skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Charter schools kicking out problematic students isn't some loophole, it's the main point, and it absolutely can improve the education for those that remain.

I'm provisionally accepting this as true, partly because there's some truth in it and partly because I think it leads to an interesting discussion. This is great for the remaining students at the charter school.

That problem student goes somewhere, though. That problematic student still exist. They are now in another class, with other students. Some of those students are problematic and some are not, but per your premise -- that other class is now worse than it was. You haven't improved anything, you've just taken a disadvantage from one place and given it to another.

One might consider a scenario where this happens repeatedly, and you just get a class full of problematic kids. Those kids don't learn anything, but at least the non-problematic kids do.

There are several problems with that scenario, but one such problem is independent of ethical concerns: You just aren't going to find the people to run that school or teach that class for the amount society is willing to pay. Schools for behaviorally problematic students exist. They tend to be private, expensive, and full. They also tend to focus on students who e.g. assault other students in the middle of class, rather than on students who e.g. won't stop talking in class even if repeatedly removed from class, or even students with out-of-school criminal records.
> 10% of a $1 billion income has zero influence on your lifestyle.

That seems obviously untrue: $100 million could hire a thousand employees at $100,000/year (I am ignoring payroll taxes and benefits). Hiring that many additional people to do one’s bidding would have a noticeable influence on one’s lifestyle, and losing that many would as well.

Hey, if I had $1 billion a year I would have teams of artisans, craftsmen, authors, poets, tailors and the like at my beck and call. My mansion would be a work of art. My parties would be experiences. I’d build a cathedral.

… there’s probably a reason that I don’t make a billion a year!
Been in my GOG backlog for ages, I think I got it as a freebie.
True, but young person logic can some times translate that into a belief that they're better off omitting ACT scores.

The non-standardized parts of the application process are becoming much easier to game, and parents/students are getting much better at it. I've even seen students set up "charitable foundations" or their own "startups" that were little more than shells set up by their parents with a quick website. "Looks good on an application!" was the refrain.
I haven't been near broadcast engineering since the DTV transition, but at one point in time, they wanted to have dial-a-yield type of abilities for the splitting of the bandwidth. For primetime, they wanted to to be able to give the main channel a larger portion of the bandwidth when people were watching, and then during the day provide more options for people to view alternate programming. Even if you gave each of the .2-.X channels 3Mbps, that's still a lot of bandwidth in comparison for the .1 channel. Of course any live realtime encoding of 3Mbps will never rival a 3Mbps encode from someone like Netflix, but a lot of that is just SD content anyways so meh it gets.
The "recursive landscape of terror" doesn't stop once you install Home Assistant, it continues during maintenance. And at that point you're dependent on it to run the systems in your house. Thus I recently decided to get rid of my whole setup and go back to normal.

Further, the tinkering aspect isn't enjoyable to me because I don't feel like I'm learning anything useful, I'm just trying to duct tape together other people's hobby projects that adds support for this or that bulb or radio.
This is not an "upgrade". A replacement is a concession, a patch, a crutch, a mere instrument. It doesn't matter if the crutch can crack open Brazil nuts or turn your TV on or allow you to fetch the keys that fell behind the fridge. Metaphysically, it is always an inferior, if sophisticated, instrument. Ridding yourself of perfectly good limbs to replace them with an instrument is not only a "downgrade", but gravely and grotesquely immoral.

You can blame the incoherent travesty that is mechanistic metaphysics for the strange notion it is otherwise.
> I've read several studies that say that you're wrong.

Well? Where's the plan then? The ones I've seen require taking a very stiff dose of crack and meth to make them believable.

> The reason storage hasn't been yet been addressed much is simply that the demand is not there yet.

Well, yeah. Europe has no capacity market, so cheap low-quality solar/wind is a good way to get return on investments. And wintertime generation is supported by fossil fuels that are still too cheap.

> But as one example, you can produce biogas and use the existing gas infrastructure.

"Biogas" can support only a tiny amount of consumption. Power-to-gas (methane produced from water and captured CO2) is an option, but the round-trip efficiency is poor and costs are too high.
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That's why I say ruined the school system instead of specifying remote schooling/closures. I think the damage was holistic. Certainly it was at the post-secondary level. Standards were dropped, instructors quit, students stopped caring, and everyone was passed regardless. No one learned anything even when the campuses were open.
Related:

Ask HN: Is 12factor.net Still Relevant? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36283702 - June 2023 (6 comments)

12 Factor App Revisited - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33164407 - Oct 2022 (7 comments)

Twelve-factor app anno 2022 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31225921 - May 2022 (35 comments)

