skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When people talk about Communism, they imagine everybody being equally rich. Well, the reality showed us that Communism can only make people equally poor and miserable. Similarly, liberalism tries to make everybody equally stupid, not equally smart! But, as we know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions!

As a father of a decently-gifted son who gets bored to death at school and who's bombarded with brainless homework to stay "out of trouble" when not in school, I can tell the California education is the worst I can imagine in a civilized country!
>Because I'm primarily on HN to seek employment

you should really rethink your strategy here
This is less true than it once was. Most of the bug exploits now actually have built-in components that are used instead (observers being the big one).

I don't think that Minecraft is a good choice for actually learning computer engineering, because the physics of Minecraft are very different than real physics. But with modern redstone, I think it could be a really approachable way to understanding the kind of thinking that goes into building a processor.
This is really interesting - didn't you try to capitalise on your popularity? Monetise it somehow? Or use it to influence the conversations you care about in your industry etc?

I'm scared of backlash, but I think it's also kind of my dream to have that sort of influence. But I can well believe that I couldn't handle it or take advantage of it in practice.
I agree with that wholeheartedly. I'd go further and say that I think companies are getting too big to the point where different divisions have no relation to each other at all. Any major tech stock has this problem. The problem is I have no idea how it could be discouraged. It feels like whenever something is regulated it just results in something completely different than intended.
I would my home country of Romania to your example. Life was miserable through 80s but there hardly any visible crime. Certainly no shoplifting and no vagabonds. We used to have a saying "te bate ca la militie" to describe the consequences of being hauled to the local police (back then called militia) station for "questioning".
Notably to some who may misinterpret the "stays in memory" aspect: even the copy in memory is fully scanned by every query. So it's not just disk access patterns that don't give anything away, but RAM access patterns.
Siri weather responses are somewhat egocentrism. They often don’t take into account what might be comfortable in one locale isn’t what is comfortable in another.

A -5° Centigrade winter daytime temp might be completely normal and expected in my area.

However, Siri will love to tell you, like a long-lost distant relative from tropical climes, about how terrible and how uncomfortable it is.
If everyone sells their currency to but dollars, the currency loses even more value faster compared to dollars, so currency controls are put in place, like Argentina did for a while:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_currency_controls_(2...
As a developer who works in very small teams/orgs, though: Will you need a "devops" team of 10+ just to create and keep the cloud-hosted development environment working?

Cause that's why I currently prefer avoiding even docker for my dev env.
There are a few ways to extract data:

1. Use JOSM to download a chunk (this is what I do if I'm editing the map)

2. Use an API like Overpass to download larger datasets (e.g. "all the drinking fountains in North America")

3. Use a QGIS plugin to download the data directly into a project (this is what I do if I'm making a paper or PDF map)

Once you have the data in OSM format (just another point/line/poly XML format), you can convert it to other things with a tool like GPSBabel.

Re blocked on doing things you want, I think I tempered that with what I could do. And I was "lucky" that my burnout job was so time-consuming that I was unable to really spend money or take vacations. So I had plenty banked to be lazy.

"Don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Look at my cousin--he's broke, don't do shit." --Lawrence, Office Space

The bummer was when I'd iterate through the list of things I could do, and zero of them appealed. That was a hard place to be. One trick I used there was to increase the size of the list of things I could do. I did this by writing down every idea I was even inspired by. ("Learn to sketch landscapes!") Then I had a big list for inspiration. The larger that list, the less likely I was to come up dry when looking for a task for the day.

If you simply can't financially afford to decompress, that seems a harder problem. I don't have a good answer there, except maybe a different gig entirely, tighten the belt, work with your SO to get through it, etc.
As a "gifted" student in a tiny town, I had my 3rd and 4th grade math "class" in the hallway, where the teachers drug my desk and slapped down a geometry textbook and told me to teach myself. In other classes they tried to get me to help teach my classmates the concepts, which is not a great place for a 4th grader to be in.

By high school I'd learned to read the textbook, ace the tests and do fuck-all for homework to the frustration of every educator at the school trying to teach me hard work alongside the actual material. There were actually AP classes in high school that I never qualified for because I never learned to actually work at school, and by high school I didn't really care. I was completely unprepared when Junior year in college, it actually got so hard that I had to study. I almost flunked out.

I can empathize with the gifted kids that are just a different shade, not getting challenged, basically getting the small town experience I got. It is a ton of potential being wasted. I agree with the article, throwing away gifted programs and just lowering the bar is a mistake, but raising everyones bar to the gifted level... that's going to leave some of the most vulnerable behind which I don't think should be done either.

