skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that's an incredible pixel density. At what point does it start to approximate reality? For instance, is this enough that if you put one of these panels on the wall displaying a high resolution image, it could look like an ordinary window out into real life?
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> All of those subjective ratings should be heavily correlated

I wouldn't go so far. If your measures always correlate, why have separate measures? The point is when one measure disagrees with the others, it should say something meaningful. In this case, the disagreement appears to say "this student is Asian."
I read the (poorly written) article and disagree with it. I suggest you read Harvard's request for summary judgement (linked in the article) to see how carefully they weigh a multitude of factors.
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I would have thought the vector capabilities of ARM and Intel architectures would have been useful here, in addition to any multi-threadedness. They can be used to add fast GPU like functions, e.g. alpha blending.
Oh dear god why!!!!!!
We are now somewhen in the 90s, somewhere in the US. Welcome.

People are getting scammed when buying things online. The elderly are sending money to Nigerian princes. There are rapists and murderers on chatrooms preying for victims. Kids addicted to online games drop out of school. There is deviant pornography turning young men and girls into perverts or enticing them to post nudity online.

I strongly believe we must protect the public, and we must put severe regulations on the internet.
Noone should be able to just set up a website or online business. It is far too dangerous. Aspiring e-entrepreneurs must be required to file a goverment-reviewed application, and be represented by an attorney throughout the whole process, as well as undergo background checks and pay various fees to state and federal agencies.

If all goes well, within 1-2 years (depending on backlog) they can have permission to put up a website. Every year they must renew their website license, and according to what kind of content they wish to host they will need different licenses (eg different if you want to serve video, different if you want to have chat) /s

Makes sense right? The internet seemed like a weird crazy unregulated space back then. Except that.... that would have killed all of the amazing innovation that happened in the past 25 years in the US.

My point is. We must protect the public, of course. But it is never as simple as pulling out the torches and pitchforks screaming "BAN BITCOIN. BAN THE DARKWEB. STOP ICOs". We cannot risk stifling innovation. Because if we do - innovation will still happen just... somewhere else in the world. And no government wants that.

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EDIT: FYI - in case you think I am exaggerating, the scenario I described above is similar to today's internet situation in mainland China. You need an ICP license (granted by the government and renewed yearly) in order to be able to have a publicly accessible domain name. If you want to serve back visual content (images/video) and user-to-user communication (chat or public text posts) you need to undergo extra delays and checks to prove that you are trustworthy and can censor content. Certain websites from outside of China (eg google, fb) are just banned.
> As such, they are not helping society to become post-racial

It did always use to be like that. In the 70s and 80s there was a focus back on individuals regardless of their race, gender or origin. This trend to put quotas goes with the wave of political correctness that started pretty much in the early 90s.
The Canadian federal government uses a lot of COBOL.

My first job out of university in 1996 was maintaining COBOL programs that fed data from Revenue Canada to the CPP. My first task was to rewrite a COBOL program originally written in 1972 into "modern" COBOL-85! Which is to say that COBOL shops are not exactly on the cutting edge of technology. So I quit doing COBOL programming in 1998 after I'd paid off my student debt and taught myself C++ (although nowadays I use Python and Go).

Having said that, mainframes are still competitive in their niche (high performance batch processing) which is why they're still around. But as a career option you have to keep in mind that it won't be technically stimulating and you're probably vulnerable to the work being outsourced overseas to cheap body shops.
As others have said, Toronto should have about as many jobs as you can hope to find for such an obscure part of software development these days.

A lot of zOS shops hire remote developers these days too, because it's hard to find local people with the right skill set. I imagine it'd be pretty hard to get a remote position as your first job, but it's a good option for the second.

IBM themselves doesn't hire remote workers anymore though, at least I don't think they do.

Banks are your best bet for COBOL, as well as certain parts of the government. The IRS in the US still uses mainframes. Some big companies in the zOS world that you might look into are BMC Software, Rocket Software, and CA Technologies.

I would also recommend not limiting yourself to COBOL - plenty of mainframe programming is still being done in high level assembler, c, and c++. If you know CICS, DB2, and JCL already then it would probably be easy to get a job writing Java for mainframes as well.

Also, if you really love zOS and want a degree, Marist College in upstate NY has a degree program specifically for zOS. It's the only such program in the world, as far as I know.

http://idcp.marist.edu/enterprisesystemseducation/zosprogram...

I graduated college in 2016 and have been working at a small company that sells a high level assembler debugger for zOS since then. If you (or anyone else reading this) have any more questions about zOS programming or the mainframe industry in general, feel free to shoot me an email. My email address should be on my profile.
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People don't want to pay $100 a month for cable TV either, but they did it anyway (for decades) and continue to do so. Now we're being asked to buy a bunch of streaming services and we'll bitch and moan, but ultimately we'll pay because every major platform will have at least one show that justifies their existence.

