skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people are at school because their parents need daycare, not to learn. Schools perform the important social function of sorting and ranking by academic ability and what students learn isn’t all that relevant to the sorting and ranking. One sixth of students in US high schools are bored in every class, every day and two thirds are bored every day[Highschool Study of Student Engagement].

Most people aren’t at school for learning.
> To me, using alumni to do interviews is just a form of indirection in regards to legacy admissions.

I don't see why. I was interviewed by an MIT alum during my MIT application process back in the early 1980s, and he never asked me anything about my parents or other relatives. (I did not have any parents or relatives who went to MIT, and would have told him so if he had asked, but he didn't ask.) He only asked me about things I had done.

> Who is better prepared to discuss MIT with alumni?

The alum who interviewed me didn't ask me anything about MIT. He told me things about MIT. (One particular piece of advice he gave me was extremely helpful: he advised me to visit the MIT campus before I made a final decision about going there if I was accepted. I did that, and it made a huge difference.) He wasn't quizzing me about my MIT knowledge.

My understanding of MIT's rationale for using alumni to interview applicants is that the alum can provide input on how well they think the applicant would acclimate to the MIT environment. MIT can seem very harsh to a student coming from high school, where they were used to being at the top of everything academically, and finding out that at MIT, they're just somewhere in the middle of the pack. MIT, at least in my understanding, believes that alumni who went through that experience themselves can provide useful input on how an applicant might deal with it.
Any links or external resource, proofs, or evidence?
> It has nothing to do with gentrification, inclusion, environmentalism, or any of the other purported values. It's about one thing: stasis. Keeping SF the same at all costs, and making sure no new people come here.

No. You're just monstering your enemies so you don't have to argue with them. Poisoning the well.
Your question reduces to "Why should my taxes pay for a public good, when I choose to have my kids not experience it directly?"

I think the answer becomes a lot clearer then.

Miss Manners has a quote something like "School taxes are what we pay to the future in hopes that it has things like nice young geriatric doctors in it."

Also, what precisely are you claiming is "secular indoctrination"? Evolution? The separation of church and state (in the US)? People who went to religious school have confidently told me that both are myths. They also told me that their school absolutely should have gotten tax funding.
Hilarious strawman that is not backed by real statistics. I went to a religious jesuit private school, i talk to coworkers about their highschool experiences and they talk about gang violence and drug dealing. Meanwhile the most interesting thing that happened for me is some kids got in a fight once.
Anyone want to share what are you building ?
I have been using the Developer Edition since 2014, when it was released, without issue. You are not locked into a single browser. Personally I use more then one browser, and professionally I always validate against multiple browsers.

I find different browsers excel at different things in regards to the developer experience. As an example I appreciate that Firefox had a formatted JSON view without requiring an extension. However Chrome also has capabilities that I wish were included in Firefox.
Another good reason why you should learn how to read studies:

https://peterattiamd.com/ns001/

https://biolayne.com/reps/how-to-read-research-a-biolayne-gu...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7392212/

And as a bonus, read books by controversial figures who talk about these challenges through their own published studies and decided it isn't worth fighting.

What would be cool is to see "trust indicators" as part of a study's metadata as it is reviewed through time and continually shared by others. Could be a "study health score" or a checklist showing the study isn't biased heavily by sponsors, methods, or misleading language.

Especially given that medicine is becoming more personal with the advancements of AI and accessibility of tests, someone should be able to understand the health of a study at-a-glance reviewed by peer reviews rather than disclosed only by the authors.
The prices can not go up too fast as their are price controls on how much it can go up (Preisüberwachung). However that doesn't protect against outside inflation which does make it even more expensive for tourists.
So the answer is to take on a second job, spending several years fixing the system (and contending with people who don't agree with you) so that it will be fixed near the time my child has moved on? That isn't a real answer.

What will really happen is what happens today. Kids whose parents have options just get put in private schools and the problem gets ignored. The kids whose parents have no options get left behind.
I feel like this is one of those cases where people take a mantra too seriously.

Storing values that could otherwise be derived results in complexity and discrepancy.

This may lead people to the conclusion that all values which can be derived should be derived, but in the case of a receipt/invoice, this is not the right call. Discretion must be applied.
Do you mind joining our Discord (https://highlight.io/community) and asking there? Happy to help over a DM once you are in.
In this case it is abundantly clear that the school district gave up trying to fix underperformers and threw in the towel. Engaged parents are domestic terrorists: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/01/13/school-b...

