skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article says:

> The rating will not affect students’ test scores, and will be reported only to college admissions officials as part of a larger package of data on each test taker.

So there is no discrimination, unless this is used in a feedback loop, which maybe it is.

> "My family sacrificing vacations and eating out for 12 years"

So your family has hardship, but managed to skew things so you can have it better. If this analysis means more is done to help kids from poor backgrounds, you'd be doubly helped, one by your parents hard work, and again by the system.
The underlying assumption in all of this is that quality education should remain scarce, in which case it must be doled out based on broadly applicable metrics that end up being arbitrary in practice.

If education and opportunity were abundant, maybe we wouldn't be at each other's throats and/or concocting elaborate ways to game the system.
We have that now in the Berkeley/Oakland area.
Stephen Fry might disagree with you there.
I find it amusing that in marketing Musk is always like the “hands on policy is just there to appease the regulators.” But after every fatal crash, the first thing in the press release is “the driver took his hands off the wheel!”
I'm not a fan of Brutalism in general. But there are some pretty good examples on the MIT campus including the group in east campus. I also rather like the Stratton Student Center on west campus by Eduardo Catalano. Other examples like McCormick are not great.
I heard that this was going to be a GSOC project this summer, but I'm not sure if that was approved or not.
Oh but we could put each one on the blockchain!
Isn’t he conflating predeterminism and predictability?
s/HSOC/GSOC/
Personally, I'd like to see a careful statement of the full problem but not the solution :-).
"...
const int* x_ptr_3 = &x; // (3)
...
Finally, we see the preferred approach, which is taking a const pointer (3)"

Not a const pointer, but a pointer to const int.
There's a strong argument to be made that a truly benevolent dictator is by far the best form of government. Efficient decisions that are in the best interest of the overall population.

China may have come close to that over the last decade. The question is whether it can maintain that, or whether the power of the authoritarian regime will eventually lead to corruption and decisions that are counter to the overall interest of the people.
"Pant"[0] is very common across most of northern europe- what you tend to find is that people will pilfer public trash cans to get bottles and cans to dispense, in Sweden where I live it's 1kr (or 10c in USD) for a can or small bottle, and large bottles being 2kr.

Not everyone is so fortunate to have gainful employment, especially not as gainful as the normal user of this site.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container-deposit_legislation
There are entire schools of designers devoted to producing work that contradicts popular taste, and cultural consensus around design changes super fast. There is also a huge gap between the taste of elite practitioners and the general public.

Comme des Garçons is one of the most ubiquitously respected fashion houses, and the legendary designer who heads it had a show at The Met recently. Here is a look from their couture runway this year:

https://images.app.goo.gl/iWJXmpQDg5tQZSUz8

You could poll 20 HN readers and ask “is this objectively ugly?” And you might find total consensus. But almost everyone who devotes their life to the field of fashion design would at least grant that this look is typical of the style that made Comme so important, and would certainly deny any kind of “objective” characterization of it as ugly. Many, many brilliant, highly educated people would say it is beautiful.

There is no fact of the matter. People liking IM Pei’s pyramid doesn’t prove it’s beautiful any more than people hating certain critically respected brutalist buildings proves they’re ugly. There are no intrinsically ugly buildings.
“To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death. – Jorge Luis Borges”

There’s evidence this is not true. Many animals mourn the dead, and many animals will routinely remove older animals from power/leadership.
Leftists aren't actually oppressing anybody. We're still under the rule of the far-right in the US (a country which does not actually have a left wing by Western standards). Voting with your dollar and pointing out bigotry and inequality is not oppression.
Oh, interviewing is one thing. I would advise everyone to interview with Facebook, especially when you don't want to work there (less pressure). If you get an offer, it would most likely be pretty generous so you can further use it as leverage at the companies you want to work.

But yeah, Facebook is the new Amazon when it comes to working people to death.
The struggle for me in understanding why people use Medium is that I am a reader of Medium articles, but I only find them when posted on Reddit, HackerNews, or when they come up on a Google Search. So as far as I can tell it wouldn't matter if it was posted on Medium or a personal blog on their own site.
There’s also the reputation impact as well. When all of the bad things at Uber eventually became public, Uber engineers started reporting difficulty in getting new jobs. Apparently hiring managers assumed, perhaps correctly, that anyone who stuck it out at a toxic place that long was possibly the source of toxicity themselves.
Thank goodness.

Finally, somebody with some clout is pointing fingers at the largest contributor to garbage... the corporations who produce it.

I live in Canada and Tim Horton's cups literally litter every street corner in every big city in our country.

I have always thought that they should be responsible for the cleanup of those cups.

It is absolutely their fault that their customers are throwing their products onto our ground.

