Richer areas tend to have more parent involvement (both time and financially). AZ also has open enrollment which means you can enroll your child in any public school, not just your district assignment.
How many occurred?
Thanks for this comment. I'm currently introducing K8 at my company and thought about using Helm at first, but since I don't have too many services at this point, I fell back to standard yaml config. This confirms my choice for now. I'll look into Dhall instead.

I skipped Helm since I felt it introduced too much new tooling on top of K8 which is also new in company and me. But then I also felt the issue of duplication quite immediately.
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Maybe, but if you have a secure enclave that can be trusted not to leak data, then you don't really need PIR. You can just have clients encrypt their queries with a key that can only be decrypted by the code running in the enclave.
I believe Windows did a lot of things right by just keeping things simple for developers. I use the clipboard to transfer large blobs of data from one program to another when doing exploratory programming -- it's a lot quicker than creating file formats for everything. Of course there's the risk of losing it in the process.

Another under-appreciated Windows feature is how they implement drag-and-drop apps. When you drag a file into an app icon, it just stuffs the file path into the command line arguments and runs the app. In contrast, though MacOS introduced drag-and-drop, actually implementing it in System 7 was a huge complex chore.
You get transitive credit from direct credit.

Alice wants to buy an apple from Charlie. Alice gives an IOU to Bob, Bob gives an IOU to Charlie, Charlie gives the apple to Alice.

And - sure, everything crypto does could be done with pen and paper and a phone line. But here Bob's computer can agree to do this without Bob's involvement.
Gifted programs threads on HN are the new flame war battlegrounds... turns people into an armchair geniuses, ready to post solutions based on some anecdotal data.

I pity the actual researchers in these fields. Must be tough to work in an area that everyone has an opinion on.
How are you quantifying “results” here?
> I had to pass essentially an IQ test to get placed into those classes. I don't see why race has anything to do with it.

Simply put, we don't know how to make objective IQ tests yet.

The questions in IQ tests tend to bake in a bunch of cultural assumptions, often in ways you don't expect. So the test measures a combination of IQ, and affinity with a specific cultural background.

First, let me be clear about this: The issue is friction. Even at the same difficulty, a question that's more accessible is less stressful and less mentally taxing. Especially when you're dealing with kids. This matters more at the cut-off than the extremes of the bell-curve, but has statistical impacts.

I just searched for "Fourth Grade IQ Test" and clicked a random link. Four of the ten questions are about sharing cookies. Baking cookies and sharing cookies are typical middle-class-white activity, but I don't know how that shakes out in other cultures. Maybe they share other foods? Maybe sharing food is offensive because it implies the other kids' parents can't provide for themselves? Maybe the kids aren't in charge of food division? The underlying math is, of course, objective. But the math is being framed through a perspective which is more or less familiar to different backgrounds.
If you're going the sqlite route, the much easier path is to distribute the whole database and do everything on the client
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Let’s not do this. It is a gross vision for the future. I hate the cloud.

IMO we should be working towards self hosting appliances, federated and otherwise decentralised services, and local-first applications.
And more complexity in laws and many more things increases inequalities in our society. The more stuff (i.e. laws) the more you need people (lawyers) to understand them, the more intelligent people you also need (i.e. cryptos). All this creating a larger gap between social classes.
Equity of opportunity is acceptable. Equity of outcome is a bullshit goal.
Er, isn't it the other way around? Voter fraud is just individuals cheating on a small scale like "helping" grandma with her mail-in ballot, but election fraud entails broad schemes and conspiracies like the DOJ article describes.
I don't understand the us v them mentality. I have lots of right wing friends and family and many of them have been against electronic voting from the beginning. For example, in my home state of oregon, many right wingers are against vote by mail and have been since oregon became the first state to go fully vote by mail. These issues are not so binary as you're making them out to be, and I think everyone would do well to put aside partisan differences to come together on issues where they can agree.
Antecdotal:

Oculus Go and Rift S were the only fixed IPD headsets they produced, and I was able to use the Go comfortably with my abnormally wide IPD (69-70mm.) Quest 2 has 3 digital settings for IPD, and that also works fine for me at the widest setting.

(And both of the other consumer-release Oculus headsets (Rift CV1, Quest 1) had analog variable IPD.)
That's a really vague question.

What's problem does it solves? have you talked to anyone to see if it even solves their problem?

why can't they use something that already exists? do the customers really care about that?

got on the phone or set up a meeting with some potential customers and dive into what they're pain points are.

Look into SPIN selling.

https://www.lucidchart.com/blog/the-4-steps-to-spin-selling
It’s because wealthier parents more importantly spend more time on their kids education and put them in an environment where it’s easier to learn.

Can’t solve behavioral issues with money, but you can solve behavioral issues of other kids by moving them out of the school.
Unfortunately I'm not sure people are even equipped to trust their own feelings anymore. Even in many spaces where people do have agency of how they're designed I've noticed a marked convergence in tastes and preferences over the years. We used to call it "Pinterest aesthetic" and now it's an Instagram or TikTok aesthetic but so many of the choices people make in lighting, styles of furniture, potted plants, and so on themselves feel kind of generic. Often like a cheap imitation of an aesthetic that predominates online. I don't know if this is a consequence of algorithmic recommendations tuning peoples' aesthetic sensibilities all in the same direction or if it's filtering down to the products on offer to where their options are all constrained. But it's depressing nevertheless.

