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More than 50% of the global population lives in Asia and less than 5% live in North America.

It makes complete sense that wealthy-to-middle class Asians would displace white students to a lesser degree and other communities of color to a higher degree in closely located Western countries with strong schools and favorable immigration policies.

By 2050, would it be so strange that the majority of applicants and students of elite western schools would be Asian?

Other communities will be forced to attend less prestigious institutions until Asian schools hold stronger apppeal with the wealthier citizens in their countries.
Agreed. When Reddit first started treating their mods with contempt, I swore off the place. I spent a fair while on Voat at that point and it was crude at times but there was still a lot of good content. I gave up on it after a while because toxic Reddit refugees turned it into such a cesspool.
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I agree - all I'm saying is that claiming the old system doesn't favor people by race (in the way you're meaning, where it tilts the scales in particular direction) isn't trivially demonstrable.

Higher Ed has been struggling with this for awhile. It's not clear that a major emphasis on test scores isn't just putting a quantitative spackle on a biased system, and then declaring the job done.

Especially in a system with such a complicated background as public schooling.
Thank you very much, that's way more than I hoped for!

To clarify, I don't necceserily hate communists, I can't stand apology of cannibalism even allegedly repented.
> The old advice is to ignore performance becaus it’s not important.

I've never heard that "old advice" and I've been doing this for 20 years. If you are referring to the quote about "premature optimization" you are misinterpreting it badly, or had it explained to you badly.
On Challenger's last day, I had met very early that morning with a couple of angel investors who signed a funding commitment for my first company. Went home, watched Challenger explode. An hour later, angel investors called to say "never mind".

Watching Challenger blow up hurt worse. Especially in following months when failure analysis showed it could have been avoided by launching within the allowable temperature window.

Some days you really remember.
Can you provide some examples of cultural bias? People almost never provide examples.

I thought that was always a bullshit excuse, especially considering that these test scores closely track IQ scores.
Yeah, both the distribution of highly successful people and people with high academic performance are heavily skewed and the slightest decorrelation should result in the phenomenon of heuristically seeming independent.

In an ideally meritocratic world, we should see fewer Harvard grads and magnis cum laudibus occupying the top of the industries.
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I actually switched to Hackernews and forced myself to read at least two paragraphs of any article before I read the comments. I’ve learned so much more from this website and wasted so much less time. I’ve went from several hours a day on reddit to about 30 minutes on HN on various times on the toilet everyday.
You are right that visiting the campus is a weak signal.

However, the decision came with a plethora of other decisions, some probably fair, some more reminiscent of the Asians-have-bad-personalities trick à la Harvard.

We're eliminating demonstrated interest as a consideration in our admission paradigm. We'll no longer encourage supplementary submission of materials, including resumes, research abstracts, writing samples, multimedia demonstrations of talents, and maker portfolios.

https://admission.enrollment.cmu.edu/pages/eliminating-demon...
Your transactions are recorded in the ledger FOREVER.

Are your addresses going to stay private forever? Are you sure?
agreed, he was sadly naive in waiting for reasonable treatment.
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I was under the impression that the test-makers have scrupulously avoided culturally-biased questions for decades, and yet left-leaning people casually continue tossing it around as part of their war on merit.
San Francisco went through a similar thing. The best public high schools in SF (namely Lowell) per predominantly Chinese-American. The NAACP sued the school district (NAACP v. San Francisco Unified School District), resulting in race-based admissions in 1983 to reduce the number of Chinese-Americans at the best schools

Then in 1994 Ho v. San Francisco Unified School District happened, and race-based admissions got thrown out.

