skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that’s not at all true. as a data point, i can certainly accept that some students have more aptitude in one subject or another than some other students.

the reason i have problems with GATE is that it supposes than only those students benefit from or should have access to these opportunities, even in fact all students can benefit from them, depending somewhat on the program. for example, when i was in one of these programs, our overwhelmingly White class (in a school that was about 60% Black) got to learn about the stock market by simulating a working exchange. There’s nothing about the notion of buying and selling that can’t be understood by any student—yet this was part of the curriculum only for the small number of students deemed intellectually worthy of the extra attention.

That said, many GT programs today are based on differentiated instruction, where students are not pulled out of the classroom but given different assignments depending on their demonstrated ability, such as maths worksheets/assignments that are a bit more difficult than the “normal” one, and i think these programs are significantly more equitable.
Thing is, Excel could have been so much cooler, much, much earlier. Decades of unused potential.
We know that Einstein's General Relativity cannot be quite right (2019)
I blogged a comparison 10 years ago: https://mark-watson.blogspot.com/2012/10/clojure-vs-scala-sm...
In my experience it doesn't require accepting that at all. Most students in my GT program were average at best with ambitious parents. A minority of us had no tutors, study programs or other leg up for the standardized test used to select GT students. But most students were there for their parents' prestige.

I'm still a fan of GT though, at least it means the school system has to provide a decent education to some students. Plus it was a pretty big deal for those of us not coming from privilege.
Interesting fact. Burn GIF called for using JPEG as alternative.

And then some years later JPEG patent/payment issues came up. Leading to a short lived Burn JPEG movement too. Next alternate shown was PNG at that time.
It doesn't have to "fly" if you can waste 10 years of his life in court and ruin his finances, relationships and employability. The effect on him and the deterrent to others is basically the same...
“Deserve ain’t got nothing to do with it.”

Both tech companies and governments are doing what they are doing because they can.
Its a really fun concept
Hubble – Red Supergiant Star Betelgeuse Slowly Recovering After Blowing Its Top
Starlink by its nature of using phased array antennas are inherently pretty hard to jam through traditional means. Not impossible but more difficult than older systems with simpler antennas.
There are people who believe that. There's also the fact that wealthier (read: white) parents can doctor shop around and force little Brayden into the Gifted track. The result of those forces is wildly regressive, especially when schools are so underfunded. Poor kids and minority kids wind up in classrooms that are doubly starved for resources.

Funding education to the point where schools have tracks that students can move between (advanced, normal, remedial) would be much more equitable and much better pedagogically too.
I see a lot of similarities to British trends in the late 19th century with the'public school' (posh/aristocrat) vs state-run (prole/serf) system. By definition, the aristocratic class was considered to be universally gifted, and the serf class was considered to be universally inferior, so having a 'gifted program' in the school for the proles risked the danger of breaking class lines.

However, the collapse of the British Empire was due in large part to greed and incompetent management (not that Empires are all that desirable) but the 20th century history of technological development in Britain isn't all that great. In contrast, looking at the biographies of many leading American scientists and entrepreneurs of the 20th century reveals that a great many of them came from places like impoverished MidWest farming communities and were only able to move on to higher academics, research centers, etc. because of their access to 'advanced learning programs' in their local areas.

If the argument is that bias exists in who gets into advanced/gifted programs in the K-12 public schools because there is a limited number of slots, the solution is obviously to expand the number of slots, not to eliminate the programs altogether.
https://archive.ph/4SGdL
Not related to the author of this or any of the software that they've done but I was messing around with the Haiku operating system and one of their updates broke the trackpad for a laptop that I had it installed on. I went on the IRC for them and reported the bug they told me to open up a bug report on their issue tracker they immediately responded to the bug report I opened and I did some extra testing for them and by the time the next update was pushed out like the next day the issue is fixed. I thanked them a whole bunch they thanked me a whole bunch and we both went on our merry way.
No hacker should support this. Period. Don't let your hate for crypto blind you.
Epson’s bricked printers highlight the industry’s reparability problem
Honestly, most people don't know and don't care. They use their little phrase 'Broken Irish is better than clever English' to hide/dismiss any concerns as well. It's a huge issue though -- the native sounds are dying, and learners are killing them. Put off by saying "Oh, it's just my dialect" (it's not, you're not a native speaker; you don't have a dialect!)
Odd question. You don't need to have a garden (unless you have a HOA). It's your land, after all.

That said, we displaced nature with cities, so we can also put some back. Gardens are nice to look at. Plants also help lower the temperature in an area, and at a macro scale, this makes a real difference in a concrete jungle. You can go further and have something like a reed bed sewage system; have the garden work for you, and the planet. Composting is a great way to deal with kitchen scraps which otherwise go to landfill, and, if you're lazy you can do a worm farm instead for similar results.

