skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't think that this is a new thing.

A "Gentleman C" is a already a long-established concept among the so-called "elite" universities. Here's one quote, which I easily found via a Google Scholar search. In this case from 1992 (p146 of doi:10.1177/0002716292523001013 ):

> It is charged that, at elite colleges, mediocre minority students are patronized and suffer anxiety and self-doubt they would not feel at less selective colleges and that lowered standards stigmatize able minority students who do not require them.

> Advocates of affirmative admissions respond that they prefer favorable to unfavorable discrimination. There have been special admission standards for the children of alumni, faculty, donors, politicians, celebrities, athletes, and local residents, and easy degrees for students who buy term papers, cheat on exams, and take a gentleman's C with little study and much beer. Why not for blacks and Hispanics?

Things haven't changed much in 30 years, no? And I bet I could find similar comments from 30 years before that if I tried.
Awesome stuff!

I understand the benefits (as mentioned); would be interesting to know what disadvantages this has compared to the classifier type detection methods?
Regarding aviation: worldwide and in the EU, transportation accounts for about 25% of energy consumption [1].

Aviation accounts for 10-13% of transportation [2]. (global data looks similar, although I don't have a link at hand)

So while 2.5% is not nothing, it is only a small fraction of energy consumption and could remain Kerosene based in the medium term.

Also, a lot of flights could theoretically be shifted to high speed rail.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption#By_se...

[2] (2016) https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/transport...
Fees are $1.26 right now, domestic ACHs are largely free. What was your FOREX risk? Did you figure in that you now have to report your transaction on Form 8949, can no longer use TurboTax and will have to spend hours figuring out your reporting obligations or paying an accountant? If you're just going to break the law the rest of the calculus probably doesn't matter as much.
No, honestly, the rest of the world has been getting this message from the US since 9/11.
Hence why it needs to be the default. The some sort of problem kinda exists with encryption. If nobody encrypted their phones, having one immediately makes you a suspect. However, if everyone had an encrypted phone (default on ios/android), nobody would bat an eye.
This is why i'm so excited for the Librem smartphone. If i'm in complete control of the operating system, I can put measures in place to combat this. For example, a function that requires a password whenever the phone leaves a certain location (so if the police confiscate my phone, i'm sure it's locked).

Or maybe a function that you can activate that makes the phone appear bricked until the power button is pushed 20 times in a row. You could activate this before going through customs.
#1 is extremely non-ADA compliant but might work in countries other than the US.
Nice article, the title is a bit clickbaity though.

Ideally it should contain the thesis since it's pretty succinct. Something like "The gender wage gap is mostly a child care gap"
Lack thereof is currently working for 7.5 billion people. Bitcoin works for basically nobody.
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haha yeah! reddit is so stupid, and the users make dumb comments. HN is for smart people. Nobody here cares about karma, that's for sure!
Problem is, there is no private sector money for that. You want that? You gotta figure out how to get government to pay for it. Investment in nuclear requires MUCH more captial than just throwing up some windmills somewhere. Even if you get rid of all regulation and taxes, it'd still be orders of magnitude more expensive. Private money would still rush into wind, solar, and storage.
I don't think that's quite the right energy balance for heat pumps ;)

You can upgrade equipment but that's not even remotely a solution to decarbonize at the rates we apparently need. There are lots of quadrillion BTUs that need to be decarbonized, and upgrades alone won't get us there. We need clean energy sources to ramp up and replace natural gas, oil, and coal.
That’s what makes this all the more malicious. No one wants to miss a flight, and sometimes the consequences are irreparable. Time is the one resource you can’t recover.
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It’s because of AC too. In France buildings have to be more efficient else you die in the summer.
How did you benchmark it? rps? What was it doing in each request?
>and space heating //

Perhaps we can skip this and use wearables for "personal climate control" to some extent?

We manage a daytime domestic temperature range in the UK of about 20degC (14-34degC) just by changing clothes. Though if I'm sitting using a computer in 14degC then I'll stick a hot-water bottle up my jumper; and a paddling pool nearby is handy in 30+degC.

Better insulation/architecture can negate the need for Winter heating/Summer cooling in some regions.
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Are these kinda searches that common?
I've been through this a few times, and it's normal. For me, step one is just acknowledging that it's normal and then forgiving myself for not being able to meet my own standards. It's taken me a solid six months to a year to really feel like I understand some codebases. Everyone struggles and goes through that period where they understand nothing.

