skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Knowing nothing about this topic other than hearsay and the opinions of my elderly parents… both of them teachers in public high schools…

Do these per-pupil funding numbers have any meaning when your home and community are broken and one or both of your parents is an addict or incarcerated? Because it seems to me we’ve been acting with intent as a society to keep the families, homes, and communities of everyone not white and already wealthy a complete and utter shambles.

How can we expect decent, equitable outcomes given that the home life of significant percentages of students is essentially a path right to prison?
I your case, was the fortune a product of starting your own company or working at a smaller one?
It's not about us vs them. People are labeled "right wing" when they ask questions, regardless of their political affiliation. I think that's wrong.
I like it, but I am never going to be able to read the name without thinking of Goldmember saying "toit like a tiger".
Well how should it be measured then?
Difficulty: lots of private schools still manage to be pretty bad, while charging those kinds of rates.
Are you saying we need to genetically level the playing field? It makes logical sense but it’s not a world I want to live in.
So this is a topic I have all kinds of interest and experience with.

I live in one of those top 100 zipcodes of USA with very small school district. It's plenty diverse racially but completely homogenous financially (i.e. pretty much everyone is rich). I have two kids just a year apart. One just barely didn't make it into gifted & talented program at grade 3, and another one definitely did, and has been in one since then. [Edit] oh and I was in gifted/advanced class myself from grade 7 on, but not here, but in Russia.

Plenty of parents pushed very hard for the kids to test into the gifted program, getting kids tutors and repeatedly testing in. There was one kid I remember who was bright as all get out but a complete asshole in social circumstances that apparently tested 3 times by his parents until he made it (2 highly focused doctors). My kid that tested in actually didn't start in it, but then about a month into 3rd grade complained that he was bored and we were able to move him in.

We've been involved with the teachers on both regular and gifted track. We - and every parent with child in gifted class - are not happy about our school sunsetting it for the district. No teachers - certainly no teachers of advanced classes - were consulted on this effort. None of them are getting any additional help in now trying to teach to all levels, and result will be (already is) a dilution of quality all around.

As with many schools everywhere, and with covid helping, there are some kids departing towards private education where your money talks and you do whatever. Where I live is increasingly unaffordable, too, so we have reduced enrollment because there are just less kids. I do fine but am not at economic place to afford private education, my offer to kids is where I live, which even with the dilution is still excellent education.

We (and almost every parent around us) are very engaged with schools with volunteering and additional funding. In fact I am a treasurer of the schools foundation that donates up to a $1 million/year to school for all kinds of things, mostly general funding. That tends to help but really, even our little district needs like extra ~$20mil to fund what we're supposed to.

Anyhow, on cleverness nd equity, what it boils down to me is that the world is becoming just one big lake now with talent being increasingly able to accrue huge benefits. This talent needs education and people who want best for their kids (including me) will do whatever is necessary to get that. This is why there is extra tutoring in china and private schools in USA and fancy boarding schools in UK for $$$. If public schools do remove this equity stuff, it'll just float via money to those other areas. It isn't bad/good, it just is.

Anyhow, a bit of a rant/laundry list, but here you have it.
> connections are all well under 50ms

This depends entirely upon where you're connecting to, and from. For example, I can't connect to us-east-1 servers with under 50ms of latency, because I'm out in the rural west, and my connections run a thousand miles south before getting on a good east/west backbone. Spikes are not uncommon.

> we have realtime games with lag compensation that make that connection instant

When the prediction algorithms are correct. When they're not, you start seeing some uncanny behavior that you can't predict or compensate for (dead-on shots missing, actions being rolled back, etc).
So all this time, "election fraud" is entirely plausible but we've been building a strawman around "voter fraud" and saying that it doesn't happen? What level of bad faith debating is this?
Never let reality get in the way of ideology
I had high hopes for atom. At first I thought about it as a FLOSS competitor to sublime. Its slowness (mostly because of electron) was entirely tolerable for me even on 10-year old hardware. I was afraid at how fast VSCode ate it. It is a good thing we have VSCodium.
Sorry to piggyback on the question, but I just got an offer from one of those big companies.

The starting date is fast approaching, but offer is contingent on the background check which hasn't come in. The third party company hired, generated their background report over two weeks ago, but the hiring company hasn't communicated their approval. The check had some warnings, because I worked for small companies that have been resold since, and nobody answered them when they called.

