skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You emphasized systemic racism as being a major cause, but group differences can be both non-biologic and NOT related to systemic racism

Firstly, I did not. I simply pointed out that racism can be systemic without individual contribution.

Secondly, the fact that racism can arise from a third option (neither non systemic and non biologic) does not change the fact that the article did not accuse teachers of racism.

And that’s where my initial comment stopped.

As for the rest, I had hoped it would have made it clear that the issue is too complex to unravel and try to assign blame or cause. The factors are too nuanced, the history too complex, the societies and neighborhoods too diverse.

But for some reason, you seem to have a need to find a cultural- or values- based factor for differing outcomes. You can do that if you wish. I won’t partake though. (Still not sure why you even chose my comment to initiate such an attempt)

Edit: I should state that the experience of non-immigrant blacks, in the US, is entirely incomparable to that of either Asians or Ashkenazi or even Nigerians.
Jim Abrahams death: Co-creator of Airplane and The Naked Gun dies aged 80
> human-cognition-capable AI. I think it' pretty obvious by this point that that's not going to happen

It's obvious to some people but that's not what many investors and company operators are saying. I think the prevailing message in the valley is "AGI is going to happen" for different values of when, not if. So I think you'd be forgiven for taking them at face value.
It’s a little over half a bottle of 13.5% wine (according to one sample on my counter, the full bottle is 10.1 UK units).

So no, not outlandish.

(And oddly, Irish units are larger than UK units, even though we both use the same pints)
OpenAI's Sora Tool Leaked by Group of Aggrieved Early Testers
>European slaves of Barbary owners could be and often were ransomed out of slavery by their societies back home, but West Africans were rarely in a position to do that for abducted Africans in the US.

Perhaps but the difference is that the West African tribes often sold the slaves to Europeans. Why would they pay a ransom to get those people back?

There were certainly racist connotations associated with slaves and ex-slaves. But it seems a stretch to say that white slaves in a non-white country fared better than black slaves in a white country.

This is also little-known information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_slave_owners Some slave owners in the colonies and early US, maybe even the very first one, were black.
Big systems like Salesforce started as small things that more deeply learned about and more deeply understood unmet demand and customer needs, and then got to packaging it in a way to create something that grows.

Coding agents can help more with tasks and not quite big entire massive platforms on their own. Humans may be able to scale much further and bigger with their skills.
I think this is what happened with the Dune PC game. They both turned out pretty well so they released the second one as Dune II. A 'sequel' despite the fact that it was not a follow-on, nor did it bear any similarity to the other contender. I'm not sure which game was more commercially successful but Dune II was certainly the most influential, launching the modern realtime strategy format onto the PC.
> Why is a carrot’s life less important than a rabbit’s?

A rabbit probably ate a lot of carrots, you are better off eating just the carrot directly if you want to reduce the killing :-)
These inventions are inevitable and don’t take talented and gifted people to do. It takes people undistracted by poverty and suffering.
This might deserve to be the new to-do list everyone learns to build if only that there's so much to learn from trying on how to get it best.. this month or quarter.
https://archive.is/20241121120946/https://www.wired.com/stor...
How the turntables...
> > Conquerers in the past used this strategy to win massive empires for themselves.

> Which conquerers? I can think of no historical example where a conquerer somehow convinced a target to take care of their needy so they could conquer.

I think the idea is that conqourers force their conquest economies to fit their needs, which is often not good for the conqoured. E.g. they might try to shutdown industries which build local wealth over ones that are more extractive.
Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito
For those most-interested in the "nuclear" part of the title:

> As a result, the site — along with its 200,000 liters of diesel fuel, 24,000,000 liters of biological waste, and 1.2 million units of radioactive waste — was left behind, forever buried in the snow.

Not sure how much a "unit" of radioactive waste is here. The site had a PM-2A "portable" reactor, which was removed during decommissioning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Iceworm
So this is flipping the Human-AI working model and basically using the human as the tool?
Nobody is out there saying that we need to bring a bunch of nuclear plants online to power our rollercoasters though.
oh I don’t think the investment is much, but similar to the dino game in chrome it’s just fun it’s delightful unlike a lot of genai stuff rn.
I have been deeply amused that some recent studies found the signal that best correlated with innovation in a society wasn't upward mobility, but rather _downward_ mobility.

The less rich people are allowed to buy success for their mediocre offspring, the better off society is.
>Much like this writer, I ended up okay anyway.

Don't leave us hanging! What happened?

I too was a (white) latino kid in GATE in the early 90s. I definitely didn't succeed at everything - i'm more athletic than a lot of nerds, but not compared to actual athletes, but school was easy enough that by the time high school came around, I completely stopped caring and just read a lot of books.

