skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of that’s going to make any difference. Let’s be real here, it’s going to be based on race alone (and perhaps being gay or trans). White or Asian? You don’t suffer any adversity. Black or Hispanic? Congratulations, your score just improved by 200 points.

This just sounds like the SAT board doing what school admissions boards already do: decreasing or increasing scores based on race.

https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-adv-asian-rac...
Many people would call them "rock boots" in British English.
What's considered a 'white carb'? I eat rice a couple times/week with veggies and a protein. I've never seen the need to cut carbs completely. What I did cut out though was things like French fries and potato chips.

Sometimes I think people just overthink it. Stop eating food that is clearly junk, and enjoy all the health benefits.
San Francisco banned facial recognition tech; London should follow suit
I felt like I had too much going on at the time when conference proposals were going out to attend, so that's why bcachefs isn't mentioned. But that's not for lack of progress; upstreaming is actually getting really close.
Wouldn't you yaw with rudder and asymmetric engine power when at low speed at a lower altitude, instead of using a bank turn?

If you could potentially cause a wing strike, why wouldn't you just trick the plane into landing on the taxiway, for maximum chaos?
I'm not sure why this is necessary. College admissions boards already consider adversity stories, if they want to.
I don't think ZoL[1], a based on a ground-up re-implementation of ZFS, has those licensing/IP issues. We've been using it in production problem free for a year now (on Ubuntu 18).

[1] https://zfsonlinux.org/
We've used them, but these huge examples give them a bad name. Some people (myself included) are terrible at whiteboarding and we'd have lost some great engineers in screening if we had only done CS quiz/whiteboard.

They are great for probing real-world development, (should) take less than an hour or two, and based on what the interviewee says they are skilled in.
There will of course be false negatives.
"Processed" doesn't sound bad enough.
That was bribery. The scheme was to bribe people who normally would do the sussing out.
The problem with doing it at the admission level is you have to adjust ALL admissions processes. Doing it at the SAT level avoids the problem where disadvantaged kids are cut off by hard score limits right at the start of the process.

It could also be used to signal to schools which kids are likely to need some remedial classes in the first year despite what they scored on the SAT. Of course one can imagine a scenario where the admissions looks at the adversity score to weed out kids who they don't think are going to be prepared regardless of how smart they are.

This whole process assumes that the universities are interested in reforming the kids that the school system failed in the first place.
> It would be calculated using 15 factors, like the relative quality of the student’s high school and the crime rate and poverty level of the student’s home neighborhood. The score would not be reported to the student, only to college officials.

This sounds like affirmative action only at a much more granular and non-racial level.

Even better if it can take into account a student's whole academic history (e.g. if a student used to go to a fancy prep school and then moved to a local public school the year they took the SAT, or vice-versa).

Given the incredible disparities between schools/neighborhoods, they feels like it can only give a more accurate picture of a student's abilities relative to their situation.
Vegetables have been getting larger, but nutritional density is decreasing. I think I read vegetables are something like 20% less nutritionally dense than 50 years ago.
Because the U.S. doesn't have a similar history with the British Empire?
Product looks good. I have been working on an app like this but haven't had the time to complete (only time for wire frames, research and other peoples stuff). It's good to see what should be.
On investigation, the replacement steam generators from 2011 in both units were found to show premature wear on over 3,000 tubes, in 15,000 places.[47] Plant officials pledged not to restart until the causes of the tube leak and tube degradation were understood.

This particular case at least sounds like the system working as expected. The system was inspected, the tubes were in bad shape, so the plant shut down.
I'll agree that slavery was worse than the invasion of Iraq, but I wouldn't call it a "mistake".

Not quite sure why. Some tries:

1. A mistake implies a single decision.

2. Slavery worked as intended, right? It was more evil than mistaken.

Either way, you sure derailed my derailing of the topic, so I'll stop here :)
3rd party JavaScript files
that commonly get loaded for
things like tracking and
analytics

Oh no! Not the megabytes upon megabytes of tracking scripts!

What will we do without the tracking scripts???
That’s the ideal scenario, normalization with recalibration. Even companies doing that as their main business fail to do so and evaluate people.

Now imagine engineers doing that, in a highly competitive landscape, with no motivation or second thoughts. It is a jungle out there.
> I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed.

Regardless of you, it's true in general. There has been a lot of heat, and it's damaged the ability to actually improve the site.

> Also, just because something is open source doesn't mean "well why don't you just go do it then" is a valid argument. It isn't.

