skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The actions that the California state education system towards Blacks and Brown kids are exactly what the most insidious racist person would do. If I hated Black and Brown kids, I would lower the education standards so low that these kids would graduate high school being unable to compete at the city, state or country level. And this is EXACTLY what is happening. Half of the Black kids in SF are graduating high school and can barely read.

Now with the gutting with math, Black and Brown kids will be even further behind on math than the rest of the demographics. It's horrifying.

Anyone who has money will avoid all this by either sending their kids to private school, which is what we did, or getting enrichment classes after school. Both of those options are unavailable to lower income kids, so the gap between the haves and the have nots will only increase at an exponential rate.

There is nothing more racist than the of lowered expectations in the guise of ruinous empathy for "the poor victims of white supremacy". You help undereducated kids by raising expectations, and pumping money into the system so that the student teacher ratio plummets in the poorest areas that need the most help. Instead SFUSD was spending millions to change the names of school instead of trying to get those kids to learn how to read.
I agree that LangChain is pointless for experienced ML developers building products. For the rest, I disagree as just getting to the point where same observation can be made is worthwhile.
This? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJqSF9h_NX4
I hope so. We need more spaces where we can speak in private rather than more places where we can speak in public.

Plenty of people are making a living from being public, though, so they will always need a public communication outlet. But maybe celebrities have been scared off by getting constantly cancelled and attacked, and would prefer that most people get news about them second-hand, through friendly intermediaries.
I’m convinced that the people who constantly parrot this online are just terrible at excel.
another human of culture i see. i also use subtitles in games for the same reason.
I suppose you're just the epitome of a good samaritan in the right place at the right time.

None of that stuff happens to me. How would I assist an epileptic, or a lost child, in a way that could not be better done by a professional who is trained and commissioned to do such things? I would do more harm than good, me, a stranger in a big city, putting my nose in where it doesn't belong. Especially with minor children. That's unthinkable--where are their parents? If I found a minor without her parents then I would contact authorities, not try to place myself at risk, because whatever separated her from her parents, must be bad news.

I do charitable works through the organizations where I am a member. I assist in humanitarian missions in an organized way, not as a stranger on the street with a mobile phone. My life is too short to get caught up in strangers' drama, because that will definitely shorten my life, and possibly also drain my pocketbook, place marks on my criminal record, or indeed put my own self at risk of injury. The cost is too great and there is no reward for random involvement like that. As I said, it usually turns out to be a scam anyway.
Hacker News Man wants to ban the entertainment options of millions because they are a "frivolous waste". Coming soon, list of entertainment options that are not wasteful, and thus should be allowed for the masses ("low impact entertainment", as defined by Hacker News Man's impact metrics).

How about proposing better ways to price externalities, if applicable, to the entertainment options and then let people decide whether they are willing to pay for the impact (by, perhaps, working towards eliminating or reversing said impact).
> mandatory code review is a symptom of an adversarial environment involving bad faith actors.

and is required (afaik) for PCI compliance
Why would it come close to tripling? I don’t believe they oversell all of the seats three times on every flight.
> Using the symbols for the same concepts in both worlds is the obvious and sensible choice.

Yeah, but has already been established in this conversation, you're not using them for the same concepts. So your argument doesn't work. Repeating it over and over isn't going to make it work, either.

> The reason why C did choose a different convention was that it preferred similarity with FORTRAN which is so old that it was punched on cards that did simply not have a : character.

I'd be interested in seeing your evidence for this assertion that you make so confidently. From my understanding, the logic was this: Assignment happens twice as often as comparison, so assignment gets the shorter symbol. Perfectly reasonable from an information-theory point of view.

And, C didn't avoid := because the proper character wasn't available. They used : in the ternary operator, so they clearly expected it to be available.

So all in all, your data is suspect, and doesn't support your argument.
I think the core issue is that we expect institutions like schools to do multiple, often conflicting tasks. In the US, schools are expected to:

* Provide instruction to the median student.
* Provide support services to those with learning or other disabilities.
* Empower gifted students to learn to their potential.
* Serve as an amateur sports league.
* Distribute food to the hungry via the school lunch program
* Serve as a point of preventative medical care (e.g. vision and dental screenings)
* Screen children for abuse and neglect
* Be a place children can be left while parents are at work

Some of these goals will be prioritized over others. The stated goal (education) is not always the goal taxpayers are most supportive of, via revealed preferences on the ballot when it comes to local school funding decisions.
If they underpay the teachers, then they don't need it. And people will be better off avoiding teaching as a career
Affects newer Linux 6 kernels. Linux 5 and under okay afaik.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-stackrot-...
Surely they could just mark the position for artillery?
Jony Ive's First Post-Apple Hardware Project Is a $60K Record Player – PCMag
Teachers appear to earn an average of $79k in California[0], and are eligible for a pension[1] that probably boosts their earnings to the equivalent of a six-figure job. Also, they get summers and holidays off. Not silicon valley engineer money, but not bad.

