skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, a separate number being added to College Board's overall package is secret discrimination against Asian students? The "adversity score," according to the article, is calculated based on 15 different factors. The two listed (relative quality of the student’s high school and the crime rate/poverty level of the student’s home neighborhood) are not directly tied to any one race.

The powers that be do not get the benefit of the of doubt after all the shenanigans they've pulled over the past century.
They want to promote their own language and wanted at least two reasons against Rust (the first with lack of LLVM support for many smaller embedded platforms is true).

To me Rust is much easier to understand than C++. But C is still more straightforward.
Picking a large but lower paid economy (India), and using https://tradingeconomics.com/india/wages as an arbitrary and hopefully valid data source, I get a bit over $US 28 per work day for high skilled employees. Lots of fuzz here (IT vs 'high skilled', work from home, own equipment & expenses, ultra short term contracts), but even then, where the 'bottom' is for these sorts of jobs is surprisingly low to many of us.

And maybe the fiverr model is better, where you might need to sit back and wait for a customer prepared to pay for your accent or residency status or physical location, rather than bid against people in a completely different economic situation.
What exactly is your point? If you can't demonstrate your product while following your own safety procedures, that doesn't give you the right to break them.
Too many people aren't aware that you can say no, and not do something if you don't want to or if it is a bad idea. Especially if nobody is paying you.

Even for people that are paying you for a product, sometimes you really need to say no, that is how it works, and no, we are not going to customize it for your particular workflow.
Yeah, seems like a great service to a certain degree. But it's not the service they're selling and they're lying to their customers. Their service incentivizes ransomware authors, so this absolutely needs transparency. I assume most people go to them because they want the problem solved but they feel they shouldn't be paying the hostage takers. "we don't negotiate with terrorists" comes to mind. So if this service is doing exactly this and making the situation worse for everybody else, this is something that needs to be consciously weighed off and decided by the people considering their services.
But if your training data is based on previous decisions made using human bias, you're in trouble.
Thanks for the generous response! I confess to being taken aback, in a good way.
>Police say, at the time of her death, 69% voted for her to die. However, Instagram insists that the poll, which lasted 24-hours, ended with 88% of her followers choosing ‘L’.
The kind of self licking ice cream market you describe where it’s a con and everyone’s in on the con are not stable. For an example of the collapse of one see the market for stamps and stamp collections. People used to buy stamps as investments and criminals used to treat them as reasonable currency substitutes, like bearer bonds except for much higher than face value. Now the market is flooded with the collections of the deceased and the price has collapsed so much people buy stamps so they can use interesting stamps to mail their wedding invitations.

Markets are robust to having very large portions of their demand being transactional, people who are in it to make a profit. But gallerists, curators and agents are overwhelmingly art lovers themselves. No doubt there are plenty of people who are in art to make money but there are many, many more who love art or who are buying art to gain social status (not mutually exclusive motives) than grifters. At the top of any field you’re going to find remarkably few pure grifters. It’s a lot easier to work 60 or 80 hours a week if you like or love your work. Lots of people love art and some of them even make a living at it.
My comment was tailored specifically to be a response to the comment above it. Haven't read all of the other comments in this thread, or looked into the implementation details yet, but yes, a fundamental criticism of this action is that the SAT purports to measure "aptitude" rather than "oppression", and it's hard to immediately see how such a feature would improve the test score's accuracy with regard to the former characteristic. Another criticism is that this could increase the attack surface for "gaming the system" rather than reduce it.
Also:

> everything moving to Chromium... [including] Safari

This is the opposite of true
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Ah yes, one microcosm of American society is representative of the obstacles that Asians and Asian men in particular face.
FYI, it seems that your https://sergio.dev/ is down.
I found this interesting story with details about how he was caught, set free, and left behind an unusual legacy including founding a eponymous butterfly conservatory.
https://medium.com/un-hackable/the-bizarre-pre-internet-hist...
Do you also complain when [literally any other automaker] shows off their new car doing donuts or skidding around corners because that is "unsafe use"?

Promotional material is not instructional material, and should not be treated as such.
You just described the doomer

>25 year old

>Kinda given up on girls.

>Realized videogames is a waste of time watches YouTube instead

>Waits for societal collapse

>Does a lot of weed, knows he needs to stop. He doesn't.

History of the meme: started in 2018 September but the underlying cause is as old as time (depression and anxiety)
I have only been doing Pion WebRTC(https://github.com/pion/webrtc) for a year, but the hardest ones for me have been

* Relationships tied to the project

It sort of burned me out when the first contributors moved on. I have always been on the other side though, interests change or you change jobs.

* Every user issue is urgent.

It is hard figuring out what the most important thing to work on is. If a user takes time to file an issue it is causing them issues. I just have been on the other side and it doesn't feel great to be ignored.

