skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Table 5 and 6.

If you're a random (non-ALDC) African American in the 30-40% (4th decile) range for academics you have the same chance of getting in as an Asian American in the top 10%. They each have about a 12% chance.

> Our model of admissions shows that roughly three quarters of white ALDC admits would have been rejected if they had been treated as white non-ALDCs.

If we're looking at how group membership affects acceptance rates, why not ask how many white ALDC admits would get in if treated as African American non-ALDCs? Why not ask how many Asians would get in if treated like Hispanics? Why not ask how many African Americans would get in if treated like Asians? The whole paper looks like a reflection of the cultural value that it's a good thing to go after rich white people, a bad thing to go after anybody else.

The interesting comparison is in Table 6 Panel B: White LDC vs African American non-LDC. For the top 60% academically just being black carries about as much advantage as being in the elite 4% (roughly) of white people who have some form of deep connections to the school. If you're in the bottom 40% you're better off being white with connections.
> Assembly is a fast car with no security features. C is a sportscar with a seatbelt.

Given the ways you can trigger UB there is no difference between Assembly and C with regards to safety.
This mirrors my experience exactly, especially the last sentence!
Yes, good point. The standard 30 year fixed loan in the US is not common internationally.
Yeah instead you get a device that reports everything to the Chinese surveillance state which is much worse.
I have similar frustrations using C++, but don't feel using C or even Rust would be an improvement, more of "side-grade" due to various tradeoffs those languages have for game development compared to C++.

I am excited about the development of both Zig and Jai since they both are trying to fill what I believe is a much needed role of a C-like language with a few more nice language features like better compile-time code, better compiler error messages, better error handling that doesn't use exceptions, and build scripts written natively in the languages, all while sticking to fast compile times and simplicity.

Games are a decently different domain than others, and there is a lot of valid complaining about C++. It's a known issue, we just need something that's clearly better, which so far I think those two languages are. I've chipped in a few dollars a month to support Zig and have been using it in my free time, but it still very much feels like the version 0.4.0 that it is.

This wait will probably be a few more painful years.
Show HN: ZIZO Design Method for Startups
Err no, France has 71.7% (2018) Nuclear electricity production. https://cnpp.iaea.org/countryprofiles/France/France.htm

https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/P1756_web.pdf

Away, from the IAEA which is very pro nuclear “Some Member States, such as France and Germany, have already needed to design or convert the majority of their nuclear power plants for flexible operation. Plants in those Member States have been designed or modified and have operated flexibly, and many reactor-years of experience and knowledge of flexible operation have been collected.” Page 18 adds a host of reasons why Nuclear is bad at load following. Page 25 shows just how low weekend loads get vs peak demand. Fig 13 on page 33 shows “Nuclear Load following” and that’s a direct quote.

PS: Of note France also exports significantly more than it imports in part because they are so bad at load following. But even with that they still need curtailment of Nuclear power which is made worse by the large shifts in seasonal electricity demand.
Wohoo Year of the Linux Desktop. Best Desktop OS ever.
I think what you say kinda makes sense. To someone that is not practicing mindfulness, do you mind elaborating on "you're not _the voices_ in your head?". Are you talking about becoming an independent person that, while being aware of her environment, does not conform to it?
> "The list of innovations we need is long: clean and cheap energy, better crops, interventions to help against the diseases that shorten and impair our lives. This, and much more besides, is needed to make progress against the big problems we face. But while the demand for innovation is large, its supply is limited."

Yes and no. What we need is better problem identification and more appropriate priorities.

For example, we don't need "better crops." We need to stop wasting so much of that we do have. Less waste means less wasted resources.

For example, less wasted food also means less chemicals and pesticides, which likely means less disease and medical issues.

If we solved for root problem (i.e., apply The Five Whys) we'd waste less time and resources solving for symptoms.

