skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm for vouchers because I don't think I should have to pay with my taxes for religious indoctrination masquerading as public education.

are you missing a NOT in there? as in `I'm NOT for vouchers because I don't think I should have to pay with my taxes for religious indoctrination masquerading as public education. `?

because as it stands, your comment makes as much sense as saying

> if you are not paying for the product you are the product

Just because you are paying does not mean you are NOT the product, to spell it out.

Similarly, just because people have the option to pay for their Islamic Madrasah or whatever Jewish or Christian equivalents are with vouchers, does not mean they will not try to shove their ideologies down everyone in public education in the next election cycle.
except this is histrionics. there was a fervent backlash against this and they revised the proposal to make it a schools choice to teach it or not.

> Stuff like this is why I will remain a proponent for true vouchers for the rest of my life.

The only thing that does is line the pockets of fundamentalist christian schools with money and increase the inequality. schools should not be tied to local taxes by and large... there should be a equality of funding.
Erlang's been around forever, also a fairly simple language. I'd imagine concurrency's easier than on Go.
I'm sure it's different in other places, but around here the only alternative school in town is run by an organized religion. Come to think of it, that's also true of the next town. Are the voucher people envisaging some eduVC funding source that allows me to spin up a school to complete with the legacy one?
Alabama median household inching $52K https://datausa.io/profile/geo/alabama/

UK median household income £29.4K
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_the_United_Kingdom

There are no US states as poor as the UK, Alabama included.
Well, that explains wtf is happening. You guys seeing this on us-east-1 or across?
Erlang had a better concurrency story than Go, and better error handling. But alas marketing wins.
Yeah, I'm OK paying taxes to get to live in a society with universally-available (mostly) fee-free primary and secondary education that aspires to some set of standards.

I'm not OK paying taxes to help Bobby Baptist send his kids to Jesus Is Lord Day School. Or kick in to rich parents' budget for Phillips Exeter. If we must have vouchers, let people keep their own tax money that would have gone to schools and use that for the vouchers. I'm not interested in handing people my cash to fund private education. I'm interested in having a public education system. That, I'll pay taxes for.
I would think the effects of confounding variables are reduced the larger the sample size, so you can say "everyone in group A does not drink wine, and everyone in group B does drink wine". Some from both groups will get cancer because of some confounding variable, but they would cancel each other out- a non-related cancer case in Group A would be cancelled out by a non-related cancer case in Group B.

Conversely, if you have a similar study aiming to prove that wine prevents cancer, how do you prove that wine is the reason a person did not get cancer? It seems much more difficult, because now you are saying X did NOT happen because of Y rather than Y caused X. I'm struggling to articulate this. Maybe you're right.
Fully agree with your points. In my experience if people flag error handling it almost always means they didn't spend enough time with the language yet, as in the day to day work it's a non-issue.
> One of the purposes of public education is also assimilating children into the shared values of society.

From what I have observed of the US's education system, the problem is that the public education system is assimilating children into values that are _not_ shared by society nor their parents.
I don't know about outside of America but according to comparable reports from the firm Cushman & Wakefield, Austin boasts 15.7 million square feet vacant, a rate of 25%. The same firm has SF marked at 27% vacant.

I have never been sure if HN is invested in commenting on SF real estate because they disproportionately live here, or because they live elsewhere and get a warped news feed that has an interest in portraying SF in a negative light.
I mean... It's not entirely "true"

Some kids are educatable. Some are not. (and this also depends on subject and other factors)

That's true across all races, classes etc.

I say this because I actually think the biggest issue in education is that we waste resources on kids who are not educable and hold back whole classes for the one kid who refuses. This, and 101 other issues stem from that policy. A big part of what parents get at private schools or schools in nicer neighbourhoods is fewer kids holding the class up.

We should be assessing schools on how many kids get As and go to college. Instead we assess schools on how many kids pass or attend. So schools spend their time and energy dragging truants into classes and turning Ds into Cs. Anyone trying hard is just ignored, there is no news story, reward etc for getting a B kid to get an A etc...
Oh, I'm yet to hit that problem. My current annoyance is that sometimes it gets confused after Firefox restarts, and I end up with a flat dump of tabs + an unending spam of those tiny warning popups at the bottom of its UI. The few times that happened, I ended up restarting Firefox again to stop the warnings, and then rearranging the flat list of tabs into groups and panels I want them to be in. Fortunately, it's not that big of a chore.
> I’m against vouchers because I don’t think I should have to pay with my taxes for religious indoctrination masquerading as private education.

