skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool project.

Since it's not mentioned on the website, what will be your roadmap regarding security?

I feel that all IDEs have security handled as an afterthought, VSCode made some progress but it's far from being there.

I just want to be able to use a code formatting / language extension without having to worry about it subverting my whole computer in a future update.

vscode is halfway there with containerized development, but apparently they didn't intend that to be security measure and they make it clear to only run trusted extensions. I'm guessing there are ways to access host files through the bridge.

It's obvious that we still have to trust extension authors, but an IDE with the correct security sandboxing can limit the blast zone if it gets compromised (leaking a source file vs getting a rootkit installed and ending up releasing compromised updates to production)
All the more reason why risk-limiting audits [1] should be standard procedure to sanity-check precinct results, especially for thinly-attended elections where fraud has a bigger impact on the outcome. Unfortunately, these things take time and money, and there's little immediate payoff in doing it, especially in the small elections that need it the most.

[1] https://www.vote.pa.gov/About-Elections/Pages/Post-Election-...
Have you read this?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superforecasting:_The_Art_and_...

I found it fascinating and I think would form the base of your "American Competence Party". Sign me up!
> Laws by definition always give the government more power over individuals.

Factually false. Some laws reduce that power. For example, a law that made it illegal for police departments to keep the proceeds of asset forfeiture would reduce the power of government over individuals, not increase it.

In this case, it does indeed create more government control, though it could be designed to limit the amount of additional control that is granted.

> all people have to do is go to another website

How does that help me when the email account I lost access to is already tied to most of my online life?

How does that help me when the music, books, movies or software I paid for is tied to the account that was banned?

How does that help me when the "website" is part of a market duopoly and losing access to it means my company will go out of business and I'll have to fire all my employees?

"go to another website" simply is not an adequate response to any of the above scenarios. Please proffer an alternative other than "it sucks to be you". The only other option I see is to make these companies common carriers and mandate interoperability / account portability. That seems like it gives the government far more power than simply mandating a fair dispute resolution system.
> 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.

You’re describing why you believe it’s okay to discriminate against that Asian student because there’s “too many yellows, not enough blacks”.

You’re also ignoring that they’re choosing to engage in institutional racism rather than utilize programs such as meritocracy + individual aid, which automatically counter any “structural disadvantages” — that is, they’re choosing racism when better alternatives exist.

> 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.

You just described racism and a belief in racial tribes — exactly what I said was driving this.

> They aren't saying that.

You start off disagreeing — and then go on to describe exactly what I said.
Not everyone is cut out to be a plumber or an electrician.

The ultimate goal should be to provide better education for everyone so that all students have as many available options by the time they're ready to pick a career path.

Also, I hate these comments from white collar folks about blue collar jobs being the answer to everything. Yes we need them, but we also need to be honest that the average plumber is going to have a harder time working until 65 than an office worker.
I work for a Japanese company from the east coast, and I can tell you from personal experience that latency matters and that you can't beat the speed of light. 1 light millisecond is about 186 miles. Communicate with a server halfway around the globe and you have a 277ms round trip. On a reaction test online my reaction time is 243ms, but I am pretty slow at reactions. My typing speed is about 70wpm (about 350cpm or a character every 100-150ms). Trust me when I say that people notice slowdown when response is >100ms.

So ok, you'd think that 9300 miles is close enough (50 light-ms each way), but even that can show lag because your infrastructure needs to react to whatever you are typing (even Vim nowadays will connect to a language server to do tab completion and symbol lookups) and then send you a legitimate response.

And all of this is ignoring the most obvious arguments:

* Your local silicon is fast enough to do development and has been for 10 years now. Stop using a bloated IDE.

* If you production environment is so different than your local simulation of that environment, then you have bigger problems.

* Why rent your compute per month when you can own your compute and use it however the hell you want to use it?
Had me until they invoked Bitcoin. That's a hard "no".
The problem is how highly qualified jobs are depicted as exclusive for men.
I'll add some additional color to the funding "uniqueness". At least in NYC, there are Parent-Teacher Associations that are private organizations that raise money for specific schools. These PTAs are, themselves, a great source of inequality within the public schools.

For extreme examples the PTA at PS 87, an elementary school in the Upper West Side raised 2 million dollars in 2019 (the last number I could find numbers for) [1]; our son's school (also in the UWS, where we live) raised a little shy of 1 million that same year, via an annual campaign, auction fund-raiser, and a few other events.