I associate CBS with bland procedural crime dramas and awful three-camera sitcoms. CBS All Access would have been doomed without Star Trek: Discovery. Admittedly, the show isn't particularly good, but I'm a trekkie so it doesn't matter. On the plus side, I discovered The Good Fight (a surprising smart, entertaining and well written show) so I now I have a legitimate reason to give a damn about All Access.

And then Apple will offer their own gateway drug (Lord of the Rings?) and Disney (...well they could just offer their back catalogue alone and still be a major player) and so on.
Oh, I know plenty of people who do IT at a local big (US) university and promoting someone downward (i.e. into a role designed to be so boring they quit) is absolutely a thing.
I've read many people complain about static typing + more advanced type systems making programming too hard. This is the first time I've ever read someone assert that they make programming too easy.
> Those people are wrong.

So your opinion is fact?
Except that if the "social "companies keep growing and merging eventually they will have more power than governments and if you are not signed up you may as well don't exist.
This is happening in NYC right now. The high-achieving highschools are dominated by Asian-Americans. Admission is granted solely on the basis of a standardized test -- and enough of a stink has been made that the mayor is considering removing it in favor of a more holistic "diverse" approach.

http://abc7ny.com/education/parents-students-protest-plan-to...
That's an incredibly interesting way of looking at it. At first blush I was thinking more of a "Wild West attracts Wild West criminals", but it definitely is more nuanced than that.
don’t see how they can solve burn in unless they come up with something really innovative like shifting a 30” image around a 31” screen
Bourbon does not need to be from Kentucky.

Legally, it has to be >= 51% corn mash, stored in new oak barrels, and a few other things.
I think this is a function of commoditised markets. Profit is competed away and no resources are spent on design. If they are spent on design, it's often dark design.
> a toxic company culture that cultivated lying and, eventually, criminal fraud.

FTA:

> The scientists worked 12-16 hour days.

I have to wonder if it's really as simple as exhaustion/overwork causing a breakdown in reasoning to the point of removing ethical inhibition.

I would hope that scientists would know better than to allow themselves to be worked like that, but, well, I know better.
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> The application process becomes a strict meritocracy when all of these points (race/name/need) are blocked, which works in a perfect world but does not work when you consider that socioeconomic disparities tend to impact minority races the most.

Access to education has been one of the best thing to happen to minorities, and Asians are a good example of that. Most came from poor immigrant families and in the space of 2 generations they made it to top universities. So what exactly were we doing wrong? Seems to me the system is clearly working as a social escalator.
They also have a contract to provide streaming for the NHL. Probably other leagues as well.
I was super careful with my phone and always minimized brightness and I still got burn in after 18 months. Even my plasma tv is going strong 10 years with no issues.
Ridesharing and Airbnb is another example.
You can 'delete' your youtube viewing history. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/95725?hl=en
Was it William Gibson's The Peripheral which writes about cars where the exterior is made of cardboard?
Sure, I understand where the risk is coming from. I don't understand where the unfairness is coming from.
> Yet Harvard’s admissions officials assign Asian Americans the lowest score of any racial group on the personal rating—a “subjective” assessment of such traits as ... “attractive person to be with,” is “widely respected,”...

Why is such an evaluation is even necessary? What is its purpose? To give higher scores to one's relatives and friends? And how do you measure the wideness of respect?

Well, if it is completely private institution then it might be fine but if they use government money such subjective ratings are a good opportunity for corruption.
This is really well-done. Handy for someone whose phone lacks a headphone jack, but whose laptop has one. :)
NBA all star teams are virtually 100% Black, and 0% Asian.

Does it matter?

Nobody seems to care.

But if a software company or university has too many or too few Asians, then this is some kind of civil rights issue?

Instead of securing equal rights, this country has turned into securing special interest rights. Everything from marijuana prohibition to gay marriage to discrimination goes through its own movement.

Why cant we just all defend everyone's right to life, liberty, and justice?

Everyone deserves equal rights granting equal opportunity. Demanding equal results is to just demand some be Harrison Bergeron'd and others be given reward without merit.
> TCRs also have built in mechanisms that reduce the ability of wealthy individuals/parties to unilaterally attack the integrity of the registry, as well as mechanisms to recover from such attacks if they do occur.

