skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But every metric used by colleges is to measure what you termed "scholastic actuality":

- School grades: if you didn't get the GPA you're already out of the running in many colleges

- Extracurricular Activities: if you didn't actually participate, then no one is going to look at how you might have done if you had participated

- College Essay: if you can't write you're not going to get any points here, no matter the potential you might have to eventually write something amazing

I don't see why the SAT should focus on some ethereal "potential" when everything else is centered on the current reality and not potential. Colleges aren't looking for the completely unrefined ore, they're looking for a diamond in the rough that needs to be cut and polished if you will. Not a bucket of rocks that are very likely to contain a diamond.
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That's a lot of tax records... Just in time for tax season
Because asynchronous communication takes a long time and often misses important emotional information transmitted via voice.

I am not a slow writer, but for many things I prefer to have a phone call as I find it significantly easier and quicker to clear up any potential misunderstandings.

I get that there are people that prefer text over voice and I do try to accomodate depending on preference, but if I have to have a proper conversation that may get a bit technical its simply quicker to call.
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Canonical URLs are part of the HTTP spec. URLs with session ids or user preferences are faulty and should be removed. Scroll anchors are useful to share.

Share button certainly doesn't work better; I find it so undependable that I intentionally avoid it.
NYC has the highest population density in the US, and yet Cuomo is fighting against stronger measures in NYC proposed by Mayor De Blasio.
thanks jcastro - if anything here is a clusterfuck it was this bro's article - If you actually watch my talks you will see that I love Kubernetes and just want to get people ready and excited about new technologies. The word clusterfuck is just funny to say...
Since SVN revision r4027 source code is personally insulting me (2008)
Problem is, hard science has been known to be difficult to articulate, and a successful researcher may lose their characteristic as being socially well-adjusted (to the point of being burnt at stake).
There’s a balance here between insight and precision. As you make information more precise, you often make it less understandable.

If you put the information in the footnote into the table, it makes the table harder to read.

As it is, the footnote is right below the table (not at the bottom of the page) and the information about the second spike is BOLD. That stands out to me.
Just so you know, Trump said that they only learned about it in January in today’s press briefing during the Q/A. There was a big lag time between actually focusing on testing and there’s no doubt that they dragged their feet and were more concerned with the stock market than those who would be affected.
Not 100% related but a fun thought experiment I’ve been thinking about. What if all these various online marketplaces (Amazon, Shopify, Weebly, Wix, eBay) had the exact same interface functionality? Themes might be different but searching, sorting, comparing, and buying were standard across the board, like NPC shops in video games.

I feel like it would lead to a significant increase in sales, due to the decreased cognitive load of figuring out yet another shitty interface. Mix in seamless payments and account management, and the idea of an online store starts to disappear entirely, to be replaced with the ability to just... buy stuff.
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Do you mean portable as in able to run on different databases? Your application would have to be fairly simple to achieve that goal. We moved an application from Oracle to Postgres. It took about 2 years to complete.
It just forces the people who corner the market to employ agents who buy the products in smaller batches. It helps a bit but doesn't fundamentally change the dynamics.
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I think it's a big shame they're not making the 12" anymore. It's a perfect computer for lounging around on the sofa or on the go. The new Air actually feels a lot more heavy and cumbersome compared to it.
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Ummm... iPhones? iOS and macOS share almost completely the same kernel (https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu).
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I was literally thinking about this in bed before falling asleep last night, but I was imagining scenes rather than objects.

I'm in no way a ML developer (I'm not even a developer), but I was wondering how hard it would be to generate an apartment / house layout from a (somewhat detailed) description.

I'm sure the first use that springs to mind is for architects and real estate developers / agents / brokers, but one of my pet-projects-I'll-never-really-do is to recreate memories in 3D from descriptions and old photos. Imagine being able to relive your childhood memories! Just throwing it out there in case one of you smart folks want to take that and run with it...
Those are linear increases for an exponential disease. The time-buying has to be for something new that battles the exponential: rushing a vaccine, finding an anti-viral, or figuring out how we can actually practice containment. (Testing availability is part of that, but we'd also need a tracking system.)
Then you just drive prices up and put the poorest non-poor people into the same class as the poor.
While I agree, let's acknowledge the fair critique from the end that is not, "Keeping high-achieving Asian kids out": the part where the tests themselves cost money parents (and school systems) don't have; the part where the study guide in and of itself is not enough to prepare for these exams, leaving us the true, astronomical cost of preparation; the part where this is all begging the question of what admissions tests are for anyway (generally, the same things poll taxes and quizzes were for).

I agree that the answer is the base SAT, but with an addition of a lottery past a point threshold. Luck (of birth) got us into this mess, and luck could get us out.
That was also the period when NAND/DRAM prices were up. They've lowered the price after their costs have come down.
Where is this data coming from?

