skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Importantly, Dartmouth Admissions uses SAT scores within context; a score of 1400 for an applicant from a high school in a lower-income community with lower school-wide test scores is a more significant achievement than a score of 1400 for an applicant from a high school in a higher-income community

Since I encountered a similar approach just three years ago in my son's High School application in the Chicago Public School System I can say this leaves a lot to be desired non low-info,e families. Here's a high-level summary of how it works:

1. Chicago is neighborhoods are assigned one of (if memory serves) four levels, which represent socioeconomic levels.

2. With the thought that the economic level is proportional to school quality (this is more true in most places in the US than other countries, since a big chunk of school budget comes from property taxes, so neighborhoods with low taxes get school with lower budgets) scores from the entrance exams for kids from different levels are boosted by different multipliers.

Now, of course, (2) is a travesty of the US but that's another long discussion. The problem with (1) is that the neighborhood to level assignments are not revised each year. So you can be affluent in a district that has gentrified in the past 2-5 years and your kid will get the low-income boost unfairly.

Additionally some neighborhoods are highly bimodal, eg take Lakeview. This is considered a low-income neighborhood but there are many high-income high rises and single family homes within its borders. Alternately, there are many rental condos in our neighborhood which is the highest income level, so these middle income kids get slammed.

Still another problem is families purposefully gaming the system. We had friends who changed their rental condo during their child's 8th year so they can get a lower-info,e address sin their application. This is widely known and done.

Perhaps a better approach would be to use the family's income rather than communities.

Edit: I had more time to research and found the following, in case somebody is interested:

* What I referred to as the four levels are actually called tiers

* The tiers are actually updated every year, so I was wrong above. Still, the community average criticism stands. See the discussion about the update that was done last Feb here: https://chicagoschooloptions.com/forums/topic/when-are-cps-t...

* You can see the distribution of the tiers from a few years ago on this site: http://cpstiers.opencityapps.org, owners say it's no longer maintained. It seems currently there's no map showing all tiers, you can check only a single address at https://schoolinfo.cps.edu/schoollocator/index.html
If I like my community and some large scale corporate developer came in, badly managed a project, and left a half finished building in the place where some useful buildings were once, I'd probably be pro-tagging it.

That's the community in action, not some development firm who would mostly act as an extraction tool to siphon money out of the community once it was complete.
In the USA you have the fifth amendment right against self incrimination.

Also you have NO obligation to say anything to police in an interrogation and can always request an attorney to speak on your behalf. Subjects are reminded of this during the reading of Miranda Rights.

If you are ever in a police interrogation you should always decline to speak without an attorney.

It is bewildering why people don't exercise their rights.
To that point, I would love to hear an audio file of it in action since I see from GitHub the phone number is down.
Had a play here for equations: https://github.com/atopile/atopile/blob/tim/equations/sandbo...
>Looking for funding seems to be a wall I can't figure how to begin climbing and I think it's mostly due to Asperger in many ways and I'm not confident I can surmount that one alone in time.

Maybe get a person with great social/marketing skills to fill that role as a "co-founder"? The main problem then, is to know you can trust them (and set up the legal contracts between you so they're fair).
Byobu is just some defaults for tmux/screen. So it compares Zellij compares to Byobu the same way it compares to tmux and screen.
I have always preferred buying used cars from real people over used car companies because the companies tend to be sleazy.

I've never been burned or disappointed buying from a real person. I've bought two cars from used car dealers and deeply regretted both of those purchases.
> So let the billboard say $5+tax

This is what is done now, and what the FTC/FCC are trying to make illegal. The sticking point is that these specific industries have gotten very creative about what constitutes a tax or government fee, so it isn't as simple for consumers as knowing you have to tack on sales tax.
It's pretty much the same argument you can make for any store. Why don't we do manufacturer-to-consumer sales for everything?
GH Actions is just CI, maybe crude CD, and not the best at that.

It and (GitLab CI) ate Jenkins
Related:

Gin, television, and social surplus, or, “looking for the mouse” (2008) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29198951 - Nov 2021 (16 comments)

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=174410 - April 2008 (55 comments)
Nope, the most competent defense lawyers are probably the federal defenders, who is backed by the resources of the feds, and have a much lighter case load, so they're able to actually spend the necessary time to mull over the minutia. They don't get to pick their clients and are frequently forced into being generalists, but on the federal level a lot of the "small time" crimes are kicked down to the state level. The feds prosecute terrorism, the local prosecutors prosecute murder. The thing is, the public have no idea what makes for a good attorney in any particular field (and it's not the jingle or Cellino and Barnes would probably be Supreme Court justices before the firm broke up), and public defenders are among the very few who have no choice in selecting their clients, the strength of the case, and with 80-120 open cases at a time you either really believe that your clients are all innocent or you absolutely need to hold the state to account as a matter of principle or you won't make it through the misdemeanor docket, never mind anything more serious or more sordid (mental health, juvenile).

