skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good schools are mostly good because of their student bodies.

At a basic level you need teachers who care, books and decent accommodations. If those basics aren't being met, then spending will help. And if those needs are met, it certainly helps to have really great, special teachers who push students a little further.

But I believe if you took the kids from a selective school and swapped them with kids from a school with frequent violence and truancy, the kids from the selective school would still have far better life outcomes, and find ways to succeed despite run down classrooms, less inspiring teachers, and dated books. They would succeed if you put them in an 1800s one-room schoolhouse, or didn't even send them to school at all. They had to pass a high bar for intellectual ability and their parents care about education.
> The issue in America has been and still is why are blacks doing so poorly?

If nothing else, enormous income differences? See the top graph here:

https://www.financialsamurai.com/income-by-race-why-is-asian...

It's hard to educate yourself well if your family is poor, I hear.
Test scores are race-blind and fair. Test instructors do not give more scores to a test because they see it was completed by an Asian test-taker.

It's great that schools are looking for a better "mix" of ethnicities in the incoming class, but they should encourage the underrepresented ethnicities to do better, in tests or other race-blind admission standards.

They should not put an admission "cap" based on the color of your skin
If anything, I have 24 years of experience to pass on to the younger generation.
>First off you stated Google News, which algorithmically selected these headlines/articles

No, I didn't. The OP did. I was just checking out what they asserted without evidence.
The suggestion is that educational outcomes are already favoring people by race, just with a veneer laid over it, and we're revisiting the question as to whether or not that's working.
Possible to an extent. I'm also picky about my subs and I find Reddit a lot better than its public perception would suggest, but some of my interests are still apparently impossible to indulge on Reddit without trading off between a frequently toxic community or dead subs. And I've seen the transition from latter to former happen too many times; alt subreddits like /r/Games used to be wonderful, but now tips into an /r/gaming sensibility more than I'd like. Don't get me wrong, this isn't always the case, but I think it's difficult for subreddits to adhere to community guidelines like HN contributors do because going from obscure to critical mass can happen so rapidly.
Ironic that you are displaying the exact degree of critique of the design that you should! Lack of thoughts like this are the issue.

Unfortunately this polymorphic list sort of design is far too common.

Much of the code that cares about this architecture is going to be in the implementation of these classes, not in some single and easily fixable place.
Who would ever risk capital to invest in this?
Poor person who looks poor, still looks poor even if they don't have money to buy better clothing. Not sure you need money to buy a journalist in most crime cases but ok.
They seem to have the advice slightly mixed up. It's not "revoke Samsung Messages storage permissions OR switch to another SMS app" it should be "revoke Samsumg Messages storage permissions AND switch to another SMS app"

Highly recommend https://www.signal.org/ which on Android can act as your normal SMS client (as an added bonus if your contact also uses Signal there are some security enhancements)
I like the new design a lot, everything is consistent and easier to read now. Opening links in a popover is nice (although a little laggy) because I don't lose my scroll position after closing the page, which eliminates needing the Reddit Enhancement Suite extension. The page is also responsive now, previously the side bar would restrict the comment area.
1. I believe black and hispanic students could do just as well as asian students if their cultures were similar to that of the asian students.

Let's not kid ourselves. The asian students doing well on these tests are born into cultures that value academic achievement more than the average black or hispanic family. There's nothing inherently different about the different groups aside from their cultures.

Keep the tests, and encourage a culture of academic excellent to take root in different communities where it may not currently exist.

2. Let's stop being so obsessed with race. Racial quotas make people think more about race when our goal should be to make people think less about race and more about individuals apart from the color of their skin.
Could you go into why you encourage HTML in the dev mailing lists you operate?
"Brown" is not the only variable that might have influenced on success. "Asian" or "Hispanic" or "Black" are actually a basket of variables that exist at different levels that influence everything from health to educational attainment.
https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

Interesting article I suggest reading.

I agree with TheCoelacanth that an increase in users will lead to a decrease in quality.
HTC will lay off 1,500 employees in search of profit
That's dogwhistle for 'you're racist'.
Ask HN: How do you balance side project time?
I currently have a FT job (thankfully isn't too taxing), but I also have several side projects that I'm working on (browser extension, autonomous trading bot, and just general learning as well). I'm getting to a point where I don't exactly know how to balance my time between all of my side projects. I'm equally interested in all of them, it's just that I'm not sure how much time I should be allocating to each per-day/per-week. I recently read on HN about the "15-minute" rule, where you spend 15 minutes on each so that you don't commit too much or burnout -- anyone else have any other suggestions?

