skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The score would not be reported to the student, only to college officials.

This seems really sketchy.

I mean, I can completely understand why the College Board would want to avoid blowback from students knowing their scores, but their convenience seems like insufficient cause to deny students access to their own information.
Yeah I was nearly assaulted by someone of that description a bit ago and it was a very unpleasant experience.

Do you know how prisoners often look and carry themselves? It's weird you're making the point you're making.
The USA faces collapse. We see this day by day.
Add "restricting emigration" to the list. If the upper middle class couldn't plan on cashing out their house and leaving for a low CoL area they'd get serious about fixing things.
They should show how your neighborhood is going to look when tens/hundreds of millions of people fleeing uninhabitable land in Mexico/Syria/Bangladesh are now living in your hood.

I really don't like the idea of effecting change by making immigrants seem scary, but I think that message is the one most likely to get the attention of those in the US that think climate change is either a hoax or overblown.
> First question: we just "ban all burning of fossil fuels" what, globally?

A good start would be EU. Progressive changes would look like a resolution to reduce the use of coal in power production (already exist to some degree), and then continue by putting goals like max 30% of energy production from fossil fuels by year 2030, then 20% by 2040, and a goal for full stop at hopefully the end up this century. The general problem however is that the we might not have enough time to slowly phase out polluting power production in time to reach the Paris Agreement. If we ask why china or India would agree, the same question could be asked why they signed the Paris agreement.

> Second question: What's the solution for convincing the public to allow spent nuclear material in their backyard?

If the chose is between raising sea levels, expanding deserts, melted ice caps, mass extinction and other rather nasty scenario from global warming, or just putting a bunch of spent nuclear material in a miles long deep hole under a mountain, the choice seems pretty simple from a public relation perspective. Nuclear waste that is currently pilling up is bad but putting more pollution in the atmosphere is looking right now as being worse. The choice is choosing which of the two problems we prefer to have.

> Third question: Since we just stopped using all fossil fuels, how are we coming up with the electricity demands

Parent comment said they wanted to use storage and renewable, as in their view that is the cheapest way to solve the issue. Alternative we could start building those nuclear power plants and hope they can be built faster than the global warming crisis will unfold. The third alternative seems to keep burning fossil fuels while telling our self that it is fine as long we also use some renewable once in a while.

> Fourth question: Are we supposed to use magic fairy dust to construct the materials needed for the nuclear power plants, solar panels and wind turbines?

I think you are interpreting my statement a bit too literal. No change happens overnight. The goal of net zero emissions is right now an impossibility. A lot of climate research however says that we need to get there yesterday. How we combine the reality of pollution with the practical reality of maintaining supply in the energy grid is currently unsolved.
This study has nothing to do with the SAT. Clearly, money is required in order to study full-time in the US, both for tuition and living expenses, so people with more money graduate more often because it's easier to not work during school, and to pay for tuition. But none of that is relevant to the point you replied to, which was that even a perfect test would have results that correlate with wealth
One of my friends has a Shield, and let me play with it for a while (on and off). I really liked it- everything was so snappy and it was so powerful.

I wish nVidia would bring it back, TBH.
No, it sounds like you're skipping the fast food and going straight to the feast. ;-)
The article is ambiguous:

>adding an “adversity score” to the test results

Does this mean an additional number is going to be supplied alongside the individual test scores and overall score, or that the overall score will be a sum that includes an adversity score? In other words, is the article using "adding" in the sense of numbers or the sense of sets?

EDIT:

The Journal reported that this new score will appear alongside a student's SAT score and will be featured in a section labeled the "Environmental Context Dashboard."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sat-adversity-score-college-boa...
If defeating NIMBYs was easy, it would have been done a long time ago.
Yup. I've become isolated, and it's caused numerous issues. I have friends and stuff, but I haven't built the types of relationships and interactions you're referring to. It's too easy to just go home and chill after a frustrating day at work.
I would hire an engineer from Facebook any day of the week. For the most part the devs are excellent. I would not let my personal opinion of a product stop me from hiring a great candidate.
It's a cargo cult. For any technology, there is a period of time when it improves more or less monotonically, and so most new things are cool. Some people over-extrapolate this and conclude that new things are always cool, and so is born the cult-of-the-latest-thing, which persists long after actual improvements stop.
couldn't there be flying trains as well

Aren't those called airplanes?
An anecdotal piece of evidence.

