skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a student who went through gifted programs in public elementary and in private middle and high school, but otherwise not plugged into the literature on it, what does the evidence look like that gifted/magnet programs actually provide significant tangible benefit to the students? One way to break it down would be to look at the relative number of students in these categories:

1. Students identified as gifted who do well because of their gifted program/who would have done well if they were in a gifted program.
2. Students identified as gifted who would do well regardless of whether they had a gifted program, even if they might do marginally better in a gifted program.
3. Students not identified as gifted who would benefit from additional resources/gifted peers in their non-gifted program
4. Students not identified as gifted who would not particularly benefit from gifted peers/already have adequately resourced classrooms.

I would have a hard time believing that the number of students in any of those categories is negligibly small. So then the question becomes how do we, as a society, best balance the tradeoffs between them. For any given student, we don't generally have the ability to try it both ways and see what would have been better, and of course any given parent will tend to prefer to take any tiny marginal improvement in opportunity for their children, regardless of whether it's net beneficial for society. But some of the role of society is to not allow people to take actions with mismatched externalities.

If there are more #3 students than #1 students (and/or the benefits to society are larger), and if we cannot distinguish between #2 students and #1 students, then yeah, let's get rid of gifted programs.

For myself, I think I was probably a #2—I had affluent, educated parents, benefited from significant extra-curricular enrichment, and could probably have had more enrichment with several tens of thousands of extra dollars per year of saved tuition. At what point could my parents have known that I was a #2?
Final exams canceled in N.J. school district after ransomware cripples computers
After gagging on CA fire pollution every summer (due to long drought), It's hard to think that worse shit ain't coming. It may not kill us all, but will make life harder.
"Members of the European Parliament voted Wednesday to ban the sale of NEW combustion engine cars by 2035"

cough
Ask HN: Which iOS app can record noise pollution and vibration?
I have been having bad sleeping quality for months over noisy power generator and vibration opposite my house which is loud in the evening.

Are there any way to record and vibration that can reliable pick up by iPhone?
>"Does political affiliation affect integrity somehow?"

I'd say so, but not in a sense that the effect is only or even primarily associated with [insert political party here].

Edit: We like to envision Judges as impeccably impartial, but they have a considerable amount of leeway, ambiguity, and procedural caveats they can employ should they choose to make partisan decisions. Given that judges are often selected by, or elected with support from, a political party machine, it stands to reason that they can be swayed to help the party that is responsible for their position. Especially if there is plausible deniability of bias or wrongdoing.
This is not an issue for America of course as folks who move away without renouncing will continue to owe taxes to Uncle Sam for the rest of their natural lives and if they do renounce, they have to pay taxes on all of their assets as though they disposed of them at the time of renunciation - plus paying a significant fee.
At some point you have to ask why people who clearly aren't doing it for patriotic or altruistic reasons are willing to spend tens of millions of dollars to apply for a job that pays hundreds of thousands a year.
True! Though the funny bit is you don't need an API at all (at least not a json-driven one). A form post is even simpler.
This anti car shit is so dumb IMO. Cows produce wayyyyy more atmospheric pollution than cars. Supertankers emit 260x the world's car pollution every year. Countries are burning tons of coal and putting thick smog into the atmosphere. So what do we do? Make life harder for basically every western citizen by making gas prices skyrocket and banning gas cars, and do nothing about those other problems. It seems to me like nothing more than idiotic virtue signaling (like so many other policies nowadays, unfortunately).
The solution to many of the problem outlined in the article is not to move your work env. to the cloud (which has a boatload of problems in itself) but rather to be able to transparently install a perfect localhost copy of the environment the software you're building will run in, via - whatever - containers, vm's , etc...
Thanks for reminding me to do my part.
I wrote my own HTML parser in Pascal 15 years ago. Pascal is much faster than Python
At least my post is relevant to the topic, not just critiquing someone for being hangry
I'm curious what you would consider coersive if prison doesn't fit your definition.
Ooops, I didn't read the URI so I dind't expect the Veritasium video, I thought it was going to be [1] from back in 2016 which is at least as fun. I still think I would do better, but perhaps that's just myh Dunning–Kruger talking.

[1]: https://twistedsifter.com/2016/04/artist-asks-people-to-draw...
Access to polling places has also been solved, including India where officials carry voting machines through the jungle for or only a handful of voters.

And first past the goal post works, or rather can work. It is aggressive Gerrymandering, allocating senators by state and not population and the electoral college that screw it up in the US.
These where primaries, so it’s not clear why the other party would care.
Linear Regressions with Fat Tails
Election fraud should be concerning to everyone, not just conservatives.

