skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's what annoys me. This analysis is showing that race-based factors are being factored into "personal ratings" and in how rec letters are being interpreted etc. Just make there be an overall admission penalty for being Asian and release the exact level of that barrier like they do for med school admissions. You can see for med schools exactly what the average GPA and MCATs needed are for white, black, Asian, Latino, etc. Stop trying to hide it in obviously discriminatory ways like lowering people's personal ratings. Just make an affirmative action penalty without perpetuating stereotypes about Asian American applicants being math-loving robots with no other well-rounded characteristics.

What annoys me even more frankly is that the burden for fixing centuries of institutional racism and discrimination apparently needs to be born by hardworking immigrants and children of immigrants, not the people that most directly benefitted from generations of injust social structures. Legacies are OK, and the percentage of students at ivy league schools from the top 1% can be sky-high, so rich wealthy white students with connections and successful parents don't have to sacrifice anything. Legacy admissions, a structure explicitly created by many schools to keep out Jewish students[0], is OK because "school spirit" and increased donations. People that benefit from generations of inequity totally deserve their spots at these schools. However, the hardworking student who's a child of immigrant parents, without connections or networks, parents working in everything from laundromats to tech jobs building generational wealth from the ground up? Students who studied hard to get good grades and do everything the admissions officers could want? No, they have to sacrifice their admissions to fix the legacy of slavery. They have to pay the price and are discriminated against compared to white folk. What a brilliant way to breed lateral violence between minorities and create a system that continues to perpetuate classism and racism while pretending that keeping out a deserving Asian student in favor of a rich white student is helping a disadvantaged black student.

[0]https://www.businessinsider.com/legacy-admissions-originally...
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They should call it 'The Seinfeld Chronicles.
i think by dominant group s/he likely meant over-represented group
> aluminum not aluminum

Looks like you mean "aluminum not aluminium"?
Why is it so acceptable these days to judge people by their associations, even with so many degrees of separation between them? He worked with a company which worked with people who used to be antisemitic. Who hasn't done that? A similar thing happened to the queen of England who was criticized by the media for riding in a car with a man (her son) who was friends with a convict.
You can stand by the phrasing, which I think most reasonable people would deem hyberbolic. It is a misuse of language to make such a strong emotional statement about a design decision where you have zero knowledge of the considerations involved, and what tradeoffs were considered.

There must be some sort of an internet rule one party intends a statement to be about the other, but it really applies to the author.
Also a FLIR selfie camera could monitor our temperature at random points throughout the day.
I trust them almost as much as I trust Zoom. Be careful not to wear a shirt that allows the shape of your nipple to show through if you're female. Zuckerberg gets upset about that.
I agree that reliable antibody tests will be a help to policymakers in how they model the continued stay-at-home posture and begin to open things back up.
I think the jury is still out on 1. The persistence of the antibody response post-infection and 2. the neutralization/protection afforded by these antibodies.

The development of antibodies requires either a vaccine or you to be infected. The rate of antibody protection in populations is certainly rising, but to get to meaningful levels of herd-immunity it would require all of us to get infected, lets say ~70%+ (obviously problematic), or rapid and major strides to be made in vaccination.

Anecdotally, significant therapeutic, vaccination and diagnostic approaches are required to effectively respond to COVID-19. Its been incredible to be a part of such a widespread, organized movement within both the healthcare and tech communities as we collectively mobilize to respond.
You got a lot of things figured out here. A lot of it looks fun, too. Let me help you with an easy one:

"because I'm scared to get water in my laptop or iPad in the kitchen"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ0_HDJkatY

They were pretty affordable on eBay when I last checked. :)
Correct. A few more details:

>[...] To show our commitment to this dual licensing model, the KDE Free Qt Foundation was founded in 1998. It is a non-profit foundation ensuring that Qt will always be available under open source licensing terms. The agreement that governs this foundation has stayed mainly unchanged over the last 17 years. As a lot of things have changed during these years, we have been working with KDE over the last year to create a new and updated agreement that takes todays realities better into account.[...]

From: https://www.qt.io/blog/2016/01/13/new-agreement-with-the-kde...

The updated contract mentioned in that blog post is available here: https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/Software_License_Agreeme...
> I've seen a-million-and-one junior developers screw up for-loops, too, with overly complex code that's hard to understand and debug.

Everything can be abused. I see people doing side effects in their mapper callbacks, deeply nesting ternaries and switch and if/else statements, mutating far off objects, and just generally making code way more complex than it needs to be. Usually, this is from junior devs, but not always.