There’s this senior engineer, by name of Jafar Husain. Used to work at Microsoft, where he learned RxJS (from Matt Podwysocki, I shouldn’t wonder). Then he moved to Netflix and brought his RxJS know-how there. Worked there as a senior software engineer for about 7 years. Authored the Falcor library (a graphql competitor in the early days of graphql). Then, in October 2018, he joined Facebook.

And he is a very talented engineer :-)
Your explanation may be a reason why it failed, but doesn’t explain why it’s a bad bill.

Don’t you want to put more housing where the jobs are?
> I would say that is something truckdrivers spend a lot of time avoiding, by exprience and professionalism.

Then they are doing a bad job about it.

https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/large...

> The same can not be said about driverless tech companies, everyone really want to be first, that makes children and other soft targets losers.

I would guess that it would be pretty hard to do worse than we are already doing.
Just to nitpick a bit, race is one of the optional criteria. The school decides whether they want the College Board to include it.

"The program aimed to measure the challenges students faced. It created an expected SAT score based on socioeconomic factors including, if schools chose to add it, race." [1]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/sat-to-give-students-adversity-...
Schadenfreude sensation to see USA shooting its feet again and again.
That makes sense ty
"By year 2030"

So much for "ban all burning of fossil fuels today"
Uhhh.. so you're cool with interment camps, no free speech, and effective police surveillance?
Just look at the amount of personal information Google knows/records about you. Your search history, web stats through Chrome, location history through Android, with whom you exchange emails if you're using GMail, which sites you visit and how long you stay on them through Google Analytics, probably online purchases with a combination of AdSense/AdWords & Analytics, everything you watch on YouTube etc.

They definitely collect much more data than Facebook. The only reason they haven't faced the same shitstorm is because they don't seem to share all that data with 3rd parties.
Google had been receiving shit from people for violating privacy since they had the novel idea to release a free email service that scanned your emails to deliver you targeted ads. The consequent centralization of email (ISP provided email pretty much died after) was subsequently used to allow the NSA to scan a huge amount of peoples personal information.

I think in the last few years is when things tipped to me distrusting Google more than the boogeyman of older times - Microsoft.
How many of those lines are high speed rail? I’d venture to guess that the answer is a big fat zero.

There are freight lines that go through these mountains, but they do so at very low velocities. The passes through these ranges are higher than about half the lines on that list.
On the off-chance that you aren't trolling: A (worker's) cooperative is a company that is owned and democratically controlled by its workers. Gulags were prisons[1].

Since prisoners do often work, you could technically call a prison a publically-owned workplace provided it is actually owned by the public. It would be highly misleading, but technically not entirely wrong. But gulags weren't owned by the public but by an unambiguously dictatorial state, so no, they aren't.

I hope this helped clear things up.

[1] Calling gulags prisons is quite an understatement, but very bad prisons aren't worker's cooperatives either.
What about the student?
Is it not trivially explained by network effects?
Neither, they both learned the same shit
The SAT itself has been shown to be a poor measure of performance in college when compared to high school GPA or the challenge level of the coursework offered [1]. Instead of trying to turn students into numbers, we should demand college admissions employees do their jobs and actually look at the applications.

[1] http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/What-Matters-M...
Making people miserable and unable to understand the world outside these addictive platforms. I know so so many 20 somethings who genuinely don't understand the facade that is social media. They're giving up their youth in pursuit of a drug and they don't even realize it.
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A valedictorian from an impoverished community has the same merit as one from a wealthy school (on average). Think about that and the solution seems obvious.
May I suggest you think this through a bit more carefully?
I can't help but think of Zuckerberg's famous quote "young people are just smarter."[1]

I guess they are Mark.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenkotler/2015/02/14/is-sili...
You can go to a public school but if you want it to be a quality one your rent of a house will not be a 3k.
> Crossing the California Coast Ranges is very challenging! They have huge elevation changes,

The project scaled back its goals significantly. There's a lot of talk about SF<->LA, but the only concrete plan is (was?) Merced<->Bakersfield, where the elevation changes consist primarily of overpass abutments. Everything else is placed on definite hold. This is the equivalent of trying to put a man on the moon and settling for watching Star Wars on Netflix.

