skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went 3 different high schools in several states as a child. Some schools had lots of money (ie gifted programs) and others were quite literally at risk of losing state funding due to low standardized test scores. I was the first person in my family tree to graduate college and only person to ever have a PhD.

The teachers at the well-funded, near-apex "Magnet" school in North Carolina were generally better and had more time with students... especially in Science/Math. Teachers had more adult expectations of kids, but most importantly they were _consistent_ with their expectations and cadence of material presented.

Teachers at the under-funded, near-loss of state funding school in Tennessee were kind, "normal" people who happened to go to college at some point in the past. Primary detractors from the classroom were that student's low-expectations often led to large portions of uncontrolled "worksheet" tasks. Work was not graded well, inspected well or feedback given in a timely manner. I personally graded all the science teacher's Junior level homework as a Senior. She often didn't appear to understand the subject and was doing her best to not let the bottom students fall through the cracks.

Elimination of gifted programs, in my opinion, is the best option. The best students will learn what they need to, their parents will make sure of it, and the best teachers need to work with the worst students at this age group.
>social inequality is probably the problem I would fix

I would too, but I would deal with based on correctly sourced evidence. The majority of the anti-inequality articles I see are filled with bad math, bad analysis, and would lead to solutions that end up hurting more people.

Burning down things for which one does not understand the reasons they work the current way is a sure way to get worse outcomes. Two examples - tons of people wanted to burn down banking during the 2008 crisis, but those naive solutions would have vastly hurt the least able. Naive ham-handed making a fed min wage $15/hr would put (middle CBO estimate) over a million people out of work, because they could not add $15/hr in value to an employer. A better solution is using targeted assistance of scarce tax money to help people that need it and not just shovel it anywhere.

But the layman seems to fill themselves with outrage by poorly written or analyzed articles and then brings pitchforks out, electing people with bad understanding or reason, and we're all worse off.

Also, the poor in the US are vastly richer than pretty much any other poor on the planet. Would you lower the US standard of living, including making our poor poorer, to help the rest of the planet? (or replace US with whatever country you're in).

It's a tough problem.
Call me old fashioned, but having all of the controls and readouts in a car as screens worries me. I'm sure the mechanical parts of my current Nissan are in some way dependent on software, but as someone who works in tech I know how often software can go wrong.

Is Apple's rendering accurate to what cars will look like in the future? I hope not, but with the way things are going I'm not so sure.

Are other people ok with this? Waiting for it?
I am a DF obsessive. Many thousands of hours spent playing the game over the past 12 years, it is my favorite game by far. I've also had numerous abortive attempts to learn how to code. It humbles me to think that people find the UI so difficult to use that they'd sooner spend time coding another one.
You need information about the motion in order to simulate motion blur. It makes perfect sense for this to be generated by the 3D renderer rather than trying to guess at the motion after the fact when all you have are 2D frames.
Archived copy without GDPR nag screen:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220608152051/https://techcrunc...
We saw this first-hand in San Diego. We luckily found a place to rent in a pretty well-off area (Point Loma) and our kids elementary school regularly raised >$250,000 a year for the school (1st through 4th grades). When we moved to a more "normal" school in another state, we found their stretch goal was more like $30,000 and it took all year to get there. The first school paid for multiple extra teachers and aides, as well as lots of other benefits.
This is how you demonstrate that you should not be making decisions about childhood education in two answers.

What you are advocating is to essentially make every class a special education class serving the students with the lowest abilities. This won't bring those with learning dysfunctions up, it will only serve to bring the rest down while also building resentment towards those with dysfunctions.

And even gifted students need guidance. While they may be able to learn material on their own, knowing what material exists isn't something that is granted to one at birth. And it's not a guarantee that their interests will always align with what is necessary to learn.

Your statements are also kind of contradictory. You want to eliminated gifted education and put those students in normal classrooms. When I ask if you'd be fine with putting normal students in classes with those with dysfunctions with the explicit goal of helping those students, you said fine. But then you said gifted students can take care of themselves. So why would they go to class in the first place.

So, by your answers, you want to eliminate resources for children with learning dysfunctions and allow gifted children to skip school if they want.

There's no way to reconcile the disparity between acknowledging that children with learning dysfunctions need additional resources and ignoring that gifted children are also a special case of student that need additional resources.

Either you wind up advocating for the complete elimination of additional resources, acknowledging that not all students need all the same resources, or trying to pretzel yourself in a way where you can knock the gifted children down a peg while keeping the children with dysfunctions away from the general classes.
Thanks! Yeah it's funny how the things you used to think were lame take on a new life when they keep a roof over your head!

