skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. If I can afford to provide my own resources, I’m okay with this. Just like I’m okay paying for social security but not receiving any when I retire. Those that have more resources can afford to take less than those that don’t have enough resources themselves.

What I’m not okay with is adjusting scores and denying opportunity because of economic class warfare.
Australia has it per state and they have the refund logo printed on the bottle label. Bringing bottles from another state will result in a fine if caught.
The software.
Nest+Bedding+Memorial+Day+Savings
They will strategically default when the time comes. Their leasing structure lends itself to that sort of financial maneuver.
And passwords. In particular, probably some people reuse passwords between Stack Overflow and GitHub, and keep other credentials in files in private repos.
This is treading the line of being completely Kafkaesque. I'm having trouble following the discussion in this thread. On the one hand, lots of people are arguing that this test change is BS and will have lots of unintended consequences. Then there's others arguing, not always explicitly, that children should essentially be punished in terms of their "points", for lack of a better term, in college admissions because of their homelife. Have a mother and father that stayed together? You lose adversity points. A mom that stayed at home so dad could get promoted and afford to move the family to a better school district? You lose adversity points. A public high school with lots of AP classes? You lose adversity points. Family lives in an area with a tech boom, and thus has low vacancy rates in housing? You guessed it. No adversity points for you.

This is insane, and it's going to encourage absurd behavior meant to dupe this system - and don't kid yourself, there will be (see all the wealthy Hollywood types cheating on their kids SAT scores). There might be less nefarious antics if the College Board at least was transparent about how they calculate the score and released it after the test - but they're not. That's how you know this is a shell game, meant to give Universities an "out" for manipulating the demographics of their matriculating classes as they see fit. These incentives are wrong and unethical.

As a silver lining, maybe this will be the straw that breaks the camel's back and folks will start to realize what a fraud the modern "university" is. When the fiance and I start having kids, we've already discussed how college shouldn't be the default scenario. I hope others start considering this. It is mind-boggling to think that my kid could be disadvantaged specifically because I sacrificed to make a better life than I had growing up, so we won't be playing this game.
>a former deputy FBI director
>He's also a former TSA director.

That narrows it down a bit. With a name like that you'd hope he was more of a straight shooter.
It's pretty cheap _if_ you let people build on it! Let me have a 12 story apartment building next to transit instead of insisting every neighborhood stay a leafy suburb FOREVER.

Also, you realize we can make more of these, right? It's not like the laws of physics decided it was impossible to build nice neighborhoods ca. 1950. The laws of boomers bitching about their parking welfare (aka free street parking) every time somebody wanted to put in apartments did.
Well, yes. 'Originally' being a key word here. It started that way to be something else, and then continued evolving to be something else. Hence my question of what, exactly, the OP wanted backtracking -for-.
This is potentially a good thing since it could be easier to monitor for fairness and lack of discrimination than subjective holistic admissions.
I feel like the media's race to the bottom has accelerated dramatically in the last decade, even while its importance as an anchor of truth amid conspiracy-theory-filled social networks has only grown. It's concerning.
Far to the right side at this point is basically the idea that some races are better than others.

Really? Is that what you really mean? Because if you come at me being proud of the color of your skin, I’ll know you have nothing better in your life.
I don't know your situation, but I'm sad you feel that way. I'm not even saying your feelings, or experience of them, are wrong, but it can get better.
The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks, https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03635

This is in fact the most interesting hypothesis on why neural networks work I have ever read.
That’s a laughable statement not shared by many Parisians.
Stadia has a "frame token" that can be sent with the use inoit for cases like this.
I checked NYT's discussion on this article and a quick check shows top voted posts are mostly negative against this new scoring from SAT board.
Oh I see. (Why not just reply to my comment? :-) ) But then you lose the entry-level syncing capability?
I closely align with 'Boglehead' investing philosophy. This school of thinking tries to minimize risk by emphasizing consistent investment over time, avoiding attempts to time the market and pick stock 'winners'.

One of the best parts of Boglehead culture is a set of short, easily remembered phrases that describe core principles. In this case, I think of the phrase "Nobody knows Nothing!", which means there has never been anyone who can consistently tell when the market is about to spike upward or downward.
Would this be something companies would pay for?
It too hard! Give uppppppp

The siren call of hackernews.

Who the hell is even here anymore?
Why is there so much emphasis on wealth disparity when there's substantial evidence that life is significantly getting better for the poor regardless of this disparity? This is just one example off the top of my news queue: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/05/18/american-...

