skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You misread the post you’re replying to. It is in support of vouchers and is implying that public schools are pushing a viewpoint that is as faith based as any religion and as open to falsification. There are people upthread singing the praises of state schools as tools of assimilation. The point of the comment you’re responding to is to point out that many people have no desire to be assimilated to the new dispensation and as such the political system will accommodate them or not. Not is left as an exercise.
Almost all cars that I have seen still have analog controls for driving *inputs*.

Digital/touch screen is mainly limited to entertainment, phone, setup, and GPS/mapping. A lot of touch screen functions are often intentionally made inactive while the vehicle is moving.
Wow. Strong disagree. I have been using USB-C power only across 4 different makes of laptop on windows, mac and linux for about 6 years now and I don't recognize these issues.

I literally have never seen power renegotiation after the first time I plug a device in even a single time. I have seen problems where external displays don't find display signal just as you do with hdmi or displayport sometimes but I've never had a power problem. Are you using sketchy cables perhaps?
LLaMA 2 has built in safety training.
Private schools are mostly quite bad and worse than typical public schools. A few outliers distort the general picture.
This is one of the many reasons we decided to homeschool, despite having a pretty good experience with public education.

It's like a super power to be able to tailor education for your own children. You know their strengths and weaknesses better than anybody.
I find it hard to believe that you find it hard to believe that law enforcement was called in to deal with individuals threatening violence on others, regardless of whether these were parents at a school board meeting.
>The real people being scammed by all this are secondary investors and pension funds.

No, it's the real, legitimate businesses and employees that are in the space being """disrupted""" and lose their shirts and jobs because it's impossible for a legitimate business to compete with selling one dollar for fifty cents.

Add to that all the normal people who liked using those businesses and liked how small they were and were perfectly happy and now are stuck using a shitty evil megacorp
It's not just that it's "very easy to navigate around this", it's that it's not true. The incorrect statement piggybacks on Go forbidding unused variables, however that has two absolutely major holes:

First, it requires having a variable in the first place, if you call a function for its side-effect and don't remember that it returns an error, Go won't tell you.

Second, Go only errors on dead variables, not dead stores, since conventionally the error variable is "err" you can easily forget to check one of them, and Go won't say anything because the err variable was read in one of the other checks.

It's even worse if you're one of the weirdoes which uses named return variables, because named return variables are always used:

func foo() (v int, err error) {
a, err := bar()
b, err := baz()
v = a + b
return
}

compiles just fine. But at least you're returning the second error. No such luck if you're using named return variables for documentation:

func foo() (v int, err error) {
a, err := bar()
b, err := baz()

return a + b, nil
}

go also has nothing to say about this.
How common is this at all? Asking because I went to one of the fairly prominent public research schools in the US (Georgia Tech), have tons of friends who got published during their undergrad (almost did myself too, but priorities changed, and I quit research in that lab before we got to the point of draft submissions), and not a single one of those friends had academia-affiliated parents. None of them were donors to the school either.

I don't doubt that those scenarios you describe happen, but I strongly doubt it happens at top research schools in any capacity that would be noticeable or affect anything. In fact, professors running the labs that I've encountered couldn't care any less about who you are, and way more about what you can bring to the table in terms of getting things done and published.
That is an interesting point. I'm not sure why, but "hallucinate" doesn't bother me as much as "lie". Maybe it is because of all the ancillary baggage that "lie" has related to our current culture wars (lies, misinformation, disinformation, gaslighting, etc.)

I just asked (another anthropomorphic verb) ChatGPT for a better word and it came up with "fabricate".

> The term "fabricate" could be used to describe AI's tendency to generate fictitious information. This term has less anthropomorphic connotations than "hallucinate" and directly refers to the creation or construction of something, which could be a suitable representation for what an AI system does when it generates false data. Other alternatives could be "synthesize" or "generate," depending on the specific context.
I understand why you would want the choice but I think history has already shown that vouchers don't work. You have to remember that the thing vouchers do is take money out of the school you are leaving. (A better approach would be for there to be a private school tax deduction alongside programs like 529). This leaves the students that are already behind fewer resources to catch up. We need school reform desperately and this new program is very bad and not it. However, allocating extra resources for those who needed most hasn't been a priority writ large either or we wouldn't be where were are now. We also forget that there are many social aspects that drive under performers. Food insecurity, family stability, safe quiet place to read and do homework, etc. have a huge impact on student performance. School breakfast/lunch/dinner should be free for all students. We should have more after school programs built into the schools for students that need it so they can get tutoring on-prem before they even return home to a potentially unstable home life. Unfortunately we don't approach all the interconnected issues holistically. (Similar to how trivial it would be solve most homelessness if we had the political courage to change our approach).