Public defenders don't get into the line of work as a backup option. At least at my law school, they didn't recruit, because frankly they can't beat private firms or even the prosecutors on just about anything but the possibility of being on the right side of history. The pay barely covers interest on your loans, even during trials you have to run out to fill the meter every 4 hours where I was at - only the police got free parking. Everyone in my class with my skillset ended up at an IP firm or doing in house work somewhere, mostly in the Seattle area but also down to California. I don't regret a minute of the work, but in the grand scheme of things it's impossible to make a difference on any scale when you are an active participant in the system which is inherently skewed and allows prosecutors so much leeway and so much coercive power that the police can totally get away with not outright lying in interrogations and just play on the ignorance of the accused and implied threats and achieve the same result. The lying is just the most fun a cop can have without planting a gun on someone.
Nice! What did you do in terms of marketing to get to ~$600 MRR?
Sorry that annoyed you.

One thing to bear in mind is that at Weaveworks we made massive contributions and did our best to be part of the community in the right way:

* Flux
* Flagger
* Cortex
* Ignite
* Weave Net
* and a whole host more

Oh and there's a load of people without jobs tonight - wondering about their futures - hopefully people will see the talent and the contributions and find roles for them.
I tend to put a shebang line on Deno scripts intended to be run... This has the permissions right there in the script.

Alternatively, like in my ~/bin, I'll put a shell script without a file extension to make it easier on myself.
Feds say anti-robocall efforts appear to be working against foreign sources
Well, the place has been a retirement home for a few years now. Of course Googlers will say "Everyone I know works really hard" but I know enough coasters there to know that this is a selection effect because none of the coasters ever posted on HN. One guy got laid off and it took effect half a year in the future, at which point he got severance, and when that ended he applied and now works at another part of Google. Hahaha.
Also, surprisingly perhaps, motorcycles pollute more than cars. They don’t have the heavy filters. Some pollutants are higher, even in absolute values.
You can use a custom range on hn.algolia.com [1].

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1707004800&dateRange=custom&...
Tangentially related, but this is a good read: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/04/ob...
Can ELI5 why do investors (owners of the company) accept CEO's pay packages that involve golden parachutes? It doesn't make sense to me (I mean, it might in case of offensive takeovers, but who's gonna take over Boeing?!)
Volts Podcast had an interview with the CEO of KoBold. It was definitely interesting and a needed improvement in finding resources considering the stakes. Hoping this isn't a Jevons Paradox and we don't ruin equally valuable ecosystems in our path. This is a real ethical concern given that the amount of resource extraction has grown so much year over year.

https://www.volts.wtf/p/getting-better-at-mining-the-mineral...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/31/raw-mate...
But Boeing doesn't appear to be maintaining any significant ownership or control over the company. They have other customers, including Boeings biggest competition. Usually the term "liability sheild" would impy that the subject still owns, controls, or otherwise profits from the companies operations, while shielding the subject from liability for the companies actions. It appears that Spirit is in fact very independant from Boeing at present.
Just in time for cloud native to lose the spotlight in favor of on-prem and AI.
No, I mean that "suspect said X" testimony wouldn't be admissible, so it would never be your word against the cop.
You're absolutely right but that's not what's being done when the community income is being used rather than family income. This leads to many complexities, injustices, and people gaming the system.
The report that this article reports on from was discussed a few days ago:

Google's CEO faces employee questions about layoffs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39236229 - Feb 2024 (22 comments)

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Can't get it to slow down to a standstill. Is that a bug?
Some years back there was a site called techcofounders.com, by a Korean guy in the US.

I had signed up for it. I got quite a few invites to be a cofounder, but none of them worked out, either because I wasn't interested, or the other the guy wasn't, after we talked a bit about their plans and my skills, i.e. there wasn't a match, on either of those dimensions.

But I thought the idea of the site was a good one, with potential.
I’m talking about being in a long line of cars who are waiting at a light and the person five back who takes 10 seconds to start moving. It is not because they are playing it safe!
I bought a microwave recently. I read a bunch of reviews, tried a few in shops. When I press the big button it starts.

My TV is pretty new. It doesn't lag or show ads because I didn't buy an ad-subsidised one.