The phrase "A rising tide lifts all ships" gets routinely mocked, but the data seems to indicate that is is true. While inequality has risen over the past several decades, quality of life even for the poorest quartile has improved.
There's tons and tons of space that we could build affordable homes on. I don't mean token "affordable housing" that distracts so many people, I mean "10,000 people want to live here, so let the market build 10,000 apartments".

Instead, we let a housing cartel (boomers) forbid any new homes.
This. So much this. FoE is attacked from both sides. Each with their own self-serving justifications.
We care about the 50ms latency because the current games are designed for the platforms with <50ms latency. If the platform is changed, so the game too.

> Latency insensitive games for the most part are not difficult to run on commodity hardware.

Majority of people don't have a PC with a dedicated GPU. Or PC at all. Thanks to the Smartphone.

That said, I don't like the current trend and I hope they failed on streaming video game.
There is a very strong tribal/identity politics thing going on with both the left and the right in the US.

Scares the hell out of me.
My ideal system is to eliminate all private money from elections. You as a candidate are given a stipend by the FEC at the beginning of the campaign season, the same amount as any other candidate for the same office, and you are free to spend it. You ran out? Tough. See you next election cycle.

Nobody is allowed to give you money or anything else of value (including free airtime) -- not individuals, not companies, just the FEC. Anything else is bribery, and a crime. That way, you're not going to do things just to please your benefactors and get you an edge over your opponent next time, as your war budget is already accounted for. Instead you can focus on doing what's best for the people.
> Which is absurd, considering it's involved in college admission process.

Your SAT score is just about the only bit of the admission process you have access to. You don't get the admissions officers' opinions on your essay, what they thought of your extracurriculars, how they perceive the reputation of your high school, what their alumni interviewers said, etc.

(Chances are you can make a pretty good guess at what the adversity score is going to be, too.)
In my feedback they were quite clear in that I had not done everything required.
I would like to hope Stack Overflow of all companies doesn't store passwords in plaintext, but you never know.
Oh okay, I think we mostly agree. People ragging on the SATs and other standardized exams for being teachable is a pet peeve of mine and I overreacted.

Back to the hardship score, I just don't think that the College Board should be in this business at all. Individual colleges certainly know where an applicant is coming from, and what high school they went to, and they have a lot more additional information not available to the College Board. So they have a much better idea of what hardships the applicant went through. Furthermore, different colleges want different things from their students which would and should lead to them weighing different kinds of hardships differently. Reducing all of this to a single number based on very coarse data is exactly the opposite of what holistic admissions is supposed to achieve.
A kindergarten screening question that was given to my child:

What is a pair?

Most kids say either “socks” or “a fruit” (because hearing pair in this sentence is indeed ambiguous...)

The answer they really wanted was “two of something”.
The quesadillas have, like most frozen foods in the grocery store, their calories primarily come from highly processed corn/wheat. I suspect that's a big part of the issue.
>For those in power, equality feels like oppression.

This is a classic Kafka-trap, and I see this rhetorical payload delivered more and more these days.

"If you have a problem with changing the status quo, then you're in power and thus deserve to have the status quo changed on you."
The latest release of DiffEq.jl seems to support it (and the creator commented on it), but I wouldn't know the details.

http://juliadiffeq.org/2019/05/09/GPU.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19877173
That's why there are college essays!

I gotta say, people in this discussion are acting as if suddenly colleges will totally forget that they need to admit for the lacrosse team and the rowing team and make sure they get the legacy admits in etc. That will not happen. Those people make money for the college. People who pay full tuition will always statistically have an advantage. You know how I know? I have done admissions scoring for higher ed! I don't decide who gets in, I just read all the letters of rec and the personal statements and look at the transcripts and send in an Excel spreadsheet.

Of course a single numerical score never captures the complexity of students. I really don't understand why HNers think this will make or break admissions. Any college has to meet their budget first. People who pay full price fill those spots. Everyone else is fighting for the remaining spots. Ok, maybe I answered my own question: HNers realize that despite being moderately successful in our current regime, they can't afford to pay full price and so their kids will be scrapping it out with every poor kid who busted their ass too, and it's just less compelling to hear "son/daughter of software engineer from well-off neighborhood, with robotics team experience and high SAT score and hours of tutoring and an internship at a local biotech firm" than "son/daughter of welfare mom, with robotics team experience and high SAT score and an internship at a local bank"....

Rich people can have crappy lives. No doubt about it. But they sure do help a small liberal arts college meet their budget goals more easily anyway.
Um, yes? You'd use it as widely and as quickly as possible, ideally compromising every single vulnerable host on the entire Internet before any sort of coordinated response can be mounted.

