skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s quite relevant. The point is nobody pushed anyone out.

Independent autonomous people making decisions about which field they would like to study and seek employment in is not a mistake that needs correcting.
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love this phrase: "naturally constructed" numbers, suggesting that the numbers we use every day are themselves computational conveniences, and possibly that another number construction could be useful at other scales.
Stuyvesant used to have 13% African American students in the 1970s, matching the overall population. The test system didn't change, but the African American demographics in Stuyvesant dropped to 1%. Does this mean that the impacts of discrimination increased over time?
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I couldn't find any authoritative source, but it's hard to believe anything else if you've been following him for a while.
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Not quite; Simpson's paradox is when splitting a group into subgroups reverses the direction of correlation in every subgroup of the split, which is not the case in the example presented here.

Aside: it's not always true that the direction of correlation in the sliced groups is more correct than that of the larger group. You need causal analysis to know when it is incorrect or correct to slice the data to eliminate confounders.
> It is very clear that race-conscious admissions are systematically racist and discriminatory.

Every time the SCOTUS hears one of these cases they acknowledge that, but the justification is that these classes are/have been historically discriminated against and constitutional admissions which take race into consideration are a temporary measure to right these historical wrongs by leveling the playing field. So the end goal even according to SCOTUS is for these measures to eventually become unconstitutional.
> people will have a preconception that they may have been hired for reasons other than merit.

Said people have those perceptions regardless.
I guess, It is part of what makes going to Harvard valuable. You get to go to school with the rich and powerful.
We know elephants grieve for lost family members. We probably have the tools to cure many diseases they experience in the wild but yet we do not.

We have started to apply serious medical care to dogs and cats though. I can see perhaps over the longer term as material abundance increases we would actively setup "nature hospitals".
I read their books, somehow I felt lost rather quick after starting to pursuite their ways.
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Most (all?) of Europe benefited from colonialism and slavery, it wasn't just America doing it.
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My understanding is that there was no written evidence of a hard quota presented. However, the rise in the percent of college-bound Asians has grown dramatically in recent years, but the share of Asians at Harvard has not increased commensurately.

An appellate court could find that this fact, combined with other circumstantial evidence, indicates that quotas were used — even if not put in writing.

Also, it is well known that "strict scrutiny" is interpreted differently in the context of affirmative action than "traditional" discrimination. So when a judge says something survives strict scrutiny, the analysis provided may be more akin to intermediate scrutiny (applied to sex-based discrimination) or rational basis (applied to pretty much everything else).
> Maybe pay people more and treat them better?

How very un-American of you. /s

One thing that always staggers me in endless discussion is that nobody ever, ever talks about decreasing profits as a way to fix societies problems.

I mean, in 2018 McDonald's returned $8.5 billion to shareholders through share repurchases and dividends, it announced a 15% increase in its quarterly dividend to $1.16 per share. [1]

I bet the workers would like some of that.

[1] https://news.mcdonalds.com/news-releases/news-release-detail...
Who knows? Answers to these questions might spur discussion on connections between cellular automata and other computational constructions. I think that's Wolfram's angle -- justify the cellular-automata-is-everything tack that he's been on the past 20-30 years.
> If China did a nuclear attack, the US Army wouldn't be involved at all in any war.

The proposal was that the US would attempt to invade, decapitate, and replace the Chinese regime; the idea of Chinese nuclear action was as a response to that.

So the Army would already be involved, and US nuclear annihilation of China would be nuking our own army.
Likely the development of new techniques for analyzing algorithms. But I don't really have a visceral understanding of the problem.
I think this sort of addresses your comment: https://www.jewishgeneticdiseases.org/
NASA lander captures marsquakes, other Martian sounds
ACH is not the lifeblood of the American economy. If you removed ACH there would be unimaginable distruption but I can't see that economic activity would completely cease. I think the lifeblood of the American economy is our population.
Sounds like an automat[1]?

Interesting theory in the link that they died off in the 70s because coins were no longer worth enough to buy a decent amount of food and bills couldn't be accepted by machine yet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat
It's absolutely hilarious that the person you're replying to is so sure what's going to happen next without even knowing who the plaintiff is.
You shouldn't be downvoted. I understand your point: we may only be the 1 success to avoid global thermonuclear war out of 10 universes where such weapons were developed. And same may be true in other situations, as well.