Life is short, but also can be boring, and they are something to do; to care for, for better or worse. Lastly, growing food in a garden is fulfilling, and a way to save money. It doesn't need to be a huge effort, and can be very fun. We've grown over a dozen leeks last season, get a handful of blueberries every day (very easy to grow blueberries and worth it I'd say) and herbs we like on-demand.
Malware has been swapped with "legitimized" spyware (telemetry, etc.), which in some contexts with sensitive data involved is simply not acceptable, and although it is without doubt true that MS Office is more powerful than LibreOffice, it is also true that the vast majority of MS Office users would never need the features that LibreOffice lacks.
tornado cash doesnt facilitate money laundering, it just obfuscates the source of eth, like converting debit into cash, those funds still need to enter the real system in some "legitimate" manner in order to be considered laundered.
For cooks and chefs perhaps, but not for the entire workforce. Then again, the hospitality sector has a knack for abusing their workers, so I wouldn't be too surprised if they make waiters work for free as a "trial" as well.

It's still silly to expect to have to work for you for free. You can discuss technical topics (design experience, programming language preferences, etc.) without doing a whole exercise. Honestly, it's insulting that people will ask you to come in for an interview and basically tell you that they don't believe what you've put on your resume and start quizzing you to confirm that you know what you claim you know.
Thanks, have you run any tests to confirm it is working? I’d be more comfortable with a guarantee from the manufacturer but confirmation an ok second choice.
Ageism here is unwarranted. I'd assume there are now more 40something years olds keeping the traditional hacker values (before "hacker" became to mean "dude stealing money from gullible strangers over the internet") than there are 20something years olds. Because they actually might have been the part of that old hacker culture (not sure if it even exists now?). Now even in the best tech schools they'd probably teach you the most important thing on the internet (after the adtech of course) is to make AIs to ban "hate speech" and "misinformation". And if the independent hacker culture still exists, it's certainly not easy to find among the noise.
after experiencing public schools in California in an environment that was hostile to advanced education (and writing about it here) I do not have much positive to say.. only an observation that there are multiple factors that can aggregate into an open, purposeful deconstruction of advanced placement education.

> It's a pity things have gone in this direction

that is putting lace on the latrine, in my experience. It is not a "pity" and that style of language is telling. There are confluent forces that prefer to deconstruct advanced education in a public setting.
The sense I've gotten from talking to vocal opponents is that they are philosophically blank slaters and strongly, fundamentally believe that people do not have fundamentally different aptitudes.
And now imagine it’s all in a Helm chart. And using kustomize magic

So you start debugging the helm chart, and kustomize, and the operator.

Not fun.
> Modern C++ is getting a little better all the time.

Honestly, this is the reason I haven't moved anything to Rust, despite seriously considering it in the past. I would ditch C++03 in a heartbeat, but C++14 and beyond are very usable.

C++ could certainly be better - I'm hopeful about Carbon - but it's good enough and improving fast enough that if you're already a C++ expert, I think you're pretty happy.
Not too long ago I tried getting Haskell Language Server, GHC, Cabal, Stack, etc. to play nice together in Neovim but didn't have much luck. Has anyone else here had luck with Neovim + Haskell?
There are plenty of people in this camp. One can remove the top-soil, level the ground, put down a layer or two of garden cloth and then cover it with smooth rocks or fake grass. One could even pay people to do this for them.

I have a homestead and believe it or not I would never plant anything on the ground. I have great soil but I would also be fighting with the critters, all of whom I feed. Rather I would put everything in an environment controlled geothermal critter-proof greenhouse. That is on my list of things to do but I only get half the year to build anything. The other half of the year everything is covered in snow and ice.
I think this is a much better way to take it. Blockchains are super useful. They solve problems in distributed systems very elegantly and effectivly.

It is the consensus part of a crypto currency blockchains that is the part I usually have objections to. I have increasingly started to realize that it is surprisingly few situations you want such a rigid type of consensus and consistency. In computer systems you usually want something much more efficient and in human systems, in the places where you really need consensus it is usually very required to have systems like our institutions that are filled with checks and balances for fault tolerance and fairness. And in most places you just have to realize consensus in a society is really hard and reeeeally slow - and I don't know if that is possible to change.
By these rules, we probably shouldn't link to the C library either.