Uh huh. And if you are a homeschooler, or go to private school, you are taxed right now to pay for secular indoctrination masquerading as public education. /s

But seriously, by this logic, what is the justification for using taxes paid by people who don't attend public school, to fund the public schools?
What are the hardware requirements for running this locally? llama.cpp or the old-fashioned way, either would work.
> anyone who knew anything about programming languages rolled their eyes at pretty much everything about Go's type system

And Go has succeeded despite these condescending diatribes on how a language needs to have a Hindley-Milner type system with ADTs and type classes to be useful. Go made me truly realize how insufferable the PLT community is, and why they are so absolutely lost when it comes to creating successful languages.

In under a decade Go swept up entire markets with a simple, down to earth language you can learn in a day and keep in your head. It optimized for the masses and the common cases and has absolutely eaten the lunch of these languages with lauded type systems that takes several courses in formal logic to even get started with.
Began my coding career because of the family hotel business. Started coding websites, progressed onto building status boards (vertically mounted tvs) for the today’s Programm, dabbled in document management (instapdf.com), employee management (baseping.com) and worked my way up to actually implementing 3 different versions of iOS apps interfacing with different POS systems (ordervisto.com). Getting live feedback from these systems was invaluable and really helped with finding out what works and what doesn’t instantly.

The hotel is sold now and I’m wondering if I’ll ever work in such a challenging and multifaceted environment again.
There are lots of bad outcomes in a marriage, but many marriages aren't given much of a chance.Anyone who has been successfully married after decades can tell you that it's ups and downs and takes work and there are many moments when you might want to give up. This culture encourages people to cut bait when things aren't fulfilling the spouse. But that's just more of the same individualistic attitudes that Psychodynamics helped create support for. When you enter into a marriage you are less an individual, when you have children, you are even less an individual. It shouldn't be so easy to divorce and there shouldn't be a whole industry that tries to make it easier. This idea that you can detach from your commits to family because you're "unhappy" is insidious and has too many perverse incentives to list here. Predatory industries like therapy are particularly distasteful because they clothe themselves in virtue when they are actually extreme toxic to the culture at large. That culture, if allowed to be healthy, would obviate the perceived need for most therapy (outside of seriously disordered people). Such needs would be supplied by extended family and friends.
Cutting rent means that the property is worth less. That means investors are demanding to know why the property is worth less, and the city collects less property taxes which might lead to politicians asking questions.

While all that may be necessary, it won't happen until it's the only thing that can happen.
Thanks! I had vaguely imagined it might be related to differentials.
Typescript is currently the best way to avoid the myriad of issues writing JS. It's an amazing hold over until we get native types. ECMAScript proposals take a long time, but it will eventually come.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations
> I have never been sure if HN is invested in commenting on SF real estate because they disproportionately live here, or because they live elsewhere and get a warped news feed that has an interest in portraying SF in a negative light.

Why not both?
This feels like a huge misunderstanding of the memory layout of 2D arrays. Memory locality is about how close values are in 1D memory, not their Euclidian distance in 2D.

Left to right, top to bottom matches memory order exactly and is always going to be fastest if your algorithm allows it. The benchmarks show that.

Zigzag is slightly slower because big CPUs have fetch predictors that recognise backwards access patterns so it's basically the same as going left to right except you trip the predictor up at the start of each row.
Yup, and they had a franchise model so just did the tech. But Uber drove them out of business by setting VC money on fire.
Related article: https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/how-a-n...
I wonder how much of that office space is viable for converting into residential housing, both physically-speaking and zoning-wise.

Yeah, yeah, office buildings are often built completely different from housing and need to be vastly retooled, but it is possible, and Boston is attempting it. When it comes to SF it feels like the regulatory issues are more difficult.
us-east-1 only for us
“First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are…

But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what one does is barbaric.”
— Ryszard Kapuściński
I've wanted to try highlight for our company although I find it off putting that new companies market themselves as "Open Source!" "Self Hosted!" but really aren't that accessible or documented for independent use.

I get it. it's a business, and it really is open source (thanks for the permissive license), but it often feels more like an after-thought/marketing play, which is completely fine if you're upfront. or maybe I'm just spoiled.
Thanks for the kind words, we’re glad our approach to observability resonates!
I haven't heard of the 10% figure before, can you link to the source?
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/18/linux_desktop_debate/
This appears related to AWS downtime on many resources, including CloudFront. I see similar 421s on my production sites as well as things like Stripe
Use Sidebery in Firefox for vertical tabs and it has not only better grouping but also entire "tab spaces" (workspaces) which you can switch between as well, if wanted.
100% this. I even went to catholic school 7-12th grade.

It was in no way a superior product like they want you to believe anyway. It was obvious in college that I had inferior math and science education, and I was considered a high performer in my high school!