My study habits were bad though, so by the time I stared tackling harder subjects on my own, I lost a lot of confidence and had a pretty unimpressive career as a middling software engineer all through my 20s.

Eventually I learned some things were hard regardless of how smart you are, I learned to self study harder things, and now i'm doing well with lots of really smart coworkers at a FAANG.
Why can’t IBM just sell a watered down “DOORS-lite”?
Star Wars worked for me, but not a modern chess set based on lies.
They really ruined Optional not solving this then and there
I‘m not a game dev so I might be missing something, but this hardly looks high quality to me. The set I get is very inconsistent and lacking in any central theme, or otherwise interesting or clean design. If I regenerate one peace in isolation, say a knight, I get something completely different that looks as if you lost the knight from your set and just took replacement knights from another set at random.

The time it takes to generate a set is also significant, as a web-dev this takes for ever, and I would be very reluctant to offer this experience to my users. Doesn’t feel fluent, nor tight at all.

Plus a silly mistakes like the knights facing the wrong way, different sizes, etc. Seeing this, I certainly hope game designers (at least in online chess) will stay away from generative AI, for a while at least.
Yeah, anything good wont be listed as an E number, you use the name people recognize.
> I guess the difference is on how we define "talented"

Yes, and how we define "bad genes". I'm someone that you definitely wouldn't consider "talented" (since I've never worked at Google etc) and probably have "bad genes", what should be done with people like me?
The romantic notion that geniuses need an institution to coddle them and that by the grace of some government or non-profit organization then are humans capable of higher order thinking. The institutions are the tools for getting larger investments to allow for smart people to do their great work, not to create the people through education. Education systems today are fundamentally broken and reinforce feedback loops of poverty and dependency. It’s a prisoners dilemma. Case in point TAG programs are gamed often by wealthier families which makes the selection process incredibly unscientific and useless.
where did you get the impression the genesis for "gifted" programs was to solve high iq problem kids? this is the first I'm hearing of that.
that's such a cool idea, I'll play around with it. right now each symbol is independent of its neighbors (except for the bezier curves piecing them together)
And maybe to a lesser extent the plastics in packaging.
Agreed. It's clear that most people don't understand basic nutrition, and most people have a very distorted view of what the human body should actually look like. The average American is very overweight. If you raise your arm above your head in front of the mirror, you should see your ribs, and you should see the clear outline of your latissimus dorsi. If you can't see these two things clearly, you are overweight.
ha definitely fancier than I had in mind! :D thank you
The Rise of the Conversational Style
A polygraph is based on measuring normal emotional response.

A psychopath could probably pass a polygraph without any problem since they are not exactly normal.
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I'm not interested in subjective arguments but one clear thing is that there is a significant number of people who don't have a good sense of discovering tech features.
A function that passes tuples, or multiple arguments as they are more commonly referred to as, is not particularly weird, and has pretty much been the norm since the addition of functions to programming languages. But you are right that languages whose functions only accept tuples, but not return tuples, is a strange curiosity. In practice, you end up with developers packing multiple, unrelated items into a single variable to work around the limitation, which then questions why not do the same for input?
I'll answer this in good faith if you're willing to listen!

Am a happy CT owner. I paid an amount that is in line with a "fully loaded F150" according to a google search. I consider the two vehicles fairly comparable both on price and on features at a very broad level, but of course different people value different things.

Why I like it: the looks, the performance, FSD, the covered/secured truck bed, convenience (no more gas stations or regular oil changes & tune-ups).

One benefit that I didn't even know when I bought it, is that if you get some hardware installed at your electrical panel, the truck can actually serve as a whole house battery backup. This was huge last week when the PNW had a windstorm that took out power to 500K houses. My family was able to stay at home, comfortable, well-fed, and entertained. Many of my friends and coworkers had to book far away, expensive hotels and throw away everything in their fridge/freezer.
> the government gonna government and not find a replacement till it's almost too late

Actually they were going to convert to EVs back in 2006 when Bush stepped in to prevent that and punish them on behalf of his oil buddies with the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act. The problem isn't government, it's politicians voted in to destroy it in favor of corporate interests.
That doesn't even make sense. We've seen lots of positive outcomes from increasing funding directly to less-well-resourced schools.

We have to defy rich people's preferences to do that, but that is entirely possible.
> So there's no losing track of what allocates and what doesn't.

Having an allocator implicitly passed in with a struct argument is not quite what I meant. D once had allocators as member functions, but that wound up being deprecated because the allocation strategy is only rarely tied to the struct.
Capturing Beauty of Cosmic Proportions–The Image of the Year Award Winner
I looked up Triangulum on a lark, and learned:

"Unlike the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, the Triangulum Galaxy does not appear to have a supermassive black hole at its center. This may be because the mass of a galaxy's central supermassive black hole correlates with the size of the galaxy's central bulge, and unlike the Milky Way and Andromeda, the Triangulum Galaxy is a pure disk galaxy with no bulge."