You claim that you shouldn't be "stuck" with a bad school program but you aren't. You can run for school board along with other like minded student-focused parents and get the thing corrected.
As with any sufficiently complex system, simple solutions fail to take into account knock on effects. As such, I'm curious about what impact that decreased traffic speed had. Did it reduce traffic deaths? Did it increase deaths in ambulances? Was it uniform or were/are there areas that are at a 50% decrease and more at 1%?

One issue I think we are seeing is that we, as tech workers, are super excited to fix the immediate problems. We have the skillset and it's really engaging! But we will often miss the forest for the trees and then double down on our solution being the solution instead of one part of the solution.

All this to say, thank you for discussing the traffic slowdown caused by increased cars. It's a side effect I hadn't been considering before.
> the directors so busy chasing their exit with their legs and stroking each other off with their hands that the only tool they have left is their mouths. Out of which spews thinly veiled promises

I wish I didn't visualize this. This could be a Renaissance painting.
The /6 is super rare. I don't need yet another car but if I came across a reasonably priced /6 I'd probably fall for it.
Bard is a 4.5B or so model.
Yup. There should be fast tracks and slow tracks. If I already know the material, I get to advance. No need to hold everyone back.
They address that in the article: tutoring. One on one tutoring works amazingly well. I used to volunteer as a tutor. The students I worked with accelerated drastically. It's simply a matter of money.

They do leave out some things: food + shelter. Many poor students have problems with nutrition and safe shelter, both of which make learning near impossible.

The metro area I'm in is a perfect example of this. We have two small cities side by side. Pretty much the same socioeconomic makeup in both. One invests massively into education, tutoring, summer programs, etc. In the other the schools are literally crumbling, but hey, the police budget is at an all time high! The city investing into education ranks 9/10-10/10 on state tests, the city that allows its buildings to literally crumble (the library was off limits for a while because the ceiling tiles were falling so often they were injuring the children), ranks 2/10.

We don't need to dumb down anything. We need to raise everyone up by investing in education.
> Disney went broke.

According to [1], they made $82.7B in 2022, up from $67.4B in 2021, for a profit of $3.1B. Also looks like they have ~$100B in assets. Pretty sure they're doing ok.

[1] https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/app/uploads/2023/02/2022-An...
Has anyone tried giving kids a vote in school-board elections?

Teachers' unions are increasingly compromised. Electeds use kids as pawns to appeal to radicals to promote random social causes. And parents seem to focus on grades going up at the expense of an actual education.

Maybe they'll just vote themselves candy. But in my experience, kids understand--at least as well as the median adult voter--what they need to succeed. Enfranchising them in their own educations seems worth exploring.

California, in particular, has high-school only school districts. We don't have to start with whether the kindergarten block is aligned with less nap time.
Read the article linked at the start: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/california-needs-real-math-edu..., and you'll find that there are quite a few people supporting this, importantly in school boards, and education departments and such. They don't care about the rest of the world, because they are "the experts."
You're on this site talking to generally smart people who are not paying for the privilege of using this site complaining that everything good on the internet is already paywalled.

If you don't know how to find what you're looking for, just ask. Paywalls aren't a real thing that have to be obeyed, nor is there ever only one spigot for any digital fountain.
I definitely don’t want religious brainwashing. I also definitely do not want the indoctrination that is taking place in our public schools.
Not teaching algebra and calculus should not be an option, particularly if one is concerned about equity.
US cities are going to be in a world of hurt here pretty soon.

Cities exist as job markets. And the primary force that keeps urban areas safe and friendly is the shoeleather of middle class workers coming in and out of work each day.

The vacuum left has been filled with homelessness and poverty. These people were always here, but there was enough critical mass that they were at the margins. Now they are at all of the bus stops and train platforms.

Cities often had their priorities backwards and became very dependent on unsustainably high property values. Even if you started rezoning office buildings into housing, SF would be taking a double hit - there is less reason to live in SF and more housing would bring down values everywhere. Forgetting that these business districts are pretty undesirable places to live anyway.

So we are looking at a potential "death spiral" as cities lose their appeal, and lose the funding to solve the problems. Until they button up and find a new stable equilibrium.

SF is especially weird because it had/has somewhat of a vibrant tourism scene, and was always pretty hostile to its own business community. And now you have a hollowed-out downtown that is now not nearly as desirable for business and not particularly tourist friendly either.
> you will only find Reverse waiting there to mock you with a shriek of high-speed gear teeth machining themselves into round cylinders

Am I alone in twitching at this fallacy?