However, this is a sort of fatalistic view that denies human agency (I guess I am fated believe in the fantasy that human agency exists as those who believe in that fantasy are more likely to take the actions necessary to survive in seemingly hopeless situations and I am descended from such people?).

We are the timeline that muddled through these collective action problems in the past. We have experience with doing so and were selected (in the evolutionary sense) out of all those possible human society timelines to have the ability to solve these collective action problems.

So let us choose act to solve these problems as if we were, indeed, capable of solving them. Even if part of us might think we can't.
I wonder how much public support there would be for ending the grants.
you do know we've been replacing humans with machines since the Industrial revolution, right? These people that were replaced didn't just go off and die. They found other more advanced work, allowing our civilization to produce more wealth allowing all of us to be richer. The same will continue.
Agreed, it's pretty ridiculous. At the same time, you need to look at yourself and make sure you don't fall into the analysis paralysis trap: it's not as complicated as it seems, despite the fountain of garbage information about edge cases and insignificant tweaks. Eat real food (processed food is bad), not too much (caloric deficit = weight loss), mostly plants (but not only plants, humans are omnivores for a reason). Basically everything else doesn't matter at all: it's not worth tracking your prai alkalinity because it might give you an extra 1% rate of weight loss or whatever the current fad is.
In some businesses, the customers are very price sensitive, so if you can’t make a product with very discernible qualities, the customers will opt to pay less.

This is the situation in restaurants, where most purchases are not going to be willing to pay extra for food to so that the cooks can make more money, because a competing restaurant with acceptable food is almost always available at a cheaper price by not paying the staff as much.
Large air bubbles come from over-proofing not a lack of it.

I've wanted to make an automated pizza factory since leaving the business in 2015. Nobody seems to think it will work in my network, but I'm certain it can work.

A real automated pizza factory would take in raw ingredients, cut wash and serve them individually for each pizza. Self-clean everyone of it's own tools/arms and allow individually addressable toppings or as close as can be whilst having a speed capacity to match the highest order count. Shops near universities or financial districts can get insane orders.

If I were in the correct position I would go whole hog on the idea simply because I like it. I think with the range of robots out there, there is a large space for wozniak-level improvement on the factory/semi-automated model that most fast food stores currently use.

I wonder under the surface if there is some hidden principle I am missing politically or something. There must be a reason it hasn't happened yet already, it seems so doable.
1 macro was deprecated, ATOMIC_VAR_INIT, it's not needed.

that's the only user facing change in C18.
Our building has 7 condos so this solution is an overkill. Yet, every day we have 4-5 boxes from Amazon laying around in the entrance of the building. Rarely, neighbors pick up the wrong package.
Other commenters have attributed that disparity to the African American community's limited access to quality K-12 education rather than a problem of Harvard admissions.
>People may judge you as lesser compared to asian harvard graduates, because they know that you've been held to different standards, even if you had the merit and deserved your placement in that university.

Sure, but that one is difficult to quantify and express in numbers, while the former is very easy, so let's just slap the sticker "solved" on this one and go along, am i right? /s
I don't think you're seeing what the parent is saying. What you are suggesting isn't actionable. We already have legislation to make discrimination illegal and it hasn't been effective at stopping it.
Well yes. Except if, as others have noted, the hypothetical malicious RDRAND can read the state of the entropy pool as well.

Of course that's a totally different and more complex attack. Is it still plausible enough to possibly worry about? I have no idea, honestly -- this is way outside my area of expertise.

What I do know is that hardware RNGs made from open-source and verifiable hardware is readily available for about US$50 for qty 1, cheaper in bulk.

Given that, it doesn't seem worth more than a couple of minutes investigating whether or not RDRAND can be trusted. If there is the slightest hint of doubt, I just disable it and move on with life.
Oh My Gosh, It’s Covered in Rule 30s

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2017/06/oh-my-gosh-its-covere...

HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14458955
Anybody got a mirror? The link seems to be dead (or overwhelmed).
Infographic: Social VR's Current Size on Steam
DHS Recovery Transformer Program

https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/rec-x
But even if companies are completely blind to race, if you reduce the % of asians in top universities, you mechanically reduce the hires of asians by companies, since the most sought after firms typically restrict their hiring to a small list of colleges.
> ... when presented with two candidates that are equally qualified in every other regard? ... Because that is often the situation

Is that the case? I always thought that the case is brought on because the diversity candidate is NOT often "equally qualified,"
Are you talking about a specific toll booth? There is Fast-Trak in NYC.
Although it certainly sounds like this guy had a really negative experience -- for lots of reasons that were not under his control -- I'm smacking my head at some of the stuff.