And connecting Merced, Fresno, and Bakersfield by train is not a billion dollar priority. These towns are already connected by train, and nobody uses it. The reason the California HSR project was interesting is because it replaces the bus route which currently connects the Bay Area to the LA metro area, not because it upgrades the current rail system which already connects these much, much smaller Central Valley towns. Merced has a population of 80k people. Bakersfield is 380k. Who cares?
UN 1M Animal and Plant Species at Risk of Extinction
I can easily notice the difference between 20 and 40 ms in FPS games. I have gotten out of FPS's due to keeping up with the hardware requirements, but a streaming service like this could make it possible. That being said, if they cant stay below 50ms I probably wouldn't waste my time.
Also keep in mind how important multi player is for most big titles now. If you add up player -server-player latency it's actually the same. Given more consistent performance on the rendering/frontend side it's quite possible the overall experience will turn out better.
Can you make an argument why this would be considered about “outcome” for the purpose of conversation?
> I still worry my kid will need to learn to shoot, trap, grow, organize, and hide in order to get by in the world we're leaving her

I've thought about this exact thing (teaching this as a prudent backup plan for my kids) not because I necessarily think things will be impossible for them, but if the wage vs cost of living trajectory continues in the same direction, living a more difficult life in nature might be preferable (more rewarding, all things considered) to living an easier life in our increasingly dystopian societies.
>...Moving people from Nowhere to...

>Bakersfield's population is around 380,000,[10] making it the 9th-most populous city in California and the 52nd-most populous city in the nation.[0]

Gee, I wonder why some folks have the idea that SV/SF/Software people are disconnected from the rest of the world.

I don't want to have a reason to go to Bakersfield, but maybe it's a bit aloof to pretend like it's some tiny outpost in the middle of nowhere; it's a CA freeway hub that's connected to the entire rest of the state by a slew of highway arteries that facilitate easy travel from SoCal/NorCal/Central. It's literally the intersection of 5 or 6 highways from all over the state.

It's perfectly reasonable to have a mass transit hub there; it leads to anywhere you want to go in California via highway.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakersfield,_California
Does anyone actually believe Zuck's new found interest in privacy? His entire company is built on the sharing of data (even in ways users don't understand).
Based on discussions I’ve had with Egyptians, Facebook was used to track down dissidents after the counter-revolution that brought Sisi into power. Not sure if it was Tahrir-era posts that got them into trouble, or criticism of the Sisi government.

The only lasting legacy of social media’s role in the Arab spring seems to have been inflating the self-worth of high level execs, and blinding Obama-era officials to the way these sites could be turned into tools of disinformation and repression.
"Yeah, speed of light is actually a lot faster than people think"

This would only be relevant if you had a direct fibre link in a straight line from your house to the service. It's packet switching\routing etc. that introduce latency. And even if you DID have direct fibre, the worst case scenario for distance - server on the other side of the world, but with no other latency accounted for - is about 200ms, even half of which would be noticeable in many games.

I'm not saying it's impossible to do game streaming, but you can't just divide the distance by the speed of light and say it's low. That's not really the issue.
This is well known and has been for decades. Unlike attacks based on the internet though it’s trivial to track down people who are doing illegal broadcasts. There isn’t a concern here.
I have yet to see a proposal for this type of infrastructure that makes intuitive sense. Not that intuition trumps engineering but the locations for these are usually head scratchingly odd.
I care if my scale at home is accurate. I don't want to know if my weight is going up or down, I want to know what I currently weigh so I can decide what I need to do about it.
Could you say that comfortable chairs are causing direct harm to consumers by encouraging a sedentary lifestyle, and the more comfortable the chair is engineered to be, the worse this effect is?

Potato chips which aren't nice, won't be good potato chips. Potato chips which are as nice as they can be will be indistinguishable from engineered to be moreish potato chips.

Would America's love affair with cars be different if the government mandates that no car can cost more than $15,000 or be sold at a loss so they must all be small and basic, may not exceed 35mph, must be unheated, uncushioned and have no audio systems, but that public transport must be spacious, clean, well maintained, fast, on-time, subsidised, not overcrowded, etc.?
Been posted a couple times in subthreads here, including the grandparent-post:

https://twitter.com/i/moments/1129009648214921216

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sat-adversity-score-college-boa...
I was talking to someone who's been involved in elite university admissions, and gaming for the city/neighborhood/HS has been a known tactic for a while.