These have constant-mesh gearboxes. You're grinding castellated faces AKA dogs/dog-teeth/dog-clutches [0], not the gear teeth.

If you're going to write something in such a condescending smarty-pants tone, at least be freaking accurate.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_mesh_gearbox#Dog_clut...
People who have a higher propensity to live in a district with shittier schools overwhelmingly support an alternative. This isn’t shocking. What most people, including it seems you, haven’t thought about are the long term consequences to universal voucher programs given the current idiotic system of school funding being largely based on a how much the houses in the area are worth. The long term consequences are bad and quite predictable.

EDIT: There are lots of papers regarding school vouchers and private schools and why it’s a bad idea. Simplistic solutions to complex problems tend not to work and have bad unintended consequences.
When will WebGPU come to Firefox?

(Not going to install Chrome for a random shiny thing)
I understand why many people will perceive this article as saying that the workplace is inherentely inauthentic or dishonest, but many sociologists will tell you that all social venues are theatre-like.

As humans, we have many roles that we take on for the different contexts that we live in. Me as "dad" at home with the kids, me as "husband" with my wife after the kids go to bed, and me as "employee" at work are very different roles. I use different language, have different goals, different tone, different energy level.

At the same time, none of those are any less "me". They are all authentic. They're just contextual.

And it is entirely natural that knowledge work requires social skills and performance. You may write the most beautiful efficient code in the world, but if it lands in the repo without anyone noticing, it has no effect. It must be seen and used by other humans to provide value.
I didn't say anything about emotions. Are you confused?
Group #2 is the reason why there's so much information on the internet in the first place, especially free resources, for better or worse. I think it's pretty ignorant of you to say we can just discard one of the main ways people who create things on the internet get paid.
That would be my amateur guess as well which scares me in a couple of ways.
If you mean the optional ethernet port module, no, because 1) foldable ports are more fragile, expensive, and patented, and 2) if there's demand for it, anybody can manufacture an alternative ethernet module with a folding port, which is the point of being modular.
I know you can install the initial versions of SteamOS on it, but as far as I know, SteamOS 3 (the version powering the Steam Deck) has not been officially released for desktop use.

My dream is a gaming laptop with the same type of suspend/resume capability that the Steam Deck has
This article is better https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2023/03/03/judge-rules-h...

The crux is that many students would take the 9th grade math course via private courses to then jump ahead a year or two when they get to the high school. The school tried to prevent people from doing this and the parents sued.

I went to this high school ~10 years ago and at the time a handful of kids every year would do this. I'd imagine it's much higher now though.
Annual mean wage for construction (skilled and unskilled) nationally in the US in 2022 is around $60,000 [0] so around £45,000, compared to £28,500 [1] for the same time period in the UK for skilled construction (in the US, there isn't a difference between construction worker and bricklayer). The US and UK are both large so there will be significant regional variation (eg. earning $100-130k in construction in Philly is realistic, as is £40-50k for a similar role in Greater London)

For college educated people, the median wage in the US (in 2022) is around $71,000/£54,000 [2] compared to (in 2019) £34,000 in the UK [3]

Note that almost all Americans get health insurance from either their employer or via Medicaid with around 8% of Americans lacking any sort of insurance [4], but even then in most cases they would most likely be covered by subsidized prices [5], so it would be a wash comparing with the NHS or using that as a justification when even Australia, Canada, and NZ have much higher salaries compared to the UK despite having a similar healthcare system.

Big picture, it appears that if you are skilled or semi-skilled, you can earn significantly more in the US than the UK.

[0] - https://www.bls.gov/oes/2022/may/construction2.htm

[1] - https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor...

[2] - https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2023/data-on-display/educa...

[3] - https://www.gov.uk/government/news/graduates-continue-to-ben...

[4] - https://www.kff.org/uninsured/issue-brief/key-facts-about-th...

[5] - https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/study-finds-hospitals-cash...
That might not be a bad idea. But it still doesn't solve the problem of some people learning/advancing quicker than others.
Tubnet lost $1M On A Minecraft Server
According to Toby, the server's owner, Cloudflare turned off their proxy, letting all attack traffic hit the origin.

Given the server's public is mostly teenagers, I doubt TubNet will release any technical post. However, it would be nice to see Cloudflare's side here.

Ugh, HN removed the timing param in the post: https://youtu.be/FoI4GPWxRtA?t=467
I can't parse this: I assume it assumes I assume that a16z could have ensured it wasn't released

It's not that, just what it says on the tin: SV elites are not good for SV
If someone is blocking a child from learning more and moving faster than others because of “equity”…then some school districts need to start firing some bureaucrats. Take away teaching licenses if someone is unwilling to uphold an oath to do their best with each student even if it means some students are smarter and faster than others. You cannot escape reality. You will not stunt the brightest in the name of this false god you call equity. Harrison Bergeron is a dystopia, not a training manual.
> It just never got widespread adoption because it's just not interesting.