First -- when it comes to stuff like remote work (especially since he was first told "no, you can't do that" when he first explored switching teams), that's all stuff that needs to be in writing. Period. I don't even think this is a hard concept or something you need to learn from experience -- it's just common sense. If you are promised something that is outside the norm or what is official company/department policy, you get that in writing. If you can't get it into your contract, it needs to be at least in email communication with the hiring manager -- but you should really get that into your contract.

The second thing is the whole way he switched teams. Obviously there was something super sketchy going on there (and in retrospect, was the first sign that Snap was trying to manage him out), but that's a massive, massive red flag. For his own performance reviews/bonuses/reporting stuff, the idea that he would technically report to someone else while actually working for a totally different team just doesn't make sense. I understand needing to get away from a bad manager, but this was maybe the worst way to go about doing it, because it offers the employee little to no protection if something in that super sketchy scenario breaks down (which is exactly what happened).

Third, although I'm not going to call this guy "entitled" -- I do take issue with some of the work ethic stuff. I understand the hell that is unproductive meetings, especially meetings that don't involve you or that preclude you from doing what you actually need to do to get done. I have significant experience managing requests/meetings from higher ups that impede on getting your actual work done.

If you're called into a last-minute 2 hour meeting and it means you can't leave on time to avoid traffic, in my opinion (which may be unpopular), the adult thing to do is to stay late and attend the meeting -- paying only as much attention as is necessary. Yes, it sucks to have to leave the office late (and potentially hours later if you need to avoid traffic) -- but barring any sort of preset appointment or obligation, stay in the damn meeting and find a way to avoid having to be in the next one. Not to belabor the point, but the way you get a Low Performance review is to skulk out of a meeting and literally hide from your boss as you sneak out of the building.

Anyway. I do hope the author has found a place that is a better fit for them.
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Yes you don't need AR-15 for basic protection.
Democratic candidates are proposing it in national debates though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXcL_I3uTGI
Interesting claim but it's vague in a way that I really don't know what it means.
Are you saying that it is ok to be racist depending on the status of the person?
FB tried to acquire Snap for 3B, but Spiegel turned them down...
I don't understand why you believe an adversarial CPU must be deterministic simply because it says it will be.
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Is that what you'd say if a baker refused to bake a cake for a gay wedding?
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It is Windows-specific in details, obviously, but it's not an async IO explainer. The subject is different even if it's related.

PS. Who peed in your espresso today? "For the lazy", "you are welcome", "uh-huh". Even if you didn't like the post for whatever reason, it's not really hard to maintain a basic level of civility while expressing that. You may not realize it but your comments come across as dismissive and borderline hostile. It's really uncalled for.
300 pizzas an hour sounds like quite an achievement. But are they any good?

The quality of pizza varies so much from one restaurant to another that it doesn't matter how many pizzas it makes of they're not any better than human-made pizzas.

Sure, robots may lower the cost of a pizza. But the majority of pizza consumers will choose to pay a little more for better pizza. Little Caesar's tried the uber-cheap but garbage pizza model years ago and eventually had to improve its product.
Or you can just attend a school in CA, where this kind of admission process has been made illegal [0].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_California_Proposition_20...
When it comes to affirmative action cases like these people need to think a bit deeper than Harvard or even race in general. This involves our own collective notion of what is 'fair' and what is 'justice'.

I recently heard that the Spanish government is offering citizenship to a subset of the Jewish population that was kicked out of Spain during the Inquisition. Is this 'justice' for the descendants of those Jews? Is this 'fair' for migrants to Spain who have arrived legally but may be denied the benefits of Spanish citizenship? Has your child ever stomped their feet and crossed their arms when they perceived to be on the negative end of a 'fair' or 'just' ruling by you? Is it fair to the spouse and child of someone who has been committed of a crime that they are institutionalized? Is it fair to the employees of WeWork that they won't get to exercise their shares because it's CEO is a fraud?
Yes it is interesting to see that the focus is on the racial aspect, when to me as an outside it is the classist aspect that really screams out