I believe in you, and I think you can do it if you want to. Try breaking down your problem into small steps. Find a surface that you can attack to get more information from the system. If there are no useful error messages / logs coming from the system, maybe that's what you should start improving first.

I've also struggled with the burnout and social issues. That's life. I've struggled with not having many friends. I have maybe two friends right now, and we don't see each other often, because we're in different fields and we have very different schedules. Right now I'm filling my social needs by having a Slack channel that I've set up, and invited a couple of local developers to. It's slowly growing as more people are invited and we chat here and there throughout the day. It's like a tiny HN community - people who have similar work and interests. We give each other advice and often these people help me find a new approach to solve work problems.

I hope my thoughts are helpful, good luck.
Countries often have reciprocal arrangements regarding how they treat each other's citizens. If your country treats country X's citizens like crap, odds are country X will start treating your country's citizens like crap too.

Because of this, it's likely that the world will likely spiral to worse and worse treatment of everyone. As the saying goes, an eye for an eye and soon the whole world is blind.
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He expected me to, so yes, I guess?
Could we power airplanes with ethanol? I've heard that we couldn't realistically grown enough corn/canes to produce ethanol for all cars, but if cars are electric, could we potentially produce enough ethanol for airplanes?

If we can't make enough ethanol for all air travel, I'm still optimistic. It's likely that battery densities will become good enough for us to have electrically powered regional jets within the next decade. Then only long flights would need liquid fuels. As a last option, we could also switch to high-speed trains for continental travel.
It’s nice of you to proclaim superior morals and character, but there is an underlying story of modern media, society and political correctness that is relevant here.
actually I'd find running my ansible playbook much, much easier than transferring GB of disk image about. I maintain the playbook so that I can keep work laptop and personal laptop in sync. Although I am looking at Nixos as a possible replacement.
There were plenty of people predicting it, pointing out its deficiencies and explaining what needs to be done. In terms of very high level ideas, Alan Kay comes to mind.
Lying to law enforcement is illegal, so subterfuges like that are perilous in their own way.
Seriously. When traveling with my pregnant wife we realized that we weren't sure the scanners were safe for pregnant women, so we asked for a pat down.

She was in tears by the end of the experience.

We have both received many pat downs in Chinese airports that didn't bother either of us.
In some ways the 'old' web died around 2006-2007 when Facebook started to get its hooks in.

MySpace was a big thing before that, where people curated their own profiles with custom HTML, then Geocities before that.

When Facbeook came along it felt like a breath of fresh air at the time as the interface was clean and simple, and all your pals were there.

I guess it was one of those "you don't know what you've got til its gone" things, because the sterile Facebook UI and overly corporate Instagram fiefdoms makes me really miss the old internet.

The thing is though, does anyone outside of tech or media really give that much of a crap? All their pals are on Facebook/Instagram, the barrier to entry is low (no need to learn HTML/CSS/JS)
Any reason storage + renewables + well connected ‘super grids’ between countries cannot work out? Why do we have to have nuclear?
Its not code that's the big differentiator here. Its hardware.

Neural Networks are an embarasingly parallel problem that can be solved with accelerated matrix-multiplication hardware. The entire network can be easily represented as just matrix-multiplication problems.

Stockfish is still written in a classical fashion, and has issues scaling above and beyond 64 cores. But Neural Networks can keep getting bigger, and bigger, taking advantage of extremely parallel hardware like GPUs (10,000+ shaders per GPU) or Google's Tensor Processing Units.

In some ways, the fight will never be fair. GPGPUs and TPUs can simply throw far more math, using far less power, at the problem.

Furthermore, games of perfect information, like Chess and Go, have always been played well using neural nets.

In effect, Neural Nets are being used as a tool to allow most computation to occur on far more parallel and efficient hardware.

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I think the next big stage for Chess AI / Go AIs is for someone to figure out how to take advantage of SIMD-compute, to achieve similar scalability. As it is right now, both MCTS and Alpha-Beta pruning can only really be done on a CPU, so you can't leverage the huge computational power available today.

I think Chess would be the easier game: Bitboards are represented as 64-bit integers and would easily map to just 2x32-bit registers of a GPU shader. But I get stuck whenever I think of an algorithm that would have low-divergence.

Perhaps Go would be easier due to the similarity of pieces?