DiffLens looks cool - I had no idea github had a AppStore, looks like a good market to corner. Best of luck!
It might not be the best UX, but it's certainly far from the worst.
Exit polls are also an important tool. They show routine, systematic fraud in US elections, starting with the introduction of electronic voting, mostly in areas without paper trails. I'll try to keep this non-partisan, but there are plenty of independent peer-reviewed papers showing clear evidence of count tampering, and they all implicate the same party.

Hint: It's not the party that keeps proposing paper ballot mandates at the federal level.
Hate to suggest this but I was wondering if I was diversity hire lol, since my skills are definitely subpar but I still got in somehow. I can do soft skills but yeah. -- anyway I'll take it, I need it.
Whiley Gets Rusty
> But Americans would probably call that illiberal or something.

Most Americans would call that pretty much how things actually happen here, too.
If the incidence rate of teenage pregnancy amongst low-income women is significantly higher, then women amongst this group can simultaneously have more abortions AND be teenaged mothers completing schooling vs other groups.
Reading to my two-year-old every naptime/bedtime is one of my favorite parts of parenting. Appreciate this comment reminding me to really enjoy these precious moments!
"Civility" sounds eerily close to a sort of social credit score. All it takes is one teacher to mark you down on civility and then you're ruined. This type of program sounds like it would lead to offering the best education and opportunities to the most docile and willing to accept authority.

Not great attributes to select for in a world where we desperately need independent thinking and problem solving.
For those interested in what what Scott Aaronson said:

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=4979

> In a world-historic irony, the main effect of this “solution” will be to drastically limit the number of Asian students, while drastically increasing (!!!) the number of White students. The proportion of Black and Hispanic students is projected to increase a bit but remain small.
> if you continue to allege fraud, some people will stop voting

Could you explain the thought with this? If the people saying "there is fraud" are Republicans, and the people believing "this is fraud" are Republicans, and subsequently they are less likely to vote, wouldn't that lead to them losing more elections, and by a larger margin?
Ask HN: Web)Apps that display tabular data in a user-friendly way?
For both personal projects and at the workplace, I'm running into an issue where there's a LOT of tabular data to display, and I've tried searching around for examples with nothing to show for it. In the workplace in particular, the project I'm working on has an almost unreasonable amount of columns, and our userbase has said that they can't live without any of the columns.

Are there any (web)apps out there that any of you use or have worked on that try to organize or segment tabular data into manageable chunks? Trying to find some kind of design inspiration that won't involve the usual cry of "let's rewrite the app and burn what we have!"
Sexism has always referred to both institutional and personal violations.
Culture is socially determined in the sense that culture is simply the collective actions and decisions that a group of people make.

Reading the intent behind that statement, though, that Nigerians have succeeded in America despite any hinderances they may have faced due to wider societies treatment of black people, that would be somewhat outside of the framework of what I am talking about.

The construction here is, do Black Americans have worse outcomes, on average, because of themselves, or because of societies treatment of them. Culture would fall into the bucket of “they are the reason for their own problems”.

Obviously Nigerians do well on average, but they are also a small fraction of the population. Pointing to Nigerians and saying that race isn’t a contributing factor is making an argument after having found the statistical outlier that proves your argument, how do Nigerians compare to the top cohort of white Americans based on ethnicity or whatever? Is it possible that Nigerians would actually be doing better were there not racial barriers?
No child should be actively excluded based on a metric like race or gender, just like no student should be deliberately included because of race, gender, class, or any other metric that a parent could use to coerce a school to place their child in a gifted/magnet class. That should be common sense.

Kids should be placed in the gifted/magnet track because of performance, and performance alone. I don't believe that a meritocracy is racist, sexist, or biased in an unfair way. Placing students in classes where they may under perform, and excluding kids who would perform well in an accelerated program are unfair, and a meritocracy mitigates both of these problems.

The article raised a good point about schools that marginalized groups would attend don't have a gifted program, precluding them from even participating. That can be addressed a couple different ways. Either redirect high performers to a school where there is a gifted program present, or mandate the presence of a gifted program in all schools. There will, of course, be differing quality of the program from school to school, which would favor the former course of action.

Having gone through the "gifted program" through elementary and middle school, I can say that the only real differences I felt weren't related to curriculum, we were taught essentially the same things, with slight differences.

1. Smaller class size. In a class of 4th, 5th, and 6th graders, there was maybe 25 kids.
2. Less rowdy/troublemaking classmates. Made for less distractions.
3. Less busywork. The routine of getting a packet every night for homework was not something I had to suffer through like many friends I had that weren't in an accelerated program.