In the right hands, functional programming in JS can be very powerful. It can be easier to reason about (linear data flow, declarative code), and more performant (immutable data structures, transducers). In the wrong hands, it can be even more opaque than imperative, procedural code.
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Even on a freshly formatted drive, you'd want your write rate to stay below what the SMR rewrite process can handle. If the drive fills up and it needs to delete something to make room before writing new video, its ability to keep up with the incoming video data is going to be reduced.

Lots of recording systems won't record unless the camera sees motion. Or they record at a much lower frame rate until motion is detected & then go into high speed mode to capture fine details. So that helps, and the CMR buffer also helps. But if the recording fills up the CMR buffer, you're back to incoming data potentially arriving faster than SMR can rewrite.

Time to drop back to 1080 HD cameras from 4k cameras maybe. Or reduce the number of cameras.

edit This is comparing a SMR to a similar CMR drive. Obviously, any drive can run into trouble if you exceed its write capabilities. But a SMR drive's write rate is going to be lower than a CMR drive, once it's buffer area is full. And especially if you're doing random writes.
Like one greyed out poster said, no one cares - about Asian Americans in the U.S. There is likely no other minority group where if something like this were occuring against them, that it would just be accepted. Hell, it wouldn't even be up for debate. Yet with Asians, here we are. No one being fired or cancelled, no action being taken, no one going to bat for Asians in this country like they would've if it were an African American, Mexican, or other minority group.
What percent of Harvard is Jewish? Why are they not discriminated against in admissions? Why only Asians?
That's actually how China handled it. If you test positive, you don't go home - you go to a facility to be quarantined and treated if necessary.
I still think agile has a place as a focus for discussion when you're taking a large organization from a waterfall model (or any model that tries to commit to delivering a set of uncertain features by a specific deadline) to a more reasonable and effective process for software development.

In this situation, you'd get shot down for following rigid Agile, because the process gets in the way of delivering value. What you end up doing is using the concept of "agility" to sell some agile-lean-hybrid-involve-the-stakeholders-think-small-and-demonstrate-the-value-of-delivering-value. It's not about the Method, it's about the outcome.

No one needs to go black-and-white rigid Agile, that's where it went wrong. But agility is a good way to describe the concept of efficiently changing (and handling change).

I just feel that every article about capital "a" Agile immediately sinks to level of pedantry that is a complete waste of time, so... I didn't read the OP.
yeah, it was interesting that rather mention anything about the interview and its content, you went to character assassination of the messenger. we could go out on a few angles from that. we let it stand, as it shows something that doesn't need explicit expression. perhaps the ministry of information will package something for you.

[squarebracket]she mentions the site in the interview
My first taste of it was in Berlin at Markthalle Neun. The furthest south I’ve been is Schmalkalden, a tiny little town no one has ever heard of (at least in my experience). Bayern is planned for 2021.
Not Harvard, but (being Asian American) this sort of soft characterization as being deficient in personality metrics rings true in my head.

For starters, my father in his full time government job repeatedly got "no leadership potential" reviews. Meanwhile in his part time job with the US Navy, he advanced to the level of captain and in his final act for the Navy led a team that completed its first fully digitized inventory system, saving the Navy billions of dollars, and delivered it under budget and ahead of time. (Fwiw he was non-technical, just "good at making things happen for nerds", his words not mine)

In my personal life, I've encountered several situations where people have expressed to me explicitly or implicitly they didn't consider me to be leader-worthy despite my having successfully managed small teams several times in my career.
BlueJeans has an end to end encryption...and if your concern is end to end encryption, on what planet are you interested in a facebook product?

Or is this Poe's law and I'm tired.
Part of the reason that those numbers aren't explicitly or obviously available is due to the tenuous legal nature - while it may technically be legal, quotas certainly aren't - so better to obfuscate a bit.

I'm not sure the "personal ratings" were an intentional way of enacting affirmative action here, I think that was actually more a product of racist alumni interviewers.
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You'd need to disable tracking protection or whatever equivalent in your browser. It's a known issue with removeddit.

If you check your console log, you'll see:

> Tracking Prevention blocked an XHR request to https://www.reddit.com/api/v1/access_token.
What's the question? Given a specific example you can do the calculation. Generally the ideal route is going to consist of hugging the insides of curves + straight lines that are tangent between two opposite-direction curves. But for arbitrary curves I don't think you can say much more that's interesting or useful.
In 1925, Jewish students at Harvard made up 28% of all attendees. President Lawrence Lowell brought into existence policies to judge individuals on character after failing to limit the number of Jewish attendees to his school. Once these policies were put into action, Jewish attendance at his school declined, eventually dropping below the 15% limit he was originally seeking to put it into existence.