[0]: https://www.niche.com/blog/teacher-salaries-in-america/
[1]: https://www.calstrs.com/retirement-benefits
For me, New England, early 10s the algebra 1, geometry, algebra 2, precalc, calc was the exact pattern.

Edit: despite the name, pre calc was basically entirely trigonometry.
as long as you aren't the person who will ultimately pay for said failure, it doesn't matter if nobody listened to you. You just need the cover-your-ass evidence that you presented this evidence to the stakeholder (who is ultimately responsible for said failure).
How is that a point of contention?
Discussed a month ago (234 points, 95 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36213704
But can't u just use one of the bookmark folder as a queue?
Because it’s useful. If Truth is relative, then we should approach the search for truth differently. These are classes of arguments that use ‘relative’ in this way, and it is useful to collect them together with the term ‘Relativism.’
Each person in the org needs 1M GPT-4 token and semantic search can’t be used to trim queries? I would be super curious to know more about this use case.
Wow this is so much faster than the current reddit UI. Thanks.
> This doesn't sound that horrific to me.

I think it's possible that things that seem normal and inoffensive can become horrific simply from scale. You'll climb the stepladder without complaint, but then there's that radio tower in Canada...

Others like the idea of the family cow, then they see the 10,000 head feedlot from the highway.

Scale is sometimes sufficient by itself to induce horror.
Does it have any utility?
On the one hand, I agree that writing unit tests before the design has settled and the interfaces are stable can be frustrating. Many people find TDD a chore because of this.

But if you delay adding unit tests until after the interfaces are more or less stable, it gives you higher confidence to refactor the implementation, which is invaluable.

On the other hand, the benefit of TDD is that it helps with the actual API design. You immediately experience the API as a user, and this process drives the implementation, and ensures you end up with a friendly and testable API. If you add tests after the design, then you might have a more difficult time refactoring the implementation to make it testable, and the DX could suffer.

So I see both sides of the argument, but in either case, unit tests are very important, and I wouldn't avoid them just because they're a chore to maintain.
Bluesky: Building a failed app!
If the article solely made a case for banning unnecessary boat traffic then I’d be all for it, but they muddle their point by including irrelevant parts such as

> Last year, for instance, a company named White Desert opened its latest luxury camp in Antarctica. Its sleeping domes, roughly 60 miles from the coast, are perched near an emperor-penguin colony and can be reached only by private jet. Guests, who pay at least $65,000 a stay, are encouraged to explore the continent by plane, Ski-Doos, and Arctic truck before enjoying a gourmet meal whose ingredients are flown in from South Africa.

If this camp requires coming by plane, isn’t this good since it avoids boat trips? The previous paragraph talked about harming the ecosystem but it doesn’t make any claim or offer evidence that these camps and their guests are littering the ecosystem.

Or is the point still “planes bad”? If so, then my criticism from my parent comment still applies.
Let's be honest: the draw was that it was Twitter minus Elon and the blue-check lunatics.

Now Threads is that.

Everyone I enjoyed following on Twitter is on Threads, so I don't need Twitter, and I certainly don't need Bluesky.
Try using it to write geometry figures in Processing. You can get some surprising results.
Related:

How and why I stopped buying new laptops - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32674830 - Sept 2022 (111 comments)

How and why I stopped buying new laptops - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26188282 - Feb 2021 (100 comments)

How and why I stopped buying new laptops - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25486191 - Dec 2020 (279 comments)
Iirc in systemantics, it was phrased as "the goal of a system is to perpetuate and extend itself, not to achieve whatever it was created for"
where do you buy gpus ?
The core argument is that globally local content gets displaced by global trends that aren't even necessarily current .. thanks to streaming, trending viral moments, etc.

Every week this year, there have been more albums by Taylor Swift in the Australian top 50 than albums by all Australian artists combined.

It's part of a trend that has also seen decades-old songs from artists like Kate Bush and Fleetwood Mac propelled into the charts off the back of viral cultural moments, while perennial favourites like The Killers' Mr Brightside seem impossible to dislodge.

They're hits for a reason, but the chart success of old music has come at the expense of local artists.

After streaming upended the music industry, the number of Australian artists in the charts has this year plunged to its lowest level since the ARIA charts began, an analysis by ABC News has found.

Industry bodies, managers and music broadcasters now fear that in a world where most music consumption happens on global streaming platforms, emerging local artists will struggle while megastars like Harry Styles never leave the top 50.