The only option is do not help and do not engage. There is no point in expending effort trying to fix a system led by people that hate you.
When you ask about the harmful effect of Facebook on society:

> I understand that you have concerns about Facebook and their impact on society. However, it's important to note that Facebook is a complex organization with many different teams and initiatives, and it's not accurate to make sweeping generalizations about the company as a whole. While some decisions and products may be controversial or have unintended consequences, it's important to recognize that Facebook has also brought many positive innovations and opportunities to the world.
> USA is perhaps the most geopolitically-secure state in world history and should be spending among the least on national security (per capita).

I think it glosses over too much complexity to simply state that, because part (not all! Geography is the other part) of the reason why we are so secure is that people know that we have that strong military. If the US were known as a soft target, who had neither the will nor the means to defend itself, we would probably see other actors much more willing to do things to us, such as piracy, etc.
It's honestly nonsense. The way he frames the other side of this argument as "dumbing down" the education system in the name of racial equality. If this doesn't immediately set off your BS detector you need it tuned up.
"using an acquired Microsoft account"
To me this implies theft. But was it theft through a hacked network, or corporate espionage, today's replacement of the Silk Road, or acquired from some other third party vendor?
Naturally, the project couldn't miss having a "bug" report which asks to move the code to a different Git host.

https://github.com/Lxtharia/minegrub-theme/issues/18

I get the ideals are on point, but it doesn't look like the place to campaign about it.

Hopefully the author doesn't have any anxiety or issue about politely saying "The issue description doesn't look to me like a bug in my code." and closing it.
assimilating children into the shared values of society

The US no longer has universal shared values, it has many different sets of values that are all competing for survival. Schools have become the front line in this battlefield.
qmk keyboard firmware is awesome. You can do some incredible things involving toggling different layers, chords, different mappings if you hold vs tap a key, macros, all kinds of stuff. For an example of a qmk feature (that I don't actually use in my maps but it gives you an idea of the art of the possible) there is the "Space cadet shift" https://docs.qmk.fm/#/feature_space_cadet
Actually, public education has to mean public schools. Vouchers are a band-aid invented by right-wing nutjobs to allow religious schools to be funded by public money; they do this by taking money away from secular public schools. If public schools are broken, we need to fix the public schools, not break them further.
I don't have tipping rage, but I have recently developed what one might call "tipping apathy"; the nag screens on every point-of-sale terminal became so excessive that they lost their emotional force, and I just dismiss them now in the same way that one mindlessly clicks through license agreements and cookie warnings.

I still write a standard tip percentage on a restaurant meal receipt, as I have done all my life, but all the newly-introduced tipping requests became overwhelming, and then ridiculous, and I no longer take them seriously.
"Many were forced" != "there's no value"
As far as I'm concerned, that's a drawback. Ubiquitous default values are an attractive nuisance. One which C# had already demonstrated 10 years prior.

The removal of nil leading to the removal of ubiquitous default values would have been positive.
Such great and thoughtful prose. Thank you for writing it. (Genuinely!)
> the lectures are given at the NORMAL pace

Nobody has a problem with there being options for students to learn at their own pace.

The problem is not allowing people to take more advanced classes, if they so choose.

> nobody will pretend that this is "dumbying down" the students.

If you prevent students from taking more advanced classes, if those students choose it, then yes it would be dumbing down their education.

Just let them take the more advanced classes. Stop removing their options.
> Some kids are educatable. Some are not.

Citation needed. Why wouldn't they be, unless there's a disability?

I have seen good teachers do wonders for 'problem' kids.
I wonder what Weaviate users think of the GraphQL interface. When using an LLM to do this type of query generation it needs to understand the schema and be trained to generate a semantically correct request. We found better results putting the schema itself in the prompt to help generate valid requests from English and I see here it is added in the system prompt as well. I wonder if a simpler interface might suffice so that the retrieval can be more flexible, though I don't have a better alternative at the moment :)
How new is this problem really?

For example, consider the example of Demand Media (e.g. https://variety.com/2013/biz/news/epic-fail-the-rise-and-fal...).