It wasn't that the Jewish people were being discriminated against. They were just not as well-rounded, lacking in character and that savoir faire that came so easily to anyone who was not Jewish. It may have been genetic or cultural. I guess we'll never know. Hard to tell why they just couldn't pull it off.
I think OP means they are dominant in performance, which would lead to "over representation" if that was the only admissions factor.
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yes; and again about 2 weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821050
the wine director (the exalted sommelier who gets to buy the wine that is sold/served) in a high quality restaurant has both passed the exam and works every day literally tasting wines. They get better at it, not worse, and the best of them create lists of quality and diversity that offer them opportunities to taste that are simply not available to anybody else, especially not to a lowly student.
Many meatpacking plants are installing plexiglass dividers between workers.

I wonder if this is where tech workers are headed too. It would be interesting to see Google and Facebook offices with plexiglass dividers separating employees. It may happen in the near future!
The closest thing to Ubuntu is Debian.

But I'd like to throw in a recommendation for Fedora. It includes Flatpak by default (which to me as always been the least objectionable sandboxing system) but nothing comes as a flatpak by default. You have to explicitly choose to use it.

Fedora's hardware support is second to none, and even supports in-OS BIOS updates.

I highly recommend it.
Is there some book of best web dev practices where stuff like this is written down?
s/willing/forced
The PT Cruiser was definitely a nod to that style of car:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_PT_Cruiser
So apparently Asians are supposed to be a model minority? But at the same time clearly not "model" enough for Harvard admissions? I believe the limited and idealized perspective of which Asians-Americans are viewed serves as a method of placation, making it harder to detect discrimination and racism. I'm trying to become aware of the benefits as well as drawbacks of this status, and I'm not sure what Asian Americans think about this as well.
I have that special tool, but keep making a horrible mess. I think my batter is too thick.
The likes of SAFe argue otherwise, having you plan out and commit to _three month's_ worth of stories in advance. It's supposedly still "agile" because the plans you've "committed to" are expected to change as you go. Oh, and it's set up such that other teams are expecting to be able to depend on your team delivering stories by the sprints you said they'd be done, of course. No problem, as those dependencies probably existed anyway and now they're made explicit and public. As long as you've delivered the increment of work you'd promised when the three months are up, nobody gets fired. Totally agile.
Switching to another browser to fix a packaging problem with the first browser is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

It's also disingenuous to suggest a browser wrapped in a cryptocurrency promotional wallet thing as a comparable alternative.
A recent example confirming this point

https://nextshark.com/ucsc-phd-student-racist-rant/

The department and UCSC are effectively standing behind a PhD student who advocates for genocide.

The targets are not quite the same demographics, but the reason both are tolerated is the same
or better yet, don't even use <form> for things that don't submit a traditional old-style POST/GET to a server. if you're handling all your logic in javascript on the client side, OR doing everything with AJAJ [0], <form> is unnecessary and you can handle things with button.onClick -- you get to program it just like any other GUI.

[0] most people use JSON not XML so i prefer to call it AJAJ not AJAX
That's how things still work in Pakistan to some extent. Especially if you want maize/barley/etc flour, you bring the seed, they will mill it for you.
They're in a "startup incubator" for bio firms in South San Francisco.[1][2] The incubator is run by a unit of Johnson and Johnson. Multiple companies (51 are listed, but some may no longer be there) share 30,000 square feet of workspace there. "We welcome new resident companies with the infrastructure and tools they need to get up and running on day one. This capital efficient model takes time and investment out of the equation—eliminating the normal setup typically required of a startup."

[1] https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/Document/RetrievePDF?Id=04...

[2] https://jlabs.jnjinnovation.com/locations/jlabs-ssf

[3] https://jlabs.jnjinnovation.com/JLABSNavigator#/location/Bay...
That's super cool. A friend was just asking me "how do you use numbers to weigh decisions again" and we laughed at the synchronicity when I sent her your link and she read the title. Thanks again.
That post, which was very popular, immediately came to my mind too.

It also feels like the logical next step to the very widespread testing found in countries like South Korea.
This was one of the most depressing charts
https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/medschool.pn...

if you're asian, your chance of being accepted to medical school is 1/8th of black in lower score zone. 1/8th.

You can have the highest GPA and MCAT. Your chance of getting in is still lower than black with lowest GPA and MCAT.

I don't know if the stats are adjusted for schools applied, but still quite an eye opening chart. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. It's bad.
> I don't think either Intel would accept selling chips as co-processors

Who said they'd have to be from Intel specifically? AMD makes x86 CPUs, too. Speaking of:

> 6W parts don't deliver good performance.

AMD's APUs have historically been pretty decent performance-wise (relative to Intel alternatives at least), and a 6W dual-core APU is on the horizon: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15554/amd-launches-ultralowpo...

Apple probably doesn't need the integrated GPU, so an AMD-based coprocessor could trim that off for additional power savings (making room in the power budget to re-add hyperthreading or additional cores and/or to bump up the base or burst clock speeds).