It's not an argument. It's a description of reality.
This new metric seems to be mostly based on ZIP and school-level data, not individual circumstances, so it may not be trivially gameable (short of moving your family to an impoverished neighborhood, which seems... unlikely).

That said, colleges already have access to this information through publicly-available high school rankings and ZIP-level demographic data. All this new metric does is add opacity and plausible deniability, shifting responsibility from college admissions departments to a centralized (and, most importantly, private) authority.
Companies say their culture is X, but people say things they want to be true all the time. We've seen article about article about how a founder loses control of what they perceive to be the "culture", mostly pointing to the fact that you can't control it outright and it's often hard to quantify.

So that was a lot about what culture is and isn't and it just makes me wonder how this site and people using the service quantify all of this stuff, at all?

The idea here is interesting I'm just, not sure anyone participating is knowledgeable enough about who they are / if this really would decrease turnover.
If so, it doesn't sound like a particularly fair comparison to me. Nuclear facilities shouldn't be compared to Joe Randoms installing panels on their summer cottages, they should be compared to (at least) megawatt scale industrial installations, where the occupational hazards in construction probably aren't any worse than in a nuclear power plant. (The panels are at ground level on solar farms..)
>Higher scores have been found to correlate with students coming from a higher-income families and having better-educated parents.

Which makes a lot of sense since income correlates with intelligence and intelligence is partially heritable.

A century ago the SAT was used to fine diamonds in the rough for first-generation college students. After multiple generations of college students mating with college students, you're not going to find that many first-generation college students anymore.

Inserting dumber students into college because of their upbringing is hostile towards the success of a nation.

EDIT: Please point out something that's incorrect instead of downvoting because it makes you uncomfortable.
> CS101 basics (appending to an array?)

Probably because most professionals are not fresh out of CS101 & most data structures aren't arrays or exposed as arrays.

List, Collections, Map, Trees, home-rolled data structures better suited to domain - how do you not get this?

Your opinion sounds like that of someone just out of a bootcamp. You're putting all the weight on irrelevant syntax issues. A lot of devs use multiple languages day to day amongst other things.
So studying?
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

See page 5 of the pdf.
Education, as you suggest only works for some percentage of the population who have the time and wealth to learn what is good for their body and pay for it. Without government regulation you’re basically abandoning some percentage of the population to eat whatever crap has the lowest price and highest margins. We already accept and benefit from regulation on what can be put in food - insect parts, inorganic additives, etc. - but those regulations have not kept up with advances in food tech.
If I'm excited and grinding towards one goal then it's hard to get myself to stop.

But often I'm solving architecture or features and I get blocked trying to solve or make risky decisions. That's the time to go for a walk. Then the relaxed brain drifts around the problem and solutions pop up.
From an operator/user point of view, it's way easier to configure. It only took me maybe an hour or two including reading all the docs and dealing with my special firewall situation to get it set up on the server. Setting it up on the clients only takes about five minutes and then the client literally flicks a switch. No passwords or anything required, because it uses a simple out of band key exchange for the setup.
The lifetime of carriage horses is much shorter. One source I read says it's less than 11 years.
Are the plastic holds themselves an example of the technology we're thinking about here?

The gym is, itself, a technology that has pushed the envelope on climbing. When I was learning in the 90s there was no gym where I was and if I wanted to practice I had to climb buildings. It's much easier now to find good places to work out climbing technique without traveling to the cliff.
You're right that 'white carbs' should be pretty much eliminated. However, 100% whole grain bread is still valid and has a good amount of fiber, which white carbs lack.
This was a huge theme throughout the television series The Wire. Here is a clip that specifically shows Goodhart's law working in education.

https://youtu.be/_ogxZxu6cjM?t=62
What if I hire an inexpensive tutor? Is that acceptable? Is there a price threshold?

This is actually a serious question. I want to get an understanding of the mind-set that creates this class wedge.
How is nuclear getting safer when nearly all plants are at or past their design lifetimes? Seems to me like that would mean it's getting unsafer.
Will the kernel portion depend on lkm?
The article says:

> It would be calculated using 15 factors, like the relative quality of the student’s high school and the crime rate and poverty level of the student’s home neighborhood. The score would not be reported to the student, only to college officials.

None of those suggest they're linked to individual actions like your examples are -- and that makes sense since the SAT can know the student's schools and addresses but little else.

And I don't think sending your kid to a worse school is gaming the system... because they'll probably do worse.
This, like every other similar attempt made to "equalize" the SAT, is misguided and will accomplish little.

