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I set up a Hermes agent for our company and connected it to BigQuery, Stripe, Amplitude, etc so that our nontechnical teammates can ask and answer their own data questions via Slac…

I did some research into this - the public budget is actually reasonably detailed. The biggest gap between your analysis and the actual expenditures are the SFUSD faces much higher…

Finally, I have no idea where people are getting $28k/year; most schools in CA operate on closer to $14k-$16k per pupil

Also this is an area where first principles analysis is likely to lead you astray - I’d recommend starting with SFUSD’s public budget to understand what their cost structure is.

The big thing you’re missing is special education, and to a lesser extent English Language Learners. School districts are obligated to teach every student, some of whom cost the di…

Hey HN - I’ve been using Claude Code with good results to manage a react webapp, but am now considering building a native iOS app. Have people had good experiences with this? Any t…

This seems like the judicial branch just voted to give itself substantially more power. Are there any checks against this? Or can justices just keep granting themselves more powers…

> demand decent education Yes, but with 125k schools in the US and 3.5 million teachers, how do you determine which of them are providing a decent education?

I agree gaming the system is always a temptation with accountability systems. I’m not sure it would work like how you are proposing, since purposely stunting a student would penali…

Strong claim! Can you elaborate? Also, the SBAC test administered in California, Washington, and many others is now adaptive, but still schools are measured based on point-in-time …

For those interested in this topic, I’d strongly recommend Bryan Caplan’s “The Case Against Education”: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691174655/th... . He does a …