* Community members with different communication styles

People aren't so much assholes, but just communicate differently. It is really hard to mediate, no one is at fault but I just hate seeing people leave/get burned out from it.
Well, there's Singapore and...? That's about it.

Of course as well as extreme and draconian legislation, like banning gum, they're a tiny city-state. Yet Singapore employs vast numbers of cleaners and street sweepers clearing up - which surely shouldn't be necessary? Far more per-capita than any Western city. So even they seem to recognise it will happen anyway.
I'd like to see links to thoughtful, reasonable comments that have been flagged or downvoted into obscurity. As many such links as you (or anyone) can possibly come up with, I'd like to look at them. Best to email hn@ycombinator.com because this thread is sinking low in the feed now.

Let me ask you a question, though you don't have to answer it. Do you feel like HN is biased against the point of view you yourself favor? Because, in my experience, that's what everyone who feels that HN is biased actually feels. This is so reliable a phenomenon that I can predict someone's political orientation just from what they say about HN. I don't believe I've seen a single exception. That's shocking, and I'm pretty sure it's true.

I'm not saying it follows that things aren't biased—that would be a non sequitur. But I am saying that people's perceptions on this are unreliable across the political spectrum, and for the same reason: it's humans looking at it, and we all have the same wiring. Whatever that wiring is, it cuts much deeper than left vs. right divisions, because the behaviors are identical across that divide.
It comes down to statistics. We deal with road raging, texting, drunk drivers on a daily basis. We know our risks each time we leave the house. Safety is exponentially better than what the past generation had to deal with.
When you fall asleep at the wheel? No idea…
> That's the basis of the court ruling.

There is no court ruling here; the “appeal” is an internal administrative appeal, not an appeal to a court, which is why the article explicitly notes it wad the Trump Administration (which is not a court) that had rejected the appeal, and why it said that the state is expected to sue over the action (which would not be an option if a court had already ruled on the issue.)
You've got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette.
My sons best friend is Asian, 1600 SAT, 4.0 GPA, top-5 California high school, top-50 in country, almost 20 AP/honors courses, but I guess just too low an adversity score to get into UCLA ....
What makes you say that? bcrypt's been the defacto best practice for user password "storage" for probably 10 years now. MD5's been known to be inadequate for much longer.

Even if they had a legacy implementation in MD5, gradually migrating from storing MD5 hashes to storing bcrypt hashes is trivial to do.
Ray Dalio's Holy Grail: reducing return/risk ratio through diversification
Or rather to keep the capacity to arbitrage the system to insiders.
Anecdotes are fun.

In first grade my sister had to write the first letters of pictures. The teacher corrected her: "No, no. Fff.Fff... Flower starts with F."

My sister: "No, no. Tuh ..tuh .. tulip starts with T."

Teacher had the nerve to call my mom and tell her my sister had been disrespectful.
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Hertz bug leads to people being erroneously arrested and jailed
The iPhone is the most successful product of all time
> It is a question of when not if a hash table is fully cracked.

...? At 48 trillion hashes / second, you could get the entire hash space in as little as 224 quadrillion years.

Of course, if you had any collisions, it would take longer. A lot longer.

This suggests that strong passwords are still just as strong under md5 as under a more modern hash. No? Use of md5 is a problem because people use passwords that are easy to guess, not because you can enumerate the hash space. The one-way-ness is as secure as ever.
The sunk cost (maybe wrong term) is really tough. It is hard to walk away because you have put so much effort in. Especially if you don't have a company behind a project it will probably falter.

I really enjoy Open Source 99.99% of the time. But that 0.01% I just remember how much work I put in.
Logpoints are v cool I think

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Debugger/Set_...

Will certainly be something I use now and again
I love this about Arch. It gives everything a very vanilla, organic feel and you never get caught off guard by some distro specific change.
It's too bad this analysis was done against the Dow Jones Industrial Average which is a price weighted index of only 30 large cap stocks and widely considered to be a poor indicator. Something like the S&P 500 index would would have been a better choice though it doesn't go as far back as the DJIA.
Why are Bluetooth functions exported from the infrared control panel?
When I see long haul trucks driving along highways with humans only taking over in the populated areas I'll believe full self driving may only be a decade away. Tackling the full self driving consumer market when there's lower hanging fruit makes no sense.
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Instagram wants you to shop and watch IGTV
Not Reminders, but Apple's calendar system torpedoed my Apple interview. Didn't properly account for the fact that my interviewer was in China and I wasn't. It got the time of day right, but he called me a day before my interview time while I was in class because it was tomorrow in China.