This money is used for many things, like capital improvements and enhanced services. At our son's school this was used to upgrade air conditioning in the building, pay for extra teaching assistants, and fund a library and librarian, amongst other things.

Numerous schools have no PTA fund-raising at all or raise a few thousand dollars, because they serve less-affluent areas. This kind of inequality is vexing because there isn't any taxing going on, just very active parent bases with money to give.

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[1] https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2019/12/2/21113658/find-out-how-muc...
I have oversight over many different teams. it's important for them to meet me and vice versa.
Private schools don’t significantly outperform public schools in the US when adjusted for the differences in student populations.

There are some world class private schools in the US and some terrible private schools it’s really a mixed bag, just like public schools.
> Dilute the vote tallies by using the voting machines to increment the votes for specific candidates

> Why is it so easy?

I don't know, it doesn't seem easy to me. I mean, it seems like the result of a ton of long-term planning to implement processes that allow each instance of this to be easy. But the fight against electronic voting machines was fierce, and took a long time.

We lost, by the way.
> No, it doesn’t happen often enough to undermine the integrity of elections in the aggregate.

Ridiculous to just throw this out as if it's a concrete fact. Even changing the outcome of a Presidential election doesn't require any kind of sweeping, nationwide fraud campaign. Just enough well-placed ones where the vote will be close enough that the fraud doesn't have to be too large.

I'm not saying it has or hasn't happened, but it's certainly possible.
I work on the linux kernel using CLion and the IDE is still fast. I would not be interested in a non-Java IDE for the performance.
Algebra I at 8th grade would have placed you a year behind when I was in school. 7th grade was Algrebra 1, Algebra 2 was 8th, Geometry was 9th (first year of highschool). 10th grade had Trig, 11th had pre-Calc, and Calculus was the final year.
I'll recommend to bystanders (I assume you're already familiar with it from your comment), the seminal "Tyranny of Structurelessness", which makes this point lucidly.

https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
Private school tuitions are much lower than public school funding.
At the very least it would be useful to offer supplements for the mathematically interested. If it's accredited we'll run into the same conversation but at least students will have access to more interesting material.

In my experience tutoring remedial math students just had a hole somewhere or never practiced. Once both of those were addressed (with lots of hard work) they passed just fine.
This assumes that current admissions are purely meritocratic, when, as the article points out, they're not:

> Black students are 66% less likely to be identified as gifted compared to white students with similar test scores

But even if we supposed that the top 10% of Black students were slightly less qualified than the top 10% of White students (say, due to socioeconomic factors), the program would simply adjust towards the mean student. So maybe the program slows down a bit, but it's still an accelerated program, and now it's helping to correct those socioeconomic disparities.

The only case where this argument would break down is if the top 10% of Black students were _severely_ less qualified than the top 10% of White students, in which case the program would likely fail. But it seems pretty clear that this isn't the case.
The only real difference is that Windows introduced the simple way only fairly recently (7 years ago with Windows 10), so lots of people are still used to doing it the old way.
What you don't understand is that advanced classes have limited seats available compared to students who want them.
They didn’t bother wasting their time because the DA had made it clear in prior worse cases (with witnesses, including security camera footage) that they wouldn’t prosecute that class of crime.
Usually, both parties have poll watchers present. Although some local party groups don't bother.
Rift S felt like an in-between step to partially satisfy PCVR users, and it was dropped disappointingly quickly. It's obvious that Facebook is moving towards standalone headsets now.

Quest 2 is designed to hit a very low price point, and it certainly shows. But despite that, it's a very competent high-resolution, high-framerate (90, with experimental 120Hz support) VR headset; the only major drawbacks are low FOV, poor color quality on the display, and lack of uncompressed PCVR.
>Unacceptably white is still a horrible way to phrase this. Is the NBA unacceptably black?

This statement is a textbook syllogistic fallacy.

It ignores the qualification context for being gifted vs. being in the NBA. There are a number of historically exclusive systems, prejudiced on socioeconomic and racial standards, that are required prerequisites for being in a gifted school, which do not exist for being in the NBA.