There's a related tactic for people in affluent suburbs, for getting their child into urban school districts with an especially well-regarded primary public school: buy a house or condo in the city, and try to make it look on your application like that's your primary residence.
I've worked with both ELF and Mach-O. They're really very similar from a loading standpoint although Mach-O is a little more wordy and precise. One difference is that Mach-O allows you to specify the initial stack (x86_thread_state64_t.rsp) and ELF (for some reason which I've never understood) doesn't; but maybe there are ELF extensions in the embedded space that I don't know about.

With most Mach-O files, rsp is set to 0 and a default is used. The code is in bsd_i386.c/thread_userstack():

if (state25->rsp) {
*user_stack = state25->rsp;
if (customstack)
*customstack = 1;
} else {
*user_stack = VM_USRSTACK64;
if (customstack)
*customstack = 0;
}

This can be set on the OSX ld command line with -stack_addr. OSX uses an obscenely old fork of GNU ld for Mach-O. No linker scripts.

Things like zero pages are explicit (but required!) in OSX while they are implicit in ELF+Linux. Also llvm lld's ELF support is first class whereas its Mach-O support is less fleshed out. With Mach-O it helps to read the Darwin source files to figure out what it does with a file. Same to a lesser degree with Linux.
Why stop at facebook? Nuke twitter and join mastodon!
What does that have to do with the cost and timeline of the project? Why should the population density make the project take 10x as long and cost 10x as much?
Holy shit the new site is awful on desktop. The font size is huge on a desktop monitor so you have to scroll a lot to see anything. (hint: what do programmers usually access the web with).
Really? In Europe, take a look at Berlin's Brandenburg airport. It took 15 years to design, was supposed to open 5 years after that and now may not open until 2021, 15 years after construction started.

Other example projects that are delayed from starting or late from finishing thus pushing costs higher are:

a 3rd Heathrow runway,

a tunnel to bypass Stonehenge (planned for over 20 years and costs projected to balloon from £180M to over £1.6B),

the Paris Metro projected to be €12B over budget

The US has no monopoly on poor planning, NIMBYs and corruption.
Marijuana Use and Highway Safety [pdf]
SAT: tries to distinguish the individual from the crowd

Adversity score: tries to make the student a statistic
During China's Cultural Revolution, the Communist party also kept track of an adversity score.
1. It's homoiconicity in general. It's most obvious in arithmetic expressions, but homoiconicity (as far as I've seen) eschews semantic indicators besides function name and argument position. I find that keywords and symbols are almost indispensable for smooth eye-parsing of code.

2. No, I use syntax highlighting and indentation all the time. Trying to put words to my vague thoughts, I think the main issue is that, for example, in a let block the only indication of the meaning of all the items is the single function/macro name at the beginning of the block. Whereas in an algol-type language you have assignment operators in each item to indicate what they mean.
Indeed, which I alluded to in my comment. There are longer rail lines, mostly in China, and mostly built over the past decade.

However, the commenter I replied to claimed that California High Speed Rail would be a short line, when in reality it would have been longer than all but a small handful of high-speed lines, almost all in China.
I never quite understood the idea that any amount of loss of life is unacceptable in projects such a these. I think we put far too high a value on human life, and fail to measure distinct numbers relative to their greater effects.

If we built this project at the cost of 100 lives, but got it done on time and on budget, and as a result we save 500+ traffic fatalities, and 500+ early deaths as a result of pollution, while improving the quality of life of all of California… I would call it a resounding success. And yet, most people would just focus on the 100 lives paid upfront and call it an unmitigated disaster.
45 is much too late for the average human. The average human has a life expectancy of 79 years.
I think that over the past couple of years in particular, the real-world consequences of all of this have really come into the spotlight.

It's one thing to hear a tech CEO talk about something you may not agree with -- many people just categorize it as "a Facebook thing" (as in, huh, maybe I'll try to use their products less) and move on with their day. It's quite another to come to the realization that non-trivial parts of (what many see as) seriously negative political consequences have come from these products and, being fully aware of these, the CEO/company still hasn't meaningfully acted.

And with all the recent publicity (there's a difference between being mentioned in the technology section of a paper, and giving a congressional testimony), pretty much no one can say anymore that they aren't aware of it, or haven't thought about it.
If you are new to git, the very first thing you should do is get a GUI. There are plenty of good free ones. Github has one, or Sourcetree is another popular choice.

You should also learn the command line, too, but it's really easy to shoot yourself in the foot if you don't know what you are doing, and a GUI makes it easier for beginners to get used to the whole paradigm first.

I have been using git for years now, and I use the CLI for lots of little one-off things, but I use the GUI for making individual commits and merges.