Why should our overburdened local governments carry the cost of picking up a profitable business' garbage?
Ummm, yeah, how much is that real estate that’s a walk or bike ride from most amenities costing ya?
I think as much as the tech industry likes to think that Theranos was a one off problem, I am becoming increasingly suspicious that it's suspect it's not.

I don't think that you can just import the silicon valley mindset of "moving fast and breaking things" is sustainable for the health tech industry. If we want to make a real change (rather than a quick buck), there needs to be a stronger commitment on both the part of founders as well as their investors to throughly vet their approach.
What industry would that be and approximately how valuable do you think such a thing might be worth
My university (one of the top-ranked in the world) did have some sort of adjusted scaling for the final exams. The raw results were never released. One would get a number somehow adjusted for how to the whole cohort did. So that if some exams turn out to be just too damn hart it won't wipe out everybody. But it was opaque and I really hated that!

I did good enough and then went on to do a Masters degree. There I'd get my direct scores. I really feel much better about it. I knew what I did right and what I did wrong.

I think the adjusted score in my undergrad benefited me (some exams were too damn hard!) but I still hated the system.
In the US we get our sugar from high fructose corn syrup unless we spend more to buy the imported Mexican Coke that's made with real cane sugar.
> What about telemetry for self-driving cars?

They own the cars so they can track them all they want.

Tracking me all over the place after I click the "Do Not Track Me" button isn't acceptable.

> Is it immoral to develop a system that leads to less blunt trauma and death on roads?

It quite could be. Just as we humans decided to not use the scientific research generated by the Nazis on unwilling human subjects there are definite limits to what is acceptable even if the overall benefits are huge.
I agree. And look at what's marketed as for children as well. It's disgusting. All different sugar waters and processed packaged foods. Get children hooked early on these sugar-infused dopamine hits. It's one of those things that once you notice it you start noticing it everywhere and it's quite upsetting. It's hopeless.
This story has become the stuff of urban legend and puts entirely too much onto John Tukey (who deserves a great deal of credit in other areas). It's become so common in some circles that people who buy into this story will stop talking to you or at least ignore that this story, which makes big circles in stats and ML circles and is entirely wrong.

Peter Naur coined the term in the 60s as an alternative for "Computer Science" but with a focus on the processing of Data vs abstract computation.

In the stats world, Chikio Hayashi proposed the same term in the 90s and it was followed by Jeff Wu a year later and outlines more or less the broad strokes of modern data science and saw it emerging as a new discipline from stats, but not necessarily as a computationally based discipline like CS.

Tukey argued for something a bit broader, "data analysis", as a more focused discipline -- but as a separate thread from Naur's data science. Data has been analyzed for centuries anyways -- Tukey's main contribution was to bring several data analytic disciplines together under one-term, but his vision wasn't for data science, it was for data analytics which is, depending on who you ask, either a different discipline or an umbrella so large that it includes data science among others.

I'm old enough to also remember data processing turning into data analysis, expert systems, data mining and so on. Statisticians were off working on chalkboards and hand-fitting fitting curves with calculators during all of this. Once the stats folks started realizing, sometime in the 2000s, the Computer Science had made better and more predictive tools and was a better approach for many observable phenomenon, statisticians the world over bundled up all the different disciplines they could claw together in a black hole and shot at these other disciplines, then wrapped it all in the incomprehensible statistics jargon and claimed it as their own shouting Tukey's name to the mountains.

It's not really worth fighting at this point, but this history is revisionist urban legend at best.

Source: I've worked in data disciplines since the 90s and remember when all the roles I used to work in that dated back decades, suddenly required PhDs in statistics as Stats majors flooded the market in the 2000s.
Producer responsibility is a well-studied economic concept. It’s a shame progress like that halted a long time ago.
The cycle of life is what keeps things lively and interesting. You can get stuck at the bottom of a well in a figurative sense, too.
The self-righteous people should be alarmed by this: this means facebook will be hiring even worse scum and do more evil things. Save the world from evil facebook, go work for them.
oops, I meant radiant flux instead of lumens.
It seems to mostly revolve around resume-enhancement spam. The sort of empty filler that people write, just to appear like a "thought leader" when potential employers or clients google them.

There are two categories of resume-spam:

1. "Sunny" filler that doesn't really say anything new (e.g. "The Future Is Serverless"). The preferred platform for this seems to be LinkedIn.

2. "Edgy" filler that doesn't really say anything new (e.g. "Serverless Considered Harmful", or "Why I Don't Use Serverless"). The preferred platform for this seems to be Medium.
newspapers dumped in landfills as much as over half a century ago, turn up again as fresh and as readable as the day they were issued.

Amazing.