As for the supply of innovation being limit. IDK, I've heard that scarcity breeds innovation. So perhaps we are innovating, but in the wrong places, at the wrong time, for the wrong reasons.
The thing is just that people continually present opinions that require numbers in proper context to validate, but seemingly reject the concept that numbers in context are socially appropriate, at all.
Why does everyone ignore the second part of my point? Corporations are going into record debt to do this. It is one thing to pay back shareholders by a dividend or buyback or whatever, if the company has extra profits, but it is quite another to borrow money to do it.

That works for now, but as soon as those interest rates tick up...
..im suddenly seeing inspiration to hook up a modem to a 12" turntable output and see what kind of compression ..
You can do many things in many languages. You may realize in the process that doing useful things is made harder when your use case is not a common concern in the language.
Lol. Down voted for simple and obvious math. God bless HN. Keep the hate coming. I love it.
What??? He was literally pointing out a misleading statement and correcting it.
Appreciate the really detailed reply!
Better is a subjective term.

I wouldn't say what I built was a better ORM. But I would 100% say it's a better solution to the problem I faced.

It didn't get in the way of writing SQL, but it did reduce the boilerplate and repetitive gruntwork.

"Issues" - no, it was a function call deep and incredibly clear and close to what was happening.
While meditating, when did you choose to stop? I am guessing that having a timer is a big no-no, hehe.
That integration with street-view is awesome!!
>You never really learn about the WHY, the reason why,

This isn't just in Operating System, or Programming but Computer Technology in general. Unlike other Engineering courses from AeroSpace to Mechanical Engineering, which explains everything from basic theory to practice and how we evolve to current design and current ( likely slightly outdated ) industry practice.
> But no matter what, we will have to cope with the fact that they are taking our buttons away, just like they took the physical keyboard and the headphone jack. And eventually, they will eliminate the screen itself, too.

Is that when we've implanted direct interfaces into our brains? How far off is that?
Do they really require numbers though? Do you really need numbers in order to have an opinion that agrees with science. My opinion goes like this, the majority of scientists are saying X is a problem, it's very likely that it is a problem. So global warming is a problem. Mass extinction of insects, birds, amphibians, and mammals is a problem, etc.
ClojureScript, Reflex, Grapefruit, Seesaw and a host of others, It's my opinion (so take it with a grain of salt) and it very well may be the way my brain works but I just find functional to not marry well to UI development. For the service and process oriented stuff associated with the front end I think it is great, but when it comes to modeling components, I find objects and inheritance work far better.

This is one of the reasons I have long been a huge proponent of Javascript despite it warts, as it can be OO when I need it to be OO and functional when I need it to be functional.
While we're on the tangent of local vernacular:

at the beach

down the shore
I remember "live" projections of a TV video signal used in BBC programmes in late seventies, where you see on the stage a huge screen and seemed that it's not a film projection, and at that time I just couldn't imagine how they managed to do that, knowing only how the CRTs worked -- and big projections simply "didn't fit" that model. I considered that a pure magic.

And now searching the internet, they really did have this technology (see the comments):

https://hackaday.com/2016/03/15/retrotechtacular-eidophor-an...

"When I worked at the BBC West London studios in the 70’s we regularly used Eidophors for back projection"
Nuclear is, unfortunately, way too expensive to operate. It's hard enough to keep some existing plants running, let alone build new ones, just based on the economics of it alone.

Solar and wind, meanwhile, are cheap enough that they're being built in massive numbers even without subsidies.

We just need to solve the energy storage gap.
> Would help if the abstract didn’t uses phrasing like “benefits whites.”

You have made two factual misrepresentations about the content of the paper in this thread so far. That doesn't seem like discussing in good faith.