I dunno, I've got way too many personal projects I wanna work on. So this isn't really a thing I can do. But its definitely an interesting research problem. My best guess is to convert the whole Chess-playing AI into a SAT-solver and then write a GPU-accelerated SAT-solver (because SAT is uniform in theory, so I would expect a GPGPU-based search of the 3-SAT space to be low-divergence)

I'm just shooting from the hip here, no serious suggestions really. But that's my quickie 2-minute thought process on this particular problem. You don't necessarily have to make the whole thing uniform, modern GPUs are either 32-warp size (NVidia) or 64-wavefront size (AMD). So you just need to figure out how to consistently get batches of 32 or 64 to execute the same code without diverging across if-statements or loops...

Heh, easier said than done.

EDIT: Perhaps organizing the code so that "All Bishop Moves" are evaluated in a batch. Lets say 1-million chess boards are to be evaluated on a GPU, how would it be done? Perhaps, first, analyze all Bishop-moves. Then analyze all Rook Moves. Then analyze all Queen moves. The goal of Stockfish was to "process the most boards" at any given time. Changing the architecture for bandwidth-oriented GPGPU compute would be very much in the same spirit as Stockfish's original goals.
Eh, it's pretty tough to communicate something really concrete in an op-ed.

If he specifically described what a transparency report would say, 99% of hot takes would be about how it's wrong or whatever. People's brains would turn off and the opportunity for a conversation would be squandered.

There's an opportunity here for more sincere activists to promote meaningful transparency, because now he's put it on the radar of otherwise low-tech-literacy audiences.

For me, true transparency is being able to look at code. If your code is interpretable, and it looks okay, it is okay.

When it's difficult to interpret, like with a collaborative filtering algorithm used to select newsfeed items, an independent group ought to be able to query the "baked" system or measure user behavior and come to its own conclusions. I wouldn't call this a "transparency report," it's more like an "independent analysis."

It would take a while to determine what questions to ask. But to actually answer them would take an afternoon: a database connection, really. After all, they have incredibly comprehensive user behavioral data, so you can pretty much answer anything you can think of.

There's no cost burden or competitive disadvantage. Their entire tech infrastructure is built around answering user behavior questions easily. And most of the value is tied up in the data, not the models.

The problems they're experiencing are related to their particular implementation of collaborative filtering. If outside groups could see that code (at least), it would be easier to say, run a simulation, and demonstrate what kind of user behavior (or enemy action as it were) makes 10% of people miss 99% of "benign user content" and see 1% of enemy action content.

Maybe you don't believe it's implementation related, and you think it's something innate to social media. Well, what if the newsfeed just showed content randomly? Clearly that would bury enemy action content, just because it's so relatively infrequent. It's important not to be too dogmatic with this sort of stuff, because it will obscure your ability to reach across the aisle to stakeholders like Facebook and get them to do stuff in a sincere way.

So at its most basic level, sharing the code can't possibly lead to regulatory capture as you describe it. It would be more advanced than the status quo, which is, "Whatever the hell Facebook wants you to hear."
I'm pretty sure WeChat does all 3...
Naming things is not hard. It's probably the easiest part of programming. @1, @2 are names, and they're no better than fst, snd.
The irony in this headline is strong
I am a highschooler who is interested higher-level theoretical computer science and math. I am motivated to get into a good college because I want to have good educational foundations and the opportunity to meet professors involved in the research areas that I am interested in.

Seeing the college admissions bribery scandal outraged me. Society pressures people my age into getting into a good college as an indicator of worth. Before the controversy, I had already felt cynical about the whole culture of test prep and ungenuine ECs. I feel as though society pressures other teenagers and me into not being true to ourselves, and living our own lives, but instead doing things just for the grades or the attractiveness to college admissions officers. When the bribery became known, it bolstered my belief that elite colleges are places of classism, dishonesty, and phoniness. The girl mentioned in the article who said that she was going to party instead of study is especially a slap in the face for me.

Therefore, I have a conflicting view of elite colleges. On one hand, I greatly admire the professors who work at the colleges, and respect the colleges as places of research. On the other hand, I have a cynical view that elite colleges are a place for social prestige. I had wondered if there was a conflict between the interests of the professors, who would like passionate students, and the interests of the admissions officers, who, according to the scandal, maintain a class barrier by taking bribes instead of admitting students egalitarianly.

This article solidified my thoughts that there is a conflict between the interests of professors and admissions officers.
Indeed.

I'm typically not one to quote Scripture in a professional setting, but in this case I'd like to do so because I feel that it illustrates an important point that is secular in nature. Note that I am in no way attempting to proselytize with this, so please don't take it in that way.