I have a dozen different restaurants I can go to. If I feel like human interaction, I go to ones with humans. If I don't, I go to a vending machine.

I'm quite happy having cars not run me over in the street. I've visited countries with more "freedom" and I can't say that I cared for it.
I don't doubt criminals are highly skilled or motivated, nor that "onion" and "hidden" sites exist.

I'm just not seeing why they would need to employ either great skill or motivation in this case. Just saying the task does not seem very difficult, but is described as being so.

Would be happy to learn why it would be though!
Maybe we should make confessions illegal unless done in front of a judge (with prosecution and defense attorneys present. The judge can advise the suspect of their rights and ask if they've been promised leniency or any other accommodation, etc.

And maybe all evidence from interrogations should be inadmissible unless video recorded beginning-to-end with no interruptions.

Then everyone could see if the suspect was browbeaten into a confession or if statements were taken out of context.
Can't you do this today by just writing a macro that generates a generic wrapper that casts/transmutes the pointers to void* before/after running the function? It'll almost certainly get inlined at that point so I'm not sure how much having this functionality native to Rust helps.
It seems like fine tuning on queries using the underlying schema would work, people are doing this.
In the case of shadow banning, you haven't kicked them off your property. You're asking them to stay while you earn ad money from their attention.

See the linked tweet for a more lawyerly argument in defense of shadow banning. The question before the court may hinge upon whether or not shadow banning expresses a message.
The first company to make such a device cheap enough and unfiltered, will rake in the cash.
We had unprecedented social upheaval last year in Panama to free ourselves from a big Canadian copper mine and to push for nature and forests as our primary source of wealth. Zambia has of course not benefited from mining[0] (surely with the exception of big politicians), serving as just another third world source of raw materials with the usual consequences for the locals and the environment.

About time more people in the global South reject this arragement.

[0] https://dailynationzambia.com/2023/04/mingomba-mine-a-wester...
"watch your tone"

What? Are you guy like 12 or something?

Is this word salad supposed to be a point?
US to restrict visas for those who misuse commercial spyware
I looked into this a few years ago and there are none. Perhaps you can find something for 20 year old seasons of Premier League or NHL or something, but you won't find anything recent and of high quality. Some shady outlets may offer stats they scraped for cheap, but quality is probably lacking. You get what you pay for, "desperate need" and "for free" are each others antitheses.
I'm kind of perplexed by the blanket assertions here as if private security everywhere will never offer either threatened or actual violence in either official or unofficial capacity.

Nevermind casinos, do people think every bouncer at every bar is merely for show? Since "management reserves the right", trespassing, threats and assault are not really a huge due-process kind of thing, and local establishments/insiders rank higher than outsiders. Within reason they know what is allowed and that isn't always going to be exactly and only whatever the law technically says.

Edit for even more context. For people that don't know already, not every casino or bar is owned by some megacorp who gives a shit about PR, has tons of cameras, has some HR department to educate staff on doctrine, etc. Many casinos are literally in sovereign territory of indigenous peoples also. Not that summary execution for offenders will be status quo there, but come on folks. The world is large and complicated, so simple stories about it are usually incomplete
https://eksctl.io/ is a very useful tool developed and maintained by weaveworks. I hope it will continue to see development and maintenance despite this news.

Sad to see a good startup folding up. All the best for your next adventure.
I have also found CVSS scores to over- or underestimate the impact of vulnerabilities so much.. I might as well flip a coin. And while I probably should be informed more, I really consider that a problem in the output of the security community.

For example, the keycloak OIDC vulnerability would've allowed me to compromise any account of our internal authentication with ~1 bad click from a user, possibly fewer. Working that out to a point it was terrifying to all internal users took like 30 minutes at most and most time was wasted on realizing their version constraints for the exploit are wrong. That's a 7.8.

But then you have "Oh curl with high parameters can hang" and "Oh if you reload postgres many times a second it stops working" coming in at 9+. Like sure, a user with elevated privileges on a critical server sending signals to postgres causing a postgres DoS is my biggest issue at that point.

So I either have to evaluate everything for myself, or .. no idea.
All the best on your efforts.
Isn't it constrained as to what apps it can run atm?
For writing math notes (especially in vim), I switched to using Typst (https://typst.app).

Here's a few points:

- The syntax is a lot lighter and easier to type fast. I was up and running in half hour after starting to use it. Once in a while I can look up some symbol name in the docs but that's about it. I can type math notes almost at the speed of writing by hand and my right pinky doesn't fall off because of all backslashes and curly braces.

- Empty document is a valid document. No preambles, no includes etc, it's all optional and the defaults are sensible. Just start typing.

