skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So in the US you can do "credit freezes" which prevent people from taking out new loans/new cards in your name.

HOWEVER - you can't do anything about the fact they can call up your bank, say "I forgot my password" and then give them your SSN. Your bank will happily reset the password for them. If someone has your SSN they essentially have everything they need to get access to any of your financial, medical, or utility accounts, and can also use it for KYC/AML to open say a crypto account in your name. You cannot do anything to prevent this option.
Not really. Any teacher qualified to teach HS math should be able to teach anything up to pre-Calc. If you have more Algebra students ahead of grade level than usual, you shift a teacher away from pre-Algebra and into teaching Algebra I.
As someone who loved everything about Atom except the sluggishness and bloat, Zed sounds like exactly the thing that I've been wanting.

VSCode/Codium is amazing but it feels the same - sluggish but a feature/extensions-packed behemoth.

I hope Zed is able to establish a nice extension ecosystem as that is priceless!

Thank you!
Sounds like almost a week of additionnal days off from both cloud vendor and local power outages. :)
Adoption of Bitcoin is a net positive on the CO2 being added to the atmosphere for sure.
Thanks. Sounds like a ride. Glad you're able to have space to do work well-aligned with your values.

I'm finding it really hard to do. Even if I wanted to make the personal sacrifice (and thus sacrifice my future children's stability and environment..) for more virtuous pursuits for far less compensation, I have a hard time believing in any organization's ability to affect meaningful change.

I'm trying to start small by helping my one friend who is a doctor to streamline her office tech. I think I could give her 20% of her time back performing repetitive tasks.
You're excluding the fundraising capacity and ancillary services funded and paid for by the PTA.

Wealthy neighborhoods have PTA budgets that are in the hundreds of thousands/millions. They pay for after school activities, language immersion programs, music, sports, you name it.

It is shocking the discrepancy between neighborhoods in NYC. Average donation per pupil might be $20 in a poor neighborhood and $5,000 in a wealthy one.
Yes this is correct - apologize if I wasn't clear with this. From what I understand and my previous experiences at startups it was a standard vesting structure where ownership vests over 4-years with a 1-year cliff (or at an acquisition event). On day-1 neither I nor my co-founder had any shares vested.
Why is this site becoming more and more infested with politics? It's going to end up suffocating anything actually worthwhile
Good thing I don't use TikTok, then, because I don't recognize any of their interests as legitimate.
I do think OCSP and certificate transparency stuff is a clear application for PIR that makes a lot of sense. There, you currently basically have to volunteer your browsing patterns to a 3rd party (beyond your ISP).
So I wonder a bit, VSCode has clearly won over Atom.

But technically, as far as I know, they are both pretty similar.

So where is the difference? Are these just small details which VSCode got better? Or are there bigger things?

Or why else did VSCode actually won?

I have used both in the past. VSCode seemed a bit snappier, which is an important aspect for an editor. But I'm not sure if this was really the case actually. Or also, why there would be such a difference. Both used Electron, and I assumed both would use similar techniques for the editor.
Asians are white when it's unhelpful to the narrative for them to be a minority. See also "underrepresented minority", which translates to: non-Asian minority.
I guess the problem is how the gifted programs are being executed rather than their existence then.

When I read "gifted programs" I certainly would think that race or social background has zero influence on acceptance (even though they do influence kids access to education before getting there).

Reading what you said it seems logical that removing these programs is overall a good thing. But the way I see it the discussion about supporting kids that are truly gifted shouldn't be dismissed.

Maybe the solution would be to actually replace that program with something that's not perpetuating this segregation.

Disclaimer: I don't live in the US, so take it with a big grain of salt :)
Yep. You're exactly right. And the approach is generic and I think it should work for everyone.

The idea is that with all these observability capabilities, debugging cache inconsistencies is getting very actionable and close to how we debug an error with message telling us exactly where an exception happened.
Marijn has done much to make CM6 an accessible code editor. Now with Monaco (editor component of VS Code) and CM6 both being accessible, online code runners/playgrounds and interactive code examples in docs/courses are almost guaranteed to be accessible when they use one of those editors. This eliminates a big accessibility issue when you are learning to code and rely on assistive technologies.
> Gas simulations now support motion blur

What? Isn't motion blur always done in post anyway? As far as I know, motion blur is just a property of the camera, it's caused by after images that show up in the picture when things move too fast, it has nothing to do with the actual 3d world out there.
If you know Java or JavaScript, Dart is extremely easy to pick up.
A difference in maintenance costs is not necessarily a consequence of disinvestment... it could simply be that lower performing schools are more likely to be urban, and in urban areas everything related to the construction and maintenance of buildings, whether old or new, is more expensive (not to mention admin salaries, etc.). Or it could be that plus what you say for a double wammy at some schools. I'm just brainstorming reasonable seeming hypotheses that you could imagine trying to rule out with the right dataset.
That's super fair. I'll admit I'm entirely in the same boat - if nothing happens on a new tool when I type Ctrl-Shift-P, I usually just shrug and go back to using all the other tools I have that do that.