They even turned me off religion completely, so fail on all counts.
Charter school vouchers are a corrupt way to siphon off public funds.
This could potentially replace LogRocket / Bugsnag / Papertrail for our fly-hosted SaaS product. Only thing is, we're elixir based so I'd love to see an elixir client. I advise another company with a HIPAA compliant service and the self-hosted option would be huge for them. They're PHP / React so a PHP library would help out there.
I know this is a bit of a thread jack, but this same attitude now playing out on Xbox in the console space. The recent FTC attempt to block the Activision merger surfaced emails saying that they were just going to outspend Sony to further consolidate and buy a higher position in the market, because they can.

There's nothing in any of Microsoft's revealed communications over the years where they ever seem to aspire to make better products. I mean, sure, obviously, there are pockets inside the company, but that has never seemed to be the purview of the board or the executives. If there's a thought leader in there somewhere who had passion to make great products like Jobs, I can't think of who it would be.

I almost feel bad for Microsoft, and I say this as a Microsoft-hater and Linux zealot who ran it on the desktop for 19 years before switching to Mac. It's the legacy backward-compatibility that makes Windows so attractive to a lot of organizations which makes it so vulnerable. OTOH, corporate IT divisions love it because Microsoft lets them do all sorts of stupid things to it, like prevent me from changing the desktop background, so it's kind of a deserved punishment.
good. banning ICE by 2035 is insanely stupid.
That is a good point that I missed in my list. In fact, I think in a recent update, they made the pins dots in an apparent attempt to declutter the map view. Now what you described got even worse, because the points have an even smaller hit box than the pins.
You still have this requirement for your users that depend on screen readers… a segment of users which coincidentally are unlikely to appreciate the fancy icon.svg
Where have they said this specifically?
>Only if you look at people with Twitter accounts.

My point is that "people with Twitter accounts" outnumber "people like you" (who primarily access twitter via nitter) literally and without hyperbole a thousand to one. You are exactly the kind of person who I'm talking about, who is wildly miscalibrated as to how the average person interacts with twitter.

>Its ridiculous that Twitter looked upon the grand social network of Quora

If you're talking about the login gate, then it's not "Quora's model", it's the model used by the single most successful social network in the world, which is still at or near the top despite being considered irrelevant. Dark patterns aren't used because execs like being evil for fun, they're used because they've proven to be effective in many cases.
b, err := os.ReadFile(path)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("read %s: %w", path, err)
}

is so much better than

b := Must!(os.ReadFile(path))

because when things go wrong, I have exactly the right amount of information I want. Assigning to err magically (it's not even mentioned in the source code) is exactly the kind of thing that'll turn out to be the cause of a subtle bug 6 months later. Why not spend the a couple of extra lines thinking about the error when the context is still in your head?

Additionally I like how error handling acts as a visual delimiter, especially when you use meaningful fmt.Errorfs as strings are usually highlighted with a different colour, making it easy to quickly jump through code.
All the people forced to live in small SF housing, plenty of functioning companies in SF Bay Area outside of Tech also need more working space.
See: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15595

"We present Position Interpolation (PI) that extends the context window sizes of RoPE-based pretrained LLMs such as LLaMA models to up to 32768 with minimal fine-tuning (within 1000 steps), while demonstrating strong empirical results on various tasks that require long context, including passkey retrieval, language modeling, and long document summarization from LLaMA 7B to 65B. Meanwhile, the extended model by Position Interpolation preserve quality relatively well on tasks within its original context window. To achieve this goal, Position Interpolation linearly down-scales the input position indices to match the original context window size, rather than extrapolating beyond the trained context length which may lead to catastrophically high attention scores that completely ruin the self-attention mechanism. Our theoretical study shows that the upper bound of interpolation is at least ∼600× smaller than that of extrapolation, further demonstrating its stability. Models extended via Position Interpolation retain its original architecture and can reuse most pre-existing optimization and infrastructure."
The author says

> The idea that offering children fewer educational resources through the public school system will help the poor kids catch up with rich ones, or help the Black kids catch up with the White and Asian ones, is unsupported by any available evidence of which I am aware.

I was wondering if some people are aware of studies supporting this strategy.

I could try to dig them up, but I remember few studies demonstrating that school success is more correlated to the socio-economical situation of the parent than to the child intrinsic capacities (I think one usual method is to compare success of twins adopted in different families to remove the naive argument "higher socio-economical situation means that these people are intrinsically smarter").

If it is the case, while avoiding the privileged ones to run ahead is not ideal, the alternative of doing nothing is even worse (which is in practice what a lot of people criticizing this measure prone: they did not have any plan to change anything before the subject was introduced).