Triangulum is a spiral galaxy in our local group, perhaps bound to Andromeda or us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulum_Galaxy
Show HN: Sprout.store – a top shelf, battle-tested Next/Sanity/Shopify starter
Hey HN,

My name is Ian; I run Gardener.nyc. We're a small technology studio with a focus on transparency and work/life sustainability.

I publish perennial reports outlining the growth of the business:
https://www.perennial.report/

# Sprout:

I've been building marketing/ecomm websites for over a decade now, and have kept a starter that saves me hundreds of hours in the process. This starter has made me 2.2M in client revenue over the past 5 years running Gardener.

----

# FAQs:

## Why are you building this?

People often ask me how I build websites, and I've never known how to encapculate all the knowledge into one place. This is a first attempt.

I built this for myself over the last 5 years of running Gardener. This exists as the current way all Gardener websites are made.

As I change/improve the way I build websites, sprout will always be updated to follow suit. Just pay once.

## What can I build with this?

This is primarily focused on ecomm, but you can build anything: marketing websites, Shopify sites, editorial platforms, apps(!), in-store pickup, hotel booking apps, portfolio websites, blogs, etc.

## Who uses sprout?

Kid Cudi, Cards Against Humanity, Kernel (by Chipotle), D.S. & Durga, Beni Rugs, ...

## Can I sell this?

The license allows lifetime use/incorporation in all client and personal projects. You cannot resell this boilerplate as-is.

## When is it live?

It's already built! I just have to finish documentation around set up and we're good to go. Sign up for beta access and you'll know ASAP.

## What does it currently do?

Next 14 app directory, page transitions, Framer motion, Sanity, Tailwind integration, Klaviyo newsletter signup, Shopify storefront carts, multicurrency, modular page builder (Sanity presentation mode), collections and product pages, A/B testing products landings, vercel and netlify deployment, resusable components, ISR revalidation, cookie and promo banners, Next cache invalidation, server components, rich text with custom table blocks, images, Mux video, TS support, responsive lazy images, zustand integration, draft preview, sitemap builder, opengraph editor in CMS, 301/302 redirects inside CMS, GA4, FB tracking, fully baked sanity schema, ... so many more I'm forgetting!

## What is on the roadmap?

Essentially all of the things I've built for various clients: Headless and theme versions of account pages, headless Yotpo integration, multicurrency, multilanguage, headless ReCharge, etc.
thank you so much! some of that indeed are small bugs that I overlooked, I'll try to fix them soon. the typing of one key at a time is on purpose (this project is meant to be used "in real life" in combination with an analogue typewriter)
I never had that requirement outside the first years of school- where it’s more about writing practice than writing actual essays.
After it was always “must be below X pages”
thank you so much, I really appreciate it
Did you verify this through disassembly? These loops can still be replaced by a closed form expression and I wouldn’t be surprised if LLVM figured this out.
Reminds me of the Pilatus PC-6. Another ugly duckling (in some people's eyes) that's a workhorse.
Yeah, MS collecting your personal data and using it for whatever they want sounds exactly like a "feature requiring internet access" to me.
My personal observation: It’s not gifted programs, it’s the environment.
I work on a pretty good science campus in a smallish university town, lots of smart people and so on. There are a few products of gifted programs, but most people just meandered in.

What stands out though is that almost everybody has a story of slipping into a subculture where being smart was cool. The chess club, post soviet backyard hacker pad, Berlin maker space … I think what would help much more than school run gifted programs, would be more opportunities for interested kids to mingle an push each other forward.
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There is a lot of stuff I can't eat because the amount of added sugar is disgusting.
Yeah, my hopes have the caveat of "this requires regulations to catch up to where technology is at rather than making everything worse" and in addition to my generally low opinion of politicians (the ones I've voted for absolutely included) there's a serious risk of a "boomers versus technology" incident spannering it even if everything else goes right ... but I can still *hope* even if I can see a number of possible futures where said hopes will turn out to be in vain.
OK but then why would a manufacturer ever use a E number - considering the stigma attached? Only when the other name "sounds worse"?

Is there a legal threshold where you have to use the E number?
This article is really well crafted propaganda.

Curtailment is part of running a low cost grid. If you have zero curtailment you're wasting money.

But it's great for propagandists. Instead of explaining like a journalist would, you can exploit that ignorance.
Similar on IG, which is why a lot of the photographers on my feed will post five or six images, "Which is your favorite, 1-6? Comment below!" because they get the engagement, synthetic or otherwise, of you clicking through each image, and then commenting.
This is just so good. Congrats!
Awesome! Congrats on the launch
Oooohhh... not so sure. Bound to be a little moldy by now
One thing the author is forgetting:

Regulatory capture.