The Twelve-Factor App (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31198956 - April 2022 (102 comments)

Twelve-factor app development on Google Cloud - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21415488 - Nov 2019 (63 comments)

The Twelve-Factor App - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19947507 - May 2019 (3 comments)

12 Factor CLI Apps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18172689 - Oct 2018 (247 comments)

12 factor app configuration vs. leaking environment variables (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15869436 - Dec 2017 (2 comments)

Ask HN: Alternative to Heroku that doesn't enforce 12-factor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10628961 - Nov 2015 (1 comment)

The Twelve-Factor App - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10288216 - Sept 2015 (3 comments)

The Twelve-Factor App - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9492120 - May 2015 (2 comments)

Twelve-Factor Applications with Consul - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7780249 - May 2014 (2 comments)

The Twelve-Factor App - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7547687 - April 2014 (1 comment)

Building Twelve Factor Apps on Heroku - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6219444 - Aug 2013 (1 comment)

12 Factor model for architecting SaaS applications - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6060381 - July 2013 (1 comment)

The Twelve-Factor App - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5979452 - July 2013 (1 comment)

12factor: Methodology for Building Software-as-a-Service Apps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4027026 - May 2012 (1 comment)

Twelve Factors of Web Application Development - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3267187 - Nov 2011 (37 comments)
Yep, and Loom is a good tool for that. That's why it's been so useful.
Throwing my hat in saying I agree with you. There are certainly aspects of Blazor that need to be improved, though. Sometimes Intellisense has an aneurism and syntax highlighting completely breaks. Debugging needs some TLC in instances where exceptions are thrown in the JS console instead of being caught by the VS debugger.

I have experienced _some_ performance problems, but only when I don't have enough resources for VS to gobble up. Should it be lighter? Absolutely. It's not like I can't get work done though.
> Genz doesn't care about reddit. Neither does the next gen after them. It's dead.

I know it's fun to think you're the centre of the universe while you're the age you are, but Facebook, Reddit — hell even _T.V._ in some form — will all be still around well after your generation is being told _you're_ irrelevant by the new kids.
I just finished the Lewis book and he is completely sympathetic to SBF, if you listen to the audiobook which Lewis reads, his tone of voice is borderline apologetic.
We have a non-networked, non-remote electronic combo lock for our front door.

We are never locked out. There is no key under a rock. The phone cannot get unpaired, the remote cannot be intercepted and replayed. If we are on vacation, we can call up a friend and tell them a code so they can get in.

A 9V battery lasts about three years, then it starts flashing and beeping every time you open the door for a month before dying. If you already have the right hole in the door, it takes about 20 minutes to install.

And if you're intent on breaking in, well, the windows are made of glass. Please don't do that.
And have it simulate sunrise in the morning. Starts at low power red at 6am and over 1 hour gradually increases to max power white. It does wonders to my family's morning routine in winter.
Hopefully not in CA where they want to make mathematics "equitable". Trying to slam on the south isn't helping anyone.
How the Default Tech Career Is Failing Our Youth
"well excuse me for lacking sufficient amounts of metal:-)"
Github has an api for this…
A lot of tools for constraint, creativity, and related rely on manipulating the entire log probability distribution. OpenAI won’t expose this information and is therefor shockingly uncompetitive on things like poetry generation
Godel's constitutional theorem
Do you have numbers, data or sources to claim your first statements (not the one about teachers being underpaid)?
I grew up on military installations and attended some DoD schools. Some things unmentioned/underemphasized:

Families PCS (move) extremely often -- sometimes every school year, frequently every few years. Some places have DoD schools "on base", some do not, with students instead attend the local public schools. Some of those public schools are majority military kids, some are not.

DoD schools may have a consistent curriculum (not sure), but public schools across states/countries certainly do not. Constant moves mean students get a fractured, redundant curriculum. (Comically, I recall learning about the "Explorer" in History class no less than three times.)

Some bases are located in well-off areas with great public education, many others are not. Students might find themselves one year learning algebra, the next back to basic multiplication. Schools tend to be stubbornly inflexible and will not make accommodations on their own. Extremely attentive and pushy parents may get weak accommodations (e.g., letting students moving full grade levels up/down; something difficult to explain later), but it's rare.

Added to this is impact of constant social upheaval + stress of parents deployment, lack of lasting friendships, etc.

This is all to say -- you would not expect this population of kids to do well academically! The fact that they seem to (as measured in these tests at DoD schools) should be really surprising, and probably has little to do with the DoD schools themselves. They're after all only responsible for part (often a small part) of these kids' education.

