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by hedora 5mo ago
Yes, but back when California was poorer, it had some of the best schools in the nation. Now that it's richer, the schools are collapsing, so it's really hard to argue that systematic social problems are the root cause.
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by hedora 5mo ago
What pain, exactly? - The local public school goes from 80 kids per grade to 40, and a new school opens across the street or just rents an existing building from the existing school district. - Funding stays flat, and academic performance g
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by hedora 5mo ago
Who's working on this? I think there are some pretty obvious easy fixes, at least for California: Find a library that still has a copy of the educational plan California used back in the 1970's, and do that. At the time, we had t
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by hedora 5mo ago
Public school districts cannot expel students in California.
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by hedora 5mo ago
California used to have the best schools in the country, and roughly a third of our urban population is Silicon Valley. It's home to the largest economy in the US by a large margin, and is one of the richest states. Yet, somehow, for
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by hedora 5mo ago
This is true. There are safeguards (that are currently failing) that my program would engage: - The state is legally required to provide those kids with an education. - There is funding allocated to help those districts. If "we will n
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by hedora 5mo ago
They planned to do it state wide. The ban was blocked. It did not happen. However, you can read the proposal if you want to see what sort of reasoning leads to "UC is admitting students to STEM majors, then finding out the students a
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by hedora 5mo ago
The function isn't "winner takes all". It's a claw back after objective failure. California already spends tons of extra money on stuff like special ed, and struggling districts. I wouldn't touch that. So, if ther
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by hedora 5mo ago
This doesn't surprise me at all. From what I can tell, California's education system has moved from "equality" (which I would define as providing similar opportunities to all the kids) to focusing on "equity"
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by hedora 5mo ago
If you love AI mode, then won't you just use a chat app? That'll search Google for you, and it'll keep more context, use a better model, etc, etc. When people open a search bar and type stuff, they're showing an incredi
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by hedora 5mo ago
I've noticed a priority inversion in recent iOS. Want to send me an SMS that matches a ban-list regex from a third party app, from a foreign phone number / obvious spam farm? No problem. The app to block you was auto-uninstalle
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by hedora 5mo ago
I like that it has lots of mechanical switches. Maybe that'll trickle down to regular cars. The stereo specs are impressive. The article mentions low center of gravity and 0-60 time. At 2.5 sec, I'm not sure this is much of a d
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by hedora 5mo ago
It's also one of the better performing. Is the value line (currently, the 17e, I guess) typically much more expensive than an android with comparable battery life, CPU performance, and OS support lifespan? This year, things look prett
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by hedora 5mo ago
I'm not sure how much of it is subsidies. If the open weight models are anything to judge by, China is taking price performance seriously, and the US model vendors are looking for performance at any cost. Like any other Pareto optimi
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by hedora 5mo ago
I think you are reading the situation incorrectly. The US was previously the center of international collaboration for science and technology, and that took decades to establish. The organization has been burnt down in 12 months, but the e
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by hedora 5mo ago
Like Trump 1.0’s handling of COVID, this outbreak is going to spread further and faster than it would have if the US continued to pay for international health initiatives. Those initiatives inevitably cost far less than the economic impact
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by hedora 5mo ago
No; that says what things have undefined behavior in the language spec. The compiler / os / hw platform are free to define the behavior of those things. Leaving them undefined at the language spec is the mechanism that allows the
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by hedora 5mo ago
The US is way behind on AI from a perf/dollar perspective and is rapidly driving the rest of the world off oil by disrupting supply chains. I think we’ll see an even bigger economic reckoning in 2027-28, and then the pendulum will swin
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by hedora 5mo ago
So, you’re saying the solution to papers not being adequately peer reviewed (which is a strong claim that I disagree with) is to use political ideology tests to let the current administration arbitrarily decide who is allowed to publish?
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by hedora 5mo ago
Also, this seems to ignore a major problem with how progressive income tax rates are figured in the US. You can work for years at a startup at a depressed wage, then have a windfall that makes up for it on average. That windfall (in Califor
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by hedora 5mo ago
In fairness, there was a time when I was unable to have a computer sort search results so the default hit was the plugin with 1000x more downloads than all the others combined.
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by hedora 5mo ago
“More aggressively using UB” isn’t the right way to think about it. In the C ecosystem, the compiler gets to define what UB means. They broke compatibility with their previous UB semantics, then blamed the language spec.
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by hedora 5mo ago
There was a similar rush of articles like this a few years ago. tl;dr: C defined language semantics, and leaves some behavior undefined. Each system that C is ported to has the ability to define the behavior however it wants. This blows t
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by hedora 5mo ago
Price up (cost up?), benchmarks down. Latency down. So, who is this for? People that want more ads and worse output, but want it faster? Sounds pretty awful to me.
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by hedora 5mo ago
Why would I use those instead of just grabbing a model from hugging face? Are they as good as qwen 30B?
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by hedora 5mo ago
Ouch. That's going in completely the wrong direction. How many people complain that we have too much low quality AI output for humans to read, let alone evaluate vs. how many people are complaining that they want higher quality, more
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by hedora 5mo ago
Why would the Chinese sell me nvidia cards? I can just by an AMD iGPU, and the perf/$ is much better than nvidia dGPUs. (Typed on a 2023 macbook perfectly capable of running the Chinese open weight models.)
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by hedora 5mo ago
I guess I'm slightly younger: I think "weights or it didn't happen"!
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by hedora 5mo ago
It’s not just the partition sizing though. The lack of DDNS and clock re-sync are really painful. Similarly, if fsck -y is frequently required, maybe just run that way all the time instead of failing to boot, or fix the root problem. I do
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by hedora 5mo ago
That's 3-7 orders of magnitude less than what the current resident of the white house has achieved, depending on how you count. Also, in your scenario, a half dozen or so people could probably take care of the one or two problematic pe

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