Can you give any examples you can share? You have state/non-state actors which have mass resources to use to their advantage directly or indirectly (e.g. troll farms). What prevents people from buying these CVL tokens and/or creating multiple accounts to bias your ledger? It's not like they really are taking a hit on these transactions unless they're above $5-$10. The Internet Research Agency had a small budget compared to other actors which were in the millions.

It also could go the other way for voting against reputable journalism. Is there prevention in this area as well? It seems like the Vote Quorum could be abused in this area.

It seems like it might be much easier to challenge your system around voting with an algorithm rather than the social engineering that occurs on social platforms.

Though I might come off critical, I'm excited to see how this turns out. I'm pretty new to blockchain and don't understand it all. Though, I did see the "Attacks against token-curated registries and mitigations" in your whitepaper. How expensive are these coins?
In some cases it is worse than doing essentially nothing: you're made to, e.g., perform some data processing task on a newspaper (e.g. write the readings of every kanji in this newspaper; that will take you about a day) and then, at the end of the day, your work product is checked for ~15 seconds to verify that you're not slacking and then shredded in front of your eyes. See you tomorrow.
I think that the issue that the “elite bureaucrats” are trying to wrestle with is what defines a University.

Is it a factory for high GPA? A community? Some other thing?

I think the answer is somewhere in the middle, and your disposes bureaucrats have a point. My parents left the big city and moved to the country when I was in middle school. I went to a big public university. I’ve seen a few perspectives of these matters and I’ll tell you straight out that the culture in the melting pot urban environment of my youth was more vital and functional than the mostly white farm town or 90% south/east asian sciences programs that I attended in college.

University should challenge your view of the world, and a community of rich suburbanites and tiger-mom kids isn’t where that will happen.

We should attack the discrimination of employees based on university pedigree — that’s the nasty thing that enables bad behavior, and the thing turning colleges into the monsters is education/entertainment/branding machines that they have become.
I think influencers are similar to Linkedin type thought leaders. Every time I log in there a new one pops out in my feed. Some are collecting awards from a thought leading organization which no one had heard of, while quoting some fake Sun Tzu proverb.

I think they are doing pretty well for themselves but they never seem to have anything interesting and original to say.
My understanding of it is that they are multiple samples of the same underlying distribution (the applicant's subjective characteristics). Multiple references who know/have interacted with the applicant attest to his/her personality strengths & weaknesses, and the average of all of them should result in an accurate measure of the person. If one of your "sensors" consistently measures lower than the grouping of the others, then you look into why that one is giving faulty readings, if it does so over a large sample size.
In the article, I didn't see how they controlled for the team's behaviour in accommodating Messi's position. He is one the teams MVP and it is likely (IMO - I'm speculating) the team will dynamically reposition to accommodate Messi's current position, meaning he's less likely to need to run.

Mapping this to software teams: Messi would be the super-smart rockstar developer who doesn't get bogged down with busy work or bug-fixes. If we compare his rate of shipping software compared to his team-mates (or other more balanced teams), we'd have to control for how the rest of the team clears his way.
Harvard is the position of Ranking and admitting students. They have a fair number of very high scoring academic performers so they use some other metics. They use 4 criteria: Academic, extracurricular, personal, and athletic.

Some of the stats are on rankings based on race are here [1]. I suspect its not as cut and dry as the lawsuit alleges: (pg 36)
[1]https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/diverse-education/file...

Also for that report:

"These data show that even if Harvard wanted to admit every student with elite academic credentials, it could not. Harvard admits roughly 1,800 domestic students each year, yet thousands of applicants have impeccable academic qualifications.9

For example, based on the statistics in Exhibit 2, even if Harvard sought to admit only applicants with a perfect GPA, it would need to reject at least 6,000 such applicants and all other domestic applicants. Similarly, even if Harvard sought to admit only applicants with a perfect Math SAT score, it would need to reject nearly 2,000 such applicants and all other domestic applicants."

( I didn't go the Harvard, but I do work there)
What about the (many) tariffs and unfair laws on China's side ?

Vocational training requires industry to already exist. That's a chicken and egg issue.
Edit - Could I ask why I was downvoted? I'd like to know where I went wrong here.

Forgive the question, but that is a general statement to a specific case, and I am having trouble seeing the clear path between your statement and the article. Can you elaborate?

Are you taking the position that any and all attempts to shape admissions into universities based on race are misguided and regressive? The specific case here being discriminatory or not seems to be more related and less vague, you've generalised the article into a statement that is kind of hard to elaborate on.

Regardless of whether racial quotas (hard or soft) are a good thing or not, I would certainly think it is an important data point, and at the very least demonstrates a weakness in society that merits attention.

If one race is by far receiving admission over all others, then I do think there should be moved being made to ask why, and how to fix the problem.