I think that the idea is not to "dumb down" the kids, but to have a goal that everyone can achieve instead of a goal that is impossible to achieve for some of the poor kids anyway. See under this lens, the proposal makes more sense: the lectures are given at the NORMAL pace, without assuming that extra learning is made at home while it is known that this extra learning is impossible to do for some. A bit like if your professor was saying "we have an exam on chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4, I will tell you the chapters 1 and 3, the chapters 2 and 4 are in the books but I'm going to give this book only to some students and not other". If a professor does that, people will obviously say that it is stupid, that the professor should teach chapters 1 and 2 to everyone and then do a test on chapters 1 and 2, and nobody will pretend that this is "dumbying down" the students.
According to the chart in this article from April SF had the highest available office space of US major cities but no by a large margin. https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2023/04/24/office-...

22.9% of SF office space was available. Houston 22.2%, Dallas 20.9%, Chicago 19.6% and DC 19.2%.
In Mexico it's even a matter a safety, there's rampant pirate taxis in Mexico City that if you get on one they might try to rob or kidnap you. Most women avoid taxis at all costs throughout Mexico, Uber and Didi are just so much safer
Andrew Sorensen used Tiny Scheme as the programming language for his Impromptu app on the Mac a long time ago:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impromptu_(programming_envir...

There’s lots of good stuff on the project’s website but the papers section might be of particular interest:

http://impromptu.moso.com.au/downloads.html
My employer’s sites are hosted via CloudFront and seem to be fine. The underlying buckets are in Dublin, in case that makes any difference.
AWS Status page doesn't show anything yet: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
As someone who avoided the Twitter firehose like the plague, I've noticed the slow, then rapid decline of traditional 'websites' over the past decade as they succumbed to SEO keyword optimization and driving traffic from social networks. .

Due to the incentives of the players involved, there is no solution that would lead to a neater, less blogspam-infested internet. The concept of a 'website' as Tim Berners Lee and the early netizens understood it, is commpletely outdated.

The second we were able to add an Adsense script or Paypal button or Amazon affiliate link, the fundamental motivation for building websites changed. The artisanal personal websites of yore aren't coming back. People who used to build those have long since moved into less crowded, less commercialized territories where their work might actually be seen.

If you don't want to get angry when looking up a recipe online, buy a recipe book. Everything good on the internet is already paywalled anyway.
Almost all voucher proponents want them for religious schools - your observation is a feature for them, not a bug.
Also being treated like a privileged enemy of the school while trying to fix it.
It's hyperbolic and not a totally fair comparison, but reading this, I had to go find and reread "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut.

https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Berge...

When the means to achieve equality is to handicap the strong, we're going the wrong way.

It would be more expensive and harder to try instead to invest in and help those with additional needs. But nobody is interested in spending more to help others.
I think we have the same idea: stupid grades that don't measure actual results are bad.

Not that I'm salty, but I always had poor grades because I rarely if ever did homework. But I aced the tests, so why bother?
Buyout Funds Buy from Themselves
I’ve never seen them do this. What are you talking about?
This is to fight back against the term "hallucinate" that everyone on here is using
Seeing it across 3 regions at minimum
Well, then I hate to tell you how bad public education is then. It is estimated that about 10% of public school students will receive sexual abuse from a teacher or authority at some point in their education.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2012/02/is-sexual-abuse-...

This was also backed by the US Department of Education in 2004. Since then they've been very hesitant to revisit the issue.

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED483143.pdf

The New York Times was also admitting, way back in 1995, that about 5% of public school teachers are abusers. Considering how many teachers a child goes through, they'll probably meet a few.

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/21/nyregion/teacher-student-...

I think that if it wasn't for the fact that it was school, sending your child to any place where there was a 1-in-10 chance of them being sexually abused would be a crime.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36775766
It looks like they are back up now
The commenter you're replying to did not say that it was.
Last time I took a cab (a few weeks ago) my friend spent 5 min negotiating at the beginning, then it took a while to explain to the driver where to go and he got lost anyway. So yeah that doesn’t really make me want to stop using Uber in the future.
Have you tried Axiom or Logflare?
Yes, technically it will improve ‘equity’ by dumbing down everyone. I believe this is the script of the movie Idiocracy playing out in real time. We all laughed and now we will cry because politicians decided that they’ll be inspired by the movie.
Then you're against all the federal funding to help students attend religious colleges?
Related: "it is easier to automate bad behavior than it is to police it"
In a healthy society, divorce should be difficult, expensive, and rare. Social incentives should be structured to make it less appealing than working on the marriage. Conversely, marriage and children within marriage should be incentivized by law and social programs. It may such policies are unworkable in our present configuration.