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My main guesses at the real drivers here are:

1. (As mentioned in the article) It's a different world on base. Parents have a massive stake in their children's behavior -- and the students know this. No one wants their parent to get an earful from their CO, and it does happen. (This is most pronounced at DoD schools, but also extends off base.)

Drug and alcohol use is exceedingly rare, due to the above + how serious an offense it is on base.

It's true also that there's a modest baseline of economic + social support. Maybe not as much as the article suggests, but it's not nothing.

2. Simple reversion to the mean. The DoD schools are full of kids with a really diverse set of educational experience. Maybe some of the good experiences are even a bit "sticky" -- habits and skill learned transferring over to new environments, maybe even bad ones. Maybe it's not surprising that that population wins vs. the baseline (where kids only get a homogenous, mostly-good or mostly-bad experience).
- If the good skills and habits are "contagious", maybe DoD schools even help spread them across this population.

3. The tests are mostly measuring the lower portion of the distribution. Well-off schools will have most students clipping the top end of the measurement. Many DoD students attend those schools! (At least for a time.)

This is going to seriously amplify (2), but also (1) and other things to the extent that they improve (or remove from the sample) the worst-off students.
That's my plan for the house. The internet can go down and every extra controller can fry and the basic switches should still work exactly as designed. I'm going for zwave, but the same idea - smart switches with normal bulbs. Nothing talks to wifi.
Yep first thing I do when I find a dark default site is try(uselessly usually) to find an option to switch it to light mode.
The funding has to come from somewhere, right? You either pay up front and save money over time, or pay as you go and pay more...
If they are confidential they probably shouldn’t be uploaded to any website no matter if it calls out to OpenAI or does all the processing on their own servers.
PeaTMOSS: Mining Pre-Trained Models in Open-Source Software
Winners of the Quantum Games Hackathon 2023
>> what the Russians planned a few weeks to take.

> Who ever said this was a plan?

Oh I see! Russia planned it to take 596 days so far! You sneaky, brilliant strategist, Putin!
Apple is ramping up spending in that area: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/09/06/apple-conversational-ai...

It’ll probably take a while though.
Related: https://blog.desmos.com/articles/beta-3d-release/

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37771661, but no thread there)
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Universities are just gaming ranking. If you are DEI candidate and have low SAT/ACT, you are steered to not provide the score. That way if you are accepted average SAT score for university is not affected and university still rank high.

If you are white or Asian and do not submit SAT/ACT, your application goes to trash right away - there are enough candidates with stellar SAT/ACT to pick from. So SAT/ACT is still very relevant but only for part of population.
"Build your MVP ASAP" is BS-Advice
Things like this seem like a real issue that should be in the news daily.

Only 9% testing proficient is horrifying, and every teacher and administrator involved should be replaced. It's hard to compare teaching to a corporation, but whenever you have a metric that you only hit 9% on, you wouldn't wouldn't last long.
Show HN: AI-powered meeting prep based on your Google / Outlook Calendar Events
as a founder I meet with a lot of new people and have to spend time before each meeting doing the Google / LinkedIn / recent news searches to make sure I have some background info on them. i built calendar prep to automate this research using AI agents and send me what I need to know to get ready for the meeting.
I dunno a lot of Japanese companies have old history like that. Nintendo is also from the 1800s, and started in playing cards.
I had the opposite happen at a FAANG company. Did multiple rounds of coding and data architecture interviews only for the final round to be an ML round with me being quite surprised and having to tell them "well, i'll do my best, but I actually have...0 experience with AI/ML/DL"...
Thanks. I should give Hugin another try. It was much more finicky than Microsoft Image Composite Editor that I've been using since 2008: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/252274/h... It's a very old tool, but zero configuration to get a decent panorama.
You've got to radiate the information

#friendgineers #information
It’s simple really, lots of businesses share data with 3rd parties to enable various services. OpenAI provides a service contract claiming they do not mine/reshare/etc the data shared via their API. As the SaaS provider, you just need to call it out your user service agreement.
New Jersey also has the system of Magnet schools at the county level, which have some of the best high schools in the country (high technology highschool, middlesex academy for math and science, union county magnet school, etc). They reasonably require tests and maintaining of discipline. Discipline is key to having effective schools, and if either students or parents are undermining it, schools can't be effective.
What would a HDD “back door” even consist of 20+ years ago?
Along that same line - My Home-automation setup is fairly simple using Samsung's hub and requires very little maintenance. But I do have a fairly complicated homelab and network setup. I'm in my early 50s and have considered what would my wife/children do if one day the 'internet' connection wasn't working and I'm no longer around to fix it? No way they're going to know how to log into OPNSense or Unifi controller to troubleshoot. So I bought a off the shelf router, configured with basic setup with same SSID and IP scheme. Typed up some simple instructions on a single page and attached it to the router box. The idea being that they can simply unplug the OPNSense box, plug the router into it and then power everything up. I've done a fire-drill test and had my teenage son try it. So far he seems to know exactly what to do. The rest I'm hoping he can figure it out on his own.
> These good relations with USA did real good when their country was obliterated to shreds when it was no longer needed.