Maybe working to shore up the problem of black/brown kids having equal test scores and not getting into a gifted program is the first hurdle, and then we can look around and see what to do next.
I mean hypothetically all the money given to a school could be used to build a giant statue but does that actually happen? In your example, are we sure giving teachers a pay rise does not make them more motivated and hence leading to better outcomes?
That is the point: if an employee quits, they're not entitled to unemployment.

However, if they were "constructively dismissed" that is treated as a layoff/involuntary termination and the employee can get unemployment.

Note that the OP mentioned that their remote work agreement was voided. They weren't constructively dismissed, it sounds like they were actually terminated. (A company can't simply decide to unilaterally void part of an employment agreement without voiding the entire agreement. That's not how contracts work. )
Algebra I also generally includes systems of (2 or 3) linear equations, quadratics (different equation forms, factoring, graphing, solving) and basic exponential functions (although usually just recognizing them and filling in Ce^rt).
They achieve this primarily because they often exclude low performing students... either directly or indirectly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-54c0IdxZWc&t=45s
Every time I read this stuff I don’t get it, it always feels like some form of missing the forest for the trees when you try and make determinations based off of percentages/ratios of groups rather than keeping it about the individual.

Uplift the individual first, trying to tweak things just to pump your numbers up seems like missing the point. I would rather treat education on a more personal outcome level than to treat it like a retail shop where I’m just trying to boost sales to meet some number/category goals.

(I think something similar can be said about this concept when it comes to politicians on TV recommending medical treatments or vaccines “for everyone” which I think is worth mentioning to help frame what I am getting at here but that’s another story.)
Yeah I relate to this so hard
It takes very little to imagine how this causes inequality. Maybe you can’t get the state ID either! Voter ID and State ID aren’t necessarily the same thing. Maybe you need both! Maybe you can get your State ID at a local office but the Voter ID only from the county courthouse two towns away. Maybe you don’t have a car and a day off. Maybe they are only available on certain days and times. Maybe those times change at the last minute.

When all those maybes line up you get inequality. This is well established behavior across the United States. If you want to learn more I suggest starting with this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965

My thoughts on this have evolved over the years. I encourage you to dig deeper into this. Voter ID might not do or mean what you think it does.
Don’t Include a Blocked Column in Your Software Development Workflow
Certain politicians use the myth of widespread voter fraud to push targeted disenfranchising policies like voter ID requirements and mail-in voting restrictions. Conflating individual voter crimes that might supposedly be stopped by these laws, with election official crimes that have nothing to do with them, would be bad faith debating. So it’s important to be clear about this distinction.
The risk clearly doesn't fit the crime. A risk of being hung for treason is harder to recruit for.
As a career developer 40 years into specializing on 3D graphics and animation, Blender's progress and accumulative feature set is stunning. I realized about 6 months ago Blender had cross a threshold of usability, and in those years of being "difficult to learn and use" the Blender community quietly built out a feature set that rivals, if not exceeds every commercial 3D modeler, animation, node based procedural subsystem, compositing, and scientific visualization product on the market. Due to Blender's deep Python integration, deep learning libraries can be imported and integrated to significant mad computer wizardry. Blender has come of age, and it is going to eat several commercial software publisher's lunch, if they don't wake up.
Counterpoint to your counterpoint :) I think local entropy has to decrease first to create the concentration gradients that are harvested by diffusion. So life must also rely on decreasing the local entropy. All depends on how you define the system.
"Judge of Elections" in PA is an elected position for running the polling place for a precinct on election day. It's an extremely low-level position that only involves work on 2 days of the year.

It's not a "judge" in the sense someone who oversees a criminal or civil trial.
> Private fire departments

These are still definitely a thing. Though I expect they must be regulated so we don't end up in a Rome-style situation.

Edit: Found it. If you're in an area with something like Rural Metro, they put out the fire either way. If you don't have an annual membership with them, then they will invoice you. Nobody offering to buy your home for pennies on the dollar or standing around waiting for your credit card to clear before hosing down the flames.
Ask HN: Have you switched back to single display after trying multi displays?
I used to have 3 displays and as time passes I find less and less use for extra display other than them being distration. A while back as an attempt to reduce distraction I moved to two displays (big primary and 24" secondary). I think it is reducing distration but it might be just me assuming since I want the result to be less distraction and more focus.
I wonder if anyone else has tried moving either way (to more displays or to reduce the number) and want to share experience.
They lack insight about nature and other political systems.
This is true with all social services. The goal of a school is to educate. The incentive of a private school is to make money.
Thank you!

We built out our own Workflows engine that makes our life significantly easier. This way different customers can use the same integrations N number of ways without us needing to bake in a default configuration. Otherwise we'd be playing catch up all the time.
no no, this is the fun of building the rss/atom reader!