For reference, the abstract of the paper is:

> The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University provided an un-
precedented look at how an elite school makes admissions decisions. Using publicly
released reports, we examine the preferences Harvard gives for recruited athletes, legacies, those on the dean’s interest list, and children of faculty and staff (ALDCs). Among
white admits, over 43% are ALDC. Among admits who are African American, Asian
American, and Hispanic, the share is less than 16% each. Our model of admissions
shows that roughly three quarters of white ALDC admits would have been rejected if
they had been treated as white non-ALDCs. Removing preferences for athletes and
legacies would significantly alter the racial distribution of admitted students, with the
share of white admits falling and all other groups rising or remaining unchanged.
There is not a lot of research in this area and I briefly outlined my understanding of the current state when responding to a github issue:

https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/issues/345#issuecommen...
Glad you liked it!

> does it have a distributed mode like groupcache?

Not at the moment, no. Though it could, theoretically, be used within groupcache. We'll look into that as it has been brought up a few times now.

> it would be great if there's a "safe mode" instead of the (IIUC) "start dropping Set requests when overloaded".

We could definitely look into adding a config flag for that. I'd love to know: in what situations would lossless Sets be important to you? We already have guaranteed updates, so the only Sets that are dropped are new items.
I just did this and no major outlets came up. When I looked for major outlets, the articles were skeptical.
It worked in the past but today is different is a vast oversimplification of my argument, and implying I'm either acting in bad faith or hoodwinked by those that are in order to pay off some investment manager is just an attempt to destroy the messenger.

Good luck with Vanguard.
ChimServices
> I suspect two planes crashing into a building might have something to do with it.

The first war with Iraq was pre-9/11, so nothing to do with two planes.

Now, about 9/11, what did Iraq or Afghanistan had to do with those planes? If anything, the US should have gone to war with Saudi Arabia, whose citizens piloted those planes.

So how do those planes justify going to war with two totally different countries, that potentially had nothing to do with 9/11? Or how do those planes justify going to war at all?

Has killing thousands more people somehow redeemed or justified the deaths of people during 9/11?
Schrödinger used the term "negentropy".

And there's a story that Norbert Wiener used to wander around MIT telling anyone who would listen that information is negative entropy, including Shannon. (I'm having trouble finding it, will edit if I track it down)

Edit: ah, it was Fano who told that story (quoted in "The Cybernetics Moment"):

> Electrical engineer Robert Fano at MIT, recalled that sometime in 1947, Wiener "walked into my office ... announced 'information is entropy' and then walks out again. No explanation, no elaboration."

More about Wiener's approach and another recounting of the story here: http://news.mit.edu/2011/timeline-wiener-0119
The article in question: Energy and Information

http://www.esalq.usp.br/lepse/imgs/conteudo_thumb/mini/Energ...

Another paper co-authored by Myron Tribus: Information Theory and Thermodynamics

https://www.e-periodica.ch/cntmng?pid=hpa-001:1974:47::871
What bill? Printing money is not a bill
I highly recommend 8 Minute Meditation - https://www.amazon.com/Minute-Meditation-Expanded-Quiet-Chan...
Amazon FBA is the key to the success of Amazon and reason most sellers can scale. You can sell few items on Shopify or eBay but if you have to scale nothing beats FBA.

our startup has been trying to deliver the "Amazon experience" for websites and we have seen this problem with almost all major sellers
yep, lotta automotive and transport stuff.
Very interesting. Do you have any references to share relevant to the article you suggest to be written?
My personal opinion is that the average person is struggling not to die of obesity or become diabetic, not be massively in debt, take reasonably good care of their kids, attain a reasonable level of education, etc. So from this perspective nobody really cares about a computer programmer getting to do an interesting project for a year.

As for government funding for interesting projects, the way you get these is submitting research proposals to the NSF or something. Unfortunately I think it’s rare for them to give you money if you’re not a university professor or something.

As I understand it there are similar public and private grants for artists but you probably have to be pretty good already to get one.
Having a timer is excellent because it keeps you from having to constantly utilize your attention to consider how long you have been sitting and how much longer you should sit.
> Is that really an advantage of C over C++?

You may find that not all C++ features are supported for the least popular processors or for old ones.

