skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your question seems to assume that:

1. The availability of money is an important constraint on the ability of schools to support each student.

2. Schools (or those who run them: principals) have wide discretion to make the type of decision you present.

In my local school district (San Francisco Unified - SFUSD), neither of these is true, because:

- SFUSD's budget is about $27,000 per student per year[0]. Assuming teachers make no more than an average of $135k/year, and that average class size is at least 20, only 25% of that budget is required to pay for a teacher per class. There's a lot of headroom.

- Budgets (set by the district, not by individual schools or principals) are not designed to maximize learning for children, but to maximize employment for adults.

For that reason, I don't think your question makes sense.

Let me ignore that for now, and assume your question does make sense. What would it mean to allocate budget differently for kids at opposite ends of the natural talent spectrum? It sounds like the two kids would be in different classes, being taught by different teachers, perhaps with different class sizes. But that approach (which detractors call 'tracking') is disliked by many of the folks who control public education in the US.

Let's say you thought that the top 5% of students should be taught in separate classes, and that those classes should have larger class sizes, so these students only took 2.5% of the total budget. If you were to propose such a scheme, you'd be told it's unfair. Not unfair to the gifted students because they're receiving a lower per-capita share of resources, but unfair to everyone else because 'equity'.

[0] https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sfusd-schools-budget-...
Surprising. I had assumed it was a random future-world term, but was also meant to evoke Deckard's dilemmas - balanced on a knife edge.
The card throwing is just a skill, there is no trickery involved. But what is shown in this video is magic facilitated by extreme skill (as opposed to, say, a gimmicked deck).
Unless you're doing strictly cash transactions or bartering, there's always a middle-man of some kind who can create friction at will.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dariosabaghi/2023/07/27/masterc...
Long distance shipping is currently mostly burning "resid" it's the bottom-of-the-bottom or the barrel. It's 3.5% sulphur and it's not worth much more than the cost of transporting it from the refinery to the port.

The idea that shipping companies will go straight for the expensive options of as synfuel, green ammonia (the deaths alone for the crew will be horrific), or green hydrogen is absurd.
Most directly in the context of Star Trek (Klingons mentioned above), it will be a reference to Star Trek: The Motion Picture. (Which is about the hypothetical Voyager 6 probe's interesting history.)
If only it were actually enjoyable to play without spending a thousand dollars.
In my experience working with junior engineers, design patterns seem to be kind of a toxic concept to teach about without the right guardrails, such that I'd almost say newer engineers should totally skip books/materials about design patterns for quite a while into their career. Most of the time you do not need them, and the times you do, usually (if you're in the code enough) you start to get a feel for what sucks and what doesn't suck about the process you're currently using. Again IME design patterns are more practical to learn about as-needed as opposed to up front. Otherwise you get preemptive junior-eng versions of AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean everywhere.
>A company (VC-backed or otherwise) that starts from OSS tools (operating system, languages, build tools, application frameworks, etc) to build their own offering doesn't (need to) remove that value in a way which excludes anyone else from enjoying it

They don't need to, until they realize people aren't upgrading to the added layers of offerings and then start removing that value. This is required because the base value tends to be substantial enough to swiftly encourage people to use it, and VC loves the growth this comes with.
Thanks for confirming this!
Why 'x' could be the most powerful letter in English
I am surprised the article did not focus on Query Optimization/Query Manager. Last time I did a direct comparison between MySQL, Postgres and Oracle was a few years back. At that time, for very complicated queries, there was no comparison between Posgres and MySQL. Such queries will not come up in a startup environment, but could be a factor in Enterprise IT environments.
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I've read a lot about how Elon Musk supposedly wanted to have a(nother) company called "X" for decades now. How can that be true when he did not appear to have a logo ready to replace the Twitter bird?
I feel like BBC Sounds is some senior manager's vanity project that they have staked their career on.

Their obsession with trying to get me to use it instead of normal RSS feeds or third party radio services like TuneIn is incredibly frustrating. They have intentionally broken the experience for smart speaker users and podcast listeners because they are incapable of enticing them over with a better experience. The obsession with control has soured my feelings towards BBC radio.
Or you can start publishing extremely poor code ;)
I think an alternative is to fund _individuals' maintenance of the projects_, as opposed to the project itself. Filippo Valsorda has written about this recently: https://words.filippo.io/full-time-maintainer
Approx one light-day out. The nearest star is 4.2 light-years out.

Doesn't even matter if voyager is heading towards it or not, it's still crazy far away. Voyager is still on our doorstep as far as interstellar distances go.
Google Ads Introduces Auto-Generated Advertisement Tool Using Generative AI
This was talked about back in May, however, it seems like it may be available now.