If the SAT correlates too strongly with wealth, then Collegeboard should make a better test. Make one that changes significantly every year so direct test-prep is hard. Choose different types of critical reading passages and questions each year, vary the style of the math questions - make the test different enough each time so studying past tests isn't valuable. Then, if you eliminate the advantage direct prep gives, the correlation to wealth should weaken, and the test should get closer to measuring aptitude.

But instead, Collegeboard continues to shoehorn political objectives into an already broken exam. This is a mistake.
How long did Uber give you to do this?
The tests are correlated with grades. You're trying to say the correlation isn't there for some subgroups. Are you basing it on anything?

The same gaps that appear on these undergrad tests show up on the grad school tests such as the LSAT, GMAT, GRE etc.
Should restaurant reviews have star ratings?
> Storage is talked about in the similar ways as molten salt reactor. It is a nice concept but I don't know any nation which energy grid uses it.

Wikipedia says otherwise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pumped-storage_hydroel...
When a human driver causes an accident you can assume it's an individual mistake. But with a self driving car you know it's a "collective" issue, every (identical) car would probably make the same mistake under the same conditions since they share the hardware, software, and learning data.

This is an advantage when learning but also a disadvantage until that learning is done. Which is why beyond Tesla's intentionally misleading branding for the AP I consider the drivers are ultimately responsible for controlling the vehicle.
Ok, but SAT cutoffs are a thing that the college itself decides.

If a college wants to not do that, fine, I just don't want a centralized organization short circuiting the issue and making decisions for the college.
The principal "weird ingredients" in our food can be largely segregated into preservatives, thickeners, and emulsifiers. Preservatives have been very heavily scrutinized because their purpose is, essentially, to kill things or stop them growing, so they're obviously potentially dangerous. The list of acceptable preservatives has been essentially whittled down to sorbate, propionate, sulfite and benzoate, and propionate might get the axe pretty soon.

Thickeners and emulsifiers are subject to basic biochemical tests in vivo and in vitro before being allowed in food, and those tests have generally proven them to be safe. But what worries me sometimes is that people focus too much on the chemistry of these compounds and not so much on the mechanics. Thickeners thicken liquids and emulsifiers mix them. The gut is not just a reaction flask; it's sheathed in muscle and innervated in such a way as to be responsive to the forces within it -- to continue peristalsis.

Then again, a surprising amount of irritation can be traced back to a single, innocuous, natural and very popular ingredient that happens to be a lot more irritating -- specifically, it produces gas -- than people give it credit for: garlic powder.

https://www.monashfodmap.com/blog/cooking-with-onion-and-gar...
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The future is now!

https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surpris...

All of the technology surrounding solar storage is science fiction right now - we have lots of things working at a nano-scale. And every one of them has problems when we imagine using them to store nation-sized power. If stacking blocks of concrete is what prevails, then of course we need to compare the death tolls from that to what we see with nuclear and other technologies.
Agree. Wonder which (if any) subsidies the U.S. is willing to drop in return.
> Crucially, the researchers showed all respondents information about the number of deaths that had historically occurred in the worst accident associated with the technology. This is important for nuclear power, since accidents are rare but can have dire consequences if they do occur.

This seems like a flawed study. It implies that previous nuclear accidents are sufficient data to form a precise “statistical risk” level. And if people don’t decide based on those statistics alone they must be irrational and just “anxious”.

That is not a scientific conclusion. Nuclear accidents are rare, but potentially extreme. Just one more major accident, or the first case of terrorism, could significantly change the statistics. Thus It is possible that people are being rational when they recognize that we have too few data points to form a precise risk model for nuclear power.
Correlations are everywhere, it is unreasonable to expect one of '0' on traits that broad.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-018-0147-3
Try rooting for the US for a change. I can guarantee you nobody is rooting for the US on the other end of this negotiation. It is criminally naive to believe that a country will give up $500B in trade imbalance without kicking up some dust and engaging in hardball negotiation tactics to mitigate the damage.

I also happen to think that Trump is 100% right in barring Huawei from dominating the US telecom for the same reason why you wouldn't want e.g. Russia to build US voting systems.
Basically processed food is much more dense in calories so you can easily eat more calories than you need. You'd have to eat a lot of vegetables and salad to get calories.
The study is new, but the conclusion is ' hacker diet' - people eating processed food ate more calories than they burned so they gained weight.