The recruiter who works directly for the company has said they will get back to me soon, but nothing happened yet. As we got into closer than two week from the scheduled start date, I asked to push the hiring date.

However do I just keep pushing the date until background is done?

I can't see myself quitting current job until the background is signed off. Or should I?

Should I just like somehow do two jobs (I don't think I mentally can)? Until the background is done?

I've been at my current company for several years, and I can't risk having no job (quit, then new job finds something they don't like), so what do I do?

I'm fine waiting for months and pushing the date, but will they still want me?
Yes, bring the hacker ethos to the system. You’re not fighting code you’re fighting the system.

Need that SSL cert? Request it a month before you need it.

Need that column in the table? Request it long before you need it. Didn’t end up needing it? Sell it to another team, sure it might not be named what they want but they can use it today.
My initial experience loading a python project was disappointing. I don't know if I didn't configure it right but auto complete and syntax highlighting didn't seem to work properly.
> The lap was 6:43. Not 6:58

I don't trust Porsche, like I don't trust Ferrari or Lamborghini or Corvette. Carmakers cannot be trusted.

They can use custom specs and/or slick tires and you'd not be the wiser.

On the other hand I trust a publication such as Sport-Auto.de which uses a regular car, Michelin tires and the same driver for each and every tests. The only variable is the car and the Nordshleife as well as wind/track temperature. Plus they record the attempt as you can see.

When Sport-Auto.de driver made the lap times it was 6.58.22 vs. 7.00.03

Again. Not string theory. The Pista and the Gt2RS have basically the same weight:power ratio

If Ferrari sent their team to Germany doing all sorts of magic to optimize Nordshleife laptimes they'd come up with a 6:44 too.

If anything it's Porsche using marketing gimmicks to sell more cars, not Ferrari. Lamborghini is guilty of this too. Every manufacturer which sends its team and driver to Nordshleife, Hockenheim, Silverstone etc. is using it as a marketing gimmick.

Such cars are expensive BUT not that expensive that publications won't get their hands on them, just let the publications do the lap timing.

> Lack of knowledge

Clarkson said it best: "Porsches are for guys who only have sex in the missionary position, if they manage to get any pus*y at all"
By that same logic, they also flatten all Whites, Blacks, and Latinos into their own groups as well, even though all are comprised of people from many different countries and cultures.
I like smoke and lightnin'

Bare metal thunder
> It is much more expensive to teach and support the children at lower performing schools

Blame education schools and their failing "every student can simply learn their math on their own!" approach. Total self-serving garbage, devised to cater to the ego of naïve prospective teachers and their expectation of not doing any real teaching work.
They mostly are. If they are used in the process of authenticating it is almost always in composite with other data.
Ask HN: What is your experience with DataDog Support?
Ive been recently tasked with creation of AWS-DataDog integration.

The setup was super easy to get going, tested everything with free-tier 2weeks DataDog plan.

Then subscribed to PRO plan via AWS Marketplace and its two weeks of „pending” state subscription, still not linked to my organisation in DataDog.

Support in this case was like „non-existent”.

https://help.datadoghq.com/hc/en-us ticket hanging without any response (even automatic one).

Emails to Sales and Marketplace supports -> without any answer.

Public Slack channel -> only an ongoing list of questions without any answer.

Am I just unlucky or their support is just really really bad ?
Yes, you can argue for another plausible interpretation of those two words, but in actual usage "Native UI" has always meant the platform's native UI framework.
It really pains me to say this but I find it impossible to see how this is anything other than an attempt to address inequality by eliminating any and all objective measures and drivers of success, talent, and/or performance. The promise for a long time was that we weren’t going to try to achieve equality by dragging down the high achievers but that appears to be exactly - exactly - the goal here.
Do not want a "cloud based text editor". Being reliant on an external service is a huge point of failure. It can go down. It can join the huge list of discontinued Google products. It can have security problems. You can be arbitrarily banned by the service operator. Most cloud-based services only live for a few years.
> without the client’s key

Thank you, these 4 words really helped with my understanding so I'm calling it out incase it helps others. So I was thinking, what prevents you from replaying the query and getting the same page back? But it seems the answer is: that would only produce a gibberish response because you don't have the key.
What's your point? That if a rich parent teaches their kid to read, the fair solution is for the school to unteach the kid, to level the playing field?
Sure. Title 1 schools, for example, get extra federal funding. They also have 40+% of students living in poverty. Some of that money goes to buy breakfast for kids who otherwise wouldn't have food to eat in the morning.
I'm OK with eliminating "gifted programs". I'm not convinced that "gifted" kids need them. I think that what they need is a library card and free rein to follow their curiosity wherever it leads them.
> One answer is to accept the way things are at BigCo and to just coast along in your role, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

Sound advice.