Standard C++ threads, for example, were not supported by GCC for Windows for a long time. I do not know what is the current status, thou.
Rorschach Inkblot Test
The ever elusive QNX. I remember being given a boot floppy of QNX for PC, it had a graphics environment, a shell and a web browser. On one floppy. Stable like Linux, small, graphical and fast like Amiga (actually smaller!) and could run circles around Windows 95 on off the shelf hardware.

Alas, it was not to be.
Yes. I have tried all the social media.
Wow - disabling the caches is an extreme measure. I get it though. After doing that, you can (probably) do cycle counting on routines again. Just like the 80s or earlier.
This post combines pretty much every technology I'm obsessed with right now: Python, Rust, Pandas, Numpy, and LLVM. Yess!!!
I have a copy of A Guide to Programming the National - Elliott 803 Electronic Digital Computer, and it spells it "programme" throughout, but that was written back in 1962. However, I haven't seen it spelt that way in the last 40 years or so.
This is Zach. The guy that built the yurt and the website. Just found out this was posted here! Thanks for checking it out. I’ll try to add my two cents and answer some of the questions. Im away from my computer so I might be a little slow!
Street view is awesome especially for less than novices like me. The daytime street view is good because I know ah that’s in my back garden or I better go on the street and look right to see it. A star map projected onto a daytime augmented reality would be useful too if someone created that.
I suggest using Sattolo’ algorithm instead.

Here is a relevant blog post https://lemire.me/blog/2018/11/13/memory-level-parallelism-i...
When I was a kid I often visited the family firm where a lot of users performed various functions on an S/38 mini-mainframe by means of dumb terminals connected with Twinax (I was seven or eight, I don’t remember the part number of the terminals).

Anyway, long story short: everybody had the traditional green-phosphor-on-black displays, except one person, who had an orange-phosphor-on-black display. When I asked up-front about this (as seven/eight year olds are wont to do) it was explained to me by this person that they were colourblind and that an orange phosphor display had been procured for them to make the experience more pleasant.
Sounds a lot like Gandiva (part of Apache Arrow) as well. https://www.dremio.com/announcing-gandiva-initiative-for-apa.... Cool!
This keeps getting posted and it was on Geekbench 3. He is OK with Geekbench 4 [1].

[1] https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=159853&curpost...
So ... what do you want? To re-initialize Harvard with a 100% randomization of admissions for 10-15 years?
I haven’t looked into any scientific work around color perception but I would imagine at least some of the attributes are rooted in our evolutionary past.

Yellow=warning. Many poisonous critters use this color as a warning (snakes, salamanders, etc)

Blue=calming. Maybe triggers feeling of being near water which I’m sure long ago was quite reassuring when access wasn’t guaranteed.
Just a word of caution, always obsess with product and customer needs first :) In ML/data science tech first normally won’t end up well
I'm an aerospace engineer who does work for the U.S. Government. When it comes to journalism, I'm a stickler for not oversimplifying the technical in attempt to make things understandable to the layperson or to support feeling-based arguments. I definitely agree the author has an unapologetic opinion/viewpoint in the writing, and I too was looking for where they oversimplified technical detail.

The sentence after "This alteration created a shift in the plane’s center of gravity pronounced enough that it raised a red flag when the MAX was still just a model plane about the size of an eagle, running tests in a wind tunnel" marks a bloc of technically sloppy oversimplification.

That criticism noted, I couldn't materially fault anything else in the writing and in fact I learned some things about my own industry. On the whole, it is a really valuable piece that I will be sharing with my colleagues.
It is visible for a couple weeks every couple months. Could just be coincidence (though kudos for good marketing if it's planned!). I am wondering though if there's a prioritization for visibility going on, like `maximumBy (comparing brightness) (filter isInLOS allSatellites)` or if there's some prioritization by known-ness. I suspect ISS would score high in both.
Predicting the places app users will go. Location data and Predictive Analytics
Escalating to 'the guy who wrote the code' does not scale beyond a one digit customer count.
Lots and lots and lots of regional lobbying.
Unfortunately that's true, which is why linguistics is a field of study with its own journals, rather than something that can be summarized neatly in the space of an HN comment :P

This model really can account for quite complex language data though. For example, check out this account of auxiliary verbs in Basque: https://www.academia.edu/3112898/A_Distributed_Morphology_An...