What do you do?
Both sides have merit. The trick is to find a point in between that works for you. What I tend to do after having to optimize after the fact on numerous projects amounts to:

- write for clarity with an architecture that doesn't greatly impede performance
- have good habits, always use datastructures that work well at both small and larger scales
whenever readily available (e.g. hash tables, preallocating if size is known)
- think longer about larger decisions (e.g. choice of datastore and schema, communication between major parts)
- have some plans in mind if performance becomes an issue (e.g. upgrade instance sizes, number of instances)
and be aware if you are currently at a limit where there isn't a quick throw money at the problem next level
- measure and rewrite code only as necessary taking every opportunity to share both
why and how with as many team members as feasible
I went to a private school that had less funding than the local public school but the students were more motivated so my school performed better. Funding helps but having a school with motivated students will always create a significant gap regardless of funding levels
The most interesting quote is about the history behind the tax:

"President Yoweri Museveni reportedly wrote a letter complaining to the finance minster about online gossip and suggesting a tax be introduced to “cope with consequences.”"
This. The end of the pipeline is not the correct place to change pipeline demographics, and in cases like this, is actually harmful.
Mindfulness and Miniatures
Although implementation may be ugly and/ or shocking - the concept in itself has interesting roots.

Although social media in itself is vital - we are seeing more usage of it correlates with negative behavior pattern (as is excessive tv watching).

Should govt intervene?

They do intervene for substance addiction...
the supreme court declared racial quotas illegal.
Yeah, I think part of the issue is the horribly broken career progression model that most companies seem to use.

Graduate -> Software Engineer -> Senior Software Engineer -> Team Lead -> Non-Technical Manager (???)

Then again, unless a company is scaling at the same speed as your career, you're eventually (probably before 40) going to hit a wall where there's no higher level for a tech person to go, because there are no bigger problems to solve. If you want to earn more money or get more recognition, you're going to need to move to another company which can offer harder challenges.
>The real gift, the campaign explains, is that patrons can become investors in a company that will own the castle, and "collectively decide its future."

So they paid for the opportunity to pay... more.

Hopefully this all goes well, I'm kinda suspicious.
Shitty title for what I felt was a really great read.

Actually, it honestly reads like a prequel to Asimov's short story, "The Last Question". [1]

[1] http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
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I've even seen older people pick it up. It's a good syntax.
> * They only publish the scheduled times, not the actual estimated arrival times

Do you have a source for this? I'm positively certain it's not true. I time my commute every morning with the online subway clock that matches exactly with the one in the station -- I leave my apartment when the Q is ~8m away and it always arrives shortly after I get to the platform. I've only encountered one situation where the clock was unacceptably wrong: a downtown A train at 59th that was 1m away for over 5m. That happened over a year ago and I still remember it.

Similarly, when delays happen the clock does get updated accordingly. Today was a good example -- 24m for the next N train during commuting hours :/

I think you may be confusing the countdown clocks with the kiosks. Once upon a time they did display the scheduled time. I'm not sure if they still do but the above head displays are without a doubt more accurate. Anecdotally speaking, the margin of error seems to be roughly +/- one minute. I'm aware that's anecdotal evidence but I simply don't believe that somebody could take the subway on a daily basis and think the countdown clocks are that inaccurate.
This is pretty standard and has been going on for decades. Asian-Americans are the last race you can openly commit racist policies against without dogwhistling. I don't know what it is, maybe it's because they are politically underreprsented or it's because they are underrepresented in popular culture in general, or their general attitude to be anti-political in nature, but it's just totally fine to withhold educational resources and outcomes for an entire race of people. It is particularly bad against Chinese-Americans, I've found.

I remember dealing with it as a young child growing up in the Midwest as a Japanese-American whose grandparents were interned in California. I didn't come to "appreciate" the level of systemic, acceptable racism baked into society against Asian-Americans until much later in life.

My feelings on it now are kind of whatever. It is what it is and I don't see it changing much. I sure don't see white activists taking up the Asian banner, though.
Aren't they all?
The new desktop site sucks too. The old one was great, information dense, no bullshit.
You got it. Emails are still optional, but the sign up flow plays coy and makes you think it’s required. You can leave the email field blank if you’d like.
I'm talking about net, not individual instances.