I'm also not sure what you are stating is racist conspiracy nonsense - I only see one comment from OP at the moment.
Only relatively speaking. My low-end two-seat Porsche has saved me three or four times its price in more expensive cars.

These days, automotive engineering is the art and science of using math to cope with regulation. Nobody does it like the Germans... legally or otherwise.
Literally killing someone is only valued at $10M. https://www.npr.org/2020/04/23/843310123/how-government-agen...
This statement is contradictory

>Now lets look at the second assumption, that the gifted programs provide a higher level of education. This is not true. What happens is that gifted programs get significantly higher funding than other schools and so the gifted programs can afford to give a good well rounded education, which is a good thing!

You can't have it both ways. Is the education better or not?
> I'm explicitly not doing that. My whole comment can be rephrased as:
"if we can meet society's needs with less soul-crushing, we should
do so, but some of the soul crushing may be inherent (needing to
work to meet our own physical needs can be inherently exasperating
for some)".

We can absolutely "meet society's needs". We already do, amply, and
have for many decades. The problem is that we've over-supplied needs,
and replaced huge tracts of activity pandering to wants and whims. It
is that over-provision that is at the root of so much of the soul
crushing emptiness.

> I'm inclined to defer to credentialed economists over arbitrary
Internet strangers.

Of course. I know the square root of jack about economics. But I do
know how to read what credentialed economists write. So I think the
difference may be in our choice of credentialed economists. Here's one
take [1]. But who I am really echoing is Yanis Varoufakis, who says it
much better than either Thompson or myself, that we've a very poor
idea what "productivity" really is.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20201230-how-the-pandem...
Terra is a bit unusual in that it consumes LLVM (another large project), and in ways that LLVM doesn't seem to have been quite intended for. So the Makefile build was always a bit of a chore because we had to reverse engineer a bunch of build stuff that wasn't exposed in a sane way.

The biggest win for CMake (aside from doing Windows at all) was that LLVM uses CMake, so we get access to LLVM's first-party CMake configuration. On the whole it tends to be a lot more sane to get what we need this way, and I've mostly been able to stop tearing my hair out every time I start up Terra on a new machine these days.
That makes a lot of sense, but I feel like Steam's "Early Access" is exactly for that. I can't speak for everyone but I often buy games there just to support the developers and don't expect it to be a success (maybe it turns out to be good, maybe it doesn't; either way, it's too early for a "full experience").

Maybe it changed lately, but plenty of astonishing games came out of "Early Access" while being rather unimpressive (though promising) at first.
I've heard the List monad described as modeling nondeterminism as an effect. As you chain flatMaps, at each stage, you're consuming a discrete set of possible inputs and producing a new set of potential outputs per input.

So it's a little different from thinking of your program as something that is once. Instead, you have your program being run multiple times, with the environment injecting different at each stage.

I think the Future/Promise monad is similar. The environment is taking responsibility for pausing and resuming computation.

But I'm curious if you have other monads in mind where the analogy fails.
I'm sure the folks at Zed know what they're doing, but this is already possible in multiple editors / IDEs. I'm excited to see how Zed innovates in this space.

Examples:

- VSCode Live Share https://code.visualstudio.com/learn/collaboration/live-share

- JetBrains IDEs Code With Me https://www.jetbrains.com/code-with-me

- Standalone https://www.coscreen.co https://duckly.com
What are SDoH and ADI?
There is no adjustment whatsoever possible that will accurately further qualify/disqualify students from a gifted program, that is correct.

Simply "tightening" the existing fuzzy criteria will only further arbitrarily limit qualified students.
I've done a triple-take on this also. For some reason I thought of differentiation in the state-space. Which is, off-course, oximoronic. Fuzzy logic-like on n-th degree???
Philosophically, many problems in our society might theoretically be attributed for optimizing for local maxima or other short term goals. Incentives and goals aren't aligned, and rules are far too rigid in favor in too few of the people. Democratic policies as in benefiting the people and democratic as in we elected this policy. Innovation and mutation are the spice of life.
Election returns centers have a lot of people in it. You'd need a pretty sizeable conspiracy to carry out an attack you describe. At the very least, such a conspiracy would produce some kind of written communications or financial transactions. You'd need pretty good coordination to pull it off, and people are neither psychic nor capable of playing verbal "telephone" at scale.
Yeah, the computational overhead over no-privacy retrieval will always be high. Something we point out in the paper is that this does not necessarily translate to server monetary costs; for example, on AWS, where outgoing bandwidth is expensive, using our system to stream a movie is less than 2x the monetary cost of direct, no-privacy streaming. This is because the computational costs are just very small in comparison to the bandwidth costs.