If you look at the racial demographics of public high schools in San Francisco it is pretty interesting. Of the 10 major schools only two of them have over 10% white students. Those are the only two that only admit students that meet special requirements. One is Lowell (academically the best) with 15.2% white, the other is SOTA (an arts school that requires auditions) with 41.3% white. Lowell is 56.7% Asian, while SOTA is 19.0% Asian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_High_School_(San_Franci...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Asawa_San_Francisco_Schoo...
Does this solution entail DNS roots outside of ICANN's purvey? The United States regularly seizes private domains under abusive legislation similar like the DMCA. in many other cases such as Wikileaks, private corporations simply casually agree to the US Governments demand to rescind registration.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/blog/2010/dec/03/wikileaks...
Around the country, there's a concerted effort to eliminate magnet schools for much the same rationale. Wealthy NY folks send their kids to private schools like Dalton, Trinity, Packer, etc... Why not make a system that seeks economic parity rather racial parity, and eliminate the moats around private schools?
More than 50% of the global population lives in Asia and less than 5% live in North America.

By 2050, would it be so strange if the majority of applicants and students of elite western schools would be Asian?
I think your faith in the public to be discerning is hopelessly naive. The evidence is all around us that people just don’t care. You don’t even need to photoshop images anymore, just write down a few specially-crafted words and people just run with it. Altered images go largely undetected by the vast majority of people, and video will be even worse. Video just has a truth to it way more than any other medium.
It would be fantastic if they kept an audit log and showed you just what an app pulled down via the API. They actually might (or at least the means to do so) since they provide a pretty good level of auditing for their paying apps/drive customers.
There are a number of just-so stories you can make about them being either unfair or fair - but the education field doesn't consider this a settled question, and unless you're looking at the data in a systematic fashion with a clearly defined outcome and access to lots of control variables, you can't actually be sure the test yields the "best" students.

And indeed, the definition of "best" in this context is circular.

I'm not saying you're wrong, just that you can't be certain you're right.
Are you legit suggesting that Samsung intentionally created a feature to send themselves (or "the government") the entire camera rolls of their customers' phones, and simply got the destination wrong?
thanks for your honest answer!
Create -> Monetize -> Expand -> Exploit -> Destroy

It's a common commercial lifecycle for all sorts of things. You make a new thing. You find a way to make money from the thing. You expand your market for the thing by filling a need and treating your customers well. At some point you want to cash out, and start burning your userbase to make extra money. Eventually this destroys the whole thing.
Agree.

If a test contains questions that favor a particular race, then that is an outright problem, and schools should stop that.

In this case, it's actually the opposite. When a test is in English, often Asians have to learn English, which is often not their primary language at home. So by default, an English-speaking race taking a test, has a HUGE advantage over an Asian test taker.

Which is why the stereotype is that "asians are good at math". Asians are NOT particularly good in math. It's just that in math tests, it's mostly numbers. The language barrier becomes less of an issue, the playing field levels out, so you suddenly notice Asians tend to get higher scores.

I suspect it would be the same for, say, geography tests, if the same test was translated to an Asian language. Suddenly "Asians are good at geography". Not really.

If anything, tests in English are culturally slanted away from Asians where English is often not their primary language.
Yeah, it's not clear from the article how this is much different from "Google lets app developers look at all your photos" and "Google lets apps keep track of your location". Like uh, ok, obviously. The author even admits it's "unsurprising", so what's the point of the article? It may not be a morally good practice but it's an extremely common one and hardly newsworthy. I get that there's some tie trying to be made between this and Cambridge Analytica but it seems like a huge stretch.
It's interesting to see the HN responses in the GPA thread -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17441601 when compared to this one, although both boil down to the measure of scholastic tests as a ingress criteria.
is your extractor open source? (if so, could I get a link?)
Serious question... why does this story have 100+ upvotes (so far) when virtually all the comments seem to indicate this is FUD and how API's are designed to work?
That looks solved to me.

Apple definitely works hard for usable privacy.
Android also has very flexible Do Not Disturb settings.
What might be "right"?
I really hope so, as there is so much wrong with it. To begin with, the 80% rule creates an impossible standard of "diversity" that doesn't match the reality of how different groups of people have different tendencies and preferences.