There was a recent HN thread about Germany's economic boom in the 19th century being largely due to no copyright law - and a huge proliferation of technical books of every description.

In the US, Hollywood was started to evade patent enforcement. Isn't it ironic how they aggressively defend IP protection now?
>> Test scores are race-blind and fair.

Kind of. There is a fair criticism to be made about tests being unintentionally culturally slanted towards the people that make them, often white Americans.

Of course, in this case, your point is correct, since the people that are overindexing on the tests are Asian-Americans.
Demonstrated interest isn't about visiting campus - it's about interviews, essays, standardized tests, maker portfolios, etc...
I may be reading too much into your use of the word "favoring", but I think it's not safe to assume that any disparate outcome is the effect of favoring certain races. Certainly, educational outcomes differ by race but there are non-discriminatory factors that can play a large role, such as time dedicated towards academics [1]. In other words, I think it's worth asking whether it's the education system that's favoring certain groups, or if it's certain groups that are favoring academic achievement. I don't think it's right to use discriminatory policies to ensure equity of outcome if it's the latter.

1. https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2012/2012026/tables/table_35.asp
Income differences don't explain disparities between equally poor groups.

Culture does.
If a student is not doing well in school, it makes no sense to just "give" that student a higher grade, for "equality" with the rest of the class.

You need to help that student get better, so he/she can achieve the higher grade on his/her own.

If a student can't do multiplication in a test, you don't just "give more points" to that student, for "equality" in the classroom. You need to teach that student to learn multiplication.

You need to bring that student "up" and not everyone else "down".
I agree. I did a single college tour and that was a school that doesn't take demonstrated interest into account (that I also had no chance to get into). I had only briefly visited the others because they were basically in my backyard.
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Not necessarily self-worth - when you're just starting out and you have no track record, no matter how good you know you are, the rest of the world won't believe you until you've proved yourself. So you start wherever you can.
I like the idea. Web design is absolutely brutal though.
Deal wont close. DVMT is a tracker for VMW at 1.015:1. It should trade at 164.4 (given a 162 price for VMW). Offer is ~1/3rd in cash that Michael Dell isn't even paying for, it is a special dividend from VMW. Other 2/3rds is an egregious swap for private Dell shares in exchange for DVMT tracker shares. A disgusting deal all around designed to benefit Michael Dell at the expense of common shareholders. It won't be approved.
I agree totally. Tests can be slightly flawed, and rich kids can prep their way to another 50 points, but nothing else in life comes close in terms of fairness. Maybe sports and that's it. There's something noble about that.

Tell me where else a poor farmer's kid from Alabama, a child of refugees who spoke no English at home, someone from an unpopular religion, a kid who grew up in the ghetto without a father, someone from the working class who speaks with a regional accent, etc. etc. can compete on a pretty level playing field with wealthy elites?
Yup. It's especially disheartening that most of the discussion centers around "privilege" and the supposed ease of coasting into one of these schools if parents pay for test prep. Anyone can get test prep books from the New York Public library and practice, practice, practice. The fact that so few members from some groups attend the school says far more about the importance of education in their homes than it does about lack of "endowment."
"Test scores are race-blind and fair." This is not axiomatically true.
> simply take the top N% w/in each racial bucket, rather than globally

This would benefit wealthy Black/Latino kids, whose parents can afford test prep. If the goal is to have a more racially diverse student body, it accomplishes that goal. But if the goal is to help disadvantaged kids get ahead, then it's not useful.
eDirectory etc is where the per seat licensing of OES comes from, BTW.
I’m struggling to understand the complaint. The form clearly states that the app will be granted ability to read/edit or delete email. For as long as we consider third party add ons a viable feature of gmail, apps will require access, and the form linked is a reasonable way to convey such access.

I can see an argument that something as critical and security sensitive as email should not support third party add ons, but that’s not the argument the article makes.
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This really isn't a very good benchmark. It's basically only validating the Cloudflare edge network, but the test itself is far from real-world. A service that returns the current time is not doing anything practical and borders on meaningless.
Ahhh, I will refuse to pay the troll toll :)
Exactly why I'm trying to eat zero added sugar. Many days I fail, but overall I'm eating less. I put it in the "can't hurt" bucket.
IMO, ideally a minimal tech team consists of two people: a full time programmer and a full time manager.