- It's incremental. Live preview from neovim is in the browser and it's lightning fast, pretty much immediate. No pdf sync pain. No build files, makefiles and all that. Just start typing.

While it's not going to beat latex in terms of serious academic use, for personal use and notes it's close to perfect.

(And of course it's written in Rust...)
> No signature on paper can force you to keep talking in police custody. You can stop talking at any time, regardless of what you signed.

Cops are very persuasive when they want to get an answer out of you. Say, they arrest you for whatever, and they can just threaten you to remain in custody for a day... no matter if your pet is alone at home and needs to be fed, or your children need to be picked up from school. Sure, you may call a lawyer to arrange for stuff, but we'll keep your house's keys as evidence...

The freedom to not say anything is utterly depending on circumstances allowing you to do so.
These sorts of people usually don't have wages to garnish.
> a11y

I apologize for this being so besides the point of your post, but I hate this trend so much.
I had a job running the computer lab at the College of Nursing when I was attending University. Lot's of women with lot's of computer questions. I remember teaching my future wife how to use a mouse for the first time... and send an email for the first time. Yes, it was a while ago. Anyway... my advice would be to find real life places where people you are attracted to congregate... and go there... maybe find out what they are interested in and be interested in it as well... and then approach and talk to a bunch of them. Church never worked for me. Dancing did... but I didn't want to marry a dancer. Singing did... but I didn't want to marry a singer. Bar-hopping did... but I didn't want to marry any of them either. Turns out I have a thing for brainy nurses who also like Star Trek. Who knew.
Thank you for the response anyway! I do review my comments every so often to catch these. How do you know so much about GPS and how can I learn more? :)

Also, is there any hope for "authenticated GPS" to prevent spoofing? Is that even technically possible for non-secret codes like C/A or L5?
Sent this to a stoner friend of mine.
move fast and break things
I feel this comes down to the four freedoms and specifically "The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1)".

In this article it still is clear that this is what both the developers want to provide and the users want to get, however, the disconnect (and the main discussion there) is between what is the most favorable form to study and change the behavior - for some people it's the original C++ code, which gives more power and access to everything, but for others it would be a limited but simpler scripting solution with a clear API that makes easy to write a plugin without having to set up a build environment for a platform where (compared to many other popular languages) that can be a real pain.
then you have to define "works well enough to replace Node"

i was excited about bun too, until v1's "drop-in node replacement"

that was in no way a drop-in node replacement. using that would be the fastest way to kill a business with its terrible bugs and rough edges.

i used to be really excited about deno, but now i think the tradeoffs aren't going to be worth it for mass adoption. i sometimes write servers in go. now that i have go installed, should i use it for all my servers? no, it's just another tool with different trade-offs. most times, node will suit my project better.
Show HN: Props AI – A Free Tool for Cost-per-User Visibility for Open AI
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For those of us building GenAI apps, There is a disparity between how we pay for LLMs (Tokens) and how we charge for them (Per month). Its hard to know your COGS or Unit Level Economics with a single bill at the end of each month from Open AI, so I build a free lightweight proxy and data pipeline that to utilise the "user" field in the competition requests and track the breakdown in usage per customer.

In the future I hope to add integrations to stripe to enable frictionless Usage-based billing.

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It was ~20 years ago but i don't think the year matters as much as the luck of having an opportunity to step into (easily bootstrap-able) vs needing to force an opportunity (VC funding required). I think there are still opportunities out there for the former regardless of the year. I don't know them or I'd take them but I'm sure there's someone out there "if i could just get software to do X, we could sell Y".

My own story: I knew people working in telecommunications who couldn't sell satellite terminals because the customer needed more than just a naked satellite modem and data plan. I met the first customer sent my way, charged appropriately and got them a solution. Think solar panels, battery, small embedded SOC, a database to write to and a frontend website to access the data. Surprisingly that only took a couple of weeks to get a prototype together (yay for startup agility and my own hacker knowledge!) and the Telco sold a lot of satellite terminals from that and they realized it was a good idea to send more customers in a similar predicament my way. Eventually it spun up from there and we bought the original small time Telco that was referring us (software pays!) so we could gain the monthly recurring subscription we generated on top of the software consulting costs. We're now one of the main people to go to for this sort of thing.

I think there's still these sorts of opportunities out there today. If you're thinking the way to do a startup is to force a new market using VC funding there's other opportunities just sitting there that can spin up more organically. In fact the bootstrap-able opportunities are probably more likely to succeed imho since they tend to spin up from an existing need while the "Uber for X" type of VC funding try to force a market to exist where none has before.