Part of it could just be an age thing. As an elder-millennial I came of age during the peak of vintage/thrifting hipster culture. There was a pretty vibrant spirit of mixing and matching and putting things together from myriad influences before it all got blended into a generic paste of flannel and thick-rimmed eyeglasses.
> how the US funds public education (K-12) is rather unique. It's done through property taxes essentially. Depending on your state and city your property taxes can vary a lot with the same value property. But what this means is the wealthier localities have more tax revenue and thus better schools.

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...

That's a ~$200 difference compared to $6000 per pupil, the 4th highest in the world: https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Education/Sp...
Funny how people are so different. I have never once thought that I needed my text editor to look good. Stare at anything long enough and your brain isn't even going to process it anymore!

fwiw I use Linux and suspect that's a big part of why Macs never appealed to me.
> Emacs, vim

Unlike VSCode, Emacs and Vim have a learning curve. And turning them into full blown IDEs makes their usage even more complex.

> Sublime

Sadly, Sublime is sort of dead.

> TextMate

TextMate: Text editor for macOS
Are Platform Teams Dead?
I knew this had to be about either Philly or Chicago without even clicking the link. And of course I was right.
If you read three paragraphs of the article you linked you can see the statement written in plain english:

> However, controlling for math and reading scores did not have the same effect for black students. In fact, black students continued to be assigned to gifted programs half as often as white peers with identical math and reading achievement.

If you read to the end, the paper is literally linked:
https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-news/files/20190417222934/Gris...
That sounds like too broad a generalization. In their bid to maximize profits and "increase efficiencies" Medical institutions themselves have a huge impact on outcomes. I wish the medical industry was closer to airlines/FAA, which is more effective and investigating accidents and suggesting systemic fixes, instead of the current culture that suggests "That's a bad-apple/negligent doctor. No need to dig deeper into their load or processes. Case closed"
I would think things like Dwarf Therapist are a good example of the community trying their best to improve the UI despite the roadblocks put up by the developer.
> Also, KDE provides an absolute gem of a clipboard manager, which stores all recent copies in to a list

In windows 10 and up, win + v to see (and the first time, enable) the clipboard history selector
Right, but the article itself is about how to do Elm better.

Anyway, it probably isn't much of an issue to them, but, to hide the bottom popup Firefox's reader mode didn't work, so tried disabling js and discovered the issue. Gatsby does seem to have SSR though, so perhaps it's easily doable should they want to.
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Even with a crappy DSL connection I haven't routinely seen >70ms latency for years. Modern cable/fiber/LTE/NR connections are all well under 50ms. Even then, we have realtime games with lag compensation that make that connection instant. Your problem sounds like a badly written app, not a tech limitation.
WxErlang Hello World
Everything is cheaper when you get it at just the right point of the supply chain.
I wrote a post about wxErlang, a binding for wxWidgets that OTP brings by default
This is a tradition that can go the way of other great old traditions like catching polio. In my experience it did nothing but find a way for me to be forced to spend more time with bullies and suffer trying to explain something to them that they were decidedly uninterested in learning.
> In Washington State, the teachers finally got their "fully funding" proposal enacted, which was supposed to solve all the funding problems, including big raises for teachers.

Are you referring to when the state finally complied with court orders that they were illegally and unconstitutionally underfunding public schools? (A lawsuit started over a decade before and decided over a half a decade before action was taken). Where the governor announced victory as "Today’s Supreme Court decision affirms that, at long last, our Legislature is providing the funding necessary to cover the basic costs of our K-12 schools. Reversing decades of underfunding..."

That basic level of funding? Or has something happened more recently.

> There's been zero change in results.

You mean the funding that impacted one year before COVID? Education funding isn't like spinning up a new instance in AWS. It takes time. And, given that educational results have slipped nationwide since COVID, I would say that "zero changes" should be interpreted as a victory.
Subject categories such as "math" are also very broad. I struggled with math in elementary school, because it was mostly about memorization. 3 + 5 = 8. 6 x 7 = 42. Learning and being able to spit out those facts as quickly and flawlessly as possible was most of what I remember about math as a young kid. I was never good at that. I still am not good at that. I got Cs and sometimes lower grades in math.

Somehow, though, I passed a test in 7th grade to qualify to take algebra in 8th grade. Suddenly stuff started making sense, and I could see a point to it. You could actually solve an interesting problem. It wasn't just regurgitation of facts. It became more about thinking and connecting concepts and even being creative. I started getting As in math, and continue to do well in High School with geometry, trig, and calculus, but up until algebra was introduced I would certainly not have demonstrated a gifted ability in "math".
It's not just about electronic voting machines, at all.
but then the rowdy kids get left behind. You could argue that the rowdy kids are getting left behind either way.
School funding isn't as much determined by local property taxes, but larger scale
He said similar, and he didn't provide the data. We surely would like to delve into why this might be happening. We can know for certain that there is no skin-color criterion in the program selection.
Luckily, Justice Department and FBI will likely have no incentives for investigating that given how they actively positioned themselves in the political debate. So we may never find out.
Pyston is neat, but I'm a bit unclear. Why should we invest time and effort into more proprietary shenanigans?
On threat models, a malicious DNS server might also be one compromised by a party demanding wiretap access.

Regardless, a person today has a choice of which DNS server to use but they all could track the requests made. Tracking site visits via IP is a different link in that chain.

Would people pay? I don't know, but I could see it being a feature used to different a VPN service from its competitors.