The impossible standard mixed with the conflicting doctrines of Disparate Treatment and Disparate Impact mean that every major company has to settle diversity lawsuits for hundreds of millions or into the billions of dollars, no matter what their policy is.
So lets say you have a really big balancing scale[1]....

And there's a chute that's been feeding twice as much sand to one side, for hundreds of years....

What do you do to balance it?

a) Distribute sand equally to each side
b) Distribute substantially more sand to one side
c) Make like the imbalance did not happen and ignore it.

If the answer is obvious to the above, then why is leveling the field for historically disenfranchised people an issue? I am referring to Black Americans and Native Americans.

Nigerian Americans are some of the most successful immigrants[2]. Asian Immigrants, Hispanic Immigrants, Indian Immigrants, Eastern European immigrants, all tend to do decent well. What do they all have in common? They are immigrants! Immigrants that don't have the baggage of hundreds of years of oppression in their new country. They used to be disadvantaged in their own country. But coming to a new country does something... a new start.

I should know, my parents where such immigrants.

But Native Americans[3], and Native Blacks (as in not recently immigrated) continue to do the worst in the achievement scale. Maybe, just maybe... we start realizing that they both share the same initial crutch.. the scale was tipped way against them, until quite recently.[4]

And yes, nitpick my points away, the underlying issue is still valid.. immigrants tend to do well in a new country, imbalances can't be corrected by neutrality going forward, and historically disenfranchised people tend to do bad in the country they are disenfranchised... see poor asians in asia or in india...

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=balancing+scale
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-12/africa-is-sending-us-its-best-and-brightest
[3] http://indianyouth.org/american-indian-life/poverty-cycle
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Ethnic_Placement_Act
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This is already what happens with the current policies. Affirmative Action hasn't had any benefit to Black kids except those from affluent two-parent families.
How about we just improve the quality of public school education with a large tax on weapon sales?

Better schools and maybe fewer school shootings...maybe. America has never much cared for its children so yeah. shrugs
Sadly, there is little discussion of the importance of effort, hard work, persistence, and grit in the success of Asian American students...
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> This whole article was fantastic

I personally found the writing somewhat overwrought, despite thinking it's a story worth telling and feeling respect for the astronaut involved and sympathy for his family. I wouldn't call it good writing. But I'm not a US American, so maybe it's a cultural difference.
I find that the code that looks slow often isn't, and the really slow code is always a surprise.

I work on something that uses a lot of immutables with copy-modify operations. They never show up in a profiler as a hot spot. The most surprising hot spot was a default logger configuration setting that we didn't need. Other hot spots were file API calls that we didn't know we're slow.

I think what's more important is to use common sense in the beginning, and optimize for your budget. Meaning: Know how to use your libraries / apis, don't pick stupid patterns, and only do as much optimization as you have time for.

Sometimes an extra sever or shard is cheaper than an extra programmer, or gets you to market on time. Sometimes no one will notice that your operation takes an extra 20ms. Those are tradeoffs, and if you don't understand when to optimize for your budget, you'll either ship garbage or never ship at all.
Would this also benefit non-top-level thunks?

We had a ridiculous space-leak at DFINITY just last month where the workaround I found involved turning off full-laziness [1] as well as using a variant of `Control.Monad.forever` defined in terms of `(>>=)` rather than `(* >)` - which is how `Control.Monad` does it, which interacted badly with how Conduit implements `(>>=)` and `(* >)`. We never got to the bottom of exactly why it leaked but I'll be sure to try it out again with GHC 8.6. However it's not clear that long-lived CAF data would have been the problem in our case.

[1] https://www.well-typed.com/blog/2016/09/sharing-conduit/
The elimination of standard testing as the only application criteria for New York schools such as Stuyvesant is a travesty.

Opinion pieces on this topic consistently misrepresent the situation. Many, many, elite High schools in Nyc are applied to on the basis of a wide variety of criteria. Grades, essays, you name it. These schools have a wonderful mix of admissions processes which allows each of them to capture a portion of promising students that others may miss.