You see these kinds of attacks frequently with cryptolocking/cryptojacking software. The more quickly you deploy an attack targeting a new vulnerability, the more victims you'll have.
When it comes time to enroll in college, I want that savant to go to the best music secondary school that they want to attend. I don't care whether they were "born with it" or "earned it", but I do care that they demonstrate outstanding ability.

Not "outstanding ability, after considering factors X, Y, and Z", but simply "outstanding ability".
So attractiveness adjustment score is also needed right?

Physical traits have huge correlations and almost certainly causation to wealth and success.

Tax credits for the ugly. Or maybe mandatory minor face disfigurement for the very beautiful.

Hating the rich is hate.

College board should use their zipcode model to provide free tutoring services instead of trying to punish Asian families who made sacrifices to live in better neighborhoods.

Holding down the top doesn't work, isn’t ethical and is not the same as lifting up the bottom.

Love the poor by helping them lift themselves up.
I’m Asian and I get called a white supremacist on the internet everyday. I’ve even been called that in person once or twice for arguing against AA. The only time leftists are truly race blind is when they assume everyone that disagrees with them is white. I feel like I’m living in the black and white Twilight Zone, the label has turned into an absolute joke.
Haha. Great question. Power Transmission.

When you model the transmission grid, you can solve for the flows on the equipment (lines and transformers) where the inputs are certain equipment parameters as well as generation and load values. This is called powerflow or loadflow and the traditional Newton-Raphson method represents the equations in Jacobian form where the sensitivities represent how real and reactive power is impacted by the bus voltages and bus phase angles. This solution takes voltage into account (pretty important) and forms the basis of many computationally intensive operations such as contingency analysis (also known as N-1). You basically determine before the analysis which equipment you want to monitor and then you have a list of contingencies that you want to guard against. The grid itself is a pretty massive NxN matrix that is thankfully both sparse and symmetric. When you simulate a contingency, you take it out of service in the model and then re-solve the AC powerflow. For each of those solves, you check that the bus voltages are ok and that the equipment is within the rated limits. Violations are reported to the user. There are other calcs that are also important and that use the Jacobian. I think one reason this area hasn't received much GPU attention is that the problem is easy enough to parallelize and most vendors do so now, so a server with a decent amount of cores can whittle away at even large grids with thousands of contingencies in a reasonable amount of time. Less important studies that need to be quick and robust use the DC powerflow which is linearized and doesn't show voltage impact.

There are many entities that monitor this in real-time, but transmission planners work with text file based models and will run millions of contingencies with computer clusters in a batch mode and dump the results in Excel or a SQL database. I'm not sure if a high end GPU would help there or if it is just a throw more CPU cores kind of problem.

How much would it be worth? It is tough to say. I'd have to know how well GPUs perform here. I'm guessing it is not as good, but I'm not knowledgeable here. If you had a product that bundled GPU, GPU-based power systems analysis software and a client that would run on desktop with an API, AND it performed significantly faster than the competition, you might have some customers. That is a ton of upfront work though.
> I’m getting pushed further and further to the right.

No one's pushing you. If you really are a conservative, you should take responsibility for your own views and actions. Don't blame them on someone else.

I'll also note that all of the things you describe as your personal virtues that are supposedly under attack were actually things provided to you by your parents. Not accomplishments of your own. Why should someone who's parents are addicts, have mental health issues, or crippling medical issues feel like the testing is a level playing field when they didn't get those advantages?
I've been doing this too. I'm also doing this with NYT, WSJ, FT -- all publications behind higher and higher paywalls, all publications I tried, but ended up leaving because they still serve you ads on their mobile apps.

Now the question is this: if I didn't care or it wasn't worth reading, why did I click on it in the first place?

Perhaps I don't care about this content as much as I thought anymore. Maybe we've been addicted to reading content, rather than actually making use of most of the content anyway.

PS: I'm trying out The Guardian now. No ads for premium users on mobile.
Let me get this straight - because "College Board" - which has literally no government or political affiliation - has decided to introduce an adversity score, you're going to vote for the party that brought us Betsy "We need a little more rape on college campuses" Devoss?

I'm struggling to find the logical progression there... how is this elected Democratic officials fault? They have literally no control or say in what the College Board does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Board
In your autistic savant musician example, they are probably practicing obsessively every second they can manage, and may actually have earned their success. Does their hard work not count because their biology "made them do it?" I guess that's a question that cuts right to the heart of free will and applies to all of us in the end.
This.

I dare the author to publish it on medium.

Triple. Dog. Dare.
> The so-called "adversity score" would never capture her private medical struggle.

She's probably gonna mention the MS in her essay, though.

There are always edge cases. That we can't perfectly capture each and every one of them doesn't mean some data on common advantages/disadvantages can't be useful.