# ll /lib64/libc-2.17.so /lib64/libsqlite3.so.0.8.6
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 2156664 May 18 20:27 /lib64/libc-2.17.so
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 753272 Jan 27 2020 /lib64/libsqlite3.so.0.8.6
Technically correct, I was just supporting my argument with evidence. The UDHR also doesn't recognize a right to absolute privacy. They only recognize a right to be free from arbitrary interference with privacy. The idea that privacy is absolute and has no exceptions is very extremist, and not really supported by anyone other than absolutist internet commenters.
NFS doesn't have to be slow and buggy, its just that people try to set it up on a buggy cloud provider, and get burned. Tons of massive, mission-critical bare metal VMWare infra is backed by NFS and something like a NetApp. The one I used to admin years ago was connected via redundant 40Gb ethernet and it could easily push many GB/s at very consistent and low latency, and would fail over instantly without interruption.
Work from Home Is Good
I would hope it is to the country you chose to pledge an Oath of Allegiance to in order to obtain the new citizenship and all of the benefits it has granted
But N2 being pushed back is orthogonal to N3. It's a full node.
I think the problem is that the measurement, detection, and access to so-called gifted and talented programs is a major issue. The more exclusive the programs are the more it restricts the access to advanced studies to students not lucky enough to make the cutoff. The differences of students on one side of a cutoff and the other side of a cutoff are negligible.

I prefer systems that make advanced coursework and guidance available to anyone willing and able to put in the work. And the "who" may vary from year to year or course to course based on the individual student interest.
I believe I encountered similar ideas googling wim hoff and the cold exposure therapy stuff. There was a time in my life where I was taking cold showers in the morning for a different therapeutic purpose, to cure depression. I can tell you that for the duration of the cold shower my existential angst was no longer top of mind.
> instance the FTP server or the Gopher server?

Lol, I see your point, but if a bank has an un-firewalled FTP or Gopher server on their domain there might be a couple of bigger issues to contemplate
>"When do you not need automated rolling updates? Or stable network identifiers?"

Most of the time with stateless apps.

In regards to automated rolling updates, the key word there is "ordered." It will always select the same ordinal index first(reverse order starting with highest ordinal.)[1] This is different than the regular deployment strategy of "rolling update" which is also one by one but will select any pod to whack first.

Regular pods don't have stable network identifiers as they are inherently unstable. In regular pods stable network identifiers are provided by either the cluterIP or a load balancer service.

[1] https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/stateful-application/ba...
This might be a regional language difference, but do you mean maintaining landscaping, or growing vegetables? I agree with the previous commenter - just ignore the whole thing and mow two or three times in the summer to keep it from getting too high. There's no reason you have to grow vegetables if you don't want to, and maintaining a lawn is a huge waste of time and resources.
Thanks for responding. I'm less concerned with 'how' it happened than considering the consequences. If we were, say, in 20th place rather than 2nd place, would you still feel there is nothing to say on the topic?
I'm watching the chip-engineer version of "Who's On First?" evolve in real time on Hackernews. Awesome.
Shouldn't I get to decide what I ignore?
I lived very briefly in Manhattan near Lincoln Center. There was a bar about three blocks from the apartment that was very pleasant, and it was 90% always the same people from the neighborhood. We all knew each other. It was weird being in this city of about six million (at that time) and still have this very small conclave (forty people?) that frequented this one bar.
> Didier Lombard was sentenced to one year in prison, eight months of which were suspended

Justice systems the world over are so horribly broken when it comes to the rich and powerful. 39 cases of attempted suicides, 19 deaths and this guy barely gets a slap on the wrist 10 years after the fact.
AMD's RDNA 3 Graphics
So...

You prefer two stroke gasoline engines (Very environmentally unfriendly) vs goats because???

I've never seen city employees using "electric mowers"??? Probably because the battery life is simply useless for anything beyond a small yard?

On top of this, you prefer to pay unionized city worker wages to remove weeds instead of an environmentally friendly goat do it for almost nothing?

I saw 2 city workers trying to clear an area the other day. 3 hours later they were still there, gasoline burning trimmers screaming away. I'd say they had at lest a day of work left. Two workers, there all day - probably a few tanks of gas as well...

Personally, i'd prefer they had Goats as an option.. but that is just me.
Linux Live CDs (2010)
Latino relates to country of origin not ethnicity.

There are many colonies of Europeans in Latin America that are mostly endogamic and they would be considered Latino too.
https://xkcd.com/1053/ (to make a link available)
I'm sure all that's true (we see the same things in diet threads too - you eat food? no way, me too!) - but still, please don't post empty putdowns like this to HN. It just makes things worse.

When you know more than others, the thing to do is to share some of what you know, so we all can learn. That's what macleginn did in the GP comment, making the thread much better.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Obligatory Joel Spolsky Excel video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
I recently learned that Americans group people from the Indian subcontinent under the category 'Asian'.

I am therefore apparently an Asian, something that never occurred to me.
Expanding slots isn't itself a solution, because ultimately you end up with gifted programs that are targeting people mildly above average. I've heard of some school districts in Virginia where 50% of students are in gifted programs. This waters down the curriculum so that people in the top 5-10% are no longer challenged and engaged.