I do love the fact that, with Sublime, that 75%+ of the time when I want to do something, say, pretty-print a JSON text document, it's just:

Ctl-Shift-P, "json" (Don't see anything obvious)
[hit backspace to clear json] "Install Package", "json"
See the "Pretty Print" option, install it in 2 seconds, and on my way.
Modern Activism Is Too Trendy to Get Anything Done
This person was responsable for multiple public HR debacles, their seniority meant everything was swept under a rug.

One employee provided a list of things "if we can't fix these, this is my two weeks notice" and this choad responded with "cool see ya".

HR got involved and after his two weeks was announced by choad he was suddenly back with the company, just kidding! Said employee stayed around for another month or two but ultimately left.

"I'm in charge, so I'm right" is the most cancerous personality to deal with. I pride myself on acknowledging when I'm wrong and I'm astounded and disappointed at the lack of ability in 99% of people to engage in genuine reflection / introspection.
"Treason" is one of the few crimes which is defined in the US constitution. It has a fairly narrow definition which does not include election fraud:

>Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
I use a single 40" 4k display at 1x. This allows me to fluidly switch between different layouts like one huge canvas when doing design or multiple windows when coding, writing, etc.

I used multiple monitors in the past, but the seams between displays was a hinderance when spanning a single window across.
There is a darker Truth.

Intelligence as tested by IQ by several govts and organizations is mostly genetic[1].

It means that the "nurture" part is not so much important as people think.

Heck you can even see with brothers / cousins the differences.

When we say "gifted" it means we are selecting and optimizing for IQ. Thus the "inequality".
You will always see more Asians.

To make more equal we need to remove/disqualify asians.

If a profession/skill is very related to a characteristic/feature as IQ then I want the best there.

Not everyone is equal and not everyone has the same skills. If you check [1] you will see they studied TWINS adopted in families. There is no better "social intervention" than adopting someone, provide the same food/structure that all on family have.

Then you can see here the confirmation in a soft way [2] and [3].

"and we consistently find that considering performance on the SAT/ACT, particularly the math section, substantially improves the predictive validity of our decisions with respect to subsequent student success at the Institute."

I am not gifted but I do benefit from gifted people work.

[1] - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016028962...

[2] - https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/we-are-suspending-our-...

[3] - https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/we-are-reinstating-our...
There is likely overlap in the target markets and even in the goals/desired outcomes, but the business models are different.
AI chatbot spewing hate is nothing new. See the naive approaches from Microsoft a few years back with their twitter bots.

Only interesting part here seems to be that it can now be a single guy doing it rather than a team inside a well funded tech company.
Main reason I've always stuck to small companies. Some people are fine with that BigCo environment, but some of us just need something else
Stuffing paper ballots is infinitely harder if your election system isn't entirely fucked. Multiple assessors, both from parties and individuals who just want to ensure that everything goes right, invalidation of the entire ballot box if any cheating is found post-votes, increase the amount of voting places so that scaling this up becomes impossible.

Voting has been solved centuries ago. And voting machines will never be part of the solution.
> What else can you do with it? What if you turn it sideways? What if you rub your finger where you've already drawn with it? What happens if you crush a small piece of it? What can you do with that? Grab a dry paper towel and start smearing your drawing. Get curious, get crazy.

This is actually part of what has drawn me back to art after not doing it much since I was in school. After getting into my career and adult life, I've gotten so accustomed to following rules and best practices (HIPAA, coding styles, bills, etc etc) I eventually realized, with some shock, that I basically never did anything in life anymore that was purely random and experimental like the stuff you described. I want to balance that out with just having fun creating and being accountable to no one but myself like I did when I was younger. Discussing this further bolsters my resolve to get into this
Survivorship bias is a thing :)

For every 1 person who got a big payout, there are 99 more that just worked themselves to burnout and maybe got a mediocre options payout worth about 1/2 the salary they'd have made at BigCo.

This is probably more true if you're employee number <10 and stick with it through the long haul, which may not be appealing for a variety of reasons. It can also be true if you spin a personal project into a business, but you can do that while employed anywhere.

There isn't any guaranteed, or IMO even likely expectation of a big reward if you join SmallCo and simply "work hard". The reward for that is usually more that higher-ups recognize you're capable and choose you as the go-to person any time they have any sort of tough problem. This is both exhausting and frustrating if you're the designated hero fixer but cannot convince leadership of broader changes they need to make to limit the number of fires that need fighting or train other employees to handle tasks as effectively as you. The general rule that you'll most likely see a salary increase by hopping jobs anyway still applies.
> That's a 25% increase since 2018. Source: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/sf-mayor....