If you want to lose weight just burn more calories than you eat.

Usually the easiest solution is a mix of better diet and some moderate exercise regime that burns some calories and increases your metabolism.
When states impose their will on the people, public sentiment doesn't matter. The idea that a former Soviet state would submit nuclear power to a democratic vote is simply farcical.
Thanks for the precisions.

I thought I clearly remembered rumours of meltdown being publicly denied, and some sources are in line with that:
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/genpatsu-fukushima/20171226/1756...

Now there was a lot of reporting, and I wouldn't be surprised if some Tepco employees would be more frank and bring more information. I followed the official news only for the first week or two, and switched to different sources afterward so it might have been another tone as well after that.

PS: about the oversee reporting, the most I was hearing of were France and US news, and they were so clearly biased, some to extreme alarmism, and some were completely damage controlling the impact on their internal nuclear policy. I am with you on the general impression that the info was of very low quality all over the board internationally, while Japanese research groups had very clear and explicit reports day by day, week by week on what is going on and where.
Ok, asked just in case you were in Scandinavia.

Good luck!
You seem to also be skirting over the latter 20th and 21st centuries where China has been stealing ip and violating human rights.
Radiation is released by specific chemicals. If what you said was true they would be easy to filter out.
You've said the same thing with zero evidence, again.
> There's nothing wrong with on-site coding challenges, white boarding, and a good chunk of brain teasers.

If a company is looking for the kind of candidate that can and wants to work through those problems, then by all means they should do it. I personally don't recommend those kinds of companies because I'm unconvinced that on-side coding challenges and white boarding do much more than to weed out the really unqualified people and humiliate nervous but talented engineers.

Brain teasers don't measure anything other than that the candidate memorized the answers to common brain teasers, or as I've witnesses on more than one occasion, their ability to remember the answer given to them by a third party recruiter.

Maybe brain teasers are for you, and you can go work for companies that think brain teasers measure something. I'll go work for the majority of companies that don't fall for that idea.

> Having people code a small problem might be by far the best way to understand how they can do the job.

That can be, especially for junior engineers. If a company still wants to run aptitude tests on mid-level and senior engineers with years of experience, good references, and personnel projects, then they're being lazy. The fact that I don't want to burn myself out doing unpaid work at this point in my career isn't my problem.

Companies are free to not hire me. LOL

> Your Github code does not demonstrate what people are looking for.

And yet I've been explicitly hired because I had coded something relevant on my GitHub profile and could talk about it in detail in person. It sounds like you believe that a significant number of people with personal projects are really just bullshitters, and that making them write more code is going to tell you whether you want to work with that person.

No personal offense, but what you are suggesting represents exactly the type of company I want to avoid for good reason: Companies that think they can conveniently measure a candidate's aptitude through unproven metrics like brain teasers.
Trying to understand how they got onto the government forcing us to eat a specific set of foods from the original comment which to my read was about food regulations (the food supply chain being a byproduct of those).

I mean just cause you CAN view it from the perspective of concern that some G-man will show up every morning to check your pantry doesn’t mean one is on topic, or peddling reasonable discourse.

Yes, be on the lookout for government overreach. Sure. Immediately invoking paranoid nonsense and individualism (which ends being heavily constrained by social norms anyway) is just bizarre
Because once the competition is put out of business the subsidies go away, China gains control of an industry and prices go up. If competition emerges subsidies go back in.

Chinese aren't dumb. They aren't subsidizing exports because they like helping foreigners.
Notice how I said in my comment that it would not make manhattan affordable, I never said it wouldn't make the broader region more affordable.
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Hopefully it will also help cancel out there effects of biases in the test.

I wonder how, 4+ years after it's implemented, the results of the test's predictive accuracy are shown.
There are also plenty of services that host user content, but only for a short period of time. Pastebin entries with a set expiration could for example set this header to inform clients about the expiration date. That way software can detect links to content that will expire and act accordingly.
OpenVPN is harder to configure and uses/allows arkane crypto. The same applies to IPsec, just more strongly. WireGuard is more in line with modern cryptographic protocols that we know and love from e.g. instant messaging.
No... That isn't even remotely similar. That's also completely irrelevant here.

Are people really that clueless about history? Or is it just bad faith?
Regulations about preservatives and sugar added to bread would fall under the first category: minimum level of XYZ, not the second category: banning bread.
How do they determine one’s race in the US? Is there a central database where everyone gets a record at birth? Otherwise what stops me from reporting myself as black?