True. There have been NPC systems where the NPCs had motivations and a life of their own, even when no one was around. Those haven't helped gameplay much.

The current problem is that LLMs don't know enough about the game world. Recent progress on that.[1]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442
Seriously, what's the difference between what OP wrote:

" [Cochrane] found there was no reliable evidence that masks worked against COVID/"

And the editorial: "the review examined whether interventions to promote mask wearing help to slow the spread of respiratory viruses, and that the results were inconclusive"

How is "inconclusive" functionally different from "there was no reliable evidence?" Seriously, how do you justify this pedantry while ignoring and obfuscating the truth?

People do much evil by focusing on the wrong facts, the wrong stories, and the wrong lessons learned, while ignoring the right ones. That you are willing to focus on apparently frivolous pedantry while ignoring the fact that so many were forced to use masks without any high-quality scientific evidence that they actually did anything, including children, and all the lessons that should derive from this, is in my opinion, very representative of this type of evil.
> but where's the incentive for a government

The incentive is because it saves the government money, and educated the student better.

If costs the government 20k per year to educate 1 child, and a private school can do a better job of it, for 15k, then the government saves money by having the private school do it instead.
Europe is a big market, as condition of marketing some drug it can require having some capacity inside the EU, etc.

And similarly for chip foundries. Of course with chips the real trick is that the foundries depend on Europe due to ASML, but yes, your general point stands, and it's important.

What doesn't make sense is to prop up "domestic" companies that - in theory - play the same role in the global supply chain, but when actually it's time for them to step up, they just fell over and the whole things turns out to be three crony ducks, drunk on fancy local wine, playing big business.

There's no need to get the bleeding edge node factory here, but there's many advantages to having some capacity of the already well-understood high-efficiency high-productivity node here.

There's plenty of endogenous and unmet demand in Europe, but there's a lack of culture of providing long-termish solutions for it. (As in the EU funds very short-termist things, and there's the continuously ongoing land subsidy problem.)
The 10% is its share among the computers shipped to customers whereas the 22% is its share among requests (term?) made by desktop OSes to web servers.

These figures are consistent if we assume that the average Mac makes 2.2 as many requests to web servers as the average desktop computer does--which I am ready to believe: some people use the web much more intensively than others do, and I can easily believe that such people are more inclined (specifically, more than twice as inclined) to chose a Mac than the average computer buyer is.

If a person does not care about computers or the internet and uses them only occasionally, then simply based on the differences in purchase price, they are probably much more differentially likely to buy a Windows machine than a Mac.
They could cut rent drastically and people still might not show up.

Also, if the owners start going bad on their debts there is a potentially cascading financial problem for the city of San Francisco
Ask HN: Is BayArea still considered as hub for technological innovation?
I have always wanted to move to Bayarea ever since I visited for the first time in 2017. Since then I was able to spend few months during Covid, but now I have an opportunity to move [San Jose]. Some of the factors that standout are Weather/Climate, big tech - more career opportunities, proximity to different nature, bad housing. What are the other pluses, minuses moving to Bayarea at this time in your opinion? TIA!
There's basically no information on the RX7700S out there. Anyone know how it holds up for gaming/rendering/etc?

The VRAM already seems a little disappointing.
Go really is great. There was a big argument around a new project we were starting whether to do Go or Clojure.

What we did to settle the debate was to ask an entry level dev that was just starting if he was interesting in writing two sample applications in each language, having known nothing of either. Nothing complicated but touched enough points (HTTP endpoints, database interaction)

A full day later was still trying to get the Clojure app working correctly.

He finished up the Go one in like an hour.

Since then we've brought new devs on with zero Go experience and they are up writing good code in a day. I can't imagine where we would be if we had gone down the Clojure route.
It's also a matter of who integrated it. In the Volvo's they are rock solid because of the way the wiring is routed (and the quality of the wiring), in the DS they are nothing but trouble and you're better off assuming it's all gone and completely rewiring and re-calibrating it than to try to fix it as is because that will almost always be a very temporary job.
You're going to really hate when you look up how much sexual abuse there is in private schools then.
The store I managed had a suspend/recall. Cart full of groceries only to realize you left your wallet (at home, in the car, whatever) suspend the transaction and print a slip with a barcode on it. Move the cart out of the way and take the next customer. The customer comes back and scans the slip at any register to recall the transaction, pay and collect their cart and leave without having to hold up lines/etc... Was a nice convenience many appreciated.