They invested quite a lot in cheap content generation and for a while it served them quite well. I struggle to imagine a scenario where lowering the cost of polluting would have made this strategy more viable.
Alto means "high" in Spanish, so indeed it's pretty appropiate for a game like this. Well, relatively to the floor, once you are in space, there's no "high" :).
You need a decent school option within an acceptable travel distance. There are many who don't have a good choice like that.
Instead of dealing with the offenders... punish everyone - workers and customers (with delayed/crappy checkout experiences). That's great management, sure. Situations like these - which I noticed as a kid - contributed to my early-onset cynicism.
If we want to keep cars those driver taxes are already being collected and are in use for highway maintenance etc.
Basically can summarize as "Threads uses your Instagram identity."
It's almost rude not to bother spelling out three words with such unique acronyms. The time one person saves not typing an additional whopping 11 characters is wasted by the number of readers trying to figure out what it means
Glad it helped. I think it's generally better to admit and take responsibility for your mistakes rather than trying to pretend they never happened otherwise we struggle to grow.
My apologies - it was a quick comment between calls :D
In full disclosure, I'm the Head of DevRel at Appsmith. I didn't write this article, or contribute to it.

That being said, I do think its helpful, and I like the fact that other projects' READMEs are noted as good examples too.
And now you've limited education to families that can drive their kids 20 miles one way, twice daily, during work hours. If American cities were known for amazing public transport, and changing schools only meant changing the subway stop, I'd agree with you.
Anyone could steal your bus money in Seattle
Yes, that's why I prefer to compare using the Cushman & Wakefield stats that have a consistent methodology.
I was told that it was written as a satire of what conservatives believed, mocking what they would believe about affirmative action. If this is true, it's even more bitterly ironic.
> prefer sugar, which is demonstrably harmful

Tastes awful, screws up your gut microbiome, causes glucose intolerance in mice.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artificial-sweete...

If sugar is bad for your health why is it so hard to avoid in foods? And why is it replaced with artificial sweeteners?
It sounds like you're in a good spot where the taxes extracted from you go to support a value system that you are in favor of. Given that taxes aren't a choice, and given that value systems vary between people, can you envision a case where somebody with a different value system would be unhappy about where their taxes go?
I totally agree - moderation is a good thing
What makes is more, or probably less, creepy is that he was friends with many of their parents. Hollywood is full of family structures.
Viola the Bird – Google Arts and Culture Experiment
In case anybody has doubts about the accuracy of the author, I looked up some sources about this 'equity' policy in CA. It is real ..
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/california-math-curric...

It reminds me of one practice in communist China under Mao; university students were forced to spend some time now and then working on the land, to let them feel that they were not any better than the farmers who lived there.
But actually this is even worse.
I'm not following this at all. This narrative is at odds with the cut-throat capitalist narrative which is also popular to characterize businesses today. I.e. If business administrators could cut labour costs by reducing workforce, they would in a blind of an eye. For knowledge workers, I think the "idle capacity" model is more correct. Basically, demands for output are not constant, they ebb and flow. It's expensive to acquire and train staff, so they retain surplus capacity. It's inefficient, but it's more resilient.
Get people and associations to stop mowing their lawns or at least not mow them as often. Lawn-moving is like genocide for all insects that live in the dirt. Lawns not mowed eventually becomes meadows and great habitats for all kinds of insect life. It also makes the dirt more durable to droughts.
Just curious, how can we homeschool if we are not teachers ourselves. I understand the Math that's for sure, but I don't have the confidence to serve as a good Math teacher. How do you proceed if you are in the same shoes?
Yes, I have said this as "The UX of [medical] study papers is terrible". Some people do not agree, they think that it should not be made easier to understand, that non-experts cannot really understand medical studies, so they should not be more approachable. I think that's dead wrong.
> 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.

Let's thought experiment this. In one world, you have a lot more housing supply, which would help stabilize the drain from people being priced out, and quite possibly swing SF back towards being a desirable place to live once it's no longer unattainably expensive (and spur jobs too because you'd need businesses to serve the people who'd otherwise leave or never come). Prices dip then plateau then gradually recover if you avert a "death spiral."

In one world, you do nothing, you shrug and say "homelessness isn't my problem, and I don't want any new housing or anything." Let's say you get that death spiral. What's happened to your property value then? NIMBYism ain't saving you there if far fewer people want to live there.

Other cities in the US, especially those which are less geographically constrained than SF, and a bit more practical than just "we're gonna say we care about homelessness instead of demonizing people, but actually we're not gonna do anything", have ongoing development and feel a lot healthier. There are likely still rental market dragons lurking (though many of these other cities are also less WFH-oriented/friendly) but they're in far better shape so far.
Presumably less people kill in that case.
your comment doesn't provide when to decide one way or the other, which makes it more warning and less useful.

when the data is stuff that could be paperwork - you get a copy, i get a copy - it should not be the case that one side gets to unilaterally decide if the data is deleted or modified.
doesn't RTG work for a long time?
> are you missing a NOT in there?