There are exactly 3 High Schools that exclusively use one standardized test. Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, and Brooklyn Tech.

Even if these schools favor people who are “good at tests” that’s fine! The other amazing high schools can grab the students who are talented in other ways.

Removing those three disadvantages people who might be highly motivated and/or intelligent but have trouble meeting other vague criteria. That’s terrible and discriminatory. It favors conformity in the best case, and quota filling in the worst.
Matt Levine's analysis is just awesome. He is one of the few financial journalists who is worth reading.
I'm pretty sure you can also "openly commit racist policies against" white people and get away with it.
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Dell is really frustrating - they seem to have a computer-wise bimodal distribution between "Works Great" and "Utter and Complete Lemon" with nothing in between.
That's like how some online games don't entirely ban cheat users but only match them with other cheaters, giving them a taste of their own medicine. There's a tipping point in the evolution of communities. When there are too many acting in an anti-social manner such that fun or business is impaired, people quit. If not addressed the community permanently declines.

There's a term of art in philosophy called universalizability (Kant). Basically, what would happen if everyone followed a principle or strategy. Locke spoke of the social contract - civilization is not compatible with unlimited individual freedom.

Reddit already has an interesting user sorting and self-selection process: sub-reddits. People can more easily congregate around common interests. They don't even have to buy a domain, learn HTML, or pay hosting bills. Which would seem to reduce flame wars. But this can result in groupthink and safe spaces for extreme views.
WebRTC behaves properly until you support multiple browsers. Then it becomes a nightmare to maintain.
But where is the right place to change pipeline demographics? The problem is that certain groups are intergenerationally poor. One mechanism that is available to us to fix that is education. So this isn't the end of the pipeline, it's just the start of the next pipe. Where do you propose we intervene? Should we give a cushy job to the parents of every disadvantaged minority person as soon as they're born? Maybe we should give an education to the parents of every disadvantaged minority person before they're even the apple in the eye of said parents?
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>It's hard to educate yourself well if your family is poor, I hear.

Have a look at the incomes of immigrants to the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...

The top 20:
Ethnic Group Income in US Home country GDP PPP Ratio

Indian American $110026 $7,174.00 15.3367716754948

Taiwanese American $90221 $49,827.00 1.81068496999619

Filipino American $88745 $8,229.00 10.7844209502977

Australian American $81452 $49,882.00 1.63289362896436

Israeli American $79736 $36,250.00 2.19961379310345

Russian American $77349 $27,890.00 2.77335962710649

Greek American $77342 $27,776.00 2.78449020737327

Lebanese American $74757 $19,486.00 3.83644667966745

Sri Lankan American $73856 $13,001.00 5.68079378509346

Croatian American $73196 $24,095.00 3.03780867399875

Latvian American $72690 $27,291.00 2.66351544465208

Lithuanian American $72605 $31,935.00 2.27352434632848

Austrian American $72478 $49,247.00 1.47172416593904

Iranian American $72345 $20,030.00 3.61183225162257

Slovene American $72272 $34,063.00 2.121715644541

Swiss American $71418 $61,360.00 1.16391786179922

Bulgarian American $71331 $21,578.00 3.30572805635369

Romanian American $71230 $23,991.00 2.96903005293652

Scandinavian American $71190 $70,590.00 1.00849978750531

Italian American $70726 $37,970.00 1.86268106399789

How do you explain the differences in income when you have some groups earning 15 and 10 times (!!!) what they did before emigrating and others between 2 to 5? These people were poor, not just "I can't afford an iphone poor", "I can't afford antibiotics for my children" poor, yet are now the richest ethnic groups in the US, out earning local Americans by 40-100%.
Same. I’m having similar although not nearly as bad issues with the new gmail.

However reddit is so bad that unless they improve the performance I’ll likely just stop using it
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