The specifics of this particular incidence seem more pertinent to this article rather than a statement on racial quotas as a whole.
The Howey Test was created by the Supreme Court, not the SEC. Harder to scrap.
These companies are explicitly setting up vertical monopolies, when they already have horizontal monopolies.

The entitlement here is the elites, who don't have anything to fear from antitrust legislation and can fundamentally undermine the free market, which allegedly is important to the underlying Ayn Rand undercurrent of this site.

In that context, rebellion/revolt/resistance is a somewhat legitimate choice by some points of view.

Seriously, we just had an election directly related to the over-concentration of media in a few powers, and now we're allowing them to vertically monopolize the delivery of that content.

Which would be a bit... ok... if it was just Mickey Mouse, but the news is fully controlled by oligarchs.

By vertically integrating the internet access, they can censor the only uncontrolled news outlet: the internet.
Well when your CEO is convinced you have product market fit when you dont, raise millions and burn it all in a few years thinking you can hire your way to a robust sales pipeline, it doesn't feel as bad.

Especially when the best sales ppl are leaving and you cant hire new fast enough so they stick with whatever they have, even if their book rate is at the bottom.

Basically sales teams are for selling but they cant sell products which have no demand and so eventually you are "that" company in the expo with nobody coming to the booths since your marketing involves using shady eastern European seo backlinks and believe repeatedly spamming CEOs and partners. In fact, when your partners turn on you, it's a sign that there is problems at the top level.

Usually these type of CEOs are egomaniacs with no discernable skill other than walking around the office taking up conference room to meditate, and thinking he is at TEDtalk...
This exists. I've been in situations where doing development is seen as risky and not doing anything can earn you a promotion.
Yep. ~88k deaths per tear in US due to alcohol:
https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm
If you know of an article that sums up what this standard protocol does, how it does it, and why that wasn't possible until now, then could you please post a link?
... and children + discs often ends poorly.
I don't mind paying to creators for the music I'm listening to. Didn't you yourself say that it costs money to make?
What day were they fired? Given that's one case, could it have been overlooked by another manager or by HR dealing with bigger fallout?

Are these types of stories written for every round of layoffs at every other automotive company? It strikes me that the media is quick to find drama when it's Tesla.
What happens to country specific TLD's in a war involving that country?
In almost every field and industry, companies get requests like this go something along the same lines as mentioned in this post: "Hey, I have access to XYZ audience and we will be doing event ABC next month. It would be great to showcase/use your product and share that with the group. Your company and your product would be front and center for this group of people. All we need is your product for free."

In the end, all this is is just ad sales: I have alleged access to customers who want your product but don't know yet. I can share your company or product w/ them. They trust me. It will influence them to become your customer. Give me X."

And worse than that, many times those requests come with a price tag on top of providing the company's product or service for free.

And really it's no surprise given how social media works. Now any "idiot" can gain a following or an audience over some set of topics, or philosophy, or style, and gain a following that tunes. I say "idiot" less as a derogatory thing and more as a "every Joe or Jane" kind of thing who persists and is focused. Any following of people that tunes into something, anything, can often be cajoled into seeing or experiencing some mention or ad about an unrelated thing and that causes some %-age of that group to pay attention and some %-age of those that pay attention to potentially investigate further and possibly become paying customers of some company or product they didn't know about before. Certainly not rocket science and definitely not new.

What we're seeing here is merely a temporary fashion/trend that tends to focus heavily on luxury hotels and envious-appearing travel experiences.
Thanks for your clarification. I'll have to give Flutter a try some time.
Let me know as soon as they find this elusive "good ICO".

I hear they're generally found in the same habitat as unicorns.
The Raspberry Pi has a GPU. Why wouldn't you use accelerated graphics?
They do but it goes deeper as people tend to stereotype Asians as being privileged as if they are a monolithic group, yet you have those (mainly from South East Asia) coming from low socio-economic backgrounds being lumped in as privileged.

People tend to forget that minorities being born directly into a disadvantage include Asians/Asian-Americans.
Used to use this, until I realised it's memory usage goes over what my slot is actually capable of.

Does an IRC client/webserver really need several hundred megabytes of ram?
I then began just tunnelling hexchat. Only needed to bypass a firewall for irc
Possibly there's leakage current even when they try to turn the pixels off.
Yeah, a few years ago I would have said it was a function of performance / low percentage of market who used extensions.

Solutions extensions previously provided are slowly being incorporated into the core browser. Example would be Web USB/BLE support.

I too would like to see Chrome Extensions for Mobile!
To the extent that the parents chose to raise their children in an environment that taught them advanced emotional manipulation skills at an early age, sure.