Additional details: https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/11259373?hl=en
That's not how it works, though.

First, if it is not possible to blind the patient to the intervention and/or provide a meaningful placebo (which also happens with surgery and drugs with prominent side-effects) that's not a big deal, it simply changes the interpretation from "the effect of a particular regime of psychotherapy as such" to "the effect of a particular regime of psychotherapy, including expectation effects". Those expectation effects also exist in real life, if you go to a therapist you really really hope you'll get better and may be motivated to make a few changes in your life independently of the treatment, so if anything the trial becomes more realistic. Note that you'd still use a control arm so that if people get better over time without treatment, you're not exaggerating the effects of the intervention.

Second, almost every randomized controlled trial compares an experimental group against a control group, you are assigned to a group and don't move between them, and what that means is that we can only compare whether the treatment works on average, not whether it worked for one person in particular because, as you say, we don't know what would have happened (counterfactually) if that one specific person had been randomly assigned to the other group. But again, this hardly matters, because we can still know how well a treatment works on average. What you refer to, an experiment in which every subject receives every treatment, is known as a crossover design and while that design has its advantages, it's not that common because it is harder to pull off and while it can be more efficient (need fewer patients to attain an estimate with a given precision) it is not "less biased" or inherently more trustworthy.
Feynman didn't say you shouldn't brush your teeth, or that he doesn't brush his teeth. He said that brushing your teeth without ever looking at the evidence that brushing actually works is silly. Murray Gell-Mann claimed that he said that, but he seemed to have a chip on his shoulder wrt Feynman; and it looks like a jealousy thing.

Feynman was right, too. His point was that people really do follow the herd too much - and he's 10,000% correct. It's good to know why you do things, especially when you do them two or three times a day for your entire life.

Also, it's good to get to the root of the issue. People who don't eat industrial grain based diets have better teeth than we do, without every having met a toothbrush in their lives.
Hopefully this makes a difference for NetNewsWire. Thanks so much, and nice talking with you!
This is the exact kind of "I'm futzing about with switches for ten minutes" game the parent did not want though.
I have a few things I disagree with in here and I haven't even gotten all the way through. Generally, most of this is unnecessary, some of it is even ill-advised. The best thing you can do is enable automated updates, and rely on your cloud provider's console for accessing the server and disabling all remote access otherwise. If you do this, you remove a significant amount of vectors of attack. Within AWS there are very good security controls you can put into place, on more generic VPS providers, at minimum you should start by running a firewall that only allows incoming and outgoing traffic on specified ports, and logging in only via key-based auth + 2FA (you can use Google Auth, Yubikey, or others to do this via PAM modules) if you must use SSH. Most of the security issues I've encountered in my career have been in the application, and then are used to provide a pathway to do further privilege escalation. If you work to sandbox your applications, such as using hardened minimal containers w/ appropriate namespacing & sVirt, this mitigates most concerns here.

It's been trivially easy to prevent bots spamming basic SSH and HTTP attacks to every IPv4 address for a very long time.
(Has anyone tried the little demo? ... Does it work?)
I’ve always wondered: what do they do if the shaft snaps somewhere in the middle?
Colleges Plan to Factor in Race Without Asking About Race
> So you’re just spouting more of your anti-progress agenda here.

And with that, I'm leaving this conversation and letting anyone else reading to clearly see that pro-hydrogen zealots are alive and well, despite the astonishment of one of the top-level comments.
Better title: "AI companies propose using C2PA to identify AI-generated content"
The claim was this technology would increase carrying capacity. That implies growing more food, not growing the same amount of food on less land.

I agree, as far as being able to use less land for agriculture, this could be a beneficial development. Only problem is that's not how humans typically work.
That only applies if you've already entered into a contract at that point – that's certainly true anywhere you'll only have to pay after having already been furnished with the desired goods and/or services [1], like in restaurants and cafés with table service, gas stations (depending on local traditions), etc. etc.

In most other regular shops on the other hand, you'll only enter into the actual contract the moment you pay for the goods, so unless your jurisdiction has a specific law mandating the acceptance of cash in that kind of situation (like e.g. New York city I think?), the merchant is perfectly free to simply refuse entering into a contract with you.

[1] With the caveat that depending on the jurisdiction the shop owner may fully legally put up a sign along the lines of "No cash payment" and in that case it's you who are in breach of contract in the first point. Maybe if you then get sued for non-payment you can pay cash through the court system, but that certainly wouldn't be a pleasant way of paying by cash.
Wow. I have literally never seen a flame failure device on a residential stove in the US.