(Plus, there's going to be a number of more conventionally disadvantaged kids with MS, too, who don't have the billions of dollars to lean on.)
CloudFlare currently botching some application/pdf responses
What a bunch of bull.
These investments support environmental projects, such as protecting forests that improve air quality and absorb carbon, sponsoring wind and solar farms that generate clean energy and replace fossil fuels, and developing greener methods for producing auto parts

The forests already exist, and the solar farms are built for profit. I would love to see Apples to Apples comparison of what this offsetting actually accomplished beyond the hyperbole.
ML approach automates pathologists' work to identify disease markers
Best Practices for Ecommerce Site Page Load Time Image Optimization
It is when combined with "commuted 4 hours daily."
Pretty sure every single modern browsers has that. The downside with using chrome is handing all your browsing history and bookmarks to Google.
Perhaps a side benefit of this crazy score is forced gentrification of all areas until their score falls to 50 /s
I should check out Seafile...
They can unbox sometimes, especially compiling with MLton or stalin. There's research papers on specifying boxedness explicitly still in the MLish framework but no real implementations afaik
> Equality of opportunity over outcome for me

I'm also Asian American.

This to me seems like it IS opportunity over outcome though. If you have two people who are equally hard working and one grows up in a disadvantaged environment, the latter going to score lower.

My parents sacrificed a lot so I could go to a good school. It was completely obvious to see that not that hard working people at my school would do much better than extremely hard working people from poorer districts.

The thing is, I imagine the people who worked harder but scored lower would probably fare better if given equal opportunity but they aren't.

> My family sacrificing vacations and eating out for 12 years (literally ate out 5x max) to afford to live in a good school district shouldn’t penalize us. My dad commuted 4 hours daily instead of moving...I’m getting pushed further and further to the right

If implemented correctly (and that's a big if) this should just make it so parents don't have to go through those sacrifices. Isn't that a good thing?
> I highly doubt the 10 cents per bottle is the exclusive reason--I wish that article talked more about it. The $0.10 could pay for the other reasons, but I think it's equally about infrastructure and culture as it is about cost.

i believe you are correct. note my response to another poster about returning bottles and cans here in oregon.
Mozilla methodology: staffs should avoid well defined works so that volunteers, interns, and students can do them.
Astronaut Chris Hadfield Debunks Space Myths
I think a lot of it boils down to an ingrained belief that real estate should be an investment. Everyone buys a house with the expectation that its value will go up. This means that homeowners are extremely adverse to policies that might reduce home prices (like building more housing).

Contrast this with houses in Japan, where it's expected that a home is a depreciating asset. Houses in the Special Wards of Tokyo can be bought for $300-400k: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGbC5j4pG9w
Silicon Valley Will Feel Sting of Export Restrictions Against Huawei
> All it requires is some minuscule bug somewhere

You can say the exact same thing for any proprietary software or web service. The point of self-hosting is reducing the attack surface and probability of an attack.
Sure. The adversity score looks at things like the crime rate of the neighborhood you grew up in. That neighborhood is (primarily) a function of two things: Your parents income level, and their ability to prioritize what income they do have to make sure you're in a good neighborhood. The second thing is what's being de-valued. Some parents work really hard and pinch every penny to devote resources to their kid's education. Scoring kids based on adversity partially mitigates those efforts for the purpose of getting into college.
California bill to expand privacy protections fails
What kinds of threats are you imagining though? KeePass2Android doesn't e.g. open any listening ports does it (I haven't checked)? (Not that NAT would make it easy to connect to it if it did anyway?) Are you imagining it would "accidentally" open a port? And you don't browse the web on it or otherwise run untrusted code on it. How are you imagining it would possibly get hacked? If it's connecting to e.g. Google Drive, then Google Drive or your DNS would need to get hacked somehow, and I'd hope it's checking certificates to prevent that (shouldn't be hard to verify this if this is your concern). If it's via Syncthing, your Syncthing would need to get hacked. In both cases your database would be hacked in which case you'd have the same issue with the offline version too...

OTOH you're losing entry-level syncing which is quite the inconvenience...
> And for private universities it's a big blow to the institution's reputations for all but the most objectionable speakers.

Numerous private universities (Christian schools in particular) enforce strict student code of conduct rules that severely limit the student body's freedom of expression as to way to enforce religious or secular compliance. And it doesn't hurt their reputation but instead is an integral component of the school's identity.

I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I'd argue that colleges and universities should have the right to police speech and expression: they should just be upfront about it. "Our house: our rules" as they say.
You are right about that, since nuclear is even safer now than it was in the 70s.