skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No child should suffer, and I think everyone can very easily agree on that point. But children born into a less supportive family environment are going to suffer for it. So maybe we should focus more energy on figuring out why less supportive family environments exist in the first place, and work on fixing those issues?

I don't know. I'm no expert and definitely don't have the answers.
This is the advice I've heard before. Explicitly state you're exercising your right to remain silent and your right to speak to an attorney. There was some sort of precedence for it being important in a particular instance though I can't recall what the story behind it was.
Corporate speak involves blatant ambiguity and kafkaesque messaging. "Sunsetting" has a very direct meaning for GitHub, whether it gets supported by the community is something else.
If I’m leading a system in which the population of eighth graders taking Algebra I has a disproportionate number of white and Asian students, then eliminating Algebra I as an offering for eighth graders looks like an obvious pathway to equity.

Well, yes, if by equity you mean the race composition of every class equals the race composition of the school as a whole. But shouldn't equity in education mean that every student gets the instruction and support they need to achieve their potential, insofar as the school is able to provide it, without respect to their race, class or sex?

There were no gifted programs or classes when and where I attended school (6 decades back, in a very rural part of the Great Plains). But there was a teacher in my school who took it upon herself to run a reading lab that you could get into with the blessing of the school principal. Mostly she taught remedial reading to those who needed extra help, but one of her 5 periods each day was called "advanced reading lab" and into that group she took students who showed exceptional or nascent exceptional intellectual capability. In the guise of teaching us to read better and faster, she exercised our brains with science, history, and even math. She's the only teacher I remember by name, and she did more to launch my success in life than any 5 other teachers combined, behind only my parents. Because she made going to school worthwhile - interesting, exciting, and mind-expanding. (She also taught me to read 2000 words per minute with retention, which was a hell of a useful skill, but only a skill - the world of knowledge and thinking was her real gift).
Not a statement on any claims of influence but the amount seems about right. "The couple [Zuckerberg and Chan] awarded $400 million to nonprofits for election assistance"

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/08/943242106/how-private-money-f...
Thanks, I didn't know Pyston had been de-proprietarized and open sourced.
From the other parts of the thread: Performance, maybe better collaboration?
That is what you get with already established projects and teams. And it's only the beginning; legacy code will follow, along with horrible styles and ancient practices, and it will be much worse.

That is why I love startups. I gotta find me a nice startup in need of a sr. full stack engineer with backend emphasis.
Oh god, yeah. I was happy to stop working at such a place. Leave.

At one such company, no names, they had a rather large consumer facing website. I was told it had no analytics other than a homegrown solution (which was terrible). Then it turned out that had Google Analytics (Enterprise) but everyone had forgotten about it. They denied it at first, but I showed them screenshots of the Network tab in Chrome where it was pretty obvious. Suddenly I had access. So far this is 3 weeks or emails.

With access I realized the implementation was botched. All view states were being handled by a hash in the URL so all Page Views in GA were reported in one URL.

I requested a minor code tweak to account for this. I was told by the dev team it would take 6-8 weeks to implement such a change. I was assured this was rather complex and they'd need to free up people too to work on it so that could take longer.

I told them the code change was already written and I'd included it in the initial request. I referenced the template file within their system where they change would live and included tests. They still dragged their feet. It got completed in my last week. Copy/pasted exactly as I'd written it.

It was utter madness.
It was the "credible technological advancement" I was going for.

"We can't do it today", I don't dispute.
edit: misread, I agree
Yeah but it's an entirely separate problem. If you solved the supply for the current demand, and then gave everyone access... you wouldn't have immediate supply anyway. What's the point of waiting?
>Is this a case of a silly law on the books or was there an incident where someone was blocked from installing a particular type of glass?

It can hardly be called a "silly law on the books " when the law was enacted 5 years ago.
Sounds like you’re enabling some structural inequality, or something.
If you're talking about the top 10% of kids, you're obviously not talking about [just] the hyper-elite future bank executives (who are probably what, the top 0.0001%?) The top 10% of students is quite large would include all manner of engineers, doctors, etc. People who play vital roles in keeping our civilization going, not just parasitically leeching off interest rates or whatever it is banking executives do.

Most of those future executives are probably in private schools right now anyway.
I went to a charter school because my designated high school was very prone to violence. I am an afro latino immigrant raised by a single mom. I truly understand that these public schools are losing their best performing kids to these charter schools which leads to worse aggregate outcomes. However, I am certain that I would not have been able to get into my ivy league alma mater without the support and isolation from chaos that my charter school provided.