I have not seen any numbers to indicate Utah was at 96 hospitalizations as of yesterday. Are other state's number correct? Was California at 952 hospitalizations as of yesterday?

Is this just using number of cases as hospitalizations?
Wow, thanks for the great insights!
Re: 2. Very much agree, we have a "vision" for addressing this, but it'll take time.
Re: 3. Desktop apps coming! :)
Re: 4. Ahh, yeah, for iPad version, it really shines with Pencil.

And thanks for the 2016-era feedback. Some of that should be better now.

And honored to hear Jofish recommended us! LMK if you want in on any of our desktop betas.
For twenty years I kept daydreaming the melodies and ‘feel’ of a couple of songs I’d heard at the ends of a cassette tape that had another album (by a different band) taped over the rest.

I probably heard about 40 seconds of 2 different songs.

I couldn’t remember any lyrics, and couldn’t remember the melodies well enough to play on an instrument - just the basic way they ‘felt’.

Eventually I heard one of them again and ... well, SoundHound or Shazam existed by then and saved the day. I’d been hearing part of Big Empty and also the hidden track from the Stone Temple Pilots’ album Purple.

I understand the need to know!
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I've never used a chat app that asked to send notifications. If they did ask, I would reject the request. I (correctly) assume the permission would be used to bombard me with irrelevant notification spam.
That’s a good point I hadn’t considered, they are fairly niche
Sometimes, there's good news from coronavirus
New York City doubled in one day - yesterday simply by having the capacity to do more tests.
I mean they themselves actually do it routinely. They just don’t always know or admit that they are doing it.
Why should they? The government will take care of them.
I don't think the costs of shutting things down are nearly as linear as the author imagines. Just because they might be harder to measure than deaths doesn't mean costs of paranoia-driven decisions are not also nonlinear.
I think that "smooth-talker" is typically not sonmeone who is articulate and socially well-adjusted who communicate their values and opinions in an intelligent way.

The typical use of the word refers to manipulative people who will smoothly pretend values and opinions they don't have in order to mislead people and take advantage of them. Alternatively it is people who talk about things they know nothing about convincingly enough for those who also know nothing about the topic.

The two are much different things. People who communicate their values and opinions have massive comparative disadvantage against them.
Seems we might be giving it the hug of death. In case it renders weird / 503s: https://web.archive.org/web/20200320200023/https://emvi.com/...
I wish he would. Time hasn’t been his problem.
> He took Trump's call for each state to fend for itself seriously.

Is that really fighting with the President?

Republicans have a fundamentally different philosophy about disaster management that matches their general philosophy about government.

Democrats generally prefer a centralized response, while Republicans want local control. I haven't heard any Republican object to Calfornia acting independently. That's actually doing what Republicans prefer.
I just applied to it for https://prismos.dev
this is something I have been building for 3 years on the side and while I feel its amazing what this allows one to do,
which is build IoT apps with a super easy API and install apps on your esp8266 IoT devices from an App store, no flashing and seamless end user experience,
its still seems difficult to monetize to me till far so no point raising funding (atleast till i figure out a go to market strategy),
but I would still want people to start using it.
While the amount isn't a lot, if it can allow me to fund my AWS infra for a year without worrying about cash while I spend money in promoting it from my pocket, then its great for me.
Fair enough. What are you using yours for that requires it be so light? Apple is probably trying to market the iPad Air in that space.
Yes, sign up for Windows updates on our website; we'll be doing another round of invites in like 2 weeks.
I don't think this is a nuanced enough way to think about it. Most of the reason I still use my macbook and basically the only reason I'd consider buying a new one when the time comes is "soft lock in". I'm not literally stuck, but I'd have to carefully consider how to do literally everything differently, and learn whole different workflows and software packages and keyboard shortcuts. I'd have to consider how various other hardware would or would not work with it. Etc. Orrrr... I could get a macbook that has a lot of annoying shit about it and just deal with it.

And sure, you could say that is the definition of "acceptable"--after all, on the balance, I "prefer" to just deal with it. But I'm saying that there's a qualitative difference (that you'll see in the long term prospects of the company if they don't get their shit together) between deciding something is the best option vs feeling stuck with something.
I'd add to this list Payment Request API, it's akin to DRM.
(And give your data to someone else)

Ex-nay on that from me.

Spinning up an instance, configuring rclone, and running rclone for a few hours is quite fine by me.
The people with these AirBnbs are no worse than the residents who vote for policies and politicians that create and exacerbate the shortages in the first place.
> But does it really matter ?

Yes - I think we should challenge misleading information wherever we see it in this situation. Fighting panic is part of the problem and bad numbers cause panic.