I’ve seen them on gas fired ovens with pilot lights. (Don’t get a gas fired oven with a pilot light. As far as I can tell, they have no redeeming features unless you like the broiler hidden under some of them. They make for pretty bad ovens, and they suck for indoor air quality.)
I’m curious what features in that fridge in the ad the authors current fridge doesn’t have?
Ah yes. One of the things I'll do when I'm learning a new computer language is pull out my now ancient copy of the 1973 edition of the book and just convert one of these games to the new language. The conversion might not look very much like the original when I'm done, but it is functionally equivalent. What I like about the approach is that the games in the book are small enough problems to solve as not really to be a major undertaking while being complex enough to be interesting.... and, of course, nostalgia.

Way back when copying these games from the book into a VIC-20 and C-64, along with a healthy dose of the 80's era computer magazine programs, were my introduction to programming. Having to convert between BASIC versions was part of the learning experience.
Have you tried to get a cab in Dallas pre-uber? You can sleep, get up refresh yourself and be ready to go to work before he cab comes to pick up.
The truth may have died with Steve.
> I don't think I'd ever book a hotel through Airbnb - what's the benefit?

Agreed. My usual mode of search is to go to hotels.com or booking.com depending on the destination and find out what's available and to price compare. Then I go to the actual hotel's site to book the reservation. I'll end up paying the same rate either way but having a direct booking reduces the chances of there being a problem down the line since there's no third party to shift blame or act as the middleman in resolving the issue.
Twitter threatens to sue a nonprofit critical of Elon Musk
I disagree: your baseline is a control group (or even the general population).
They can answer a questionnaire screening for clinically-significant mental health symptoms (it's not difficult to find untreated people like this), and whether or not they have been to therapy before.
Do you think it's ridiculous to associate Bo Winegard with this race realism manifeto? - https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/race-realism-a-moderates-ma...
Actually it was a Miele washing machine that produced that mediocre rinse performance I mentioned.
good ol' auth'n 'n' autho'
It was confusing to me. Took me a while to realize it was a date and then had to deduce what it represented.

Frankly before your comment I wasn't going to complain because I saw the tantrum you threw when people corrected you on the usage of "bricked" but maybe next time spell the month to avoid ambiguity.
Just another reminder that capital's eventual state is consolidation in the hands of monopolies.

When companies of this size fail, the consolidation happens at breakneck pace that the legal system of the US obviously cannot keep up with, and we all end up losing, because of reduced competition and worse service as a result.
With advertising eyeballs and third parties in the loop there is nothing that is not "commercial". Do you think that Comcast would have refrained from injecting ads and attack scripts if you'd been browsing Wikipedia or the Internet Archive or your own personal blog instead of Steam? Do you think that they'd have gotten less money for those impressions or extracted less of your personal data? The use case doesn't matter because the attackers in the HTTP vs HTTPS case have their own monetization scheme and their own attack chain and they _do not care_ whether something is commercial or private.
Indonesia blocks Musk's X.com over its X-rated past
Yes! There are two ways to do this right now. You can create a shared link which creates a read only view and users can 'play with' any interactive element to see how the model adjusts (like a widget), but the changes are local (it won't change your work). You can also invite someone as read only. We are exploring more capabilities and controls when publishing to readers.
Adding, these operators are also "polymorphic"; for matrix multiplication the only operations you need are (non commutative) multiplication and addition; thus you can use elements of any non-commutative ring, i.e. a set of elements with those two operations :D

Matrices themselves form non-commutative rings too; and based on this, you can think of a 4N x 4N matrix as a 4x4 matrix whose elements are NxN matrices [1] :D

[1] https://youtu.be/FX4C-JpTFgY?list=PL49CF3715CB9EF31D&t=1107

You already know whose lecture it is :D

I love math.. I should have become a mathematician ...
They will produce it as soon as it's economically viable to do so. Until then, (government subsidised) corn it is. Which some will call simply farming.
So what it’s also encouraging real information.
I fear this kind of retconning will become more commonplace as new entrants to the space who are unfamiliar with the history of the field put words in the mouths of academics that academics themselves would vociferously reject.

Academics have long pushed back against the labeling of everything as "AI", and only the most public-facing ones with more than a buck to make on the hype treadmill ever stoop so low.

In academia, "AI" is usually reserved as a synonym of "AGI" in large part because of the fuzziness and lack of consensus around a good definition of "intelligence". The term is simply not applied to actual outputs of research because there's no way to justify calling anything "intelligence".