I imagine if the paper were shredded and mixed with organic matter it might brake down more rapidly, but layered and trapped away underground evidently not.
How much will I gain on my desktop if I set those?
What do they do individually?
Why can't we just go to 100% aluminium for beverage packaging? The technology and supply chains etc. are already in place.
I'm currently working on an alternative to Medium. So far it has all the elementary things like a working editor, notes and highlights, a decent commenting system. There are publications too, with teams, submissions etc. User profiles and publications have custom domains, custom CSS for branding. There's also a somewhat half-working Github integration for advanced writers but I'll need to work on it a fair bit to polish the edges. At some point, I'd ideally want to open-source the editor/bloggy bit and have people self-host it and perhaps push their content back to the platform for centralized distribution if they want.

It's still a work in progress and I'm trying to figure out some sort of strategy, especially a content policy around not allowing clickbait and spammy "how to use learn redis in 3 minutes" type articles. I'd probably have to cap the max number of users and publication to a few thousand since I don't have the resources for this to be anything more than a hobby project.

I'm aware of a couple of others working in the same space. Write.as comes to mind, thought I don't think they're doing publications etc.
Incentive for who though? For the homeless and very poor, who probably will not even be the ones purchasing those bottles(at least at the same rate as those in higher economic classes) in the first place? We need to make it worth it for the good number of consumers who buy these things, so that they don't litter in the first place and put more thought about those $0.50-$1.00 per bottle they're tossing out. Yes, this may make it so that less bottles are available for the homeless/impoverished, but I think we should be doing way more for them than giving them the scraps that are 10 cent bottles...
If it’s a deposit, then pilfering trash cans isn’t really a problem.
Some of them not (from legacy publishers). Others from normal ones will, especially since they'll see it as "why not reach more users, we already did all the heavy lifting anyway", instead of legacy publishers' scornful "why do it, who is using Linux?".
Left-Coiled Snail
Shouldn’t the consumer be responsible for throwing their trash away properly? The local government is a government of the local people: if the people would stop throwing stuff on the ground, there wouldn’t be so much trash to pick up. That burden is created by the local people. Should paint companies be held responsible for graffiti?
For something like airplane signals you do not need encryption though - you only need to verify the integrity of the data, which is done either by signatures or MACs.
Do you believe that homogeneous distribution is something that occurs anywhere in society?
You have 80% of the story but the last 20% is important.

Why not let anyone attend any public school? Because public schools are largely funded by local taxes. So a school in an expensive neighborhood with high taxes will naturally be a magnet for everyone else who can be a free-rider (in the economic theory sense). School vouchers fix this problem by carrying revenue along with the student instead of tying it to geography.
Smartphones Sabotage Your Brain’s Ability to Focus
Anecdote time.

My wife and I typically donate to a few non profits, such as the ACLU and Trout Unlimited. They occasionally mail us, but we did give them our address so that’s ok.

But one day she donated to the environmental defense fund. Since then the number of surveys and donations requests from random non profits has exploded to 3-4 a week, including weird ones like evangelical surveys and pro-Israeli things. My wife is pissed at the EDF, and will never give them another dollar.

The point? We were both fine having the non-profits having our address and using it, but knowing that one of them sold that data really pissed her off.
I'm writing on Medium because its rank well on Google. I have several articles about the product I'm selling that rank 1-5 on Google and it gives me a lot of customers.

It'll take me a lot of time to build my own website and content that gives me the same result. So, there's that.

Sorry, not a native speaker.
pffttt... assign each one an ipv6 address.
NY Supreme Court Judge: Bitfinex may not touch Tether’s reserves for 90 days
Lock-in as in requiring to use Stadia to get certain games. Store lock-in (exclusivity) isn't much better than technology lock-in.
Sounds like a jumping off point to introduce the US to the Chinese social credit system[0], to me.

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2019/01/21/chinese-...
I think once automated taxis replace car ownership for most people (it will, it's more efficient, cheaper, and more convenient for travel) people will very quickly start to push for high speed rail. The demand is just not there yet for the greater masses (who will either just drive their own car or take a flight if they can afford it).
That’s why you’d have to police it and punish wrongdoers. Good can’t be the enemy of perfect.
Part of me wonders if this is an effort by the universities, in cooperation with the College Board, to keep their hands clean and position themselves as objective, data-driven entities.

"Adversity" levels are already assessed by all big name universities in the United States. This score will likely change very little, especially if the 15 factors are broken out and included in the report. What's more likely is that the score will oversimplify "adversity" to a level that can be exploited (even more so).
Why not actually? Instead of politicized solutions one could require schools at every level to create some sort of random admission pool for some percentage of yearly admissions.

For instance, take the mean SAT of admitted students, lower it by X% and pick candidates to random pool with scores above that level.