Here's 1 Corinthians 13 in its entirety:

> If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.

> Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

> Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.

> When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

> Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

What I take from this is that you should be aware of the limits of your own perspective. No matter how strongly held your views on an issue and no matter how important they are to you, someone else may not share them - or may directly oppose them. If your views are right they will win out in the end and there is no need for you to attack or harm others (emotionally or physically) over them.

At the end of the day, whether you were right or wrong in the views you held, how you treat others is how your life is measured.
Hope you dont mind me asking a slightly unrelated and possibly dumb question.

Im a programmer, but on the side have made on average 150% profit in share dealing over the passed 5 years, but more importantly, a much higher return in other assets to 2 orders of magnitude higher.

My question is - would experience / gains like this - if i had proof etc - get me an interview in a fund as some type of well paid (6 figure atleast) analyst?
Heating buildings is where passive unsexy solutions like insulation will work very well.
I see your point, but luckily there is a solution. This year the MPAA is opening a museum and supposedly will have an area where you can view any film that was ever made from their archive. It'll probably take a while to digitize it all, but at least there will be a way to view the movie if you happen to be in Los Angeles.
> I'm not thrilled that it's non-free

Could you explain what you mean by that? Kodi seems to be GPL 2 licensed: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master/LICENSE.md
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If we can use electricity to turn atmospheric CO2 back into jet fuel it could still be net zero emissions. At that point the planes are just using hydrocarbons as a means of dense energy storage.
Would it perilous if you just plead the fifth? If you knowingly state that you don't know how to turn the phone back on, then it's a lie, but if you just plead the 5th?

Also, why is it legal for them to lie to me when I can't lie to them?
The problem is blatant isn't a guarantee of not doing something - nor being a spectacularly bad idea.
Yes, that was just me musing, not directly reacting to Spielberg. My comment is more sourced from copyright law principles (even though they obviously do not directly apply) than Spielberg's complaints. I'm not very invested in his opinions in any direction; he is welcome to them but his perspective and mine are very distant.
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I don't think anyone who built a network that exploits people's profiles for profit, should be setting privacy rules proposals.
That is not true. Where are you getting this from? Maybe I misunderstand you. Low prices generally come from when you have a very low marginal price (often because a windfarm can put in a $0 offer and still make a profit due to subsidies). Note that I'm not against the production tax credits, but the market distortions are very real and can impact decisions to build more generation.
>You can see how stupid people are when you just read the questions on Stackoverflow today.

Wow, why the aggressiveness? This strikes me as prime "/r/iamverysmart" material. Yes, we get it, you figured everything out for yourself, well done -.- Yet if something is not trivially apparent to somebody (as everything seems to be to you) why should they not ask questions in a website whose purpose is to ask questions. I find it's almost always better to just ask for help when you are stuck rather than bang your head on a brick wall for hours. It will save you time and, if the teacher is good, it will make things much more clear.

>Nobody seems to figure things out by themselves anymore.

Again, the "back in my day" cliché. What is your basis for saying this. Sure, we can have a discussion about whether or not the abundance of material can make students more inclined to look everything up before giving it an honest shot, but a priori I would be inclined to say that more material and more teachers, accessible even to those not in formal education, can only be a good thing.

>Same with YouTube, when people explaining simple math things with extremely effort people complaining then that today's teachers are shit. But it's more your own lack if you're not able to imagine these thing inside your mind by yourself.

To be honest, this attitude makes me quite annoyed.

You will never in a million years catch me ragging on somebody that is making an honest effort to learn, even if they are struggling and it's taking them a long time to grasp the material. And clearly, if somebody is looking up teaching materials online of their own free will, they are interested and curious and motivated to learn. That's commendable, and it's a terribly arrogant and presumptuous thing to do IMO, chastising someone for not immediately understanding everything.
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I think that recently built gas-fired plants are going to be around for a long time. But like marginal coal plants today, they may shut down for entire seasons and only go to standby-active during high demand seasons. It's possible to reduce emissions a lot without entirely retiring combustion plants if the plants don't burn any fuel for 8 or 9 months out of the year.
Every lifestyle choice is forced on kids. That's the whole point of parenting. It's why we make our kids eat vegetables, go to the doctor, get to bed at a decent time, etc. Also, TV shows and videos are a shallow interest to bond over. It doesn't need to be that way - my kids have some really great friends and TV and other media are not really a factor there. We've spent a lot of time and effort to cultivate such relationships though.
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