Why should I have a worse outcome just to raise the mean scores in a place where everyone else isn't capable (due to harsh environment) or willing to learn? In addition, I think it hurts arguments for affirmative action. When people think of affirmative action / need-based approaches, they think of these other kids and not me. (You wouldn't be able to tell that I benefitted from those programs if you met me given my high school achievements from over a decade ago).
The qualification was device ids that went to 10+ dropboxes, comparing the routes and stops, not the location point by itself.

For your explanation to be valid they would have to have stopped at 10 specific locations each by a dropbox. Those devices did those routes 30~ times each on avg.

Those routes include exiting off of highways, going down specific streets, then going to the next dropbox in a specific area. All at 3-5am when businesses were closed.

edit: to downvoters, please discuss the facts of the location analysis or voice what you're in disagreement about.
Nixon showed us it can and does go all the way to the top. "All the President's Men" is worth a watch to see how cheap it is to buy the country. The Committee to Reelect the President brought the Democratic frontrunner to tears in public, and eliminated him from the election, with a measly $3,000,000. Power can be bought at a cheap discount, and only "democratic norms" seem to protect us from this behavior most of the time.
I am the author of the blog post. I believe the methodology described should be applicable to most if not all invalidation-based caches. I am serious when I say that cache invalidation might no longer be a hard thing in computer science. AMA!
Breathes loudly in Factorio and Rimworld noises until then.
No, this is not a myth at all.

At least not in California...

"State-Provided" funds are calculated by the LCFF (Local Control Funding Formula), which is a combination of both State and Local funds.

Depending on the district, if local funds is not enough to fund the district, then yes, state tax revenue steps in to provide the rest.

However, for districts where local funds is enough or exceeds the district need, then these these districts (referred to as "Basic Aid" or "Excess Revenue" districts) aren't provided state revenue, and they are able to keep the excess local revenue for their needs. (https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/lc/ and https://www.saratogausd.org/Page/519)

For a more specific example, one of the top school districts in Silicon Valley is the Fremont Union High School District (https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1626711559/fuhsdorg/...)

In 2021, their total revenue was $169M, where $156M (92%) came from property taxes. This resulted in spending per pupil of $23,491, far exceeding the state medium of $16,042.
My understanding is there are very few, and each dollar profiteered off this basic service is not spent improving the fire department. Do you have statistics on this?
I can't help being reminded of Harrison Bergeron.
I think that the progressive default argument on this topic is pretty transparent BS. If it's too hard for some people to get an ID, make it easier for everyone to get an ID. Don't open up elections to an obvious fraud vector.
Even worse he was the only person volunteering for that position. They didn't choose someone more "diverse" instead of him, they chose nobody.
> It is universal common knowledge that the ease with which one takes to math is different for different people. Why can't we just admit it and quit trying to make people who are unique the same?

I disagree with this statement, especially at the level of arithmetic and basic algebra. While math "ability" is likely a bell curve I would wager that it is centered well above Algebra I, and whether a kid at that age is "Good" or "Bad" at math is much more mindset/perception.
That's a good point, I could see this being a differentiating feature for a VPN provider. The only way to know if people would pay is for someone to offer it, I guess...
My kid's HS has teetered on the edge of Title 1 status over the years but lately has trended better. The top 10% of kids have upper middle class backgrounds and a stable home life. They tend to have exceptional outcomes. The bottom 40% of kids come from families living near the poverty line. They tend to get shuffled along until they barely graduate or dropout.

The middle 50% have outcomes that are all over the place but tend to correlate with parental involvement and who the kids pair off with in their friends groups. Some get pulled upward to exceed expected outcomes and some get pulled towards the bottom. It's been fascinating to see how different two kids from very similar backgrounds can end up based on the randomness of who they sat with at lunch one day 4 years ago or who was assigned to be their lab partner in 10th grade.
Cloudflare has an article too about it: https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-captchas-on-iphones-...

In my view, this would just DRM-ize everything on the web. Of course, Cloudflare and Fastly don't talk about this much, and Cloudflare keeps assuring you'll still get captchas if device attestation fails or is unsupported. But realistically, once all Microsoft, Google and Apple implement it in their devices, there isn't much of a reason to keep accepting non-attested devices.

You can already see where this is starting to go - if you're using Linux/BSD or another niche OS, congratulations, you can't submit forms any more. And since device verification would become extremely cheap to perform this way, you'd also see websites protected entirely by this tech, effectively locking out Linux/BSD users.

The Cloudflare article also talks about how, at least in the case of Apple, they'd run something like a posture assessment to confirm that your device components are genuine. I can also see this new tech locking out users of non-OEM repairs.