And in 2022 we're on track for somewhere between 40 and 48, precisely in line with prior years. A single outlier year does not a trend make.

> and then the trend abruptly reversed around 2014

Until 2016, when it began dropping again, and then it jumped up a ton in 2020 but we don't really have data yet to know if that was a fluke or not. (it really looks like the 2014 thing was just regression to the mean).
Steve Jobs was asked a question related to this many years ago [1]. Older Jobs was asked as well [2].

The trouble is that you may want Opus, FLAC, and JPEG XL, but someone else wants a different set, and someone else wants yet a different set... then in 3 years everyone changes their mind. There is value to some stability and consistency to these file formats so our media is durable and broadly supported over time.

I'm not sure Apple is the only one holding this stuff back. I just checked out a JPEG XL site [3] and it only shows partial support and it's hidden behind a feature flag. As long as this is the current state of things, Apple isn't holding back anything. It's simply not ready for prime time.

I get the desire for open source standards used for media, but they never seem to be as broadly supported, and for your average user, that's all they care about. "Can I view my image? Can I listen to my music?" If the answer is no, they don't care about anything else. Most users won't know if they are looking at a PNG or JPEG XL, or listing to an m4a file vs Opus.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48j493tfO-o
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmRNIGqzuRI
[3] https://jpegxl.io/#tutorials
You run into the same issue you do with 2FA -

I cannot remember my own SSN. What happens if I lose my license, SSN, and master password manager password in a fire? What happens if someone has a stroke and forgets a recent pin code, etc.

Do I go to my state and request new IDs? How do they authenticate me?
I have two 24" monitors on my desk, one in landscape, one in portrait, and wouldn't have it any other way (ie, neither more nor fewer, nor any other arrangements).

When I travel I work on my laptop screen and it's fine but I prefer my desk setup.
I love how I read the subject and knew it was a Raymond Chen post.
The Cattell Culture Fair III (CFIT-III) is really good.

If we are talking IQ scores within the same western country, we know now to make culture fair fluid intelligence test (it's not the same as future achievement score)
I wouldn't overlook people as resources. In addition to teachers, it's really valuable to have more adults around to help out. Otherwise keeping a room of 25 kids corralled is enough work on its own that it meaningfully reduces the time left to teach.
Jesus Christ, if this is real it's the creepiest dialog I've ever seen in my entire life.
I wouldn't be surprised if they originally wrote it correctly and a phone's autocorrect "fixed" it for them
In case you were curious for more info about him:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Myers_(Pennsylvania_po...

>Michael Joseph "Ozzie" Myers (born May 4, 1943) is an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1976 to 1980. A member of the Democratic Party, Myers became involved in the Abscam scandal during his tenure in Congress and was later expelled from the House of Representatives after being caught taking bribes in an FBI sting operation. In 2020, he was indicted for election fraud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Space
Put another way, software engineers are some of the few people afforded a healthy relationship with their labor - to take pride in its craftsmanship, to be satisfied by things working well and dissatisfied by things working poorly. That is cause for gratitude and celebration.

This kind of oppositional attitude is toxic. I'm glad not to find it in my coworkers. And I would not accept an environment where coworkers displayed it.
CarPlay is an absolute must for me for Maps/GPS. No other system I’ve used comes close. (I haven’t driven a Tesla).

Siri is also miles better than most in car voice systems including integrated Alexa.
>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.

No. This is a complete red-herring. Every school in the US is good enough to provide quality education. Every school in the US is staffed by good, well-trained teachers. Every child gets free textbooks, notebooks, pens, pencils, paper, etc (which isn't as common in the world as you'd think). Sometimes free breakfast or lunch is provided as well.

That some school district provides high-end iPads and another doesn't makes no material difference to a quality education. That some parents want to optimize their child's education by sending them to another district, makes no material difference to a quality education. Put another way, we're dealing with kids graduating being functionally illiterate - and that problem does not stem from school or teacher quality. That's a parent problem (as in, what kind of a parent allows their child to not be able to read by the time they are ready to graduate).
Sounds like a vote against qualified immunity. I'm in.
At home, I use a single display now.

At work, I still use 3 displays, not so much for multitasking, but one is for work, a second is for at-a-glance status board, and the third is for a browser window with some sort of documentation on it, along with my daily notes in Obsidian.

I'm typically not moving windows around, and I use different virtual desktops for different apps. My standard work desktop is a browser window and either vscode or a couple of terminals.

Other than that, all my active work is on a single monitor.
Absolutely—my point is that these schools aren't behind the "good" ones, funding-wise, and even pay better.