The HN community (rightly) skews towards entrepreneur hackers who have a general distain for BigCo employment.

I love this quote from Prof G on joining BigCo:

https://youtu.be/ffDVe-NgFt4?t=662

You're going to have access to what is the greatest wealth generator in history and its called the US Corporation.

On a risk adjusted basis, you're better off working at a Big Corporation
What was Atom good for, when compared with something like Visual Studio Code?

I recall reading about typing latency and it seemed to come out as one of the slower options: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/

I guess it would have occupied a similar place as Brackets, another vaguely similar project? https://brackets.io/

Then again, with how popular VSC has become and with how insanely many extensions there are for it, using any other editor feels a bit... counterproductive at times?

Personally, i'm using the following:

- CLI: nano (vim works too, I just like the simplicity more)
- Simple text editing: Notepad++ or similar (usually whatever is on the system on *nix)
- Some scripting, but nothing too serious: Visual Studio Code
- Development in larger and more complex codebases: JetBrains products (e.g. IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm and so on)
Dark Energy astrophysics.
If you treat the campaign as a separate single player game that expects you to finish in 10-15 hours and never have to run it again, it's less bad. That's how new players should feel about it. If they like the game to the point to repeat the campaign, obviously they're the target audience for the game (those like to play RPG with cheatsheets on the side) and can deal with the campaign the "proper" way. I'm not saying they shouldn't fix the campaign though, but anything that we do 100 times over will be boring so I'm not sure what they can do
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Fudging your personal count to make it match means less work for you. It could be as simple as that.
Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1095/
> If anything, the right has largely shifted to the center over the course of my life

The Republican party is vastly more anti-abortion and anti-gun control now than in the past. It is mainstream in the GOP to talk about punishing women who get abortions. And in New York, a Republican congressman who said he'd vote for gun control in the wake of a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, in addition to the one in Texas faced so much backlash from his party he had to quit politics.

I think what you've fallen for is a rhetorical trick Republican politicians use. They say, "Of course Roe vs Wade is settled law." And then they tirelessly work to undermine it, which is exactly what's happening right now.

> From what I see, Republicans largely want things to stay the same or be rolled back by a decade or so.

If what you said is true, the GOP would support the right to abortion and an assault weapons ban. Instead they are rolling back abortion rights by 50 years (Roe was decided in 1973) and expanding the "right" to purchase high powered firearms without background checks and carry them, concealed, without any training, to a degree literally never seen in US history.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/facing-backlash-republican-...

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/03/1096108319/roe-v-wade-alito-c...
It's the other way around. SSNs were designed to be UUIDs, and everyone decided to use them as a secret.

> At its inception, the SSN's only purpose was to uniquely identify U.S. workers

> The card was never intended to serve as a personal identification document—that is, it does not establish that the person presenting the card is actually the person whose name and SSN appear on the card.

https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v69n2/v69n2p55.html
That is exactly what the article says...
This is great. Syrus here, from Wasmer.

I think WAPM and Wasmer could help a lot on the extensibility using Wasm plugins. I'd love to chat further, please feel free to reach me at syrus[at]wasmer[dot]io!
The incentives are misaligned. Private prisons make more money if people go back to prison…!
Anthill has been a feature of B.C. town for decades
Yes the fed has taken actions that have suppressed interest rates. This makes it cheaper for everyone to borrow. What companies do with the money (like buyback shares, which is equivalent to a shareholder dividend) is a wholly separate issue
To clarify: We're talking about an industry that only (relatively) recently realized ubiquitous hand santizers was a good idea. And then took additional time to motivated / train staff to use them. Let's keep this in mind.

Suggesting what is available be tracked isn't ignorance, it's innovation and improvement 101. It's a call to prevent waste and unlock societal value. To suggest otherwise is lazy and insanity.

Or perhaps the industry is afraid of something? Fear makes for great excuses.
And, while I think you hint at this, every single voter must be able to understand the entire process.