This is a much bigger deal than what it seems like on the surface, and I'm genuinely scared about how this one simple move dwarfs all of the "evil" things that big tech has done so far.
Okay, that's a fair point. Give the lunch room staff a pay raise instead, or build that statue lol :)
I love how easy this is to try out!

I use pipenv, so I ran this:

pipenv shell --python=python3.8
pip install pyston_lite_autoload

And it worked: I got a small but material speed improvement from a tiny benchmark I ran against my own project: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Jun/8/pyston-lite/
This 2021 article strikes me as mostly a straw man and a veiled sales pitch.

It's rare that a Gifted Program simply gets eliminated due to inequity with no replacement. The school district almost always proposes an alternate program to replace it. (The author is the CEO and Founder of one, though he does acknowledge this near the end.)

The author also links to two examples of districts with reduced or eliminated Gifted Programs. But one article says the Anchorage program was cut because of a budget shortfall, and the other (Boston) said they suspended their advanced learning program only at the city-wide level mainly because COVID made it hard to administer!
In the office and about half of the time at home, I use one display. I don't tile the screen either, typically just maximize all applications in use and tab between them. It was never really conscious, but I also find having a bunch of other windows on the same or other screens to be distracting and/or exhausting at times. I do have a dual monitor setup on my desktop at home for when I'm not using my laptop, but even then many times I simply unplug one of the displays. When I moved into a new house, a few months went by before I even pulled out the cables for the second one and turned it on.

I'm definitely the type of user who doesn't like to spend too much time arranging things, especially windows/screens. I will change font sizing and color to suit, but otherwise I'm fine with the defaults.
> Twenty years ago Bush (43) passed the No Child Left Behind Act, which many dubbed the No Child Gets Ahead Act. A lot of this was also in the name of "equity".

That was a very bipartisan bill. It was coauthored by Ted Kennedy, passed in the House 381-41, and passed in the Senate 87-10.
Yeah, that I totally get. I just think tech like this falls squarely into the gray zone for existing laws.
For some reason, I couldn't figure this out the last time I had to do it. This seems perfectly reasonable though.
Lost my card, can confirm it's entirely tedious to replace
Eight lessons from founding to Series C
In Ohio, it's much easier to vote with a drivers license than with a state ID card. People that are disabled or can't afford a car have state ID cards.

Also, poll taxes are unconstitutional in the US. $10 is more than $0.
As an organization scales and grows, the layers through which decision making is required inevitable increase. Now, that doesn't mean you have to accept this. You have found yourself in an opportune place where you can have impact and reduce some of the overhead. BUT, be warned, you can never fully eliminate overhead. That is the cost of growth and BigCo status.
Yes I love this Windows 10 feature.

Note that KDE has had it pre Windows 10 though.
In other words you're arguing it's zero-sum, as though gifted programs take up a sizable chunk of funding rather than, you know, the schools.
As a European/French, why is the SSN so important to Americans ? I mean my SSN in France was automatically generated at my birth (basically from my birth gender, date, location, and the Nth baby I was this year in this location). I could generate the correct SSN of most my close friends from my head to maybe 3 digits on the first try if I had to.

They took a bit more than that ok (credit card numbers, but you can't do much with this without the CVV and the expiration date anyway, and you'll need to send a confirmation to your bank anyway).

So why is that such a big deal ?
There are ways to hide IP endpoints from relaying nodes, as well.
From the article you linked: https://www.lincolninst.edu/sites/default/files/content/04.2...

Compare California and Massachusetts. It seems to demonstrate the point of the poster you replied to. Despite MA relying nearly twice as much on property tax, as state revenue versus California, it seems to have better outcomes. Mostly because as the article discusses, MA appears to use targeted transfers from state revenue to poor districts.
A lot of people would disagree with those proposals, though. They're not new ideas. The most recent DA did exactly what he said he was going to do, which was (essentially) work at fixing the underlying problems, and not promote a system of spiraling inequality by ruining people's lives (and preventing them from ever getting ahead) by criminalizing them for pretty crime.

Some people see that as humane. I think SF has rebuked the idea. Still, I don't know that fixing theft and drug dealing is enough to fix tent cities.

And the affordability crisis is also equally unclear. It's easy as an outsider to say "make things more affordable, build more!" but it also requires ignoring a set of stakeholders' wishes and desires in favour of someone who might have less basis in the city.

Who is more entitled to a discussion about what gets built: someone who has lived in the city for 40 years, or someone who just arrived to work, or someone who lives in the city but without a home? What about the peole who own property and pay taxes, but can't legally vote? a

There's lots to consider here.
Having some familiarity with the Pennsylvania election machinery specifically, there is nothing about this story that required (or would have been stopped by the absence of) electronic voting machines.