The article is specifically focused upon the Australian music industry, I personally feel it's an example of a wider homogenization affecting more than just music.
it's not about stats but simply that the space between simple shell scripts and complex systems that required "big" language, which used to be filled by perl has shrunk a lot because it is filled with many other languages that are better suited for larger systems than perl is. for most uses of perl today there are a dozen other suitable languages, including some that are older than perl but were not freely available at the time.

stats wise i am sure there are still a lot of perl users. it has its fans, and there is a lot of existing systems, but it is now a choice among many, and not usually the best choice.
Something new here?
Without the bad how can you appreciate the good?

My bucket list includes riding on one of those crammed commuter trains in India.
Depends on definitions mostly. You’ll likely start doing things like simple linear equations, including algebraic notation before formally doing “algebra 1”
I was holding out for an invite code.

I wanted one because everyone I enjoyed following on Twitter was on Bluesky, singing its praise.

Now they're all on Threads, so I'm no longer interested in the invite code.
I don’t understand if the developer will be giving refunds, why doesn’t he just allow Apollo to live as a $3-$5 a month app after processing those refunds?

I would gladly pay that amount.
Well... they make utterances that you interpret as predictions, and do so more often than random chance would imply. You can impute prediction-making capabilities based on that, but hold out the possibility that the inference is incorrect.
> for no good reason

in the winter people need the heat on, and in the summer the A/C, and the rest of the time perhaps they're listening to NPR or a podcast or something.

Not making excuses for anybody, not saying they're not annoying, not saying there aren't workarounds, I'm just saying that's when I have the urge to leave my car running. Transferring what I'm listening to to my phone, to transfer it back later, my phone stopping charging, my care locking me in, etc. it's just simpler to maintain steady state than try to imagine all the ways in which I'll be disappointed doing it a different way.

I don't obsess about the same things you obsess about.
From the conclusion: “This is just scratching the surface of Code Interpreter, which I think is the strongest case yet for a future where AI is a valuable companion for sophisticated knowledge work. Things that took me weeks to master in my PhD were completed in seconds by the AI, and there were generally fewer errors than I would expect from a human analyst. Human supervision is still vital, but I would not do a data project without Code Interpreter at this point.”

I got access to Code Interpreter yesterday and have spent about three hours playing with it.

Here’s one thing I tried. I wanted to see if I could get it to convert JPEG page scans of a book into a readable EPUB e-book. After about an hour of back-and-forth, it was able to write and run a Python script that combined a variety of OCR and text processing tools to produce a downloadable EPUB that was about 90% of what I wanted. The remaining problems had to do with its inability to detect paragraph breaks and other features of the scanned text; some of those problems are probably solvable with a bit more work.

I am not a programmer, and I would not have had the ability or energy to create such a program myself. I imagine there must be many, many other applications for Code Interpreter. We just need to think of them and try them.
Discussed at the time:

The Code Review Pyramid - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30757206 - March 2022 (110 comments)

The Code Review Pyramid - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30674159 - March 2022 (4 comments)
There's also this one (not official)

https://basarat.gitbook.io/typescript/
Unless it is batteries and battery-like hydro.
In Silicon Valley, it was the combination of Fry's Electronics, Micro Center, Weird Stuff Warehouse and a couple other stores, and the tech bookstores Computer Literacy, Stacey's Books and Digital Guru. The future, unevenly distributed.
> It felt overtly clear to me, as a student, that schools failed to effectively foster learning and growth.

Schools reflect the values that parents impress upon them.

The vast majority of parents want free daycare and a "Magic Paper(tm)" that gets their child into a college higher than what their child is actually qualified for. Nothing else.

So, you can complain about education not supporting "learning and growth". And you can complain about the bureaucracy. However, parents have made their wishes very loud and clear over the last several decades about exactly what they want out of the public education system.
Boeing has an AOG team, which means "Airplane On Ground". As it was explained to me, airliners are a money generating machine for airlines. But only when they're flying. When they're sitting on the ground, they're a black hole sucking up buckets of cash.

The airline business model is therefore maximizing the percentage of time an airplane is in the air generating cash.

Boeing responds to this by expending a lot of design effort towards minimizing required maintenance, and making maintenance quick and easy to do.

But, sometimes, an airplane develops a fault that the airline mechanics cannot fix. Enter the AOG team. The AOG team is composed of the best engineers and mechanics, and they are on a moment's notice to fly anywhere and get that AOG back in the air ASAP.