> for cost, they'd have to buy the intel processor

Or AMD.

> and the infrastructure to support it (socket, chipset, heatsink, etc)

Laptops (at least the ones as thin as Macbooks) haven't used discrete "sockets"... ever, I'm pretty sure. The vast majority of the time the CPU is soldered directly to the motherboard, and indeed that seems to be the case for the above-linked APU. The heatsink is something that's already needed anyway, and these APUs don't typically need much of it. The chipset's definitely a valid point, but a lot of it can be shaved off by virtue of it being a coprocessor.
Buy more ram?

If you're regularly running into memory performance issues despite using data.table, and you don't feel like fiddling with mmap, consider looking into an APL variant.
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That's just as bad. As the paper notes, these Asian-Americans have justly earned their representation through demonstrated capability and hard work and they are being deprived of it.
So, isn't the trick here getting 1) someone high up / creative type at the copyright owners level to notice this and give approval before the 2) lawyers / corporate sharks at the knee-jerk level send a cease-and-desist or copyright notice and decide to shut you down and steal the idea to develop themselves?

Because I imagine what lawyers worry about is (at worst) whether letting you go on with this website shows that they did not assert their rights in the face of a derivative work, or (at best) whether the trouble of negotiating with you on the terms you want for the development you've already done is more trouble than just taking the idea and doing it themselves?

I would guess you have a bit of a ticking clock to spread as much word about this and try to reach the person in the first category (through contacts, "phone-a-friend-who-might-know-xyz", etc), before inevitably the 2nd category catches wind of it.

Good luck with it though!
Not just more natural, it also lends itself to better accuracy and/or efficiency in some cases too.

As a quick example, if you're writing a numerical approximation or even just a LUT for sin(x), you can get away with only approximating/storing values for a reduced range by using some bit twiddling. The top bit becomes sign of output if you XOR it out first, the next bit lets you take advantage of sin(pi/2-x) = sin(x+pi/2) to half the input range again, eek out symmetry for the next bit and you can nearly approximate sin(x) as a linear function for some use cases.
> If I had $35 US dollars I was entitled to an ounce of gold. The same amount would now buy 2% of an ounce of gold.

If you had $35 US, you theoretically had the equivalent of an ounce of gold. You couldn't actually buy the gold, though, not until (IIRC) 1965.

> I'm more than happy to agree it is not a precise comparison. A lot has changed over the last 50 years. But even after leaving a reasonable allowance for that, someone arguing that the move off the gold standard would destroy the value of the dollar appears to be (100-2)=98% correct. If you like we can agree that the starting price was $150/oz in market prices, in which case we can agree they were 90% right.

Sure, I'd go with that. But that also means that there was (150-35)/150 = 77% destruction of the value during the time when we were nominally on the gold standard, but people couldn't actually use the dollars to buy gold.

If you wanted to argue that it wasn't a real gold standard when people couldn't use the dollars to buy gold, I would agree with you. I wouldn't even complain about "no true Scotsman", because the difference seems to me to be a crucial one.

> The US government has an inflation policy; they explicitly want to reduce the value of the dollar at a rapid pace. The government is publicly on the record as thinking that is a good outcome.

Well, they say they're targeting 2% inflation. To me, that's eroding the value of the dollar, but not "at a rapid pace" - I saw 14% inflation in the late 1970s. I will admit that even 2% inflation adds up rather shockingly when you look at 50 years, though.

> So maybe they would have destroyed the value of the dollar even if it was on a gold standard. That seems likely to me.

If they had a real gold standard, I don't think they could have - they would have hemorrhaged gold until they had none left, and then they would have had to give up the pretense. But a "gold standard, but you can't actually convert" let them inflate while pretending that they weren't.

> Whether this was a bad outcome or not is debated, but given the collapse of real wage growth vs steadily growing productivity after 1970s I don't see how it can be argued that inflation is working. Working to do what, get everyone indebted to banks? High real GDP growth is good for the averages but hasn't done very much for real median wages for example.

I see it like this: After World War II, there were cycles of prosperity and recession, but each cycle was at a higher rate of inflation than the previous (comparing the same points in the cycle, obviously). Then in 1979, the Fed changed strategy. Since then, each cycle has had lower inflation, but also a lower fraction of the population employed. I think (but cannot prove) that the lower fraction of employed workers has something to do with the lack of wage growth.

As to what the Fed should do differently... that's way past my level of understanding.
I think we're up against many of the same challenges everyone else (Roche, Abbott, et al.) is up against. At the end of the day if we could all wave a magic wand and fix supply chains we would. Technically, we (the collective diagnostics hive-mind) know how to detect viruses. We haven't yet figured out how to deploy these technologies on scales orders of magnitude above our baseline implementations.