As far as more compelling applications, several folks have suggested DNS, OCSP, and certificate transparency as potential examples. Using PIR as a building block, it is also possible to build more complex systems, like metadata-private messaging (systems like ‘Pung’) and even private voice calling (systems like ‘Addra’).
I remember that I needed to do something involving performance with beautiful soup. Switching the HTML parser backend (as they mention in the docs in BS4) gave me an order of magnitude speedup...
That would only explain a point in time state of affairs but not why they observed the effect widen along party lines. Their theory was that blue areas expanded medicare and red areas didn't but there could be others.
> until such time as the claim isn't pure speculation

Which I don't think it is.

> casually optimistic claims about complex and hard problems are the essence of click-bait

A group of people at Facebook worked on this for many years. TAO and Memcache serves quadrillions of queries a day. I wanted to make this claim – cache invalidation might no longer be a hard problem in Computer Science – years ago; but I didn't because I don't want to jump the gun. We baked the solution for years. There's nothing casual about this.
I thought you could depend on components from other packages that are either installed or advertised, but I don’t remember the details.
TL;DR Owners of Aston Martins live 10 years longer. Implication: if you buy one, you too will live longer.

This example of pseudo logic is very popular in politics because most voters struggle with logic, but love to look smart, so pseudo logic aopeals to them.
I did just fine and so are millions of other people.

Using Arduino will not magically rot your brain and make you unable to ever learn other things. It will however get you started quickly and therefore give you an in. I started using Arduino in a student job, then used Micropython, did my masters thesis on using Micropython on cubesats and now I run a team of 15 hardware engineers.

All of this happened because I got started with easy beginner tools. There was no one to teach me the "real" way. The people preaching the real way and railing against simple beginner stuff usually don't write tutorials, build easy to use devboards or write easy to use libraries.
Agree! It can become a but political. It should be noted though that while that is less than perfect...

What I've observed in less well off neighborhoods is that in particular the school board becomes populated with professional administrators. Then the administrators get familiar with the process for procurement for supplies, facilities and contracted work and start getting cozy with the local providers of those services. And things start going down hill and there is little in the way of oversight since most parents/voters are too busy juggling multiple jobs, etc.
Kind of similar:
https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/r59nzr/i_regret_goi...
> Please explain a better system for outcomes than putting in the work and earning the outcome.

You are not understanding my point. It comes down to the criteria used to judge whether or not you've "earned" the outcome. You're assuming these are fair and I'm pointing out they are actually significantly tilted to favoring the dominant group.

Let's say my family runs the town and happens to be fast sprinters. The people of the town complain that they'd like some say in how the town is run and threaten chaos if they don't get it. We bow to pressure but we set the new rules, and say, "Fine. We'll have a town council to run things that anyone can be on. We'll hold a 100 yard-dash to determine the members." It's objective. It's based on merit. But it ensures my family says in control. If my family had been poor sprinters but strong long-distance runners we might have held a 20K race instead. Still objective. Still merit-based. You still "put in the work and earn the outcome". But it still ensures my family stays in control.

> Even the use of the word racist here is nonsense. It implies malicious intent.

It's probably useful to understand the distinction between "racism" and "systemic racism" here. Racism is the belief that one race is superior (or conversely, inferior) to another. That's someone's direct thought or intent. Systemic racism, on the other hand, is a system that hold one race down while holding another race above them. Systemic racism doesn't require anyone to have have any racist beliefs or intent. It's just a system that has a certain effect. However, once someone becomes aware of a system that advantages one race to the detriment of another, whether they decide to support it or look for a better way is where there is potential racism.
This is actually a great example of the flaw in the debate. NYC has a unique and byzantine school system that's unrecognizable to basically all Americans outside of NYC.

This means if you hear "eliminate this program because equity," and you grew up in the midwest where the gifted program didn't function at all like you describe or require much funding at all, this sounds completely nonsensical because we're not talking about the same thing.

I don't have an answer to this except that it's best discussed on a local case by case basis.
You changed the subject from being in gifted to being gifted. You can exist outside of gifted and still have a high IQ and be a successful person. So, no.
Yep https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron
For the Americans in the audience: if this story of fraud gives you pause and you want to do something to help...

Most places in the country are positively starved for judges of elections (who are local administrators, one per polling location) and the rest of the elections team (who both manage the mechanics of the election and serve as an observer / check-on-power for the judge). If you want to help, it is a two-day time commitment per year, and the job and responsibilities are extremely straightforward.

You can often get yourself elected (in most states, these positions are elected but nobody runs for them so you can write yourself into the job). You can also reach out to the county elections office and volunteer; the positions are so chronically under-staffed that they're usually extremely thankful for volunteers, and when nobody is elected to the position in a given voting location, the county has to pull from volunteers to appoint people to the task.