I heard Microsoft has a similar team to go out and fix a customer's software. It's one reason Microsoft is able to sell expensive enterprise software in the face of free software. It's worth the money corporations pay to Microsoft to "come out and fix it!"
True, however, apparently the success sequence says that most poor people can rise out of poverty if they do 3 things in a right order
The two are probably the opposite sides of the same coin. If it was a prestigious and well paid profession, a career flame-out would not be able to land a job teaching.
I've tried to switch out prompts between LLM's and I've had to change every bit of code provided by laying chain with a different implementation between them. It is an entirely useless abstraction. The prompt template is not at all transferrable.
Or that some of us aren't casual users who are ignorant/indifferent to what is happening.
"Counterexamples" seems like a massively underexplored area for teaching good software design.

"How to design good software" is a huge question, but "what are some mistakes you've seen with tool X" seems like a great way to catalogue common errors that people make while learning.

I'd love for a major framework/tool to poll its users and create an index of common design counterexamples. e.g. "common design mistakes with serializers, models, caching, etc".

+1 if that resource included ways to refactor away from the bad design. So if the counterexample is "Querying the database directly from the controller functions", there could be a list of ways to refactor a codebase away from that design in pieces, and what to consider at each step (since some problems aren't worth the effort of fixing).
You fix poverty by educating children and letting them grow up in a safe area free from crime. Educated children get put on the right path in life and lift themselves out of poverty.

That's how Asian countries like Japan and Korea pulled themselves out of poverty in the matter of decades. During the 1950s and 1960s, South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world, and by the 1980s, was considered an economic miracle.
Amazing what having a billion+ users already with a logon/ID can do for uptake!

I'm wondering whether it'll be Apple or Meta that becomes Zetatech...
That could explain why the vegetables in Monsanto lands like America look and feel normal but have no flavor
if you have a script that makes heavy use of sed, awk, tr and the like, then maybe translating to perl would be most natural.

but otherwise a script is either just calling a lot of commands one after the other, for which a shell script is fine. or they do a lot of data mangling without needing many external applications or none even, in which case any other languages besides perl is just as fine.
It's not about utility. It's about putting knowledge on an unshakeable foundation.

You can live your life perfectly well without it. Most people do. But if you look too closely at how it actually works, you keep discovering unexpected inconsistencies. They don't actually matter until you try to definitively refute people saying dumb stuff and it turns out you actually can't.

You can just ignore the people saying dumb stuff and you'll do just fine. But there will always be a nagging wonder if maybe somehow they were right.
Yeah this one sucks so much less, at least purely in terms of performance.
I have a ton of code style preferences that I’m thrilled to put on the back burner to accomplish really much more important things with my team. I can express my individuality and let my whitespace and brace freak flag fly on personal projects, and I can even have more energy to get those adopted into core work if I want to, because my daily work isn’t burdened by formatting preference taking away from much more important concerns like whether the thing actually works, has acceptable performance and usability and accessibility characteristics, and can be maintained on a continuous basis.

It’s not that anyone else has felt stifled by this either. Everyone everyone contributing has welcomed the automated formatting dictator. We’ve all felt the benefit of not focusing review on stuff that doesn’t impact users.

If you really want to express yourself in code formatting, go wild on your own time and enjoy the free time you have for it by not putting it in the middle of otherwise meaningful work.
The way this played out was maddening and frustrating for the people involved, and we're told went against the letter of the law; it looks like it matched income after the unemployment event against the unemployment payments...

but looking at the calculation that was done, it was not incredibly immoral or something, "if average income in a year was greater than welfare eligibility for that year, no eligibility" doesn't sound kafkaesque. The cost of unemployment insurance will reflect the average payouts, and people who treat unemployment as an entitlement (you're supposed to look for a job, not squeeze every nickel out of the system) just drive the costs up for everybody else.

People who yearn for socialism, yes, they want every benefit they can get. People who yearn for systemic efficiency, taking a moving average of your income and filling in where it falls short sounds like a good method.
I think it's interesting that we expect each new social app to be 'the next big thing' and a failure if not replacing Twitter/Insta/Threads/Whatever by tomorrow.

If they get decent user growth and remain profitable, having the right features and usability will make them a more appealing option as time goes on. It doesn't need to be overnight unless it's funded by VC cash that demands it be so...

Personally, I don't want another Twitter. I'd be more than happy for Reddit to sort it's stupidity out and good old forums to continue to provide organised hangouts for interest groups.
private school vouchers seems like a great idea, but I am afraid it will mirror college situation.

most state schools will have bare bones programs, except few select, while private schools will be many levels ahead and become "elite".

do we want "ivy league" situation with K-12 education system?
I live in Excel. This video was basic. I was hoping for more sophisticated instruction. But from reading the comments, it’s clear I need to learn a data analysis language.

What would you recommend? Python?
Why don't you look at the software and do your own analysis.