No, I'm not. A vision of equity advanced by kneecapping math education in public schools is no less faith-based than creationism taught in private schools. If anything, I'd guess creationism is less damaging to students.
That's why most quant hedge funds only have limited amount of aum. Most their strategies consist of a large amount of low volume trades. Low volume to prevent the ghost pattern being visible to others. This is especially true for non hft firms that hold positions in a much longer interval (minutes - hours - days). But this is untrue of course for lets say a big macro hedge fund that throws a hundred million dollars into a currency trade.

I totally agree on all three points and I even think that a certain amount of capital, opportunity related (not fees etc.), is not even needed to mine a pattern. Because according to the ones statistics and research the actually existing pattern should appear anyway.
Escape hatch to where?
I'm almost 50. I've watched this scam play out my entire life. We've gotta fix the public schools, they said, when I was in public school. They said it year after year, generation after generation. It's never happening.

We absolutely should allow vouchers to go to religious private schools and secular private schools alike. It's time to bleed the public schools dry and use their lots to build more housing.
Exactly, this is the only way to make everyone equal. Equally bad.
This is a really important discussion and as a non-parent who hasn't been through the process i'll reserve judgement. But I wonder:

Are there circumstances where the availability of vouchers results in a parent making a worse educational selection for their student? Would this leave educational marketing to lean towards populist institutions (like Kanye West's "schools" or Megachurch-derived schools)?
This stuff seems so cartoonishly bad that I feel like I'm missing something. But I've been unable to find the progressive arguments. We need popular progressive bloggers to explain the other side.
Kinda surprised the parent made such a mistake since Whatsapp was very well known in tech circles for charging an incredibly low fee pre-FB acquisition. And the parent's HN account dates from 2010...
Indeed. I've averaged about 10% per year, and I probably could have gone for more.
>someone with a sinister agenda

If I were a country trying to subtly sabotage the future growth of another country, I would target the educational systems. Not to say that is that case with what is going on here, Hanlon's razor and all that. But it does make you think.

Either way, I worry for what the future will be like with current educational policies.
The near-bot responses from people who do not clearly identify that they work at this company are very frustrating. This feels like using HN for manufactured marketing campaigns.

For instance, Take CShorten's last two responses to threads that do not clearly identify that they are direct marketing for Weaviate.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36670548
Thanks so much for sharing!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36760269
Loved this paper - so much opportunity to explore Retrieval-Augmented Generation with these longer input LLMs + Vector Databases & Search!

Take another example of a user whose submission CShorten commented on:
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=bobvanluijt

The overwhelming majority of these comments are _spam_.

If you work at Weaviate, I'd recommend you stop doing this stuff. I'm way more likely to look at a competitor who feels less like a bot network.
I have a thought that GPA as KPI are for teachers and schools, not kids.
You should not make that point. Society works much better if you accept the wierd beliefs of as many people as you can. Fight againt cannibalism (does any of that even exist anymore?), but be very careful about even that.
@dooraven - I also work in ML (including recently working at Google) and I agree with @whimsicalism.

You seem to be under the mistaken belief that:
1. Google has competent high-level organization that effectively sets and pursues long term goals.
2. There is some advantage to developing a highly capable LLM but not releasing it.

(2) could be the case if Google had built an extremely large model which was too expensive to deploy. Having been privy to what they had been working on up until mid-2022 and knowing how much work, compute and planning goes into extremely large models, this would very much surprise me.

Note: I did not have much visibility into what deepmind was up to. Maybe they had something.
Im also a recent to firefox from Chrome convert recently (win 11). My reason is UI latency related, and my used case is a tad unique. As a network engineer, and system administrator, my daily PC is very high end enterprise hardware and running windows 11, and has 8 x 4K monitors.

I always will have 20 to 50 web browser windows open as well as many tabs in each of those windows.

The main issue I was encountering, and my best guess, from a lot of testing over the past three years, is related to the large pixel count of my desktop - I would frequently encounter 1 to 2 seconds of lag/unresponsiveness when switching from chrome to another (chrome) application in the background. As this has been a nearly 3 year long issue, I’ve tried many , MANY fixes/work arounds The two most impactful were upgrading from windows 10 to windows 11. And switching from chrome from primarily using chrome to Firefox. (The issue was actually the same with chrome canary, as well as with GPU rendering enabled or disabled in each browser.)

while I now run Firefox 24/7, I will occasionally open up chrome or chrome canary in unique use cases, and still notice the performance improvement in firefox during those times.

(to be clear when I say I’ve tried and tested just about everything, I mean it from fresh new iOS installs with no applications, except chrome, two upgrading every piece of hardware a few times over) - the issue persisted.