Speaking to your examples: "mala mala mala sunt bona" isn't particularly difficult to analyze this way, you just need to realize that the "mala"s are different words (kind of like the famous English "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" sentence). If I remember the proverb correctly, it means "apples (mala) are good (sunt bona) for a painful jaw (mala mala)".

You need an analysis that allows adjectives to Merge with nouns iff they match case, gender and number, so that allows us to create a noun phrase "mala mala" in the instrumental ablative. Then you need a way to have the case, gender and number of subject bubble to the top of the phrase it will make with an auxiliary so that the adjective after the auxiliary is feature restricted to that case, gender and number. Once the elements of the auxiliary verb phrase have Merged, you get:

{{ mala, sunt }, bona }

Finally you have a rule that allows auxiliary verb phrases to Merge with noun phrases headed by an ablative. If you want the first "mala" to be the subject, then re-Merge it with the whole sentence so far, which in effect moves it to the top of the tree, leaving a trace in its original position.

I'm not sure what the second example means. My best guess is that it's the dative singular of 'sol', a matching masculine dative singular of 'solus' and a genitive singular of 'solum', so something like "for the only sun of the land". If that's correct, you need our previously used rule for Merging adjectives iff they match the noun in case, gender and number. Then you can add an additional rule that genitive nouns can be Merged with noun phrases (without any feature selection needing to take place) to form a new noun phrase.

Hopefully that shows that Merge and feature selection as mechanisms can be used outside of toy models, to actually account for real data.
> use exceptions instead of return code for errors

I happen to have the exact opposite opinion. Exception handling tends to feel too "magical" (read: non-deterministic, hard to behaviorally predict, etc.) relative to just returning an error code.
Is someone born in 1977 or 1979 fundamentally different? Are they really more like, say, Steve Jobs (i.e. the previous generation)?
...excuse me, that’s what I was actually thinking of. Actually patching the binary would be stupid, I meant to say code injection. Thank you.
Unfortunately, many times, the dead body belonged to an idiot, whose foolishness won them a Darwin Award, and the legacy of inconveniencing millions of people.

We place too high a value on human life, and it's no wonder that we can't accomplish anything when a non-zero level of risk is unacceptable.
I was studying nuclear engineering in Finland in 2011, and by reading BP's Statistical Report on World Energy I came to a conclusion which dismissed the reason that I had opted to go into the energy sector: the belief that we are running out of fossil fuels. The specific numbers that convinced me that there was no shortage in fossil fuels was the known oil reserves vs time and consumption vs time. In the 25 years from 1985 to 2010 humanity was discovering oil reserves faster than we were increasing production! This ran counter to the narrative of Peak Oil at the time (noticed how no one talks about that anymore?)

I only saw part of the picture, though. I didn't spot the revolution in natural gas extraction that was occurring and which is the interesting part of this story: nuclear power can't compete with natural gas! The prices of fossil fuels are simply too low.

This makes me happy that I chose a career in programming and crypto currency instead of trying to solve a problem that wasn't there.
The science behind phone addiction
LiC ?-
I strongly recommend the book 'The Mind Illuminated'. It is written by a neuroscientist who is also an expert practitioner of meditation. That said, it is far less casual than apps like headspace; the principle goal of the book is not to develop increased focus or productivity, but to develop meditation to discover insights into the nature of consciousness through direct experience.

The book does a great job of highlighting many common misunderstandings and pitfalls of beginner mediators in a practical and mostly down to earth way.

I use it with an App called Insight Timer that allows me to track the time I have put into meditating with satisfying statistics and graphs.