The manual process as described? Everyone gets it, can watch it in action. Code, encryption, are understood by few, auditable by fewer.
I'm curious what the county data in question is? I'm a big fan of local-government data, so this is a super interesting niche to me.
No surprise, in des moines all schools in the area get the same funding per student. This includes inner city schools, suburbs, and rural schools. Yet there is still a large difference in results with the inner city schools doing worse than the suburbs by far.

Either it is cities elect different people to school boards (seems unlikely but I can't prove it), or family background makes the biggest difference. Many others have pointed out family background as the key, I tentend to believe it.
So what was it like before the Z-level stuff? Only the surface and one level below that?
In France, the problem isn't avoided. Public schools are roughly the same everywhere in term of resources and quality of teacher. But for the most part, kids go to a school near their home, and if they live in a rich area, they'll have better studying conditions than if they live in a poor area. It seems the government is always trying to improve this situation with very little success.
I don’t think so. I am on their mailing list.
If you live in USA, i'm pretty sure you can pull 200k easy even if all you know if leetcoding well.
This link not only has a paywall but also has terrible dark pattern with popup etc and hijacking the back button. Just FYI.
I think Atom was perfect, for what it's worth. I've always found it to be faster than VS Code.
This sounds suspiciously similar to where I used to work, and was one of the reasons I left. Every project required working with 3-5 other teams for either help or 'alignment' (aka approval). Getting a new service live required many tickets, meetings, manual edits to configuration by other teams, etc.

I think large companies with low friction are the exception, not the rule. It takes MASSIVE amounts of work to build the infrastructure that thousands of engineers need (or be willing to spend millions of dollars for SaaS). I can think of only a few large tech companies with low friction (Google, Netflix, Meta), and they spend a lot on tooling.

There's a few ways to deal with it. What I noticed was that the 'effective' engineers would avoid the standard process and be 'noisy'. They were comfortable asking directly via chat or in person for what they wanted instead of filing tickets or having meetings. They used their relationships (which they did work to build) to skip the line and save time.

You also need some kind of perspective change at large companies. You've moved from rowing your own boat to a battleship. Process is there for protection from rogue employees wreaking havoc on the system, not to make you move fast. Think of it from a manager or platform team's perspective. How do you manage over 1,000 SSL certs (and renew them)? Prevent VM proliferation that needs to be accounted for and secured? Certainly it can all be automated, but at a BigCo's scale, that is a 4-5 person job, and that team is competing with other 'revenue generating' teams for headcount.

I would also recommend to give it some time. You will adjust and learn over time how to work more effectively. I noticed after a few years that I could grease the wheels a bit because I had spent time cultivating relationships with various teams.

Good luck!
What if those most advanced students don't have rich connected parents to expose them to educational opportunities?

If schooling doesn't matter for the brightest students, why does everyone think Caltech is such a great school?
The company I work for has enough services that the entire stack can't be run locally anymore. But we have found ways to make it local development work regardless.

And so will other companies, since it's a definite productivity boon.
America has degenerated into sectarian politics, and in such a system you can’t have a civil discourse about anything without “resorting to racial attacks.” I went to go see the candidates in Iowa for the 2020 Dem primary I was amazed by their talent (Elizabeth Warren particularly) for injecting race into literally every issue.
sometimes that can work but I have my doubts as to it being a good general policy. not at all guaranteed that it promotes camaraderie, over, say being called arrogant, teacher's pet, and ostracized by the others as 'too good'.

Kids should be able to form friendships with those at different levels and help their friends, but shouldn't be asked to be their teachers or mentors. it's incredibly unfair to require students in the class to function as teachers. They are there to learn, and if they've learned everything on the curriculum, they should be able to learn more.

Teachers used to handle this by letting the kids have 'free time' after assignments to go to the library, or whatever. Gifted programs do this even better by putting them in a class with kids at a similar level so they are less likely to need special treatment or to be called 'smart'. This can actually help them realize early in life that they aren't automatically special because they're at the top of their class.
Maybe in a competitive environment a private business could do better. But if you're creating a local private monopoly, you're just pouring a large chunk of the funding into the pockets of overpaid bosses or shareholders
The lower performing schools also tend to be older and require more maintenance and repairs than newer schools in wealthier areas. Not all of that additional per-pupil funding makes it to the classroom.
The AMA (and other medical trade groups) lobbied to limit residency slots back in the 90s. We're still feeling the effects of that in the market today.

Rather than copy / paste a comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30108269

Edit: Funny enough I was replying to you back then too. Small world.