To use a gaming analogy, one is the DPS and one is the tank. The programmer moves the needle, makes things happen. But someone has to absorb all the attacks, so that they can do their magic.

The job of a programmer is to focus, deeply. The job of a manager is to handle all the meetings, always pick up calls, cut out unnecessary features.

Without a manager, you tend to take on more than you need to, because there's nobody around to reduce the number of things that need to be done, or estimate the timeline properly. Sometimes you need stuff from the client - API access, and so on. This is the manager's job to keep following up.
I don't agree with taking top N% as the only admittance criteria but the constant pearl clutching about this and the Harvard case really bothers me.

The idea that this one school can make or break one's future is either absurd or terrifying, and I'm not sure which is actually true.
It’s usually a state department.
Why are they unfair? I've heard the old saw about the 1980s SATs asking some analogy with a regatta:yacht, but what bias has been uncovered lately?

And why is this bias mostly helping Asians, a minority group, who more likely to be learning English as a second language?
Government intervention and regulation of substance use has always been motivated by a much deeper agenda, generally economic in one way or another. The idea of taxing speech makes me uneasy.
If you watched people spending time with their friends, you could probably see the same patterns. Most human behavior is not productive. It's been that way for a long time.
I can't wait for affirmative action to become unconstitutional.
I think there is a meaningful distinction between "I'm using a client running locally on my machine, distributed from known locations, and it wouldn't be too hard for someone to spot if it was exfiltrating my data to third party servers" and "I'm using a service running on someone else's servers, effectively shipping my emails through them as a middleman, with no insight to what's going on behind the scenes."

I'm technically aware enough that I haven't used any of these services, since it seems to have bad idea written all over it. But I'm not surprised that the average user wouldn't be that technically aware - I just never was able to convince people I knew that it was something worth being concerned about.

So rather than scorn for the users who never thought about this before, I think it's great that people are starting to be more aware of the compromises we've made in the name of convenience. There are other ways to build these sorts of systems, and many of them would be less prone to abuse.
Or on unrooted phones, you can use adb to remove software.
It will be ruled unconstitutional within two years. The way to stop discrimination based on race is to stop discriminating based on race.
There is a class if people who do not work, whose parents did not work, who themselves have parents who do not work. The type seen in the documentary "Born Rich". They get into the best universities as legacies.

You never hear talk of this idle class ensconced in inherited privilege and luxury. However, a few decades after Americans were lynching those of African descent, blowing up their little girls while they're going to church, executing them for voter registration drives etc. - a few decades after that if an attempt is made to push blacks at Stuyvesant above the 1 in 45 mark, in a city where 1 in 4 are black - then, only then do we hear about the need for meritocracy and so on. From the mouth of a man who got a "small loan of a million dollars" from his father, with his son-in-law who, according to Daniel Golden, bought his way into Harvard.

When am I going to see the articles about legacy admissions to the top colleges? I won't hold my breath.

Luxury for the idle class at the top, the rat race (with some national oppression of Africans, Lakota etc. thrown in) for everyone else. No thanks, I'll keep my sickle sharpened for a higher target.
Yes, instead we have holistic approaches which schools refuse to document for proprietary competitive reasons, and that holistic process has the same outcome as a racial quota. Very odd case.
Trademarks as a consumer protection are also fine.

Copyright, for a LIMITED time (say 10 years without registration, and renewed in 10 year blocks //with// registration and steeply increasing fee) sounds like it'd be helpful to the economy as well as encourage creators of high quality content to register.

The exponentially increasing fee would also be a way of keeping actively stewarded and relevant properties under maintenance.

I also think that, similar to song covers, a maximum compelled fee for reproduction should also exist (to prevent with-holding content from the public).
My apartment costs <$1k/month.
So the government decided that it was a good idea to tax OTT services, defined as:

The transmission or receipt of voice messages over the internet protocol network and includes access to virtual private networks but does not include educational or research sites prescribed by the Minister by notice in the gazette.

Quite a nonsensical definition really. Might as well tax internet access (which you already do).

On top of that, the only way to pay this tax is via mobile money, which is taxed 1% at point of deposit, 1% at point of transaction and 1% at point of withdrawal. You’re being taxed to pay tax.

And when you do pay the 200 shilling tax (which is actually 202 shillings), they only activate your social media access until 11.59pm today. Regardless of when you paid. So, if you pay the tax at 11.30pm today, you’ve got only 30 minutes of use.