The incumbents can lobby for overly restrictive legislation based on copyright or "safety" concerns that make absurdly expensive for new entrants to enter the market.

Think about big tobacco.
I assume your reasoning is something like: if people are already paying out the nose for open AI calls, an extra ten cents to make a human in the loop check probably isn't bad, and realistically speaking ten cents isn't much when compared to a valuable person's time, and I guess the number of calls to your service is likely expected to be fairly low (since they by definition require human intervention) so you need a high per operation cost to make anything.

Even understanding that, the per operation cost seems astronomical and I imagine you'll have a hard time getting people past that knee jerk reaction. Maybe you could do something like offer a large initial number of credits (like a couple hundred), offer some small numbers of free credits per month (like.... ten?) and then have some tier in between free and premium with lower per operation pricing?

It also seems painful that the per operation average of the premium plan is greater than the free offering (when using 2000 ops). Imo you'd probably be better off making it lower than the free offering from 200 ops and up, to give people an incentive to switch. I imagine people on your premium plan using premium features would be more likely to continue to do so, for one. The simplest way to do this would be to bump up the included ops up to 5k I guess. Someone using less than 5k would still have a higher average price, but it seems like it would come off better.
I have to wonder, how much of these issues are because education is generally underfunded and not given enough respect?

> There were just certain, simple, logical steps in my education that were not possible to take without first getting the "gifted" label, since that's the bureaucratic grease that makes the whole system move for you.

That sounds like an extremely dysfunctional system that rewards people who know this trick, but hurts people who may not know it. Now, I don't hate the player, so I'm very glad it worked out for you and many others. It benefited me too. But at an administrative level, I'm not sure that's a good thing.

> Not really … my mother tapped into her "social circles" — other mothers she met at my preschool — to try and learn what she needed to know about the schools, the school system, and the rules of the bureaucracy she was contending with, in order to effect better outcomes for her children.
I.e., what any good parent would do. The article misses the mark here too:

There's a lot of reasons a parent might not be able to figure this out, ranging from lack of proficiency in the English language, to housing instability, to lack of trust in school as an institution. Remember, we're 75 years removed from legal segregation. There's still a lot of distrust in programs actually being fair. I don't think we can assume that every child has a parent who can take the time to learn the bureaucracy.
>The West did set the norm that slavery is unacceptable, but only after embracing slavery on a vast scale for centuries, overlapping to a great degree with the Enlightment and with the birth of representative democracy.

Yes the West abolished slavery after embracing philosophy invented by the West. Then it forcibly ended slavery everywhere else that it could.

>I think that is the underlying dissonance - the founding fathers expounded at length on equality, liberty from arbitrary rule and so on, while the South prospered on the back of slavery. A similar criticism could be made of French revolutionaries, and British liberals of the 17th/early 18th centuries.

Thousands of Southern slave owners were themselves black. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_slave_owners Many slaves were sold to Europeans by their own people. Yet in modern times we only hear about a particular angle that pushes blame solely on the very cultures and nations that forcefully ended slavery, often at great cost.
You can't. Better not to work at big corp. I did that for 16 years and everyday I was miserable. High performer, always but big stress. I had chronic back pain.

One day, I simply quit and started my business. We are doing $200k in MRR now with two of us. Business is mix of software and physical store.

My suggestion is to work on and for yourself.

Disclosure: Not a finance or health advise
They could, but it's IBM so any 'lite' version wouldn't stay lite for very long. They mostly excel at making huge, complicated things to sell to other huge, complicated businesses. They aren't very interested in, or very good at, making small things they need to sell lots of (and, to their credit, they recognize that and stick to what they're good at.)
An excellent read.
While not directly related, I started remembering how fun it was to program for classic PalmOS with Motorola 68k CPUs: it also had the 64k segment limitation, so you had to structure application code blocks closely together in the linker.
There are lots of things that look like great methods, but experience with them often leads to disillusionment. For another example, Hungarian notation is a really great idea, heavily adopted by Microsoft Windows, and just does not deliver on its promises.

For example, types can have long names, but that doesn't work with HN. Changing a declaration to have a different type then means you've got endless cascading identifiers that need to be redone. And so on.
Yes, this has been my experience in my stint running an after school program. It’s an unfortunate reality that must be accepted in order to have sane policy.
I wrote this to probe the question of why “slow” languages are popular and valid when used in conduction with fast ones:
https://tobeva.com/articles/beyond/
I ... I don't think that's true at all.

>it seems to me it would be productive to reframe "gifted" education as "neurodivergent" education

This I could get behind, because that's the definition of neurodivergent.
Well, they're mostly not qualified to comment on the function, are they?