I mean, if we don't really care that the numbers aren't accurate because it's more important to emphasise why the project is important, we might as well go all the way and say 99% of people need a ventilator and really sell the project.

There was a news report recently implying a 50/50 survival rate, due to this same kind of assuming everyone realises that you're talking about some group that's already in a bad way, but not actually saying that in the text.
Sorry...I should've been clearer. PC-Windows only. :( But Web version is planned to come in the future.
> smooth talking, photogenic, well-connected people.

you mean the kind of people who have access to private tutors and SAT prep classes?
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yep, the first iterations of the macbook 12 were pretty awful but the last generation is actually quite a competent computer

4k display @ 60hz works fine through usb-c

up to 16GB ram

up to dual core i7

no fan

keyboard is improved over the first generation

i can run clion, xcode, docker, quiet a few safari tabs, terminals and other apps at the same time... the only thing is large compiled of course take a long time, but for lighter workloads, for people that are on the go a lot (like me ^^) it’s quite good imo
Macbook Air vs XPS 13

So right off the bat in trying to compare these computers Dell's site is leading me to 2 XPS 13s: the XPS 13 and the "New XPS 13". I'm going to assume new > old so I'll start with the "New XPS 13" which seems to be an XPS 13 9300.

Starting price winner: Macbook Air! $999 vs $1299.

So really the difference here is that Apple is selling a baseline i3 model with 256GB of SSD, while the base Dell is an i5 that's probably more similar to Apple's $1299 off-the-shelf option. Difference being by getting the better model Apple you also get double the SSD (512GB) while Dell is leaving you with 256GB. Which leads me to...

Storage: hard to call a winner. Dell's is similar to smaller for-the-price, but seems to be replaceable. Apple's disadvantage being a lack of upgradability, but higher amounts of it per dollar. Personal preference?

Memory: perfect tie, they both include 8GB of LPDDR4X at 3733MHz, and they're both soldered on-board.

Display: resolution win goes to Apple for including a 2560x1600 display while Dell's is only 1920x1200. Looks like Dell _does_ include some upgrade options for $100-300 if you want to go with a touch screen and/or get 3840x1200 worth of pixels.

Connectors: In count they're seemingly tied, 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports and a headphone jack. Dell pulls ahead with the microSD card slot though. Bonus points for having a port on both sides of the laptop potentially simplifying would-be cable-messes that could come of single-sided ports.

Everything else seems pretty similar. Props to Apple for the touchId sensor -- similar props to Dell for including the IR camera for Windows Hello support.

I dunno, I'm looking pretty closely here and I don't think either of these machines are "compromised" in any meaningful way. Apple includes the MacOS license of course, while the Dell comes with a Windows license. User preference and all.
Hard to say if that's actually reasonable, given there's exactly 1 (maybe 2, if you count the ACT) test providers. Not really a competitive market.

For a multiple-choice exam, administered electronically to dozens of test-takers supervised by one proctor...is that actually reasonable? Plus they charge you $15 extra if you want more than 4 scores. Most students apply to more than 4 colleges. Are they physically mailing scores to these institutions?

For a mostly-electronic process (other than the essay grading) $65 sounds like a lot. $40 for the non-essay option sounds even more crazy.
No.

Is it confusing to you that the parent was pointing out a multiple-order-of-magnitude difference in what the US gov promised vs. what the US gov delivered?

Is it confusing to you that a "distributed test" sitting in a closet is about as useful as a screen door on a submarine? And that "utilized" tests are the key metric that we care about?

Sorry to be a jerk but I think your "Is that confusing?" snark was pretty crappy.
I've been thinking along similar lines on high level - this approach will likely be very general and can be used to create different kinds of media, as well as potentially behaviours in a later stage.

https://metapresent.org/creation-engine

Will be interesting to base it on a decentralised open platform that could be "built-in" in the Internet.
Assume that everyone who has it spreads it to 2 people on average before dying or recovering. If one of the 2 people you would have spread it to is immune, you will only spread it to 1 person instead, and the total number of infected will not rise.
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You do not have to!. It is choice, where for many of us side projects are the pursuit of perfection that help balance shitty codebases of our day jobs, chance to create something other will use and be grateful, build a startup idea that can free us from corporate masters or just tire our restless minds.
Yeah, the Olympiad in the US is well organized. Probably the best in the world. I'm more concerned with the middle tier, to which the majority of the students belong. The best students in the US have access to vast resources, the academically challenged students do not feel the same harsh pressure as kids in other countries do. It is the middle majority that suffer from insufficient training.
I mean, the crypto part that isn't PoW is mostly just PKC, which actually does make sense for voting.
Ossified funding models in medicine throttling our response to Covid-19
Native modules are not such an issue, as they are only one file, and you are probably only targeting 3 different platforms, so you only need to add 3 files to your repo.
There is however an issue with breaking ABI which Node.JS like to do at every major version, eg. two times per year.