I don't believe you will ever truly eradicate inequities within public services, and the cost of private services, especially in education, preclude many from participating. That said, we should strive to mitigate them. My fear is that the steps taken to mitigate inequity will just move the availability of opportunity from one group to another, where the true solution is increasing the availability for all groups, and let performance be the selector of who is admitted to gifted/accelerated programs.
My chief memory of clippy was that he was modal and that he couldn't answer the question 'make clippy go away', so I could actually do something.
Recommendation: People should read the original "Parkinson's Law".
That is actually amazing idea :) just think about it, and it would be no cuts and you can shape implant to desired shape, it is not just a sack but it can have some structure.
>a 1.5T complex machine

The article talks about massive cars with lots of weight - 1500kg is on the light side of the story.
Another major issue in this discussion is the definition of 'teacher'. As referenced throughout these comments, a 'teaching' job varies dramatically on the district, age, etc. Students from a difficult home life need a social worker than an algebra teacher, yet the state mandates the class no matter how poor the delivery, content, outcome, etc. Meanwhile, teachers get stuck with responsibilities not in their job description...no wonder so many quit.

Its antithetical to the American dream (i.e. an equal starting point for everyone) but we must provide different paths better suited to acknowledging reality and providing reasonable outcomes. Staff them with job descriptions fitting the actual need, and work from there.
TLS Certificate Transparency logs don't always talk to you
OpenRoaming federation service for global automatic and secure Wi-Fi
> But what this means is the wealthier localities have more tax revenue and thus better schools. This can be a vicious cycle of improving property values by having better schools and thus generating more tax revenue and so on. I say "vicious" because it is absolutely exclusionary to lower-income people who cannot possibly afford to live in these areas. And that's by design.

That's not really true. You can look at the per pupil spending in places like Washington, D.C. or Baltimore and they're well above the U.S. average (D.C. is one of the top spenders in the nation). A city's public school system sometimes largely serves lower income students even if it has a number of high earners in its tax base (urban yuppies with no kids, wealthy people who send their kids to private schools, etc. all paying into the system without adding to the load).

If we look at funding levels vs. outcomes, we can see many of the best funded school systems struggling. That's because school is a complex problem that doesn't simply get solved by more funding.
I think this goes to show the importance of having a life outside of work.

Because if you have a rich social support then you can bear the loss of a job much better but otherwise, you'll be in a very depressed state.

Usually during life transitions we need even just moral support from people that love us and so it's probably important to cultivate that to surf the natural waves of life properly.
> 3) Public school 3. Covers most of the higher class white students, especially families of a local high ranking private college.

I live in a place like this, except its a mix of middle and higher class students. The secret is simple: the rich parents pay for tutors for their kids. I know many families who have paid for tutors for their kids since kindergarten.

Be very wary of pursuing good school districts in rich neighborhoods. If you can't afford the price of admission into that neighborhood your kid is going to have problems keeping up.
A lot of the friction in the banks is for legal reasons - they HAVE to abide by certain protocols.
If you treat that as an extra challenge rather than a hindrance it will be more rewarding.
I'll trade you responsibilities.

I work at a small agency and often do work for non-technical clients, or get hired to work on a completely unmaintained legacy system. I end up owning nearly everything myself, and it's a massive pain in the ass.

You might be frustrated with the process of getting a new VM, but you also don't have to own and maintain all the VMs by yourself. I bet you won't have to personally manage the billing of this VM directly, or monitor for any changes in usage or pricing, etc, but somebody in your organization will.

I often have to own and manage the SSL certs on dozens of unrelated properties... and own and address all the front end issues in every framework... and all the ci/cd issues for every legacy codebase... and anything else I want I gotta do. I also have to properly research all providers and price tiers and budget it all for my clients and then sell them on any service I consider worth it.
when I saw equitablemath.org a few months ago, I couldn't believe it wasn't satire
This. There are studies that shows there is a pandemia in some countries of heart and other health problems directly associated with the lack of sun time.

And in contradiction to what suncream vendor would say, this can't be solved by vitamin D supplements.
What's the "radical" concern with [0]? Why wouldn't we want students to think critically about uses of technology and how they impact society, or make access to computer science more inclusive?
You go to work for money,not for something. Otherwise you would be busy doing charitable stuff.
Emacs either doesn't have APIs or everything is an API, depending on how you look at it - since it's source is available at runtime plugins and modules can be first-class citizens performance-wise.
this is not revolutionary, all of this has been discussed before.

the stuff about inspiration from the brain confuses me too... it reads a bit like neither ai nor neuroscience is particularly deeply understood. its very basic stuff.
Route48, get public static IPv6 addresses using WireGuard even when NATed
I grew up with a diverse group of friends.