What we need is fine grained tracking and the ability to appropriately serve children at all levels. This includes, btw, people at the bottom of the distribution: if you're teaching material targeting people at the 50% percentile of preparedness, you're not serving the kids at 25% or 10% at all and are setting them up for failure.
Well... I do think that the power usage overall isn't going to go down. Certainly ETH switching off PoW will be a great reset, but over time... people will find ways to continue to use more power when it comes to compute. Put it another way, the datacenter market isn't getting smaller any time soon.
I'm not literally talking about cats and dogs. Cats and dogs is DuckDuckGo's syntax example. DuckDuckGo's minus sign functionality is a well-known issue.

https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/w5dzol/minus_si...
It absolutely is money laundering- which has three phases. Placement, Layering, and Integration.

The Layering phase is when the original source of money is concealed through transactions or bookkeeping tricks.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/moneylaundering.asp
Oh wow that's horrific. That will write gigabytes in a few seconds on an SSD.

Unsurprisingly, AWS EFS does not support NFS quotas.
Ask HN: Older hackers, what glasses do you use?
Since I turned 50, I have needed reading glasses to comfortably focus on the screen when I'm working. I'm tired of cheap drugstore glasses that break every few months. Anyone have a brand that they really like, good lenses, blue-blocking, etc.
If everything that could be implemented as a spreadsheet/PDF combination was, what would we do for work?
I recommend the whitepaper Scalability! But at what COST? A single threaded system with data locality can often run in shorter time than a system that is networked.

I also recommend the the document "latencies every developer should know" updated by Jeff Dean.

I say this as most of the time a computer is waiting for IO from main memory or SSD or network or spinning disks. The more sequential you can get memory into the CPU the better. Row major memory pattern, structures of arrays or arrays of structures depending.

I write multithreaded software so I feel people reach for multiprocessing software due to multithreading being harder to get right than putting load balancer in front of it.

I write and journal of concurrency, threading and distributed systems in my GitHub, mainly ideas4.
I'd agree with that. Though obviously getting certified in law or medicine is a significantly higher bar than passing some tech industry certification.

Still, if I need someone who knows Linux, something like a current RHCE tells me they have at least some minimal level of competency. (Certs seem to be more of a thing for sysadmin knowledge than general programming however.)
Lol the truth hurts!
There are virtually no good games on Apple Arcade. Had it for a year, nothing but goofy cell-shaded 6 year old child's games with maybe three or four titles like Jetpack Joyride or Crossy Road to piggy back off. I can't imagine how an adult can enjoy what's in the Apple Arcade and I really gave it the benefit of the doubt.
Yes, Rust as a language wasn't originally intended for much of what it's used for now. Many of the applications written in Rust would probably be fine without the borrow checker, and instead paying a performance overhead to have GC. I think Rust is succeeding on the strength of its tooling and the overall relative modernity of the language (e.g. proper sum types and sane metaprogramming). Of course, Haskell has these things too, although some of the incarnations may be a bit more crufty (Rust macros seem a lot more accepted than Template Haskell does).
Totally agree that audibility is an important part of the story here!

Having spent the past 2 years building a spreadsheet [1], it's really interesting how often we run into design problems that pit "audibility" against "what you expect from a spreadsheet."

A simple example: imagine you add a filter to column to remove null values, you then go and create a new formula that is dependent on this filtered column, before finally going back to edit the filter.

On one hand, effective audibility usually implies a nice, linear story you can follow and understand. On the other hand, users expect filters to update based on the most recent values - but the filter is applied in a way-old step. In practice, there's a bunch of extra state you have to store to make sure things work properly, and even then, there are lots of foot guns!

[1] https://trymito.io
I bet... if you use a column as a list of the wasd inputs (i.e. "w enter" records as an up move) you could get 2048 without VB. Maybe even without the new lambdas but it'd be significantly easier thanks to that. A new thing for the "I better not waste my time on this" list ;).
I don't understand the setup for what you describe in your second paragraph. Can you elaborate?
I think the authors feel the government response (lockdowns, vax mandates, etc) was too strong. But the article makes it hard to determine whose criticism of which scientists is considered "obsessive".
I had a similar experience, did go through:

- initial interview with HR

- technical interview with devs

- home assignment ( you can find it on my GitHub with the name 2048 )

- discussion of the assignment with the same devs of the technical

After every step they said they were very impressed, I did reach the step where they were scheduling the final interview with the CTO then they weren't able to schedule it and they disappeared for months with the excuse of hiring freeze. Apparently they hired someone else and they decided to put me on hold indefinitely
The only part of the PinePhone that's immutable is the baseband on the modem. The OS in the chip has been rewritten, but to open the baseband removes the certification and recertifying an open version is outside the scope of the project.

We're stuck with just that blob, but the modem is cut off from the main CPU and DMA by being connected over USB.