I however no longer put node_modules in version control because NPM likes to shuffle around the files in node_modules every time you run a npm command. I instead fork each dependency and link directly to the tarball in the package.json.

But then there are dependencies of dependencies... The only solution is probably to allow users to sign packages and updates. And then you can pick a chain of trust so that if you trust the signatures of a few people they in turn trust the signatures of more people and you probably will end up with popular modules being vetted/signed by many people and thus considered safe.
But is IQ really a proxy for general intelligence?
That is indeed a nice one, "Smallest possible syntactically valid files of different types".

Following the GitHub link (datasette-render-images) in the comment you replied to, there's a code comment with a link to the same library (small).
Agree with all except wondering what you mean by the safety profile being not great?

It's been around for 70 years, taken by millions over very long periods of time with relatively minimal negative side effects.
Right, which isn't relevant to projecting future new infections.
Can I get a reason why not? I’ll start.

I think it would be a mistake because if you have LEO who are disarmed, then criminals may be emboldened and LEO wouldn’t be able to defend themselves in the situations where they need to do so. We can’t both be advocating for better police training, police with all psychology degrees as a minimum, and then also saying we wouldn’t trust them to be armed.
I don't entirely understand your objection. the "meat-and-potatoes" skills tested by the SAT seem to be english vocab and algebra. there's certainly some gray area in the meanings of english words, but the examples on the SAT tend to be pretty cut and dry. as for the basic algebra questions, I don't really see how it could make sense for the answer not to be determined beforehand. 5 will always be the x value that make 5x = 25 true.

seems like as good a way as any to predict whether you'll be able to handle the rigor of 100-level courses in your freshman year. basically answers the question: "can you read and understand what we plan to assign?"

edit: out of curiosity I perused some of your other posts. it seems like you have a pretty good grasp of english vocab and sentence construction. I'm not really sure how you could have bombed the critical reading and writing sections.
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Somebody will eventually build it in Grasshopper/Wallacei.

Wallacei X Cybertruck: https://youtu.be/bLZf-MNRoyg
The strategy on a 50% setting works the same as in a full race. If tyres normally last 20 laps, at 50% they will last 10 laps.
Yes, and middle school students learn to write "Hello World!" HTML pages. So, by that logic, any web developer is interchangeable with a middle schooler.
Interesting thought, I would love to hear the leading UX designers of those companies discuss their ideas, desperately trying to settle on a solution they all like.
Most of the people I call are willing to use FaceTime Audio or Signal (in the case of FaceTime Audio they probably don't even notice that they're using it). Since everyone who calls me is usually on a cell phone anyway, I don't gain any audio quality with a landline, do I?
> a) Always use open source for whatever you can; b) Always download and compile the source for whatever you can; c) Always audit source that you've downloaded... I know; easier said than done...

Such useless advice. Your day ends auditing the tool you're going to use to do something else. Security should be done as a collective effort than individually.
Honestly, this looks like profiteering in a crisis to help sell their filters as this doesn’t accept the industry standard sized filters made by 3M, et al.
Well, not everybody is The First World and have ventilators plants in their border. But some place will love to have access to free and unencumbered blueprints to be able to do something locally with what they have at hand ?

But you are also right that people are needed to administer those. No doubt about that. As is also true a person can administer several of those machines.

And, just because something tries to address A only (and not B and C), does not mean we should not do it because B and C.
Separate issues. Beside, to train people, you need spares to train on.
yes, that might be the trick. I also disabled the cpu slot.
It was mostly an issue with memory use in Safari. Might be due to the kind of web sites she visits, with tons of video and animated adverts. Restarting Safari always fixed the issue. Anyway, I got tired of her complaining and got her the 16G machine and she's been fine since.

By the way, I had been fine with an 8G machine and I do dev work so I was surprised that it was an issue for her.
How not to be a shitty marketer during a global pandemic
It does though. If you employ agents, you have to pay them, which increases your costs. If you're buying for yourself, you only pay for the cost of the item. So this would do exactly what everyone is recommending per economic theory - raise costs for scalpers, keep them sane for everyone else. Purchase limits provide an easy selection mechanism between scalpers and others.

Also, in a situation like this, how many people would choose to be an agent for someone else, versus buying for themselves?
Replenishing the supply of masks, handing them out, and making them mandatory to wear in public places would go a long way to reducing the rate of spread, simply by changing people's behavior. I went out Tuesday for some errands (wearing a respirator of course), and it seemed to be business as usual for most people - very little distancing or concern about crowding.
“What if there was only one way to buy things”, “then 100% of things bought would be bought through that one way”.

If you eliminate differentiation you are eliminating friction, but also innovation.