You get a chance to meet all your neighbors, and there's no better way to ensure your vote isn't stolen or compromised than to secure it yourself.
Sounds like a bad idea. I get it that not specifying type syntax makes it the most flexible, but also prevents any actual checks and optimizations from being performed by the browser. So it’s just inflating bundle sizes for no reason. Might as well run them through something that checks then removes type annotations… which is what we already have
Steam hasn't been really slowed down by not having steam.com however - even Valve itself doesn't have valve.com

Ever since URL bars defaulted to a web search instead of just adding www.com to the word the value of a one word dot com has dropped.
One party is hurting their own constituents by limiting access to healthcare at the state level. Verifying this actually has negative outcomes isn’t inherently political. Imagine if the research showed zero correlation, that would have been far more interesting.

Understanding the outcomes of political choices isn’t inherently political. It’s completely reasonable for someone to say yes this saves lives but it’s still not worth the money.
reminds me of how ninite came up with their name: https://ninite.tumblr.com/post/620277259/how-ninite-was-name...
>Socioeconomic status tracks with academic ability...

Wow. Wrong answer.

Socioeconomic status tracks with academic ability because wealthy people are smarter then poor people and their offspring do better because academic ability is genetic!
I'd call it a "screen serif" https://blog.obormot.net/Screen-serif-fonts
Emacs supports both a TUI and a GUI mode.
Less parking could mean more housing
Seems like a pretty vapid breakdown. Their entire thesis is this:

> Fragmentation has put paid to the dream of this OS ever being bigger than Windows

Which seems... off the mark? Linux distros aren't made to replace Windows, they're maintained because it's a breadwinner OS that runs on millions of servers. The desktop portion is an afterthought, a quirk made to appease nerds who reminisce about the days of NeXTStep and graphical shells. I say all of this as someone who uses the Linux desktop on most of my devices and prefer it to Mac and Windows: these are not problems. At least, they can't be "solved" like someone would traditionally think when confronting a problem. Linux is opinionated, it's why both GNOME and KDE exist and both userbases end up working fine separately. These teams use different design philosophies, you can't just tell them to move past their differences and make one, compromise-ridden mess.

> But that's not what Linux desktop fans want. They want Windows crushed and bleeding underneath the Linux juggernaut

Uh... no? Hell, if Windows died, I'm not sure how I'd play games on Linux. I'm perfectly happy having both OSes living alongside each other as complimentary pieces, and I'd reckon that's what Microsoft would prefer at this point, too. Ironically, both OSes need one another; without Windows, Linux has no mainstream compatibility layer/games, and without Linux, Windows doesn't really have an internet. Or update servers. Or a Microsoft Store CDN. Or a website. The list goes on, you get the picture.

I don't understand what articles like this are calling for. Less software? Less options? More hivemind development?
A Brief History of Frankincense
3 out of 10 whites is too white? Um, what's the ethnic makeup of San Francisco? It's 46% white. So why is 3/10 too white?

I suspect because "whites are evil". I am open to hearing any rational explanation, though.
> School was never meant to be "engaging".

That's backwards. A school that doesn't engage its students has failed at its most important goals, and the very best schools have always striven to be engaging. Often this was done in unconventional ways, such as directing the youngest students to memorize their pre-set "lessons" word for word and be able to literally chant them back to the teacher. Similarly "direct" yet effective instructional methods were just as common wrt. practical exercises and problem solving. There was no space for the modern fashionable truism that "constructing" one's education from scratch, with practically no involvement from an outside educator, is the only possible source of engagement.
The solution is clear. Buy a private jet.

"EU Proposes To Exempt Private Jets From Fuel Tax": https://bitluxtravel.com/eu-proposes-to-exempt-private-jets-...
Because it doesn't address the problem in the article.

These voters were "active voters". They voted in the past like 6 years! Sure, it wasn't them and instead an impersonator but whatever step you want to use to only ensure active voters are on the rolls, one can do as an insider.

Need a signature? Grab the one on file.
Need something mailed back? Just fill it out and drop it off in outgoing of their post office.
Need them to vote? No problem, "they've" been doing that already.
SVCReady: A New Loader Gets Ready
I feel CLion latencies even on a much smaller project. Sublime Text is faster, and I hope Zed is near. I guess people have different sensitivity for this. It’s not about time waste, it’s just affecting the flow.
Unless you're arguing that the typical Republican voter is skewing ruraler and poorer over time such a theory doesn't explain why the gap is growing.
I think that many times the people involved are not doing it strictly for the money, but because they feel their side is the one that should clearly be in charge.