The US had these teachers:

"We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow."

https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/978019...

Always new counties which have to experience that.
This sounds familiar -- I wonder if we were there at the same time.
Also more privacy respecting, and more customisable / flexible.
'Arcane terminal commands'? These are standard basic terminal commands.
> denazification

surprised to see this delusion on hn.
The expectation that engineers work overtime to hit arbitrary metrics can’t be fixed by a process like scrum or waterfall though. Process can’t replace competent management.
It's a combination of a lot of different factors. I've had multiple friends I've known for over a decade speak about how bad their teaching experience has become. COVID just further accelerated things.

* A lot of parents treat schools as daycare rather than a place to learn. They're more disengaged than ever when it comes to helping out their kid, for fairly guessable reasons.

* There's been a lot of political attacks on our schooling systems which results in discouraging or outright convincing teachers to leave. Teachers are retiring and we're not replacing them with similarly passionate teachers

* The usual pay issues

* School admins hide a lot of trouble boiling underneath the surface because they're afraid of lawsuits. One example is that more and more kids are bringing guns to school [1].

* Private schools are growing in popularity which pulls funding from public schools due to school voucer programs despite a lot of private schools not having the same level of oversight or level of teaching

As a result we're seeing literacy rates decline [2] and in general students are simply just not graduating as capable as they were before. We're failing the next generation and the fix requires radically improving and funding our public school systems.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/10/10/guns-sch...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2023/06/22/1183653578/u-s-reading-and-ma...
I see plenty of people who are drivers also clearly incapable of meeting or understanding all the simultaneous requirements that must be fulfilled by drivers.

Looking up from their phones being at the top of the list.
> Considering that it was historically one country for centuries,

And you were part of your mother for 9 months. I assume you've separated by now, right?
Can you share cases where TOS with consumers was struck down? Thanks very much.
Have you asked them how much more we have to pay them in order to get them to do a decent job?
The Realities of Interstellar Hibernation
Adding to this list the Philips sceneswitch bulbs: color changing bulbs that can be rapidly power-cycled to change color. https://www.usa.lighting.philips.com/consumer/choose-a-bulb/...

If one could trigger scheduled actions by connecting a remote control to a daily or weekly plug-in timer, that would meet virtually every use case I have for app-controlled appliances, bulbs, and locks.
This is more about paying attention to the context in which the phrase was said. A lot of things get confusing or might mean a total opposite of what you think they do, when the relevant context isn’t taken into the account.

“Private market will regulate itself” isn’t some technical term with a precise meaning that can be misused. It can “regulate itself” by not having any restrictions imposed on it, but i can also be said to “regulate itself” by exploring different solutions to challenges presented by legal requirements with no clear solution path.

However, I see your point here, because most of the time when people just say “private market will regulate itself”, they talk about heavily unregulated market situations.
> most of the refugees from the war fled to Russia and live happily here

You are lost, brother.
Very rarely does any technology start off cheap enough to be mass-produced. If you don't build prototypes then expensive bespoke initial models you'll often never get to the "half of all who need it can afford it" let alone "90%+ can afford it".

If you don't like that then the government will need to step up with public funds.
Conversely, if highly selective schools stopped using them, students who prioritize those schools won't take them.
You can use https://archive.ph to archive webpages instantly and (seemingly) forever.

Btw, I've been aching for a browser extension that saves a copy of every web site I visit so I can reach for the archived copy in my history window. Does anything like that exist?
Or people thought asking if a prosthetic, which is an attachment, came with an attachment to be a pointless question
>Have you considered that perhaps your personal perspective is not exactly representative of large swathes of the industry

Do most software engineering jobs not have good PM's? Asking since I started my first real software engineering job last year, it doesn't pay the best but the PM is great and very hands off. I wonder if that itself is worth holding onto the job a while.
It remains extremely strange to me that we have our school boards be largely totally non-professional laypeople in the US. Obviously there's no absolute requirement that you be a "professional" for almost any elected position in the US, but school boards are one of those situations, like judges and comptrollers, where it seems like there should be some basic qualifications for running. Especially because many of the folks elected to school boards are either 1) crazies with a bone to pick with a specific teacher/administrator/school or 2) moderately ambitious ladder climbers hoping to launch their political careers without having to work too hard.