Past a certain not-that-high point, giving schools more money doesn't help them much.

There's probably some astronomically-high level of funding that would help, past some tipping point, by enabling things like single-digit class sizes, tons of social workers and counselors, extensive home-outreach programs, et c., to the point that the staff-to-student ratio is 1:5 or better, but AFAIK no-one's tried that in public schools (that's not too far off from how lots of elite private schools, operate, though, except that they don't need the army of social workers or home-outreach or any of that)
AFAIK this name was intentionally given with Austin Powers reference.
Digital fair repair act passed in New York
Intelligent kids are one of the most picked on and abused demographics in existence. Gifted programs for many is the only part of school that is positive for them.
I believe the article answers all your questions!

(Also, IMO, it is much easier to install Pyston-lite than upgrade a whole Python version, which is an absolute nightmare on some of my specific scenarios with somewhat embedded hardware)

They are currently stuck on 3.8, but believe they will be able to support multiple versions easily because pyston-lite is much easier to develop for than pyston (because it is an extension and not a whole CPython fork).

They also present benchmarks at the very end comparing Pyston, Pyston-lite and the latest CPython 3.11.0b3, all compared to Ubuntu's default Python 3.8.10. It shows that while CPython offers ~8-15% improvements (macro-micro benchmarks), Pyston-Lite offers 8-27% improvements and "OG" Pyston offers 35-65% improvements.

So compared to regular CPython you might get an extra 10% or so, which might or not be worth it depending on your case. Excited to see what happens if they port Pyston to Python 3.11, though!
I wonder if Watergate's operations continued uninterrupted by 'you pesky kids (reporters)' what kind of innovations would be expected in that market?
Pre-Z DF was basically a side-scroller. Surface was map-left, there was a cliff face, and the further map-right you went was 'deeper'
OP didn't say you didn't have the right, OP merely shared their opinion on your opinion of someone's experiences.
Got a link to the specific paper and description of how it was done?

Trying to chase it down just got me to this: https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-news/files/20190417222934/Gris...

Which seems like it just is saying that the proportion assigned to gifted programs was lower than what the average test score would suggest (notable when compared to hispanics), but hispanics could have a wider distribution (or a bimodal one), so this seems like a shoddy test. The correct check of the hypothesis would be to find the test score threshhold above which 50% of students get into the gifted program and see if this threshhold varies by race... but I can't find anywhere this is done.
Perhaps worth noting: the fraud perpetrated in this story was completely independent of mail-in ballots.

In Pennsylvania, mail-in ballots don't even pass through the level of the bureaucracy that was bribed to compromise the in-person vote totals.

"Do mail-in ballots make fraud easier" is a multi-dimensional question. At some level of resolution, everything that makes exercising the right to vote easier makes fraud easier. US history is too rife with examples of attempts to deny the right to vote under surface-level-sound justifications to take any such question at face value.
The most big problem of UI kits
Saying a problem isn't hard to solve because you have tools to analyze the correctness of your solution seems like a stretch.
Suggesting that the authors intentionally omitted the main result of their study from the abstract and hid it under layers of obfuscating details for sharp-eyed readers to uncover is basically a conspiracy theory. The far more straightforward explanation is that the authors saw it as one fact among many that contributed to their overall conclusion stated in the abstract.
i dont think so, thats all algebra 2
On Windows, it's now faster/easier to use the built in Snip+Sketch tool (Win + Shift + S).

It does instant rectangular selection, then pops up a simple editor which you can then copy/paste anywhere you'd like.

I have Win+Shift+S bound to a mouse chord, as well as copy and paste, so I can actually paste an arbitrary rectangle of my screen without touching the keyboard.
https://zed.dev/waitlist
How do you handle caching derived data assembled from multiple individual records? For example, how would you maintain a cache for a query like getFriendsOfFriends(userId)?

My context is working on Notion’s caches for page data. Our pages are made out of small units called “blocks” that store pointers to their child content. To serve all the blocks needed to render a page, we need to do a recursive traversal of the block tree. We have an inconsistent cache of “page chunks” right now, how would you think about making a consistent cache?
>> Besides Google Maps/Apple Maps and Waze

‘Besides search, why would anyone use Google?’

You can’t remove the headliner from a show and ask why people still come.
Genuine question, why is it even possible to lock the clip board?
This has the downside that a person can prove how they voted.

This opens it to risk of bribery and coercion.

Right now, you can prove that you voted, but not actually how you voted.
How is this different than dropping in additional paper ballots into a ballot box? If it isn’t, then this has nothing to do with the machine, but rather control of the “ballot box”.
We Accidentally Started Making Infinite Robots
Careful, we're not allowed to point out that family background is the root cause.

The answer is always more money!
Wasmer 2.3