Put in simpler terms: open basketball courts != gatekeeping gifted schools

EDIT: Nobody here is calling you a racist. Your edit above reads like, "I'm not a racist, but..."
He paid off the guys overseeing the count.
Sure if you want to be an IC, but if you ever want to grow out it's in your best interest to meet everyone who you will interact with before deciding to join.
But now you have people complaining that their device doesn't work, charges slowly, transfers slowly because they are using a crappy cable they got from Amazon. Especially for devices that require quite high end cables.
It’s because the people who want voter ID also want to make it harder to get an ID and won’t accept student IDs but will accept eg your gun club ID.

Banning mail in ballots doesn’t sound like much of a good policy.
It's not an open source project - it never was, it's commercial, corporate project releasing code licensed as Open Source.
Socioeconomic status tracks with academic ability because more well off parents are more likely to read to their kids, participate in their education, and get them help when they need it. It’s a lot like how being tall tracks with being in the NBA, it isn’t a requirement but it sure helps.

One of the hardest pills for education policy advocates to swallow is how important parental involvement is. Instead of bitching about equity, people should be hammering parents to be more involved and actively, daily, participate in their child’s education.
> This isn't some local perspective issue

I'll try to be clearer - though I have myself difficulties in pointing the finger precisely to the point. With «matter of "local" (time-space) bubbles, not of individuals», I meant: sure, you may have an IFR of 0.1% as a raw division, but the questions press on why some have seen an apparent decimation, and many have seen nothing or almost nothing. Is it a perceptive illusion from observing at close distance an Erlang distribution? Or are there factors to be defined that would tell more than "old or sick"? Genetics? Organization? Societal features? Crime rates for Europe tell you very little if the values for the critical parts of Lyon and those of German remote countryside are mixed. I am still wondering what made experiences so different.

But anyway, your (undisputed) post was about the effectiveness of vaccines, and I had you digress after your «virtually never deadly», just wanting to precise that some of us have seen something much less comforting, and would recommend to remain wary of the risks (and some already infected people would say, you may want not to consider death as the risk, but the damages), in case the raw numbers may fascinate into suggestion that one can just relax. It is just a margin note. "Numbers are comforting" // "Yeah well..."
Yes, that is why the SP was written.
Not at all seeing how this implies widespread voter fraud? It seems highly localised and particular.
>This person did this with 2 separate judges. Why is it so easy?

You don't just cold call a judge. Presumably he knew enough about what his options for judges were that he could pick the ones who would be amenable to the idea and approach them.

The bribe at that point is just payment for risk (because the judge presumably doesn't have plausible deniability)
As someone who didn't grow up in the American school system, I am a bit surprised that Algebra I in the 8th grade is considered "gifted education". If Algebra I is about solving linear equations with unknown variables, I am pretty sure I was taught this much earlier than 8th grade as part of the standard curriculum. But maybe this means something different in the United States.
IQ tests are incredibly predictive nowadays.
> That’s a very low bar if you take population level disparities and assume it’s a lack of equity causing this

Are racial disparities socially determined or not?
How'd you get two for diesel?
Abstract machines and the compilers that love/hate them
It will be resolved, if not by debate then by the hard hit of reality.

Happily, we don't live in a "one world government". So, if a society insists too much on silly ideas, it will be left in the dust by others.
I've worked at both relatively large (thousands of employees) and small (less than 10) companies. When I transitioned from small back to large-ish about 10 years ago, a couple things struck me. (Really, I was reminded of because I had worked at a similar magnitude size company previously.) There was so much "machinery" to support me in various ways. But the internal communications to take advantage of that machinery (and to inform stakeholders, the field, etc.) was a huge ongoing effort.
The problem is not privilege but its expansion. Continuously and responsibly raising the bar and the expansion of the tent should be the goal and will lead to contribute to the contributed expansion of prosperity.
Read the article, the type of fraud committed here has nothing to do with the allegations made about the 2020 election being “hacked.”

Also notice this guy was caught, the 2020 elections would have needed to involve a similar fraud being committed in every state and city (as similar voting trends were observed everywhere despite changes in types of voting or counting machines between different states).

Also when the ballots for the 2020 election were hand counted, the counts matched.
I have worked at 2 really big banks and they have many very talented, well-rounded people.

The friction is there to protect the firm.

It's true, though, that upper leadership tends to be incompetent. Don't hire them.