He let me reschedule for later that day but seemed hostile and grumpy throughout the whole thing. Didn't get the next round.
Bug reports are welcome, it may very well be something about your setup that hasn't been reported yet: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=DevTools&...

(I'm a Mozilla dev but not involved with Devtools, though I know a few folks, happy to provide pointers if you need 'em)
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I feel for you guys. People lobe to get upset when open source projects try to make money.
It's not like anything is wasted either. It's just an exchange of resources. The world doesn't become poorer when someone buys a painting for 9 figures.
Coke still tastes better from glass bottles.

Glass bottles are reuseable.

Hang on, why not use glass?
Small deposits certainly add up. Here in Helsinki you pay 0.15 - 0.50 extra when you buy bottled/canned drinks, and you can return the empty containers to pretty much any shop to get your cash.

There are homeless people who survive on the income from collecting bottles in the city-center, in parks, and even from rubbish-bins. It's not unusual to see a small group of people with large plastic-bags containing hundreds of empty cans/bottles.
Same here in Helsinki, Finland. People will root around rubbish-bins, and collect the cans/bottles. (Especially in parks, and next to tram-stops. Basically places where people are likely to have had a drink and not recycled themselves.)
If you’ve ridden the nicer Euro HSR much, you see that the extra 40 minutes that CA HSR was supposed to provide doesn’t matter much. On a comfortable train with tables, power, wifi, and a coffee car, you’re basically just working remote. You arrive at the train station 10 minutes before your train instead of an hour because there is no baggage check, no security, no massive walk, no slow boarding, and no taxiing. There is no climb to 10,000 feet where you can’t use your computer, no cramped seat that makes it hard to use a big laptop, no descent where you can’t use your computer, no taxi to the gate, no slow deplaning, no second long walk, and no wait for your bags. You can buy your way out of a lot of this on the plane, but it is expensive, and everyone gets it on the train. You just get on, sit down, and relax or work for a few hours.
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HN's demographics is extremely risk-adverse. They cannot fathom calculating risk-reward ratios.
Other than the fact that they are directly facilitating crime...
It's fine to dislike Medium and run your own blog, but I find the article intellectually dishonest in comparing Medium to Facebook. One harvests your data and lets advertisers target you with ads, the other charges a subscription to provide access to content.

It's disingenuous to claim they "sell whatever advertising they please", and link to a ToS screen cap that's completely unrelated.

Companies have to make money in order to pay their developers and pay for servers. Personally, I'd rather pay them instead of seeing ads plastered everywhere.
You're aware of your SAT scores, you're aware of your transcripts; you're aware of your essays and extra-curriculars; you aren't aware (or aren't supposed to be) of the content of your recommendation letters, but you can choose who you have write them. So sure, give this the same visibility as all of the above and make it visible to the student.
> trap of bearing their burdens

yep, don't bear other people's burdens without asking for money, or contributions (of labour - such as code)
Love this addon. It gives me the freedom to browse Medium again.
I don’t know why so many open source users feel so entitled when they have done nothing for the project. I believe that anybody can help a project from code, documentation, financial, graphic design, etc.
Although, the Dow doesn't really go back that far either in the sense that it swaps out stocks occasionally, which could cause spurious conclusions to be drawn if not accounted for.
I somehow doubt the reason this isn't getting funded is deaths of workers.
I'm like you.

It's great, but here in the summer, sunrise is at 4:15. It's a tad early to get up. I do feel good in winter though waking up with the sunrise.

I think Apple's bed time is a pretty good tool for this.
O/T, not meant to be rude, but under what moral framework do you find it reasonable to bring more than 10 children into this world?
>If you really loved the poor you would think how to help them lift themselves up

I know! Let's give them a bit of advantage in getting an education.

Oh, wait.
For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
It's 20 (or 26 depending how you define a move). See http://cube20.org/

Anyway, finding the 20 moves is very difficult and humans use longer path that are composed of parts that are easier to memorize. Probably the typical length is a few hundred of moves. I guess the robot use a similar system.

But IIRC there are some intermediate methods that use about 50 moves, that are easy enough to calculate by a computer but too difficult for humans.
You're correct. I simplified it a bit.

The point still stands, though. There's not much contention resources available, so if high system performance is desired, one should look for alternatives to avoid creating chatter between cores and CPU sockets.
Had to work a part time job throughout high school?
Don't most people do this?
Sometimes fiction is the best way to express truth.
Interesting, thanks! This reminds me of all the random shareware we'd get on floppies in the early 90s, Apogee and such.
If James Hackett were flooring a Mustang around a corner on public roads during a 60 Minutes interview while boasting about their new traction control I would be in a fit of rage.