If it was the old iVotronic system, there would be no ballot to check against (the vote was held in the machine memory in redundant locations), but that's no protection against the machine being activated illegitimately and the judge of elections entering illegitimate votes. In the new system, the machines are just tabulators and physical "SAT-style" fill-the-oval vote cards are used as ballots, but again, there's nothing stopping a judge of elections from filling out a pile of invalid ballots and entering them into the machine if the other team members (majority and minority inspector, and the clerks of election) have been bribed to look the other way. In fact, the judge would have to do that, because the fraud will be obvious if the total count of record doesn't match the total count of paper ballots in the box... But structurally, this is equivalent to just activating the iVotronic machine several additional times to cast fraudulent digital-only ballots.

The nature of the fraud here is simple, old-fashioned stuffing the ballot box, and the only protection against that is physically barring access to the hardware (be it a computer or a pine box with a padlock), which is incompatible with the duties of the judge of elections.
The important question: is he an outlier, or the norm?
I think that's the inherent catch-22 of having a big API. You end up in a situation where you can't change things for fear of breaking the API, but you end up also not being able to hold the API stable for fear of not being able to change things. So you end up stagnating and breaking things all at the same time.
This is an oft-repeated myth, and in fact the opposite is true.

"there are substantial disparities in abortion rates in the United States, with low-income women and women of color having higher rates than affluent and White women"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3780732/
Friction is just something that comes along with the size of the org. It has matching lubricant - politics.
I am currently (literally waiting on a EC2 Image Builder pipeline to complete as I write this) rewriting our dev VM to work on EC2 rather than VirtualBox on our MacBooks. I'm doing this for two big reasons: One, the VM won't run well on future Macs. We're using Intel MacBooks on Big Sur because there's a bad interaction between Monterey and the VirtualBox kext that I can't figure out; and because making our VMs work across Intel and ARM would require a rewrite. Second, and more importantly, debugging why the VM isn't working on someone's laptop is a massive pain. My goal in moving the VM to the cloud is to reduce the surface of things that I have to troubleshoot. If ssh works on your laptop then (the hope is) I don't need to mess with your laptop any more. If the VM breaks, then when I fix it it'll be fixed for everyone at once. Believe me, that's not the case with the local dev VM despite the entire thing being scripts in a git repo.

I'm trying my best to keep the new dev experience as painless as possible, but at the same time, moving the VM to work in a consistent and stable environment also improves the dev experience along with my operational experience. It'd be fantastic if we could run everything locally and nothing ever broke and everything that worked on my machine worked on prod too, but that's simply not the case
All these new generation text editors are cool and all, but I feel they are mostly rehashing the UI of VSCode. VSCode is fast enough, and the perceived speed of text editors / typing only needs to be so fast.

Looking forward to innovations in UI. Cause otherwise, VIM is comparable if not better in performance than modern text editors.
In Mexico the SAT (IRS) adopted something similar: A PKI to identify taxpayers for which you have to sign electronic documents with your password-protected private key. So far it has worked quite well, and it is being used for things other than taxes.

I consider people in Mexico way less technically sophisticated than people in the US, and adoption has been going well. So I believe implementing something like that would be possible in the US as well.

The issuing/reissuing process has been solved and is working fine, reissuing can even be done online (key-pairs have a longevity limit).
Those sorts of clans/tribes are a lot larger than Dunbar's number. But you're right that they're the first and easiest step in actual large-scale social organization.
Would this just allow to run x86 executables inside a Aarch64 VM? Or would the Linux kernel in the VM also be a x86 version?

If the Rosetta binary is only available after a certain remote fad path is mapped, I would guess the kernel needs to be native Aarch.
> If we allow SMRs as a feasible tech, that aren't shipping and have no reliable cost estimates, we may as well also assume that advanced storage tech that isn't even shipping will be feasible.

Yes, we should invest in both SMRs and advanced storage, not because we are assuming feasibility, but because we can't know their feasibility without trying them.

> Storage companies have a far better track record of delivering on their promises than the nuclear industry does

I disagree, and anyway I'm not saying "invest in SMRs instead of storage" but rather in addition to because it increases our odds of finding a viable solution and moreover a diverse grid is a robust grid (different energy sources are likely to have different failure modes, such that we have a fallback in case one source experiences a catastrophic failure).
Heh, I omitted that because most of that stuff happens often-enough in our good districts.

And yeah, it's a red state. Even the blue areas are red enough to get plenty of obnoxious assholes harassing teachers.

[EDIT] Downvoters: go talk to some teachers about this topic. I'll wait. It may be a while, because they'll have a lot to say.