But finance tech VPs and ExecDirs are often highly skilled, smart people.
> accomplishing things

[I also ended up at a BigCo along with others from a small startup that pivoted multiple times after making v1 products that could have been successful.]

What I learned is to reframe expectations. At the startup, I could develop software and features rapidly with no impediments than my own lack of knowledge in an area. At the BigCo, the product is large, changes are slow, and processes are safe. The payoff though is that when you do ship that feature, it's being used by thousands-to-millions more users than it would have been at the startup.

At the same time, all the one-off things I used to do at the startup should have been streamlined at the BigCo so that I can think primarily about the problem I'm trying to solve and not the peripheral routine elements of every service that gets shipped. If this is not the case, perhaps the BigCo's processes are not very well streamlined.

I've found some ways to adapt, but some things still take much longer than they should, like PR reviews (but I'm also guilty of being a slow reviewer).

> emotionally exhausting

This is because you have an expectation that a certain thing should only take a certain amount of time and effort.

The best general advice is to work on multiple things concurrently, so that when one thing has delays you can switch to another one that's ready for work.

You have to decide whether you want to actively improve these inefficient processes, accept them, adapt, or move on. Anything else will be suffering. If you move to another BigCo the annoyances will be different more to your liking, or not.
I'd say I learned much more from the elementary school and middle school sports programs I participated in than I ever learned from the gifted/talented programs I participated in. I find it to be a terrible shame that high school sports are so often limited in participation by elitism (e.g. basketball limited to 10 players, volleyball to ~12, cheerleading to ~20).

I would wholeheartedly support removing limits on high school sports participation. The free market can suck away the elite athletes if they don't feel that high school sports are adequate for their professional development - that's fine, high school should cater to the majority, not an infinitesimal minority.
That isn’t true. People are labeled right wing when they’re regurgitating Tucker Carlson and “just asking the questions” in bad faith. There’s asking questions with the intent of answering them in good faith, and there’s asking questions to generate fud in bad faith. The Republican playbook and talking points right now are to generate fud. That’s why every Republican tries to stuff “fraud”, “radical”, “far left” etc every time they speak and are asking the questions. It’s not in good faith. If it were, they’d be asking the same questions when their team wins.

Truth is, if you continue to allege fraud, some people will stop voting. And you can push laws that restrict voting to a specific time and manner. That also reduces turnout. And it just so happens that turnout is negatively correlated with republican election victories. That is the playbook and we are watching it happen, because “just asking questions” isn’t generally being done in good faith.
That sounds like a parenting problem to me.
Why is the work environment terrible?
The syntax looks pretty fun to work with! Nice balance of terseness and readability.
https://wol.iza.org/uploads/articles/190/pdfs/class-size-doe...

The idea that class size reduction is a highly effective educational intervention is at best ambiguously supported by the (many) studies of it. And it's a super expensive intervention.
This is why they pay you. If they are not paying you enough, well ... you'll come to some conclusion.

The risk to a small company is that the product will not make money, impressions don't convert, and the runway runs out.

The risk to established companies is every other risk - software license risk, security risks, etc, etc, etc.

Big Co also runs some or all IT as a cost center - people don't get to make the product better, it's difficult to staff appropriately for the work load.

Big Co also treats people as cogs to churn out some "work" - management at the top cannot understand or help with every project, so they have tools to understand what hours are spent on which project. Then they expect those tools to tell them something useful, so they hound the middle managers based on the work recorded in the tools. "You manage what you measure"

Friction is minimal when your job is very repeatable, or when you don't actually try to do anything.
For Posterity here is the full email text. Formatting isn't the best due to me copy pasting.

I'm fine with templated/boilerplate emails. However, I just would have an expectation that a human will be on the other side if information is actually sent. In the late 90s my father, a car salesman, would send out thousands of form letters in the late 90s to prospective customers. Maybe I have brain damage from helping him lick so many envelopes :) but I think the key difference between his operation and what I see in general now(not just recruiting) is that the human element is getting increasingly pushed further back in the process or was never going to be there in the first place. Maybe I'll dig into the recruiter to see if they're even a real person at all If they're not then this just makes me question even more the fundamental value of these processes from a company that's not some fly by night operation.

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If you’re interested, let’s schedule a time to discuss this further. I will appreciate if you can reply to
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