I imagine that to many people it wouldn't be "fair" because it wouldn't bring the outcome they want. But it'd be fun to watch them argue that random system privileges XYZ group!
Don't the universities have all they need to know already? Probably someone's excuse to get more data.
It also depends on design of the engine, which can be improved, instead of spending time on supporting a lot of redundant APIs. Support for lock-in is essentially a tax put on developers, and it's exactly the way lock-in proponents want it.
IIR mercury-based memories part of a larger class of memory called "delay-line memory" that dates all the way back the 1920s. The basic premise is that it uses the time delay of signals propagating in some medium to temporarily "store" a value.

The modern analog is the need to refresh DRAM in order to keep the bits flipped the right way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory
He accepts determinism at an atomic level, but not at a person level. But where does determinism stop? If atoms are deterministic, are biochemicals? Neurons? And if neurons are, and our minds are just neurons, then... aren't we determined?
Have you read your own article that you've been promoting all over this thread? They are projecting carrying between 30-40m people by 2040, the buck doesn't stop at 10m a year at all. A nice quote:

"In short, it seems entirely reasonable to conclude that the California line will eventually offset the environmental damage caused by its construction, and then some."

The damage from air traffic isn't just from the greenhouse gasses they emit, but from the ultrafine particulate pollution that is currently unregulated. This pollution is too fine to be blocked by your lungs, enters your bloodstream, and are shown to be more toxic than large particulate in animal and cellular models.

https://news.usc.edu/63466/new-concerns-raised-about-air-pol...
It’s a clickbait type of title because it doesn’t convey a good reason to read the article on its own — it’s enticing you to click in order to find out whether the article is of interest or not.

HN non-clickbait title:

> Evidence that pop music is getting sadder and angrier

Original clickbait title:

> Is pop music really getting sadder and angrier?

It needlessly formulated the title as a question to intrigue people to click it.

Writing the titles in this way serves no purpose but to waste people’s time by tricking them to click through.

I refuse to partake in the further proliferation of any article that practices this style of writing titles.

Clickbait titles need to die. The only chance we have of getting rid of them is to not give them traffic. That won’t ever happen of course, but at least we have the useful policy here on HN to shield us from being manipulated by the titles when we decide what we want to read and not.
One local fashion site became a world first in accessibility
Incidentally we, at Repl.it, just released this: A Q&A board with runnable and interactive code in both questions and answers: https://repl.it/talk/ask

It organically happened, we built a community forum for people to share their programs and we've found that users were asking questions and that people were super helpful to each other -- so naturally, we productized it. More here: http://repl.it/blog/ask
I would be really curious how much of an effect that has. I have only ever gone to Medium because I followed a link to a post. Never because I was browsing Medium and found another article to read.

I would be really curious if anyone who does post on Medium was able to offer some insights into where most their readers come from. Is it from people already on Medium or external. Don't know if they even have access to metrics like that.
Username checks out. :)
You can prove that your OP was not aware of the existence of the aquaduct?

And what is the purpose of pointing this out? "I was stating facts" seems a flimsy defense. Do you thus claim that the statement of facts is morally acceptable, in all circumstances, at all times? I hope you'd find this suggestion as absurd as I do - imagine walking up to someone at a funeral and saying, "in two months your mother will be wormfood." Facts? Yes. Necessary? I wonder.
Many people, including mainstream media outlets, friends of mine, and co-workers have labeled these positions as white supremacist. Not just identifying them as positions that white supremacists support. The set of views considered "white supremacist" is indeed expanding to include mainstream conservative views like the ones I mentioned.
https://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/democrats.energycomme...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/googles-sensorvault-ca...

Sensorvault:

“includes detailed location records involving at least hundreds of millions of devices worldwide and dating back nearly a decade.”

US law enforcement had been regularly accessing Sensorvault user data in a dragnet-like fashion to obtain location details for hundreds or thousands of users
presumably due to the same reason that it's found biologically -- if you only have a hammer you'll find yourself caught with your pants down when you need to tighten a bolt.

Homogeneity can traditionally be attacked by exploiting a vector that the entire crowd is weak towards. Randomness helps to solve this problem on a macro level by varying the crowds weaknesses and strengths from individual to individual.
I wonder if the exec team realizes that the ad-tech industry had their Great Financial Crisis. Nobody is in love with them anymore. They'll get as much reception from politicians as Wall Street did when Congress passed Dodd-Frank. Banks don't earn much more than their cost of capital anymore.
The solution from Tim Hortons point of view would be to stop putting their name on disposable coffee cups.
last time i did the math an average deer offsets something like $425 worth of beef, and that was a conservative estimate. i know road kill tends to have a bit of damage, depending on the impact area, in any case thats a lot of meat to waste. Elk, are even more meat too.
if you already have http clients on all you components.

and it's not like bindings for kafka is that much uncommon than a decent http client.
My mother-in-law says that she doesn't know anyone who's lived past 80 who doesn't regret it.
Wow, what a fantastic republican lie you guys have swallowed.