My funniest moment was when I didn't notice someone deleted their feed and the missing page redirected to the front page. The many layers of failbacks just parsed the html as if it was a feed. It didn't have <item>s so it tried to parse it without items, it didn't have <link>s or <guide>s so it ended up looking for <a>'s in the <description> but it didn't have <description> so it just accepted any <a>'s and used whatever was in the <a>'s as the <title>.
Somehow in last few years equity has been promoted and even equated with equality.

They are different concepts.

Equal Opportunity is a universal goal that as a society we continue to strive towards even though is impossible to fully achieve.

Equalized Outcomes (Equity) Is a dystopian nightmare.

The idea that all possible differentials between humans can and should have the same outcomes is ludicrous.

I work in education and will give you an example of this nonsense. In a well to do district in Chicago they found that Black students do not do as well in AP Calculus. After years of intervention the district achieved growth and had a record number of black student now enrolled in AP Calculus. However after five years and despite the increase of black students it was still found that white and asian students got higher scores on the AP exam.

The district solution was to cancel AP Calculus and now it is only offered as a third party online course not taught by the school district.

Why was the goal for all groups to have the same test scores? Just absolute rubbish.
The federal government isn't the only organization investigating election fraud. For instance, Abbott (The Republican governor of Texas) launched his own investigation. It found evidence of voter fraud outside of Texas. Apparently, one Republican attempted to vote twice. No outcomes were affected.

Of course, all 50 states have elections offices that are also tasked with looking for internal fraud. Those offices are staffed by Republican appointees in many of the swing states Trump is complaining so bitterly about. Collectively, they came up with nothing.

Since the Democrats don't control many of the organizations that are supposedly covering up massive election fraud, who do you think is responsible?

Whoever this group is, any plausible conspiracy theory will need to include Democrats, old-school Republicans, and Republicans that are endorsed by Trump.
Oh there are plenty of evidences. There were even before the election. There were postal officials who were destroying ballots in one state that was well reported. We just decided to look the other way.
I would highly recommend trying it again -- it's improved drastically in the past 5 years!
> 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.

I can't adopt this level of cynicism, or else I'd have to conclude that multi-ethnic societies are doomed to fall apart like Yugoslavia, or remain together using synthetic means like the Lebanese National Pact⁰, which specifies power sharing with agreements like

* The Prime Minister of the Republic always be a Sunni Muslim.

* The Speaker of the Parliament always be a Shia Muslim.

* The Deputy Speaker of the Parliament and the Deputy Prime Minister always be Greek Orthodox Christian.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Pact
> But what this means is the wealthier localities have more tax revenue and thus better schools.

Poorer districts tend to have more industrial properties, so they are often better funded than wealthier districts. Especially since most state funding is distributed based on pupil units rather than pupils, and a low-SES student might count as something like 1.5 pupil units. (And a disabled student might count as 2.0 pupil units, etc.)
So instead of opposing the entire idea of voter IDs, why do we not pass a Federal law that makes getting an ID free of charge?

Seems like that's the root cause or the main contention.
Interestingly I can't find any news about his sentencing. Did it ever occur?
The simplest approach would be to just charge people per-query (or charge in levels, depending on the number of queries). This could be done in the standard way (you have to log in, pay the site, and then it gives you an API key or just session token, and logs how many queries you make). I think you can avoid having to use a ZKP this way, since that will make things much more complicated and possibly costly.
Adversarial Robustness with AdverTorch Black-Box Estimators
Stuffing paper ballots into a box or tapping the screen of an electronic voting machine are both very easy. This stuff has to be fixed at a higher level, like by making sure the folks running the precinct aren’t corrupt or by having a neutral observer present
hint: they aren't being honest
As others have mentioned, you don't always need the full performance of these microcontrollers, and many are pretty powerful to start with. An ESP32-S3 has two cores running at 240 MHz, and boards that ship with 8 MB of RAM and 16 MB of flash for $22[1]. They also have WiFi, BLE, and tons of pins. This is more than enough to run many programs with CircuitPython, and the number of libraries available for it[2] makes it incredibly easy to get started building small projects.

In addition, connectors like Qwiic/STEMMA QT[3] make it possible to connect to a large number of sensors without needing a breadboard or having to solder anything. I've built a few projects with microcontrollers like these and Adafruit sensor boards and never had to resort to low-level languages.

[1] https://esp32s3.com/feathers3.html

[2] https://docs.circuitpython.org/projects/bundle/en/latest/dri...