As the saying goes, what's the difference between ML and AI? ML is what the PhDs call it, AI is what the MBAs call it.
That doesn’t sound like a fumble. That that sounds like a successful growth hack.
`0 * * * * journalctl --since="61 minutes ago"
--priority=warning --quiet`

In crontab piped to a bunch of grep -v for the things I want to ignore

So basically the email approach, just have to be religious about marking unread if not immediately actioned
I used to do remote work in firewalls quite often, and after locking myself out once or twice, I came up with a new habit: before making any changes I would schedule a reboot for 5min out which would revert any changes. That way if I locked myself out I could just wait for the reboot and get back in.
I'll bet the new code is bigger than the old code.
Montreal would be the place to go for cheap power, and the CAD-USD advantage.
Most company use of OSS isn't a freemium model, but instead them using it for their infrastructure in complements to their ultimate product. Think Google's use of Linux on their servers, or their use of gcc/clang to compile their search application.
I Found a Google Search Easter Egg
Google "Dutch angle", without the quotes.
That's fine - I probably agree with you.

But the author wrote both parts. The author clearly likes those features in a browser, and already thinks Microsoft is doing a good job of making the browser better with more features.
Don't forget that it also contained modified SARS virus.
Not really, HN is a forum.
Shopping for appliances recently, I found that ALL available brands are pretty shit as far as reliability goes. It's basically a gamble. I've learned to avoid Samsung though because the circuit boards in them cannot be had for any amount of money and so the appliances are essentially not repairable.
Thanks! That's as good validation as it gets.

Indeed, merge policy management and enforcement is a pain point for a lot of companies out there, specially for the ones growing up and trying to keep a solid process with new people coming in.
Regardless, 1 billion is not 4% of 223 billion. You’re off by a factor of ten.
I saw an interesting comment a few weeks ago, but can't remember where now, so I am unable to properly credit the original author. There's probably an irony there somewhere. Anyway, the gist of it was:

In the '90s, FOSS devs mostly volunteered their labour to build things for each other - for other FOSS devs.

In the '00s, FOSS devs mostly volunteered their labour to build things for users.

In the '10s, FOSS devs mostly volunteered their labour to build things out of habit, which kinda ended up unintentionally being for the benefit of FAANG/Microsoft/VCs. No-one's quite sure how that happened, or where we go from here.
I used to have my static website on Netlify. I was using their form submission API and webhooks to trigger AWS lambda functions to run some scripts and send emails to users upon replying their comments. The website would then be rebuilt using new comments.

I replaced all this crazy setup with vanilla tools. I moved my webpage (a bunch of html pages and other files) to my VPS. I modified nginx to submit incoming html form submissions to my CGI bash script which then in turn adds them to a sqlite database and emails me.

There is no automatic rebuild. I wrote makefiles to rebuild and publish my pages in a few seconds.

It turns out I didn't need anything else, and above all I didn't need to spend time learning someone else's APIs.
Your own posting history suggests a BEV fanatic. And the fact you keep on bringing up biofuels show how unserious you are about the topic.
0.45%
thank planned obsolescence
If you can't fix it or find someone who can, it is bricked.

If you are able to fix it then it is not bricked.

One device may be bricked to one person but not to another. But that must still be the definition, right? Otherwise the word has no meaning.
In the app, there is a “quick book” option, above the “more rates” option. Quick book option is the cancelable reservation with typical terms.

It seems pretty easy for those that want a straightforward reservation to choose quick book, and for those that want more nuance, to choose more rates and figure out what they want.
BBC ran public multicast trials for live streaming back in 2006 -- https://www.bbc.co.uk/multicast/

Alas didn't go anywhere. Now nearly 20 years later many companies (amazon, netflix, bbc) still struggle with live streaming at scale
Not really. HN is a forum.
I like the diagram on their page. Anyone here tried GnuSocial? What about bookwyrm? I searched "intelligent investor" (found) and "empower your investing" (not found).

One problem I have with decentralization (and this is almost a nitpick) is how complex the mental model of those things are. Who decides which books exist on Bookwyrm? Who stores the reviews? etc etc. It's quite exhausting actually.

I'm sure once one "wins" and you get used to it it's not an issue, but I think this friction is an issue for adoption.
Edge is my main browser, I like it. I use Chrome and Firefox for certain things, but Edge strikes a good balance between performance and insulation from Google spyware (and trading it for slightly lighter Microsoft spyware) for my needs. Although I think it has been getting gradually worse over time, especially small annoying UI changes and ever growing number of pop ups.
We should set up a permitting office for them to use!