The "you're being unfair to Tesla because you aren't complaining about other automakers" meme has to die, because Tesla often does what no other automaker dares. This leads to their biggest triumphs (and there are many), and their worst mistakes. I guess that's what happens when you optimize for decisions per unit of time, right?
Chelsea Manning sent back to jail after refusing to testify before a grand jury
I understand the feeling, but how about if we rephrase it from another viewpoint:

I don’t know why I should be punished because my parents didn’t succeed financially. I work hard in highschool but don’t have extra private tutoring or parents who can help me with calculus homework. I’m hard working and bright but how can I compete with kids from Saratoga High School where everyone’s parents went to MIT/Penn and work at Apple/Google[1]? I read library books and watch Khan Academy, but no one in my family ever went to college. Why does my parents’ achievement have a fundamental impact on my opportunities?

Somehow we have to aim for equality of opportunity. It’s difficult to achieve but can’t we agree on this as a goal? Opportunity should not be inherited. My kids are as good as yours, as the next person’s, independent of how hard we worked.

[1] hyperbole. Saratoga parents from UCLA/CMU who work at Netflix/NVIDIA I’m talking about you too.
You seem to be in the minority in that regard.

Those that have more resources have historically spent significant amounts of those resources to ensure that they pay in as little of them to anyone else as possible.
Without knowing the perspective of the animal how can you make that definitive of a statement?
They should put a black background on this with green text to make it more realistic.
The 1971 debate between Chomsky and Foucault was interesting because it made Chomsky seem sane. Worth watching. It helps to understand French but youtube might have some translation feature. Foucault is far worse than he's misunderstood to be. In the end he's just an opinionated French guy channelling Robespierre.
We don’t know if they worked harder or not. It’s almost impossible to determine if the reason for any particular success is good teachers, hard work, or genetics.
If you've got a business that requires Firefox as some component (in a way that isn't easily swapped out for some other browser), you really should have someone on staff or available that knows how to build and change stuff in it. That said, it's odd for Firefox to be used this way, to my knowledge, which is nice because it's on the short list of open source projects that are so large and complex that depending on the problem your only recourse is likely outsourcing help. In other words, if Firefox is integral to your business, befriend and get some consultancy retainers from some Firefox devs if you don't have one on staff. Not doing so is probably irresponsible from a business perspective.
I find that when people preface a statement with a negation, it has the opposite effect and draws focus to that aspect. "With all due respect," or "no offense but," or "not to be rude but..."
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I can see a new score based up height and good looks which are correlated with higher incomes and executive success. After all, these colleges care more about polishing their own scores (sat, rejection rates, library volumes, GPA scores, alumni starting salaries) even more than the poor kids trying to gain admission ...
The problem with "save in good times, spend in bad" is that people don't actually save in good times. Even if you raise interest rates, people will still borrow money when times are good because that's when there's profit to be made by investing the borrowed money. They do it less when rates are higher, but they still do it.

The "problem" with the natural cycle is that in bad times people start to default on their debts, which would otherwise cause banks to raise rates to account for the higher risk, which would cause even more defaults. By central banks lowering rates at those times you prevent that from happening, but at the cost of ballooning everyone's debt out of control. Because then people affected by the downturn can borrow even more money at the low rates. So we borrow in good times and borrow even more in bad times. Real debt per capita has been increasing for decades, which obviously isn't sustainable.

But that's what Keynesianism does -- it defers a crash by allowing otherwise uncreditworthy people to take on additional debt rather than filing for bankruptcy, but nobody ever pays the debt back.

Now the problem is times are good except that everybody has too much debt, which is only fine because interest rates are low. Raise them and everything falls apart as the money people are currently using to buy stuff and live their lives is suddenly required to make interest payments on existing debt.

What we need at this point is for people to pay off their debts. But they can't, because the money they borrowed is now inside corporations that never spend it.

So we need to either find a way for that money to get out of corporations and back into the hands of regular people (without crashing the stock market), or print a bunch of new money that isn't derived from debt and give that to regular people so they can use that to pay back their debts with.
Agree. I think you need to assume that people will litter. I think changing the material to something that can decompose would be a better approach. Maybe if the government gave some sort of subsidy to make the private companies do this?
Is there any reason why answering to a question through a social network would be considered differently than if they were saying the same thing personally in a group?

I'm sad for the commenter that wrote that he considers it as a joke: I make sure whenever I read or hear about somebody being in depression I take it seriously.
A cut in the corporate tax rate shockingly increases equity value.
At the end of the day, and this is a tough pill for many progressive types to swallow, the enemy to changes that would benefit most of us isn't just the so called 1% (or 0.1%, etc), it is the upper middle class.

This[0] piece is relevant.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-bir...
If the status quo systematically oppresses one group and benefits another, the beneficiaries of said system will perceive any change to the status quo that would reduce the oppression of the former group as an unfair attack.