[3] https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-adafruit-stemma-qt/wh...
The next version of Safari will let users block ads on iPhones and iPads (2015)
The development of Dwarf Fortress has been fully funded by donations for well over a decade I believe. I used to donate but I stopped when I was saving up for a home. It seems their financial support has been declining since 2020 - maybe it's time for me to start donating again.

Donations from the beginning in 2007 through to 2021: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf//index.php?topic=179406.0

Donations in 2022: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf//index.php?topic=179926.0
A Toddler Chewed Lead Paint Off His Toys. This Is What Happened to His Brain
The courts will let you eliminated gifted programs, but in many cases they won't let you enforce affirmative action on enrollments into them.
> Who needs a better teacher? The gifted student or the remedial student?

Both “gifted” (well prepared) and “remedial” (poorly prepared) students benefit dramatically from expert teaching. The well prepared students can continue to progress very quickly through challenging material. The poorly prepared students can get help finding and correcting their weaknesses and misconceptions, and practicing underdeveloped prerequisite skills.

The ideal is for everyone to get significant weekly 1:1 attention from a dedicated tutor/coach, who can help the student to deliberately practice. This significantly outperforms even the best classroom, and students with direct coaching improve probably 2–3 times faster than students without. Essentially all world-class performers in competitive events (sport, music, chess, math contests, ...) have significant amounts of 1:1 coaching.

Unfortunately as a society we don’t have the budget/manpower to provide hours per week of skilled tutoring for every student for every subject. So we try our best to balance available resources with students’/society’s needs.
Debugging won't be a problem if the dev environment is on the cloud. 100ms latency works fine with Remote Desktop Protocol when typing. However, I don't agree with the article for other reasons.
Nothing you have said here contradicts anything I said. An organization that evolves through the voluntary interactions of people can still have such protocols and people can still follow them, even though nothing is ever imposed on anyone by force. People who refuse to follow the protocols simply find that other organization members will not interact with them.
Check out Numberblocks from the BBC. My kindergartner found it while she was in Pre-K and learned multiplication and division on her own.

Much of our intelligence is from our parents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

I'm just stating that my kids' elementary school is nicer than those in our county and definitely from my hometown. They do receive a lot more money than what my hometown spent.
IMO the central problem with US schools isn't the schools. It's our broken policing and justice system, our bad social safety net, and our poor worker protection, among other things like the ongoing consequences of racist city planning. We will never move the needle very much, on school quality, by focusing on schools.
I don’t have a problem with gifted programs in principle, but it’s also fair to ask how they are working in practice.

People in this thread are up in arms about the principle, but the reason that they are being challenged is based on how they operate in practice.

Do all children have equal access? Nominally, maybe. But that’s de facto not the case.
It should be clear that Bluetooth is not 90% of the kernel size...that's why i wrote "slimmed down" which means disable/not-compile everything not needed (like just one of 3 firewalls, filesystems, network-stacks etc).

>By the time you want to slim down the kernel that much, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, they're not that different.

Yes, but you don't do that by blacklisting modules right? Because that was your solution ;)
The conclusion of the study you linked seems to paint a slightly more complicated picture:

"We found evidence that between-district racial segregation is associated with racial disparities in school district spending, while between-district racial socioeconomic segregation is not. We find that as Black–White racial segregation increases over time, total per pupil expenditures and other per pupil expenditures shift in ways that disfavor the typical Black student’s district relative to the typical White student’s district."
I wrote an essay about special education a while back:

https://boingboing.net/2013/01/05/pedagogyofthedepressed.htm...

Boing Boing never ended up importing the comments from back then, and when I reached out to a contact about writing a follow up, the entire site was DDOSed.

Too many teachers purposefully abuse the gifted, then react irrationally to perfectly reasonable responses.

(I wasn't paid, and they put it out without my opt in, though to be fair, the editor did quite a bit of editing and free graphics work when they could have thrown the text up as is - a few of the wording changes were probably a good thing, looking back with the wisdom of a 30 something.)

On the other hand, never once have the folks who abused me ever apologized, and they continue to gaslight me and obstruct me to the point I'm considering moving to Italy.

I'm really sick of rude people, and I know it's hypocritical given some of the comments I make on the internet, but from early on in life I've had perpetual issues with folks who have a very high standard for my behavior, but not their own.

I have literal scars from some of what they did, but I also have enemies in the education and medical community who continue to engage in illegal, retaliatory behavior for my first amendment protected free speech.

I cannot emphasize enough how badly it backfired that neoliberals engineered society around the idea that you can't interact with people without permission, then melted down when my response, due to COVID, was basically "Fine, you're right, I have anger issues. I'm also not your caregiver, so keep back six feet."