The way math is taught is quite often racist. I've seen entire math textbooks based around examples featuring American sports. If you don't know the rules of American football, you are not going to understand any of the examples in the book. I spent a lot of time in school and college explaining various American sports rules to friends.

That is the most trivial of examples, but it is a hugely impactful one for a lot of people. I have seen large amounts of frustration because some math book author couldn't keep his favorite sports jargon from littering the entire book.

You have other biases as well that can make students feel like shit. Story problems about a working father and a stay at home mother, sounds like nothing for many people, but for quite a few kids being reminded again and again that "not having a dad" is unusual, well, why the hell is the math book doing that? Just stick to problems involving trains.
Same here, maybe GitLabs "web IDE" will one day support this by, e.g., pairing a vm or container to each session, and adding extensibility. Though given the massive monster that GitLab is already it might take some time (and $).
This feels a bit like cherry picking? I mean, the heaviest EV is the Hummer EV at 9000lbs compared to the original Hummer at 8000lbs. Most other EVs are of course heavier but not garishly so (e.g. Tesla Model 3 coming at around 4000 lbs, which is about the same as a BMW M3).

The point about the acceleration being stronger is fair, but I don't think this means overall EVs are much more dangerous than ICE cars.
I looked at this the other day! Sadly no way to configure WiFi other than at the point of flashing the device which rules it out for a lot of use cases.
> If you think drugs aren't available in jails, I have a bridge to sell you.

They are available, just much harder to get.

> This is an incredibly strong statement for which I know no evidence exists because we have never tried.

This is from my own heartbreaking experiences. Once you get down that path, your chances of coming back are very slim even with lots of help. "Productive" means able to get a job at McDonalds or a grocery store, both of which are desperate for people but neither of which would consider the guy at the homeless encampment next door. It just isn't going to end well.

> I know an individual with significant brain damage resulting in severely impaired mental functioning who is a productive member of society. He does require ongoing support from the state and can't live independently, but does have a job and does contribute some back to society.

Not the same thing at all. If the individual you know is coasting down Highway 99 on a shopping cart while having a very bad Fentanyl trip, then I guess they are similar? These people are gone in a way that someone with brain damage isn't.

> I doubt we will see 100% recovery rates in our lifetimes, but don't be so quick to write people off before we even try.

We are trying it right now. We have a whole homelessness industrial complex that has sprung up to collect and spend massive amounts of resources on trying to help these people ($100k/year/person is actually an underestimate). They aren't making progress, perhaps intentionally (so they can continue collecting the money) but probably because progress can't be had here. It might be better just to cut our losses and focus on making sure people don't fall into the homeless/drug abuse trap at all, because once there coming back is really really hard.

> Practically speaking, drug use and living on the street form a vicious cycle. Each increases the likelihood and severity of the other.

Yes.
A recent episode of Darknet Diaries has a former intelligence officer explaining that the biggest threat of corruption is from within (its own employees being coerced). Often it’s people in bad moments in their life (divorce, serious illness, someone died, etc) that makes someone accept a bribe they would otherwise never have done. The argument is that the best way companies can protect against corporate espionage and other interference is treating their employees well, as it’s not often people that are structurally corrupt.

I suppose the same can be said about government employees, although the fact that it can be directly in the current government’s interest not to do that is another problem.
And walking is more logical.
> as though gifted programs take up a sizable chunk of funding rather than, you know, the schools.

I am saying that. "Gifted" programs and the schools that house them eat up a sizable chunk of funding.
"But what this means is the wealthier localities have more tax revenue and thus better schools."

This is largely a lie. It works like this in some states but not most. Most states, and the federal government allocate their funds in a way that balances that out by allocating more money to the poorer districts. In my state, the various quartiles recieve essentially the same overall funding (19k-20k per student).
Other than speeding up voting calculations, reducing paper usage, enabling arbitrary language use at the booth, and other things.

If electronic fraud is a concern, we should mitigate it, because encryption, identity, and date integrity are solved problems.

Furthermore, spot auditing and paper receipts/copies are a thing, or could be.

(Also, voting may be "solved" but voting systems and universal access to the ballot has not. First past the post voting is possibly the worst system to use short of flipping a coin.)
> Since when does equity mean everyone gets nothing

This is why equity programs are controversial. When skeptical people hear "equity," they think of the allegory about crabs in a bucket. Too often, instead of helping more crabs escape the bucket, our society creates policies that make it harder for any of them to escape the bucket, or pick and choose which crabs get to escape the bucket.